A Cook County judge ordered the 19-year-old Palatine, Illinois, Taco Bell cashier held without bail on Wednesday after he was charged with plotting a racist mass shooting at a Hindu temple in Aurora, but the same order ensures that he will continue receiving hormone injections for gender transition while he sits in jail awaiting trial.

Alexandros Paporakis, a self-described white supremacist and neo-Nazi from Palatine, Illinois, was ordered held in custody by a Cook County judge on Wednesday, October 14, as he awaits trial on felony charges stemming from an alleged plot to massacre worshippers at a Hindu temple in Aurora.

But the judge also issued a healthcare order addressing the suspect’s ongoing medical treatment, including hormone injections associated with gender transition, according to the New York Post.

The order also addresses medications for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), depression, and anxiety.

The ruling has brought renewed attention to the provision of medical treatment for defendants accused of violent crimes while they remain in taxpayer-funded custody.

Meanwhile, disturbing details emerging from the investigation suggest the alleged attack could have turned into a bloodbath if the suspect’s weapon had not malfunctioned.

According to prosecutors, Paporakis spent years fantasizing about carrying out mass murder and had allegedly identified the Hindu temple as a target months before the planned attack.

Investigators say the teenager traveled to the Sri Venkateswara Swami Temple in Aurora on Sunday, October 11, armed with an AR-style rifle.

Prosecutors allege that Paporakis attempted to fire at a man from a vehicle, but the rifle jammed, preventing the shooting.

The suspect allegedly fled the scene.

According to WBEZ Chicago, prosecutors say Paporakis had planned a mass shooting for approximately two years and had focused on the Hindu temple for the previous two months.

Even more chilling, prosecutors revealed that Paporakis allegedly circulated an eight-page manifesto titled Why I Fought: A.K.A. (Aurora Shooter’s Manifesto).

In the document, the suspect reportedly described himself as:

“a sociopathic white supremacist Neo Nazi filled with hatred, fantasizing about mass murder nearly every day.”

The manifesto allegedly expressed violent hatred toward Indians, Jews, and Black Americans, with plans to kill as many people as possible.

Authorities also revealed that Paporakis worked at a Taco Bell restaurant, where coworkers became alarmed by his extremist statements and increasingly disturbing behavior.

One coworker contacted authorities after receiving threatening communications about the alleged attack.

Police subsequently searched the suspect’s residence and recovered an unserialized AR-style rifle, loaded magazines, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, tactical equipment, and materials displaying Nazi symbolism.

Investigators also discovered a gas canister marked with an anti-South Asian racial slur, according to Reuters.

Paporakis now faces one count of making a terrorist threat, a Class X felony, and one count of unlawful possession of a weapon involving a rifle with a barrel shorter than 16 inches, a Class 3 felony.

The FBI is assisting local authorities with the investigation.

The teenager’s next scheduled court appearance is October 30.

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Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan of Alaska did not hold back during Thursday night’s high-stakes “Debate for the State” in Anchorage when he spotted his Democrat opponent, former Rep. Mary Peltola, appearing to read from scripted notes or answers.

Sullivan appeared suspicious after observing Peltola consulting her notes and suggested that her responses looked suspiciously prepared.

“We weren’t supposed to get these questions beforehand, were we?” Sullivan asked the moderators from Alaska Public Media and Alaska’s News Source.

The moderator replied firmly: “Neither one of you got questions beforehand. Absolutely not.”

Sullivan didn’t let it go. “Okay, I’m just watching my opponent read from questions that seem to be answered.”

Peltola’s response was pure Democrat confidence: “I’m prepared.”

WATCH:

Sen. Dan Sullivan: We weren’t supposed to get these questions beforehand, were we?

Moderator: “Neither one of you got questions beforehand. Absolutely not.

Sullivan: Okay, I’m just watching my opponent read from questions that seem to be answered.

Mary Peltola: I’m prepared. https://t.co/sckOlkwsAx

— CSPAN (@cspan) October 16, 2026

This is the same race where The Gateway Pundit previously reported on Peltola’s campaign descending into “complete chaos” after she abruptly fired multiple senior staffers just before the August primary, turning to a Chicago firm tied to Obama adviser David Axelrod.

TGP also covered former acting DNI Ric Grenell calling out Peltola as a “hypocrite” after reports that former aides accused her of using homophobic slurs, including toward her own gay staffers, along with other crude language.

And TGP documented the Democrat-linked effort to place a similarly named candidate on the ballot in an apparent bid to confuse voters and siphon support from the real Sen. Sullivan.

Peltola, who lost her House seat to Republican Nick Begich in 2024 after briefly holding it, is the national Democrats’ top recruit to flip this seat. The race is viewed as pivotal for Senate control, with President Trump making a rare campaign stop in Alaska just days earlier to boost Sullivan.

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The always great Victor Davis Hanson recently appeared on the Sean Hannity show and talked about the apparent shift in some of the midterm races that seems to be benefiting Republicans.

Hanson noted that this already does not look like a ‘blue wave’ election.

He also points out that the polls have been off in many recent election cycles, almost always underestimating the Republican vote.

Transcript via Real Clear Politics:

SEAN HANNITY: All right, joining us now with reaction to the race in Maine and other critical races across the country. We have Hoover Institution’s senior fellow, Victor Davis Hanson, is here. I will tell you, if you look at Mike Rogers and his debate, Darline Graham and her debate, Susan Collins and her debate, Bruce Blakeman and his debate, Republicans are crushing it in these debates, and I think they’re helping themselves a lot.

OK, if you believe the polls, Abdul El-Sayed would have won the primary in Michigan by 20 points. He won by barely a point. If you believe the polls between 20 and 30 points, Francesca Hong would have won. I am telling people not to trust the polls, but I will ask you, the great Victor Davis Hanson, as you look at Maine and New Hampshire and North Carolina, Georgia, Michigan, as you look at Kansas, Nebraska, Ohio, Texas, Alaska, what are you seeing? Iowa would be another one.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Something’s definitely going on. I mean, for a supposed blue wave, Sean, there’s these races in Minnesota and Maine and Michigan and Oregon and New York, whether Senate or gubernatorial, they shouldn’t be so close. And when you add in the second factor that in the last three elections, the pollsters have been off by three to five to the detriment of Republicans.

So I think it’s a question of time. Can the Republicans get the right message out, and they’re doing pretty well? Do they have enough time, and do they have enough money? And one thing that’s in their favor is, at least they’re authentic. They’re not erasing their social media accounts. They’re not trying to double back and say, I really didn’t mean that.

They are what they are. But their opponents are starting to panic because, basically, they have an agenda that’s about 40% approval, and they know it, and they know if they can get elected, then they will announce what they said in the campaign and reveal their true self. So the challenge for the Republicans is, can I show the people who they really are?

And these are not authentic people during the campaign, and they stand for positions and issues and ideologies that are incompatible in the United States.

Watch the video:

This is the challenge for Republicans: Victor Davis Hanson pic.twitter.com/uEIWU6Vd3z

— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) October 15, 2026

This is unlike previous midterms.

Democrats have gone over the edge with a radical new element.

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In an unearthed video, Michigan Secretary of State and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jocelyn Benson can be seen campaigning for her first run for secretary of state in Michigan in 2010. The event was held in Houghton, Michigan, at a Democratic Party office. At the time, Benson was new to politics, but somehow caught the attention of George Soros, who apparently saw someone he aligned with in his quest to destroy everything good and decent about America and helped fund her campaign. To date, 4 members of the Soros family, including George Soros, have contributed a whopping $33,120 to Jocelyn Benson’s current 2026 Michigan gubernatorial campaign.

Jocelyn Benson is seen standing in front of what appears to be a kitchen, addressing a crowd of fellow Democrats. During her introduction, Benson said she was raised in Pennsylvania and that, after graduating from Harvard Law School in 2004, she worked for the Southern Poverty Law Center in Alabama. Although their stated mission is to root out “hate groups,” many believe the SPLC is in and of itself a “hate group,” used to target conservative groups by mislabeling and mischaracterizing them in an effort to destroy their credibility.

Benson doesn’t explain exactly how she became an FBI informant through her undercover work for the SPLC, but she makes sure to include this little tidbit in her resume when addressing potential voters.

“And I moved to Alabama after college to work for the Southern Poverty Law Center and investigated hate groups down there undercover, for the FBI and other folks that we informed of hate activities in the South,” Benson told the group.

She continued, “And, you know, living in Alabama, I really developed just a commitment to continuing the work that had been done both in Alabama and throughout our country.”

Watch the awkward exchange here:

During her first Soros-funded run at MI SOS, @JocelynBenson explained how she was “working undercover for the FBI” (likely trying to entrap her political enemies) while working for the Southern Poverty Law Center to “investigate hate groups in the South.”

Did Jocelyn give @GovWhitmer the idea to use the FBI set up innocent men to help boost her horrible poll numbers?

P.S. Why won’t MI media ask her if she approved the checks the SPLC was writing to the KKK while she was on their board?

— PattyMI (@PattyLovesTruth) October 15, 2026

Jocelyn Benson must have really impressed the far-left radicals running the SPLC, as she was chosen to become a board member in 2014.

Jocelyn Benson served on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s board of directors from 2014 until she became Michigan Secretary of State in 2019—precisely the years covered by the April 2026 federal indictment that charges the SPLC with wire fraud, bank fraud, and money-laundering conspiracy. Prosecutors allege the organization secretly funneled more than $3 million in donor money to informants inside the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, National Alliance, and other extremist groups, routing the payments through shell companies and prepaid cards while publicly fundraising to “dismantle” those same organizations.

The indictment specifically identifies one paid informant, labeled F-37, as a member of the online leadership chat that planned the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville. According to the charging document, F-37 attended the event at the SPLC’s direction, made racist postings under SPLC supervision, helped coordinate transportation for attendees, and was paid more than $270,000. Benson has described her board role as “mostly ceremonial,” but the indictment’s timeline places her on the board throughout the period these payments were allegedly made—including the years surrounding the deadly Charlottesville violence that the SPLC later used to drive a massive surge in donations.

To date, no mainstream media outlet has asked Jocelyn about her role as a SPLC board member or whether she wrote the checks allegedly paid to the undercover informants. Since she seems to know so much about being an informant, it may be worth asking, especially since she is running to become Michigan’s top elected official.

h/t Anna Hoffman

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It’s Not a “Socialist Revolution.” It’s Misery, Starvation, and Death.

The following is from the Trump team.

A coordinated campaign is underway to sanitize, normalize, and romanticize one of history’s most dangerous and lethal ideologies. Newsweek is currently running a “little red test” that asks about oat milk, shorter workweeks, and tote bags — then scores readers on how ready they are for an “American socialist revolution.”

There’s nothing lighthearted about the reality that campaign is trying to hide. Socialist and communist regimes have killed some 100 million people through engineered famines, mass executions, and slave labor camps.

That same ideology is now being sold to Americans by the Democrat Socialists of America and the Radical Left that dominates the Democrat Party. Their agenda — Medicare for All, open borders, mass amnesty, abolishing police and prisons, and the Green New Deal chief among them — carries a staggering price.

A new report from the Council of Economic Advisers puts the ten-year cost of the socialist agenda at $49 trillion, or as much as $400,000 per American household — financed by massive tax hikes that slash wages by nearly 30%, shrink economic output, and drive inflation sky-high. Mortgage rates would soar, millions of jobs would vanish, and productivity would collapse as empty shelves, rationed care, and the slow grind of state control replace the abundance of American exceptionalism.

Socialism is a sick, perverse system that produces misery and death on an incomprehensible scale. Democrats are deliberately attempting to hasten the destruction of American prosperity, security, and freedom — and if given the chance, they’ll gleefully turn America into a third-world country.

President Donald J. Trump is said it best: “America the Beautiful will NEVER be a Communist Country!!!”

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A 19-year-old biological male who identifies as a woman and worked as a substitute teacher in Loudoun County Public Schools has been convicted of threatening to go on a “murder spree” at a Virginia high school, kill multiple people, and cannibalize one of the victims.

The Gateway Pundit first reported on Dollery’s arrest in April 2026, when the biological male who identifies as female was taken into custody after the Discord threats and “kill list” references. At the time, Loudoun County Sheriff Mike Chapman publicly questioned the school district’s hiring practices, noting the risk of placing 18- and 19-year-olds with only a high school diploma in charge of students.

Hadyn James Dollery, who goes by the name “Sophie” and used the Discord handle “Cotton Candy,” was found guilty Friday on four of the five counts he faced, Loudoun Now reported.

A Loudoun County jury of seven men and five women convicted the former non-licensed substitute teacher of two counts of threatening to injure or kill a person, one count of making threats on school grounds, and one count of threatening to damage a building. He was acquitted on a third threat count.

Prosecutors said Dollery sent the messages over Discord at 1:49 a.m. on April 15, the day after his boyfriend broke up with him. Senior Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Dircia Schubert told jurors that Dollery threatened to kill the ex, the ex’s family, and members of his own family.

He also vowed to carry out a “murder spree” at the ex’s school, John Champe High School, and described cannibalizing one of the victims after killing them. In another message, he asked the ex to return a shirt “if I’m deemed fit to work after this s—t I’m about to do,” according to Breitbart.

This is the same Loudoun County that became a national symbol of progressive education policy gone wrong. Parents still remember the school system’s handling of the 2021 sexual assault of a female student by a biological male in a girls’ bathroom, followed by the district’s attempts to downplay the incident and the subsequent prosecution of the victim’s father for speaking out.

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