Corruption of Power

This is where the deals get made and the receipts pile up. From quid pro quo to policy-for-pay, we track who’s selling access and who’s buying it. The grift is sophisticated. The paper trail is not.

1987

• Sydney Said No to Trump Over ‘Mafia Connections’ - New Jersey Said Yes
• Trump’s Tariff Logic: Blackmail or Simply Ignorance? - How Trump’s blanket tariff strategy differs from every other country’s surgical approach to trade protection.
• The Artistic Guillotine: Trump’s War on Culture - How Trump gutted the NEA and declared war on arts funding across America.
• Trump’s Big Announcement: What’s the Real Tea Here? - Breaking down the real agenda behind Trump’s latest policy announcement.
• Trump’s Drug Price Promise: Just Hot Air or Real Change? - Why Trump’s prescription drug price announcement is more theater than substance.
• Republicans’ No Tax on Tips: A Budgetary Mirage? - The Republican “no tax on tips” promise looks a lot less appealing in the details.
• Political Gifts: From Nixon’s Checkers to Trump’s Qatar Jet - From defending a dog named Checkers to justifying a $400 million flying palace from Qatar.
• Qatar’s “Gift” to Trump: A Decades-Old Problem the Royals Can’t Unload - The real story behind Qatar’s 747 “gift” that nobody actually wanted.
• Memes and Body Bags - The White House is running a war like a content house while Americans pay at the pump and the funeral home (2026)

2025

• They’re Not Even Hiding It Anymore
• A DOGE Employee Allegedly Walked Out of the Social Security Administration with Your Data on a Thumb Drive
• Birthright Citizenship: America’s Sacred Yet Lonely Ritual
• The Big, Bullshit Bill: Stripping Health Insurance from Millions
• No, Your Undocumented Neighbor Isn’t Stealing Your Medicaid
• Down the Pam Bondi Rabbit Hole
• TikTok, Red Note, and Why Americans Don’t Understand Communism
• Kash Patel Is Running the FBI Like a Personal Travel Agency
• AOC Said the Quiet Part Loud and MAGA Melted Down
• Kash Patel Is Being Sued By Agents He Fired Over the Trump Investigations

1999

• The 26-Year-Old Who Fired the Ethics Lawyers Is Now Running Pentagon AI
• The EPA’s Chemical Safety Office Is Run by the Chemical Industry’s Former Lobbyists

2001

• The 9/11 Bill Comes Due

2009

2017

• The Florida Network Is on Trial

2018

• Why Was a Former Treasury Secretary Asking a Sex Trafficker About Trump?
• The Kompromat Question

2020

• Jack Smith Says He Had Proof Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Substack)

2024

• I’m Not Worried About Tuesday at All

2025

• The TikTok Shakedown
• The AI Deregulation Scam
• The Sergio Gor Russian Spy Allegations
• The Shadow Strategist: The Dark Force Behind Trump’s New Political Playbook
• The Make America Sick Again Paradox
• Democrats Can’t Win by Playing Republican Dress-Up
• Why “The Professors Are the Enemy” Isn’t About Professors
• Will Trump Pardon Ghislaine Maxwell?
• The $400 Million Plane That Wasn’t a Gift
• The $2 Billion Trump Crypto Scam
• The Bond Heist: How Trump’s Cabinet Profits From Economic Chaos
• Harvard’s $57 Billion Lie
• Peaceful Protests Don’t Lead to Change (Substack)
• Stop Freaking Out About Socialism (Substack)
• Why American Patriotism is a Psyop (Substack)
• The Crypto President’s Conflict of Interest Problem
• John Bolton Indicted - And The Irony Is Incredible
• The Accidental Energy Revolution
• You Can’t Sue the Government Like It’s Pfizer (Substack)
• When Leopards Eat Your Face (Substack)
• Thune Just Called Bull on Trump’s Beef Deal
• Trump’s NOAA Killed the Billion-Dollar Disaster Database. A Nonprofit Brought It Back.
• 22 Million Americans Stuck in GOP Healthcare Hostage Crisis
• Pardoned January 6th Rioter Arrested for Threatening Hakeem Jeffries
• Trump Commuted George Santos After Three Months
• Trump-Appointed Judge Blocks Trump From Sending Troops to Portland
• Trump Is Updating Nixon’s Playbook
• Pam Bondi Prosecutes the Left-Wing Terrorist Organization That Doesn’t Exist
• The Young Republicans Scandal Was Not a College Group Chat
• Netanyahu Was Accused of Blocking a Hostage Deal in 2024 - Then Took a Bow
• DSCC Anoints Janet Mills Before Maine Primary Even Starts
• Trump’s Deportation Contractor Sues Him for Corruption
• Pentagon Press Rules So Bad Even Newsmax Said No
• Trade Policy Ruled By Tantrum
• Trump Crowdsources a McCarthy-Era Blacklist for Antifa
• COVID Vaccines Still Work But Only 3.7% Got the Shot
• Trump’s Fossil Fuel Agenda Tanks U.S. Renewable Investment
• Trump’s Aid Cuts Are Killing Children
• When Faith Becomes a License to Harm
• Trump’s Plan To Make Social Security Disability Harder To Get After 50
• How to Win the Argument: There Was No Open Border Policy
• Federal Workers Are Now Just Campaign Props
• Republicans Think You’re Stupid: The Healthcare Shutdown Lie
• Trump Threatens to Withhold Federal Money If NYC Elects Wrong Mayor
• Trump’s Autism “Breakthrough” Is a Con
• Trump Labels Antifa a Terrorist Organization That Doesn’t Exist
• Trump’s Visa Integrity Fee Hits 140 Countries But Skips 40 White Ones
• Trillions Down the Drain and Lives Torn Apart: Trump’s Ukraine-Russia Stance Pisses on America’s Sacrifice
• The Impact of COVID-19 on IQ and Its Potential Influence on Political Decisions Among the Unvaccinated
• Voter Suppression Law Blocked by 9th Circuit Court
• Trump’s Trans Policy is Dangerous and Dumb
• How Trump is Using “America First” For Personal Gain
• What Are Drop-Off Votes, and Do They Point to Vote Manipulation?
• But what about the 2020 Election?
• This Story Is More Important Than Epstein or Charlie Kirk
• The Left Doesn’t Want Tyler Robinson to Be Guilty
• UAE Dropped $2 Billion Into Trump’s Crypto Company
• Americans Are Being Groomed to Snitch on Each Other
• Supreme Court Greenlights Racial Profiling in Los Angeles
• JD Vance Doesn’t Give a Shit If Killing Venezuelans Is a War Crime
• The Quiet Breakup of America
• The $2 Million Abortion Victory Lap
• How Trump is Hurting His Own Voters
• The Alliance Trump Keeps Feeding - For His Enemies
• The Real Conspiracy Is How We’ve Been Trained to Distrust Reality
• Big Balls in the SSA Vault
• The Gerrymander Gamble
• Trump’s Rate Cut Obsession Is a Cover for Fiscal Panic
• The Art of the Arms Deal
• The Gospel of the Government
• Guess Who Got Caught Lying - Again?
• Democracy’s Red Flag: The Gerrymandering Crisis That Demands Action Now
• Is Trump’s Coke Crusade a Grift? Of Course It Is!
• Trump’s CBS Lawsuit Was Basically Blackmail
• Alligator Alcatraz Is Just Another GOP Grift
• Trump Won’t Sue AOC Because Discovery Would Destroy Him
• That Time Reagan Accidentally Broke Democracy
• Walmart and McDonald’s Have the Most Employees on Medicaid
• Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Census Plan Is Constitutionally Dead on Arrival
• The BBB Makes College More Expensive for Poor People
• The BBB Expands SNAP Work Requirements to Push People Off the Rolls
• The BBB Is a Bonfire and the Planet Is the Kindling
• Everyone’s Getting the Supreme Court Birthright Ruling Wrong
• The Supreme Court Just Broke American Democracy
• The BBB Would Require Security Bonds to Challenge Government Constitutional Violations
• Why Trump’s Middle East Peace Fantasy Was Always Doomed
• Trump’s Iran Strikes Ignore Congressional Consultation Process
• Americans Are About To Pay More For Everything
• The Truth About The Army’s 250th Anniversary Parade
• There’s a Difference Between Consequences and Containment
• Trump Tweeted Evacuate Immediately to Tehran at 3 AM
• The Army Parade Nobody Wanted vs The Protest Everyone Attended
• There Is No Distraction
• The Real Reasons Behind Musk’s Defection
• Explaining the Trump-Musk Social Media Meltdown
• Trump Isn’t Playing 4D Chess
• The Living Wage Reality Check
• The Obsession With Bipartisanship Is a Trap
• The Non-Fiction of The Handmaid’s Tale
• The Great Refugee Scam
• The U.S. Runs on Minority Rule Disguised as Democracy
• The Defense Budget Circus: When Nearly a Trillion Isn’t Enough
• We Weren’t Just Casting Narcissists, We Were Creating Them
• How Trump Plans to Rig The Courts
• Trump’s White South African Farmer Genocide Lie
• Trump Made the Guy Who Filmed His Brother-in-Law Having Sex Ambassador to France
• America’s $916 Billion Question: If Not for Ukraine, What’s Our Military For?
• Voter Suppression: Now With More Technology!
• Why Does Our Special Envoy to Russia Not Know Shit About Russia?
• The Shadow Strategist: Who’s Really Writing Trump’s Playbook?
• The Hidden Cost of America First: 3.3 Million Lives at Stake
• Making Canada Our 51st State Is a Batshit Crazy Idea
• Chicago Police Standing Guard Outside a Tesla Dealership
• Trump’s No Tax on Overtime Actually Helps Employers
• The Trans Athlete Debate Is Handing Bigots a Megaphone
• SNAP Benefits Are Government Subsidies for Corporations
• Are That Many People Really Fine With What Elon Musk Is Doing?
• If Your Intuition Said Something Was Off About 2024, You Were Right
• The One Where He Admits Everything
• Could Truth.Fi Be Tied to the Tariffs?
• This Is the Time to Sound the Alarm
• I Finally Figured Out Trump’s Tariff Play
• Have You Been Wondering About All This Gilded Age Nonsense?
• Make It Make Sense
• The Only People Not Affected by DEI Are White Men
• We Need to Talk About Authoritarianism and Fascism
• Election Truth Alliance Report on Clark County Nevada
• JD Vance Said The Professors Are the Enemy
• Here’s a Breakdown of What’s Happening With Crypto
• Menthol Cigarette Ban Withdrawn by Trump Administration
• The Government Is Erasing History From National Parks
• Stock Buyback Bonanza: Wall Street’s $800 Billion Puzzle
• Money in Politics: The Root of Our Political Dumpster Fire
• The Spending Spree Is the Receipt - The Pentagon blew a record $93 billion in September, then let food stamps lapse for 42 million Americans.
• The Department of Education Doesn’t Write Your Kid’s Textbook
• Trump Doesn’t Care About Inflation.
• 79% of DC Residents Oppose Trump’s Crime Crackdown - It’s Pure Theater
• Epstein Survivors Return to Capitol - Still Begging for Justice
• Trump’s Fossil Fuel Agenda Is a Debt Payment to Oil Executives
• Trump Asked Influencers to Snitch on Antifa Like It’s a McCarthy-Era Blacklist
• Trump’s Deportation Contractor of 20 Years Is Suing DHS Over a $915 Million Deal
• Harvard Has $57 Billion and Is Slashing PhD Admissions. Pick a Lane.
• Hegseth’s New Pentagon Press Corps Is Mostly Right-Wing Government Stenographers
• Eric Trump and Don Jr. Learned the Phone Grift From Their Dad’s Licensing Deals - Trump Mobile followed the old family licensing model: deposits into a Florida LLC, undisclosed fee to the Trumps, losses pushed onto everyone else. (2025)
• The Unauthorized Immigrant Count: What’s the Real Number?
• My Tariff Inflation Call Was Right - The Fed Just Proved It
• Trump Is Stocking His Election Oversight Team With 2020 Deniers. Fear 2026.
• They Recalled Furloughed Workers to Check Inflation Numbers Then Sent Them Back
• Trump’s Hiring Freeze Has No End Date Now - and Every Hire Has to Fit His ‘Priorities’
• Why Eight Democratic Senators Voted to Cave on Healthcare: The Real Theory
• Trump Is Stripping Whistleblower Protections From Thousands of Senior Federal Employees
• Trump Signed the Epstein Files Bill. Bondi Couldn’t Explain What Changed.
• Will the Epstein Files End MAGA? Here’s My Honest Answer.
• Billionaires Don’t Make Good Leaders Because They Don’t Need Money. Wrong.
• Trump Called Epstein Files a ‘Hoax’ Then Signed the Release Bill Anyway
• A Federal Court Just Handed Trump’s Criminal Conviction Back for Immunity Review
• Congressman Cohen, Winning Memphis Isn’t the Same as Leading It
• Three Years Out and Democrats Are Already Catastrophizing About 2028
• Trump’s Ukraine ‘Peace Talks’ Were a Business Development Scheme for His Donors
• Pete Hegseth Reportedly Ordered ‘Kill Everybody.’ Attacking Shipwrecked Men Is a War Crime.
• GAO Auditors Created 23 Fake ACA Enrollees. All 23 Got Approved.

2026

• Todd Blanche Went After Minnesota’s Judges for Talking to the Times - Blanche filed a misconduct complaint against Minnesota’s federal judges for telling the Times that ICE violated nearly 100 court orders, after the judiciary’s own ethics panel said judges could speak up.
• Chuck Grassley Put Jack Smith on Trial for Doing His Job - Grassley’s Senate hearing went after Jack Smith for checking White House phones in the Jan. 6 probe, and the man deciding whether to prosecute Smith used to be Trump’s lawyer.
• They Admitted It Again: Trump Is Holding Housing Hostage to Make It Harder to Vote - Trump canceled the biggest housing bill in 30 years to force a voting bill that guts mail-in registration, and Republicans keep saying the quiet part out loud.
• Trump Gutted the CDC and by July There’ll Be One Person Left to Handle a Rabies Crisis - The CDC paused rabies and poxvirus testing after losing half its lab staff to Trump-era cuts.
• Did the Generals Say No? Inside Trump’s Reported Greenland Invasion Plan
• The Minnesota Shakedown
• Red States Are the Welfare Queens
• Senate Republicans Kill the Venezuela War Powers Check After Trump’s Angry Calls
• Some of Trump’s New Deportation Recruits Can’t Do Sit-Ups or Pass Basic Tests
• The Trump Family Guide to Managing Dementia
• Trump Made Himself Chairman of Gaza
• Trump’s Labor Secretary Allegedly Keeps Office Liquor Cabinet, Affair With Staffer
• We Believe in American Companies, But Not the Political United States’ - Europe Starts Dumping Our Debt
• Coast Guard Gets Luxury Jets in the Middle of a Shutdown
• The White House Turned ICE Into a Propaganda Machine
• We Were Hours Away from Bombing Iran
• The DNC Buried Their 2024 Report. Here’s What They Don’t Want You to Know.
• The Fed Just Lent Wall Street $420 Billion and Hoped You Wouldn’t Notice
• Democracy Is Officially Over: Trump Signs NSPM-7
• My Tariff Inflation Call Was Right - The Fed Just Proved It
• The Charlie Kirk Scam
• The Cyber Strategy That Gutted Its Own Defense Team
• Freedom Is for Sale, and the Price List Is in the Lobbying Filings
• The Sanctions Boomerang
• The Fly They Want to Swat
• They Fired the War-Gamers. Then the War Started.
• The Alteration
• Party Foul at Fort Bliss
• Hegseth Kicked Out the Trans Troops to Replace Them With Potheads and Old Dudes - The Army raised its max enlistment age to 42 and waived pot convictions while firing 15,000 trans troops who were already serving.
• Memphis Police Pepper-Sprayed the Protest Marshals at the No Kings March
• Pete Hegseth’s Broker Tried to Buy Defense Stocks Weeks Before the Iran War Started
• The United States Bombed Venezuela at 2 AM and Captured Maduro
• Eric Swalwell’s Accusers Brought Receipts - His Lawyer Brought Cease-and-Desist Letters

Corruption of Power

2026

• Trump Gutted the CDC and by July There’ll Be One Person Left to Handle a Rabies Crisis - The CDC paused rabies and poxvirus testing after losing half its lab staff to Trump-era cuts.
• Kash Patel Gutted the Team That Tracks Iran - Then Iran-Linked Hackers Leaked His Email
• The Bag of Rocks: SCOTUS, Iran, and the Week America’s Economy Got Kneecapped
• Your Tax Dollars Are Funding Rapture Prep at the Pentagon
• Trump’s Copy-Paste War
• We’re Spending Millions to Kill a $50,000 Drone and Trump Thinks That’s Winning
• The People Hit With Ethics Complaints Wrote the Ethics Complaint Rules
• The Oil Headlines Are Missing What This War Is Doing to the Water
• Pete Hegseth’s Broker Tried to Buy Defense Stocks Weeks Before the Iran War Started

2025

• The Pentagon’s No. 2 Used to Own the Companies Now Winning Golden Dome Contracts
• The Manufacturing Reshoring Fantasy: Where Are All the Workers?
They Gutted the Watchdogs Before They Made the Appointments
• The War Is a Product Launch - Trump family’s $750M drone empire profits from $200B war spending request (2026)
• Pete Hegseth Fired the Army Chief of Staff and Replaced Him With His Own Personal Aide
• The US Bombed Military Targets on Iran’s Oil Island the Same Day Hungary Lined Up a Deal for US Oil
• Kushner’s Firm Took $2 Billion From the Saudis. Now He’s Negotiating a War That Makes Them Richer

2026

• Hungary’s Foreign Minister Was Caught on Tape Spying for Russia. He Still Has His Job.