By Wayne Allyn Root

The mainstream media has convinced consumers that we have an “affordability crisis”- and that President Trump and the GOP are to blame.

This is the best example of gaslighting and brainwashing since Jim Jones convinced 918 brain-dead, brainwashed cult followers to commit mass suicide in Jonestown in 1978.

The American people can’t possibly be this gullible, naïve and delusional to drink the poison Kool-Aid.. 

Not because there isn’t an affordability crisis. There is inflation. Prices are high. Things are unaffordable. No doubt about that.

I go to the grocery store and the gas station too. I get health insurance, car insurance and home insurance bills too. I see the prices. They are high. Some might say astronomical.

More importantly, I get letters from thousands of my fans. Working class and middle class Americans are hurting. They all report, “The prices are too damn high.”

But the first raw truth no one will explain to American consumers is that prices rarely if ever in history have gone back to where they started. President Joe Biden caused this affordability crisis. Prices went through the roof under Biden.

That’s now the base. A great economic President like President Trump can keep them from skyrocketing any further, but he can’t wave a magic wand and bring them back to where they were. There is no such thing in history. The base has now been set.

Thank Joe Biden (and his real boss- Obama).

The inflation under Biden was the worst in modern history…the worst in my lifetime…and maybe the worst ever.

This is “Biden’s inflation.”

President Trump and the GOP should call it by that brand name 24/7 between now and midterms.

Trump- despite the Iran conflict and those infamous tariffs- has the rate of inflation under control. No one in the media will tell you that.

If an apple cost $1 during Trump’s first term, then it went to $4 under Joe Biden, now its $4.30 cents. That has consumers screaming and in shock. But it was never going to go back to $1. The best Trump could do was keep it from skyrocketing again. He did that. It only went up from $4 to $4.30. If we had Biden, or Kamala as president that $4.30 apple might now be $7 or $8.

But I get it. If the apple was unaffordable at $4, it’s even worse at $4.30. Especially if you have four kids and a family of six. The cost is too damn high. But you can’t blame Trump. This is all Biden.

Or take the cost of gas. Yes, it’s high. No doubt about that. It averages about $4 per gallon across the USA. The Iran war is to blame. But it reached a high of $5 per gallon under Biden- and there was no war. What was Biden’s excuse?

Under Trump its only high temporarily, until the Iran conflict ends. Then with all the drilling and fracking Trump has produced, prices will go dramatically down for years to come. Big difference.

Now to the main driver of inflation, high prices and affordability: 50+ million illegal aliens. 

There are 50 million criminals inside our country, 50 million foreign invaders who illegally broke into our country. At least 50 million- some experts say there are millions more than that, maybe up to 100 million. And 25 million of these criminals who have no right to be in our country, just broke into our country during Joe Biden’s four years.

25 million new mouths to feed in only four years.

That’s where this affordability problem comes from. That’s where inflation comes from. That’s what’s causing most of these high prices.

25 million NEW mouths to feed, and 50+ million overall extra foreign invaders who don’t belong in our country – all eating up your tax money, bankrupting our budget, exploding the debt, and competing with you for every product- from gas to groceries, to clothes, to cars, to mortgages, to apartment rentals, to health insurance and car insurance.

Has anyone in power…in government…in the media every told you this before?

Take away 50 million mouths to feed…50 million extra bodies on our soil…or maybe 100 million…deport them all, or force them to self-deport…and everything goes down.

EVERYTHING.

Government spending, deficit and debt go down.

The cost of health insurance, healthcare, hospital bills, Medicare and Medicaid all go down.

The cost of public schools goes down.

We will need less cops, courts, prisons, schools, hospitals.

The cost of gas goes down with less demand. The cost of electricity goes down.

The cost of buying a car goes down. The cost of buying a home goes down.

Less spending and debt means less money printing by government. Interest rates go down.

Your cost of a mortgage goes down. Rents go down with 50+ million less renters looking for a home or apartment. Pretty soon landlords will drop rent by 25% and offer you six months free to move in.

Your taxes go down. Your property taxes go down.

Grocery costs go down. The cost of meat goes down. Milk, eggs, butter- all lower prices. The cost of diapers and baby formula drops by 50%- because it’s the illegal aliens having all the babies- kick them out, the demand for baby products drops off a cliff. So will prices.

There will be less demand for furniture- so prices will drop. Less demand for clothes. Less demand for hotel rooms. Less demand for cell phones and laptops. Less demands for high-speed Internet.

Less demand for pens, paper clips, paper. That means the cost of business goes down.

The cost of food, restaurants, and fast food declines dramatically, thereby forcing costs down dramatically…

But also, the demand for beer, alcohol and soda. It’s all cheaper. Way cheaper with 50 million less mouths to feed.

You want to throw a catered party? A wedding, birthday party, anniversary party, a business event. All of them will be cheaper- because with less people in America, and therefore less demand, businesses will all be forced to drop their prices.

Without 50+ million illegals- the costs of welfare, food stamps, disability, housing allowances, Medicaid, Obamacare and every other government program will drop dramatically.

And of course, you’ll no longer be waiting weeks or months to see a doctor or specialist. You’ll walk in the next day after you call for an appointment.

So, the next time you see “the affordability crisis” on the news, or hear it from the lips of a lying Democrat, or experience it yourself at the grocery store, or gas station…

Now you know what caused it, and who is to blame.

Now you know there are at least 50 million reasons for inflation, high prices and our affordability crisis.

50 million criminal foreign invaders who broke into this country and made your life far more expensive.

And now you know how to solve the problem- KICK THEM OUT.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Wayne Allyn Root is a CEO, businessman, best-selling author, and national conservative TV and radio host, who has interviewed President Trump 16 times. Watch Wayne’s TV shows on Real Americas Voice TV- “America Speaks” weeknights and “America’s Top Ten Countdown” on weekends, and his daily video podcast “WAR Zone Live presented by The Gateway Pundit” daily at 4 PM ET/1 PM Pacific at TheGatewayPundit.com. His website is ROOTforAmerica.com. Read Wayne’s latest fun book, “How Illegal Immigrants Have Made America Great.” It’s 100+ blank pages. The joke is on Democrats!

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Public schools in Portland, Oregon welcomed students back to school for a new year with a video message from a drag queen, because of course they did.

The far-left city knows this is inappropriate and probably did it just to ‘make a statement’ about how much they despise traditional American values.

What they seem to have forgotten is that this is a ‘public’ school, meaning that their little stunt is connected to a taxpayer-funded institution. If there are any conservatives left in Portland, or even just people who aren’t completely insane, they should consider suing the people responsible for this.

FOX News reports:

Portland Public Schools (PPS) opened an official Facebook welcome-back video for teachers, principals and staff Friday with drag performer Poison Waters, who thanked district employees as the 2026-27 school year began.

Waters, whose legal name is Kevin Cook, appeared first and was identified onscreen as an advocate, educator and host. Waters thanked district employees for their work with students.

“I’m here to wish you all a successful 2026, 2027 school year and to thank all the amazing principals, teachers, and staff for your dedication to your students and their learning,” Waters said. “While we can often get caught up in the hustle and bustle, it’s so important to remember that together we rise with excellence and purpose.”

Heritage Foundation education research fellow Corey DeAngelis, a school choice advocate, criticized the district’s decision, which was flagged by Libs of Tiktok, in a statement to Fox News Digital Monday and accused PPS of promoting gender ideology.

“Portland Public Schools’ back-to-school video is beyond parody,” DeAngelis said. “The government school system is trying to groom young impressionable minds into gender ideology. They want to brainwash other people’s kids and replace their families. The school system has overstepped their boundaries and needs to stay in its lane. The public school system is rubbing it in that they have control over children whether the parents like it or not. Kids don’t belong to the government. Parents are responsible for passing down values to their children, not government schools.”

See the video below:

Portland Public Schools welcomes students back with a drag queen

.@PPSConnect is introducing your children to alternate queer gender identities

Straight up grooming.

Absolutely SICKENING

DEFUND THEM @usedgov pic.twitter.com/SLP3TzcnnC

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 30, 2026

The people behind this knew that it was inappropriate.

They went ahead and did it anyway.

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Democrat Senate candidate Angie Nixon of Florida has been working very hard to distance herself from the DSA, but she blew her cover while campaigning in a church.

Nixon quoted the notorious cop-killer and communist Assata Shakur, who fled to Cuba after breaking out of an American prison years ago.

Leftists just love figures like Shakur, who they learn about in college from Marxist professors who paint them as victims and heroes.

Breitbart News reports:

Angie Nixon, a Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member who is vying to be the next senator of Florida, is still pulling quotes from Marxist cop killer Assata Shakur, although conveniently leaving out the origins of her words now that she secured her nomination and is trying to appeal to general election voters.

Speaking in a Miami church, Nixon — who recently attempted to distance herself from DSA despite her status as an active member — told the congregation, “We have nothing to lose but our chains.”

“Our chains are them telling us that we don’t have enough money for health care for all when they’re spending a billion dollars on a ballroom you’ll never get to dance in. Our chains are the fact that they are spending money to defeat ballot initiatives that you paid into that should have gone toward health care for low-income kids,” she said.

“Our chains are the fact that they are closing public schools so that they can subsidize their for-profit private school education for the billionaires and the millionaires, but they’re closing schools in our neighborhood,” she said, emphasizing, “Those are our chains.”

See the video below:

After trying to distance herself from DSA, Senate candidate Angie Nixon continues to declare “We have nothing to lose but our chains” while campaigning in a Miami church.

The quote originates Marxist cop killer Assata Shakur, modifying a line from the Communist Manifesto (“The… https://t.co/kvC3bpwOUE pic.twitter.com/xrZ9CAZ5Rq

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) August 31, 2026

If you listen to what Nixon is actually saying there, she offers no actual solutions to problems.

It’s all just tired, leftist talking points.

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President Trump’s former attorney Alina Habba revealed that disgraced Biden-era Special Counsel Jack Smith sent FBI agents directly to her New Jersey home and subpoenaed her as part of his sprawling investigation targeting Trump and his legal team.

Habba dropped the bombshell during an appearance on The Benny Show while discussing House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan’s criminal referral of Smith to the Justice Department.

“Jack Smith sent the FBI to my house. What are you talking about? You don’t even know that,” Habba told host Benny Johnson.

“The FBI came knocking on my door in New Jersey. I mean, people don’t know that,” she continued. “But yeah, I was subpoenaed as a lawyer. It’s crazy.”

Habba said Smith wanted to question her as part of what she described as one of the anti-Trump “hoaxes.”

Johnson appeared stunned that Smith’s team would send federal agents to the private home of one of President Trump’s attorneys.

Habba added that she generally avoided discussing the episode publicly because she did not want the attention.

“But now I’m so far gone, and we’ve won,” Habba said. “That’s literally how desperate this person was.”

WATCH:

Former Trump attorney @AlinaHabba revealed that disgraced Special Counsel Jack Smith sent FBI agents to her home in New Jersey as part of his witch hunt against Trump.
pic.twitter.com/3nLDU87Um9

— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) September 1, 2026

The Gateway Pundit has reported for years that Jack Smith’s operation was never a narrow probe of one man. It was a dragnet aimed at the entire MAGA movement.

Habba’s home visit fits the pattern.

In February 2023, CNN and others confirmed Habba had already been hauled before Smith’s Washington, D.C. grand jury in the Mar-a-Lago documents case, the third Trump lawyer forced in after Evan Corcoran and Christina Bobb.

Then came Arctic Frost.

Then came Arctic Frost.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley and Sen. Ron Johnson later exposed that Smith’s team issued hundreds of subpoenas sweeping up more than 400 Republican individuals and organizations.

They secretly obtained phone toll records of Republican senators and House members, Jim Jordan, Kevin McCarthy, Lindsey Graham, Josh Hawley, Ron Johnson, Marsha Blackburn and others, then got gag orders so the members of Congress wouldn’t even know they were being watched.

Smith later admitted under oath that the judges who signed those nondisclosure orders were not told the records belonged to sitting members of Congress.

In July, Grassley and Johnson released records showing Smith’s investigators accessed text messages involving 44 current and former members of Congress and bypassed the filter team that was supposed to protect privileged material.

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan has now referred Smith to the Justice Department over alleged false statements in his December 2025 deposition.

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A California election fraudster exposed by James O’Keefe’s undercover journalists walked away from federal court Monday without spending a single day behind bars.

Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong, 64, also known as “Anika,” was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Mark C. Scarsi to just 18 months of probation and 120 hours of community service after pleading guilty to one felony count of paying another person to register to vote in a federal election that carries up to five years behind bars, the New York Post reported.

That’s it. No prison time for illegally paying vulnerable homeless people to register to vote and sign election petitions in deep-blue California.

She took a plea, cooperated, and the sentence collapsed. Prosecutors had already agreed not to pile on additional charges tied to the same operation.

According to her plea agreement, Armstrong spent roughly 20 years as a paid “petition circulator,” collecting signatures to qualify initiatives, referendums, and recalls for the California ballot. Coordinators paid her per registered-voter signature. That is the whole racket. More registered names, more money.

Prosecutors say she treated Skid Row like a factory floor: a dense cluster of desperate people who would sign almost anything for two or three dollars, a cigarette, or a phone cord.

When signatures started getting rejected because the signers were not registered to vote, she “fixed” the problem. Starting no later than 2025, she hauled stacks of voter-registration forms from the Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters down to Skid Row and paid people to register first, then sign.

On several occasions she handed homeless people her own former Los Angeles address to write on the registration forms, paperwork that registers a person for both state and federal elections and, in California’s mail-ballot system, can send a ballot to an address she once controlled.

First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said it plainly when the case was announced:

“This is not an allegation, this is not a theory, this is an example of admitted voter fraud. We’re going to aggressively prosecute voter fraud.”

James O’Keefe and O’Keefe Media Group went undercover on Skid Row in early 2026, posing as homeless.

Hidden cameras captured petition workers offering cash, cigarettes, and other inducements for signatures and registration forms. OMG said it documented at least 28 cash-for-signature exchanges in a matter of days.

On tape, the woman identified as Brenda Brown is heard saying the quiet part out loud:

“Because you haven’t registered, I need to register you so I can get paid too. I’m paying you guys, I need to get paid.”

Essayli later confirmed the investigation started because of the O’Keefe video. O’Keefe said the footage led to the charge.

Follow-up OMG reporting showed circulators pulling real voter names and addresses from an online database and instructing people not to use their own names, “You’re not gonna use your name… I’m giving you one.” Residents later told investigators those were their addresses. They denied ever signing.

O’Keefe later returned to Skid Row after the indictment. His team reported the cash-for-fake-name pitch was still happening in broad daylight. The Gateway Pundit flagged that follow-up in June. One indictment did not shut the machine down.

Florida Sen. Rick Scott pressed the Justice Department for a wider probe after Armstrong’s plea. Sen. Ron Johnson’s investigations panel asked DOJ and the FBI to look at the petition firms O’Keefe named, including Urban Signers and 1 Moore Petition.

The Gateway Pundit separately reported claims from Skid Row residents that they were offered small cash payments tied to Los Angeles mayoral politics. Those videos were provided to the Justice Department. They are a different slice of the same rotting fruit: a city that treats the homeless as a signature and registration pool.

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“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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