Bessent said to move to military base after Iran threats

 United States Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recently moved from his home to a military base following Iranian threats against his life, the New York Times reported, citing three people with knowledge of the matter.

Bessent's economic pressure campaign against Iran made him one of the US administration officials Iran is most looking to harm, the report said. US officials concluded in recent weeks that Tehran's plots against both current and former US officials have reached a more advanced stage, the report noted, adding that this conclusion was based in part on intel about threats to Bessent.

The severity of the threats made against the treasury secretary isn't clear, the newspaper reported. It also quoted unnamed US officials as saying that Tehran's ability to conduct large-scale attacks in the US and other territories overseas is limited.

https://breakingthenews.net/Article/Bessent-said-to-move-to-military-base-after-Iran-threats/67532669

Can Pres. Trump Beat The Cheat?

 Serious suspicions have arisen about the validity of the 2026 election: “Was this a 2020 rigged election all over again? For millions of everyday Americans who put their faith in the ballot box, that is not a wild conspiracy theory; it is the screaming, unaddressed elephant in the room. How are we supposed to look at sudden, unexplained shifts in long-standing conservative strongholds and swallow the official narrative without choking?”

The Democrats appear to have flipped dozens of congressional seats in the midterms, with many states shifting hard to the political left -- news that is almost too good to be true for America’s party of Socialism and Jihadism, especially after the 2024 repudiation of Biden/Harris policies, which were nowhere near as extreme as those proposed by the current slate of Democrat politicos.

In the last three Texas gubernatorial elections, Republican Greg Abbott received around 4.5 million votes. The Democrat candidate could only muster around 3.5 million ballots statewide, until this year’s jump to 5.2 million! An estimated 9.9 million ballots were cast in the 2026 Texas midterm election, compared to 8.1 million in the 2022 midterms, an increase of 1.8 million. The result was an electoral sweep by the Democrats of all statewide offices. A recent Truth Social post by Trump suggests there was fraud. In response to Trump’s post, Kupe Paul on X wrote, “We cracked their cheating algorithm. 85/15 algorithm... for every 1000 Trump votes (most likely during early voting when Dems front-loaded everything) 150 switched to Dems. It’s the same pattern in every state that went blue.”

As Democrats take victory laps, three things are in place to safeguard the integrity of the 2026 midterms: 1) Executive Order 13848, empowering the Director of National Intelligence to assess foreign interference within forty-five days of a federal election; 2) Trump’s giving Americans notice, on July 16, 2026, that “[s]tarting during the 2020 election cycle, the People’s Republic of China carried out what is believed to be the largest compromise of election data in history”; and 3) Harmeet Dhillon’s dispatching “1,000 election monitors” to observe the elections.

No later than December 18th, the DNI will hand President Trump a report. Then, within 45 days of having received this assessment, the following will occur:

[T]he Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the heads of any other appropriate agencies... [will find out] the extent to which any foreign interference that targeted election infrastructure materially affected the security or integrity of that infrastructure, the tabulation of votes, or the timely transmission of election results...

This time around, Trump has the right people in place to watch the elections and generate hard evidence of any vote-stealing. There was a time when Democrats “mocked President Trump” for his creation of Space Force, the military branch now tasked with securing space-based Internet systems against cyberthreats -- including the possibility that a foreign actor may hack America’s Internet-connected voting systems. Were Democrats against having a Space Force, because they saw an existential threat in its ability to monitor Internet-based satellites during elections? Indeed, if an enemy, foreign or domestic, is caught flipping votes inside of Internet-connected voting machines in federal elections, it is possible that a military court could hear the case.

Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, during his confirmation process, answered a line of questioning by Senator Lindsey Graham, who asked whether “American citizens who collaborate with the enemy are considered enemy combatants,” to which Kavanaugh replied, “They can be.” Kavanaugh confirmed during questioning that such matters may indeed be handled by the military, in accordance with cases like Hamdi v. Rumsfeld and Johnson v. Eisentrager.

Whether Democrat operatives surrounding the execution of the 2026 midterms know it or not, their activities during the election were likely monitored by the Department of War, since prior to the 2024 presidential election, the U.S. took action against Iranian cyber operations “targeting U.S. entities to interfere in the 2024 election.” According to Teach Mideast, “[t]he FBI and Cybersecurity Infrastructure Agency... also issued advisories about the ongoing threats from Iranian actors, providing guidance on how to mitigate these risks. These actions highlight the importance of cybersecurity measures and the vigilant actions being taken to protect election infrastructure and campaign communications.” There can be no doubt that President Trump, being currently at war with Iran, would have cybersecurity measures in place to monitor the midterms -- especially in light of the fact that “Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps put out a 25-page letter addressed to Americans urging them to oppose President Donald Trump during the upcoming midterm elections.”

 One thing is certain: Trump will have an exhaustive report in his hands by December 18th. And Trump’s million-dollar reward offer for the “arrest and conviction” of those who “create the Fraud” in the midterm elections could tempt some of the more mercenary Democrat operatives to blow the whistle on any electoral irregularities they may know about. Also, Jonathan Gregory is reporting that “[t]he FBI in coordination with the Department of Homeland Security is currently seizing vote counting machines in Texas and Arizona with Nevada to follow.”

So, the game is on. Will there be arrests prior to the swearing-in of the 120th Congress? That is not a likely scenario. But no matter: Trump has a pen and a phone just like Obama did. So, count on a slow, deliberative pursuit of justice. Trump has to do everything by the rule of law, so that potentially every bad actor may receive his legal comeuppance. And if Trump can prove widespread fraud in the 2026 midterms, the pretext will be created to declare a national emergency around the 2028 election, along with the institution of electoral safeguards, like proof of citizenship, voter ID, paper ballots, and one-day voting.

Amid Trump’s pursuit of justice and his return of the country to economic freedom and prosperity, the Democrats will, no doubt, be calling for higher tax burdens, more social programs, and increased social tolerance for Jihadists and pedophiles. The hope is that, in 2028, given free and fair elections, Americans will once again be empowered to choose their free republic over a socialist dictatorship.

Paul Dowling’s book, Keeping a Free Republic, is available on Amazon. Additionally, Paul has written a memoir: Vignettes: Scenes from an American Life.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/11/can-pres-trump-beat-the-cheat/

The 2026 Election: The Numbers Just Don’t Add Up

 by Vince Coyner

A few days ago I wrote about why I thought the Republicans lost on Tuesday. I stated that it was because they basically shivved their voters. I stand by that. They betrayed them in pretty much every way possible, and frankly deserved to lose.

But in good political form, I always reserve the right to revise and extend my remarks...and I’m doing that now. I no longer think the Republicans actually lost. I think they and America have been the victims of another coup, exactly as happened in 2020; the only difference is that this time Trump was not at the top of the ticket.

If you’re not sure about 2020, pick up Mollie Hemingway’s Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections. It’s pretty much all there. Recognize that the odds of Biden losing 18 of 19 bellwether counties and losing Florida, Ohio, and Iowa while winning only 538 counties and still winning are somewhere past the odds of winning the lottery, despite the media telling us that it’s totally normal.

But the difference between 2020 and 2026 is that in 2020 we heard Democrats, who had for years before been telling anyone who would listen that our voting system was broken, tell us that 2020 was suddenly the “most secure election in history” and that questioning the outcome made one an “election denier” and a crazy person.

In 2026, however, we’ve had almost six years to figure out how to recognize the fraud and do it much faster than in 2020. And most importantly, in 2026 we have a platform to disseminate the information.

Some of the data that we’re seeing simply doesn’t add up. Kevin Bass and others have started looking into the numbers...and they just don’t seem kosher:

Yes Republicans showed up They did about average historically Democrats got an unprecedented number of midterm votes https://t.co/cmcEMfiLBc

— Kevin Bass (@kevinnbass) November 6, 2026

I had Gemini take the information in Bass’s chart and apply the same analysis to midterm turnout going back to 1960. To show the difference between presidential years and midterms, I had it look at turnout in both types of elections.

The data is simply staggering. Over the last 66 years, the average decline for Democrats in midterm elections from the prior presidential election was 22.8%, while for Republicans it was 23.1%.

However, the 2018 midterms were different. While GOP turnout declined by 19.3% from the presidential election, consistent with previous patterns, the Democrat decline from 2016 was only 1.8%, which stands out as anomalous.

In 2026, if the numbers hold, the GOP will again hew to this 66-year pattern, with turnout 25.5% lower than in 2024. Meanwhile, the Democrat turnout in the midterm will be a mere .6% lower than in 2024.

So basically, Republicans voted normally in 2018 and 2016 while Democrats turned out in numbers literally never seen before, and it’s not even close.

That simply doesn’t hold water. Sure, Democrats hate Trump, but they hated Nixon even more. Nevertheless, in 1970, with Vietnam raging and the Weather Underground leftists carrying out bombings from Berkeley to New York to Chicago, the Democrat decline in turnout from 1968 was 18%.

Our clown vice president said that the 2026 election results were the Iran war that caused this political bloodbath. However, Vietnam was an actual bloodbath, and young people were being drafted, and Democrats still didn’t show up in the numbers we’re told happened on Tuesday. This time around, where were the millions of Americans in the streets calling for the end of the war—you know, the ones unaffected by a draft, daily casualty counts, and thousands of body bags shown on the nightly news?

They weren’t there because, while Americans may not like the higher gas prices, the reality is they aren’t picking up the pitchforks. But that kind of passionate, take-to-the-streets response is exactly what we would (and should) expect if we are to believe the numbers we see coming out of Texas and elsewhere.

And in Texas some strange things are going on. In what was, until Tuesday, one of the reddest and most prosperous states in the Union, Democrats suddenly increased their off-year election total by almost two million, or 47% (3.55M to 5.23M). Moreover, they did so in a state where the population grew by fewer than 2 million American citizens between 2022 and 2026. What’s more, of that 2M population growth, at least 30% were children, who can’t legally vote.

That’s about 1.4 million new potential voters. Generally, 65% of American adults vote in any given election, which should mean about 1 million new voters in Texas. But we’re supposed to believe that in one of America’s reddest states Democrats not only took 100% of the new voters, but drew an additional million voters from the GOP or elsewhere? All while the Republicans showed up in exactly the expected numbers?

And somehow, the Democrat gubernatorial candidate, Gina Hinojosa, someone whom practically no one knew, who had been down by 2 points going into Tuesday, magically ends up winning by 8 points.

None of that flies. And it’s not just Texas.

North Carolina, a decidedly smaller state with a mere 11 million citizens, added 1.4 million new voters to the rolls between 2022 and 2024 without proof of citizenship. So, we’re told that in a state that grew by approximately 400,000 between 2022 and 2024, they not only signed up 1.4 million new voters in that period, but in 2026 the Democrats won every statewide election and flipped control of the state.

Nationally, in 2010 Barack Obama lost 63 House seats. That year GOP turnout was up 25% from the 2006 midterms and down 14% from 2008. This year the GOP lost about 40 seats, but Democrat turnout was up 37% from 2022 and down just 0.6% from the 2024 presidential election. Again, the numbers simply don’t make sense.

But of course we’re being told that the reason the Dems had so many votes was that Republicans, unhappy with the GOP, defected. On its face, that’s nonsensical. GOP voters are unlikely to flip to supporting a leftist party filled with communists, Islamists, and trans cult supporters simply because gas prices are too high. The truth is, GOP turnout was exactly in line with historical trends.

Virtually every one of these elections is done via voting machines. We know that Silicon Valley is filled with some of the biggest leftists on the planet who also happen to be the most skilled in tech in the world—and most of whom hate Trump. Add to that AI that we already know can hack into pretty much anything, and half the time we only know it because the AI companies themselves tell us. (The victims haven’t even figured it out.)

It doesn’t take a great leap to think that the machines and the rolls have been manipulated, particularly when some jurisdictions have more registered voters than adult citizens.

Taking all of the above into account, the claims seem absurd on their face. It’s possible, but improbable to the point of straining all credulity, to accept what we’re being told: namely, that 91% of counties (available data) moved toward the Democrats while 8% moved towards the GOP. (raw data here)

Add to all of that, because of the Herculean efforts of @DataRepublican, we know for a fact that a coup has been in the works for years and includes flag-level retired military, federal and state officials, Democrat lawfare experts, and billionaire moneymen.

The reality is, America does not have secure elections. Nothing even close. Sadly, of all the failures of the GOP over the last two years, none has been more destructive to the Republic than their failure to pass the SAVE America Act. When combined with the lack of prosecutions of those involved in the coup of 2020, the GOP has been nothing short of derelict.

The President has two months until Congress changes hands. He should spend that time doing two things simultaneously. 1) Use every tool, anvil, and shotgun in his arsenal to get the Senate to pass the SAVE America Act. 2) Investigate the election that just took place. Hire the DOGE team to use every tool available to ferret out what really happened on Tuesday, and if they identify the smoking guns, indict the traitors and work with the existing Congress to have special elections to fill the affected seats.

He may fail at both, but he must try. The alternative is basically saying that crooks can keep the money they stole from the bank if they manage to make it out the door without anyone seeing them. That’s a world in which the most skillfully dishonest people win every time. That flies in the face of the rule of law. There is literally nothing President Trump could do that would be more beneficial for the American people and the Republic. This will be his legacy. Nothing else matters...

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/11/the-2026-election-the-numbers-just-don-t-add-up/

Thune Tells Democrats "Republicans Are Ready To Work With You" - Then Draws The Line

 Senate Republicans kept John Thune as their leader on Tuesday, brushing aside a push by seven GOP senators to delay the vote a day after Thune went to the floor and told incoming Democrats that "Republicans are ready to work with you."

Thune will lead from the minority after Democrats flipped seven Republican-held seats on Nov. 3 (Maine, Iowa, Ohio, North Carolina, Texas, South Carolina and Kansas) and will hold at least 54 when the new Congress convenes Jan. 3, according to CBS News. Two more seats are still being counted. Democrat Scott Colom led Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi by about 2,500 votes as of Nov. 6, with certification due Nov. 13, and the Alaska result may not be known for weeks.

In his first floor remarks since the election, on Monday, Thune conceded that "Tuesday night was a tough election night. It was certainly not the outcome that we had hoped for. But it was the outcome the American people chose." "Inflation is still too high, and just going to the grocery store can take a huge chunk out of a family's budget," he said, calling the result "a clear message that this coming Congress needs to double down on the work that we've been doing on affordability."

"I want to say to my Democrat colleagues - new and old - that Republicans are ready to work with you to address the American people's concerns," Thune said, adding that "we can notch our first bipartisan win for the American people before the new Congress even starts" by passing permitting reform. That vote came Monday evening: as we reported, the Senate voted 73-25 to open debate on the permitting overhaul, with 21 Democrats and one independent joining 51 Republicans. Final passage is likely to slip past the Veterans Day break.

"Republicans are ready and willing to work with our Democrat colleagues. But that does not mean rubberstamping a leftist agenda," Thune went on, ruling out any help for Democratic attempts to "dismantle the tax relief that we passed" or "reinstate the chaos that existed at the border under the Biden administration." Of the election, he said: "It was not - it was not - a mandate for radical policy and socialist fantasies." He vowed to "emphatically oppose" Democrats and "any attempt to balloon the size of government or tear down American institutions, as the Democratic Socialists would like to do."

Chuck Schumer, in line to become majority leader, said the day after the election that if President Trump defies "the will of the American people or the law," "we will launch investigations, take him to court, and entangle him in legislative razor wire." He has also vowed not to let Trump put a "right-winger" on the Supreme Court. Not every newcomer is on board: Kansas Senator-elect Adam Hamilton has said he doesn't want to spend the coming years on investigations or impeachment. Senate Democrats pick their leaders on Nov. 18.

On the Republican side, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) gathered the five signatures needed to force a conference meeting on postponing today's vote, from Sens. John Kennedy, Ted Budd, Rick Scott and Mike Lee, as we reported. Sens. Dave McCormick and Jim Banks backed a delay without signing. "An election defeat of this magnitude demands change," Johnson said, and he warned: "If you hold the election, I'll leave the room."

However, after a closed-door meeting in the Old Senate Chamber, the push for a delay fell short and Republicans backed Thune by acclamation, with no one running against him. Johnson made good on his threat and walked out of the room as the voting began, the Associated Press reported, conceding there was no one else on the ballot: "who would want the job?" He insisted "this has never been anything against John Thune," who he said "has been very unfairly attacked by our base." John Barrasso stays on as whip.

"I am honored to have their continued trust and support to lead the Senate Republican Conference," Thune said in a statement. He first won the job in November 2024, beating John Cornyn 29-24 on a second ballot to succeed Mitch McConnell.

President Trump spent this year leaning on Thune to kill it so Republicans could pass the SAVE America Act, a voter ID bill, according to Semafor. Come January, the filibuster Trump wanted gone is the main tool Thune will have to "emphatically oppose" the new Democratic majority.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/thune-tells-democrats-republicans-are-ready-work-you-then-draws-line