3 BlazeTV hosts give their top 2026 predictions — and they’re wild
2026 is widely predicted to be an explosive and turbulent year. AI is growing faster than we can keep track of. Global conflicts are simmering. The world economy is teetering on a debt-fueled monetary reset and possible dollar crisis.
It’s going to be a wild year.
On this episode of “Glenn TV,” Glenn Beck, Steve Deace, and Liz Wheeler give their top predictions for 2026.
Steve Deace
Prediction #1: America trades Taiwan for Venezuela’s oil
“I think that China and the U.S. are going to effectively swap Taiwan and Venezuela,” says Deace.
“With the disruption that is happening in markets and where we are in terms of a long-term paradigm shift, I think we are not just going to sit there and just let Venezuela with maybe the largest oil reserves in the world just go on the bye-bye here in our own hemisphere.”
This, in turn, he says, will spur China to “do the exact same thing to Taiwan.”
“Steve is right on the money,” says Glenn’s head writer and researcher, Jason Buttrill, who is a former U.S. Marine intelligence specialist and Department of Defense contractor.
Glenn notes that this has massive implications for chip-making, as Taiwan currently supplies the United States with over 90% of the world’s highest-performance chips that go into smartphones, modern weapons, and artificial intelligence.
Prediction #2: Global leader alleges alien contact
“I think we're going to see at least one elected official somewhere in the world next year claim to have directly communicated one-on-one with non-human intelligence,” says Steve.
Public interest in extraterrestrial life is peaking right now, he says. “The number-one-selling movie in America right now on Amazon, the biggest website in the world, is ‘Age of Disclosure”’ — a 2025 documentary claiming to expose an 80-year global government cover-up of non-human intelligent life and a secret international race to reverse-engineer extraterrestrial technology.
On top of that, world-renowned director Steven Spielberg — who has been pretty quiet since what many thought was his farewell film back in 2022 — has come out of retirement to direct a "disclosure film on UFOs" in 2026.
“The pressure on this is amping up,” says Steve.
Liz Wheeler
Prediction #1: Cabinet turnover
“I think we're going to see some significant Cabinet turnover in the Trump administration,” says Liz, noting that it is Attorney General Pam Bondi who is most likely on the chopping block.
“Listen, we voted for Trump because we want justice for all of the deep-state weaponization of the government targeted at us. And we have not seen that from the Pam Bondi Department of Justice,” says Liz.
“The Trump voter demographic has patience. We're generous. We understand that we're up against this conglomerate enemy, but I think people are starting to run out of patience.”
Prediction #2: Denaturalization and deportation of a certain member of Congress
Liz’s top prediction, she says, is that “a member of the U.S. Congress will be denaturalized and removed from Congress and deported from the United States of America.”
“I wonder who that could be,” laughs Glenn.
Liz is, of course, referring to Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar (Minn.) — a radical leftist who prioritizes foreign interests, especially her home country of Somalia, over America.
Besides the strong speculation that Omar illegally married her own brother, there is ample evidence that Omar’s father, Nur Omar Mohamed, came to America not because he was fleeing a tyrannical regime but rather because he was “a member of that regime,” says Liz.
“He was actually a high-ranking military official [in Somalia]. He tried to hide that association so that he could claim asylum here in the United States, but he was in charge of propaganda for that communist regime,” she explains, calling it “immigration fraud.”
If that is found to be true, then “Ilhan Omar's naturalized citizenship status is itself illegitimate.”
Glenn Beck
Prediction #1: AI boom threatens US power grid
Glenn has been warning for some time that surging AI data-center energy demand will eventually strain the U.S. grid, causing rolling blackouts and brownouts.
“I think 2026 is going to be the first year that we see things like Texas having rolling brownouts for a week at a time. I think you're going to start to see the strain on the grid by the end of next year in ways that you would never have expected,” he says.
Prediction #2: Civil rights movement 2.0 sparked by AI
“I think next year is going to be a huge year historically for the beginning of a civil rights movement,” says Glenn. “I think we are going to see massive civil rights cases come to the courts next year, and they're only going to get bigger and bigger.”
He warns that these kinds of cases will be unprecedented, as courts will debate whether AI-generated content, like deepfakes for example, count as protected speech and whether censoring "harmful" AI output is a First Amendment violation.
2026 is also when AI rules and regulations will greatly impact public education, says Glenn. Whether it is heavy AI policing, which could spark a full-blown privacy revolt, or the opposite — intense AI implementation via proctoring software, keyword/voice monitoring, or facial recognition camera — a “civil rights movement” over technology in classrooms is sure to spark.
To hear more 2026 predictions, watch the episode above.
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'Who put them there?' Scientists struggle to explain UFO-like objects captured in 1950s astronomy photos.
The National Geographic Society undertook a massive astronomical survey between 1949 and 1958 at the Palomar Observatory in California, snapping thousands of photographs of the sky from the north celestial pole to 33 degrees south of the celestial equator.
According to a 1959 leaflet issued by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, the result was a "map of the sky, one that can be used like any road map, to help the astronomer find his way to objects too faint to see directly at the eye-piece of a telescope."
The Palomar Observatory Sky Survey images captured a multitude of inexplicable star-like objects that astronomers had reportedly seen appear then quickly vanish. The objects, which flashed in the sky several years before the October 1957 launch of Sputnik, supposedly cannot be chalked up to gravitational lensing, gamma ray bursts, fragmenting asteroids, and/or various non-astronomical effects.
"We've ruled out some of the prosaic explanations, and it means we have to at least consider the possibility that these might be artificial objects from somewhere," Stephen Bruehl, a professor at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, told Live Science.
In a peer-reviewed study published in October in the journal Scientific Reports, Bruehl and co-author Beatriz Villarroel, a Swedish astronomer, found that there are "associations beyond chance between occurrence of transients and both nuclear testing and [unidentified anomalous phenomenon] sightings."
The duo analyzed the transient data available for the time period Nov. 19, 1949, to April 28, 1957, and tested for possible associations between the occurrence of 107,875 transients, which were observed on 310 of the 2,718 days in this period, and above-ground nuclear weapons tests, which were conducted by the U.S., the U.K., and the former USSR on 123 days during the study period.
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The researchers found that a "transient was 45% more likely to be observed on dates within a nuclear test window compared to dates outside of a nuclear test window."
The duo also linked the transients to unidentified flying object/unidentified anomalous phenomenon reports, noting that "for days on which at least one transient was identified, significant associations were noted between total number of transients and total number of independent UAP reports per date."
'Why do they seem to show interest in nuclear testing?'
"For every additional UAP reported on a given date, there was an 8.5% increase in number of transients identified," Bruehl and Villarroel wrote.
When it came down to hypothesizing what the transients might be, the duo came up with two possibilities that could account for associations of transients with both nuclear testing and UAP reports.
"The first involves an unexpected and previously undocumented atmospheric phenomenon triggered by nuclear detonations or related to nuclear fallout that may serve as a stimulus for some UAP reports and appear as transients on astronomical images," they wrote.
The duo noted, however, that this first hypothesis is problematic, as effects in the atmosphere "would be likely to result in a streak on the image over the 50 min exposure, yet all transients appear as distinct point sources rather than streaks."
Additionally, the researchers noted that transients were "most often observed one day after a nuclear test; such atmospheric phenomena would have to be sustained and remain localized in one location for approximately 24 h to account for the visual appearance of transients."
After poking holes in their first hypothesis, the duo propped up their second hypothesis on the "well-known strand of UAP lore suggesting that nuclear weapons may attract UAP."
"Within this latter hypothesis, our results could be viewed as indicating that transients are artificial, reflective objects either in high-altitude orbits around Earth or at high altitudes within the atmosphere," they added.
Bruehl said to Live Science, "If it turns out that transients are reflective artificial objects in orbit — prior to Sputnik — who put them there, and why do they seem to show interest in nuclear testing?"
Michael Wiescher, a nuclear astrophysicist at the University of Notre Dame in France, suggested to Scientific American that nuclear tests alone might be the simpler explanation for the transients as they "obviously have an impact on the atmosphere" and can leave "a lot of junk in the outer atmosphere."
Sean Kirkpatrick, former head of the Department of War's UAP-investigating All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, similarly suggested that the explanation likely has to do with nuclear tests and the sun, noting that the "first thing that comes to mind is solar flare radiation or ionized particle radiation from nuclear testing."
Kirkpatrick also suggested that high-altitude balloons, which were used for nuclear monitoring, could account for some of the UAP reports.
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Public will soon be able to invest in 'advanced or reverse-engineered alien technology'
An investment firm is banking on the theory that some companies have access to alien technology.
Firm Tuttle Capital calls itself "the antidote to Wall Street" and boasts a proprietary formula that strengthens its portfolio. Using the acronym HEAT — hedges, edges, asymmetry, themes — Tuttle might be leaning on its alleged proficiency in "big-picture trends" with its new exchange-traded fund, the UFO Disclosure AI Powered ETF.
Funds will also target materials and energy firms that could possibly benefit from 'new energy sources or metamaterials inspired by alien technology.'
Tuttle's new ETF — recently filed with the SEC — will invest at least 80% of its net assets in a "basket of companies" it believes have "exposure to advanced or 'reverse-engineered' alien technology, spurred by government disclosures about UFOs (unidentified flying objects) and alleged advanced technologies."
While the companies are yet to be named, they are to include aerospace and defense contractors that "might have R&D programs rumored to work with classified technology, potentially leading to groundbreaking advancements."
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At the same time, funds will also target materials and energy firms that could possibly benefit from "new energy sources or metamaterials inspired by alien technology."
For example, investments are set to be made in companies that work with semiconductors and electronics because they may "incorporate or license advanced alien-inspired components, driving innovation in the tech industry."
The ETF will attempt to invest in companies that could take down more UFOs in the future as well. This is described in the SEC filing as companies that specialize in detecting unidentified anomalous phenomena, in addition to countering them.
The fund also plans on strategically shorting other companies that may become obsolete due to "alien-level" engineering emerging from their competitors. This includes, but is not limited to, "conventional propulsion firms and old-guard energy providers" that may fall behind due to advanced technologies.
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"I'm a trader. I look at [UFOs], and I say that they're using a power source that is light-years beyond anything that we have," CEO Matthew Tuttle said, according to the Financial Times. "If our government has this technology and it's released, that will be a game-changer."
As described in the official documents, the entire "theme" the fund is banking on is regarded as "highly speculative and subject to rumor cycles."
This comes with the stated risk that "government confirmation or denial of advanced alien tech is uncertain, and rumored breakthroughs might never materialize."
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Trump administration limits work permits for asylum seekers following deadly National Guard shooting
Following the tragic shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., last week, allegedly by an Afghan national, President Trump has ramped up his rhetoric against foreigners coming into our country. Now his administration is taking action with some important policy changes.
On Thursday, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced a major slash in the duration of work permit validity, according to the Washington Post.
'It’s even more clear that USCIS must conduct more frequent vetting of aliens.'
Specifically the new policy affects asylum seekers by changing the work permit authorization period from five years to a mere 18 months.
“Reducing the maximum validity period for employment authorization will ensure that those seeking to work in the United States do not threaten public safety or promote harmful anti-American ideologies. After the attack on National Guard service members in our nation’s capital by an alien who was admitted into this country by the previous administration, it’s even more clear that USCIS must conduct more frequent vetting of aliens,” USCIS Director Joseph Edlow said in a Thursday press release.
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USCIS stated in the press release that these changes to maximum validity period for Employment Authorization Documents are part of a broader policy update to ensure more thorough screenings of foreigners.
Fwd.us, an immigration advocacy group, told the Washington Post that the move is expected to impact hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers.
The group also estimated that around 1.4 million of the three million asylum seekers currently in the United States are working.
These policy changes come shortly after it was revealed that the suspected shooter is an Afghan national tied to the Biden-era migrant relocation program, Operation Allies Welcome.
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