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All Alone in the Golden Age

The first Republican to start talking about fair changes will have a head start

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Leland Vittert and Amanda Kinderman
Oct 22, 2026

Not to my knowledge🤔: Most people can answer “Did you marry your sibling?” without consulting a lawyer — clearly not the case for Ilhan Omar, aka Ilhan Nur Said Elmi.

  • Prediction👀: “Not to my knowledge” will live along with “depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is.”

  • Tonight we reverse-engineer the case against Omar from our exclusive reporting on the collection of her and her family’s DNA and what she told MS NOW’s Chris Hayes

    • Result📃: What does the government have to prove to either denaturalize, deport or put in jail?

  • PS❗: We will remind you, our sources continue to tell us the press is underestimating both the evidence they have and the possible depth and breadth of the charges.


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What the hell is going on‼️: Our partners at DDHQ only give Democrats a 57% chance of winning the Senate — the lowest of any of the major averages, some of which give Democrats a 75% chance.

  • Warning⚠️: Alex Wagner of Crooked Media just did a podcast entitled, “Are the Polls Too Good to Be True”

  • Wait🛑: I heard a blue tsunami was coming and Democrats might win the Mississippi Senate seat.

    • Democrats are starting to worry (a lot) that they’ve overhyped expectations.

  • Reality👀: Democrats will most likely win the House by a safe but not necessarily comfortable margin — the Senate is, as Scott will show us tonight, a coin flip.

    • Go deeper🪏: Each Senate race is extremely unique.

      • Sound smart🧠: We will go race by race to show why the “wave” of support for Democrats and freezing level approval for Trump


Most powerful man in the world (?): The new reporting of Elon Musk’s unilateral throttling of Starlink cements the richest man in the world as one of the most powerful.

  • Never before has a man of industry or investment had or exercised such political power.

    • Wow!

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Everybody Else Knows‼️

🚶Donald Trump is now all alone in selling the Golden Age of America’s economy — even JD Vance got off the gravy train.

  • Be fair⚖️: For many with big stock portfolios, things have NEVER been better — for everybody else, things keep getting harder.

  • John LeFevre calls it the “Forever K”

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  • As we’ve told you for a year — it feels unfair — finally, Republicans have realized people don’t like being gaslit.

    • Things were OK — maybe even getting better till tariffs and then the Iran war.

      • Look back🔙: 5 years ago we were told Putin’s price hike meant complaining about high prices was unpatriotic…things change

  • Get serious‼️: Whether Republicans keep the Senate is beside the point — they must get serious about tectonic changes to the tax code.

    • Think about it💭: The vast majority of Americans are hurting and feel things are rigged against them — you can’t win elections by telling them they are wrong.

  • Duh🤦: The first Republican to start talking about fair changes (not fair share) will have a head start

    • Eliminate carried interest deduction

    • Eliminate oil depletion allowance

    • Eliminate private jet and yacht deductions

    • Eliminate Roth IRA investments in private companies

    • Eliminate or restrict pass-through entities

    • Eliminate buy, borrow and die exemptions

  • If you haven’t heard of any of these…that’s the point

Watch tonight📺: Steve Cortes AND Stephen Moore tonight on when Republicans will give up their sacred cows.


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☑️Today, Donald Trump proved he understands politics and the electorate better than the media that hates him.

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