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DispatchSomething Stinks in Texas: The Politics of Fear Just Landed in Your Mailbox
Fake transgender mailers, AI attack ads and ‘spoiler’ warnings: Texas runs on fear in 2026. Who’s behind it, how they got your address, and your other choices.
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DispatchThe DOJ Let CBS and CNN Merge. Now It’s Investigating Them for Acting Together.
In June the DOJ let CBS News and CNN fall under one owner, no conditions. In October it opened an antitrust probe into them for acting together. Explain that.
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DispatchYou’re Paying More for Worse Health Care. Everyone in Charge Knows It.
ACA premiums jump again in 2027 while wages rise 3%. The U.S. ranks last in health outcomes. Insurers, regulators and Congress all know it. Nobody acts.
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DispatchMeet the Uniparty: Both Parties Killed the Stock-Trading Ban, Then Blamed Each Other
The Senate killed the congressional stock-trading ban 53-47. Republicans rigged it to fail. Democrats obliged. Both parties kept their portfolios.
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DispatchThe Judge Said Her Court Wasn't a Rubber Stamp. Then She Approved the $110 Billion Merger.
A federal judge approved the states' Paramount settlement Sept. 30. The $110B Warner Bros. deal closes Oct. 6. Here's what she said, and what nobody asked.
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DispatchWho Actually Stops a $110 Billion Merger?
Gas is $4.48 and Washington is fighting a war. Meanwhile a $110B Hollywood deal and a rail mega-merger roll through with nobody guarding the door for consumers.
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DispatchWhat Is Wrong With America Today
Capitalism isn't what's broken in America. Crony capitalism is. Lobbyists, rubber-stamped mergers, and a school system that stopped teaching the difference.
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DispatchYour Insurer Will Pay for the Heart Attack. Increasingly, It Won't Pay for What Prevents It
GLP-1 weight-loss coverage is disappearing in 2026 even as use for diabetes and heart disease grows. Here's what changed, and what to do about it.
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DispatchThe World Just Entered the Worst Oil Shock in History — And Washington Is Selling You a Fantasy About Venezuela
The Strait of Hormuz is closed, oil is over $100, and the IEA calls it history's worst supply shock. Here's what's coming, and who's to blame.
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DispatchInflation Is the Tax Congress Never Has to Vote For
Inflation erodes your paycheck without a single vote in Congress. Here's why Washington needs it, how the $40T debt feeds it, and who actually profits.
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DispatchCongress Investigated Everyone's Insider Trading Except Its Own
A soldier faces prison for $400K in insider bets, Wall Street faces a $1.45B probe — and the Senate banned itself from prediction markets, but not stock trades.
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DispatchA Power Company Sued Two Newspapers to Hide What It's Charging You for Google's AI Boom
Entergy sued two Arkansas newspapers to block a story on its secret Google data center deal. A judge said no. Here's the paper trail, in full.
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2026
- We've Run This Experiment Before: Why Washington Should Leave the Tax Code Out of the Nursery
- The Toll Booth Nobody Voted For: How Washington Handed One Company a Permanent License to Tax the Internet
- "I'm the Best Fixer in Washington." Then He Went and Ran the DOJ's Antitrust Division From the Outside.
- The Doctors Aren't Lobbying for the Thing That Would Actually Help You
- Protected on Paper: How Wild Horses Are Ending Up in Slaughterhouses
- From 561 Companies to Four: The Beef Monopoly Trump's "Deal" Won't Touch
- How Much Corrupt Behavior Do We Have to Endure Between Corporations and Government?
- Your Grocery Bill Isn't High Because of Inflation. It's High Because You Have Nowhere Else to Shop.
- Cord-Cutting Was Supposed to Save You Money. A Decade Later, You're Paying More For Less.
- The Fine Was $3.3 Million. The Scheme Made Them an Estimated $3 Billion. And Cal-Maine's Been Here Before.
- Texas Parks and Wildlife Told Me My Data Was Stolen. The Response Was the Same One Everyone Gets.
- You Don't Choose Your Drink. Coca-Cola and Pepsi Already Did.
- The Cheap Insulin Wasn't Unprofitable. It Just Didn't Make Anyone Enough Money.
- The Insurers Pledged Reform. One Year Later, Some Still Deny Care 80% of the Time.
- 2,045 Sick. We Inspect 1% of What We Import. Almost Nobody Goes to Prison.
- Your Memory Chips Cost 700% More. The DOJ Only Moves When the Pentagon Needs Them.
- Your Doctor Didn't Choose Fifteen Minutes. Their Employer Did.
- 795,000 Misdiagnosed a Year. Follow the Money.
- What's Really in Your Food? The Numbers Are In.
- A Year Later, Almost to the Day, the Hill Country Is Flooding Again
- Four CDC Directors in a Year. Four Outbreaks Right Now.
- Farmers Beat John Deere. The Watchdog That Won It For Them Just Lost Its Teeth.
- They Built Cars You Can't Afford, Financed You for Seven Years, and Walked Away With the Money
- They Fired the Election Commission. Here's What They Actually Want It to Do Next.
- Make America Healthy Again. But First, Let Big Food Review the Terms.
- The Relationship Is the Product
- None of This Is Normal. All of It Is Monday.
- The Republic We Were Promised. The System We Actually Got.
- One Court. One Day. Two Rulings. Guess Which Industry Won.
- It's All Legal. That's What Should Worry You.
- The Water Monopoly Lied to Your Face. A Congressman Just Explained Why They Always Will.
- Corporatocracy: The Most Expensive House Seat in America Decides Tonight
- The DEA Let It Walk: A Body Count Built on Purpose
- The Memo That Came Four Days Early
- The Price of Flying: How Airlines Took Your Money, Your Jobs, and Your Service
- SpaceX Broke It. The Government Gave It to Them.
- The Rules Were Written by the Regulated
- The Deal Was Made. Nobody Was Watching.
- The Supreme Court Is About to Change Everything — Again
- The Most Dangerous World Since World War II — And America Is Right in the Middle of It
- The Hunger Hidden in Plain Sight: GLP-1, Depleted Soil, and the American Body Under Siege
- The AI That Runs Your Phone, Your Military, and Maybe Your Future — And Nobody Asked You
- The Great American AI Act and the Law That Will Govern Your Digital Life
- 70 Hours of Biden's Voice: What the June 15 Tape Release Will and Won't Tell You
- 113 Vials and a Lie: The NIH Researcher Who Studies Bat Viruses Just Got Charged With Smuggling Monkeypox Into America
- The Cover-Up in Plain Sight: Bondi, Blanche, Trump, and the Epstein Files Nobody Was Supposed to Read
- We Shouldn't Have Been There: Trump's War Admission, the Electorate's Answer, and Why the Cure May Be Worse Than the Disease
- The Patriot's Philosophy: Loving Your Country When It Turns Its Laws Against You
- The Most Dangerous Promotion in American History: How a Social Media Philanthropist Became America's Spy Chief
- The Cancer Warning Nobody Gave You: Why Middle Age Is the Danger Zone Medicine Has Been Ignoring
- The Bible as a Map: How Israel Is Using America's Wars to Redraw the Middle East
- Section 224: The Ledger Speaks — 2,819 Impressions, 18 Readers, and Why That Gap Is the Real Story
- Merged at the Trigger: Section 224, the NDAA, and the Quiet End of American Military Sovereignty
- The Domino Strategy: How the Iran War, the Venezuela Takedown, and a Deal on the Table Are Converging to End Cuba
- The Brotherhood That Built America — And the Generation That Forgot It
- His Face on Your Money: The $250 Bill, the Law They Want to Break, and What It Actually Means
- Texas Chooses Its Ledger: The Senate and AG Races That Will Define the State for a Generation
- 40 Years of the Wrong Pill: The Heart Drug Taken by Millions That Doesn't Work
- The Ceasefire That Isn't: Inside the 87-Day War Nobody Has Ended
- Ebola Is Accelerating: 904 Cases, 10 Countries at Risk, and the Strain Nobody Has a Vaccine
- NO FOREIGN KING
- The Pivot Point: While America Stumbles, Xi Just Chose His World
- Bought and Paid For: AIPAC, the Congress They Built, and the President They Own
- Dr. Evil Has a Foundation: The Unauthorized Ledger of Bill Gates
- The Grid Belongs to Someone Else Now: The $67 Billion Power Grab Behind Your Electric Bill
- Gain-of-Function, Weaponized Ticks, and the Biolab Ledger Nobody Wanted You to Read
- Taiwan Is on Its Own: What Trump Didn't Say in Beijing Is the Story May 18, 2026
- Ebola Is Back — And This Time There's No Vaccine May 18, 2026
- The Strait That's Strangling the World: Iran, Oil, and the Frozen War
- The Fed Has a New Boss — And Washington Pulled the Strings
- Rethinking the Pantry: The FDA’s Proactive Audit of the Food Supply
- The Fluoride Audit: Federal Friction and the Fight for Municipal Sovereignty
- The Texas Ascension: Power, Population, and the Electron War
- The Silicon Firewall: Texas Escalates the Tech Cold War
- THE GHOST IN THE MACHINE: A HISTORY OF CELLULAR AGRICULTURE
- DC Anarchy: The $39 Trillion Ceiling and the Iran Escalation
- Tarrant County’s FY26 Budget: The Great Property Tax Shell Game
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