Better option❗: Trump’s apparent willingness to cut or even consider cutting a deal on Ukraine without Zelenskyy has Washington and the most of the media losing its mind

• Effectively, Trump would trade Putin’s “help” with Iran for Ukraine.

  • It’s a terrible, awful deal.

• BUT🤷: What is the alternative — another year of war? Another 2 years of war?

  • The Biden administration had 3 years to find another solution – they couldn’t.

  • Should we fund Ukraine forever?

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Shot: An ad featuring Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton’s estranged mom calling her daughter a fraud is stunning.

Chaser: News from Acton’s brother that her biological mother stayed married to the stepfather that allegedly raped Acton at 12 is an ice-cold bucket of water.

• 📰Best write-up — “Attack Ad Featuring Candidate’s Mother Turn Ohio Governor’s Race Even Uglier,” headlines The New York Times

• Gloves off 🥊: Get ready for cruelty like we have never seen in the last 2 weeks.

• Fair question❓: Who is really up for grabs in the last 2 weeks?

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No More Elections🗳️

👍Some good news from the campaign trail — more people are voting than ever before

• 📈Record numbers in Texas

• And in Georgia

• Basically all of America

• Cue the snark🤷: What about all the Democrats who warned us in 2024 that if Trump won, it would be “the last election”?

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🤦And that’s the point — it’s a dumb campaign strategy — vote for us because the other guys will end democracy — be afraid.

• Right now‼️: This is important because it’s Trump’s strategy

  • Last night🗣️: Trump — “If you want to see what is at stake in this election, just look at what’s happening in France, a once great nation that is being conquered, looted, and burned to the ground by migrants, jihadists, and communists who hate Christianity...When you see burning steeples and raging fires in France, just remember that is what the radical Democrats want to do to America. They expect to do it.”

Trump and Republicans’ playbook for 2026 looks very much like Democrats’ for 2024

• It didn’t work then — it’s not working now

Look back🔙: Reagan told us that “if fascism ever comes to America, it will come in the name of liberalism.” he was right.

• Worldview 🌎: The socialists want to tear America apart and destroy the fundamentals that make America exceptional

  • This is fundamentally different from the mainstream right’s worst tendencies.

  • We see that on display in France

Morning in America: Reagan also understood the power of a dream and the future —

• MAGA is similar; it’s inherently hopeful — it’s the promise of a better tomorrow.

Elections are about the future — whoever promises Americans a better future wins, and it appears that lesson is lost on both sides.

• Again🤦: Chief Democrat fearmonger Elissa Slotkin now says Trump will create “manufactured outrage” to distract from the election. Remember in 2022 when armed gangs of militias would take over polling places.

  • Please stop.

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Omar Investigation‼️

👀Rep. Ilhan Omar has disappeared — and it might just show that Trump’s DOJ has a little more on her than people claiming this is just a political witch hunt want to admit.

• ICYMI: Our exclusive reporting on the Omar investigation.

‼️Fraud is front and center for Americans right now — 89% of Americans think corruption in the government is widespread.

• For Democrats, it’s about the Trump family profiting off the government.

  • We’ll have more on this tomorrow.

• For Republicans, it means healthcare fraud and what Somalis took from our government

  • Nobody better exemplifies what Republicans mean by fraud than Rep. Ilhan Omar

• She’s Somali, accused of marrying her brother and is subject to more investigations — and now, she has disappeared.

• There’s a political and legal reason why we haven’t seen or heard from her recently.

• Border czar Tom Homan hinted this investigation is bigger than we think

Trump announced today his Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program — that will give away cash for tips that help catch fraudsters.

• Today, federal agents searched several New York businesses over suspected Medicaid fraud.

Tonight📺: Alan Dershowitz on how Republicans convince everyone this investigation into Rep. Omar isn’t just a political witch hunt.

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Out of Touch💸

😡We told you yesterday how the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, understands the growing anger in America against the rich. And he is actually going to do something about it.

• Flipside🤦: United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby, who makes about $32 million a year, is saying we need a wealth tax

  • Mind you, the United CEO has not built anything in his life.

  • Let’s be real🤷: I don’t want my country run like United Airlines

    • CEOs need to stop telling us how to live our lives — get out of our lives and go be a CEO

• Musk is being smart putting his money where his mouth is — I don’t see CEOs writing checks to the treasury

  • If Kirby believes the rich should give more, why doesn’t he voluntarily give more to the government himself, rather than advocating for a tax on others

• This all just shows how tone deaf CEOs and celebrities are

  • Look at Kylie Jenner, who wore a $50 million bra in the Victoria’s Secret fashion show.

  • This is just one more example of why people in America are angry.

• Look back🔙: This is starting to feel like the U.K. in the early 2000s where you had the aristocratic class and the working class

  • The aristocratic class had all of the tabloid models, influencers and celebrities

  • And then everybody else was just everybody else

• ‼️America has never really had a huge, disparate wealth gap — and there’s something scary about that.

  • American exceptionalism isn’t exactly alive and well anymore — and the fundamental fairness that makes America so great is now broken.

  • And let me tell you — the CEO of United Airlines is not the person to solve it.

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We have opened this FirstDispatch up to all subscribers because its an important message.

How Erick Erickson and Jamie Metzel have provided us real hope and NorthStar.

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Both sides are weaponizing the DOJ and profiting from their time in office. This is what’s wrong with America — will anyone in this country be a leader?

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• Republicans think they are looking better than they did a few weeks ago

• DDHQ has Democrats with a 56% chance of winning back the Senate

  • Disconnect🤔: The excitement by Democrats is way stronger than 56%

  • Good read📰: Politico headlines, “‘A warning sign for polling’: Why one GOP pollster thinks a blue wave may fall short”

• The people who seem to be the most honest about the polls are our partners at DDHQ, who say the Senate is a coin toss

  • Democrats are confident

  • Republicans are confident

• Tonight📺: Data guru and director of data science at DDHQ Scott Tranter, Kurt Bardella and Chris Cillizza join me.

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Must read📰: Our buddy Erick Erickson is out with a must-read Monday morning note about why the Palestinian flag is now the symbol of “resistance” worldwide

• Erickson explains it all: “The Flag That Flies Over Every Cause and Jimmy Carter’s Second Term”

• Often after reading Erick’s pieces, I think, “Why didn’t I think of that?” — if you like War Notes, you will love Show Notes

  • Erick is offering a 20% off subscription to Show Notes for all War Notes readers.

• My thoughts💭: France is the DSA’s dream — literally free everything, so NO, this is NOT about cost of living.

  • France is the icon of Islamic migration tolerance and recognition of a Palestinian state — yet rioters waved the flag.

  • Complicit‼️: The media first covered the “protests” as students angry about lunch. Now it’s “cost of living.”

    • We ignore the truth at our great peril.

  • ⚠️The French riots are a natural confluence of political Islam and leftist ideology…we should not be surprised.

    • Follow📱: Former Clinton NSC staffer Jamie Metzl explains it well

      • Jamie Metzl (@JamieMetzl) on X

    • Zoom out🚨: The Red Green alliance goes back to Iran and the ‘70s — be afraid

      • Read Eli Lake’s great piece — “The Ties That Bind Islamists and Progressives”

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Evil is Real🚨

• Now Putin is floating a summit with Xi of China to negotiate the end of the war in Ukraine.

  • It’s personal‼️: Trump has never liked Zelenskyy — he loves summits and the romance of an international deal.

    • Look back🔙: Kim Jong Un embarrassed Trump in Singapore — Putin is a smarter and shrewder Kim.

• Putin is evil🚨: Bill O’Reilly has been clear on this issue. Here’s Bill over the years on Putin:

  • 2008: “Most Americans understand that Putin is a villain, a former secret police killer”

  • 2014: “Taking a page out of the Hitler playbook Russian President Vladimir Putin has invaded Ukraine”

  • 2017: Bill: “He’s a killer tho, Putin’s a killer though.”

    • Trump: “A lot of killers...you think our country is so innocent?”

    • Bill: “I don’t know of any government leaders that are killers in America”

  • 2025: Leland: “20 pages in ‘Confronting Evil’ to Vladimir Putin. — By far the biggest chapter. Why?”

    • Bill: “He’s a danger to us, enjoys inflicting suffering on people. He’s a mass murderer…this is a guy that’s totally out of control. No constraints on him at all

❓What’s the justification for continuing to think Putin will give America a good deal and stick with it?

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• Plus: Why take your (Trump’s) boot off his neck and get nothing?

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• 📱Today, Musk announced he is giving one share of SpaceX to every child in America through a Trump Account.

  • This would mean around 72 million children in America would each get a share currently worth around $146

• Is one share a big deal? Maybe not now, but it may be in 16 years.

  • Put it in perspective💰: If every kid was given a share of Tesla when it IPO’d 16 years ago, and the same thing happens to SpaceX as it did to Tesla, every share of SpaceX will be worth, in theory, over $40,000 in 16 years.

• It’s pretty amazing what he’s doing, but never mind the tax loopholes that will show the benefits to the rich.

  • Musk would be giving out over $10 billion in stock to children in America — which means he would get a MASSIVE write-off

    • Basic terms💲: He would get to take billions of dollars in deductions without actually spending a dollar.

      • This pays for all his political advertising plus living expenses for the rest of his life.

      • Again, the tax code benefits the rich — if you give stock to your kids, it’s AFTER tax money.

    • Be real 🤷: It’s pretty smart on his part too.

• Warning⚠️: But we’ve been telling you this for four years: radical Islam and socialism are converging, and it doesn’t end well.

  • They have something to sell that people are angry about

  • And say it can’t happen in the U.S. — look:

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Weaponization Games‼️

2️⃣Two things happened over the weekend when it came to weaponization:

1. President Obama came to the rescue of Rep. Ilhan Omar and said Trump is weaponizing the DOJ against her.

• Perhaps he saw our exclusive reporting showing the Omar investigation is growing. :

2. Potential 2028 vice presidential candidate Elissa Slotkin said we need to make young people afraid of going to work for the administration because they will be investigated simply for working for the Trump administration.

• This is the definition of weaponization

• Democrats can cry weaponization over Omar, but then you have Slotkin weaponizing staffers — can’t have it both ways.

• Good read📰: “The Race Is On for Trump Staffers to hire Lawyers in Case Democrats Win Midterms,” headlines The Wall Street Journal

Be real⚖️: Both sides are weaponizing the DOJ and profiting from their time in office.

• This is what’s wrong with America

• Yes, no one is above the law, but no one should be below the law either

  • The law should not be contorted to investigate whoever you want.

Tonight📺: Former Bernie Sanders campaign strategist Corbin Trent

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Are we confronting evil or appeasing evil???

Just two weeks until the Midterms and the President campaigns in a state that hasn’t elected a Democratic Senator since 1932 ... could Trump’s nationwide blitz keep once safe seats in his pocket?

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Rachel and I went for a walk around the neighborhood and discovered a new desert — sweet cake as a cone for soft serve ice cream. Evidently this originally comes from Hungary? Any intel would be appreciated!

The stand has the worst advertising for the best product I have ever seen. How have I never had this before???

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President Trump told Ukraine’s Zelenskky back in 2025 that he didn’t hold any cards — events this week may have shown how true that is

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• Exclusive‼️: The investigative technique requires law enforcement to secretly recover or obtain trash from an investigative target. And then comb through for discarded items that contain the subject’s DNA.

  • The DNA was part of a search warrant application that included more than a dozen locations in addition to her home.

• Much bigger 🌎: Our reporting suggests investigations go far beyond simple immigration fraud, such as marrying her brother or a changed birthdate

  • “Investigation Into Ilhan Omar Reportedly Driven by Effort to Revoke Citizenship and Deport Her”

  • The DNA is a critical part of the investigation and extends far beyond the most familiar case and accusation against Omar that she married her brother to help him gain citizenship.

  • Look back🔙: The Biden Department of Justice opened and closed an investigation into Omar

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    • The congresswoman calls Trump’s investigation a political witch hunt

      • Omar: “This is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.”

• Much bigger🌎: NewsNation sources say the likely coming indictments will be stunning in nature and far beyond anything the public has understood the case to be about.

• Location matters📍: The case is being run out of the Minneapolis HSI office, suggesting it is more related to activities in Minneapolis.

  • Minnesota is home to the massive Somali fraud investigation which continues to dog the Democratic lt. governor in her Senate bid.

What’s next▶️: Our sources suggest the indictments will come after the election, and we may not see the search warrant returns for some time given the grand jury investigation.

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• It brings alive the search for Nazis leaders after World War II

• One of his interviews:

• Why now‼️: Nearly 80 years ago, America ignored the rise of Hitler in Europe and Jew hatred in America — shockingly, we are now ignoring the takeover of Islam in Europe and Jew hatred in America.

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Too soon? The Babylon Bee headlines, “Abdul El-Sayed Issues Fatwa Against Journalists who Ask Questions About His Support For Terrorism”

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We Need Heroes‼️

‼️Yesterday’s shooting at an Oregon elementary school that killed three children and a teacher resurfaced a lot of problems America faces — but one issue you won’t hear much about is America’s need for more heroes.

• 🏅Yesterday, we found one: the father who ran into the elementary school after he heard gunshots when he was driving by.

  • His name is Kaylub Giamanco, a father of two little girls who attend the school

  • Kaylub reportedly followed the shooter into the special education room and killed him — all before police had arrived.

• Kaylub ran through the sound of gunfire to save his kids and everybody’s kids.

  • He’s not only a hero in his 5- and 10-year-old’s eyes — but a hero in America’s eyes.

  • Kaylub says he feels “guilty” he wasn’t able to save more people

• We need more people like Kaylub — people who run towards the sound of gunfire

  • In the moments of dire situation, there was no left or right. No red and blue.

  • Kaylub cared about right vs. wrong — and America needs more of that.

• ‼️America is under attack in so many ways, and we don’t have good people running to the sound of gunfire —

  • In Washington, we have a bunch of politicians who only care about raising money and making everybody afraid of the other side.

  • It’s a both-sides problem — nobody in Washington is running to the sound of gunfire

• If you want to think about what’s wrong with America, we don’t have good men and women running to the sound of gunfire — and this is what America needs.

• Oregon and Kaylub showed it.

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Breaking Point💣

• Today, he’s asking the EU for at least 70 billion more euros to fight off Russia after pissing off Trump by resuming strikes on Russian oil refiners.

  • Zelenskyy: “The war will cost 155 billion euros next year. And we need at least 70 billion euros more from you – for defense, for weapons, and for our resilience. This is a realistic amount. And I ask you to find this support. It will help us hold Russia back.”

    • 📰CNN now reports, “Ukraine runs out of Patriot interceptor missiles”

      • It’s only a matter of time until he comes crawling back asking for more.

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• Let’s be real‼️: Defending Zelenskyy is getting harder and harder — and it’s understandable why Trump is pissed off with the guy

  • Be fair⚖️: This is not me excusing Putin, but Zelenskyy has to play ball.

• But we’ve reached a breaking point. If America stops supporting Ukraine, it’s only a matter of time until Russia fully takes over.

  • Look back🔙: It’s as if Zelenskyy didn’t learn anything from two years ago in the Oval Office, and now, it may cost him his country

  • Zelenskyy needs Trump and the U.S.

    • Proof☑️: The U.S. proved it in one night by turning off their internet, which Ukraine uses for targeting

• What I’m thinking💭: For a guy who is supposedly so smart and loves his country and for everything that he has done to stand up to Putin, c’mon on, man, you gotta be able to swallow your pride.

  • This was Amb. John Bolton last night:

Tonight📺: Brig. Gen. John Teichert

Susie Watch👀

• Yet now, Wiles is allegedly on the chopping block

• 📰Politico headlined this week, “Trump’s ice maiden is under fire,” writing

  • “It’s Susie’s turn...Trump has been soliciting allies’ views of Wiles and musing about replacements for his top aide, according to four people with direct knowledge of the conversations”

• Much bigger🌎: Zacharia’s hiring and now firing shows the discipline at the beginning of the Trump administration is now gone, and that’s dangerous

  • With three weeks out from the midterms, there’s this power struggle in the White House — and this is not what you want.

    • Trump denies all reporting of Wiles leaving

  • Even if you don’t like Susie Wiles, Trump supporters and Republicans should want this White House functioning well before the midterm elections — and Wiles plays a main role in holding this White House together.

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Republicans are losing working-class voters, and with three weeks to go, it may be too late to win them back. So what’s left?

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Truth bomb💣: Larry Fink’s Wall Street Journal op-ed today nails why working-class Americans are resentful and suspicious after globalization and how the AI/infrastructure and big tech buildout can prevent the same fate again.

• 📰Fink headlines, “America Needs More Capital,” writing

  • “This boom can produce something larger than a handful of extraordinarily successful companies. The true measure of success will be how many Americans benefit from the growth.”

• First step‼️: The BlackRock Foundation partnered with “SaverLife,” an app for financial education and savings tracking customizable with AI available for free to 75,000 trades apprentices.

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Watch tonight📺: Katie Pavlich joins us on Katie Zacharia — the new White House press secretary who can’t seem to tell the truth about not passing the bar but calling herself a lawyer.

• My thought💭: Seems like Zacharia will fit right in. The White House’s casual relationship with the truth goes back to the “alternative facts” days.

  • Plus➕: For all the obsession with Katie Zacharia’s credentials, where is the deep dive by The New York Times on Abdul El-Sayed calling himself a physician despite not being licensed in a single state?

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• “This might just bring down the entire Trump administration, an administration which I have supported from Day 1, whose policies I still support. It also may end the JD Vance/Marco Rubio ticket after you hear the phone call that I’m going to play tomorrow. It’s pretty freakin’ amazing,” says MAGA donor Eric Deters.

• Look back🔙: We told you yesterday to watch the KG story — it’s not over.

  • Prediction💭: The Mooch got it wrong last night when he predicted this story would be over

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The Rural AOC/AES Voter🗳️

🔴Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Abdul El-Sayed took their grievance roadshow tour to one of America’s darkest red areas — Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

Observation👀: El-Sayed’s support in rural America consists of angry, educated, white voters who skew female.

• Think social workers, teachers, therapists, lawyers, doctors

  • A bitter professional class that struggles economically.

  • Talarico shares many of the same supporters in Texas.

    • So does Annie Andrews in South Carolina.

All in⚠️: AOC’s embrace of AES is a larger embrace of the socialist/Islamist alliance.

• The truth on El-Sayed keeps getting worse

  • His preaching at a Muslim Student Association service

    • The MSA emerged from the Muslim Brotherhood decades ago.

Watch tonight📺: Evan Barker and Joe Cunningham tonight on whether angry, overeducated, white women really are the future of the Democratic Party.

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Only Choice‼️

Prediction🤔: Trump’s decision to squeeze Zelenskyy while giving Putin a pass will only make peace harder to find.

“‘Putin is laughing’ Trump BETRAYED us, Zelensky slams… saying ‘people will die’ after Starshield cut off leaving Ukraine at mercy of strikes,” headlines The Sun

What happened‼️: Trump declared a unilateral energy ceasefire.

• Russia ignored him and hit Ukraine anyway

• Zelenskyy said if Russia won’t live up to the deal, neither will we

• Trump punished Ukraine.

What I am thinking💭: We have been very complimentary of Donald Trump’s policies towards Ukraine because they have been working — Trump just gave up all those wins and his leverage. For what?

Watch tonight📺: Amb. John Bolton

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Who’s Next?👀

📺Susie Wiles is considered one of the greatest forces in the Trump world — but now the media believes she may be the next person to be ousted.

• 📰Politico headlines today, “Trump’s ice maiden is under fire,” writing:

  • “It’s Susie’s turn...Trump has been soliciting allies’ views of Wiles and musing about replacements for his top aide, according to four people with direct knowledge of the conversations.”

    • Imagine💭: What’s it like to read in the papers that your boss is floating your possible replacement names?

• Be real: There’s a chance this is just another massive disinformation campaign against Wiles. It wouldn’t be the first

  • Look back🔙: In June, the Daily Mail headlines, “Susie Wiles to quit White House: Insiders claim Trump’s chief of staff is ‘drained’ by cabinet chaos... and stung by president’s ‘insult”

    • Last December, Vanity Fair released, “Susie Wiles, JD Vance, and the ‘Junkyard Dogs’: The White House Chief of Staff on Trump’s Second Term.”

• Trump today said the reporting was “TOTAL FAKE NEWS...Susie Wiles is my loyal and longest serving Chief of Staff — there is a reason for that. She has been with me since the beginning, is my trusted advisor, and has my COMPLETE confidence.”

🤦Of course, The New York Times is out with an article all talking about Trump targeting women — “The Disappearing Women of the Trump Administration”

• To be fair: Say what you want about Trump, but he’s got strong women around him that do very well.

Tonight📺: Yemisi Egbewole and Mick Mulvaney, who’s been in Wiles’ shoes, join me.

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Both parties need to drop the dogma and focus on what’s actually driving up the cost of living, says New York Rep. Mike Lawler.

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• Republicans won’t acknowledge they need to restore fairness to the economy with structural change

  • Mike Rogers’ wife handing out gas cards at least shows you get the problem but feels awfully socialist — at least people know you care

• Democrats refuse to move “solutions” that only raise prices

  • Everything Biden did to “lower” prices had the reverse effect — that’s what Democrats keep promising

    • Abdul El-Sayed talks about gas prices yet is on tape wanting to put fossil fuel companies out of business — yikes!

• Seriously, folks — this ain’t hard.

  • For Republicans❗: If a carpenter can’t deduct a new pickup truck, Jeff Bezos shouldn’t be able to deduct a new Gulfstream or yacht.

  • For Democrats❗: Rent controls, government grocery stores and handouts raise prices

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In Chicago, a Democratic city in a Democratic-run state, they can’t balance their budget, so the mayor today announced they needed to raise taxes because everyone left.

• Just like everyone leaving California and New York

Watch tonight📺: Mike Nellis and former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich from Chicago with us tonight.

• Plus➕: DHHQ Scott Tranter on whether the Democrat tsunami is really coming in November.

  • Newsweek cites three signs why it is and one why it is not.

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Desperate times 🚨: With three weeks before the election, Trump wants a deal in Ukraine — and the only leverage he has is over Zelenskyy, and he’s using it.

• 📰“Ukrainian military’s access to Starlink satellite internet suddenly restricted” headlines The Guardian

  • Nothing says “F U” like turning off your internet and weapons targeting — it’s like what a parent does to their unruly teenager.

  • But now the internet is back on.

• The U.S. is now crippling Ukraine in favor of Vladimir Putin — and it’s clear Trump is running out of patience with Zelenskyy.

• Remember‼️: Trump can have two of three things:

  • Vladimir Putin

  • The Iranians squeezed on their best behavior

  • Low gas prices for the midterms

• Tonight📺: Vice Adm. Robert Harward

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“The Devil Wears MAGA” 👀

😬Firing Kimberly Guilfoyle may turn out to be Donald Trump’s most consequential choice of the year.

• 🔥It certainly seems like a burn book is coming, and there are a lot of people in MAGA she can burn

  • 📰Daily Mail headlines, “Kimberly Guilfoyle’s burn book revealed. Her MAGA secrets kept in a journal so potent it has nervous Trump insiders fearing revenge: ‘ She knows where the bodies are buried,” writing:

    • “She is now threatening to release contents of the diary insiders are dubbing ‘The Devil Wears MAGA.’”

• Look back🔙: Guilfoyle has been in close proximity to power for a long time on both sides of the aisle:

  • Married to potential 2028 contender Gavin Newsom

  • Spent a decade rubbing shoulders with power players at Fox News

  • Had a six-year relationship and was engaged to Don Jr.

    • 📰The Hill headlines “Guilfoyle ‘certainly more’ than just some woman Trump’s son dated: Grisham”

What I’m thinking💭: How does the White House keep this woman from going rogue? What is happening behind the scenes to keep her from going scorched earth?

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• Look back🔙: Last week we started asking who is behind the Guilfoyle dossier given to The Wall Street Journal — and more importantly, why are they doing it now?

• If/when she goes scorched earth, the anti-MAGA will welcome her with open arms.

• My prediction🤔: This isn’t the end of Guilfoyle; she’s got lots of possible next lives waiting for her:

  • “Dancing with the Stars”

  • “The Golden Bachelorette”

  • “Real Housewives”

  • “The View”

  • Any other ideas?

Tonight📺: Former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci

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Dr. Zuhdi Jasser — author of “Battle for the Soul of Islam” — joined me to explain what the Muslim Brotherhood really is.

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• Erickson breaks down who the Muslim Brotherhood really is — and it’s important you understand.

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• Why it matters‼️: Abdul El-Sayed won’t be clear to America if he or his family has any ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

  • If Michigan voters knew what that meant, they would probably run from El-Sayed.

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• 🚨The Muslim Brotherhood are the OGs of the jihads.

  • They were founded in 1928 and linked with major events in the Middle East —

    • The founding of Hamas in 1987

    • The Egyptian Revolution in 2011

      • I was in Cairo when the Brotherhood said not to worry; then they took over and started to implement sharia law

    • Brotherhood member Mohamed Morsi was elected president in 2012 and began a crackdown on all the civil liberties liberals in America say are important.

      • El-Sayed wrote a letter supporting the crackdown.

  • Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE have banned the Brotherhood

• There are a lot of reasons to be scared of the Muslim Brotherhood

• 🤦Yet America’s Left calls you racist for talking about it.

• Watch tonight📺: Dr. Zuhdi Jasser and former FBI Special Agent Chris Swecker

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Barnstorm Strategy✈️

✈️Never before has a second-term president traveled more for the midterms

• Conventional wisdom says it’s the sign of a desperate and narcissistic president who just wants an ego boost and cares little about Republicans winning…

• There is another explanation for Trump’s travels:

  • As of October 13, he’s been to nine rallies in 13 days — traveling about 15,375 miles

  • October 1:

    • Washington, D.C., to Denton, Texas, by air is approximately 1,160 miles

    • The driving distance from Denton, Texas, to Durant, Oklahoma, is approximately 75 to 85 miles

    • The distance from Durant, Oklahoma, to Washington, D.C., by air is approximately 1,100 miles

  • October 2:

    • The round-trip flying distance from Washington, D.C., to Mobile, Alabama, and back is approximately 1,500 miles

  • October 3:

    • Round-trip distance from D.C. to Vandalia, Ohio — approximately 800 miles

  • October 5:

    • Trump’s Nebraska rally involved an estimated 2,275 miles of round-trip air travel

  • October 7:

    • Trump’s San Antonio rally involved an estimated 2,800 miles of round-trip flying

  • October 9

    • Syracuse rally involved approximately 580 miles of round-trip flying

  • October 10

    • The Clarksville rally involved approximately 1,120 miles of round-trip flying

  • October 12:

    • The Youngstown rally involved approximately 500 miles of round-trip flying

  • Today:

    • Trump travels to Alaska 3,400 miles, then from Alaska to Las Vegas – 2,300 miles

Be smart🧠: Many Trump supporters only support Trump — this is his only chance to turn them out for Republican candidates.

Be smarter🤓: If Trump’s theory is correct, these voters either aren’t showing up or would be wildly undercounted in the current polls.

Tonight📺: Pollster and communications strategist Frank Luntz

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Blame the Bots🤖

Great news👍: We as Americans may not be as divided as we think we are.

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• 📱If you’ve noticed our politics somehow got a lot more sane across the country — that may be because Ukraine blew up a massive data center with Russian bots that were dividing us.

  • Zelenskyy: “When our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations. Because there were fewer bots. And it’s pretty clear where those bots were coming from – if they disappeared when Yandex went offline. This proves, again and again, that Europe is not the source of the problems. Europe is not the one making everything more difficult.”

• Tonight📺: Host of MIT’s Data Science Podcast “Data Nation,” and who just happens to be my sister, Liberty Vittert Capito, joins on whether Russian bots really are dividing us!

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What the Markets Know📊

Reviews are in📄: Today was Katie Zacharia’s first day as Trump’s new White House press secretary.

• 📰Based on all the reviews in the media, she should be out today

  • “Katie Zacharia’s first White House press briefing was a disaster of her own making”

  • “Katie Zacharia Stepped to the Lectern for the First Time. It Was a Bumpy Ride”

  • “White House officials question how long Katie Zacharia can last after ‘brutal’ press briefing”

    • Were these the same media orgs that celebrated Karine Jean-Pierre for her bravery as the first lesbian Black press secretary?

• 📊But Polymarket shows a different story.

  • Only 8% say she will be out by October 31; that means a 92% chance all the headlines are WRONG.

  • 29% say she will be out by December 31.

    • What does Polymarket know that the media doesn’t?

    • What I’m thinking💭: Trump knows the more people talking about his press secretary, the less they are talking about gas prices…

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Professional hit job🎯: The massive opportunity dump on Trump’s former future daughter-in-law and ambassador to Greece leaves one very, very important question — who is behind it?

• 📰Attack — first came a well-researched and packaged Wall Street Journal story about Kimberly Guilfoyle asking for a donor to pay off $100,000 of her Amex bill — complete with …

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