Trump
Aides Are Leaning on U.S. Firms to Accept Russian Diesel - The Washington Sun
Trump
Administration Halts Funding for Key Ukraine Security Programs - The Washington
Sun
The
Fate of Infants Who Die Without Baptism: A Lutheran Reflection (reprinted
in part in Christian News)
Zelensky
responds to claims Ukraine is persecuting Christians | U.S.
Judge
Tosses Trump Defamation Lawsuit Over Epstein Letter
U.S.
Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s team acknowledged screwup in case against former FBI
officials
Presidential
Message on Reformation Day – The White House (for information purposes)
Trump’s
Ghastly Halloween Surprise Backfires Spectacularly
Iran
targeted US warning systems then damaged base buildings: AP analysis | AP News
Trick or
Threat: The Midterms Are in Danger
The
US Military Is On A Precipice - by Phillips P. OBrien
Trump
touted a record Venezuela oil deal. Now reality is setting in
In
Trump's pardon economy, crime victims lost out on at least $119 million in
restitution
November 2
How
Trump is Making a Fortune By Colluding with Putin to Raise Our Energy Prices
Cowboy
Cafe’s change to a bistro a sign of a new Medora • North Dakota Monitor
The
USA Has Not Been So Insecure Since The US Civil War
Victory
in Iran runs through Ho Chi Minh City
5
Ways Retirees Can Serve the Church
Trump
Says He Would Have Won Vietnam War in a Week, Mixes Up Cities - Newsweek
Why
Is the Media Ignoring the Stunning New Trump-Epstein Allegations? | The Nation
November 3
KARE
11 Investigates: Private prison was on sale for $75 million; ICE paid $495
million | kare11.com (Rep. Mike Levin, a California Democrat, asked on X: “Why
on earth did the Trump Administration pay $495.6 MILLION for a vacant prison in
Minnesota when the company selling it had offered to sell the SAME prison to
the state for just $75 million the year before? Are you telling me that
American taxpayers may have overpaid by $420 MILLION? Because, to me, it sure
looks like the Trump Administration paid more than SIX TIMES the previous
asking price. And by the way, the company that sold the prison,
CoreCivic, donated $500,000 to Trump’s inauguration. I’ll let you draw
your own conclusions here, but anyone with eyes can see that this is an absurd
waste of taxpayer dollars and that something shady is going on here.”)
Pete
Hegseth Busted Handing $400M to Fraud Firm
Geography
Blunder Lands Trump a Community Note - MeidasTouch
The
Road To The False Prophet May Be Paved With Promises Of Peace (for
information purposes)
Trump
Says He’ll Lead Us Into A ‘Time Of Christianity That No One Else Can Do’ |
HuffPost Life (for information purposes)
Must
Christians vote Democrat? A response to a reader
The
Book of Common Prayer Is Having a Moment - Christianity Today
Mike
Rogers and Abortion | National Review (for information purposes)
“The
evangelical movement … is now going to be associated with Trump’s politics.
It’s going to take a generation or more to shake that stigma.” – The Way of
Improvement Leads Home (for information purposes)
A
religious reckoning may be looming for White evangelicals who support Trump |
CNN
November 4
A
Conversation With Pastor Zach Zehnder - Ad Crucem News
Election
Day Through Russian Eyes - by Garry Kasparov
NT
Wright: Belief Israel is fulfilment of prophecy unbiblical | Church &
Ministries (for information purposes)
Pardoned
Jan. 6 defendant accused of threatening D.C. judges - The Washington Post
Opinion
| What Trump embracing Putin and Xi means for the next two years - The
Washington Post
Trump
Says He Will Move to Israel to Become Prime Minister If U.S. Turns on Him
(the article said he was joking)
ThePatrioticBlonde™๐บ๐ธ
on X: "Mike Johnson: “If we lose the midterms, the Democrats will go after
the president’s family, the cabinet, his donors, friends, and the rest of you
who have committed crimes.” Sir, your terms are acceptable.
https://t.co/yKVUFeurIG" / X (this is not a direct quote but a
summarization)
City,
state leader and Medora entertainer Bill Sorensen dies (big loss for North
Dakota)
Talarico
compares election victory to David defeating Goliath | Politics
Russian
strikes are slowly strangling Ukraine's economy | AP News
Giving
Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual For Winning An Election (for information
purposes)
Florida
Democrats Pull Off Shock Wins as Republican Redistricting Backfires - Newsweek
Kotek
wins second term as Oregon governor - oregonlive.com (Republican comes fairly
close but doesn’t win, which has happened before in many recent years)
The
results are almost here. What are evangelicals saying? – The Way of Improvement
Leads Home (what did they say before the election?)
Fox
Host Bites Back After Trump Rant at Network Live On-Air (defends the
accuracy of Fox News polls)
Trump
Explodes at Loser Ally Greg Abbott Hours After Endorsing Him
The
Losers From Last Night - by Phillips P. OBrien
Former
Acts 29 CEO Charged with Rape in the UK - Christianity Today
Donald
Trump, Lame Democrat? - Newsweek (What if anything will Trump do to combat
legal abortion? Will the federal
government start funding abortion?)
Trump
Is Already Crying That He’s Not to Blame for Republican Wipeout
The
Unlikeliest Democratic Win of All - The Atlantic (Lindsey Graham’s non-political
sister didn’t win in South Carolina)
Trump
blames Fox News for election losses as Democrats win big - The Washington Post
America
has been witnessing the worst speeches in presidential history | Ted Widmer |
The Guardian (Did they contribute to the Democrats’ win? Were the speeches actually good?)
How
Trump Betrayed the Pro-Life Movement - First Things (was he ever serious
about pro-life? Compared to, say, former
vice president Mike Pence?)
Trump’s
Muddled Reformation Day Message | National Review
Pardoned
Jan. 6 defendant facing new charges for threatening DC federal judges -
POLITICO
Illia
Ponomarenko ๐บ๐ฆ on X: "So you're telling me
that starting ill-conceived, disastrous wars that send oil prices through the
roof, wrecking the global economy, kissing totalitarian dictators' asses,
humiliating friends and allies, openly engaging in corrupt schemes, behaving in
public like a completely" / X (“So you're telling me that starting
ill-conceived, disastrous wars that send oil prices through the roof, wrecking
the global economy, kissing totalitarian dictators' asses, humiliating friends
and allies, openly engaging in corrupt schemes, behaving in public like a
completely unhinged lunatic, dragging Ukraine through the mud and twisting its
arms into a stupid capitulation, and groveling before Putin for a few petty
corrupt handouts... ...is NOT the best election strategy in America?” – from a famous
Ukrainian journalist)
November 5
The
Nationwide Collapse Of The Republican Party Is Trump’s Fault (John Daniel
Davidson at The Federalist)
GOP
Pummeled In Midterms, But Dems Will Overplay Their Hand (for information
purposes)
He
Said Pretend I’m on the Ballot -- and They Did
Former
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene๐บ๐ธ on X:
"Tonight was a total referendum on Trump. He told people to vote like he
was on the ballot and they did. Trump covered up the Epstein files protecting
rapists and pedophiles, started a foreign war no one wanted and killed a school
full of kids, put his rich elite donors before" / X (“Tonight was a
total referendum on Trump. He told people to vote like he was on the ballot and
they did. Trump covered up the Epstein files protecting rapists and pedophiles,
started a foreign war no one wanted and killed a school full of kids, put his
rich elite donors before the struggling Americans who put him in office, made
life unaffordable with his tariffs, and caused gas and diesel prices to
skyrocket while he played the market and sold crypto. And Republicans stood
behind him silently clapping like trained baby seals…. it’s the rest of
Republicans that need to learn the lesson and drastically change course. And
I’m not sure if they’re capable of that.”)
On
Election night, the religious left is back
Idahoans
Reject Radical Abortion Until Birth Initiative
Evangelical
roundup for November 4, 2026: Midterm election edition – The Way of Improvement
Leads Home (for information purposes)
Trump’s
House Rigging Plot Blows Up in His Face
Russia Took the
White House Before It Could Take Donbas (for information purposes)
Matt Walsh
on X: "Catastrophic defeat because of the bad economy and Trump’s
immediate response is to show off his ballroom. I wasn’t expecting him to have
the best response but this is far worse than I anticipated." / X (comment
from Matt Walsh of The Daily Wire)
Sen.-elect
Adam Hamilton to remain lead pastor at Kansas church | Church & Ministries
Illia
Ponomarenko ๐บ๐ฆ on X: "No, I still can’t
figure out why such a brilliant election strategy as obsessively rambling about
someone else’s ass at rallies somehow failed to work." / X (sarcastic
remark from a prominent Ukrainian journalist who has a forthcoming book on
Ukraine)
Kaitlan
Collins on X: "Asked when the Iran war will end, Trump says,
"Whenever I want it to."" / X
2026 Midterms:
It Wasn't All Bad for Republicans | National Review
Ted
Cruz Melts Down Over His Lonely New Reality (Texas Senator candid about
Republican losses)
As
Christianity Grows in India, Burial Space Shrinks - Christianity Today
Iran
More Likely to Strike Europe if Trump Attacks - The American Conservative
At
least 7 Muslims win election to Congress, a record (for information
purposes – not good)
Trump
likely to become more erratic following midterm elections debacle (commentary
from the conservative-leaning Washington Examiner)
Abortion
At The Ballot Box In 2026: 1 Win, 3 Losses (pro-life has not been doing
well at the United States ballot box, unfortunately)
Republicans
call for Trump to change course after midterm drubbing | Reuters
A
MAGA media civil war erupts over who’s to blame for the GOP’s thrashing - The
Washington Post
The Day After - by Jay
Nordlinger - Onward and Upward
Yesterday’s
election results are a victory for journalism (by Marvin Olasky, renowned Christian
journalist)
Trump
2028: What president said about running again - cleveland.com (80 year old Donald
J. Trump regularly refuses to rule out running for President again in 2028 even
though it’s constitutionally prohibited)
November 6
Legalized
Weed Created Is A Disaster That's Going To Get Worse
Vance:
The Iran War Cost Us The Midterms (Republican “party line” that this undeclared
military operation (which was never approved by Congress and probably never
will be) was the culprit – it may have been far more than that – how is the “war”
(which has been declared won numerous times) going, by the way?)
The
Epstein Reckoning is here - by Julie k Brown
Russell
Brand found guilty of rape, sexual assault | Entertainment (Tucker Carlson
has interviewed Mr. Brand and has promoted Mr. Brand’s book “How to Become a
Christian in Seven Days”)
Donald
Trump Jr. Faces Shock Claims of Business Talks With Vladimir Putin’s Pal Umar
Kremlev
Trump
Officials Stand to Profit From AI Data Centers on Public Land — ProPublica
(for information purposes)
Equality
Caucus celebrates 'gayest Congress in history' | Politics
Eye-Popping
Sum Taxpayers Paid for Ivanka Trump’s Birthday Trip Revealed
Melania
Is Accused of Handing Putin His ‘Greatest Victory’ With Oleshky, Ukraine,
Evacuation
Donald
Trump Signs Bonkers Scheme to Keep Oval Office Tacky Forever
Melania
Trump touts rare agreement she brokered between Russia and Ukraine : NPR
Nithya
Raman, a practicing Hindu, elected as mayor of Los Angeles
The
State of the Pro-Life Movement After the Midterms - Christianity Today
The
Pro-Life Movement’s Midterm Reckoning - First Things
Trump
Meets Putin's Envoy, Questions Russia Sanctions and Blames Ukraine for Civilian
Deaths
At
the White House, Russia's Envoy Praised an ICC Suspect. Meanwhile, Europe
Scrambled Fighter Jets.
Melania
Trump hosts Russian and Ukrainian envoys at White House
Melania
Trump Is Bringing Russians to the White House. Let’s Remember Why They Are
There.
November 7
ERLC,
state leaders respond to Nov. 3 ballot measure successes, failures | Baptist
Press
Jessiaka11:11
on X: "@marlene4719 @Stefan_Jo Russia ๐คขthanking Melania Trump
for her human rights efforts after abducting Ukrainian children is like
inviting Ghislaine Maxwell to the White House to chair the national center for
missing + exploited children." / X (the United States press generally
only covers this situation and similar situations minimally if at all. Good for X, whatever other problems it has,
that it allows such voices, mostly from outside the U.S.)
The Best
Victory Speech - Robert Reich (for information purposes – Robert Reich
reprints in full James Talarico)
As
Fulton Sheen Is Beatified, Don’t Forget Walter A. Maier | Gene Veith
The
Hutterites' Guide To Technology - Macleans.ca
What
Led to Christianity Today’s Crisis?
Stephen
Miller Goes Full Sycophant in Bonkers Donald Trump Tribute
Russell
Brand, convicted of rape, told us who he was. Why didn't Christian leaders
listen?
The
Lies About Haitians That Got Us to Deportation - Christianity Today
Why
It’s Impossible to Overstate How Dangerous Stephen Miller Is
NOLA
Archdiocese adds priests to list of accused clergy | Business News | nola.com
Hegseth
expands National Guard presence in DC - POLITICO
Stephen
Miller And Russell Vought Made Plans For Trump To Rule By Decree After Losing
Congress-- (“In the footsteps of Adolf Hitler,” this commentary asserts)
Trump
is going Full Putin with the Miller Appointment
Hegseth’s
Wife Was Paid by Lockheed-Tied Firm and His Book Money Vanished From His
Filings, Records Show (will this be investigated in the next Congress?)
Dems
have a Christianity problem — Trump's GOP is just as lost
Canada's
Russian envoy returns with advice on how to hit back against Putin | CBC News
November 8
Sheen
and Maier: Broadcasting Theology | Acton Institute
2026
Press Freedom Predators List | RSF
Trump
answers defeat by defiantly naming Stephen Miller chief of staff
How
the West Won Teddy Roosevelt | National Review (National Review on the
Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library, Medora, North Dakota)
Weekend
Update #210: Trump Has Stood Between Ukraine And Military Success
Midterms
were a victory for Golden Rule Christianity (for information purposes)
Republican
Sen. Ron Johnson accuses Trump administration of corruption - The Washington
Post
I’m
Glad Talarico Won. I Just Wish He Was Weirder. (for information purposes)
November 9
Iran
War Day 254: Iran Says Will ‘Rain Down Hell’ if U.S. Renews War - The American
Conservative
Trump
would risk heaven rather than forgive his enemies (Marshall Worth, writer
for the Tucker Carlson Network Morning Note, referenced this article and
commented, “Trump Rejects Christian Forgiveness, Even With Heaven on the Line. Imagine you just died, and all you have to do
to get into heaven is find it in your heart to forgive your earthly enemies. Do
you think you could do it? Donald Trump does not.
In his 60 Minutes interview released last night, the president said he
would not obey the Bible’s command to love his enemies even if an eternity in
heaven were on the line, telling interviewer Ross Douthat, ‘The answer is no. I
want to be honest.’
‘I do hate some of my enemies,’ the 80-year-old Trump said. ‘I think they've
been terrible… I probably cannot [forgive], I do hate some of my enemies, and I
always will.’
As mere men, we do not get to judge the president for disregarding the
teachings of Jesus. Only God can do that. All we want to do is point out the
irony that so many Christians still view him as some sort of spiritual leader.
He is clearly disinterested in the meaning of the Good Word.”)
Pastors
react to Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa's ordination of women | Church &
Ministries
What Now
for MAGA Christianity? - Mark Tooley - The Dispatch
Trump
‘60 Minutes’ Interview Goes Off Rails With Wild Death Questions (great that
questions were asked about judgment day, which are applicable to all of us –
one should leave the non-biblical doctrine of purgatory out of it, though, and
trust in Christ alone for eternal salvation)
GOP’s
Midterm Annihilation Comes Down to One Factor | National Review
November 10
Read
the full transcript of Ross Douthat's interview with President Trump - CBS News
(lots of cross-talk)
WHY
DID MAGA BACK RUSSELL BRAND? - by Frank Schaeffer (Frank Schaeffer asks a
good question here, about someone just sentenced for over ten years in prison)
Daly:
Don’t Take Seriously Those Who Won’t Blame Trump (for information purposes)
Not
With a Bang, But a Whimper: Officials Leave the Justice Department
Lutheran
Worship’s Inheritance: Tradition, Adaptation, and Gospel Clarity (for
information purposes)
Fighting
enemies or loving neighbours?, Evangelical Focus (remembering Francis and
Edith Schaeffer)
Christians
must speak boldly amid EU ideological totalitarianism | World
How
the Trump Administration Talks About Itself | National Review (“And let me
tell you, if it wasn’t for President Trump, the United States of America would
not exist right now. This man saved America.”)
Charlie
Kirk’s accused killer to stand trial in summer 2028 | KUER
Nvidia
CEO Jensen Huang hit with lawsuit over affair with alleged China spy - Newsweek
