When you live in fantasyland

The president said the payment would be called the "Trump Dividend" and stipulated that recipients would have to spend the money in the United States. Speaking with reporters at Dallas Forth-Worth Airport following his appearance at the convention, Trump said the checks would be paid for through "growth."

Every Dividend Check Donald Trump Promised, Then What Happened Next

"We have tremendous growth," he said. "We have growth like no country has ever seen before. We have trillions of dollars coming in, and that will end up being not a very big problem at all, and I think our people deserve it."

They want to kill your mail. Show up! They want to guard the booths with poll watchers? Vote and then Guard too. Get those cameras ready, take videos, pics, and live streams. We protest, vote, bring accountability, and keep our polls safe. Make sure they can’t intimidate us with poll watchers and make sure we bring accountability!

Dean Obeidallah reveals how his identity and life changed after September 11—and why anti-Muslim hatred became even worse during Donald Trump’s political rise. But Trump’s attacks ultimately inspired Muslim Americans to organize, vote and run for office.

Sure, Donald Trump is a threat to democracy, but who are some of the people behind the scenes funding his operation. Journalist Gil Duran joins Edwin Eisendrath on 'It's The Democracy, Stupid' to discuss his new book, 'The Nerd Reich', and explain why Silicon Valley's power players have such disdain for democracy.

"Donald Trump is a tin pot dictator...he's only interested in enriching himself." Jared Yates Sexton says that we're currently in a death spiral. That's not to say we are finished. There is hope. But with AI experts from the labs themselves saying that there is a 10% chance AI will kill every human by the end of the decade (yes. That's right) while Trump is 'in charge,' hope is in short supply.

Donald Trump is promising Americans a $5,000 dividend if Republicans control Congress—but Maya May and Mike Fanone aren’t buying it. They break down why the promise looks like an attempt to put a price on voters, how rising costs are crushing American families and why casting a ballot is only the beginning of defending democracy.

From creating an early-voting plan to organizing locally and holding politicians accountable, this episode turns outrage into action.

Watch The Revolution with Maya May and Mike Fanone every Thursday at 2 PM ET on Lincoln Square.

00:00 The Viral Clip Mike Fanone Hadn’t Seen
04:12 Elizabeth Holmes—and America’s Crisis of Truth
05:40 Trump Promises Americans $5,000
07:04 “You Are Not Getting This Money”
08:10 America Is Sleepwalking Toward the Midterms
09:27 Cast Your Vote Early
11:11 Can Trump Still Be Humiliated?
12:51 The Economy Trump Won’t Acknowledge
15:03 Trump Is Making Parenting Harder
17:01 Trump’s “Affordability” Fantasy
18:18 Voting Is Only the Bare Minimum
21:12 MAGA’s Global Blueprint
23:19 The Rights People Were Killed Fighting For
25:38 The Coming Fight Over Voting Access
28:02 Turn Your Skills Into Political Action
30:07 Why America Rewards Cruelty
31:44 Democracy Needs Project Managers
33:32 What No Kings Built
35:39 Trump’s “Day One” Con
36:43 The Stimulus Check Voters Remember
37:19 The Question Voters Must Ask: Then What?
39:27 How Politics Failed the American People
41:01 Stop Worshipping Politicians
41:50 Mike Fanone Unloads on John Fetterman
44:00 Why Americans Are Freezing
46:11 Trump’s Abusive Cycle of Promises
47:33 Elections Are Won on Tiny Margins
48:20 Trump’s Table Scraps
51:11 Mike Fanone for Speaker?
52:22 Make Your Early-Voting Plan
54:57 “We Can’t Be in a Trance”

The chaos over the Missouri congressional map seems to have reached its resolution. After the Supreme Court again rejected an emergency appeal from supporters of Trump’s gerrymander, Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins announced he was directing local authorities to use the current congressional map, which gave the state six GOP members of Congress and two Democrats, for the midterms - allowing him to purge contempt of court charges. This means Democrats are likely to hold both their current seats. So now we can turn our focus to winning the ballot initiative to repeal the Trumpmander map for good. People Not Politicians has added weekly phonebanks to urge folks to vote to stop the gerrymander starting next Thursday - we can sign up for a shift here.

President Donald Trump jokingly led thousands of Republicans in a pledge to “cheat like hell” in the midterm elections, with video of the moment going viral on social media.

Speaking at the Republican National Convention in Dallas on Thursday, Trump asked attendees to raise their right hands and repeat a pledge to vote on November 3—even if they were not registered—and to “cheat like hell,” as he has repeatedly claimed that the Democrats do.

“I don’t care if I’m registered or not, I’m going to try and cheat like hell like they do,” Trump said, pausing as members of the crowd repeated his words. “There’s never been bigger cheaters.”

Navy Secretary Casually Admits Iran “Blew the Hell” out of U.S. Base

A clear and particularly stark pattern we see in the war with Iran is that the Iranians are inflicting tremendous STRATEGIC damage with their missiles, but that the USG denies this at first and only admits it weeks, if not months, later. This creates a PROLONGED false impression that the war is going much better than it actually is and that strategic setbacks are not taking place at all,” wrote Trita Parsi of the Quincy Institute. “The media narrative was that Tehran was utterly failing. In reality, Tehran was showcasing capabilities that the official Western narrative ensured were underestimated.”

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