One defeat, three readings of Trump

Edition 9, 25 May 2026

This week gone, Thomas Massie lost his Kentucky primary to a challenger backed by Trump and by AIPAC money. The channel's guests could not agree on what that meant. This disagreement mirrored the split in the Republican base.

Trump's primary wars, three ways

Massie lost on 19 May. The same week, Indiana Republicans who had defied Trump's redistricting push were wiped out in their own primaries.

Ace, of the Ace Fire channel, read Indiana as proof that MAGA is not fracturing. Trump told the state senators who had blocked redistricting that he would primary them, and he did. Men with twenty and twenty-five years in their seats lost by twenty and thirty points. He won six of seven open seats.

The support for Trump is robust and is national, according to Ace. Cross Trump in a red state and you are finished. The Republican base now considers itself MAGA, and the primary numbers, not the polls, are the proof.

Joaquin Flores of the Strategic Culture Foundation read Massie's defeat the opposite way. With Trump, he argued, the thing is never what it appears. Trump's backing of Massie's challenger lines up with AIPAC, but once that win is shown to be hollow, it proves AIPAC's politics fail.

Flores pointed back to a Trump speech at AIPAC before the election. Trump stood on their stage and told them plainly where the power sat.

No one's afraid of AIPAC anymore.

Donald Trump (quoted by Joaquin Flores)

Flores called it controlled burn. The blowback in Trump's base is a known quantity, and voters will not focus on the midterms until the autumn. The Democrats, he added, still have no candidate and no platform to campaign on.

Lt Colonel Steve Murray, a retired veteran, trained in information warfare, went the other way entirely. He put the total spending by all candidates in the Kentucky 4th Congressional district near sixty million dollars; this in a district the size of a postage stamp, with ten thousand votes appearing late.

For Lt Colonel Murray, the lesson is that the whole election system is compromised, and that Massie has been made a martyr. He tied it to Epstein, arguing that exposure of that would burn the system down. It was Trump's own backers ran the operation that shut down disclosure of the Epstein documents, asserted Murray.

Susan Kokinda and Barbara Boyd of Promethean Action pushed back on the rigging story. Boyd noted Massie was outspent because his first-time challenger had no name recognition, which is normal against an incumbent. The real point, she argued, is that Massie said no to Trump's economics, and his voters removed him for it. They also pointed out how Massie had been funded by Zionists, just not by AIPAC.

Regime change at the Fed

The bigger story for Kokinda and Boyd was the Federal Reserve. Kevin Warsh was sworn in as chair on 22 May, confirmed on a near party-line vote.

There will be regime change at the Federal Reserve.

Kevin Warsh (quoted by Susan Kokinda)

Kokinda argued that the Fed was built to serve Wall Street and the City of London, even though the Constitution gave the sole power to create money to Congress. Warsh has called for audits, a shrunken balance sheet, and a new metric. That metric could be productivity. This is central to the American System of Political Economy, which Boyd and Kokinda argue is what Trump wishes to install in America.

Boyd argued the administration is already building credit channels outside the Fed. She pointed to the Pentagon's Office of Strategic Capital, Project Vault for strategic minerals, and energy financing through public-private partnerships.

The plan, Boyd said, is to build out of the debt rather than repudiate it. This is the Hamiltonian mould. She read Mark Carney's whole career as an effort to break the dollar as the reserve currency. This has been tried four ways and failed each time. The task now, she said, is for Trump to prevail in the midterms.

The empire's choke points

Tom Luongo of Gold Goats and Guns gave his take on recent events. Putin's Beijing visit followed Trump's visit. Referring to the conflict in Iran, Luongo said that it is in maintenance mode, rather than open war.

Luongo argued that Trump has spent 2026 blowing open the old empire's choke points, from Cuba and Venezuela. The wins, he said, were placed on the board to bring Xi and Putin into a new alignment with Russia, America and China: ARC.

You have to starve out the guys who were starving everybody else out.

Tom Luongo

EM Burlingame gave the long view. He described the financialists as Rome reborn through Venice, Amsterdam and the 1688 settlement. What they cannot tolerate, he argued, is a major power that refuses to be financialised, and America's sovereigntist faction has refused since 2014 and 2016.

Europe turns on itself

Stephen Kuhn commented on how the European Union is unravelling. Germany once blocked Turkey from buying Eurofighter jets on human rights grounds. Now, he said, Germany is asking to buy Turkey's new Typhoon Block 4 hypersonic missile. How the table has turned. Turkey's economy has overtaken Germany's, Kuhn argued, because it never sanctioned Russian energy. No longer able to rely on military support from Donald Trump's American military might, Europe finds itself exposed.

Ret'd Brigadier General Blaine Holt and Steven Kuhn covered the growing division between the US and Canada. Washington has suspended the Permanent Joint Board on Defense, in place since 1940.

Holt called Carney referred to Carney as the City of London's crown prince, the former Bank of England governor then deposited as the Premier of Canada. Canada's new Governor General, who Holt said reports to the Crown and holds command of Canada's armed forces. Holt expects Alberta's breakaway referendum on 19 October to bring the conflict between Alberta and Canada to a head.

The migration laboratory

A US House Judiciary inquiry into a decade of EU election interference framed the Ireland conversation. Brigadier General Blaine Holt spoke with two independent Irish by-election candidates, AJ Cahill in Galway and Malachy Steenson in Dublin.

Cahill said Ireland's foreign-born share has gone from roughly one per cent to twenty-three per cent in thirty years, all this without any matching economic growth. Holt called Ireland the laboratory for the UN Replacement Programme and another example of how the EU prevents power from the people rising to the top. He pointed to the barred candidates in Romania and EU pressure across Slovakia and Hungary.

Stephen Kuhn returned for the British angle. JD Vance had told an audience that open borders destroy a nation. Kuhn called the Great Replacement a precursor to genocide, and argued that a Parliament that is able to stop it with a stroke of the pen, yet chooses not to, is committing treason.

Watch this week's full interviews on the channel and share the ones that cut through.

Seeing through the fog

Five stories, one constant. The Fed fight, the Canada divorce, the rigged elections in Europe, the Beijing summits and the migration laboratory all trace back to the same financial empire headquartered in the City of London.

If you want a lawful and peaceful way to stop funding the machine, the mechanism is Trust law. Go to notaxforwar.com and upinarms.uk before the next tax cycle, and decide for yourself.

All the best.