Setting Up the 2026 Midterms
Posted By: FlyRight, 1/3/2026 5:45:10 AM
Ten months ahead of November’s midterms, political and economic crosscurrents are colliding. Which of these conflicting trends prevails will greatly shape the next two years. And possibly even longer. Midterm elections are always important. Besides gauging the country’s political mood, they have proven integral to maintaining America’s political equilibrium. They are the “ebb” to the “flow” of America’s political tide. Historically, every four years, a large tide of voters goes to the polls and elects a president. Then every two years, the large voter flow ebbs back and the president’s party suffers accordingly.
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There are good and bad ways to start an administration, then there’s the way Zohran Mamdani did it. Dreadful, awful and horrible don’t fully capture his First Day fiasco.
No political guru in the history of New York elections would advise a new mayor to launch his administration by picking a fight with Israel and adding fresh evidence to the suspicion that the city’s first Muslim mayor is an antisemite.
Yet that’s exactly what Mamdani did by announcing that he had rescinded all the executive orders of his predecessor, Eric Adams, going back 15 months.
Some were inconsequential,
To understand the extraordinary operation conducted by the U.S. military and law enforcement over the night of January 2-3—an operation that extracted the Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, from the presidential palace and whisked them to the USS Iwo Jima bobbing off the coast of Caracas for extradition to the United States—the first thing you should read is the National Security Strategy released by the White House last month.
Among other things, this closely reasoned, 29-page document articulates an updated commitment to the Monroe Doctrine, named for the country’s fourth president, James Monroe, who first articulated the policy in 1823. In brief,
Setting Up the 2026 Midterms
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Ten months ahead of November’s midterms, political and economic crosscurrents are colliding. Which of these conflicting trends prevails will greatly shape the next two years. And possibly even longer.
Midterm elections are always important. Besides gauging the country’s political mood, they have proven integral to maintaining America’s political equilibrium.
They are the “ebb” to the “flow” of America’s political tide. Historically, every four years, a large tide of voters goes to the polls and elects a president. Then every two years, the large voter flow ebbs back and the president’s party suffers accordingly.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) proclaimed a “new era” as he took the helm of the country’s largest city on New Year’s Day.
Mamdani, the 34-year-old democratic socialist whose star rocketed last year, was publicly sworn in on the steps of City Hall, where he addressed a crowd of thousands in a sweeping inauguration speech attended by top progressive allies.
“My fellow New Yorkers, today begins a new era,” Mamdani said.
Here are five takeaways from Mamdani’s inauguration and his first hours in the mayor’s office:
Elon Musk issued a stark warning after a viral TikTok clip appeared to show a Somali TikTok user making a chilling remark about his life.
The video, which rapidly spread across social media platforms, shows an unidentified TikTok user livestreaming while playing a video of Elon Musk on her phone.
After speaking in a non-English language, the user switched to English and stated: “I wouldn’t worry too much about him. He about to die.” Musk responded directly on X with a terse message that quickly went viral, later pinning it to the top of his account: “Then it is war.”
You made it to 2026! On the menu today: James Lynch will catch you up on newly sworn in New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan “to eliminate police sweeps of homeless encampments”; Elliott Abrams will lay out the hopes for the potential demise of repressive and anti-American regimes in the Caribbean in the coming year; and Kamden Mulder examines the worst of the new laws going into effect in blue states this year. But today’s newsletter will turn our attention on Iran. In the wee hours of the morning, President Trump warned,
A South African Betrayal
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"[T]he Baqt treaty ... imposed an annual payment of 360 slaves on the Christian kingdom of Nubia [based along the Nile river].... By 1877, when there were said to be upwards of 6,000 slave-traders operating in the region, the British government estimated in a report to the Egyptian authorities that around 30,000 slaves per annum were being sent across the Red Sea from the East African coast to the Arabian peninsula alone." — Justin Marozzi, British historian, in his 2025 book Captives and Companions:
A heroic off-duty Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent thwarted a possible active shooting by gunning down his neighbor as the man was firing shots into the air at their Los Angeles apartment complex, the feds said.
The agent, who hasn’t been identified publicly, jumped into action when his neighbor opened fire with a rifle at the complex on Roscoe Boulevard in Northridge on New Year’s Eve, according to authorit authorities.
A view of an apartment complex hallway at night, with yellow crime scene tape cordoning off an area near a metal staircase and a white tarp covering a section of the building.
Defund the Police Group Bailed Out Domestic
Abuser Who Immediately Murdered Mother
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Abuser Who Immediately Murdered Mother
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A defund-the-police organization bailed out a repeat domestic abuser who went on to strangle and slash his ex-girlfriend to death in front of their children.
Mohamed Adan, 36, had a documented history of violent assaults against Racheal Abraham, 36, the mother of two of his kids.
Adan was sentenced last week for the murder, and the prosecutor did not hold back in placing blame for Abraham’s death on the leftist activists who helped free him. Despite clear warnings and multiple arrests, the Portland Freedom Fund, a now-defunct group dedicated to abolishing police and highlighting racial disparities in the bail system, paid $2,000 to secure his release.
Within days,
As PJ Media previously reported, the Justice Department has been releasing more from the Epstein files. Instead of the incriminating information about Trump, it was former President Bill Clinton’s long‑standing ties to Jeffrey Epstein that came under scrutiny again.
The tranche, released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act signed by President Donald Trump, included photos of Clinton shirtless in a hot tub next to a person whose face is redacted as a victim, as well as images of him in a pool near Ghislaine Maxwell and socializing with Epstein and various celebrities.
On al-Jazeera on Friday, the Gaza imam Hussein Abu Ayada revealed the secret of the entire Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It’s actually an ill-kept secret, for Palestinian leaders, and supporters of the Palestinian cause in the Islamic Republic of Iran and elsewhere, mention it frequently. But it never, ever shows up in all of the mountains of literature that Western policymakers and mainstream foreign policy analysts have produced about this intractable conflict, and about how it can be managed. We, the Palestinian people,” said Abu Ayada, “obey and submit to the orders of Allah. And we know that the war that the Jews are leading against us is for no reason.”
Trump Names Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry
As Special Envoy to Greenland in Surprise Appointment 5 replies
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President Donald Trump has appointed Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry as the United States Special Envoy to Greenland. The selection of a sitting state governor for a federal diplomatic role is unusual.
Trump announced the appointment on Sunday evening on Truth Social. He emphasized Greenland’s critical role in U.S. national security. “Jeff understands how essential Greenland is to our National Security, and will strongly advance our Country’s Interests for the Safety, Security, and Survival of our Allies, and indeed, the World,” Trump wrote in his post. Whether Landry will step down from his gubernatorial position or attempt to balance both roles simultaneously remains unknown.
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VP Vance’s Splinter Problem
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At one time in my life, I was an operating-room nurse, both participating in and witnessing the things that just about every person on earth can’t stand to think about.
So, I can say with some authority that splinters in particularly sensitive areas of the body––often the kind that happen when sitting on a fence––can cause significant discomfort. And removing them requires a recovery period that involves quite a bit of post-op pain.
Metaphorically speaking, VP JD Vance has been sitting for quite a while on a splintery fence, trying to camouflage his dislike of Jews and Israel with fancified language, while at the same time,
Women's tennis legend Martina Navratilova took to social media on Saturday to share her thoughts on the U.S. intervention in Venezuela, supporting the idea of criminal sanctions on American companies that try to take oil from the country. Navratilova praised a post on X suggesting the sanctions, writing "love it" in response to journalist Lauren Windsor's post that read, "Any American oil company that expropriates oil from Venezuela should be sanctioned by the International Criminal Court."
Former President Joe Biden’s long career in politics allowed him to retire with the largest taxpayer-funded pension of any ex-prez in US history — $417,000, or more than his presidential salary, an expert says.
Biden, 83, was in line to rake in the massive amount from two pension funds in his first year as former president, according to an analysis by National Taxpayer Union Foundation Vice President Demian Brady.
“It’s pretty unusual, historically unusual, to have such a large pension amount,” Brady told The Post.
“I would have to say that it’s the largest,” the taxpayer advocate said when asked to compare Biden’s pension to his predecessors.
Kids are arriving on college campuses with fewer skills and diminished attention spans. But, rather than challenge students, many colleges are lowering institutional standards to accommodate them.
Colleges around the country have English courses that require students to read a single book all semester. Ivy League schools are rolling out remedial math classes. And some schools are teaching kids skills as basic as structuring sentences.
Colleges surely have a challenge on their hands as high schools graduate less distinguished classes, but lowering the bar is the sort of coddling that keeps kids from reaching their potential. College is meant to stretch you to your intellectual max. It’s not a time for hand-holding.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday evening condemned the Trump administration’s capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife, calling the operation both “unlawful” and “unwise.”
In a lengthy post on X, Harris acknowledged that Maduro is a “brutal” and “illegitimate” dictator but said that President Donald Trump’s actions in Venezuela “do not make America safer, stronger, or more affordable.”
President Jimmy Carter’s Personal Belongings
Head To Auction Ahead Of America’s 250th Anniversary 20 replies
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Personal belongings that once sat quietly in the Georgia home of President Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn Carter are headed to the auction block as part of a sweeping Christie’s sale marking the nation’s 250th anniversary.
Christie’s announced that items from the private collection of the former President and First Lady will be offered in January as part of two major Americana auctions tied to the upcoming semiquincentennial of the Declaration of Independence. The sale includes historically significant documents and artworks, as well as intimate objects meant to reflect the Carters’ personal lives and decades-long marriage.
Socialists of a feather flock together.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s comrades in the Democratic Socialists of America want deposed Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro returned to power.
The Democratic Socialists of America put out a lengthy statement demanding “the return of President Nicolas Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores to Venezuela.” Meanwhile, the DSA is starting a “join our “Hands Off Venezuela” to get the “imperialist” United States out of the socialist, oil-rich country.
“Solidarity with the people of Venezuela! Solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution!”, separate DSA International Committee policy statement says.
In its statement on the removal of Maduro, the DSA claims the Trump administration has started “an illegal war” against Venezuela
A large part of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s security team was killed during Saturday’s US operation, the country’s Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino said Sunday, Anadolu reports.
In a televised speech, Padrino accused the US military personnel who carried out operation of “cold-bloodedly murdering a large part of (Maduro’s) security team, soldiers, and innocent citizens.”
He did not give further details about the number of victims.
Padrino also called Maduro the country’s “authentic and legitimate leader.”
His remarks came a day after President Donald Trump said US military action on Saturday resulted in the capture of Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, pledging to assert American control
It is no secret that the Democrats, and many Republicans!, aggressively blocked President Trump’s desire to protect the American people and build a border wall on the southern border with Mexico during his first term. Democrat attempts to block the wall in spite of significant evidence that it was obviously needed indicated there was an unknown reason for their defiance.
In May of 2016, US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi visited the President of Mexico along with other Congressmen, including little known Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke. Pelosi stated about the meetings – It is not clear what the discussions all entailed but after this visit, the Mexican President
What a Way to Start 2026
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Christmas week was rather a slow week, with the big news being the further unraveling of the corruption in Minnesota, Washington state, California, and other Democrat redoubts. But like George Washington crossing the Delaware to beat the Hessians as they rested on Christmas, the U.S. pulled off an incredible military operation capturing Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro in his pajamas and bringing him back here to answer to criminal charges. The Venezuelan military was largely on Christmas leave and Maduro’s international protectors --- the Chinese and Russian forces in Venezuela -- were caught flatfooted, diminishing their credibility in the Western Hemisphere. The impact of this operation was enormous.
A Brooklyn Park man has pleaded guilty in Hennepin County District Court to theft by false representation for defrauding the Medicaid program of nearly $200,000 while working at a Minneapolis physical therapy business. However, the plea deal calls for no prison time and grants him over 160 years to pay restitution. (snip) The plea agreement calls for a stay-of-imposition of the felony sentence, meaning no prison time, and the conviction level will drop to a misdemeanor upon successful completion of five years' probation.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is fundraising in protest of the Trump administration’s capture of Venezuela’s illegitimate socialist dictator, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores.
“Another day, another unconstitutional war from Trump, who thinks the Constitution is a suggestion,” an email from the DNC reads, per Town Hall. “Congress has war powers — but Republican cowards are hiding under their desks while Trump orders an unauthorized attack against Venezuela. Trump promised peace, but has delivered chaos.”
“The most important thing we can do is elect more Democrats who will check this administration’s power,” the email continues.