On Friday, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced that Iran’s ‘main propagandist,’ Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) spokesman Ali Mohammad Naini, was killed in an overnight strike.

Naini, Iran’s very own ‘Bagdad Bob,’ consistently spread propaganda of the country’s ‘readiness for prolonged high-intensity war’ in the weeks before his death.

He was killed just a day after issuing a message on Iranian state television, which challenged the US Navy’s presence in the Persian Gulf.

Fars News Agency quoted him as recently saying, “Our missile industry deserves a perfect score… and there is no concern in this regard, because even under wartime conditions we continue missile production,” and asserting the country’s missile production is uninterrupted.

Per Iran International:

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said missile production is continuing despite ongoing conflict, adding there are no shortages in stockpiles.

“Our missile industry deserves a perfect score in 2025 and there is no concern in this regard,” the IRGC spokesman Ali Mohammad Naini said Friday, adding production continues under wartime conditions and warning of “surprises” and more complex operations ahead.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said missile production is continuing despite ongoing conflict, adding there are no shortages in stockpiles.
“Our missile industry deserves a perfect score in 2025 and there is no concern in this regard,” the IRGC spokesman Ali Mohammad Naini said… pic.twitter.com/hz1Za0hLcQ

— Iran International English (@IranIntl_En) March 20, 2026

IDF shared the news of Naini’s elimination.

“ELIMINATED: Ali Mohammad Naini, the Spokesperson and Head of the Public Relations Array of the IRGC.”

“Naini served in several propaganda and public relations roles.”

“In his role as the IRGC’s main propagandist for the past 2 years, he disseminated the regime’s terrorist propaganda to its proxies across the Middle East in order to influence and advance terror attacks against Israel.”

ELIMINATED: Ali Mohammad Naini, the Spokesperson and Head of the Public Relations Array of the IRGC.

Naini served in several propaganda and public relations roles. In his role as the IRGC’s main propagandist for the past 2 years, he disseminated the regime’s terrorist… pic.twitter.com/e29Elb16FS

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) March 20, 2026

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A claim circulating in among Democrats and mainstream media holds that Donald Trump Jr. owns a rare earth company that received a $620 million government loan, representing corruption by the Trump administration.

The claim is false on multiple levels.

Vulcan Elements, a rare earth magnets startup, received the loan from the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital in November 2025. Trump Jr. neither owns nor operates Vulcan Elements. He is a partner at 1789 Capital, a venture capital firm that made a minority equity investment in Vulcan Elements in August 2025, approximately three months before the loan was announced.

That investment was part of Vulcan’s Series A funding round, which raised $65 million and was led by Altimeter Capital, a firm unrelated to Trump Jr. Based on public records, Trump Jr. holds no direct equity stake in Vulcan, serves on no board or advisory role, and had no involvement in the loan process. The Pentagon confirmed that Trump Jr. and 1789 Capital were “not involved in any aspect” of the negotiation. Vulcan’s CEO stated he had “zero contact with the president’s son” and that 1789’s stake carries no board or observer rights.

The Office of Strategic Capital was established in December 2022 under the Biden administration as part of a broader federal initiative to expand domestic rare earth production and reduce dependence on China. Vulcan Elements was one of several companies to receive funding under that program. ReElement Technologies received an $80 million OSC loan under the same initiative.

Government support for domestic rare earths predates the current administration. President Trump issued an executive order in 2020 declaring U.S. reliance on foreign adversaries a national emergency. President Biden followed with his own February 2021 executive order on supply chains, and under his administration companies announced more than $120 billion in investments in battery and critical mineral supply chains.

The Departments of Energy, Defense, Treasury, and Commerce all participated through grants, loans, and tax credits. Since 2020, the DOD alone has committed over $439 million toward domestic rare earth supply chains, with a stated goal of developing a complete mine-to-magnet supply chain by 2027. Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” signed July 4, 2025, allocated $500 million in credit subsidy funding enabling up to $100 billion in loans for critical minerals production, the authority under which the larger Trump-era deals were structured.

The DoD purchased $400 million in preferred stock in MP Materials, becoming the company’s largest shareholder, issued a $150 million loan for heavy rare earth separation, and guaranteed a price floor of $110 per kilogram on neodymium-praseodymium for ten years with a commitment to purchase 100 percent of magnets produced at the new facility for a decade. The Department of Commerce signed a deal with USA Rare Earth promising a $1.3 billion loan alongside $277 million in proposed federal funding, its sixth federal investment in mining and minerals processing.

Lynas USA received a $258 million contract for construction of a heavy rare earths refinery. Ucore Rare Metals received $18.4 million from the U.S. Army Contracting Command for a commercial-scale separation facility in Louisiana. The DOE took a 5 percent warrant-based equity stake in Lithium Americas as part of a renegotiation of a $2.2 billion loan for the Thacker Pass project.

EXIM approved an $11 million loan for IperionX in Virginia and a $16 million direct loan to Empire State Mines in New York. Syrah Resources’ graphite-anode plant in Louisiana was financed in part by a $102 million DOE loan.

The strategic rationale for this level of support is straightforward. The U.S. is almost entirely dependent on China, which supplied 70 percent of rare earth imports in 2023. China has suppressed prices to drive Western competitors out of the market, meaning private capital alone cannot sustain a domestic industry against Chinese state-backed competition.

The NdPr price guarantee of $110 per kilogram is more than twice MP Materials’ realized market price of $51 per kilogram in 2024, which illustrates the scale of the distortion. The government’s response has been to mimic China’s model of strategic capitalism, a position that has drawn bipartisan support across multiple administrations.

Virtually every operating or developing U.S. rare earths company has received federal loans, grants, equity investments, price guarantees, or offtake contracts. Therefore, there is nothing unique or suspicious about the Vulcan loan when all of the facts are considered.

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The cause of death for a newly-elected Idaho mayor who suddenly collapsed in the middle of a speech has been officially revealed.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, 47-year-old Nampa Mayor Rick Hogaboam experienced a medical emergency on Wednesday evening while giving a speech during a regional town hall event.

Hogaboam received CPR from Eagle Mayor Brad Pike, who is a former firefighter, but despite the rescue efforts, Hogaboam was later pronounced dead.

Hours before he died, Hogaboam attended a training session with the Nampa Fire Department. He described being “mesmerized by the beautiful day.”

The New York Post reported that Mayor Hogaboam died from a rare cardiac complication called a cardiac tamponade. It is found in only 2 out of every 10,000 people.

Here are the details of the condition via the Cleveland Clinic:

Cardiac tamponade happens when the fluid sac around your heart fills with too much blood or other fluid and puts pressure on your heart. This prevents your heart’s chambers from filling properly.

When your heart can’t fill with blood properly, it can’t pump as much, and your blood pressure drops. Your heart may beat faster (more than 100 beats per minute) to try to pump more blood.

Cancer, infections, trauma, and certain diseases can cause cardiac tamponade. Such diseases include HIV, Tuberculosis, and End-stage kidney disease.

Without treatment, it’s life-threatening.

In November, Hogaboam won his election with nearly 63% of the vote, becoming Nampa’s 31st mayor.

He leaves behind a wife, five children, and a grandchild.

“Our hearts are broken, because we wanted to serve with a great man,” Councilwoman Debbie Skaug told the Idaho Statesman.

In a statement on X, a spokesperson for the Idaho GOP wrote, “Rick Hogaboam was everything we want our political leaders to be. He was a husband, a father, a dedicated public servant, and a good man.”

The New York Post notes that the Nampa City Council has 90 days to appoint its next mayor, who will serve until the next election in November 2027.

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Have they learned nothing?

From late 2024-early 2025, we have been reporting here on TGP about the danger of utilizing the fitness app Strava, and how this technology was being used by bad players to unveil sensitive military data by forces in the west.

As you can read in: Popular Fitness App Strava, Used by Secret Service Agents, May Expose Location of Trump, Biden and Macron in Glaring Security Breach: Le Monde; and Negligent French Sailors Leaked Position and Patrol Schedule of Nuclear Submarines by Using Fitness App Strava

Now, more than a year later, the reports arise again, as a French sailor is said to have inadvertently revealed the location of an aircraft carrier by simply ‘recording a workout on his smartwatch’.

NEW: The location of the French aircraft carrier, FS Charles de Gaulle, has been given away by a sailor using Strava whilst jogging on the ship deck

[@lemondefr] pic.twitter.com/FuoKMAs06w

— Politics Global (@PolitlcsGlobal) March 19, 2026

The Telegraph reported:

“The sailor was running on the deck of the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier as it headed for the eastern Mediterranean Sea amid the growing conflict between the US and Iran on March 13.

He recorded the 4.3-mile, 35-minute exercise on his smartwatch, which was uploaded to his public account on the fitness app Strava, French newspaper Le Monde reported on Thursday.”

The Charles de Gaulle is the French navy’s flagship, the only nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in operation outside the US military.

Macron gave a speech aboard the carrier, brought from exercises in the North Atlantic.

“’France is there to protect its own, to be at the side of its allies and friends who are being hit’, he said, explaining why he had asked his navy to carry out the maneuver. ‘Your presence today demonstrates the power of France, a balancing power, one of peace’, he added.

While the presence of the carrier in the region was ‘no secret’, Le Monde noted, the sailor had ‘revealed, almost in real time, [the ship’s] exact location’.”

A French military officer accidentally revealed their aircraft carrier’s hidden location with a morning jog.

The seaman left running app Strava on and went for a jog, tracing the real-time location of the ship. pic.twitter.com/BZr3bq8L88

— Pubity (@pubity) March 19, 2026

Read more:

Strava Security Breach Scandal: NATO Soldiers in Poland Expose Sensitive Data by Negligent Usage of Fitness App

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