They Built the "Racist MAGA" Machine. A Grand Jury Just Found It.

For nine years, “MAGA is racist terrorism” wasn’t an opinion. It was a business — with donors, informants on payroll, and a founding myth called Charlottesville.

This week, Barbara opened the show with news that a federal indictment has reached inside it.

And the same Tuesday returns that broke the “socialist surge” story broke the business model: black Detroit gave the establishment candidates twice as many votes as the “New Obama.” Wisconsin’s radical lost outright after the polls said otherwise.

Barbara and Susan spent two hours connecting what the media won’t: the machine that manufactures America’s divisions is being dismantled — just as the coalition it was built to stop starts looking like the party of Abraham Lincoln.

Hot damn, for all you guys out there — there’s been a major arrest.
— Barbara Boyd

We cannot continue to stay on the same plantation — Democratic plantation, or even Republican plantation.
— Mary Waters, Detroit City Councilwoman (D)

LIVE REPLAY — Thursday, August 13th

“There’s Been a Major Arrest”

Barbara’s cold open: a federal indictment has reached into the SPLC — by her account, the organization at the center of the private intelligence operation run against Trump since Charlottesville, and the former official who ran its informant networks. Paying informants inside the last remnants of groups like the Klan to keep the “racist terror” storyline alive, then fundraising off the threat. Abbe Lowell — the Biden family’s lawyer — is stepping in to defend it.

In many respects, it’s an institutional thing that you’re actually taking out, rather than an individual.
— Barbara Boyd

Charlottesville was the founding myth of the entire “battle for the soul of the nation” — the literal stated reason Biden ran in 2020. That myth now has a grand jury problem.

Detroit Gets Off the Plantation

In the left’s fantasy, Detroit belongs to them. Susan ran the numbers from last week’s Senate primary: Haley Stevens and Mallory McMorrow — two establishment candidates — out-polled Abdul El Sayed two-to-one in the city of Detroit. The “revolution of the poor and downtrodden” lost the poorest, most Democratic city in the state.

Trump noticed. His Truth said it plainly: black and brown voters don’t want communism or socialism — and they remember Abraham Lincoln was a Republican.

Then Susan played the clip that says where this is heading: longtime Detroit councilwoman Mary Waters, a Democrat, sitting down with Fox after breakfast with Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers — talking skilled trades, veterans, and telling her constituents to get off the plantation and hear every candidate out.

That’s how you break a controlled environment. You just let people listen to the fact that the person who’s been demonized is a nice person.
— Susan Kokinda

Susan’s midterm message hiding in plain sight: you don’t beat socialism with anti-socialism. You beat it with the system that worked — skilled trades, one-income families, the American system of production. That’s the story Detroit already knows in its bones.

Realignment: Organic or Orchestrated?

Ted’s question — the best of the week — asked whether we’re watching an organic political realignment like the 1850s collapse of the Whigs, or competing forces consciously fighting to shape what comes next.

Susan took the long arc: the party of Lincoln built on the American System — then three Republican presidents assassinated in a row. FDR’s revival — then JFK and RFK. Fifty years of uniparty — then Trump.

What’s organic is the desire to have an institution, a movement, that represents the actual American system. What is orchestrated is all the different ways the British Empire tries to screw that up.
— Susan Kokinda

Barbara took the present tense: Tucker, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Thomas Massie — not an organic development, period. A psychological-warfare operation to split the 2024 coalition, activated after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. The answer isn’t to argue with every armchair ballistics expert. It’s to think from principle — because the whole operation only works on people who react instead of think.

“How Can We Still Trust the President?”

Gregory, 69, retired, on Social Security, asked the question a lot of people are living: promised relief, still bleeding at the grocery store — why believe?

No spin. Barbara walked through why prices are what they are — the cattle herds, the drug prices, the City of London financing chokepoint the Iran operation is breaking — and why she expects gas prices to fall well before the midterms. Susan named the sabotage: the tariff checks that died when Democratic governors sued, the Supreme Court, the refunds that went to corporations instead of you.

In a war, the enemy always has a vote.
— Susan Kokinda, quoting Gen. Blaine Holt

It would be like abandoning the fight in 1943 because you were tired of not being able to buy coffee.
— Susan Kokinda

The alternative to patience in the pain isn’t relief. It’s surrender.

Here’s what we covered (links jump to that moment in the broadcast):

• Barbara’s Open: “There’s Been a Major Arrest” The “hot damn” news: the indictment reaching into the SPLC’s informant operation — and how Charlottesville built the machine.
• Susan: Detroit’s Verdict The two-to-one numbers, Trump’s Truth on black and brown voters, and the new party of Abraham Lincoln.
• The Mary Waters Clip A Democratic councilwoman has breakfast with Mike Rogers — skilled trades, veterans, and “get off the plantation.”
• Trump’s Oklahoma Tell An endorsement built around an aluminum plant — the economic message the midterms run on.
• Drew: “Is This Connected to the LaRouche Movement?” The honest answer — a university on wheels, the FBI’s “cult” script, and what got excised.
• Mousa: Perot, Buchanan, Nader — Why Trump? Susan: the giant sucking sound was borrowed — from prime-time infomercials millions saw in the 1980s.
• Daniel: Bohemian Grove Barbara’s standing interest in the Grove — including the email that surfaced in the LaRouche prosecutions.
• Bob & Eddie: Can Democrats Stop a Socialist Capture? Barbara: the party changed with Obama — Soros, the Transition Integrity Project, and summer 2020.
• Dora: Working Families Party & SEIU The Soros ecosphere behind “I don’t take corporate money” — and how it’s breaking up in Detroit.
• Ted’s Big Question: Organic or Orchestrated? Susan’s 250-year arc: Lincoln, three assassinations, FDR, JFK, the uniparty — and the disruptor.
• Barbara: Tucker, MTG, Massie — Not Organic Psychological warfare after the Kirk assassination — and why the splitters need you reacting, not thinking.
• Craig: A New McCarthy Hearing? Barbara: the administration is eight steps ahead — bank accounts, indictments, visas, and the 501(c)(3) audit.
• Mercenary: When History Feels Like a Lie Adam on intellectual junk food, Barbara’s radical prescription: get off the internet and go to the library.
• The White House App Adam’s find: real-time updates and live events, straight from the source — no filter.
• Gregory: “How Can We Still Trust the President?” A 69-year-old’s honest pain — and two answers that don’t insult his intelligence.
• Winkie: Susan’s Journey — RFK to Trump San Francisco 1968, LaRouche 1971, and the bedsheet banner over the River Rouge overpass: “The best Democrat since JFK.”
• Mrs. Res: Wisconsin’s Polls and “Woke Two” AOC calls woke one “pretty crazy” — Barbara on what phase two of the operation actually is.
• KP Powell: Patrick Byrne Barbara’s rule for self-declared informants: interesting things to say, check everything.
• Josh: Turkey and the Realignment The Turkey–Pakistan–Saudi pact, and a world scrambling after Trump shattered the chessboard.
• Closing: The Aspen Interns in Chat Data centers, bots — and Chickie Rogue’s thank-you to the “foreign Aspen Institute summer interns.”

You Are Who’s Really in Charge

The thread through every answer this week: the enemy’s whole game — the SPLC’s informants, the manufactured splits, the polls that miss by miles — only works on a population that reacts instead of thinks.

Detroit stopped reacting. That’s what has them panicked.

Builders live in the real world.
— Susan Kokinda

📱 Cut Out the Middleman

Adam showed it on air: the official White House app — real-time updates, breaking-news alerts, and live streams of every briefing and event, straight from the source. Susan’s method, in your pocket: don’t take anyone’s clip — watch the whole thing and listen to how their minds work.

President Trump does public events nearly every day. Now you have no excuse.

Next Midterm Bootcamp — Monday, August 24th, 8pm Eastern

Susan’s answer to “how do I actually do something” is a standing invitation: hundreds of activists, candidates, and plain old American citizens on a national Zoom every Monday night, working out how to win their states. If Detroit’s story got you thinking, this is where thinking turns into doing.

See you Thursday.

Adam Sturman
Producer, Promethean Action
https://x.com/AdamSturman23