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A campus death moves fast; the facts that matter most arrive slowly. In Highland Park, what is firmly established is stark: a Benjamin Franklin High School student fell from a fourth-floor level just after 1 p.m., was transported from the campus alive, and was later pronounced dead at a hospital while police opened a death investigation. The open question is not whether this happened, but how the minutes before the fall unfolded.

The Short Version

• Police and multiple outlets confirm a student fell from the fourth floor at Benjamin Franklin High School around 1 p.m. and later died at a hospital.
• The school went into a multi-hour lockdown as a death investigation proceeded on campus.
• Students and witnesses describe an altercation inside a classroom immediately before the fall.
• Officials have not made a criminal finding; police initially said there was no evidence of foul play while the investigation continued.

What is confirmed: sequence, location, and official posture

On September 30, 2026, around 1:00 p.m., Los Angeles police responded to the 800 block of North Avenue 54 — the Benjamin Franklin High School campus — for the death of a male juvenile. Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics transported the student from the scene to a local hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. Police characterized the matter as a death investigation with the inquiry ongoing; they did not announce a criminal determination at that stage, and the student’s name and age were not released in the initial statement. These facts anchor the public record and have been consistently reported by major Los Angeles outlets.

The school was placed on a near-three-hour lockdown while investigators worked the scene. Students returned to classes the next day with mental health professionals available on campus — a standard trauma-response measure following on-campus fatalities. The fall was into the school’s quad, the central outdoor space where students gather; witnesses and multiple reports converged on that specific location.

Accounts of the moments before the fall

Several students described a confrontation immediately preceding the fall. One witness told local television that an altercation occurred between the victim and another student and that the victim ran before the fall. Other students described a fight in a classroom on an upper floor just prior to the incident. These on-scene recollections are aligned across multiple outlets: a brief, physical dispute in a classroom and a short cascade of events that ended on the fourth-floor balcony and the quad below. While the phrasing varies — “ran,” “fight,” “grabbed the balcony railing” in different tellings — the existence of a classroom altercation as a proximate event has been a consistent thread.

It is equally clear what the official posture was in the immediate aftermath: police described a death investigation and, in at least one outlet’s summary of their remarks, said they had no evidence of foul play at that time. That does not resolve causation; it simply marks the investigative baseline — no immediate indication that another person intentionally caused the fall by force — while detectives worked to reconstruct the sequence.

How schools and investigators reconstruct incidents like this

Campus death inquiries follow a well-worn playbook because precision matters. Investigators collect physical evidence where the fall occurred — scene diagrams, measurements of railing height and balcony geometry, spatter and impact analysis — and track the path back into the building: classroom, corridor, stairwell, balcony. They seek fixed-point video: classroom cameras, hallway and balcony surveillance, and any mobile-phone footage circulating among students. They secure and reconcile witness statements taken separately — classmates, teachers, staff who responded — and compare those narratives against the time-stamped digital record. That technical triangulation is designed to answer a small number of specific questions: What contact happened in the classroom? How much time elapsed before the fall? Was there continuous observation? Did the subject climb, slip, or go over the railing in a way consistent with a jump or a fall? Those are empirical determinations more than rhetorical ones.

School systems, for their part, are bound to run structured bullying or misconduct inquiries in parallel when allegations surface. Well-developed district protocols call for prompt initiation, interviews of the reporter, the student at the center, alleged aggressors and witnesses, and the preservation of digital evidence — text messages, social-media posts, and any classroom or hallway video. Timelines are tight by design; policies in large districts typically require starting the inquiry immediately and closing findings within defined windows counted in school days. The purpose is to establish what happened, not to retroactively fit facts to an early narrative.

What the early evidence supports — and what it does not

Based on the public record, three points are well supported. First, the fall occurred just after 1 p.m. from a fourth-floor level at Franklin High School, with impact in the quad below, and the student later died at a hospital. Second, there was a brief physical altercation in a classroom moments before the fall, as described by multiple students and reported by major outlets. Third, law enforcement treated the incident as a death investigation, not a resolved criminal case, and indicated early on that they lacked evidence of foul play. Those pillars are not in tension; they describe timing, place, proximate events, and investigative status with reasonable clarity.

What the current public record does not yet resolve is the exact mechanism between classroom and balcony. Eyewitness accounts can diverge in phrasing when compressed by shock, vantage point, and rumor. That is why fixed-point video, autopsy findings about injury pattern and trajectory, and minute-by-minute dispatch logs become decisive. They can establish, for instance, whether the motion over the railing was self-directed, a slip, or contact-driven, and how quickly events unfolded from the classroom to the balcony. None of that nuance undermines the confirmed facts; it simply explains why investigators proceed methodically after the headline moment.

Why the school response looked the way it did

A multi-hour lockdown after a catastrophic on-campus injury is not a verdict; it is an operational posture. It preserves the scene for investigators, controls movement so that students are accounted for and safe, and protects the integrity of potential evidence. The following day’s return with mental health staffing acknowledges the normal arc of shock on a campus: students will replay what they saw and heard, often with partial information or second-hand clips. Bringing counselors into that setting is as much about stabilizing the social environment as treating acute grief. Both steps — lockdown, then a supported reopening — align with standard practice after an on-campus fatality.

What will likely answer the remaining questions

In incidents like this, clarity tends to arrive in a small set of documents and files. The police death-investigation packet typically includes witness statements, scene photographs and diagrams, and, when available, surveillance footage logs and excerpts. The medical examiner’s report can narrow mechanism by correlating injury pattern with fall dynamics. If the district’s safety office or school administration had prior reports involving the same students, those records — often shielded for privacy while an investigation is open — can later contextualize whether a prior pattern existed or whether the events were acute and isolated. Together, these materials move the matter from plausible narratives to documented sequence.

Until then, the most reliable frame is the one already established: a fourth-floor fall around 1 p.m.; transport and later death at a hospital; a classroom altercation described by witnesses just before the fall; and an open death investigation with no early finding of foul play. That is not a hedge. It is the factual backbone against which any later release of video, reports, or findings will be measured.

Breaking: Xavier Nungaray was 17. A senior at Benjamin Franklin High in Highland Park.

On Wednesday, around 1 p.m., he went over a fourth-floor railing on campus and died.

His family says this was not random. They say he had been bullied through high school and was afraid to… pic.twitter.com/rFOLaXQuft

— FlojoeTV (@FlojoeTV) October 2, 2026

What matters now

For the school community, immediate needs are practical and human: support students and staff, maintain a disciplined information channel to dampen rumor, and give investigators the time and cooperation they need to resolve sequence and cause. For families watching from beyond Highland Park, the case is a sobering example of why schools and police use structured processes after a tragedy: because the details that decide accountability live in timelines, camera angles, and corroborated statements — not in the first wave of shock.

Sources:

nypost.com, cbsnews.com, youtube.com, foxla.com, ktla.com

A Clinton-appointed federal judge has thrown out the Trump Justice Department’s landmark lawsuit accusing pro-Palestinian demonstrators of violating the 1994 FACE Act during a violent protest outside a New Jersey synagogue, and she did it by lecturing the government about the First Amendment rights of the mob.

U.S. District Judge Katharine S. Hayden, appointed by Bill Clinton in 1997 and on senior status since 2010, granted motions to dismiss on September 30 in United States v. Party for Socialism and Liberation New Jersey.

The order, reported Friday, wiped out the sole FACE Act claim against the Party for Socialism and Liberation New Jersey, American Muslims for Palestine New Jersey, Tova Fry (also known as Terry Kay), Altaf Sharif, Matt Dragon, and Eric Camins.

The dismissal is without prejudice. Hayden gave the Justice Department 30 days to file an amended complaint.

According to Reuters, Hayden ruled that the government’s complaint “did not adequately plead violations of the statute.”

The case was the first time the Trump Justice Department used the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act to allege interference with religious worship, Civil Rights Division chief Harmeet Dhillon said when the suit was filed.

The FACE Act is the same Clinton-era law the Biden regime used for years to hunt pro-life Christians who prayed and sang hymns outside abortion clinics.

The Gateway Pundit has reported extensively on those prosecutions, including the conviction of four pro-life advocates, Eva Edl, Eva Zastrow, James Zastrow, and Paul Place, after a peaceful protest at a Tennessee abortion facility.

This time, the law was aimed at a synagogue.

The Justice Department sued on September 29, 2025, over a November 13, 2024 protest outside Congregation Ohr Torah, an Orthodox synagogue in West Orange, New Jersey.

The event was billed by organizers as a spiritual service and a real estate fair promoting property in Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

Today, @CivilRights filed a FACE Act lawsuit against violent groups that intimidated and disrupted Jewish worshippers at their synagogue.

Attacks on houses of worship are illegal, and @TheJusticeDept will not tolerate interference with Americans’ First Amendment rights. pic.twitter.com/1TyiHHwlUA

— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) September 29, 2025

The DOJ said the demonstration escalated into violence, with demonstrators physically assaulting worshippers, chanting, and blasting vuvuzelas to disrupt the gathering. The complaint also described a religious ceremony honoring a deceased rabbi.

Then-Attorney General Pamela Bondi was blunt when the case was filed.

“No American should be harassed, targeted, or discriminated against for peacefully practicing their religion,” Bondi said, according to the Justice Department.

“Today’s lawsuit underscores this Department of Justice’s commitment to defending Jewish Americans — and all Americans of faith — from those who would threaten their right to worship.”

Dhillon was just as direct. “This Justice Department will vigorously enforce the right of every American to worship in peace and without fear,” she said. “Those who target houses of worship and violate our federal laws protecting people of faith are on notice that they will face the consequences.”

The Gateway Pundit reported at the time that Dhillon described a scene the Biden DOJ never seemed interested in: about 50 protesters assembled without a permit, defendants Altaf Sharif and a Jane Doe blew vuvuzelas within inches of a Jewish worshipper’s ears, Sharif charged a worshipper, and, after another worshipper intervened with pepper spray, Eric Camins pointed and shouted “the Jew is here,” prompting Sharif to put a worshipper in a chokehold lasting more than 20 seconds.

Even after police ordered the crowd off synagogue grounds, Dhillon said, protesters kept shouting “You can’t hide” and “You’re next.”

Hayden was not impressed with the pleading.

According to the New York Daily News, the judge wrote that a “threat of force” must be “a constitutionally unprotected true threat: a serious expression, assessed in context, of an intent to commit unlawful violence against a particular person or group.” Political hyperbole, she said, “does not qualify.”

She warned that treating the government’s central allegations as a FACE Act violation “would mean every push, shove, brawl or forceful conduct occurring during a protest like the one alleged here automatically becomes a FACE Act violation.”

Then she added the line that will land with Jewish congregants: “It would demonize protestors who exercise their own First Amendment rights as being part of a mob, which this complaint does.”

The Jewish News Syndicate reported that Hayden also wrote that “getting into a scuffle during a protest, a scuffle that took place somewhere on the grounds of the place of worship, definitely away from its entrance, does not mean that person’s conduct falls under FACE Act interdiction.”

She suggested the facts could just as easily support an inference that two men the DOJ identified as victims interfered with a protester’s rights.

The same statute Biden’s DOJ stretched to prosecute grandmothers with hymnals was, in this Clinton judge’s courtroom, too harsh for a protest the government says included a chokehold, horns blasted in worshippers’ ears, and threats of “You’re next” outside a synagogue.

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A little-known lab animal dealer has been quietly feeding cats into taxpayer-funded virus experiments at major universities, according to records obtained by the watchdog White Coat Waste Project.

White Coat Waste’s latest investigation identifies Clinvet as a Class B dealer and research facility with ties to Marshall BioResources, one of the country’s largest commercial breeders of dogs and cats for laboratories.

Shipping and donation records show Clinvet has supplied cats that ended up in COVID and feline immunodeficiency virus studies paid for by the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

At Cornell University, Clinvet donated cats for experiments in which researchers infected healthy animals with COVID, isolated them, and monitored them as they became sick.

Some cats used as controls were killed without ever being infected.

White Coat Waste says nearly $1.6 million was sub-awarded to Cornell from a National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases grant for the work.

A separate $650,000 USDA grant for the same experiments was extended in May 2026 and now runs through May 2027.

New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets records obtained through an open records request show Clinvet transferred 45 cats to Colorado State University in May 2026.

CSU maintains a breeding colony authorized to hold up to 120 cats for up to three years.

The university’s protocol allows experimenters to surgically remove fetuses from pregnant cats and kill them for diagnostic assays. Mothers can be put through the procedure up to three times, with six months between surgeries. Kittens from the colony can be shipped to outside labs.

Between 2021 and 2023, CSU sold or transferred 45 cats to Oklahoma State University and Redbeast Enterprises and collected at least $22,960.

White Coat Waste matched names and microchip numbers in those records to an NIH-funded journal article.

Cats identified as Matcha, Morgan, Dolores, Juliet, and Pierce were among the animals infected with FIV, inoculated with COVID, killed, and dissected.

A separate NIAID-funded project at CSU, totaling $406,846, infected cats with viruses and then killed and dissected them.

The findings come after White Coat Waste released its “MAHA Betrayed” review, which documented more than $225 million in new NIH funding for dog and cat experiments awarded, supplemented, renewed, or extended since last February.

The Gateway Pundit reported on that tally last month in coverage of an FDA purchase order for young baboons.

Earlier Gateway Pundit reporting also detailed NIH’s quiet continuation of Fauci-era kitten experiments at its Bethesda campus and House Republican efforts, backed by White Coat Waste, to cut funding for painful dog and cat tests.

Clinvet is not as well-known as Marshall BioResources, Ridglan Farms, or the now-shuttered Envigo beagle operation.

Smaller Class B dealers and university breeding colonies keep the supply chain moving even as larger mills face scrutiny and as agency officials talk about shifting away from animal tests.

White Coat Waste is calling for the fiscal 2027 NIH, USDA, FDA, and EPA spending bills and the Farm Bill, to stop taxpayer money from paying for maximum-pain experiments on dogs and cats.

Rep. Nancy Mace introduced the PUPPS Act, aimed at lab puppy mills, after White Coat Waste tracked more than 1,500 dogs shipped by another dealer, and Rep. Nick Langworthy is sponsoring the bipartisan COMPACT Act to cut NIH funding for dog and cat testing.

The Cornell COVID cats were the subject of an earlier White Coat Waste investigation linked to Fauci-era NIAID funding.

Anthony Bellotti, President and Founder of White Coat Waste, told The Gateway Pundit in a statement:

“White Coat Waste was the first to expose Dr. Fauci’s ‘pet-to-pain’ pipeline at puppy mills Ridglan Farms, Oak Hill Genetics, Envigo, and Marshall BioResources. Now, our first-of-its-kind investigation has exposed Clinvet— a key supplier of cats to Fauci-era labs that the USDA and NIH support.

Inexplicably, legacy animal rights groups like PETA and PCRM still cheerlead for NIH Deputy Director Nicole Kleinstreuer — RFK’s ‘animal testing czar’ — even as she refuses to shut down this pipeline. Under her watch, NIH approved more than $225 million in new funding for dog and cat experiments, despite Kleinstreuer’s false claim that the spending predates her.

White Coat Waste is leading the fight to end the U.S. government’s cat-a-strophic waste and defund pet profiteers like Clinvet. The solution is simple: Stop the Money. Stop the Madness!”

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Tennessee Department of Correction Commissioner Frank Strada has officially resigned following a colossal bureaucratic failure that left convicted killer Christa Pike alive after two separate failed lethal injection attempts.

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee announced Saturday that Strada will leave his post this month as the state launches an independent investigation into what went wrong inside Riverbend Maximum Security Institution on Wednesday night.

“Commissioner Strada has served with integrity, and I appreciate his willingness to put the interests of Tennesseans first during this difficult moment,” Lee said in a statement reported by USA Today.

“I have accepted his decision to step down and am grateful for his commitment to ensuring a smooth leadership transition. I thank Commissioner Strada for his dedicated service to Tennessee and pray God’s blessings over him in the days ahead.”

Strada, in a statement released through the governor’s office, said stepping aside “is in the best interest of Tennesseans as the independent review moves forward.”

He called the review “entirely appropriate and necessary” and said he would “do everything I can to help determine exactly what occurred,” according to the New York Post. No replacement has been named yet.

Pike, 50, was supposed to be the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years. Instead, executioners administered two full doses of pentobarbital on Wednesday night and she survived.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, her attorneys told a federal court she had not lost consciousness, still had a heartbeat, and was audibly snoring inside the death chamber.

Witnesses described her gasping and asking whether the burning in her arm was “normal” before officials pulled the blinds. An ambulance rolled up while media witnesses were already at the podium.

By Friday she was unconscious, intubated, and on a ventilator at a Nashville-area hospital, her lawyers said in a court filing cited by CBS News.

Hospital staff were trying to clear two doses of the execution drug from her body. She has significant injuries to both arms. Her attorneys wrote that the IV team apparently never realized the lines were not correctly placed or that her veins had blown, so the pentobarbital was entering her tissue instead of her bloodstream, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The Tennessee Department of Correction insisted it “followed every step” of the protocol approved by the attorney general’s office and that the protocol does not allow further procedures beyond what was carried out. Pike was then transported off-site.

Lee had already called the failure “deeply disturbing,” ordered a comprehensive third-party review, and canceled the state’s remaining 2026 execution, as The Gateway Pundit reported Thursday.

Strada was hired in 2023 to restart Tennessee executions after a 2022 independent review found the state had for years failed to follow its own lethal-injection rules. He came from Arizona, where he was a top corrections official during three lethal injections later criticized for serious problems, including a case in which the team resorted to a femoral line, The New York Times reported.

Since he arrived in Tennessee, the department has now mishandled two executions in 2026. In May it failed to execute Tony Carruthers, convicted of killing three people.

Republican State Sen. Tom Hatcher, a former chairman of the corrections oversight committee, told the Times that if he rated commissioners from one to 10, Strada “would be a one.”

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Three University of South Alabama students were arrested and hit with federal charges after investigators say they posted threatening messages targeting President Donald Trump ahead of his Friday night rally on the school’s Mobile campus.

The suspects, Amare Jemal Woods, Cameron Lamark Lewis, and Kayla Leaann Smith, have each been charged with making threats against the president, according to local reporting.

According to Fox News, the arrests came as Trump prepared to appear at the University of South Alabama’s Mitchell Center on Friday evening.

The federal cases were unsealed Friday afternoon, just hours before Trump was scheduled to take the stage. Investigators reportedly discovered the posts while conducting social-media intelligence searches ahead of the presidential visit and relied on emergency disclosure requests and assistance from University of South Alabama police to identify the individuals.

Local station FOX10 News identified the three defendants and reported that federal affidavits accuse them of separately posting violent or threatening messages before Trump’s arrival.

According to the affidavit cited by FOX10, Woods allegedly used TikTok to respond to a post about Trump’s planned appearance with the message:

“he gotta die bro.”

The post was allegedly made on September 27.

Lewis allegedly posted a message on X suggesting that people would remember the University of South Alabama in the same way they remembered Utah Valley University, according to investigators.

Authorities interpreted that as an apparent reference to Utah Valley University, where conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated in 2025.

Smith, meanwhile, allegedly responded to a TikTok post about Trump’s appearance on September 29 with the message:

“We only got one chance let’s take it.”

According to the affidavit summarized by FOX10, she then allegedly posted an image depicting someone mimicking the act of holding a gun.

FOX10 reported that Woods is an aerospace engineering student, Lewis is a philosophy major, and Smith is pursuing a degree in elementary education. The federal offense carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison if convicted.

The University of South Alabama condemned the alleged threats while emphasizing that disagreement and political expression are protected but intimidation and unlawful conduct cross a different line.

The school also stressed that the Trump event was not sponsored by the university. The Republican National Committee had reserved the Mitchell Center for the Friday event, according to the university and Fox News.

Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch had already revealed before Trump arrived that local authorities were working with federal agencies to monitor potentially threatening social-media activity surrounding the rally.

“There’s been a couple people who’ve made some really stupid comments,” Burch said earlier in the week, explaining that his office and federal partners were monitoring the situation and taking precautions.

An attorney representing Woods pushed back against the suggestion that his client genuinely intended to harm Trump.

Jason Darley told FOX10 that the Secret Service understandably takes presidential threats seriously, but said he does not believe Woods actually planned to hurt the president.

“I don’t honestly think any of these three are threats,” Darley told the station.

The allegations nevertheless surfaced against a backdrop of heightened security around Trump and other political figures following repeated threats and acts of political violence.

The Gateway Pundit previously reported in August that the FBI arrested Ayden Langevin after authorities were alerted to alleged online threats against Trump and Secret Service personnel.

The Gateway Pundit also covered another federal case this year involving an FAA employee accused of threatening to assassinate President Trump.

Despite Friday’s arrests and the significant security operation surrounding his visit, Trump went forward with the Mobile rally as planned.

As The Gateway Pundit reported Friday evening, Trump appeared at the Mitchell Center as part of his October midterm campaign blitz, returning to the city where he held one of the defining early rallies of his 2016 presidential campaign.

“It sort of all began here,” Trump told the Mobile crowd as he recalled his massive 2015 Alabama rally.

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President Trump on Saturday blasted Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton for holding up the bipartisan bill to permanently end daylight savings and twice-yearly clock changes. 

In a hilarious move, the President also published Cotton’s phone number for the world to call him. Cotton appears to have already disconnected his phone number.

The House passed the Trump-backed Sunshine Protection Act, 308–117, in July, sending it to the Senate.

However, Tom Cotton has been a vocal opponent over concerns about a later sunrise, vowing to object if the bill reaches the Senate floor.

Trump went off on Cotton in an overnight post on Friday, the Gateway Pundit reported. Earlier, Trump blasted the senator again and shared his phone number, demanding that everybody “call Tom on his cellphone… and let him know.”

“Everybody in Arkansas, Tom Cotton, a friend of mine, is holding up a very important Bill. It’s called, “The Sunshine Protection Act” or, “We Don’t Want to Change Our Clocks Twice a Year Act.” For some reason, Tom is stopping the Bill and, in the Senate, it’s very easy to do, it only takes one!” Trump wrote. “Almost everybody wants “The Sunshine Protection Act” to pass, except for Tom Cotton.”

Trump further shared a letter from PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp, who expressed “the Tour’s strong support for the Sunshine Protection Act.”

“Permanent daylight saving time (DST) would expand access to golf at a time when the game is more popular than ever,” Rolapp argued, noting that it’s hard to fit time on the course into Americans’ busy daily schedules. “An extra hour of evening light sounds simple, but for everyday Americans, it can be the difference between getting on the course and not.”

“The data backs this up. The National Golf Course Owners Association (NGCOA) estimates that permanent DST would generate 23 million additional rounds per year and $1 billion annually in new direct revenue for the golf industry – an average of $250,000 per facility,” Rolapp added.

“The benefits of permanent DST extend to professional golf as well. At the PGA Tour, usable afternoon daylight in the fall and winter would give our broadcast partners flexibility to extend live coverage of finishing holes, avoid awkward lighting situations in late rounds, and deliver a better overall product for the millions of fans who tune in each week.”

“Nobody wants to spend their precious time running all over the place, turning Clocks back twice a year and, having sunshine in the afternoon is better than early in the morning! The PGA TOUR, as an example, needs more Daylight in the afternoon in order to finish their Tournaments. Likewise, regular Golfers, Tennis Players, Hunters and, perhaps most importantly, Farmers who want more Daylight to play or work,” Trump wrote.

Full statement below:

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President Donald Trump is urging Americans to treat the 2026 midterms as if his own name were on the ballot and repeated his pledge to send $5,000 to every adult citizen if Republicans keep the House and the Senate.

Trump called the midterms “one of the most important elections of our lives” and told supporters to vote early or by mail.

“In this election, I’m asking you to pretend I’m on the ballot. Whenever I’m on the ballot, we get 45% more votes. So I’m not on the ballot, but pretend I am because this is a big deal,” Trump said in a Truth Social post early Saturday morning.

WATCH:

In another video clip, he once again promised a financial reward for Republicans keeping control.

“Only I can make you this promise. If Republicans win the House of Representatives and the Senate in the 2026 midterm elections, I’m going to give all adult citizens in the United States of America $5,000,” Trump said.

“We’re taking in massive amounts of money through tariffs and record economic success, but Democrat policies won’t allow this to happen. In fact, the opposite is going to take place. They’re gonna raise your taxes, and they’re gonna destroy our country and certainly destroy our economy. It’ll be a 1929 disaster,” Trump added.

WATCH:

Trump first made the $5,000 promise on September 9 at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas, telling the crowd that economic success would let him issue a “Trump Dividend” to every adult citizen if Republicans retained both chambers.

The president compared it to a company distributing cash to shareholders.

Vice President JD Vance later suggested the payments could come from tariff revenue and would not go to wealthy Americans.

Trump has also said he does not want to issue the checks before the election.

Asked why he would not send them now, he said that if Democrats take control, “our country will be in shambles and they won’t be able to do it,” while a Republican Congress would be taking in “tremendous amounts of money,” according to a report from Mediaite.

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The Israeli Plumber Who Saved Those on Flight FZ1073 Is a Trump Supporter!

A few good men saved flight FZ1073 from a terrorist attack this week.  The man who took over the plane was a plumber.  He is also a Trump supporter.

WOW! The Israeli plumber who SPRUNG into action and restrained the Islamist terrorist aboard FlyDubai, then leveled out the plane, is a TRUMP SUPPORTER — and Ambassador Huckabee just gave him a red MAGA hat signed by Trump

Imagine that. HERO!!

Trump gave HUGE PRAISE to this hero in the Oval Office earlier this week

Also huge props to the Indian pilot who was able to unlock the cockpit despite being ST*BBED. Team effort!

MAJOR WIN OVER ISLAMISM

Ambassador Huckabee shared the following as well:

Israeli plumber who heroically subdued terrorist & grabbed the controls of plane came to @usembassyjlm and I gave him my autographed hat from @POTUS . Yaniv & Meital Hayoun inspired the world. He loves @realDonaldTrump & I’ll post his message to @POTUS later. What a story!

WOW! The Israeli plumber who SPRUNG into action and restrained the Islamist terrorist aboard FlyDubai, then leveled out the plane, is a TRUMP SUPPORTER — and Ambassador Huckabee just gave him a red MAGA hat signed by Trump

Imagine that. HERO!!

Trump gave HUGE PRAISE to… https://t.co/jOkqd5hh9p pic.twitter.com/GjWCM32p5Q

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 2, 2026

Here is more on Ambassador Huckabee’s meeting with the hero plumber.

Watch as the Israeli plumber who was the hero of the hijacked flight sends a message to @POTUS and I presented him an autographed MAGA hat. https://t.co/VksHR4f6OH

— Ambassador Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) October 2, 2026

Huckabee shared his thoughts on the miracle that occurred that day.

It takes more faith to NOT believe in God’s miracles than to just accept the reality of His work! https://t.co/H5X9dn1gZb

— Ambassador Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) October 2, 2026

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Sometimes man’s best friend really does save the day.

A loyal dog in Leawood, Kansas, is being celebrated after flagging down a police officer and leading him straight back to its injured owner, who had reportedly been stranded on the floor of a garage for more than three hours.

The remarkable encounter happened on September 17 while a Leawood Police Department officer was patrolling a residential neighborhood, Johnson County Post reported.

The officer spotted a dog standing in the roadway with a leash attached, but there was no owner anywhere in sight.

Bodycam footage released by police shows the dog barking repeatedly at the officer as if it was desperately trying to get his attention.

“Hi, why don’t you go on back home?” the officer told the pup.

According to the Leawood Police Department, the officer got back in the car and followed the dog about half a block. The animal kept looking back, barking, and leading the way.

At the driveway, a second dog was waiting. “Is this where you live?” the officer asked. The garage door was wide open. Inside, the homeowner was on the concrete floor and could not get up.

Police say the resident had been down for more than three hours.

Bodycam video released by the department shows the officer checking on the homeowner — “Hi, are you OK?” — and calling for medical help.

“Thanks to the resident’s loyal companion, our officer was able to find them and get them the help they needed,” Leawood police said. “The resident was treated by medical personnel and is now recovering safely at home.”

Capt. Jason Ahring, a Leawood police spokesman, told the Johnson County Post the officer deserves credit for taking the extra time instead of driving on. Viewers who watched the clip noted one dog stayed with the owner while the other went looking for help.

WATCH:

ALERT: Dog fetches the police and leads them back to his home, where cops find the dog’s owner lying on the floor of the garage after he fell.

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— E X X ➠A L E R T S (@ExxAlerts) October 1, 2026

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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has ordered military commanders across the country to set aside an entire day for America’s service members to register, obtain absentee ballots and cast their votes ahead of the November midterm elections.

On Friday, Secretary Hegseth ordered commanders across the Department of Defense to designate a mandatory, one-day military “stand-down” prior to October 15.

The order is designed to give service members and their families the necessary time to register to vote, request absentee ballots, and cast their votes ahead of the crucial upcoming midterm elections.

In a video statement posted on X, Hegseth explained that voting for military personnel has been “time-consuming and complex,” as service members face unnecessary difficulties obtaining and returning absentee ballots while serving far from home.

Sec. Hegseth:
“So, we all agree that voting is important, number one. We all agree that, at the War Department, we serve the best citizens in the country—those who wear the uniform—number two. So, how about we make sure those who serve our country have every single opportunity to vote? Makes sense to me.

Therefore, I’m directing all commanders and supervisors at all levels across this department to conduct a one-day stand-down during the month of October, beginning this year and continuing every election year.

This year, we’ll execute the stand-down no later than October 15th. You see, there’s plenty of precedence for this. In fact, in February of 2021, under the Biden administration, then-Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin mandated an urgent training stand-down. He paused training operations and exercises to address a vaguely defined but urgent extremism problem. I remember it—patriot extremism.

Well, as I’ve stated before, this is a new and apolitical War Department with all the right priorities. Under the leadership of President Trump, we’re upholding things that are central to the defense of our republic and our American way of life.

And we’re doing this because, in the past, voting for our men and women in uniform has been time-consuming and complex, as many warriors reside outside of their home state for obvious reasons. They face unnecessary, difficult ways of obtaining, completing, and returning absentee ballots while serving far from home.

Now, we’re not telling you who to vote for, but we will give you every opportunity to do so.

It’s then up to you to exercise your right as an American to choose your elected leaders. Voting is the way our Founding Fathers envisioned every citizen’s ability to participate in government. We’re going to take the time to ensure that you can vote and that your voice is heard.

You are the best citizens of our country, and therefore, you should have every opportunity to exercise your right to vote. So, take that day to fill out your absentee ballot, help your family members do the same, or go to the polling place yourself and exercise your right to vote.

It’s about time we prioritize that in this department, and we’re fixing it right here, right now.”

WATCH:

I am directing all commanders and supervisors at every level to conduct a one-day stand-down in the month of October.

Every warrior will be given the opportunity to vote. pic.twitter.com/OpyVBiemkc

— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) October 2, 2026

This latest directive follows Hegseth’s broader effort to increase voting participation among America’s men and women in uniform.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported on September 26, Hegseth urged service members, spouses and eligible family members to register ahead of the midterms after saying roughly 300,000 American service members were not registered to vote in 2024.

At the time, Hegseth directed troops to FVAP.gov and reminded commanders that encouraging registration does not mean telling troops which candidates to support.

“You’re not telling them who to vote for; you’re just telling them to vote,” Hegseth said.

The Gateway Pundit also reported this week that Hegseth issued a separate directive ordering U.S. Cyber Command and Defense intelligence agencies to prioritize efforts against foreign interference targeting the 2026 elections.

The November 3 election is now just weeks away, and Hegseth’s order ensures troops stationed across the United States and around the world have dedicated time to navigate registration and absentee-ballot requirements before Election Day.

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