QUESTION: Marty –
I am still in shock by the Democratic sweep of Texas. Lieutenant Governor, Dan Patrick has been very popular yet it seems everyone just voted Democrat. I have to question if this was a clean election. I would be curious about your thoughts.
While the war in Iran did not help, the hispanic community was the swing vote. The removal of the traditional hard working immigrants turned the hispanic community. While I support canceling any funding for immigration including housing and healthcare for refugees, as well as expelling convicted criminals, they detained hard working immigrants who have been here for decades. Immigrants have been scared to go to church in fear of being detained. They suggested they would round up the criminals but they rounded up everyone likely for political reasons.
Texas is now a blue state ?
LF
REPLY: You have a Spanish governor and you can thank Stephen N. Miller and his ICE that simply went too far. Even I have one staff member who they refuse to grant a visa just to come to our annual conferences. We are an international company and they have abused their power going to extremes. Americans didn’t like the open border, but Miller harassed people who have been here for decades and disrupted companies like mine. He probably SINGLE-HANDEDLY secured the Spanish vote in Texas.
Well, I must say, Florida is still Red. It was close. Yet, Florida did not pass a no property tax measure. Instead, Amendment 3 was approved, which increases property tax exemptions for homeowners, but does not eliminate property taxes entirely. That was a surprise, but it would have only benefited permanent residents, so it is strange why that would be defeated I assume it was Democrats assuming it benefits only the rich.
The main reason Texas was attracting so many companies was that there was also no corporate income tax. That may con under attack and the Democrats are just on a warpath of vengeance, which is probably the start of what the computer projects that the US will eventually separate because the differences are just too stark much like the Russia Revolution of 1917.
Texas has had 26 governors since 1903 and only 5 were republican. However, this Republican Era has been only since 1995. Cyclically, you hit the Pi Cycle. It was 31 years until 2026. Sorry, but the computer showed a Directional Change in 2026. I warned our Institutional clients who inquired about moving to Texas vs Florida. Part of our job is corporate restructuring from the long-term cyclical perspective. The Texas Constitution does NOT explicitly prohibit a corporate income tax; the relevant prohibition applies ONLY to personal income taxes. Texas does not have a corporate income tax, and it is one of the few states without one. However, this is a matter of legislative policy and statute, not a constitutional ban. The state instead imposes a franchise tax (often called a “margin tax”) on businesses. We MUST take everything into consideration when asked. Texas was due for a change based on the Pi Cycle
George W. Bush (1995–2000), Rick Perry (2000–2015), and Greg Abbott (2015-2026) was what I have always said, reactions as 2 to 3. This Republican era was, unfortunately, a reaction.
Now, to put this in perspective, Texas did embrace the Progressive Era when it began, but its version was selective, largely urban-based, and concentrated in the first two decades of the twentieth century (roughly 1900–1920). The period from the 1890s through the 1910s saw real reform in areas like prohibition, women’s suffrage, municipal government, and regulation, but Texas remained fundamentally rural and agricultural, and many progressive impulses faded or turned conservative by the 1920s.Where Texas honestly embraced progressivism was when Texas ratified the 18th Amendment (Prohibition) in 1918 and approved a state prohibition amendment in 1919. The suffrage movement gained ground through the Texas Woman Suffrage Association, winning the right for women to vote in the 1918 Democratic primary and ratifying the 19th Amendment in June 1919.The Municipal Reform in Texas cities became laboratories for progressive governance. Galveston pioneered the commission form of city government after the 1900 hurricane, a model that spread to hundreds of cities nationwide as a “businesslike” antidote to corruption. Urban progressives pushed for lower taxes and weakened machine politics.
The early rise of progressivism was the 1890s overall, but in the 1892 election of reformist Governor James Stephen Hogg, this was truly the beginning of Texas progressivism, and the state produced national Progressive-era figures like Edward M. House and several members of Woodrow Wilson’s Cabinet.
In 1915, the legislature created supplemental equalization funds for “country schools,” marking the first time state funds were targeted to a specific set of needy schools, though the reliance on local property taxes baked in inequalities that persisted for decades.
Texas remained predominantly rural and agricultural throughout the period. Industry was sparse and confined to mainly lumber, railroads, and oil. The Progressive Era “left Texas relatively unchanged” in its fundamental economic structure. Most Texas women, despite winning the vote, still lived in the countryside and filled traditional roles.
Racial and Ethnic Exclusion. Progressive reforms were largely shaped by white, native-born Texans. Prohibition support was centered among rural, old-stock white residents, while Black, Hispanic, and German populations largely opposed it. The era also saw the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, which many Texans endorsed.
There was a Conservative Backlash that surfaced during the 1920s. By the 1920s, the reform impulse had largely spent itself. Texas politics in that decade were marked by conservative and sometimes reactionary resistance to change, despite rapid industrialization and urbanization. The progressive energy that had animated the 1900s and 1910s gave way to complacency and reaction.
Then came the 1930s–1950s. The Progressive Era is generally dated to about 1900–1920. The decades after 1920 saw different dynamics in the face of the Great Depression, New Deal programs, World War II, and the early civil rights movement. While some reform impulses persisted, such as state support for junior colleges beginning in 1941, these were not part of the original Progressive movement. By 1950, Texas was undergoing profound economic change, transitioning from agricultural to industrial, but this transformation was driven by war and modernization rather than progressive reform ideology.
In short, Texas embraced progressivism where it aligned with the interests of its dominant white, rural, and urban middle-class constituencies, prohibition, suffrage, municipal efficiency, and some school funding. However, Texas never fully embraced the broader social or economic transformations that defined national progressivism, and the movement’s influence waned significantly after 1920.
Don’t for get that Democrat Kennedy selected Lyndon B. Johnson was from Texas as his running mate primarily to balance the ticket geographically and add experience. Johnson’s Texas roots were seen as crucial to offsetting Kennedy’s Northeastern appeal, and his veteran political career added age and gravitas to the younger candidate’s campaign
QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, first I must thank you for coming to Paris. Unlike in the United States, you were on French national TV. You truly made an impression here.
My question is this: you said that the EU consumes more than 50% to feed the bureaucracy. The view here is that our economy is doing extremely badly, as you warned would happen at your talk here. People need to know that this idea of socialism is what is collapsing. No matter what happens, the government is completely run by a group of incompetents who juggle billions while families struggle just to put food on the table. Macron, as you said, blamed Trump for the rise in energy, but he omits his support for Ukraine and the sanctions on Russia that started the rise in fuel costs.
Are we headed to a new Sixth Republic? Would you advise establishing a new government?
Andre
ANSWER: In 2025, France’s total public expenditure reached €1.7141 trillion, with public spending equal to 57.3% of GDP—the highest share in the European Union. This is the core problem: the government consumes 57.3% of the economy, leaving minimal living standards for the people. The protests began with a major movement known as “Block Everything” (Bloquons tout), which held its first major day of action on September 10, 2025 (2025.693). Cyclically, this could reach a major crest as late as August 12, 2027.
However, the protests in France became large-scale and nationwide starting on October 17, 2026 (2026.794). What began as a student movement over school conditions escalated into a broad national upheaval involving hundreds of thousands of people and significant violence. In the short term, this could continue into December 16, 2026.
This coming week may see renewed conflict. Macron’s mistake is what all government do when they are threatened with collapse – they lash out at the the people and try to suppress them, but this does not solve the problem – it only postpones it. We are headed into a world recession into 2028 and this will magnify the unrest. The risk that the French government will fall turns up in 2028/2029.
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The economy is not working. GDP is falling and Europe is desperate for war. You are hearing all the government telling people to stock up for what is their intended war. They will create some sort of false flag to claim they have been attacked by Russia.
Here is Former Defence Select Committee Chair, Tobias Ellwood, talking about how this government is not doing enough investing in military in the UK. Clearly war is in the air in Europe. Escalation is somehow “guaranteed” despite Putin having said repeatedly that he is NOT interested in a greater war with Europe.
The idea that a threatened ruler starts a war to hold onto power is an old observation in political thought. The concept is a recurring theme in history and political science, articulated by various thinkers and observers.
A quote attributed to Plato captures the essence:
“When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.”
Henry Kittredge Norton (1928) in his book Back of War, he described it as an “old trick” where a governing power, “threatened by rising discontent and opposition within the borders of its own country, precipitates a foreign war to reunite the country and vindicate its own authority.”
Political scientists have documented this dynamic in many specific cases. I am NOT pulling this out of thin air. Even recently, Saddam invaded Iran in 1980 partly as a “pre-emptive strike to shore up his personal rule” against internal threats. He also reportedly told interrogators that a principal reason for invading Kuwait was his belief that he needed to keep his restive army occupied.
The entire reasoning behind the 2nd Amendment in the US Constitution was to thwart this problem of governments using military power because it is just there. The Price of Savoy was one of the most outstanding generals who influenced Montesquieu who in tuen influenced the Founding Fathers that a standing army is dangerous for the state will always use it because it is there. No war has been authorized by a Declaration issued by Congress since WWII. This proves the very point that Savoy made that kings created war because they had an army that needed to do something.
Idi Amin (Uganda) back in the 1978 war with Tanzania is cited as an example where Amin’s primary goal was to deal with a threat from his own military forces, not a foreign adversary.
Hérault de Séchelles (1791) during the French Revolution, summarized the logic succinctly:
“War will justify all your steps; for, in brief, it is at home that war must be made on rebels before it can be carried abroad.”
When I say the EU is desperate and Russia is the best enemy money can buy, they face the same choice. The EU will crumble and break apart, or they create war with Russia to retain power. This is a well-established principle in political theory and a recurring pattern in historical analysis.
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The computer is warning of chaos ahead. If there is ever an election to be challenged, this is it. Under House rules, a Member-elect can challenge another Member-elect’s right to be sworn in. If a challenge is made, the challenged member steps aside while the rest of the House is sworn in. The seated majority then votes on how to handle the challenge, which could include referring it to committee, effectively delaying seating.
Some conservative lawmakers, like Rep. Keith Self (R-Texas), have floated using this maneuver to block Democratic Socialists from being seated, arguing their platform is incompatible with the oath to uphold the Constitution.
In response, a bipartisan group of lawmakers is circulating a pledge to oppose any attempt to delay or deny seating of a state-certified election winner, aiming to head off this scenario
Speaker Mike Johnson has publicly rejected the idea that Republicans would refuse to seat Democratic winners, calling it a “nonsense narrative” and “absurd.”
I am surpised that nobody has proposed that the progressives violate the freedom of religion by coveting the wealth of a selected class.The Supreme Court upheld the income tax with the 16th Amendment that was passed during the Progressive Era. Even Teddy Roosevelt was the candidate of the Progressive Party in 1912. The Constitution prohibited Direct Taxation. Taxes were to be only INDIRECT such as a sales tax or import taxes. They did not require the surrender of privacy.
The 16th Amendment has never been challenged as a violation of the Freedom of Religion violating the Tenth Commandment and the entire equality doctrine of the founding of the nation. Democrats suddenly can hate people who have more than they do and the claim in their own self-interest that wealth is not deserving of rights as religion or race.
This is a serious election. This is a confrontation that will destroy the United States all because of this class warfare that throughout history ALWAYS without exception has led to the collapse of the political state that has adopted such a policy.
The policies of the Progressive are right out of Marx’s Communist Manifesto. They do not believe in God. Marx called religion the opium of the people. For thousands of years this idea of robbing people because they have more than you has resulted in hundreds of millions of deaths from civil wars. The progressives are getting the upper hand in the Democratic camp. Even James Carville is concerned. They will not merely destroy the Democratic Party, they will so polarize the country and we will see a rise in separatist movements while others will simply leave. We have already witnessed the great migrations since COVID from Blue states to the Red. This time, they may cause the great migration from North America to the South.
The Supreme Court upheld the progressive tax code primarily because the 16th Amendment (1913) explicitly granted Congress the power to tax incomes without apportionment among the states, and subsequent rulings established that wealth is NOT a suspect classification under the Equal Protection Clause, meaning tax laws only need a rational basis to be constitutional. The Supreme Court was a Progressive Marxist view at the time so since the states have an incentive in this as well, there is no democratic way to repair this damage.
President Grover Gleveland understood the damage of taxation. This was when the Founding Fathers prohibited disproportionate taxation that the Progressives overrule with the 16th Amendment. Politicians will NEVER admit this fundamental mistake that undermines LIBERTY altogether.
The definition of who is this hated class of the rich changes with time. If you gave your child stock and they earned $100,000 in dividends and interest, they are taxed at your tax rate because they assume you are just trying to lower your tax rate for we are all just tax cheats in their eyes.
While the Supreme Court held that you can be discriminated against because you have something the Progressive want, they can change the definition of who they consider to be rich at any moment. To get an idea of what these progressives view, look at the Former Prime Minister of the UK Stammer and how he responded to this question.
Starmer was asked whether someone who gets additional income from assets (like shares or property) would still count as a “working person.” He replied that they
“wouldn’t come within my definition”. He defined a working person as someone who “goes out and earns their living, usually paid in a sort of monthly cheque.”
I forget the politician’s name, but in British Columbia, I was shocked when she actually said that EVERYTHING you earn BELONGS to the state, and they DECIDE what you are allowed to keep.
This is the direction of the United States. It will cause separatist movements and we will see that they will destroy the foundation of LIBERTY all for their greed and coveting everybody’s wealth and their definition of what is wealth is anything beyond a pay check. This is why the Tenth Commandment exists. This is the dark side of humanity that historically has destroyed every government as we saw with Russia and China.
Welcome to the road to 2032 where we finally get to redesign our future.
During a festive Halloween event at Mar-a-Lago, President Trump held an impromptu press conference discussing current events in the lead-in to the Tuesday midterm election. WATCH:
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