Suspicious letters containing white powdery substance sent to election offices ahead of the midterms.

The letters were sent to Secretary of State’s offices in Louisiana, Ohio, and Oklahoma.

NBC News reported:

Secretaries of state’s offices in Ohio, Louisiana and Oklahoma were sent packages this week with mysterious powders, just weeks before the offices are set to oversee the midterm elections.

Oklahoma and Louisiana reported receiving the envelopes, while Ohio said U.S. Postal Service investigators intercepted a package destined for it.

The national groups representing secretaries of state and state election directors expressed concern about the suspicious letters in a letter Wednesday.

“As we have each stated in the past, threats against election officials and workers have no place in our democracy. Those who administer our elections should never fear for their safety while carrying out their essential duties,” the National Association of Secretaries of State and the National Association of State Election Directors said in a joint statement.

“The FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service are investigating a series of suspicious mailings sent to various addresses nationwide, including Secretary of State offices and their related election offices. Some of the letters contained an unknown substance and we are working closely with our law enforcement partners to respond to each incident. We are also working with our partners to identify the individual or individuals responsible for the letters. This FBI will continue to safeguard the public and secure elections for American citizens.”

“Election officials take these matters seriously and work closely with law enforcement and security partners to protect their personnel and facilities,” the statement added.

BREAKING: FBI confirms to @FoxNews they’re investigating suspicious letters that were sent out nationwide with unknown substances in them, including to some offices on Capitol Hill.

FBI spox:

“The FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service are investigating a series of suspicious mailings sent to various addresses nationwide, including Secretary of State offices and their related election offices. Some of the letters contained an unknown substance and we are working closely with our law enforcement partners to respond to each incident. We are also working with our partners to identify the individual or individuals responsible for the letters. This FBI will continue to safeguard the public and secure elections for American citizens.”

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) October 15, 2026

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose said these kinds of “cowardly threats will not deter us” from delivering secure and accessible elections.

We have a duty to the citizens of Ohio to deliver secure and accessible elections, and these kinds of cowardly threats will not deter us from that mission. https://t.co/tNFceWfojb

— Frank LaRose (@FrankLaRose) October 14, 2026

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Woke Democrat pastor Adam Hamilton is hoping to defeat incumbent Republican Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) in Kansas.

A resurfaced video, however, may not help his efforts in the deep-red state,

In the summer of 2020, during the height of the violent and destructive George Floyd riots, Hamilton suggested members of his congregation at the Church of the Resurrection recognize their “White privilege” and “repent.”

Hamilton said in the video, “Like part of what I know is that, is that I grew up in a way that I’m blind to certain things in our society.”

“I just am. And I have certain benefits by virtue of being educated, White, and male, right?”

“And we don’t like to hear that, especially White folks don’t like to hear that. But there are benefits that come along with that.”

He continued, “There are benefits and privileges to my place in life. I have to recognize that. To see that. And then I have to listen. I have to listen and understand, and finally be able to see the brokenness in myself, and my indifference.”

“Before I can do anything to help anyone else, I have to have a conversion. I have to repent.”

Watch (begins at 19:14):

According to The New York Post, Hamilton has also been accused by Marshall of failing to report a pedophile, who once worked at Hamilton’s church, to law enforcement.

“Hamilton, who has served as lead pastor at Church of the Resurrection in Leawood for more than three decades, caught flak from a Democratic primary opponent for allowing the employment of Scott Moore, a church volunteer accused of molesting teenage boys at two retreats in 2005 and 2006.”

Marshall released an ad highlighting the accusation.

“What did Hamilton do when victims reported him to church leaders? Parents were ignored, and Hamilton never called the police,” the narrator says.

The ad continues, “The next fall, Hamilton welcomed him back. Free to lurk for new victims — later convicted of more child sex crimes.”

“Adam Hamilton protected a pedophile. He should never be our senator.”

Watch:

#KSPol: “A child predator working for Adam Hamilton’s megachurch. What did Hamilton do when victims reported him to church leadership? Parents were ignored … Hamilton protected a pedophile.”

Roger Marshall is up with a new #KSSen ad.

Future reservations:
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— AdImpact Politics (@AdImpact_Pol) October 3, 2026

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Judicial Watch has filed a lawsuit against the City of Detroit to force the release of records on how many dogs and cats were euthanized by Detroit Animal Care and Control while Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed ran the city’s health department.

The lawsuit, Judicial Watch, Inc. v. City of Detroit (No. 26-018170), follows an August 14 FOIA request and an October 7 follow-up that the city never answered.

Judicial Watch is demanding annual euthanasia totals from 2010 through 2025, plus every directive, memorandum, and protocol that Animal Care and Control received from El-Sayed’s office between January 2015 and December 2017.

The organization also wants the numbers after he left, so voters can compare.

As The Gateway Pundit reported in August, El-Sayed’s tenure as executive director and health officer saw nearly 4,680 dogs and cats put down.

In 2015 alone, the facility killed 1,988 dogs and 272 cats.

Former officer Brittany Roberts called the place a “dog slaughterhouse,” describing overcrowded, unsanitary conditions filled with feces, blood, and vomit, animals that were not scanned for microchips, and inadequate care.

One dog named Coco was killed by mistake while it was supposed to be in quarantine.

The city settled her whistleblower suit for $63,000.

El-Sayed has said he inherited a mess and later claimed a “humane-care turnaround.”

“The public deserves answers about Detroit’s animal euthanasia practices during El-Sayed’s tenure,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement. “With an election approaching, Detroit should stop stonewalling and disclose these records so voters can examine the facts for themselves.”

El-Sayed is a practicing Muslim.

Under his religion, dogs are not seen as man’s best friend; they are considered “impure” and “dirty.”

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The Justice Department has given California 48 hours to review a federal list of people it believes are noncitizens who were mailed ballots for the November 3 midterms, or face emergency legal action.

Acting Deputy Attorney General R. Trent McCotter sent letters Tuesday to Secretary of State Shirley Weber and Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder Dean Logan.

The department handed over a password-protected thumb drive listing individuals federal officials “believe are likely noncitizens” who received vote-by-mail ballots.

California began mailing ballots to more than 20 million registered voters on October 5.

The letters demand that officials review the list within 48 hours.

For anyone whose citizenship cannot be independently confirmed, the DOJ wants the state and county to segregate returned ballots, not cancel them, and refrain from verifying signatures or tabulating them until citizenship is determined.

Officials are told to withhold ballots for anyone on the list who has not yet been sent one.

“If you cannot implement this process by then, given the ongoing federal election, the United States will have no choice but to seek emergency relief,” the letter states.

McCotter wrote that “Allowing noncitizens to vote cancels citizen votes.”

Weber pushed back in her response.

“In July of this year, President Trump and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin made (still) unsubstantiated claims that California had 190,000 noncitizens on its voter rolls. Given the many high-profile examples of states purging U.S. citizens from their voter rolls based on DHS/SAVE data, SOS immediately requested written information about their methodology and data sources to back up their claims. They refused and provided California with nothing,” Weber said in a statement, according to a report from Fox News.

“Now the USDOJ, under threat of ‘emergency’ litigation, demands that California blindly trust this administration without any evidence or legal authority to justify its request,” she said.

Weber continued, “The USDOJ’s relentless efforts to unlawfully gain access to states’ protected voter data and purge voter rolls serve only to cause chaos and fuel public distrust in our elections. California has robust state law requirements that only U.S. citizens can register to vote and that any non-eligible registrants are removed from the State’s voter rolls. My office and California election officials remain committed — as always — to ensuring a fair and smooth 2026 General Election.”

Logan’s office has not opened the drive, citing security concerns.

“The letter included a USB drive purportedly containing the referenced records, along with a handwritten note providing a password. We have not accessed the drive because doing so would conflict with established data privacy and information security protocols. We do not consider the device a secure medium. Additionally, the letter does not specify the number of individuals involved or describe the information contained in the records,” Logan said in a statement.

Late last month, the Supreme Court allowed states to use the Department of Homeland Security’s Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system to check voter eligibility for now, after a lower court blocked the expanded version.

Trump signed an executive order directing the creation of a federal voter-registration list and new restrictions on mail voting.

A DOJ spokesperson said the request “should not be controversial” because “only American citizens may vote in federal elections” and “it is a federal crime for noncitizens to vote.”

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On Monday, accomplished filmmaker Ava DuVernay stood before the BFI London Film Festival audience and declared, “Hollywood is over.”

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Oscar-nominated documentarian shared that the era of institutional control was coming to an end.

“It’s done. They’re buying each other, they’re collapsing. It’s all changed,” DuVernay said. “They’re selling studio lots. The idea of going to Sundance and getting a three-picture deal from Harvey Weinstein? He’s in prison.”

Instead of being financed by the major media companies, DuVernay suggested crowdfunding through different “kinds of apps and sites” as an alternative.

“Everything has changed,” said DuVernay.

The question she attempted to answer was, “What can we build now that’s new, that serves more kinds of people and kinds of stories?”

These comments come amid commercial success for low-budget independent releases in 2026.

Curry Barker’s $522 million hit “Obsession” and Kane Parker’s $400 million psychological horror “Backrooms” were two of 2026’s most successful films.

But these films were not products of established film companies. They were from small indie creators.

Shooting on relatively small budgets, selling directly to audiences, and sidestepping the usual Hollywood studios allowed them to produce very successful cinema.

They are not the only ones stepping away from traditional media.

Reporting from Politico in August 2026 revealed a large physical exodus from the 30 Mile Zone around Los Angeles’ studios. Film companies are moving operations to Illinois, Georgia, and New York.

Financial incentives to leave California have driven many successful filmmakers away from the Golden State.

A June investigation by The Hollywood Reporter found that many of these film locations have been taken over by small content creators or influencers.

DuVernay confirmed the decentralization of the industry.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, she shared that “more and more, it will be about artists and audiences connecting directly without a middle man or company that brings them together.”

DuVernay’s documentary “14th” has a limited theatrical release on Nov. 27, 2026, followed by its global streaming premiere on Netflix on Dec. 4, 2026.

The movie examines the 14th Amendment, the context behind its ratification, and the battles surrounding it today.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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President Donald Trump announced Thursday that the scheduled firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan will not be livestreamed.

The Pentagon had previously planned to let the public watch.

The immediate families of the victims will be allowed to attend and watch in person if they choose to do so.

President Trump announced the decision Thursday in a post on Truth Social.

The post read in full:

Nidal Malik Hasan, a former U.S. Army Major turned traitor, is a very bad and evil man, who killed 13 people, including a pregnant soldier, who died, along with her unborn son, and injured, very seriously, 32 more innocent people. Barack Hussein Obama’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) intercepted electronic communications between Hasan and the radical Yemeni-American cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki. When reviewed by his FBI terrorism task force, investigators concluded that Hasan’s emails were not a threat. This assessment of the Obama Administration’s actions was later considered to be a key intelligence failure. With all of that being said, I think streaming the execution for all to see might have been a strong deterrent for the World to witness how America deals with Terrorists and SCUM like Hasan but, many very good and well meaning people would rather not watch him die, through streaming, or through any other visual device. He will die, as scheduled, by firing squad, but this event will not be streamed. That said, the execution may be viewed in person by the immediate families of the victims, if they so choose. They deserve to witness JUSTICE! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

Hasan’s execution is set for 1 p.m. CST on December 3 at Fort Hood, Texas.

It is set to be the first military execution in 65 years and the first by an Army firing squad since World War II.

Trump approved the death sentence on October 2 after the appellate process upheld the conviction.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recommended using a firing squad.

Hasan, a former Army major, opened fire on November 5, 2009, at the Soldier Readiness Processing Center at Fort Hood, killing 13 and wounding more than 30.

He was convicted in 2013 of 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder and sentenced to death.

The Supreme Court declined to review his case last March.

Hasan has been held on military death row at Fort Leavenworth.

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