Republicans Learned Nothing From 2006 About Midterms And Foreign Wars

Tuesday’s midterm elections are shaping up to be the “biggest national wipeout for Republicans since 2006, when voters brutally punished the GOP for an ill-advised and poorly planned war in the Middle East,” The Federalist’s CEO and co-founder Sean Davis said in a post on X.

In 2006, 56 percent of voters disapproved of the Iraq War, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of a national exit poll. The majority of those voters backed Democrat candidates, 80 percent to 18 percent.

Twenty years later, Pew released a survey in October that found 65 percent of Americans disapproved of how President Donald Trump was handling U.S. military action in Iran, while just 33 percent approved. According to the Associated Press, roughly one-third of voters said the Iran War was a crucial factor in their vote for Congress this election cycle.

But this wasn’t the outcome that the war’s advocates have pushed.

“There is no U.S. downside to striking the Iranian regime,” Marc Thiessen wrote in The Washington Post in January.

“There is no downside to striking the regime. Trump has already done so twice, and each time, Iran was unable or unwilling to retaliate. Indeed, the Soleimani strike came at a time when Iran was much stronger than it is today. Since then, Iran has suffered repeated blows that have left it weaker than at any time since the 1979 revolution,” Thiessen wrote. Thiessen went so far as to say “Iran is strategically naked” and “unable to effectively defend itself against a U.S. strike or respond decisively either directly or by proxy. This gives Trump a historic opportunity to deal the regime a mortal blow.”

The New York Times’ Bret Stephens wrote an entire piece making “the case for striking Iran” in February. Stephens noted that Trump was not giving an explanation for possibly striking, but that “it doesn’t mean there isn’t a compelling case for action.”

“Despite the risk that military strikes entail, the bigger risk, in the judgment of history, would be to fail to take it,” Stephens wrote.

Heritage Foundation Senior Counselor James Carafano said in response to a March press briefing that, “The reality is the U.S. has already won this war, period. Mic drop. End of statement.”

But now, the war we were repeatedly promised would end quickly is still dragging on, and Americans are clearly unhappy with Trump’s handling of the conflict.

A poll released last month found only 35 percent of Americans were confident in Trump’s foreign-policy decision-making, down from 53 percent in November of 2024. Confidence in Trump’s economic decision-making also went from 59 percent to 35 percent over the same period. Meanwhile, by Election Day 2006, a margin of 59 to 35 percent of voters said the Iraq War had not made America safer.

The political consequences of the Iran War also mirror those of the Iraq War. In 2006, 36 percent of voters claimed they voted to oppose President George W. Bush. Meanwhile, in a Pew survey released in October of this year, 44 percent of registered voters saw their congressional vote as a vote against Trump.

Brianna Lyman, The Federalist

JD VANCE ON WHY THE REPUBLICANS LOST: “THE REASON WE LOST IS THE WAR”

One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was “composition”—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.

So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we’re going to shock the world? “No,” he told me. “We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us.”

Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.

There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.

But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.

Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:

1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel

Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)

In the next few months, there’s going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I’m open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.

The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.

If you’d like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that’s at least honest.

But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.

I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.

J. D. Vance

Physicists step closer to the ‘Zeptoverse’ after 42-year particle search

Physicists have found evidence of a particle decay so rare that it is expected to occur only around once in every 10 billion “beauty” particles. The result, from the upgraded LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), follows a search spanning more than 40 years and brings physicists closer to exploring the “Zeptoverse”—an unexplored world that exists at distances of a billionth of a trillionth of a meter, or a “zeptometer,” where new particles and forces of nature may be hiding.

Researchers from The University of Manchester have played key roles in the LHCb experiment and its major upgrade—which can now collect data at up to five times its previous rate—including developing detector technology that has helped make the new measurement possible.

The finding will allow physicists to test the Standard Model, our current best theory of fundamental particles and their interactions, with greater precision and search for signs of particles or forces that may lie beyond it. Searching for signs of new physics

The LHCb studies particles containing beauty quarks, heavier relatives of the up and down quarks found in the ordinary matter around us.

Beauty quarks are produced in huge numbers in collisions at the LHC but exist for only around one and a half trillionths of a second before decaying.

By making precise measurements of the different ways beauty quarks decay, physicists can detect the influence of new particles that may be far too small to see at the LHC.

The rarer a decay is, the more sensitive it can be to the influence of new particles. These particles could alter how often the decay occurs.

The new result concerns a particularly rare decay known as ‘Bd to mu mu,’ in which a particle containing a beauty quark decays into two muons, heavier relatives of electrons.

Scientists predict that this happens only around once in every 10 billion beauty particles. Until now, no single experiment had found solid evidence for the process.

The new measurement reached a statistical significance of 3.2 sigma. This is sufficient for physicists to describe the result as the first evidence of the decay, although further data will be needed to reach the five-sigma threshold required to claim a discovery in particle physics.

Professor Chris Parkes, head of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Manchester, led the international LHCb collaboration through the construction of the upgrade and led the collaboration’s approval of the new result.

He said, “The upgraded LHCb was a major undertaking—a 15-year design and construction project from a 1,900-member international collaboration.

“The U.K. made the largest national contribution to the project, pioneering new technologies that have made today’s result possible where we probe nature at a new scale. But this is also just the start; we are planning the construction of an experiment that will exploit the capabilities of the next-generation High Luminosity LHC, probing physics at an even smaller scale.”

Professor Parkes, who was made a fellow of the Royal Society earlier this year for his work on LHCb, added, “This decay is remarkably unlikely; the chance of it happening is roughly like going on a romantic date and, on your very first try, finding the one perfect match for you among everyone on Earth.”

A major U.K.-built component of the upgraded LHCb experiment is a silicon pixel detector that tracks the paths of particles created in collisions at the LHC with extreme precision.

Known as the Vertex Locator, it sits just five millimeters from the LHC beams and enables scientists to pinpoint where particles are produced and where they decay.

Dr. Stefano De Capua, who led the construction of the detectors at The University of Manchester, added, “We worked with nearly 90 U.K. companies to construct this detector and trained the next generation of scientists and engineers on the novel technologies we are using. It is these detectors that we use to locate where the beauty meson was produced and pinpoint where it decayed into two muons.”

| Sadie Harley and Robert Egan, physics.org

NY Elects Its First Palestinian State Senator — and the Flag She Celebrated With Says Everything

Aber Kawas (D) won election to the New York State Senate on Tuesday, becoming the first Palestinian-American to serve in the state legislature after defeating Republican Han-Khon To in the heavily Democratic 12th District.

Her victory celebration is an example of why residents of the Empire State are terrified of how quickly the pro-Hamas, pro-terror arm of the Left is infiltrating government.

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member, who received the endorsement of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (straight-up Communist), marked the result by posting a campaign graphic declaring her the first Palestinian elected in New York State.

Let me repeat that. She celebrated being the “First Palestinian.”

Kawas didn’t even bother to hyphenate the “American” part.

“We made history,” she wrote, adding a Palestinian flag emoji.

We made history. 🇵🇸 https://t.co/r9dnacASP5

— Aber Kawas (@AberKawas) November 4, 2026 People who love America and want this nation to continue leading as the greatest nation on Earth probably would have celebrated with the American flag. Instead, Kawas showed her true allegiance. Her unmistakable allegiance to Palestine first.

No interest in assimilation. No pride in the country or even the state that elevated her to her current role.

Kawas, a community organizer born in Brooklyn to Palestinian parents, had campaigned on affordable housing, defense of illegal aliens, and opposition to U.S. support for Israel.

Her victory revived scrutiny of comments she made in a 2017 podcast discussion in which she described 9/11 as the manifestation of a long trajectory of capitalism, racism, white supremacy, and Islamophobia. In other words, all of the buzzwords that America-hating leftists love to use.

She also referred to the worst terrorist attack ever on American soil as something “a couple of people did.”

“The system of capitalism and racism and White supremacy… and Islamophobia have all been used to colonize lands, to take resources from other people and so this is a long trajectory, and we’re just seeing the manifestations of that continuation with 9/11,” she said in a 2017 episode of the Asian American Writers’ Association podcast.

“The idea we have to apologize for a terror attack that a couple of people did, and then there is no apology or reparations for genocides and for slavery… is something I find reprehensible.”

What’s reprehensible is anybody who voted to put trash like this in any level of government.

DSA’s Aber Kawas called 9/11 “a terror attack that a couple of people did” and blamed America for it. Mamdani endorsed Kawas for NY State Senate – not despite those comments, but because he agreed with them. https://t.co/ZLNCITWiWk

— Canary Mission (@canarymission) July 30, 2026 Channeling her inner Ilhan Omar there with the “some people did something” downplaying of one of the most tragic events in United States history.

No wonder Mamdani, who praised Imam Siraj Wahhaj, an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, blamed the United States for radicalizing al-Qaeda propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki, and appointed a chief counsel who previously defended an al-Qaeda terrorist, loves her so much.

Rusty Weiss, Red State

President Trump Deflects Blame for Midterms Rout but Says Accepts Results

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he would accept the results of US midterm elections — but quickly sought to shift the blame for the historic rout to his fellow Republicans.

Time and again on the campaign trail the 80-year-old told Republicans to “pretend I’m on the ballot.” That may have been exactly the problem, as voters put Democrats in control of the House and Senate.

But Trump has never been one to take the blame, and in his first reaction to the election results Tuesday he insisted that the Republican Party would have won in a “landslide” if he had actually been running.

“I wasn’t on the Ballot and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE! Thank you for your attention to this matter,” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform.

Dismissing speculation about whether he would repeat his refusal to accept his 2020 presidential election loss to Joe Biden, Trump later took a conciliatory tone with the New York Times.

“I am absolutely willing to accept those results,” he told The New York Times. “We’ll work with the Democrats, and we’ll, you know, look forward to working with them. We’ll probably work something out.”

But Trump later gave a hint of what he really intended to do to Democratic attempts at legislating, posting a picture of his trademark red MAGA baseball hat with the single word: “VETO.”

There was a bunker mentality in the White House as Trump and his top cabinet members watched the bruising results come in at a reception in the lavish East Room.

“The White House mood is defiant,” a White House official told AFP.

– ‘Buckle up’ –

A White House official questioned the quality of Republican candidates for the House and Senate.

Many of them Trump had endorsed and traveled across the country to rally support for — even lavishing praise, in one case, on Republican Ohio Senate candidate Jon Husted.

“Candidate quality matters, and President Trump did a better job promoting many of the candidates on the ballot than the candidates did themselves,” the White House official said.

Trump himself added later that he was going to “become a political pundit” and give the reasons why Republicans lost.

First in his crosshairs was Greg Abbott, the loyal Texas governor unseated by Democrat Gina Hinojosa. Trump said that if Abbott hadn’t become a “RINO” (Republican In Name Only) “he wouldn’t have lost.”

The question now is how Trump will react to being a lame duck president for the last two years of his second term, with Democrats in control of both the House and Senate.

The White House indicated that Trump is unlikely to go quietly.

Iran is on his mind and there is widespread speculation that the president will resume large-scale military action against Tehran — doubling down on a war that it is now clear voters loathed.

“Anyone who voted Democrat today is going to have a serious case of buyer’s remorse when gas prices come down quickly when the Iran conflict is solved but they’re still stuck with a list of liberal extremist Democrats,” the White House official said.

The White House also gave a dark hint of retribution against his political enemies.

“A final note here: regardless of how today plays out, President Trump’s resolve to stop the Radical Left is only going to become stronger. Buckle up.”

Trump had appeared agitated before the first results even came in, posting a string of angry messages on social media lashing out at conservative broadcaster Fox News’s coverage.

In one post sent as the first polls closed, Trump said Fox’s ratings were “way down, not because of me, but because they are AGAINST me!”

Mikel Tacknailer

Gridlock Is Good

Gridlock is the next best thing to having a constitution.” – M. Stanton Evans

Now that the election is over, it’s time to ask if all the hyperventilating for the past year was worth it. Was this “the most important election in our history,” as so many have declared?

We are entirely unconvinced. If all it does is produce gridlock in Washington, we will be happy, because the biggest threat to the country is when lawmakers are productive.

To be clear, it would have been better if the GOP had kept their majorities, and we are deeply disturbed by the choices voters made in several races. The fact that a Casper Milquetoast leftist like James Talarico or a Hamas-loving extremist like Abdul Al-Sayed could get more than 2% of the vote does not bode well for our nation’s future.

But let’s go through the reasons not to be too overly concerned about the results.

First, it’s in the interest of Democrats to hype the importance of this election because they want to claim a mandate. But the norm is for the party out of power in the White House to gain seats in congressional races.

And even big swings don’t necessarily mean much long term. In 2010, for example, Republicans gained a net of 68 seats (and reclaimed the majority in the House), gained six seats in the Senate, and took six governorships away from Democrats.

It was a stunning rebuke of Barack Obama’s first two years in office, after which Obama said he’d just use his pen and phone to get things done, and then went on to win reelection.

Second, Democrats didn’t run on an agenda this year – other than Trump hatred – so they have no mandate for the next two years.

When Republicans gained control of the House in Bill Clinton’s first term, they did so by nationalizing the election under the banner of Newt Gingrich’s Contract with America. Their outsized midterm win forced Clinton to compromise and let the GOP get things like welfare reform and a capital gains tax cut enacted.

The only thing Democrats have promised voters is that they will hold Trump “accountable.”

And if Democrats do try to get bills passed, none will make it into law unless they do the unthinkable and reach across the aisle, because President Donald Trump still holds the veto pen and has already declared that he will be the Veto President if Democrats take control of Congress.

So, the only thing we know for sure is that for the next two years, Washington, D.C., will be in a state of gridlock while Democrats unleash a torrent of investigations, impeachments, and endless claims of corruption and wrongdoing.

While that might keep the Democratic base happy, it’s likely to hurt them more than Republicans once the public realizes that revenge is not productive. And if the economy starts gaining momentum and Trump and the rest of the GOP stay focused on delivering good news about jobs and growth and income, Democrats will look even more out of touch with everyday Americans.

That’s not to say there is no risk. Democratic socialist wins today can provide tremendous momentum going into 2028. And if Democrats, God forbid, do win the White House that year, the country will be all but lost. But it’s just likely that emboldened radicals in the Democratic Party will turn off far more voters than they gain.

So, our advice is to let Democrats have their celebrations. Enjoy the gridlock for the next two years. And get busy laying the groundwork for massive victories in 2028, when the elections really matter.

Issues & Insights Editorial Board

America: Your Children & Grandchildren Won’t Live As Well as You

We already had the People’s Republic of New York, the People’s Republic of California, and all the rest. Now it appears we will have the People’s Republic of Texas, of South Carolina, of North Carolina and Georgia. Florida and a couple of others remain standing — but for how long? And if Democrats extend their victory in 2028, will they let these few remaining states practice any version of liberty?

The crazy totalitarian left now owns all of society and government, except for 2 more years in the White House. If you love your children and grandchildren, it’s really a sad thing. Because their lives are not going to be better than yours. In America, that’s a first.
But, heck — it’s not all bad. At least now we’ve got affordability. And Talarico.

The biggest danger to America isn’t Democrats (apparently) winning so many races. The biggest danger is that a majority seem to believe the two parties both want America and its freedoms to survive. That simply isn’t so. Based on words and deeds, the Democratic Party wants to abolish our Constitution. Granted, the Republicans could destroy us too, through bumbling and cowardice. But the Democrats openly want our freedoms to end. When they talk about America, they’re not talking about a land of liberty, or the home of the brave. They are talking about an imprisoned people with still enough nice stuff (for now) to delude them into believing we will stay free — and heck, everything will now be affordable! As if government could make anything affordable.

Going forward, the thing to watch will be how well this insanely fragile coalition between medieval Muslim barbarism and 21st Century woke Marxist socialism will hold. I just don’t see it happening. Let’s do what we can to get the Muslims and Communists to destroy each other. Our biggest problem is the lack of intelligence and emotional instability of a population who would vote in these radicalized Democrats. Can a nation with people this shallow and ignorant possibly survive?

Ayn Rand wrote, years ago, that a “mixed economy” — a hybrid of capitalism and socialism, like America — was a society in the process of committing suicide. If Democrat Communist psychopaths win U.S. Senate seats in Michigan, Texas, Ohio, Kansas and South Carolina (looking possible at this moment), then 2026 will be the year America put the gun to its head and pulled the trigger. Tragic. But honestly, given the mental and intellectual state of this country — not terribly surprising to me.

Remember: Democrats are all the things they claim Trump is, but isn’t. Given power, they will (like last time) do all the things they claim Trump will do, but never does. They will not let go of power ever again, once they regain it. No more befuddled Biden. This time around, we are talking well-funded, unblinkingly evil brutes and savages. Communists and Muslims have exterminated more innocent people than any groups in history. They have taken over the Democratic Party and joined forces not just to take down America, but Western civilization itself. Democratic voters — you have no clue how much you will miss Western civilization as it collapses before your eyes. You will learn the true meaning of woke, as in awake to a reality you never believed could happen.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

‘LAWYER UP’: Democrats Preview Their Real Post-Midterm Agenda

Daily Signal)—Americans will soon learn what the Democrat agenda is really about, and it certainly isn’t about working with President Donald Trump to reduce the cost of living.

The blue tsunami came to be Tuesday night as a wave of Democrats took seats in the House and the Senate that seemed impossible not long ago. They will now have sizable majorities in both houses of Congress.

The big question is, what will they do with those majorities?

While Democrats may have ridden their message about “affordability” to a massive victory on Tuesday night, they don’t intend to limit their agenda to getting grocery bills down. Not that they were ever particularly good at that.

No, they fully intend to use their victory Tuesday night to dial up lawfare to 11.

The likely incoming House Oversight chairman, Robert Garcia, didn’t even wait for the night to be through before shouting his party’s intentions on X.

“Lawyer up,” he wrote.

LAWYER UP.

— Congressman Robert Garcia (@RepRobertGarcia) November 4, 2026

And of course, Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., already announced before the election that she intends to target and prosecute members of the Trump administration to send a “deterrence message” to any future young Republican staffers that working for Democrat opponents could lead to jail time.

This is largely what their base wants. They want to wipe Trump, his supporters, and everything they stand for out of existence. They remain furious that what they thought would be a permanent political revolution was upended in 2024.

So, they aren’t looking to merely deliver left-wing ideas like single-payer health care or the end of fossil fuels or a slew of new taxes on the “rich.” Mere sideshows. No, what they want most is reprisals. They will work feverishly to ensure that when they take the executive branch in 2028, as they assume they will—maybe with a Democratic Socialists of America member leading the charge—they’ll have the chance to finally secure permanent power this time.

Just remember the words of Democrat political strategist James Carville back in April when he said Democrats should run the old bait-and-switch strategy.

“If the Democrats win the presidency and both houses of Congress, I think on Day One, they should make Puerto Rico [and] D.C. a state, and they should expand the Supreme Court to 13. F— it. Eat our dust,” he said.

That’s what’s coming. And it isn’t even strictly the far-left side of the Democratic Party that wants it. Reprisals and power are what bring the wings of their coalition together in loving kumbaya.

But make no mistake, the next iteration of the Democrat coalition will have a more robust hard-Left edge to it. Socialists now see their clearest path to dominance in Congress and the ultimate prize of the executive branch. They surely hope that the larger success of the Democratic Party will bring forward their larger agenda, as it has begun to in many of America’s largest cities.

What New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is doing in the Big Apple will seem tame compared to what they do if they seize national power. And we are arguably much closer to that possibility today than at any time in our history.

But that’s not a cause to simply despair.

Regardless of what no doubt many pundits will say in the coming days, the Trump administration has racked up some enormous victories in the last few years, even if those successes are a lot quieter than they should have been.

Don’t think that the Left’s political and activist classes don’t know about this and aren’t livid about it. Trump’s counterrevolution profoundly changed the trajectory of the federal government and our country.

Even with empowered majorities in Congress, the Left can’t reverse that. At least not yet.

The challenge will be for conservatives in the next few years to convince the American people that “woke 2” will be every bit as bad, or worse, than “woke 1.” It may not look exactly as it did under President Joe Biden, but you can bet they will again cook up horrors beyond your imagination. But this time, younger, more ruthless socialists will be leading the charge instead of just managing a feeble figurehead regime.

Still, a bigger disaster can be averted if we show Americans another way. We must demonstrate that the answers to the many problems we face today, both existential and mundane, can be solved without foolishly sliding into socialism, or worse.

Liberty Daily

Idiot King Forgets To Cancel Election

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Boy, has King Trump got egg on his face this time. Seeing all of the people going to vote, he realized he forgot to cancel the election. What an idiot!

“Kings aren’t supposed to have elections. Doesn’t he know that? What a dummy,” said one peasant. “Well, time to vote against his interests, because he’s so dumb.”

Sources in the Royal White House confirmed the king is beside himself with grief, unsure why he let such an obvious challenge to his power proceed.

“Why am I so stupid? Don’t answer that!” said King Trump. “Believe me, this is not what I wanted. As king, I want to rule with an iron fist. No, my fist isn’t really made of iron. I wish it was. Iron Man, they could call me. No, Iron King! Because I’m a king. No, really, I am. I just forgot to cancel the election. Idiot!”

Advisors to the king have reportedly recommended silencing all dissent and closing all the polls immediately, but King Trump would not hear of it. “No, I’m kind of curious how this is going to play out,” the idiot king said. “Let the people choose for themselves whom they will serve.”

At publishing time, King Trump went to bed sobbing, knowing deep in his heart he would go down in history as the worst king America had ever had because he allowed the people to vote.

Babylon Bee

WATCH: Nick Shirley’s Explosive New Investigation Exposes the Biden-Era NGO Pipeline That Lost Track of Children, ‘Your Tax Dollars Trafficked Over 300,000 Kids’

Independent journalist and filmmaker Nick Shirley dropped a 43-minute investigative documentary overnight on X that has already gone viral, exposing how the Biden administration’s handling of unaccompanied migrant children operated as the largest government-funded human trafficking ring in history. In the film, posted to his account, Shirley states that “Your tax dollars trafficked over 300,000 children across the United States while NGOs enriched themselves with millions of dollars,” detailing contracts in which one NGO alone received $895 million while others pulled in more than $100 million each.

Shirley notes that groups operating in places like Tucson, Arizona, pocketed large sums during the border surge but have seen the funding dry up since enforcement tightened under the Trump administration.

The video features accounts from former Border Patrol agents who observed children arriving with the same addresses written on their arms, flight attendants who regularly saw groups of five to ten kids loaded onto planes, and on-camera confrontations with NGO staff—including one woman who simply walks away when pressed about what happened to the children placed in the system.

Shirley said the project took months of filming across multiple states.

WATCH:

One NGO received $895 million to traffic children across the US. Others got $100+ million, and NGOs in areas like Tucson, Arizona pocketed millions but now receive nothing since the border shut down.

🚨 Inside the Largest Government Funded Human Trafficking Ring in History: Your tax dollars trafficked over 300,000 children across the United States while NGOs enriched themselves with millions of dollars.

In this video we break down the contracts, speak with former Border Patrol, and confront the NGOs. It’s a must watch, like it and share it. Make sure no one forgets the hundreds of children lost in the government’s hands.

— Nick shirley (@nickshirleyy) November 2, 2026

Cassandra MacDonald, Gateway Pundit