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."