The New Woke🚨

Plus, JD Vance snatches the MAGA crown.

Aug 14, 2026

Family🎂: My nephew Holt turns 1 today — Rachel and I are spending the weekend with him, my family and my sister’s friends.

👀Watch tonight for a special appearance by the young birthday boy!
With that, we present an abbreviated version of War Notes.

Please🙏: Frank Toole, whose house was completely submerged by the floods in Indiana this week, joins me tonight

Make a difference‼️: Please check out Frank’s GoFundMe to help him rebuild and recover from this disaster.
“Help Frank Rebuild After Losing Everything in Cambridge IN”

FINALLY‼️: “Character still matters” writes our friend Erick Erickson as he examines the Senate map — he will join us tonight.

Raw nerve:
CALL TO ACTIVISM@CalltoActivism
Holy shit: Steve Bannon is having a full-blown public meltdown live on air. He’s losing his mind reading the Senate polls and trashing Republican candidates as they get absolutely wrecked, blaming them for treating Trump as a lame duck. This is pure panic. Don’t ease up. Let’s
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STOP Flock🛑: In life, you have to earn trust — and I hate to say it, but cops are proving in real time they can’t be trusted.

Proof✅: At least 50 officers have been accused or charged with misusing Flock cameras to stalk ex-girlfriends, wives, etc.
- A Florida officer used the camera system 717 times to track his estranged wife
- C’mon🤦: They’re given this powerful tool, and nobody thought someone was going to misuse it?
Now Flock Safety is terrified and changing its policies — cutting the amount of time it keeps license plate data from 30 days to seven.
- Really🤦: Nobody thought to put these tighter restrictions in place— and now we are expected to trust that these safeguards are going to work
And now we’re giving ICE “shock gloves” before body cameras?
- Big picture👀: In D.C., they say it’s not the crime, it’s the cover-up — these days in politics, it’s not the event but the reaction
  - Politicians, sheriffs, and police chiefs are refusing to acknowledge our shared and lived experiences, whether it’s on the economy, police misconduct, etc.
Watch tonight📺: Sheriff Mike Chitwood joins us, who’s had an officer in his county charged for misusing these cameras.

MAGA apprentice👀: We are watching JD Vance’s coming-out party happen in real time.

Mark Halperin headlines in the Daily Mail “How JD Vance snatched the MAGA crown from Marco Rubio…” writing:
- “If Vance wants the presidential nomination, it is almost certainly his. President Donald Trump will unquestionably endorse him. And in that case, Rubio – aware of the long-odds of opposing Trump’s pick and temperamentally opposed to a political knife-fight with a respected friend – would not run.”
  - What I am thinking💭: In Trump world, things change quickly.
Vance is starting to move away from Trump

Example✅: He’s acknowledging the economic pain Americans are feeling — yet his boss doesn’t want to
Reality🤷: Vance can do this because he can’t get fired.

Watch tonight📺: Mark Halperin joins me
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Woke 1.0 ▶️ Woke 2.0

‼️Presidential front-runner AOC’s giggling attempt to dismiss woke 1.0 as “crazy” attempts to conceal a dangerous fact — woke 2.0 is just as bad, if not worse