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"MAGA world crowns two House winners as the kings of its youth movement": Texas Rep. Brandon Gill and Rep.-elect Michael Alfonso of Wisconsin. MS NOW
Alastair Crooke: America is rejecting endless war. [1] America wants to return to Pat Buchanan's philosophy of A Republic, Not an Empire.
Did Wikipedia whitewash Michigan Sen-elect Abdul El-Sayed bio before the midterm election? [2][3]
![[3]](https://www.conservapedia.com/File:Wikipedia_whitewashing_El_Sayed_ahead_of_elections.jpg){kind=link}
New Chief of Staff hardliner Stephen Miller could be making big personnel changes, as Trump just admitted to planning "maybe a few changes." [4] [5]
Susie Wiles out as Chief of Staff, and is quickly replaced by immigration policy adviser Stephen Miller. It's Miller Time!
Two charts explain the GOP’s historic midterm loss. [6] Cost of living and cost of war. Mark Wauck: Post Midterm geopolitical, political-economy roundup. [7] Mearsheimer: The election changed nothing. The Iran War is still here. [8]
The Iran war killed Trump's presidency. The Ukraine war will kill European governments. [9]
Oil traders want tankers de-santioned as transport costs soar. [10]
Conservatives in Tennessee reject Pete Hegseth for their vacant U.S. Senate seat. [11] Dan Davis: Hegseth should be fired before he's impeached. [12]
El-Sayed stabs Schumer in the back, sends olive branch to Trump. [13]
Evangelical voter turnout dropped to "just 17% of the national electorate, compared with 24% in the 2022 midterms and approximately 23% in 2024." [14]
Dems reach 250 seats in House [15] and GOP regroups.
First Lady Melania Trump delivers remarks with representatives from Russia and Ukraine at the White House. [16][17][18]
Flavio Bolsanaro speaks. [19][20]
Will liberal Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland flee after his failed coup attempt? [21] German specter hangs over Warsaw. [22]
OSCE Monitor: Ukraine caused 3 0f 4 civilian deaths between 2015 - 2022 in the Donbas war. [23]
Democratic Socialist wins as mayor of L.A., ousts Karen Bass. [24]
Election was a "crushing rebuke" of Fox News: "more than two dozen former Foxers hired to key positions" by Trump, such as Pete Hegseth as failed War Secretary. "The network received a significant drop in viewership leading up to Election Day." MediaMatters Robert Barnes: Rubio may quit. [25][26]]
Texas Republicans Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick refused to debate, and Gen Z voted overwhelmingly against them such that they lost by wide margins. Patrick has refused to debate since 2014. Something smells rotten. [27][28]
Idaho voters rejected a pro-abortion ballot initiative, by a wide margin of 56-44%. [29]
Mario Nawfal: Trump and Vance blame Israel for loss. Ana Kasparian: Democrats on notice they will suffer the same fate if they continue the same BS. [30] Ann Coulter: Who gave us this disastrous war? [31]
JD Vance takes the lead for MAGA, and rebukes the policies that caused the landslide losses. [32] Vance's home state Ohio goes Blue.
Mission Accomplished: Gas and diesel prices begin to drop. [33][34]
Judge Napolitano: Midterms fallout & the great unraveling of Trump and America First - Glenn Diesen. [35] Musk blows $275 million in Texas.
"Historic Trashing Of Legal Sports Betting At U.S. Ballot Box", including 55-45% defeat of DraftKings' and FanDuel's ballot initiative in Nebraska. [36] Abolish ICE is back. [37][38]
Kelley Vlahos of Responsible Statecraft: The stunning rebuke of Trump in Midterms. [39] If you lie to voters about not starting a new war, the voters make you pay. [40] JD Vance: 'The reason we lost is the war'.
Democrats win a majority in the US House and Senate elections, [41][42] with Abdul El-Sayed winning in Michigan and gaining access to classified materials. International law expert: Trump may seek refuge in Russia. [43]
JtN: Trump concedes Iran war, gas prices played role in election rout, vows to work with Democrats. [44]
Trump: 'I'm not looking to, you know, kill lots of people, but if we have to, we'll have to'. [45] The Pendulum of Delusion: Fox News, the partisan blind spot, and the unspoken cause of the Midterm crash. [46]
Ukraine arrests woman who exposed Azov Battalion's torture chambers. [47] Deserters tortured and kidnapped men off the street held for ransom. [48]
Dems lead in Texas and South Carolina U.S. Senate elections, indicating they will probably take control of the Senate. So GOP support of data centers and sports gambling was not such a great idea after all.
Dems win House easily, and Pete Hegseth will resign to avoid impeachment (he should have resigned earlier).
Setback for homosexual agenda: Supreme Court Justices rebuke Colorado for excluding Catholic pre-schools that reject LGBTQ, in a state-funded daycare program. [49]
"Trump says US will stop $4 billion in annual funding to Israel at end of 2026," observing that Dems used this issue against Republicans for today's 2026 midterm elections. [50]
See also Previous Conservapedia Breaking News.
Before you can attach your own template to any CP page, you will need to submit it for approval at Template Submission.
Basic instructions
A template is simply a page (usually a very brief one) that is inserted into another page.
For example, the two separate boxes on the Main Page ("Mainpageleft" and "Mainpageright") are each actually separate pages that are "included" on the Main Page. In fact, they can be included on any page: The "Mainpageright" page has been included to the right just to demonstrate that point[1]:
Templates are included on a page by typing the page name in double curly brackets. So to include this page on another page, you could type {{help:Using templates}}. If, however, the template is in "template" namespace (i.e. the page name starts with "template:"), then you don't need to include that bit. So to include the "Mainpageright" page, you would just type {{Mainpageright}}.
For simple templates, that's all there is to it.
Parameters
However, many templates allow you to add to the information in the template, or to change it's appearance, by supplying parameters.
For example, the Welcome template that someone might have put on your user talk page has two parameters. One is the name of the user, and the other is the name of the person placing the welcome message. See the example below welcoming The Joker, placed by Batman:
Welcome!
Hello, Joker, and welcome to Conservapedia!
We're glad you are here to edit. We ask that you read our Editor's Guide before you edit.
At the right are some useful links for you. You can include these links on your user page by putting "{{Useful links}}" on the page. Any questions--ask!
Thanks for reading, Joker!
- from Batman
(This was included on this page by typing {{welcome|Joker|sig=from Batman}}.[1])
"Pipe" characters (|) separate each parameter.
Parameters can be optional or required, and they can be named or not named. In the example above, the first parameter ("Joker") was not named, but the second ("from Batman") was named sig. Two points need to be kept in mind with parameters:
- Named parameters can be supplied in any order.
- Un-named parameters must be supplied in the correct order.
Each template has (or will have) a list of parameters, looking something like this (this one is from the {{welcome}} template):
| Template Parameters (See using templates). | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Purpose | Required? | Comment |
| 1 | The user name | no (see note) | Defaults to the page name |
| sig | The signature of the editor posting the welcome ("~~~~" will do) | no | |
This tells us the following:
- Neither parameter is required.
- The first parameter (shown as "1") is not named (hence the number, the order in which it must be supplied).
- The second parameter is named ("sig").
- If the first parameter is not supplied, then the page name is used instead.
You can assume that if no default is shown for a parameter that is not required, the result will be blank (i.e. in this case, the welcome message would not show who it was from).
You will notice that named parameters have the parameter name followed by an equals sign (=) followed by whatever you want that to be.
Parameters shown with numbers are the un-named parameters. You can treat them as named parameters, by typing 1=your text, but this is not necessary, except in the case that you want your text to include an equals sign (=).
What do you pass to parameters?
Obviously, you give a parameter the text that it expects, such as "from Batman" in the example above. But in most cases, you can give a parameter any text that you like. You could, for example, put "But break any laws and I'll bring the full weight of the law down on you, (signed) Batman"!
In some cases, however, specific text must be supplied. The {{Bible ref}} template, for example, expects a book of the Bible for the "book" parameter, and giving it something that is not a book of the Bible will break the link to BibleGateway that the template creates.
In many cases you can supply a blank value to the parameter. You can set a parameter to be blank by typing nothing after the pipe character for an unnamed parameter, or nothing after the equals sign for a named parameter. For example, if you wanted the welcome template to not show "Joker" or "from Batman", you could type {{welcome||sig=}}.
However, a well-written template will allow you to simply omit the parameter altogether, as the {{welcome}} template does with the sig parameter.