From the moment he hit the campaign trail and took office, President Donald J. Trump has prioritized the armed forces and supported their forgotten families. This included expanded federal job opportunities for spouses, improved occupational licensing portability across states, and greater access to remote and flexible work.

On August 3, 2026, he built on that momentum by signing an executive order establishing the President’s Military Spouse Commission, the first of its kind.

The panel is tasked with advising and assisting the president on matters affecting spouses and families. It will serve as a direct liaison between families and the White House, identifying common concerns, developing recommendations on housing, employment, healthcare, education, and deployment support, and submitting annual reports plus a final report. It may form subcommittees and will end after two years unless extended.

An estimated one million children have at least one parent on active duty.

Trump signed the order in an Oval Office ceremony attended by Sens. Tommy Tuberville and Katie Britt of Alabama, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine, and several spouses.

In his remarks, the commander in chief emphasized how vital of a role: “America cannot have the strongest military in the world without the love and devotion of our remarkable military spouses who make extraordinary sacrifices for our country.” He added that the panel “will provide recommendations for improving the quality of life for military spouses so that we can better support both our military families and the entire United States armed forces.”

Gen. Caine added enthusiastically, “You think we’re strong? American military spouses are ten times stronger.”

The executive order notes that spouses are intrinsically linked to the good order, readiness, and retention of the force. They face challenges from frequent relocations, prolonged deployments, limited housing, employment barriers, and managing households alone; all of which affect family well-being and the resilience of the fighting force. These challenges have been repeatedly flagged by military families, including in Blue Star Families surveys that rank spouse employment as the top concern.

Jennifer Hegseth, wife of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, will chair the advisory, Desiree Sayle will serve as Executive Director.

Membership includes spouses of senior leaders, the service secretaries, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, service chiefs, senior enlisted advisors, and the Secretary of Homeland Security, along with Christie Mullin, wife of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin.

Members serve without compensation, tied to their spouses’ roles, with administrative support from the Department of War.

With hundreds of years of collective lived experience, the panel can address real-world issues with firsthand knowledge while delivering practical recommendations that boost retention and readiness.

This new panel builds on broader efforts to support service members and their families, including the one-time $1,776 “Warrior Dividend” paid to roughly 1.45 million troops in honor of the nation’s founding year, proposed pay raises of up to 7 percent for lower ranks in the fiscal 2027 budget, and a $1.5 trillion defense topline.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat down with Lara Trump on Fox News this past weekend and revealed just how real foreign interference is on American streets.

Lara opened by noting that a recent State Department report describes Cuba’s goal as essentially seeking to erase the United States from the Earth.

Rubio revealed Cuba is an “influence and espionage superpower” capable of embedding agents and mobilizing sympathizers inside the United States.

“There’s nothing organic about it,” he said. “It is funded, it is organized, and Cuba is a part of that network, and in some cases a critical part of that network.”

The 72nd Secretary of State pointed to the same activist networks that appeared in the 2020 riots, campus protests, demands for the release of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro, and ongoing anti-ICE actions as clear evidence of a coordinated apparatus rather than spontaneous domestic dissent.

Rubio’s remarks are closely in line with the July 2026 State Department assessment titled, “Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism.”

This 100-page document is a must-read for every American. It explains the enemy and the strategy, detailing how, for nearly seven decades, the Cuban government has waged a campaign of subversion against the United States.

The regime has recruited multiple generations of activists here on our soil, shaped far-left movements, and contributed to unrest ranging from the George Floyd riots to the rise of Antifa and anti-ICE demonstrations.

The release exposed the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), describing it as the “central nexus” of Havana’s intelligence and influence apparatus.

In June 2026, Rubio sanctioned ICAP, labeling it an instrumentality of the Cuban government that supports intelligence and counterintelligence activities. ICAP maintains ties with campuses nationwide, student groups, and activist organizations, according to the findings.

Working closely with ICAP is the National Network on Cuba (NNOC), an umbrella coalition of more than 60 U.S. groups including the Democratic Socialists of America, Code Pink, the Communist Party USA, the National Lawyers Guild, and others.

The State Department designates the NNOC as the critical link between the Cuban regime and the American far left.

That same month, the NNOC distributed a “National Rapid Response Plan.” The blueprint, available on their website, calls for “coordinated nationwide actions” outside U.S. military bases, ICE facilities, federal buildings, and recruitment centers within 24 hours of an “imminent threat” or actual U.S. military action against Cuba.

Its stated goal is to make any such conflict “politically and materially costly” for the U.S. government, while also linking Cuba solidarity work to anti-ICE organizing.

The State Department’s assessment details that Cuban influence helped shape earlier radical movements, including the Black Panthers and the Weather Underground, and continues today through modern groups that send delegations to Cuba, hold solidarity conferences, and maintain formal channels with Havana.

Rubio has consistently framed the exposure of these ties as essential for national security, insisting that the American public deserves to understand the full history of Cuban communist espionage and subversion on American soil.

J.D. Vance is not in sync with that crowd. That’s why they hate him.

President Trump hasn’t yet endorsed J.D. Vance for the 2028 Republican nomination, but the vice president got the next best thing: a rebuke from Bret Stephens and Marc Thiessen — in the same month!

In a piece of content for The New York Times last week, Stephens, who once called himself a “Biden conservative” and who voted for Kamala Harris in 2024, confidently declared Vance “by far the worst person ever to hold the office.” Mind you, Stephens has called himself a conservative for decades, and yet as far back as 2012 was rooting against Republicans in every nationwide election, so there isn’t much worth considering here other than recognizing such a full-throated denunciation by Bret “Bed Bug” Stephens can only help whoever is on the receiving end.

Worth slightly more attention is what Thiessen wrote this week in The Washington Post. Recall that Thiessen is the Post content creator and former George W. Bush speechwriter whom Trump, for inexplicable reasons that may be explained in the future, has reportedly been reading and consulting privately about foreign affairs. Thiessen took an opportunity on Thursday to continue the very obviously coordinated attack on Vance planned by a slimy mix of neocons, lazy Republicans, and Israel Firsters.

Evaluating the Iran war, which has grown increasingly unpopular, even among Republicans, Thiessen wrote, “Perhaps it’s time for the president to take the advice of those who have delivered him success in Iran — not those like Vance who have failed him.”

Thiessen blames the failures in Iran not on what certainly look like short-sighted decisions by the commander in chief, but on Vance, whose primary responsibility in the conflict has been negotiating its end with Iran’s leaders. That’s at least honest. But let’s look at what Thiessen says a real victory, without any negotiation, would look like.

He wrote that the war’s objectives are: “eliminate remaining [Iranian] leadership figures; further entomb Iran’s nuclear sites; take out Iran’s remaining ballistic missile sites; destroy the economic and energy infrastructure that provides the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps with a financial lifeline, as well as key highways, railroads, airports and seaports by which the regime gets financial assistance from bordering countries; and demolish Iran’s remaining defense industrial base so it cannot rebuild its destroyed capabilities.” Then, with presumably a straight face, Thiessen said, “That’s it.”

Oh, is that all?!

Well, not really. Thiessen, perhaps to his credit, didn’t even pretend to hide the ball. Though having concluded, “That’s it” — just the complete decimation of a global energy supplier’s entire transportation infrastructure and economy — Thiessen went on to do the equivalent of, But wait! There’s more! He then said the U.S. would simply have to commit to keeping American troops just off the shore of Iran in perpetuity and “provide covert support” to Iranian rebels, in hopes that they might fight their own government. You know, just like they are now! Wait, that’s not actually happening, is it? Oh well!

“Once these targets have been struck,” wrote Thiessen, “the president should announce an end to major combat, keep the blockade in place, open the Strait of Hormuz and then provide covert support to the Iranian people to help them undermine and eventually bring down the regime. …”

Furthermore, nearly half a year into this war, Thiessen said all of that would only take a “few weeks.” Well, why didn’t you say so?!

Marc, hold my hand when I tell you this: The president has already announced an end to major combat and said the Hormuz Strait is opening. Before saying the opposite. Multiple times. The problem is that, even though Thiessen in his piece credits the president for “decimating its ballistic missile capability” and “annihilating its conventional military forces,” Iran has managed to continue attacking U.S. targets and killing Americans. And whatever claims that the Strait is “open,” ship crews are still terrified of passing through it. And it’s not because of Jaws.

Bret Stephens and Marc Thiessen are Israel First neocons who care about their foreign allegiances and preferences for war. The public record, to date, is that J.D. Vance is not in sync with that crowd. That’s why they hate him. It’s why they’re faulting him for America’s deteriorating standing in this war. They want him destroyed.

By The Federalist – https://thefederalist.com/2026/07/31/the-burning-hatred-from-neocons-is-good-for-j-d-vance-in-2028/

American higher education’s credibility crisis is self-inflicted. According to the article, Gallup found that only 38 percent of adults retain “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in colleges and universities, while roughly one-third of respondents blamed partisan bias or indoctrination—the leading cause of distrust, even ahead of tuition costs.

That verdict should surprise no one considering how universities have served as the incubator for the woke plague. Universities have allowed ideological conformity to replace intellectual inquiry, staffing departments with overwhelmingly liberal faculties while marginalizing conservative, libertarian, and dissenting perspectives.

The result is not education but an echo chamber funded by students, parents, donors, and taxpayers who are increasingly unwilling to subsidize institutions that are aggressively hostile to their values. The damage extends far beyond politics. Americans also question whether colleges teach the practical knowledge graduates need for employment.

Meanwhile, falling enrollment, declining revenue, and school closures threaten the financial survival of institutions whose administrators appear more committed to ideological purity than reform.

Students understand the climate and increasingly have to submit biased information to be able to go along to get along in these captured institutions. Surveys cited in the article show widespread self-censorship, including at Harvard, where only about one-third reportedly feel comfortable expressing their views. Yet academic elites dismiss concerns rather than confront the culture they created.

These Marxist academics have gotten high on their own supply. We must reject the assumption that universities deserve automatic public support. Legislatures and donors should demand genuine intellectual diversity, institutional neutrality, free speech, and measurable reform before providing additional funding.

The Trump administration’s war against woke-ism in the school system is a good start, but every level of government must put this agenda in their crosshairs so we can root it out of the university system and public education for good.

America’s factories are delivering the clearest evidence yet that President Donald Trump’s America First economic agenda is making a major difference in restoring national prosperity. The Institute for Supply Management’s July index jumped to 55.6, its highest reading since May 2022 and the seventh consecutive month of expansion.

Production surged to 58.5, the strongest level since November 2021; new orders expanded for a seventh month; export orders returned to growth; and the employment gauge entered expansion for the first time in 33 months. Fifteen manufacturing industries reported growth.

The breadth of this economic growth matters and shows that the changes caused by Trump administration policy are systemic. This is not a single-company announcement or politically manufactured forecast. It suggests demand, output, backlogs, exports, and hiring intentions are strengthening together.

Federal Reserve data reinforce the trend: manufacturing output grew at a 4.7 percent annual rate during the second quarter. President Trump’s policy mix gives businesses concrete reasons to build in America. Tariffs alter the economics of importing and offshoring, while the administration’s tax law permanently restored 100 percent first-year depreciation for qualified capital investment.

Together, those policies reward companies that purchase equipment, expand plants, and establish domestic supply chains. AI infrastructure and defense demand are also major drivers, which are also driven by President Trump’s policy.

Seven straight expansionary PMI readings, accelerating factory output, and renewed hiring plans provide powerful evidence that America First industrial policy is producing the intended response: more investment, more production, and a manufacturing sector advancing decisively again on American soil.

Trumponomics is an unequivocal success and must become the orthodoxy within the Republican Party moving forward.

The president is correct: Widespread evidence of Michigan fraud was detected before the 2020 election.

We have all heard it many times. According to “journalists,” claims made by President Trump regarding election cheating are “unfounded,” “disproven,” and/or “debunked.” However, irrefutable evidence of large-scale 2020 election fraud exists.

On Thursday night, the president outlined four specific areas of election concern.  I’d like to address one of them: corrupt Michigan voter registrations in the 2020 election.  Trump said, “Even when significant evidence of fraud has been detected, it has been buried and covered up.”

The president is correct: Widespread evidence of Michigan fraud was detected before the 2020 election.  After it was discovered and reviewed by the FBI, it was concealed by the Biden DOJ.

The scandal is discovered

Shortly before the 2020 election, a woman walked into a Muskegon County (Mich.) election office and submitted 8 to 10 thousand voter registration applications.  An alert election clerk named Ann Meisch noticed that many of the applications were extremely suspicious, with birth dates, addresses, and signatures that did not match the information on related driver’s licenses.

Meisch and co-workers made a largely unsuccessful effort to verify the information by calling phone numbers on questionable applications.  The matter was then turned over to Muskegon local police and state authorities, including secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and attorney general Dana Nessel.  They briefly investigated the matter before the probe was turned over to the FBI.  It was then squelched by the Biden Department of Justice.

The story went dark for almost three years until the Gateway Pundit (G.P.) published a series of articles based upon state and city police reports.  Here is a short recap of the G.P. reporting, followed by some confidential information that has not been widely reported.

• The woman who submitted the registration applications has the name Brianna Hawkins and was paid $1,150 per week and given a rental car and a “reloadable pay card.”  Her job was to register voters and help them use the registrations to get ballots.
• The company she worked for was a Tennessee organization with the name GBI Strategies.  It had numerous branches and activities in many areas of Michigan, and in other locations in the United States.
• GBI had very close ties to high-ranking Democrats and left-leaning groups.  A police investigation stated or implied that in 2018, GBI was paid $188,000 by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, $1,571,000 by the Doug Jones for Senate Committee, and $657,000 by the left-wing New American Jobs Fund.
• During their investigation, the police found several “semi-automatic rifles joined with suppressors and optics and customized pistols.”  Why they were there is a mystery.
• The police also found “dozens of new phones” and hundreds of “prepaid payment cards.”  (Why hundreds?  Were people being paid with the cards if they registered and voted?)
• GBI employees told police investigators that they never advocated that people vote for Joe Biden or any particular candidate.  However, police saw a script in the GBI office that encouraged people to vote for Joe Biden.
• City police went door to door to confirm that the registration forms possessed by GBI were fraudulent.
• Ruth Johnson, a former state senator and former secretary of State, stated, “My estimate is over 800,000 ballot applications were sent to non-qualified voters in Michigan.”

Phony registrations, no ID, and no signature-checking

To fully understand the scale of this corruption, and the significance of the phony registrations, you need to know how easily they can be converted into votes.

• Although Michigan law required a voter to request a ballot application, Benson ignored the law, and she automatically mailed out 7.7 million ballot applications to everyone who was registered, including 4 million who were not planning to vote absentee and those with the phony registrations obtained by GBI.
• To get a ballot application, no ID was required.
• The only voting safeguard in Michigan (a weak one at that) was signature-matching.  However, secretary of State Jocelyn Benson unlawfully told election clerks throughout Michigan to “presume” that signatures matched.  Fortunately, Ann Meisch, the woman who discovered the scandal, ignored Benson’s unlawful instructions.
• Four months after the election, Benson’s instructions were ruled to be illegal by a state judge.  The mainstream media ignored that ruling.  No appeal was filed by the secretary of State.

The Biden Department of Justice kills the investigation

Before the 2020 election, FBI agents knew that the real number of phony registrations could be several times larger than the 8,000 to 10,000 registrations originally reported.

At least one official reported that the number of phony registrations could change the election results.

Nevertheless, the director of the DOJ’s Election Crimes Branch blocked any investigation of the matter prior to election certification.

Conclusion

• Registration applications were obtained by GBI in multiple cities in Michigan and elsewhere.  It is clear that some of the registrations were fabricated or obtained by trickery.
• In some instances, legitimate registrations may have been obtained, but via illegal financial inducements.
• When the secretary of State auto-mailed ballot applications to 7.7 million registrants, the people with phony registrations also received ballot applications.
• Because 4 million voters did not expect to receive a ballot application (because they never asked for one), those applications ended up in trash cans and landfills, where they were easily available to political operatives.
• The registrants (the real ones and the phony ones) could fill out the application forms and obtained ballots — without showing identification.
• Because of the instructions of Jocelyn Benson, all signatures on ballot applications were “presumed” legitimate.
• A review of FBI/DOJ correspondence shows that some officials were very concerned about GBI and wanted to investigate before the 2020 election.  However, the director of the Election Crimes Branch blocked any such investigation until after the election.  Perhaps he feared that such an investigation would give credibility to President Trump’s claims of election fraud.

How many Michigan votes were created by GBI?  How many were produced by Jocelyn Benson’s unlawful mass mailing of ballot applications and by her unlawful signature instructions? It is impossible to know.

By American Thinker – https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/07/more-evidence-for-trump-s-debunked-2020-election-fraud-claims/