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ANOTHER BIDEN ADMINISTRATION ELECTION COVER-UP

Newly declassified intelligence shows that U.S. intelligence discovered the threat of Chinese access and control of U.S. election systems — then buried the evidence and punished those who exposed it.

In 2022, the election security firm True the Vote broke the story that a company called Konnech in Michigan was storing data on American election workers on servers in China. True the Vote leaders Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips were, of course, ridiculed by the so-called mainstream press.

Then it got worse.

Engelbrecht and Phillips were actually jailed because they would not give up the name of their source, who had blown the whistle on Konnech.

The federal government didn’t seem to give a damn that a hostile foreign power might be able to influence our elections.

It did seem very intent on making sure no one knew about it.

Now, four years later, we can see that it was much, much worse than that.

According to John Solomon, at the time True the Vote was being silenced, the Intelligence Community had assessed the situation, recognized the risk, and issued a report outlining the danger we faced.

And that report and that assessment were hidden from the public, even as patriots trying to protect the republic were being persecuted and jailed.

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SCOVA CALLS OUT DEMS OVER BRAZEN GERRYMANDER POWER GRAB

The Supreme Court of Virginia, otherwise known as SCOVA, heard oral arguments Monday morning over legal and constitutional challenges to the gerrymandered congressional map that was approved via referendum last Tuesday, and a few of the Justices had pointed questions for the pro-gerrymander side.

As RedState previously reported, Virginia voters approved an amendment to the state constitution that removes redistricting power from a non-partisan commission and places it with state lawmakers (a/k/a, Democrats).

The final numbers were closer than expected, with the yes side garnering around 51 percent of the vote and the no side coming in at 48.5 percent. Those numbers could still change as the counts from mail-in ballots are finalized.

The result of last week's election was that voters essentially signed off on the brazenly gerrymandered map designed by Democrats that would move the commonwealth from a 6D-5R congressional makeup to a 10D-1R one. There's only one thing that can stop it from being adopted: the courts. And that brings us to Monday's showdown at SCOVA.

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MOROCCO’S DADES GORGE

dades-gorgeThis astounding road is how you traverse the Dades Gorge on the Road of a Thousand Kasbahs in Morocco. Kasbahs are fortified villages of the Berbers, who have lived here since the end of the Ice Ages 12,000 years ago (related to the Lapps of the Scandinavian Arctic, both descending from Cro-Magnon hunters in Cantabria of northern Spain).

The road is rated as one of the most scenic drives in the world. It is in the High Atlas Mountains (once higher than the Himalayas and joined to the Appalachians in the northeast US before splitting apart to form the Atlantic Ocean 200 million years ago). Here you go from the sand dunes of the Sahara to the fabulous kasbahs of Skoura, Ouarzazate, and Ait Benhaddou. The drive is one of the many life-memorable experiences we have in our exploration of Moroccan Magic. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #110 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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LAND OF THE THUNDER DRAGON

The photo above is the Tiger’s Nest, the Taktsang Monastery in the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan. It is a country as close to the Shangri-La of James Hilton’s 1933 classic “Lost Horizon” as you’ll find on earth today.

Smaller than West Virginia, hidden between Tibet and the crest of the Himalayas to the steamy jungles of India, Bhutan is known as the Land of the Thunder Dragon.  Independent for centuries and never colonized, Bhutan is a magic place that is spectacularly unique.

Experiencing Bhutan is a true adventure.  Quite frankly, Bhutan is as fabulously exotic as our world gets.  At the same time, no other country is as serenely peaceful as Bhutan, no people more contented and cheerful as the Bhutanese, no land more welcoming and hospitable.

Bhutan’s culture is a unique mix of the ancient Himalayan animism called Bön and Tibetan Lama Buddhism. The Bhutanese are renowned for being among the happiest people on our planet. They love to laugh, sing, dance, and play – and you’ll be invited to join them.  Bhutanese happiness is infectious.  One very good reason you’ll  have a happy time of your lives on our Bhutan adventure.

Ready? Buckle up – and be  prepared, you’ve never experienced anything so extraordinary in your life. Proof is in the pictures.

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HEAVEN ON HERM

belvoir-beach-herm-channel-islandsBelvoir Beach, Herm, Channel Islands. Could there be a more idyllic lunch—grilled lobster, fresh garden salad, chilled Chardonnay – here on Herm, the smallest of the five main Channel Islands. There’s Jersey, Guernsey, Sark, Alderney – and tiny Herm. Less than one square mile, but overflowing with charm and hospitality – from the Victorian White House Hotel to the Mermaid Pub to lobsters at Belvoir Beach. Coming here is a true escape from the worries of the world. At Herm they are a long ways away. Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #177 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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HALF-FULL REPORT 04/24/26

I dearly hope you read in TTP yesterday Marco Kotrotsos’ The Biggest Job Creation Event Since The Internet – or will soon.

It was sent to me by my long time buddy Rod Martin who now regularly writes for us on TTP.  Along with the graphic above, here’s his explanation of why this is so important for you to understand:

“I have long maintained that AI can’t replace you. But depending on what you do, it may very well replace your job.

That sounds like a contradiction. It isn’t. We’re entering a world where AI replaces tasks… but makes human accountability more valuable than ever.

To put that another way, AI has made me about five times more productive than I was two years ago. What it hasn’t done is replace me. It can’t. What I add is not just piecework, or even information: I add judgment. I’m creative in a way the software cannot be, because though it can execute, I must provide vision and direction. And at the end, I sign my name to the work, just as I would if I were assisted by human employees.

And in fact, now that I have these AI tools, I need to hire more humans to use them!

When farm automation began, we faced the same challenge. Legions of sharecroppers could be replaced with a few tractors. So where did the sharecroppers go? They learned new skills and got higher-paying jobs in tractor plants. Their kids went to college and became doctors and professors. The old world ended, yes. It was replaced by a far better one.

That’s happening again. There will be disruption. There will also be opportunity — for everyone — to a degree it’s difficult even to imagine today.”

Thanks, Rod!  Oh, FYI, thanks also for showing how ludicrously insane Elon’s proposal is: Elon Musk Proposes ‘Universal High Income’ Payments to Address AI-Driven Job Displacement.

There’s so much more in this HFR – let’s go!

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MIRACLE MAX IN EUROPE

[This Monday’s Archive was originally in TTP on April 21, 2005.  It is one of the most relevant-to-today Archives ever. I think you will find it revelatory – especially in the context of Obama and Soros combining to force Benedict to resign his papacy and install a Marxist Pope Francis in his place. And that now there is a gutless Leo in the Vatican, whom Trump justifiably scorns.  Trump would have worked well and admired Benedict.]

TTP, April 21, 2005

There was a very funny movie made back in 1987 called The Princess Bride. Imagine an Errol Flynn swashbuckler with a Monty Python script.

One of my favorite scenes is when the hero, Westley (played by Cary Elwes) is wounded and his friends drag his limp body to a Yiddish Wizard named Miracle Max (played by Billy Crystal) in hopes of saving him. But it’s too late. “He’s dead,” they tell Max.

“Look who knows so much,” Max replies after examining Westley. “It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead. There is a VERY BIG DIFFERENCE between mostly dead and all dead.”

It turns out there was an adaptive replay of this scene in the Sistine Chapel this week. The College of Cardinals dragged in the limp body of European Christianity – which means of European civilization and culture – and placed it at Josef Ratzinger’s feet. Can you save him? they asked, because we are afraid he’s dead.

Their Dean and Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith replied that yes, he is mostly dead – but not all dead, so there is hope for his revival. That hope is what elected Cardinal Ratzinger to the papacy.

It takes both heroic optimism and heroic faith to attempt a revival of Europe now at death’s door. For many astute observers, Europe is doomed by a “perfect storm” of inescapably negative demographics, welfare state bankruptcy, and the creeping seizure of its cities by Moslem immigrants.

Yet the cause of all three is Europeans’ willful abandonment of their cultural souls. Restore that to them and all three of the clouds creating this perfect storm start to clear. Such restoration can only be done with and cannot be done without Christianity.

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THE BIGGEST JOB CREATION EVENT SINCE THE INTERNET

So last week, Anthropic published its labor market impact study and the internet did what the internet does. Headlines about a “Great Recession for white-collar workers.” Lists of the ten most exposed occupations. Think pieces about whether your CS degree was a waste of money.

I wrote one of those pieces myself. It’s easy to get caught up in the flow of opinion if you don’t stop and really think about the other side of the messaging.

There’s a thing about the Anthropic data that got buried under all the alarm: the same numbers that measure displacement also measure opportunity.

And the opportunity side of the ledger is potentially enormous, if you know how to read it.

Anthropic’s key finding was the distance between what AI can theoretically do and what people are actually using it for. In computer and math occupations, theoretical capability sits at 94 percent. Observed usage is 33 percent. That’s a 61-percentage-point gap.

The doom reading: that gap is closing, and when it does, jobs disappear.

The other reading: that gap represents trillions of dollars in unrealized productivity. And closing it requires people. Lots of them, doing work that mostly didn’t exist three years ago.

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TRADE OVER AID – TRUMP’S NEXT FOREIGN POLICY RESET

Last week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio opened a new front in that revolution, with a sweeping reset of America’s approach to foreign aid: “Trade Over Aid.”

Rubio ordered U.S. diplomats to line up foreign signatures for a formal end-of-April UN declaration.

The document commits aid-recipient governments to making themselves investable: freer markets, lighter regulation, lower taxes, stronger property rights, enforceable contracts, reliable courts, and real engagement with private capital.

Bottom line: no reform, no more money.

The point is so obvious only a Harvard professor could miss it. Real aid should make itself unnecessary. Just as there should be no more “Forever Wars,” there should be no more “Forever Aid.”

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ACTBLUE IS TOAST

House Republicans have spent months digging into ActBlue, the Democratic Party’s premier fundraising machine, and what they’ve found so far is so incredible that it’s hard to see how the fundraising platform survives.

A damning interim staff report from the House Administration, Oversight, and Judiciary Committees paints a damning picture of widespread illegal foreign donations flowing through the platform with the full knowledge of ActBlue's leadership, followed by a massive cover-up in the hopes of preventing Congress from finding out.

Two ActBlue officials — including former Vice President of Customer Service Alyssa Twomey, who oversaw the fraud-prevention team during the 2024 election cycle — and three former lawyers refused to answer a single substantive question from investigators. Combined, ActBlue employees invoked the Fifth Amendment at least 146 times across depositions with the three committees between July and December 2025.

The right to remain silent is constitutionally protected, of course. But it's worth asking: if there was nothing to hide, why invoke the Fifth — repeatedly, collectively, and across an entire chain of command?

Then there's the legal and compliance team.

By March 2025, every member of it was gone….

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DEMS ATTACK HEGSETH TO ADVANCE A COUP AGAINST TRUMP

On April 15, thirteen radical House Democrats introduced six articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth, accusing him of “high crimes and misdemeanors.” The charges are spurious, alleging that he violated the War Powers Act (which didn’t apply), that he committed war crimes because Iran claimed that girls were in a building on an IRGC base that the U.S. struck, and managing the military in ways they disliked.

Those articles may have been the acts of radicals, but the fact is that the Democrats have relentlessly sought to undermine Pete Hegseth at every turn. Some of it is purely policy-driven: They want mentally ill people in the military, low recruitment, a focus on social justice, not winning wars, and the triumph of overt enemies.

However, DataRepublican has a more shocking contention. She says the continued efforts to destroy Pete Hegseth are the prelude to an actual coup. I particularly noted this because Democrats are engaged in a stealth revolution against our Constitution and the Founders’ vision. DataRepublican, however, a more kinetic coup, which requires disposing of Hegseth.

I’ve pasted DataRepublican’s full thread at the end of this post. This is a summary, with some added information:

Here’s the premise:

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WHEN PROGRESS ISN’T PROGRESS

I started as an officer in Nowheresville, Texas over twenty-five years ago, and have as a consequence seen the “evolution” of policing and criminal justice down here over that time.

I have done so from the perspective of the guy-on-point up to what I would describeas mid-level management.  You can see a lot from there, and also how it plays into what has been happening in the world of security, law, and order.

Today, Nowheresville’s standard patrol unit has about four computers or pieces of digital equipment inside, not counting the radio.

Dominating the arrangement is a large, removable Toughbook military-grade laptop in a docking station that is the digital heart and soul of the effort.  You can do everything from check people’s identification and fingerprints to writing reports on it.

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THE SHOCKING IMPACT OF PERSONAL INFLUENCE

It‘s easy to underestimate our effect on others. We go about our business in our own world, and assume that everyone else is going about theirs.

New parents can be stunned sometimes to hear their own words coming out of their kid’s mouths; their own actions being recreated by their children. But our impact on each other runs deep, and extends far beyond our immediate family.

Those we are close to, and even those people who are three degrees of separation away from those we are close to – friends of friends of friends – are our sphere of influence… and we are theirs. What we say and do makes a real impact on those around us, and even on those a moderate distance away.

Appreciating this can be a great motivator for living our best life.

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FLASHBACK FRIDAY: A DAZZLE OF ZEBRAS

dazzle-of-zebrasGroups of animals have collective nouns, like a pride of lions or a school of fish.  A group of zebras is called a dazzle.  The term is excellently appropriate.  You may wonder why zebras have such clearly obvious stripes that any predator can see.  The reason is that predators like lions or hyenas always target a specific individual in the group that’s weak, young or vulnerable.  To be dazzled is to be confused or bewildered, and that’s just what zebra stripes do to attacking predators.  As the zebras merge on the run, it’s far more difficult for the predator keep focused on the selected target – so the zebras escape unscathed far more often than not.  Their stripes are a marvel of evolutionary survival.  This photo was taken on the plains of the Serengeti. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #285, photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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THE MOST BEAUTIFULLY PEACEFUL PLACE IN IRELAND

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St. Finnbarr’s Oratory, Gougane Barra, County Cork. St. Finnbarr (550-623) is the patron saint of the city of Cork, now Ireland’s second largest city, on the south coast of the Emerald Isle. He established this tiny church in the late 500s, and has been built and rebuilt on a small island on Lake Gougane, with the one you see finished some 150 years ago.

Gougane Barra is a remote valley distant from Cork, almost uninhabited, of legendary beauty. The oratory or chapel has been a holy place of summer pilgrimage for Christians for fifteen centuries, revered for its complete serenity and peacefulness. Rarely visited outside of summer due to its remoteness, you may have this holy place all to yourself. Here is where you come to rest and reinvigorate your soul. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #218 photo ©Jack Wheeler)

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