ACIP Goes Back to Court

The fight over standing, executive power and judicial reach

DR. ROBERT W. MALONE OCT 2

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The First Circuit takes up the limits of judicial power

There is an important development in the lawsuit brought by the American Academy of Pediatrics and other medical organizations against HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. On October 6, three federal appellate judges will hear arguments over whether one district judge had the authority to effectively shut down ACIP. The case is now before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and the underlying dispute is about much more than vaccines.

In March, U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy issued a preliminary order staying the January 2026 revision of the CDC childhood immunization schedule. But he went considerably further. He also stayed the appointments of thirteen members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and stayed votes taken by that committee. The practical consequence was extraordinary: a federal district judge effectively prevented the newly constituted ACIP from functioning. HHS and the Department of Justice (belatedly) appealed, and the First Circuit must now decide whether the district court had the legal authority to do that.

Kennedy’s decision to reconstitute ACIP was hardly unprecedented. In 2021, Biden EPA Administrator Michael Regan removed the existing members of two major federal scientific advisory committees, the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee and Science Advisory Board, and reconstituted them with new members. Removed Trump-era advisers sued, alleging that the Biden administration had violated FACA’s requirement that advisory committees be “fairly balanced.”

A federal district court rejected the challenged claims. The Biden administration similarly reconstituted the Homeland Security Advisory Council after dismissing its existing members. And when Trump returned to office in 2025, his administration removed Biden-era members of EPA’s scientific advisory committees and began rebuilding them yet again. Presidential administrations reconstituting FACA advisory committees is therefore not novel. The much more difficult legal question in the AAP case is why reconstituting ACIP produced a judicial remedy effectively suspending the entire committee when comparable changes in other administrations did not.

So why didn’t the government make more of the fact that incoming administrations have reconstituted FACA advisory committees before and that the courts have upheld this precedent?

This was not merely a distant historical analogy involving some obscure presidential commission; this happened in the Biden and Trump administrations. Yet that history does not appear to have been developed as a central part of the government’s original defense of the reconstituted ACIP despite the clear and compelling judicial precedent. Incorporating this into the defense would have established something important from the outset: reconstituting a scientific advisory committee after a change in administration was not, by itself, an unprecedented exercise of executive authority.  Skeptics might hypothesize that what appears to be gross incompetence was actually a tell of hidden intent to delay an ACIP meeting until after the November election. Particularly prone to such speculation would be those skeptics privy to HHS internal communications suggesting it would be politically desirable to do so.

Before the appellate court ever reaches the larger question of judicial power, however, it must confront a more basic one: what gives the American Academy of Pediatrics standing to challenge who sits on ACIP in the first place? Article III standing ordinarily requires more than having an interest in a government body’s work or disagreeing with its decisions. A plaintiff must identify a concrete and particularized injury, show that the injury is fairly traceable to the government action being challenged, and show that a court can redress it.

AAP is a private nonprofit medical association. ACIP does not regulate AAP, impose legal obligations on it, or require its members to follow its recommendations. Yet Judge Murphy concluded that AAP and the other medical organizations have a “direct interest” in ACIP’s work because vaccine recommendations affect their members’ medical practices and because several of the organizations had previously participated in ACIP working groups. Under Murphy’s reading of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, or FACA, an improperly balanced advisory committee therefore causes them sufficient injury to challenge its composition. That is an unusually consequential theory of standing: the asserted injury is not that ACIP directly regulates AAP, but that AAP and its members have a professional interest in the work of an advisory committee whose recommendations may later influence federal vaccine policy.

DOJ sees a fundamental problem with that reasoning. ACIP is an advisory committee. Its members do not regulate AAP, vaccinate AAP’s patients, or generally impose legal obligations on its physicians. They do not even make the decisions that regulate the AAP members.

ACIP makes recommendations. Those recommendations do not become official CDC recommendations merely because ACIP votes for them. They must subsequently be reviewed and adopted by the CDC Director. That creates a basic Article III question: what concrete injury to AAP is caused simply by these thirteen people sitting on ACIP? If the claimed injury arises only after the CDC Director adopts an ACIP recommendation, then why isn’t the proper target for judicial review that subsequent agency action rather than the appointments of the people who advised the Director?

That standing question has become even more significant because another federal judge recently considered a challenge involving the same ACIP appointments in Arizona v. Kennedy and rejected standing. DOJ promptly brought that decision to the First Circuit’s attention. AAP argues that its situation is different because of its relationship with ACIP, including its previous participation in ACIP working groups. But the disagreement gives the First Circuit a relatively narrow way to resolve this appeal. If the judges conclude that AAP lacks Article III standing to challenge the appointments themselves, they could reverse that portion of Judge Murphy’s order without deciding the much larger questions surrounding the scope of judicial power.

If AAP clears the standing hurdle, DOJ has another argument. The Administrative Procedure Act permits courts to review certain final “agency actions,” but DOJ argues that appointing an individual to a federal advisory committee isn’t the kind of agency action contemplated by the APA. That matters because Judge Murphy relied on §705 of the APA to “stay” the appointments. If an appointment isn’t reviewable agency action, §705 cannot provide authority to suspend it. There is another problem in the statutory language itself. Section 705 permits a reviewing court, under appropriate circumstances, to “postpone the effective date” of agency action while litigation proceeds. But these thirteen ACIP members had already been appointed and were already serving. DOJ therefore asks what, exactly, the court was postponing. Its argument is that Murphy wasn’t postponing appointments that had yet to take effect. He was effectively removing already-serving advisory committee members from their positions. Calling it a “stay” does not change the substance of the order: it removes sitting ACIP members from their positions.

That brings the case directly into the shadow of the Supreme Court’s 2025 decision in Trump v. CASA. In CASA, the Supreme Court restricted the ability of individual federal district judges to issue universal injunctions providing relief far beyond the parties actually before them. The central principle is that judicial relief ordinarily must be tailored to provide complete relief to the plaintiffs rather than allowing one district judge to exercise general supervision over federal policy. DOJ has now expressly invoked CASA in the ACIP appeal.

The government argues that Judge Murphy cannot avoid CASA simply by describing his order as a statutory §705 “stay” rather than an injunction. Murphy had already stayed the challenged vaccine actions, relief that itself has consequences well beyond the plaintiffs in this lawsuit. But he then went further, suspending the appointments of thirteen ACIP members and effectively preventing the committee from functioning at all.

That raises a different question about the scope of the remedy: once the specific vaccine actions being challenged had been stayed, what additional injury to AAP required the court to disable the advisory committee that had recommended them? DOJ’s argument is not simply that Murphy’s order had nationwide consequences. It is that the additional remedy against ACIP’s membership was unnecessary to redress the injuries the plaintiffs claimed and therefore exceeded the limits on judicial relief emphasized by the Supreme Court in CASA.

And that raises another fundamental question: who gave a federal district judge the authority to decide what a properly “balanced” scientific advisory committee should look like? FACA requires advisory committees to be “fairly balanced,” but provides no mathematical formula for ideological, professional, scientific, or institutional representation. Yet Murphy concluded that the imbalance he perceived justified suspending all thirteen appointments.

And this case illustrates precisely why the issue of activist judges matters: one district judge did not simply provide relief to the plaintiffs before him. His order reached into the Executive Branch, suspended thirteen already-appointed members of a federal advisory committee, and effectively prevented that committee from functioning nationwide.

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Who are the Judges?

We now also know which judges will hear the October 6 argument: Chief Judge David Barron, Judge William Kayatta Jr., and Judge Joshua Dunlap. Barron and Kayatta were appointed by President Obama; Dunlap was appointed by President Trump. But those political labels tell us relatively little about how this particular case will be decided.

The most interesting judge may actually be Kayatta, because he authored Union of Concerned Scientists v. Wheeler, an important First Circuit decision involving FACA and the APA. That case allowed judicial review of an EPA policy governing membership on federal scientific advisory committees, and AAP relies heavily upon it. DOJ argues that AAP is stretching Kayatta’s decision beyond what it actually held. Wheeler involved judicial review of an agency policy governing committee membership. It did not hold that federal judges could examine individual appointments, decide whether particular advisory committee members produced an acceptable balance, and then suspend those individuals from serving. On October 6, Judge Kayatta may therefore effectively be asked to define the boundaries of his own precedent.

The First Circuit therefore has several ways to resolve this appeal. It could conclude that AAP lacks standing to challenge the ACIP appointments themselves. It could decide that individual appointments are not reviewable “agency action” under the APA. It could conclude that §705 does not authorize a judge to “postpone” appointments that had already taken effect.

Or it could confront the larger question raised by Trump v. CASA: whether suspending all thirteen ACIP appointments exceeded the permissible scope of judicial relief. Any one of those conclusions could overturn the portion of Murphy’s order disabling ACIP without resolving the entire underlying vaccine-policy lawsuit.

But there is an even more fundamental question beneath all of this. FACA requires advisory committees to be “fairly balanced,” but Congress provided no formula defining the correct balance of scientific disciplines, professional experience, institutional affiliations, or scientific viewpoints. At the same time, the appointment of ACIP members was placed in the Executive Branch, with the HHS Secretary responsible for selecting the committee’s members. The statute imposes a requirement of balance, but it does not transfer the power of appointment from the Executive Branch to the judiciary. Nothing in FACA appoints a federal district judge as the nation’s referee of scientific balance, empowered to decide which experts belong on an advisory committee and then remove those he believes do not. Yet that is where Judge Murphy’s order ultimately leads: a single district judge substituted his judgment about the acceptable composition of a federal scientific advisory committee for that of the Executive Branch official legally charged with appointing its members. Judicial review of whether the Executive complied with the law is one thing. Judicially deciding what the committee should look like is something else entirely.

That is why October 6 matters. This case is no longer simply a fight between the American Academy of Pediatrics and Secretary Kennedy over vaccines. It is a test of the boundaries of judicial power. Can a private non-profit organization establish standing because it has a professional interest in the work of an advisory committee, persuade one district judge that the committee is insufficiently “balanced,” and then obtain an order suspending every sitting member and preventing that federal advisory committee from functioning nationwide?

If the answer is yes, the implications reach far beyond ACIP. Every change of administration, every reconstitution of a federal advisory committee, and every disagreement over what constitutes ideological, professional, or scientific “balance” potentially becomes an invitation for a federal judge to decide who may sit at the table.

The First Circuit is now being asked to decide where judicial review ends and judicial control of the Executive Branch begins.

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References

1. American Academy of Pediatrics, et al. v. Kennedy, et al., U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, Memorandum and Order on Plaintiffs’ Motion for Preliminary Injunction, March 16, 2026. Judge Brian E. Murphy’s order stayed the January 2026 childhood immunization schedule memorandum, the appointments of thirteen ACIP members, and votes taken by the challenged ACIP.
   District Court order
2. American Academy of Pediatrics, et al. v. Kennedy, et al., U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, No. 26-1503. Appellate docket and filings, including the government’s opening brief, plaintiffs’ response, government’s reply, supplemental authorities, and October 6, 2026 oral-argument date.
   Georgetown Health Care Litigation Tracker and court filings
3. Trump v. CASA, Inc., 606 U.S. ___ (2025), U.S. Supreme Court, June 27, 2025. The Court held that universal injunctions likely exceed the equitable authority Congress granted federal courts where broader relief is not necessary to provide complete relief to the plaintiffs.
   Supreme Court opinion
4. Young v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, No. 1:21-cv-02623 (D.D.C. 2022). Challenge to the Biden EPA’s removal and reconstitution of the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee and Science Advisory Board under FACA and the APA, including the claim that the reconstituted committees were not “fairly balanced.”
   Preliminary-injunction opinion
   Summary-judgment opinion
5. Union of Concerned Scientists v. Wheeler, 954 F.3d 11 (1st Cir. 2020). First Circuit decision addressing judicial review under the APA of an EPA directive governing membership on federal scientific advisory committees. Opinion by Judge William J. Kayatta Jr.
   First Circuit opinion
6. State of Arizona, et al. v. Kennedy, et al., No. 26-cv-01609-VC (N.D. Cal.), Order Granting in Part and Denying in Part Motion to Dismiss, September 8, 2026. Judge Vince Chhabria dismissed the states’ claims challenging the ACIP appointments for lack of Article III standing, finding deficiencies in injury, causation and redressability.
   September 8 order

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America Had No Income Tax Until 1913 — How Was the Government Funded Before That?

✍🏻 Federal Register: Trump Accounts

Let your voice be heard! Comments due 11//2026 ⏳

NANCY D CHURCHILL OCT 2

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A Proposed Rule by the Internal Revenue Service on 09/30/2026

SOURCE: READ THE FEDERAL REGISTER HERE

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This is the IRS and Treasury notice of proposed rulemaking on Trump accounts, published September 30, 2026 (CC-00226466-26, RIN 1545-BR91).

The same text is already in force as temporary regulations (T.D. 10056). Those temporary rules apply to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, and expire September 30, 2029.

Comments on the proposed rule are due about 60 days after publication (reported as November 30, 2026) at regulations.gov. The link to make a comment is below. ⬇️

Summary, in plain words

Congress created Trump accounts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed July 4, 2025. A Trump account is a special retirement-style investment account for a child. The “growth period” runs until December 31 of the year the child turns 17. During that time, the money is meant to sit and grow, mostly in stock-index funds.

An earlier March proposal would have made parents file a form to open the account. Commenters said that opt-in path would reach only about half of eligible children. Treasury withdrew that plan.

Under this rule, on or about October 1, 2026, the Treasury Secretary opens an “auto account” for each eligible child who has a Social Security number, has not turned 18 yet this year, and does not already have a Trump account. Treasury estimates this covers about 73 million children in 44 million families, including more than 60 million children who would not have had an account otherwise.

The Bank of New York Mellon holds the accounts. The investments sit in one master trust, with a separate record for each child, so private account data is not handed out. 

A parent or guardian later “claims” the account by proving who they are and that they have legal authority. Until then, the account still exists.

Two kinds of money can go in during the growth period. First, a $1,000 pilot payment for certain children born from 2025 through 2028. Second, “qualified general contributions.” Governments or tax-exempt groups give money to Treasury. Treasury splits it in equal amounts among every child in a set class. 

A class is based on age, place, or both. A place-based class must cover at least 5,000 children. Gifts can also be stock of a U.S. company that trades on a national exchange and is not already locked up by securities rules. That stock generally must be held for five years, or until the growth period ends, whichever comes first. There are exceptions for things like mergers, tender offers, and certain rollovers.

The IRS also asks for comments on rollovers to ABLE accounts, how to pick geographic classes, exceptions to the five-year stock hold, and whether a person can refuse an auto account.

How this helps American citizens

It puts an investment account in reach of children whose parents would never hear about the program or finish the paperwork. Opt-in enrollment was expected to miss about half of eligible kids, and the kids most likely to be missed are the ones with the least savings. Auto enrollment is the fix.

The $1,000 pilot is a starter stake for babies born in 2025 through 2028. Equal class gifts let a state, a charity, or a donor add the same amount for every child in a large group, instead of picking favorites. The Michael and Susan Dell Foundation pledge of $6.25 billion is the example Treasury cites of real donor interest. Stock gifts let a company or foundation put actual shares into children’s accounts, with a holding rule so the gift is not flipped the next day.

Index funds during the growth period give a child a piece of the broad U.S. stock market for up to 17 years. That is time for compound growth that a savings jar cannot match. A parent who wants control can claim the account. A parent who never files still leaves the child with an account on the books.

Concerns

The accounts are opened with Social Security data before a parent asks. That is efficient, and it is also a consent and privacy question. Families may not know the account exists unless outreach works. Until someone claims it, control sits with Treasury’s agent.

The temporary rules were issued without a prior comment period. Treasury said delay would shorten the growth period. The proposed text cannot be relied on by itself. Final rules could still change, and the temporary rules die in 2029 if they are not replaced.

The $1,000 pilot is only for births in 2025 through 2028. Older children depend on later gifts. Ordinary families and employers are not the donors under this piece of the rule. Employer deposits are in a separate project. Gifts here must come through government or a tax-exempt group, go to a class of at least 5,000, and be split equally.

Index funds can fall. There is no cash or bond choice during the growth period. A big stock gift could leave many children holugding one company’s shares for five years. If that stock is later delisted, the trustee must tell the beneficiary, but the risk is real.

Running records for more than 70 million children is a large federal task. Errors, slow claims, and weak notice are the practical risks.

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YOUR VOICE MATTERS! TAKE ACTION TODAY 🚨

Three short comments, if you support the rule:

You can paste one (or more) of these at regulations.gov page linked at the button below. Put your name, city, and state on it.

Comment 1.
I support automatic enrollment for Trump accounts. A form that parents must find and file will miss the children who most need a starter account. Treasury’s own record shows opt-in enrollment would reach only about half of eligible children. 

Opening an auto account for each eligible child with a Social Security number is the fair way to carry out section 530A. Please keep automatic enrollment in the final rule, and please require plain-language notice so parents know the account exists and how to claim it.

If a parent does not want to claim the account, it should be held by the federal government for the child as a beneficiary until the child is age 18. 

Comment on the Trump Accounts

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Comment 2.
I support the rules for qualified general contributions, including equal gifts to a qualified class of children.  I would suggest that the minimum limit on the class size be set to the number of children in a political jurisdiction (state, county, city, etc) at the last census.

For example, I know of a small, rural, impoverished county in WA state, with a total population estimate in 2025 of 7519, with an estimated 19% under the age of 18. That is about 1400 children. This county has one major employer who might be willing contribute to Trump accounts for the children in this county. In this example, the minimum class should be around 1400 children (not ‘at least’). 

Under the proposed minimum class size of 5000, children in our most rural communities would miss out on a donation. 

Another reason to support a smaller minimum class size is that would allow smaller local businesses to participate in supporting families their rural communities.

I do support equal amounts to each account in the class in order to prevent donors from picking winners inside a community. A state, a county, or a charity should be able to add the same stake for every child in the growth period in that place. 

Please make the geographic-area rules simple and public, so rural counties are not shut out by a city-only design. Please finalize these rules so pledged gifts, including large foundation gifts, can move into children’s accounts without another long delay.

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Comment 3.
I support allowing gifts of publicly traded stock of a U.S. company, with the five-year holding period or the end of the growth period, whichever comes first. Stock is a real ownership stake, not a one-time check. 

The holding rule protects children from a quick sale, and the exceptions for mergers, tender offers, and fractional shares are sensible. Please keep those exceptions narrow, require clear notice if a stock is delisted, and confirm that index-fund rules still govern cash contributions. 

Children should finish the growth period holding a broad stake in the American economy, not a forgotten form.

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Thoughts from X: 

John Solomon@jsolomonReportsTreasury says it will auto-enroll millions of children into Trump accounts through new rulesjustthenews.comTreasury says it will auto-enroll millions of children into Trump accounts through new rules1:30 AM · Sep 30, 2026 · 49.1K Views49 Replies · 906 Reposts · 3.85K Likes

Michael Dell 🇺🇸@MichaelDellSoon 100% of American children will automatically have their own 530A Trump Account, even if they don’t know about it. 👶🇺🇸2:16 PM · Sep 30, 2026 · 255K Views245 Replies · 631 Reposts · 7.12K Likes

Michael Dell 🇺🇸@MichaelDellEven those with TDS 😂4:50 PM · Sep 30, 2026 · 15.4K Views32 Replies · 14 Reposts · 447 Likes

Matt@808_38hz@MichaelDell You did a great thing, even if it’s a big ole tax break. Truly wonderful. These Trump accounts are a fantastic idea and great legacy for our kids. Suggesting dissent with Trump isn’t deserved—morally, ethically, intellectually—makes me wonder wtf happened to you.10:08 AM · Oct 1, 2026 · 20 Views

OFFICIAL — GRAHAM HODSDON@GrahamHods23b🇺🇸 THE AMERICAN DREAM STARTS NOW. You can officially start investing in your child’s future with Trump Accounts and help build the next generation’s financial future. Download the official Trump Accounts app & get started today11:10 AM · Sep 30, 2026 · 35 Views1 Like

NEWSMAX@NEWSMAXThe Treasury Department will automatically create Trump Accounts for more than 60 million children who don’t have one, beginning on or about Oct. 1, under rules released Tuesday that end the requirement for parents or guardians to sign up.10:00 PM · Sep 29, 2026 · 110K Views76 Replies · 881 Reposts · 3.21K Likes

AnimeBarbz He/Him@AnimeBarbz2002@NICKIMINAJ Speak about the Trump Accounts with her interview with @LaraLeaTrump on @FoxNews @MyViewFNC saying that she is Blessed that happen it is a great wonderful idea to set up Trump Accounts to Their Kids that they can have their money until they are 18…3:25 AM · Sep 27, 2026 · 96 Views2 Reposts · 5 Likes

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Nancy Churchill is a writer and educator in rural eastern Washington State, and the lead educator at Influencing Olympia Effectively. She may be reached at DangerousRhetoric@pm.me. You can also connect with her on Substackand X. The opinions expressed in Influencing Olympia are her own.

SOURCES:

1. A Proposed Rule by the IRS and Treasury re: Trump Accounts. This document has a comment period that ends on Nov. 29, 2026.
2. Regulations.gov comment page for the docket.

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I’ll just say what I think: Biden created this mess; the democrats will only add to it when they get back in power. But Trump hasn’t fixed it fast enough, and gas prices keep rising. The Iranian war was ill-timed and not easily remedied. This fact is going to bite the Republicans in the keester come November. 

After the election, President Trump is going to be toxic unless he pulls a rabbit out of the hat.

Stay tuned, things are going to get bumpy going into the Presidential race!

“Young Americans saw Donald Trump and JD Vance as their last chance to correct the listing of a sinking ship, to right the wrongs done by a system that failed them repeatedly. They call themselves “moderate” only because they reject labels. But make no mistake, there is little moderate about the views of these younger generations. They are radical, reactionary, and dare I say, revolutionary. They believe institutions revered by both sides are hollow and serve only to perpetuate a system that is rigged by an old order that feeds itself first and calls it governance, while they and their fellow citizens get shafted.

They elected President Trump and Vice President Vance to Burn It Down. They did not get the “retribution” they were promised, and Republicans were suddenly baffled because these voters had the audacity to expect what they were promised. Put plainly, President Trump and right-wing coalition candidates who rode his coattails were elected in 2024 by a younger, more diverse coalition than previous Republican coalitions. Yet, the Republican majorities governed as if they were elected by a shrinking minority of boomers glued to FOX News.

As a result, the Republican coalition is now shrinking along with the share of voters who identify with the very brand that made being a Republican Cool Again.”

-Real Clear Politics

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Gas Prices Are the Bait — the Build-Out Is the Ballot · Get Jacked — 32 Days Out

A steel plant broke ground in Iowa. South Korea signed on to LNG and eight nuclear plants. Trump killed the phrase artificial intelligence. Meanwhile the other side wants you staring at the pump.By Adam Sturman & 2 others • 2 Oct 2026 View in browserFirst Lady Melania Trump participates in A Celebration of IndyCar’s Commitment to Fostering the Future event, Thursday, August 20, 2026, in the Rose Garden of the White House.

Hey Dennis, thank you for your continued support.A steel plant broke ground in Iowa on Monday. South Korea signed on to LNG in Alaska and eight nuclear plants — four times what America has built in the last 20 years. President Trump signed a document officially killing the phrase “artificial intelligence.” It’s Super Intelligence now, “’cause it’s not artificial, it’s real.”Meanwhile, with about 32 days to Election Day, the other side wants you staring at the pump. That’s the fight this week: two systems at war, and a gas-price cudgel built to make you forget which one you’re in.10 people to the Polls. Folks, you gotta commit yourself right now to bring 10 people to the polls to vote. — Barbara BoydAnd besides 10 people to the polls, use whatever outlets you have to make thousands of people optimistic. — Susan KokindaAbout two hours. Jump a chapter below. And take the assignment at the bottom — it’s not optional this cycle.REPLAY — Thursday, October 1st Kitchen-Table Pain Is Real. It’s Still a Distraction.Nobody on this show waved the pain away. Daisy wrote in that gas prices aren’t just a distraction — they’re real to everyday voters, and the trillions coming in feel like they’re only enriching big corporations. Roger listed the damage: HVAC systems, copper wire, steel for barns, lumber, appliances. Home sales have plummeted. Vehicle prices are sky-high and quality has never been worse.Barbara and Susan took it head-on. Remind people calmly who did this. The Biden administration shut down refining capacity and waged a war on fossil fuels. The real diesel bottleneck is refining, and America is running at 98% capacity. A new refinery is on the books in Texas, but 2030 is the fastest it comes online. Our existing refineries were built in the globalization era for heavy OPEC crude. Newsom is still shutting plants down.Then Brett asked how tough we are as Americans. His answer: we are a people that are truly blessed, but dramatically spoiled and impetuous. We are at war. Paying more for gas today is a far smaller sacrifice than the rationing earlier generations lived through. Short-term pain is the price of a real rebuild.Not a Midterm Plan. An American Plan.Even Fox got the memo. Brian Kilmeade put it plainly: five weeks from an election, and Trump is trying to get things done in two years which normally take two terms.Susan framed it as decades-long history. These problems started 60 years ago. What’s being fixed now is not a midterm plan — it’s an American plan. Expect announcements from this administration every single day. A JD Vance clip from Texas made the same point: after 40 years of watching factories and shipyards close, Americans are watching their own neighbors build again.The other side’s answer? Susan cited Bessent’s line on the Democratic strategy: compensate the loser. You’ve been screwed for 40 or 50 years by their policies. Now they’ll throw you a few pennies and blame Trump.And the IRGC apparently likes that strategy. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard released a 25-page open letter telling American voters to reject Trump’s “empire of lies” at the ballot box. Add Canada’s admitted, politically targeted trade retaliation aimed at Michigan and Maine — which Peter Navarro called out. Susan’s read: this is globalist desperation. They know that if this productive spirit is unleashed, then none of their schemes are gonna work.Steel, Nuclear, Super Intelligence: Productive Identity vs. Staring at the PumpBarbara called this bigger than the Industrial Revolution. Super Intelligence, she argued, means we’re privy to the best thinking in human history — and we have to use it to create something better.Then a question from a supporter in Michigan landed. Her husband has spent 35 years at Steel Dynamics, and steel is the beginning of the food chain for the economy. Right now, bonus checks are up and they are hiring like crazy. Her question: how do you reach people who can’t stop yammering about gas prices?People gotta get jacked at this point. I’m really excited about what’s actually happening here. And if you think about everything that’s gone on ever since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, it’s been to get you in this defensive on your back foot, having to explain things like an idiot to people as opposed to look at what we’re doing in this country. — Barbara BoydIt’s simple, she said. We had a war on energy to turn us into a bunch of insect-eating globalists. Now the whole map is changing.The American System They Erased From Your SchoolsBarbara laid out why so many Americans can’t see what’s happening: it’s not taught in the schools. You come out of history class thinking Adam Smith and John Locke founded the country. The last president fully conscious of the American System was McKinley — a tariff man who believed in reciprocal tariffs. The federal government ran on tariff revenue and needed no income tax, and McKinley built probably the most productive economy in the world.The team found the American System in the 1970s, coming out of the student left. Ben Franklin wasn’t a tinkerer. He was the best scientist in the world when he helped bring about the American Revolution. These things were hidden from us and have been hidden from you.That’s why the team builds tools, not clickbait. Grab The Real Revolution pamphlet.The Real Revolution: The British and the Communists Are Trying to Kill AgainBarbara Boyd’s new 47-page briefing is free for paid Promethean Action members. It names the real enemy in the 2026 mid…Promethean Action•Barbara BoydToo Big to Rig, and the Leadership Past November 4Susan’s hypothesis: this administration has put real monitoring and security in place, and some election officials have already been arrested for registering illegals to vote. That reduces fraud but won’t eliminate it. The strategy stays the same: make it too big to rig.Also, don’t wait for November 3rd. Absentee ballots are already going out and early voting starts in a couple of weeks. Move the date up two to three weeks in your head. The hot phase is now.The flyers are in stock, but time to order is running short. Conversation starter: https://www.prometheanpac.com/2026_flyer_4And the Bootcamp isn’t stopping on Election Night. It gets renamed on November 4th and keeps going — recruiting new political leadership from citizens who want to take themselves seriously. Much of the legislative house cleaning a new system needs will happen at the state level.Your AssignmentWe’re in a psychological shooting war — designed to make you doubt, and to make you react to what’s in front of you instead of the direction the country is moving. Barbara’s answer is simple:Get 10 of your friends and take them to the polls and vote. — Barbara BoydCommit yourself right now. If you’ve got more energy, become a poll watcher or work the elections — a primary shield against fraud. We’ll give you the ammunition.Too big to rig.And besides 10 people to the polls, use whatever outlets you have to make thousands of people optimistic. — Susan KokindaHere’s what we covered (links jump straight to the chapter)Adam Opens: Gas Prices Are a Distraction — the frame for the whole show.White House App + Iowa Steel Overnight — skip the news firehose, go to the source.Super Intelligence Reframe — why Trump signed away “artificial.”Barbara: Bigger Than the Industrial Revolution — the scale nobody is talking about.1971 Break and the Physical Economy — where the rot started.Susan: City of London — and Unexpected Optimism on Fox — the messaging is getting supercharged.Brian Kilmeade Clip: Stop Whining About Gas — two years, two terms’ worth.Not a Midterm Plan — an American Plan — eight nuclear plants and counting.Tariff Investments Day After Day — the drumbeat of announcements.Susan: Bessent — Democrats Bet Against America — “compensate the loser,” plus the IRGC letter.Productive Spirit Unleashed — Globalist Desperation — Canada targets Michigan and Maine.Mamdani Housing vs Trump Build-Out — scarcity vs. building.Carney Turns Canada Into a Resource Colony — 167 projects, eight in manufacturing.Kitchen-Table Pain Is Real — Still a Distraction — Daisy and Roger’s hard questions.Midterm Bootcamp and the Long Game — the hot phase is now.98% Refining Capacity — Newsom Still Shutting Plants — the real diesel bottleneck.How Tough Are We as Americans? — blessed, but spoiled.Brett: Short-Term Pain for a Real Rebuild — gas vs. rationing.Barbara: Get Jacked — Don’t Get Defensive on Diesel — excitement turns naysayers.Moon-Landing Denial = Manufactured Pessimism — who profits when you stop believing.American System Erased From Schools — McKinley, the tariff man.Tools Not Clickbait — Real Revolution Pamphlet — what was hidden from you.Catching Cheaters — Too Big to Rig — monitoring, arrests, and the strategy.Bessent Hires: Judy Shelton and the Money Fight — gold-convertible Treasuries?Can We Build New Refineries? — Texas, 2030, and heavy crude.Trump Meets Refiners — Decades of Sabotage — how we got here.Bootcamp Recruits New Political Leadership — it doesn’t end November 4.British Empire vs American System History — Marx, Lukács, Gramsci.What If London Falls — China and Russia — the empire’s next move.Steel Mill Hiring Boom vs Gas Yammering — bonus checks are up.Look Around You — Everything Needs Steel — start of the food chain.The Lie About Hamilton — what they told you vs. what he built.Closing: 10 to the Polls — Make Thousands Optimistic — your assignment.Got a question for next Thursday? Barbara and Susan take them on air.Submit your questions now Next Midterm Bootcamp — Monday, October 5th, 8pm Eastern / 5pm PacificMonday, 8pm Eastern / 5pm Pacific. Connect with activists in your state. About 32 days to Election Day — under five weeks.SIGN UP HERE See you Thursday. Adam Sturman Producer, Promethean Action https://x.com/AdamSturman23❗Impersonators are still using our name and logo — including crypto / “QFS” pitches over Telegram. We never sell that, and we will never message you privately about it.Official accounts only: https://www.prometheanaction.com/action/. If you see a fake or stolen content, report it here: https://forms.gle/3HRUTd7q7sYWC9dr8Did you like this post? Give us a 👍 below and leave a comment!

The Roundup for Thur Oct 1, 2026

The best of Washington State on X: Ranchers vs. Ecology, The $300 billion claim, DHS voter cases

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Story One: Fined Out of Farming?

Synopsis: Can a Washington farm family survive a fight with the Department of Ecology? Pacific Legal Foundation has released a short documentary, “Water & Punishment,” about two farming families, the Kings and the Fodés. It says both face crushing fines for running their operations the way they always have. 

Country singer John Rich shared it and said the state is trying to “fine ranchers out of existence.” Rep. Jim Walsh says these cases aren’t accidents. Others point out that Ecology’s director, Casey Sixkiller, used to run EPA Region 10. Ecology’s job is protecting Washington’s water, and enforcement is part of that. 

Farm families ask where water protection ends and punishment of people who grow our food begins. Can Washington protect its streams and keep its family farms too?

From the Bookmarks:

• Pacific Legal Foundation says two Washington farming families “are facing crushing fines for operating business as usual,” and lets the Kings and the Fodés tell their own stories. 

Pacific Legal 🗡⚖️@PacificLegalTwo Washington farming families are facing down the Washington Department of Ecology. Both are facing crushing fines for operating business as usual. In new short documentary, “Water & Punishment,” the Kings and Fodés finally tell their own stories.5:01 PM · Sep 30, 2026 · 211K Views101 Replies · 906 Reposts · 2.29K Likes

• John Rich says “Washington State is attempting to fine ranchers out of existence.” 

John Rich🇺🇸@johnrichWashington State is attempting to fine ranchers out of existence. This is the definition of government weaponization against agriculture👇👇Pacific Legal 🗡⚖️ @PacificLegalTwo Washington farming families are facing down the Washington Department of Ecology. Both are facing crushing fines for operating business as usual. In new short documentary, “Water & Punishment,” the Kings and Fodés finally tell their own stories.8:10 PM · Sep 30, 2026 · 185K Views303 Replies · 4.83K Reposts · 11.8K Likes

• Jim Walsh says Ferguson and WA Democrats “have contempt for people who own land and produce things. That means farmers and ranchers.” 

Jim Walsh@JimWalshLD19Watch this. These things aren’t happening by accident. Ferguson & WA Democrats have contempt for people who own land and produce things. That means farmers and ranchers.Pacific Legal 🗡⚖️ @PacificLegalTwo Washington farming families are facing down the Washington Department of Ecology. Both are facing crushing fines for operating business as usual. In new short documentary, “Water & Punishment,” the Kings and Fodés finally tell their own stories.11:28 PM · Sep 30, 2026 · 14.8K Views32 Replies · 292 Reposts · 899 Likes

• A Hood Canal resort account notes that Casey Sixkiller ran EPA Region 10 before taking over Ecology, and asks about more than $323 million in Clean Water Act penalties. 

Hoodcanalresort.com@hoodcanalrental@johnrich It’s exactly what the radical environmentalists at the EPA Region 10 have been doing for decades. Now they shifted to doing the same with state agencies. Casey Sixkiller was at running EPA Region 10 and now runs WA Ecology. $323+ million in CWA penalties? tinyurl.com/323m-CWA9:18 PM · Sep 30, 2026 · 342 Views1 Reply · 4 Reposts · 17 Likes

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Story Two: The $300 Billion Claim

Synopsis: How big is the tax break in I-645, really? 

Rep. Pramila Jayapal told voters that repealing the income tax would hand the rich a $300 billion break. Jason Rantz says the real number is $11.4 billion. Opponents of the tax also say repeal can’t cut K-12 programs, because the tax hasn’t collected a penny and won’t until 2029. 

Supporters say the money is meant for schools and families but Critics raise two more costs. One is a marriage penalty that Joe Wallin puts as high as $39,600 a year. The other is the risk to pensions: if the state Supreme Court decides income is not property, Wallin says Olympia could tax a public pension “on its own row, at its own rate.”

From the Bookmarks:

• Jason Rantz says Jayapal’s $300 billion figure compares to a real number of $11.4 billion, and that the tax won’t collect anything until 2029. 

Jason Rantz on Seattle Red@jasonrantzPramila Jayapal told Washington voters that repealing the income tax hands the rich a $300 billion tax break. The real number is $11.4 billion. She also claims I-645 cuts K-12 programs, but the tax hasn’t collected a single penny and won’t until 2029. She’s lying.8:44 PM · Sep 30, 2026 · 17.4K Views51 Replies · 448 Reposts · 1.43K Likes

• Let’s Go Washington says no education funding will be cut by repealing the income tax. 

Let’s Go Washington@letsgowaREPEAT: NO EDUCATION FUNDING WILL BE CUT BY REPEALING THE INCOME TAX. Vote Yes on I-645 and don’t let the liars trick you into supporting an income tax.Ryan Frost @Frost_RyanWPCWithout the Public Investment Impact Disclosure, I-645 is within 4 points in DHM’s poll, with 44% saying keep the income tax and 40% saying repeal. With it, the gap is 22 points, 57% to 35%. The disclosure says repeal would decrease school funding. That’s a lie. You can’t8:34 PM · Sep 29, 2026 · 2.86K Views5 Replies · 66 Reposts · 249 Likes

• Joe Wallin asks, “Should getting married cost $39,600 a year?” 

Joe Wallin@joewallinShould getting married cost $39,600 a year? Vote YES on I-645.3:53 PM · Sep 30, 2026 · 1.52K Views1 Reply · 5 Reposts · 30 Likes

• Joe Wallin explains the pension risk: without a uniformity rule, “Olympia can tax a public pension on its own row, at its own rate.” 

Joe Wallin@joewallinThe pension risk is not that they cut the $1 million deduction. Once the court says income is not property, there is no uniformity rule. Olympia can tax a public pension on its own row, at its own rate. This is page 1 of the combined excise tax return. The B&O tax already works …1:19 PM · Sep 30, 2026 · 1.14K Views1 Reply · 19 Reposts · 61 Likes

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Story Three: DHS Counts the Cases

Synopsis: How many noncitizens have voted in American elections? 

DHS Secretary Mullin gave numbers: 10 convictions, 37 indictments, 53 criminal arrests, more than 1,600 open voter fraud cases, and more than 300,000 investigations. He said the department is getting voter logs from 47 states and a few territories. 

DHS has also rolled out its 2026 election security plan, which calls for paper ballots and hand audits after Election Day. Supporters say paper you can check, plus federal lists of eligible voters, will make officials verify rolls before ballots go out by mail, which matters in a vote-by-mail state like Washington. 

Critics will ask how many of those 300,000 investigations turn into real cases. Is this a crackdown that’s overdue, or a number that will shrink under review?

From the Bookmarks:

• Scott Presler shares Mullin’s numbers and his warning: “If you voted in our elections — & you weren’t legally able to vote — we’re going to find you.” 

ThePersistence@ScottPreslerHOLY COW DHS Secretary Mullin confirms that illegal aliens ARE voting in our elections: ✅ 10 convictions ✅ 37 indictments ✅ 53 criminal arrests ✅ 100 administrative arrests ✅ 1,600+ voter fraud ongoing cases ✅ 300,000+ investigations “As we’re getting the voter logs from …4:42 PM · Sep 30, 2026 · 404K Views1.13K Replies · 5.82K Reposts · 18.4K Likes

• Gunther Eagleman says “paper ballots are back on the table” under the 2026 Election Infrastructure Security Plan, with manual audits after Election Day. 

Gunther Eagleman™@GuntherEagleman🚨 PAPER BALLOTS ARE BACK ON THE TABLE. President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security just rolled out the 2026 Election Infrastructure Security Plan through CISA, and it is exactly what this country needed 40 days before the midterms. DHS said it plainly: election security …9:57 PM · Sep 24, 2026 · 65.2K Views119 Replies · 1.21K Reposts · 3.73K Likes

• Rasmussen Reports says local officials now have federal lists of eligible voters and will want to check them “before – not after – their ballots go out.” 

Rasmussen Reports@Rasmussen_Poll”We Deliver For You!” – Update This SCOTUS ruling today is a big win for election integrity because these official lists of Federally Eligible Voters by state now not only EXIST but state and county election officials are ON NOTICE that they are LEGALLY available for their use.…Peter Bernegger @PeterBernegger30 chief election officials under investigation – but there is more. Below is the letter they received last week from the US DOJ. What these 30 chief election officials have not realized yet is they are under investigation for allowing illegal aliens to register to vote. And, https://t.co/KZ6wOUgK7P8:26 PM · Sep 25, 2026 · 29.5K Views24 Replies · 187 Reposts · 576 Likes

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October 2026 Election Integrity Update

Educate. Advocate. Mitigate. Activate!

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The articles, videos, posts, and links below from the past month document a range of continuing problems in elections, including many newly reported cases of election- and voter-fraud-related arrests. They represent only a small sample of the matters that have come to light through the steady work of thousands of people seeking to identify election-related issues and make them right. 

Grateful thanks to all who have given their time and effort to this important work. Much progress is being made, but an incredible amount of work remains to help secure and restore elections. For daily updates and source materials, please visit the SCRP 2025/26 Election Integrity page, together with the archived 2020–2024 Election Integrity page, on the Skagitrepublicans.com website.

The EIN Model Election Laws Handbook provides a roadmap to protect election integrity / modelelectionlaws.org / Electionintegritynetwork.org/resources / Order

ELECTION INTEGRITY: THE REAL REASON THEY WERE AFRAID OF TINA PETERS: As Mesa County Clerk, Peters did the one thing the establishment couldn’t allow: She preserved the raw 2020 election records before Dominion stepped in for a “software update”—a process critics argue was designed to wipe the evidence clean. From Colorado to Michigan, a clear pattern emerges: Dominion updates: Clearing internal machine data • Jocelyn Benson: Pushing to delete election records – The Goal: Prevent paper trails and forensic evidence

Feds arrest, indict hundreds in DOJ voter fraud crackdown: ‘Catching it all over the country’

DOJ Opens Investigation Into Texas Democrat PAC After Operative Caught on Tape Bragging About a “Roundabout” Way of “Paying People” for Votes

The DOJ has made several voter fraud arrests in Wisconsin, Michigan, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Georgia, Texas, and Idaho – MANY more are coming. Noncitizen voter fraud is FINALLY being prosecuted on a larger scale!

DHS TAKING VOTER FRAUD INTO THEIR OWN HANDS, PROSECUTIONS RAMP UP

DHS investigating 1,620 cases of voter fraud involving noncitizens casting ballots – DHS has made 151 arrests and is reviewing 300,000 additional cases drawn from state voter rolls / Video

DOJ says it will take ‘aggressive actions’ to secure midterm elections

Justice Department charges 16 in election-related cases

MORE ARRESTS: Justice Department Announces Charges and Guilty Pleas Involving 12 Individuals for Election Crimes

A damning postal service audit exposes widespread mail-in ballot mismanagements and unsecured postmark stamps alongside federal criminal charges against a carrier caught dumping 30,000 mail pieces

The USPS inspector general found “widespread manipulation” of customer service surveys that resulted in an inflated 5% spike in consumer satisfaction with mail service between 2023 and 2025, and data doctoring persisted even after one cheating scheme was uncovered

Dem-controlled states accounted for 85% of duplicate registrations in 2024 – WA 7th Worst

The Democrat blue wall of duplicate voter registrations & NO Voter IDs!

Illegal alien busted in battleground state after allegedly committing voter fraud
Internal DOJ records have revealed a coordinated nationwide crackdown on illegal voting

ICE Arrests Alien from the Bahamas with Lengthy Criminal History Who Voted in Past Elections

DOJ, FBI, DHS and HSI Ramp-up Criminal Election & Voter Fraud Efforts
Federal & State Law Enforcement Agencies Prioritize Election-Related Crimes as Midterms Approach

Why Homeland Security’s Request that DOJ Investigate the ERIC System Is Important

Revised Overseas Voter Form FPCA Eliminates Checkbox “I Never Lived In U.S.” – A Blow to Birth Tourism Voters, Non-Citizens, and Democrats

SCOTUS Allows States SAVE to Verify Citizenship for Voter Registration and Help Secure Elections – Big Election Integrity Win Against Noncitizen Voting

5 people—including two illegal immigrants and two non-citizens with legal status—had been federally charged with unlawfully casting ballots, falsifying citizenship status, fraudulently registering to vote, and aiding and abetting during the 2022 and 2024 elections

More Evidence that 24 Million Voter Registrations Across the US “Are Either Invalid or Significantly Inaccurate”

Canada Just Admitted: We’re Targeting Your Elections!

Judicial Watch Victory: Federal Court Unseals Secret FBI Warrant Records Targeting Mike Lindell

PILF found since 1992 there had been 1,371 ties and another 530 election contests decided by a single vote – This is why just ONE illegal vote is too many – It’s time to pass the SAVE Act, secure our elections, and end this fraud once and for all

Seth Keshel: What Does 2018 Tell Us About 2026? Polls miss what history tells us plainly

Homeland asks DOJ to probe transfer of private state voter data to Zuckerberg-tied nonprofit – DHS has referred potential Driver’s Privacy Protection Act violations to the Justice Department, alleging that a nonprofit organization misused millions of citizens’ sensitive driver data for voter outreach campaigns

ActBlue board member becomes latest to plead the Fifth in House investigation

Republicans zero in on key player accused of helping Democrat fundraising giant hide foreign cash

Anti-ICE activist’s arrest for voter fraud reinforces need for Proposition 39

FOX News Allegedly Fired Maria Bartiromo After They Nixed Her Election Integrity Segment and She Notified White House

Maria Bartiromo Sidelined by FOX For Trying to Get Out the Truth About China’s Actions in the 2020 Election

RINO Raffensperger and Five Other Republican Secretaries of State Urge Supreme Court to Delay Trump-Backed USPS Ballot Rule Until After 2026 Midterms

HERE WE GO AGAIN: Germany’s AfD ROBBED of Victory as Mail-In Ballots Flip Results in Saxony-Anhalt – EVERY PARTY EXCEPT THE AfD HAS MORE MAIL-IN VOTES THAN IN-PERSON VOTES!

Republicans have won the voter registration battle in 28 out of 30 states tracking party registration since the November 2024 election

Desperate Democrats scramble to shut down a massive Homeland Security investigation actively cross-referencing state election databases to expose noncitizens illegally casting ballots in federal elections

Supreme Court denies USPS new rule pertaining to mail-in ballots

Trump asks Supreme Court to reinstate citizenship records system used to remove noncitizen voters

The voter rolls are garbage. Throw them out and start over. Mail-in registration is an open door to fraud. Mail-in voting is extremely fraud-friendly; ban it

House report accuses ActBlue of covering up alleged fraudulent donations

Republican War Chest Sends Democrats Into a Tailspin – Dems panicking over Republicans’ spending advantage as GOP-aligned groups enter the midterm homestretch with nearly $1 billion to spend. The RNC raised $18.3 M last month and is now unleashing $130 M

Fewer Americans plan to vote by mail in 2026 compared to 2020: NBC News poll – A new NBC News poll found that 23% of Dems, 20% of Ind., and 16% of Republicans plan to vote by mail

Taking Back Our Votes: Trump’s Executive Order Has Election Officials Terrified

VIDEO UPDATES: Supreme Court SAVES Key Database! – CISA Security Plan! – Emergency SCOTUS Appeal!

Hegseth Orders U.S. Cyber Command and Pentagon Intelligence Apparatus to Mobilize Against Foreign Threats Targeting 2026 Elections

RNC, Florida GOP Secure Major Court Victory Defending Voter Verification Safeguards

ALASKA: 2026 Ten-Point Forecast: Alaska At-Large (U.S. House – Leaner)

ARIZONA: Defending Arizona’s Right to Verify Citizenship at the Ballot Box

Arizona correction officer moonlighting as cartel member busted in ammunition smuggling attempt in Mexico

Arizona election official releases voter records after his claim of missing voter records disputed

CALIFORNIA: FBI arrested a subject near Los Angeles for allegedly paying homeless individuals on Skid Row in LA to sign petitions in support of ballot initiatives—all using stolen identities of registered voters

America First Legal sues California to block ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act’

Shasta County Registrar Clint Curtis barricades alleged counterfeit ballots from destruction, triggering a massive FBI grand jury probe while panicked CA Dems desperately attempt to remove him and bury the evidence

Leftist CA Supreme Court rules against Riverside Sheriff Chad Bianco’s massive election fraud investigation and sided with the state’s far-left Corrupt AG. Earlier this year, the CA Supreme Court ordered Sheriff Bianco to pause his massive election fraud investigation and preserve the 650,000 ballots he seized. A state appellate court previously rejected CA AG writ to halt Riverside County Sheriff’s bombshell investigation into 45,000 extra votes mysteriously counted in the Nov 2025 special election

ANOTHER ELECTION FRAUD CONVICTION IN CA. Former Arroyo Grande mayoral candidate Gaea Powell has been convicted on NINE election-related counts — eight felonies and one misdemeanor — including fraudulent voting in three separate elections

DHS stated that there are 190,832 non-citizens registered to vote in California

Dems handing illegals $10 B a year in taxpayer benefits with zero citizenship verification – Free housing, cash, healthcare, food, phones, college tuition, and even car insurance – Dem corrupt machine hooking migrants on welfare so they vote to keep Dems in power

COLORADO: Grand Junction man charged with voter fraud after allegedly forging father’s ballot signature

Colorado voter roll issues: 41 active status registrants listed the address of the Worner Campus Center at CO College in Colorado Springs as their primary residence when they registered to vote in Colorado, although it doesn’t appear that anyone lives at the address

CONNECTICUT: Non-citizen recently arrested by ICE registered to vote through CT DMV

FLORIDA: Florida Attorney General and Governor Ron DeSantis announced the arrests of 20 people charged with voter fraud, including three people from the Gulf Coast

GEORGIA: ICE Arrests Alien from the Bahamas with Lengthy Criminal History Who Voted in Past Elections

RNC Secures Georgia Election Integrity Win, Forces Cobb County to Comply with Ballot Drop Box Law

Fulton County ordered over 1 MILLION extra absentee ballots for the 2020 election WITHOUT STUBS or ENVELOPES, which are crucial for record-keeping, verification, and most importantly, for AUDITS, and even tried to conceal the purchase

Researchers are warning that rapid growth in artificial intelligence is making it essential to properly respond to a flaw in the state of Georgia’s voting equipment that makes it possible for voters to be tied to their ballots after voting

Federal judge dismisses Trump admin’s lawsuit attempting to obtain sensitive GA voter data

ILLINOIS: Chicago’s political-machine era became notorious for allegations and documented cases involving repeat voting, false registrations, voter impersonation, and ballots cast using the registrations of people who were dead or had moved away

Kane County, Illinois, acknowledged on Sept. 23 that approximately 2,000 voters were mailed duplicate ballots for the 2026 General Election after a ballot-processing error

KANSAS: AG Directs League of Women Voters to Cease Paying People to Register to Vote

DHS has arrested an illegal alien from Peru who VOTED in the 2024 election out of Kansas

MICHIGAN: Desperate to kill a critical election integrity measure, Jocelyn Benson and Michigan officials maliciously invalidated hundreds of thousands of legal signatures, triggering an emergency Supreme Court appeal to stop the blatant disenfranchisement

County clerk whose office is near the Indiana border explains how THERE IS NO PROOF OF RESIDENCY required to vote in Michigan, so citizens of other states can easily vote in MI

MI County Clerk: “9 out of 10 voter registrations” received by clerks in my County Are Fraudulent—One Clerk Received 47 for ONE Person! [VIDEO]

BENSON ORDERED CLERKS TO DELETE ELECTION RECORDS. A CLERK SUED. BENSON ASKED A JUDGE TO THROW IT OUT. TODAY HE SAID NO. ON EVERY GROUND

Michigan group releases comprehensive 720-page 2020 election report, urges further probes

BOMBSHELL internal memo from the MI AG plotting how they would count illegals in the 2020 census to gain Congressional seats and $3 billion in federal funding

MI ELECTION CASE on retention of electronic poll book data sees WIN in court, with the judge ordering a FREEZE on the deletion of EPB data… For now

MINNESOTA: Mike Lindell raised the money. He assembled more than 1,000 people ready to observe a lawful hand count. Then the Minnesota Secretary of State’s office allegedly moved the goalposts—raising the price and limiting the recount. ENOUGH! Mike Lindell is taking this fight to the Minnesota Supreme Court

Todd Blanche announces charges against 10 foreigners for allegedly voting illegally – Voting included the 2022, 2024, and the 2026 primaries. The foreign nationals charged hail from Brazil, Ghana, and Liberia

MISSISSIPPI: Voter ID works in Mississippi!

MISSOURI: Missouri AG Launches Investigation into ActBlue Over Foreign Money, Gift Cards, and Fired Staff

A Remarkable 48 Hours in Missouri – Justice Kavanaugh rules against Missouri twice, likely without even reading all the papers

‘Temporary’ Federal Order Tells Missouri to Use Redrawn 2025 Congressional Map After SCOTUS Declines to Get Involved

Appeals Court Orders Missouri to Reinstate GOP-Favored Congressional Map

DOJ charges St. Louis mail carrier with allegedly dumping 30,000 pieces of mail

Supreme Court Again Rejects Missouri Congressional Map Backed by Republicans

MONTANA: SHREDDING ELECTION RECORDS AND TRANSPARENCY IN MONTANA

NEW JERSEY: New Jersey NON-CITIZENS added to VOTER ROLLS: 6,600 people said they weren’t citizens. New Jersey still put them on the voter rolls. Hundreds Illegally Voted! / Video

RNC Takes New Jersey to Court Over Hidden Voter Roll Records

Restoring Election Integrity: Oversight of Voter Fraud in New Jersey

NEVADA: LIES FROM CISCO AGUILAR’S OFFICE: Background: In 2022, Nevada’s return ballot envelope had a privacy flap covering one’s signature. That design changed in 2024 without legislative approval. Now, a signature is fully exposed

DOJ subpoenas Dem election chief for voter records – The Department of Homeland Security announced in July that a preliminary review of Nevada’s voter rolls identified nearly 16,000 voters in the state who could be foreigners

Nevada Axes Nearly 400,000 Voter Records from Active Rolls — Democrats’ 87,000-Voter Lead Collapses to Just 672

NORTH CAROLINA: New NC guidelines require officials to disqualify a ballot if the signature on the ballot doesn’t match the name assigned to the application or return envelope, and they require officials to disqualify ballots if more than one is included in a return envelope

NORTH CAROLINA Party Registration Shifts from Nov 2024 – Present And what they tell me. *99 of 100 counties are right where they were in Nov. 2024 (Trump +3.2%). Gaston County is the lone exception (western suburb of Charlotte/Mecklenburg)

Suspected Vote Tampering in North Carolina Exposed by Unite4Freedom

OREGON: Dr. Douglas Frank: “Oregon Election Clerks are Duped!” The vast majority of changes in voter rolls are happening centrally, at the state level, and the clerks are unaware of most of it because they do not keep snapshots over time of their rolls so that they can compare

PENNSYLVANIA: More PA Non-Citizens Voted: US Atty Metcalf announced that four additional non-citizens have been charged with election-related crimes. Yes, illegal aliens are voting in PA elections. Yes, it’s pervasive. This is a constitutional crisis!

Potemkin Pennsylvania Can’t Hide Reality

SOUTH DAKOTA: Sen. Carley: “The grassroots elected the secretary of state to have election integrity—unfortunately, very quickly turned and aligned with no election integrity and a kind of corrupt establishment… She went and endorsed a Democrat secretary of state candidate”

TEXAS: Federal prosecutors charge 7 noncitizens in North Texas voting cases – Four are accused of voting in 2024; two others submitted provisional ballots that were rejected. Tarrant County prosecutors separately announced two state indictments

Criminal investigation underway in election fraud case in Zapata County
Phones, bank records seized

According to the TX Sec. of State, the TX Dept. of Public Safety failed to provide hundreds of thousands of voter records to counties across Texas. Harris County election officials are now processing a backlog of more than 75,000 voter registrations

Texas is Already “Messed With” – The structural realities of a modern-day GOP superstate

UTAH: DOJ has ARRESTED former USPS worker Damon Matai Seei for DESTROYING over 300 MAIL-IN BALLOTS during Utah’s June 2026 primary

Sen. Lee says fellow GOP elections official wrong to defy DOJ seeking voter rolls

WASHINGTON: USPS pushes back on Cantwell, Hobbs claims agency is undermining Washington mail-in voting

Cantwell and Hobbs blamed Trump for rejected WA ballots. The data starts in 2022

WA elections office walks back denial after Rep. Josh Penner proves voter guide text favored Democrats

Franklin County, WA Officials Seek Federal Citizenship Screening of County Voters

Glen Morgan: “Eventually the DOJ will get to WA State”

Franklin County, National Election Integrity Rankings Make it a Bad Week for SoS Hobbs

WA State AG Brown and Sec. of State Hobbs continue to refuse to participate in the federally permissible process for updating voter data rolls

Bond Fraud in Bellingham? And why it matters that we repeal the income tax WARNING TLDR

VIDEO: WA SoS Steve Hobbs is melting down over basic mail-in ballot safeguards

Hobbs and Brown Issues County Election Guide After DHS Puts State on Voter-Fraud List

Washington Supreme Court denies appeal in income tax repeal fight

Washington Democrats don’t need to steal elections – They rig the system before you ever vote

“I don’t think we should be locking out the press,” says Rep.Travis Couture, alluding to SEIU’s efforts to bully independent journalists from investigating widespread fraud at Somali-run daycares

Walla Walla WA state lawmaker to take Sec. of State job 3 days before election / Article

WISCONSIN: Two lawsuits in Michigan are exposing that state’s corrupt elections. One Court just made a huge ruling last week in denying Sec. of State Benson’s motion to dismiss – meaning the honest Clerk’s lawsuit proceeds!

Potential Effect of September 25th SCOTUS Emergency Order on Wisconsin’s WisVote Database and the Legal Removal of Non-US Citizens

Documents released by the Trump Admin on election integrity find CIA emails showing they were actively working against Donald Trump to aid China and the Democrats in the 2020 election

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Bill Bruch is the WA State GOP Election Integrity Committee Chairman (6th year), WAGOP Executive Board Member (6th year), Skagit County GOP Chairman (10th year), RNC Election Integrity Committee WA State Chairman, Citizen Journalist, Business Owner, 2020 WA State House Representative Candidate, Former Council Member, and WA State 2016 and 2024 RNC National Convention Delegate

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RNC, Florida GOP Secure Major Court Victory Defending Voter Verification Safeguards

Courts reject another attack on election integrity

BILL BRUCH OCT 1

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The Republican National Committee (RNC) and the Republican Party of Florida (Florida GOP) secured a major election integrity victory after a federal court threw out a Democrat-led scheme to block Florida’s commonsense voter verification rules.

“Making sure people are who they say they are when they register to vote is about as commonsense as it gets. Democrats tried to tear down a basic safeguard that helps keep our elections secure, but the RNC stepped in to stop it. The RNC will keep fighting to defend Florida’s election integrity laws and protect accurate voter rolls,” said RNC Chairman Joe Gruters. 

Background:

• Tuesday, the RNC and Florida GOP defeated a Democrat-led lawsuit that tried to dismantle Florida’s voter verification law.
• Democrats and their allies tried to dismantle Florida’s commonsense requirement that voters verify their identity when information on their voter registration application doesn’t match government records.
• The court threw out the case after finding the left-wing activists behind the suit couldn’t identify a single person who couldn’t register because of the law.
• The RNC and Florida GOP intervened to defend Florida’s voter verification safeguards and protect the accuracy of the state’s voter rolls.
• The RNC and Florida GOP beat this latest attack on election integrity and continue to defend Florida’s SAVE Act and other commonsense safeguards that ensure only eligible citizens are participating in Florida elections.

Thank you, RNC; the Florida victory is the latest in a string of key GOP election integrity successes. The RNC and allied Republicans are winning in courts to keep identity, residency, citizenship, and other common-sense law checks in place, often by stopping Democrat officials or leftist voting groups from weakening those rules.

Other Republican court battle successes include: 

• Michigan ballot-stub matching: A Michigan court sided with the RNC against Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, ruling absentee ballots with missing or mismatched stub numbers cannot be counted. 
• Virginia’s Gerrymanderred 10-1 Democrat Map Halted: In a major win for Virginia voters, a Tazewell Circuit Court judge ruled that Democrats’ redistricting referendum was unconstitutional, after the RNC and NRCC filed a lawsuit to stop Virginia Dems’ illegal attempt to rig congressional maps.
• North Carolina noncitizen list-maintenance deal: A judge accepted an RNC/N.C. GOP consent judgment requiring elections officials to use jury-questionnaire self-IDs of noncitizenship when cleaning voter rolls. 
• Four-state SAVE access order: A Florida federal judge ordered DHS to restore bulk-upload and SSN-search SAVE features for Florida, Indiana, Ohio, and Iowa under a prior settlement. 
• Supreme Court SAVE stay: SCOTUS paused a D.C. injunction and let the expanded SAVE citizenship-verification system resume while litigation continues; mass purges remain limited by the NVRA’s 90-day rule. 
• Arizona non-resident voting challenge: An AZ court rejected a bid to dismiss the RNC/AZ GOP lawsuit over Federal Write-in Absentee Ballots from people who have never lived in the state, letting the case go forward. 

RNC officials have said the committee filed more than 200 election integrity-related lawsuits across 37 states in the 2026 cycle overall, with at least 34 courtroom wins so far and most of the rest still pending.

The most significant is the RNC v. Mi Familia Vota, which is going to the Supreme Court this December. The case asks whether Arizona can require proof of citizenship for voter registration. SCOTUS will also decide whether the state can remove the names of noncitizens, dead people, and other ineligible people from the voter registration rolls.

Lawsuits include pending litigation in eight states where overseas residents who never lived in the state are allowed to vote there, as well as major wins on election procedures in Texas, Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia. 

Beyond the courtroom, the RNC signed up about 17,000 volunteers to work at polling sites nationally. That’s up from 11,917 at the same point in the 2024 presidential cycle, a 42% increase.

Chair Gruters has cited the RNC’s top three election integrity priorities as:Voter ID, Securing Mail-in Ballots, and Requiring Proof of Citizenship.

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Bill Bruch is the WA State GOP Election Integrity Committee Chairman (6th year), WAGOP Executive Board Member (6th year), Skagit County GOP Chairman (10th year), RNC Election Integrity Committee WA State Chairman, Citizen Journalist, Business Owner, 2020 WA State House Representative Candidate, Former Council Member, and WA State 2016 and 2024 RNC National Convention Delegate

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Operation Stork Stall

Operation Stork Speed stalls out in DC…

DR. ROBERT W. MALONE SEP 30

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The Sugar in Infant Formula that the FDA Hides from Parents

FDA does not require infant-formula manufacturers to list sugar on their ingredients label, or tell parents how many grams of sugar are in their products. 

Walk through an American grocery store and FDA generally requires packaged foods to disclose Total Sugars and Added Sugars. Ever food label in America lists sugar, even if the amount is zero. Food marketed specifically for babies under twelve months must disclose Total Sugars and Added Sugars.

Infant formula does not require that on the label.

The exception is written directly into federal regulation. Foods for infants must disclose total carbohydrate, total sugars and added sugars, then the FDA says, “other than infant formula.”

Formula operates under its own labeling rules and does not have to tell parents how many grams are total sugars or added sugars.

FDA requires infant-formula manufacturers to tell parents how many milligrams of linoleic acid are in the can. It does not provide for telling them how many grams of Total Sugars or Added Sugars are in it. Yet Operation Stork Speed made linoleic acid a subject of intensive investigation while apparently leaving the sugar-labeling rule untouched.

Why?

Think about that for a moment. A jar of baby food has to tell you how much sugar it contains. The formula that may provide virtually every calorie a newborn consumes for months does not.

This is not a loophole FDA recently discovered. FDA created the rules. FDA knows the exemption exists.

The three labels above list corn syrup as the number one ingredient.

The FDA also knows what can be hiding behind that single number labeled “carbohydrate.” Human breast milk is naturally rich in lactose, and infants need carbohydrate. But commercial formulas can obtain those carbohydrates from very different sources. Depending upon the product, the ingredient list may include lactose, corn syrup, corn-syrup solids, maltodextrin, sucrose or combinations of them. Standard formula commonly contains roughly 10 to 11 grams of carbohydrate per 100 calories, meaning approximately 40 percent or more of its calories come from carbohydrate. Yet parents are not entitled to a simple statement telling them how much of that carbohydrate is sugar or added sugar.

Even more remarkably, FDA specifically considered sugar disclosure when it modernized the Nutrition Facts label. It concluded that parents should be told the Total Sugars and Added Sugars in foods fed to infants.

Yet, the exemption for infant formula remained. As in the FDA designed the mandatory infant-formula nutrient panel without a place for Total Sugars or Added Sugars. Literally, sugar isn’t allowed on the label.

Why?

The formula industry certainly knew about it. Its trade association was publicly defending the existing carbohydrate-labeling rules at least as far back as 2011, explaining that manufacturers were required to disclose total carbohydrate but not the individual carbohydrates contained in their products.

Did the formula industry have a role in preserving this exception? Did the sugar industry? Or did an old regulatory exemption simply become embedded inside FDA, protected by inertia and by industries with no particular reason to see it changed?

We do not yet have the evidence to answer those questions. But after decades of special treatment, they are questions worth asking.

There is also a change that should not require another five years of study: stop unnecessarily replacing lactose with corn-syrup solids and other added or alternative sugars in formula intended for healthy infants.

The stakes extend far beyond infancy. Britain inadvertently conducted one of the most extraordinary nutrition experiments in modern history when wartime sugar rationing continued through September 1953 and then abruptly ended. People exposed to restricted sugar during the first 1,000 days of life, beginning in the womb and continuing through roughly age two, subsequently had about a 35 percent lower risk of type 2 diabetes and a 20 percent lower risk of hypertension. Diabetes appeared about four years later and hypertension about two years later. The protective association became stronger when sugar restriction continued after the first six months of life, precisely when foods other than breast milk normally begin entering the diet.

The story has only become more consequential. Subsequent analyses of the same historical experiment have linked early-life sugar restriction with substantially lower rates of cardiovascular disease and cardiovascular death, and newer work has found associations with lower cancer risk decades later. We now know that sugar and rapidly absorbed carbohydrate exposure during the earliest period of human development may leave metabolic consequences that persist for decades.

That changes the meaning of regulatory delay. Five more years of study is not simply five more years on an FDA calendar. It is five more birth cohorts passing through infancy under standards FDA itself acknowledges deserve reconsideration. If early nutritional exposure alters the lifetime trajectory of diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease and possibly cancer, the consequences will not become fully visible until those babies are middle-aged or old.

The bureaucracy can wait. A baby’s first 1,000 days cannot.

Then Robert F. Kennedy Jr. arrived at HHS promising to change American infant nutrition.

In March 2025, Kennedy announced Operation Stork Stall Speed, promising what he called “radical transparency” about infant-formula ingredients. He met with the major manufacturers. He challenged the ingredients being fed to American babies. He raised seed oils and contaminants. FDA announced the first comprehensive review of infant-formula nutrient standards since 1998.

Yet somehow one of the most obvious transparency problems in the infant-formula aisle barely registered with Kennedy or the FDA reformers.

Sugar.

Instead, Operation Stork Speed became deeply interested in omega-6 fatty acids and the oils used to manufacture formula. Those are legitimate scientific questions. But FDA already knew that parents could not determine from the nutrition panel how many grams of sugar were in the formula they were feeding their babies. They also know just how powerfully sweet foods can shape infants’ and children’s preferences.

Why wasn’t this the first thing Operation Stork Stall fixed?

No multiyear contractor is required. No five-year nutritional study is required to tell parents what is already in the can. Manufacturers already know the composition of their own products.

Put Total Sugars and Added Sugars on the label.

And then ask the harder question: why are corn syrup, corn-syrup solids, maltodextrin and sucrose being used in formulas intended for healthy infants when lactose-based alternatives are readily available?

Eighteen months after Kennedy promised “radical transparency,” the labeling exemption remains.

How did Operation Stork Speed manage to go looking for problems in infant formula without fixing one that FDA already knew was sitting in plain sight?

Has the FDA informed Kennedy of this sugary oversight?

Maybe even more importantly, it is now up to FDA Commissioner Heidi Overton to rectify this. Our hope is that someone gets this article in front of her so she can raise holy hell with the FDA. Because we believe this is an issue where she could make a difference very rapidly.

Thanks to @Cernovich on X for bringing this issue to our attention

So What Has Operation Stork Speed Actually Accomplished?

Put the sugar issue aside for a moment.

Even if we judge Operation Stork Speed entirely on the agenda Kennedy and FDA chose for themselves, the obvious question eighteen months later is: What has actually changed in the infant formula parents are buying today?

The answer is considerably less impressive than the name suggests.

HHS promised more testing for heavy metals and other contaminants, greater ingredient transparency, clearer labeling, more competition and new formula options.

There has been real progress on safety testing. FDA conducted what HHS describes as the largest-ever examination of chemical contaminants in infant formula sold in the United States, releasing the results in April 2026. Testing included heavy metals and other environmental contaminants, and FDA has expanded surveillance for microbiological contaminants such as Clostridium botulinum and Bacillus cereus. FDA says that testing will continue.

FDA also continued the personal-importation policy created after the 2022 formula shortage, developed a centralized list of formulas marketed in the United States, established a nutrition-research partnership with NIH, and says it is encouraging new manufacturers and new formulas to enter the American market.

Those are legitimate accomplishments.

But what about the formula itself?

That is where Stork Speed slows to a crawl.

In May 2025, Kennedy announced what he called “radical transparency” and FDA opened its comprehensive nutrient review. The first major action was not a new standard. It was a Request for Information asking scientists, manufacturers, trade groups and the public what FDA should consider changing. The comment period did not close until September 2025.

FDA then convened experts, reviewed comments and began evaluating the evidence.

By 2026, the language had changed.

FDA now says it is pursuing a “strategic, phased approach” that will allow the agency to act where the evidence is clear while continuing to study “more complex areas.” Its official 2026 deliverable is merely to “begin implementation of a plan for modernizing infant formula nutrient requirements.”

Read that carefully.

Operation Stork Speed was announced in March 2025. By 2026, FDA’s promised deliverable was to begin implementing a plan for eventually modernizing the standards.

Meanwhile FDA and NIH have created a Nutrition Regulatory Science Program to investigate maternal and infant dietary exposures and health outcomes across the lifespan. The underlying FDA-NIH agreement can remain in effect for ten years.

Research is worthwhile. But parents were not told in March 2025 that Operation Stork Speed meant launching a decade-long research infrastructure while waiting for better formula.

Kennedy himself was still describing the program to Congress in April 2026 as an effort to increase labeling transparency, address research gaps, expand testing and undertake the nutrient review.

Notice what is missing in Kennedy’s description to Congress. A date.

• When will the new infant-formula nutrient standards actually be proposed?
• When will parents see substantially reformulated products?
• When will FDA decide whether healthy infants should routinely receive formulas based on corn-syrup solids rather than lactose?
• When will it decide whether American iron requirements should move closer to international standards?
• When will it establish whether linoleic acid needs a maximum?
• When will DHA and ARA become required?

And, after eighteen months of promises about transparency, when will parents finally be told how many grams of Total Sugars and Added Sugars are in the formula they are feeding their babies?

FDA’s current Operation Stork Speed page provides no date for final nutrient standards. It says the agency is reviewing the evidence and proceeding in phases.

This is not speed. 

The irony is difficult to miss. FDA’s new Human Foods Program has an Office of Nutrition and Food Labeling charged with food-labeling policy and an Office of Critical Foods specifically responsible for infant formula, including its labeling. FDA’s 2026 priorities include improving food labels and giving consumers better information about added sugar.

Yet when the food in question is infant formula, sugar disappears.

The agency requires manufacturers to disclose linoleic acid down to the milligram, while its infant-formula nutrient panel does not provide parents with Total Sugars or Added Sugars. Some formulas list corn syrup as their first ingredient, yet a parent cannot turn the can around and find a simple number telling them how many grams of sugar their baby is consuming.

This is not a scientific problem waiting to be solved. It is a labeling problem FDA has chosen not to fix.

Operation Stork Speed was supposed to deliver “radical transparency.” Here is an obvious place to start:

Tell parents how much sugar is in the formula.

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The best of Washington on X: I-645 Poll Gap, ID to Watch Not Vote, Trump’s Border Message

NANCY D CHURCHILL SEP 29

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1. I-645: does one sentence swing the vote?

Synopsis: How much can one line on the ballot move Washington voters? A new DHM poll shows I-645, which would repeal the state’s new “millionaires’ tax,” trailing 57% to 35%, Jim Brunner reports. But when the impact statement saying repeal would cut money for K-12 and other programs is left out, the race tightens to 44% to 40%. 

Ryan Frost says that disclosure is false, because the income tax money does not exist yet, and under the McCleary decision the state must fully fund basic education anyway. 

Separately, The Center Square Washington reports a policy group says lawmakers packed too much into one bill, and a new state Supreme Court ruling may apply. Supporters of the tax say the disclosure tells voters what repeal would cost. Opponents say it is steering the vote.

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• Jim Brunner on the DHM poll, 57% to 35%, tightening to 44% to 40% without the impact statement: 

Jim Brunner@Jim_BrunnerNew DHM poll shows I-645, which would repeal WA’s “millionaires tax,” trailing badly: 57% opposed, 35% support. Notably, if the impact statement saying I-645 passage would cut $ for K-12 etc. is removed, that slips to 44%-40%.dhmresearch.comDHM Research – Blog9:50 PM · Sep 28, 2026 · 36K Views17 Replies · 8 Reposts · 52 Likes

• Ryan Frost on the Public Investment Impact Disclosure and school funding under McCleary: 

Ryan Frost@Frost_RyanWPCWithout the Public Investment Impact Disclosure, I-645 is within 4 points in DHM’s poll, with 44% saying keep the income tax and 40% saying repeal. With it, the gap is 22 points, 57% to 35%. The disclosure says repeal would decrease school funding. That’s a lie. You can’t …10:52 PM · Sep 28, 2026 · 4.6K Views4 Replies · 13 Reposts · 46 Likes

• The Center Square Washington on possible legal trouble for the income tax bill: 

The Center Square Washington@TCSWashingtonThe income tax plan could be in legal trouble. A policy group says lawmakers packed too much into one bill, and a new state Supreme Court ruling may apply. Watch to see why.11:14 PM · Sep 28, 2026 · 603 Views2 Replies · 4 Reposts · 31 Likes

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2. ID to watch the count, but not to vote?

Synopsis: Should it take more ID to watch an election than to vote in one? EricaPNW says King County now requires observers to show ID to watch the election process, while there is still no ID requirement to vote. 

At the national level, Mark Lucas reports Defense Secretary Hegseth updated the Federal Post Card Application for overseas and military voters. Every applicant must now give a state license or ID, the last four of a Social Security number, a passport, military ID, or another form of ID, and the form drops the “never resided” category. 

Gunther Eagleman points to a Just The News roundup that includes the Justice Department charging four noncitizens in Pennsylvania with election fraud. Supporters say ID rules protect every legal vote. 

From the Bookmarks:

• EricaPNW on King County requiring ID to observe elections but not to vote: 

EricaPNW@ForTheGoodI have just been informed that King County has decided you must now show ID in order to observe the election process. However, there is still no requirement to provide ID to vote in the election. 🤡9:22 PM · Sep 28, 2026 · 25K Views71 Replies · 349 Reposts · 2.07K Likes

• Mark Lucas on Hegseth’s updated overseas voter form, ID rules, and the end of the “never resided” category: 

Mark Lucas 🇺🇸@MarkLucasUSA🚨 ELECTION INTEGRITY 🚨 Hegseth delivers major VOTER ID victory on overseas voting. This makes it harder for the left to cheat. The updated Federal Post Card Application clarifies the identification requirements. For every applicant — state license or ID, last four of the …12:08 PM · Sep 28, 2026 · 20.1K Views19 Replies · 347 Reposts · 1K Likes

• Gunther Eagleman on the Just The News election-integrity roundup, including four Pennsylvania charges: 

Gunther Eagleman™@GuntherEaglemanTHIS IS WHAT ELECTION INTEGRITY LOOKS LIKE. Trump dropped a Just The News stack this morning and it hits hard. SCOTUS reinstated his voter citizenship verification rules. DOJ charged four aliens in Pennsylvania with election fraud. Local DAs are getting called out for shielding …12:44 PM · Sep 28, 2026 · 39.6K Views27 Replies · 559 Reposts · 1.45K Likes

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3. Trump’s midterm pitch: the border — and who’s moving to Washington

Synopsis: Is the border still the top midterm issue? Asked in the Oval Office for his midterm message, President Trump pointed to 17 months in a row of zero illegal crossings, record jobs, and lower murder rates, and said Democrats want to open the border back up, Eric Daugherty reports. 

In Washington, Washington State Facts notes the state reached 8.176 million people in April 2026, and says the state’s Office of Financial Management reported that 72% of last year’s growth came from people moving in, not births. Supporters say border control and who moves here shape every state’s future. Critics say growth also brings workers and new neighbors the state needs.

From the Bookmarks:

• Eric Daugherty on President Trump’s midterm message, including 17 months of zero illegal crossings: 

Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh🚨 WOW! President Trump was just asked what his midterm message is for millions of Americans to vote red, and he dropped RAPID FIRE truth nukes to the Fake News in the Oval Office: – 17 months in a row of ZERO illegal crossings – The best crime numbers in history, even after …6:52 PM · Sep 28, 2026 · 299K Views541 Replies · 4.6K Reposts · 14.4K Likes

• Washington State Facts on Washington reaching 8.176 million, with 72% of growth from people moving in: 

🇺🇸Washington State Facts ➕🇺🇸@TurnSeattleRed📍🚨 The FRAUD is right in front of us🚨📍 This isn’t a rumor. It’s the 2026 budget and a governor’s order. WA State hit 8.176 million in April 2026. 72% of last year’s growth was people moving in, not babies. OFM said it out loud.🧵 Why Bob, Brown & Hobbs need to cheat.5:00 PM · Sep 27, 2026 · 3.36K Views24 Replies · 108 Reposts · 192 Likes

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Be sure to comment on the 2030 Census Rules! 

Election Integrity Network is asking Americans to comment on three issues:

1. Support the restoration of the citizenship question on the 2030 census form. 

2. Ask for a real count of people. No algorithms or estimates.

3. Ask that only U.S. citizens count toward House seats. Do not include permanent residents.

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Election Integrity Network@EIwatchdogsTell the Census Bureau what you want for the 2030 Census. Election Integrity Network is asking Americans to comment on three issues: 1. Support the restoration of the citizenship question on the 2030 census form. 2. Ask for a real count of people. No algorithms or estimates. …4:43 PM · Sep 28, 2026 · 1.68K Views6 Replies · 36 Reposts · 56 Likes

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✍🏻 Federal Register: Comment on a Proposed rule for the Census

The Census Bureau proposed new rules on September 10, 2026, for the 2030 census…

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IT’S WAR: The 250-Year British Plot to Destroy the American System

The Capture of MAHA

The corporations moved in. The outsiders were pushed aside.

DR. ROBERT W. MALONE SEP 28

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Tomorrow, September 29, the second annual MAHA Summit will be held at the Waldorf Astoria in Washington, D.C. Today, I looked at the speakers and was genuinely taken aback. Then the picture became considerably clearer when I took a gander at the sponsor list. This is being advertised as “a one-day gathering of the foremost leaders shaping the future of American health,” culminating with Vice President JD Vance and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 

But much of the day is not devoted to the physicians, scientists, farmers, parents, patients, medical-freedom advocates and independent researchers who spent years building the constituency that ultimately became MAHA. In fact, not a single one of them has been asked to speak. Instead, the program is heavily populated by executives from some of the largest health-care corporations in America, major hospital systems, health insurers, technology companies, venture-backed medical businesses and companies whose fortunes may depend upon decisions being made by the very federal agencies represented at the conference. The official agenda includes UnitedHealth, Elevance Health, AHIP, Walmart, GRAIL, ResMed, Compass Pathways, Definium Therapeutics, Hims & Hers, Noom, Advocate Health, Sutter Health, Anthropic and OpenAI, among many others. Senior officials from HHS, CMS, FDA, NIH, USDA and EPA are appearing alongside them. MAHA Summit 2026.

To understand why this is so jarring, remember what MAHA was supposed to represent. What Bobby Kennedy promised us. It did not arise because Americans believed that the health insurance industry needed a larger voice in Washington, that hospital conglomerates lacked influence, that Silicon Valley needed better access to government, or that venture capital was insufficiently represented in health policy. Quite the opposite. The movement grew because millions of Americans concluded that the institutions controlling medicine, food, agriculture and public health had become far too intertwined with the industries they were supposed to oversee. They watched regulatory agencies defer to pharmaceutical companies, doctors lose autonomy to enormous health systems and insurers, small farmers struggle under rules written for industrial agriculture, and dissenting scientists marginalized by institutions increasingly dependent upon government and corporate money. Whatever else one thinks of MAHA, its political energy came from that profound loss of trust. That is why the Summit program is worth examining closely. It raises a simple question that should not be dismissed merely because the people currently occupying HHS are people many in the movement supported: Who exactly is MAHA for now?

Perhaps nothing captures the problem better than the 10:40 a.m. panel titled “Affordability First.” The people chosen to discuss affordability are Wyatt Decker, chief physician for value-based care at UnitedHealth; Catherine Gaffigan, president of Health Solutions at Elevance Health; and Mike Tuffin, president and CEO of AHIP, the national trade association for health insurers. The moderator is a senior CMS official. MAHA Summit 2026 There is nothing inherently wrong with hearing from insurance executives at a conference on institutionalized health care. They understand their industry and should be required to defend its practices publicly. 

But where is the other side of that discussion? Where is the independent physician spending hours fighting prior-authorization denials? Where is the patient staring at a five-figure hospital bill despite having insurance? Where is the rural doctor whose practice can barely survive the administrative burden imposed by insurers and consolidated health systems? Where is the economist examining what vertical integration has done to American medicine? Where is the physician trying to figure out how to code and document a vaccine injury in a reimbursement system that determines what gets recognized, treated, and ultimately paid for? Where is the patient whose claim has simply been denied? We all thought MAHA was founded to challenge entrenched interests has somehow convened a panel on medical affordability dominated by the insurance industry itself, while the physicians and patients who live under that system have been completely excluded from the discussion. 

Perhaps the most tone-deaf choice on the entire program is the inclusion of UnitedHealth on a panel called “Affordability First.” Less than two years ago, on December 4, 2024, UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed outside a Manhattan hotel as he arrived for the company’s investor conference. Luigi Mangione is on trial for that murder and has pleaded not guilty to charges arising from the killing. But something happened in the days after Thompson’s death that should have terrified the health-insurance industry, and should certainly have been understood by anyone claiming to lead a populist health-reform movement.

A remarkable number of Americans did not respond primarily by defending UnitedHealthcare. They began telling their own stories about denied claims, prior authorizations, treatments delayed while patients became sicker, hours spent fighting insurance companies, and medical decisions made not between doctor and patient but by corporations deciding whether they would pay. Reuters described the killing as igniting an “outpouring of anger” from Americans struggling to obtain and pay for medical care. The reaction became so widespread that it developed into a national discussion about something much larger than the crime itself.

The incestuous nature of MAHA is becoming harder to ignore, and the conflicts of interest seem to multiply by the day. GRAIL is a marquee sponsor of the MAHA Summit while its flagship Galleri cancer test is before the FDA. Its CEO gets a seat on the Summit stage. Casey Means invested in Function Health, which now offers GRAIL’s Galleri test to its members. Meanwhile, the same small circle of people moves among MAHA Center, MAHA Action, MAHA PAC and MAHA Institute, while corporations with business before the federal health establishment sponsor the gathering alongside senior government officials. Any one of these relationships might be dismissed as incidental. Taken together, they demand transparency. MAHA was supposed to expose the revolving door between money, industry and government, not build its own.

GRAIL is a marquee sponsor of the MAHA Summit while its flagship Galleri cancer test is moving through the FDA approval process, and its CEO has been given a seat on the Summit stage. That is a conflict of interest that demands disclosure. How much did GRAIL pay? Which sponsorship package did it purchase? What did that money buy? Was the speaking slot part of the package? Did GRAIL have input into the panel topic, its composition, or the other speakers? Which HHS or FDA officials attended meetings, dinners, or private events involving GRAIL? MAHA built its credibility by exposing the entanglement of corporate money, regulatory access, and government power. It does not get a pass when those same relationships occur under the MAHA banner.

The psychedelic medicine session presents a similar problem. It is titled “Psychedelic Medicine, the Next Frontier” and features the chief executives of Compass Pathways, Definium Therapeutics and Helus Pharma. Compass and Definium also appear on the Summit sponsor graphic supplied by the organizers. Moderating the session is Matt Zorn, Deputy General Counsel of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. MAHA Summit 2026 Again, psychedelic medicine is a perfectly legitimate subject for scientific discussion, and promising therapies should not be rejected merely because commercial companies develop them. But this is an extraordinarily peculiar format for a movement that made conflicts between regulated industries and federal health officials one of its central grievances. The question is not whether company executives should be allowed in the ballroom. The question is why this conference organized around them.

And then Bloomberg reported what may be the most damning part of this entire affair. On September 19, Bloomberg Law revealed that prospective Summit sponsors were being offered packages reaching $300,000. At that level, this was not simply sponsorship. According to Bloomberg, the package included a guaranteed speaking slot, “meaningful input on the panel composition and topic,” and a private dinner for 30 guests with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz. Bloomberg Law investigation

Call this what it is. Corporate interests were being offered the opportunity to buy access, buy a microphone, and buy influence over who shared the stage and what that stage would discuss. This was not a $25,000 logo on a conference banner or underwriting lunch and audiovisual equipment. For $300,000, a corporation could reportedly help shape the conversation itself while gaining extraordinary proximity to two of the most powerful health officials in the federal government. MAHA rose to prominence by condemning precisely this convergence of money, access, industry influence, and government power. Now MAHA has morphed into what it was created to eliminate.

HHS has stated that its officials “were not involved in the planning or sponsorship activities” and were unaware of the arrangements described by Bloomberg. But that hardly answers what has happened here. This is not merely a transparency problem. It is a betrayal of what MAHA claimed to stand for. A movement built on exposing the corrupting relationship between corporate money, privileged access and government power is now holding a Summit where, according to Bloomberg, corporations were offered speaking slots, influence over panel composition and subject matter, and a private dinner involving the Secretary of HHS and the Administrator of CMS for packages reaching $300,000. The defense that Kennedy, Oz and other HHS officials did not know what was being sold in their names does not make this better. It raises the question of how an organization operating under the MAHA banner was permitted to commercialize access to them in the first place. The people who built this movement were promised an end to this kind of Washington influence-peddling, not a MAHA-branded version of it.

What bothers me most is not any single corporation on this list. It is who is missing. I know many of the people who spent years doing the difficult, often personally costly work that created the constituency now called MAHA. Physicians who lost positions and privileges because they refused to remain silent. Scientists who watched open scientific debate give way to institutional orthodoxy. Vaccine-injured patients and their families. Independent doctors fighting to practice medicine without becoming functionaries of enormous hospital systems and insurance companies. Farmers and ranchers struggling under a regulatory structure increasingly built around industrial agriculture. Small food producers and meat processors fighting rules that protect enormous incumbents. Researchers who documented financial conflicts throughout medicine and public health long before doing so became politically fashionable. Parents who organized, testified, protested and endured years of ridicule because they insisted that responsibility for their children belonged first to families, not bureaucracies. These people were not an interest group within MAHA. They were MAHA. Yet at the movement’s premier Washington gathering, they are remarkably difficult to find.

And no, filling the program with Trump administration officials does not solve that problem. Government officials are not independent MAHA voices. They are now the government. Look instead at the architecture of the day. Health insurers explain affordability. Giant hospital systems discuss prevention. Psychedelic drug companies tell the audience about the future of psychedelic medicine. Silicon Valley companies discuss building the AI health stack. Walmart explains real food at scale. GRAIL, with its flagship cancer test moving through the FDA approval process, receives marquee sponsor placement while its CEO takes the stage to discuss cancer detection. Federal officials are woven throughout the program. 

Meanwhile, the dissident physicians, vaccine-injury advocates, independent scientists, medical-freedom activists, small farmers, patients and parents who actually built this movement are scattered so thinly through the agenda that their absence becomes impossible to miss. The outsiders who created MAHA have largely been displaced on its biggest stage by government, corporations and industries with enormous financial interests in the policies that government controls. That is not MAHA gaining a seat at the establishment’s table. This is the establishment taking over MAHA’s table.

There is an enormous difference between bringing industry into the room and allowing industry to purchase the room. A genuine reform summit would put UnitedHealth onstage across from an independent physician who spends every day battling UnitedHealth. It would put GRAIL’s CEO beside an epidemiologist or screening expert with no financial relationship to the company. It would allow psychedelic developers to make their case while independent researchers interrogate their evidence. It would invite Anthropic and OpenAI while giving critics of centralized artificial intelligence an equal opportunity to question where this technology is taking medicine. That would be a debate. What appears on this program too often resembles a corporate sales presentation.

The truth is that institutional incentives matter. Financial relationships matter. Access matters. Who funds an organization matters. Who gets invited into the room matters. Who does not get invited matters. None of those principles suddenly expires because Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is Secretary of HHS rather than Xavier Becerra. A conflict that deserved scrutiny under the Biden administration deserves scrutiny under the Trump administration. Corporate proximity to regulators cannot become acceptable merely because the regulators are now people associated with a movement one supports.

Perhaps this is what happens when an insurgency finally reaches Washington. In the beginning there is no money, no access and certainly no power. Meetings happen in borrowed rooms. Scientists are dismissed as cranks, physicians as troublemakers, parents as extremists and farmers as irrelevant. Then the insurgency succeeds, and almost overnight the people who wanted nothing to do with it discover they were sympathetic all along. The lobbyists arrive. The consultants arrive. Corporate money arrives. CEOs who were nowhere to be found during the fight suddenly want seats on panels, introductions to officials and a place inside the movement. Invitations acquire value. Access becomes currency. And eventually the establishment figures out that it does not have to defeat the rebellion. It can buy its way into it. That is how capture works. It happens through money, access, relationships, and the gradual replacement of the people who built the movement with people who can afford to purchase proximity to it. One day the outsiders finally reach the table and discover something extraordinary: the people they spent years fighting have been kicked out of the room.

That is why tomorrow’s MAHA Summit matters. The people running MAHA finally acquired something they lacked a few years ago: power. And with power came the money, corporations, lobbyists, consultants and industries seeking access to the government officials who now carry the MAHA banner. The test was whether MAHA could enter Washington without becoming Washington. This Summit suggests that test has already been failed.

A ballroom at the Waldorf Astoria filled with cabinet officials, CEOs, venture capitalists and corporate sponsors is not revolutionary. Washington has been selling proximity to power for generations. What is shocking is how quickly a movement built to challenge that system appears to have reproduced it, complete with six-figure sponsorship packages, purchased speaking opportunities, influence over panels and privileged access to senior government officials. 

MAHA was supposed to break the machinery through which money buys access and access buys influence. Instead, the opposite has happened. And where is Sec. Kennedy in all of this, collecting his 4$ million paycheck from sources unknown just prior to his dropping out of the presidential campaign and endorsing President Trump (but that discussion is for another essay).

MAHA was built around a very different proposition: that the institutions controlling American health must once again become accountable to the people whose lives they govern. To make America Healthy Again. That principle was easy to proclaim when MAHA was outside Washington, fighting institutions with vastly more money and power. 

The real measure was always what would happen once MAHA acquired power of its own. We now have an answer. The corporations are sponsoring the conference. Their executives are occupying the stage. Their interests are helping shape the discussion. According to Bloomberg, access to government officials themselves was packaged for sale. Meanwhile, many of the physicians, scientists, patients, parents, farmers and activists who built this movement are barely represented. This is not the reform we fought for. It is the system we fought against.

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