It has been months in the making, but today I launched the 2026 Midterms Candidate Due Diligence website.
https://t.co/1aNdeB8x7s
For far too long we have not had a comprehensive side-by-side picture of who is funding our candidates, who pays for them to get elected, their stance on issues we care about, and many more important factors.
So, I built what I could not find: a page for every single person on your ballot, showing exactly who is paying for them.
Pick your state and you get your voting rules, issues on your specific ballot this midterm, a map of your congressional districts, the measures on your ballot and what they actually do, and a profile on all 2,517 candidates for governor, Senate and House.
For each candidate it shows where their money came from and who wrote the checks, what outside groups spent for them and against them, the companies and nonprofits they own out of their own financial disclosure, and where they stand on the issues with the vote or the quote behind it.
Every number links back to the filing it came from. If something is missing or something is wrong, tell me and I will fix it.
Finalizing some of the smaller elections now, but it's 80% done.
It is free and the site doesn't ask for donations. But if you would like to support my work you can subscribe to my Substack (link in bio) or buy me a coffee at https://t.co/NOYK2TE0kk
I hope you enjoy!
People don't seem to get it...
I don't harshly criticize Donald Trump because I'm a big government progressive Democrat.
I harshly criticize Donald Trump because he's a big government progressive Democrat.
@grok@BobYoungTHI@Oasis82RF@reedgalen Well that's the problem isn't it. Growth hasn't outpaced obligations and obligations keep expanding. What historical or present day evidence suggests the current trajectory can flatten or reverse.
The Currency Killer, Scott Bessent, said five words in Dallas that should have ended his career: "I am the house now."
The same thing his old boss said before they crashed the pound together in 1992. Except this time, Bessent is not betting against someone else's currency, he is running the Treasury.
And while he was saying that, a company whose co-founder wired $15 million to Jeffrey Epstein was quietly becoming the largest private buyer of US government debt on earth. Bigger than Germany and Saudi Arabia. None of the owners are American and the company is registered in the British Virgin Islands. While the man who helped write the law that governs it from inside the White House walked out the door and became its CEO.
That same summer, Bessent's Treasury permanently killed the rule that required companies to tell you who owns them. Tether announced it passed a Big Four audit but buried the fact that its reserve buffer dropped from $8.2 billion to $4.1 billion in three months. And the regulations that will determine whether this company becomes the operating system for the American dollar opened for public comment with a deadline of October 19.
I have been building this investigation since June. Parts I through III laid out the playbook, the people, and the money. Part IV is what it looks like when all of it starts moving at the same time, because that is what is happening right now, and there is a clock on it. We have until Oct 19 to bring awareness and turn the train around before it may be too late.
Check out Part IV of my series, The Currency Killer: The Machine, on Substack now. Link is in my bio and the article is free!