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And now we understand the absolutely rabid obsession with destroying Pete Hegseth.

I’ve been in the Army since before 9/11. Served under many secretaries.

Only in the past 18 months have I experienced:

>politicians warning me not to follow illegal orders

>billboards outside military bases telling me to report war crimes

>the media attacking anyone who has a positive thing to say about the man, and defending anyone who hates him

>stunning volume of leaks from senior officials trying to undermine him, and the lionizing of the leakers by the press

>being called a war criminal myself, hundreds of times a day

>a sustained media narrative portraying virtually every firing or senior officer removal as a "purge”

>public efforts by retired officers, advocacy groups, and political figures to mobilize service members and military communities against administration policies

>influential "Americans” publicly cheering for Iran

This is just to name a few. I’ve NEVER experienced anything like this before. And it’s becoming abundantly clear that the concerted effort to divide the military from within was stunted when Hegseth took over. Anyone desiring color revolution needs control of the military. That’s color revolution 101.

Is it starting to make sense yet? Now you see the obsession over him in particular. It’s not a coincidence. And it damn sure isn’t because of his culture war.

It’s because by all objective metrics, he runs a military that snatches rogue leaders from their beds, destroys entire militaries, and successfully mobilizes assets to save one downed pilot in the middle of enemy territory by building an Air Force base… in the middle of enemy territory. Secures the border, dominates the hemisphere. Hunts drug cartels. The list goes on.

He is by all meaningful accounts, effective at wielding the machine. And that is why they drool at the thought of removing him.

In years past you’d be hard pressed to find a junior Soldier who knew the name of the cabinet secretary above them.

Every one of them knows Pete Hegseth.

Every one.

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We’ve traced the money through Serbia and Poland, two countries that have experienced insane political upheaval recently, and what we uncovered will raise a few eyebrows and some blood pressure, to boot.

We’re talking about American-funded organizations involved in cough, cough, "election monitoring,” voter mobilization, civic activism, and political education. Some of these groups have received millions in US government funding while gleefully declaring how their work has contributed to major political changes. And in case you’re wondering, "work” means squashing grassroots right-wing uprisings and political wins.

But it’s not as easy as it used to be, since President Trump cut off USAID money. It’s getting harder for these groups to work, but we found that they built quite an impressive infrastructure that has sustained them, even when Trump turned off the tap. These orgs spent years building and padding their operations to get them through the "dry times.” They have outside donors and European funding networks helping keep parts of the civil-society system operating, but we’ve uncovered that there’s even more to it.

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There’s something really big going down in Europe. You can practically smell the coups and color revolutions in the air, so we started digging into it because of a question that keeps coming up, thanks to the USAID days…

Why does American taxpayer money always seem to turn up in leftwing organizations heavily involved in other countries’ elections and political movements?

And what’s happened to the organizations who are still operating, even after DC stopped cutting checks?

The coup in Poland and the color revolution unfolding in Serbia got us wondering how much money US taxpayers are unwittingly shelling out for this chaos across the Atlantic.

And it turns out, quite a bit of cash is still flowing overseas, thanks to USAID.

We’ve traced the money through Serbia and Poland, two countries that have experienced insane political upheaval recently, and what we uncovered will raise a few eyebrows and some blood pressure, to boot.

We’re talking about American-funded organizations involved in cough, cough, "election monitoring,” voter mobilization, civic activism, and political education. Some of these groups have received millions in US government funding while gleefully declaring how their work has contributed to major political changes. And in case you’re wondering, "work” means squashing grassroots right-wing uprisings and political wins.

But it’s not as easy as it used to be, since President Trump cut off USAID money. It’s getting harder for these groups to work, but we found that they built quite an impressive infrastructure that has sustained them, even when Trump turned off the tap. These orgs spent years building and padding their operations to get them through the "dry times.” They have outside donors and European funding networks helping keep parts of the civil-society system operating, but we’ve uncovered that there’s even more to it.

Now, before we get into the money, there’s something important to understand about how these movements work.

A government doesn’t have to be overthrown by soldiers storming the presidential palace. Sometimes political power changes hands after months of demonstrations, public-pressure campaigns, organized opposition, and elections. The process can involve genuine public anger over issues while also using money, training, and attention from powerful organizations outside the country to keep the fires raging.

And Serbia knows that process intimately and has a remarkable history of American meddling in its political organizing.

So that’s where we’re starting.

On October 25, 2026, Serbia had one of the biggest political shakeups in its modern history.

Aleksandar Vucic’s Serbian, the populist right-wing leader of the Progressive Party, which had dominated the country’s government for about 14 years, was defeated by a student-backed political movement.

It was an extraordinary turn of events.

The student movement grew out of a horrifying tragedy in November 2024, when a concrete canopy collapsed at the railway station in Novi Sad, killing 16 people.

The station had just undergone renovations as part of a Chinese-backed infrastructure project, and the disaster triggered massive public anger over corruption, government negligence, and lack of accountability.

What started as protests over those deaths turned into something so much bigger.

Students organized demonstrations, blockaded universities, and somehow managed to supposedly build a movement that would challenge and defeat Serbia’s political leadership.

Vucic saw the writing on the wall. He warned over and over that foreign money was helping orchestrate a color revolution against his government.

And after almost two years of riots and unrest, his party lost its parliamentary majority.

The student-backed movement won a decisive election victory, with preliminary results giving it about 53 percent of the vote.

Very curious indeed.

Was this simply a grassroots domestic protest movement that eventually brought down an unpopular government? Or were foreign organizations helping build the political infrastructure surrounding it?

To understand what’s really going on, we need to go back to the last time Serbia experienced a famous political revolution.

And the American involvement in that earlier upheaval is very well documented.

Back in 2000, another Serbian leader, Slobodan Milosevic, was facing another very determined opposition movement. And American political consultants weren’t watching from the sidelines… they were in the thick of things.

A December 2000 WAPO investigation revealed that the US had supported an extensive operation involving opposition training, polling, campaign strategies, voter education, and that infamous "election monitoring.”

It was reported that America dumped about 41 million bucks in democracy assistance.

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WAPO:

U.S.-funded consultants played a crucial role behind the scenes in virtually every facet of the anti-Milosevic drive.

Every facet, eh?

Forty-one million dollars of American taxpayer money was helping left-wing opposition groups develop political messages, train activists, conduct polling, and organize election monitoring in another sovereign country.

And most of this operation was openly funded through American government programs and nonprofits.

One of the most famous groups involved was "Otpor,” a Serbian student resistance movement that helped bring down Milosevic.

As a matter of fact, its organizing tactics were so good they later taught "resistance strategies” around the world. You have to wonder if they’ve been to France or Italy lately.

But this brings us to another question US taxpayers should be asking:

If American-funded political organizing played such a massive role in Serbia’s 2000 upheaval, what kind of American-supported political infrastructure was operating when the latest protests began?

Well, we think we can answer that. We found a very interesting organization, and the financial records are sitting right out in the open.

Meet CRTA, otherwise known as "Center for Research, Transparency, and Accountability.”

It’s a Serbian nonprofit involved in election observation, political research, media monitoring, civic education, and public accountability… in other words, a typical leftwing NGO.

But what is really interesting is there’s a federal funding trail that connects CRTA directly to USAID.

The US government awarded CRTA a cooperative agreement for an "Elections Integrity Activity” in Serbia. The award number is: 72016923CA00002.

They were gifted nearly $2.9 million and another $832,000 later.

That’s US taxpayer money going straight into a Serbian left-wing org working in the country’s electoral system.

And that US money was lifeblood for CRTA.

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The USAID money is about a third of its entire reported income.

And look at the other donors listed in that same report… Swedish development assistance and the British Embassy. CRTA also received funding from European institutions, foreign embassies, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the National Endowment for Democracy.

The 2000 color revolution had some very serious international financial backing, mainly from the US.

And as you likely already have figured out, the CRTA’s work went way beyond sending a handful of volunteers to watch people cast ballots or show them where to sign their name.

Annual reports describe election observation, political research, media monitoring, legal assistance, support for civic initiatives, and public-information campaigns, also known as "propaganda.” All of these are activities that have major influence on a country’s political environment.

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Enter the Rockefeller Brothers… a philanthropic group that exists to advance social change that contributes to a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world. This is their website:

A crowd of young people holding protest signs to fight climate change

And here’s where everything starts lining up.

In 2025, the Trump admin started dismantling USAID and canceling thousands of foreign-assistance agreements.

CRTA’s election-integrity award appears on a March 2025 list of terminated USAID programs. But in 2026, the organization continued receiving financial support from other sources.

And one of those sources was the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

That image is the German Marshall Fund’s own description of its American-funded work during Poland’s election.

The report goes even deeper, and credits the projects with "contributing to an election outcome that opened the door to restoring liberal constitutionalism and changing the country’s political direction.”

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In 1811, Joseph de Maistre, a French philosopher who detested the French Revolution, famously said: "People get the government they deserve.”

In light of recent events in France and elsewhere, however, something else comes to mind: Do people get the riots they deserve, too? Maybe—sometimes.

Now, I’ll preface my remarks by saying that I really do hope France channels its inner Napoleon and rights the ship. And were I in charge there, I assure you the rioting miscreants would meet their Waterloo in short order. (If the Duke of Wellington can do it, so can the Duke of Westchester. I do proffer my services, too, but I require the same deal the Roman Republic offered during crises: A man would be appointed dictator for a specified time to restore normality, endowed with extraordinary powers and largely free from the usual legal constraints—wink.) But a thought occurred to me the other day.

Just two years ago France became the world’s first nation to explicitly guarantee a "right to abortion” in its constitution. Approximately 85 percent of Frenchmen supported the amendment, President Emmanuel Macron characterized the move as "French pride,” and the Eiffel Tower "was lit up in celebration, with the message: ‘My Body My Choice,’” wrote the BBC at the time.

Note here, though, what France’s constitution does not guarantee: freedom of speech — at least, not really. The document does claim it’s protected, but then adds the caveat, "except to answer for the abuse of this freedom in cases determined by law.” Translation:

You’re free to say anything—that the government allows you to say.

So you can, and people are (see Brigitte Bardot et al.), punished for Hate Speech™ in France. So watch your mouth. But if you want to kill an unborn baby, well, Brie Brother is there with bells on (though not church bells; those have been replaced with the adhan.)

And, no, this isn’t "just” about prenatal infanticide. That’s actually a symptom of a deeper problem: lack of virtue. Another symptom of it is the riots themselves.

Philosopher G.K. Chesterton once noted (I’m paraphrasing) that the problem nowadays is that Christian values are floating around detached from one another. Consequently, we have scientists who care only about Truth, but have no pity; and humanitarians who care only about pity, but have no Truth. Today we’re heavy on the (pseudo)humanitarians, the woke capons and clucking-Karen hens who are tough with babies in the womb but melt before foreign invaders in the streets.

But they’re short on "Christian values” (virtues, really) because they’re short on Christianity, and this is because they shorted it more than two centuries ago.

If your knowledge of the French Revolution (1789) transcends what they teach in government school, you know that it was when "leftism,” in name, was born. Those French revolutionaries were left-wing nuts who, like the Cambodian Khmer Rouge, aimed to restart history. They instituted a new calendar, beginning in 1792, that had 10-day weeks omitting the Lord’s Day. The explicit goal was to eliminate Christianity and, well, congrats, Gallic garçons, you’ve largely succeeded.

And now, since man’s faith-nature abhors a vacuum, you’re getting Islam—good and hard.

I mentioned virtues (good moral habits), and I would remind you that Kindness, Love and Charity are among them. But so are Faith, Wisdom, Diligence and, most importantly here, Courage. The modern West, however, is the land where "Can’t lives on Won’t Street.” It is the inheritor of the greatest civilization to grace God’s green Earth, and what did it do with this bequeathment? It squandered it!

With eyes increasingly blinded by sin and metaphorically fattened via excess, it traded Truth for tastes, principles for preferences and virtues for "values” that too often were vices. It forgot the Gods of the Copybook Headings and began worshiping multiculturalism, diversity and tabula rasa fantasies. Its people willingly though unknowingly became Eloi and then invited in millions of Morlock foreigners, deluding themselves with assimilation dogma. Oh, it’s not just failure to consider that not everyone is assimilable. They also never asked: What that is attractive would the aliens assimilate into?

Our "Pride” parade mentality and reality?

"Transitioning” children to opposite-sex simulacrums and initiating them into perversion?

The "If it feels good, do it” credo?

Moderns’ mushy-headed moral relativism, which really just boils down to moral nihilism?

A people so weak and woke (but I repeat myself) that they won’t even stand up for their formative faith, history and culture?

"Men”—and I use the term loosely—so pusillanimous that they’re dominated by their own women and won’t protect them from alien tribes’ predation?

Women so lacking in character that they dress like hookers and act like hellions?

"Adults” so childish they need "safe spaces” and comfort animals and can’t even discipline their own kids?

Our culture of death (as opposed to the Morlocks’ more masculine cult of death)?

Will the Morlocks say, "Oh, sahib, can I be part of your enlightened, ethereal brotherhood?”?

Heck, the Amish and Hasidim don’t assimilate into that; I don’t, either. Why would rough foreign men with their absolutism (the wrong kind) and merciless cults?

The irony here is that the clock is ticking on this civilizational orgy of idiotic iniquity. When Muslim Democrats took over Hamtramck, Michigan’s political offices a few years back—thus creating the first U.S. locality with an Islamic mayor and all-Islamic city council—one of their moves was to ban the "Pride” flag’s display on public property. The old-line, ousted-from-power Democrats were incredulous and beside themselves. "We did everything we could to make your transition here easier,” one of the officials said mournfully, "and this is how you repay us, by stabbing us in the back?”

Well, when you live in an inverted faux reality between your ears for years, actual reality is quite the kick in the teeth.

But when the Morlocks achieved enough power, gone would be those abortion "rights,” that sexual liberty license, and those multiculturalist and diversity fantasies. Wokeness would be put to sleep—permanently.

Something else the post-Christian West doesn’t grasp is that, with Christianity’s "What you do to the least of these …” injunction, its adherents will have compassion for the weak and offer them protection. The Morlocks, no matter their place of origin, hold the weak in utter contempt. To them weakness is a sin that invites domination.

If it’s not already obvious, I’m not just picking on poor self-flagellating France. News is that Britain’s left-wing Labour Party—which had imported massive numbers of third worlders into the U.K. to "rub the Right’s nose in diversity and render their arguments out of date”—has surged to its largest polling lead since 2024.

In a shocking upset, Brazil just re-elected (or did it?) once-criminally-convicted socialist president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

And here in the U.S., people may via midterm voting again empower our rapacious, megalomaniacal, economically illiterate and morally depraved homegrown aliens, the Democrats. After Biden administration depredations, this would be like the Titanic having backed up to hit the iceberg again.

But, "What, me worry?” say distracted Westerners. For sure, they all are busy. They have places to go, people to have sex with, and babies to kill.

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Rep. Haley Stevens has lost access to VAN, Michigan Democrats' voter database, sources tell The Detroit News.

Her photo has also been removed from the party's website.

Carville was once regarded as one of the sharpest political minds in Democrat politics. He has spent the last several years proving he doesn't deserve that reputation anymore. In a video posted Sunday, he went after Stevens with a level of crudeness that would embarrass a barroom drunk.

"Your political career is over," Carville said. "If you think that these Republicans are going to treat you as anything other than what they view you as – and that is, let me just break the news to you – a used condom."

He kept going from there.

"The Democrats don't even think you're worth a used condom, but that's about where you are," he continued. "You made your bed, sleep in it."

Carville then dragged Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) into the tirade. Fetterman, of course, is a favorite target of the far left because he only votes with the Democrats 95% of the time and has split with his party on just a few select issues, particularly the rise of socialism in the party.

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"Judge Boasberg is the poster child for a rogue judge and exposed serious loopholes in our judicial system. Randomly assigning cases among judges ensures the American people can have confidence in the impartiality of our courts,"

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We’re seeing this now play out in California and Washington where secretaries of state insist that there are no non-citizens registered to vote, then admit that they have no ability to check the citizenship of whoever is voting, but insist that there’s no reason to believe that there are non-citizens voting because it’s illegal for non-citizens to vote… and so they don’t have to worry about non-citizens voting.

However, according to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, there are some 300,000 possible non-citizens who have been flagged on voting rolls.

Rather than straight up denying it, states like Washington and California have taken to slow walking the review of the names, arguing that they have no ability to check citizenship (because again, they choose not to have any ability to check citizenship and refuse to use the SAVE system) and pointing out that some percentage of the flagged names were born in the United States or aren’t on current voting rolls. This is as good as an admission that a bunch of the flagged names are non-citizens who are on voting rolls and they don’t want to remove them.

How big is the problem? I’m going to guess that 300,000 is only the tip of the iceberg. If you doubt that, consider the high standards over in Washington.

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"There is no such thing as a holy war: only peace is holy. War can never be waged in the name of God.”

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