“We have a real problem on our hands where these industries are extracting all the wealth from working class people and sending it to Wall Street millionaires and billionaires.” - @JonSchweppe

"The American dream has been replaced by an American scheme -- where you have to get lucky ... So young men who are naturally ambitious are going that direction. They're going towards gambling." -- @JonSchweppe

Hunterbrook Capital and its media arm, Hunterbrook Media, are the clearest example of this. By the firm’s own account, its journalists investigate companies so that its traders can act on what they find before publication. That is to say, before the public has access to the same information. This is a firm whose modus operandi is scrutiny until story. For them, reporting has become a proprietary trading signal, produced by a newsroom that is financially better off if their story moves markets in the fund’s favor. Read more: dailycaller.com/2026/09/21/o…

Wall Street just discovered a brand new way to profit-max: Call it “hedge fund journalism.” Hedge funds are fusing investigative reporting with proprietary trading for the purpose of trading the news before it becomes news. My latest at @DailyCaller: dailycaller.com/2026/09/21/o…

“So what is the lesson here? Should Republicans work harder to appeal to cohorts that are voting against them by 45 points? Of course not. Instead, we should focus on persuading and turning out our voters: MARRIED VOTERS.” My latest at @FDRLST: thefederalist.com/2026/09/16…

Emotional day today. I didn’t know Charlie as well as I would have liked, but we ran in similar circles. His peers always spoke so highly of him before his passing — of his energy, of his intellect, of his character. He was undoubtedly a force for good in our politics. 9/11 is tomorrow, which feels relevant because in a lot of ways the two days feel similar, at least to me. Maybe not in scope or scale, but in significance. On both days, the world changed for the worse. I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing on 9/11. And I similarly remember vividly when Charlie, the thought leader, the coalition builder, the communicator, the future president, the man who believed so emphatically in winning the argument in the free marketplace of ideas, was murdered in cold blood by a left-wing terrorist. The world will never be the same. Charlie Kirk. A father. A husband. A leader of men. A patriot. A martyr. Requiescat in Pace.

Social issues alone can help, but they’re probably not enough. Left populism would appeal to broad swaths of the Trump 2016/2020/2024 coalition if the right makes the mistake of embracing market fundamentalism again. There’s no 50%+1 coalition led by Cruz/Shapiro/Loesch et al.

This is the conventional wisdom. I don’t think it’s right. I think right populists win if they successfully convince voters that they care about people like them, while simultaneously showing that the leftist candidate is extreme and out-of-touch on hot button 70/30 issues.

Don't let the neoliberals tell you they care about the free market when they support this type of rapacious government intervention. Government did this. Government debased the currency and devalued your purchasing power. All to benefit millionaires and billionaires.

Government devalued the purchasing power of the dollar in order to juice the economy and benefit the rich and powerful. It's why the boomers got rich and stayed rich. It's why things are so tough now for millennials and Gen Z. It's been a total disaster. A failure of policy.

In 1971, the U.S. government closed the “gold window” and began ruthlessly debasing the dollar. At the time, the median household income was a little over $9,000, which was worth about 258 ounces of gold. Today, the median household income is hovering around $87,000, which is worth less than 20 ounces of gold. That's the affordability crisis in a nutshell.

FWIW I support AI generally, but that’s because I think it’s a revolutionary technology that can do a lot of good. I’m imagining The Jetsons. The voters are imagining The Matrix. Why? Because the AI CEOs have been telling them it’s The Matrix for a couple years now.

The opposition to data centers is a proxy for opposition to AI. You can’t tell Americans they’re gonna be *replaced* by machines and then expect them to support the infrastructure to make it happen. AI maxies should be mad, but not at voters. This is on Dario, Sam, Elon et. al.

“We have debased the dollar, robbing the saving class while inflating the asset values of the already powerful—further pricing young people and working families out of the economy… “You are not a socialist for wanting to fix these problems.” GREAT essay by @approject’s president:

This is excellent. Should be required reading for young DC staffers.

Must read!

Sportsbooks like @FanDuel and @DraftKings have enormous control over state politics. They’ve basically bought their own regulatory regimes. Read this shocking story from Luke Miller in @FDRLST: thefederalist.com/2026/08/12…