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At first glance, the 2026 election looks like any other midterm. The incumbent party is exhausted. The opposition is eager to rebuke an unpopular president. Economic concerns predominate. An electoral thumping seems inevitable. Check results from 2022, 2018, 2014, 2010 and 2006 for reference. Under the surface, however, an ugly force is stirring in U.S. politics that makes this midterm campaign different. For the first time in generations, antisemitism has emerged from the shadows to influence American public life. From Graham Platner to Abdul El-Sayed, from Hasan Piker to Tucker Carlson, antagonism toward Israel, “Zionists” and foreign intervention has morphed...

It looks like Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s getting a wish-granted monkey-paw style: MTA buses are now de-facto free — at the price of making them increasingly dangerous and blowing a disastrous hole in the agency’s finances. Not to mention the larger consequence of surrendering to farebeating. MTA chief Janno Leiber last week suspended the EAGLE fare-verification program after a couple of ugly incidents, presumably under political orders not to upset the anti-policing left. And NYPD flacks say the cops have “no plans” to step in; officers haven’t been issuing more than handful of farebeating summonses for some time, and the city’s...

The predicted blue wave may never materialize. And even if Democrats retake Congress, history suggests Trump could emerge stronger, not weaker, with the presidency's expansive powers. 2022 vs. 2026In June 2022, the price of gasoline topped $5 a gallon and stayed around $4 a gallon through October, on the eve of the midterms. It is currently about $4.30. The inflation rate in 2022 hit a 40-year high of 9.1 percent—and would average 5.1 percent over Joe Biden’s four-year tenure. The 2026 inflation rate is estimated to be about 3.5 percent and, over the first two years of the second Trump...

Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville was slammed for disgustingly comparing Michigan Dem Rep. Haley Stevens to a “used condom” after she endorsed Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers over lefty candidate Abdul El-Sayed. Carville said Stevens wasn’t even worth a used condom to Democrats after she broke with the party days before Election Day and sold her soul to the GOP for “two cheeseburgers” in his vulgar remarks Sunday. “But your political career is over … if you think that these Republicans are gonna treat you as anything other than what they view you as, and that is, let me just...

At least nine people are dead after a $2 million private jet crashed into a South Florida mobile home park — apparently demolishing at least one trailer in a massive fireball. Nine people were on board the Learjet 60 en route from Austin, Texas, to North Eleuthera Airport in the Bahamas when it crashed into a massive fireball, the FAA said. The plane, which had departed Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas, took a sharp right turn before nosediving from 8,000 feet into the ground.

I Wish I Would’ve Killed You!’ El Sayed Supporter Attacks Jewish Student ...Liz Benichou was participating in a campus stop with Liberty Under Fire USA when the confrontation erupted Sunday in Ann Arbor, according to The Rothman Report. Police identified the alleged attacker as a university student; Benichou is not affiliated with the school. The dispute escalated after Benichou questioned how a woman dressed like her would be treated in Iran, the New York Post reported. Footage circulating online showed the student pushing Benichou down before officers intervened. While being placed into a police vehicle in handcuffs, the student shouted...

“Back in 1836, Houston said to Travis,‘Get some volunteers and go,fortify the Alamo.’Well, the men came from Texas,and from old Tennessee,And they joined up with Travis,Just to fight for the right to be free…” That’s what TEXANS used to believe. And many of us, hopefully most of us, still do. But I’ll bet my last bottom dollar that James Talarico and his Texas Democrats don’t believe it. The question that forms the title of this article is absolutely ridiculous, of course — ridiculous to think that great men like Crockett, Bowie, William Travis, Almaron Dickenson, and approximately 180 other men,...

Republicans are trailing Democrats in seven key Senate battlegrounds, including longtime GOP strongholds Texas and Kansas, according to a poll released Sunday, just days before the midterm elections. The New York Times/Siena poll found Democratic candidates leading in five states currently represented by Republican senators — Alaska, Kansas, Maine, Ohio and Texas — while the race in Iowa is virtually tied. In Michigan, the only Democratic-held Senate seat surveyed, the party's candidate holds a double-digit lead. Don Levy, executive director of the Siena Research Institute, said the results suggest Democrats could capture control of the Senate, though he cautioned that...

Genesis 1 in motion: ============================================================= See the early universe like NEVER before: Incredible simulation reveals exactly what happened in the first 2 billion years of our history https://t.co/IPPGbJRuJf https://t.co/RyURjgKadM— Daily Mail US (@Daily_MailUS) October 26, 2026============================================================= I'll let ya believe it was the first two billion years if you want. Go ahead. You have a brain capable of comprehending the infinite because God created you in His image, just like He finely tuned everything in the universe to be a beautiful work of engineering and artisanship. But before everyone argues about the theology, take a moment to appreciate how modern...

Conservatives score historic win in most left-wing province. Canada went tropical last week (October 24, 2026). I would have written “Hell freezes over in Canada,” but Canada is frozen most of the year, so that wouldn’t work. A political earthquake like nothing before has shaken the Great White North to its tundra core. I’ve previously vented my disdain for our Frozen Banana Republic neighbor, which locks up Christians, dismisses citizens in need of health care, and treads upon the rights of the common man while claiming to be nice in the process. The country has drifted, then rushed to the...

Nate Silver is part of the polling corps that’s hedging their bets. He wrote on Sunday that a blue wave looks likely, because that’s what all his colleagues are saying. Some of these projections are wild this year, like predicting Florida will have a Democrat governor. Not going to happen. In 2024, Silver infuriated Democrats with his Electoral College projections because Trump was winning; he swung to the other side slightly when Kamala Harris took over. Trump won. In 2026, he’s saying a blue wave will essentially happen only in blue states and, more importantly, that the GOP has a...

As the 2026 midterm election jamboree entered its final days, the punditocracy has been treated to a couple of cathartic and possibly clarifying shudders. As I write, Elissa Slotkin, a Democratic Senator from Michigan, is scrambling to retrieve her standing after she told an interviewer that she favored having the deep state harass people who supported Donald Trump and the MAGA agenda. She didn’t put it quite like that, of course. What she said was: “I want young people coming out of school to say, ‘Should I go work for the Trump administration?’ I want them to be like, ‘Lord,...

Please join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media.1 Timothy 2:1-2 I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.Religion Forum threads labeled “Prayer” are closed to debate of any kind.

It seems morbidly appropriate that America’s midterm elections come right after Halloween. What the Democrat Party offers voters this year is the culmination of many decades of cultural rot, psychopathy, and anti-Americanism. It feels as if we’re in the middle of a scary movie, doesn’t it? Are we hanging from the edge of a cliff? Yes. Are there evil monsters chasing us down? Yes. Does it seem as if every choice we make could be our last? Yes. What the Democrat Party has become is truly horrific. Like Frankenstein’s monster, its political body is comprised of dead parts: Islamic supremacy,...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem🇮🇱 (11/2/26)[Prayer]Personalities Psalm 711 In you, Lord, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame. 2 In your righteousness, rescue me and deliver me; turn your ear to me and save me. 3 Be my rock of refuge, to which I can always go; give the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress. 4 Deliver me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of those who are evil and cruel. 5 For you have been my hope, Sovereign Lord, my confidence since my...

When I was doing background research into a Muslim congressional candidate in a New Jersey primary that no one was looking at, what I found blew my mind. And then some. I broke the story on the background of Hisham ‘Adam’ Hamawy back in April. In 1995, ‘Adam’ Hisham Hamawy testified for the defense in the trial of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman: the Egyptian Islamic terror leader linked to the World Trade Center bombing. Now, Hamawy is running for Congress in New Jersey while promising to defund the military, abolish ICE, and dismantle the Department of Homeland Security. The Sheikh’s...

Philip E. Meeks, who says he has lived near Sullivan’s home for years, questions the independent candidate’s motives and urges him to return to town and answer reporters’ questions. Democrats allegedly recruited Sullivan to run in order to siphon votes away from Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan. (Credit: Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)

Featured photo: Hillary Clinton’s official portrait as Secretary of State. U.S. Department of State, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.Five days before the midterms, Hillary Clinton told Democrats what a new majority would do first. Not lower grocery bills. Not cheaper gas. Investigations. On the Oct. 28 episode of High Stakes, the Vox Media podcast she co-hosts with Kara Swisher, Clinton predicted President Trump would soon face “a Democratic Congress trying to rein him in, hold him accountable, and investigate him, his administration, his family, his supporters and allies.” Then she added: “So buckle up. The election is just the beginning.”...

The poll shows that if the election were held next weekend, KO would have the support of 29.7 percent of respondents (a decrease of 0.9 percentage points compared to the poll from the beginning of October). The second in the election would be PiS, for which 17.2 percent of respondents want to vote (a decrease of 0.8 percentage points). The last place on the podium is occupied by the Confederacy, for which 13.2 percent of the respondents want to vote (a decrease of 0.9 percentage points). Entering the Sejm with a 10% support (an increase by a percentage point) of...

Tusk referred to the dispute over the Constitutional Court in a social media post. "The resolution of the conflict is simple and possible without changes to the constitution," he wrote on X. Donald Tusk presented his vision of solving the case. “The President recognizes judges legally elected by the Sejm, because this is the Constitution, and they undertake their duties in the Court” – he pointed out. Karol Nawrocki, who has chosen a violent confrontation, which can cost Poland a lot, said: “So far.” “The democratic rule of law cannot give way to violence, regardless of how powerful external forces...