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Tonight📺: Someone who knows a lot about running against a popular Democrat in Texas is Sen. Ted Cruz. He joins me tonight on whether the GOP can save Ken Paxton in the Lone Star State.

• 📊Recent polling shows Democrat James Talarico winning the polls at 42%

  • And Paxton is at 39%

• 📚Cruz is out with a new book, “Going Further: The Incomparable Clarence Thomas”

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Midterm watch👀: Democrats have a new argument for excusing Abdul El-Sayed’s anti-Israel, pro-Islamist views — win a Democratic Senate majority at all costs because Trump is so evil.

• 🤦To the point that a Jewish Michigan attorney general says Jews need to forget about “safety and security” of their people. (This admits that electing him endangers Jews…🤦)

  • Don’t forget‼️: El-Sayed doesn’t think Israel should be able to defend themselves.

    • He excused an attack on a Jewish daycare, saying: “hurt people hurt people”

    • He campaigned with Hasan Piker, who is an anti-American, pro-Stalinist, Holocaust enthusiast

    • He says, “If you want to achieve the American Dream, you should move to Canada because it’s twice as likely there”

• This week📺: El-Sayed has been all over TV trying to clean up his past — he thinks he can talk his way out of all these problems.

  • The Hill headlines, “El-Sayed apologizes to Jewish Democrats for synagogue attack comment”

  • CNN headlines, “El-Sayed apologizes to Jewish Democrats as he seeks to bridge party divides”

• Tonight📺: Mark McKinnon and Madeline Summerville

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Iran‼️: The U.S. launched new strikes today against Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz.

• 💣This comes after Iran attempted to attack commercial ships in the strait and prepared to lay mines.

• Donald Trump feels confident right now in Iran for two reasons:

1. He feels the Iranian regime is getting weaker by the day

   • Today, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent promised they’ll “asphyxiate” Iran because they know where the IRGC is hiding their millions of dollars

     • Is this how we can squeeze them?

2. He thinks he has a lot more options in Iran because of Venezuela

   • Venezuela’s oil market is undergoing a big transformation.

• Tonight📺: Brig. Gen. John Teichert and Amb. Nathan Sales

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Big Brother📸: America is slowly and secretly turning into a surveillance state that looks a lot like China.

• We already told you about all the law enforcement abusing Flock cameras — but what happens now when these cameras are used exactly as they’re designed to be used?

  • These cameras know more about you than your license plate number and state

    • They capture a picture of your car

    • The make, model and color

    • Any visible features (car racks, trailers, unique details, etc)

    • Locations of where your car is spotted

  • At the end of the day, the camera and data can build a picture of where you were all day.

• 🛑Florida and Texas both move to block Flock cameras in their states

• Now, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is launching a Senate investigation into Flock Safety over mass surveillance.

• Big picture‼️: One of the things that makes America great is the freedom to live your life without constant surveillance. So the question today is:

  • Do we want to become a surveillance state that looks more and more like China?

  • Or do we want to live in a country that values our privacy?

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Fight of our time‼️: If you want to know where the (attempted) Muslim takeover of America is going — just look to the United Kingdom.

• 📰“Birmingham council seeking to ban British flags ‘for public safety,’” headlines The Telegraph

• Be fair⚖️: The headline is slightly hyperbolic.

  • They are banning British flags on public flagpoles — why? Well, people are upset at the British flags on flagpoles — nobody is trying to take down the Palestinian flags.

  • Not the only spot🚨: The Oxfordshire town council called British flags intimidating when they banned them

• Here📍 : We’ve seen the Muslim mayor in Dearborn berate non-Muslims, and Zohran Mamdani says America should learn from the Quran to set its immigration policy.

• Reality‼️: Muslims demand tolerance and acceptance only to eventually take control and preach hatred — this is the expansionist Islam playbook

  • Case in point:

    • Find me a Muslim country openly accepting of Jews and Christians

    • Of the Muslim countries, which ones are openly accepting of gays?

    • Of the Muslim countries, which treat women as equal citizens?

      • Why would we think Muslims in America would want or allow any of those things?

        • Warning⚠️: The UAE’s foreign minister warned years ago against the appeasement of Muslims in Europe

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Breaking🚨: President Trump is promising to hit Iran after Tehran unsuccessfully shot at U.S. bases in Jordan and the UAE last night.

• CENTCOM also reveals the U.S military fired at Iranian forces that were attempting to put mines in the Strait of Hormuz

• 📰Axios reports, “Trump weighing limited strikes against Iran to curb Hormuz attacks,” writing:

  • “President Trump and his senior aides have been considering waging limited strikes in the Strait of Hormuz to prevent Iran from reconstituting its radar and missile capabilities to attack ships.”

• 64 days📅: This new fighting comes just two months before the midterms. We told you last week, Iran is going to decide the midterms — and it looks like it may be going better than we are being told

• CENTCOM says the Strait of Hormuz is open

• IRGC officials are considering fleeing the country as fears grow that protests could return because Iran’s economy continues to worsen, reports Amit Segal

  • Today, Trump posted: “Iran is officially a Failed Nation. IT IS DEAD! They have no Navy, they have no Air Force, they have no currency, they are not paying their soldiers or police, Inflation is at 300%, and their leadership is in total disarray and incapable of properly representing the country.”

• If things are truly going better for the U.S., that would drastically change the conversation in the midterms

  • Trump could suddenly become a victorious wartime president rather than an embattled one.

• Tonight📺: Vice Adm. Robert Harward and Shelby Talcott join.

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Working woes‼️: Working-class voters are still up for grabs heading into the midterms.

• There’s a theory that Democrats will win back working-class voters by talking about working-class issues.

  • Reality🤷: Not true…

    • You’ve got to have programs that actually work for the working class

  • 📊Politico reports “Fifty-five percent of Americans think politicians are just trying to win votes when they say they will help the working class.”

    • Elissa Slotkin posted how to win as a Democrat:

      • Note: Realize it didn’t have anything to do with any of the crazy culture stuff…

• 📰The Wall Street Journal headlines, “Who’s ‘Working Class’ Anymore?” writing

  • “Class warfare is in the air again—usually a sign that both sides have run out of ideas. The midterms are a battle over who is taking care of the working class.”

    • 38% of working-class Americans say Democrats represent them best

    • And 32% say Republicans.

• Tonight📺: Former Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich and Corbin Trent join.

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Data center divide➗: Data centers are becoming the fight of the midterms.

• 📉61% of Americans oppose building data centers in their towns — but the centers are fighting back … and so are labor unions.

  • 📰The Wall Street Journal headlines, “Blue-Collar Jobs Are the New Flashpoint in Data-Center Fight,” writing:

    • “Unions and construction trade groups are now entering the fray from the other side, warning that such actions endanger thousands of building-related jobs. They are threatening to withhold support of candidates opposing the data-center projects. ”

    • This is the working class of America — not the pink-haired baristas who are mostly anti-data centers

      • If you want to win the working class of America, you can’t be talking about banning the thing that is giving them jobs.

• 📱Today, Trump posted: “The only reason that communities throughout the U.S.A. should not want Data Centers is if they want to end up being backwards and poor. If they want to be successful and rich, with far lower taxes and jobs all over the place, let Data Reign”

  • Flipside: Yet, Vice President Vance is separating himself from Trump on this — giving a very different take on these centers

• Tonight📺: Don Slaiman, who headlined “Electricians Love Data Centers. You Should, Too,” joins me. Slaiman writes:

  • “With job creation sputtering, we’ve got the chance — an obligation, in fact — to expand employment in a robust sector of our economy… Data centers are the best opportunity in generations for blue-collar workers to attain a portion of the American dream.”

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Framed, F*cked, and Freed: A Governor’s Odyssey by Rod Blagojevich — it AWESOME. Emotional. Funny. Thoughtful. It …

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Well — its been a weekend mostly because I am battling a wicked summer sinus infection (god bless antibiotics) but sleepless nights blowing my nose gave me some time to read:

I started reading an advanced copy of Framed, F*cked, and Freed: A Governor’s Odyssey by Rod Blagojevich — it AWESOME. Emotional. Funny. Thoughtful. It comes out in November and I highly suggest pre-ordering it.

Preview: Blago asked me to write a “Blurb” you know the thing that goes on the back of the book — here is what I sent him:

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• “Straight Talk, with Leland Vittert & Chris Cillizza”

• Must read📰: Cillizza dropped a GREAT piece this afternoon about Trump’s renaming of Lake Ontario: “‘Lake America’ Is a Distraction. Don’t Make It the Story.”

  • “He is doing everything he can to change the subject. He…

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• 📺We were the first national news outlet to cover her story.

• Isaacs paid the price for police misusing Flock data — and her case is just one example of why pe…

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Plus — the connection between Lindsay Clancy supporters and the Free Palestine crowd.

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• 🎵Like many country stars, she came from very little — but sang about the place she came from in a really real way

  • One of her last songs highlighted politicians from (both sides) failing the communities she came from

  • “Dolly Parton takes on…

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• Tune in📺: They will join us tonight

• Bigger issue‼️: Both political parties have decided the midterms will be about sexual innuendo, social media owns and attacking each other.

  • Both pa…

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Republicans tell people they are stupid for complaining about data centers — wow…thats like dems saying you shouldn’t worry about boys in girls sports!

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• 📰Axios reports the U.S. has been secretly moving oil in and out of the Strait of Hormuz, writing:

  • “Under the operation, which has been underway for the last several weeks, 15–20 tankers have entered and exited the strait each night through a southern channel along the coast o…

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