The Israeli election produced no clear winner. With more than 70 percent of ballots counted, Netanyahu’s Likud leads with 27 seats. Former military chief Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar party holds 22. Neither is on track to form the 61-seat majority needed to govern. Democracy Now reported the gridlock in its Wednesday headlines.

Haaretz reported that a possible pro-Netanyahu coalition currently holds 54 seats. A possible pro-Eisenkot bloc holds 49. The math does not work for either side. The leader who locked down the West Bank four days before the vote, who was accused of genocide by a United Nations body, and who was endorsed by the American president… may not survive the election.

The government dismantled the international court to protect him. It sanctioned investigators. It revoked visas. It shielded him from every institution that tried to hold him accountable. And the voters may remove him anyway.

The machine built a wall around the ally. The voters walked through it.

Five days before the American midterms. The ally’s election is not settled. The American election is not settled. And the machine that connected them both is watching from the same building.

BREAKING

A Regional Partner Switched Sides and Is Now Backing the Houthi-Aligned Force in Yemen

Drop Site News reported that the United Arab Emirates is now backing Ansar Allah in its conflict against Saudi-backed government forces inside Yemen. Democracy Now included the report in its Wednesday headlines.

The UAE is a close American ally. It hosts one of the largest military installations in the Middle East. It has purchased billions in American weapons. And it is now supporting the same force that has been striking Saudi airports, sinking ships in the strait, and closing the passage that carries 20 percent of the world’s oil.

An American ally is backing the force that the American military has been fighting. The weapons the government sold to one ally are now on the same side as the force that strikes another ally. The conflict the president said would end after the election is now splitting the coalition that started it.

The machine sold the weapons to both sides. One ally is now backing the force that hits the other. The coalition is cracking. Five days before the American midterms.

EXPOSED

A Mentally Ill American Citizen Has Been Held in Federal Detention for Nearly a Year

The Associated Press reported that a mentally ill American citizen has been held in federal immigration detention for close to a year. Democracy Now included the report in its Wednesday headlines. The man is a citizen of the United States. He has a documented mental illness. And the government has held him for nearly 12 months.

Five hundred and six American citizens have been detained. Seventy of them were children. A dozen were removed from the country. A man in New York sits in solitary with a round still in his neck. People have lost their lives inside a private facility in California. And now a mentally ill citizen has been held for a year.

An appeals court just ruled that detained people have no constitutional right to a bond hearing. That means a person like this can be held without ever appearing before a judge.

The machine detained an American citizen with a mental illness for a year. No trial. No conviction. One year in a cell. He is a citizen of the country that is holding him.

DEVELOPING

A Defeated Far-Right Leader Fled to the United States After Losing His Country’s Election

Flávio Bolsonaro, who lost Brazil’s presidential election to Lula on Sunday, fled to the United States. Democracy Now reported his departure in its Wednesday headlines. The defeated far-right candidate chose the United States as his destination.

His father, Jair Bolsonaro, did the same thing in 2023 when he lost to Lula’s first comeback. He spent months in Florida while his supporters stormed government buildings in Brasilia. The son has now taken the same route. The family loses the election and boards a plane to America.

The president called the Brazilian election “rigged” on Monday without offering evidence. Now the losing candidate is in the country. The same country that is challenging its own election results before the ballots are counted is welcoming the candidate who lost someone else’s election.

The machine does not just operate at home. It is a refuge for the defeated. When far-right leaders lose their own elections, they come here. The address changes. The network stays.

They rely on the shadows.
It’s time to turn on the lights.