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June 5, 2024
Jack Montgomery
UK

So… What’s Farage’s Actual Plan?

Nigel Farage has outlined his plan to take over the Conservative Party following the British election on July 4. He hopes to do so not by joining the currently governing party, which is expected to lose to the left-wing Labour Party by a landslide, but by out-competing it and forcing a merger.

Appearing on Good Morning Britain, Farage was told his route to the office of Prime Minister was “to become a Conservative MP and leader of the Conservative Party,” but Farage insisted he has “no interest in this Conservative Party.”

“Frankly, I think the people that control the Conservative central office, that run the party apparatus, they’re not conservatives, they’re social democrats,” he argued.

Populist thinkers, including War Room host Stephen K. Bannon, have urged Farage to take over the Conservative Party from within, as MAGA has taken over the GOP in the U.S.

While Farage has “joked” about being Conservative leader by 2026 before, he now argues he can take over the establishment party “from without.”

‘REVERSE TAKEOVER.’

“If Reform succeed in the way that I think they can, then a chunk of the Conservative Party will join us — it’s the other way around,” he explained. He cited the example of Stephen Harper’s Reform Party in Canada, a populist-leaning outfit that took away so much of the establishment Progressive Conservative Party’s support that it became unviable as a party of government. A ‘Unite the Right’ movement ultimately brought the parties together as the Conservative Party of Canada under Harper’s leadership.

“What happened in Canada is Reform did a reverse takeover of the [Progressive] Conservative Party, rebranded it, and Stephen Harper — who was elected as a Reform MP — became the Canadian prime minister for ten years,” Farage recalled.

“I don’t want to join the Conservative Party; I think the better thing to do would be to take it over.”

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Nigel Farage has outlined his plan to take over the Conservative Party following the British election on July 4. He hopes to do so not by joining the currently governing party, which is expected to lose to the left-wing Labour Party by a landslide, but by out-competing it and forcing a merger. show more
May 31, 2024
Jack Montgomery
World

Populist European Prime Minister Released from Hospital After Shooting.

Prime Minister Robert Fico was moved to home care on Friday from a hospital in the central city of Banska Bystrica, where he was being treated following an assassination attempt. The European Union and NATO leader, a populist ally of Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, opposed to Western involvement in the war in Ukraine, was shot multiple times earlier on May 15.

The suspected attacker has been identified as 71-year-old Juraj C. Following the attempt on his life, Fico, 59, underwent a five-hour operation, followed by a second surgical procedure two days later.

The attack left the Prime Minister in serious condition, but he is now stable enough to be discharged from the hospital to continue recovery at home. The assassination attempt marked the first major attack on a European political leader in over two decades.

Orbán described the assassination attempt as an attack by a “left-wing activist” and said it would disrupt his efforts to push for a negotiated peace in Ukraine. Since Fico’s shooting, the Secretary-General of NATO and the European Union High Representative have come out in favor of escalating the proxy war with Moscow by authorizing the use of Western weapons against targets inside Russia.

Pro-Ukraine social media users reacted to the news of Fico’s shooting by expressing hope that Orbán would be targeted next.

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Prime Minister Robert Fico was moved to home care on Friday from a hospital in the central city of Banska Bystrica, where he was being treated following an assassination attempt. The European Union and NATO leader, a populist ally of Hungary's Viktor Orbán, opposed to Western involvement in the war in Ukraine, was shot multiple times earlier on May 15. show more
April 8, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Lawfare
World

Globalists Are Weaponizing ‘Democracy’ to Stop Marine Le Pen. Here’s How..

The globalist establishment in France is openly attempting to rig the country’s elections to “block” the “extreme right” from beating them. Marine Le Pen and her National Rally party currently look set to win power in 2027.

Le Pen may be blocked from running in 2027 by a Donald Trump-style lawfare prosecution for allegedly misusing European parliamentary funds. Members of Macron’s government have been convicted of this offense previously but with little fanfare.

However, the French establishment fears this could backfire, as Le Pen’s likely successor, Jordan Bardella, is younger, more popular, and carries less baggage than Le Pen. Her father and predecessor, 95-year-old Jean Marie Le Pen, was embroiled in several controversies over the years.

Left-leaning politicians are therefore lobbying openly in the French newspaper of record, Le Monde, to change the voting system. Their stated intention is to stop a President Bardella from carrying the legislative elections that follow the presidential elections.

Currently, these operate on a winner-take-all basis. This has seen populists take far less than their fair share of seats. Proportional representation was briefly adopted in the 1980s to keep the left in power, then dropped when it no longer served its purposes.

At the time, this reversion crashed the populists’ seats from 35 to one. Now, they would likely carry a legislative election in a winner-take-all system, so proportional representation may be restored.

Le Pen has seen her share of the vote in presidential elections increase from 17.90 percent to 33.90 percent to 41.45 percent from 2012 to 2022. She now polls ahead of President Emmanuel Macron’s likely successor, the openly homosexual Prime Minister Gabriel Attal.

Macron cannot stand for the presidency in 2027 due to term limits, which he has denounced as “damnable bullshit.”

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The globalist establishment in France is openly attempting to rig the country's elections to "block" the "extreme right" from beating them. Marine Le Pen and her National Rally party currently look set to win power in 2027. show more
March 20, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Immigration
News
Politics
World

Populist Leader Marion Maréchal: Europe Is ‘Digital Colony of U.S., Economic Colony of China, Demographic Colony of Africa.’

Leading French populist Marion Maréchal has lamented Europe’s loss of independence in various spheres and warned mass migration could lead to it being effectively transformed into another country.

“I wake up at 34 years old in a European Union which has become a digital colony of the United States, an economic colony of China, [and] a demographic colony of Africa,” she said, adding that it is also “on the way to becoming a colony of Islam.”

Muslims accounted for around a tenth of the French population as of 2019-20. France has also suffered more radical Islamic terror attacks than any other European country, including the November 2015 attacks in Paris that saw 130 murdered and over 410 injured in a series of suicide bombings and mass shootings, and the July 2016 attacks in Nice that saw 86 killed and over 430 wounded by a North African migrant driving a heavy truck.

Maréchal is the niece of Marine Le Pen, the longtime leader of National Rally (formerly National Front) who contended for the French presidency in 2012, 2017, and 2022.

Maréchal served as a National Assembly member — roughly equivalent to a U.S. House Rep. — for National Rally from 2012 to 2017, but is now a candidate for Reconquest, a rival populist party headed by “French Tucker Carlson” Éric Zemmour.

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Leading French populist Marion Maréchal has lamented Europe’s loss of independence in various spheres and warned mass migration could lead to it being effectively transformed into another country. show more
March 11, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Politics
World

Populist Surge in Snap Election!

Portugal’s governing Socialist Party appears set to lose power following a snap election that saw the populist Chega party surge into third place.

While some votes from Portuguese overseas remain to be counted, the Socialists and the establishment right Democratic Alliance (DA) are both at around 29 percent, with the DA appearing to have just eked out the incumbents and party leader Luis Montenegro declaring victory.

Chega, an anti-mass migration party whose name means ‘Enough’ in Portuguese, may prove to be the kingmakers when it comes to forming a new government, with their 18 percent set to earn them around 48 seats in the legislature. Its rise has been meteoric, with the party earning only 7.2 percent of the vote and 12 seats in 2022 and just 1.3 percent as recently as 2019.

Montenegro has signaled he is reluctant to work with the populist party to form a coalition government, however, branding its leader André Ventura “often xenophobic, racist, populist, and excessively demagogic,” so piecing together a right-wing government of any description could prove difficult.

Many “center-right” parties in Europe, such as the Conservatives in Great Britain or the Christian Democratic Union, formerly led by Angela Merkel in Germany, have more in common with the Democrats than the Republicans in the U.S. and are hostile to populist parties like Chega.

This attitude has seen the Netherlands unable to form a government for months, with center-right parties unwilling to agree on a coalition deal with populist leader Geert Wilders despite his party placing first in national elections.

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Portugal’s governing Socialist Party appears set to lose power following a snap election that saw the populist Chega party surge into third place. show more
February 22, 2024
William Upton
Election 2024

Ex Dem Tulsi Gabbard to Headline Mar-a-Lago Fundraiser.

Former Democrat Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard is set to headline a conservative group’s fundraising dinner at Mar-a-Lago in early March. Though unconnected with former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, the 917 Society’s choice of Gabbard as its dinner’s headliner is fueling speculation that Gabbard could be tapped for a role in a future Trump administration. Some even believe she could be a dark horse candidate for Trump’s vice-presidential nominee.

The 917 Society — which provides pocket Constitutions to schools nationwide — says their event will be an “occasion that promises to shape the future of America.” Conservative political commentator and former Republican presidential primary candidate Larry Elder will join Gabbard as a guest speaker. Elder endorsed Donald Trump for president after dropping out of the race last year.

WALK AWAY.

Before her right-ward shift, Gabbard was considered a rising star among left populists in the Democrat Party. When Gabbard was first elected in 2012 as a U.S. Representative for Hawaii, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said: “I’m going to tell you right now that her name is Tulsi Gabbard because she is on the fast track to being very famous someday.”

In 2020, Gabbard ran for the Democrat presidential nomination — announcing she would not seek re-election in the House of Representatives. While her campaign failed to gain traction among Democrats, her anti-war and populist policy positions gained a following among a segment of Donald Trump’s MAGA movement. In 2022, Gabbard left the Democrat Party entirely, becoming a frequent guest on Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show.

VP?

As former President Trump continues to poll ahead of Biden in the 2024 presidential election contest, speculation regarding Gabbard’s future continues to heat up. The National Pulse previously reported that Gabbard and Trump met recently to discuss reforms to the Pentagon. Whether the former Democrat is tapped for a cabinet secretary role or even Vice-President, many in MAGA would prefer to have her on their side. The Daily Beast recently reported one Trumpworld source as saying: “I don’t know what the deal is with Tulsi, but I’d certainly rather have her on our side than on somebody else’s.”

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Former Democrat Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard is set to headline a conservative group's fundraising dinner at Mar-a-Lago in early March. Though unconnected with former President Donald Trump's presidential campaign, the 917 Society's choice of Gabbard as its dinner's headliner is fueling speculation that Gabbard could be tapped for a role in a future Trump administration. Some even believe she could be a dark horse candidate for Trump's vice-presidential nominee. show more
January 24, 2024
Politics
World

Globalists in Panic: ‘Wake-Up Call’ Analysis Details Potential Populist Sweep in ’24.

Right-wing nationalist and populist parties throughout Europe are predicted to make fresh gains in upcoming elections, with the authors of a new report for the European Council on Foreign Relations demanding fellow globalists heed their “wake-up call.”

The report, reviewed by The National Pulse, combined surveys across all 27 European Union (EU) member states with modeling based on the past performance of national parties. It found that nationalist and populist parties are on track to gain in nine EU countries: Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and Slovakia. The document also predicts a second- or third-place finish for populist and nationalist parties in another nine EU member states: Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Portugal, Romania, Spain, and Sweden.

The authors worry that the changes would harm the green agenda, open borders activism, and support for Ukraine.

It adds: “These findings should also be set against the expectation that whether or not Donald Trump wins the US presidential election in autumn 2024 – and the polls currently suggest there is a real possibility he will – Europe will have a less globally engaged United States to rely on.”

If the report’s predictions come to pass, nearly half of the seats in the European Parliament will be held by parties “outside the ‘super grand coalition’ of the three centrist groups.” This would result in a right-wing populist coalition emerging as the majority for the first time.

The report concludes: “While progressive European leaders cannot, and should not, tell voters what to do, they can build a credible alternative to a sharp right turn in the political mandate given to the next set of EU institutions. From the outset of 2024, they need to tell a convincing story about the necessity of reaching outward in a dangerous world.”

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Right-wing nationalist and populist parties throughout Europe are predicted to make fresh gains in upcoming elections, with the authors of a new report for the European Council on Foreign Relations demanding fellow globalists heed their "wake-up call." show more
January 22, 2024
Jack Montgomery
World

German Populist Leader Wants Brexit-Style Referendum on Leaving EU.

Alice Weidel, co-chairwoman of the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, believes there should be a referendum on ‘Dexit’ — a Deutsch (German) exit from the European Union — if the bloc cannot be reformed.

“If a reform isn’t possible, if we fail to rebuild the sovereignty of the EU member-states, we should let the people decide, just as Britain did,” said Weidel, whose party is polling significantly above the three globalist parties that form Germany’s coalition government, in an interview with the Financial Times on Sunday.

“And we could have a referendum on ‘Dexit’ – a German exit from the EU,” adding that the British referendum provided “a model for Germany, that one can make a sovereign decision like that.”

In alliance with France, Germany is widely seen as the dominant force in the European Union. Compared to smaller countries like Greece and conservative countries like Hungary and, under its previous government, Poland, Germany has been able to break EU rules with impunity.

Only around 10 percent of Germans currently support leaving the European Union. Even among AfD voters, it is presently a minority position, with 45 percent support.

Nevertheless, Weidel’s anti-mass migration, anti-net zero party looks poised to make significant gains in regional elections and elections to the European Parliament in 2024, topping polls in the areas that used to comprise East Germany.

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Alice Weidel, co-chairwoman of the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, believes there should be a referendum on ‘Dexit’ — a Deutsch (German) exit from the European Union — if the bloc cannot be reformed. show more

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January 5, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Economy
World

‘Populist’ Meloni to Blow Over a BILLION Dollars on Electric Car Climate Fund as Migrant Crisis Spirals.

Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, elected on a national populist platform in late 2022, is preparing to splurge the equivalent of over a billion U.S. dollars on electric car subsidies in the name of reducing the Mediterranean country’s so-called carbon footprint.

The €930 million fund is expected to be announced in an upcoming decree, and will take effect from February. Italians will be offered a minimum of €6,000 (~$6,550) towards electric vehicles up to the value of €35,000 (~$38,200), rising to as much as €13,750 (~$15,200) if they also scrap an older vehicle.

Meloni’s focus on climate change will be a source of frustration for her voters given the fact the illegal immigration she promised to curb on the campaign trail is rising exponentially.

In addition to failing to bring illegal immigration under control, she is also greatly increasing legal immigration to Italy, authorizing the issuance of close to half a million visas to non-Europeans from 2023 to 2025.

Once disparaged as Italy’s most right-wing leader since Benito Mussolini by the legacy media, the 46-year-old soothed Joe Biden and other globalist leaders by deemphasizing immigration control in favor of cheerleading Ukraine soon after entering office.

Martin Schulz, a German socialist and former President of the European Parliament, bragged that the European Union had disciplined her into becoming a “reliable partner” last year.

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Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, elected on a national populist platform in late 2022, is preparing to splurge the equivalent of over a billion U.S. dollars on electric car subsidies in the name of reducing the Mediterranean country's so-called carbon footprint. show more
populist
December 14, 2023
World

Spanish Populist Leader Referred to Prosecutors for Saying Socialist Prime Minister May Be ‘Strung Up’.

Spain’s governing Socialist Party has instructed prosecutors to investigate Santiago Abascal, leader of the populist Vox party. Abascal had said a time might come when Spaniards would want to see Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez “strung up by his feet.”

The Socialists say Abascal’s comments were “an incitement to hatred and even violence” and “a serious breach of coexistence and the constitutional order.” They accused Abascal of alluding to the fate of Benito Mussolini. The Fascist leader was murdered by Italian communists and hung upside down in a public square in 1945.

Sanchez is accused by Vox and establishment conservatives of retaining power via a “coup d’état”. He placed second in the Spanish elections this year, but cut deals with smaller leftist parties and Catalan separatists. This meant offering pardons to Carles Puigdemont, Catalonia’s former regional president, and other separatist leaders. They were previously wanted for staging an insurrection in 2017, and lived in exile.

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Spain's governing Socialist Party has instructed prosecutors to investigate Santiago Abascal, leader of the populist Vox party. Abascal had said a time might come when Spaniards would want to see Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez "strung up by his feet." show more