Michigan's Haley Stevens: AIPAC Stooge and Traitor Who Hates Muslims and Blacks

Michigan voters: Vote on the character of the candidate, not on the stuff he/she promises and says.

Look for integrity, constancy, principle, decency. Don't be fooled by sweet talk, by bigoted religious fervor, by outlandish promises, by racist hatred of others.   

Haley Stevens has no integrity. She's a waverer. She has no principles. Paid by AIPAC and under pressure from the MAGA racist criminals on the right side of the aisle, she has jumped ship, just like the eternal fence-sitter Joe Manchin, and just like that idiot from Pennsylvania John Fetterman...

As predicted, [https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2026/10/white-trash-supremacist-racism-seeps.html] Haley Stevens is a traitor, a racist and an Islamophobe. She has now endorsed her own enemy. How can you trust someone like Haley Stevens who so easily changes her mind and switches camps?

Michigan voters: You now have many more reasons NOT to vote for Rogers. The Haley Stevens betrayal is one more evidence that Israel's Zionists control the United States.

In the end, Haley Stevens chose Israel over the United States and over the American people now suffering from Trump's war on behalf of the Zionists. 
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How an attempt at Democratic unity in Michigan imploded
Eric Bradner, Edward-Isaac Dovere, Brian Todd, CNN
Mon, November 2, 2026 


Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Michigan, speaks alongside Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers after a church service at Perfecting Church, in Detroit on Sunday, November 1, 2026. - Jose Juarez/AP

As recently as Saturday night, the prospect of Democrat Haley Stevens endorsing Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan's Senate race had seemed implausible.

Stevens issued a statement praising Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed for saying he disagreed with a controversial advertisement that blamed the high cost of living in Michigan on the United States' aid to Israel. Despite a week of speculation about her withdrawing an endorsement for El-Sayed, her primary rival, she repeatedly said that she would do no such thing.

When staffers reached out last week to urge her not to endorse Rogers, Stevens replied in a text message, according to a person who saw the message: "Omg why would you think I would do that??!!"

As recently as midnight Saturday, she told a key ally that she was sticking with El-Sayed. Then on Sunday morning, things changed.

She appeared at a Black church in Detroit with Rogers and then announced her change of heart to reporters gathered outside and on social media.

Her move stunned the political world — including Stevens' friends, colleagues and even her own congressional staffers, most of whom found out about her decision on social media and promptly quit, according to a statement from her chief of staff and people familiar with the matter.

The question that could decide Michigan's Senate race — and potentially, with it, which party will have majority control of the chamber for the last two years of Donald Trump's presidency — is whether Stevens' endorsement of Rogers will change votes or amount to more than political melodrama.

There have long been signs of discontent with El-Sayed within the Democratic coalition. Stevens was strongest in the August primary with Black and Jewish Democrats, some of whom have balked at supporting El-Sayed, a Muslim who is a strident critic of Israel's actions in Gaza and an advocate for ending foreign aid for Israel's military.

Prior to Stevens' defection, CNN's most recent poll of the Michigan Senate race had El-Sayed leading Rogers by seven points – with 95% support from Democratic likely voters. Already, Stevens' endorsement of Rogers is becoming something of a rally-around-the-flag moment for Democratic leaders — uniting a coalition in the race's final days around a shared sense of the stakes at hand.

Among the Democratic leaders who denounced Stevens and strongly backed El-Sayed were two of his most powerful intra-party critics: Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, who tacitly supported Stevens in the primary, and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who just days ago said El-Sayed's views on Israel were "wrong" and "more than concerning."

Schumer accused Stevens of a "despicable betrayal."

"Senate Democrats are united in our support for Abdul El-Sayed, because we know he will fight for the economic interests of working families in Michigan, unlike Mike Rogers, who is a tool of Donald Trump and billionaire donors," the New York Democrat said.

Schumer added that Democrats "are equally united in our total revulsion at the racist, Islamophobic, and over-the-top false attacks on Abdul by Republicans."

Pelosi, meanwhile, said on social media that El-Sayed "must win," and that Stevens "has chosen to dangerously betray Michigan families' healthcare, freedoms and future with her horrific endorsement of Mike Rogers."

As Stevens and Rogers spoke to reporters outside the church after the service, an individual in the crowd shouted: "Haley's a traitor!"

An El-Sayed campaign spokeswoman said he had raised $1.2 million in the hours after Stevens endorsed Rogers — his second-largest total in a single day since winning the primary.

What Stevens said on CNN

In an interview Sunday night with CNN's Anderson Cooper, Stevens said that endorsing Rogers was "just a weight off my shoulders." But she struggled to answer questions about why she'd changed her mind.

"Abdul has been getting angrier and angrier," Stevens said. "There are so many Democrats who want to vote for our Democratic nominee, and they're just being told, 'Hey, this is a party you don't belong in, or this is a campaign you don't belong in.'"

What she didn't explain, despite being asked several times, was what had changed between Saturday — when she told several Democrats she intended to appear with El-Sayed and Clyburn at church — and Sunday morning, when she instead went to a Detroit church with Rogers and endorsed him.

She said she was tired of watching El-Sayed stand with Hasan Piker — but didn't address the reality that El-Sayed's campaign appearances with Piker came before the primary election, and Stevens had endorsed El-Sayed after that primary's conclusion.

"I'm just sick of the people he stands with," Stevens said.

Michigan Rep. Debbie Dingell, a Democrat who had told CNN Sunday that Stevens reassured her Saturday that she wasn't switching sides, reacted by saying: "That was one of the most painful interviews I have ever watched."

Why did Stevens switch her endorsement?

Shortly after their primary, which El-Sayed won by less than a percentage point, the two hugged at a state party unity breakfast. But they had not campaigned together in months – or spoken directly during that time, as CNN reported last week.

Democrats attempted to negotiate a joint appearance Sunday at a Black church in Detroit alongside South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn, one of the party's most influential figures. The goal was to shore up Black support for El-Sayed.

One longtime Michigan Democratic operative said many older Black voters tend to cast their ballots on Election Day, rather than voting early, "because of a well-earned higher skepticism of absentee voting." Those votes could be an essential piece of the Democratic coalition El-Sayed is trying to hold together.

Stevens said in a statement Friday morning that Clyburn, who endorsed and campaigned with her in the primary, had invited her to the church — and that she would be attending, marking the first time she would appear jointly with El-Sayed on the campaign trail.

However, she also issued a list of demands for El-Sayed — including attempting to pressure him into denouncing an outside group's new advertisement that blamed the United States' foreign aid for Israel for Americans' struggles with high costs. The ad features two people in a grocery store suggesting they can't afford basic goods due to the aid. It echoed what El-Sayed has often said on the campaign trail about Israel, even as he distanced himself from the ad.

El-Sayed responded in a statement Friday night that Stevens "seems intent on relitigating a primary that ended three months ago."

It became clear that the joint appearance wouldn't happen late Friday, when CNN and other outlets reported that El-Sayed's campaign had asked Stevens to skip all campaign events in the race's closing days. Dingell said on CNN Saturday that she was the one who delivered the message to Stevens.

Still, on Saturday, El-Sayed denounced the ad, and Stevens issued a statement praising him for doing so — developments that made her decision Sunday more of a head-scratcher to many Democrats close to her. Dingell told CNN Sunday that Stevens had reassured her overnight that she wasn't switching sides.

Standing next to Rogers on Sunday, Stevens mentioned four times that El-Sayed's campaign had excluded her from his events. She pointed to it again in her endorsement video posted on X, noting El-Sayed "had said that I was no longer welcome in his campaign and that I should stay away. And he's right."

"My vote for Senate is going to be with Mike Rogers, and I will tell you why. Because we have to stand with country. We can't stand with hate. We can't stand with Hasan Piker," she said.

Party officials moved swiftly on Sunday to publicly condemn Stevens and criticize her focus on being uninvited. But they privately said there was blame to go around — notably for El-Sayed.

"He acted like he won the primary in a landslide, but he didn't," one longtime Democratic official told CNN. "Abdul gave himself his own October surprise."

El-Sayed went ahead Sunday with the event. After asking reporters to focus on questions about issues facing people in his state rather than "two folks who aren't here right now," El-Sayed was asked if he believed Stevens had betrayed his party by backing Rogers.

"At the end of the day, I actually don't think about Haley Stevens," he said, standing next to Clyburn. "I think about, like I said, the 9,999,998 people who are not those two. Because you know what? I'm just less interested in the politics of it all than I am in the policy of it all."

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed attends a church service at Greater Emmanuel Institutional Church of God in Christ, Sunday, November 1, 2026, in Detroit. - Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP

A core tension in Michigan reemerges

A deeply emotional argument for many in the Democratic Party became particularly personal for El-Sayed and Stevens, both of whom are known for not listening much to advisers and following their own instincts.

Stevens was backed in the primary by tens of millions of dollars in spending from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee — a flashpoint between her and El-Sayed, who denounced AIPAC and the influence of money in politics at nearly every campaign event. El-Sayed was criticized for campaigning with Piker, the stridently pro-Palestinian live-streamer with a long history of controversial comments about Jews, including comparing Jewish residents who oppose El-Sayed to members of the Ku Klux Klan, remarks widely denounced as antisemitic. AIPAC on X reshared Stevens' video on Sunday endorsing Rogers.

During the primary, El-Sayed portrayed Stevens as an AIPAC puppet and called her "the least capable candidate in America."

"Everyone in America understands you want to blame all of your problems on Jewish Americans," Stevens responded on X days before the August 4 election.

As AIPAC's allied groups boosted her campaign, the animosity grew too. El-Sayed's multiple shots at Stevens as being a puppet angered her and made her dig in. Meanwhile, she was rankled by his repeated refusal to affirm that Israel had a right to exist as a Jewish state and his statements that it was committing genocide in Gaza and that funding to the country was hurting Michiganders.

Many of Stevens' Democratic critics on Sunday blamed Stevens' fiancé, Michigan lawyer Jason Turkish, who endorsed Rogers last week and did media interviews criticizing El-Sayed as uncommitted to Jewish safety.

One former Stevens staffer noted Sunday that after she and Turkish became engaged in May — something they kept private until after the August primary — Stevens grew more focused on defending Israel and AIPAC, even as the Democratic Party and US public opinion as a whole has become more skeptical of Israel. In the ex-staffer's view, she was speaking less about the message she'd run on and won with before: growing Michigan's economy and protecting manufacturing.

The topic often came up while preparing for interviews or donor calls, the staffer said. Preparing for a June interview, Stevens pressed aides on why she should avoid defending AIPAC when she had done so in a 2022 House primary against former Rep. Andy Levin and won.

Speculation about Turkish's influence burst into the open on Sunday, as Democrats — many of whom had either spoken to Stevens recently or been briefed by people who had — suggested he was playing an outsized role for a candidate's partner.

Former Pennsylvania Rep. Susan Wild, who in 2023 was Stevens' roommate in Washington and whose children regularly text with Stevens, said she was "terribly sad and disappointed" by her friend's "appalling" move.

"If this is because of her new relationship (about which many of us were so happy for her after she lost the primary), all I can say is that any woman who abandons her friends when a new guy comes along is no friend at all," Wild said.

Stevens' mother, Maria Marcotte, a retired advertising executive, told CNN in a statement that her daughter's fiancé had nothing to do with the change of heart — and that Marcotte herself had also voted for Rogers.

"Haley is her own woman. She always has been. Suggesting a man made her decision for her is insulting to her, and it is insulting to me as her mother," Marcotte said.

She pointed to episodes in which progressive pro-Palestinian activists hounded Stevens during the primary campaign.

"Abdul should not have thrown her out of the campaign for speaking her truth," she said. "Haley made this choice herself, with her eyes open, the way she has made every hard choice in her life. And I know Haley will support whoever wins this election, because that is who she is. I have never been prouder of her."

Who's to blame?

The anger between the two rivals kept growing from a distance after El-Sayed won the primary.

El-Sayed grouped Stevens in with all those he decided he didn't need to build his coalition after his primary victory. Stevens would tell people that she thought he was running a weird and losing campaign, but that she didn't feel it was her obligation to fix it.

Rogers aides, aware that his path to victory largely depended on a Democratic civil war, restrained themselves to spreading word of discontent and convincing themselves they weren't just fantasizing that they could get her all the way to endorsing.

Then came the grocery-store ad that rekindled the tension. It was released by a group linked to Cenk Uygur, co-creator of The Young Turks and — in a twist practically designed to create acrimony — Piker's uncle.

As Stevens demanded he denounce Uygur's ad, El-Sayed returned to name-checking AIPAC in his statement criticizing Stevens, something Michigan attorney general Dana Nessel, a Stevens primary backer who has raised concerns about Jewish safety, asked him to stop doing before she endorsed him. Nessel told CNN in October that El-Sayed had agreed to her request.

Stevens' defection threatened to worsen El-Sayed's standing with Jewish voters. Rogers has already predicted publicly that he could win as much as half the Jewish vote on Tuesday.

"It feels like over the last eight weeks, Dr. El-Sayed has become more egregious in the language he's been using," said Rabbi Aaron Starr, the president of the Michigan Board of Rabbis and a leader of the "Nonnegotiable" group of Jewish leaders. That group calls on El-Sayed to do more about concerns regarding Jewish safety and to affirm Jewish sovereignty in Israel. Starr and other Jewish leaders held a call Sunday afternoon to discuss the endorsement flip.

But Stevens was also damaged with key allies.

Dingell, long a peacemaker within the state party, chided Stevens' "continued efforts to get attention."

"Unfortunately, she's seriously hurt herself," Dingell told CNN.

Curtis Hertel, the chairman of the Michigan Democratic Party, effectively booted Stevens from it. He wrote on social media: "Congresswoman Stevens is not a current member of the Michigan Democratic Party, nor will she be in the future."

Many Democrats in the state felt that for most of the preceding year, Stevens was viable in the Senate race largely because she'd cornered Schumer into effectively backing her. Into the spring, complaints circulated about what a lackluster primary campaign she was running, how much she was struggling on the stump, and how she was lashing out against those who wouldn't support her.

Despite her eventual strength with African American voters, Black church leaders were angry about her efforts to push for early endorsements. Chokwe Pitchford, a 27-year-old district commissioner from Benton Harbor and seen as a local rising star, told a story that he says encapsulated the kind of experience other Michigan Democrats he knows had: One morning, he discovered a graphic online from Stevens saying he'd endorsed her, even though as he posted in response, they'd never spoken.

"Instead of reaching out and apologizing, I had people from around the state calling from unknown numbers saying my political career is over if I don't take that down," Pitchford told CNN. "Some of us tried to ring this alarm bell a year ago; there was a problem here."

Indeed, the most robust praise for Stevens on Sunday was coming from Republicans.

"Haley said what few people are willing to say. She showed great and almost unprecedented loyalty to the Great People of Michigan with what she did," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Todd reported from Detroit. CNN's Dana Bash, Manu Raju, Nicky Robertson and Jeff Zeleny contributed to this report.

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Trump's BS Aura To Begin Fizzling into the Garbage Bin of History this Tuesday

A large majority (some 70%) of American voters now know. They've seen the Great American Moron in his golden Outhouse "making America Great Again". Alas, he succeeded in only reaping billions of dollars for himself, his cronies and his family, tarnishing the reputation of America across the globe, making life so much harder for average Americans and starting a war he has no idea how to end. 

America today has many more enemies because of Trump. Those in the international community who fake smile at him, offer him trashy gifts and pretend they like him are only biding their time and waiting for the orangutan to go back to his cage in Mar-A-Lago. So do most Americans. Let us hope that Americans, independents in particular, are not going to bamboozled again by the Great American Liar.

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Analysis: Republicans face a midterm reckoning of Trump's making
STEVEN SLOAN
Updated Sun, November 1, 2026 

WASHINGTON (AP) — For President Donald Trump, this week's elections are about him. For his fellow Republicans, the risk is voters will agree.

Midterms almost always serve as a referendum on the president's party, and losses typically ensue. But Trump's decisions to impose tariffs, start a war and oversee extravagant Washington renovations — largely without congressional consultation — have made it harder for Republicans to navigate those historical headwinds.

There is a direct connection between his actions and higher gas prices, costlier groceries and persistently high inflation.

Republicans cannot blame the fallout from those decisions on past administrations when Trump has owned them so fulsomely. They also cannot easily distance themselves from an unpopular president who demands loyalty and routinely tells voters the economy is just fine.

At virtually every juncture before Election Day on Tuesday, Trump has complicated the task of protecting Republican majorities in Congress.

The Iran war is "making it exponentially harder for Republicans to keep the House and Senate," Rep. Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin, one of the most vulnerable House Republicans, said in a debate while noting his support for the effort.

Trump's late moves to boost GOP may not be enough

Republicans have had one distinct advantage: money.

Trump's political groups spent nearly $277 million to boost Republicans since September, a staggering amount that puts this year on pace to be the most expensive midterm ever.

But it may not be enough to carry the GOP.

His import taxes disrupted the agricultural economy and triggered a trade war with Canada, putting Republicans on defense in Senate races from Iowa, Michigan and Kansas to Nebraska, Ohio and Maine. The war in Iran that he said would be over in weeks continues eight months later with no clear strategy for conclusion, starkly at odds with his pledge to not engage in Middle East conflicts.

"This administration's actions are directly responsible for rising costs," former Democratic President Barack Obama said in Ohio.

Trump has shown little sympathy for Americans coping with rising costs. He has dismissed affordability challenges as a "hoax" and told a Georgia rally that he does not "give a damn" about criticism of gas prices — even as he celebrated profits for U.S. oil and gas companies.

All the while, he has grown far more wealthy, taking in $1.2 billion from crypto businesses while most investors lost money.

Campaigning with Democrats in competitive House races recently in Virginia, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg argued that "the corruption that we've seen is directly connected to the pain that people are feeling economically."

"You cannot separate these things," said Buttigieg, a potential presidential candidate in 2028.

Some voters are also upset at Trump's priorities, including his lavish Washington remake.

A ballroom that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts deemed "likely unlawful" is rising over the White House as the Republican administration signals it could begin work on building a triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery later this week. He has said he will defy a federal judge and move forward later this month with plans to close a park along the Potomac River that has long served as the backdrop for family picnics, scenic bike rides and affordable golf to make way for a "world class" golf course.
Midterms often challenge a president's party

Midterms are historically challenging for a president's party.

During Trump's last midterm in 2018, Democrats gained 40 House seats and 31 during Republican George W. Bush's second term in 2006. Republicans, meanwhile, picked up 63 seats in 2010 under Obama but flipped fewer than 10 in 2022 under Democratic President Joe Biden.

Redistricting has reduced the number of genuinely competitive House districts, but Trump has added to the GOP's challenge by intervening in several Senate races in ways that may ultimately erase their majority. In Texas, outgoing Republican Sen. John Cornyn has warned that Trump's pick in this year's primary, state Attorney General Ken Paxton, is weak against Democrat James Talarico, a state representative.

"Even in places like Texas, which are pretty red, we've got flawed candidates who I think are going to have a hard time," Cornyn said in a brief interview.
Low approval of Trump could weigh on Republicans

About one-third of U.S. adults approve of how Trump is handling the presidency, according to The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. That's lower than Biden's approval in AP-NORC polling just before the midterms as well as Trump's first-term approval, which stood around 40% just before the midterms.

In October 2006, around 37% of U.S. adults approved of Bush's performance while about 45% approved of Obama's performance just before the 2010 elections, according to Gallup polling. Gallup's presidential approval tracking question, which was discontinued by the firm earlier this year, phrased the question differently and used a different method than AP-NORC polls so the findings are not directly comparable.

Previous presidents such as Bush and Obama, when their approval ratings were drooping, gave members of their party room to create some distance. Trump is generally not leaving that kind of space, leading candidates to take more subtle steps like removing mentions of the president from their websites.

Democrats have kept up the pressure, spending hundreds of millions on advertising that connects Republicans to Trump. A Democratic ad in Michigan, for example, called Republican Mike Rogers, a former congressman, "all in on the war, all in on Trump."

Rep. Ashley Hinson, the GOP nominee for Senate in Iowa, is testing how to balance loyalty and independence from Trump, who scheduled a rally in the state Sunday. She said in a debate that she would be Trump's "ally when it is important for Iowa, but I will push back on him."

She toured an ethanol facility in Dyersville, Iowa, a few days later alongside Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin. The visit was intended to underscore her advocacy for one of Iowa's most important industries but she soon faced questions about Trump's controversial deal with Russia to lower diesel prices.

"Lowering fuel prices across the board continues to be a priority for me," Hinson said before adding that "it makes me a little bit nervous anytime we're talking about relieving a sanction on Russia."

Democrats have risks of their own

For all of the GOP's challenges, Democrats also face risks. As some in the party become bullish in their expectations, there are warnings about over-interpreting the results.

"Anger against Trump is going to be a waning emotion," Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said in an interview. "We've got to deliver."

Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., recently traveled to Hungary to study how voters rejected Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his authoritarian policies. In a speech, she spoke of a "tipping point" when "the public will refuse to accept this level of corruption."

Asked in an interview whether the U.S. is reaching a "tipping point," she said "that's the $100 million question," cautioning that voters are not "falling in love with Democrats."

"A midterm is almost always a signal and a reaction to the party in power," she said. "What we do, starting January 1, if we manage to flip the House, is going to be a proof point for those swing voters on whether they made a good call."
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Editor's Note: Steven Sloan has covered politics for The Associated Press since 2018.

This Month Celebrates Indigenous Native American Heritage: A Colonial Tragedy

Like what happened in Palestine, illegal foreign migrants and invaders arrived, massacred and displaced the indigenous populations of the Americas north and south. After some 250 years, up to 100 million indigenous Americans were erased from existence to make place for white morons from Europe.

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November Marks National Native American Heritage Month
Levi Rickert
Sun, November 1, 2026


Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Councilor Raphael Wahwassuck at the Forest County Potawatomi for the Bodéwadmi Gathering 2026 (Potawatomi Gathering). (Photo/Levi Rickert)

Nov. 1 marks the beginning of Native American Heritage Month, an opportunity to raise awareness of Indigenous history and contemporary Native issues and to recognize the Native people who enrich our nation's culture and society.

National Native American Heritage Month, as it is officially called, is the culmination of a centuries-long effort to recognize the substantial contributions of Indigenous peoples.

Dr. Arthur Caswell Parker, a Cattaraugus Seneca Indian, historian, anthropologist, and author from New York, was an early proponent of establishing a day to honor Native Americans. Parker founded several influential American Indian rights organizations, including the Society of American Indians in 1911 and the National Congress of American Indians in 1944. He also advocated for American Indians to receive U.S. citizenship.

Parker persuaded the Boy Scouts of America to designate a day to celebrate the "First Americans," an observance that took place from 1912 to 1915.

In 1914, Native rights advocate the Rev. Red Fox James, a Blackfoot tribal citizen, embarked on a 4,000-mile horseback journey to Washington, D.C., to petition the president for an "Indian Day." He presented endorsements from 24 governors to the White House. In 1919, he again petitioned the state of Washington to designate the fourth Saturday in September as an "Indian holiday."

On Sept. 28, 1915, President Calvin Coolidge issued a proclamation declaring the second Saturday in May American Indian Day. The proclamation also included the first formal appeal for Native Americans to be recognized as U.S. citizens.

Decades later, in 1976, Jerry C. Elliott (Osage-Cherokee), one of the first Native Americans to work at NASA, authored congressional legislation establishing the first Native American Awareness Week, observed Oct. 10-16.

In 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed a joint congressional resolution designating November as "National American Indian Heritage Month." Presidential proclamations recognizing the month have been issued annually since 1994.

Today, Native American Heritage Month provides an opportunity to recognize the histories, cultures, resilience, and contributions of the more than 575 federally recognized Tribal Nations, as well as Native communities across the United States. It is also a time to acknowledge the ongoing issues facing Indigenous peoples, including tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, voting rights, health care, education, and the protection of ancestral lands and natural resources.

Throughout the month, Native News Online will provide numerous articles to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.

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Equal Opportunity American White Trash Racism Extends to Asians

I beg to differ with the Guardian headline below. It is not "right wing racism". It is white American trash racism against anyone with skin color slightly darker than pig skin color. There are many leftwing racists. Believe me, I interacted with all these ignorant Americans. And, there are many rightwingers who are Africans, Asians, Arabs, Hispanics, etc. who are as dumb as the white trash rightwingers who hate them. You see, the infamous Melting Pot is nothing but a pot of cultural Chlorox aiming to bleach every tan-skinned immigrant into pig-skinned morons. The Savannah Hernandez imbecile is one of those who desperately want to bleach their skin white in order to fit into the Melting Pot. White trash Texans in particular are known for being dumb and vile racist rednecks who love God.

These non-white imbeciles are conservatives who don't understand that in the US, conservatism and rightwingism simply boil down to racism and are therefore directed at them. But they happily vote for morons like Trump who fools them with talk about family values and religious values that don't mean a thing to him, the criminal felon that he is.
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‘There’s a lot of hate’: rightwing racism stirs south Asian mobilization in Texas
Gaya Gupta
Sun, November 1, 2026


Pooja Sethi, Democratic candidate for Texas house district 47, at the capitol in Austin in June.Photograph: Houston Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers/Getty Images

Last winter, while Pooja Sethi was canvassing to become the Democratic candidate for the Texas house of representatives, she received a text from a staff member alerting her to a post on X. The Turning Point USA influencer Savanah Hernandez – a Trump supporter known for creating videos that target immigrants – had posted a photo of Sethi's campaign banner with the caption: "Welcome to politics in Texas."

The post went viral.

The responses were so vile, Sethi said, "that I called my team and I said I'm going to go home because I need to be with my son. I'm a little scared about what's happening right now." The far right even turned her name into a racist slogan: "Don't Pooja my Texas."

If elected, Sethi will become the first Asian Democratic woman and south Asian woman in the Texas legislature. "I didn't run to have to sit here and combat anti-Indian hate. I didn't know that this was going to be a thing," said Sethi to a room of about 50 south Asians gathered at a private community listening session on anti-south Asian hate in Austin at the height of election season in October.

The event, which included Washington congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, was hosted by Indian American Impact, a nonpartisan group that supports south Asian candidates and voter engagement.

Across the country, anti-south Asian hate has spiked since Trump took office. According to the Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH), online rhetoric against south Asians surged by 240% between January 2024 and June 2026. In addition to citing xenophobia and racism, the report finds that economic resentment casting south Asians as "invaders" and "job thieves", increased visibility in politics, and anti-migrant policies that include Trump's prohibitive annual fee on H1-B visa applications, have contributed to the sharp rise in hate against south Asian communities of all faiths and nationalities.

Rightwing public officials too have ramped up the xenophobic and racist rhetoric ahead of the midterm election: in September, on X, the Department of Homeland Security posted an AI-generated image resembling a movie poster that featured a Sikh man facing off against a character that looked like Optimus Prime from Transformers. The caption read: "America for Americans. Get off our roads, you don't know how to drive Mr. Singh." The agency deleted the image amid backlash.

Days later, Bo French, the Republican candidate for the Texas railroad commission, posted a photo of a photo of what appeared to be majority south Asian American UT Austin students celebrating the school's football win with the caption: "I heard UT graduation this year look like this, I didn't believe it, the problem is now obviously far worse than anyone imagined."

This rhetoric stokes fear and translates into physical violence, says Chintan Patel, executive director of Indian American Impact. "There's a lot of hate and discrimination that has been spreading for years on social media and online … but those things, they make it to the foreground."

About a week after the DHS post, a Sikh truck driver was stabbed 17 times at a rest stop in Wyoming, deepening fears of violence within the Sikh community. In October – the day before Indian American Impact's event in Austin – news broke of an attempted mass shooting at a Hindu temple in Aurora, Illinois, where a self-described white supremacist armed with a rifle and body armor had planned to "kill Indian people".

Texas has become the "ground zero" for anti-south Asian hate, says Chanda Parbhoo, founder and executive director of nonpartisan voter engagement nonprofit South Asian American Voter Empowerment of Texas Education Fund (SAAVETX EF). According to 2021 US census estimates, more than 600,000 south Asians live in Texas – the second-largest population of south Asians in the country behind California. South Asians make up one of the state's fastest growing ethnic groups.

Unlike California, however, Texas is a breeding ground for far-right policies that then travel to other state legislatures across the country.

Ahead of the 2026 midterms, Texas Republicans have built a platform on Islamophobia and attacks on migrants, issues that closely intersect with the attacks on south Asians writ large. In the last year, Texas attorney general Ken Paxton, who is currently tied in the Senate race against Democrat James Talarico, sued to shut down the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation's largest Muslim civil rights group. Paxton and Republican governor Greg Abbott deemed Cair a " terrorist organization", fabricated charges against a North Texas mosque, and launched an investigation into unsubstantiated claims of H1-B visa fraud – an inquiry that disproportionately targets Indian immigrants.

In the state legislature, Republican representative Brent Money launched a "Sharia Free Texas Caucus," which has amassed nearly 40 members, following the creation of a national "Sharia Free America Caucus" started by Texas congressmen Keith Self and Chip Roy in 2025. According to a 2026 survey by Stop AAPI Hate Action, ICE deportations of south Asians are approximately 14 times higher under Trump's second term – in July, Texas accounted for nearly a third of the nation's ICE arrests, the largest share of any state in the country.

"The hate that's happening right now is more than anything that I've seen. More than during 9/11," said Texas state representative Salman Bhojani, who immigrated to Texas from Pakistan as a teenager. "This is not the Texas that I immigrated to."

In 2022, Bhojani became one of the first Muslims and south Asians in the state legislature and arguably the most visible Muslim in Texas politics. At a re-election campaign fundraising event held two days before early voting began in Texas, Bhojani told the Guardian: "I get these calls a lot, like, every almost on a daily basis, where somebody is calling to say, "My dad was picked up by ICE, my brother was picked up by ICE, or my sister was walking on campus in a hijab and somebody pulled a knife on her."

In Bhojani's city of Euless, a white woman was sentenced to five years in prison for attempted murder after she tried to drown a three-year-old Muslim girl in 2024.

Bhojani launched the Religious Freedom Caucus to promote religious tolerance. "Today, Muslims are on the chopping block. Tomorrow maybe other communities – we cannot afford that. We need to stop it right now," he said.

While south Asian communities have become a target, as a voting bloc, they remain largely overlooked by either party. "We are still underrepresented, overlooked, and we're not getting the attention that we should probably receive for the powerhouse that we could be," says Parbhoo.

This gap prompted SAAVETX EF to collaborate with the US Immigration Policy Center at University of California, San Diego, for a first-of-its-kind statewide survey, released on Wednesday. The Belonging Under Pressure: 2026 South Asian Community Survey of about 1,000 south Asian Texans confirmed what Parbhoo has observed from voter participation efforts on the ground: more than half – 57.5% – reported at least one experience of hate in Texas during the past year due to race, ethnicity, religion, or immigration background.

A majority felt politically disenfranchised: 63.7% of respondents said their community's concerns are not well understood or not understood at all by elected officials, and 53.6% believe their community holds little to no political power.

But the survey also suggests that south Asians are motivated to vote. "Sometimes we see the lack of political agency lead to a lack of political participation," said Tom Wong, associate professor of political science and director of the US Immigration Policy Center at UCSD. "But what we're seeing in the poll is that there's high motivation to vote – to mobilize, organize, and change who's in office."

Parhboo says that as of 26 October, one week into early voting, the total number of south Asian Texans who voted in 2022 has already been surpassed.

"People have talked about the rising Hispanic electorate turning Texas blue. But it isn't any single community. It is a multiracial coalition that includes Asians," said Wong. "Asian Americans can decide outcomes in tight races," he said, including Michigan, Georgia, and North Carolina.

"I think that's one of the major takeaways, and we are thinking it might happen in Texas."

Beto O'Rourke, for example, lost the Senate election to Ted Cruz in 2018 by a margin of 2.6% – about 215,000 votes. The south Asian vote makes up that "margin of victory", Parbhoo says.

Bhojani's own race is further proof. In 2018, he was elected to the city council by only 37 votes. "These races are decided by razor-thin margins," Bhojani said. "People don't realize that in my city, 37 votes can make a difference."

Expect Trump's Frivolous Exploitation of the Justice System to Wreck the Midterms Results

His army of corrupt lawyers is ready. He knows he's losing the elections, and he's preparing to unleash his usual bullsh-t of legal challenges and fraudulent maneuvers to impede any smooth transition into the post-midterms phase when he will become a lame senile demented duck.

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Ex-Trump Official Warns About 'Messy' Post-Midterms: 'The Signal Has Now Been Sent'
Marco Margaritoff
Updated Sat, October 31, 2026 



Ex-Trump official Miles Taylor warned Friday that the current midterms fiasco in Alaska is only the start, predicting President Donald Trump and his Department of Justice will launch a "flurry of litigation" to keep non-GOP candidates from power — even if they win.

Taylor was chief of staff to Trump's ex-Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen before writing a highly critical anonymous essay in 2018 that led Trump to order an official DOJ investigation into his supposed "treason" in 2025 after Taylor revealed himself as the author.

Politics: Ex-Trump Lawyer Has A Dire Prediction For What Comes After Election Day

The former DHS official made his case on MS NOW during an appearance on "On The Line."

"I mean, the signal has now been sent," Taylor said Friday. "Folks have worried about this, and they thought maybe there was a chance that this administration was going to just take some losses the way that you would expect them to take losses in any ordinary time."

He warned, "But that doesn't look like it's going to be the case. I think we're going to have a messy post-election period and potentially a flurry of litigation. And this is the bellwether for exactly that — and that's going to lead people to wonder what happens on Jan. 3."

Taylor made his case amid a contentious Alaska Senate race between Democrat Mary Peltola, dark-horse candidate Dan Sullivan and the GOP incumbent, who is also named Dan Sullivan, prompting Trump's DOJ to file a lawsuit contending the election results should be blocked if the latter loses.

Politics: Trump Says He Ordered DOJ Lawsuit To Stop Alaska Election Certification

Taylor noted that he doesn't "want" to predict "the nightmare scenario" of Congress refusing to seat rightfully elected non-GOP candidates, but warned that "we are seeing the early signs of a difficult fight" in allowing the democratic midterms process to move forward.

Recent revelations from The New York Times allege Peltola's campaign was involved in a scheme to recruit Sullivan due to his name. The DOJ suit argues this was intended to mislead people trying to vote for the GOP incumbent.

Peltola's campaign and Sullivan have denied the allegations, and a sample of the Alaska midterms ballot shows how minor the apparent confusion could be.

MS NOW senior legal reporter Lisa Rubin argued Friday that the dark-horse candidate's eligibility in the midterms isn't even under question, and said, "Whether or not Daniel J. Sullivan had the right motives in getting on the ballot is not for us to decide."

While the Alaska Division of Elections initially disqualified Sullivan, arguing his candidacy wasn't filed in good faith, an Alaska Superior Court judge overturned that decision in June. The Alaska Supreme Court later ordered that Sullivan be included on the ballot.

"The Alaska Supreme Court has already decided, as a matter of state law and federal Constitution, that he is allowed to be there, and the United States, meaning the Department of Justice, did not seek to intervene in that. This should be game over," Rubin explained.

The senior legal reporter continued Friday, "The question about whether or not he had bad motive doesn't make this actionable under the National Voter Registration Act, the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution — or anything else."

White Trash Supremacist Racism Seeps Deep into the Democrat Party: Haley Stevens

Haley Stevens lost the Democrat primary. Yet, she can't get herself to support her Democrat rival El-Sayed against Donald Trump and his right-wing cabal.

Why? Because she's like most white trash Americans, racist Islamophobes to the bone hounded into deep fear and brainwashed by the Zionist and Ku Klux Klan cattle prods and incapable of upholding the strength of their convictions. 

On one hand, they are Democrats who want to live up to their principles. On the other hand, they are terrorized by their own white supremacist watermark that runs deep into their veins and their DNA and against their principles. As they try to manage this conflict, they fumble, sit on the fence, waver, and appear weak.

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Haley Stevens Asked If She Wants Abdul El-Sayed To Win: 'I Don't Know Why You'd Ask Me That'
Sebastian Murdock
Updated Sat, October 31, 2026



Michigan Rep. Haley Stevens (D) gave a lukewarm answer in a New York Times interview when asked if she wants Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, to win Tuesday's election.

"I think he's going to win," Stevens first said.

When pressed on her answer, Stevens then replied: "I don't know why you'd ask me that."

In recent days, Stevens has obsessively called out El-Sayed for perceived slights, including a demand that he condemn an ad that he and his campaign had nothing to do with.

She also demanded that El-Sayed take down his own ad featuring Republican talking heads — including Tucker Carlson— denouncing Republican Mike Rogers. Stevens, who is white, said El-Sayed should take down the video "out of the same respect for Michigan's Black community."

El-Sayed, for his part, seems to be done with taking Stevens' complaints seriously.

Asked a third time if she thinks El-Sayed will win, Stevens said she wants a Democrat to win.

"I ran for a Democratic nomination, intent in understanding that I wanted a Democrat to win," she told the publication. "We sat down for a long period of time, Abdul and I did, in the first quarter of '25, before we both decided to run, making that commitment to each other, so of course."

Naked Anti-Palestinian Racism as the Zionist Disneyland Forms New Government

This picture summarizes the entire tragedy of the birth of Israel over the corpse of Palestine: Western Jewish supremacist ideology and its violent takeover of the land of Palestine.

When confronted with their "Democracy for Jews Only" barbarity, the settlers of the Zionist colony in Palestine often respond with "Israel is the only democracy in the Near East". They also claim that their Israeli Palestinians (those who were not ethnically cleansed and terrorized into fleeing their lands in 1948) have such a better life under Jewish Zionist oppression than under other Arab regimes. They back their filthy colonial Jewish supremacy propaganda with the fact that the Palestinian citizens of their artificial colony have elected members in the Knesset.

Wow, what achievement! They let the Palestinians of Israel vote, but then those votes really mean nothing on the ground, confirming that the Israeli Palestinians are allowed to vote only to serve the propaganda marketing of a democratic Israel. In reality, the Zionist Jews continually discriminate against the Palestinian citizens of the colony and treat them like second class citizens. They polish the fake veneer of democracy behind which is nothing but racism and hatred against those Palestinians who make up 20% of the Zionist colony's population.

Now that the Palestinians of Israel have achieved a major victory in the latest elections - 19 seats in the Knesset - and as the civil war is under way between the secular atheists (i.e. not real Jews) of the left and the ultra-religious barbarians of the right, the Palestinians appear to be the kingmakers in the ongoing charade of forming a new government. With this sudden power they wield, the Palestinians of Israel are the object of vitriol, blatant racism and denigration by the Zionist Jewish settlers who appear to regret not having extended their ethnic cleansing of 1948 to those Palestinian citizens.

The Zionist colony has been caught in its Big Lie about being a genuine democracy. Voting alone does not make a democracy. They vote in Russia under the brutal criminal Putin. Nowadays, they vote in the US under the racist white supremacist dictatorship of Donald Trump. They vote in Lebanon's filthy oxymoronic "consensual democracy" that serves to polish the image of the corrupt feudal warlords that run the country. And now, voting in Israel is just that: A fake veneer that serves the Zionist propaganda but continues to deny the Palestinians of Israel their right to be in government.

The reason is simple: The mere existence of those Palestinians is a thorn that keeps pricking the Zionist settlers in the eye and exposes the brutal and violent colonization by European Zionist invaders who landed on the shores of Palestine and pushed the seacoast indigenous Palestinians into the hinterland or into refugee camps. Just look at the map of the Zionist colony: The Jewish parts are along the seacoast, while the northern Galilee is Palestinian, the eastern West Bank is Palestinian and the southern Gaza and the Negev desert are also Palestinian. Even Jerusalem is the mere tip of the Zionist invading arrow into the Palestinian heartland.

Too many Palestinians inside and around to really make Israel a Jewish-only nation. An existential conundrum that continues to plague the minority Zionist settlers in a sea of Palestinians they have no idea how to deal with except with brutal violence. The Zionist Disneyland on the Mediterranean is such a lovely democracy!

Notice how the Zionists refer to the Palestinians as "Arabs" and not as "Palestinians". The Zionists use this language to convince credulous imbeciles that, as Arabs, the Palestinians should easily be driven out, and ought to better belong, into other Arab countries. Using the "Palestinian" identifier confirms the unwanted reality of the existence of Palestine which the Zionists are working hard with mass murder, extermination, displacement, and genocide to deny. 
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Israeli protesters demand opposition ally with Arab parties to oust Netanyahu
Stuart White with Gianluca Pacchiani and Marie Dhumieres in Jerusalem
Sat, October 31, 2026


A protester in Tel Aviv dressed as US President Donald Trump holds a puppet depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with a sign supporting opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot (Jack GUEZ)

Hundreds of Israelis took to the streets on Saturday to urge the opposition to ally with Arab parties to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has gone on the offensive against the minority group's leaders.

Arab-majority parties made major gains in Tuesday's election, fuelled by anger over rhetoric targeting the community from Netanyahu's hard-right government, but opposition chief Gadi Eisenkot has not decided whether to seek a coalition with them.

Joining a rally in Tel Aviv, Ayelet Raz said that the Arab community, which accounts for around 20 percent of Israel's population, had a right to political participation.

"It's the last chance for real change," the 60-year-old psychologist said, warning that Netanyahu, Israel's longest-serving prime minister, was a "great manipulator".

"We need to give peace a chance," she said. "Otherwise we'll have this bloodshed forever."

Tuesday's election was inconclusive, with neither bloc reaching a majority in Israel's 120-seat parliament.

Jewish-majority parties opposed to Netanyahu, known by his nickname Bibi, won 48 seats, while two Arab-majority parties, Raam and the Joint List, secured a combined 19 seats.

An alliance between the two camps would potentially give the anti-Netanyahu bloc a comfortable majority of 67 seats, but the idea is opposed by some parties in the opposition bloc.

"Arabs and Jews will only win together" and "There is a majority for change" read some of the signs held by around 500 protesters in Tel Aviv.

"67 -- United we stand, divided we get Bibi" and "Why not, really -- unless we are racist?" read some of the placards at the 100-strong rally in Jerusalem.

Arab parties have only once formally sat in an Israeli government, when Raam leader Mansour Abbas joined a short-lived coalition that lasted from 2021 to 2022.

He has voiced a willingness to do so again.

The Joint List's Yousef Jabareen, meanwhile, has told AFP he is willing to support Eisenkot in parliament without joining his government, citing, among other concerns, the war in Gaza.

- Opposition division -

Eisenkot, 66, a former military chief and political novice, largely shares Netanyahu's views on security issues including Gaza, which Israel has reduced to rubble since the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023.

Eisenkot reiterated on Saturday that he would only form a "Zionist government" whose members commit to the "recognition of Israel as a Jewish, democratic and liberal state" and to the "recognition of Hamas as a terrorist organisation", conditions that Arab leaders have previously refused to accept.

While he has said he does not want a government dependent on Arab lists, Eisenkot has not explicitly rejected their external support.

"I want them (the opposition bloc) to go ahead to be brave and do the right thing," said demonstrator Sharon Balaban, 55, a video artist in Jerusalem.

Yair Golan, leader of the left-wing Democrats has enthusiastically supported the prospect of a government backed by Arab parties, saying it would be racist to exclude them, and on Thursday met Abbas.

But Avigdor Liberman, leader of the right-wing anti-Netanyahu Yisrael Beitenu party, has said he will not enter a coalition that relies on Arab parties, even for external support.

"Whoever wants to rely on supporters of terrorism, let them. Yisrael Beiteinu will not be there," he wrote on Facebook on Friday.

- Arabs 'are for Hamas' -

On the sidelines of the demonstration in Tel Aviv, more than 100 Netanyahu supporters staged a counter-protest.

"It's the Right, or Palestine," they chanted, repeating a slogan from Netanyahu's campaign.

"The two Arab parties are for Hamas", said Rebecca Schindler, 60. "They want to make Israel an Arab country."

Nava Rehavia, 70, called on Eisenkot and Liberman to join a Netanyahu-led coalition and said: "The Arabs did not win, because they stole the election."

Netanyahu sought to raise allegations of electoral fraud during voting day, saying Arab parties had been caught with envelopes of cash.

Police said they had arrested three suspects, but the election commission described the incident as an isolated local case.

Netanyahu later raised allegations that Arab politicians improperly received support from Qatar.

Collaboration with Arab parties would be "a disaster for Israel", Netanyahu posted on social media on Saturday.

President Isaac Herzog is expected to grant a party leader a mandate to form a government within 28 days by Thursday, with a possible 14-day extension.

The negotiations come as Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump have hinted at a new attack on Iran, which could help Netanyahu run out the clock until new elections.

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GOP-MAGA: Did you Block Epstein Files Release to Protect Your Mafia Boss or Yourselves?

Trump's conservative filth: He whispers-shares wonderful secrets with Jeffrey Epstein.

Or perhaps to protect yourself? If you were innocent, why did you prevent the full release of the Epstein Files? Your filth as elitist lying politicians is now so obvious to the American voting public that you should honestly be terrified at what the voters will do on Tuesday.

When you used to accuse the Democrats of being a cabal of pedophiles, you really were following Trump's modus operandi: Every accusation is a confession. Whatever your own filth is, turn it around and blame your rivals for it.
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Ads accusing Republican candidates of protecting Epstein fill airwaves in final midterm push
Ariana Baio
Sat, October 31, 2026 



Politicians of all stripes appear eager to associate their opponents with the late sex offender.Photograph: Reuters

In races across the country, Democratic candidates or groups that support them have released ads accusing Republicans of protecting pedophiles by voting against legislation to release files related to Jeffrey Epstein.

The ads appear intended to evoke an emotional response by accusing candidates of "protecting" Epstein, a notorious pedophile accused of running a sex-trafficking ring involving minors.

An analysis from CNN found that candidates and outside groups have spent more than $35m on Epstein-related ads. Another from the Washington Post found that Democrats spent more than $40m on Epstein-related ads across six key Senate races.

In Colorado, ads targeting Republican Jeff Crank note that the lawmaker voted against releasing the Epstein files. In one, the family members of Virginia Giuffre, a woman who survived abuse at the hands of Epstein and died by suicide last year, claim Crank "covered up Epstein's crimes to protect Donald Trump".

Ashley Hinson, a Senate candidate in Iowa, was accused of voting to "protect her donors" by refusing to vote to release the Epstein files.

"This week I had to explain to my boys, 'No, Mom does not protect pedophiles,'" Hinson said in a campaign ad responding to attacks over the Epstein files.

An ad targeting Mike Collins, the Republican running for a Georgia Senate seat, says "Mike Collins voted against releasing the Epstein files even after he knew Epstein's sex-trafficking operation exploited 14-year-old girls for sex".

Florida Republican Jimmy Patronis faced an attack from his Democratic opponent, claiming he called investigating Epstein "a waste of his time".

A spokesperson for Crank's campaign accused the Epstein-related ad of being "intentionally vague", in a statement to the Washington Post, because his position was that he would vote against the file's release until he could be confident that victim information was properly redacted. The campaign also said it was "unfortunate" that his opponent, Jessica Killin, was "preying on a grieving family with the help of the Washington Democrats".

Crank's staff invited and met with Giuffre's family, though Crank himself did not meet with them in person, the New York Times reported. Crank's campaign also said it offered to meet with Epstein victims before the vote on the legislation.

Last year, Democrats and a select few House Republicans tried to force a vote on the Epstein files through a discharge petition – a procedure used in Congress to bypass the traditional steps of legislation and force a vote on the House floor.

Donald Trump, who knew Epstein in the 1990s and early 2000s, opposed the discharge petition for the files, reversing his campaign promise to increase government transparency. House Republicans largely aligned themselves with him, prompting anger from high-profile Trump voters.

Eventually, under pressure from allies, Trump supported the legislation, giving Republican lawmakers the go-ahead to vote for it. All but one House Republican voted for the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

Many of the ads omit the fact that nearly every House Republican voted to release the Epstein files when the Epstein Files Transparency Act came to the floor, although at that point Trump had agreed to sign the legislation and release the files. Instead, the ads refer to Republicans opposing early attempts to force the legislation to the floor.

Republicans have pointed to this fact when disputing the attack ads.

"Of course I voted to release the Epstein files," Hinson said in a direct-to-camera ad, accusing her opponent, Josh Turek, of lying. While Hinson voted for the final Epstein Files Transparency Act, she did not sign on to the discharge petition.

Patronis, meanwhile, never called the investigation a "waste of time", but told a local radio station that while he had "no problem getting everything all released", the issue was a "massive energy and time suck at the end of the day".

Melissa Stone, a spokesperson for Patronis's campaign, highlighted his work with Trump to obtain disaster funding after Hurricane Isaias and said his opponent, Gay Valimont, was "still talking about a dead pedophile in a sad web video than helping the people of [the first congressional district] recover."

Some Republicans and groups supporting the GOP have sought to flip the script, accusing Democrats of taking money from donors who had ties to Epstein.

During a Georgia Senate debate, Collins accused his opponent, Jon Ossoff, of accepting campaign donations from Reid Hoffman, a tech billionaire who had ties to Epstein. Hoffman has said he only knew Epstein through fundraising relationships and regrets it.

"You can claim to fight against the Epstein class, but I'm going to tell you, this call is coming from inside the house and the Epstein class is on stage right now and it's you," Collins said.

In New Mexico's gubernatorial race, an outside group released an ad accusing Democratic candidate Deb Haaland of accepting a ride on Epstein's private jet and taking "tens of thousands of dollars from Epstein businesses" and then "asking for more".

Haaland did not fly on Epstein's jet, but did take a flight booked by one of Epstein's companies in 2014. Haaland has said she was unaware the chartered flight was owned by an Epstein-owned company.

Trump's Evangelicals are Just Like Their US-White-Trash "Savior": Jesus-Saved Crooked Criminals

The Evangelical crook below, a definite Trump voter, is a particularly obnoxious bigot. He hails from the backward slavery state of Georgia where Nepo imbecile white trash Daaarleeen Graham is running for Senator. His name indicates a venerable dynasty of southern inbred morons: Edwin Brant Frost IV... The Fourth!! No less. Dumb and proud to boot. At least, he will be saved from his sins by Jesus, the venerable son of the Big Zombie in the Sky who has also saved Pete Hegseth from his drunkenness and adulterous lifestyle. These "protestants" are just like the Catholics they hate: Fuck up and commit sins ad libitum, then confess and you're done so you can start again. How convenient!

The infamous soft-spoken MAGA moron Charlie Kirk, who thought he could lubricate his racism with candy-talk, had Edwin Brant Frost IV several times on his show. 

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Georgia evangelical promised 'Wall Street returns,' but his Ponzi scheme led to 15 years in prison
Leslie Sattler
Sat, October 31, 2026 


Photo Credit: iStock

A prominent Georgia Republican promised investors "Wall Street returns for Main Street investors." He was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for running an investment fraud scheme that left more than 300 people with losses exceeding $76 million.

Among those affected were retirees who lost their life savings.

Edwin Brant Frost IV, 69, pleaded guilty to wire fraud in May after investigators examined First Liberty Building and Loan's June 2025 failure, according to The Independent.

The Newnan, Georgia-based operation advertised high-interest loans to businesses with potential yields as high as 16%.

Frost was influential among evangelicals and conservatives. Erick Erickson, Hugh Hewitt, and Charlie Kirk hosted programs that regularly promoted First Liberty investments.

The operation also issued millions of dollars in loans that went into default. According to The Independent, a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit described how Frost diverted $17 million to cover his own expenses, give money to relatives, and support connected businesses. Another $570,000 taken from clients went toward political contributions.

The money invested in First Liberty came through religious and political networks.
What's being done?

In addition to serving the prison sentence, Frost must pay more than $76 million in restitution to address victims' financial losses.

The damage Frost left behind determined the length of his prison term, Chief U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May said.

Frost said it was "difficult … to listen" to the victims' impact statements. He also offered a public apology.

"I have messed up a lot of good people's lives," Frost told the court, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Religion, political connections, and hopes of financial success were the means Frost used to enrich himself at others' expense, U.S. Attorney Theodore S. Hertzberg said in a press release The Independent cited.

"This was a stunning, sinful, and sacrilegious abuse of trust that wrecked hundreds of investors, including retirees and seniors who lost their life savings," Hertzberg lamented.
Where can I learn more?

These related stories involve scammers who promised high returns, only for investors to lose money.

Trump: Even his Islamophobic Racism is Dumb

"Better a smart enemy than a dumb ally". With Trump as a friend, you won't need enemies.

‘Send Him Back to Where He Came From’: Trump Demands El-Sayed Be Sent Back To the United States
Michael Luciano
Sat, October 31, 2026 



President Donald Trump demanded that Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed be sent "back to where he came from" – presumably all the way back to suburban Detroit.

Speaking at a rally in Daytona Beach, Florida on Friday night, Trump turned his attention north to Michigan, where El-Sayed, a former public health official, is squaring off against Republican former Rep. Mike Rogers, who has claimed that El-Sayed, who would be the first Muslim to serve in the Senate, is a "risk to our national security." Trump has even called the Democrat a "jihadist."

During the rally, Trump shouted out people in the audience wearing shirts reading "Blacks for Trump."

"Blacks for Trump, you ought to vote for Mike Rogers," the president said before baselessly claiming El-Sayed "does not like" Jewish or Black people. "Not that other guy, because he doesn't like Jewish people and he doesn't like Black people. I'm talking about Abdul. Abdul is not a big fan of Jewish people, and he's not a big fan of Black people. And I hope you're going to vote against him and send him back to where he came from."

El-Sayed was born in Rochester Hills, Michigan in 1984 to his Egyptian immigrant parents.

Elsewhere during the rally, Trump told Black and Jewish voters that if they vote for El-Sayed, "You're not smart." At a rally the day before, Trump called such voters "crazy."

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And... his MAGA slave candidates are dumber than him. 

Mike Rogers, whose filth is from the bottom of the horse manure barrel, is proving himself dumber than Trump (see below). Meanwhile the traitor and sore loser Democrat, Rep. Haley Stevens who lost to El-Sayyed in the Democratic primaries, is doing everything she can to undermine El-Sayyed. Her head is so high up the Zionist rectum that she is blinded by her own Islamophobic insults against El-Sayyed, playing into the apartheid Fascist racist supremacist Zionists of AIPAC. 

Imbeciles usually do that: They jump one bad ship to climb onto another equally bad ship. A just response to Islamic fundamentalism is not Jewish fundamentalism, nor is it Christian fundamentalism; it ought to be a stronger commitment to the values of reason, justice and democracy.

Michigan voters: do not trust traitors and fence-sitters. Vote with your decent conscience, not the filthy conscience of others.
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GOP Candidate's Remark Has Critics Asking An Awkward Question About Trump
Anthony Orrico
Sat, October 31, 2026 

GOP Candidate's Remark Has Critics Asking An Awkward Question About Trump

Michigan GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers was ruthlessly mocked on social media after saying government officials shouldn't use their positions to make money.

"When you sign up for a government job, you cannot use it for your own financial gain," Rogers said Friday while taking questions from reporters.

The clip quickly went viral on social media, prompting critics to point out that the net worth of President Donald Trump — who has endorsed Rogers — has increased by billions since returning to the White House. Multiple reports have found Trump's various businesses generated more than $2 billion in income in 2025.

Some critics also brought up the $400 million jumbo jet Trump received from the Qatari royal family, which has been retrofitted to serve as Air Force One.

One commenter sarcastically questioned if Rogers was "talking into a mirror."

Rogers and Democrat Abdul El-Sayed are currently neck and neck in recent polls, with El-Sayed holding a slight lead in a race that could decide control of the Senate.

The race has become one of the most polarizing and expensive in recent years, with Rogers and his allies, including Trump, frequently using Islamophobic rhetoric to attack El-Sayed.

[UPDATED] Trump's Panicky Flip-Flop on Rallies Doesn't Help Rescuing Sinking MAGA Candidates

One ironical nuance to keep in mind: even as he flip flops - cancels campaign rally then reluctantly reverses his decision - Trump has become toxic to his own MAGA candidates. His presence hurts them because of his abysmally low popularity. They don't want him at their rallies, but they must humor the nasty boss and let him show up to talk about other men's butts. MAGA has become a disaster.

Fumbling MAGA moron Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall in panic mode after Trump dumps him to go rescue the sinking South Carolina NEPO Idiot candidate "Daarleen" Graham. (Mark Schiefelbein / via REUTERS)



Must-Win MAGA Senator Stammers After Grilling on Trump Plans
William Vaillancourt
Fri, October 30, 2026 

Donald Trump's Kansas Senate pick stammered as he awkwardly answered why the president left him hanging by canceling a rally in his state this weekend.

Trump, 80, had planned to lead a rally alongside Sen. Roger Marshall on Saturday, but the White House abruptly shelved the visit Thursday and announced he will instead host tele-rallies.

Marshall, 66, tried to spin the president's change of plans positively when Scripps News reporter Jacob Gardenswartz asked for his reaction—but he could hardly get an answer out at all.

"I'm, I'm not, I'm not sure, sure yet. I think, I, they think that I'm doing so well in the polls, that he's got, probably got better places to spend his time. Uh, not sure," he said.

Trump told reporters Thursday that he nixed the Kansas rally because Marshall "is doing very well," then insulted the appearance of a Reuters reporter who asked if he was getting tired of all the traveling he has done over the past month.

Polls do not paint as rosy a picture as Marshall suggested.

A CNN/SSRS poll of 838 likely voters, conducted Oct. 20-26, found Democrat Adam Hamilton up four points, with a 4.5 percent margin of error.

In a late September New York Times/Siena University poll, the candidates were even, while an Emerson College poll earlier that month found Hamilton with a one percent lead.

Marshall's battle to hold his seat in ruby-red Kansas was far from a toss-up in the early days of MAGA 2.0. However, the nonpartisan Cook Political Report says "a perfect confluence of events" has occurred in Hamilton's favor, and it now considers the race a pick 'em.

If Marshall loses, it would mark the first time since 1932 that Kansas voters elected a Democrat to the Senate.

Those who planned to see Trump and Marshall in person in Salina will instead have to tune in to a telerally. Kansas is one of "more than 20″ locations for virtual campaign stops that the White House now has planned, an official told the Daily Beast.

Trump held at least two such rallies at the White House on Thursday night, after returning from a South Carolina rally to support Sen. Darline Graham.

Other states on the list are deep-red Alabama, Montana, and Louisiana—reflecting the type of defense Trump has had to resort to amid poor polling for him and Republicans.

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GOP Senator Says Trump Scrapped Rally in His State Because He’s ‘Doing So Well’ — As New Poll Shows Him Trailing
Kathryn Wilkens
Thu, October 29, 2026


Screenshot via @reporterjacobg on X

Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) suggested that President Donald Trump canceled an upcoming rally in Kansas because he is "doing so well in the polls" — despite a new survey showing the Republican trailing his Democratic challenger in the traditionally deep-red state.

Scripps News' Jacob Gardenswartz asked Marshall on Thursday about Trump's decision to scrap a planned weekend appearance in Kansas, where the senator is fighting for reelection in an unexpectedly competitive race.

"Any reaction to the president cancelling the in-person rally this weekend?" the reporter asked.

"I'm not — I'm not sure yet," Marshall replied. "I think — they think that I'm doing so well in the polls that he's probably got better places to spend his time."

The senator then shrugged, adding, "Um, not sure."

Marshall's explanation came the same day CNN released new polling showing him trailing Democratic opponent Adam Hamilton by four percentage points.

The survey also shifted the RealClearPolitics polling average narrowly in Hamilton's favor, giving the Democrat a 0.2-point edge in the closely contested race.

A Democrat has not won a U.S. Senate election in Kansas since 1932.

The White House confirmed Thursday that Trump's planned rally had been canceled, offering no specific explanation.

"President Trump will continue connecting directly with Americans nationwide through more than 20 telerallies before Election Day," the White House said in a statement. "These events give him the opportunity to highlight his accomplishments and expand his reach across the country."

The canceled appearance would have marked Trump's second Kansas rally in support of Marshall this campaign season.

During his previous visit last week, Trump faced repeated interruptions from hecklers, including a woman who shouted, "I f*cking hate you!"

The Republican senator has fielded hecklers as well, getting a wave of boos at a Kansas State Fair debate last month as he defended Trump's tariffs, with the crowd later breaking into chants of "Shame on you!" as he was pressed over his medical practice having sued hundreds of patients for unpaid medical bills.

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Trump’s flip-flop and freakout over weekend rallies expose a president in panic mode
Andrew Feinberg
Fri, October 30, 2026 


Trump’s flip-flop and freakout over weekend rallies expose a president in panic mode

With days to go until what polls indicate will be a brutal midterm election for President Donald Trump and his Republican Party, the man who has implored MAGA voters to "pretend I'm on the ballot" is starting to panic.

On Friday, White House sources let it be known that the president would indeed be traveling to Kansas and Iowa for a pair of his signature MAGA rallies in support of Senate candidates Roger Marshall and Ashley Hinson, marking a sudden U-turn in strategy after having scrapped those plans for a relatively leisurely weekend at his Palm Beach, Florida getaway.

It was an uncharacteristic reversal of a decision he'd made less than a day earlier, when he cancelled plans for the midwestern campaign swing, with aides instead arguing that he would be equally effective doing "tele-rallies" — effectively large-scale campaign conference calls for supporters who sign up and dial in to hear him and other speakers by phone — in hopes of getting out the vote before Tuesday's balloting. 

Trump, 80, has spent all or part of 23 days this month on the road in what has become a panicked barnstorm of formerly safe, reliably Republican states where his preferred (and in some cases, hand-picked) Senate candidates are in real danger of embarrassing losses next week.

He's visited the nominal GOP stronghold of Texas for three rallies to boost embattled candidate Ken Paxton, the scandal-plagued state attorney general Trump pushed and prodded to victory in a primary over the incumbent John Cornyn — who had committed the cardinal sin of affirming the 2020 election results. Now Paxton looks set to become the first Republican to lose a statewide contest in the Lone Star State since the Clinton administration.

Trump's volcanic reaction to a reporter's question Thursday has left two Senate campaigns expecting presidential visits this weekend that they likely do not want (Reuters)

He's similarly held a trio of rallies in Ohio, which has been a reliably red state since his first campaign in 2016. It was there where he first began his bizarre habit of riffing on the aesthetics of incumbent Sen. Jon Husted's posterior — where the Republican appears in danger of being bested on Tuesday by Democrat Sherrod Brown just two years after Brown lost his own re-election bid to Bernie Moreno.

And with his approval ratings sinking dangerously close to 30 percent, he has even ventured to unthinkable destinations such as Mississippi, where incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith has at least some chance of becoming the first Republican to lose a Senate election to a Democrat there since 1982.

Trump insiders tell The Independent that the president's rally schedule has been calibrated to boost turnout in places where enthusiasm among the MAGA base may have waned amid the economic chaos he's wrought over his first two years back in office.

The thinking, they say, is that Trump remains the most popular figure in the party, with a unique ability to mobilize voters and connect with them on the stump.

And Trump himself has gone all-in on this theory, boasting on Truth Social that the latest set of rallies have drawn the "BIGGEST CROWDS" in midterm history while suggesting that his appearances have single-handedly revived flagging campaigns.

But Republican operatives outside of the White House's orbit tell a different story.

Among those working in the trenches on Senate campaigns, there is a very real sense that the president's presence hasn't done much at all to help — and it may have even hurt candidates by energizing Democrats, who are already quite enthusiastic about next week's elections.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, the presumptive next Speaker of the House should Democrats take control of that chamber in the new Congress, posted a blunt assessment to X, writing that Iowa and Kansas Republicans had been "scrambling to keep Donald Trump as far away … as possible."

Trump's rallies are now frequently interrupted by protesters (Getty)

That dynamic, plus quiet pressure behind the scenes from embattled campaigns, was why Trump initially planned to stay at home in Florida and instead do a series of telephonic rally appearances this weekend, which the White House said would give him "the opportunity to highlight his accomplishments and expand his reach across the country."

Republican campaigns breathed a sigh of relief, seemingly free to run through the tape without having their final news cycles hijacked by the president's stump speech "weave" — let alone any talk about younger men and women's rear ends.

But that was before the president's ego got in the way.

As he prepared to board Air Force One to return from a rally in South Carolina on Thursday, a reporter from Reuters asked him to explain the rally cancellations that had just been announced and pressed specifically on whether he was "sick" of the road.

Trump, 80, only appeared to hear the reporter ask if he was "sick" and lashed out.

"You know what the reason is? I don't feel I have to go to Kansas," Trump said, as the rage clearly started to manifest in his reddening face.

"I feel perfect. You are disgusting," he lashed out at the reporter.

Less than 24 hours later, and with his outburst over the rally cancelations dominating headlines, Trump reversed course agin, with a source familiar with the situation only confirming to The Independent that the rallies were "back on" because Trump "loves his supporters."

"In addition to nearly 20 tele-rallies, he will hold back-to-back rallies in Kansas and Iowa on Sunday. No one works harder, fights harder, or loves the American people more than President Donald J. Trump," they insisted.

The source also claimed that the canceled and revived rallies in Iowa and Kansas had merely been "rearranged for scheduling purposes to accommodate dozens of additional tele-rallies."

But another person in the president's orbit, a former White House official who remains close to members of his team, said the reason for the about-face is more simple.

The president's team had prevailed on him to cancel his remaining appearances on behalf of Marshall and Hinson by telling him they either — or both — might lose, making the photographs of them on the eve of that loss potentially humiliating.

There had also been a true sense of unease at the number of protesters at Trump's rallies compared with the smaller crowd sizes requiring the use of correspondingly smaller venues.

But because of a reporter's honest query, all that planning went out the window.

"He canceled the rallies because the candidates didn't want them but he couldn't handle a simple question about why. So now he's doing them anyway rather than admit what everyone else already knows," they said.

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Kansas MAGA moron Marshall endorsed by Trump is sued for medical fraud. 

Former patient sues Sen. Roger Marshall for charging illegal interest

Oct. 30 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall was sued Thursday by a patient of his former medical clinic who accuses him of charging illegal interest rates on unpaid medical bills.

Marshall, R-Kan., has sued more than 700 patients over medical debt in his 25 years as an obstetrician-gynecologist, The New York Times reported.

Some 81 of those patients were arrested for missing court dates.

One of those patients, Meischa Zimmerman, is now a lead plaintiff in the case. The class action lawsuit accuses Marshall of charging patients up to 18% annual interest, exceeding the state's limit of 15%.

Zimmerman alleges the senator's clinic, Heartland Regional OBGYN, would often target low-income and uninsured mothers in "callous and predatory" debt collection schemes.

"Obviously, I think a jury will place a dollar value on our complaint over charging 18% usury rate on medical debt, but I will let the legal document speak for itself," attorney Kent Roth told NPR-affiliate KCUR.

The lawyer who sued patients on Marshall's behalf, Steven Johnson, told The Times that collection efforts were "pretty much the way it works in the state of Kansas."

"Generally, at the time of services for all our clients if they were not paid up front, the Debtor agreed to an 18 percent interest rate," Johnson told the newspaper.

Marshall is running for reelection against Democrat Adam Hamilton, a Methodist minister.