BREAKING: Ukraine has just struck an oil depot in Valuyki, Belgorod Oblast and set it ablaze, despite Trump’s warnings. Over 500 drones were launched into Russia tonight.
It is the first Ukrainian strike on energy infrastructure since Trump’s announced “ceasefire” two days ago.
Ukraine’s response to US threats to cut intelligence and freeze the PURL weapons mechanism if Kyiv were to resume energy strikes was “We will burn Russian refineries.”
As Cristina Laila reported earlier, President Trump on Sunday announced an energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine.
“Effective immediately, there is an ENERGY CEASEFIRE in the War between Russia and Ukraine. Both parties have agreed. Do not break it! Thank you for your attention to this matter,” Trump said on Sunday.
“I just spoke with Mark Carney, @alexstubb, and @SecGenNATO Mark Rutte. We discussed the energy ceasefire announced by President Trump,” Zelensky said.
“Ukraine supports the ceasefire, and it is important that Russia support it as well. We are awaiting details from the American side. For our part, Ukraine always FULLY supports steps toward de-escalation, the protection of lives, and the decisions needed to end the war and guarantee lasting peace. Thank you!” he said.
I just spoke with @MarkJCarney, @alexstubb, and @SecGenNATO Mark Rutte. We discussed the energy ceasefire announced by President Trump. Ukraine supports the ceasefire, and it is important that Russia support it as well. We are awaiting details from the American side. For our part, Ukraine always FULLY supports steps toward de-escalation, the protection of lives, and the decisions needed to end the war and guarantee lasting peace. Thank you!
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) October 11, 2026
But two days later Ukraine bombed another oil depot – to screw Russia AND President Trump as the midterms approach.
On Sunday, President Trump called for elections in Ukraine. That is the globalists’ greatest fear.
President Trump told reporters Russia wants to make a peace deal but Zelensky does not.
CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten said Monday that Republicans have a substantial chance of maintaining their Senate majority if polling numbers are off by only a few points.
Enten pointed out that the polling industry has consistently favored Democrats in past elections and said it would not take much for the Republicans to hold on to vital toss-up seats.
“Let’s just say we have the 2026 Senate polls, but if the polls are underestimating the Republicans by 3.5 points, which you know is really possible, because we’ve seen it through the history, right? You go back to 2020, that’s basically what happened,” he declared.
“Even in 2024, in a number of the key states we saw it happen, including places like Texas.”
Enten then rattled off several other high-profile contests, some in ruby-red states, and said voters could easily defy pollsters and flip the blue wave narrative on its head.
“How about Michigan? How about up there in Maine, how about in Alaska, how about in Iowa, how about in Kansas — which has been getting a lot of press lately — all of these go red. All these go red, and the Republicans don’t just hold the United States Senate; they hold it easily with 52 seats to the Democrats’ 48 seats.”
CNN: If early October polls keep the pattern of underestimating Republicans, they will keep the senate
Republicans: 52 Democrats: 48
States:
Michigan: Flip
Maine: Hold
Texas: Hold
Ohio: Hold https://t.co/dVUU90nSHj
Enten’s map didn’t even include potential GOP Senate wins in Ohio, North Carolina, New Hampshire, or Georgia, where Republicans have historically been competitive, if not outright dominant.
If polls are underestimating Republicans in the states that Enten mentioned, and they stay red, the GOP would only need to pick off two swing states to increase their current 53-47 majority.
The CNN analyst also highlighted how the early October generic congressional ballot has underestimated Republicans in 14 of 16 elections since 1994.
“What is going on here?” Enten asked. “And it’s happened by an average of, I believe, what is this — four points. The average is a four-point underestimation of Republicans since 1994.”
CNN: Early October Generic Ballot Polls Have Underestimated Republicans By An Average Of 4 Points
Early Oct Generic Ballot Polls Since 1994
Underestimated GOP: 14
Didn’t Underestimated GOP: 2 https://t.co/OTJmuMZjS7
Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York also raised concerns on Tuesday about GOP fundraising advantages, according to a letter obtained by The Hill.
Schumer wrote that control of the upper chamber could come down to an “unprecedented tsunami of Republican money” that has the potential to level the playing field in the home stretch, with only weeks to go until Election Day.
“We have strong candidates, a clear message, and a political climate that offers real opportunities. But Republicans have one enormous advantage of their own. Money,” Schumer stated.
He also said President Donald Trump has the bandwidth to spend between $400 million and $500 million through his super PAC, MAGA Inc., and that big tech mogul Elon Musk has pumped nearly $300 million into the midterm races to help Republican candidates.
Schumer added that other “megadonors” have jumped into the fray and are funding Senate races at rates unlike anything “we’ve ever seen before.”
“That’s the enormous force bearing down on this election,” Schumer concluded. “And it’s a challenge none of us can afford to underestimate.”
A rescuer works to free trapped residents after Russian strikes on Zaporizhzhia, October 9, 2026. Photo courtesy of DSNS, Zaporizhzhia region.
Russian forces carried out 1,033 strikes on 56 settlements in Zaporizhzhia Oblast on October 9, killing two people and wounding 41, according to regional reports. The attacks included 33 airstrikes, 789 drone strikes, three rocket launcher attacks and 208 artillery strikes, with 437 reports of damage to homes, vehicles and infrastructure.
In Zaporizhzhia city, a morning guided bomb strike destroyed and damaged residential buildings, according to Ivan Fedorov, co-chair of the regional defense council. By evening, the number of people injured in that strike had risen to 19, including two children, one of them a 14-year-old girl. An FPV drone also hit a minibus downtown, injuring two men and a woman. Acting regional head Semikin said 23 people were injured in the city that day.
In western Ukraine, a Russian drone struck a home in the Rivne region at about 4:30 p.m., wounding seven members of a large family, four of them children. A 32-year-old woman and three children, aged 12, 13 and 13, were hospitalized. A 13-year-old boy was in intensive care in serious condition. A café and a shop were also damaged. Earlier, a woman was injured in Sarny district.
Overnight, a jet-powered Shahed drone killed one man in the city of Ivano-Frankivsk, according to Mayor Ruslan Martsinkiv. A building, dry grass, and bushes caught fire.
In Kyiv Oblast’s Bucha district, rescuers fighting a fire at warehouses hit by Russian dronesfound the body of a missing woman. Three people were injured there. Oblast head Tymur Tkachenko said Russia “must answer for every life taken.” Across the oblast, six civilians were injured and 28 objects damaged, including 24 private homes, in the Bucha, Brovary, Obukhiv, Vyshhorod and Fastiv districts, according to the North Operational Command.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Kyiv city authorities had failed to take resilience measures “in almost all respects,” as Russian strikes caused significant damage to the power grid and transmission infrastructure. He called delays in regional resilience plans “absolutely unacceptable.”
In Chernihiv Oblast, Governor Viacheslav Chaus reported that Geran drones damaged a school and a dormitory in Mryn, Nizhyn district. Banderol munitions destroyed a farm in the Kulykivka community and set straw ablaze, and a drone strike in the Liubech community injured an elderly man. Overnight, a drone set fire to the Epicentr hypermarket outside Chernihiv, which had been largely destroyed in 2022 and subsequently rebuilt. In the morning, a drone hit a house roof in Chernihiv.
Sumy Oblast faced almost 30 attacks on 19 settlements in 12 communities. Mortar fire injured a 54-year-old man in Serednia Buda, and buildings were damaged in Velyka Pysarivka and Berezivka.
In Kharkiv Oblast, nine settlements were hit and six people injured, Governor Oleh Synehubov said. Those injured included three women, aged 41, 54 and 65, in Podvirky, a 50-year-old man in Lozova and a 75-year-old man in Yurchenkove.
Donetsk Governor Vadym Filashkin reported one civilian killed in Kramatorsk and 11 injured in the oblast, a day after a glide bomb killed 30 people on two Kramatorsk buses.
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast faced almost 40 attacks by drones, artillery and a missile. Governor Oleksandr Hanzha reported one person killed in the Synelnykove district. An agricultural enterprise, homes in Zelenodolsk and an apartment building in the Nikopol district were damaged.
In Kherson Oblast, attacks on Kherson city and 33 other settlements killed two people and injured nine, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said, and damaged six houses. In Odesa, a drone set fire to a food warehouse. Elsewhere in the region, 11 houses at recreation bases were damaged and a café destroyed, with no casualties.
The regional figures listed above put the October 9 civilian toll at eight killed and 82 injured. Ukraine’s General Staff reported Russian personnel losses of 1,420 that day, bringing its estimated cumulative total to about 1,550,910.
Ukraine’s negotiators, Rustem Umerov, Kyrylo Budanov, Serhiy Kyslytsya and David Arakhamia, began two days of talks with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in the United States. In Kyiv, Zelensky met Senators Roger Wicker and Kevin Cramer and Representatives Dan Crenshaw and Marc Veasey. “Of course, we are counting on the Lindsey Graham law being implemented,” Zelensky said.
After a call with Putin, President Donald Trump said Russia would supply about 4.8 million metric tons of diesel to U.S. and global markets. Treasury issued General License 135, authorizing Russian diesel transactions through April 7, 2027.
On October 8, British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced £54 million ($71 million) in aid on his first Ukraine visit in the role: £20 million for grid repairs, generators and solar power, and £34 million for heating and water before winter. “You cannot wait us out,” Miliband said.
Among immigrant groups, including the second generation, Vietnamese Americans have been among the most successful at meeting native-born standards, while Somalis have been among the least successful. Photo: AMISOM Public Information, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Surveys of the native-born public show what Americans expect of immigrants who settle among them. In a 2016 Pew Research Center survey, 92% of Americans said speaking English is important to being truly American, including 70% who said it is very important.
More than eight in ten said sharing American customs and traditions is important. By 2020, Pew found that the share calling English at least somewhat important had fallen to 77%, a decline driven by liberals and moderates. In Pew’s focus groups, Republican participants stressed learning English, adopting American values, and following the law.
An AP-NORC poll found that Democrats, Republicans, and independents agree that a fair judicial system, the rule of law, constitutional freedoms, and the ability to get a good job and achieve the American Dream are central to American identity. In a later AP-NORC poll, half of Americans said immigrants should adopt an essential American culture.
Public views of immigrants have long turned on work, welfare, and crime. In 1993, majorities believed Latin American immigrants often ended up on welfare and increased crime. By 2006, about eight in ten described Latino and Asian immigrants as hardworking and having strong family values.
Taken together, these surveys show that, to the native-born, a good immigrant learns English, works and supports his family, stays off welfare, obeys the law, and adopts American customs.
The data on welfare and incarceration support the pessimistic view of Latin American immigrants. A Center for Immigration Studies analysis of 2012 Census Bureau survey data found that 73% of households headed by immigrants from Central America and Mexico used at least one welfare program, compared with 30% of native households. The same analysis found that these immigrant households received an average of $8,251 in welfare benefits, 86% more than native households.
Federal data show that Hispanics are arrested and imprisoned at higher rates than non-Hispanic whites. The Bureau of Justice Statistics found that in 2023, Hispanic adults were imprisoned at a rate of 606 per 100,000, 2.6 times the rate of 231 for white adults. Asian adults were imprisoned at 88 per 100,000. Prison counts record ethnicity but not birthplace, so the Hispanic figure includes both immigrants and the U.S.-born.
In 2018, Hispanics made up 18.3% of the population but 21.4% of people arrested for serious violent crimes, while whites made up 60.4% of the population and 38.7% of those arrested. Per capita, Hispanics were arrested for rape, robbery, and aggravated assault at about 1.8 times the white rate. Victim surveys, which capture crimes never reported to police, identified Hispanics as 15.5% of offenders in serious violent crimes, about 1.2 times the white rate per capita. BJS noted that victims could not determine whether an offender was Hispanic in up to 12% of incidents, which may have led to some undercounting of Hispanic offenders.
A National Bureau of Economic Research study by economists Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, Elisa Jácome, Santiago Pérez, and Juan David Torres used Census data on institutionalized men aged 18 to 40 to separate immigrants by country of origin. It found that since 2005, immigrants from Mexico and Central America have been incarcerated at higher rates than U.S.-born white men.
At the end of 2023, non-citizens made up 22,817 of 155,972 federal prisoners, or 14.6%, about twice their share of the U.S. population. Non-citizens number roughly 22.8 million, or about 7% of residents. The federal prison count includes immigration offenses.
English proficiency among Hmong, Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese immigrants ranges from 36% to 45%. Among working-age Somali immigrants in Minnesota, 58.2% speak English less than “very well,” according to a Center for Immigration Studies analysis of 2014–2023 Census data. Even among those who have lived in the United States for more than 10 years, the share is 49%.
Southeast Asian refugee groups began with high welfare dependency. A 1990 General Accounting Office report found that 58% to 73% of recently arrived Southeast Asian refugees participated in public assistance programs. The 1980 Census showed that 65.5% of Hmong families and 67.2% of Laotian families lived in poverty.
By 2017–2021, Hmong poverty in Wisconsin, home to the country’s third-largest Hmong population, had fallen to 13% from 75% in 1989. Six percent of Hmong households received cash public assistance income, compared with 2% of all households in the state.
Minnesota, which has roughly 100,000 Hmong residents, counted 359 Hmong adults on its main family welfare program in early 2016, compared with 3,696 Somali adults. The program combines cash and food assistance. From 2019 to 2023, 9.1% of Hmong Minnesotans lived in poverty, 33.9% had incomes below twice the poverty line, and 78.8% of working-age adults were employed.
Nationally, poverty rates are 14% for Hmong, 13% for Cambodians, 11% for Vietnamese, and 10% for Laotians, close to the national rate of 11.1%. Homeownership rates are 56% for Hmong-headed households, 60% for Cambodian households, 64% for Laotian households, and 68% for Vietnamese households, compared with 62% for Asian households overall.
Burmese households have a median income of $67,600, compared with the national median of $80,610 in 2023. The Burmese poverty rate is 21%.
Among Somali immigrants in Minnesota, 21.6% of working-age men are without a job, compared with 17.6% of native-born men. Among adults, 37.5% live in poverty, compared with 6.9% of native-born adults. The Center for Immigration Studies analysis found that 81% of Somali immigrant households receive some form of welfare, compared with 21% of native households. Among Somali immigrant households, 54% receive food stamps and 73% have at least one member on Medicaid. Nationally, 12.2% of households received SNAP in 2023.
Census data on food stamp receipt by Asian subgroup exist, but no published source reports Medicaid enrollment for Hmong, Cambodian, or Laotian Americans.
A chart President Trump posted in January 2026 listed immigrant household welfare use at 81.4% for Bhutan, 71.9% for Somalia, and 59.2% for Burma. The chart did not identify its data source or which programs it counted.
On obeying the law, no federal dataset tracks crime by national origin or ancestry, and FBI statistics group all Asian Americans into a single category. Deportation data provide one indicator. About 14,788 Southeast Asians living in the United States have final orders of removal. According to ICE data compiled by the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center, 76% of those orders stem from contact with the criminal justice system. More than 4,800 Laotian nationals, including Hmong and Mien, have removal orders, as do about 1,700 Cambodians.
In Minnesota, the CIS study found that 1.5% of young Somali men are institutionalized, which usually means prison, compared with 1.3% of young native-born men. In the $250 million Feeding Our Future child-nutrition fraud case, federal prosecutors announced the 68th conviction in July 2026, out of about 80 defendants charged. The vast majority of the defendants are of Somali descent. Roughly a dozen Somalis from Minnesota left to join the Islamic State in Syria, mostly during the 2010s.
On adopting American civic life, naturalization rates are high across the groups. Among immigrants, 85% of Hmong, 79% of Laotians, 78% of Cambodians and Vietnamese, 68% of Bhutanese, and 59% of Burmese are naturalized citizens. In Minnesota, 87% of foreign-born Somalis are naturalized, and 58% of the state’s Somali population was born in the United States.
Education, which drives earnings in the next generation, converges unevenly. Among U.S.-born Vietnamese, 59% have a bachelor’s degree, above the national rate of 37.7% and the 43.4% rate for children of immigrants. The rate is 31% for U.S.-born Hmong and Cambodians and 24% for U.S.-born Laotians.
In today’s culture of anti-ICE protests and pro-illegal-alien activism, it is considered racist to collect data based on race or national origin or to present facts that might hurt someone’s feelings. In that spirit, rather than describing immigrants as good or bad, one can objectively identify those who meet the native-born standard and those who do not.
Measured against the native-born standard, only Vietnamese Americans fit the model on every available measure: second-generation English proficiency, income above the national median, poverty near the national rate, high homeownership and naturalization rates, and second-generation education above the national average.
By contrast, Somalis fail to meet the standard. A Center for Immigration Studies analysis of 2014–2023 Census data found that among Somali immigrants in Minnesota, 37.5% of adults live in poverty, 39% of working-age adults lack a high school diploma, and 58.2% speak English less than “very well,” compared with 6.9%, 5%, and 0.7% of native-born residents, respectively.
Among Somali immigrant households, 81% receive welfare, including 54% receiving food stamps and 73% with at least one member on Medicaid, compared with 21%, 7%, and 18% of native-born-headed households. Even after more than 10 years in the United States, adult poverty remains at 32.9% and limited English proficiency at 49%, although male joblessness overall is comparatively close to the native-born rate, at 21.6% versus 17.6%.
A Republican political group trying to boost Maine Sen. Susan Collins managed to spend nearly $25,000 advertising her campaign in Portland.
Unfortunately, the Portland in question was on the opposite side of the country.
Between $20,000 and $25,000 was reportedly spent serving digital advertisements to voters around Portland, Oregon, rather than Portland, Maine.
The Oregon advertising market even extends across the state line into Washington.
The ads were purchased on behalf of the Republican Main Street Partnership PAC and targeted Collins’s Democratic opponent, Troy Jackson, portraying him as a “tax-hiker.”
Once somebody apparently consulted a map, the ads were pulled.
Sarah Chamberlain, CEO of the Republican Main Street Partnership PAC, was less than amused by the costly geographical mishap.
She told NBC News she was “absolutely furious” about the “ridiculous” mistake.
“The buyers made a mistake on one of the placements. It’s down now, and they’re running it in Portland, Maine,” Chamberlain said.
“It has nothing to do with us. I would never run an ad in Portland, Oregon, for Susan Collins, for Christ’s sake.”
The ad buyer for Susan Collins’ Super PAC accidentally spent the money buying ad time in Portland, Oregon, instead of Portland, Maine. Classic guffemup. https://t.co/ZMJEfU82Di
Cross Screen Media, the company responsible for placing the advertisements, accepted responsibility.
A company spokesperson acknowledged that it was “100% our mistake” and said the money had been refunded to the PAC.
The anti-Jackson advertisements are finally running in the right Portland.
The embarrassing error comes as Collins campaigns for another term that could determine the balance of power in the Senate.
Maine Democrats selected Jackson as their Senate nominee in July after Graham Platner’s campaign was derailed by allegations of physical and sexual abuse.
The 73-year-old has represented Maine in the Senate since 1997 and is seeking a sixth term.
After comfortably outperforming the polls to win reelection in 2020, the latest RealClearPolling average has Collins up by just 0.2 points, a statistical tie.
However, she has historically outperformed polls by significant margins, potentially improving her chances of re-election.
CNN: Susan Collins has outperformed the polls by huge margins for 3 straight elections
The Rockett siblings, Brooklyn and Kadan, with their dad, Bart, pictured during their childhood entertainment careers (left) and in a more recent photograph (right). Facebook
A Missouri judge who ordered two children locked inside juvenile detention cells because they refused to leave a courthouse with their mother has been dealt a humiliating defeat in federal court.
On Tuesday, October 13, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled against Missouri Circuit Judge Eric Eighmy, concluding that his outrageous handling of a family custody dispute violated the children’s clearly established constitutional rights.
The decision, written by Circuit Judge David Stras, upheld a jury’s $10,000 damages award to the children, along with a staggering $326,637.22 in attorney fees and costs.
And the reason for the children’s detention? They simply refused to leave with their mother following a custody hearing.
The parents and their attorneys reached a temporary agreement allowing the children to stay with their mother. However, Kadan and Brooklyn Rockett, who advanced to the semifinals of America’s Got Talent in 2016 with their jaw-dropping magic act and have appeared in Hollywood films, wanted to remain with their father to avoid disrupting their budding entertainment careers.
They were never parties to the case and never entered the courtroom. After the hearing, they argued with their mother in the courthouse hallway.
Judge Eighmy, according to the lawsuit and later findings, removed his robe, intervened, lectured the children on the “evils of Hollywood,” and grew frustrated when they stood firm.
He then personally escorted them to the juvenile detention division, stood by while they removed clothing and belongings, and had them locked in separate cells for roughly an hour.
He threatened to send them into foster care where they would never see their family again. Only after that pressure did the children agree to go with their mother.
The father sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for unreasonable seizure and related constitutional violations. Judge Eighmy claimed absolute judicial immunity, the powerful shield that normally protects judges from personal lawsuits even for erroneous or malicious decisions made in their judicial capacity.
The 8th Circuit, in an opinion by Judge David R. Stras joined by Chief Judge Lavenski R. Smith and Judge Jonathan A. Kobes, rejected that defense for the personal jailing.
“When Judge Eric Eighmy had courthouse officers lock two children in holding cells because they refused to leave with their mother following a custody hearing, he violated their clearly established Fourth Amendment rights.”
The court rejected Eighmy’s qualified immunity defense and dismissed his renewed attempt to invoke judicial immunity on procedural grounds. An earlier Eighth Circuit decision had already rejected his judicial immunity argument concerning the detention.
Stras wrote that the children “were never parties, they never stepped foot in the courtroom, and Judge Eighmy personally locked them up himself. We have been unable to find any case that extends judicial immunity so far.”
The panel stressed that while judges may order an officer or bailiff to escort someone, “judges do not do double duty as jailers.”
Judges possess substantial authority to resolve legal disputes and enforce lawful court orders. But that authority does not give them unlimited power to personally detain people who frustrate them.
Stras delivered another memorable warning:
“In short, rough justice does not trump the Constitution.”
Personally marching the kids to cells, watching them strip down, and returning later to release them took any arguable judicial act “too far.”
After the children prevailed at trial, the jury awarded each of them $5,000 in damages.
The district court subsequently awarded another $326,637.22 in attorney fees and costs.
Eighmy challenged both awards.
The appeals court rejected those challenges, explaining that federal civil rights litigation does not require attorney fees to be proportional to the damages awarded.
The court also dismissed his renewed judicial immunity argument because he had failed to preserve it properly after trial.
President Trump will deliver remarks in Wasilla, Alaska, during a midterm rally for Republican Senator Dan Sullivan tonight.
Trump told reporters earlier while departing the White House, “the level of enthusiasm for the Republican Party is way up” as a result of his rallies, noting that Ohio Senator Jon Husted is benefiting from his two rallies in Ohio this month.
“I’m right now going to Alaska to try and help Dan Sullivan. That’s a long way away, and I would only do it if I thought he was good, and he is very good,” Trump said.
“And so I’m going to Alaska to help Dan Sullivan, and then I’m stopping at numerous places.”
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Trump is also scheduled to travel to Las Vegas and hold rallies in Bullhead City, Arizona, and Kalispell, Montana, on Wednesday.
In a press release, the White House highlighted Trump’s tax cuts, American energy and mining agenda, pro-fishing and hunting agenda, military construction, and public safety:
Today, President Donald J. Trump travels to Alaska. He returns to the Last Frontier with a proven record of results that put Alaskans first: lower taxes, responsible development of the state’s vast energy and mineral resources, safer communities, strong support for fisheries, and major investments that create jobs and reinforce America’s Arctic security.
Tax Relief That Puts Money Back in Alaskans’ Pockets
President Trump’s Working Families Tax Cuts are delivering direct relief to Alaska workers, families, and seniors.
No Tax on Tips: Approximately 14,000 Alaska workers no longer pay federal income taxes on tips.
No Tax on Social Security: About 100,000 Alaska seniors benefit from the new senior deduction.
Bigger Refunds: Alaska taxpayers saw average refunds of $3,690 in 2026.
Rural Health Investments: Alaska secured about $272 million in first-year Rural Health Transformation Program funding.
Protecting Jobs and Wages: The Working Families Tax Cuts safeguarded 11,000 Alaska jobs, $2 billion in state GDP, and $1 billion in workers’ wages.
Unleashing Alaska’s Energy, Minerals, and Economic Potential
President Trump is reversing years of restrictions, unlocking responsible development of Alaska’s oil, gas, and critical minerals.
In October 2026, the Trump Administration secured $150 million in Defense Production Act funding for a major new power line that will lower energy costs for 75% of Alaskans.
In September 2026, President Trump unveiled a $200 billion South Korean investment in U.S. energy that includes $54 billion to construct a new natural gas pipeline in Alaska.
In December 2025, the Trump Administration reopened nearly 82% of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska to oil and gas leasing.
In October 2025, the Trump Administration opened 1.56 million acres of the Coastal Plain to oil and gas leasing, reversing Biden-era restrictions.
In October 2025, President Trump approved the Ambler Road Project, providing essential access to the Ambler Mining District’s large deposits of copper, cobalt, gallium, germanium, and other critical minerals.
In June 2025, the Trump Administration advanced plans to open an additional seven million federally managed acres on the North Slope to new oil development.
In January 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order directing federal agencies to prioritize development of Alaska’s oil, gas, minerals, and other natural resources.
Protecting Alaska’s Communities, Fisheries, and Veterans
President Trump has moved quickly to restore historic names, support Alaska’s vital fishing industry, and expand care for the state’s veterans.
On his first day in office, President Trump restored the name Mount McKinley, reversing the Obama Administration’s 2015 change and returning the designation that stood from 1917.
The Trump Administration ensured Alaska groundfish fisheries opened on time, protecting a total value of $301.1 million for Gulf of Alaska fisheries and $2.64 billion for Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands fisheries.
The Trump Administration implemented regulatory and data collection reforms that allowed the timely opening of the Alaska halibut fishery.
The Department of Veterans Affairs awarded over $4 million in grants to community organizations supporting Alaska veterans who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.
In September 2026, the VA opened a new walk-in clinic at the Colonel Mary Louise Rasmuson Campus in Anchorage.
The Trump Administration delivered funding for critical infrastructure upgrades at the Alaska VA Healthcare System as part of a record $4.8 billion in nationwide VA spending.
A Military Construction Boom Across Alaska
President Trump and Republicans in Congress have directed major new investments into Alaska’s bases, creating jobs and modernizing facilities that strengthen U.S. security in the Arctic.
President Trump signed the Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026, which included:
$208 million for new barracks at Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks.
$46 million for a base supply complex at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER) in Anchorage.
$152 million for the next phase of the Joint Integrated Test and Training Center at JBER.
$45 million to complete the Air Force runway extension at JBER.
$6.7 million to finish planning and design for a permanent party dormitory at Eielson Air Force Base.
$7.7 million to begin planning and design for a new Army dining facility at Fort Wainwright.
President Trump signed the FY 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, which delivered additional Alaska funding, including:
$82 million for the Air Force Joint Integrated Test & Training Center at JBER.
$80 million for upgraded Army barracks at Fort Wainwright.
$46 million for an Army Reserve Base Supply Complex at JBER.
$46 million for an Army Reserve Maintenance Facility at JBER.
$15 million for a Base Civil Engineering Pavements and Grounds Facility for the Alaska Air National Guard at Eielson.
$13.2 million for design of an Air Force Consolidated Munitions Complex at Eielson.
$8 million for design of an Army dining facility at Fort Wainwright.
$1.75 million for design of an Air Force Coal Thaw Shed Addition at Eielson.
The FY 2027 NDAA, which has passed the House, includes $2.6 billion for Alaska and launches the multi-year, $7 billion “Fighter Town USA” recapitalization at JBER. The project will construct 26 modern facilities, position JBER as one of the most strategically important bases in the world, create up to 4,000 private-sector jobs, and bring additional military personnel and families to Alaska.
Safer Streets Across Alaska
Violent crime is falling in Alaska as President Trump’s law-and-order agenda delivers results for Alaska communities.
Juneau recorded a 6% decline in total criminal offenses last year.
President Trump and Republicans are delivering America First policies that put Alaska first: lower taxes, responsible resource development, safer communities, and major investments in the state’s military and economic future. Alaskans face a clear choice between continuing this progress, or returning to the higher taxes, energy restrictions, and open border policies of the past.
President Trump on Tuesday went off on Somalia and Somali Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) during his rally in Youngstown, Ohio, on Monday, and the crowd began chanting, “Deport her!”
This came after Homeland Security agents raided her home yesterday morning, in an investigation into her citizenship.
“Look at what’s happening in the once great state of Minnesota. What a mess they have,” Trump said of the Congresswoman’s state.
“And that Ilhan… I don’t know what they’re doing with her, but I can tell you this: she’s a disaster. She comes in from a country without laws, without police, without military — all they do is shoot each other, and she comes into our country, and she says, “I have a constitutional right,” he continued.
“She’s telling us about the Constitution, and she comes from one of the worst countries anywhere on the planet.”
He then highlighted the recently foiled Somali terrorist plot in Minnesota.
“Last week, savage Somali gang members shot two people in a high school parking lot in the middle of a football game. Just days later, a few miles away, the FBI arrested a radicalized Somalian who was planning to carry out an ISIS-style terrorist attack at the Mall of America, aiming to kill as many as possible in his words,” he said.
“This is not what we want in this country. We don’t want this.”
Trump paused as the entire crowd erupted, chanting, “Deport her!”
“What they have done for Minnesota, and members of the Somalian community have looted 10s of millions of dollars from Minnesota welfare programs. Your people—they came over here, and they had nothing,” he continued, railing against the third-world aliens stealing tax dollars.
“They came from a government that doesn’t exist. They come from a part of the world that only knows how to kill each other. All they do is kill each other in the streets. Then they come into the United States of America, and they tell us how to run our country. We’re not going to stand for it,” Trump said.
“They drive up taxes, they drive up healthcare costs, insurance costs, child care costs, and they cheat on everything. It’s a disaster, and we’re not going to stand for it.”
WATCH:
Omar’s Washington, DC home was raided early on Monday morning in a criminal fraud investigation that is looking at Omar’s immigration paperwork, which was filled out by her late father when she was a teen. Investigators were seen hauling boxes of evidence out of her home yesterday.
Officials believe that she may have lied on her papers, constituting fraudulent citizenship. Border Czar Tom Homan and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin have both suggested that she lied and could be deported.
However, US Attorney Jeanine Pirro confirmed earlier that Omar is also under investigation for her financial disclosures and mysterious $30 million net worth.
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One of the wackiest Democratic candidates in all of America is inviting widespread ridicule after going online to reveal her Native American name as Election Day approaches.
As TGP readers know, Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan is running to represent the state in the U.S. Senate and would make history as the first Native American woman ever elected to the chamber (Sorry, Elizabeth Warren doesn’t count).
But Flanagan has gone viral and invited national ridicule ever since she emerged on the national scene. This includes appearing in a video wearing a hijab while addressing members of the Somali community, gushing about how they’re woven into the “fabric” of the state.
She also boasted about the destruction of a Christopher Columbus statue by a violent leftist mob.
On Tuesday morning, Flanagan went online to reveal her Ojibwe name and its exact meaning before closing with a shot against Trump.
“My Ojibwe name is Gizhiiwewidamookwe, which means ‘Speaks in a Loud and Clear Voice Woman,’” Flanagan wrote on X.
“I’m going to be Minnesota’s voice in the U.S. Senate — not Donald Trump’s.”
My Ojibwe name is Gizhiiwewidamookwe, which means ‘Speaks in a Loud and Clear Voice Woman.’
I’m going to be Minnesota’s voice in the U.S. Senate — not Donald Trump’s.
@peggyflanagan Donald Trump isn’t in the senate, he’s the president. Presidents are NOT members of the Senate. Are you sure your Ojibwe name isn’t “Learns Last Woman?”
My Ojibwe name is “Gaawiin obizindawaasiin giiwanaadizi-ikwe,” or “pays no attention to crazy woman.
Peggy is 100% a creature of government. Government paid to feed and house her when she was a child, paid for education through college, and she has only had government/political jobs for all of her life.
Republicans: 52
Democrats: 48
(@nwlaroche) 
Hollaria Briden, Esq. (@HollyBriden)