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Two recent polls show him in the lead

What is going on with Trump's legs?

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The David Pakman Show - October 2, 2026

Former Governor Mike Hayden broke with his party and endorsed Democratic Senate candidate Adam Hamilton in Kansas, something is happening in the Heartland of America.

Gear up for SCOTUS Monday, Meredith has a special announcement..., Tom Morello rocks on, black voting power, The Pod, and more

The move follows a March release of 400 million barrels that helped keep a lid on global gas prices.

On a special Friday Tequila Talk, a onetime Reagan fan says what he’s never said about any president.

Can we believe these wild numbers? Or… not?

Also some of Jim’s friends and relatives want him to stop f*cking cursing so much. Should he?

Facing the possibility of a midterm blowout, struggling Republican candidates are increasingly putting Wall Street and corporate America in their crosshairs, betting a populist pivot will resonate bet...

Federal investigators are agitated as the Trump administration presses the FBI and Justice Department to produce indictments tied to President Donald Trump's false claims that the 2020 election was st...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's (R) ties to Elon Musk show what happens when Republicans control every lever of state power, a legal analyst warned.Lawyer and journalist Katie Phang made the case in a Thursd...

President Donald Trump on Friday abruptly backed away from a controversial plan to ban U.S. diesel exports that had been floated as a way to drive down fuel prices ahead of the midterm elections.“We’r...

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) didn't hold back in private texts to President Donald Trump earlier this year, telling him flatly that he wouldn't tolerate the president's "bulls---" and that a direct primary...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has quietly tapped two billionaire defense contractors to help shape the future of American warfare, prompting warnings from current and former Pentagon officials that t...

The Department of Homeland Security has replaced the contractor running its flagship self-deportation program following a prolonged corruption scandal, shifting the lucrative deal to a new company thi...

President Donald Trump singled out a lone GOP senator late Thursday night in a last-minute call to action — despite the Senate having already gone on recess until after the midterms.In a lengthy, 385-...

Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO), who went from obscurity to late-night punchline after his "gotcha" attack on former special counsel Jack Smith collapsed, has pulled out of a scheduled TV appearance as embar...

President Donald Trump said he feels "badly" for the men under investigation in an alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.His comments came a day after New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) ...

A Republican senator on the outs has dedicated an entire book to criticizing the "MAGA morons" surrounding President Donald Trump, whom he predicts will trigger an election day disaster for the GOP th...

Texas Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton faced backlash Friday after releasing a new campaign ad acknowledging that prices “keep climbing" — while blaming Democrats for making life more expensive in...

A famed Florida restaurant whose owner pledged loyalty to Donald Trump is now struggling with empty tables as the president’s immigration crackdown keeps customers away, The Bulwark reported Friday. ...

FBI Director Kash Patel has ordered up a classified internal report examining what the bureau calls past institutional "failures," a document now bearing his own name that insiders worry is less about...

No live event today. Stuart Stevens joins us Monday at 230pm ET and Sarah Trone Garriott Tuesday at 115pm

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Republicans are giving up on keeping a US Senate seat in North Carolina, and instead have moved their money to deep-red Kansas, where they are trying to save Sen. Roger Marshall from defeat.

A recording from Glenn Kirschner and Dean Obeidallah's live video

JD Vance is campaigning for Byron Donalds despite the fact Donalds scrubbed Trump from his website.

News in a Nut’sHell

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Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have been awarded $3.2 in defense contracts, loans, and grants. House Democrats are planning to investigate the president’s sons after they win the majority.

He’s Donald Trump and he’s not here to help.

John Hudson of the Washington Post reported this evening that the Trump administration is openly defying Congress, taking $52 million in military assistance lawmakers appropriated for European and Mid...

A recording from Glenn Kirschner's live video

A recording from Glenn Kirschner's live video

An ad promoting the Iran War only serves to remind voters just how much of a disaster the war is, a baffling strategy just a month out from midterms.

Operation Vivaldi rewrote the playbook. A former Danish spy explains what comes next.

Watch these gubernatorial races, Robert Pattison IS Primetime, your calls to action for the week, April Ryan with Laura Murphy and Senator Angela Alsobrooks, and more!

Polls show Abdul El-Sayed with a narrow lead in Michigan and the Democrat showed why he is winning the Senate race with a unifying American worker first message.

Contrarian Calls to Action: Ways to make a difference for democracy this week

Pete Hegseth is the most unfit person to ever lead the U.S.

It’s time for another episode of Speechcenter!

Economic boycotts, mass protests, military defections, and a change of U.S. sympathies converged to end dictatorship in the Philippines

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Plus Jim rails against “What Trump Has Built” in America.