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🚨WTF?? NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani announces he's hitting the wealthy with MAXIMUM taxes to convince others to stop leaving the city: "I'll ask those who make the most amount of money [to] pay more so everyone can STAY IN THIS CITY!" We warned you.

BREAKING: The US Commerce Dept was approving sales of Nvidia, $NVDA, chips to companies in China which either did not exist, were on the sanctions list, and/or had ties to China's military, per NYT

Democrats have a wishlist for AI that includes a federal permit to train a model, a Department of AI, 20-year prison terms for executives, kill switches, and ID checks to use a chatbot. Writing code is about to need a hall pass if certain politicians get their way. reclaimthenet.org/democrats-…

Oil crashed the day after Democrats took Congress. Then Van Jones went on CNN and admitted the quiet part out loud. The day after the election, Brent crude fell 8.7% in a single day. WTI fell 13% on the week. Worst week for oil since COVID. Nothing about the war changed overnight. Only the election ended. And it is still falling this morning. WTI is down near $87 a barrel. Tankers are still getting hit near the Strait of Hormuz. But the fear is gone, right on schedule. The official story is that traders think a Democrat Congress will force Trump to end the Iran war. Maybe. Hold that thought. Because then Van Jones went on CNN and bragged about how they did it. His exact words: 'The Republicans never figured out what we were doing.' Jones said Democrats ran something called the American Accountability Network. Tens of thousands of real people. Not bots. Coordinated to post the same message, everywhere, every day. And the message never changed. Everything is unaffordable. Gas costs too much. And it is all the Republicans' fault. Jones said they tied kitchen table pain to Democrats on a positive and Republicans on a negative. The scale he claimed: 32.5 million hits a day on Instagram. 88.8 million on X. 185 million on Facebook. That is not a campaign. That is a flood. And it was aimed at your gas tank. This was not some random group either. The network's own partner list includes the DNC, the DCCC, the DSCC, MoveOn, the AFL-CIO and the SEIU. The whole machine, working one message. So here is the question people are asking now. If the crisis was real, why did oil fall off a cliff the morning after the votes were counted? Inventories actually went down that week. Less oil sitting around usually means higher prices. Prices crashed anyway. They did not win on policy. They won on volume. They manufactured a crisis, pointed it at your gas tank, and flooded every feed in America until it worked. And Jones said the network is not going away. What were you paying for gas on Election Day?

Terrorism has never happened in Poland before. Until today. 5 people were killed and more than a dozen wounded in an attack at the Old Town Square in Krakow. Prime Minister Tusk is turning this country into another France or Germany. He must resign before more people lose their lives.

This is Gene Wu, the new Majority Leader of the Texas House of Representatives.

TEXAS 2.0: Democrats elected a foreign national who got his law degree and practiced Sharia law for a decade in Nigeria before coming to America. He never went to law school in the US. This is the first step to bringing Sharia to America.

Everyone keeps saying that Republicans didn’t vote to punish Trump. But something seems way off here… Republican votes were basically the same. Dems managed to get 20M more votes. That doesn’t seem possible. Open to wild and crazy theories!

Kamala Harris got the third-most votes of any presidential candidate in American history James Talarico got almost a million more Texas votes in a midterm election than her Talarico’s early votes were higher than Paxton’s total votes A Democrat has not won that seat in decades

$2.5 Trillion erased from the US stock market in 60 minutes as Democrats call to ban AI. Bro that’s the entire market cap of crypto.

When we say “candidate quality matters,” nothing could be a better example of the fact that Brandon Gill won by ~11 points in his district last night, which also went ~8-10 points to Talarico. The Right needs a new generation of leadership.

AMAZON IS LAYING OFF THE SAME JOBS IT FILED THOUSANDS OF H-1B APPLICATIONS FOR Amazon told Washington regulators on Nov 2 it is cutting 95 corporate jobs across Seattle, Bellevue, Redmond, Sumner, Pasco and remote. The notice lists every title. 52 of the 95 are software engineers, product and program managers, scientists, data engineers, software managers and QA engineers. In those same job families and cities, Amazon got 7,889 H-1B labor condition applications certified between October and June. THIS IS JUST IN WASHINGTON STATE! 12 software engineers are on the cut list. Amazon got 5,172 certified for that title family in those cities. Nationwide Amazon had 19,924 certified over the same nine months.

Dems will get 55 Senate seats and 250+ House seats. Looking at the Senate map and considering such a massive House margin, it is very unlikely Republicans will recapture the Congress in 2028. Might not have a shot at Senate control until 2032.

Reminder: We have John Thune to thank for not passing the SAVE America Act and securing our elections earlier.