Glenn Beck and his BlazeTV colleagues laid out a sober, uncomfortable forecast for 2026 that every American who cares about liberty and security should hear. On a recent episode featuring Steve Deace, Liz Wheeler, and Jason Buttrill, the group warned that a cascade of technological, energy, and geopolitical shocks could collide next year and upend everyday life.
The most immediate and credible danger they highlighted is not some left-wing culture war fantasy but a real, technical problem: the AI and data-center boom is already straining the Texas grid in ways regulators didn’t anticipate. ERCOT’s filings and local reporting show interconnection requests ballooning into the hundreds of gigawatts, with more than 70 percent coming from power-hungry data centers — a dramatic shift that threatens rolling brownouts if policymakers don’t act.
Texas officials and ERCOT are scrambling because the math is brutal: loads are escalating far faster than new generation can be permitted and built, and regulators are being forced to rewrite interconnection rules on the fly. This isn’t theory — ERCOT has posted notices and revamped processes to deal with the unprecedented surge, proving the problem is real and urgent. Conservatives who have warned about the costs of centralized tech power and reliance on flaky policy predictions were right to be alarmed.
What we’re watching is a classic example of woke policy and corporate hubris colliding with reality: Silicon Valley’s appetite for cheap, reliable power is being satisfied by squeezing local grids, all while green fetishism and permitting delays slow down reliable generation. Listeners called in on Beck’s show describing solar land grabs and misplaced priorities — and those stories matter because they show how coastal elites’ fantasies impose real costs on real Americans.
Beyond energy, the panel warned of global flashpoints and institutional weakness: from a possible China–Taiwan crisis with strange regional entanglements to the growing pressure cooker in Venezuela that could spill over into wider conflict. These are not polite academic debates; they are strategic risks that demand a robust, unapologetic American response — not the faint-hearted deterrence we too often see from career politicians.
They also raised warnings most media sneer at: accelerating disclosures around unidentified aerial phenomena and the erosion of legal norms where even a congressmember’s citizenship could be threatened in partisan fashion. Whether you scoff or not, the underlying theme is the same — institutions are creaking, information is weaponized, and the average American is left vulnerable while elites bicker. We shouldn’t cede national resilience to that chaos.
Patriots and policymakers need to treat these predictions not as theatrical fear-mongering but as a checklist for action: build baseload power (including nuclear), streamline permitting, secure supply chains, and stop letting Big Tech dictate infrastructure priorities while dodging accountability. If conservatives stand for anything, it’s the defense of families and livelihoods from the consequences of bad policy and elite indifference — 2026 could be the year we prove whether that standing means anything.
