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Kansas Has Trump Running Scared

On October 19, Trump flew to Park City, Kansas, for a rally with Sen. Roger Marshall—who is in what Cook Political Report rates a Toss-Up race with Democrat Adam Hamilton.

Judd Perry sells fuel at the Ottawa Co-Op in Ottawa, Kansas. Diesel has climbed to record highs since Trump started his war with Iran. “Before the conflict,” Perry told local news station KSHB 41, “a bushel of corn would buy two gallons of fuel. Now a bushel of corn doesn’t buy a gallon of fuel.”

At the rally, Trump promised farmers $8 billion to help with diesel. Of course, the Agriculture Department hasn’t said when the money goes out. Its announcement told farmers to set up a Login.gov account and wait. Jerry Hagstrom of DTN, a farm news service, reported that the payments won’t go out before the election. Trump is begging for their votes now, while promising a check later.

Hallie Jackson of NBC met a man in Kansas who has voted for Trump three times. He told her, “I can’t bring myself to vote for Roger Marshall, right now.”

Marshall’s latest report to the Federal Election Commission runs through October 14. It shows he had $809,806.46 cash on hand. I haven’t seen anyone else reporting that number anywhere. Hamilton’s report for the same period shows $2,874,363.74, more than three times as much. Hamilton has raised $19,175,044 this election to Marshall’s $6,862,104.

The last poll, from InsiderAdvantage on October 13 and 14, had Marshall at 48 and Hamilton at 47. Kansas last sent a Democrat to the Senate in 1932, but Hamilton can change that on November 3. Which is exactly what Trump is afraid of.

Zelensky Stood Firm. Trump’s Story Fell Apart.

In mid-October, in the middle of missions, Ukrainian soldiers started losing contact with their drones. These are the same ones that help shoot down Russia’s attack drones. They run off of Starshield, a military internet service run by Elon Musk’s company SpaceX. The US government pays for Ukraine to use it.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said any drone that went faster than 100 miles an hour was losing connection.

While the limit reportedly hindered Ukrainian strikes and air defenses, Musk and Trump were busy passing the buck. On October 14, Musk posted online that the limits to Starshield “are decided by the US military and ultimately POTUS.” That means Trump. On October 19, Trump said, “I don’t know who it was, but I’d like to find out.” All he has to do is look in the mirror.

The Wall Street Journal revealed that Musk gave the order after talking with Trump. On Thursday, the Journal reported that Trump had called Musk and asked him to undo it. The White House denied that account. “The bottom line—he put it back,” Trump said.

On Saturday morning, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said the speeds were finally restored, more than a week after someone cut them. Zelensky never let up, and he won this round.

Nobody has owned up to giving the order. Everyone involved needs to be investigated. And electing a Democratic majority in Congress on November 3 is how we make it happen.

The Town That Unplugged Its Spy Cameras

In January 2024, the city of Lafayette in Colorado signed a five-year deal with Flock to install 30 cameras that photograph the license plate of every car that drives by. I pulled the minutes from that meeting. The deal was passed as a routine item on the agenda, with nobody debating it on the record.

Then people in town started pushing back. Chao Chen of DeFlock Lafayette put it plainly: “I just think it’s weird that you’re being tracked when you’ve done nothing wrong. They don’t need to know where I am at all times.” More than a dozen residents spoke out against the cameras at City Hall on October 6.

Councilor Adam Gianola didn’t hold back: “Boy, are we facing a time when warrantless searching is occurring from these cameras.”

Five days before that meeting, a federal judge in Oklahoma ruled a deputy violated a woman’s constitutional rights by searching Flock for her car without a warrant. Down the road in Denver, audit logs show police—mostly from out of state—ran more than 1,400 searches of the city’s Flock cameras marked “ICE” or “immigration” in under a year.

On October 20, the council voted unanimously to cut off the money. City staff will put covers over the cameras until Flock takes them down. Lafayette turned off all 30, thanks to people who stood up and said enough.

Nurses Took On Trump’s Door-Knockers And Won

On August 31, Homeland Security told its agents to start questioning people about voting in nine states. Agents showed up at front doors in places including San Francisco and Kansas City, Missouri. Some carried guns.

The California Nurses Association and National Nurses United have more than 225,000 members, and a lot of them spend election season getting people to the polls. Once the agents started knocking, at least one nurse quit going to campaign events. Another said they won’t be a poll monitor this year.

The entire point of knocking on doors like this is to instill fear in communities, so fewer people vote and volunteer. Every nurse in these groups who stays home is one less person helping a neighbor vote. So on September 18, the nurses sued.

On October 21, Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín ruled for the nurses, ordering DHS to stop questioning likely citizens in those nine states. Her order lasts until polls close on Election Day.

Nurses beat Trump in 33 days. We only have nine left, and I’m spending every one of them helping to lead the fight. I’ve been at this since February 2016, and I’ve never felt more fired up. But we need all hands on deck now—more than ever—so we can deliver the blue tsunami America deserves.

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On Tuesday, Trump sat in the Oval Office and asked all of us to start reporting fraud using his new hotline. This is a man who, among many other things, paid $25 million to settle fraud claims over Trump University. Funny he brought it up. Democrats already have the receipts ready for the day they get subpoena power.

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Trump’s Record Is Already In The Court Files

Trump said the government would start paying people 1% of the fraud they report. And he made it clear he’d be the one deciding: “I will be the arbitrator of all of these decisions … You’ll get your money immediately, but I’ll make the determination.”

Before Trump judges anyone else’s fraud, his own record should count. So I went back and pulled some of his most notorious cases.

In 2010, bankruptcy lawyer Sherri Simpson attended a Trump University seminar in South Florida. She remembers Trump telling viewers in videos, “Oh, you’re going to get the best of the best.”

“I realized: ‘This is a joke.’ There’s nothing there,” she said. In November 2016, right after he won the election, Trump agreed to pay $25 million to settle the Trump University lawsuits.

In February 2024, Judge Arthur Engoron found that Trump, his two oldest sons, and his business had inflated the value of Trump’s buildings for years to get better loans from banks. Engoron wrote: “Their complete lack of contrition and remorse borders on pathological.”

In August 2025, an appeals court threw out the penalty, which had grown past $500 million with interest. But the fraud finding stayed. Trump asked New York’s highest court to throw that out too.

This is just scratching the surface of the cases against Trump. But in every one of these, he either paid up or was found liable in court. He’s the last person in America who should decide who gets paid for reporting fraud.

Robert Garcia Wants To Know Who Called

Trump’s family has another deal that Democrats in Congress want explained. In August of 2025, 1789 Capital—the investment firm where Don Jr. is a partner—bought a stake in Vulcan Elements. The company makes magnets that the Pentagon needs.

Only a month or two later, the Pentagon’s office that makes business loans was given word that the White House wanted Vulcan’s loan done. ProPublica reported in May of this year that the request came directly from Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro, who went to prison for contempt of Congress in 2024.

“The call came from the White House: We have to get this done,” one person involved told ProPublica. They finished it in weeks. And about a week before the announcement, Navarro was a guest on Don Jr.’s podcast.

Then in November 2025, the Pentagon announced a record-setting $620 million loan commitment to Vulcan. Don Jr.’s spokesman said he “has no knowledge about how this deal came together” and claimed he didn’t speak to Navarro about Vulcan.

The Pentagon and Vulcan both said politics had no influence on the loan. Top House Democrats Robert Garcia and Jared Huffman didn’t buy it. On August 11 of this year, they wrote to Vulcan demanding 17 sets of records on how the deal happened.

If Democrats win the House, Garcia will likely chair Oversight. Which means he will have the subpoena power to move this investigation and so many others forward. We will make sure he does.

He Fired The Fraud Cops In January

Catching deals like the one Garcia is chasing is supposed to be an inspector general’s job. They are independent investigators inside every big federal agency who look for waste and fraud.

On January 24, 2025, four days after Trump was sworn in, he fired about 17 of them. The next day, a reporter on Air Force One asked him why. He said it was “because it’s a very common thing to do.” That’s a lie. The Inspector General Act (IGA) says a president has to give Congress 30 days’ notice and a reason before firing one.

Eight of the fired inspectors general took Trump to court. On September 24, 2025, Judge Ana Reyes wrote, “President Trump violated the IGA. That much is obvious.” Reyes didn’t give them their jobs back, but the case is still open.

Trump’s new fraud hotline sends you to a website called America.gov, which forwards your tip to the offices of inspectors general at agencies like Health and Human Services, Veterans Affairs, and the Small Business Administration—Trump fired the inspectors general at all three. And the site’s own assistant says it “cannot look up a report or its status.”

Trump fired the fraud cops. A judge said that broke the law. Now he wants you to do their job, for money that may never show up. If Democrats win the House, those inspectors general could be called in to testify. Voting to make that happen has already started.

Who Actually Gets To Collect

While Trump keeps talking about paying people who catch fraud, his pardons have repeatedly let convicted fraudsters off the hook for money they owe. On August 21, Rep. Jamie Raskin released a report called “Pardons, Inc.” It goes case by case through Trump’s pardons and commutations, adding up what those people no longer have to pay. That total came to nearly $1.7 billion.

In July 2024, a jury convicted Carlos Watson of conspiracy to commit fraud. A judge ordered him and his company to pay $37 million to investors he had lied to. The following March, Watson was on a plane en route to prison when he got word Trump commuted his sentence. Raskin’s report says: “They never paid a dime.”

A jury and a judge did their jobs, and Trump wiped that out. Because under this regime, the fraudster keeps the money. “Presidential clemency is supposed to be an instrument of justice and mercy,” Raskin said, “not another MAGA Get-Rich-Quick-Scheme.”

The report also names the lobbyists who pushed for these pardons, including the one Watson hired. If we take back the House, Raskin can put every one of them under oath.

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Abdul El-Sayed Beat Their $250,000 Setup

On Saturday, October 17, Democratic nominee for Senate Abdul El-Sayed held a town hall in Caro, a small town in Michigan’s Thumb. A young man named Tommy stood up and asked him to disavow the Muslim Brotherhood. El-Sayed said yes, then he asked, “What are you implying? Do you assume that I wouldn’t?”

For five minutes, El-Sayed talked about the Constitution and every American’s right to practice any faith or none. He told the room: “I’m not running to be a Muslim senator. I’m running for the U.S. Senate and happen to be Muslim.” His campaign posted the video, and it has now been seen more than 44 million times.

On Sunday, independent reporter Marisa Kabas of The Handbasket identified Tommy. He is Thomas Teepell, and he worked in Republican Sen. Josh Hawley’s office until February. His father, Timmy Teepell, is a Republican strategist who helped put Hawley in the Senate.

America Next is a Republican group that paid the father’s company $250,000 on September 29. According to the campaign finance filing, it was for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed. The two share an office suite in Baton Rouge.

In an email to supporters last night, El-Sayed said: “Republicans are attacking my faith because they have nothing else to run on.” He added that Trump and Mike Rogers are “betting that if they make voters afraid of me, nobody will notice who’s actually been robbing them.”

Republicans are spending money attacking El-Sayed’s faith because they can’t beat him on the issues. It’s failing miserably, and El-Sayed still leads in the polls.

Arlington Is Guarding The Ballot Box

On September 1, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said ICE agents could go to polling places to serve warrants. On September 15, Sen. Peter Welch told FBI Director Kash Patel he thought the FBI would stay away from the polls. Patel told him: “When did you hear that? Just another lie.”

This week, Arlington County sued to enforce a federal law passed in 1865 that bans armed federal agents at polling places unless they are needed to “repel armed enemies of the United States.” After the lawsuit was filed, the Justice Department said it “has never said it would send federal law enforcement to polling locations.” Patel’s answer is on video.

The county plans on fighting back. Its police chief and prosecutors spent four hours on September 16 preparing for the possibility of armed federal agents at the polls, including whether county police should make arrests. This year the county’s prosecutor is sending six lawyers to watch the polls, up from two or three in past elections.

Trump’s trying to scare people out of voting because he knows he’s losing, but Arlington County is not going down without a fight. It’s asking the court for a ruling before Election Day.

The $50 Million Job Before Trump’s Pardon

In August 2022, a billionaire banker from Venezuela named Julio Herrera Velutini was charged with trying to bribe the governor of Puerto Rico to fire an official investigating his bank.

I checked the public records. On December 31, 2024, his daughter Isabela gave $2.5 million to MAGA Inc.—a group that raises money to help Trump. On July 22, 2025, she gave $1 million more. A month later, the Justice Department dropped the bribery charges and let her father plead guilty to one campaign finance charge.

On October 22, 2025, Isabela started a company in Florida. Days later, the family hired Trump’s former personal lawyer, Alina Habba, for more than $50 million over four years, The New York Times reported. Habba was also working at the Justice Department at the time. She started the job on January 1. Two weeks later, Trump pardoned Julio Herrera Velutini.

To sum it up, the family gave $3.5 million to help Trump, they hired Trump’s former lawyer, and then Trump pardoned the father.

Habba told the Times the idea that her job “had anything to do with securing a pardon is false,” and the White House denies it too. Paying for a pardon is a crime, and a pardon doesn’t protect anyone who buys one. There is no proof that happened here. Trump controls the DOJ, so it’s up to Congress to look into it.

It’s clear Trump keeps handing out pardons to people with money and connections who just so happen to buy into his crypto or donate to his political operation. We can give him a Congress that checks every one of them in 11 days.

Following Epstein’s Money

On February 26, Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren wrote to Trump’s bank regulators. She asked them to look into any Wall Street executives who may have helped Jeffrey Epstein, giving them until March 12 to answer. She wrote that their earlier answers “failed to confirm an ongoing investigation or even commit to opening one.”

Nearly eight months later, Warren says they still haven’t acted. Trump’s regulators would rather protect a dead sex trafficker’s bankers than even confirm they’re looking.

The evidence was already there. JPMorgan kept Epstein as a client from 1998 until 2013, for years after he became a convicted sex offender. In August, Sen. Ron Wyden found significant evidence that JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, and Bank of America broke federal money laundering laws by failing to report Epstein’s suspicious transactions on time.

So on October 15, Warren and Rep. Robert Garcia introduced the Epstein Wall Street Records Act. If passed, regulators would have 90 days to hand their Epstein records to Congress and 120 days to make them public. Any banker found to have broken banking laws to help him could be banned from the industry. Warren said: “Since they have failed to act, Congress must.”

In March, police in France searched a bank in Paris because of what was in the Epstein files. Here at home, Trump’s regulators won’t even say if they’re looking. If Democrats win the House and Senate, Warren and Garcia are in line to run the committees that can make these banks answer for what they did.

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