Two ex-FBI officials charged. A Swalwell-linked search. A $1 million bounty on vote fraud. Barbara says the people behind the coup talk are now out in the open. Four days out, here's what that means for you.
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Today's LIVE show is over. Join us next week! Two ex-FBI officials charged with lying to Congress. A $1M voter-fraud tip page is live, and 1,000 DOJ monitors deploy Nov 3. Five days out, the old math is changing.
Two ex-FBI officials charged. A Swalwell-linked search. A $1 million bounty on vote fraud. Barbara says the people behind the coup talk are now out in the open. Four days out, here's what that means for you.
Last Friday, two former leaders of the FBI's Foreign Influence Task Force, Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides, were charged with lying to Congress in 2023 about the Hunter Biden investigations. They are charged, not convicted.
On Tuesday, the FBI searched the Beverly Hills home of Stephen Cloobeck, a big donor to former Rep. Eric Swalwell. Press reports tie the search to the Swalwell investigation. The warrant is sealed, and Swalwell has not been charged... yet.
The same week, President Trump put up a $1 million bounty on voter fraud.
Meanwhile, Data Republican has put out material that Barbara says lays out the plans for chaos after the midterms. To Barbara, that exposure is the story. "They're all out in the open at this point," she said. "That's what we mean by accountability."
That was the thesis of yesterday's LIVE: Accountability Is Coming — Trump's Midterm Strategy vs. The Deep State. On one side is a President rebuilding the American System. On the other is an apparatus that needs secrecy, and Barbara says it has lost it.
Election Day is Tuesday, four days from now. This was our last LIVE before the midterms.
"What you have to do to fight this war. You have got to be serene."
— Barbara Boyd
The show runs just over two hours, so jump to any chapter below, and take the assignment at the bottom.
Barbara opened with Dickens: it was the best of times and the worst of times. The worst is what Data Republican laid out. In Barbara's words, "she basically has put all of these people and their plans for a coup right out there in the open."
That's also the best part. "Coups and color revolutions depend upon secrecy. They depend upon surprise," Barbara said. Now "we know what their game is. We even know the personnel."
She warned about one trap. Barbara thinks there will be riots in D.C. to push the President into invoking the Insurrection Act. Watch for the fake MAGA voices, she said, the ones who scream "insurrection act every time a Karen spits on an ICE agent."
Her answer is not panic. She had Adam play the President's pinned post: "Bottom line, it's gonna all work out. You know why? It always does." Later she put it more bluntly: "Agitation, as a friend of mine used to say, is for washing machines."
Barbara said the recent cases follow the way prosecutors build big cases. They go after "people on the lower middle levels of a coup to get them to squeal against the leaders of the coup."
Her example was David Morens, Fauci's former adviser, who pleaded guilty in August. Barbara said she truly believes he is "squealing" to avoid a long prison term.
She described Floris and Benavides as the people who ran interference against anyone saying the Hunter Biden laptop was real before the 2020 election. On Swalwell, her read is that he's "pretty key to going after Adam Schiff." And James Comey, she noted, has three indictments, and "they're really looking for him" to talk.
The hard part is the statute of limitations, she said, which runs three to five years on most of these crimes except conspiracy. A lot of the old conduct, going back to 2015 and 2016, is up against the clock. But today's operation is happening in the open, so "we don't have a statute of limitations to worry about at this stage."
Susan explained why the bounty matters. In the past, she said, low-level operatives did sketchy things for walking-around money because they knew they'd never get caught.
Now there's a bounty, and Susan said Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has made clear that people who get caught will be prosecuted. The President has Homeland Security, the Justice Department and the FBI. So a foot soldier may decide, in Susan's words, "maybe that's not worth the 1500 bucks."
"When you fight a war, it's two sides of the equation," she said. First you shrink what the enemy can do. Then you make your own offensive "as big and robust and unstoppable as you can make it."
Susan Hogan, an election official in southwestern Virginia, wrote in urging viewers to be a "watchman" at the polls. Susan Kokinda said poll worker slots are likely full by now, but you can still be a credentialed or plain poll watcher. Or stand outside the 100-foot line with a sample ballot, and help voters with nonpartisan races like school board and judges.
Barbara read a post from Spencer Pratt, who ran for mayor in Los Angeles: "There is a cultural and spiritual rot. They can't be fixed at the ballot box until we fix the culture." Trump isn't a miracle man, Barbara said. Fixing the culture is our job.
Susan played a clip of Senate candidate Mike Rogers telling a story about a leading Detroit Democrat. Someone came to her door with a pamphlet and asked her to help make Detroit a Democratic Socialists of America city. Her answer: "I'll be damned if I'm gonna let this be a Democrat socialist of America City."
What still beats in Detroit, Susan said, "is a culture of people as productive human beings." Last week in Georgia, Trump had the head of Audi announce what Susan called the biggest auto investment in American history, while Volkswagen lays off a hundred thousand people in Germany. Her rule: "economic change is what makes the cultural change."
Several of you asked what happens if Democrats win the midterms. Susan's answer: Trump is "gonna continue doing exactly what he's been doing." That means the tariffs, the investment deals and the Big Beautiful Bill's 100% expensing for new factories.
If Congress tries to repeal any of it, "Donald Trump will veto it. And then you need two thirds." Susan expects Democrats to make the next two years "a clown show" to grab your attention. But "honestly, very little will change."
Donna asked what to do when the Republican on her ballot is s***. "You gotta hold your nose and vote Republican," Barbara said. The candidates the President endorsed owe him, and that gives him leverage. And "the stink on the other side is far, far worse and it's really contagious."
The longer fix is better candidates. "If you want better candidates, you have to start right now," Susan said.
Viewers also asked about attacks on Promethean Action, including three articles in the John Birch Society's New American. Susan said it comes down to the difference between people who think through ideas and policies and "people who just sit here with hot button reactions to nouns." How we intervene has evolved, she said, but our underlying principles have not changed.
Anne asked how we keep our focus after the midterms. Susan's answer: "George Washington lost most of the battles, but he won the war." He knew what he was fighting for. After 2020 and COVID, more people woke up, because Trump kept fighting and so did we.
A troll in the chat reminded everyone that Prometheus was chained to a rock for eternity. Susan said he didn't read the rest of the story. Fragments of the later plays survive, she said, "enough to know that Prometheus ended up triumphing over Zeus."
Barbara gave it in her closing words:
"Take 10 people to the polls and have them take 10 others. They've showed their hand. We need to show ours."
Bring a sample ballot so your 10 know who to vote for in the nonpartisan races too. Then stay serene. The work is what wins.
There's no Midterm Bootcamp on election eve, November 2. Join us on November 9 for an after-action review. After that, the Bootcamps resume under a new name, and we want your ideas for what to call it.
Our Saturday political update comes out tomorrow. The next LIVE is Thursday, November 5th.
See you Thursday.
Adam Sturman
Producer, Promethean Action
https://x.com/AdamSturman23
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