WE’RE Gonna Give You TEN Grand! September 11, 2026 Seriously!* Because if it’s a good idea to hand everybody a check for $5,000, isn’t it twice as good an idea to hand everybody $10,000? That’s what all our candidates should promise to do if we win the House and Senate! If Trump thinks $10,000 is too much, he can simply promise to veto or pare it back when we pass it. Stingy Don. When the press asks where we plan to get all that money to give away, we can say: “The same place Trump got the money to give everybody the $2,000 checks he promised the last time.” And when the press pushes back, noting that he never did give anyone those promised $2,000 checks, we can say, “Well . . . duh!” Or we can say, “Don’t worry, we have the concept of a plan.” Or we can say, “We’re going to get every penny of it by raising tax rates on corporations and billionaires and by closing tax loopholes that only benefit the rich.” (Which would be the only defensible way to get it.) Or we can say, “Look. Obviously, we’re no more serious about this than Trump is. He just dangles it out there as a bribe, as he dangled giving everyone “terrific health care at a tiny fraction of the cost.” Or dangled “lower prices on Day One.” Or promised to cherish his first wife “until death did them part.” And his second. And his third. Once he gets what he wants, what does he care? He breaks his promises on virtually everything, every time. (He did close the border; but is he really deporting just the worst of the worst?) On the remote chance he’s serious about the $5,000, where would he get it? Clearly not from taxing billionaires or corporations. He’d just add it to the National Debt. Because if Republicans have proved anything since Reagan began ballooning it, it’s that they are the “borrow and spend” party. Forty trillion? Fifty trillion? Who cares, so long as they can cut taxes on the wealthy donors who keep them in power. His other reason for dangling this phony bribe is to deflect attention. From the Epstein files. From groceries and gas. From the millions about to lose health insurance. From the rural hospitals soon to close. From his staggering corruption. From his disastrous war. NO KINGS! Saturday, October 17! Ezra Levin lays out the case for your participation (2½ minutes). Here’s the website: No Kings Vote Early. KANSAS Kansas’s two-term Democratic governor has endorsed Hamilton — obviously — but get this: Former two-term Republican Governor Bill Graves just endorsed him, too. For the last six years, Sen. Roger Marshall has turned his back on Kansas. In contrast, Adam Hamilton stands as a bulwark of kindness, humility and service to others. It is for those reasons, and many more, that I believe Kansas should send Adam Hamilton to the U.S. Senate, and I am proud to endorse him. . . . We’re gonna win! *Well, not seriously. But maybe?