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		<title>“Impeachment by Proxy”: Schweizer Exposes the Anti-Trump Iran Game [WATCH]</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[GAI President and best-selling author Peter Schweizer says Democratic opposition to President Trump&#8217;s Iran strategy isn&#8217;t really about Iran — it&#8217;s about Trump. Their best outcome is him losing. Their second-best outcome is the ayatollah winning. Schweizer calls it &#8220;impeachment by proxy.&#8221; &#8220;They know that politically, the best outcome for them is for Trump to [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>GAI President and best-selling author Peter Schweizer says Democratic opposition to President Trump&#8217;s Iran strategy isn&#8217;t really about Iran — it&#8217;s about Trump.</p>
<p>Their best outcome is him losing. Their second-best outcome is the ayatollah winning.</p>
<p>Schweizer calls it &#8220;impeachment by proxy.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;They know that politically, the best outcome for them is for Trump to lose. And then the second-best outcome for them is for the ayatollah to win. That’s really what they want. They want to see Trump humbled. This is, effectively, a way of having an impeachment by proxy. This is something they can attack him with and that they can cudgel him with,&#8221; Schweizer says.</p>
<p>Schweizer, whose track record on following the money and the motives is long and well-earned, reached for Reagan. The establishment dismissed Reagan, too. The establishment was wrong. Foreign policy results proved it.</p>
<p>&#8220;And it reminds me of something that one of the wise old men said about Ronald Reagan in the late 1980s, after he had so many foreign policy successes. This wise old man said, &#8216;Reagan knows so little, but accomplishes so much.&#8217; Reagan, in other words, disproved and showed the establishment was completely wrong,&#8221; Schweizer says.</p>
<p>The fight underneath the fight, Schweizer says, is over America&#8217;s role in the world. The old isolationists worried about foreign contamination of America. Today, left-wingers worry about the opposite — that America will contaminate the world.</p>
<p>They see U.S. power itself as the problem.</p>
<p>&#8220;Democrats don’t want the United States engaged in the world, but it’s different<br />
than the isolationism of Pat Buchanan or Robert Taft. They did not want the United States involved in the world,&#8221; Schweizer adds. &#8220;They were isolationists because they were afraid the world was going to contaminate America. What Democrats and some isolationist Republicans are concerned about is not that America is going to be contaminated, but that<br />
we’re going to contaminate the world.&#8221;</p>
<p>Trump, Schweizer argues, is dismantling that worldview in real time. Consolidating energy resources and expanding American influence across the developing world.</p>
<p><strong>Watch the clip above.</strong></p>
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		<title>Eggers in the New York Post: “California ignores voter fraud – and fights those who expose it”</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Election Fraud]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The real threat to California’s democracy is the response of state officials when presented with evidence or allegations of serious problems in the state’s elections. Instead of working with those who attempt to identify potential vulnerabilities within the election system, California’s election officials either ignore them or work against them at every turn.&#8221; Eric Eggers, [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;The real threat to California’s democracy is the response of state officials when presented with evidence or allegations of serious problems in the state’s elections. Instead of working with those who attempt to identify potential vulnerabilities within the election system, California’s election officials either ignore them or work against them at every turn.&#8221;</p>
<p>Eric Eggers, GAI Vice President and co-host of The Drill Down, published an op-ed in the <em>New York Post </em>this week highlighting the obvious flaws in California&#8217;s voting procedures. He is also the author of the 2018 book, <em>FRAUD: How the Left Plans to Steal the Next Election.</em></p>
<p>In a shocking example Eggers cited in the op-ed, a California citizen received six different voter registration cards at her home of two residents. As a lark and to prove a point, successfully registered her dog Maya to vote –– and then submitted ballots on her canine’s behalf.</p>
<p>The real scandal is not that a woman was able to get her dog to vote, however. After she contacted the Orange County Registrar of Voters to inform county officials that her dog had not only been registered to vote, but had received an actual mail-in ballot, she wasn’t met with gratitude, but with five years of silence. Then, she did hear from election officials – and found out she was being charged with a crime.</p>
<p>Read the entire op-ed at the <em><a href="https://nypost.com/2026/04/18/opinion/california-ignores-voter-fraud-at-best/">New York Post</a>.</em></p>
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		<title>How Billionaires Hijacked American Policy While the CCP Hijacked American Citizenship</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There is a class of men, Seamus Bruner argues, who do not answer to voters. They do not stand for election. They are not confirmed by the Senate. And yet they shape what Americans eat, what they read, what policies get funded, and which ones quietly die. Bruner, Director of Research at the Government Accountability [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is a class of men, Seamus Bruner argues, who do not answer to voters. They do not stand for election. They are not confirmed by the Senate. And yet they shape what Americans eat, what they read, what policies get funded, and which ones quietly die.</p>
<p>Bruner, Director of Research at the Government Accountability Institute, calls them the Controligarchs — and he has spent years mapping their influence.</p>
<p>The names are familiar: Bill Gates. Mark Zuckerberg. Jeff Bezos. Klaus Schwab. Alex Soros. What unites them, Bruner contends, is not merely wealth but the systematic deployment of that wealth to bypass the democratic process entirely, operating above elected officials in a shadow architecture of foundations, investments, and coordinated policy pressure.</p>
<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t have a problem with people making money, or that America allows people to become billionaires. But when people in America have given these guys so much, and they&#8217;ve been allowed to amass such fortunes, then we have a right to know what they&#8217;re spending that money on. And everything in <em>Controligarchs </em>showed it&#8217;s nothing good,&#8221; Bruner says.</p>
<p>Gates, Bruner explains, has moved aggressively into the American food supply. Through strategic investments in Monsanto and patented protein technologies, he has positioned himself as a gatekeeper of the agricultural system — one whose financial interests align neatly with the slow extinction of the family farm.</p>
<p>When a billionaire controls the patents on what grows in the ground, Bruner notes, he controls something more fundamental than policy. He controls survival.</p>
<p>Alex Soros represents a different but equally consequential vector. Heir to his father&#8217;s empire, the younger Soros is deploying an estimated $28 billion — channeled through Hong Kong — into extreme left-wing causes across the United States. The geography matters. Hong Kong is not an accident. It is a reminder that the line between billionaire activism and foreign influence can be difficult to locate, and perhaps impossible to enforce.</p>
<p>Then there is China — and here the story shifts from ideological manipulation to something that looks, on close inspection, like a long-game geopolitical operation.</p>
<p>Bruner&#8217;s research points to an industrial-scale exploitation of American birthright citizenship by the Chinese Communist Party. The estimates are arresting: approximately 100,000 babies born annually on American soil to Chinese nationals — a practice that has continued at that pace since at least 2013.</p>
<p>The children are born American citizens by constitutional right, then returned to China to be raised, educated and shaped by the CCP. In twenty years, they return — legally American, deeply Chinese in allegiance — to vote, to influence, to embed.</p>
<p>More than 100 birth tourism agencies operate in Southern California alone, Bruner found. This is not a gray market. It is an industry. And it is exploiting a constitutional provision — birthright citizenship — that was never designed for this purpose.</p>
<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve turned it into an entire ecosystem that serves to place CCP operatives inside the United States, &#8216;operatives&#8217; born here as U.S. citizens. And when they reach 18, they can vote. They can donate to political campaigns. They can apply for government jobs. So this is a massive security breach that nobody knows about,&#8221; Bruner says.</p>
<p>The Supreme Court is expected to rule on birthright citizenship in June, a decision that could reframe the entire debate. But the political dynamics surrounding reform are revealing in their own right. Bruner describes the CCP birth tourism issue as a 95-5 question — a problem both parties privately acknowledge as real.</p>
<p>And yet Democratic leadership has consistently blocked reform. The reason, he argues, is coldly transactional: migrant voting power is a political asset too valuable to surrender, even when the national security implications are plain.</p>
<p>Bruner&#8217;s forthcoming book promises a deeper accounting of how the billionaire class has systematically eroded American sovereignty — not through conspiracy, but through coordination, capital, and the quiet purchase of institutions that most Americans still believe are independent.</p>
<p>The mechanisms are legal. The intentions are debatable. The effect, Bruner argues, is not.</p>
<p><strong>Watch the clip above.</strong></p>
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		<title>What Is ‘Human Intelligence Framework’? They’re Not Teaching Your Kids. They’re Profiling Them.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Reach Capital manages billions. It helped build the edtech infrastructure that reshaped American K-12 education — seeded by veterans of NewSchools Venture Fund, Teach For America networks, and Silicon Valley. Now one of its portfolio companies is selling schools something it calls &#8220;Human Intelligence.&#8221; The pitch is disarming. Warm. Relational. Student-centered. A necessary complement to [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reach Capital manages billions. It helped build the edtech infrastructure that reshaped American K-12 education — seeded by veterans of NewSchools Venture Fund, Teach For America networks, and Silicon Valley. Now one of its portfolio companies is selling schools something it calls &#8220;Human Intelligence.&#8221;</p>
<p>The pitch is disarming. Warm. Relational. Student-centered. A necessary complement to the cold automation creeping into classrooms. But Government Accountability Institute researcher Priscilla West says follow the framework past the branding and you find something else: an expanding architecture for assessing, scoring, and storing the inner lives of children.</p>
<p>No new legislation required. No public debate. Just existing federal dollars — ESSA grants, Title IV well-being funds — quietly redirected toward a framework that doesn&#8217;t stop at emotions. It reaches into students&#8217; bodies, their relationships, their sense of purpose and meaning. Five layers of &#8220;intelligence,&#8221; all of them now formally trackable.</p>
<p><strong>Five Layers. Deeper Than SEL.</strong></p>
<p>The Human Intelligence Framework<img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/2122.png" alt="™" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> breaks student development into five domains: Cognitive (thinking), Emotional (feelings), Social (relationships), Somatic (body and physical awareness), and Universal — described as purpose, meaning, and connection to something larger than oneself.</p>
<p>For context: traditional Social-Emotional Learning focused on emotional regulation and interpersonal skills. This goes further — into the body and into questions of meaning that touch the domains of philosophy and faith.</p>
<p>It synthesizes earlier iterations — Emotional Intelligence, mindfulness, trauma-informed practices — into what Breathe for Change calls &#8220;one coherent approach for the modern world,&#8221; activating the &#8220;full spectrum of human intelligence.&#8221; Different language. Expanded scope. Same student profiling.</p>
<p><strong>How It Gets Into Classrooms — No Mandate Needed</strong></p>
<p>Parents might assume something this expansive requires new legislation or a budget fight. It doesn&#8217;t.<br />
Districts can use existing federal dollars — ESSA grants, Title IV funds earmarked for student well-being or teacher training — to adopt programs like this without a single vote or public debate. That&#8217;s the runway programs like Breathe for Change travel to reach students. Quietly. Through the back door of existing funding streams.</p>
<p><strong>The Pattern</strong></p>
<p>West charts the evolution: Emotional Intelligence → SEL → 21st Century Skills → life skills → mindfulness → Human Intelligence.</p>
<p>The labels change. The direction doesn&#8217;t. Each iteration formalizes a broader slice of students&#8217; inner lives — emotions, relationships, bodies, values — into structured frameworks designed to be assessed, scored, tracked, and stored.</p>
<p>The destination, West warns, is something more consequential than a wellness curriculum. It&#8217;s psychological, social, and moral formation — operating at scale, inside existing systems, with the lights off.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">1/<br />As the school year winds down, “Human Intelligence” is being promoted alongside AI in Education.</p>
<p>Framed as a necessary complement, it deserves a closer look.</p>
<p>It expands SEL into new domains — emotional, social, somatic, even “purpose” and meaning.</p>
<p>Different language.… <a href="https://t.co/XrrxRo6auf">pic.twitter.com/XrrxRo6auf</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Priscilla West (@PriscillaWest77) <a href="https://twitter.com/PriscillaWest77/status/2039019141412089880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 31, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
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		<title>Inside the ‘Digital Wellness’ Trojan Horse: Schools Are Psychologically Profiling Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Digital Wellness]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Parents, pay attention to a question you probably haven&#8217;t been asked: Is your child&#8217;s school tracking &#8220;Digital Wellness&#8221;? If so, it&#8217;s tracking a lot more than screen time. &#8220;Digital Wellness&#8221; sounds harmless — responsible tech use, healthy habits, online safety. But buried inside its frameworks are something else entirely: social-emotional competencies like self-awareness, emotional regulation, [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Parents, pay attention to a question you probably haven&#8217;t been asked: Is your child&#8217;s school tracking &#8220;Digital Wellness&#8221;?</p>
<p>If so, it&#8217;s tracking a lot more than screen time.</p>
<p>&#8220;Digital Wellness&#8221; sounds harmless — responsible tech use, healthy habits, online safety. But buried inside its frameworks are something else entirely: social-emotional competencies like self-awareness, emotional regulation, empathy, and decision-making. These aren&#8217;t academic skills. They&#8217;re internal character traits — and schools are now treating them as measurable data points.</p>
<p>The vagueness of &#8220;digital wellness&#8221; is a feature, not a bug.</p>
<p>&#8220;Digital Wellness&#8221; appears in curricula under the guise of &#8220;healthy habits,&#8221; &#8220;responsible use,&#8221; or &#8220;digital citizenship.&#8221; It&#8217;s the same strategy that allowed Social Emotional Learning to expand for over thirty years — hidden in plain sight, embedded into everything until it was everywhere.</p>
<p>Redefining character as &#8220;skill&#8221; gives institutions a powerful tool: the ability to assess, score, and track it. That&#8217;s not wellness education. That&#8217;s psychometrics. That&#8217;s social credit scoring with a friendlier name.</p>
<p>And it doesn&#8217;t stay isolated.</p>
<p>Digital Wellness isn&#8217;t a standalone subject — it&#8217;s woven into digital literacy, academic coursework, and online safety modules. Which means psychological data gets quietly merged with academic records.</p>
<p>The older model was behavioral: don&#8217;t share your password, limit your screen time. The new model goes deeper. It targets identity — mindset, resilience, flourishing, empowerment.</p>
<p>The shift is subtle but significant: from what kids know to who they are.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s also explicitly global.</p>
<p>&#8220;Digital Wellness&#8221; frameworks are directly tied to &#8220;global citizenship,&#8221; &#8220;social responsibility,&#8221; and &#8220;collective well-being&#8221; — normative value systems being operationalized and measured by the UN, OECD, and World Economic Forum.</p>
<p>The mechanism is a closed loop: Learn, Reflect, Apply, Evaluate, Repeat. Constant monitoring. Continuous feedback. Permanent data trails.</p>
<p>A December 2025 study confirmed what parents haven&#8217;t been told: through millions of interactions on school-based digital platforms, this loop is being used for behavioral modeling and predictive analytics.</p>
<p>This doesn&#8217;t end at graduation. These are lifelong profiles — continuous reassessment, evolving records of a child&#8217;s inner life.</p>
<p>If your child is being scored on his empathy, his mindset, or his resilience, he is no longer just being educated. He is being psychologically profiled — without your knowledge, and without your consent.</p>
<p><strong>Learn more — check out Priscilla West&#8217;s X thread on &#8220;Digital Wellness&#8221;:</strong></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr"><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/1f9f5.png" alt="🧵" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />Is your child’s school tracking “Digital Wellness”?</p>
<p>1/<br />Parents, understand: </p>
<p>DW isn’t just about responsible tech use.</p>
<p>It’s building psychological profiles through digital platforms. <a href="https://t.co/PNIBqZattW">pic.twitter.com/PNIBqZattW</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Priscilla West (@PriscillaWest77) <a href="https://twitter.com/PriscillaWest77/status/2039366247112900805?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 1, 2026</a></p></blockquote>
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