VP, Republicans Overseas & Chairman Republicans Overseas Israel. Father of 8, Grandfather of 24. International lawyer. יושב ראש המפלגה הרפובליקנית בישראל
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Encouraging news: some seven weeks after he was critically wounded in a ramming terror attack on Route 443 while serving in the IDF reserves, Neriya Leiter has been released from the hospital to a rehabilitation center. He is still unconscious, but breathing on his own.
Neriya is the son of Israel's Ambassador to the US, Yechiel Leiter, and the brother of Maj. (res.) Moshe Yedidya Leiter, who fell in Gaza. Our prayers are with Neriya and the entire Leiter family. Wishing him a complete and speedy recovery.
Please pray for Neriya Dov ben Chana. 🇮🇱
The Democrats aren't one body. They're a collection of factions, some of them rather radical. Despite their win, they won't be able to govern effectively.
For Republicans, that's the silver lining on the road to 2028.
On @i24NEWS_EN with @theemilyfrances 👇
Is this a repudiation of MAGA? No.
In almost every midterm of the last 100 years, the party holding the White House and both houses of Congress lost seats. That's history, not a verdict on MAGA.
With @theemilyfrances on @i24NEWS_EN 👇
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Democrats can't override President Trump. Any bill that goes against the America First agenda gets vetoed, and they don't have the two-thirds to stop it.
And on Iran: no nuclear weapon on his watch. He'll finish the job.
My interview with @theemilyfrances on @i24NEWS_EN 👇
President Trump is ramping up for the next two years. He is amazing!
Secretary of State @marcorubio, arguably the strongest figure in the Trump administration today and, in my view, a leading 2028 contender, said it plainly at CPAC: President Trump was not elected to ignore Iran.
Even after @JDVance pointed to the war's cost, President Trump said he would do it again, because you cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. Add Secretary @PeteHegseth's resolve and the appointment of Stephen Miller as White House Chief of Staff, and the message is clear: this administration will not be moved by media spin, political noise, or a Democratic Party drifting into extremism, Islamization and antisemitism.
Proud that America is confronting the murderous regime in Iran, a threat to the West, to the United States and to Israel. Proud of the strategic U.S.–Israel alliance that makes America and its citizens stronger. Committed to the goal: bringing down the Iranian regime.
You are amazing, Laura @LauraLoomer . It has been an honor to know and work with you. I am certain we will continue to do so sooner than we may envision.
I’ve been going nonstop supporting President Trump @realDonaldTrump ever since he came down the golden escalator.
As many of you know, I am chronically tuned in, online, and I am always working. I am a machine. Some days I work more than 18 hours. My work has been one of the most meaningful things I’ve ever done. The people I’ve met, the energy and rush I feel from exposing things and breaking stories, the sense that the work I do actually matters… I’m grateful for all of it. I’m grateful for all of you.
There is more to life than work though, and I am trying to learn that and practice it. It’s been very hard for me to be honest. Very very hard.
I’ve been running on empty for too long. Family, my personal life, my upcoming wedding, a healthy work life balance and just the act of having a life outside of my show and my work have all been on hold. So I’m taking a hiatus from my show @LoomerUnleashed, which I livestream twice a week.
I just need to step back, recharge, refocus, and be present in my own life and my own mind with peace and clarity for a little while and I also want to redesign my studio and enjoy wedding planning with the love of my life who deserves more of my time and energy. He deserves to see me happy, and I deserve to be happy. We deserve to be happy together at this time in our lives.
I have wanted to redo my studio for a year, but I keep pushing it all off, because that’s what I do. I push things off that matter to me and my happiness to do for others 24/7, and I think I need to change that for a brief moment.
I’ll still be paying attention, fully supporting President Trump, breaking news, commenting on news, doing research and I’ll be around. I will be present (I always am). But, I won’t be doing my show for a while.
I’ll be back when the time is right.
Thank you to everyone who’s been on this ride with me and to all of my podcast viewers.
It means more to me than I can say.
Harmeet @HarmeetKDhillon was an outstanding public servant and a top flight attorney. Although she will be sorely missed at DOJ, I for one am excited she will be returning to the private sector where she will continue to have a great influence on the future of our party and our nation.
Yesterday I went on Channel 12, Israel's CNN, for one reason: to say thank you. Despite a difficult night and some disappointing results, it was important to me to take this challenging stage and thank the tens of thousands of Israeli-Americans who voted, made their voices heard, and stood with President Trump, with US-Israel cooperation, and with the fight against Iran.
Channel 12, of course, took advantage. I was sandbagged. I agreed to a one-on-one interview, and in the middle of the live broadcast, with no warning, they added a second guest to speak "for the Democratic Party in Israel."
Let's be clear: Eitan Kushner, of American Democrats in Israel, has no official connection to the Democratic Party or to Democrats Abroad, the only overseas arm the party officially recognizes. His organization has no real support here; it exists only on paper. The Democratic organization here in Israel collapsed a few years ago, as part of the great collapse of a Democratic Party that has lost its boundaries and drifted into wild extremism.
You can see it in their elections: Zohran Mamdani in New York a year ago, and now Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan. Even his Democratic rival, Congresswoman Haley Stevens, endorsed the Republican candidate because of El-Sayed's antisemitism and hatred. Even she understood the levels of antisemitism, extremism and lost boundaries. This is just one example of the collapse of the Democratic Party.
In typical Democratic hypocrisy, Mr. Kushner chose, absurdly, to attack the very policies the Democrats themselves pushed again and again over the years, like cutting aid to Israel, and had the audacity to present them as a failure of Netanyahu, Trump, the Republican Party and the President of the United States. I confronted him on air.
When I challenged him on the extreme candidates the Democrats just elected, his excuse was that his organization (which, as he admitted, is tied to the Jewish Democratic Council, a Jewish group, not the Democratic Party) didn't endorse El-Sayed. "We'll put it aside."
He even came to celebrate the Democrats' election-night win, which represents only the party's collapse: the election of people like El-Sayed, of antisemites and anti-Israelis, of people who hate America and want to embolden Iran in this war. These are the people Eitan Kushner and the few Zionist Democrats still left are relying on.
Hypocrisy, lies, feigned innocence. A shame.
Thank you, @tedcruz . You charted a path back to sanity.
History was made last night.
For months, we were saying that 2026 was the most consequential midterm election of our lifetimes.
Unfortunately, we were right. Sometimes history is to be celebrated; other times, it is to be mourned. Always, it must be reckoned with.
2026 was not simply a blue wave; it was a blue tsunami. It was an ass kicking. It was not simply a bad 2006 midterm election. It was a Watergate-level repudiation. What happened, and why? What are the consequences, and where on earth do we go from here?
When all the votes were counted, the problem wasn’t turnout. Instead, our voters, Republicans, Libertarians, Independents, showed up and voted, and rejected our candidates, voting Democrat instead. We’ve lost the House. We’ve lost the Senate. When all is said and done, we will have lost eight to 10 Senate seats.
We lost in historically red states, like South Carolina and North Carolina, Kansas and Iowa. We lost in purple states, like Michigan, and New Hampshire, and Georgia. And we just barely won by just a single point in bright red states like Florida and Louisiana, and then there’s Texas.
Nowhere are the consequences of this election greater than Texas. In the Lone Star State, we lost every single statewide election. For weeks, I had been publicly warning on this podcast that we were in very real danger of losing everything in Texas. Far too few believed that was possible. I am very, very sorry that it came to pass. Texas has not had a Democrat governor since 1994. We haven’t had a Democrat senator since 1993. Now we’ll have both.
Why were the results so overwhelming? Pundits and analysts will break down the results for weeks or months or even years to come, but several things are already evident today.
Years ago, the very best political advice I ever got was from Heidi. She said, “It’s not about you. It’s about them. It’s about their kids, their families, their hopes, their dreams, their futures.” Too many politicians forget that.
Take the state of Kansas, for example, a state that has not elected a Democrat senator since 1932. It just did. Here’s what exit polling showed were the top issues in Kansas.
Number one, cost of living, energy, and groceries. That was listed as number one by 30.6 percent of voters.
Corruption. Number two, 18.5%.
The cost of the Iran war, 10.1%.
The candidates are terrible, 7.9%.
The Canada trade war, 7.6%.
The GOP didn’t do enough to support Trump, 6.6%.
Republicans didn’t pass the Save America Act, 5.6%.
Trump’s focus on monuments, 5.5%, and data centers and AI, 3.8%.
The top issue, cost of living, is very real. Too many in politics dismissed it. They didn’t understand. They pointed to the macro numbers showing the stock markets soaring, median income at record highs, and poverty at record lows. Those data are true, but they don’t tell all of the story.
Here are some stats that are a lot more real and personal. Spam, Hormel’s processed meat substitute, broke record sales, selling 113 million cans last year. That is nearly as much spam as was sold during the entirety of World War II. 29 percent of Americans have used buy now, pay later for groceries this year. That’s double the share just two years ago.
In August, banks repossessed 42% more homes than they did last year. In 2024, car repossessions topped 2.3 million, above the 2009 peak in the middle of the Great Financial Crisis. In 2025, 6% of 401k holders took hardship withdrawals, paying penalties. That is a record, and triple the norm.
And here’s one that’s really stunning. Americans made more than 75 million paid plasma donations in 2026. That’s another record. That means 200,000 Americans every single day, with a needle in their arm, just to pay for groceries.
That is very real pain from real Americans, and too many Republican politicians seem like they didn’t understand or they didn’t care. Food is too high, gas is too high, diesel is too high, insurance is too high, life is too high.
Tariffs have made everything too expensive, and the Iran war has dragged on too long. It should have been brief, decisive, and over. It needs to end, and we should never, under any circumstances, give the Ayatollah billions of dollars.
There’s a very real economic disconnect. Our K-shaped economy is a yawning divide. Last year, we saw the world’s very first trillionaire, a modern-day Thomas Edison, at the very same time that millions were struggling to feed their families. Data centers being constructed were turning billionaires into centibillionaires, while simultaneously the average American’s electricity bill went up 30% in the last five years.
Understandably, people were pissed off, and elected Republicans didn’t do enough to address their very real pain.
So, what do we do now? We need to listen and respond. We need to champion economic policies that make a real difference in working people’s lives, and we need to deal with the consequences.
Texas is blue. That is a hard sentence to utter. But Texas, today at least, is blue. As we sit here today, I am the only statewide elected Republican who remains in Texas. That’s not something I ever thought I would say.
We can be certain that the Democrats in Austin and in Washington will overshoot. In Texas, they will try to raise taxes dramatically. They may even try to adopt a state income tax, or even a California wealth tax. They will try to shut down the energy industry, destroying jobs across our state. They will embrace the radical transgender agenda. They will persecute those they perceive to be enemies, especially Elon Musk.
And in Washington, they will attack Trump every single day, constantly. Impeachment hearings, subpoenas, his family, cabinet members, business leaders, open persecution, and nonstop retaliation. Make no mistake. Nationally, the radicals are in charge. The communists and the Islamists who have taken over the Democrat Party have now taken over the United States Congress. They will be unleashed.
Sadly, that means many Americans will be hurt. Texans will be hurt. Their assault on business will make Texas a much less attractive place to start or grow a small business. Texas will become more like California if they succeed in halting all new investment into AI.
The economic results will be dramatic. Over $700 billion in new projects are scheduled to start in the next year. If the Democrats shut them all down, our country will very likely go into a recession. That will suit the Democrats just fine. They’ll just blame it all on Donald Trump.
In the next two years, we need to do two things.
One, fight the madness. I will work with Democrats when they’re willing to be reasonable. Last night, I called James Talarico. I congratulated him on his very impressive victory. It was a pleasant conversation, and I told him that I looked forward to working with him to try to benefit Texas.
So, if there are things like flood relief for the Hill Country, or trying to get the space academy to Texas, he and I will work together. But if the newly elected radicals push policies that hurt Texas, raising taxes, destroying jobs, opening the border, releasing violent criminals, threatening our children, undermining our constitutional rights, I will fight with all of my strength to defend Texas and to defend the Constitution.
And number two, we need to rebuild, getting behind policies that directly benefit the constituents we lost.
There’s a complicated story, no doubt, of what happened on Election Day, but as I see it, the key constituencies we lost were blue-collar voters, what had rightly become the core base of our party, Evangelical Christians, who didn’t show up with the same numbers and fervor as prior elections, farmers and ranchers. Tragically, we alienated rural America. Young people, who excitedly had voted Republican in 2024, and who shifted hard blue this cycle. And of course, Hispanics.
For Hispanics, there’s a strong overlap with young people and blue-collar workers. In 2024, just two years ago, I was proud to carry Hispanics statewide in Texas by six points, and we swung the Rio Grande Valley red for the first time in a century. It can be done, but in this election, those Hispanic voters overwhelmingly went back Democrat. We have got to turn that around.
And for young people, we need to be the party of the future. We need to champion policies that expand their future. Our two single biggest legislative accomplishments of the past two years, Trump Accounts and the school choice tax credit, which will unleash tens of billions of dollars in new scholarships for kids, are generationally powerful. I was proud to author both of those transformational policies, and yet too few candidates all across the country ran on that record.
Too few voters were even aware of what we’d accomplished for their kids and their future. But we need to build. We need to expand to continue creating a new investor class for hundreds of millions of Americans, help everyone, every American, become an owner, to have real skin in the game, to create new generations of capitalists ready to reject socialism.
People voted as they did because they were angry. Ironically, the Democrats that they elected are going to advance policies that will make affordability worse. The Democrats want gas prices higher. They want to ban gasoline engines altogether. Their extreme environmental mandates will drive up food prices and the prices of everything else.
But hear me now: we will bring Texas back. I am filled with hope and optimism. Texas will be red again. We have not suddenly become a bunch of tofu-eating, gun-banning, tutu-wearing pinko commie liberals. That ain’t us. Texas is still Texas.
We will rebuild as a true blue-collar party, not by embracing socialism, but by being real free-market conservatives. The way we built the Texas economic miracle in the first place, and we will build and rebuild America as well.
When the zealots overreach, and they will, we will stand ready to lead in the direction of freedom, of prosperity, of safety, and security, and common sense. We will return to a new dawn of freedom in America.
It is dark right now, but it is always darkest before the dawn, and morning is coming. That is my fervent prayer, and that is my commitment to you.
בחירות האמצע בארה"ב הביאו לשינוי דרמטי במפה הפוליטית האמריקנית, וייקח זמן לעכל את המשמעויות של ההצבעה. אבל בלי קשר לתוצאות, לפי החוקה הנשיא טראמפ נשאר מי שקובע את מדיניות החוץ של ארה"ב. בראיון לפוקס ניוז אחרי הבחירות הוא חזר והבהיר שלאיראן לעולם לא יהיה נשק גרעיני, ושיעשה כל מה שנדרש כדי להבטיח זאת, כולל לסיים את העבודה.
הקונגרס החדש ייכנס לתפקידו רק ב-3 בינואר 2027. זה פותח חלון זמן שבו ארה"ב ובעלות בריתה, ובראשן ישראל, יכולות לפעול כדי לחסל את האיום האיראני. אני מאמין שזה יקרה. ובכל מקרה, כל העיניים כבר נשואות לבחירות 2028.
אני רוצה להודות לאלפי האזרחים האמריקנים בישראל שתמכו בנשיא טראמפ ובממשל שלו, בהגנה האמיצה שלהם על אמריקה, על ישראל, על העם היהודי ועל הערכים המשותפים לנו: חיים, חירות, אמונה וחופש.
The midterm elections produced a dramatic change in the political landscape in America. It will take time to digest the ramifications of Tuesday's vote. But regardless of the outcome, under the Constitution President Trump remains the primary arbiter of U.S. foreign policy. In a post-election interview on Fox News, he remained steadfast in his policy that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, and said he would do what is necessary to ensure that result, including finishing the job.
The new Congress will not be seated until January 3, 2027. That frames a window in which the U.S. and its allies, including Israel, can act to eliminate the Iranian threat. I believe this will happen. In any case, all eyes are on 2028.
I wish to thank the thousands of US citizens in Israel for supporting President Trump and his Administration in their courageous defense of America, Israel, the Jewish People and our shared values of life, liberty, faith and freedom.
On October 7, terrorists drove some 25 kilometers from the Gaza border into the Mishor HaGefen neighborhood of Ofakim. They went house to house and murdered 33 residents.
Three years later, on Channel 12's flagship Friday show, anchor Danny Kushmaro recounted that massacre and then said: "So what. Three years later, Mishor HaGefen gave 65% to the Netanyahu bloc… to the politicians on whose watch this disaster happened."
Think about what that means. The people who buried their neighbors, who fought terrorists in their own streets, who still live with the trauma, were held up on national TV as if their vote were a moral failure. Their grief was turned into a talking point against their own ballot.
This is not a one-off slip. It has passed through every editorial filter of Israel's most-watched news channel. And it fits a pattern: October 7 used again and again as a political weapon against the government, and now against the very citizens who lived through it.
The residents of Ofakim don't owe any anchor in a Tel Aviv studio an explanation for how they vote. They have earned the right to choose their leaders like every other Israeli, and arguably more than most.
Israelis deserve journalism, not a campaign disguised as news. When the leading news channel treats the victims of the worst massacre in our history as props in a political argument, the problem is not Ofakim. The problem is the newsroom.
Media bias of this kind is a threat to democracy. It's time Channel 12 answered for it.
MIDTERMS—ISRAEL—AMERICAN CITIZENS
US citizens in Israel are flocking to vote in the Midterms by absentee ballot and by returning to vote in the States. In addition to masses of NY voters, our voters in Israel come from every state in the Union including: Michigan, Georgia, Texas, Kansas and Ohio. It’s amazing! Thanks to all our volunteers and voters.
This would be amazing, if true.
Saudi Arabia Moves to Reassess Its Somaliland Policy Through the UAE
October 29, 2026 | Regional Strategic Report
Saudi Arabia appears to be reassessing its earlier diplomatic approach toward Somaliland, with reports suggesting that Riyadh is seeking engagement through the United Arab Emirates.
This potential shift comes amid escalating Houthi threats, growing security concerns in the Red Sea, and increasing recognition of Somaliland's strategic importance along the Gulf of Aden.
Riyadh may now be recognizing that its initial approach toward Somaliland underestimated the country's geopolitical significance, particularly its strategic location, the Port of Berbera, and its expanding international partnerships.
The UAE, with its established diplomatic and economic relationships with Somaliland, provides a natural channel for facilitating this engagement.
Strategic Assessment: Saudi Arabia's emerging approach could reflect an effort to correct an earlier diplomatic miscalculation, strengthen its regional security position, and establish a more practical relationship with Somaliland as geopolitical dynamics across the Horn of Africa continue to evolve.
Marc Zell - מארק צל retweeted
🚨🇸🇨- Golan #Druze turnout doubled in #Israel’s 2026 elections — over 40% in all 4 villages (Majdal Shams, Buq’ata, Mas’ade, Ein Qiniyye), vs ~23-25% in 2022.
Article by: @EinavHalabi 🇸🇨🇮🇱
‼️Israel Beiteinu led everywhere. Residents cite gratitude for #Israel’s intervention during the #Sweida massacres under #Islamist Al-#Sharaa (Julani) the 2024 Hezbollah attack that killed 12 kids in Majdal Shams, and growing belonging among the young: “They want a say.”
More are voting to influence policy and ensure continued Israeli support for #Druze in #Sweida, #Syria.
#Israel #Druze #Golan #Elections2026 #Sweida #MajdalShams #Syria #IsraelBeiteinu #Ynet
ynet.co.il/news/article/bkp1…
A truly historic and courageous act. Israel is truly a light unto the Nations. אור לגויים
Israel's First Ambassador to Somaliland Arrives in Hargeisa for Historic Diplomatic Visit
Michael Lotem is expected to present his credentials to President Abdirahman Irro before attending a groundbreaking ceremony for Israel's new embassy.
The planned embassy marks a step toward establishing a permanent Israeli diplomatic presence in Somaliland, turning newly established bilateral relations into an official presence on the ground.
Source: Israeli diplomatic reports
