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Hawk sees the current order coming to an end. Trump becomes a lame duck on election night, and no other Republican, not JD Vance and not Vivek Ramaswamy, can hold the MAGA coalition together. Ramaswamy's ad featuring Amy Acton's estranged mother has backfired in the Ohio governor race.

The big beautiful bill cut Medicaid and SNAP, Affordable Care Act premiums keep climbing, and Project 2025 is reshaping health care. Elon Musk, crypto money behind Jon Husted, AI billionaires, ICE surveillance, and Flock cameras show how far things have gone.

If Democrats take the House and Senate, will Hakeem Jeffries greenlight investigations into Jared Kushner, the Trump family, and Trump crypto deals? Will Democrats pass legislation for working Americans? The first step is voting for Democrats in the midterms.

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According to the lawsuit, the original 2024 stream shows Piker sarcastically mocking a conservative commentator during a debate, and Jennings added a caption presenting words Piker never said as a direct quote. The complaint alleges Jennings was notified the video was false and refused to retract it.

The suit brings counts for defamation per se, defamation by implication, and false light, seeking $27.5 million in compensatory damages and $45 million in punitive damages, plus a jury trial. Piker will need to prove actual malice. Jennings has not yet responded in court.

The case follows months of attacks on Piker from Democratic establishment figures and cable news after he campaigned with Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan.

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Former defense minister Avigdor Lieberman has asked Israel's attorney general to open a treason investigation, accusing Netanyahu of trying to drag Israel into war with Iran to avoid losing the election. Drop Site News reporter Ryan Grim lays out the stakes on Breaking Points.

The pattern looks familiar from Washington, where reporting suggests Donald Trump weighed a major strike on Iran before the midterms. For Hawk, making decisions about war for political reasons is how soldiers and civilians end up dead.

A Netanyahu loss would break up his far-right coalition with Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich and could revive the corruption cases against him, just a week before Americans vote in the midterms.

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The report includes a new allegation from Beatrice Keul, a Swiss former pageant contestant, who told committee staff that Trump assaulted her during his November 1993 American Dream pageant. It also points to a withheld FBI case number tied to the 2007 Epstein investigation, a redacted 2009 email from Epstein's lawyer, and records contradicting Trump's claim that he kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago.

Democrats accuse Attorney General Todd Blanche, Trump's former defense lawyer, of steering Ghislaine Maxwell away from a survivor's account during his interview with her, and of shielding Trump alongside Pam Bondi. A redacted FBI summary also states that Epstein introduced Melania Trump to Donald Trump.

With Election Day a week away, Democrats are calling for an independent special counsel. Hawk has a suggestion for who it should be: Jack Smith.

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The threats come as Musk pours more than $445 million into Republican midterm races, including over $150 million backing Ken Paxton in Texas, while Starlink restrictions hampered Ukraine's defense against Russia. A Lancet study estimates the USAID cuts made during DOGE could cost 14 million lives by 2030.

Musk's feed keeps pushing white replacement talking points, calling migrants in Ceuta and the English Channel invaders, while X refuses ads for Alex Gibney's Musk documentary. So much for free speech absolutism.

Hawk wants Democrats to bury Musk in subpoenas and put him under oath alongside Jared Kushner and the Trump sons, and wonders whether Hakeem Jeffries will schedule a quiet lunch with Musk too.

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According to Cole, Mohammed bin Zayed and Mohammed bin Salman placed roughly $2 billion in accounts tied to Kushner, including $750 million in an account owned by an Emirati charity and about $1 billion parked at Israel's central bank at Benjamin Netanyahu's urging. Cole reports none of it was disclosed, raising bribery and foreign agent questions.

The contrast with two years of House investigations into Hunter Biden is hard to miss. So is the second term, with Kushner and Steve Witkoff negotiating with Vladimir Putin over Ukraine and with Gulf states over Iran while Kushner raises billions for his fund.

For Hawk, the Kushner corruption report is a roadmap for Democratic congressional investigations after the midterms, which makes Hakeem Jeffries' private meeting with Kushner even harder to explain.

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In California, it's already happening. On the Main Justice podcast, Andrew Weissmann and Mary McCord walk through the DOJ's demand that California purge 20,000 voters, delivered on a thumb drive with no supporting evidence, after mail ballots were already out. Harmeet Dhillon's Civil Rights Division has warned election officials they could face prosecution. The charges against 28 people may fall apart, but the indictments create the headlines.

Donald Trump won't rule out the Insurrection Act. He's telling us what they're going to do.

Vote, in person if you can, for every Democrat on your ballot.

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It started with the pro-Ramaswamy ad featuring Amy Acton's estranged mother, who sided with her husband, Acton's abuser, in court when Acton was 12. Acton had already spoken publicly about her childhood. She became a physician, led the Ohio Department of Health, and is now running for governor. And the first time she has seen her mother in 48 years is in an attack ad.

It took Hawk most of the day to understand why it hit so hard. His own relationship with his late mother was complicated: a gifted nurse, a fierce advocate for her kids, the source of his empathy and his curiosity, and also the person who hurt him most. They went years without contact before reconciling at the end of her life. Nothing close to what Acton endured, but the betrayal of a parent leaves its own mark.

Layered on top of it all: Ted Nugent opening for Donald Trump, the Epstein files, and a country that keeps excusing harm to women and children.

Take care of yourselves. Take care of the people around you, and stick up for those who need it.

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The last eleven years have felt like an abusive relationship, built on chaos designed to keep everyone dysregulated and exhausted. There has to be a reckoning, not only for Trump and his administration, but for the billionaires, media companies, law firms, and universities that capitulated. Costco, which kept its DEI program, is the rare exception.

Trump's bargain with his voters is broken. The Iran war and tariffs have hit their gas tanks and grocery bills, his approval sits near record lows, and voters see a family cashing in. This isn't a blue wave. It's a red voter revolt, playing out in Texas, Florida, Alaska, Maine, Ohio, North Carolina, and Kansas.

Their red line turned out to be gas prices. Fine. Vote for Democrats up and down the ballot.

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That's the real threat. A handful of DSA-backed members could decide whether Hakeem Jeffries becomes speaker, and Chuck Schumer's path to majority leader looks shakier by the day. The establishment kept its distance from Mamdani, Kirsten Gillibrand had to apologize for falsely tying him to global jihad, and the DSCC has been slow to back Nixon, who is running even with Ashley Moody.

You can disagree with Sarah Longwell, Tim Miller, and the rest of the Bulwark about plenty, but you will never hear them say they'd rather Republicans keep the House.

Hawk hates the two-party system. It's still a choice between a bad sandwich and a bad sandwich with fries, and you take the fries. Vote for Democrats up and down the ballot two weeks from Tuesday.

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The Brennan Center's Derek Tisler says emergency powers aren't a blank check and that martial law wouldn't let Trump seize election materials. Hawk respects the Brennan Center but keeps asking the question nobody answers: who is going to stop him?

Donald Trump won't rule out a national emergency or the Insurrection Act around the midterms. The Supreme Court gave him broad immunity for official acts. The executive branch, which enforces court orders, answers to him. And this is the same man who tried to overturn 2020 and pressured state officials to change the results.

They're telling us what they're going to do. Register, check your registration, and vote.

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The footage Jacob Soboroff aired shows plainclothes agents in masks and construction vests, no visible badges, rifles drawn, banging on a driver's window. Firearms safety starts with knowing what is behind your target. A car has a license plate. Arrest him later.

Hawk, a gun owner, asks the question the Second Amendment crowd won't: what does the right to self-defense mean when armed, masked men with no sign of law enforcement approach your car? And why has the tyrannical-government crowd gone silent now that the force is aimed at Black and brown people?

Mullin's recitation of Belgal's record also skips some context. Donald Trump is a convicted felon, and Pete Hegseth paid a settlement over a sexual assault allegation he denies.

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The pattern is familiar: ICE agents firing into cars, from Renee Good in Minneapolis to recent shootings in Houston and Austin, where a food delivery driver was shot. Most major police departments bar officers from shooting into moving vehicles except in narrow circumstances. With firearms the leading cause of death for American children, what if that boy had been hit?

To Hawk, the surges in New York City and California weeks before the midterms are intentional: violence and protest as a pretext for a national emergency or the Insurrection Act.

But Trump's protection has limits. A president cannot pardon state charges, and Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty is investigating the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. There is no statute of limitations on murder. Democrats running now and in 2028 must commit to accountability, not moving on.

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Hawk condemns Hamas and the October 7 attack without reservation, and argues that more than one thing can be true at the same time. In his view, every fact in Mamdani's statement holds up.

Democrat Jared Moskowitz called it atrocious. Joe Walsh, Alyssa Farah Griffin, Nikki Haley, Ben Shapiro, and ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt piled on, demanding one day of mourning without mention of Gaza. Alex Vindman, who lost his Florida Senate primary to Angie Nixon, warned it would hurt Democrats with moderates.

Yet much of the Democratic base wants to end military aid to Israel and sees Gaza as a genocide, a word few Democratic leaders will use. Labeling every critic of Benjamin Netanyahu's government antisemitic has drained that word of meaning, and AIPAC-backed Democrats keep ignoring their own voters.

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The problem, as Smith calmly explained and Senator Amy Klobuchar later confirmed, is that Smith was not at a Hawks game in Atlanta at all. He was at a University of Maryland game against the Iowa Hawkeyes to watch Caitlin Clark. Schmitt had confused the Hawks with the Hawkeyes, and his staff's supposed smoking-gun texts did not even mention Atlanta or come from Smith.

Hawk walks through the exchange, the reaction from journalists across the spectrum, and the way MAGA media briefly tried to spin the meltdown as a win before the community notes arrived. His larger point: with five weeks to go, this is what Senate Republicans chose to spend their time on.

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His point is about timing and substance. Roughly six weeks before the midterms, with Trump's approval mired in the low 30s and Republicans distancing themselves from him, a public hearing invites Smith to walk through, on national television, the classified-documents case at Mar-a-Lago and the four-count indictment over efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Hawk notes Smith has said he stands by those decisions and would bring the cases again.

Hawk contrasts the hearing with what the Senate is not doing on affordability, gas prices, and the Iran war, and reminds viewers that the only reasons Trump avoided trial were his 2024 win and the Supreme Court's immunity ruling. He previews covering the hearing live on Tuesday.

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The heart of the video walks through how a specific contested term is actually defined, including its origin after World War II and the criteria laid out in the 1948 United Nations Convention. Hawk contrasts that formal legal definition with the statistical argument Galloway made, and lays out at length why he finds the definition, not the framing around it, to be what matters.

This is a long, pointed, opinion-heavy commentary. Hawk states his own condemnation of antisemitism and of the October 7 attack, shares his sharp views on how Democratic leaders have treated candidates like El-Sayed and Zohran Mamdani, and does not hold back on where he stands. He also shouts out the Majority Report and encourages viewers to follow the channel.

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He then turns to a new, sworn ethics complaint filed against Rep. Lauren Boebert by David Wheeler of the American Muckrakers PAC, alleging she had relationships with staffers in violation of House rules and arranged a payment to keep one of them quiet. Hawk is careful to note the full picture: Boebert has flatly denied the allegations as a politically motivated stunt, a named staffer has called them false and defamatory, and Wheeler has a documented history of making unproven claims about Boebert.

The last story is the reporting that a Russian oligarch in Vladimir Putin's inner circle paid to rent a Caribbean island for Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding celebration. Hawk uses a Senator Bill Cassidy clip to make his real point, a criticism of how quickly the media moves past a story he thinks deserves far more context given the Trump campaign's documented 2016 Russia ties.

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The heart of the video is Hawk's legal argument about how the courts made this possible. He points to the Supreme Court's shadow-docket order and Brett Kavanaugh's lengthy concurrence, now referred to as authorizing Kavanaugh stops, which he says effectively carved out an exception to Fourth Amendment search-and-seizure and 14th Amendment equal-protection guarantees for tens of millions of Hispanic and Latino people, most of them US citizens.

Hawk argues that Chief Justice John Roberts and the conservative majority have become partisan actors, citing the 5-to-4 birthright-citizenship vote and the gutting of the Voting Rights Act, and makes his blunt case that federal rule of law has broken down, while tying it back to his warnings about the coming midterms.

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Reacting alongside commentary from The Bulwark, Hawk's point is less about the claim itself than the silence around it: a sitting president publicly alleged that his predecessor used the federal government to try to have him killed, and Hawk says he could find only a single news article covering it.

He connects the claim to the Supreme Court's immunity ruling, noting that Trump's own attorney argued a president ordering the military to kill a political rival could be an official, unprosecutable act, and that the Court barred courts from examining a president's motives, a principle Hawk ties to the flood of pardons now being issued.

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