This is not our normal Saturday edition. With only a month to go until Election Day, we figured now was the time to tell you what our plans are for the final sprint.
Over the course of this week we went through the campaign filings corporate media never bothered to open, and we broke four stories in four days. The money trail we dug up led to twelve Republican US Senate candidates who are on the ballot next month.
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Four Exclusives. One Week.
No campaign was ever going to volunteer what was sitting in its own filings. So we went in and dug through the records ourselves.
Tuesday: the pardoned fraudster. Adam Kidan was Jack Abramoff’s business partner. He went to prison for fraud, and Trump pardoned him on July 3. Then we found his money in the campaigns of seven Republicans on the Senate ballot.
Wednesday: Epstein’s billionaire client. Leon Black paid Jeffrey Epstein $158 million, and last month the House held him in contempt for defying its subpoenas. Susan Collins’ campaign took checks from Black and his wife three days after the New York Times exposed those payments, then took $7,000 more from his wife last December. Dan Sullivan’s campaign took their money too.
Thursday: Trump’s own officials. His Education and Energy Secretaries, his Small Business chief, and his ambassador to Sweden gave $150,300 to help elect Michael Whatley in North Carolina. The top federal prosecutor in western North Carolina sent Whatley two checks of his own.
Friday: ICE’s jailers. Executives and PACs for two of the biggest companies that run ICE prisons put more than $150,000 into the campaigns and fundraising committees of at least nine Republicans running for Senate. Just three weeks before Congress passed the reconciliation bill that put $45 billion into more immigration prisons, CoreCivic’s committee wrote checks to two of them on the same day. Both voted yes.
Here’s every candidate who received at least one of these contributions: Sullivan in Alaska, Cotton in Arkansas, Moody in Florida, Hinson in Iowa, Marshall in Kansas, Collins in Maine, Rogers in Michigan, Ricketts in Nebraska, Whatley in North Carolina, Husted in Ohio, Darline Graham in South Carolina, and Paxton in Texas.
None of them have returned a dime, as of their latest reports. I asked the campaigns to explain before we published. Nobody did.
Trump Is Losing. We Have Ten More Coming.
Trump had an absolutely terrible week. The Supreme Court blocked Missouri Republicans’ gerrymandered map again. A judge tossed out the regime’s lawsuit to get Georgia’s voter data. Another judge threw out the regime’s threat to pull FEMA money from cities unless they changed how they run elections. And the Fed’s watchdog found no crime committed by Jerome Powell.
Trump is losing in court. We have 31 days to make sure he loses at the ballot box too.
That’s where our next 10 investigations come in.
Every one of them goes out on social media to millions to make sure undecided voters know exactly who is sponsoring these Republicans. We will dig it up and make it impossible to ignore. Every day until the polls close.
Five Ways To Fight Back
You don’t need to live in a battleground state to make a difference. Just reading this keeps you in the fight. If you want to do more, here are five ways:
Lock in your vote. Check your voter registration today and make sure it’s active. Vote early if your state allows it. If you’re an American living overseas, request your ballot, and if you’ve already sent one back, verify that your election office received it.
Share this edition. Pick one of the twelve names above and email this to three people you know in that state. A campaign ad gets skipped—something you send to a friend will get read.
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No matter what, I appreciate everything you do, and the time you’ve invested in pushing back against the regime.
Election Night: Join Me In The War Room
On November 3 I hope you will join me starting at 8:30 PM Eastern. I’m opening our live election war room on Substack for paid subscribers, and I’m staying on late into the night. Join us for some or all of it. I will have some special guests join as well.
I’ll be walking you through the returns as they come in. I’ll call races when I see them—with no commercial breaks. I’ll go over what each win or loss means for the House and Senate, and you’ll be able to ask me questions.
Paid subscribers will also get more this month.
Live Q&As on the races. On October 20 and October 27.
A briefing every morning. Starting on October 27 through Election Day, an update on what’s moving and why.
The morning-after debrief. You’ll get my analysis on what happened, and what comes next.
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We have just thirty-one days to go until the midterms, and we are full speed ahead. After fighting Trump for more than a decade, there’s no way we’re stopping now.
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Onward!
Scott
Which of these twelve do you most want to see lose on November 3?
Thank you all for being here today. If you have two minutes, here are four letters you can send to Congress right now. Each one goes straight to your own representative and senators.
Impeach Pete Hegseth. He's running a war with Iran that Congress never approved. Mike Johnson called impeachment "a stunt" and sent the House home to campaign. Your rep is in your district right now, so make sure a letter from you is waiting:
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-impeach-pete-hegseth/
Ban AI nobody can control. 68% of voters want it. Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar wrote the bill, and only about ten members of Congress have signed on. Let's change that number:
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-pass-the-ban-on-ai-we-cant-control/
Impeach John Roberts. He ruled a president can't be prosecuted for official acts, and his new term starts Monday. More than 32,000 of us have already written. Add yours before he picks up the gavel:
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-impeach-supreme-court-chief-justice-john-roberts/
Release the Epstein files. Britain has arrested a prince and a former ambassador. Here, Todd Blanche's Justice Department is still fighting a federal judge over what it has to hand over. Congress passed the law, so tell them to enforce it:
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-demand-acting-ag-blanche-release-all-of-the-epstein-files-now/
Send one or send all four. Then tell me in the comments which one you sent first.
Onward!
Scott
TRUMP THINKS HE KNOWS WHAT IT TAKES TO GET THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND THE REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS TO “KISS MY ASS”.
None of the $1.227 Trillion in Bribe Money is Coming out of Trump’s Pockets. It’s All Coming out of Ours.
Trump has just begun to pay $475 million of the public’s tax money to induce the recipients to vote Republican on November 3, and he is promising to pay another $1.2 trillion of the public’s tax money to all Americans, if , and only if, they vote for enough Republicans to control both houses of Congress.
Isn’t it a curious coincidence that just a few weeks before the general election that Trump is dubiously claiming that the prior Democratic administration overcharged each of the 950,000 Obamacare recipients in 30 states $500, which he is now generously refunding to them to the tune of $475 million from the public treasury. The implicit message in all of this is that the recipients, when they go to the polls on November 3, need to remember that these 500 bucks have been put in their piockets thanks to Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
But it is not a coincidence that Trump is also blatantly seeking to outright bribe all of the American people with our own money, to the tune of $1.2 trillion, if we vote next month for enough Republicans to gain majorities in both houses of Congress.
Said Trump: “If the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the United States Senate, both of them, I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000.”
How much would the $5,000 promise cost?
The most recent Census figure is 245,275,126 U.S. citizens age 18 or older in the 2024 American Community Survey.
Multiplying:
245,275,126 × $5,000 = $1,226,375,630,000
—or approximately $1.23 trillion.
Putting the two programs together, the disbursements from the U.S. Treasury are:
ACA refunds: $0.475 billion $5,000 dividend per person:: $1,226.4 trillion
The combined disbursement of our money to ourselves to put the Republicans in the majority of both Houses of Congress is therefore about $1.227 trillion
But the federal government is already running a large deficit. CBO’s latest estimate puts the FY2026 deficit at approximately $2.1 trillion.
There is also an important constitutional point. Trump could not simply order the Treasury to send approximately $1.2 trillion in checks on his own. Article I, Section 9, Clause 7—the Appropriations Clause—of the U.S. Constitution, provides: “No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”
The public fully understands that if they vote Republican and the Republicans take both Houses of Congress, Trump is promising that his lackeys in Congress will obey him and enact legislation authorizing the payment of their our own tax dollars back to us, the depletion from the Treasury of which will only result in higher taxes to replenish these payments from the already huge deficit in the Treasury.
There is also the legal question here that goes beyond the vote-buying statute: the combination of (1) expressly conditioning a $1.2 trillion governmental benefit on one political party winning Congress, (2) announcing it immediately before an election, and (3) requiring the victorious Congress subsequently to appropriate the money raises a set of questions involving the federal bribery/vote-purchasing statute, the Spending and Appropriations Clauses, and constitutional limits on using governmental benefits for partisan electoral purposes.
Trump is well aware that there are a great many valid legal prohibitions to this massive bribe with public funds to benefit a designated political party that could drag on for years. But Trump doesn’t care how long it drags on for or even if the courts nullify it. He will have already accomplished his purpose of bribing enough of the public to install a majority of Republicans in both Houses of Congress.
IS BRIBERY OUT OF CHARACTER FOR DONALD J. TRUMP?
The everyday definition of what it means to “bribe” someone is defined in the New Oxford American Dictionary as “to persuade (someone) to act in one’s favor, typically illegally or dishonestly, by a gift of money or other inducement.”
Allegations abound, but have not been proven, of criminal bribery by Trump.
The records though are replete with responses by Trump of his expectations that when he makes a payment or “contribution” he expects, if not demands, something in return.
Trump made a number of strikingly candid statements in 2015–16 describing political contributions as a means of obtaining access or favorable treatment. While such statements alone do not prove criminal bribery, Trump viewed political giving as a means of getting something in return:
At the August 6, 2015 Republican presidential debate, Bret Baier reminded Trump that he had said, “When you give, they do whatever the hell you want them to do.” Trump replied: “You’d better believe it.” He then explained his practice as a businessman: “When they call, I give. And … when I need something from them two years later, three years later, I call them, they are there for me.”
Trump was even more blunt at an Iowa campaign appearance on January 9, 2016: “I got to give to them because when I want something, I get it.” He followed that with the assertion that when he telephoned politicians, “they kiss my ass.”
Well, it seems clear that by disbursing out of the U.S. Treasury $475 million now and promising to pay an additional $2.1 trillion if, and only if, the U.S. population votes to place Republicans in the majority of both Houses of Congress, he expects the American people and the Republicans in Congress to kiss his ass.