Mike Steger frames the latest assassination attempt on Trump as political warfare inside a propaganda ocean, then walks through midterm fights — Russiagate prosecutions, ActBlue/NGO money flows, the Save America Act — Iran's fractured regime, and Trump's five DPA energy memos.
Susan Kokinda links Saturday's third Trump assassination attempt at the Washington Hilton to King Charles' Washington visit and a new House of Lords report — arguing the British imperial system fears Trump's American System revival the way it feared McKinley.
Brian Lantz takes you on the factory floor of the American economy: durable goods +8.2%, manufacturing construction +20.2%, machine tool orders +22.5%, the U.S. now the world's third-largest steel producer. It's being built, baby, built.
Strategic Overview - There Are No Lone Assassins: This Is Political Warfare - April 27, 2026
Mike Steger frames the latest assassination attempt on Trump as political warfare inside a propaganda ocean, then walks through midterm fights — Russiagate prosecutions, ActBlue/NGO money flows, the Save America Act — Iran's fractured regime, and Trump's five DPA energy memos.
Host Mike Steger discusses the attempted assassination of President Trump and argues it is unfolding inside a pervasive propaganda environment that shapes public reactions and demands easy, popular criticisms of Trump. He reviews political warfare heading into the midterms, including efforts to expose and disrupt Democratic-aligned corruption and funding networks: the Russiagate-related conspiracy inquiry (with document releases and court review), investigations into ActBlue, alleged NGO and SPLC-related fraud, welfare and border-linked money flows, and renewed pressure for the Save America Act and Senate floor action. Steger also addresses Iran’s proposal to ease the Strait situation, saying the regime is fractured and squeezed by blockade pressure. He highlights Trump’s five Defense Production Act memos as a war-powers mobilization aimed at rapidly rebuilding U.S. energy infrastructure—pipelines, refineries, transformers, grid upgrades, and nuclear expansion—framing energy as the upstream requirement for broader industrial recovery.
00:00 Welcome and Context 00:45 Propaganda Ocean 04:04 Audience Q&A Setup 05:17 Butler Echoes Today 07:38 Morality and War Debate 10:51 Mission Beyond 2024 12:15 Midterm Warfare Plan 13:52 Russiagate Conspiracy Probe 17:45 ActBlue and NGO Corruption 23:14 Save America Act Fight 25:13 Iran Pressure Update 27:41 Energy Emergency Memos 37:16 Rebuilding America Closing
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Susan Kokinda links Saturday's third Trump assassination attempt at the Washington Hilton to King Charles' Washington visit and a new House of Lords report — arguing the British imperial system fears Trump's American System revival the way it feared McKinley.
DOJ indicts the SPLC for fraud — including paying an informant who helped plan Charlottesville. Trump invokes the Defense Production Act on energy. Bessent extends dollar swap lines to the Gulf and Asia, quietly outflanking London's plan to dethrone the dollar.
Susan Kokinda on Kevin Warsh's "regime change" testimony at the Fed, Trump's Defense Production Act assault on the British free-trade system, and the empire's panic as Chatham House holds its inquest into the Not-So-Special Relationship.