The FBI unveils a massive, mafia-tied gambling scheme involving big names in the NBA, the United States strikes another drug boat bringing “poison to our shores,” and sparks fly at the final debate for New York City mayor — but will it sway the race?
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">NBA Gambling Ring</h2>
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Topline: A sprawling NBA gambling scandal was announced on Thursday, resulting in dozens of arrests, including former and current NBA players, coaches, and members of the Italian mafia.
The alleged scheme involved more than 30 people arrested, including Miami Heat point guard Terry Rozier and Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups, a former player in the Hall of Fame. 
Charges from the investigation included wire fraud, money laundering, extortion, robbery, and illegal gambling. 
“The FBI led a coordinative take down across 11 states to arrest over 30 individuals today responsible for this case, which is very much ongoing,” FBI Director Kash Patel said in a press conference. “We also entered and executed a system of justice against Laca Nora to include the Bonanno Gambino Genevese and Luccese crime families.”
First indictment: The case involves two separate indictments. The first relates to an insider betting scheme. Defendants charged in this scheme allegedly received non-public information, such as when players would be sitting out for injuries or planned absences, and used that to profit from gambling bets. 
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“One example occurred on March 23, 2023, in Charlotte, Terry Rozier, an NBA player now with the Miami Heat, but at the time playing for the Hornets, allegedly let others close to him know that he planned to leave the game early with a supposed injury,” said NYC Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch. “Using that information, members of the group placed more than $200,000 in wagers on his under statistics.&#8221;
Rozier exited the game after just nine minutes. The bets paid out tens of thousands of dollars in profit.
Second indictment: The second indictment relates to mafia-backed fixed poker games, where more than $7 million was cheated. This included new technology, such as an X-ray table that could read cards face down. Current or former NBA players like Billups were used to draw people into rigged games.
“The defendants in this case orchestrated a scheme to use wireless cheating technology to run rigged poker games across the United States,” said U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella. “What the victims, the fish, didn&#8217;t know is that everybody else at the poker game, from the dealer to the players, including the face cards, were in on the scam. Once the game was underway, the defendants fleece the victims out of tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars per game.”
The poker games played in the New York area were backed by at least four of the five mafia families there.
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Drug Boat Strikes And Russia Sanctions</h2>
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Topline: The U.S. military carried out its ninth strike against what it said was a drug boat from a known terrorist entity heading toward the United States. Meanwhile, President Trump has imposed new sanctions on Russia for the first time since he returned to the Oval Office.
War Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Wednesday that the military carried out its eighth and ninth strikes against drug boats. These strikes took place in the Pacific Ocean, a first. Up until now, the strikes have been targeted in the Caribbean, which is a known smuggling corridor for narcotraffickers in Venezuela and Colombia.
Latin American resistance: The Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, called to potentially “get rid” of Trump over his campaign of pressure. Trump has accused Petro of playing a role in the drug trade and has pulled U.S. funding to Colombia.
On Thursday, Trump responded to the Colombian president’s threats, saying that the Latin American leader is a “thug and bad guy” who should “watch it.”
For now, the strikes will continue, Hegseth says.
Sanctions on Russia: The Treasury Department has now announced new sanctions on Russia for the first time in Trump’s second term. The sanctions target Russian oil giants Rosneft and Lukoil, as well as dozens of their subsidiaries.
The sanctions came alongside additional penalties from the European Union, as well as more from the U.K., announced last week. President Trump’s new pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin was a welcome move in Washington and in Europe.
“You have to compel Russia to engage in the peace process,” <a href="https://x.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1981329802754769164">said</a> House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA). “They&#8217;ve shown they cannot be trusted. There&#8217;s a big appetite in Congress to have sanctions like this, and I think it&#8217;s a very important step.”
More important than the sanctions themselves is the message they convey. In its announcement of the sanctions package, the Treasury also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trumps-sanctioning-russian-energy-heres-what-to-know" target="_blank" rel="noopener">threatened</a> secondary sanctions against any entity that does business with Rosneft and Lukoil.
Trump on San Francisco: Trump has reversed course on sending National Guard troops to San Francisco. He said in a Truth Social <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115424560133045127">post</a> on Thursday that “friends of mine who live in the area called last night to ask me not to go forward with the surge in that the Mayor, Daniel Lurie, was making substantial progress.” He said he spoke to Lurie, a moderate Democrat who took office in January, and decided to give him a chance to turn the city around – which means Trump could change his mind in the future if he doesn’t like what he sees in San Francisco.
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Mamdani Cracks In Second NYC Debate</h2>
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Topline: The frontrunner in New York’s mayoral race, Zohran Mamdani, faced a barrage of criticism in the final televised debate on Wednesday, raising questions about whether his performance managed to shake his lead or reinforce doubts about his readiness for the job.
The atmosphere of the race was definitely charged—not just because of the policies on the table, but also because of the direct, unrelenting pressure former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo put on Mamdani.
Polls show that while Mamdani is far and away the favorite to win, some also show he would be in a dead heat with Cuomo if Republican Curtis Sliwa were to drop out of the race.
Many media outlets and analysts said Mamdani looked uncomfortable and hesitant. He also appeared severely rushed. Some of his responses felt like watching a video at double speed.
However, some left-leaning outlets, such as Politico, said Mamdani won. The New York Times said Cuomo hurt him, but probably not enough. But the viral clips from the debate have received brutal responses, painting Mamdani as an unprepared left-wing extremist.
The debate: One of the most damaging moments circulating on social media came when Cuomo directly confronted Mamdani on his inexperience. 
“You have never had a job. You&#8217;ve never accomplished anything. There&#8217;s no reason to believe you have any merit or qualification for eight and a half million lives. You don&#8217;t know how to run a government, you don&#8217;t know how to handle an emergency, and you&#8217;ve literally never proposed a bill on anything that you&#8217;re not talking about,” Cuomo <a href="https://x.com/EYakoby/status/1981146015714726293">ripped</a> into Mamdani.
“In your campaign, you had the worst attendance record in the assembly, and you gave yourselves the highest raise in the United States of America. You went from $110,000 to $140,000, and then you never showed up for work, and you missed 80% of the votes. Shame on you,” he continued.
Cuomo also pinned Mamdani down on the rent freeze policy, labeling it as political blather.
“Zohran is a great actor. He missed his calling. Freeze rent sounds great, yeah, it affects about 25% of the number of housing units in the city of New York. It&#8217;s not a new idea. Bill de Blasio did it. It turned out to be a debacle,” Cuomo <a href="https://x.com/nypost/status/1981152739963945271">said</a>.
Often, Mamdani didn’t help himself. For example, when he suggested that when 911 receives a call, dispatchers should decide whether it’s appropriate to send police, or maybe send mental healthcare providers instead.
“Yet what we have in our city is asking those same police officers who are being asked to respond to shootings, respond to murders, to also respond to these calls. I trust the dispatchers who would be receiving these calls to make the determination as to whether there was any indication of violence. If there is no indication of a threat of violence, then we would set the mental health experts and providers to respond to those same incidents,” <a href="https://x.com/EYakoby/status/1981149365818585538">said</a> Mamdani.
How bad was it?: Polling data is still being analyzed, so it’s really too early to tell. But it’s interesting to note that there are reports that Chinese-owned TikTok appears to be pulling out all the stops for Mamdani now, maybe trying to head off any leaks of support.
The New York Post reported that TikTok’s algorithm has been boosting pro-Mamdani content while suppressing pro-Cuomo clips.

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B-1 bombers flew within about 50 miles from Venezuela on Thursday as the United States continues to strike drug boats departing from the South American country.
Asked about the flights during a panel discussion at the White House on Thursday, Trump denied that two B-1 Lancers had flown close to Venezuela.
“Not accurate,” said Trump when asked about a report of the flights published in <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/u-s-sends-b-1-bombers-near-venezuela-ramping-up-military-pressure-f9514126?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=AWEtsqct8eI22sfNUn8PGvMT7DHl2W8B7iN_X8snWbnKrunmfqdpycQEz-Md4hUOGko%3D&amp;gaa_ts=68fa9ec4&amp;gaa_sig=IV4Xvw66NaSXyHKSBQjdViniRSys-tsUYH-1XlguDWBRDhGAxnZ31FHaVYEEJbFRHkAQpSgCqiEJ3InLUBUiVA%3D%3D">The Wall Street Journal</a>. “No, it’s false, but we&#8217;re not happy with Venezuela for a lot of reasons. Drugs being one of them.”
The flights have been <a href="https://x.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1981454534548341183">tracked</a> on flight radars. The two bombers took off from Dyess Air Force Base in Texas on Thursday and flew near Venezuela, but remained over international waters, according to WSJ.
The flights followed a show of force last week when B-52 bombers and F-35B jet fighters operated by the U.S. Air Force and Marines flew near an island off the coast of Venezuela.
The U.S. military has blown up at least seven boats in international waters in the Caribbean said to be carrying deadly drugs to the United States, and another two boats in the Pacific. President Donald Trump has accused the leadership of Venezuela and Colombia of facilitating the transport of drugs in the United States.
Trump said on Thursday that drugs coming to the United States by water have plummeted because of military action, and he suggested that strikes could soon be conducted against drug cartels and narco-terrorists on land, as well.
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“Now, they’re coming in by land, and even the land is concerned because I told them that’s going to be next,” the president <a href="https://x.com/JewishWarrior13/status/1981470436345938164">said</a>. “We may go to the Congress and tell them about it, but I can’t imagine they would have any problem with it. I think, in fact, while we’re here, I think it’s a good idea, Pete, you go to Congress, you tell them about it. What are they going to do? Say, ‘gee, we don’t want to stop drugs pouring in?’ They’re killing 300,000 people per year.”
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, on whom the Trump administration has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-hikes-bounty-on-venezuelas-maduro-to-50m">placed</a> a $50 million bounty, claimed on Wednesday that thousands of Russian-made anti-air missiles are placed strategically around the country to handle any threats from the air.
“Any military force in the world knows the power of the Igla-S and Venezuela has no less than 5,000” of the missiles, Maduro said, according to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/americas/maduro-trump-venezuela-military-intl-hnk">CNN</a>.
Last week, Trump said that Maduro has offered “everything” to the United States.
“He’s offered everything,” <a href="https://x.com/cspan/status/1979251067029246356">said</a> Trump. “You know why? Because he doesn&#8217;t want to f*** around with the United States.”

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The United States placed sanctions on Russia’s two largest oil companies on Wednesday after plans for an expected meeting between presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin fell through.
The sanctions, the first the Trump administration has leveled against Russia since taking over the White House in January, are a signal that the president has run short on patience with Moscow. Trump has called for the battle lines to be frozen in Ukraine and for the two sides to meet for peace talks.
The sanctions target Russian oil giants Rosneft and Lukoil and dozens of their subsidiaries, but will likely have little direct impact on the money that flows into Russia’s treasury from its substantial energy industry. While the United States did billions of dollars worth of <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/14/europe/us-europe-trade-business-with-russia-intl">trade</a> with Russia last year, the majority of that was for fertilizer, precious metals, uranium, and plutonium.
The sanctions package is a signal to other countries purchasing Russian oil and natural gas that the Trump administration may soon crack down on buyers, as well.
“[E]ngaging in certain transactions involving the persons designated today may risk the imposition of secondary sanctions on participating foreign financial institutions,” the <a href="https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0290">announcement</a> from the Treasury Department states. “[The Treasury] can prohibit or impose strict conditions on opening or maintaining, in the United States, a correspondent account or a payable-through account of a foreign financial institution that knowingly conducts or facilitates any significant transaction on behalf of a person who is designated pursuant to the relevant authority.”
China remains one of Moscow&#8217;s largest buyers for energy, though India, another major purchaser of Russian oil, has already promised to cut back its reliance on Russian energy.
The European Union <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/china/eu-approves-19th-package-russian-sanctions-including-lng-ban-2025-10-22/">joined</a> the United States with a sanctions package targeting Russian energy, as well, including Rosneft. The E.U. sanctions package may bring more direct pain to Moscow’s coffers because of the increased reliance of Europe on Russian oil and natural gas exports.
“Appreciated this evening’s call with [Bessent] and the Treasury decision to sanction major Russian oil companies in the face of Russia’s lack of commitment to the peace process,” said E.U. Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in a <a href="https://x.com/vonderleyen/status/1981109768581243195">post</a> on X. “With the imminent adoption of the EU’s 19th package, this is a clear signal from both sides of the Atlantic that we will keep up collective pressure on the aggressor.”
The United Kingdom approved a similar sanctions package on Russian energy last week in what has become a wave of financial penalties targeting Russia’s most important export industry.

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President Donald Trump locks in a critical deal with Australia as he presses on several foreign policy fronts, the administration ramps up the Caribbean war on drugs, and a Christian couple loses their foster care license over gender theory.
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">White House Roundup</h2>
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Topline: The weekend protesters may have cleared out, but it’s shaping up to be another wild week in Washington – with a major presidential focus on foreign policy. 
Ukraine: President Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Friday. While it wasn’t their most contentious meeting, Trump seems less bullish on Ukraine since his recent conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump suggested that he’s not ready yet to provide Ukraine with the Tomahawk missiles they’ve requested.
Australia: On a more positive note, Trump had a productive meeting with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Monday.
The two leaders signed a critical minerals and rare earths deal. Under the agreement, the United States and Australian governments will invest more than $3 billion in critical mineral projects over the next six months, “with recoverable resources in the projects estimated to be worth $53 billion,” according to the White House.
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The deal also includes a lot of burden sharing and making new defense investments that will strengthen the alliance between the United States and Australia.
On the home front: The president recently decided to weigh in on upcoming elections. Trump made a late-breaking endorsement of Virginia Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears for Virginia governor.
The endorsement of Earle-Sears comes when the race is tightening because of a scandal lower down on the ballot with the Democratic candidate for state attorney general, Jay Jones.
In New Jersey’s gubernatorial race, Trump has endorsed Republican Jack Ciattarelli.
The New Jersey race is also tightening up significantly. Ciattarelli came close to winning in 2021. Trump endorsed him in May because Ciattarelli was in a primary battle then.
Shutdown showdown: The shutdown shows no sign of ending soon. Rumors on Capitol Hill suggest rank-and-file Democrats want to negotiate an “off-ramp” with Republicans, but no one has said what that looks like. The posture of the situation is best described as a waiting period to see what Democrats will do.
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Trump&#8217;s War On Narco-Terrorists</h2>
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Topline: The Trump administration is massively escalating its counternarcotics campaign in the Caribbean against suspected drug traffickers. 
Venezuela: The Trump administration saw the destruction that occurred to the United States under the Biden presidency when it came to opening up our borders. According to Trump, that pulled countries like Venezuela to send in prisoners, gangbangers, and narcotraffickers, and the president says he wants that to end for good.
Trump is pressuring the Maduro regime by carrying out dramatic kinetic strikes on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean and sending the message that there is a new sheriff in town.
Former DEA Attache for Venezuela Wes Tabor told The Daily Wire that the pressure is so extreme that he doesn’t see Maduro staying in power much longer.
“There&#8217;s an internal pressure that&#8217;s boiling between Nicolas Maduro and between the Estado Alliance, who is basically the head of the military and also in the Senate. And he has a lot of power with the military, whereas Maduro is the figurehead. He&#8217;s the president. Those two are battling it out right now in the country,” said Tabor.
“I&#8217;ve heard rumors from my sources in Venezuela,” he continued. “They&#8217;re saying, you know, there have been a few times that Nicolas Maduro was thinking about bugging out.”
Colombia: Trump wants Colombia to be wary of becoming the next Venezuela — signaling that the United States could take a stricter stance against Bogotá and its leadership if the government refuses to cooperate with his administration. The Colombian president is slowly chipping away at the longstanding relationship with a United States that has cracked down on cocaine production.
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Anti-Christian Foster Care Case</h2>
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Topline: The state of Massachusetts has revoked the license of foster parents Lydia and Heath Marvin, both Christians, after the couple refused to sign a “gender-affirming” policy. The couple is now taking legal action, claiming religious discrimination.
The Marvins: The Marvins have been fostering children since 2020, primarily infants and toddlers with medical needs or special challenges – the kind of children few homes are equipped to handle. Their record shows they accepted cases others turned down.
In April, the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF) revoked their fostering license. The stated reason: the Marvins declined to sign the state’s revised LGBTQ Non-Discrimination Policy — specifically a section requiring foster parents to affirm a child’s gender identity and sexual orientation.
The Marvins argue that signing would conflict with their sincerely held Christian convictions. They’ve initiated legal action, claiming religious discrimination and violation of their First Amendment rights.
The DCF: DCF officials insist their duty is to protect children. In their view, that means placing kids only in homes that will affirm their gender identity and sexual orientation.
Step back: Critics such as journalist and child-welfare expert Naomi Schaefer Riley say the state has lost sight of the bigger mission.
“A lot of these states have just really lost sight of the goal there — which should be providing as many options for safe, loving homes as possible to these kids,” Riley told The Daily Wire.
Riley, who has written extensively on family policy, says this case fits a growing national pattern where religious foster families feel pressured to abandon their beliefs or stop fostering altogether. That’s a serious problem because, according to a <a href="https://cafo.org/faith-foster-care-and-the-surprising-path-to-flourishing/#:~:text=This%20week%2C%20the%20Institute%20for,11%25)">study</a> released just last month, Christians are more than three times more likely to foster a child compared to those with no religious affiliation. They’re also more likely to adopt out of the foster care system.
It’s a trend: In Massachusetts, another couple — Mike and Kitty Burke — were rejected as foster parents last year after expressing Catholic beliefs about marriage and gender that didn’t align with the state’s policy.
And in Oregon, a woman named Jessica Bates was denied a foster license for refusing to commit to gender-affirming practices. Her case is now before a federal appeals court.
Riley says many more conflicts never make the headlines.
“Once they make clear they’re looking for parents who fit a certain mold, people of faith either violate their own principles to comply, or they just don’t sign up at all because they know the agency is going to be hostile to their religious practice,” she said.
Hope for the Marvins: One major court precedent is the 2021 Supreme Court decision Fulton v. City of Philadelphia. In that case, the court ruled that the city violated the Free Exercise Clause when it stopped contracting with Catholic Social Services because the agency wouldn’t certify same-sex couples.
The court said that because Philadelphia’s rules allowed for exceptions, the city couldn’t deny a religious exemption.
Legal analysts say the Marvin case could hinge on similar reasoning — whether Massachusetts’ policy is truly “neutral and generally applicable,” or if it targets religious beliefs.
The Marvins’ lawsuit, filed with help from Alliance Defending Freedom, is still in early stages.

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Morning Brief: Trump Foreign Policy Blitz, War On Narco-Terrorists, & Foster Care’s Faith Problem

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Government Shutdown

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Vice President JD Vance is expected to visit the Middle East on Tuesday to push the second phase of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas as it teeters on renewed violence from the terror group.
Israel accused Hamas of violating the ceasefire on Sunday after militants appeared out of a tunnel in Israeli-controlled territory in Gaza and killed two Israeli soldiers in an anti-tank rocket attack. In response, the Israeli military launched around 20 airstrikes across Gaza, according to <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/10/19/trump-gaza-deal-hamas-israel">Axios</a>.
Hamas did not deny the attack, though it said that it was carried out by a faction or militants that were not acting on orders from Hamas leadership.
“We are not aware of any incidents or clashes taking place in the Rafah area, because these are zones under Israeli control, and contact has been severed with our groups that remained there,” Hamas said in a statement, according to Axios.
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In addition to the attack, Hamas continues to be in violation of phase one of the ceasefire deal by failing to return all the bodies of the deceased hostages. About half of the deceased remain in Gaza, and the terror group has said it needs more time to locate them.
The United States and Israel have made separate accusations against the terror group in recent days of violating the terms of the ceasefire agreement that saw Israel withdraw from roughly half of Gaza and release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.
The U.S. State Department on Saturday said in a <a href="https://x.com/StateDept/status/1979670820042559983">statement</a> that the “United States has informed the guarantor nations of the Gaza peace agreement of credible reports indicating an imminent ceasefire violation by Hamas against the people of Gaza.”
The State Department&#8217;s statement is “likely related to Hamas&#8217; crackdown on the Palestinian population since the ceasefire went into effect,” <a href="https://x.com/JoeTruzman/status/1979675424017035309">according</a> to Foundation for Defense of Democracies senior research analyst Joe Truzman.
Since the ceasefire officially began last week, videos have surfaced on social media of Hamas militants publicly executing or brutally beating Gazans. In one <a href="https://x.com/JoeTruzman/status/1979627362645082376">video</a>, militants drop large rocks on a man’s legs before beating him with a pipe.
Trump has repeatedly said that Hamas will disarm, or they will be disarmed. He repeated that promise in an interview with Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” that aired on Sunday.
“They promised they would [disarm]. They said they would. It&#8217;s [written] down that they would,” <a href="https://x.com/Osint613/status/1979919036847718410">said</a> Trump. “If we have to, we&#8217;ll disarm them.”
He clarified that the United States would not send soldiers into Gaza and that a proxy could fight Hamas: “Could be Israel with our backing. We won&#8217;t have boots on the ground. There&#8217;s no reason to.”
The actions of Hamas militants inside and outside its zone of control in the Gaza Strip have strained the already tenuous ceasefire in place between the terror group and Israel. Vance is expected to visit Israel with U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff to provide more direct oversight of the terms of the peace agreement.
One major point of tension in the peace process is the requirement that Hamas be disarmed.
“There is no security infrastructure currently that would ensure Hamas is disarmed,” Vance <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/416493">said</a> on Sunday evening.

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JD Vance To Visit Israel To Push Phase Two Of Gaza Peace Plan

JD Vance To Visit Israel As Gaza Ceasefire Teeters On Hamas Violence

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“No Kings” protests return as Trump continues his nationwide crime crackdown, a new investigation exposes dark money behind anti-Trump demonstrations, and Israel strikes Gaza after Hamas reportedly violates the ceasefire.
It’s Monday, October 20, 2025, and this is the news you need to know to start your day.
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">The Return Of ‘No Kings’</h2>
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Topline: As President Donald Trump continues his anti-immigration crackdown, deploying more National Guardsmen nationwide, hundreds of thousands gathered for protests against him and his policies.
On Saturday, potentially more than a million demonstrators took part in anti-Trump No Kings protests at more than 2000 locations around the country. While the demonstrations were largely peaceful, there were some pockets of violence.
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In Portland, three protesters were arrested following an alleged assault. In the Chicago area, 15 people were arrested after clashing with law enforcement outside of an ICE facility. In Los Angeles, police deployed tear gas after declaring an unlawful assembly.
Protesters expressed anger with nearly every action Trump has taken since taking office, but his illegal immigration crackdown and subsequent National Guard deployments were at the forefront. The protests were notable for another reason: the attendees <a href="https://x.com/camkasky/status/1980111989163618730">appeared</a> to be much older than a typical protest crowd.
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">The Billionaires Backing ‘No Kings’</h2>
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Topline: All the focus on the No Kings protests over the last week has drawn attention to the organizations fueling them. Now, a new report from Peter Schweizer and his Government Accountability Institute (GAI) found nearly $300 million from billionaire-backed networks is being funneled to the protests’ organizers.
Morning Wire spoke with Seamus Bruner, director of research at GAI and author of the book “Contrologarchs,” about the dollar trail. (The following transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.)
Morning Wire: With all the noise surrounding these No Kings protests, your team dug into the organizations conducting them. What did you find?
Bruner: What we found is that these are extremely well-funded, these organizations. We calculated over $200 million, really closer to $300 million in the last five years has gone into the partner organization. This is basically anything but grassroots.
Morning Wire: Right – and this is part of a larger pattern when it comes to left-wing protests. You guys have tracked that, what you’ve been calling Riot Inc., which includes events like the No Kings protest. Unpack that for us. Who is behind this exactly?
Bruner: Yeah, so the main person who keeps coming up is George Soros. And we thought, well, it&#8217;s not just George Soros and his Open Society institutes. He&#8217;s a main financier of all kinds of left-wing projects, including the protest industrial complex. But there&#8217;s also this Arabella network. … They are a major financier of these protest movements and groups. There&#8217;s also the Tides funding network, the Ford Foundation funding network – we&#8217;ve looked at probably a dozen or so funding networks with more than $10 billion flowing through these accounts. But the main ones we put into our report were the Soros, Arabella, Tides, and a few other funding networks.
Morning Wire: We&#8217;ve had lots of leftwing protests over the years get very, very violent. Is there a sense that there is going to be some accountability for these institutions funding these protests?
Bruner: That&#8217;s my sense. I was at the White House last week talking with President Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel. They all seem very locked in on this issue, wanting to get to the money, not just the boots on the ground and the people committing the violence, but who is financing this. I&#8217;ve spoken with some people at Homeland Security Investigations. They seem to be very interested in the follow-the-money aspect. I think that they are working their way up.
Morning Wire: Related to that – we’ve just seen the Trump administration label &#8220;Antifa&#8221; a terrorist organization. How does that impact the sense that, again, there&#8217;s going to be some movement in terms of tracking down and holding accountable some of these groups funding things that turn violent?
Bruner: At the end of the day, the people who they arrest, whether they’re domestic terrorists or not, are going to be charged with violent crimes. These are the people who are assaulting ICE officers, setting fire to cars and buildings. And so I don’t think that they’re going to be arresting anybody as a domestic terrorist who hasn’t actually committed some sort of crime.
Morning Wire: The Democrats counter this by claiming that &#8220;Antifa&#8221; is actually a myth. It&#8217;s not actually an organization and thus a false label. What&#8217;s your response to that?
Bruner: It’s preposterous to say that Antifa isn’t an organization just because it doesn’t have an LLC or EIN or some sort of corporate entity. There’s all kinds of groups that don&#8217;t have corporate entities that can be investigated as organizations. … But law enforcement has the tools to follow the money even in those ways that we don’t.
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Ceasefire In Jeopardy After Hamas Violence</h2>
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Topline: Vice President JD Vance is set to visit the Middle East this week as violent clashes in Gaza buffet President Trump’s historic Middle East peace deal.
The first violation: The State Department said in a <a href="https://x.com/StateDept/status/1979670820042559983">statement</a> on Saturday that: “The United States has informed the guarantor nations of the Gaza peace agreement of credible reports indicating an imminent ceasefire violation by Hamas against the people of Gaza.”
The warning from the State Department comes after videos have surfaced on social media over the past week of Hamas militants conducting public executions or essentially torturing Gazans for alleged crimes.
President Donald Trump said in an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” that Hamas will be disarmed one way or another.
“They promised they would [disarm]. They said they would. It&#8217;s [written] down that they would,” <a href="https://x.com/Osint613/status/1979919036847718410">said</a> Trump. “If we have to, we&#8217;ll disarm them.”
He clarified that the United States would not send soldiers into Gaza and that a proxy could fight Hamas: “Could be Israel with our backing. We won&#8217;t have boots on the ground. There&#8217;s no reason to.”
The second violation: Israel has accused Hamas of violating the ceasefire for attacks against the IDF.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with his security cabinet on Sunday to discuss the future of the ceasefire. The IDF is still holding behind the so-called “yellow line” that was agreed upon as part of the first phase of the truce.
According to the IDF, Hamas militants came out of a tunnel in IDF territory and fired an anti-tank rocket at Israeli forces that killed two soldiers. Israel responded by launching around 20 airstrikes across Gaza.
Hamas didn’t deny the attack; the terrorist group said that because it happened in an area under Israeli control, “contact has been severed with our groups that remained there.”
Future of peace: Trump is still optimistic about his plan for peace in the Middle East. The U.S. military is in the region watching over the ceasefire. Vance and special envoy Steve Witkoff will be in Israel this week to monitor the ceasefire closely.
Despite the chaos, Trump has said he expects an expansion of the Abraham Accords soon.

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Morning Brief: ‘No Kings’ Protests Return, The Funding Behind Them, & Gaza Ceasefire Wavers

Morning Brief: ‘No Kings’ Returns, The Billionaires Behind It, And Gaza Ceasefire Wavers

Antifa

Federal prosecutors have accused Mahmoud Amin Ya’qub al-Muhtadi, 33, of Louisiana, of taking part in the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, massacre in Israel and of gaining entry to the United States through a fraudulent visa application.
According to a criminal complaint unsealed Thursday, al-Muhtadi wasn’t just a bystander. He’s accused of organizing armed fighters in Gaza, helping coordinate the assault, and crossing into Israel himself just behind the first wave of Hamas terrorists. Communications from that morning show al-Muhtadi instructing others to “bring the rifles,” “get ready,” and asking for bulletproof vests and ammunition. One message was blunt: “If you have a full magazine, bring it to me.”
The FBI complaint, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/us/fbi-hamas-attack-louisiana.html?unlocked_article_code=1.uE8.zTMe.8-olRlhIWLLf&amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare">The New York Times</a>, reveals his phone connected to an Israeli cell tower on the morning of the attack — a damning indicator he may have crossed into Israeli territory. Nearby, 60 people — including American citizens — were slaughtered at a kibbutz. Though al-Muhtadi hasn’t yet been charged with directly murdering anyone, the evidence places him near the scene of the massacre and in contact with those actively involved.
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What makes this more disturbing? He got into the United States.
Al-Muhtadi allegedly applied for a U.S. immigrant visa under the name Mahmoud Almuhtadi, claiming to have no connection to paramilitary groups or terrorism. He entered America through Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in September 2024 and later posted selfies on social media — holding a Glock — from Tulsa, Oklahoma. By May 2025, he was tracked to Lafayette, Louisiana, where he was working at a restaurant when the feds caught up to him.
And al-Muhtadi wasn’t acting alone. According to the complaint, he’s a known member of the National Resistance Brigades, the armed wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) — a Gazan Marxist terror organization with a long, bloody track record of murdering Israelis. The DFLP has operated alongside Hamas in multiple attacks, including on October 7.
Despite being previously designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. State Department, the DFLP was quietly removed years ago, supposedly due to its declining influence.
The DFLP is the same terror group responsible for some of the most <a href="https://www.camera.org/article/camera-backgrounder-democratic-front-for-the-liberation-of-palestine-dflp/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">brutal attacks</a> in Israel’s history:
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<li data-start="2729" data-end="2861">1974 Ma’alot Massacre: DFLP gunmen took an entire elementary school hostage, resulting in the murder of 27, including 22 children.</li>
<li data-start="2864" data-end="2951">1975 Jerusalem bombing: Seven civilians were killed by a DFLP bomb hidden in a wagon.</li>
<li data-start="2954" data-end="3073">2002 West Bank bus ambush: Nine killed, twenty injured when DFLP terrorists bombed and opened fire on a civilian bus.</li>
<li data-start="3076" data-end="3201">“Night of the Gliders” (1987): Six Israeli soldiers were murdered by DFLP operatives infiltrating from Lebanon using hang gliders. 
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Argentine President Javier Milei gifted President Donald Trump a gold-framed Nobel nomination letter on Tuesday during a meeting between the two leaders at the White House.
Milei presented Trump with the gift ahead of a dinner attended by top officials from each government. Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday despite a chorus of world leaders who pushed for Trump to win this year’s honor.
Milei, through a translator, said that he is “very honored, especially in this moment when we are giving thanks for Trump’s great leadership,” according to the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/argentina-donald-trump-javier-milei-imf-c6f37a00c96f8aa321324ff443147b4e">Associated Press</a>.
“We can follow a peaceful route and make Argentina a strong example for freedom and prosperity,” the visiting president said.
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🚨 JUST IN: Argentinian President Javier Milei just gifted President Trump a framed letter nominating him for the NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
World leaders are FINALLY formally recognizing 47 as the Peace President 🇺🇸
Much deserved! <a href="https://t.co/khsNeyVFMs">pic.twitter.com/khsNeyVFMs</a>
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) <a href="https://twitter.com/nicksortor/status/1978163562263511299?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
Milei visited Washington, D.C., after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a financial lifeline to Argentina last week. Bessent <a href="https://x.com/SecScottBessent/status/1976358303098662932">said</a> the Treasury struck an agreement with Milei’s administration for a $20 billion currency swap and an additional U.S. purchase of Argentine pesos.
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“Argentina faces a moment of acute illiquidity. The international community – including [the International Monetary Fund] – is unified behind Argentina and its prudent fiscal strategy, but only the United States can act swiftly. And act we will,” said Bessent in a post on <a href="https://x.com/SecScottBessent/status/1976358303098662932">X</a>.
Milei is an economist by training and a forceful advocate for free markets and capitalism. His aggressive reforms to Argentina’s economy, the third-largest in South America, showed early success in <a href="https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-openai-data-center-argentina/">attracting</a> investment, <a href="https://tradingeconomics.com/argentina/inflation-cpi">reducing</a> inflation to around 30%, and <a href="https://batimes.com.ar/news/economy/imf-downgrades-argentina-2025-growth-forecast-to-45.phtml">restoring</a> economic growth of roughly 5%.
But Milei’s popularity has <a href="https://directoriolegislativo.org/en/milei-faces-midterm-elections-at-the-lowest-point-of-his-approval/">sagged</a> recently, with midterm elections quickly approaching later this month. Local elections held last month featured a closely-watched bellwether race that went against Milei’s party, spooking investors. Concerns surged that Milei’s efforts may be futile to break Argentina’s economy away from the Peronist-socialist philosophy that has shackled it for decades.
The Trump administration’s lifeline has provided Argentina with quick access to stable currency, reassuring creditors, at least for a short while, that the government can pay its debts. The U.S. assistance is also aimed at stabilizing Argentina’s highly volatile peso, preventing a run that would cause the price of the currency to plummet and knock the economy into a tailspin right ahead of elections.
“It’s just helping a great philosophy take over a great country,” said Trump on Tuesday, according to the AP. “Argentina is one of the most beautiful countries that I’ve ever seen, and we want to see it succeed. It’s very simple.”
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Argentina’s Milei Recognizes Trump’s Peace Legacy With White House Gift

Argentina’s Milei Gifts Trump Gold-Framed Nobel Nomination In White House Visit

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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and the speaker of the Israeli Knesset, Amir Ohana, are partnering on a campaign to collect support for a Nobel Peace Prize for President Donald Trump.
Johnson and Ohana announced the initiative this week following the president’s whirlwind trip to the Middle East. On Monday, Trump was in Israel to mark the homecoming of hostages from Gaza, and in Egypt to lead a summit for peace in the Middle East.
“We&#8217;re going to embark upon a project together to rally speakers and presidents of parliaments around the world so that we will jointly nominate President Donald J. Trump for next year&#8217;s Nobel Peace Prize. No one has ever deserved that prize more, and that is an objective fact,” said Johnson on Tuesday. “Under his leadership, we are witnessing the dawn of a new golden age, not just for America, but for the entire free world.”
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Today, we proudly announced that Speaker of the Israeli Knesset Amir Ohana and I are undertaking a new joint effort to rally Speakers and Presidents of Parliaments around the world to join us in nominating President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2026.
NO ONE has done… <a href="https://t.co/sypF9J83nj">pic.twitter.com/sypF9J83nj</a>
— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1978125717100474840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
On Monday, ahead of Trump’s speech before the Knesset, Ohana <a href="https://x.com/AmirOhana/status/1978203307178106897">referred</a> to Trump as a “colossus who will be enshrined in the pantheon of history” and a friend to the Jewish people the likes of which has not been seen in thousands of years.
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The two speakers’ campaign seeks to add to an already growing list of international diplomats and world leaders who have endorsed Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, including Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet, Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev, and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. The government of Pakistan has nominated Trump for the award as well.
Across two terms in the White House, Trump has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pax-trumpana-trumps-resume-for-winning-the-nobel-peace-prize">intervened</a> in eight conflicts to broker ceasefires or peace agreements, the latest of which is the ceasefire struck between Israel and Hamas. U.S. diplomacy and mediation secured the release of the remaining 20 living hostages from the terror group Hamas. The hostages returned to Israel on Monday.
The president also created a framework that has received widespread backing across the Middle East, including from Israel and many Arab and Muslim countries, to create a pathway for Palestinian self-determination. Trump&#8217;s record in the Middle East builds off that of his first term when his administration orchestrated the Abraham Accords to normalize relations between Israel and the Arab world.

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Vice President JD Vance said that there will be no American “boots on the ground” in Israel, though troops in the region will monitor the ceasefire agreement between Israel and the terror group Hamas.
Vance appeared on NBC News’ “Meet The Press” on Sunday and clarified the role of U.S. service members in Israel after a report last week said 200 U.S. soldiers would be stationed in Israel. Vance said that U.S. Central Command “already [has] people in that region of the world” to help with oversight.
“We&#8217;re not planning to put boots on the ground. What we already have is a U.S. Central Command, we already have people in that region of the world,” said Vance. “They&#8217;re going to monitor the terms of the ceasefire. They&#8217;re going to monitor, ensure the humanitarian aid is flowing.”
The vice president specified that the Trump administration will not put “boots on the ground in Gaza or Israel,” but “Central Command troops that are already there … are going to monitor this peace proposal.”
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“We&#8217;ve actually had – and this is one of the great successes of the president&#8217;s diplomacy from Indonesia to the Gulf Arab states – we&#8217;ve had a number of Muslim majority countries offer to step up and have them put troops on the ground to secure Gaza. It&#8217;s not going to be necessary for American troops to be in Gaza,” Vance added.
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The U.S. will not have &#8220;boots on the ground in Gaza or Israel,&#8221; says <a href="https://twitter.com/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VP</a>.
&#8220;We&#8217;re going to have CENTCOM troops that are already there that are going to monitor this peace proposal&#8230; It&#8217;s not going to be necessary for American troops to be in Gaza.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/pOMPhVzLeG">pic.twitter.com/pOMPhVzLeG</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1977372842657239166?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
On CBS News’ “Face The Nation” on Sunday, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/badr-abdelatty-egypt-foreign-minister-face-the-nation-transcript-10-12-2025/">confirmed</a> that Egypt is in the process of coordinating with other Arab countries to deploy troops to Gaza to train Gazan police forces as well as control the enclave that has been ruled by terrorists for decades.
“We are in the process now, as we speak, [of] providing training and coordination with Jordan to train up to 5,000 Palestinians to be deployed in Gaza,” said Abdelatty. “Deployment of international forces is on the table,” he said, adding that Egypt supports the idea.
“We are going to support and to commit troops within specific parameters,” the foreign minister said, though he noted that Egyptian troops would only be committed once certain demands are met, such as receiving a clearly defined mission for an international force from the U.N. security council.
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When asked if Egypt will provide troops on the ground in Gaza to help support its security and stabilization, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty says, “Deployment of international force is on the table. We are supporting this idea, of course.”
“We are going to support and… <a href="https://t.co/NsdNdrgJye">pic.twitter.com/NsdNdrgJye</a>
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1977407237753606272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2025</a></blockquote>

JD Vance: There Will Be No U.S. ‘Boots On The Ground’ In Israel, Gaza

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The United States is reportedly sending 200 troops to Israel to oversee implementation of a ceasefire between Jerusalem and the terror group Hamas.
No U.S. troops will be sent into Gaza, according to the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/mideast-gaza-israel-hamas-us-military-c19caf7b193dbb3bfaf056366f9e2369">Associated Press</a>. The service members will staff a “civil-military coordination center” set up by U.S. Central Command in coordination with partner nations and nongovernmental organizations.
The coordination center will monitor the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. The Israeli security council voted to approve the first phase of a peace proposal on Thursday, officially enacting a ceasefire that includes the release of hostages held by Hamas and a military pullback from Israel.
The ceasefire comes after Israel and Hamas negotiators hammered out an initial agreement in the Egyptian seaside city of Sharm el-Sheikh. Israeli and Hamas officials met through negotiators. Foreign diplomats from the United States, Turkey, and other countries converged on Sharm el-Sheikh as the two sides drew close to a deal earlier this week.
Those diplomats included Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff and the president’s son-in-law and former adviser Jared Kushner, who received personal thanks from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the security council vote.
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“We fought during these two years to achieve our war aims, and a central one of these war aims is to return the hostages – all of the hostages, the living and the dead – and we&#8217;re about to achieve that goal,” Netanyahu said. “We couldn&#8217;t have achieved it without the extraordinary help of President Trump and his team, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.”
The prime minister also thanked the Israel Defense Forces for being one prong of “combined military and diplomatic pressure that isolated Hamas [and] … brought us to this point.”
The structure of the ceasefire is built off of a U.S.-backed proposal announced last month at a joint press conference with Netanyahu. At the time, Trump said the proposal could lay the groundwork for establishing “eternal peace in the Middle East.”
The proposal received backing from a slate of Arab countries. Qatar, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt released a joint statement following the proposal’s rollout backing “Trump’s leadership and his sincere efforts to end the war in Gaza, and assert their confidence in his ability to find a path to peace.”

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200 U.S. Troops Ordered To Israel To Oversee Gaza Ceasefire

Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel &amp; Hamas close in on a peace deal two years after the heinous October terrorist attack, President Donald Trump deploys the National Guard to Chicago as chaos intensifies, and violent text messages from a Democratic candidate in Virginia lead to calls for his ouster — but only from one side.
It’s Tuesday, October 7, 2025, and this is the news you need to know to start your day.
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Two Years After October 7 Terror Attack</h2>
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Topline: Israel’s two-year war in Gaza may be nearing an end after a U.S.-backed peace proposal won widespread backing across the Middle East.
Negotiators are meeting in Egypt this week to hammer out the details of the peace framework presented by President Trump. Already, there are splits. Hamas has agreed to release all hostages, but it hasn’t agreed to the three-day timeline, nor has it agreed to demilitarize or swear off any future involvement in Gaza’s governance.
President Trump is optimistic, however. He’s seemingly viewed Hamas’ willingness to have a discussion as a win.
A look back: In 2023, Saudi Arabia was on the verge of joining the Abraham Accords and normalizing relations with Israel. To Hamas, that would have been a disaster – it needs Israel isolated. At the same time, Israel was roiled by judicial reform – there were massive protests in the streets. Israeli society seemed to be torn apart.
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Hamas sensed weakness, and it needed to break up Arab-Israeli relations, so it attacked. As an Iranian proxy, it received help from Iran and its massive network of terror groups. Hezbollah in Lebanon had tens of thousands of rockets and missiles. In Israel, Hamas was viewed as a threat, but the threat from Hezbollah was considered potentially existential.
The Houthis in Yemen threatened Israel and international shipping. Then there was Iran itself. Tehran is the largest state-sponsor of terrorism in the world, and prior to October 7, it had used its web of terror groups to surround Israel.
October 7, two years later: That web now has serious holes. Israel is in a much stronger position in the Middle East. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made that point in an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ben-interviews-netanyahu?elementPosition=3&amp;row=2&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+Episodes&amp;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Episodes+Carousel">interview</a> with The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro on Monday:
<blockquote>Two years later, we&#8217;ve smashed the Iran axis, smashed most of its proxies. Hamas is not finished yet, but we&#8217;ll get there. Hezbollah, Syria is gone. Smashed also Iran&#8217;s nuclear and ballistic missile program – still there, but rolled it really back with President Trump&#8217;s help. And the Houthis, who are threatening the entire world and maritime shipping. So, Israel emerged from this horrible day as the strongest power in the Middle East.</blockquote>
Israel&#8217;s support slipping: Support for Israel is fading in the West. Canada, the U.K., and France have all recently recognized the nonexistent state of Palestine, which Trump has described as a reward for terrorism.
Polling in the United States suggests some bad trends for Israel. According to a Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/06/jewish-americans-israel-poll-gaza/">poll</a> conducted last month, support among American Jews has taken some hits. The share who believe the United States supports Israel too much has risen to 32%—a 10-point increase since 2020 and a 21-point increase since 2013. Within the Democratic Party, support for the Palestinian cause has become something of a litmus test among progressives. Meanwhile, some voices on the Republican side question whether strong backing for Israel aligns with an “America First” philosophy.
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Trump Cracks Down On Chicago</h2>
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Topline: Violent assaults against federal immigration authorities continue in Illinois, and the Trump administration has responded by sending hundreds of Texas National Guard troops to Chicago. 
Much of Trump’s effort to activate National Guard troops to protect federal immigration enforcement is in legal limbo. 
Homeland Security officials told The Daily Wire that they&#8217;re not going to let up on the mass deportation effort amid the ongoing assaults against immigration officers. 
Since Trump has taken office, there has been a 1,000% increase in assaults on ICE agents. Around Chicago in particular, leftist agitators have made a number of egregious assaults on the ICE detention center in Broadview, Illinois, and on ICE and Border Patrol agents who have been deployed to assist in these efforts.
Illinois against ICE: The state of Illinois has sued over the deployment of National Guard troops to the state. It says that the move by the Trump administration is unconstitutional and an invasion.
Chicago Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson is creating “ICE-free zones” in city buildings where he says that ICE and Border Patrol cannot go. He has also called on local businesses to participate, as well, to shield illegal aliens who are roaming the streets.
At the same time, there are more places for illegal aliens to run and hide, ICE and federal law enforcement sources tell The Daily Wire.
ICE ambushed: Over the weekend, several vehicles allegedly rammed into and boxed in federal immigration agents in Chicago during a protest confrontation.
A U.S. citizen woman, who authorities say was armed with a semi-automatic weapon and previously accused of doxxing agents, was shot by Border Patrol after agents said they were boxed in.
Trump administration officials have characterized the incident as part of a broader pattern, arguing that National Guard deployments may be necessary in cities where local enforcement is perceived as unwilling to protect federal agents.
Deportation operation: The Trump administration&#8217;s operations, and the surrounding areas of Chicago, have already yielded 1,000 arrests since early September. In the case of “ICE-free zones,” officials may pursue Chicago and Mayor Johnson for violations of federal law in harboring illegal aliens.
<h2 style="text-align: center;">The Democrat Text Message Scandal Roiling Virginia</h2>
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Topline: A political firestorm is raging in Virginia over text messages that show Democratic attorney general nominee Jay Jones fantasizing about killing a GOP colleague. 
The controversy centers on messages sent in August 2022 from then-former Delegate Jay Jones to Republican Delegate Carrie Coyner. In those messages, first obtained by National Review, Jones fantasized about murdering then-House Speaker Todd Gilbert, a Republican:
<blockquote>Three people, two bullets. Gilbert, Hitler, and Pol Pot. Gilbert gets two bullets to the head.
Spoiler: put Gilbert in the crew with the two worst people you know and he receives both bullets every time.</blockquote>
When Coyner asked Jones to stop and suggested his remarks weren’t acceptable, Jones continued, even referencing Gilbert’s children. Coyner said, “You were talking about hoping Jennifer Gilbert’s children would die,” and Jones didn’t deny it. Instead, he replied, “I’ve told you this before. Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy.” 
Then he said, “Do I think Todd and Jennifer are evil and they’re breeding little fascists? Yes.”
He also fantasized about attending the funerals of other Republican lawmakers, saying he would “piss on their graves” and “send them out awash in something.”
Jones has now apologized, saying, “Reading back those words made him sick to his stomach.” He insists he’s staying in the race and has blamed “Trump-controlled media” for turning the text messages into a story.
Republicans react: There’s been a chorus of voices demanding that Jones exit the race. Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, who is running for governor, and Attorney General Jason Miyares, Jones’ opponent, say the texts are disqualifying. President Trump also said he needs to go. And Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin described the comments as “demented.” 
Democrats react: But while some Democrats are condemning the remarks, we’re not yet hearing any calls for Jones to drop out. Jones’ running mate, Abigail Spanberger, said she spoke “frankly” with him and expressed her “disgust,” but won&#8217;t call for him to quit. 
Political fallout: Coming in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, political analysts are saying Jones&#8217; messages are likely to be a significant liability. Early voting has increased by 20% this week, according to state data. Internal GOP tracking shows the race tightening to a dead heat, with undecideds – about 39% of voters who barely know Jones – swinging hard against him.
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Morning Brief: Remembering October 7, Troops To Chicago, & A Democrat Scandal Roils Virginia

Morning Brief: 10-7 Anniversary, Troops To Chicago, And Democrat Scandal Roils Virginia

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