Weekly Recap

Show Your ID, Be Ready, Stand Firm: The Army’s Biggest Posts Before Election Day

This Week in the Grassroots Army · October 26 – November 2, 2026

About these numbers. Built from Grassroots Army posts and numbers on Facebook (all three pages), Instagram, TikTok, Threads and YouTube (via Buffer, as of Monday, Nov 2, about 8–9 AM ET) and X (live public numbers as of Monday, Nov 2, about 9:15 AM ET). Covers posts from Monday morning, Oct 26 through Monday morning, Nov 2, 2026. Numbers on the newest posts (Sunday and Monday) are still filling in.

Army, this was the final full week before Election Day, and you showed up like it. We put out 1,110 posts across Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, Threads and YouTube, and you carried them further than ever: more than 3 million views and impressions, and nearly 32,000 shares and reposts. The message was simple and it landed: secure elections, prepared families, strong parents and a strong America. That’s faith, family and freedom in action, and it’s exactly what ordinary people doing extraordinary things looks like.

107,965Reactions & Likes
12,407Comments & Replies
31,935Shares & Reposts

Totals across all six platforms. Facebook (Grassroots Army page, Garrett L Soldano page and the Grassroots Army group, formerly The Forge) earned 2,475,782 impressions; Instagram posts drew 372,000 views, Threads 102,941, YouTube Shorts 66,361, X 46,690 and TikTok 26,815.

#1 Post of the Week: “Make It Make Sense”

Grassroots Army graphic over a tattered American flag: ‘You need an ID to buy cold medicine. But not to pick who runs the country? Make it make sense.’

Facebook & Instagram · Thursday–Friday, October 29–30

“You need an ID to buy cold medicine, but not to pick who runs the country? Make it make sense.”

Our biggest post of the week by a mile: more than 10,000 reactions and 5,167 shares on Facebook alone. Voter ID is common sense, and most Americans of every background agree. Secure elections protect every legal vote.

  • Facebook: 10,349 reactions · 328 comments · 5,224 shares · 351,111 impressions
  • Instagram: 1,996 reactions · 49 comments · 719 shares · 26,046 views

Be Ready, Not Afraid: Glenn Beck’s Warning

Video still of Glenn Beck under the headline ‘Prepare for Impact’

Instagram, Facebook & TikTok · Wednesday, October 28 (follow-up Friday, October 30)

“Nobody’s saying panic. This is what our grandparents did without being told.”

Glenn Beck said the last time he felt this urge to warn people was 2007, right before the crash. You agreed it was worth passing on: our most-viewed and most-shared post of the week on Instagram, with 8,142 shares and 1,553 saves, and our top TikTok too. His follow-up earned another 297,455 impressions on Facebook: “Don’t panic… Preparation is the opposite of panic.” Know your neighbors, look after the widow down the street, and be the family that’s ready.

  • Instagram: 3,034 reactions · 133 comments · 8,142 shares · 108,128 views
  • Facebook: 1,698 reactions · 150 comments · 885 shares · 318,627 impressions
  • TikTok: 115 reactions · 4 comments · 439 shares · 5,592 views
  • Follow-up “Prepare for Impact” (Facebook): 3,156 reactions · 310 comments · 952 shares · 297,455 impressions

Fortress America: “Our Bases Stay Lit”

Video still of Secretary Pete Hegseth under the headline ‘Our Bases Stay Lit’

Facebook, Instagram & TikTok · Monday, October 26

“If an enemy takes down the grid, our bases stay lit, our aircraft keep flying, and our command centers never go dark.”

Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Fortress America plan, with critical supply chains brought home and built by American workers, was our most-reacted Reel of the week, with 8,133 reactions and 683 comments on the Garrett L Soldano page. Peace through strength starts at home.

  • Facebook: 8,151 reactions · 689 comments · 1,922 shares · 280,968 impressions
  • Instagram: 458 reactions · 42 comments · 214 shares · 3,989 views
  • TikTok: 53 reactions · 4 comments · 170 shares · 2,996 views

“That’s Not Hatred. That’s Fatherhood.”

Video still of a father speaking at a Wake County school board meeting under the headline ‘That’s not hatred. That’s fatherhood.’

Facebook, Instagram & YouTube · Wednesday, October 28

“God entrusted their upbringing to us.”

Wake County, North Carolina dad Aaron Driver stood before his school board and said what so many parents are thinking: parents, not administrators, academics or activists, are the primary moral authority in their children’s lives. More than 5,000 of you said amen on Facebook.

  • Facebook: 5,369 reactions · 348 comments · 601 shares · 151,452 impressions
  • Instagram: 751 reactions · 50 comments · 78 shares · 3,442 views
  • YouTube Shorts: 147 likes · 9 comments · 1,425 views

Faith Over Party: “Murder Is a Line You Cannot Cross”

Video still of Fr. Joseph Morgan, C.P.M., under the headline ‘A line you cannot cross’

Facebook, YouTube & Threads · Sunday, November 1

“Murder is a line you cannot cross.”

Fr. Joseph Morgan, C.P.M. of the Fathers of Mercy didn’t soften it, and believers responded. It was our most-watched YouTube Short of the week, and on the Grassroots Army Facebook page it drew 345 comments and 422 shares in barely a day. “There is a moral obligation here.”

  • Facebook: 1,821 reactions · 350 comments · 434 shares · 32,343 impressions
  • YouTube Shorts: 344 likes · 31 comments · 2,554 views
  • Threads: 128 likes · 60 replies · 26 reposts · 1,191 views
  • Instagram: 273 reactions · 14 comments · 47 shares · 1,801 views

Top Post on X: Who’s Really Behind High Gas Prices?

X & Facebook · Thursday, October 29

Our most-engaged post on X this week. “High prices aren’t an accident. They’re a policy choice made by people who never worry about filling a tank.” Unleash American energy and let working families keep their money.

  • X: 87 likes · 3 replies · 35 reposts · 1 quote · 1,045 views
  • Facebook: 636 reactions · 49 comments · 103 shares · 19,268 impressions

Top Post on Threads: Protect Girls’ Sports

Threads & Facebook · Friday, October 30

“A girl who drags herself out of bed at 5 AM to train deserves a fair shot at the podium. That’s not hate. That’s the kind of common sense most of us learned on a playground.”

Our most-liked Threads post of the week. A candidate for governor says boys have a constitutional right to compete on girls’ teams. It isn’t in there. Protect girls’ sports, and protect the girls who play them.

  • Threads: 940 likes · 99 replies · 35 reposts · 5,424 views
  • Facebook: 534 reactions · 11 comments · 24 shares · 16,820 impressions

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