Source: Minnesota Star Tribune
“Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is launching his next political endeavor: a federal political action committee that will seek to recruit and support Democrats in rural communities nationwide. Walz announced the creation of the Small Town PAC on Monday, April 20, saying he wants to help build a new pipeline of candidates rooted in the places Democrats have struggled to win in recent years. … Walz, who has served two terms as governor and was the party’s vice presidential nominee in 2024, told the Minnesota Star Tribune last month that he planned to play an active role in this year’s midterm elections, particularly in governors’ races. He serves as finance chair of the Democratic Governors Association. But Walz faces a harsh political reality as he begins his new venture: His approval rating has plummeted in greater Minnesota in recent years.” (04/20/26)
https://archive.is/K2xeP
Source: Drop Site News
“The Iranian analyst Hassan Ahmadian speaks with Jeremy Scahill about Iran’s strategy, a potential deal, and how decisions are being made in Tehran.” (04/21/26)
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/iran-war-trump-diplomacy-escalation-hassan-ahmadian
Source: The American Spectator
by Lloyd Billingsley
“With support from President Trump, Congress passed a bill to extend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) through April 30. The president seems to have forgotten FISA’s power to harm innocents, override the judiciary, and even threaten the executive branch. That invites a look back at how it all started.” (04/21/26)
https://spectator.org/trumps-memory-loss/
Source: Seattle Times
“Nigerian authorities have charged six people, including a retired major general and a serving police inspector, with terrorism and treason, over an alleged plot to overthrow President Bola Tinubu, according to a charge sheet seen by The Associated Press on Tuesday. The six were all in custody. A seventh suspect, former Bayelsa state Gov. Timpre Sylva, is accused of helping to conceal the plot and is still at large. … The Nigerian government first said it had foiled a coup attempt in January, when it announced that several military officers would stand trial.” (04/21/26)
https://archive.is/pqylD
Source: Yascha Mounk
“Yascha Mounk and Jacob Mchangama discuss how democracies and dictatorships alike have turned against online speech freedom.” (04/21/26)
https://writing.yaschamounk.com/p/jacob-mchangama-2
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“It is understandable that fearful and trusting Americans would place a deep, abiding, and blind trust in the federal government in 1963, which caused many of them to automatically fall for the official ‘a communist has killed our president’ narrative. But today, Americans know full well that the U.S. national-security establishment is fully capable of committing extremely violent and vile acts in the name of ‘national security’ and that the national-security establishment is more than willing to lie and cover up its misdeeds if ‘national security’ requires it.” (04/21/26)
https://www.fff.org/2026/04/21/trust-and-gullibility-in-the-jfk-assassination/
Source: Cobden Centre
by Elias Sanchez
“The United Kingdom’s economic deceleration is conventionally attributed to fiscal consolidation, anaemic productivity growth, and the supply-side dislocations that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. These are real constraints. But treating them as primary causes rather than downstream symptoms is a misdiagnosis — and an increasingly costly one. The deeper pathology is regulatory density: an accumulated architecture of formal constraints that suppresses entrepreneurial discovery, crowds out new entrants, and reduces the adaptive capacity of institutions.” (04/21/26)
https://www.cobdencentre.org/2026/04/freedom-upsets-patterns-the-deregulation-argument-westminster-will-not-have/
Source: Fox News
by Liz Peek
“To paraphrase the late President Richard Nixon, what will Democrats do when they don’t have Donald Trump to kick around anymore? It’s a valid question. Currently, shared hatred of Donald Trump is the baling wire holding the fractured Democratic Party together. The party is deeply divided over nearly every facet of government and policy, with progressives and moderates warring over taxes, gender issues, AI, climate change, law enforcement and Israel. It isn’t at all clear who the party’s leaders are. Is it Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, whose approval rating nationally among Democrats barely clears 40%, or is it leftist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who may challenge Schumer for his Senate seat in 2028 but who is currently, astonishingly, under fire from progressives for trying to reach moderate voters?” (04/21/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/liz-peek-warring-democrats-need-trump-hatred-win-2028
Source: SFGate
“A 7.7 magnitude earthquake Monday off northern Japan sparked a short-lived tsunami alert and an advisory of a slightly higher risk of a possible megaquake for its coastal areas. The Cabinet Office and the Japan Meteorological Agency said there was a 1% chance for a megaquake, compared to a 0.1% chance during normal times, in the next week or so following the quake near the Chishima and Japan trenches. Officials said the advisory was not a prediction but urged residents in 182 towns along the northeastern coasts to raise their preparedness while continuing their daily lives. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi urged residents to confirm their designated shelters and evacuation routes and to check emergency food and grab bags so they can run immediately when a megaquake hits.” (04/21/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/powerful-7-4-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-off-22215405.php
Source: The Dispatch
“The Chief Justice Didn’t Hate President Obama | Interview: Gov. Kevin Stitt.” (04/21/26)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/the-chief-justice-didnt-hate-president-obama-interview-gov-kevin-stitt/
