A new Washington Post report raises questions ahead of the 2026 midterms. Mike Steger examines the officials, political networks, and election preparations behind the headlines.
After a week of pressure from President Trump, Zelensky said "yes" to a freeze on Fox. The same week, Data Republican released files that Barbara says lay out the Democrats' midterm chaos plan. With 11 days to go, here's the story and what you do about it.
Today's LIVE show is over. Catch the REPLAY and join us live next Thursday. Zelensky just said "freeze" the war. At home, leaked tapes game out a midterm "meltdown."
After a week of pressure from President Trump, Zelensky said "yes" to a freeze on Fox. The same week, Data Republican released files that Barbara says lay out the Democrats' midterm chaos plan. With 11 days to go, here's the story and what you do about it.
On Wednesday, Zelensky went on Fox and was asked if he would accept a deal that freezes the war where it is. "Yes," he said. "Right now, we have to freeze, and I think this is real way to end this war."
It came at the end of a week of pressure from President Trump. On Sunday, Trump posted that "great progress is being made," and that Zelensky "doesn't want to end this war and probably never did."
That progress included Stephen Hubbard, an American Russia released at Trump's request, with nothing given in return.
On Wednesday, Secretary Rubio said from India that "we're no longer gonna be defensive about this topic." Without American help, he said, "there would be no Ukraine today."
Then Trump said he'd been talking to Putin about settling the war, "which I think we're getting closer to, by the way. Maybe now the closest we've been." There is no deal yet, but you can hear which way this is moving.
That was the thesis of yesterday's LIVE: Zelensky Bends on War. Leaked Tapes Hint at a Midterm Meltdown Plan. On one side is a President pushing to stop the killing and rebuild the region. On the other side is an empire that needs the war, and a Democratic apparatus that needs chaos at home.
About 6,500 of you watched across both YouTube streams. Election Day is 11 days away.
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Barbara was straight about it. What Zelensky said on Fox "wasn't really a change of position," she said. He and the Europeans have long called for freezing the war along the current battle line.
The real fight is over the Donbas, where the gas and metal resources sit. Barbara recalled the 2014 coup run under Obama, after which Kyiv attacked the Russian-speaking Donbas and started a civil war.
The Minsk agreement froze that line, and the people there were supposed to get a referendum. The Europeans never enforced it. Barbara said Angela Merkel later admitted the whole thing was a farce, used to arm Ukraine against Russia.
So the problem isn't only Zelensky, Barbara said. It's "these crazy British and Europeans" who dream of breaking up Russia. "I think Trump has put massive pressure on both Ukraine and the Europeans," she said, and "I think we are very close to settling them."
Barbara said Trump keeps going above the problem with economic plans. David Ignatius reported one idea in the Washington Post: Russian gas and oil would flow to Europe through Ukraine again, and Russia and Ukraine would share the proceeds to rebuild. "That's a masterful stroke," she said.
She sees the start of a grand bargain among Russia, India, Japan, China and the United States, with the G20 at Doral coming up. The Democrats call it a "new Yalta." Barbara called it "the stabilization of the entire world."
Susan pointed to a story most people missed. At the IMF, Bessent told Kristalina Georgieva that growth, not cutting, gets you out of debt. He also pledged U.S. money to a nuclear development fund for the developing world.
Since 1959, Susan said, the World Bank has made exactly one nuclear loan, to Italy. "Every leftist in the world should honestly be cheering this, but they're not." She believes the administration's real goal is "an entirely new international financial system."
Barbara called Data Republican "a godsend." As Barbara described it, Data Republican got hold of a trove of videos, chats and memos from what Barbara calls the insurrection apparatus.
In Barbara's telling, the files show a plan built on the 2020 Transition Integrity Project war games. It would provoke riots, force the President to invoke the Insurrection Act, and have 10 state governors resist the national government. If Democrats take Congress, she expects Hegseth, and probably RFK Jr., to be their impeachment targets.
Will it work? Barbara said it has been exposed, and the Justice Department is making very public arrests of illegal voters. Their hundreds of lawyers will face hundreds of DOJ lawyers. Her verdict: it's "too big to rig."
A viewer asked whether China is behind the color revolution. Susan said to look at who created those networks. "You always have to pull on the string and see where it goes rather than looking at it at eye level."
Her example was Neville Roy Singham, the pro-CCP financier of left-wing groups who operates out of Hong Kong. He got his billions from a British buyer. Barbara named it as Apax, which she said now owns NGP VAN, the Democratic Party's entire database.
On Canada, Barbara said "the City of London, in many respects, has moved to Canada through Mark Carney." On Thursday morning, she noted, the U.S. Embassy in Canada put out a statement telling Canada to stop interfering in our midterms.
Gisela asked about mail-in versus Election Day. Susan's answer was to vote early, in person. "I don't trust the mail-in ballot procedure as far as I can throw it," she said.
Rick asked what happens if we lose the midterms. Barbara said Trump has mostly worked without Congress, and the fight would move to 2028. Our Revolution looked hopeless on paper too. "We were smarter than the British."
Barbara's new 47-page pamphlet, The Real Revolution, makes that case for young people. It's free for paid subscribers and $5 for everyone else:
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Get your 10 people to the polls. Then, as Barbara said, have each of them "bring 10 more." We need to build "an actual Gideon's army of people" behind the President's policies.
If you're stuck, Barbara said it's "not as hard as it might seem." Bring your problems to Monday's Midterm Bootcamp and leave with a plan.
Bring the problems you're running into with your 10 people, and learn how to get each of them to bring 10 more. Election Day will be 8 days away.
A new Washington Post report raises questions ahead of the 2026 midterms. Mike Steger examines the officials, political networks, and election preparations behind the headlines.
Today's LIVE show is over. Catch the REPLAY and join us live next Thursday. Zelensky just said "freeze" the war. At home, leaked tapes game out a midterm "meltdown."
Leaked files from Data Republican expose a plan to turn midterm unrest against Trump, as the Washington Post reports officials advising 10 states. Barbara Boyd on the 2020 rerun and making November 3 too big to rig.
Treasury hit Bank of America with $1.2 billion in penalties for money laundering failures. Susan Kokinda traces the bank from Countrywide and the 1980s debt crisis to King Charles’ green finance club, and Bessent’s challenge to the IMF.
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