17 JUL 26 SITREP

• The People's Republic of China carried out what President Trump described as the largest compromise of election data in history during the 2020 election cycle, illicitly acquiring 220 million U.S. voter files containing names, addresses, phone numbers, political party preferences, and other sensitive data sufficient to register to vote.
• Beginning in mid-2018, Chinese Communist Party policy directed leveraging all domestic and foreign elements opposed to President Trump to reduce his votes and prevent his reelection, including identifying U.S. journalists who had reported negatively on Trump and paying them to write additional negative articles.
• Approximately 278,000 non-citizens were identified as registered to vote in federal elections as part of the Chinese operation, with the CCP targeting Trump specifically because his administration's innovation agenda including Elon Musk's space and AI programs threatened China's ability to keep pace with American development.
• The Trump administration is releasing documents in tranches through a formal declassification process requiring sign-off from every head of the intelligence community, with John Solomon and Bill Pulte identified as participants in the declassification task force, and additional documents still working their way through the process.

• CPAC Great Britain is currently happening in London, England, bringing together former Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, former Prime Minister Liz Truss, and Nigel Farage to build organizational infrastructure, develop policy for the 2029 U.K. general election, and establish connections between American and British conservative movements.
• A flashpoint in the U.K. debate over two-tier justice and free expression is Lucy Connolly, a childminder and wife of a Conservative West Northamptonshire councillor, who was sentenced to 31 months at Birmingham Crown Court after pleading guilty to inciting racial hatred over a post on X calling for hotels housing asylum seekers to be set on fire, published hours after 3 girls were killed in the Southport stabbings, and served her sentence at HMP Peterborough before being released in August 2025.
• 16,000 people per year are arrested in the United Kingdom for speech crimes consisting of posts made online, prompting comparisons to the debanking and cancellation of Americans for social media opinions about the 2020 election, with former Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg citing the U.K. nominally apolitical civil service as having grown politically hostile to incoming conservative governments.
• Another emblematic example of the two-tier justice and media suppression that CPAC Great Britain assembled in London to directly confront is Henry Novak, a young white man who was stabbed to death in the U.K. and placed in handcuffs as he bled out, with his case receiving no CNN documentary, no BBC docuseries, and no Panorama investigation.

• In honor of the memory of Charlie Kirk, former Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg attended and spoke at the newly established Turning Point USA Oxford University chapter, stating he wanted to pay respect to Kirk's lifelong defense of free speech and the deep admiration Kirk held for English Enlightenment thinkers including John Locke and Adam Smith.
• Kirk had previously visited Oxford University, describing the trip as the experience of a lifetime, maintained a portrait of Winston Churchill in his office, and held deep respect for the system of civil liberties and civil thought that originated in England, with Rees-Mogg stating Kirk would have been on the front lines fighting for those same values in the U.K.
• Turning Point USA's campus chapter model, cited as the organizational template the U.K. right must now replicate through chapters like the one established at Oxford, has already produced at least one sitting U.S. congresswoman from Florida who began as a Turning Point contributor.
• Jacob Rees-Mogg also identified the U.K. conservative government staffing deficits as a critical weakness, citing the Trump transition model using Heritage Foundation and Turning Point USA as the example Britain must now follow in order to staff an incoming conservative government with politically aligned personnel ready to govern.