The Return of Healey.

After an endless string of scandals and crises, what finally drove the Labour party to dump failing Keir Starmer as leader and premier was the resignation of then-Defense Minister John Healey over Starmer’s and Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ inability or unwillingness to fully fund the Defense Investment Plan, forcing him to compromise national security and military readiness.

But incoming Prime Minister Andy Burnham appears to have preempted this whole dispute by appointing Healey as the new Chancellor, seemingly guaranteeing funding for the military, and sending defense stocks soaring.

John Healey has been appointed as Chancellor of the Exchequer @hmtreasury. pic.twitter.com/QPa3uK0tON

— UK Prime Minister (@10DowningStreet) July 20, 2026

The New York Times reported:

“Andy Burnham, Britain’s new prime minister, on Monday named John Healey as his chancellor of the Exchequer, a critical cabinet post overseeing the country’s finances and helping execute his vision to spread economic growth across the country.

Mr. Healey was recently defense secretary under the former government, though he resigned last month because he said the Treasury had not funded the military adequately. Little is known about Mr. Healey’s latest broad economic views. The role of chancellor is one of the most consequential in the British government, controlling how much money other government departments are given to spend and invest. The office and official residence [are located] at No. 11 Downing Street, next door to the prime minister’s.”

“John Healey, can the party unite behind Burnham? Is it a nest of singing birds?”

As Burnham’s cabinet ministers arrive at No.10 ahead of the PM’s first meeting, @BethRigby and @JayneSeckerSky analyse the reshuffle and ask ministers about a united Labour. pic.twitter.com/zjQUpp9EXf

— Sky News (@SkyNews) July 21, 2026

The Guardian reported:

“UK defense stocks rally as former defense secretary appointed chancellor. The UK’s blue-chip FTSE 100 index has opened slightly lower this morning, down 0.3% – but some of its biggest defense stocks are rallying amid excitement that a former defense secretary now occupies No 11.

Babcock International is up 4%, while BAE Systems is up 2.4%. Over in the FTSE 250, Qinetiq is up 3.5%.

Investors are hoping that chancellor John Healey will use his new position to increase defense spending – possibly though issuing “defense bonds”, a form of borrowing allocated only for the military which he has previously advocated for in government.”

‘Politically not a bad choice, but the problem is the economics.’

Economist Julian Jessop reacts to John Healey being named Chancellor of the Exchequer in Andy Burnham’s Cabinet. pic.twitter.com/DmIUVhxCip

— GB News (@GBNEWS) July 21, 2026

Read more from June:

British Defense Secretary John Healey RESIGNS Over Starmer’s Insufficient Defense Investment Plan That ‘Will Make the Country Less Safe’ | UPDATE: Armed Forces Minister Al Carns Also Resigns

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I’ve done my time at UKIP conferences and rallies, and caught a couple of proper US CPACs — DC back in the day and Dallas just a few months ago. Those events are engaging, polished, informative, and leave you with a sense that something’s stirring. So when the first CPAC Great Britain popped up in London mid-July, I thought it could be a decent shot at bringing some of that fire over here.

It didn’t quite work out that way. Thin crowds, a venue stuck out in East London, and an overall feeling that it never really got off the ground. A lot of that comes down to how Liz Truss handled things as the local lead.

The location was odd from the start. Shoving it way out at the InterContinental by the O2 Arena meant it was nowhere near Parliament or the usual political scrum. The American versions feel connected. This one just felt isolated. The little exhibition hall was underwhelming and largely empty (despite being tiny). Media stuff was basically nonexistent. For an event trying to kick off something big, those basics matter.

Turnout was the biggest tell. They had around 500 seats ready, but most sessions were maybe a third full. Toward the end it dipped even lower — around 100 for the last day. Pauline Hanson, the Australian politician who could well be a future PM down under, addressed roughly that same modest crowd. Embarrassing, really.

One screening of Tim Ballard’s new film, the follow-up to Sound of Freedom on trafficking, pulled in only 15 people. Fifteen. That’s not a slow burn. That’s a red flag. I’ve sat in many UKIP branch meetings that had more life on quiet days. This felt flat.

The American speakers got the short end. Matt Schlapp trusted the UK side to make it happen. Then Posobiec, Del Bigtree, and others made the long haul only to face a lot of empty chairs. That’s not fair. These guys didn’t come for a holiday — they put in real effort and expense. Seeing strong talks land in half-empty rooms left everyone looking a bit flat-footed.

There were some decent moments. Farage brought energy as the headliner, and Braverman and Rees-Mogg added weight. But too many other folks on stage didn’t have that national pull. Dan Wootton called it straight when he wondered aloud why Tommy Robinson and Rupert Lowe weren’t part of it. Those holes showed.

Even the heavier topics got shortchanged. There was a panel trying to link anti-Semitism with Islamism, but it stayed surface level — no real definition, just crammed into 30 minutes. Islamisation and the deep history of Jew-hatred deserve more than that.

For 1,400 years, Islamic ideology has been the most perpetual threat to Jewish safety. Brushing past it like that in today’s Britain seemed odd, to put it mildly. A missed opportunity to confront the biggest threat to Britain’s very existence.

And then there’s Truss’s own background. After 14 years in Parliament, her record often reads more Lib Dem than old-school Conservative. She went along with lockdowns and vaccine passports, held pro-abortion and strong LGBT lines, stayed quiet on grooming gang victims, didn’t push hard on Islamisation, saw taxes go up, and the military took knocks. A clear Christian anchor wasn’t really visible either. Putting her in charge of a CPAC event came across as a mismatch.

Matt Schlapp brought the brand. Truss was supposed to deliver. The low numbers and clunky feel suggest it didn’t come together. It echoes her short prime ministership — ambitious but uneven. This time it risked letting down the Americans who showed up in good faith.

I’ve seen what clicks before. UKIP could generate real grassroots heat. The US events know how to scale it. A British one needs both, plus straight talk on the big stuff. This outing mostly highlighted the gaps.

Britain’s conservative scene needs proper platforms. Good ideas alone don’t cut it. You need packed rooms, valued speakers, and the willingness to name problems without flinching. The visitors and locals who bothered to come deserved better.

Next round, let’s hope they fill the seats, sharpen the focus, and treat the whole thing like it actually matters. Because it does.

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It turns out that Hasan Piker doesn’t just like to dress like Mao Zedong, he actually admires him.

In a clip of his streaming podcast that has been circulating on social media, Piker calls Mao ‘one of the great leaders of this world.’

Mao Zedong was a dictator who murdered millions of his own people, through starvation and other means. He killed more people than Hitler and is an absolutely despicable character.

These are the people who claim Trump is a fascist.

FOX News reports:

Hasan Piker vows never to criticize Mao Zedong in resurfaced video, hails him as ‘great leader’

A resurfaced video showing far-left Twitch streamer Hasan Piker praising Mao Zedong circulated online Sunday night after he addressed the College Democrats of America’s national convention Saturday in Washington, prompting criticism from Democratic activists, political commentators and other public figures.

In the resurfaced livestream, Piker discussed being stopped by a police officer while visiting Tiananmen Square during a November 2025 trip to China.

“I got stopped by a cop who thought I was making fun of Mao Zedong, which I never would and never will,” Piker said. “Mao Zedong is one of the great leaders of this world, OK? A man who changed the entire universe, the entire planet.”

Piker later responded after viewers challenged his praise for the former Chinese Communist Party chairman, according to a transcript published by Vox.

“There was a lot of f—–g excesses, let’s be real,” Piker said. “But the People’s Republic of China would not exist without Mao Zedong.”

Watch the video:

Hasan Piker: Mao Zedong is one of the great leaders of this world pic.twitter.com/b1DGAXQgKJ

— DSA Watch (@DSA_Watch) July 20, 2026

Lily Tang Williams escaped Mao’s China and understands what Mao actually did. She has challenged Piker to debate on the topic.

Hasan Piker: I grew up under Mao Zedong. You don’t know what you are talking about.

You should listen to survivors like me, instead of your Marxist professors. Want to debate me? https://t.co/Hfl2in4GeG pic.twitter.com/3SrHVQS6rS

— Lily Tang Williams (@Lily4Liberty) July 20, 2026

Piker would never accept her challenge to a debate. He has no actual understanding of the history behind the subject. He just thinks it’s cool to support communism – when he is not driving his expensive sportscar, that is.

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The Un-Campaign Blueprint: Run Different. Win Lean.

The Socialistas are taking over the Democrat Party and the establishment Democrats are so addicted to power and corruption that they just don’t care. They will say or do absolutely anything to save their seats (and stay out of prison.)

Their only strategy is to demonize President Trump and oppose everything he does, even when he helps their own constituents. If the Democrats win the midterms, the radical Socialistas will run the show.

Every two years people say “this is the most important election in history,” but for 2026, it couldn’t be more true.

First and foremost, election integrity is everything. Anyone who says fraud isn’t rampant is living on another planet. President Trump’s explosive revelations on Thursday night may finally force the RINO Senate to pass the SAVE Act and secure our ballots.

To win as many seats as possible, we have to pick America-First candidates in the remaining primaries and support them with everything we’ve got.

But the old way of running political campaigns is no longer effective.

Every election cycle, grassroots candidates for Congress, state house, and county seats are handed the same playbook by high-priced establishment consultants: “Raise hundreds of thousands of dollars, hand them over to a media firm, and generate polarizing TV ads and glossy mail pieces.”

Voters are completely sick of it. They don’t trust focus-grouped political ads, they change the channel, and they throw glossy campaign mail straight into the recycling. As one voter put it: “They send me flyers I will never read, asking for money I can’t afford, so they can send me more flyers I will never read.”

When candidates buy a polished, million-dollar ad campaign, they instantly signal to voters that they are part of the very establishment that has failed to fix their family’s critical pocketbook issues.

To win against well-funded incumbent machines and the liberal media, conservative candidates must change how they talk to the people.

The answer is a completely new approach: The Un-Campaign.

Grassroots candidates can flip the script on the establishment by using a strategy first mastered in the entertainment world. This is the approach that propelled Spencer Pratt to massive success in uberliberal California—before his second-place finish was stolen.

Pratt gave a masterclass on how to beat the system and talk directly to the people. He completely bypassed traditional media gatekeepers and rejected expensive, polished public relations campaigns. Instead, he used his cellphone to create raw, high-frequency, unscripted videos and encouraged his supporters to share his message. He didn’t spend a dime on paid advertising.

By using free, vertical-video platforms like TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts along with local digital channels, down-ballot candidates can get more reach, real authenticity, and deeper voter trust. They can replace fake, focus-group talking points with a raw look at real-world issues that matter to voters.

A successful low-cost, organic campaign doesn’t broadcast the same generic message to the whole district. Instead, the candidate uses daily, smartphone-shot videos to speak directly to the real-life pressure points of three specific voter groups we need for a conservative victory…

1. The Wary Conservative (“The Turnout Risk”)

Every midterm race has reliable, right-leaning voters who just stay home. They aren’t unpatriotic, their main frustration is watching their local and state government become a black hole for their hard-earned tax dollars. They feel that their vote will do nothing to end government waste and broken promises.

Candidates can reach these voters by acting as a citizen journalist pulling back the curtain on incompetent government taking their smartphone directly to local examples of government failure—like an abandoned municipal project or a wasteful county building. By exposing these failures in raw, unedited videos, the campaign converts voter frustration into a strong motivation to show up and vote.

2. The Disaffected Democrat (“The Defector”)

Across the country, millions of traditional working-class Democrats feel completely left behind by their party’s insane shift toward hyper-liberal policies and progressive social engineering. But they won’t vote for a conservative if they only see aggressive, multimillion-dollar partisan attack ads funded by national PACs.

To win them over, the Un-Campaign focuses on kitchen-table economic realities, the rising costs of basic survival at the grocery store, skyhigh utility bills, and the ever rising cost of local child care. Candidates can reach them with real empathy and clear, common-sense solutions. This gives lifelong Democrats the cultural permission they need to cross over and vote for a local conservative.

3. The Pure Independent (“The Outsider”)

Suburban independent voters are the fastest-growing and most unpredictable part of the electorate. They despise both major political parties and instantly tune out anything that sounds like standard political talking points.

Independents are laser-focused on real local infrastructure and immediate public safety. They worry about suburban property crime, regional drug trafficking, and whether their local water lines and power grids are going to hold up. The candidates must be seen as a practical, common-sense outsiders who don’t care about national culture wars and share their no-holds-barred message through hyper-local digital communities.

The Un-Campaign must generate video content on a daily basis and commit to a strict schedule, putting out raw, real-time local observations every single day.

Candidates must deploy distinct content strategies tailored directly to where each voter group hangs out online. For Wary Conservatives, the candidate will focus on government incompetence and waste by broadcasting unedited, on-site project analyses directly into closed civic groups and localized online forums. To reach Disaffected Democrats, the message shifts toward the everyday cost of living and basic survival, utilizing high-empathy, kitchen-table economic discussions shared in non-political community spaces. Finally, to win over Pure Independents, the content will highlight physical safety and local infrastructure through practical structural breakdowns, distributed across hyper-local social media networks.

Because this approach relies on free social media algorithms and raw authenticity, the absolutely best weapon is surprise. Traditional campaigns are slow, bureaucratic, and restricted by rigid ad schedules. When a conservative candidate deploys a high-frequency, unscripted Un-Campaign, the opposition’s highly paid consultants literally do not know how to respond. They are trained to fight traditional TV ads, not a fast-moving, organic network powered by real people.

To keep this advantage, the exact operational tactics, targets of exposés, specific video scripts, and local distribution channels must be kept completely confidential.

If the opposition finds out about this methodology early in the race, they will change their own media buys or coordinate counter-narratives to block the candidate’s organic reach. By keeping strict operational security about how content is built and where it is posted, a down-ballot Un-Campaign ensures that by the time the establishment realizes they are losing, the bond with the voters is already unbreakable.

Run Different. Win Lean.

The era of winning local elections through expensive, out-of-touch consulting firms is over. Voters are starving for something real, and they care about the immediate, practical pressures of daily life.

By using the Un-Campaign approach, conservative candidates can reduce the financial barriers to running for public office. By turning themselves into an unscripted, high-frequency media channel using a smartphone, they can build an unshakeable bond with voters without wasting money on traditional political agencies.

This approach simply requires a candidate who is willing to show up, film the truth, and deploy a hyper-targeted, confidential digital strategy.

The broad strategies outlined in this article are only the tip of the spear. If you are running for the House of Representatives, or are a candidate at the state or local level, I would be happy to discuss this approach. All of my services are 100% free for legitimate candidates and available as time permits.

Jack Gleason is a conservative, common-sense, political consultant at the municipal, state, House, Senate and presidential level since 2009. His email is JackGleason9@protonmail.com and his always-free Substack is jackgleason.substack.com 

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President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is under heavy fire for reportedly cozying up to the American Business Immigration Coalition, a powerful lobby representing approximately 1,700 employers who rely on illegal alien labor.

The controversy comes as some House Republicans are already under fire from conservatives for backing legislation critics say would amount to de facto amnesty for certain illegal alien farm workers, raising concerns among the MAGA base that Washington is beginning to soften on President Trump’s mass deportation agenda.

According to a report by The Washington Post, DHS officials recently met with the American Business Immigration Coalition (ABIC), a bipartisan organization that says it represents approximately 1,700 employers.

The report also said DHS has held discussions with other business coalitions seeking regular dialogue over the impact of immigration enforcement on employers.

The Washington Post reported:

The Department of Homeland Security under Secretary Markwayne Mullin is cultivating a relationship with business groups whose concerns about losing workers to aggressive immigration enforcement had been rebuffed by former secretary Kristi L. Noem.

Earlier this month, DHS officials met at the agency’s Washington headquarters with the Essential Worker Immigration Coalition, which represents the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and major trade associations that depend on immigrant labor, according to several people with knowledge of the meeting, which has not been previously reported.

It was the first such meeting to be reported since President Donald Trump reentered the White House. Business groups say they have been trying to gain a foothold at the agency since Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests began to spike last year.

Mullin did not attend the early July meeting — which included officials from ICE and Customs and Border Protection, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly — and the gathering did not produce an immediate change in policies. But two of the people said DHS officials said they want to meet regularly with the group to assess the impact of Trump’s mass deportation campaign and business needs.

[…]

A DHS spokesperson declined to comment on the meeting; coalition members declined to comment publicly.

Conservative commentator Tomi Lahren didn’t hold back, taking to X to rip into the reported meetings and call out sellout politicians pushing for covert amnesty schemes:

“Again, I am very concerned to hear that our new DHS secretary Markwayne is reportedly meeting with big labor groups who are afraid of losing their cheap illegal alien labor and meanwhile some republicans in congress are simultaneously pushing amnesty. WTF? I thought this administration stood for America first, and the American worker? As a Trump voter, I know I personally don’t give one shit if big corps are pissy they risk losing their serf labor class to rightful deportations. This is downright infuriating.”

Former Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino, who was called by Mullin as “irrelevant,” responded, “Those big labor groups working with deep state government end up screwing the taxpayer. Enough!”

Those big labor groups working with deep state government end up screwing the taxpayer. Enough!!!!! @TomiLahren they haven’t yet got the message I guess!!!!!!! @BreannaMorello

— Gregory K Bovino (@GregoryKBovino) July 21, 2026

The National Police Association responded to Lahren’s comment, stating, “He met with the American Business Immigration Coalition, which represents approximately 1,700 employers of illegals. His job is to meet with the 1700 employers of illegals directly. And arrest them.”

Sadly, I don’t think he plans to do that.

You gotta hand it to Democrats, they opened the floodgates for the Third World by the millions and now we’re supposed to be impressed with around 350,000 deportations. https://t.co/zjsE2TyA4D

— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) July 21, 2026

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, this isn’t the first time Secretary Mullin has found himself in hot water with the America First crowd. Just days ago, Mullin was scrambling for damage control after reports he went around President Trump to suspend certain ICE traffic stops.

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