Alex & Jorden Before Nine

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Alex and Jorden break down Trump's Friday order waiving most of the new Graham Act sanctions on Russia days before they took effect; the 'circular firing squad' blame game inside the Republican midterm operation seventeen days out; Brent crude touching one hundred ten dollars as Hormuz tanker attacks escalate and the U.S. taps the Strategic Petroleum Reserve; and Russia's strikes on nine Ukrainian regions as the U.N. reports September civilian casualties up eighty-five percent.

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Alex and Jorden break down the deepening Trump-Zelensky feud as Russia's overnight drones kill three and cut power to hundreds of thousands in Ukraine; September inflation hitting 3.7 percent on a gasoline surge while real wages fall; the midterms eighteen days out, with Trump calling the polls rigged and record money pouring in; and the stuck Strait of Hormuz standoff keeping oil near one hundred five dollars.

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Alex and Jorden break down the midterms nineteen days out, with Democrats widening their polling lead and just over half of key Senate candidates pledging to accept the results; the Supreme Court's ruling keeping cheap ad rates for party committees; the collapse of the Ukraine energy truce as Kyiv resumes refinery strikes and clashes with Washington over intelligence and Starlink; and the Iran war's shadow over Gulf shipping.

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Alex and Jorden break down a federal judge blocking the White House ban on CNN, MS NOW, and Politico press passes, the strike on a Kyiv power plant and the intel dispute behind it, and the midterm map 20 days out — including the first House flip forecast and key Senate debates.

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Alex and Jorden break down today's political landscape: the Supreme Court takes up the DOGE transparency fight, taxpayer-funded pro-Trump ads kept running after a judge ordered them halted, India's voter-roll crisis, and the midterms three weeks out.

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Alex and Jorden break down the day's political landscape: the shaky Russia-Ukraine energy ceasefire, Houthi escalation in Saudi Arabia, the Ilhan Omar investigation, and Congress's busy week ahead of the midterms.

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