One Fired Worker Just Humiliated Trump’s Whole Regime, His Sons Got Dragged Into The Light, and His DOGE Is Officially Dead

Proof the momentum is ours heading into the midterms

Every con has the same weak spot: it only works as long as nobody runs the numbers.

Everything this regime does starts loud and ends quiet—the DOGE chainsaw got a stadium rollout, the final results got a shrug on a holiday weekend. They’re betting the noise of the announcement outlives the silence of the outcome, and that bet pays off big in corporate media.

Not here. This edition is what happens when somebody stays in the room after the cameras leave—and what we found is a very good week for the resistance.

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Then keep us in the room long after everyone else goes home—digging through the contracts and court records nobody else reads, then handing you the receipts. No advertiser funds work like that; readers do, or nobody does.

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A NEW TRUMP BUSINESS: THE PENTAGON

A paper trail of federal money keeps showing up right behind the Trump name. Don Jr. joined drone maker Unusual Machines’ advisory board in November 2024—and within a year, one of the company’s largest orders ever was placed by the US Army.

Last August, Don Jr.’s firm, 1789 Capital, bought into a startup called Vulcan Elements; three months later it landed a $620 million loan, the biggest in the Pentagon’s lending office history. ProPublica found the loan was initiated by senior White House official Peter Navarro—a friend of Don Jr.’s—and pushed through in a matter of weeks, sending Vulcan’s value skyrocketing from $200 million toward $2 billion.

The sons swear their names have nothing to do with it, but the record says otherwise: roughly $3.7 billion in federal money went to at least ten companies tied to the brothers since the regime took power. That’s your April taxes, meant to defend the country, rerouted to whoever hired the right last name.

Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, is now demanding the Pentagon’s inspector general investigate: “his sons are cashing in on defense contracts funded by hardworking taxpayers.”

They built this in the dark to work in secret, betting nobody would ever turn on the lights. The investigation just started, the receipts are already public, and every dollar gets traced. This fight is only beginning.

DOGE IS DEAD. THE DAMAGE ISN’T.

DOGE’s mandate expired July 4, the end date written into Trump’s own executive order. Elon Musk swore he’d cut $2 trillion. DOGE’s website claims $215 billion—a number they haven’t updated since January and that budget experts don’t buy. Even taking their figure at face value, that’s a dime in cuts for every dollar promised.

Molly Hardy was the National Endowment for the Humanities’ 2024 employee of the year. DOGE laid her off anyway. Then in March, the agency came crawling back, emailing to ask if she’d return. She turned them down—not bitter, just clear-eyed: “It didn’t feel good. It just felt really sad.”

She’s not alone, and that’s the part they didn’t see coming. All over the government, the wreckage is being reversed: HHS fired 10,000 workers and is now scrambling to hire 12,000. Agencies that bragged about the chainsaw are begging people to come back. Asked if shrinking the workforce was even still the goal, OPM chief Scott Kupor admitted: “I’m not hearing that.”

And when Congress asked what DOGE actually accomplished, budget director Russell Vought had nothing to show: “We have no plans to do kind of a closing DOGE report.”

The people who took a chainsaw to our government don’t get to slink off without a full accounting. We’ll see to that.

TRUMP STOLE AMERICA’S BIRTHDAY. IT BACKFIRED.

Congress spent a decade planning America’s 250th birthday—a bipartisan commission built to throw a party every American could love. Trump shoved it aside, handed the celebration to his own loyalists, and turned the whole thing into a taxpayer-funded rally for himself.

America answered. The performers quit rather than share his stage. Seven Democratic-governed states refused to send delegations. His June kickoff drew crowds so thin the aerial photos enraged him, and White House officials who’d posted them quietly deleted their posts.

By the Fourth, the whole thing had come apart: a record 102 degrees, a dozen people hospitalized from the heat, and a Confederate flag on the North Carolina booth’s screen that led Mt. Olive, the country’s top pickle brand, to pull out in protest.

Sen. Alex Padilla named the whole sorry spectacle for what it was: “President Trump couldn’t help but try making America’s 250th birthday all about himself.” Trump wanted a coronation. He got a heat wave and a boycott.

CALIFORNIA SEALED TRUMP’S SLUSH FUND SHUT

Remember Trump’s fund to reward the Jan 6 rioters? Here’s where it stands. Earlier this year, the DOJ settled his bogus $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS for $1.776 billion, dressed up as compensation for the rioters and the loyalists who kept him afloat. He picked the number 1,776 on purpose. Subtle, these people are not.

A federal judge froze the fund in May. Acting AG Todd Blanche told Congress the fund wasn’t going forward—but he wouldn’t put that in writing, so the judge extended the freeze indefinitely. The regime still wouldn’t officially kill it. They left the door cracked, betting they could quietly reopen it once no one was watching.

California slammed that door shut. On June 30, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law taxing 100% of any payout from that fund to California residents—so the second anyone in the state tries to cash a check, every dollar is owed straight back to the taxpayers.

Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel drew the line: “there will be no windfall for anyone who has engaged in corruption or attacked our democracy.”

The regime never had the nerve to kill this fund on paper. So Newsom made sure that in California, it’s dead on arrival.

THIS LAND IS OUR LAND

Here’s what the regime doesn’t seem to understand: the damage they’ve done doesn’t have to be permanent. They swung a chainsaw at the government and, instead of a monument to their toughness, they left behind agencies scrambling to hire back everyone they fired.

That’s what happens when they bet you’ll be too worn down to fight—and lose that bet. It’s the same wager they made on the slush fund, on the Pentagon grift, on the birthday he threw for himself: that no one would be watching, no one would push back, no one would keep the receipts. They bet wrong every time.

Our coalition has sent more than 784,000 letters to Congress since November 2024, from readers who stood up, spoke out, and refused to let their elected officials look away. That’s not a mailing list—that’s a movement, and it’s the reason a bad headline can still become a win for the resistance. It’s what we do here every single day, and it runs on nothing but people who decided the truth was worth paying for.

So here’s the ask, plain and simple: the regime is counting on you to quit before they’re held to account. Don’t give them that. We need 12 of you to become paid subscribers today and push the fight to flip Congress one step closer. Be one of them:

Then hit the ❤️ like button and restack this edition. Somewhere out there is a person who was told DOGE saved them money and Trump threw himself a beautiful party. A few taps from you, and they’ll hear what actually happened.

Onward!

Scott

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$3.7 billion in federal money flowed to companies tied to Trump’s sons. If a Democratic president’s grown children pulled this, what would Fox be calling it right now?

Let me know in the comments!