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These are not just disaffected Antifa dweebs living in mom’s basement. Many of these people were trained for this very purpose by the U.S. government. cabal of hundreds of former American-trained USAID operatives, DSA Marxists, defunded and angry NGOers, and lefty activists, have been organizing and planning the literal overthrow of the U.S. Constitution and American government in favor of an unrecognizable, Third World-style form of decline. Sure, it sounds like a classic John le Carré thriller, but it is not. It is oh so real that it will make your neck tingle, and not for the sake of entertainment....

Watch the video first: AI Video Primer (4 mins) "THE ILLEGITIMACY PLAYBOOK / THE DEMOCRACY FILES: A PRIMER 🚨 I will be using this thread to track all drops, so bookmark it. I spent most of yesterday backing everything (now 312 gigabytes) up in various sources and getting the materials out to others. I also produced an AI video (above) to explain the whole thing to others are not on 𝕏 - feel free to distribute. Here's the primer: USAID, the foreign aid agency, had a democracy office. Inside the agency, it was called DRG. Officially, DRG administered "democracy assistance."...

Early voting is surging in several key battleground states, giving Democrats hope that their strength in midterm polling could translate into a turnout advantage in November. In North Carolina, more than 1.2 million early ballots have been accepted, a 37 percent increase from the same point leading up to the 2022 midterms, according to an analysis released Friday by Catawba College political scientist Michael Bitzer. That growth — which includes both in-person and mail-in ballots — has been driven by a 47 percent increase among registered Democrats and a 60 percent increase in participation among unaffiliated voters. Early voting among...

A family text message on her sister’s phone is what triggered the raid on embattled “Squad” Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) Washington, DC, home, according to a bombshell report. Federal investigators seized the phone of Omar’s sister, Sahra Noor, earlier this year, as they began looking into whether Somalia-born Omar conspired to commit immigration fraud when she came to the US, three people familiar with the matter told the New York Times. The text messages were used to secure a federal judge’s approval for Department of Homeland Security agents to raid Omar’s home Monday, when they seized the congresswoman’s phone, passport,...

1. The Left collapses in Latin and South America2. Far fewer kids claim to be Alphabet people"a recent analysis of federal data indicates a sharp decline in the percentage of young American teenagers identifying as lesbian, gay, or bisexual. According to a October 2026 report by The Washington Post and an analysis by psychologist Jean Twenge on her Substack Generation Tech, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows a significant reversal of previous upward trends."https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/10/08/number-teens-who-identify-themselves-gay-or-bisexual-free-fall/3. (C)rap suddenly collapses"Rap and hip-hop experienced a historic commercial downturn, marked by a complete absence of rap songs in the top...

In 2025 the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) recommended that tax dollars going to USAID were of no benefit to the US. Later the Trump Administration cut those subsidies. Since then, eight leftist governments in Latin America have been ousted by elections favoring free-market oriented governments. The countries in which this occurred include Ecuador, Bolivia, Honduras, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, Columbia and Brazil. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called these trends "encouraging. It was shameful that prior administrations were covertly propping up regimes that were oppressing their own people, wrecking their economies with socialist nostrums, and actively expressing their enmity...

...John Solomon’s Just the News published a declassified intelligence summary describing intercepted communications between Ukrainian officials and USAID personnel in Kyiv dating back to late 2022. According to the summary, the plan involved directing hundreds of millions of dollars meant for a Ukrainian infrastructure project toward a very different purpose. The declassified language states that roughly 90 percent of the funds would be routed to the DNC to help fund Joe Biden’s reelection campaign.. .

Under President Donald Trump, Elon Musk's DOGE effort and the White House have accomplished what conservatives long dreamed to do but never achieved: substantially dismantling America's foreign aid agency. The shrunken U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), while it hasn't been officially wiped out by Congress, will be difficult to revive under future administrations and will be "less attractive" for future bureaucrats, former USAID special government employee, Mike Benz told Just the News. "Even if you turn the apparatus back on, there will be a slower ramp-up simply because I think the precarious nature of it, knowing it might be...

In an interview on "The Benny Show" with Benny Johnson, Mike Benz argues that USAID played a broad role in shaping Brazil’s political and institutional landscape. MIKE BENZ: What's happening in Brazil was a full-on Truman show. You had the media funded by USAID. You had the universities funded by USAID. You had the staffers of the Supreme Court and the TSE (Superior Electoral Court), the election court, USAID. You had all the constitutional law advocates funded by USAID. You had the LGBT activists funded by USAID. It's full spectrum. If you were to walk down a city block in...

U.S. — With unrest drawing attention around the globe and the November midterm elections coming up soon, Democrats made it a point to blame President Donald Trump's cuts to USAID for slowing the communist takeover of the West. Though the party's plan to overrun the western world with a deadly combination of leftist politics and Islamic conquest remained alive, Democrats stressed that it had been severely hampered by drastically reduced funding for USAID programs. "We're still trying, but it's making it much more difficult," House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said. "Trump has gutted USAID funding for so many causes throughout...

SAO PAULO/BRASILIA, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Brazilian assets rallied on Monday after right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro outperformed opinion polls to finish first in the first round of Sunday's presidential election, with the Bovespa (.BVSP), opens new tab ‌benchmark stock index gaining more than 8% and the country's currency strengthening against the US dollar. The eldest son of former President Jair Bolsonaro won 47% of the votes cast and will face leftist incumbent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who secured about 45% of the vote, in a runoff on October 25. Polls had forecast Lula would lead the first round...

As the October election in Brazil approaches and is likely to pit, once again, a Lula vs. Bolsonaro matchup—this time with President Bolsonaro’s son Flávio running in his place—timing has never been better to hold accountable those in the U.S. who collaborated in the subversive campaign, both stateside and abroad, that would lead to President Bolsonaro’s political persecution and ultimately, incarceration, following the presidential election of 2022 in Brazil. It is in this context that President Trump’s measures to pressure the Brazilian government must be understood: as the unmaking of an injustice perpetrated by the U.S. Left, with Biden-era taxpayer...

A Colombian nonprofit that provided aid services to Venezuelan migrants, LGBTQ+ individuals, those with HIV, and others, has been debarred after an investigation revealed the organization’s former president and affiliates allegedly sexually exploited those it was purporting to help. Debarment is a form of penalty used by the agency to suspend funding and involvement with USAID for a period of time. The debarred nonprofit, FUVADIS, was founded by Luis Meneses, who stands accused of engaging in sexual quid-pro-quos with program participants in exchange for benefits, the United States Agency for International Development, Office of Inspector General (USAID OIG) said in...

America has become a giant money pot that half the world is looting for all sorts of exciting things. Like a coup in Haiti. Why not? We could use a break from all the stories of Somalis financing their political careers in Somalia using health care fraud. Let’s try something more exciting. The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida today announced the successful transport of 18 defendants from Haiti to Miami to face newly unsealed federal charges related to the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse on July 7, 2021. The special operation involved members of the Federal...

An up-and-coming drill rapper was shot and killed in an ambush at a Chicago gas station — with shocking video showing the killers running up and firing dozens of shots into his Tesla. Bloodhound Q50, who had more than a million monthly listeners on Spotify, was shot and killed early Sunday — just weeks after he ominously told a vlogger that he knew he could be a target. Surveillance footage shows the 22-year-old rapper, real name Mikquale Cooper, strolling out of a BP gas station and into his white Tesla where his pregnant girlfriend was waiting, according to Fox 32....

...Adapting Donald Trump’s Means to Progressive Ends.”... ....Former Biden officials are among the contributors outlining how a future progressive administration could exercise presidential power, direct investment and make its policies harder for successors to reverse. Published July 30, 2026, Building Up in 2029 contains 17 essays by 19 scholars and practitioners.... ...A rebuilt USAID would form part of a renewed international climate-finance operation....

“As free citizens we believe in direct democracy, the separation of powers, the rule of law, social market economics, subsidiarity, federalism, family values, and German cultural heritage.” So reads the manifesto of the AFD, Alternative für Deutschland, which in global media speak translates to “far-right.” Or worse. On Sunday, the AFD victory in the federal state election of Saxony-Anhalt spooked the BBC into warning its audience, “The AfD in the state is assessed by domestic intelligence as ‘right-wing extremist’.” Extreme compared to what? This “extremist” party got more than twice as many votes as its nearest rival and might have...

One allegedly helped abduct hostages on 7 October, while another is accused of holding civilians captive in Gaza. Three former UNRWA teachers accused of links to Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, including alleged involvement in the 7 October attacks and the holding of hostages, are facing sanctions by the United States. The US Agency for International Development’s Office of Inspector General (USAID OIG) said it had provided evidence to the State Department recommending that three former employees be debarred from US government contracts and grants.

Podcast titan Joe Rogan believes that hip-hop’s relative lack of commercial success in 2026 can be attributed to the Trump administration’s defunding of the USAID. Rogan made the claims about hip-hop during the Aug. 13 episode of The Joe Rogan Experience with comedian Shane Gillis, Mark Normand and Ari Shaffir. Podcast titan Joe Rogan believes that hip-hop’s relative lack of commercial success in 2026 can be attributed to the Trump administration’s defunding of the USAID. Rogan made the claims about hip-hop during the Aug. 13 episode of The Joe Rogan Experience with comedian Shane Gillis, Mark Normand and Ari Shaffir....

Two federal agencies gave taxpayer dollars to charities with ties to terrorism, new reports show. The State Department worked with World Vision to distribute $2 billion in global health foreign assistance even though an Israeli court convicted the nonprofit’s Gaza affiliate operations manager of sending up to $50 million to Hamas in 2022. Separately, the Health and Human Services Department (HHS) provided nearly $80 million to 14 organizations linked to terrorism and extremism. HHS and CAIR-aligned terrorist organizationsThe Middle East Forum (MEF) recently reported that 14 terror-linked and extremist organizations, led by CAIR, collected nearly $80 million from HHS through...