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MAGA Insider: Top Political Stories for Patriots— September 23, 2026
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Congressional Democrats are increasingly nervous about how a looming government funding battle could play out just as voters head to the polls, and with good reason.
After forcing two of the longest government shutdowns in American history earlier this year, party leaders now find themselves boxed in by their own past brinkmanship, wary of triggering a third shutdown while simultaneously facing pressure from their progressive base to hold the line against President Trump’s spending priorities. READ MORE
The White House this week launched a new around-the-clock streaming channel called Trump TV, giving Americans direct, unfiltered access to President Trump’s speeches, remarks, and administration announcements without having to rely on legacy television networks that critics say have spent a decade distorting his record.
The channel, officially titled Trump TV: The Essentials Station, began broadcasting Monday evening on YouTube and through a live window embedded on the official White House website. READ MORE
In one of the sharpest moments of his United Nations address this week, President Trump delivered a blunt and confident prediction about the future of Cuba, declaring that the island’s communist government is on the verge of collapse after nearly seven decades of failed rule.
The remarks prompted Cuba’s delegation, led by Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, to walk out of the General Assembly hall in protest, a moment of political theater that only underscored how rattled Havana appears to be by the mounting pressure campaign against it. READ MORE

President Donald Trump stood before the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday and delivered one of the most combative addresses of his second term, telling world leaders that American strength has returned after years of what he described as global drift and weakness.
The speech, which ran for the better part of forty minutes, hit nearly every major theme of his presidency: peace through strength, an aggressive posture toward hostile regimes, skepticism of globalist institutions, and pride in an economy he insists is roaring back to life. READ MORE
The Trump administration’s effort to root out fraud in the nation’s food stamp program has now prevented nearly six billion dollars in taxpayer losses, according to figures released by the Department of Agriculture. It is one of the clearest examples yet of what happens when an administration actually enforces the rules of a massive federal program instead of letting waste run unchecked.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced the milestone in a post on X, stating that $5.8 billion in taxpayer losses have been prevented through anti-fraud initiatives implemented during President Trump’s second term. READ MORE
An extraordinary allegation involving the CIA, consumer DNA databases, and supposed extraterrestrial bloodlines is making waves online, reigniting a much larger debate about government surveillance, intelligence agency secrecy, and the privacy of ordinary Americans.
The claim alleges that the CIA secretly obtained backdoor access to genetic information held by 23andMe and Ancestry.com, allegedly searching for DNA markers associated with an extraterrestrial race. READ MORE
President Donald Trump will host Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington this week. It will be the first state visit by China’s leader in more than a decade. The stakes are high across trade, technology and national security.
Xi’s plane is due at Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday, and senior administration officials say Trump will be there to greet him. That is a notable break from routine, since Trump typically receives foreign leaders at the White House. READ MORE
President Donald Trump gave the traveling press corps a moment few of them expected this weekend, and it had nothing to do with policy, polling or the usual combative back and forth that has defined his relationship with the mainstream media for a decade. Somewhere over the Atlantic on the flight home from Ireland, the president decided the press cabin needed some music.
According to multiple pool reports, roughly two hours into the return flight, White House staff walked into the press section of Air Force One and asked reporters if they wanted to hear the president’s personal playlist. The reporters, perhaps surprised by the offer, said yes. A speaker was brought in and cranked up, and the cabin was treated to a full sampling of what has become known as the “Approved Rally Playlist,” the same rotation Trump uses to fire up crowds at his rallies across the country.
The soundtrack was as eclectic as it was unexpected for a working press pool more accustomed to briefing memos than backstage passes. Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” played alongside Lesley Gore’s “You Don’t Own Me.” The Undertaker’s WWE entrance music blared through the cabin. Cat Stevens’ “Wild World” and R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion” made appearances, as did The Who’s “Baba O’Riley,” Luciano Pavarotti’s “Nessun Dorma,” ABBA’s “Fernando” and Guns N’ Roses’ “November Rain.”
It was not a passive gesture either. Reporters on board said the president himself later walked back to the press cabin to check in personally, asking the assembled journalists whether they were enjoying the music. He reportedly asked twice, wanting to make sure everyone approved of his selections. When told the music was great, Trump asked who had picked the playlist, and answered his own question with pride, saying he had put it together himself.
That small detail says more about the current occupant of the Oval Office than most policy briefings ever could. Here is a president in his second term, dealing with wars overseas, a fractious Congress and a press corps that has spent years portraying him in the harshest possible light, taking time out of a return flight to personally make sure the same reporters were having a good time listening to his music. It is difficult to imagine his predecessor doing anything remotely similar.
The moment also captures something conservatives have long argued about Trump that rarely makes it into mainstream coverage. For all the media narratives about an unhinged, isolated president feuding endlessly with the press, Trump has a habit of engaging with reporters directly, often walking back into the press cabin unprompted for extended gaggles that other presidents would have left entirely to press secretaries and prepared statements. Whatever one thinks of his politics, Trump treats the press as something to be handled personally, not managed at arm’s length through layers of staff.
That personal touch cuts both ways, of course. The same trip that produced the lighthearted playlist moment also included a sharper exchange between the president and a reporter from ABC News. When a journalist pressed Trump about the deployment of thousands of Marines and sailors to the Middle East amid tensions with Iran, the president shut the question down hard, calling the reporter “very obnoxious” before moving on to someone else. He went further, describing ABC News itself as one of the most corrupt organizations in the country.
That contrast, warm one moment and combative the next, is exactly what has defined Trump’s relationship with the press since he first rode down the escalator at Trump Tower a decade ago. It is also precisely why the playlist story resonated the way it did. Trump does not outsource his relationship with the media to handlers the way most modern presidents have. He manages it himself, checking in on reporters much the same way he checks in on his own music selections, wanting to know in real time whether people are enjoying what he has put in front of them.
MAGA Insider: Top Political Stories for Patriots— September 16, 2026
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More than two years after Thomas Matthew Crooks came within an inch of murdering President Donald Trump on a hot July evening in Butler, Pennsylvania, the FBI has released yet another tranche of records on the case, and once again the documents raise more questions than they answer.
This latest release, the eighth batch of files made public, runs 181 pages and includes interview summaries, invoices, and internal notes. READ MORE
Outgoing South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace did not mince words this week when a TMZ reporter asked her about Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother accused of strangling her three young children in January 2023. Mace’s answer was blunt, unapologetic, and exactly the kind of plain talk that has defined her time in Congress. “Her children are dead. She should be dead too,” Mace said.
She went further, calling not just for the death penalty but for a public execution, adding that the method did not much matter to her. “It could be by firearm, it could be electric chair, I don’t really care,” she said. READ MORE
For years, Gavin Newsom has insisted he is not running for president while doing nearly everything expected of a politician preparing for the White House.
He has traveled beyond California, built a national profile, sparred publicly with Republicans, cultivated Democratic donors, and increasingly positioned himself as one of his party’s most visible figures. Now, with speculation about 2028 intensifying, Newsom has finally offered something resembling a concrete answer — but with one very convenient condition attached. READ MORE

Mitch McConnell returned to the United States Senate this week after spending 92 days out of public view, ending an extraordinary absence that left Kentucky voters with limited information about when their senator would return to work.
The 84-year-old Kentucky Republican arrived at the Capitol in a wheelchair on September 14 after months of recovery following a June fall, hospitalization, pneumonia, and rehabilitation. During that time, McConnell missed 60 Senate votes. READ MORE
An American airman who was shot down over the heart of Iran and left stranded behind enemy lines for two full days has revealed, in his own words for the first time, that the very first message he sent back to the United States after ejecting from his crippled fighter jet was simple, direct, and deeply rooted in his Christian faith. It was three words. God is good.
The officer, whose identity remains protected and who is being referred to publicly by his mission call sign, Bravo, served as the weapons systems officer aboard an F-15E Strike Eagle that was struck by Iranian fire this past spring during the height of hostilities between the United States and the Iranian regime. READ MORE
For nearly a decade, conservatives have argued that the officials who helped launch and sustain the Russia investigation would eventually have to answer for their role in one of the most consequential political scandals in modern American history.
They watched as Donald Trump was accused of being compromised by Russia, his campaign was investigated, and his presidency was consumed by allegations that he had somehow stolen the 2016 election with the help of a foreign adversary. READ MORE
President Trump gave his clearest public endorsement yet of Flock Safety’s rapidly expanding network of license plate reading cameras this weekend, telling reporters aboard Air Force One that whatever concerns exist about privacy, he ultimately sides with the law enforcement officers who say the technology helps them catch criminals.
Speaking to the traveling press pool during the flight home from Ireland, Trump was asked directly about Flock cameras, a subject that has quietly become one of the more contentious technology debates in Washington over the past several months. READ MORE
MAGA Insider: Top Political Stories for Patriots— September 17, 2026
The Department of Homeland Security says the United States has now recorded 16 consecutive months without U.S. Border Patrol releasing migrants apprehended at the border, marking a major change in how the federal government is handling illegal crossings.

DHS and U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced the milestone on September 16, 2026, following the release of August border statistics. READ MORE
Donald Trump has repeatedly described Elon Musk as a patriot, including during Musk’s period working with the Trump administration, while also publicly crediting Musk’s Starlink satellite system with helping disaster-stricken communities in North Carolina.
The two themes came together prominently during a May 30, 2025 Oval Office appearance marking Musk’s departure from his formal government role. READ MORE
Ed Sheeran’s U.S. tour has been thrown into turmoil after multiple supporting performers, including members of his backing band Beoga, withdrew following the removal of rapper Macklemore from the tour.
The departures came after Macklemore faced consequences for political comments supporting Palestinians and criticizing Israeli government policies. READ MORE
Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce was among dozens of investors victimized in a massive Ponzi scheme run by a man who had been living illegally in the United States for years, according to federal court records and reporting released this week.

Siddharth Jawahar, 38, was sentenced to 11 years in federal prison for operating an investment fraud that took more than $35 million from 64 victims. READ MORE
Outgoing South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace did not mince words this week when a TMZ reporter asked her about Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother accused of strangling her three young children in January 2023. Mace’s answer was blunt, unapologetic, and exactly the kind of plain talk that has defined her time in Congress. “Her children are dead. She should be dead too,” Mace said.
She went further, calling not just for the death penalty but for a public execution, adding that the method did not much matter to her. “It could be by firearm, it could be electric chair, I don’t really care,” she said. READ MORE
For years, Gavin Newsom has insisted he is not running for president while doing nearly everything expected of a politician preparing for the White House.
He has traveled beyond California, built a national profile, sparred publicly with Republicans, cultivated Democratic donors, and increasingly positioned himself as one of his party’s most visible figures. Now, with speculation about 2028 intensifying, Newsom has finally offered something resembling a concrete answer — but with one very convenient condition attached. READ MORE
The Iranian regime, which has spent decades funding terror proxies across the Middle East while its own people struggle to afford basic necessities, is now confronting one of the most severe fuel shortages in years.
Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce was among dozens of investors victimized in a massive Ponzi scheme run by a man who had been living illegally in the United States for years, according to federal court records and reporting released this week.
Siddharth Jawahar, 38, was sentenced to 11 years in federal prison for operating an investment fraud that took more than $35 million from 64 victims.
Kelce was identified as one of those victims. Authorities have not publicly disclosed how much money the NFL tight end invested or lost.
Nothing in the federal case accuses Kelce of participating in wrongdoing. The football star was an investor caught in Jawahar’s fraudulent operation.
Jawahar founded Swiftarc Capital LLC, a Texas-based investment operation that prosecutors said he used to solicit millions of dollars from investors.
The scheme operated for years. The Associated Press reported that the fraudulent conduct occurred between July 2016 and December 2023.
Prosecutors said Jawahar misrepresented the performance and condition of investments while using incoming money from newer investors to make payments associated with earlier investors.
That structure is the defining mechanism of a Ponzi scheme, where money entering from new participants is used to create the appearance that previous investments are performing successfully.
Federal authorities found that only about $10 million of the more than $35 million Jawahar obtained was actually invested.
The rest was diverted for other purposes, including payments to previous investors and Jawahar’s personal expenses.
According to the AP, Jawahar financed a lavish lifestyle that included luxury apartments, private jets and expensive events.
The government’s case did not end with accusations of investment fraud.
Investigators also found evidence that Jawahar attempted to interfere with the investigation, including coaching a victim and attempting to erase evidence from his phone.
His immigration history also became part of the case.
The AP reported that Jawahar was originally from India and had been living illegally in the United States since 2005.
According to the AP’s account of the prosecution, Jawahar also lied about his immigration status while attempting to obstruct authorities. Jawahar was indicted in 2023.
He eventually pleaded guilty in January to three counts of wire fraud.
A federal judge sentenced him to 11 years behind bars. Jawahar was also ordered to pay approximately $31.35 million in restitution to his victims.
Kelce was not the only professional athlete linked to Swiftarc as an investor.
Reuters reported that NBA players Gary Harris, Tim Hardaway Jr. and Mason Plumlee had previously been identified as investors in the firm.
The prominence of several victims illustrates how investment fraud can reach wealthy and sophisticated investors as well as ordinary consumers.
Federal prosecutors ultimately characterized Jawahar’s business not as a failed investment strategy, but as a deliberate fraud involving deception, diversion of investor funds, and payments designed to keep the operation functioning.
The 11-year sentence closes one major phase of the prosecution, while the restitution order leaves Jawahar financially responsible for tens of millions of dollars lost by his victims, including one of professional football’s most recognizable stars.
President Donald Trump is preparing to take a prominent role in the final stretch of the 2026 midterm campaign as Republicans fight to maintain control of both chambers of Congress.
James Blair, Trump’s political director and one of the president’s top midterm strategists, outlined the GOP’s closing strategy during an interview with Breitbart News Saturday, saying the effort will combine national messaging, aggressive turnout operations and substantial campaign spending in competitive House and Senate races.
Blair described the strategy as “twofold,” arguing that congressional elections are shaped by both national political conditions and the strengths and weaknesses of individual candidates.
“Elections are not all national and they’re not all local,” Blair said. “It’s a little bit of both.”
At the national level, Republicans intend to link Democratic candidates to positions taken by the broader Democratic Party, while GOP candidates will be encouraged to draw direct contrasts with their individual opponents. Blair argued that Republicans should prevent Democrats running in competitive states and districts from separating themselves politically from their national party.
A major component of the strategy will involve Trump himself.
Blair said the president will become “extremely active” during the final six weeks of the campaign, with appearances and political activity increasingly coordinated with the beginning of early and mail voting around the country.
Republicans also plan to encourage supporters to vote before Election Day rather than relying exclusively on the traditional Nov. 3 turnout operation.
“Vote now by mail if you want to. Vote in person early if that’s your preference. Don’t wait till Election Day,” Blair said.
That effort is particularly focused on what Blair called “low- and mid-propensity” Republican voters — people who supported Trump in presidential elections but are historically less consistent participants in midterms.
Trump’s political operation believes the president is particularly effective at reaching those voters and is building its turnout effort around that assumption.
The strategy comes as Republicans face a closely contested House battlefield.
The Cook Political Report currently lists 21 House races as Toss Ups, with another 16 classified as either Lean Democratic or Lean Republican. A Cook survey conducted Sept. 8-11 among 1,052 likely voters in 37 competitive districts found Democrats leading the generic congressional ballot in those districts 49% to 47%. The same districts backed Trump by an average of five percentage points in 2024.
Republicans, however, enter the final weeks with a significant financial advantage at the House campaign-committee level. The National Republican Congressional Committee raised $13.5 million in August and held approximately a $13 million cash advantage over its Democratic counterpart, according to Axios, which described it as the NRCC’s largest advantage at this stage of a midterm cycle.
Trump has also promised to unleash considerably more money.
Earlier this month, the president said his MAGA Inc. super PAC could spend between $400 million and $500 million helping Republican candidates during the midterms. The announcement came after some Republicans questioned how much of Trump’s political war chest would ultimately be directed toward congressional contests.
The Senate battlefield is broader.
Cook identified nine seats as forming the central Senate battleground as of early September, including six Republican-held seats and three held by Democrats, while noting that additional races in Kansas and Nebraska had also become more competitive.
Blair highlighted North Carolina, where Republican Michael Whatley is running against former Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, while also pointing to Republican opportunities in Georgia, New Hampshire, Michigan and Minnesota.
In Georgia, Republicans are backing Rep. Mike Collins against Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff. In New Hampshire, former Republican Sen. John Sununu faces Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas, while Michigan features Republican Mike Rogers against Democrat Abdul El-Sayed.
Blair acknowledged that the House contest remains particularly close, describing Republican prospects as “cautiously optimistic” rather than assured.
“We are not only defending Republicans, but we are coming after Democrats,” Blair said.

President Donald Trump is preparing to take a prominent role in the final stretch of the 2026 midterm campaign as Republicans fight to maintain control of both chambers of Congress.
James Blair, Trump’s political director and one of the president’s top midterm strategists, outlined the GOP’s closing strategy during an interview with Breitbart News Saturday, saying the effort will combine national messaging, aggressive turnout operations and substantial campaign spending in competitive House and Senate races.
Blair described the strategy as “twofold,” arguing that congressional elections are shaped by both national political conditions and the strengths and weaknesses of individual candidates.
“Elections are not all national and they’re not all local,” Blair said. “It’s a little bit of both.”
At the national level, Republicans intend to link Democratic candidates to positions taken by the broader Democratic Party, while GOP candidates will be encouraged to draw direct contrasts with their individual opponents. Blair argued that Republicans should prevent Democrats running in competitive states and districts from separating themselves politically from their national party.
A major component of the strategy will involve Trump himself.
Blair said the president will become “extremely active” during the final six weeks of the campaign, with appearances and political activity increasingly coordinated with the beginning of early and mail voting around the country.
Republicans also plan to encourage supporters to vote before Election Day rather than relying exclusively on the traditional Nov. 3 turnout operation.
“Vote now by mail if you want to. Vote in person early if that’s your preference. Don’t wait till Election Day,” Blair said.
That effort is particularly focused on what Blair called “low- and mid-propensity” Republican voters — people who supported Trump in presidential elections but are historically less consistent participants in midterms.
Trump’s political operation believes the president is particularly effective at reaching those voters and is building its turnout effort around that assumption.
The strategy comes as Republicans face a closely contested House battlefield.
The Cook Political Report currently lists 21 House races as Toss Ups, with another 16 classified as either Lean Democratic or Lean Republican. A Cook survey conducted Sept. 8-11 among 1,052 likely voters in 37 competitive districts found Democrats leading the generic congressional ballot in those districts 49% to 47%. The same districts backed Trump by an average of five percentage points in 2024.
Republicans, however, enter the final weeks with a significant financial advantage at the House campaign-committee level. The National Republican Congressional Committee raised $13.5 million in August and held approximately a $13 million cash advantage over its Democratic counterpart, according to Axios, which described it as the NRCC’s largest advantage at this stage of a midterm cycle.
Trump has also promised to unleash considerably more money.
Earlier this month, the president said his MAGA Inc. super PAC could spend between $400 million and $500 million helping Republican candidates during the midterms. The announcement came after some Republicans questioned how much of Trump’s political war chest would ultimately be directed toward congressional contests.
The Senate battlefield is broader.
Cook identified nine seats as forming the central Senate battleground as of early September, including six Republican-held seats and three held by Democrats, while noting that additional races in Kansas and Nebraska had also become more competitive.
Blair highlighted North Carolina, where Republican Michael Whatley is running against former Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, while also pointing to Republican opportunities in Georgia, New Hampshire, Michigan and Minnesota.
In Georgia, Republicans are backing Rep. Mike Collins against Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff. In New Hampshire, former Republican Sen. John Sununu faces Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas, while Michigan features Republican Mike Rogers against Democrat Abdul El-Sayed.
Blair acknowledged that the House contest remains particularly close, describing Republican prospects as “cautiously optimistic” rather than assured.
“We are not only defending Republicans, but we are coming after Democrats,” Blair said.