(This article was written by Adelle Nazarian and appeared in The Western Journal. How One Congressional Resolution Could Save the Midterms: The GOP’s Hindu Vote Gamble)

The political landscape in America’s crucial suburban swing districts is undergoing a quiet but massive realignment.

For years, the Republican Party has made deliberate, strategic inroads with Indian American voters, a highly educated, affluent, and rapidly growing demographic whose core values of family, fiscal conservatism, and entrepreneurship naturally align with the GOP platform.

Yet, as the mid-term elections approach, this hard-earned momentum is hitting a dangerous roadblock.

There is an alarming wave of nativist, “Groyper” Christian extremist attacks targeting American Hindus. And if GOP leadership fails to denounce this specific brand of bigotry forcefully, they risk throwing away a historic opportunity to secure a vital voting bloc and to finally dismiss the narrative that suggests the Republican Party is racist.

The key to turning this around lies on the floor of Congress: co-sponsoring H. Res. 69, “Celebrating Hindu Americans, condemning attacks on Hindu places of worship, Hinduphobia, and anti-Hindu bigotry, and for other purposes,” a bipartisan resolution introduced to celebrate American Hindu contributions and explicitly condemn Hinduphobia officially.

When far-right agitators target American Hindus, they create an unstable vacuum, and the greatest beneficiaries are, ironically, radical Islamists and their extreme-left allies.

Historically and globally, Hindus and Indians remain the primary victims of Islamist aggression. Yet, when anti-Hindu incidents flare up across Texas and other parts of the country, Islamists expertly weaponize these moments. They use far-right bigotry as a shield to deflect public attention away from their own expansionist agendas.

Simultaneously, pro-Maoist, extreme-left factions exploit these attacks to pull Indian Americans into a superficial, highly manipulative “people of color” solidarity narrative.

In this carefully constructed leftist framework, the specific trauma and distinct identity of the American Hindu community are completely erased, rendering them subservient to the broader Islamist political agenda.

Look no further than the recent elections in Frisco, Texas, to see how this toxic dynamic plays out on the ground.

Frisco, a fast-growing Dallas suburb where nearly 20 percent of the population is of Indian origin, became a dark flashpoint for the party’s internal identity crisis. Far-right activists and outside agitators routinely descended on the town and even tore an Indian flag in a demonstration.

In the mayoral race, a candidate aligned with this extreme rhetoric openly vilified the immigrant population. The result was a decisive, self-inflicted defeat for the nativist camp. Suburban voters, including conservative-leaning Indian Americans who moved to Texas for safer neighborhoods and better schools, rejected the vitriol.

Frisco proved that anti-Hindu and anti-Indian bigotry is a losing political strategy in modern American suburbs.

The shifting allegiance of Indian American voters is backed by hard numbers. Polling data shows that Indian affiliation with the Democratic Party dropped by close to 10 percentage points between 2020 and 2024, with one in three Indians actively planning to vote Republican.

This shift is critical because Indian Americans are strategically concentrated in highly competitive, “purple” congressional districts where a few thousand votes decide the majority. In Texas districts like TX-22 and TX-24, the suburbs around Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth boast some of the highest concentrations of South Asian voters in the country, capable of tilting close suburban seats.

In Georgia’s GA-06 and GA-07, the Atlanta suburbs feature rapidly growing Hindu American populations that have already proven to be the deciding margins in statewide and federal races. Meanwhile, in Virginia’s VA-07 and VA-10, the tech-heavy corridors of Northern Virginia are filled with high-skilled Indian American professionals who vote at incredibly high rates.

If the GOP allows anti-Hindu and anti-Indian rhetoric to go unchecked, these voters will stay home or swing back left out of basic self-preservation.

By targeting American Hindus, who overwhelmingly enter the United States as highly skilled, law-abiding legal immigrants, the far-right unwittingly validates the extreme left’s entire worldview.

The hard left relies on a rigid “oppressor versus oppressed” dynamic. When highly successful, integrated American Hindus are subjected to xenophobic abuse, the left is handed an easy opening to legitimize and weaponize their narrative. They can smugly point to these attacks and argue that America is fundamentally and systematically unsafe for anyone who isn’t white.

By failing to aggressively police its own fringes, the GOP forces a highly conservative, naturally independent demographic right into the waiting arms of the progressive coalition.

Ultimately, passing H. Res. 69 isn’t just a matter of moral clarity. It is a political necessity.

By aggressively co-sponsoring the resolution, the GOP can signal to millions of American Hindus that their faith, their safety, and their contributions are valued. It cuts the legs out from under the left’s racial narratives, exposes the opportunism of Islamist organizations, and protects the precise suburban margins the GOP needs to secure the midterms.

Adelle Nazarian is a Senior Fellow at the Gold Institute for International Strategy, a Washington D.C.-based foreign policy and defense think tank.

(This article was written by Adelle Nazarian and appeared in Newsmax. Autonomous Intelligence Could Mean Safer, More Effective Prisons)

Behind concrete walls and razor wire, a quiet technological revolution is underway in America’s prisons.

Autonomous AI agents are now surfacing actionable intelligence from text, audio, and video, alerting investigators, correctional staff, and law enforcement to emerging crises, prioritizing threats, and even writing and updating reports as new information arrives.

It’s happening because conservatives, and both Trump administrations, recognized that modernizing prisons through technology improves safety and health outcomes for inmates and officers alike, boosts rehabilitation and reentry, and strengthens public safety overall.

Automating labor-intensive work is critical given the severe shortage of correctional officers.

In an environment where a lapse in situational awareness can mean life or death, corrections departments can no longer afford to bury staff under paperwork and outdated protocols.

This urgency is compounded by a broader reckoning inside the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

The Trump administration has championed prison reform and modernization, emphasizing rehabilitation’s role in public safety.

Implementation of the First Step Act expanded home confinement and community placement for low-risk inmates with strong reentry plans, cutting costs and recidivism, a signature Trump-era achievement.

But determining who qualifies for these programs, and doing so quickly, requires risk and predictive analyses drawn from millions of data points, scattered across antiquated, siloed systems, case histories, medical logs, visitation and mail logs, incident reports, camera feeds, and more, alongside intelligence surfaced by newer technologies monitoring authorized inmate communications.

Congress has approved $5 billion in new BOP funding for staff retention, facility upgrades, and modernization. But that funding alone cannot hire officers fast enough or modernize facilities quickly enough to match the pace of reform.

Leadership needs a way to close that gap without waiting on staffing and construction timelines.

Existing tools that mine correctional databases for intelligence tend to work in isolation, producing fragmented information.

A system that flags an assault on camera, for instance, may be blind to what that same inmate said in a phone call earlier that day about planning the attack.

What’s needed is centralized intelligence that lets distinct systems and data silos work together.

That’s exactly what a new class of platforms, led by Leo Technologies (“LeoTech”), now provides, combining legacy data with newly derived intelligence into a single analytical system.

LeoTech’s Verus AI translates and transcribes authorized inmate communications in real time across 62 languages.

Using semantic AI, it understands context well enough to surface evidence of drug and human trafficking, planned violence, witness names, confessions, and suicidal ideation, sending continuous alerts to staff. It also performs link analysis and assists in report writing.

Verus AI is used in hundreds of jails and prisons nationwide, with over 13,000 users and analyzed over five billion minutes of communications over seven years. The Federal Bureau of Prisons, the nation’s largest system, recently awarded LeoTech a five-year contract to deploy Verus.

Verus Vision AI, meanwhile, uses a facility’s existing cameras to automatically flag warning signs, prolonged isolation, distress, gang proximity, concealed weapons, unauthorized movement, or gathering crowds, alerting staff within seconds.

It also automatically counts inmates, freeing up hundreds of thousands of staff hours for more important work: finding contraband, escorting inmates to medical and rehabilitation appointments, and human engagement that improves well-being and reduces recidivism.

LeoTech’s Verus ION, an agentic AI platform, unifies these capabilities, bringing together intelligence from correctional systems and external sources.

“Verus ION brings communications intelligence, video intelligence, institutional records and relevant open-source information into a unified operational picture,” said Steven Harpe, LeoTech’s Chief Product and Technology Officer.

“Its autonomous agents continuously evaluate those signals, identify relationships, prioritize emerging risks and route actionable information to the appropriate personnel… updating alerts, assessments and reports in real time.”

Alerts reach whoever is best positioned to respond: correctional investigators, medical staff, social workers, rehabilitation coordinators, internal affairs, or outside law enforcement. Importantly, these tools aid correctional staff; they do not replace human judgment or existing personnel.

In practice, this means an officer with a tablet can receive an alert about a planned contraband delivery and search a cell at the right moment, while ION simultaneously scans news and social media for related leads.

When an inmate alleges rape, relevant video and calls can be automatically preserved and surfaced for evaluation based on timing and proximity.

Dots that once went unconnected, and might have led to an attack, are now visible in time to prevent it.

“Centralized intelligence changes how a correctional institution operates,” Harpe said. “When information moves across systems in real time, leaders gain a clearer understanding of emerging risks and staff can devote more attention to work that requires human presence, experience and judgment.”

As the Trump administration continues to push prison reform forward, technologies like Verus offer the Federal Bureau of Prisons a practical way to close the gap between ambitious policy and the on-the-ground resources needed to execute it safely, turning information into action, and action into a safer, more rehabilitative correctional system for everyone inside it.

(Editor’s Note: The preceding column does not constitute an endorsement of any product or service on the part of Newsmax.)

Adelle Nazarian is a Senior Fellow at the Gold Institute for International Strategy, a Washington D.C.-based foreign policy and defense think tank.