Think More: Tuesday, April 21, 2026
Solomon on the declassified 2020 election memo, Brennan heading toward Cannon's courthouse, Bray on Hollywood's decline, and the Fujian goes far-seas.
U.S. Intel Flagged Major 2020 Election Vulnerabilities, Memo Shows
John Solomon and Steven Richards | Just the News
A newly declassified National Intelligence Council memo shows that as of January 2020 the intelligence community had identified significant adversary capability against U.S. voter registration databases and pollbooks, reframing the long argument over 2020 election integrity as a question of procedural honesty rather than partisan grievance.
The Return of the Townhouse
Brad Hargreaves | City Journal
Hargreaves makes the case that attached single-family housing is a quiet developmental restoration, aligning family formation, walkability, and neighborhood scale against the decades-long drift toward faceless high-rises.
Why We Should Be Skeptical About High Graduation Rates
Arnold contrasts Minnesota’s headline 84.9 percent graduation rate with Native American reading proficiency just over one-third and math proficiency at seventeen percent, arguing that credit recovery and standards-based grading are manufacturing diplomas that the state exams expose as empty.
Justice Department Launches Criminal Investigation of Southern Poverty Law Center
DOJ has opened a criminal probe focused on the SPLC’s use of paid informants, reopening the long-deferred question of how civil-society organizations that run quasi-investigative operations should be regulated.
Chief Justice Roberts Could Learn From Ted Williams
Turley uses a Ted Williams analogy to indict the Chief Justice’s permissive handling of internal court leaks, arguing that judicial norms need the kind of institutional discipline the legal profession has quietly abandoned.
Schrodinger’s Ceasefire
Eugyppius | A Plague Chronicle
Eugyppius offers the contemporaneous analysis the establishment press cannot afford to write, tracking the Pakistan-mediated Iran ceasefire as it crumbled at issuance and the dueling ten-point and fifteen-point proposals fell apart in real time.
Hollywood Sinks Its Own Ship, Proudly
Chris Bray | Tell Me How This Ends
Bray reads fewer than 40,000 viewers for Starfleet Academy, the collapse of WGA health coverage, and a thirty percent employment drop since late 2022 as the lagging indicators of an industry that chose ideology over audience.
The Brennan Indictment May Land in Aileen Cannon’s Florida Courthouse
Grand jury subpoenas issued in Washington, lead prosecutor Maria Medetis Long removed, and Joe DiGenova installed, with NOTUS reporting that the case against the former CIA director may run through the Fort Pierce courthouse of Judge Aileen Cannon.
Three House Committees Decry Lax Approach to Fraud at ActBlue
Just the News Staff | Just the News
The joint interim staff report from Judiciary, Administration, and Oversight details allegations of illicit foreign donations and mass resignations on the platform’s legal and compliance team, with ActBlue employees invoking the Fifth Amendment 146 times in depositions.
The April 2026 Three Seas Initiative Summit: A Strategic Opportunity
Ellie Embree and Andrew Kim | Heritage Foundation
Heritage frames the Dubrovnik summit as a strategic opening for U.S. LNG, nuclear, infrastructure, and technology investment in Central and Eastern Europe, arguing that commercial engagement is the West’s best hardening against Russian and Chinese coercion.
China and Taiwan Update, April 17, 2026
Dan Blumenthal, Nicholas Carl, Alexis Turek, et al. | American Enterprise Institute
The ISW-AEI Coalition Defense of Taiwan team reads the CCTV signaling around the carrier Fujian as a willingness to push out-of-first-island-chain deployments at lower-than-doctrinal readiness, with Beijing tacitly acknowledging that the PLAN cannot yet secure its own supply lines in the Middle East.
