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Why We Vote Red, Why God Is Not Mocked, and Why We’ll Never Crawl

This Week in the Grassroots Army · October 19–26, 2026

About these numbers. Built from Grassroots Army posts and numbers on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Threads and YouTube (via Buffer, as of Sunday, Oct 25, about 1–5 PM ET) and X (live public numbers as of Monday, Oct 26, about 9:15 AM ET). Covers posts from Monday, Oct 19 through Monday morning, Oct 26, 2026.

What a week, Army. We put out 314 posts across Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, Threads and YouTube, and you answered every one. You liked, you commented, you argued in the comments, and you shared until the message reached far past our own feeds. One thread ran through all of it: faith, family and freedom are worth standing up for, and ordinary people standing up together is what changes things.

339,749Reactions
30,402Comments
96,378Shares

Totals for Facebook (all three pages: Grassroots Army, Garrett L Soldano and The Forge), Instagram and TikTok. Facebook posts earned 10,472,744 impressions, and Instagram and TikTok posts drew 935,093 views combined. Threads added 85,102 views and YouTube Shorts 11,111.

#1 Post of the Week: “I Don’t Vote Red Because I ‘Worship Trump’”

Grassroots Army graphic: ‘I don’t vote red because I worship Trump. I vote red because I love my country and hate what liberals stand for. Vote red this November!’ over a tattered American flag

Facebook, Instagram, Threads & X · Friday, October 23

“This isn’t about one man. This is about the survival of the American Dream.”

More than 1.3 million impressions on Facebook alone. This one said what so many of you feel: we don’t vote for a personality, we vote for our country, our children’s future and the flag that still means something. “America is not done. Not yet. Not if enough of us show up and say enough.”

  • Facebook: 62,296 reactions · 5,716 comments · 19,149 shares · 1,332,027 impressions
  • Instagram: 15,108 reactions · 1,038 comments · 3,006 shares · 120,824 views
  • Threads: 441 likes · 689 replies · 13,041 views

God Is Not Mocked: Remember When France Mocked the Last Supper?

Grassroots Army graphic: ‘Remember When France Mocked The Last Supper?’ above the Olympic ceremony and da Vinci’s Last Supper, ending ‘God does.’

Instagram, Facebook, Threads & TikTok · Saturday, October 24

“They thought the night ended when the lights went down. It did not. God does. And the account is still open.”

Our most-viewed post of the week, and our biggest Instagram post by far: more than half a million views, over 14,000 shares and 2,177 saves. Believers are done watching in silence while the sacred gets mocked on the world’s biggest stage.

  • Instagram: 32,575 reactions · 1,208 comments · 14,239 shares · 504,883 views
  • Facebook: 155,274 reactions · 6,935 comments · 35,752 shares · 7,267,328 impressions
  • Threads: 1,119 likes · 278 replies · 48,065 views
  • TikTok: 432 reactions · 26 comments · 99 shares · 4,868 views

We Will Never Crawl for the State

Grassroots Army graphic of people crawling on a sidewalk: ‘If the government said that starting tomorrow the public must crawl on their hands and feet because the virus hovers at 3 feet and above, a lot of people would be doing it!’

Instagram · Monday, October 19

“Compliance was sold as virtue. Questioning was treated as danger. That is how nanny government works. It does not need force when enough people volunteer to obey.”

This one hit a nerve. On Instagram it was shared 9,654 times, more shares than likes. That’s the heart of Men Are Forged, Not Found: raise the next generation “to stand instead of submit.”

  • Instagram: 9,522 reactions · 701 comments · 9,654 shares · 84,740 views · 112,733 reach

Michigan’s Senate Race Lit Up the Comments

Video still: ‘Abdul El-Sayed throws a hissy fit before Bret Baier even asks his question’ from a Fox News interview

TikTok, Facebook & X · Friday, October 23

“Abdul El-Sayed throws a hissy fit before Bret Baier even asks his question.”

Our top TikTok of the week, with 648 comments, and more than 3,500 comments on Facebook. Michigan is paying attention to this Senate race, and so are you. Earlier in the week, “Mike Rogers Ends The Victim Card In Thirty Seconds” got people talking too.

  • TikTok: 952 reactions · 648 comments · 72 shares · 25,531 views
  • Facebook: 2,875 reactions · 3,528 comments · 538 shares · 243,643 impressions
  • X: 102 likes · 11 replies · 20 reposts · 1,765 views

Top Post on X: “What Work?”

Video still of Governor Whitmer speaking at a rally with the caption ‘I am thrilled’

X, Facebook & Instagram · Friday, October 23

Our most-engaged post on X this week. Michigan families remember what happened under their watch: “Families paid the price. Kids paid the price. The economy paid the price.”

  • X: 396 likes · 60 replies · 144 reposts · 13 quotes · 4,115 views
  • Instagram: 423 reactions · 205 comments · 6,717 views
  • Facebook: 1,180 reactions · 785 comments · 286 shares

Also Moving the Needle This Week

Your Mission This Week: Grow the Army

Every number above is a real person who saw the truth and passed it on. That’s the Grassroots Army in action. But we don’t win by preaching to the choir. We win when ordinary people do extraordinary things, starting with one conversation, one share and one new recruit.

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