Highlights and Bullet Points From Republican Mid-Term Convention

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Wednesday, September 9

  • Trump presented his administration’s economic and domestic-policy record. His speech covered tax cuts, immigration enforcement, domestic oil and gas production, and prescription-drug pricing. He credited his administration with increased energy production and highlighted its “most favored nation” approach to drug prices. These were the accomplishments he presented to the audience; the speech itself does not independently establish every numerical claim.
  • He announced a proposed $5,000 “Trump dividend.” Trump said every adult U.S. citizen would receive the payment if Republicans retained both the House and Senate. He also said the money would have to be spent in the United States. This was a proposed payment announced in his speech, not an enacted benefit. He repeated the proposal Thursday.
  • Texas’s Senate contest received considerable attention. Ken Paxton presented his economic message, thanked Trump, and criticized Democratic opponent James Talarico. Trump subsequently highlighted Paxton’s candidacy and pledged to return to Texas to campaign for him. Representative Brandon Gill also devoted part of his remarks to Talarico and other Democratic candidates.
  • John Fetterman appeared in a recorded introduction for Dave McCormick.The Democratic Pennsylvania senator praised his Republican colleague and discussed working together with Trump on Pennsylvania’s steel industry. Fetterman identified himself as a Democrat in the message. McCormick thanked him when he came onstage. C-SPAN video
  • The program connected policy themes to individual families and workers. It included border residents Wanda and Ron Liptow; National Border Patrol Council president Paul Perez; manufacturing workers appearing with McCormick; and Laken Riley’s family appearing with Mike Collins. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, Attorney General Todd Blanche, and Dr. Mehmet Oz were also on Wednesday’s program. Oz’s remarks emphasized healthcare affordability. Official program, Night-one transcript

Thursday, September 10—the evening you attended

  • Vance’s keynote emphasized party unity despite policy disagreements. He defended the administration’s record and asked Republicans who disagreed with particular decisions to remain engaged in the midterms. He also criticized Democratic candidates and discussed family, faith, and national identity. The audience greeted him with chants of his name. A protester carrying a Mexican flag interrupted the address and was escorted out.
  • Kennedy explained his political break with the Democratic Party and alliance with Trump. He discussed his family’s Democratic history and argued that the party had departed from its earlier values. His remarks addressed pandemic restrictions, constitutional rights, corporate influence, immigration, and women’s sports. He also recalled his 2024 presidential campaign and credited Charlie Kirk with helping bring him and Trump together. His health-policy discussion centered on the “Make America Healthy Again” agenda and childhood chronic disease. FOX 4’s full Kennedy speech and summary
  • Mayor Eric Johnson focused on public safety and Dallas’s economic development. He explained his move from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party in terms of policing, business policy, and city government. He discussed efforts to expand the police department, reduce crime and homelessness, and attract financial businesses. He used the phrase “Y’all Street” for his vision of Dallas as a financial center and contrasted his approach with policies in several Democratic-led cities. Full speech and FOX Local reporting
  • Ted Cruz addressed religion, the Constitution, and what he described as Islamist influence. He argued against incorporating Sharia into American law and characterized parts of the Democratic coalition as hostile to Christians, Jews, capitalism, and constitutional principles. Those were Cruz’s characterizations of his political opponents. Mike Rogers, Michigan’s Republican Senate nominee, also criticized his opponent’s association with commentator Hasan Piker, including Piker’s positions concerning Israel.
  • The Charlie Kirk remembrance marked the anniversary of his killing. The convention showed a roughly five-minute memorial video. Vance spoke about Kirk’s influence and invoked his memory while appealing for Republican unity. Donald Trump Jr. also addressed Kirk’s legacy.
  • September 11 remembrance was part of the evening’s program. On the eve of the attacks’ 25th anniversary, the schedule included a commemorative segment and Tunnel to Towers chairman and CEO Frank Siller. Other scheduled speakers included House Speaker Mike Johnson, Governor Greg Abbott, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, Representative Mike Lawler, Karoline Leavitt, and Donald Trump Jr. Thursday program
  • Trump closed by asking supporters to turn out for congressional candidates.He urged the audience to approach November as though he were on the ballot and led attendees in a repeat-after-me pledge to vote. His closing remarks again emphasized maintaining Republican congressional majorities.

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The mid-term elections will be a defining moment in American history. The future direction of our great nation hangs in the balance. We must, as Christian conservatives get out and vote! Choose this November the direction of the country. We cannot allow the socialist democrats to continue to win elections and bring down our great Republic. I will hold my nose and vote against the democrats. We must retain control of both houses of Congress to have any chance to save our nation. Rh

Never Vance

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Below is a re-post from Koenig.com. I will update a personal post later, but this is too important for the future of our country not to get this out there. The wheels are in motion to select Vance, not allow the common people make that choice. Unfortunately we are seeing more of this. Byron Donalds selected by Trump before Donalds even announced, Graham’S sister coronated successor in South Carolina. This is not democracy. Money, donors and connections mean more than the common man’s opinion? Look closely in this article at the connections Vance has with big foreign money, that has been funneled through corporations. More on Vance’s personal believes in a later article. Rh

The clock is ticking on the chances to stop JD Vance: informally began his 2028 campaign with a fundraiser hosted by Tucker Carlson’s financier

Jonathan S. Tobin – JNS

When the Republican Jewish Coalition gathers this week in Las Vegas for its annual conference, it will honor the legacy of the late South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham and hear from many other prominent figures in the pro-Israel community. Doubtless, the proceedings will include the usual celebration of the U.S.-Israel alliance and President Donald Trump’s historic support for the Jewish state and his opposition to Iran and its Islamist terror network.

Equally, if not more important, will be an effort to sound the alarm about the hijacking of the Democratic Party by its intersectional and antisemitic left-wing led by the Democratic Socialists of America, or DSA.

That’s exactly what the RJC should be talking about. But participants should also be aware that along with the merits of the current administration and the threat that the Democrats’ increasing assumption of a position as America’s anti-Israel party poses, there’s another just as troubling peril hanging over their party and the country. And his name is Vice President JD Vance.

But what didn’t escape notice was that the event in the mega-wealthy beachside village of Southampton on the East End of Long Island, N.Y. was held at the home of Omeed Malik, the venture capitalist who heads the 1789 Capital firm among other lucrative holdings. Those sorts of credentials and a net worth estimated at $100 million don’t make Malik anything all that special in that kind of neighborhood. The reason his name may ring a bell is that 1789 Capital, a company in which Donald Trump Jr. is also a partner, was the entity that invested the seed money in the amount of $15 million to help establish the Tucker Carlson Network. Malik and Don Jr. are reportedly close friends of Tucker. The same is also true of the vice president.

For full article: Jonathan S. Tobin – JNS

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How US envoy Tom Barrack nearly ignited an Israel-Turkey war

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Source: Ynet News

“Source tells me Ambassador Tom Barrack is on thin ice with the Trump administration and US State Department,” Loomer wrote, saying some officials believe Barrack bears responsibility for the recent escalation in tensions between Israel and Turkey.

In a second post, she said Barrack had been called back to Washington for “consultations” and quoted a State Department source as saying: “We want him gone so badly we might hire packers to pack his belongings for him.”

Loomer also said Barrack “almost started a regional war between Israel, Turkey and Syria” after accusing Israel of illegally occupying the Golan Heights.

Her claims have not been independently confirmed.

For full article: Ynet News

This guy is a snake in the grass, he needs to be gone. But, once again he has been a friend of Trump for years. Trump is his own worst enemy when it comes to appointing friends that are not capable of doing their job! Rh

Europe’s Great Rivers Are Dying. The Continent Is In for a Shock.

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By Ben Coates

August 15, 2026

Source: New York Times

All across Europe, shipwrecks and skeletons are rising from the deep.

Near Prahovo, Serbia, Nazi ships scuttled in 1944 now lie broken-backed on sandbanks. In Croatia, a 1930s cargo ship protruded from the water. On the newly exposed riverbed of the Danube in Bulgaria, what local experts say is most likely part of the skeleton of an ancient mammoth was found scattered across the sand, like discarded bones after a giant’s picnic.

Much of Europe is in the middle of a severe drought, and major rivers have been reduced to a fraction of their usual size. Europe’s second-longest river, the Danube, is now facing record lows, recently measuring just 9 inches deep in Budapest. Part of Italy’s mighty Po River is also at a record summertime low. And the Rhine, a major outlet for trade flowing from the Alps to the North Sea, is now shallower than at any time since records began.

Another article recently about the extreme drought in Europe. The U.S. is also facing water shortages to some extent in the Western part of the country. Climatic end times scenarios? Possibly, but we have had droughts before. Weather changes are part of Biblical end-time prophecy. What is the old saying, we all talk about the weather, but we can’t do anything about it. Just a thought. Rh

Christian Persecution is Exploding: New Report Reveals the World’s Worst Hotspots

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Billy Hallowell CBN news

A persecution watchdog is sounding the alarm about the worsening situation for Christians unfolding around the globe.

Shawn Wright, president of International Christian Concern (ICC), told CBN News that his organization’s 2026 Global Persecution Index exposes some truly diabolical situations in various nations.

But at the core of the shocking statistics and metrics is a sobering reality: people’s lives are being upended and even destroyed.

“Behind every statistic is a real person, a husband, a wife, pastor, or a child who has chosen faithfulness to Christ despite enormous persecution,” he said. “The index is not simply a report about persecution. It’s a call for the global church to stand with our brothers and sisters who suffer for their faith, because behind every statistic is a real person — and they’ve chosen Jesus over safety.”

Wright said Christians shouldn’t be surprised by rising persecution, explaining that he believes the New Testament is very clear on the matter. Jesus himself warned believers that they, too, would face pushback for following Him. Regardless, he said Christians need to stand up and take action.

“Hebrews 13:3 is very clear that we are to remember those who are imprisoned for their faith just as if we’re chained with them,” he said.

As for the biggest surprises in the ICC’s 2026 Global Persecution Index, Wright said Nigeria is top of mind.

“In Nigeria, in particular, the rise [of persecution is] in such an unfathomable measure,” he said. “Before [2024], we were looking at maybe in a one-year period, 500, 600 people who were killed in Nigeria, and just in the past year, that number has gone to over 2,500 and is increasing quickly.”

Wright added, “Nigeria represents almost 90% of all persecution around the globe that we can track.”

Fulani militants are responsible for more than 40% of the attacks, with other Muslim groups also contributing to the horror. People have been driven from their homes, dispersed and killed. Children are often left in the crosshairs of these tragic situations.

“I just returned two months ago from two of these government camps in Nigeria looking for myself,” Wright said. “These camps were just a mile down the road from where they originally were living … and many of these children are orphaned because their parents were killed in these attacks.”

He said the government is often complicit in these events or simply ignores what’s unfolding.

Wright also highlighted other areas, including parts of South America and countries such as China and India, where the index found rising or concerning levels of persecution.

Contrary to Nigeria, the persecution present in China takes a very different form, with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) cracking down on religious belief and harming Christians and other religious minorities. Through technology, China holds a grip on others and takes aim at these cohorts.

“China, for instance, theirs is through state control, surveillance, pressure on churches, closing of churches,” Wright said of the persecution dynamic. “But the biggest thing that China does is their electronic surveillance, and they actually sell this and give this to other governments like Iran, and Pakistan, and India, and some others that are in Southeast and East Asia so that they have a better way of tracking dissident groups, which leads to the opportunity for them to track Christians in particular.”

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Meanwhile, India offers yet another tragic look at the persecution paradigm, with Hindu nationalism driving much of the problem, according to Wright. He believes the government has essentially “outlawed the ability to evangelize” through rules and regulations that seek to restrict organizations and Christian groups.

“They also have anti-conversion laws … that are strategically targeting Christians, in particular, that you cannot share your faith, period,” Wright said. “And even … the way the laws are written in 13 of these states, it even raises questions of sharing your faith with other Christians.”

You can read more about the 2026 Global Persecution Index here.

Please pray for the persecuted church around the world. Many are not only imprisoned, beaten, tortured and some killed for their faith. Jesus said it would happen and it is. Just another sign of the end times we live in. Rh

Turkey: Testing The Waters

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Article below re-posted from WilliamKoenig.com

Israel strikes an air base in northwest Syria to prevent Turkish troops from deploying

Why Israel targeted a Syrian air base linked to Turkey

Netanyahu discussed the reason for the strike in a clip released on Wednesday. “We will not tolerate a Turkish military buildup extending southward. We conveyed that in every possible way.”

“Now we saw that Turkey intended to establish itself at an air base farther south, close to Aleppo, and we sent a message,” he continued. “How shall I put that message? ‘Don’t.’”

The prime minister said that although the original message had been received, “apparently it wasn’t heard,” so Israel acted to ensure that the Turks “understood it better.”

“We will not tolerate a Turkish military buildup extending southward,” he reiterated.

Jerusalem had given Damascus several warnings about Turkey’s military presence in the country.

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Israel’s new Syria dilemma: Netanyahu’s Russia playbook faces ‘Turkey test’

NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Can the kind of deconfliction mechanism PM Benjamin Netanyahu established with Putin in Syria be replicated with Erdogan’s Turkey?

On Tuesday, Israel attacked the runway and storage facilities at the Abu al-Duhur air base in the Idlib province, some 60 kilometers from the Turkish border. Israel believed the base was being prepared for Turkish forces, according to foreign media reports, and a military delegation from Turkey had visited the site just hours before the attack.

On Tuesday, Israel attacked the runway and storage facilities at the Abu al-Duhur air base in the Idlib province, some 60 kilometers from the Turkish border.Israel believed the base was being prepared for Turkish forces, according to foreign media reports, and a military delegation from Turkey had visited the site just hours before the attack.

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Turkey ‘crossed a red line’ in Syria, Israeli ambassador to US Leiter tells ‘Post’ – interview

Israeli Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter told The Jerusalem Post that Israel had received clear intelligence indicating that Turkey intended to significantly expand its military presence in Syria, a move Jerusalem viewed as crossing a red line.

“We are not seeking escalation or war with either Turkey or Syria. But a red line was crossed,” he said.

His comments came following Israel’s strike in Syria and subsequent criticism from both the Syrian and Turkish governments.

Let there be no mistake the world is a much dangerous place since Trump has put a leash on Israel. Israel has always feared fighting on three fronts, but they have been forced into just that scenario. Again, beating a dead horse, but why does Trump have man-crushes on despots and dictators? As I have repeatedly stated the most dangerous is Turkey, by far. Watch and pray! Rh

Is England’s Historic Drought a Warning From God?

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Britain’s green countryside is turning brown as a historic drought scorches much of England. For Christians, the images present more than an environmental crisis. They offer a vivid picture of what happens when a nation abandons the God who once stood at the center of its identity.

More than two-thirds of England is now in drought, according to the Daily Mail. Satellite images released by the European Union show large sections of southern England transformed from green fields in August 2025 into parched land one year later.

London’s Hyde Park appears almost entirely scorched.

“Over the summer of 2026, dry conditions have been affecting the United Kingdom,” the EU said. The Met Office reported that Wisley, Surrey, endured 61 consecutive dry days. Heathrow and Odiham each went 55 days without meaningful rain. Several other locations across southern England experienced dry spells lasting more than six weeks.

Elijah, Baal and the Withheld Rain

The drought carries a striking biblical parallel.

In 1 Kings 17-18, Israel suffered a prolonged drought after King Ahab and Queen Jezebel led the nation into Baal worship. Baal’s followers considered him a god of storms, fertility and rain. Yet when Israel embraced Baal and rejected the Lord, the heavens closed.

The drought exposed Baal’s powerlessness.

Elijah eventually confronted 450 prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel. Their false god failed to answer, but the Lord responded to Elijah’s prayer with fire. Only after the people fell before God and declared, “The Lord, He is God,” did rain return.

Britain’s Christian Retreat

Britain once sent missionaries around the world and built its institutions upon a Christian foundation. Today, that inheritance is being dismantled.

King Charles III remains the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, but he has recast the monarchy’s public religious posture around protecting all faiths and secular beliefs. The leader charged with defending the Christian faith now presents Christianity as one spiritual path among many.

Parliament has moved in the same direction. Christian street preachers have faced arrest and investigation for proclaiming biblical truth. Parliament has restricted prayer and religious expression near abortion facilities. Evidence increasingly shows the world a two-tier system in which authorities treat public expressions of Christianity as threats while showing greater sensitivity toward other religions such as Islam.

This is the spiritual progression Cahn describes: A nation removes God, empties its house and opens the door to the gods it once rejected.

A Call to Return

Rain is forecast, but the Met Office urged the public to be “cautious about how much impact it will have.” Heavy downpours can run off hardened ground instead of soaking into the soil.

That warning carries its own spiritual lesson. A brief shower cannot restore land hardened by prolonged drought. Likewise, ceremonial Christianity cannot heal a nation that has rejected the authority of Christ.

We must recognize the biblical pattern before us. Britain’s scorched landscape stands as a warning to a nation that has turned from its Christian foundation.

The answer is the same one given on Mount Carmel: repentance, wholehearted devotion and the public declaration that the Lord alone is God.

James Lasher, a seasoned writer and editor at Charisma Media, 

The open rebellion of the government against anything that speaks of God is alarming. When one allows their country to be overrun by Islam and push their religion while stifling Christianity, we can expect God to respond. Is this God’s judgement, who knows, but likely. Europe is lost without a genuine move of God. America pay attention! Rh

It’s A Spiritual Battle on America

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When you see 45,000 Muslims marching in Dearborn Michigan, what do you think of? How did they get so strong? Why are they allowed in a country that has fought so hard for separation of church and State. I believe in separation of church and State, as long as we are keeping government out of our personal religion. But when that religion dominates and demands acquiescence, then it becomes a military force that we have to learn to fight against.  Again this has nothing to do with religion, this has to do with takeover! 

It is time for the United States to stop all immigration from all countries.  Deport all that are here on a work visa of any kind.  Stop the insanity now.  It is also time for Congress to pass a law forbidding Sharia law, and also forbidding anyone not born in the US to hold public office. This will never happen.

One might say this is a radical approach.  It is, but we are in a desperate situation.  When the Democratic Party backs and supports radicals who wish the destruction of America, it must be done.  9/11 was a horrific terror attack on our soil.  A little over 20 years later a Muslim was elected in New York? Somali fraud in Minnesota?  Possible election of a Muslim in Michigan?  No go zone in Dearborn MI? All these point to the stupidity of American citizens.  Islam is incompatible with Western democracy.  We either act now before it is too late or we pay the consequences for our posterity.  If left unchecked, we lose the United States of America in 20 years.  

Satan would like nothing better than to destroy America.  We were destined to preach the gospel, and we have around the world.  We have supported and in impracticality we were responsible for Israel’s establishment.  God allowed through Truman’s declaration to participate in their founding, but don’t misunderstand this reviving of Israel is nothing short of the Sovereignty of Almighty God.  God gets all the credit!

We must learn to pray against the spiritual entities who desire our downfall, and get re-involved in government.  Godly government.  We must prosecute to the fullest extent of the law those who wish and acted to destroy our nation!  Trials, not just hearings.  Many should be tried and put in prison, regardless of who they are.  No one should be above the law.

Pray as you have never done before!  Bombard heaven for the mercies of the Almighty.  Learn spiritual warfare.  Stand for righteousness, and demand accountability.  God is sovereign.

On my Rumble channel “Moral Conservative” I will begin intercession for our nation on a semi-regular basis.  Check it out, please.  Fight like the third monkey on the ramp to the Ark!

Pray – Engage – Impact Rh