President Donald Trump’s second-term drive to restore U.S. primacy in the Western Hemisphere — the “Donroe Doctrine,” his update of the Monroe Doctrine — has produced measurable results throughout his second term.

The administration’s Nov. 2025 National Security Strategy pledged to “reassert and enforce the Monroe Doctrine” and restore “American pre-eminence in the Western Hemisphere.” Officials call that the “Trump Corollary.”

After U.S. forces seized Maduro in Jan. 2026, President Trump put his official stamp on it.

“The Monroe Doctrine is a big deal, but we’ve superseded it by a lot,” he said. “They now call it the ‘Donroe Doctrine.’ … American dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again.”

The results from President Trump’s aggressive ‘America First’ policies in the hemisphere cannot be denied:

Maduro is in U.S. custody, and Venezuelan oil is no longer a rival slush fund

Operation Absolute Resolve pulled Maduro and Cilia Flores from Caracas. No U.S. personnel were killed. Independent imagery analysis later described the raid as tightly scoped, not a broad occupation as President Trump learned from the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan.

President Trump said Venezuela had hosted foreign adversaries and seized American oil assets in violation of two-century-old hemispheric rules.

In August, the White House announced a deal giving the United States a stake in concessions covering about 65 billion barrels of proven reserves, with Pentagon equity and a guaranteed U.S. offtake at cost. Oil that had moved toward China was redirected toward the U.S. market.

Chinese-linked operators lose the canal gates

President Trump entered office saying China effectively ran the Panama Canal. Secretary of State Marco Rubio made Panama his first foreign stop.

In Jan. 2026, Panama’s Supreme Court ruled the CK Hutchison concession at Balboa and Cristóbal was unconstitutional. The terminals later passed to Western operators. Panama also pulled back from Belt and Road projects. The ChiComs called the case political. The Trump administration called it a security correction.

Washington, not Beijing, backstopped Milei — and got repaid

In Oct. 2025, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent finalized a $20 billion currency-swap line with Argentina and bought pesos in the open market. Bessent described the move as an “economic Monroe Doctrine.”

President Trump tied continued help to Milei’s midterm prospects, letting Argentinians know the U.S. has their back when they choose free enterprise. Milei’s party won. By Jan. 2026, Argentina had fully repaid the limited draw. Bessent said the Exchange Stabilization Fund even booked a profit. U.S. officials also cited Argentine pledges to reduce Chinese influence and open mineral projects to American firms as successful long-term impacts of the economic intervention.

Cartels are treated as terrorist targets then obliterated

Operation Southern Spear began striking suspected drug boats in Sept. 2025. Pentagon and command statements have since listed dozens of strikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific against vessels linked to designated terrorist organizations.

In March 2026, President Trump launched the Shield of the Americas, also called the Americas Counter Cartel Coalition. By September it had grown to nearly 20 governments. Colombia joined in August. Peru joined this month after Rubio visited Lima. This shows that this anti-cartel campaign is far from a unilateral bombing. These are actions supported by a growing coalition of Latin American nations.

Honduras swung into the Trump column

In last year’s Honduran election, National Party candidate Tito Asfura narrowly defeated socialist LIBRE candidate Rixi Moncada and Liberal Party figure Salvador Nasralla.

President Trump forcefully backed Asfura and pardoned former President Juan Orlando Hernández—considered a controversial action by some. But those actions quickly paid off. After the vote, the new conservative administration in Honduras aligned with Washington on migration and drug interdiction. Honduras’s ZEDE “freedom city” zones reopened, providing a safe haven for Western capital.

But despite the massive successes of the Donroe Doctrine, there remains a sinister fifth column operating within the State Department looking to undermine President Trump’s progress and keep the status quo in place.

Ana Quintana-Lovett’s Subversive Influence

Quintana-Lovett is Deputy Assistant Secretary for Central America and Migration Affairs in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs. She previously served as a senior adviser on the Policy Planning Staff and in the Counselor’s office.

Before that she led Western Hemisphere staff for House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas), directed Latin America work at the Heritage Foundation, and worked at the Vandenberg Coalition. Her official biography also lists earlier time at the Defense Intelligence Agency. She is a former National Endowment for Democracy fellow. She has emerged as a particularly toxic gatekeeper who has wormed her way to a level of influence within the Trump administration.

On Guatemala, multiple sources have indicated that Quintana has repeatedly intervened for President Bernardo Arévalo. Arévalo is a leftist holdout in a region agitating against the Trump administration. Narcoterrorism has worsened on his watch and that the Justice Department has flagged the problem. Arévalo acts like he is playing ball with the Trump administration while actually enabling cartel behavior through his compliance or weakness.

Records obtained through public-records requests show that in July 2023, while still on House committee staff, Quintana advocated for Arévalo to get meetings with Biden administration officials. On June 24, Quintana met Arévalo in Guatemala City. The visit was announced as talks on security, migration, and trade. Her diplomatic efforts were meant to prop up Arévalo as he faces populist conservative opposition in next year’s Presidential election.

On Honduras, Quintana’s efforts ultimately failed. She worked diligently against the National Party and favored Nasralla. Trump had called Nasralla “no friend of freedom” and accused him of splitting the anti-communist vote. Nasralla had previously served as the Vice President under narco-communist President Ximena Castro.

After her efforts failed in Honduras, Quintana is doubling down on Guatemala, which could be the next domino to fall toward the success of the Donroe Doctrine. The liberal intervention effort Quintana has dedicated her life to promoting is falling apart, and she is hoping it holds together and then can be revitalized after President Trump leaves office.

Quintana’s earlier writing shows her true agenda. In 2015 she called for a Free Trade Area of the Americas. In 2021 she argued that women’s empowerment should be a pillar of U.S. foreign policy. In 2020 she criticized Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro over COVID restrictions and over a sovereignty fight with Emmanuel Macron about the Amazon.

Conservative governments now sitting in Buenos Aires, San Salvador, Tegucigalpa, Bogota, Lima, Santiago, La Paz and Quito form a vanguard that can Make the America’s Great Again. But the bureaucratic resistance against the fruits of the Donroe Doctrine are already in play, evidenced by the actions of Quintana, as they hope to outlast President Trump and flip the switch back to globalism, squalor and tyranny post-2028.

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Conservative media outlets are now stepping into the role once filled by the mainstream media and providing TV pool coverage of the President after networks announced plans to boycott Trump in response to CNN, MS Now, and Politico being banned from the White House. 

This comes amid major world news events, including Trump’s attendance at the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s trip to the United States this week. President Trump is scheduled to participate in an arrival ceremony for Xi Jinping today at 6:00 pm ET.

Trump banned CNN, MS Now, and Politico from the White House last week, citing the “FICTION and LIES” they report. The three outlets have since filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration.

ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News, and NBC also suspended their pooled coverage of the White House in protest of the move by Trump, the Gateway Pundit reported.

Following CNN’s exclusion from the White House press pool for the President’s trip to New York for the United Nations General Assembly, Fox News Washington bureau chief Bryan Boughton, who leads the television pool consortium, said in a letter to television pool members that they will no longer cover the President, according to the New York Times.

JUST IN: Major Television Networks Suspend White House Pool Coverage After CNN Ban

CNN White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins boasted of the boycott in a YouTube short posted by CNN this week. "Fox News, CBS, ABC, NBC, and CNN, have all banded together, and they have suspended the TV pool, which means that for the time being, the President will not have a camera and reporters from a major outlet, a major television outlet, covering him," she said. "That comes as he is headed to New York on Monday for the United Nations General Assembly, and also ahead of his big state visit in Washington with Xi Jinping, all events that we know the President values having broadcast on television."

She doesn't think the conservative press corps at the White House could do it.

WATCH:

Instead of CNN, Real America’s Voice stepped up to take over TV coverage as the secondary TV pool crew during the President's New York trip, posing a serious threat to the White House Correspondents' Association's monopoly on coverage of the President.

Here is some of the coverage of President Trump arriving in Washington, DC, broadcast to the world from Real America's Voice's cameras:

Today, Lindell TV is stepping up to the plate, in partnership with Real America's Voice, to broadcast and distribute live worldwide coverage of President Trump welcoming Xi Jinping to Washington, DC.

As noted by independent journalist Nick Sortor on Tuesday, the two networks could completely replace the five major networks' White House coverage.

Lindell TV should agree to work with RAV, who I’ve been working with today to set up infrastructure to distribute live feeds from their cameras to the pool.

If @RealLindellTV agrees to swap spots with RAV, we’ll have fully functional pool feeds to counter CNN’s boycott

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 23, 2026

This is a historic moment in breaking the left-wing media's stranglehold over the White House.

The Gateway Pundit will provide updates on the arrival ceremony for Xi Jinping and carry live video footage from Lindell TV on our website.

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Preferences for right-wing views are surging in politics and in the news, too.

The surging popularity of the populists in Reform UK is not an isolated event: the British preference for right-wing views is also leading the pack when it comes to news channels.

But the establishment is fighting tooth and nail to hide this simple truth from the population.

UK media regulator Ofcom is presently under fire, accused of covering up data showing that right-wing outlet GB News is more trusted by its viewers than the BBC.

Ofcom is accused of covering up data that shows GB News is more trusted by its viewers than the BBC https://t.co/YL8l7VVucR

— Daily Mail (@DailyMail) September 23, 2026

The Telegraph reported:

“The watchdog’s latest news consumption survey found that GB News viewers score the channel more highly for trustworthiness than viewers of the BBC, Sky News, ITV and Channel 4 score those channels.

GB News was also ranked by its viewers above all other British broadcasters for the range of viewpoints on offer and scored first equal with Sky for impartiality.”

‘This is fantastic news.’ @carveremily and @tomhfh react to Ofcom data that shows GB News is more trusted by viewers than Sky News or BBC. pic.twitter.com/so8u73Bmz4

— GB News (@GBNEWS) September 23, 2026

This year, the regulator omitted the figures from the press release summarizing its main findings, published last week.

It only released the data online following a request from GB News.

“The oversight has prompted accusations that Ofcom deliberately sought to suppress the true scale of GB News’s popularity among viewers.

A GB News spokesman said: ‘These figures prove why GB News is Britain’s undisputed number one news channel’.”

GB News reported:

“The People’s Channel last month marked a full year as Britain’s number one news channel.

Official audience data released in August found GB News had beaten the BBC News Channel and Sky News in July. Barb data for July showed GB News secured 81,600 average views (1.44 per cent audience share).

The figure was 11 per cent higher than the BBC News Channel’s 73,500 average views (1.29 per cent audience share).

Meanwhile, Sky News was a distant third on 68,900 (1.21 per cent audience share), trailing 18.4 per cent behind GB News.”

Read more:

Leftist-Globalist BBC Caught AGAIN Doctoring a Speech, This Time by US War Secretary Hegseth, Igniting Another ‘Impartiality’ Row in Britain

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A new report released by House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan confirms Special Counsel Jack Smith coordinated with the Biden DOJ to spy on their political opposition.

Republicans released documents that revealed investigators improperly subpoenaed phone records that belonged to 44 GOP lawmakers during Jack Smith’s Arctic Frost investigation.

Jack Smith’s team also secured gag orders to prevent the GOP lawmakers from learning that Biden’s DOJ obtained their phone records.

House Republicans also released transcripts from five members of Jack Smith’s team.

Transcript from J.P. Cooney, a member of Jack Smith’s team, once again confirm coordination between the special counsel and the Biden White House.

“During your time at the Special Counsel’s Office, did you ever interact with the White House?” the GOP investigator asked JP Cooney.

“I did have some interactions with a staff member in the White House Counsel’s Office,” JP Cooney replied.

NEW: Transcripts released by @JudiciaryGOP once again confirm collaboration between Biden DOJ/Special Counsel Jack Smith and the Biden White House.

Here is JP Cooney–who pushed for investigations into Trump and his circle immediately after Jan 6 then detailed to Jack Smith’s… pic.twitter.com/r3x1btM6hJ

— Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) September 23, 2026

Press release from the GOP-led House Judiciary Committee:

During the Biden-Harris DOJ’s investigation of the 2020 election, codenamed Arctic Frost, and the subsequent Special Counsel investigation, investigators unconstitutionally subpoenaed phone records for over a dozen Republican Members of Congress and obtained gag orders to prevent the Members from knowing that the Biden-Harris Administration had obtained these records. Because the subpoenas and gag orders were obtained ex parte—meaning only the prosecutors presented to the grand jury and judge—the Members had no meaningful opportunity to challenge the Biden-Harris Administration’s actions.

The evidence available to the Committee shows that Special Counsel Smith’s team barely considered the constitutional protections surrounding this material—and to the extent that it did, it concluded that its subpoenas might be unconstitutional. Yet, Special Counsel Smith’s team forged ahead, issued the subpoenas, and at one point, violated the DOJ’s own procedures to review the content of private text messages between 44 Members of Congress and Executive Branch officials.

Arctic Frost investigators and Smith’s team paid no attention to the Constitution’s “absolute” bar on compelled disclosure of documents related to Members’ legislative acts. Special Counsel Smith and his prosecutors admitted that the gag order deprived Members of the chance to appear in court to assert their constitutional rights under the Speech or Debate Clause. As Special Counsel Smith admitted privately to Attorney General Merrick Garland, “members . . . likely have a valid Speech or Debate privilege immunizing them from compelled testimony.” Yet he, with Attorney General Garland’s blessing, issued subpoenas compelling the production of Members’ protected legislative records.

At best, these prosecutors ignored key legislative protections enshrined in the Constitution to guarantee that Members of Congress may freely deliberate on the questions of public policy. At worst—which seems likely in context with the other abuses of Special Counsel Smith’s office—these prosecutors weaponized their law-enforcement authority to violate a key constitutional provision to gather reams of information about their Administration’s political adversaries.

The abuses uncovered demand legislative reforms to prevent a future Jack Smith from similarly violating the Constitution. On July 15, 2026, the Committee passed H.R. 9098, the Congressional Records Protection Act, introduced by Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA). The bill seeks to protect the separation of powers enshrined in the United States Constitution and end the weaponized surveillance of Members of Congress. The Committee will continue to pursue the truth about this critical set of events in our nation’s history.

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Anyone who tells you that the ‘Woke’ era is over, does not know what they are saying.

In the city of Greenfield, in central Massachusetts, a lesbian bar is causing outrage from their patrons by easing mask-wearing mandates. In 2026.

This bar not only requires customers to wear masks, they require N95 masks, at all times. The bar is struggling financially, so the owner decided to make one night a week, Saturday night, mask optional.

Unhinged and angry customers are now accusing the bar of trying to kill people.

This story is from the Boston Globe:

The August 31 Instagram post from Last Ditch Bar and Arts Venue, a lesbian bar in Greenfield, was upbeat, teasing a new DJ lineup and a volunteer meetup. But partway down the rainbow-hued post labeled “UPDATES!” was a sentence that would splinter the queer community in this small Pioneer Valley city and beyond.

“It is with love we inform our immunocompromised disabled divas we will be opening Saturday nights as mask optional,” wrote Last Ditch.

Previously, patrons were required to wear a well-fitted KN-95 mask “or better” at all times.

The new policy was not received with love.

“Just say you’re being complicit in a mass disabling event and get it over with,” wrote one commenter.

“people like you kill disabled people in the name of your own leisure and convenience,” posted another.

“I hope your venue gets firebombed for robbing my fellow immunocompromised people of their Saturday plans just to scrape extra revenue from ablists [sic],” wrote a third.

When the bar apologized for the new mask policy on social media, the apology was attacked for not catering to the visually impaired:

Instead of defusing the situation, the apology seemed to make things worse. The bar had erred: it posted an Instagram card without providing alt-text for the visually impaired. This set off a fresh round of accusations of ableism.

“This is not an accessible post,” wrote one user. “It indicates the lack of care or interest in Disability intersectionality.”

People on Twitter/X are marveling at the insanity of this story.

Every person in this article would be put in a mental asylum in the 1950s

Simpler times https://t.co/bYVPlshZGp

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 23, 2026

Everything starts making a bit more sense when you realize that there’s a sizable contingent of the political Left that functionally lives on an entirely different planet from the rest of us https://t.co/CmHHPmQfnp

— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) September 22, 2026

A story published in … checks notes … the Year of Our Lord 2026.

Maybe we should just conclude that certain people- and we all know who they are- WANT to stay broken forever. https://t.co/PFqeDwFsx8

— Grateful Calvin (@shoveitjack) September 22, 2026

What a time to be alive. https://t.co/4fIuUMvexe

— Dean Inserra (@deaninserra) September 22, 2026

There are certain places in the country where ‘woke’ is alive and well.

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The long NYC effort to get Weinstein to pay for his alleged crimes comes to an end.

The convoluted legal drama involving the NYC trials of Harvey Weinstein has finally ended as he is sentenced to 15 years in prison after 2 retrials that ended in hung juries.

BREAKING: Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for a 2006 sex crime in New York after his original conviction was overturned. https://t.co/ouBNEnjLuu

— The Associated Press (@AP) September 23, 2026

Quick explanation: the disgraced Hollywood mogul was convicted in California in 2022 for three sex crimes, committed in 2013, against an unidentified Italian model and actress: forcible rape, Forcible oral copulation, and sexual penetration by a foreign object.

For the crimes in this California trial, he was sentenced to 16 years in prison, a conviction that he is serving now, although he is to be resentenced in the future.

But in New York, things have been even more complex.

His original 2020 NYC conviction was overturned by New York’s highest court in 2024 due to improper admission of testimony from uncharged accusers.

So, Weinstein had a 2025 retrial, in which prosecutors charged him with crimes against three women: the 2025 jury convicted him of one criminal sexual act count (involving Mimi Haley), acquitted him on another (involving Kaja Sokola), but was deadlocked on the Jessica Mann rape charge — leading to a mistrial.

Weinstein had a second retrial on the Jessica Mann charge in 2026, and a mistrial was declared again.

Prosecutors declined to try him again, in part because Jessica Mann refused to testify for a third time and face a grueling cross-examination.

So, now, all that’s left if for the decaying mogul to be sentenced for his conviction for a criminal sexual act count involving Mimi Haley from the 2025 retrial.

Harvey Weinstein returns to a New York City courtroom for sentencing in the sexual assault case involving Miriam Haley. Both Haley and Weinstein are expected to address the court. https://t.co/X4NRVn40ba

— ABC7 News (@abc7newsbayarea) September 23, 2026

The New York Post reported:

“Decrepit Harvey Weinstein will finally learn his fate in a Manhattan courtroom Wednesday — as the disgraced Hollywood mogul faces up to 25 years in prison for sexually assaulting a former TV production worker. Weinstein, 74, was convicted in June 2025 of first-degree criminal sex act for attacking former ‘Project Runway’ production assistant Miriam ‘Mimi’ Haley inside his SoHo apartment in 2006.

[…] The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is arguing that Weinstein should be locked up for 20 years on the conviction, citing the ‘significant harms’ the ex-Miramax boss caused to Haley. The once powerful producer’s long-delayed sentencing comes nearly a decade after an avalanche of sexual misconduct allegations ended his career and kick-started the #MeToo movement.

[…] Haley testified in two of Weinstein’s trials where she emotionally detailed how she was brutally raped by him inside his apartment. ‘I was trying to get him off of me. I was trying to push him away from me. I was trying to get him to stop kissing me and grabbing me’, Haley told jurors at Weinstein’s retrial in 2025. ‘The unthinkable was happening … I didn’t know when it was ending’.”

While the trials and retrials have been going on, Weinstein has been incarcerated at Rikers Island, battling health concerns while serving his conviction and awaiting his LA resentence.

UPDATE: Weinstein sentenced to 15 years in prison.

CBS News reported:

“Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced movie mogul, was sentenced to 15 years in prison Wednesday morning for a criminal sexual assault conviction from 2025.

Weinstein, 74, was found guilty of committing a sexual act against former Project Runway production assistant Miriam Haley at his Manhattan apartment in 2006.

Haley and Weinstein both spoke in a court in Lower Manhattan during Wednesday’s sentencing. Haley talked about the devastating impact the assault and subsequent trial has had on her life. Weinstein, for his part, expressed remorse for what happened to Haley, and offered an apology to people he has hurt. He went on to say he was innocent.”

Read more:

Harvey Weinsten Remaining Rape Charge Dropped – Disgraced Movie Mogul Will NOT Face 4th NYC Trial After Two Juries Deadlocked – Prosecutors Ask for 20-Year Sentence

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