$1.4 billion in crypto earnings, per Trump's own financial disclosures. Half of the people who voted for him in 2024 now say corruption in this administration worries them. Both parties have spent $493 million on corruption ads this cycle — when Republicans are buying airtime on graft, that's its own kind of polling. One professor told the FT: families reading about presidential crypto profits while putting off doctor's appointments can see who the system is working for.

A prominent right-wing data analyst says she's holding back early-vote numbers because posting them would hurt the right's "morale." Read more: crowdblue.com/news/927777

7,000 messages. 600 accounts. Ten months. All of it insisting the election is rigged — before a single vote next Tuesday has been counted. That's the Washington Post's tally, and it isn't spontaneous frustration. It's a permission structure, built in advance, so a loss can be called theft the second it happens. The legal challenges are already being drafted to match. The playbook only works on people who haven't seen it before.

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Ban the reporters who ask hard questions, then mock them for being banned. That's the full strategy. A new lawsuit challenges the White House's press restrictions, with a press freedom advocate warning that what's left when critical outlets are locked out isn't journalism — it's government messaging with a press badge. Read more: rawstory.com/trump-press-ban…

There's a reason the DOJ used to go quiet in the weeks before an election. The 60-day rule existed so prosecutors couldn't put a thumb on the scale while people were voting. Nine days out, the DOJ is filing suits, running raids, making arrests, and asking a court to freeze an Alaska Senate certification — but only in the scenario where the Democrat wins.

He promised sub-$2 gas. The avg. price under Trump's second term has now passed what it was under Biden. The thing that got in the way wasn't a "war on energy." It was an actual war — eight months with Iran, and a global energy market that noticed. Read more: crowdblue.com/news/927705

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A gold coin. Engraved with Trump flipping the bird. The words "You missed, b*tches" stamped across it. That's the official gift from the governor of Florida to the President of the United States, handed over Friday with a straight face. Somewhere there's a staffer who commissioned this, approved the artwork, and signed off on the budget line.

Asked whether the Justice Department might block a state from certifying its own election results, the Attorney General said: "Yes, of course there's scenarios that we can all come up with hypothetically... some doomsday scenario." The correct answer to that question is one word, and it isn't a hypothetical. Same department is sending 1,000 monitors to polling places in all 50 states next month. Read More: crowdblue.com/news/927547

A sitting member of Congress running for Senate asked her supporters to chip in for gas money for the campaign bus. NBC's Tom Llamas asked the obvious follow-up: if gas prices are so great under this administration, why does the bus need a fundraiser? Ashley Hinson did not have a clean answer, because there isn't one. You can campaign on cheap gas or you can pass the hat for fuel. Picking both at once is how you end up on Nightly News.

"Who did you vote for?" is reportedly now part of the promotion process for career diplomats — the people who negotiate treaties, issue visas, and evacuate Americans from war zones. Six State Department sources describe the screening. Donations to Democrats were treated as disqualifying. Federal law bars exactly this. The officers who fail the test don't get fired. They stall out and leave. Read more: crowdblue.com/news/927464

Trump's Chocolate Factory: Where everything is gold, the tariffs are tremendous, and the only golden ticket is getting out before the bill arrives. 🍫🎩 #Trump #Tariffs #PoliticalSatire

"If you have a mail-in ballot, return it immediately and, if not, GO VOTE at the Polls RIGHT NOW." That's Trump in late October, pleading with Republicans to use the method he's spent five years calling rigged, stolen and fraudulent. He wasn't worried about fraud. He was worried about turnout. And now 16 million people have already voted, tracking above 2018 — with Democrats and unaffiliated voters leading. Read more: crowdblue.com/news/927457

"You can't trust anybody here." That's a Trump ally describing the West Wing to CNN, where staffers are reportedly bracing for a presidential "rampage" if Republicans lose both chambers. Read more: crowdblue.com/news/927325

Ramaswamy spent $4M on an attack ad, and somehow the biggest casualty was his own campaign. 💀 His odds of becoming Ohio's next governor? Down to 22%. That's not an attack ad. That's a political suicide note with a production budget. crowdblue.com/news/927369 #Ohio #Ramaswamy

The evidence: a 2012 social media post, written by the candidate's half-sister, about their mother's activism in Egypt in the early 1970s — before Abdul El-Sayed was born. From that, Ted Cruz told Fox viewers there is "every reason to believe" El-Sayed would hand classified material to terrorists and get Americans killed. No investigation. No document. No allegation of wrongdoing. Just a Muslim candidate in a close Michigan race, and a senator betting suspicion still works.

The word doing the heavy lifting is "likely." DOJ wants California to pull aside ballots tied to 20,000 people it calls likely noncitizens. Local officials started checking. Some of those people have records saying they were born in the United States. California's filing calls it a reckless political stunt that could disenfranchise thousands — days before an election, using a list nobody verified first. Read More: crowdblue.com/news/927341

April 2024, Don Jr. on X: "Remember when they said Trump would get us into a full-blown war with Iran?" The United States is now in a full-blown war with Iran, and the president's son is reportedly telling people privately that he opposed it from day one — including his father. Privately. The public posts are still up. Read more: crowdblue.com/news/927336

Gas up 40% in a year. Diesel near a record. Drivers wincing at every pump. Unless, of course, you own a piece of an oil-and-gas major — because Trump's war of choice in Iran sent crude climbing, and somebody on the other end of that transaction is having a very good quarter. The cost gets spread across every American who drives to work. The windfall doesn't.