10/16/2026
Good News Friday: October 16, 2026
Dear Patriot,
Almost hourly, the Trump Administration is announcing some amazing new manufacturing, a massive fraud shut down, or other unexpected events.
We tried to capture as much as we could to give you a lot of good news to take into weekend activities.
Meanwhile, the President is storming through the entire country, winning the vote with the truth of his accomplishments.
Do you feel the momentum shifting?
1- This is a must listen for the weekend.
It illustrates so much in just 12 minutes.
Promethean on YouTube 👉 https://youtu.be/AzrV4eOICl0?si=Qkj6WJ9HabSoXatk
Trump’s Treasury Chief Calls Their Bluff: The End of the IMF Playbook?
QUOTE: Susan Kokinda opens with the European Union’s largest expansion of its Russia sanctions list since the war began, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent calling Europe’s objections to the U.S.–Russia diesel deal “completely hypocritical”, since Europe is still Moscow’s biggest gas customer.
The episode follows the reactions to President Trump’s diesel deal, from Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney and Boris Johnson to the EU’s foreign ministers, set against President Trump’s post on the European Union paying Russia $250 billion for energy and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak’s figure of $320.7 billion since 2022.
It then turns to the IMF–World Bank Annual Meetings in Bangkok, where IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said growth alone cannot fix U.S. debt and deficits, the headlines that followed, and the IMF’s playbook since Bretton Woods ended in 1971.
It closes with Secretary Bessent skipping the meetings for “domestic engagements”, and Peter Navarro’s White House progress report on America’s manufacturing investments: over 500 projects, more than $380 billion in announced investment, mapped across the country.
2- If you have listened to Susan and Barbara at Promethean Action you have heard about “The American System”.
Read here for a fuller explanation and history of the way we are SUPPOSED to be.
President Trump is fighting like hell to bring us back to heaven on earth.
Hit the link for the full article. Mike Steger on Substack 👉 https://mikesteger.substack.com/p/building-heaven-on-earth?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
Building Heaven on Earth...The Origins of the American System
QUOTE: The American System of Political-Economy is the great secret to American success. But what is it? It is not a formal system. It’s not a set of rules that once followed will always work. It is a set of principles forged out of a unique historical process that created the United States, and then enabled our nation to thrive—but which are only successful when governed by a profound mission.
A mission that was increasingly lost over the last twelve decades, when we adopted the British liberal system of free trade, central banking, constant war, and growing debt. Over the last 125 years we have nearly granted an outright monopoly to those imperial British methods and have been brought to near total ruin because of it.
So perhaps it is more of a secret weapon than a secret. And if so, the institutions which have denied us access to our own heritage are committing a crime tantamount to treason. Institutions like Harvard have never supported tariffs, let alone edified the nation’s youth regarding the nature of the human soul on which the American system is founded.
The American system is not an economic theory—some better variation of Harvard’s preferred liberal economics like Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations or David Ricardo’s stock-market theories of comparative advantage. These liberals overtly ignore the political structure and moral purpose of a people and nation, which is why our system of self-government is undermined when we apply liberal economic policies.
The American system is a higher form of culture—an advanced way of thinking about the development of civilization. In essence, we are inheritors of a pathway—a trail forged in the harshest of wildernesses by a self-educated and hard working people who were devoted to nothing less than to God, to the natural laws of Creation, and to building a society based on truth and the freedom to build.
3- Good news on overall mortality rate plunging and that fewer people are getting stabbed with poison.
There is a lot of information here so hit the link to get more details.
Revolver 👉 https://revolver.news/2026/10/covid-boosters-plunge-deaths-drop-7-alex-berenson-has-some-questions/
Covid boosters PLUNGE, deaths drop 7%: Alex Berenson has some questions
QUOTE: Something rather interesting is happening right now in America… and considering everything we’ve been through with the COVID nonsense, you’d think people would be really eager to dive into this from every angle.
So, what’s happening? Well, it’s good news, actually… Americans are dying at a noticeably lower rate than they were a year ago. How wonderful, right?
Yes, but wait, there’s more.
At the same time this great news is unfolding, Americans have also been running away from the COVID booster shots like thieves in the night. And the numbers are spectacularly high, even though the so-called “experts” tried to drum it into our heads how important this vaccine was for our health.
There’s a lot of speculation out there about whether or not the vaccine was responsible for the huge spike in cancer and heart conditions, especially among younger people. But it’s hard to drill down (with hard evidence) on what caused all of that, because it seems like many “experts” aren’t very curious to find the answers. But the timing sure is suspicious.
So, this new data is very interesting, and journalist Alex Berenson, who’s spent years investigating and questioning the COVID vaccine rollout, believes it deserves a much closer look.
Alex Berenson Substack: “In August, the Society of Actuaries issued its newest “Quarterly Mortality Monitoring Report for the U.S. Population.” They sure know how to name ‘em, those actuaries. The report — based on official federal death totals — hasn’t gotten much notice.
It should.
Deaths in the United States fell a stunning 7 percent in winter 2026 compared to 2025, adjusted for age and population, the actuaries reported. People in their fifties had the largest drop, 8.4 percent.
Guess what else plunged last year?
If you said the number of Americans getting Covid jabs, you’re right!”
A 7 percent drop in the death rate is very significant, especially when we’re talking about an entire country.
And for Americans in their 50s, the decline was even larger. But here’s what makes Berenson’s observation so interesting… we’ve spent years hearing that COVID vaccination is this major part of protecting public health, especially for older Americans. But now, as fewer people are getting the jab, the death rate is in freefall.
Things that make you go, “Hmmm.”
4- Ending this poor bureaucrat accounting will eventually help hold prices down for Americans who depend on this help.
Just The News https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/rfk-jr-announces-purge-189k-dead-or-duplicate-enrollees-subsidized-healthcare
RFK Jr. announces purge of 189K dead or duplicate enrollees from subsidized healthcare
QUOTE: Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday announced the purge of 189,000 subsidized Medicare, Medicaid, or CHIP enrollments for deceased persons or duplicate enrollees, saying the move would stop more than $1 billion in erroneous payments to insurance companies annually.
“In 2026, CMS [Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services] identified 189,000 subsidized enrollments involving duplicate Medicare, Medicaid, or CHIP coverage on record showing the enrollee has died,” he said in a press conference. “CMS acted to remove improper subsidies in all these cases.”
Kennedy stated that the purge would save taxpayers $738 million in 2026 alone and that future savings would reach an annualized rate of $1.5 billion.
“Each of those figures represents a payment that would otherwise have gone to an insurance company, not to an American citizen,” he added. He further highlighted that CMS had contacted the enrollees or their estates to give them 30 days to address any potential mistakes.
5- Another one down.
Just how many ways are there to defraud America?
US Justice Department https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndtx/pr/operation-lonestar-roundup-dismantles-north-korean-it-worker-network-used-pe*****te-us
Operation Lonestar Roundup dismantles North Korean IT worker network used to pe*****te U.S. companies in Texas
QUOTE: At a press conference yesterday, FBI Dallas Special Agent in Charge R. Joseph Rothrock announced that FBI Dallas and other field offices conducted operations at more than 40 Texas residences and seized approximately 187 laptops and KVM devices used in fraudulent remote IT employment schemes.
North Korean IT workers allegedly used stolen identities and U.S.-based facilitators to gain access to American corporate systems and generate revenue for the regime’s weapons programs.
The FBI will continue working with law enforcement and private-sector partners to disrupt these networks and protect U.S. businesses and national security.
6- If you did not watch the rally in Alaska this week, you missed this moment when President Trump unburdened innocent, hardworking Americans from the grip of government bureaucracy.
The Gateway Pundit https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/10/president-trump-pardons-alaska-diesel-mechanics-who-were/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
President Trump Pardons Alaska Diesel Mechanics Who Were Charged Under Clean Air Act
QUOTE: President Trump traveled to Alaska on Tuesday to hold a rally for Senator Dan Sullivan who is up for reelection in November.
As you know, Alaska is a solid red state but uses a controversial ranked-choice voting system that favors Democrats. It’s another solid Republican state with failed GOP state leadership.
Voters will decide in November whether to repeal this insane method that gives wins to Democrats. We pray they make the right choice this time.
During his rally in Alaska, President Trump pardoned diesel mechanics, Zachary Czubak and Patrick Fleming, who were charged in 2022 under the Clean Air Act for removing and working on ‘federally required emissions‑control equipment’ on diesel vehicles.
The defendants pleaded guilty in 2022 to conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act, admitting to removing equipment designed to control air pollution.
During the Biden years, such tampering was a felony, and the Justice Department pursued criminal charges for shops and mechanics disabling pollution‑monitoring systems. They were tossing mechanics in jail over their bogus global warming nonsense.
So, on Tuesday, President Trump pardoned Zachary Czubak and Patrick Fleming on stage at his Alaska rally.
7- Accountability. But we would also like to see the actual people who did this arrested.
United States Department of Justice
CVS Agrees to Pay $315M for Illegally Filling Unlawful Opioid Prescriptions and for Submitting False Claims to the Federal Government
QUOTE: CVS Pharmacy Inc., a Rhode Island-based pharmacy chain, and its related corporate entities have agreed to pay $315 million to resolve allegations that, from October 17, 2013 through December 2, 2025, CVS illegally filled prescriptions for opioids and other controlled substances in violation of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), and then sought payment for many of those invalid prescriptions from Medicare and other federal healthcare programs in violation of the False Claims Act (FCA).
“Not only does this settlement hold bad actors accountable for their fraudulent activities, but Americans are safer because of it,” said Associate Attorney General Stanley E. Woodward Jr. “Today’s settlement is a significant milestone in the Justice Department’s efforts to combat the opioid epidemic by cracking down on pharmacies who unlawfully fulfill prescriptions for controlled substances.”
8- We know some of you resist social media. We get it. You do you.
Good thing we have a big newsletter full of other information to read and share!
But, here are some great short hits on X.
- This COULD be very significant in the midterms. No one has ever seen numbers like this.
-Demoncrats are such failures, they can only say two words.
-There is no problem too small for the attention of the Trump Administration.
-Judge Jeanine tells a little criminal story.
-Homeland Security and the Coast Guard actually doing a bang up job keeping the homeland safe. 13 metic tons of co***ne?
PRAY for safe travels for President Trump and his team of warriors.
PRAY for all children.
PRAY for the truth to change hearts and minds.
SHARE the truth.
Hold Fast,
Defending The Republic
https://defendingtherepublic.substack.com/p/good-news-friday-159?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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