An excerpt from the GTA Member Webinar on August 9, 2026.
Transcript edited for print.
Let’s go on to our favorite subject here, the specter of progressive socialism.
Now, we talked about the Saturn-Neptune alignment, how Saturn-Neptune historically correlates with socialism, and the fact that the socialist threat is real to the core Democrats, or the traditional Democrats.
Mark Penn, the former chief White House pollster and strategic advisor to President Bill Clinton, wrote an op-ed titled “The Socialist Threat Is Real.” I would certainly call Bill Clinton much more of a centrist type of president. He was a Democrat, but he was more of a centrist Democrat. And his key advisor, Mark Penn, warned that far-left radical progressives and socialists are hijacking the core power matrix of the Democratic Party.
The problem for Democrats is that years of letting socialists and Marxists into their DEI kingdom, certainly since the rise of Kamala Harris in the Biden administration, have now produced dire consequences.
So status quo Blue Dog Democrats are watching their power evaporate as Democratic Socialists of America-backed candidates are defeating mainstream Democrats in primary races all across New York, Colorado, Pennsylvania, and most importantly, Michigan. Penn’s warning was blunt:
“America will be in serious trouble if Democrats fail to defend their party leading up to the midterm elections.”
The Democratic Party’s Growing Ideological Crisis
So again, status quo party members are watching in real time as their party is transforming almost overnight from one that was once built around labor, civil rights, and working-class citizens into one increasingly defined by anti-American rhetoric, hostility toward capitalism, support for foreign adversaries, support for Sharia law and Islam, calls to abolish jails, race-based politics, and, of course, an utter disdain for the American Constitution.
Now, we also talked last time about how the August eclipse hit the Democratic Party’s Uranus. So what we’re seeing here in the inner wheel is the Democratic Party horoscope and the August 2026 eclipse in the outer wheel. This eclipse is basically sitting on the Democratic Party’s Ascendant, opposing the Democratic Party’s Uranus.
So we’re seeing the eclipse hit the natal Uranus, and I would even include the Moon-Uranus conjunction. And we also see Uranus, at the same time as the eclipse, conjuncting the natal Sun of the Democratic Party event horoscope by transit.
So the Democratic Party is experiencing its most consequential internal ideological challenge in years. DSA-backed candidates have demonstrated that disciplined organization, economic populism, and anti-establishment anger can and will defeat entrenched incumbents, particularly in safely Democratic urban districts.
The August Eclipse and the Battle for Democratic Party Control
The unresolved question is whether this represents a national realignment or a primary market insurgency whose appeal essentially diminishes in competitive statewide elections. Meaning, will they get defeated by Republicans? Is this just a one-off type of thing, or is this part of a larger realignment of the party itself?
And the August eclipse falls, again, near the Democratic Party’s Ascendant. I would say it’s pretty much on the Ascendant, as it opposes the Aquarius Moon-Uranus conjunction, symbolically describing an identity crisis driven by a rebellious insurgent membership. Mercury and Pluto activate the party’s nodal axis, placing control of the message, organizational machinery, and future direction at the center of the struggle.
So the far left is hijacking the party and transforming it into something nearly unrecognizable from the old Democratic Party. And the rhetoric is now mostly openly anti-American, hostile to capitalism, supportive of abolishing jails, pushing racism, disdainful of the Constitution, and increasingly dependent on voter blocs shaped by years of mass illegal migration policies.
So what was once a center-left party built around labor, civil rights, and all that stuff—the party of Harry Truman and JFK—is now being pulled into this radical left revolutionary movement, apparently influenced by foreign subversion operations from China that seek the destruction of the U.S., hence the anti-American rhetoric.
So these revolutionary movements sweeping the body politic of America are seeking to destroy American values from within, throw wrenches into the capitalist machinery, and more importantly, as we have seen play out time after time again, resort to violence.
Economic Discontent, Political Radicalization, and the DSA
The real deeper cause is not merely cultural radicalization. That’s just a symptom. Left- and right-wing populism, you could say, are now competing responses to economic precarity, inequality, and institutional distrust.
But I do want to bring this up. This is Hasan Piker, who has emerged as an increasingly visible, if unofficial, spokesman for the Democratic Socialists of America’s rapidly expanding political action network. He campaigns directly for Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong, while cultivating close ties with socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Piker’s close proximity to DSA-aligned candidates, combined with his anti-American rhetoric and revolutionary Marxism that is hostile to America’s political and capitalist system, has federal investigators examining the possibility that revolutionary activity is being supported by foreign subversion networks—China.
All this is real, folks. This is not me being partisan or anti-Democrat. So you Democrats out there, this is real, and your party is splitting into two, like it or not.
Could a DSA Insurgency Reshape the 2026 Midterms?
Now, let’s get into the DSA-style insurgency. Many pollsters are saying that the DSA-style insurgency will be followed by a midterm blue wave in November. The Democratic Party will emerge from the eclipse with a different public identity because previously peripheral forces have challenged its leadership and organizational machinery. And the source of change comes from factions, networks, or movements that were formerly outside the visible leadership structure.
They cross the Ascendant of the Democratic Party and become the party’s public face. So is the eclipse specifically a DSA revolution? A DSA-style insurgency would be a good fit for this type of eclipse, because the eclipse promises a crisis of identity and control more clearly than it promises which faction will win. So we’re seeing different possibilities and probabilities.
The Eclipse Path and Key House Battlegrounds
Now, I want you to note here that I took this current eclipse. You have to realize we have a 500-mile range, so if you go 500 miles west or east of the eclipse, those are going to be the states most impacted. And since this is an eclipse in reference to the Democratic Party, it’s very clear that the House races in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan, along with Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, are going to be very decisive. They’re going to be the ones that give us an idea of where this race is going.
The Widening Schism Between Traditional Democrats and the Socialist Left
The other thing I want to mention with the eclipse is that the Democratic Party leadership, sensing its mortal danger from a very well-organized and radicalized Islamo-socialist movement, is trying to stay afloat by claiming that the Democratic Party is a big tent where socialists can find a welcome home. That’s what the core members of the Democratic Party elite are trying to say. They’re trying to back off and present the party as a big tent.
The traditional power bases of the Democratic Party, the working class and minorities, are not part of the Islamo-socialist movement. Instead, the socialist part is comprised almost uniformly of downwardly mobile, white, college-credentialed losers.
So Democrats aren’t coddling Scandinavian-style socialists. They’re getting into bed with a nihilistic, I would say, deconstructionist brand of third-worldism. Similar to what I’m seeing in Britain. You’re seeing these political candidates who’ve embraced this sort of nihilistic, deconstructionist brand of third-worldism, brought it into the culture, and made it part and parcel of these parties.
And this is the sort of schism that we see happening in France, the schism we see happening in Spain, the schism happening in Italy, and the schism happening in the UK. All of this. Now it’s spreading here, and the Democratic Party is embracing it.
Michigan’s Mars, the August Eclipse, and the Risk of Political Violence
So this eclipse is telling me, “Hey, things are not going to go back to normal anytime soon,” when you have people like this fellow here, Hasan Piker, who supports China, Russia, and Cuba, supports Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis, and has made racist comments about Blacks, along with statements about letting the streets run red with capitalist blood.
See, going back to this eclipse on Mars—he’s making these statements, and we see this eclipse about to hit Michigan’s Mars. So when I say things are about to get violent, it’s because of these statements, these actions, and these proclamations that are spreading throughout the campaign trail and proliferating all across the internet.
And you have progressive organizations embracing this as well. It’s not just the Democratic Party. You have progressive institutions and organizations embracing and supporting this, either directly or indirectly.
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