The progressive wing of the Democrat Party just seized another U.S. Senate nomination, and this time the winner openly declared she will not support Chuck Schumer as Senate leader if she reaches Capitol Hill. Meanwhile a long-time Democrat congressman fell to a radical upstart, marking the seventh loss for an incumbent this season. And even in the one big “loss” for the DSA on election night, they actually won by shedding the candidate with so much baggage that even AOC and Bernie Sanders refused to back her.
Buckle up. The Schumer-Pelosi era of Democrat politics is crashing hard into reality.
Minnesota Senate Progressive Victory Leaves Schumer Exposed
In Minnesota, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan crushed moderate Rep. Angie Craig by nearly 20 points to claim the Democratic nomination for the open Senate seat. Flanagan, a progressive fighter backed by Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, now heads into the general election against Republican Michele Tafoya.
Craig had the money and the establishment machine behind her. Schumer’s fingerprints were on her campaign. Yet Minnesota Democrats chose the left. Flanagan has made her position crystal clear: “We need a progressive champion to lead Senate Democrats, and that’s not Chuck Schumer.”
This is the second major Senate primary hit for Schumer in a week. Last Tuesday progressive Abdul El-Sayed narrowly defeated Schumer-backed Rep. Haley Stevens in Michigan. The pattern is no longer deniable. The party’s left flank is not asking for a seat at the table. They are taking the table.
Fox News called it another blow to the Senate minority leader. The New York Post noted Flanagan ran on the same progressive priorities that powered El-Sayed, including Medicare for All and cutting off U.S. support for Israel.
A house divided against itself cannot stand. Jesus said it plainly in Matthew 12:25. The Democrat Party is living it out in real time.
Seventh Incumbent Falls in Connecticut
In Connecticut’s 1st District, former Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin defeated 14-term Rep. John Larson by double digits. Larson, 78, has been in Congress since the 1990s. Bronin, 47 and a retired Naval intelligence officer, ran on generational change and won the state party endorsement.
Larson becomes the seventh House Democrat incumbent knocked out this primary season. The list already includes Al Green in Texas, Diana DeGette in Colorado, Adriano Espaillat in New York, and Shri Thanedar in Michigan. Older establishment faces are being cleared out one after another. Voters are done with the same tired names who keep losing ground to Trump and the right.
Bronin put it bluntly: “John Larson is a good man, but he’s been in Congress since the 90s. The stakes are just too high to keep doing the same thing.”
The old guard keeps insisting the party is a big tent. Primary voters keep proving the tent belongs to the radicals.
Wisconsin The DSA “Loss” That Still Counts as a Win
The one race the establishment could claim was Wisconsin’s Democratic gubernatorial primary. Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley narrowly edged out DSA member and state Rep. Francesca Hong. Crowley had the backing of retiring Gov. Tony Evers. Hong had the socialist label and a trail of toxic posts.
Those posts included calls to defund and abolish the police, plus a 2020 declaration to “Cancel Thanksgiving” because it celebrates colonialism. She walked them back under pressure, claiming Thanksgiving is now her favorite holiday. Neither AOC nor Bernie Sanders endorsed her. The baggage was too heavy even for them.
So the DSA “lost.” In reality they dodged a bullet. They avoided nominating the candidate whose own words would have handed Republicans a gift-wrapped attack ad for the general election. Crowley still has to face Trump-backed Rep. Tom Tiffany in November. The left gets to keep its purity while the moderate takes the risk of losing the statehouse.
That is not a defeat. That is strategy.
On a related note, this is the most devastating political loss I’ve ever seen for the “consensus” bettors on the markets. Until the polls closed in Wisconsin, Kalshi had Hong at nearly 100% chance of winning.
The progressive surge is real. It has already delivered Senate nominees in Michigan and Minnesota who openly reject Schumer’s leadership. It has already claimed seven House seats from incumbents. And when the purest socialist option came with too much baggage, the left simply let her fail so the movement could live to fight another day.
Chuck Schumer keeps talking about party unity. Primary voters keep voting the opposite. The Schumer-Pelosi machine that once dictated terms is now watching its preferred candidates get discarded. The radicals are not waiting for permission. They are taking power the old-fashioned way—by winning elections inside the party that still pretends it is moderate.
Reality has arrived. The only question left is how many more seats the old guard will lose before they finally admit it. JD Rucker will be discussing this in detail on today’s episode of the Wendy Bell Radio Program.
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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