“American Martyrs: The Deep State’s Criminal Actions to Destroy Five Innocent Men” by The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft with Joe Hoft is listed in the top ten of Amazon’s Media and internet category for the month of August after only 10 days on the market.

The book complements the documentary of the same name, produced and released in August 2026 by Jim Hoft and Luke McKay.

The movie premiere is set for September 26, at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach, Florida.

** You can still get tickets to the movie premiere here.

The story of the government’s actions surrounding the 2020 election and the January 6, 2021, protest and riot at the Capitol will go down in history. The narrative from legacy media outlets screamed ‘riot’ and ‘sedition’. But there is a different story from those who were there or who were persecuted related to the actions on that day.

Five innocent men were arrested after January 6, 2020, alongside many innocent Americans. Their story is one of integrity, compassion, shock, and disbelief. They were arrested during raids on their homes by a platoon of federal agents and local police. They were jailed for years before their trial, often in solitary confinement. Their rights of due process and a fair trial were discarded as they went before a court in Washington, D.C., where justice had disappeared.

Eventually, these men were sentenced to decades in prison. They were innocent. Now the truth is coming out.

As the founder-owner of The Gateway Pundit I am thrilled to tell you all the truth, what REALLY happened to these five men and the criminal actions taken by the Biden DOJ that used them as pawns in an attempt to destroy President Trump.

Remember who we are up against this November!

I had to tell this story. We can’t allow the legacy media to get away with their lies. Telling this story is a start.

I hope you all buy a book. The proceeds are going to these five men.

Let the truth be told.

Here is Amazon’s top-ten list for its media and internet category in August.

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Texas Democrat James Talarico recently bragged about wanting to raie taxes during an event with Jessica Tarlov and Mark Cuban.

He claimed that he wants to raise taxes on ‘the rich’ but as we know, that’s just where Democrats begin. It never ends there.

Once they run out of billionaires and millionaires to tax, or when all of the wealthiest people flee, the working class is the next target because they are the only ones left.

Breitbart News reports:

Texas Democrat Senate Candidate James Talarico Campaigns on Raising Taxes

Texas Senate hopeful James Talarico is now openly campaigning on raising Americans’ taxes.

Facing polls indicating his support has topped out and doubts from fellow Democrats who do not believe he has what it takes to excite minority communities, Talarico is now openly campaigning on raising taxes on Americans.

“I’ve told every wealthy person I’ve come across in this race: If you are ok with getting taxed more, if you’re ok with me limiting your influence in politics, you are welcome to join this movement that we are building,” he said, thanking billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban for being part of it.

Talarico’s campaign platform includes plans to create what he described as a “fairer” tax system.

“Make giant corporations and the wealthiest Americans pay their fair share of taxes. (That way, we can cut taxes for working families and small businesses,),” he claims – a promise that leftists often make but never deliver on for hardworking Americans. His campaign website claims that he is interested in making “billionaires pay their fair share in taxes,” including “by imposing a higher tax on their income and capital gains and ending the dubious ‘buy, borrow, die’ loopholes that billionaires use to grow untaxed wealth.”

See the video below:

Texas Democrat James Talarico promises to raise taxes on hardworking Americans:

“If you are okay with getting taxed more, if you’re okay with me limiting your influence in politics, you are welcome to join this movement…” pic.twitter.com/Xj1PzgtcCh

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 29, 2026

Talarico is doing what all of the Democrats are doing in this election cycle. Trying to appeal to the increasingly radical Democrat base, which wants to confiscate wealth to pay for their liberal utopia.

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General Dan Caine has responded to a Democrat lawmaker’s inquiry whether U.S. troops will be deployed to the polls during the upcoming midterms.

Democrat Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan recently wrote a letter to General Caine asking him whether the Pentagon plans to deploy troops to the polls this November.

Caine stated, “The Joint Force has no plans to send Federal military personnel or Federalized members of the National Guard to polling places during the 2026 elections.”

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff added that he does not anticipate to receive any such order.

Per AP:

The highest-ranking officer in the U.S. military says there are no plans to send troops to polling places during November’s midterm congressional elections, addressing concerns among Democrats that the Trump administration could use the military to interfere with the vote.

Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made the statement in a letter to Michigan Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin, who recently asked Caine and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to confirm they won’t send troops to the polls.

“The Joint Force has no plans to send Federal military personnel or Federalized members of the National Guard to polling places during the 2026 elections,” Caine said in the letter to Slotkin, which was obtained Monday by The Associated Press. “Likewise, the Joint Force has no plans to use such personnel to seize ballots, voting machines, or other election-related material.”

Caine, who advises Hegseth and President Donald Trump on military matters, also wrote: “I have neither received nor anticipate receiving any unlawful order concerning the role of the Joint Force in the upcoming November 2026 midterm elections.”

Federal law prevents U.S. troops from being deployed at polling stations unless they are ordered to the polls “to repel armed enemies of the United States.”

The Justice Department, however, is deploying federal election monitors.

In an interview with Bloomberg, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon revealed the DOJ plans to send a record 1,000 federal election monitors to polling stations across the country.

WATCH:

BREAKING: Harmeet Dhillon said in an interview with Bloomberg News that the DOJ will be sending 1,000 election monitors to polling locations for the midterms.

“[The DOJ] has sent monitors to election hot spots, polling places to increase voter confidence to troubleshoot problems… pic.twitter.com/IKLW3Z7oIC

— Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) August 17, 2026

The number of federal monitors is a stark contrast to the Biden DOJ who sent only 289 federal monitors during the 2022 midterms.

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Everyone is taught from a young age that there are two things we should be mindful of before we speak: What we say, and how we say it.

I think, after hearing former first lady Michelle Obama talk about the burdens of motherhood, we can decisively add a third leg to this stool: It matters when you say it, too.

For those of you who haven’t been paying attention, Michelle Obama — like every person with a modicum of fame, a microphone, and some free time — is now a podcaster. This seems more like a vanity project, since I’ve never found her “IMO” podcast with her brother Craig Robinson particularly necessary listening except when something goes very wrong. But she’s kept at it, for better or for worse.

And being a former first lady, not to mention someone who repeatedly gets mentioned in potential presidential candidate speculation, she gets big-name guests. In this case, it was Jon Stewart of “The Daily Show,” who talked, lovingly, about missing the routines of fatherhood once his children moved out of the house.

“You obviously miss, you know, the energy and excitement of the kids being around is so incredible,” he said.

Michelle’s response to that?

“I don’t. I love them. I’m going to see them tonight for dinner. I love them,” she said. “But, you know, Barack cried when they went to college. I was like, ‘Bye, goodbye.’

“Now I know Friday nights aren’t wrecked with terror and fear about, ‘Where are you? Where are you?’” she continued. “I love their emancipation and growth.”

Stewart seemed to realize that maybe this didn’t come across so well and tried to save his host: “The thing I miss, though, is the job. Like, don’t you miss—your kids are still in high school, so it’s still a job. Like, it gave a meaning and a pattern to my life.”

Nope: “I’m good,” Michelle said.

She said fathers “can be that way” because mothers — presumably including herself — have more dealings with their children at a young age.

“I mean, I’ve had so much quality time with my children,” she said.

Thus, she said, she now had relief from the drudgery having to have them to worry about.

This is more or less how it came across:

Michelle Obama hates her children. pic.twitter.com/upmT5BCy6w

— Real America’s Voice (RAV) (@RealAmVoice) August 28, 2026

That’s the “what” and “how” of what Obama said. Now, let’s remember the “when” here:

This is right in the middle of jury deliberations in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial. The Clancy trial should be about whether or not the mother of three meets Massachusetts’ rather lenient not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity conditions for strangling her children and not whether motherhood is such a burden that certain women have gone to TikTok to say that, you know, they don’t condone what Clancy did but they understand.

But done it they have:

OB-GYN WITH 3 KIDS SAYS SHE’S “PROUD” OF LINDSAY CLANCY

“I don’t know what else you could have done. You were far beyond what should be expected of a single individual.”

“I’m not quite ready to tell my story yet. But when I eventually do, it’s going to be because you came… pic.twitter.com/oncG0aOuPk

— Michael Hennessey (@Snowflake_News) August 26, 2026

So obviously, during a case where the discussion has become not about the facts but about the extreme “burdens” and “emotional labor” of motherhood — so extreme, in fact, that you might be justified in killing your kids — Michelle Obama either has no TV or social media, or is willing to plant her flag on toxic soil. You can probably guess where my vote is, and the same went for the Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh and SiriusXM producer Steve Krakauer.

“Michelle had only two kids,” Walsh wrote. “She was rich and famous for most of their childhoods so she would have had a fleet of nannies and assistants doing most of the grunt work. And yet she still couldn’t wait for the kids to leave because the minor demands they made on her time and energy were still too much for her. Just a total raging narcissist.”

Michelle had only two kids. She was rich and famous for most of their childhoods so she would have had a fleet of nannies and assistants doing most of the grunt work. And yet she still couldn’t wait for the kids to leave because the minor demands they made on her time and energy… https://t.co/YeD7zI8UUT

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) August 28, 2026

Krakauer was briefer: “This is legitimately psychotic.”

This is legitimately psychotic… https://t.co/s76XOZewP8

— Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) August 28, 2026

California Republican Party Delegate and mother Elizabeth Barcohana also told Fox News she found the comments revolting.

“There is a difference between a mother expressing exhaustion from the demands of motherhood — which is real and relatable — and expressing resentment,” Barcohana said. “Resentment is what appears to come through in Michelle Obama’s remarks, and it is especially painful to hear amid the national conversation surrounding the Lindsay Clancy trial.

“She seems happy that her daughters’ childhoods are over. That is not a relatable feeling for most mothers at all.”

But it’s a relatable feeling if you live inside a bubble almost nobody can relate to. As we’ve found out these past couple of weeks, that bubble is a lot bigger than we might have hoped.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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