Blue States Are Still Facing A Mass Taxpayer Exodus Long After COVID
Remember when blues state Democrats tried to enforce sweeping pandemic mandates for years after it became clear that covid was not the “mass killer” that the supposed experts claimed it would be? Remember when they called for people to be jailed for publicly speaking about scientific facts that contradicted the narrative? Remember when they called for people’s children to be taken away if they refused to vaccinate?
Remember how millions of people left blue states in response to the far-left madness? Well, Democrats are now pretending that none of that ever happened, but they can’t hide the continuing consequences of their draconian policies.
The historic population shift that escalated during the pandemic era is still well underway, though the causes are now more economic than political. We recently covered New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s sad attempt to beg wealthy NY taxpayers to stop leaving her state. However, New York is only one of multiple blue regions being crushed by an ongoing wealth exodus.
New York Gov Kathy Hochul is begging wealthy people who have moved to Florida and Texas to come back to New York and pay taxes. 🤣
“I need people who are high net worth to support the generous social programs that we want to have in our state. Now, there are some patriotic… pic.twitter.com/B4ql1ktcq6
New data from states like Massachusetts indicate that Democrat efforts to institute state level “wealth taxes” are driving out business owners and corporations, and these residents are taking billions in tax revenues with them.
Massachusetts was hit with loss of $4.2 billion in adjusted gross income in 2023, one of the largest totals in the country, after passing a tax on millionaires. The amount was an 8% year-over-year increase, according to the Internal Revenue Service. The state witnessed a net loss of over 41,000 residents in 2022-2023. Keep in mind, this as during the Biden open borders crisis, and over 50,000 migrants also flooded into MA in that same time period.
In other words, even with mass immigration, blue states still lost huge numbers of resident. And, they essentially replaced high earning and wealthy taxpayers with low earning and no-tax migrants.
Other states dealing with a net loss of residents and wealth include:
California, which has led the nation in net domestic out-migration for six consecutive years. In the period July 2024 -July 2025, the state lost approximately 229,000 residents domestically. Previous years saw losses of around 239,000–400,000+ annually. California also lost $11.9 billion in net AGI in 2023 alone.
New York recorded the second-highest domestic losses with 137,586 residents leaving (net) in 2024-2025. IRS data shows significant adjusted gross income outflows, including $9.9 billion lost in one year (2022–2023) and a decade-long net loss exceeding $111 billion.
Illinois suffered a net domestic loss of around 40,017 residents in 2024-2025 (down from higher figures in prior years, but still among the top losers). IL lost a net $6 billion in AGI from 2022 to 2023.
Washington State is on the progressive path the self destruction with multiple new taxes, including a “Millionaires Tax” passed this year which is expected to drive most corporations and moderately sized businesses out of the area. The new law requires a nearly 10% tax on any earners making over $1 million per year.
Other blue states like New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maryland, and Hawaii also top the lists for out-migration of wealthy resident. And where is all this money going? Largely to red states with less taxes and less bureaucracy. The point being that, ever increasing taxation is not the solution to a successful state economy. Only states where people want to live are going to do well.
Trump Signs Executive Order To Crack Down On ‘Legendary’ Cheating With Lists For Mail-In Voting
President Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order that establishes a list of voters eligible to vote by mail in an effort to crack down on cheating.
“The cheating on mail-in voting is legendary. It’s horrible what has been going on,” said Trump, adding “If you don’t have honest voting, you can’t have, really, a nation.”
🚨 BREAKING: By stroke of pen, President Trump signs landmark executive order that CRACKS DOWN on mass mail-in voting and ensures citizenship
“That’s a BIG DEAL.”
The order:
– Requires DHS to create a list of US CITIZENS with the help of the Social Security Administration
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Creates verified “State Citizenship Lists”: Directs the Department of Homeland Security (via USCIS) and Social Security Administration to compile and send each state a list of confirmed U.S. citizens who are 18+ and reside in that state, drawn from federal databases (e.g., citizenship/naturalization records, SAVE program). These lists must be updated and transmitted at least 60 days before federal elections. Note: Being on the list does not mean you’re automatically registered to vote—that still follows state laws.
Restricts USPS mail-in ballot distribution: Instructs the U.S. Postal Service to start a rulemaking process (within 60 days, final rule in 120 days) so that mail-in/absentee ballots are only sent to individuals on state-specific “Mail-In and Absentee Participation Lists” that states can provide/supplement. Ballots must use secure, automation-compatible envelopes marked as “Official Election Mail” with unique Intelligent Mail barcodes (or similar tracking tech) for auditable tracking.
Enforcement and penalties: The Attorney General must prioritize investigations and prosecutions of anyone (including state/local officials) who sends ballots to ineligible voters or engages in related fraud. It also allows withholding federal funds from noncompliant states/localities where legally authorized.
The order invokes the Help America Vote Act and National Voter Registration Act, as well as the president’s duty to enforce election-related criminal statutes.
“We believe, combined, the measures in this order will help secure elections in the future and ensure the many abuses of our elections in the past are not repeated in future elections,” said Will Scharf, White House staff secretary and assistant to the president.
And of course, it will be insta-halted by a judge in short order as it’s expected to spark legal challenges.
“This executive order is a blatant, unconstitutional abuse of power,” Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said in a statement.
“Make no mistake: Trump’s attacks on our elections are a clear and present threat to our democracy.”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom rejected the order as illegal and warned of incoming litigation. “The President wants to limit which Americans can participate in our democracy,” Newsom’s press office wrote on March 31 on X. “California will see him in court.”
Democrat megalwayer Marc Elias called it a “massive and unconstitutional voter suppression effort aimed at giving Trump the power to create a list of who is allowed to vote by mail.
This is a massive and unconstitutional voter suppression effort aimed at giving Trump the power to create a list of who is allowed to vote by mail.
We know where this will go — the targeting of Democrats for mass disenfranchisement.
On Tuesday, federal judges issued orders blocking the ongoing ballroom construction at the White House, and halted federal agencies from pulling funding for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service.
On the Ballroom: U.S. District Judge Richard Leon said the president of the United States “is the steward of the White House for future generations of First Families. He is not, however, the owner!”
Leon said Trump claims Congress gave the president authority in current statutes to build his East Wing ballroom project “and to do it with private funds.”
The National Trust for Historic Preservation argues the president has no such authority under existing laws and that a preliminary injunction is needed to avoid irreparable harm, the judge said. -Epoch Times
“I have concluded that the National Trust is likely to succeed on the merits because no statute comes close to giving the President the authority he claims to have,” Leon continued – granting a preliminary injunction and ordering that “the ballroom construction project must stop until Congress authorizes its completion.”
On NPR and PBS, U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss, based in Washington, said Trump’s order targeted the broadcasters, known as NPR and PBS, for their point of view.
“The First Amendment does not tolerate viewpoint discrimination and retaliation of this type,” he wrote in a 62-page decision.
As the Epoch Times notes further, Trump’s May 1, 2025, order directed the end of funding for NPR and PBS. “Government funding of news media in this environment is not only outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence,” he said, adding later that it did not matter which viewpoints NPR and PBS promoted, but “what does matter is that neither entity presents a fair, accurate, or unbiased portrayal of current events to taxpaying citizens.”
In a fact sheet released on the same day, the White House said that NPR and PBS had “fueled partisanship and left-wing propaganda with taxpayer dollars.”
Officials pointed to decisions such as NPR refusing to initially cover a story on a laptop computer that once belonged to President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden, and PBS featuring a drag queen on a program aimed at children as young as 3.
NPR and PBS soon filed separate lawsuits that alleged the funding cuts were unconstitutional.
NPR’s suit said that the order violated “the First Amendment’s bedrock guarantees of freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of association.”
In court filings, government lawyers had said the order did not impose unconstitutional conditions on speech, but “merely aligns the Government’s sponsorship of activities with its policy priorities” and “declines to extend federal funding for Plaintiffs’ programs.”
Moss said that he was declaring Trump’s order illegal and unenforceable, and barring all federal agencies named as defendants from implementing or enforcing it.
“This is a ridiculous ruling by an activist judge attempting to undermine the law,” Abigail Jackson, a White House spokeswoman, told The Epoch Times in an email. “NPR and PBS have no right to receive taxpayer funds, and Congress already voted to defund them. The Trump Administration looks forward to ultimate victory on the issue.”
A PBS spokesperson told The Epoch Times via email that the outlet is thrilled with the decision.
“As we argued, and Judge Moss ruled, the executive order is textbook unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination and retaliation, in violation of longstanding First Amendment principles,” the spokesperson said. “At PBS, we will continue to do what we’ve always done: serve our mission to educate and inspire all Americans as the nation’s most trusted media institution.”
The U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division filed a lawsuit Monday against Minnesota, alleging the state’s sports policies violate federal civil rights laws that protect against sex-based discrimination.
Title IX, the landmark federal law enacted in 1972, prohibits sex-based discrimination in education programs and activities that receive federal funding.
The Justice Department’s lawsuit marks a new legal fight in the ongoing national debate over transgender student participation in school sports, challenging Minnesota’s policies as a violation of federal protections against sex-based discrimination.
The lawsuit contends that the Minnesota Department of Education and the Minnesota State High School League have engaged in sex-based discrimination by requiring girls to compete against boys in sports designated for girls.
“The Trump Administration does not tolerate flawed state policies that ignore biological reality and unfairly undermine girls on the playing field,” Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement.
The lawsuit asks a judge to rule that Minnesota’s policies regarding student athletes are illegal and to declare that the state has violated Title IX. The DOJ said Minnesota gets $3 billion in yearly federal funding.
Federal prosecutors argue that the state’s policies “eviscerate equal athletic opportunities for girls.”
“They also require girls to share intimate spaces – such as locker rooms – with boys. Allowing boys to invade sensitive female-only spaces endangers girls’ privacy, dignity, and safety – causing a hostile educational environment that denies girls educational opportunities,” attorneys for the Civil Rights Division wrote in the complaint against the state.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said his office will stand up for transgender students.
“In April of last year, I sued the Trump administration to stop them from targeting trans kids who just want to play on their school team,” he said in a statement to The Center Square. “This new suit is just a sad attempt to get attention over something that’s already been in litigation for months.”
Bush Carrier Begins Scheduled Deployment Across Atlantic, With USS Ford Down For Repairs In Croatia
The aircraft carrier USS George HW Bush departed its homeport in Virginia on Tuesday to begin operations for its scheduled deployment, at a moment the Iran war has shown signs of escalation – even as the White House signals it’s ready to find an offramp. The new carrier group could add a big further US force injection, assuming that’s the purpose.
The Bush carrier just launched from Naval Station Norfolk, the Navy confirmed. The full George HW Bush Carrier Strike Group includes Carrier Air Wing 7 over 5,000 sailors and military personnel, and accompanying destroyers – the USS Ross, USS Donald Cook and USS Mason – which are expected to joint the Bush carrier as it transits the Atlantic Ocean.
📍NORFOLK, Va. – The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), the flagship of the George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group, departs Naval Station Norfolk to begin operations in support of its scheduled deployment, March 31, 2026. pic.twitter.com/ePDTv4IcPE
At this point it is unclear whether its final destination will be related to the Iran theatre of operations, either on the eastern Mediterranean or in the Gulf region – but Rear Adm. Alexis Walker, commander of the strike group has said the group’s “sailors are ready and able to do the nation’s bidding.“
The carrier’s scheduled area of operations is the US Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations, which does include the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
The USS Abraham Lincoln is currently launching US warplane flights engaged in the bombing of Iran, and the USS Ford has been forced to return to port, now in Split, Croatia – after a large fire on board which resulted in injuries.
The US Navy has said the Ford’s urgent repairs were for things which don’t impact the vessel’s combat systems.
Forbes details that “While in port on the Greek island, Forward Deployed Regional Maintenance Center personnel, including structural engineers, naval architects, and other subject matter experts, conducted an initial repair assessment, the U.S. Navy announced. In addition, military and federal civilian law enforcement continued investigations into a fire serious enough to require the ship to head to Split.”
Bryan Clark, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, has said: “They are probably mostly repairs to the laundry and surrounding berthing spaces, so laundry equipment, insulation, lighting, internal bulkheads, etc.”
Earlier in the Iran war Pentagon officials acknowledged the fire but presented it as an ‘accident’ amid an ongoing investigation, despite Iran saying it attacked the carrier. Speculation has since grown over whether this is a Pentagon cover-up to conceal that it was successfully attacked by the Iranians, especially given the the damage appears worse than initially reported.
The case, known as Trump v. Barbara, is set for oral argument on April 1.
Upon entering office, Trump signed an order barring the children of illegal immigrants born in the United States from securing citizenship. It also applies to mothers on temporary U.S. visas who give birth in the country.
The order has been blocked by local courts pending the high court’s decision.
The justices are expected to wrestle with the meaning of the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment. That part of the amendment reads, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
Here are some of the key questions in the case and how they’ve been debated.
What Does ‘Subject to the Jurisdiction Thereof’ Mean?
Much of the debate has focused on these five words from the amendment: “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”
The wording of the 14th Amendment indicates that merely being born within U.S. borders is not enough for citizenship. That’s partially why the Supreme Court, in a 19th-century decision, said the children of foreign diplomats and those born in Native American territory do not receive citizenship.
One of the main questions before the Supreme Court is why and how these groups of people might differ from the children of illegal immigrants.
The American Civil Liberties Union, which is representing children and their mothers, has argued that people are subject to U.S. jurisdiction if they are obligated to follow its laws. Diplomats and Native Americans are excluded because they belong to other sovereign nations.
The Justice Department has focused more on the concept of allegiance, namely that illegal immigrant parents lack allegiance to the United States and therefore aren’t fully subject to the country’s jurisdiction.
Last year, the Supreme Court issued a landmark decision lifting several blocks on Trump’s policy, but did so in a limited way. That decision, known as Trump v. CASA, only clarified how far judges could go in blocking the president.
The current case is inviting the justices to delve deeper into the 14th Amendment and one of its much older decisions from 1898. In United States v. Wong Kim Ark, the Supreme Court held that the 14th Amendment guaranteed birthright citizenship to a Chinese man whose parents were permanently domiciled in the United States.
Many federal judges have cited that decision to say that the Supreme Court already said the 14th Amendment granted citizenship to people born on U.S. soil—including those born to illegal immigrants.
When the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled on Trump’s policy, it pointed to a portion of the 1898 opinion that identified three exceptions: children of Native American tribes, those “born of aliens in hostile occupation,” and “children of diplomatic representatives of a foreign state.”
The Justice Department argued instead that the 19th-century decision applied only to children whose parents were domiciled, or residing with some kind of allegiance to the country.
It noted that the court repeatedly referred to domiciled status. For example, the majority opinion read, “Every citizen or subject of another country, while domiciled here, is within the allegiance and the protection, and consequently subject to the jurisdiction, of the United States.”
Another portion of the opinion said that Chinese persons owed allegiance to the United States and were entitled to its protection “so long as they are permitted by the United States to reside here.”
It’s unclear how the six conservative justices will rule, but the three liberal justices have already said in an opinion last year that Trump’s policy was “unquestionably unconstitutional.”
What Did Congress Intend When It Proposed the 14th Amendment?
The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868 against the backdrop of the Civil War and the Supreme Court’s decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, which held that slaves were not citizens.
The Justice Department said the United States overturned that decision with the 14th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1866. That law specified that persons born in the United States, “and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed” were citizens.
That law and statements from members of Congress will likely bear on the Supreme Court’s decision-making, as many of the justices have been viewed as originalists, or giving especially strong weight to the nation’s history.
The Justice Department pointed to, among other things, what Sen. James Wilson of Iowa said about the Civil Rights Act of 1866.
At the time, he said, “We must depend on the general law relating to subjects and citizens recognized by all nations for a definition, and that must lead us to the conclusion that every person born in the United States is a natural-born citizen of such States, except … children born on our soil to temporary sojourners or representatives of foreign Governments.”
The ACLU said that Wilson’s comment was incorrect and conflicted with English common law, which has been cited in legal decisions such as Wong Kim Ark.
In a briefing to the Supreme Court, the ACLU cited English legal scholar William Blackstone. Writing in his “Commentaries on the Laws of England,” Blackstone said, “Natural allegiance is such as is due from all men born within the king’s dominions immediately upon their birth.”
Is Trump Violating Federal Law?
The ACLU and congressional Democrats have argued that outside of the 14th Amendment, Trump is also violating a federal law passed in the 20th Century.
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, and its predecessor, known as the Nationality Act of 1940, used the 14th Amendment’s phrasing. It states in part that “the following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth: a person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”
A long list of congressional Democrats filed an amicus, or friend of the court, brief telling the Supreme Court that regardless of what the 14th Amendment meant, Congress interpreted it as giving citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants when it enacted the 1952 legislation.
Because that was the lawmakers’ intent when they passed the bills, Democrats argued, the 1952 law was an independent reason to reject Trump’s executive order.
The administration argued that because the laws were transplanting language from the 14th Amendment, the original meaning of the amendment—not how Congress interpreted it—should rule.
Legal scholar Ed Whelan speculated that the Supreme Court might focus on the Immigration and Nationality Act but refuse to rule on the meaning of the 14th Amendment.
“My guess is that the Chief will be part of a supermajority of the Court that rules that the [executive order] violates section 1401(a) and that declines to address the constitutional question,” he said in a post on X.
Neama Rahmani, a former federal prosecutor who worked on immigration issues, disagreed.
“Although courts, including the Supreme Court, avoid constitutional rulings when cases can be decided on narrower statutory grounds, the [Immigration and Nationality Act] mirrors the language of the 14th Amendment, so the justices are unlikely to rely on statutory authority alone,” he told The Epoch Times.
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Coal is back with a bang in Asia’s power generation, as countries scramble to contain the LNG supply shortage due to the war in the Middle East.
Coal hasn’t really left most Asian economies, which rely on the fuel for much of their power generation. Amid the squeeze of natural gas supply due to the de facto closed Strait of Hormuz and the sky-rocketing LNG prices that few buyers in Asia can afford, nations are scrapping previous restraints to the use of coal-fired power generation.
Developed economies like Japan and South Korea are raising the use of coal-fired power generation, while developing nations China, India, Bangladesh, and most of Southeast Asia are leaning even more on coal as gas has become scarce and much more expensive.
Asian countries “are opening the tap on coal generation to help offset rising gas prices and supply risk,” Anthony Knutson, global head of coal at Wood Mackenzie, told the Financial Times.
Coal cannot fully replace the lost gas supply, but it creates a welcome buffer to help Asia go through the biggest supply disruption in energy markets, ever.
China, India, South Korea, Japan, and the whole of Southeast and South Asia are using the coal buffers they have created in recent years. Their insistence that diversification and energy security are more important than headline emission reductions is paying off as spot LNG prices in Asia surged by 70% to three-year highs that few countries in Asia Pacific can afford.
The current loss of gas supply, with Qatar’s LNG offline, could be immediately partly offset by higher coal use and coal will take market share from gas and LNG in the power sectors in Japan, South Korea, China, India, and Southeast Asia, analysts at Wood Mackenzie said during the first week of the now five-week-long war.
Ramping up renewables and increased focus on domestic gas production, where possible, could also mitigate the gas supply losses from the Middle East, but these are not immediate solutions, according to WoodMac.
So coal remains the immediate fuel to replace gas. Although coal prices have increased by 17% since the war began, the rise is small compared to the 70% jump in Asia’s spot LNG prices.
Idaho Passes Strictest Law In The US For Transgenders Using Incorrect Bathrooms
The transgender movement is widely regarded as a political insurgency rather than a civil rights movement, and for good reason. Leftist activists often declare themselves to be “trans” as a political statement, even when they don’t actually suffer from gender dysphoria, a rare mental illness that has little to do with gay rights or “social justice”.
Children, by extension, are easily manipulated by such activists in the form of parents and teachers, and they tend to declare they are trans in order to please the brainwashing lunatics in their lives.
The idea that gender is an amorphous condition separate from biological sex is pure theory based on little or no scientific data. In a non-political and truly scientific environment gender identity claims are treated as ideological, not tangible. In other words, trans is a trend, not an inherent sexual identity group that needs to be protected from discrimination.
The purpose of the transgender movement is to further deconstruct western society and inject concepts of relativity. It is designed to make us question concrete reality and abandon objective logic in favor of a perception-based society, a moral desert.
Thankfully, nearly half of the states in the US are rejecting this madness and passing laws to prevent it from taking hold yet again. It took ten years, but the idea of catering to transgenders is in swift retreat.
Much to the chagrin of Democrats, Idaho has recently passed one of the strictest transgender bathroom laws in the U.S. House Bill 752 requires people to use bathrooms, locker rooms, or changing rooms matching their biological sex, but that’s not all.
The new law applies to both government buildings and private businesses with facilities of public accommodation. This means any public bathroom, locker room, changing room etc. in any business is subject to the law. This helps to eliminate the corporate activism loophole, which has in the past allowed male-to-female transgenders to enter women’s spaces, putting women and young girls at risk.
“Knowingly and willfully” entering a facility designated for the opposite sex is a misdemeanor with a potential for 1 year in jail for a first offense. Repeat offenses are a felony with suspects facing up to 5 years in jail. The bill passed the legislature in late March 2026 and awaits the governor’s signature (with a veto-proof majority).
At least 19 states, including Idaho, already have laws barring transgender people from using bathrooms and changing rooms that align with their gender in schools and other public places. Three other states (Florida, Kansas and Utah) have made it a criminal offense in some circumstances to violate similar bathroom laws.
But, none of the other state laws apply as broadly to private businesses as the Idaho bill. The legislation includes nine exceptions for situations like performing janitorial work, responding to emergencies, helping children or cases when someone has “dire need” of a restroom (this would require proof that no other options were available).
It’s unfortunate that these laws need to be considered at all and there are going to be critics who will argue that these measures violent private property rights, but the past decade has taught the American public that if you give leftists an inch, they will take a mile. There’s far more at stake than the question of who gets to use which bathroom; this issue is about the right of some groups to have secure separation from other groups. It’s about the fundamentals of civilization.
A zero tolerance policy for transgender intrusions into normal and separate biological facilities is the only way to ensure that there is no room for activists to take advantage.
At bottom, being “transgender” is an act of political disruption, a form of protest that crosses the line of protected free speech into the realm of degenerate intrusion that has no place in bathrooms and locker rooms. Every man certainly has a right to access a bathroom, but he doesn’t have a right to access women’s bathrooms. A man has the right to pretend he’s a woman, he just doesn’t have the right to force everyone else to pretend he’s a woman.
The trans laws being implemented across the US are a fail-safe to protect the rights of the majority so they’re not forced in the future to conform to the demands of a mentally ill minority. Felony charges and the potential for jail time is the only threat that activists seem to understand.
In the span of nine months, nine top-level scientists in the United States have died or vanished without a trace.
Seven of them were connected to the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) or the institutions it directly funds.
AFRL develops and transitions the most sensitive aerospace technologies in the United States’ defense arsenal.
1) Monica Jacinto Reza vanished June 22, 2025 while hiking with friends in the Angeles National Forest in California.
She was last seen waving to a hiking companion approximately 30 feet behind the group. Despite an extensive search involving helicopters, drones, and canine units, only a beanie and lip balm were recovered, and her body was never found.
Reza, 60, was an aerospace engineer and Technical Fellow at Aerojet Rocketdyne who later moved to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)and co-inventor of Mondaloy.
Mondaloy is a family of nickel-based superalloys developed by Aerojet Rocketdyne to withstand oxygen-rich environments and extreme heat in rocket engines. Its unique achievement is balancing high oxygen compatibility with structural strength, solving a critical challenge where traditional oxygen-resistant alloys were too weak for use in high-pressure components like preburners and turbine rotors.
She worked closely with Retired Major General William Neil McCasland, who commanded the AFRL from 2011 to 2013 and oversaw the government funding for her alloy program. McCasland disappeared in February.
Dallas Hardwick, Reza’s mentor and co-inventor of Mondaloy, died on January 5, 2014, apparently of natural causes.
2) Melissa Casias has been missing since June 26, 2025, in Taos County, New Mexico.
She was last seen walking alone on Highway 518 near Talpa around 2:15 p.m., wearing a light-colored shirt, jeans, and tennis shoes, with a backpack containing personal items.
Casias, 53, was an administrative assistant at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), a facility known for nuclear weapons research and national security science.
Her job at LANL links her to McCasland, who worked closely with LANL on national security projects at Kirtland Air Force Base, according to the Daily Mail. She vanished just four days after Reza mysteriously disappeared.
3, 4, 5) Jacob Prichard, Jaymee Prichard, and 1st Lt. Jaime Gustitus all died on October 25, 2025.
Jacob Prichard, 34, was the Acquisition Project Manager in the AFRL Sensors Directorate at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, specializing in technologies for air and space reconnaissance and surveillance.
Jacob’s wife, Jaymee Prichard, 33, was a finance specialist at the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Wright-Patterson. The couple had three children.
Gustitus, 25, was a U.S. Air Force Operations Analysis Officer who worked in a top secret capacity at the 711th Human Performance Wing at Wright-Patterson.
Jacob allegedly killed his wife Jaymee and placed her body in the trunk of their car, then drove to Sugarcreek Township, broke into Gustitus’s apartment and fatally shot her around 2 a.m.
He then drove to the West Milton Municipal Building, opened the trunk for police to discover Jaymee’s body, and at around 4:23 a.m., committed suicide by gunshot in the parking lot. The act was reportedly captured on security cameras.
6) Carl Grillmair, astrophysicist and astronomer at the Caltech Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC), was shot dead on the front porch of his home in Llano, California on February 16, 2026.
Grillmair was celebrated for his groundbreaking research in astronomy, including the discovery of dozens of stellar streams (remnants of ancient galactic collisions) and the first detection of water signatures in the atmospheres of exoplanets. For over nearly 30 years at IPAC, he worked on numerous projects including the NEOWISE Science Data Center, where he validated data pipelines for detecting asteroids and comets that could impact Earth.
Grillmair’s role involved testing new instrumentation and ensuring the NEO Surveyor’s instruments performed to specification to identify dark, cold objects against the black of space.
7) William Neil McCasland, former AFRL Commander, former research commander at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico, vanished from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on February 27, 2026. A “Silver Alert” was issued after the 68-year-old disappeared.
He reportedly left his phone and glasses but took his wallet, boots, and a .38 revolver, with the FBI now assisting in his search.
McCasland held some of the most sensitive positions in the U.S. military, including Director of Special Programs at the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, giving him critical knowledge of the nation’s most classified programs.
He reportedly oversaw $4.4 billion in classified aerospace research and development, running the lab at Wright-Patterson and serving as the executive secretary of the Special Access Program Oversight Committee, the body with full purview of every SAP in the Department of Defense. His name appears in WikiLeaks emails coordinating a UAP disclosure meeting with the Clinton campaign and the head of Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, according to the Sentinel Network.
McCasland’s association with UFO research and brief professional association with Tom DeLonge and the To The Stars Academy have drawn significant public and media attention to the case.
According to The Sentinel, these mysterious deaths and disappearances do not amount to “a loose collection of people who happened to work in defense.”
This is one documented system, traceable through patent filings, congressional testimony, DTIC records, and federal contract databases.
Reza vanished in LA County. Grillmair was killed in LA County. Both in the shadow of the JPL/Caltech corridor where America’s planetary defense infrastructure is built. McCasland vanished in Albuquerque, home of Kirtland AFB and Sandia National Labs. The Wright-Patterson deaths were in Dayton. These are not random locations. They are the three geographic nodes of American defense aerospace research. Southern California. New Mexico. Ohio. The triangle where AFRL lives.
And at every node, the same institutional silence. JPL said nothing about Reza. NASA said nothing. The AIAA said nothing. Caltech’s statement about Grillmair said he “passed away suddenly” without using the word “shot.” Wright-Patterson offered counseling services. In every case, the institution that lost someone chose the minimum possible disclosure. The silence is its own pattern inside the pattern.
8) Nuno F. Gomes Loureiro, a prominent Portuguese plasma physicist, was fatally shot at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, on December 15, 2025 and died from his injuries the following day.
Authorities connected his murder to Cláudio Manuel Neves Valente, who had committed a shooting at Brown University two days prior; both men were classmates at the Instituto Superior Técnico in Portugal.
Loureiro, 47, held joint appointments as a professor in MIT’s Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and Department of Physics and director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center.
He joined MIT in 2016 and was known for his work on nonlinear plasma dynamics, including the development of the Viriato simulation code and his research on solar flares and fusion confinement.
9) Jason Thomas, a chemical biologist, was reported missing on December 13, 2025, after leaving his home on the night of December 12 without his phone, wallet, or identification. He was found dead in Lake Quannapowitt in Wakefield, Massachusetts, on March 17, 2026.
Thomas, 45, was the assistant director at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research with over 4,500 citations in chemical biology and chemoproteomics. His work reportedly included active contracts with the Department of Defense.
Commenting on the string of deaths and disappearances, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) told podcaster Benny Johnson last week that “Something dark is going on.”
“I know these scientists and researchers. They have testified. We’ve got to get to the bottom of it,” he said. “It’s just too much, too much is going on right now—and by the way, I’m not suicidal.”
