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“Gridlock is the next best thing to having a constitution.” – M. Stanton Evans Now that the election is over, it’s time to ask if all the hyperventilating for the past year was worth it. Was this “the most important election in our history,” as so many have declared? We are entirely unconvinced. If all it does is produce gridlock in Washington, we will be happy, because the biggest threat to the country is when lawmakers are productive. To be clear, it would have been better if the GOP had kept their majorities, and we are deeply disturbed by the...

Abortion is still legal in Missouri. Voters on Tuesday rejected Amendment 3, which would have again banned most abortions in the state, with some exceptions.

Get our FREE Newsletter at https://www.PrometheanAction.com — On the eve of the midterms, Susan Kokinda sets President Trump's final message to Republicans, given to Benny Johnson ("be smart, be strong, love your country"), against Senator Elissa Slotkin's September 30 speech at the Carnegie Endowment, where she called Trump's America "the Titanic", and her stage partner Anne Applebaum's praise for the January 6 hearings as "constructed for television". Slotkin's undercover-video remarks of October 29 show what her post-midterm "signature cases" would be: the White House ballroom and the Reflecting Pool. The episode then follows the playbook to Poland: Slotkin's visit to...

A source close to Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., told Fox News Digital that the South Dakota Republican intends to run for Senate minority leader following the GOP's sweeping defeat in Tuesday's midterm elections. Thune is expected to seek the leadership position despite Republicans losing at least five seats in the upper chamber, including contests in traditionally Republican strongholds such as South Carolina and Texas. The losses came amid declining approval ratings for President Donald Trump, whose administration faced criticism over the war in Iran, immigration enforcement operations and high gas prices in the months leading up to the...

I was optimistic because I've seen far more Minogue signs than Healey signs in my county, but I also tried tempering my expectations given we are stronghold for the most degenerate politicians....but seriously, WTF?? What has caused such apathy, ignorance, and delusion to befall the electorate in the last few decades?Many people in this state live fairly prosperously compared to those from other states...I just don't get the political mindset of these folks...RANT OVER

As Republicans see electoral losses across the country, about 74 percent of voters said the Iran war was a “crucial or major” factor in their vote for Congress, and Democrats won 63 percent of those voters, according to NBC exit polls. Only 26 percent said the war was a “minor factor or not a factor,” 70 percent of whom voted Republican and 28 percent of whom voted Democrat. The divide on the war became even greater when voters were asked whether the Trump administration made the “right decision” or “wrong decision” on “military action against Iran. Overall, 37 percent said...

Broken with pain, with a knot in the throat and without being able to believe that this is true, from the CD Tenerife we communicate the tragic death, this Tuesday, November 3, 2026, at 8:00 hours, of Jesús de Miguel Alameda. There are no words of comfort; there is absolutely nothing that mitigates this feeling full of sadness. We stand with his desolate family, together with his loved ones, along with all the Tenerifenism that today mourns this cruel outcome. The family of Jesús de Miguel thanks each and every one of the signs of support received, and also requests,...

It is shocking that stock market futures are booming,,,up over 1,000 points! Who would ever dreamed that? Unbelievable.

(Daily Signal)—Americans will soon learn what the Democrat agenda is really about, and it certainly isn’t about working with President Donald Trump to reduce the cost of living. The blue tsunami came to be Tuesday night as a wave of Democrats took seats in the House and the Senate that seemed impossible not long ago. They will now have sizable majorities in both houses of Congress. The big question is, what will they do with those majorities? While Democrats may have ridden their message about “affordability” to a massive victory on Tuesday night, they don’t intend to limit their agenda...

Yolanda Renee King, the only grandchild of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, is making her voice heard at the ballot box for the first time.

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem🇮🇱 (11/4/26)[Prayer]The Scriptures in Handel's Messiah Isaiah 401 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. 2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins.3 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. 4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall...

Pieces of the tail of the Learjet that crashed in Florida have been found miles away from the crash site, which suggests that part of the aircraft broke off before it hit the ground, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. Federal investigators found three pieces of the jet's left elevator between 1.3 and 3.8 miles from the impact site in Palm Beach County, Florida, NTSB member Thomas Champman said Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported. The plane's elevator controls the aircraft's pitch up or down, and without it, an aircraft cannot recover from a nose dive. Chapman said that...

Organized criminal networks stand accused of using stolen American identities, fictitious college students, and artificial intelligence to fraudulently obtain federal student loans and grants. n October 29, 2026, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a nationwide crackdown on organized criminal networks accused of using stolen American identities, fictitious college students, and artificial intelligence to fraudulently obtain federal student loans and grants. The announcement followed the Treasury Department’s identification of approximately $270 million in suspicious financial transactions. Investigators believe the “fraud has been ongoing since at least 2021.” The investigation, dubbed Operation Ghostbusters, has expanded to “more than 40 open cases”...

Trump: “I wasn’t on the Ballot and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE!”

Today is Election Day here in the United States. As it’s often being called, “the mid-terms”. Because it’s coming at the halfway point in the four-year term of the president. I’ve never liked calling these elections “mid-terms”. Every election is supposed to be of grave import, not just those that might swing political power away from or (more rarely) toward whoever the President of the United States is. But for most of this country’s history we have made the president the focal point of American temporal presence. The person most empowered to define the country’s identity. And barring some drastic...

It was bad, but it could have been worse and, as always, there are lessons we can take from it. n 2022, Republicans thought there would be a Red Tsunami. In fact, there was a Red piddle that didn’t even rise to the level of a puddle. But yesterday, Democrats got that Tsunami. They flipped both the Senate and the House and did so massively. According to The New York Times, Democrats currently have 54-44 control of the Senate and 228-139 control of the House. Both numbers could improve for Democrats in the next days and hours. That’s not a...

Longtime Republican incumbent Senator Susan Collins was unseated by Democrat Troy Jackson in Maine's Senate race on Tuesday evening. RINO Susan Collins served five consecutive terms as a Maine Senator. Troy Jackson, the Democrat who married his cousin, booted Susan Collins. BREAKING: The Fox News Decision Desk can project that Democrat Troy Jackson will defeat Republican Sen. Susan Collins in Maine. The state has backed Democrats in every presidential election since 1992, but voters also elected Republican Susan Collins to five consecutive Senate terms. That record ends tonight. — Fox News (@FoxNews) November 4, 2026 Democrats flipped the US Senate...

Will Trump step aside and put JD in charge? Trump has nothing to gain by staying around except to be pounded into the ground daily.

Where to begin when it seems it's the end? This 2026 Republican loss of both House AND Senate was totally preventable and inexcusably unconscionable. The blame is fairly evenly spread but the fact remains that this should never have happened at a time when America's enemies, foreign and domestic, were on the ropes gasping their seeming last breaths after the best President we've had since Reagan overcame all obstacles to finish them off - using up the last of his mortal lifetime to do so. Not that Donald Trump is blameless. We've seen the signs of diminishment that advanced age...

Tokyo stocks ended lower in volatile trading Wednesday, with the Nikkei briefly plunging toward 60,000, as media projections showed Democrats had regained control of both houses of the U.S. Congress. The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average ended down 893.23 points, or 1.42 percent, from Monday at 62,188.63. The broader Topix index finished 34.90 points, or 0.89 percent, lower at 3,895.38. Japanese markets were closed on Tuesday for a public holiday. On the top-tier Prime Market, the main decliners were nonferrous metal, oil and coal product and mining issues. The U.S. dollar weakened, briefly falling to the lower 157 yen range in...