Texas, Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska are all under the gun of some seriously severe weather on Tuesday, NBC News reports on a development that – fingers crossed, prayers said, totems clutched, sacrifices made at pagan altars, and so on – will still be coming up a week from now as a convenient go-to excuse for certain candidates’ underperformance in crucial races. That, since their most dedicated voters disproportionately turn out on Election Day itself after being told for six years that early voting is unconstitutional, the rain and wind prevented them from making it to the polls.

"I believe that the prices will take care of themselves."

As inflation and rising costs dominate the midterm debate, one Georgia voter is sticking firmly with the GOP—arguing that conservative leadership is the key to letting the market correct itself. pic.twitter.com/4s252BNr7Z

— FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) October 30, 2026

For the maybe two of you concerned that Ilhan Omar’s second marriage – which may or may have not have been to her brother – is going to end her career, fear not: TMZ reports that Omar’s ex, Bristol, UK-based doctoral researcher Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, identified himself as LGBTQ in a paper published in August. “As a gay man of the East African diaspora, my fieldwork was never neutral,” Elmi wrote in the paper, titled “Out in the Field: Notes on Researching Queer Violence in Kenya.”

Thus the leftist Congresswoman constantly targeted by the impotent rage of convicted felon President Trump and his cult, is exceedingly unlikely to have been in a physically incestuous relationship with the man who may or may not be her brother. Just a sham one to help him obtain legal US residency, whether he’s her brother or not. On balance it kind of dulls the salience of the constant tantrums over that specific part of Omar’s biography – from a political standpoint at least.

From a legal standpoint? Going to go out on a limb and guess that a 2009 marriage that then ended nearly a decade ago, whether it was fraudulent one way or another, falls outside of the statute of limitations on immigration fraud. Still have to wonder why Omar doesn’t just turn it around and say something like “There is a lot of truth to what you’ve been hearing about me and it’s time to set the record straight: My brother Ahmed is now living happily in the UK as an out and proud gay man, when for most of his life before that he had to keep his true self secret. I helped him keep it secret and escape danger in Somalia, where LGTBQ people are often murdered on the spot. That I had to pretend we were a couple and marry him to help him build a new life here in the United States is as sad a statement on our broken immigration system as one can get” and so on and so forth.

Gotta believe her own voters would sympathize – if it isn’t already a known and accepted open secret in her district’s Somali community. That said, she deals with enough shit from the Reich, and maybe coming clean on her history and non-incestuous sham marriage can wait a few months.

Speaking to CNN on Thursday, a “top Republican official, speaking on condition of anonymity to avoid alienating the White House,” reacted to the news that convicted felon President Trump had canceled his planned weekend rallies in Iowa and Kansas with relief, saying “Thank God. He hasn’t moved the needle anywhere.” Approximately 14 hours later, the network reported that God hath forsaken the source as the Orange Overlord and his retinue have now uncanceled those rallies.

Not all that related but from the same live news feed of the final stretch to election day – and most importantly pretty goddamned funny, CNN also heard from Alaska voters who say they don’t give a shit about the Peltola campaign’s alleged recruitment of the other Dan Sullivan. “It’s shady, but I don’t think it’s necessarily a dealbreaker,” said one who still will vote for Peltola, while another Peltola fan waved it off as a “both sides” thing. That part HAS to sting the fanboys extra hard, lol.

“I will be doing a live radio interview for our GREAT Republican Senator, Roger Marshall of Kansas, with Pete Mundo, KCMO, at 7:30 AM. Roger LOVES KANSAS, as do I. Enjoy!!! President DJT” posted convicted felon President Trump on Friday morning just before he dialed in to some stupid show.

Should be fun to hear him ramble inaudibly as entropy continues to accelerate its ravages upon the octogenarian degenerate who needs to die yesterday to end his and so many others’ suffering.

Crypto scam operation Binance, founded by Trump ally Chengpeng Zhao, suspended trading on Thursday after hackers made off with $6.3 billion in digital Monopoly money, the Wall Street Journal reports on this never would’ve happened in Kamala Harris was president.

“House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky) is investigating allegations that Democratic operatives recruited an Alaska Senate candidate with the same name as incumbent Dan Sullivan (R) in a bid to siphon votes from him,” says the lede to a Thursday press release for the soon-to-be-Ranking Member of House Oversight, laundered into an Axios article and printed on their site.

They even added their imprimatur with the “Why it matters” bullet point. So adorbs. Especially because what the fuck is actually going to happen in the next five days, lol. There are three possible outcomes here: (1) Peltola wins by a margin larger than other Dan Sullivan’s share of the vote. Comer ends up looking stupid, “investigation” sputters out like they always do. (2) Peltola wins by a margin smaller than other Dan Sullivan’s share of the vote. Comer’s investigation gets a brief surge of momentum, then nothing actually meaningful happens before the lame duck period ends and the Dem House majority is sworn in – as is Senator Mary Peltola. Comer hands gavel to Rob Garcia, hates every single day of the next 2+ years. (3) Peltola loses, incumbent Dan Sullivan wins another term. Nothing actually meaningful happens before the lame duck period ends and the Dem House majority is sworn in. Comer hands gavel to Rob Garcia, hates every single day of the next 2+ years.

“Knowing they can’t win on the issues, Democrats schemed to rig the US Senate election in Alaska by deliberately confusing voters,” the Axios-published press release quotes Comer as saying, a statement that will implode on contact with scenario #1, and more importantly kind of gives away the reality that there will be no real investigation no matter the outcome of the race. It’s not like Comer wants to sit there and have Senator-elect or Senator-reject Mary Peltola keep changing the subject to the curious question of how a New Jersey federal prison inmate who had never set foot in the North Star State in his life – and would not be eligible to do so until 2042 at the earliest – was allowed on the general election ballot as a Democrat before she lost her House seat back in 2024.

God forbid Comer let himself get confronted with why that kind of shit is suddenly a problem now.

Campaigning on Thursday in South Carolina, a state whose Senate race is now considered a “toss-up” by Fox News’s decision desk team, convicted felon President Trump for reasons unclear decided that Democratic Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed’s bid was relevant to the Palmetto State rally, warning that “If you’re Black, or if you’re Jewish, and you vote for Abdul, you’re crazy.”

“You’re crazy anyway,” Trump then added, quite possibly because he simply holds a deep contempt for the respective minority groups, both of which largely lean towards Democrats.

Convicted felon President Trump is “is scrapping a planned trip to Kansas this weekend to campaign for the embattled Republican incumbent Sen. Roger Marshall, opting instead to conduct a flurry of virtual tele-rallies,” CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reports. Sounds real fucking triage-y, to use a medical term.

What’s in the headline here is a simple stat, a cumulative 28 percent decrease in the audience for the top American propaganda television network’s primetime lineup over the period of September 28 through October 25, 2026 vs the previous four weeks. Bloomberg News is the one to speculate on why in their headline, “Fox News Viewer Dip Pre-Election Suggests Republican Unease,” pointing to a natural human tendency to tune out and focus attention elsewhere when it feels like one’s team is having a disastrous month. They then correlate this with MS Now and CNN’s viewership up 16 and 15 percent, respectively, over the same period to bolster the “suggestion” of why Fox is cratering.

Of course it’s pretty goddamned obvious that the correlation of the shitty political situation for the Trump Regime is the causation, just like it’s no mystery why the LA Chargers’ ticket prices have plummeted since the start of this season. Still, kind of ballsy for an MSM outlet to just come out and say this, even if Bloomberg isn’t anywhere near the top of the list of the most recidivist offenders when it comes to insulting people’s intelligence with insufferable “objectivity” horseshit. Especially when the expert quotes – like former CNN/CBS exec Joe Klein saying Fox will “live or die based on the president’s approval and in general, the popularity of MAGA” – could’ve done the lifting just fine.

Yet for what Bloomberg admirably maintained in treating their audience like adults they sort of lacked in bolstering their own thesis with another pretty relevant point of comparison: Fox’s October 2018 ratings. They were good. Very good, up 5 percent from the previous month – which was pretty high on its own because of now-US Supreme Court Justice Beer-Me-Brett Kavanaugh’s contentious confirmation hearings, and 25 percent higher than October 2017. In absolutes, Fox News’s primetime lineup block averaged 2.85 million viewers during October 2018, now down to about 2 million a night in October 2026, a 30 percent drop across an eight year stretch – during which the MAGA electorate itself grew by 22 percent from 62 million and change Trump voters in 2016 to 77 million-plus in 2024.

“The Democrats will do anything to gain power.”

Sen. @DanSullivan_AK responds to reports of a coordinated Democrat scheme to run a duplicate “Dan Sullivan” to confuse voters and tilt the Alaska Senate race:

“This goes to the highest levels of the Democrats in DC… It's an… pic.twitter.com/SFfTB6pWxW

— FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) October 29, 2026

A final round of CNN/SSRS likely voter surveys in Kansas, Maine, Michigan, and Texas finds the states’ respective Democratic US Senate candidates Adam Hamilton, Troy Jackson, Abdul El-Sayed, and James Talarico all at 49 percent against their MAGA rivals Roger Marshall at 45 percent, Susan Collins – also 45 percent, Mike Rogers 42 percent, and Picasso Face Ken Paxton at 43 percent, with the latter two races putting the Dem candidates’ leads outside the pollster’s margin of error.

For perspective, in 2022 CNN/SSRS was pretty goddamned accurate, correctly calling the winners in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin’s Senate and gubernatorial races in their final pre-election surveys, and the only noteworthy miss was that they undershot Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s margin over deranged idiot MAGA challenger Tudor Dixon, with the polling finding Gretch at 52 percent support to Dix’s 46. Whitmer won reelection by 10.6 percent. Every other call was within 2 percent of the results, a stat that’s more of interest to polling nerds than the partisans in the audience who tend to care far more about whether a polling lead translates to an actual win than whether the anticipated margin is correct – provided of course that it’s “too big to rig.”

“Today’s New York Times reporting reveals disturbing new evidence of an organized effort to manipulate Alaska’s elections by recruiting candidates – including one with the same name as an incumbent US Senator – to deliberately confuse voters and misdirect their votes. The Alaska Division of Elections investigated these very concerns in June of this year. The new reporting substantially supports the Division’s findings. I am therefore directing the Department of Public Safety to investigate whether this scheme violated Alaska’s laws and whether criminal charges or civil action are warranted. The evidence will determine what happens next. Alaskans have a fundamental right to vote for the candidate they actually intend to support. Deliberately tricking voters into casting their ballots for someone else strikes at the integrity of our elections. Anyone or any organization found to have broken the law must be held accountable,” tweeted Republican Alaska Gov Mike Dunleavy on Thursday, four days before election day, months after the first hints of the Peltola campaign’s efforts were first publicly reported. Bob Ferguson had no comment.

“It has just been determined that the Democrats in Alaska illegally searched for, and recruited, a man named Dan Sullivan to run against our distinguished Republican Senator, Dan Sullivan, in order to defraud, confuse, and obfuscate the Election, thereby taking votes away from the REAL Senator, Dan Sullivan. The New York Times reports that, ‘Democrats have insisted they have nothing to do with the other Dan Sullivan on Alaska’s Senate ballot. But aides with the Mary Peltola campaign and DSCC were part of a monthslong secret plan to recruit him to run – as well as other candidates.'”

“The Democrats’ false statements were made under oath in Federal Court. Therefore, they perjured themselves, and should be liable for very serious consequences. Mary Peltola should suffer Legal and Political consequences for what she has done, A FRAUD ON THE AMERICAN PUBLIC, and Dan Sullivan should be allowed to run without Mary Peltola or FAKE Dan Sullivan on the Ballot,” posted convicted felon President Trump on Wednesday, suddenly trusting what the “fake news” New York Times has to report about the Peltola campaign’s secret links to the other Dan Sullivan’s bid.

Also using that “should” word while whining like a bitch on his bullshit Twitter knock-off instead of taking real action against Peltola and her campaign. Missing too is any mention of the Republican group putting $1 million into ads on behalf of the socialist scrub candidate in Ohio. How’s that or any of the other various MAGA election scams from Trump and his minions different from the Sullivan sandbag? Seriously, go fuck yourself if you’re upset over the Dan Sullivan scam but none of the other shit the GOP has pulled over the years. It’ll be funny if Peltola wins and her margin over the incumbent Republican is larger than the number of votes the “FAKE Dan Sullivan” receives and Trump had this screaming meltdown over nothing while still losing one of his precious little cultists.

Maybe funnier if Peltola wins by less than other Dan’s total share of the vote. We shall see.

Earlier headline and article were wrong. Sorry. National Zero will continue with sporadic updates of mostly non-financial news items following the Fed’s interest rate uncrease of 0.00 basis points.

A very complex analysis by CBS News finds that at least three documents in the Epstein files indicate classified info was included in files collected by the Trump Regime’s Justice Department and, of course, then withheld from the public. Even though the national security implications of Epstein’s crimes are obviously of serious public interest and the American people should know what he was up to, no matter what kind of shit he was up to and what it involved.

A New York Times survey of South Carolina voters finds incumbent nepo-hire Senator Darline Graham and Dem challenger Annie Andrews tied at 48 percent.