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Up to three times a week, Michael Starr Hopkins shows you who made the decision, who got paid, and what it costs your life. Free. Sources linked. No spin.
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campaign-finance
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A Senate candidate built a PAC for "working people." Its first big check went to his wife's two-day-old LLC.
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Aug 31, 2026
jobs
+5
The government quietly revised away 911,000 jobs. Wall Street stopped trusting the data. Nobody told you.
Aug 30, 2026
morning-edition
Mother writes a $1 million check, son walks out of prison. The paper trail on Trump's pardon market.
weekend-edition
Five things that got filed, ruled, or admitted this week while everyone was watching something else.
Aug 29, 2026
coffee-tariff
Aug 28, 2026
canada
insider
+1
Aug 27, 2026
housing
Aug 26, 2026
Aug 25, 2026
supreme-court
+7