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Saturday Update: Early Voting Data is Terrifying the GOP, Trump Eyes Mass Pardons, Musk Hiding Our Book + MORE – 10/24/26 Saturday updates. Paywall free. Brett Meiselas and MeidasTouch Network Oct 24 US President Donald Trump speaks to the media after disembarking Air Force One at President Donald J. Trump International Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida, US, October 23, 2026. REUTERS/Umit Bektas It’s Saturday, so I’m going to make this quick and get you everything you need to know so you can get back to your day. Here are the top headlines: Hispanic early turnout in Texas is surpassing 2024 presidential levels Trump rallies in Georgia while his own Senate candidate admits he’s down at least 7 to Ossoff Obama is in Detroit while Trump is in Georgia for dueling rallies The White House is weighing MASS PARDONS for junior staffers The Financial Times reports Russia secretly controlled a Trump-linked $25 billion Alaska gas project ProPublica reveals secret terms of Trump’s Venezuelan oil...

Why subscribe? Silence is not an option. Take part in the community so we can drive change together. Morally Rotten and Unfit to Serve From Moscow to Ohio, odious Trump henchmen sink to new lows Steven Beschloss Oct 23 Trump’s special envoy is all smiles for the murderous Vladimir Putin, the man he called a “humanitarian.” (Photo by Gavriil Grigorov/AFP via Getty Images) If you asked me before this Trump era whether I expected to be writing at length about depravity and moral dissolution, I would have doubted it. Yes, past presidents have made obscene choices that led to profoundly unnecessary mass deaths; look no further than George W. Bush with Iraq and Richard M. Nixon with Vietnam. The immorality of such bloodshed should never be minimized because it was carried out under the framework of war, that is, the legitimation of murder. But the moral failure also extends deep into everyday life. Today we find ourselves held hostage by a hateful regime whose policies force children to go...

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