Liberal protesters gathered on Capitol Hill despite winning big in the 2026 midterm elections.

I found a group of what looked like a couple hundred people on the Capitol Grounds, holding signs and setting up a mini stage to blame everything on President Trump as usual.

This was happening at the same time as Congressional orientation for incoming Senators and House Members; many of them are liberal politicians and even some members of the DSA.

The protest revolved mainly around one of liberals’ favorite issues, Climate Change.

Of course, the left will somehow always find a way to turn any issue into an opportunity to show their TDS on full display and complain about President Trump, which is what they did here.

There was a protest on Capitol Hill the same day as the congressional freshman orientation:

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— Myles Morell (@MorellMedia) November 9, 2026

The average person at these protests is between the ages of 50-70, despite Democrats having a substantial advantage in the youth vote.

Are there more older people at these protests because they have nothing better to do?

As always, DC protesters bring custom signs that say the most interesting things. Never a dull moment in the swamp:

Spotted some interesting signs at the Capitol.

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— Myles Morell (@MorellMedia) November 13, 2026

Democrats won their largest majorities in both chambers in decades. They have a clear mandate in Congress, yet protesters are still angry and showing up.

Members of FLARE USA were also in attendance at this protest. The Gateway Pundit has reported on this organization, their obsession with impeaching President Trump, and their protest tactics that involved yelling at and harassing people that they disagree with.

FLARE even has a sign at their encampment tent that reads “party at FLARE when he’s dead.” They are referring to President Trump.

One big question that protesters in DC should be asking themselves is: do they even think these protests are accomplishing anything?

More interesting signs spotted at the Capitol.

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— Myles Morell (@MorellMedia) November 13, 2026

Now that Democrats have taken back Congress and will likely spend the next two years going after President Trump and his cabinet, are there going to be more protests or fewer protests?

Democrats won the midterms, and these people still aren’t satisfied. They never are.

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is expected to announce soon that he will disband the Strategic Response Group within the New York City Police Department.

The unit has two functions — counterterrorism and the containment of violent protests. The second made it a target as Mamdani was campaigning for his office in 2025, when he promised protesters he would no longer make the police a thorn in their side.

According to Politico, Mamdani wants to remove police officers from dealing with violent protests, and instead rely on a civilian unit.

The plan puts police in a backup role in case the softer approach to dealing with violent mobs does not produce peace and harmony as expected.

Mamdani’s Office of Community Safety is a likely home for the unit that will swaddle protesters in de-escalation, Politico quoted a source as saying.

A City Hall representative said Mamdani is going to do what he promised.

“As the Mayor has said, our administration will disband the Strategic Response Group and separate protest response from counterterrorism,” representative Dora Pekec said. “We will have more to share soon.”

Mamdani said in September that “the SRG were created a little more than a decade ago with an intention first of dealing with threats, terroristic threats to the city.”

“And what it has eventually become is both dealing with counterterrorism and responses to exercising First Amendment rights. I do not believe that those purposes need to be dual purposes. I believe that we should have a focus on counterterrorism that is separate from our response to the use of First Amendment,” he said.

City Council member Chi Ossé, a democratic socialist, has introduced legislation to disband the unit.

The New York City Police Benevolent Association pushed back on the decision in a post on its Facebook page.

“Mayor Mamdani has spent years scoring political points by singling out and demonizing one particular group of police officers,” PBA President Patrick Hendry said in the post.

“If he’s now planning to replace them with civilians, he should be honest: SRG’s dual role was never the real issue. He and his radical allies just don’t want the NYPD involved in policing demonstrations at all,” he said.

“Ever since we fought the city’s dangerous federal lawsuit settlement, we have warned that forcing cops to sit on the sidelines until a demonstration has already turned violent puts both police officers and the public at greater risk. No matter what changes he makes, the mayor can’t be foolish enough to believe they will satisfy his base,” he wrote.

The Biden-era settlement he referenced came after rioting in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd, when the NYPD was sued for its response to the violence.

“’Disband SRG’ was always code tor ‘Disband the whole NYPD,’ and they won’t stop until they achieve that goal,” he wrote.

In March, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said that of the 4,255 protests at which NYPD officers were present in 2025, the SRG was at 245 of them, which was about 6 percent, according to Fox News.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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A mother of three was beaten to death aboard the MSC Seascape Cruise Ship shortly after it departed from Galveston, Texas, last Sunday.

The victim, identified as Susan Watford, of Tyler, Texas, was discovered dead in her cabin by a ship housekeeper.

Federal authorities arrested her husband, 48-year-old Jason Watford, and charged him with murder.

According to reports, Susan and Jason got into an argument at a restaurant aboard the cruise ship just hours after it departed the port.

The couple continued arguing after they returned to their cabin, and that’s when Jason Watford beat and choked his wife to death.

Jason Watford told federal authorities that he “snapped” and choked his wife for four of five minutes after striking her multiple times.

Court records revealed that Jason Watford previously received 15 months’ probation for assaulting his wife in 2024.

Susan Watford’s mother begged her daughter not to go on the cruise ship with her abusive husband, People reported.

Hours later, Susan Watford was murdered.

KHOU reported that the Galveston County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled Susan Watford’s death a homicide caused by blunt force trauma.

ABC 7 reported:

A family member of Susan Watford told ABC News they are remembering the woman killed aboard the MSC Seascape Cruise Ship as a devoted mother who had a difficult upbringing and left the Amish community.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation identified Susan Watford as the victim found dead aboard the cruise ship shortly after it had departed from the Galveston port on Monday.

Susan’s husband, 48-year-old Jason Watford, has been identified by authorities as the suspect in the case. Watford was arrested on Monday and appeared in a Galveston federal court on Tuesday.

According to the criminal complaint filed in the Southern District of Texas Galveston Division, Watford told investigators he and his wife had some kind of argument at a restaurant on Sunday evening.

After that, Watford stated, according to the complaint, that they returned to their cabin where their argument continued to escalate.

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REMINDER: After Years of Coverup and Lies, the CIA Finally Admitted Knowing About the Fraud Embedded in Election Systems

In June, the CIA finally declassified a report showing that the CIA did have intelligence that electronic voting machines could manipulate elections.  They had this information for years and withheld it from the public.

They called you a conspiracy theorist. Then they released the paper that blows up their own story.

The CIA just released a document that contradicts the CIA. Their own file on Venezuela and Smartmatic.

Their own file called Smartmatic a U.S. national-security threat in 2006. It said Chávez wanted to stop a sitting American president. It described a 2012 Venezuela rigging plan: targeted machines, a set margin, built to beat an audit. The CIA’s source reported Chavez “congratulated” the team for rigging the election with the previously set margin. Then the CIA wrote “no large-scale fraud” next to it.

Eleven years later, Smartmatic showed up in the U.S. to build L.A. County’s system for $282M — America’s largest election jurisdiction — just in time for the 2020 election. Now its executives are federally charged with bribery and money laundering on that contract.

And we are the conspiracy theorists??

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— Kari Lake (@KariLake) October 2, 2026

Here is a nice summary found at Sofia Karstens Substack entitled: “The CIA’s Own Document Contradicts the CIA“:

In June 2026, the CIA declassified a five-page summary of intelligence reporting on Venezuela’s electronic voting manipulation capabilities, spanning 2004 to 2020. The document is heavily redacted. What survived redaction is still enough to raise questions the document itself doesn’t answer: if this much was worth declassifying, what’s still being withheld? And why does the agency’s document undermine its own baseline finding?

First, a 2006 National Security Council threat assessment evaluated Smartmatic’s acquisition of the U.S. voting systems company Sequoia as a “moderate overall threat to US national security interests.” The assessment rested on two pillars: intelligence indicating Venezuelan government intent to influence U.S. politics, and documented evidence that Venezuela had manipulated its own electoral systems. That finding led directly to pressure from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, which forced Smartmatic to divest Sequoia by 2007.

Additionally, intelligence reporting from April 2004 indicated Hugo Chávez stated his objective was to prevent the reelection of a sitting U.S. president – language the document says the IC treated as evidence of intent to influence U.S. domestic politics, not merely Venezuelan politics.

Lastly, prior to Venezuela’s 2012 presidential election, intelligence reporting described Chávez’s intelligence services – military counterintelligence and the Bolivarian Intelligence Service – as working with the National Electoral Council and Smartmatic to develop a specific manipulation plan: deploying altered machines to roughly 300 voting centers in pro-Chávez strongholds to secure a margin of about 1.5 million votes. Sources reportedly said Chávez congratulated his team afterward for “successfully implementing” it. Separately, September 2020 reporting on Venezuela’s National Assembly election described a technical method: creating a second, parallel set of “virtual machines” that would replicate legitimate vote data while substituting manipulated results, engineered specifically to survive standard audit procedures.

That is a documented election-manipulation plan, and a documented manipulation method, from the same company whose voting systems now run some of the largest election jurisdictions in the United States.

The baseline assessment problem makes the document even harder to take at face value. Despite reporting a detailed 2012 manipulation plan, the CIA’s stated baseline assessment – repeated twice in five pages – “maintained that large-scale electronic fraud did not occur.” The stated reasoning: pre-election polling had Chávez ahead by roughly 10 points, government spending rose 24 percent before the vote, the opposition conceded, and CIA’s own quantitative analysis found no irregular voting patterns.

Notice what ISN’T doing the work in that reasoning: none of it is forensic examination of the machines or the vote data themselves. It’s circumstantial; polling, spending, concession. A candidate can win comfortably by legitimate means and have intelligence services simultaneously execute a manipulation plan for a smaller margin; the document offers no forensic finding that rules out the latter, only inference that it wasn’t necessary. The document’s own 2013 “Devil’s Advocacy” analysis – an internal exercise built specifically to stress-test the baseline conclusion – acknowledged “conflicting” reporting and “limited insight into key elements of the electronic voting system”.

That same company now holds dominion (no pun intended) over the largest U.S. election jurisdiction. In June 2018, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously awarded Smartmatic USA a contract, capped at $282,097,321, to build LA County’s new “Voting Solutions for All People” (VSAP) ballot-marking system – the same Smartmatic named throughout the CIA’s Venezuela reporting. VSAP was certified and deployed in time for the 2020 presidential election, and Smartmatic has continued servicing it through 2024, by the company’s own account. LA County is the largest single election jurisdiction in the United States.

What are the odds the CIA developed this technology?  What are the odds these machines flipped numerous US elections?  What are the odds this technology built for fraud was used in the recent mid-terms by the Democrats to steal the election?

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Earlier today, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent lashed out at The Wall Street Journal for publishing information on his home address. After recent threats by Iran, Bessent and his family have been moved to a secure US military base.

Scott Bessent on CNBC:

Bessent: “One of the reasons I had to move is because the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) printed a PHOTO OF MY HOUSE the DAY I bought it that has GEO-LOCATE on it! In a highly irresponsible way, the editor, we PLEADED with her NOT to print the location of my house, she DID ANYWAY.”

“We’re NOT gonna be cowered…the IRGC are like a dangerous, cornered animal.”

“I followed Secret Service instructions and moved from my home to a military base.”

Here is the video via MAGA Vanguard 47.

HOLY SMOKES. Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent just said “F THE IRANIAN LEADERSHIP” and that he had to move to a military base because the WSJ published his HOUSE ONLINE

“One of the reasons I had to move is because the WSJ printed a PHOTO OF MY HOUSE the DAY I bought it that has GEO-LOCATE on it! In a highly irresponsible way, the editor, we PLEADED with her NOT to print the location of my house, she DID ANYWAY.”

“We’re NOT gonna be cowered…the IRGC are like a dangerous, cornered animal.”

“I followed Secret Service instructions and moved from my home to a military base.”

Pray for Secretary Bessent!

The Journal ran an AERIAL VIEW of his $12.5 million home back in 2025

Bessent has led Operation Economic Outcast since August, the sanctions campaign CRUSHING Iran’s economy, which made him a top Iranian target

This week the DOJ indicted three Iranian nationals tied to nearly 20 attacks and attempted attacks across Europe and the U.S.

Rubio and Miller had to move too.

— MAGA Vanguard 47 (@magavanguard47) November 13, 2026

The Fars News Agency, an Iranian state news agency, recently posted a threatening video targeting US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and his husband and children.

This comes after The Wall Street Journal published information on Bessent’s home.

The video says Scott Bessent booked a “first-class ticket to hell” for an “unholy war” on Iran, and claims the group has the addresses of his former and current homes. It specifically warns of a “polite visitor” arriving at a South Carolina residence or a package near New York City addresses, accompanied by a pistol graphic.

Here is a copy of that video, via MEMRI:

WATCH NOW IRAN VIDEO ON BESSENT….
Iranian Video Threatens U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent And His Husband Following WSJ report – “He Booked A ‘First-Class Ticket… via @memrireports #MEMRI https://t.co/BRmhWa24QZ

— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) November 13, 2026

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