Saturday, November 7, 2026

Let's be honest: Tuesday's midterm elections were a difficult night for conservatives across America.

 


Democrats seized control of both chambers of Congress, Texas experienced a stunning political shift, and voters in Michigan and across the country delivered results that few conservatives would have hoped to see.

The outcomes were deeply disappointing, and the consequences for our nation's future cannot be ignored.

But amid the setbacks, there were victories worth celebrating.

In Florida, conservatives held the governor's mansion and U.S. Senate seat, while voters approved significant property tax relief. In Idaho, voters rejected an effort to expand abortion rights. And in Arkansas and Alaska, voters approved measures affirming that only American citizens should be permitted to vote.

These victories remind us that the values and freedoms we cherish are worth defending, regardless of the political climate.

And if this election made anything clear, it's that the fight for our country's future doesn't begin or end at the ballot box.

The political movements, institutional changes, and cultural shifts that shape our nation develop over years, often far from the scrutiny of the national press.

That's why The Federalist has been expanding our reporting efforts in states like Texas and Michigan, including our coverage of the growth of Islamic political activism in Texas and extremist rhetoric and taxpayer funding involving certain institutions in Michigan.

There will be plenty of debate over what went wrong for Republicans this election. But while the political establishment points fingers and the corporate media pushes its preferred narratives, The Federalist will remain focused on following the facts, asking hard questions, and uncovering truths that might otherwise go unnoticed.

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Neocon Marc Thiessen Denies Reality And Lies About J.D. Vance

 

That Washington Post content creator Marc Thiessen is out here lying wouldn’t be worth commenting on if not for his reportedly being one of the main people who advised President Trump that striking Iran would be a good time for all. So he needs to be corrected.

In a piece of content this week for the Post, Thiessen accused Vice President J.D. Vance — a favorite target of the thoroughly discredited neocons — of a “stunning act of disloyalty,” citing Vance’s post-midterms tweet about the election results. “Vance is publicly distancing himself from the person who plucked him from political obscurity, rescued his failing Senate campaign and then elevated him to the vice presidency,” Thiessen wrote, probably while enduring a nasty bout of meat sweats. “It’s an extraordinary act of disloyalty.”

What Vance did in that now-famous tweet was state the obvious. Citing internal GOP campaign data, he said the Republican electoral wipe-out was the result of the unpopular Iran war: “The reason we lost is the war.” He said the president himself had said so, which is true. And when Trump was asked to react to Vance’s tweet, he said it was “largely true.”

It’s a wonder then that Thiessen claimed in his piece of content that Vance was “publicly disagreeing” with the president. He hadn’t. He simply acknowledged reality. The war is unpopular, and voters were predictably, understandably responding to its fallout, especially surging gas prices, which have in turn continued to raise the price of everything else.

Thiessen, who once had a grand total of four different country flags on his X.com profile, is doing what neocons always do. When critics acknowledge the reality of neoconism and say it’s bad, neocons accuse them of lying and bigotry. When supporters acknowledge the same reality of neoconism and say it’s good, neocons thank them for being honest patriots. If Vance had said the war did hurt Republicans, but that it was worth the cost, Thiessen would have had no problem. But because Vance is well known to be ambivalent toward the war, Thiessen is in a rage.

He even imagined what he would have liked Vance to say. “President Trump did the right thing, and I support him 100 percent,” Thiessen said, conjuring up a J.D. Vance who doesn’t exist. “Iran has been at war with us for 47 years, and Trump is the first president to fight back. It was the most courageous decision any president has made in my lifetime.”

And I thought Pam Bondi was a clownish brown-noser.

This is the man who wrote before the war that there would be “no … downside to striking” Iran. Of course he’s mad at anyone who would see the downsides, like Republicans losing control of the House, the Senate, several governorships, and state legislatures. 

Or, as Marc Thiessen might call that, small potatoes.

Like Vance said in his tweet, an honest person can insist the war is worth whatever price Trump or Republicans have to pay in electoral defeat. They surely believe it. But we’re not talking about an honest person. We’re talking about Washington Post neocon and content creator Marc Thiessen.


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President Trump Removes Susie Wiles, Moves Wartime Consigliere Stephen Miller to Chief of Staff


The former Qatar lobbyist for Ballard Partners, former political consultant and former 2024 campaign manager for candidate Donald Trump who became the Chief of Staff and gatekeeper of the White House, has been removed as Chief of Staff following the 2026 midterm election.

President Trump has appointed Stephen Miller, a wartime consigliere as the Chief of Staff effective Monday.

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Mrs Wiles famously took the position of Chief of Staff on the condition that she could “keep the crazies” away from President Trump.  Wiles became the gatekeeper to the White House controlling every point of access to the president.

One of the issues of concern when Wiles initially took office was her career as a lobbyist, consultant, campaign manager and donor organizer, gave her a career perspective predisposed to view finance as a key for influence and access.  Those concerns never really diminished.   Mrs. Wiles returns to her comfortable place in the political operation.

Mrs Wiles relayed her message of departure via X Platform:

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Given the specific congressional strategy that will be deployed against the White House in the 2027 legislative and investigative congressional term, it was wise to put Stephen Miller into place as a wartime consigliere.

Congress will likely not seek to impeach President Trump directly, but they will investigate every aspect of finance, and every financial relationship, that has surfaced in the past two-years amid President Trump’s family, allies and supporters.

The corruption narrative coming from those J6-style investigations will then be leveraged against Republican politicians in both the House and Senate as legislation is created.  The DSA objective will be to isolate then marginalize the office of the presidency.

More soon….


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Trump Names Stephen Miller to Replace Susie Wiles as Chief of Staff

 Current chief of staff Susie Wiles will be moving to a different position, the president said.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller during a Congressional Roundtable on Anti-Fraud Initiatives at the Indian Treaty Room of Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington on Aug. 5, 2026.


President Donald Trump on Friday announced that Stephen Miller will become his chief of staff to replace Susie Wiles, who will be moved to another position.

The news follows significant Republican losses in the midterm elections.

Miller, the president’s deputy chief of staff and a vocal proponent of the administration’s mass deportations policy agenda, will become the chief of staff starting on Nov. 9, he wrote in a post on Truth Social.

As for Wiles, who was his campaign manager before joining the White House, Trump said she will be moving to the “Trump Political operation.”

“I want to thank her for her service as Chief of Staff — She has done a great job,” he wrote.

In a post on X, Wiles wrote that Friday “is my last day as White House Chief of Staff” and that “serving President Trump in the White House has been the honor of a lifetime.”

“I’m so proud to have been a part of what we’ve accomplished together from securing our border and cutting taxes to strengthening our economy and putting America First,” she added. “More than anything, I’m grateful for the extraordinary people I’ve had the privilege of working alongside.”

“While my role may be changing, my commitment to the President and the mission never will.”

A White House official told The Epoch Times that Wiles submitted her resignation on Thursday evening.

On Friday afternoon, Trump told reporters that he “wanted to make a change” with Wiles’s departure.

“I think Susie’s done a very good job, great job. But I just wanted to make it. Stephen’s been great, and ... we gotta make moves. Sometimes in life, you have to make moves,” he said.

Trump added that Miller has “been with [him] from the beginning” and will “do a great job” managing White House operations.

The move comes as some figures on the right have called for Wiles to be removed in the wake of GOP midterm losses that handed control of Congress to Democrats.

President Donald Trump speaks to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles during a lunch with the Trump Kennedy Center Board Members in the East Room of the White House in Washington on March 16, 2026. Alex Wong/Getty Images

“I think that you have to look to people like Susie Wiles, the chief of staff, and the political consultants that are there … because of the results, they should be removed and removed immediately,” Steve Bannon, a former Trump White House aide and Trump campaign manager, said in an interview with journalist Steven Edginton released on Friday morning.

Caroline Sunshine, a former staffer to Trump, told Fox News on Wednesday that Wiles “needs to resign” and said that “her campaign skills have not translated into governing.”

Responding to the announcement that Miller is now Trump’s chief of staff, some Democrats in Congress criticized the move.

“Stephen Miller is the most dangerous person in Trump’s administration and should be fired instead of promoted,” wrote Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) in a post on X. “Americans overwhelmingly voted to end the chaos and lower costs. Stephen Miller has done nothing but sow hatred and foster corruption.”

Miller has been a chief proponent of the second Trump administration’s immigration policies.

“Americans voting overwhelmingly for mass deportation,” he said in an interview with CNN earlier this year. “Congress passed laws requiring it and then passed new legislation to fully fund it. The response of the Democrat Party and its activists has been to support and orchestrate violent resistance against federal law enforcement.”

Before the midterm elections, Miller also focused on what he suggested was Democratic-run states’ reluctance to check whether people on voter rolls were citizens.

“Not one Democrat state — not one — has either a.) checked the citizenship status of their voter file or b.) shared their voter records with [the Department of Homeland Security] to check citizenship. The total number of illegal and non-citizen voters is astronomical,” he said on Nov. 1.

Earlier this year, Wiles confirmed that she was diagnosed with breast cancer before she announced in September that she was free of the disease.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Decades-Long Political Career

In December last year, Forbes named Wiles, 69, one of the world’s 100 most powerful women, in its latest ranking.

Wiles placed 66th for leading a successful presidential campaign that contributed to Trump’s 2024 victory. Soon after the election, Trump appointed her as chief of staff, making her the first woman to hold this position in U.S. history.

Over the past two years, Trump has publicly praised his chief of staff for her work and influence.

“Most powerful woman in the world. She can take out a country, destroy, take out a country with one phone call,” Trump joked in a speech last year.

In March 2021, Trump hired Wiles to serve as CEO of his Save America Leadership PAC. Then, along with Chris LaCivita, Wiles co-chaired Trump’s victorious 2024 presidential campaign. The architect of multiple successful Florida gubernatorial campaigns, Wiles also helped Trump win the Sunshine State in both 2016 and 2020.

Throughout her career, Wiles has worked for prominent Republicans, including Ronald Reagan, Mitt Romney, Rick Scott, and Ron DeSantis.

Wiles began her political career as a staff assistant to Rep. Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.) from 1979 to 1980. She then served as deputy director of scheduling for President Reagan’s 1980 campaign and as special assistant to the president from 1981 to 1982.

Years later, Wiles started managing election campaigns for prominent GOP figures. She first led Rick Scott’s 2010 gubernatorial campaign in Florida, helping him narrowly defeat Democratic opponent Alex Sink.

When Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) ran for president in 2012, Wiles served as co-chair of his Florida advisory council. She also briefly managed the 2012 presidential campaign of former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman.

Wiles was also credited for rescuing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s 2018 gubernatorial campaign when he was still a little-known congressman. She worked as his senior adviser from September 2018 until January 2019. However, after DeSantis’s 2018 victory, tensions arose between Wiles and DeSantis, and they parted ways.

Past Lobbying Ties

Shortly after her appointment as White House chief of staff, Wiles faced scrutiny over her connections to Chinese companies, primarily due to her background as a top lobbyist. News organizations, including RealClearInvestigations, reported that her former firm, Mercury Public Affairs, had lobbied for Chinese companies.

Wiles served as co-chair of global public strategy at Mercury Public Affairs from February 2022 until she left to manage Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign.

Public filings from that period listed two major Chinese corporations as Mercury’s clients: JinkoSolar and Hikvision USA. Both companies faced tariffs and sanctions for helping the Chinese communist regime.

The U.S. government imposed strict sanctions on Hikvision, citing its surveillance cameras being used for human rights abuses and military activities.

Meanwhile, JinkoSolar faced scrutiny, investigations, and U.S. import bans due to links between its solar panel supply chains and state-sponsored Uyghur forced labor programs.

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