U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday attacked former U.S. President Barack Obama for campaigning for Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee, labeling him a “Muslim Brotherhood Jihadist.”
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said El-Sayed “hates Jews and Blacks and Americans and Trump.
“Michigan doesn’t want an arrogant, open borders, fake doctor, jihadist,” Trump wrote. He urged voters to back Republican nominee Mike Rogers.
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Wisconsin media is reporting on a MAJOR Democrat Party scandal just days before the November 3rd midterm elections.
This involves the Wisconsin race for governor.
Democrat primary candidate and Milwaukee County Executive, David Crowley announced on Wednesday, July 8th, that he was suspending his campaign.
That leaves current Wisconsin Lt. Governor Sara Rodriguez in the primary race against unhinged communist
But Sara Rodriguez dropped out of the race two weeks later on July 17th. Her campaign discovered “serious mismanagement and inaccuracies” in its campaign finance reports, leading to the firing of campaign manager Kara Spencer.
So that was the first major scandal in the Democrat Party’s primary race for governor.
That’s when David Crowley jumped back in the race less than 24 hours later after Rodriquez’s departure.
At this point the Democrat gubernatorial primary race pitted David Crowley against Francesa Hong, a wacky and unapologeticly socialist candidate.
The primary election was now less than a month away.
The squirrely socialist was squaring off against the Milwaukee county executive. But the Democrat primary election scandal only just starting.
On election night, the dim-witted, holiday-hating communist who had emerged as one of new ‘stars’ of the Democratic Party lost her primary in a stunning upset to a largely unknown establishment opponent following a late drop and chaos in Wisconsin’s largest city.
That’s right.
As CNN reported, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley narrowly defeated 37-year-old state assemblywoman Francesca Hong, who almost everyone assumed was going face Wisconsin GOP nominee Tom Tiffany in the general election.
The state results showed Crowley holding roughly a three-thousand-vote lead, less than half a percentage point of the vote.
According to the media at the time, Milwaukee’s election results from Tuesday’s primary were delayed because of a “human error” when five of nine USB flash drives did not download election results, prompting critics to call it a showing of “complete incompetence.”
Crowley won, Hong went home.
This snafu was similar to what we all witnessed in the 2020 election in Wisconsin.
Democrats lost the election flash drive in Milwaukee and the next thing you know, miraculously found 120,000 votes in the middle of the night for Joe Biden.
It appears Democrats got away with this again in the August primary!
Why not try it two times, since the first time it worked so well.
UPDATE: Steve Cortez says there is much more to come… October Surprise!
Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit
Progressives not afraid to say the quiet part out loud
The casual way Democrats threaten to throw Republicans in prison or prosecute them for supporting President Trump is alarming and indicative of exactly what they will try to do if they win power on Nov. 3.
On “The Bulwark Daily” podcast Monday, Kara Swisher blithely speculated that if Kamala Harris had won the presidency in 2024, Elon Musk might already be in jail and that he “knows what’s coming for him” if Democrats win control of Congress in the midterm elections — though they would not hold that power until the next Congress is seated in January.
“If Donald Trump loses the House and the Senate, I would worry. I’d be worried if I were him,” Ms. Swisher said. “So they’re going to start investigating again. You think he’s not on the list? He’s at the top of that list.”
Sen. Elissa Slotkin, Michigan Democrat, tried to scare young Republicans from entering public service at an Oct. 13 event at the University of Chicago, saying Democrats would focus on the aides who enabled Mr. Trump’s alleged corruption.
“I want young people coming out of school to say, ’Should I go work for the Trump administration? Like, that sounds like fun. I might get an opportunity.’ I want them to be like, ’Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems that I don’t want, and so let me avoid participating in that.’ I want that deterrence message sent,” Ms. Slotkin said.
After the clip surfaced this week, Ms. Slotkin doubled down, defending her comments as “manufactured outrage” from conservatives who want to deflect from tight midterm races in places such as Michigan and Kansas. If only that were the case. She accidentally said the quiet part out loud: Democrats plan to weaponize the government if they win power, in the hopes of deterring young Republicans from serving in office.
On Wednesday, Ms. Slotkin suggested that the Trump administration may attempt to change the outcome of the midterm elections. “Right in the last two weeks, they somehow will come up with a national security incident only they can protect us from,” she said, sowing public distrust in both our electoral system and the Trump administration.
The day before Ms. Slotkin made her comments, The Washington Post reported on a “small group” of anonymously sourced “national security officials” who were “discreetly advising state governments and congressional lawmakers on how to prepare for the possibility that the Trump administration would attempt to interfere in November’s midterm elections.”
Their efforts are motivated not by political bias, they say, but a growing sense of alarm that President Trump will harm American democracy by undermining the integrity of the vote to keep the Republican Party in power,” The Post reported.
Jenna Pounds, a Utah software engineer known as DataRepublican on X, sifted through various Democratic Socialists of America and left-wing think tank and nonprofit materials and concluded that the left was preparing its own “color revolution” in America and laying the groundwork.
Sowing distrust in our institutions and Republican leadership so that youths will view both as “illegitimate” is the first step. If Democrats do not win by a landslide on Nov. 3, it must be because of the nefarious actions of Republicans. Ms. Slotkin’s remarks and The Post’s reporting said as much.
A color revolution starts with a series of mass civil protests aimed at replacing perceived entrenched or corrupt leaders, as we are seeing in France. Those that occurred in post-Soviet states in the early 21st century aimed to replace communism with a Western-style democratic government and were sparked by tactics developed and deployed by U.S. intelligence agencies at the time.
America’s color revolution will be the reverse: American communists seizing power through democratic means and then consolidating it for themselves. A color revolution usually follows disputed or falsified elections, so it is essential for these Democratic Socialists of America revolutionaries to sow distrust in our electoral system beforehand.
How coordinated and sophisticated is this effort? It is hard to say, though it is undeniable that Democratic Socialists of America candidates have growing power and influence within the Democratic Party.
It is also undeniable that Democrats have no fear of weaponizing the government against their political opponents. You need to look no further than special counsel Jack Smith’s Arctic Frost investigation, in which he obtained personal information and data on at least 639,000 Republican donors, voters and supporters, according to a memo from Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles E. Grassley, Iowa Republican.
Mr. Trump’s two previous impeachments, the sham House Select January 6th Committee and Mr. Trump’s four criminal indictments while he served as a private citizen were all initiated by Democrats.
Democrats are promising more of the same if they win the midterms — though the consequences would not be felt until the new Congress takes power in January. Republicans will go to prison, whether deserved or not. Democrats are already running the playbook.
Kelly Sadler is the commentary editor at The Washington Times.
U.S. intelligence officials are warning that Iran has intensified efforts to assassinate Americans overseas, prompting the Trump administration to reduce diplomatic staffing across the Middle East amid escalating threats from Tehran and its terrorist proxies.
Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton issued an unclassified memo Friday to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, warning that Iranian assassination plots targeting U.S. citizens have reached dangerous levels.
“Lethal plotting efforts by the Iranians against U.S. citizens have reached advanced stages,” Clayton wrote.
Clayton said Tehran has significantly expanded operations targeting American personnel abroad and warned that the danger extends beyond individuals currently authorized to receive classified intelligence.
The warning follows deadly attacks by Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen, including strikes against Saudi Arabia’s King Khalid Airport earlier this month that reportedly killed at least 12 people, including an American, and injured hundreds.
In response, the State Department ordered additional personnel reductions at diplomatic facilities in Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Qatar, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates.
The U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia has been operating with emergency personnel following intensified Houthi missile attacks.
On Saturday, the State Department also updated travel advisories for more than a dozen Middle Eastern countries, citing growing threats from Iranian-backed militants.
President Donald Trump addressed the escalating confrontation during a Friday campaign rally in Florida, suggesting another military operation against Iran could be forthcoming if Tehran refuses to reach a peace agreement.
Trump referenced Operation Epic Fury, the U.S. military campaign launched against Iran in February, while signaling that Washington remains prepared to use military force.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi responded with warnings against further American military action, arguing that escalation around the Strait of Hormuz could endanger civilians and disrupt the global economy.
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“ Palestinian Scholar Nidhal Siam At Al-Aqsa Rally: Macron, You Lowlife, Soon We Will Conquer Paris And Rome, Rule Europe With Islam Palestinian scholar Nidhal “Abu Ibrahim” Siam spoke at a rally at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, organized by Hizbu ut-Tahrir, and which was aired on Al-Waqiyah TV (Lebanon) on October 30, 2020. He said that the only response to France and President Macron is to declare Jihad and that the armies of the Caliphate will conquer Rome and France and remove Macron and his “corrupt” civilization. He added that the civilization of France and the West, which he said is the civilization of prostitution, promiscuity, and homosexuality will be replaced with Islamic civilization and justice. The crowd chanted slogans such as: “With Jihad we will destroy your [Macron’s] honor” and “tomorrow we will conquer Paris.””
A longtime Harvard Law professor and liberal lawyer believes the FBI raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) home has landed her in serious legal jeopardy, and he predicts she will very likely lose her citizenship and face deportation to Somalia, the country of her birth.
That lawyer is Alan Dershowitz, and he made his prediction on Newsmax’s The Record with Greta Van Susteren.
The whole case hinges on whether Omar became a U.S. citizen, and if so, how. She claims she became a citizen as a minor when her father was naturalized. The problem is that nobody has produced the paperwork to back that up, and Van Susteren zeroed in on that gap.
“Assuming that that paperwork is never found, what happens? And what does Congress do about her?” Van Susteren asked.
Dershowitz walked through the legal bar the government has to clear. “Well, they have to prove — to have denaturalization, you have to prove fraud,” he said. That means prosecutors would need to show that Omar committed fraud herself, or that her father did with her participation.
“Now, she, when she made the statement recently, makes the strongest case for why she’s probably in deep trouble,” Dershowitz continued. “I have a lot of experience with search warrants, and usually they’re issued pretty easily, but not against a sitting congresswoman in her home in the District of Columbia. I think for this judge to have signed off on a search warrant to go to the house early in the morning to do all the things she said they did, there has to be very substantial evidence beyond just a mere probable cause claim that maybe a crime was committed. So, I think she’s in much, much deeper trouble than she is willing to admit.”
Then there’s the brother question.
In fact, Omar herself essentially conceded she might have married her brother. During an interview on MS NOW, Chris Hayes asked Omar directly whether she had married her sibling, an allegation of fraud President Donald Trump has raised many times. She gave an answer that should have alarmed every Democrat watching.
“Not to my knowledge,” Omar said.
Dershowitz pointed out that family relationships come with a simple yes or no. Either someone is your brother, or he isn’t.
“‘Not to my knowledge‘ seems like a cop out,” he told Van Susteren.
From where I sit, that sounded like a carefully lawyered non-answer, which is what you reach for when a straight answer could come back to haunt you, and Omar picked her words very carefully.
Omar’s defenders might hope time will protect her. Dershowitz shot that down, too, explaining that the “statute of limitations that apply in criminal cases don’t apply in deportation and denaturalization cases.” He added that an ongoing offense, such as repeatedly listing a false birth date on official records, could extend the window even further.
And he doesn’t think the investigation has peaked. “So I think this is the beginning of a much deeper search,” Dershowitz said, adding that Omar is “probably in more serious trouble than she’d like us to believe.”
And he doesn’t think the investigation has peaked. “So I think this is the beginning of a much deeper search,” Dershowitz said, adding that Omar is “probably in more serious trouble than she’d like us to believe.”
For years, Omar and her allies have treated every question about her past as an act of bigotry, and the media happily played along. Because that’s what they do. Well, a Democrat judge approved the raid, which was part of an investigation that started under a Democrat administration, and now a liberal legal giant who has spent decades defending the accused looks at the evidence and sees real danger.
That tells you everything you need to know.
Matt Margolis, PJMedia
Defence Secretary warns adversaries could attack by 2030 as households urged to stockpile supplies
Wes Streeting has said Britain must be ready for war in 1,000 days as Russia intensifies its hybrid warfare against NATO.
The Defence Secretary warned that Britain’s enemies could be in a position to attack the country by 2030 and it must “be ready with our allies to fight and win”.
Writing in The Telegraph, Mr Streeting said: “My defining priority… is to make sure that this country is ready to fight and win a war.
“To prevent the worst, we have to prepare for it. In the first instance, that means expanding our capabilities so our adversaries think twice about attacking us. Should that fail, we must ensure that Britain is ready for war.”
Mr Streeting issued the message days after the Government launched its “Be Ready” campaign, advising households to stockpile non-perishable food, bottles of water, blankets and radios in the event of a cyber-attack or severe weather incident that could shut down critical national infrastructure.
PAccording to the advice, Britons should prepare to live for at least three days without access to a supermarket or an electronic payments system.
The government warning was issued after websites across the world were shut down when two AI companies discovered a critical cyber-security flaw in PHP, the programming language that runs about 70 per cent of websites.
Earlier this week, The Telegraph revealed Russia was deploying fishing trawlers to spy on Britain’s critical undersea cables.
Ministers confirmed that Moscow was using “commercial proxies” to threaten vital undersea infrastructure. The Government subsequently laid out plans for cable saboteurs to be given lengthy jail terms.
Highlighting the imminent threats facing Britain, Mr Streeting said: “Our adversaries’ willingness to harm us is not new. What has changed is their capacity.
“By 2030 their force strength and war economy could put them in a position to attack. That gives us a little over 1,000 days to complete our mission: to be ready with our allies to fight and win. This Government will make sure it is mission accomplished.”
Mr Streeting also warned that the strategic objective of preparing for war was being lost “amidst a fixation with percentages and dates”, the strongest signal yet that John Healey, the Chancellor, would not commit to spending 3 per cent of GDP on defence by 2030 in Wednesday’s Budget.
He wrote: “I am not saying they are not important debates. I am certainly willing to have them, especially with those refusing to take any responsibility for the consequences of their failure to fund defence when they were in government.
But since Mr Healey was appointed Chancellor in Andy Burnham’s Cabinet, the Government has shifted emphasis from this 3 per cent goal to Nato’s defence spending commitment of 3.5 per cent of GDP on defence by 2035.
Last month, Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, accused Mr Burnham of “kicking defence spending into the long grass” by pushing the problem of a significant increase in defence spending to almost 10 years into the future.
Mr Streeting added: “The public want to see us doing more and investing more. That comes with choices and trade-offs for government spending in other areas, so I feel sharply the responsibility on my department to use every penny wisely.”
In July last year, Gen Sir Patrick Sanders, the former Army chief, warned that Britain had less than five years to prepare for war with Vladimir Putin and needed to start building bunkers and investing in air defence.
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Gen Sanders told The Telegraph: “I don’t know what more signals we need for us to realise that if we don’t act now and we don’t act in the next five years to increase our resilience … I don’t know what more is needed.
“The world has become as dangerous, if not more dangerous, than it was in the Cold War and so I always worry about the layers of security we have, but I worry more about our resilience, our ability to recover from things, from strikes, to protect our civilian population, to make sure the civilian population understands that these are no longer things that happen elsewhere, they could happen in the UK.”
Gen Sanders also criticised Mr Healey for his refusal to set out plans to increase defence spending to 3 per cent of GDP by 2030.
Andrew Griffith, the shadow chancellor, has meanwhile called for Healey to resign if he fails to set out how the UK will spend a 3 per cent share of the economy on defence by 2030.
Gen Sanders told The Telegraph: “I don’t know what more signals we need for us to realise that if we don’t act now and we don’t act in the next five years to increase our resilience … I don’t know what more is needed.
“The world has become as dangerous, if not more dangerous, than it was in the Cold War and so I always worry about the layers of security we have, but I worry more about our resilience, our ability to recover from things, from strikes, to protect our civilian population, to make sure the civilian population understands that these are no longer things that happen elsewhere, they could happen in the UK.”
Gen Sanders also criticised Mr Healey for his refusal to set out plans to increase defence spending to 3 per cent of GDP by 2030.
Andrew Griffith, the shadow chancellor, has meanwhile called for Healey to resign if he fails to set out how the UK will spend a 3 per cent share of the economy on defence by 2030.
Mr Griffith said: “By the end of his Budget statement, John Healey must have fully funded 3 per cent defence spending, or resign.
“We are living in an era of extraordinary threats, and yet the Chancellor is dithering over finding the money to pay the country’s insurance premium.
“No firm would be left unscathed by a serious attack on UK soil. It’s time for John Healey to get a grip, becaus
Sabrina Miller, The Telegraph
France is on fire. Cars torched, city halls ablaze, hundreds of police officers injured, businesses looted, and the media still calls it “student protests.” It is nothing of the sort. It is a calculated campaign by organized, well-financed hard-left networks to sow anarchy across Western civilization.
And according to Issues & Insights, the Democratic Socialists of America already have the playbook to bring the same chaos here.
DataRepublican, the Pentagon analyst turned online investigator, has obtained thousands of transcripts and hundreds of recordings from DSA-aligned strategy sessions. The public pitch is familiar: abolish the Senate, impose term limits, dismantle constitutional structures. The private plan is operational. If Democrats sweep the 2026 midterms, DSA members become “foot soldiers” in constant clashes with the Trump administration.
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France is on fire. Cars torched, city halls ablaze, hundreds of police officers injured, businesses looted, and the media still calls it “student protests.” It is nothing of the sort. It is a calculated campaign by organized, well-financed hard-left networks to sow anarchy across Western civilization.
And according to Issues & Insights, the Democratic Socialists of America already have the playbook to bring the same chaos here.
DataRepublican, the Pentagon analyst turned online investigator, has obtained thousands of transcripts and hundreds of recordings from DSA-aligned strategy sessions. The public pitch is familiar: abolish the Senate, impose term limits, dismantle constitutional structures. The private plan is operational. If Democrats sweep the 2026 midterms, DSA members become “foot soldiers” in constant clashes with the Trump administration.
The goal is to cross a red line, force invocation of the Insurrection Act sometime in 2027, then delegitimize the federal government itself and hand legitimacy to Democratic governors. By 2028 the election becomes a referendum on whether to keep American governance or “burn it all down to appease a ‘young and brown’ demographic.”
That is not reform. That is regime change by street pressure, exactly as Europe is living it right now. Fox News has documented dozens of communist, socialist, and labor groups coordinating the French violence. The Daily Signal notes the red-green alliance—Marxists paired with Islamist networks—treating France as a test run. House Speaker Mike Johnson and President Trump have already warned that open borders and socialist governance produce the same result.
The DSA is not watching from afar. French far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon and La France Insoumise maintain open ties to DSA chapters, including events in New York.
The infrastructure is already in place. The United Democracy Alliance coordinates the “No Kings” protests, the 50501 movement, and Indivisible. These are the same networks that give radical agendas a middle-class face until the useful moderates can be discarded. Italian group Autistici/Inventati, or the A/I Collective, builds the anonymous digital tools used by Antifa cells and far-left militants worldwide.
In August the State Department and Treasury designated it a specially designated global terrorist for supporting networks tied to PFLP, Hamas, IRGC, and Hezbollah. Sanctions hurt, but the model remains.
Meanwhile Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin, a former CIA analyst, is publicly preparing for a scenario in which the Trump administration invents a national-security incident in the final weeks of the election “that only they can protect us from.”
The DSA’s “New Battlefield Project” is recruiting 10,000 volunteers to station themselves at polling places. Officials call them “Democracy Protectors” in blue vests who will document and de-escalate. The transcripts describe them as the first wave of clashes. Activists are already distributing white papers on how judges should respond if ballots are seized, and security officials are quietly briefing Democratic governors on “Trump interference.”
The Washington Post and others report the planning while remaining silent on the DSA’s own operational blueprints.
Trump’s dismantling of USAID through Elon Musk and DOGE cut off a major funding stream that had long flowed to radical groups both overseas and at home. That made permanent enemies. The response is the classic Color Revolution template, only this time the colors would be red, white, and blue. Europe’s “student” riots began over teacher shortages and cost-of-living complaints.
They ended with historic buildings burning and coordinated youth strikes planned across nine countries. The same pattern is already sketched for American streets.
Scripture warns what follows when order collapses: “In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.”
The DSA’s plan does not seek a better king. It seeks no king at all—only the permanent rule of the street, the NGO, and the governor who refuses to recognize federal authority. That is not democracy. That is the destruction of the constitutional republic, planned in plain sight and already field-tested across the Atlantic.
The midterms are a week away. The foot soldiers are already training. The transcripts are not theory. They are the instruction manual.
At least 12 people, including six children as young as 11, have been injured in a mass shooting near a Florida university football stadium during packed homecoming celebrations.
Eleven people were struck by gunfire when violence erupted near Florida A&M University’s Bragg Memorial Stadium in Tallahassee on Saturday night, sending terrified crowds scrambling for cover.
Three victims suffered serious injuries, including one who remained in critical condition, while eight others were reported to be stable.
Among those caught up in the bloodshed were six juveniles, with the youngest victim just 11 years old.
A twelfth person, the grandmother of one of the victims, was injured while desperately fleeing the scene as panic swept through crowds gathered for the university’s homecoming weekend.
Tallahassee Police Chief Lawrence Revell revealed the devastating toll during a late-night news conference, admitting he was struggling to comprehend the violence.
‘I stand before you tonight devastated,’ Revell said.
Investigators believe a fight broke out between individuals shortly before 8pm which may have sparked the shooting near the intersection of Perry and Manatee streets, right beside the university’s football stadium.
No arrests had been made as of the midnight update, and authorities had not identified any suspects or established what caused the confrontation.
The shooting unfolded shortly after Florida A&M’s Rattlers lost their homecoming football game against Arkansas-Pine Bluff, with large crowds were still celebrating in the surrounding streets.
James Gordon, Daily Mail
Editor’s Note: I’ve worked on this for weeks. Yes, it is long. I beg you to read it all. I’ve kept it as easy to understand as I can. Please read it. You guys always ask me to “name names.” Challenge accepted.
A group of white guys have subtly inserted themselves into conservative institutions and church organizations. They all embrace racial grievances. To varying degrees, they embrace white nationalism, antisemitism, and even Nazi sympathies. They are getting added to conservative institutional boards, attempting to purge churches, and are desperate to indoctrinate young conservatives into fascist ideology. They even surround the Vice President of the United States. Some of them believe the United States is at a tipping point, and they want to push it over the edge and rebuild it in their image. You might think it does not affect you, but, in time, you will see their efforts in your church pews, in your kids’ brains, and in your politicians’ mouths. It begins with shampoo.
Charles Haywood made his fortune selling shampoo. He sold his Indianapolis hair care company in 2020, and he has spent the years since writing out, at length and under his own name, what he would like to do with your country. Rod Dreher, who is no man of the left, read Haywood’s online ramblings and described Haywood as pouring out vile from “deep in his Midwestern Führerbunker”.
In a document he calls the Foundationalist Manifesto, Haywood explained that his preferred government “will not be democratic.” The state “will have unlimited means,” because “properly viewed, the state is not constrained externally.” Women “will not be permitted to choose career over family.” Men “will not be permitted to choose not to have a family.” The state will seize the assets of “any citizen who views himself as a global citizen.”
That is not my characterization of his politics. Those are his words, from the manifesto that earned him a friendly sit-down with Tucker Carlson in September 2022.
Elsewhere he has speculated about serving as a “warlord” at the head of an “armed patronage network,” a model he says he drew from the groups of white settler farmers formed in southern African countries and colonies while black Africans were fighting for majority rule. Reviewing a biography of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, he wrote that his already favorable impression of the Spanish dictator had become positively glowing. He is not alone in that fixation. MAGA gadfly Jack Posobiec wrote a book called Unhumans, which Vice President JD Vance blurbed and which claims Franco and Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet are models for handling the American left. Josh Abbotoy, the executive director of American Reformer, has written that America is going to need a Protestant Franco. It is not a coincidence, but an attempt to shift the Overton window toward dictatorship.
A crank with a blog is a crank with a blog. The problem is that Charles Haywood is not on the outside of the conservative movement. He has used his wealth to get inside it and reshape longtime institutions that build the future of the right, pushing those institutions toward his vision of pushing our constitutional republic to its breaking point so they can rebuild it the way they want.
Jason Hart has documented that Haywood’s personal foundation has given the Claremont Institute $390,500 since 2022, and the foundation’s filings are public. Haywood sits on the publication committee of Claremont’s American Mind, one of four men who do. Claremont let Haywood’s fraternal order get itself incorporated under Claremont’s own nonprofit status. That order is the Society for American Civic Renewal, and Claremont’s president Ryan Williams confirmed he serves on that group’s board. Claremont’s Scott Yenor has been one of the group’s organizational leaders. Hart reports that the president of Claremont, the chief executive of New Founding, and the chief marketing officer of the Blaze are all members.
Membership records obtained by reporters show the order is open only to heterosexual men who are trinitarian Christians. In March 2024, getting ahead of a reporter he expected to write about the group, Nate Fischer published its internal mission statement himself. That document describes the members as “un-hyphenated Americans” who hold a Christianity unblurred by modernist philosophy, and it says they intend to make that inheritance permanently dominant in American political and social life. Its stated objectives are explicit: preferential treatment for members in business, coordinated action on hiring, contracts, and leadership succession, and a standing list of men ready to be appointed and hired once a friendly regime exists. The religious qualifications are a stand-alone clause in the document. The hyphen is there to screen for lineage, and it tells you the racial mindset of the organization. Haywood himself has repeatedly used a slur for Indians on social media, has argued that the Allies, not the Nazis, were the genuinely barbaric power in World War II, has insisted the war was not much motivated by the horrors of Nazi aggression, and gushed that Tucker Carlson and Darryl Cooper “boil down all my political plans.” Cooper argues that Churchill, not Hitler, was the villain of World War II. When a critic pointed out Haywood’s casual use of an ethnic slur, a senior aide to the chairman of Claremont’s board bragged that nobody cares.
Much of the right waves off groups like Patriot Front, the uniformed outfit whose leader marched at Charlottesville and thirty-one of whose members were arrested out of a U-Haul outside a pride event in Coeur d’Alene, as a federal setup or a Democrat dirty trick. Haywood, instead, praises the Patriot Front’s leader. On July 6 of this year, he shared a video of Rousseau delivering an Independence Day speech and told his followers, “This speech is very good. And this guy is very impressive.” Haywood is widely credited with originating the phrase “no enemies to the right,” which its adherents shorten to NETTR. In a 2023 debate that Christopher Rufo hosted to argue over it, Haywood raised the hypothetical of a real white nationalist with real political power, and answered that you should cooperate with that person in order to destroy the power of the left. Pressed in the same conversation about right-wing authoritarianism, he said of Franco, Pinochet, and the Portuguese dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar that they had killed people justly and unjustly, and that they saved more people than they killed. Rod Dreher had noticed Haywood’s radicalism a year earlier, observing that Haywood’s loathing of the left ran deep enough that he welcomed a Nazi sympathizer to his side. The street-level version and the lodge-and-foundation version are not strangers to one another, but one of them has the money.
Haywood’s debate partner in the Rufo debate was Nate Fischer, the chief executive of New Founding. Fischer has acknowledged his own membership in Haywood’s order. He is a Claremont Lincoln Fellow — and, more consequentially, the co-founder and chairman of American Reformer, an outfit whose stated purpose is to recapture existing Christian institutions and which Haywood’s foundation has funded with $20,000 in each of the last 2 reporting years. American Reformer in turn backs the Center for Baptist Leadership, run by William Wolfe, who calls himself a Christian nationalist and whose project is replacing the leadership of the Southern Baptist Convention with men further to his right. Matthew Peterson helped Fischer start New Founding before moving on to Blaze Media. (Matthew Peterson reached out and said the underlying article citing him has him confused with a different Matthew Peterson. Striking that sentence)
Back in 2023, Christian writer Jake Meador of Mere Orthodoxy documented the business dealings Fischer and Abbotoy had with the writer then known only as Raw Egg Nationalist and called the man a Nazi pornographer. That description is accurate. His magazine runs pornography alongside fiction about murdering one’s girlfriend, and his books and his magazine’s annuals are published by Antelope Hill, a white nationalist publisher with ties to neo-Nazis. Meador noted in the same piece that the Protestant Franco line had originated with Abbotoy, and that Abbotoy had amplified a post about fixing the country with limitless authority and a rough mentality. My own denomination, the Presbyterian Church in America, barred American Reformer from its annual meeting, and it was right to do so. These are not five separate movements with a coincidental overlap. They are a small group of men, funded by a smaller group of donors, working through think tanks, a venture fund, and denominational conventions, with people at The Blaze amplifying their views.
Nearly all of this traces back to one man. Carl Schmitt was a German legal theorist who presided over the Association of National Socialist German Jurists and edited the Third Reich’s newspaper for lawyers, and who, unlike the German intellectuals who later pleaded ignorance, never repudiated Nazism. Schmitt taught that politics consists in the sorting of men into friends and enemies, and the enemy is defined by the genuine possibility of killing him. Christians have an obvious objection to this: Christ commanded us to love our enemies. Schmitt, working from the Latin Vulgate translation of the Bible, argued Jesus separated private adversaries from public adversaries, and we were to love the private adversary, not the public one. In other words, the command to love your enemies says nothing about the people you fight in politics.
Haywood has embraced Schmitt’s perversion of Scripture. In his own treatment of Schmitt, he conceded he could find nothing from the early church fathers about our duties toward public enemies, and decided the silence existed because the distinction was too obvious to need stating. John Ehrett, writing in the Protestant journal Ad Fontes, dismantled the argument, pointing out that the New Testament was written in Greek rather than Latin, and the Greek word for enemy is used throughout Scripture for precisely the political enemies Schmitt insisted it excluded. Zechariah uses it of Israel’s enemies. Christ uses it to describe a king’s rebellious subjects. Peter commanded the church to honor the emperor, and Paul commanded prayers for kings, in the years when Nero was burning Christians to light the streets of Rome. Schmitt, in a fit of eisegesis, twisted Scripture to support his argument instead of realizing his argument is rejected by Scripture, and Haywood built on it anyway. The reasoning has spread outward to infect individuals and entities.
American Reformer has published the argument that Christians can no longer answer politics by quoting “love your enemies” and must instead set out to defeat those enemies. Claremont’s American Mind has published the argument that conservatives must now be willing to commit violence of their own. Andrew Isker, who has partnered on projects with Abbotoy and Fischer, wrote a book teaching that Christendom cannot return until Christians learn to hate the world, and that fathers must raise their children to hate what they hate.
Ehrett correctly notes that to carve out a zone of political life where violence governs and Christian obligation does not reach is to rebuild the logic of secularism inside the church. These men say they exist to tear that logic down. They have instead baptized it, and it has given them a permission structure for cruelty that their faith was supposed to forbid.
Haywood’s NETTR formulation has crept out of his writings and into the ordinary operations of the right
Over the weekend, Bo French, the Republican nominee for the Texas Railroad Commission, posted a photograph of college students who, though American citizens, were of Indian ethnicity, celebrating the comeback against Ohio State and wrote that the problem is now obviously far worse than anyone imagined. Those kids assimilated exactly the way the critics of immigration always demanded that immigrants assimilate. They put on their school colors and stetsons and went to the game. One of them, born in Texas to an American father and an Indian mother, told a local station that the post misrepresented what was in fact a mixed crowd.
French did not retreat an inch. In the hours after John Cornyn objected, he doubled down and called the senator a RINO. Jack Posobiec — whose book the vice president blurbed — turned his fire on the Republicans who had objected and announced that the party now knew who its undercover enemies were. Posobiec was not a stranger riding to the rescue. When French chaired the Tarrant County Republican Party, it hosted Posobiec as a guest. Benny Johnson said he saw nothing hateful in any of it. The NETTR gang of the right, poisoned by Haywood’s arguments, rallied to Bo French and attacked any and all on the right who called him out.
Running alongside all of this, from a different direction and with different money, is Nick Fuentes. He has never been coy about his ambitions. “There’s groypers everywhere,” he told his audience. “There’s groypers in the administration. There’s groypers at Turning Point USA. There’s groypers at Fox News, at Daily Wire.” He has instructed his followers to infiltrate the Republican Party and Turning Point and change them from the inside, and he has boasted that his people are working their way into the highest ranks of that leadership. In 2023 he wrote that his “White Identitarian, race realist, ‘Jewish aware,’ counter-Zionist” views, once radioactive, were now pounding on the door of the mainstream.
I do not think Haywood, his compatriots, and Fuentes are coordinating. I think something worse is true. These are two separate projects, with separate donors and separate audiences, converging on the same destination, and the institutions of the right are absorbing both without resistance. One works by throwing money around to shape boards, publication committees, and institutions. The other works by radicalizing 19-year-olds on livestreams and then placing them in field offices. They arrive at the same place, which is a country where your ancestry determines your standing, and the state decides what your family is for.
Vice President Vance has refused to distance himself from the groyper movement and will not forcefully denounce the antisemites. Rod Dreher, who had been his friend and an early champion of his memoir, went to him last fall and urged him to draw that line. Dreher says Vance cut him off and the friendship is over. Unfortunately, the Vice President keeps all of it within arm’s reach. Haywood’s foundation is a recurring funder of American Moment, the staffing pipeline founded in 2021 with Vance’s support, which exists to place young conservatives in administration jobs. Vance has identified himself with the postliberal right on a stage with Patrick Deneen and Kevin Roberts, and told that audience there is no meaningful distinction between the public and the private sector in the American regime. That is not a slip of the tongue. He believes it.
Conservatives spent sixty years arguing that the family and the local community, not the state, should decide what the good life looks like. The socialist left rejected that because it loves the collective. The postliberal right now rejects it because it is certain it knows better than your household does. Haywood has written down what the second position requires and funded the intellectual enforcers to bully and silence dissent on the right. These men and their groups’ ambitions require a state with unlimited means that can seize a man’s property for thinking the wrong thoughts about his own country.
This is ultimately a spiritual problem rather than a political one. Inside the church, Satan spreads kinism, racism, and ethno-nationalism, and he does it by telling frightened men that their blood is their birthright. The groups Haywood funds and their related entities are spreading this malignancy in churches. Too few leaders on the right have been willing to condemn the rhetoric, and the ones who scrub a donation page when a reporter shows up are not among them.
Scripture says that on the last day God will separate the sheep from the goats. In the here and now, some of the goats have empowered themselves to separate neighbor from neighbor, Christian from Christian, and people from their own families, all to advance a perverted utopia where they can rule in their own image. They are as weird and malcontented as the AI freaks and their effective altruism. A shampoo fortune has bought funding for small conservative and Christian advocacy groups, which in turn comes with compliance, invitations, acceptance, advancement, and a great deal of acquiescence and silence. But it does not buy it all.
Eric Erickson
