You can save yourself some code by adding another method to the class that does this.

```python
def _process_request(self, url):
    rf = RequestFactory()
    with self.activate('en-US'):
        req = rf.get(url)
        return TabzillaLocaleURLMiddleware().process_request(req)
```

Also, is `self.activate` really required here? The active locale during the middleware run doesn't really matter.