Signs of MAGA Collapse

October 28, 2026 Flàvio Bolsonaro, who lost the election to become president of Brazil, arrived in Miami with his family, in spite of his being barred from leaving Brazil, His defeat strikes a blow to Trump’s campaign to install right-wing leaders across Latin America, Trump apparently intends to shelter Bolsonaro in the US, Brazilian police have been ordered to investigate whether Rockbridge, a donor network co-founded by JD Vance, illegally helped finance Bolsonaro’s presidential campaign, MAGA is showing signs of collapsing at home, The numbers of people watching Fox News are dropping, James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for Senate in Texas, is running ads showing Republicans who are voting for him rather than the Republican candidate, Ken Paxton, Republicans in South Carolina and Alaska are also endorsing Democratic candidates, Trump’s multiple rallies in states that previously were reliably Republican underscore the alarm among Republicans that there are multiple paths to Democratic control of the Senate, Right wing activists James O’Keefe and Cam Higby have been charged with a felony for voting unlawfully.   To read this letter, click here: (https://heathercoxrichardson.substack...) Listen on Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...) Listen on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/2NAihO3...) You can also find Heather at: YouTube (   / @heathercoxrichardson  ) Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/hcrichardson...) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/heathercoxr...) Facebook (  / heathercoxrichardson  ) Threads (https://www.threads.com/@heathercoxri...) TikTok (  / hcrichardson  ) Get full access to Letters from an American at heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/subscribe (https://heathercoxrichardson.substack...)