YouTube Notes: On the eve of the midterms, Susan Kokinda sets President Trump’s final message to Republicans, given to Benny Johnson (“be smart, be strong, love your country”), against Senator Elissa Slotkin’s September 30 speech at the Carnegie Endowment, where she called Trump’s America “the Titanic,” and her stage partner Anne Applebaum’s praise for […]

YouTube Notes: Barbara Boyd starts with Barack Obama’s October 24 rally in Detroit for Abdul El-Sayed, Elissa Slotkin and the red-green alliance, then looks at El-Sayed’s 2012 statement backing Mohamed Morsi’s government, Slotkin’s posts at the National Security Council and the Pentagon, and the Sunrise Movement’s board and funders. She follows Data Republican’s files on […]

 YouTube Notes: Susan Kokinda opens with Chatham House’s October 15 warning that President Trump could come out of the midterms “unshackled from electoral constraints,” and Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s answer in Mumbai: “we’re no longer going to be defensive.” The episode looks at the author of that warning, Dr. Andrew Payne, and his […]

 YouTube Notes: This week: Zelensky’s war reaches American oil, and a color revolution comes home. Secretary of State Rubio says Ukraine struck ships carrying American-owned oil, “probably not deliberately.” The ships were foreign-flagged tankers. Rubio told Zelensky to end the war. At home, the Washington Post reports that a small group of national security […]

 YouTube Notes: Barbara Boyd opens with Senator Elissa Slotkin’s remarks to University of Chicago students on October 13 about deterring young people from working for the Trump administration, and her background in the intelligence community, the National Security Council and the Pentagon. The episode follows the files Data Republican has been releasing on X […]

YouTube Notes: Susan Kokinda opens with the more than $1.2 billion in penalties Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s Treasury imposed on Bank of America on October 13 for violating anti-money laundering and sanctions laws, among the largest in Treasury history, after FinCEN found the bank failed to report priority national security risks, including Chinese money laundering […]

 YouTube Notes: Barbara Boyd, Susan Kokinda and Adam Sturman take your questions. This week: Europe prepares war and censorship, and Zelenskyy must go. Days after President Trump said Ukraine needs a new president and struck a diesel deal with Putin, Zelenskyy ran home to London, where King Charles and Prime Minister Burnham promised more […]

 YouTube Notes: Susan Kokinda opens with the European Union’s largest expansion of its Russia sanctions list since the war began, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent calling Europe’s objections to the U.S.–Russia diesel deal “completely hypocritical,” since Europe is still Moscow’s biggest gas customer. The episode follows the reactions to President Trump’s diesel deal, from […]

YouTube Notes: Susan Kokinda opens with the 26-page open letter that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps addressed to the American people weeks before the midterms, which the State Department dismissed as desperate, and the Daily Wire read as a call to vote Democrat. She argues the letter tells a bigger story than anyone is reporting: […]

 YouTube Notes: This episode argues that media outrage over a White House “autopen” joke and criticism of Trump’s summit with Xi Jinping obscures a deeper shift: Trump is dismantling a 50-year geopolitical framework associated with Henry Kissinger. It contrasts Chatham House’s “China Rising, America in Decline?” panel, and its Thucydides Trap framing—linked to Graham […]

YouTube Notes: This Wednesday update argues that President Trump used his UN General Assembly speech to indict globalization and mass migration, contrasting his “nation state” vision with Brazil’s Lula da Silva, and warning Brazil’s Oct. 4 election could shift Latin America’s direction. It highlights Trump’s focus on security in the Western Hemisphere through the Shield […]

 Suzi:  I’m not loving the thought of Canada being used as a conduit for attacking the U.S., and in no small part because it’s nothing that Americans or Canadians actually want.  As citizens of both countries, it’s up to us to disengage from the drama.  Chances are pretty good that none of us had […]

 YouTube Notes: Barbara Boyd, Susan Kokinda and Adam Sturman take your questions. This week, four crisis lanes: The AI hoax; Financial warfare; The manipulation of Ukraine; and The Mideast wars… All run as one operation to stage an apocalypse before the midterms, and break the Trump presidency. The calendar is the strategy. If you […]

YouTube Notes: This midweek update argues that the midterm elections are being shaped less by campaign ads than by coordinated economic and political pressure: Rising diesel prices tied to Ukrainian strikes on Russian diesel infrastructure; Energy pricing set by European exchange traders in London rather than producers; and Continued Iran conflict framed as being prolonged […]

 YouTube Notes: Special live Saturday Wrap-Up with Susan Kokinda, September 12, 2026. Fresh off the Dallas Midterm Convention floor, Susan locates the moment on the stage of history: a second American Revolution in two phases — Trump’s 2024 return as the break from the British Empire, and the Convention as the launching pad for […]