Trump was telling you during his first presidential term that he was a wartime president.

And every time he did that, you looked overseas at the Chinese or the Russian or the Iranians.

Sometimes the biggest domestic threat to your country is not foreign. It is the traitors and spies within.

You have been shown for over 20 months now who we are really at war with. You saw this if you were paying attention.

Who our greatest enemy is.

And they don’t live in Beijing, or Tehran or Moscow.

There have been people right here in our midst, in our midst, building a hidden world, who have been literally making war on their own country.

WAKE UP ALREADY.

The SHADOW GOVERNMENT has been making secret war on you and your country all your life.

They been robbed of so much power and control, they are about to be forced into moving into open and blatant insurrection.

And when they do, Patriots In Control are gonna crush their asses.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

— Brian Cates – Political Columnist & Pundit (@drawandstrike) October 27, 2026

Portland has turned a toxic relationship into a model of government: when you can’t defend your decisions with facts, you weaponize shame, attack the messenger, and try to silence anyone who dares challenge the narrative.

The result is a carefully curated echo chamber where feelings outrank facts, dissent is treated as heresy, and accountability is mistaken for aggression.

But let someone with a spine of steel walk into the room and say, “The math doesn’t work, the policy is failing, and you’re destroying the plumbing that keeps this place functioning,” and watch the outrage erupt.

Suddenly, the person asking for evidence becomes the villain. The person demanding accountability becomes the threat. And the people who can’t answer a straightforward question start attacking the character of whoever asked it.

That isn’t strength. It’s intellectual insecurity dressed up as moral superiority.

Portland’s political dysfunction increasingly resembles someone who demands all the benefits of a civilized society while refusing to accept the discipline, trade-offs, and responsibility required to sustain one. It wants the benefits without the bill, the compassion without consequences, and the authority to dictate without the burden of proving that any of it works.

And when reality finally shows up with an invoice, the response isn’t to fix the numbers. It’s to attack whoever brought the calculator.

That worldview is a house of cards built on slogans, selective outrage, and the assumption that anyone who challenges the narrative must be a bad person.

But facts don’t care about your outrage. Arithmetic doesn’t submit to your ideology. And reality doesn’t owe your echo chamber an apology.

You don’t get to build a cardboard castle, blame the wind when it collapses, and demand that everyone else pretend it was made of stone.

— Portland Moderate. (@pdxmoderate) October 27, 2026

Oregon’s former Elections Director, Steve Trout, warned officials about serious election technology vulnerabilities SIX YEARS AGO. Days later, he was out of a job.

Now, just days before the November 3 election, those warnings deserve renewed attention.

In November 2020, Oregon Elections Director Steve Trout issued a blistering memorandum identifying serious problems within the Secretary of State’s office.

Among his findings:

• 12 requested technology improvements had gone unfunded.

• Some election systems were running on Windows Server 2008, which Microsoft no longer supported.

• Public-facing election websites depended on a single power supply and internet connection, without adequate redundancy.

• Security upgrades and repairs to dozens of software bugs remained unfunded.

Trout warned that the agency’s aging technology and lack of support made it nearly impossible to succeed.

Days later, he was gone.

Trout said then-Secretary of State Bev Clarno fired him by TEXT MESSAGE.

Fast-forward six years.

On October 23, 2026, an internal Oregon Secretary of State election-testing website was discovered accessible to the public internet, displaying simulated election results.

According to the @Oregonian a system update allowed the staging website to become accessible outside its protective firewall. Of course, Oregon’s largest newspaper reported the breach as an innocent opsie.

Here’s the question: Did Oregon ever fix the election technology problems Steve Trout warned them about in 2020?

We don’t yet know whether Trout’s warnings have any direct connection to this latest security incident.

But Secretary of State Tobias Read should be able to tell Oregonians exactly which of Trout’s 12 requested improvements were completed, which remain outstanding, and whether any unresolved vulnerabilities contributed to this exposure. Hey, @ORSecretaryRead, can you provide Oregonians this information, or not?

Six years. Multiple secretaries of state. One whom probably should be in jail. And now, yet another reason to examine Oregon’s election infrastructure.

Oregonians deserve documented answers, not simply assurances that their elections are secure.

— PDX Real (@PDXReal1) October 27, 2026

LET THE ARRESTS BEGIN!!!🥳🥳🥳 https://t.co/dRIJ36PljX

— il Donaldo Trumpo (@PapiTrumpo) October 27, 2026

Team Tina isn’t being used for what you’d think.

— Red Wave (@RedWaveOR) October 27, 2026