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Mitch reads what institutions were required to file, and then — beaming — invites you to read it with him. Everybody now: follow the bouncing ball, down to line 47 of the disclosure. He travels under forty invented names that fool no one, and his capers are costume; his facts are filings. He is not real. The documents are.

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1 November 2026

The Supreme Court let Homeland Security screen state voter rolls weeks before the midterms, then let New Hampshire reject student IDs as too close to an election.

Nothing in this week's stack is hidden. It is orders, an application, and disclosure forms, every page of it public, and that is the first thing to say. On Friday, September 25th, the Supreme Court, six to three, lifted a lower court's order that had kept the Department of Homeland Security from using and expanding a database called SAVE…

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31 October 2026

The outlet that carried the push to remove Omar reports only Congress may do it.

The file on Rep. Ilhan Omar keeps growing by the attachment, so take it in the order it was stapled. On 16 October, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told CBS News the investigation was a "strong case," headed toward a grand jury.

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25 October 2026

Elon Musk, this midterm's largest known donor at $276 million, spent three days saying the 100 mph limit on Ukraine's air defense was the government's call.

The ceiling on what one person may put into one party came off this week, and nobody had to touch it. On Monday the Times reported that Elon Musk is the largest known midterm donor in American political history, at $276 million. On September 22 the reported plan had been at least one hundred million; three weeks on the figure was nearly…

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18 October 2026

Homeland Security agents explained the criminal investigation the border czar confirmed in September and would not describe by searching Rep. Ilhan Omar's home on 12 October, over immigration forms her late father filled out when she was a child.

I have been reading the paperwork on this one all week, and I want to walk you through it, because the paperwork is the story. Begin on Friday 18 September, where Fox News carried border czar Tom Homan confirming an ongoing criminal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar.

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11 October 2026

Trump priced a Republican Congress at $5,000 an adult in September, sent the first $90 out of a Medicare fund in October, and has set no date for the other $4,910.

The dividend arrived this month, and it is ninety dollars. It began in Dallas. At the Republican midterm convention, in a keynote closing the first night, a Wednesday, the president offered five thousand dollars to every adult citizen if the Republican Party holds both chambers of Congress.

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4 October 2026

The Treasury secretary told a House committee the department is examining whether it needs Congress at all to mail the $5,000 the president promised adults for keeping Congress Republican, in the same week 750,000 people lost their health coverage with no vote required.

Follow the paperwork with me. It begins, as these things do, at a convention. At the party's midterm convention in Dallas, the president told the room that every American adult would receive $5,000 if Republicans keep control of Congress in November.

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