Editor’s notes✏️: Welcome to an abbreviated version of War Notes — I am out sick with a summer cold. Kellie Meyer will be taking on the desk tonight!
Thanks to Amanda for organizing more than usual.
Fight of our time‼️: If you want to know where the (attempted) Muslim takeover of America is going — just look to the United Kingdom.
📰“Birmingham council seeking to ban British flags ‘for public safety,’” headlines The Telegraph
Be fair⚖️: The headline is slightly hyperbolic.
They are banning British flags on public flagpoles — why? Well, people are upset at the British flags on flagpoles — nobody is trying to take down the Palestinian flags.
Not the only spot🚨: The Oxfordshire town council called British flags intimidating when they banned them
Here📍 : We’ve seen the Muslim mayor in Dearborn berate non-Muslims, and Zohran Mamdani says America should learn from the Quran to set its immigration policy.
Reality‼️: Muslims demand tolerance and acceptance only to eventually take control and preach hatred — this is the expansionist Islam playbook
Case in point:
Find me a Muslim country openly accepting of Jews and Christians
Of the Muslim countries, which ones are openly accepting of gays?
Of the Muslim countries, which treat women as equal citizens?
Why would we think Muslims in America would want or allow any of those things?
Warning⚠️: The UAE’s foreign minister warned years ago against the appeasement of Muslims in Europe
Breaking🚨: President Trump is promising to hit Iran after Tehran unsuccessfully shot at U.S. bases in Jordan and the UAE last night.
CENTCOM also reveals the U.S military fired at Iranian forces that were attempting to put mines in the Strait of Hormuz
📰Axios reports, “Trump weighing limited strikes against Iran to curb Hormuz attacks,” writing:
“President Trump and his senior aides have been considering waging limited strikes in the Strait of Hormuz to prevent Iran from reconstituting its radar and missile capabilities to attack ships.”
64 days📅: This new fighting comes just two months before the midterms. We told you last week, Iran is going to decide the midterms — and it looks like it may be going better than we are being told
CENTCOM says the Strait of Hormuz is open
IRGC officials are considering fleeing the country as fears grow that protests could return because Iran’s economy continues to worsen, reports Amit Segal
Today, Trump posted: “Iran is officially a Failed Nation. IT IS DEAD! They have no Navy, they have no Air Force, they have no currency, they are not paying their soldiers or police, Inflation is at 300%, and their leadership is in total disarray and incapable of properly representing the country.”
If things are truly going better for the U.S., that would drastically change the conversation in the midterms
Trump could suddenly become a victorious wartime president rather than an embattled one.
Tonight📺: Vice Adm. Robert Harward and Shelby Talcott join.
Working woes‼️: Working-class voters are still up for grabs heading into the midterms.
There’s a theory that Democrats will win back working-class voters by talking about working-class issues.
Reality🤷: Not true…
You’ve got to have programs that actually work for the working class
📊Politico reports “Fifty-five percent of Americans think politicians are just trying to win votes when they say they will help the working class.”
Elissa Slotkin posted how to win as a Democrat:
Elissa Slotkin@ElissaSlotkinWe have to actually stand for something.
8:30 PM · Aug 30, 2026 · 345K Views683 Replies · 58 Reposts · 416 LikesNote: Realize it didn’t have anything to do with any of the crazy culture stuff…
📰The Wall Street Journal headlines, “Who’s ‘Working Class’ Anymore?” writing
Tonight📺: Former Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich and Corbin Trent join.
Data center divide➗: Data centers are becoming the fight of the midterms.
📉61% of Americans oppose building data centers in their towns — but the centers are fighting back … and so are labor unions.
📰The Wall Street Journal headlines, “Blue-Collar Jobs Are the New Flashpoint in Data-Center Fight,” writing:
“Unions and construction trade groups are now entering the fray from the other side, warning that such actions endanger thousands of building-related jobs. They are threatening to withhold support of candidates opposing the data-center projects. ”
This is the working class of America — not the pink-haired baristas who are mostly anti-data centers
If you want to win the working class of America, you can’t be talking about banning the thing that is giving them jobs.
📱Today, Trump posted: “The only reason that communities throughout the U.S.A. should not want Data Centers is if they want to end up being backwards and poor. If they want to be successful and rich, with far lower taxes and jobs all over the place, let Data Reign”
Flipside: Yet, Vice President Vance is separating himself from Trump on this — giving a very different take on these centers
Nick Sortor@nicksortor🚨 JUST IN: JD Vance helps to clarify President Trump's stance on data centers, highlighting his desire for data centers to put power BACK into the grid "I think probably 99% of the backlash to data centers has come in areas where building a data center means higher utility and
Nick Sortor @nicksortor🚨 JUST IN: President Trump declares the ONLY reason communities throughout America should not want data centers is if they "want to end up being BACKWARDS AND POOR" "If they want to be successful and rich, with far lower taxes and jobs all over the place, let Data Reign." "If3:29 PM · Aug 31, 2026 · 143K Views296 Replies · 273 Reposts · 1.48K Likes
Tonight📺: Don Slaiman, who headlined “Electricians Love Data Centers. You Should, Too,” joins me. Slaiman writes:
“With job creation sputtering, we’ve got the chance — an obligation, in fact — to expand employment in a robust sector of our economy… Data centers are the best opportunity in generations for blue-collar workers to attain a portion of the American dream.”
Feel better soon….you will be missed!
Data Centers: Many new jobs for the community: until the construction is completed, then just a few jobs for people to maintain them. Water, lots of water, used for cooling them; and, yet, they are being built in desert areas where water restrictions have been in place for years. Electrical costs expected to skyrocket; rich guys saying they will absorb the added costs. Politicians saying they will hold the rich guys feet to the fire if they renege; has that ever happened? (Disclaimer: I’ll be 80 soon and, to my knowledge, politicians have never held the rich guys to account—not even close.