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

• Australia Banned Trump Over Mafia Ties – America Let Him Build a Casino Empire
• 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.
• The Great White Refugee Scam — The manufactured crisis of white South African refugees and Trump’s selective compassion.
• 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
• Pam Bondi’s Florida Record Is Way Weirder Than the Epstein Angle
• 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 for Investigating Him

1999

• Who Needs the Epstein Files? Trump’s Modeling Agency Was a Documented Trafficking Operation
• 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

2016

• How Did Jeffrey Epstein Know About Pence?

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 Killed Weather Disaster Database, Volunteers Revived It
• 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 Blocked the Hostage Deal for 15 Months – 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
• The Project 2025 Plan To Deny Your Social Security
• 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
• The 88 County Problem: Comparing Nixon, Reagan, and Trump’s Election Numbers
• 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 Why Do They Point to Vote Manipulation?
• Why We Must Investigate the 2024 Election Anomalies
• 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 Built – 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 Final Assault on Democratic Elections
• 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
• Worker Subsidies: The Hidden Cost of Low Wages
• 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 88 County Problem: Every County Flipped Red, But None Flipped Blue?
• 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
• Well, You’re Never Going to Believe This – But Trump Lied – Again.
• Do you remember when you first heard about Project 2025?
• Trump Doesn’t Care About Inflation.
• 79% of DC Residents Think Trump’s Crime Crackdown Is Pure Theater
• Trump Cut $11 Billion in CDC Grants and Somehow Hit Red States Hardest
• Sheikh Pays Trump $2 Billion. Trump Drops Sanctions. NYT Notices.
• Epstein Survivors Are Back at Capitol Hill. Congress Keeps Ignoring Them.
• 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 Just Sued Him for Corruption
• Harvard Has $57 Billion and Is Cutting PhD Programs. Pick a Lane.
• Hegseth’s New Pentagon Press Corps Is Just Right-Wing Government Stenographers
• Tennessee’s “Transparency” Bill Is a Trans Registry With Extra Steps
• 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)

2026

• Trump Gutted the CDC and Now There’s 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.
• The Generals Said No: Inside Trump’s Failed Greenland Invasion Order
• The Minnesota Shakedown
• Red States Are the Welfare Queens
• Senate Republicans Give Trump Unlimited War Powers After He Yells At Them
• Trump’s Deportation Force 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 While Troops Work Without Pay
• The White House Turned ICE Into a Propaganda Machine
• We Were Hours Away from Bombing Iran Last Week
• The DNC Buried Their 2024 Report. Here’s What They Don’t Want You to Know.
• Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s Office Bar Scandal
• “We Believe in American Companies, But Not the Political United States” – Europe Starts Dumping Our Debt
• The Generals Said No: Inside Trump’s Failed Greenland Invasion Order
• The Fed Just Gave Wall Street $420 Billion and Hoped You Wouldn’t Notice
• Trump’s Deportation Force Can’t Do Sit-Ups or Pass Basic Tests
• Democracy Is Officially Over: Trump Signs NSPM-7
• My Tariff Inflation Call Was Right – The Fed Just Proved It
• The Charlie Kirk Scam: How Rigged Campus “Debates” Fooled Millions
• When “Catch This Fascist” Doesn’t Mean What You Think,
• The Cyber Strategy That Gutted Its Own Defense Team
• Freedom Is for Sale, and the Price List Just Leaked
• 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 Queers 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

Corruption of Power

2026

• Trump Gutted the CDC and Now There’s 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 Got Hacked by Iran After Firing the Team That Tracks Iran
• 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 $12 Million to Kill a $50,000 Drone and Trump Thinks That’s Winning
• The People Under Investigation Wrote the Investigation Rules
• Nobody Is Talking About 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 Guy Who Runs the Pentagon Used to Own the Companies Bidding on the Pentagon’s Biggest Contract
• 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 Iran’s Oil Hub and Sold Oil to Hungary on the Same Day
• Kushner Takes $2 Billion From the Saudis and Negotiates a War That Makes Them Richer

2026

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