TODAY'S NEWS, April 8-14, 2026

Larry Schweikart
1 day ago
8 min read

Updated: 5 hours ago

HEADLINES: Strait of Hormuz blockaded; Eric Swalwell pushed out of CA governor race; CO economy in turmoil

The News of Today is the History of Tomorrow

IN POLITICAL NEWS

1) Unable to come to a settlement with the nutjobs running Iran, President Trump imposed a blockade on the Strait of Hormuz. Remember, this hurts us ZERO, but really hurts the Euros and the ChiCom. Check out this report of a massive fleet of empty oil tankers heading for the U.S. to pick up oil. Right before shutting it down entirely, Trump ordered the U.S. Navy to clear mines in the Strait. It seems the Iranians actually forgot where they put the mines. What's good for the goose . . . anyone remember when Iran used soldiers as human mine-detectors in Iran-Iraq War? Maybe take a lesson from them . . . . This is hysterical. Only Trump could say this. In his Truth message warning the Iranians better play nice, he stated that we had wiped out their navy and had eliminated their top leadership . . ."Praise be to Allah!" Now that's funny right there. We know the war is all about the "Joooooossss," right? Except it now surfaces that the Saudis wanted Trump to "finish the job" and are paying us enormous amounts of money to ensure Iran doesn't rise from the ashes. The U.S. and Israel destroyed Iran's infant WMD program.

2) Just another example of the continued red-ward shift of the states, as even OR has lost net 41,500 DemoKKKrats since 2020 and OR 5 is particularly competitive, as DemoKKKrats have lost 3,300 just since 2024. In AK, the third straight D-R state seat flip occurred in an Anchorage district Cackles won by 8. Then there was the special election for Marjorie Taylor Greene's seat---won by a Republican. In one bright spot for DemoKKKrats, the open seat on the Wi Supreme Court was won by a DemoKKKrat who got fewer votes in winning than the last Republican got in losing. WI has a major turnout problem.

3) People are fleeing New Azteca (LA), with taxes skyrocketing and police and fire being cut, but the Los Angeles Slimes, of course, blames Trump's immigration policies. First, the hotel industry in New Azteca is crashing because of Mayor Karen Ass's policies. Then homebuilding giant KB Homes has pulled up stakes and will relocate to Tempe, Az.

4) Kollyfornia DemoKKKrats pressured Farticus (Eric Swalwell) to drop out of the governor's race because the DemoKKKrat vote is fractured and the top person in the polls is a Republican, as is the #3 guy, setting the possibility for Kollyfornia's governor's race to be all GOP No, this isn't the infamous Fang Fang, but a new sexual assault charge that caused several of his top peeps to resign. And one of the other candidates is the hideously ugly Fuller Brush Girl, Katie Porter, who issued a scathing tweet, only to be "community noted as someone who "allegedly poured scalding potatoes on her ex-husband's head." Such love! Such wholesomeness. As Jeff Childers pointed out, Farticus then lied about having an NDA, which Politico found. A funny story is here about how poor little Farticus holed up in a billionaire's $26 million mansion before he was thrown out. In fact, said billionaire donor quit the DemoKKKrat Party and became an "Independent-Republican." Oh, and Farticus also resigned from the House, conveniently allowing Texas Congressman Tony Gonzolez to finally also resign admist sex allegations himself. They had to ensure the Rs didn't walk away with a net gain here.

5) Hollywood took a hit too, as a number of actors had shoveled thousands into Farticus's campaign, including little Bobby De Niro and Hanoi Jane Fonda.

6) Likewise, CO has seen an exodus of business (nearly 100 since 2019), making things so bad that over 200 CO businesses wrote a letter to the Governor Jared Polis warning that the state has to cease attacking producers. And speaking of CO, a Judicial Watch lawsuit forced the state to clean 324,000 voters off its rolls. That's almost certainly a 60/40 D/R split, meaning the Rs just net gained about 100,000.

7) Another major shift, as the middle of the U.S. used to receive freight from the coasts. Now that is flipping as the center of the country is becoming the primary source for domestic shipping.

8) The KS legislature overrode Gov. Laura Kelly's veto of a school choice bill. This is the way.

9) No one will hang, but still more evidence that the 2020 election was rigged, as massive internet traffic from Iran and China into U.S. key swing precincts occurred on election night 2020. Gee, why?

10) Feeling the heat from the feds, the Kollyfornia DoJ has arreted five of the hospice fraudsters. Oh, little DemoKKKrat spoogies. This isn't going to deflect the big investigations coming. The fraudsters were approaching people on the street, offering them $300 a month to sign up for "hospice care" that they never received. Meanwhile, not satisfied with driving tens of thousands of people from the state, Kollyfornia is seeking a $30 minimum wage law, which would make a single Big Mac over $20. The acting AG Todd Blanche says there are over 8,000 fraud investigations underway. That's an eight with three zeroes.

11) Melania Trump fired a shot across the media's bow for those seeking to say she had anything to do with Jeffrey Epstein, and urged a hearing for the victims---which DemoKKKrats in the past had once supported, but certainly not now. Melania was rich before she married Trump. She is about to get richer with the defamation settlements.

12) Trump issued a sequestration order that will begin to defund Medicaid, Medicare, and day care, saying the programs would shift back to the states. When combined with the Big Beautiful Bill, the cuts already will come to over 6%, a whopping number in government free money circles. This comes right as people are hearing about hospice and Medicaid fraud, and it will be impossible for the DemoKKKrats now to wheel out granny as a prop.

13) A major victory for "The Punisher" Pete Hegseth and the DoWar as a court said the government can indeed shut out anthropic from contracting. Speaking of the military, the lost flyer last week who didn't have a radio or tracker? He was found by a new CIA program called "Ghost Murmer" that can locate your heartbeat using AI from 40 miles away.

14) In a very important election, Salt River Project, which controls water and power for the metro Phoenix area, a conservative defeated the green for the top board seat. TPUSA had made this race a priority and won. TPUSA previously had dethroned a Mesa anti-Trump R who was in a massively red district.

15) President Trump has been remaking the judiciary with younger, whiter, and more conservative judges who are interested in immigration restrictions.

16) Despite a corruption probe and lagging student scores, the LA Teacher's union won a 14% pay hike.

17) Newly declassified memos show that the CIA analyst behind the 2019 impeachment was, of course, ridiculously biased against President Trump.

18) Zero's codename "RENEGADE" was found on Iranian servers by Pam Bondi's team. He transferred $1.7 billion to Hezbollah, and hand wrote a message to the CIA telling them to stand down during the Benghazi crisis.

19) The federal workforce has dropped by over 350,000 under President Trump.

20) Ahh, beautiful New Kabul (NYC) as a machete-wielding kookburger stabbed three at Grand Central Station.

21) Typical DemoKKKrat here: a long-shot candidate in FL threatened to kill two elderly victims, possibly his parents.

22) Another game-changer from President Trump, as a policy shift will now have any foreign aid go directly to governments, NOT through NGOs!

23) New DOJ released evidence showed that Rutabaga's DOJ was weaponized against pro-lifers.