All Hands on Deck for the Midterms

We need another victory.

J.B. Shurk | October 3, 2026

The midterm elections are a month away, and I would like to ask a favor: Please make sure that you vote.  Please encourage your friends and family to vote.  We need all the help that we can get.

Perhaps you feel that voting is a useless exercise that exists to legitimize bad outcomes — a way of forcing citizens to accept responsibility for things they did not do.  “You get the government you vote for,” we often hear, but that’s not exactly true.  Unelected bureaucrats and judges from unaccountable agencies and Constitution-subverting courts give us a lot of government that none of us want!  “If voting made a difference, it would be illegal,” the old saw goes.  There’s probably a layer of truth in that hunk of ore.  

But voting can make a difference!  We’ve seen what a difference it can make over the last ten years!  

There’s no way in Hades that the powers that be wanted President Donald J. Trump in office.  Bill Kristol and all of the “conservative thought leaders” in his orbit worked to elect Hillary Clinton back in 2016.  Duplicitous Mitt Romney delivered one of the most hateful anti-Trump screeds on national television that year.  Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan advised fellow lawmakers not to say anything positive about Trump heading into the general election.  Economists predicted that a Trump victory would send the country into a depression.  Retired generals predicted that Trump would lead the country into WWIII.  Political marketing firms and campaign consultants essentially blacklisted anybody who considered working for the Republican nominee.  The only places you could find anything positive about his candidacy were rebellious publications such as this one!

Boy, oh boy, when Trump won, you could almost see the Deep State Establishment melting in real time.  Do you remember how all the networks waited hours to call the election because none of them could stomach admitting the truth?  Hillary Clinton was too busy drinking, crying, screaming, throwing things — whatever — to concede publicly until ten hours after........

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