October 23, 2026
I keep thinking to myself that I'll be glad when the election is over. The 2024 election was bad, but this one seems even worse, at least locally. Seems like not a day goes by when I don't have to read something about Alabama Becky Bextel saying something outrageous or some disgruntled Wyoming Freedom Caucusers saying that they're the only real Republicans, and for that matter, the only real Americans.
Worst of all, not a day goes by that Donald Trump doesn't act crazier than the day before.
So, in the back of my mind, I keep thinking that the election will put an end to the Republican Party's control of Congress, if not an outright end to the GOP itself, and things will start getting back to sane, if not normal.
But Trump won't let that happen.
The General Election is on November 3. The Evangelical Far Right Mago Clerico-Fascist Coup will start on November 4.*
There's no doubt about it.
Only if the Democratic victory in November is so overwhelming that it can't be sanely denied, and Republicans in Congress need to get moderate to save their remaining seats, will this be capable of being avoided. Trump will attempt it anyhow.
And here it starts:
And the start of the attempted 2026 Coup commences:
Trump administration sues to block Senate race certification in Alaska if Republican loses
As this is the first part of what will be a desperate effort of the Trump administration to cling to power, we'll start a new edition.
Lawsuits, voter intimidation, the whole smash. The Trump MAGA extremist, and the National Conservatives, who is all he has left, are not going to go into the political night without attempting to seize power. Trump is all they have to try to make their dreams of a Clerico-fascist state (and their dreams on the nature of that state do not align) become a reality.
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Guest Column: Proposition 1 — An Historically Huge Mistake
Rod Miller: Why Hasn't Bryan Miller And The Wyoming GOP Endorsed Eric Barlow?
October 24, 2026
October 25, 2026
There's definitely angst in the Chuc Gray camp. I saw one of the campaign television ads he's running that Miller had mentioned, and it was remarkable. All about inflation etc., and how he can be counted on to back Wyomingites.
Give us a break.
Gray's entire campaign today has been based on being a complete Trump toady. The fact that Trump's economic policies, including his tariffs and illegal war on Iran has boosted inflation can't be ignored.
But Gray's attempting to ignore it.
That must be making inroads into his support, if he has any support. He's deeply disliked in general and barely won the primary. His campaign is trying to shift late in the day into an area which, frankly, he has no traction.
October 26, 2026
Mary Peltola was injured in a car accident over the weekend
Chuck Gray made another appearance at a University of Wyoming football game this week, and promptly posted photographs of himself, which means somebody (I suspect I know who) goes to all of these game to photograph him in "candid" shots.
One thing that this is causing is for people to ask why Chuck is always alone.
Chuck is in trouble, and knows it. He's never been popular with Wyomingites in general, and people don't regard him as somebody you'd expect to see at anything. He revised to debate Kinney and Johnson, and now it looks as if Kinney might pull off an upset. He's trying to appear as a real buy now, which is a bit too late. His only really campaign points have been that he loves Trump. Trump love is wearing off.
Trump love is wearing off in Iowa big time.
Iowa candidate Ashley Hinson is in the same boat and was on This Week practically declaring herself to be an opponent of Trump's.
October 27, 2026
A person has to be dumb, or wilfully ignorant, to believe the US didn't go to the moon.
To vote for such a person is inexcusable.
Bryan Miller tries to thread two needles and avoid threading them at the same time.
Wyoming GOP Chair Says Party Won't Endorse Barlow Or Bextel For Governor
Miller is another of these characters that spent a life time government service sucking on the government tit only to come home, or maybe just come to Wyoming (I don't know where he's from) and hate mommy. He is an Air Force Academy graduate that retired from the USAF as a Colonel.
Bextel took a shot, probably accidental, at Miller on the Tucker Carlson show. First of all, why anyone is taking the gadfly journalist seriously is beyond me, and the state of his show might be demonstrated that Bextel washed up on shore there, but she claimed the Wyoming, and national, GOP has no leadership.
The fact is, it does. It's lead by Dixiecrats, here and there, and people don't like them.
Bextel, for her part, is getting a lot more attention than she merits, mostly because of the nature of the Internet. The like minded ignorant gather to her in small numbers attracted to the stank, and the press finds her fascinating due to her ignorance. And she's also well funded on a personal level.
Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) called for the citizenship status of every American who has been naturalized since 1990 to be reevaluated.
Melania Trump was naturalized in 1990.
Elon Musk was naturalized in 2002.
Well let's at least investigate the naturalization status of those two.
On other matters, at this point, diehard Trump fans, and hence MAGA accoylites, have to discuss and explain this:
25th Amendment Watch, 27th Edition. CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist 162nd Edition. "The Case Against Donald Trump Emerging in the Epstein Files and DOJ's Desperate Efforts to Cover It Up"
October 28, 2026
Yup, and you heard it here first.
Economists Say State Income Tax On The Table If Proposition 1 Passes
It will happen, and what a battle it'll be.
The opinion can be found here: AG Opinion.
It won't matter. The local U.S. Attorney will proudly declare Meine Ehre heißt Treue and march in anyway. Indeed, they've already declared they will, but will honor the AG's opinion by honoring the 100 yard restriction, which will allow them to better sing the Horst-Wessel-Lied anyhow.
Alaska's Senator Lisa Murkowski endorsed the Democratic candidate for Governor in that state. Just earlier this week King Donald stated she was the worst Republican Senator in the Senate, which coming from the worst President in U.S. history is quite the compliment.
The MAGAs are already seeding doubt in the local election.
Fred Harrison: Wyoming Elections — When Certification Does Not Match The Record
They've just been unable to accept that the WFC is hated, and I mean hated. The power pouting is at the absurd level.
October 29, 2026
Feds Tap Former Chuck Gray Deputy To Run DOJ Election Monitoring
Well that figures.
The Peltola campaign is coming under a lot of fire due to a New York Times report that some of its members actively recruited the second Sullivan for the race, a charge the campaign denies.
October 30, 2026
Election complaints allege donors to Bextel, Bien and Degenfelder exceeded campaign finance limits
Changing views:
Trump and Freedom Caucus approval, election confidence: Three takeaways from a Wyoming survey ahead of the general election
Reports reveal that Pope Leo XIV has requested an Illinois mail in ballot.
October 31, 2026
Today, of course, is the last Saturday before the election.
November 1, 2026
And it's the start of the last week of the election.
It's not that I'm of the view that religious figures should abstain from political topics. I don't hold that view at all. But because of their position, when they do so publicly, there's always the suggestion that they're making the statement based on moral grounds. Privately, that's not the case.
Lange does opine on some things that are of a moral nature. But more often than not his columns in the CSD are just right wing politics. That bothers me. Perhaps it shouldn't.
Today, and tomorrow, will be wild, campaign wise, I suspect.
Speaker of the Trump Mike Johnson is amongst those who continually claim that the polls are wrong and the GOP is going to do well Tuesday. People who live in reality keep more or less laughing at hits suggestion, and those like it.
They shouldn't be.
It's not that the polls are in fact wrong. That's unlikely. It's that this is laying the groundwork, I suspect, for the coup we're going to see launched on 11/3 and 11/4. People need to be aware of that and start preparing right now.
On 11/3 we're going to see efforts to disrupt the polls. On 11/4 we're going to see all sorts of claims that there were "election irregularities". The GOP will attempt to refuse to certify winning Democrats and will go right to court to gum things up. This is going to be extremely widespread. It will happen, and indeed it's already happening. Mike Johnson's statements are, in my view, laying the groundwork for this.
I wouldn't be surprised if we see some of this in Wyoming. If Gray loses, and he might, I suspect he'll go right to the courts. He nearly has to, as if he loses on Tuesday, he's out of a job at the end of December and out of a hoped for career. Rebecca Bextel has shown herself to be a gadfly and her supporters are goofy enough to believe that she won when she won't. She'd have to do surprisingly well for somebody to try to sponsor a coup for her, however. This is not the case with Gray.
November 2, 2026
A Texas Young Republican leader revolted against Ken Paxton and authored an article in The Atlantic saying the GOP "needed a slap in the face".
The Sheriff's race in Albany County continues to draw reporting:
Albany County sheriff questions his GOP challenger’s presence at meeting with FBI Director Kash Patel
No debate, but they showed up at the same venue:
US House Rivals Chuck Gray And Lisa Kinney Film Each Other As They Argue At Forum
Footnotes:
* I started this thread a couple of days prior to the first post. I hadn't anticipated the coup attempt starting before the ballots were counted, but it has.
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