Alex & Jorden Before Nine

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Alex and Jorden break down the House Judiciary Democrats' fifty-three-page Epstein report and their call for a special counsel, Trump's one-million-dollar offer for voter-fraud tips, record early voting in Texas ahead of his Corpus Christi and Lubbock rallies, and the Oleshky ceasefire that began even as Kyiv was struck again — seven days out from the midterms.

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Alex and Jorden break down Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's stunning comeback to a historic fourth term as Brazil's president, Flavio Bolsonaro's refusal to concede, and what the result means for the Trump-aligned right across Latin America. They also cover the midterm final stretch: nearly 29 million early ballots already cast, Democrats spending into deep-red House districts, and President Trump's Port Huron rally pitch of five-thousand-dollar checks and higher gas prices as a small price to pay.

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Alex and Jorden break down the closing-weekend showdown in Michigan, as Barack Obama makes his first campaign stops of the cycle and President Trump heads to eastern Michigan for the open Senate race between Mike Rogers and Abdul El-Sayed. They also cover the Justice Department's extraordinary lawsuit seeking to block certification of Alaska's Senate race, the early-voting surge now past 23 million ballots, and what to watch in Ukraine as the Oleshky humanitarian ceasefire approaches.

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Alex and Jorden break down Elon Musk's record $442 million in Republican midterm spending, much of it aimed at the Texas Senate race. They also cover a Reuters analysis showing voters blame Trump's policies for rising prices, the new Oleshky ceasefire and Abu Dhabi peace talks, and the Cook Political Report's shift of 19 House races toward Democrats as more than 23 million Americans have already voted.

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Alex and Jorden break down President Trump's warning that the war with Iran could resume after the midterms — as the U.S. and Israel plan for a possible attack — plus Attorney General Todd Blanche's refusal to rule out blocking midterm certifications, the Supreme Court's green light for New Hampshire's full student-ID ban eleven days out, and the Ukraine file, as Trump calls Elon Musk to restore Starlink and a tanker of Russian diesel heads for New York. Plus: what to watch in the final eleven days.

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Alex and Jorden break down the overnight bombardment of Kyiv — twenty-one missiles and two hundred ten drones launched just hours after Putin agreed to resume trilateral peace talks — as Trump's envoy praises Putin as a "humanitarian"; a fake polling firm admits fabricating midterm surveys cited by the New York Times and USA Today; and Justice Elena Kagan warns the Supreme Court's conservative majority has weakened American democracy. Plus: what to watch in the final twelve days before Election Day.

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Alex and Jorden break down the nearly half-billion-dollar midterm money war as Trump pledges more than four hundred million dollars and Michael Bloomberg counters with eighty million, with a new New York Times-Siena poll putting Democrats up eleven points; Democrats' federal lawsuit to stop the Trump administration from threatening election officials and pressuring states to remove voters; and the Ukraine diplomacy surge as Witkoff meets Putin in St. Petersburg, Moscow agrees in principle to trilateral talks after November tenth, and U.S. missile-warning intelligence flows to Kyiv again. Plus: the Omar investigation, the Michigan and Texas Senate races, the white powder investigation, and what to watch next.

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Alex and Jorden break down the federal investigation into white-powder envelopes mailed to more than three dozen members of Congress and election offices in fifteen states; the midterm sprint fourteen days out, with a new Axios report showing the GOP redistricting war may net just one seat and Trump's rally blitz hitting North Carolina tonight; and the scramble to repair the U.S.-Ukraine relationship as Marco Rubio's call with Volodymyr Zelensky tees up peace talks in Oslo. Plus: a lawsuit over DHS collecting voter data, more than nine million votes already cast, and what's next.

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Alex and Jorden break down the Wall Street Journal reporting behind a viral video: a UAE-linked entity's five-hundred-million-dollar deal for forty-nine percent of the Trump family's crypto company World Liberty Financial, signed four days before the inauguration; what the money trail shows and what it doesn't prove; the United States' approval of advanced AI chip exports to the UAE; and a House hearing this week on World Liberty's bid for a national bank charter.

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Alex and Jorden break down a new Post-ABC-Ipsos poll putting President Trump at a record-low thirty-three percent approval sixteen days out from the midterms; the No Kings Vote Early drive and nearly eight million ballots already cast; Trump's Kentucky rally promises; Marco Rubio's trip to Central Asia; and a new drone ban along the southern border.