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Republicans across the country are not taking their historic midterm beatdown in stride, and according to a recent report from Right Wing Watch, a notably MAGA-linked pastor has taken his despair a step further, calling for "another January 6."

Lorenzo Sewell is the leader of 180 Church, a non-denominational Christian church based in Detroit, and has become increasingly connected with GOP and MAGA politics in the last several years. In 2024, he was a guest speaker at the Republican National Convention, and in 2025, he conducted one of the benedictions at Trump's second-term inauguration. Recently, reports have even suggested that he is considering running for public office himself as a Republican.

Right Wing Watch's report this week also described Sewell as "an ardent stolen election conspiracy theorist whose obsession with exposing alleged voter fraud has become too extreme even for the Trump White House." Now, his rejection of election results that are unflattering to Republicans and the MAGA movement has continued, as during an appearance on the "FlashPoint" podcast after the midterm blue wave, he once again called the elections fraudulent and suggested Trump's followers should rise up against them.

Sewell's argument for why fraud must have taken place in the midterms echoed the common right-wing misconception about elections, often lampooned with the phrase "land doesn't vote." Often, conservatives might share electoral maps of certain states with more counties colored red, and argue that this must be an indication that the state should elect Republicans in state-wide races, despite the fact that Democrats tend to win counties that are more heavily populated, giving them the edge.

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“Schumer is bad at his job,” said one organizer. “Jeffries is not ready for this moment.”

After a Democratic “tsunami” in this week’s midterm elections that has been widely seen as “a mandate to deliver big change,” progressives within and beyond Congress have cast doubt on whether the New York Democrats likely to lead both chambers are actually up for facing Donald Trump’s veto threats and fighting for the “bold agenda” sought by US voters.

As critics of artificial intelligence data centers prepared for a Friday protest outside the Brooklyn home of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer over a “dirty” bill that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is suddenly speaking out about, political organizer Corbin Trent argued that “Schumer is bad at his job” and “Jeffries is not ready for this moment.”

“Donald, if you’re watching, we’ll put your name on it. You get to be the American president who finally guaranteed health care for every single American.”

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senator-elect from Michigan who ran on a progressive platform with Medicare for All at its center, said Friday that he doesn’t care what the policy is called so long as it passes, even during Donald Trump’s lame duck term, which will begin in January.

Appearing on Zeteo with editor-in-chief Mehdi Hasan, El-Sayed was asked if he agreed with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who a night earlier pronounced that he wasn’t so sure that if Democratic majorities in the US House and Senate passed a Medicare for All Bill that Trump wouldn’t sign it.

“If he wants to pass Trumpcare-for-All, I’m ok with it. He seems to like to put his name on things,” said El-Sayed.

Stephen Miller, Donald Trump’s most controversial aide and the architect of his sweeping immigration crackdown, has lavished praise on the president after his appointment as White House chief of staff.

In his first public remarks since the move was announced, Miller – who begins the role on Monday – pledged “total devotion” to Trump amid concern the administration is now poised to double down on its far-right, nativist immigration agenda.

“If it wasn’t for President Trump the United States of America would not exist right now,” Miller, standing alongside his boss, declared at an event on Friday evening. “This man saved America. He saved our military from collapse. He saved our economy from destruction. He saved our border from annihilation. He saved our country from threats at home and abroad which would have been the end of the American dream for ever.”

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This story originally appeared in Panamerican Dispatch on Nov. 07, 2026, and is shared here with permission.

Former Paraguayan President Santiago Peña was moved from house arrest to a military unit within the Armed Forces overnight on Friday, October 6. The relocation followed an incident in which protesters surrounded his residence in Asunción, demanding his incarceration in a formal prison facility, which led to clashes with the police.

Peña was removed from office hours earlier, after the Senate voted unanimously to impeach him. The impeachment stemmed from his alleged involvement in the collapse of Ueno Bank, an institution that blocked access to funds for approximately 40% of the Paraguayan population.

The case bears similarities to the financial scandal in Brazil involving Daniel Vorcaro’s Banco Master, which implicated former presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro, a significant portion of the Bolsonaro movement and the political right in Brazil.

According to the Argentine digital news outlet Infobae, the military organized Peña’s extraction from his home in the La Piedad neighborhood of Asunción, using three pickup trucks for the transfer. The operation took place shortly before midnight, after escalating tensions near his residence made it untenable for the former president to remain there.

Footage captured by the Paraguayan newspaper ABC Color shows individuals throwing eggs and shouting insults at the vehicle transporting Peña as the convoy departed. The same outlet reported that Paraguayan intelligence identified the infiltration of agitators within the crowd, individuals who had previously been participating in a protest in the city center and allegedly moved to the residence with the intent of inciting violence.

🔴 AHORA | Trasladan a Santiago Peña al Regimiento Escolta.

En medio de momentos de tensión y protestas ciudadanas, la Policía respondió con disparos de balines de goma contra los manifestantes.

La situación se desarrolla en medio de la crisis política que atraviesa Paraguay. pic.twitter.com/eRCEpnP58Y

— ABC Digital (@ABCDigital) November 7, 2026

During the clashes between police and protesters, Commissioner Pedro Barbera, head of the 10th Police Precinct, sustained an injury to his eyebrow. Those present demanded that Peña be sent to the Tacumbú National Penitentiary rather than being held under house arrest.

Impeachment and House Arrest

Peña’s removal from office was finalized by the Paraguayan Senate in a unanimous vote on Friday, October 6. The former president had attempted to submit his resignation prior to the trial, but the request was rejected, and the proceedings continued until the impeachment was approved.

Minutes after the Congressional decision, prosecutors specializing in economic crimes and anti-corruption efforts requested his immediate arrest. The Public Prosecutor’s Office subsequently ordered that he be placed under house arrest, citing Peña’s alleged involvement in the collapse of Ueno Bank.

This measure was merely the first step in the criminal prosecution.

Peña was summoned to appear before the prosecutor’s office on Saturday morning, October 7, at 11:00 a.m. local time for his first formal hearing in the case.

During this hearing, he is to be questioned over alleged crimes including breach of trust, influence peddling, and embezzlement. The speed with which the Public Prosecutor’s Office acted following his impeachment reflects the scale of the scandal and the political and social pressure that had mounted in the preceding days.

📍 Manifestación pacífica en el microcentro de Asunción.

También piden la salida de otras autoridades.#MóvilABC– @joseheid–

🔴 EN VIVO: https://t.co/YoLVF0INgo pic.twitter.com/vaxTMZTI9v

— ABC Digital (@ABCDigital) November 7, 2026

The Ueno Bank Scandal

The crisis was triggered by the closure of Ueno Bank on Tuesday, October 3, three days before the president’s impeachment. The Central Bank of Paraguay initiated liquidation proceedings for the institution after discovering a deficit in its solvency ratios, linked to loans granted to companies affiliated with the bank’s own controlling group.

The bank belonged to the Vázquez Group, in which Peña held shares until March of last year. The institution held approximately US$ 850 million in public deposits, including funds from the Social Security Institute, and served about 3 million clients. That is equivalent to nearly 40% of the Paraguayan population.

The opposition did not spare the former president. Lawmakers accused him of conflicts of interest, regulatory manipulation, the misappropriation of social security funds, and institutional cover-ups by the Central Bank.

“Never before has anyone harmed 3 million people in the Republic of Paraguay in a single day, yet you managed to do just that,” said opposition lawmaker Rocío Vallejo during a session, shortly before filing a formal accusation against Peña.

A protester, interviewed by Reuters outside the former president’s residence, summed up the sentiment on the streets.

“Overnight, people have been left going hungry,” he said. “People who can no longer even afford a bus fare. Why? Because of Santiago Peña and the entire Vázquez group.”

Peña’s legal status at the military unit, the Presidential Escort Regiment, remains unclear on several key points. As of the time of publication, there has been no confirmation that the judiciary or the Public Prosecutor’s Office formally authorized this change in the place of detention. Nor have the conditions under which the former president will be held at the military facility been disclosed.

His transfer to a unit tasked with the security of heads of state and former presidents, rather than to a standard prison, is a development that public pressure on the streets of Asunción had already signaled would fall short of the demand for accountability.

Paraguay Has a New President

The Paraguayan Congress has sworn in the former vice president, Pedro Alliana, as the new head of state. Alliana was spared from impeachment proceedings in the Chamber of Deputies, which allowed him to assume the presidency amidst the crisis.

Paraguay now faces the challenge of rebuilding institutional trust, as millions of account holders await the return of their frozen funds and criminal proceedings against Peña take their first formal steps.

This article was originally published by Revista Forum. It was translated by Panamerican Dispatch. You can read the original, in Portuguese, here.

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Trigger warning: Self Harm, Dysphoria

What I want to talk about this post

I am currently living through some of the darkest days of my life. Between Depression and my weed addiction it gets harder every day to just maintain a somewhat functional life. I want to talk about some if the backgrounds and my current situation. This is going to be quite a long post.

Context about me

I had my egg cracking last year in march and I am on estrogen for 11 months now. My entire social circle has been accepting so far except for my close family (I talked about that in other posts) and especially my parents have been very unaccepting. At the end of last year I got upset with their bullshit and threatened to cut them off and left their place. It was a somewhat necessary step (although I would not do the same I did then), but doing this threw me into a very very deep hole.

Beginning this year

The days following the cut off of my parents were hard. Very hard. I was constantly on the edge of crying. Just the slightest thought about anything related to my family would sent my thoughts spiraling again. The only way I was able to cope with my feelings was weed. This meant, that the amounts of weed I smoked spiked from about 1.5g a month to about 10g a month, due to me starting to consume weed daily. My sleeping schedule became shit, I stopped going to university. At some point I started getting panic attacks (I talked about that too in another post), but luckily those were very infrequent and it did not last very long. However I was still able to mostly maintain my social life (I do quite a lot of voluntary work around my town). This went on for about 4 months. During this time I also became very dysphoric. Looking into the mirror would stunlock me to stare at my own mirror image wishing myself, that I could rip this disgusting thing, that universe decided to sew onto my skull in an act of cruelty, of my skull. The same was for this God damn awful peace of met between my legs. This meant, that I basically abandoned my life and escape in weed and videogames.

New Semester, New Me

In April I started to realise, that I was loosing control over my weed consumption, but I did not have physical withdrawl symptoms, when I did not consume weed. Since April also meant, that the new semester starts it also meant that I had a good date I could plan around to get my life together. I signed up for interesting university lectures and fixed my sleep schedule.

It went somewhat good, I was able to go to lectures, but only to one lecture that I found interesting enough to get out of bed for.

My weed consumption increased, but got more efficient thanks to my vaporiser (I highly recommend it getting one if you smoke weed, its so much better and more efficient than joints). I also started to get my hands on some really good weed for prices I was only able to dream of (29% THC for 3.50€/g).

May/June is the point at which I was de facto addicted to weed and started experiencing withdrawl symptoms if I stopped.

My current situation

My Depression gets worse every week causing my consumption to rise accordingly. I am no longer leaving the house for anything except the bare minimum. I can no longer obtain my social life due to my crippling depression (no way am I going to a meeting, if I can barely stop myself from constantly crying). It got so bad, that a friend of me asked (via text) what's up with me having such a bad mood all the time and asked if I want to talk about it. I never replied to his message, because simply reading his message sent my thoughts spiraling. It feels like I am constantly running away and if I stop running for a single second, my thoughts will catch me and no good can stem from that. I am trying as hard as I can to maintain just the most basic form of a functional life, but I fail time on time. I have to keep me distracted the entire day to escape from this hell of my own mind. My heart is racing because I'm way to high, but I roll up another joint amyways. Tears run down my cheeks, while I feel a sharp pain in my chest caused by that one song. I'm hurting this body that doesnt belong to myself in order to mask the emotional pain. Hours go by like this, during which I don't feel any joy. I am watching films that become boring the second I put them on. Playing games that don't feel fun and during all of this I'm asking myself if I shouldn't just end everything, just so that the pain goes away. The slightest things (like loosing a round in a videogame) will send me down another hole, questioning every decision in life I did and telling myself, that I failed at all of them and I should just end it. Months and weeks pass by like this, without me realising it. In my good moments it feels like I am waking up from along dream. It feels like yesterday, that it threatened to cut off my parents, and an eyeblink later 11 months have passed and my life is in shambles. I have almost no significant memories about what happened between January and now.

Outlook

Enough about how miserable my life is, let's talk about what I am doing to get back on track.

3 months ago I finally found a therapist, the problem is, that she refuses to start therapy, as long as I don't get my addiction at least somewhat under control. As you could probably guess, I am having a very hard time with it. I tried quitting on my own, but got greeted by some of the most depressing days of my life, causing an almost immediate relapse. My weed consumption is still very high, but at least I usually don't consume that much during the day (mainly to stop the withdrawl symptoms). I also moved away from consuming this insanely strong weed, after my own weed plants were finally ready for harvest. Also I finally got it to get onto the waiting list for the nearest rehab facility and am waiting for my turn. After I go there, I will also finally be able to start therapy in order to cope with the amount of shit that I lived through.

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