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Ohio's 7th Congressional District has a deadline, and it lands Monday afternoon.

Rep. Max Miller let the 90 day withdrawal mark pass on Wednesday, which killed any chance of a special primary. That leaves August 10 as the last day county party chairs can name a replacement on the ballot, and Cuyahoga County has to give two days notice before that meeting even happens. If Miller withdraws after Monday, there is no Republican on the ballot against Democrat Brian Poindexter. Meanwhile a co/efficient poll circulating this week has Miller down 14, Sen. Bernie Moreno says Miller fails any basic standard of character for elected office, and Sen. Jon Husted has called on him to resign and drop out. Speaker Mike Johnson says the Ethics Committee process has to play out. This episode walks the clock, the record, and the Republican split.

Then the main event: your entire statewide ballot, office by office. What the governor actually controls. What the Secretary of State actually controls, and what Robert Sprague says he wants to do with it, including a front end citizenship check, photo ID, and his stated interest in Ohio returning to in person voting. What the Attorney General decides. What the Auditor audits, and why that office sits on the Ohio Redistricting Commission. Plus the race that gets the deepest dive of the night: Treasurer of State, an open seat, where the unclaimed funds question and stadium financing collide.

Statehouse Watch covers the JobsOhio board chairman who is a registered lobbyist paid by Intel while the board he chairs disbursed more than two million dollars to that company, what JobsOhio and the governor's office say in response, what the Ohio Ethics Commission says, and the structural reason none of it is illegal. Also, 14 Ohio universities landed on a national free speech watch list, with the national context most coverage leaves out.

Research on a Dime explains something almost nobody covers: exactly how an Ohio political party replaces a nominee on the ballot, the 90 day and 86 day marks, the two day notice rule, and what happens when the window closes.

Political solutions without political bias. Building a better Ohio on the way to a better America.

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Editorial note: allegations are labeled as allegations. Court filings, agency findings, certified results, and published polling are labeled and sourced. Host commentary is stated as opinion.

Keywords: Ohio 7th Congressional District 2026, Max Miller, Brian Poindexter, Emily Moreno, Bernie Moreno, Jon Husted, Ohio ballot deadline, Ohio statewide ballot 2026, Ohio Treasurer race, Jay Edwards, Seth Walsh, Ohio Secretary of State 2026, Robert Sprague, Allison Russo, Ohio Attorney General, Keith Faber, John Kulewicz, Ohio Auditor, Frank LaRose, Annette Blackwell, JobsOhio, Intel Ohio, Josh Rubin, Ohio Ethics Commission, FIRE free speech ratings, Ohio Senate Bill 1, Vivek Ramaswamy, Amy Acton, Sherrod Brown, Ohio midterms, Ohio voter guide.

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Purple Political Breakdown: Political Solutions Without Political Bias. Host Radell Lewis breaks down the week in national politics, Trump corruption, the 2026 midterms, and the stories other coverage is flattening.

This week opens with two pieces of audio and the gap between them. Hasan Piker responds to Abdul El-Sayed's Michigan Senate primary win by calling Democrats Islamophobic and relitigating a race that was already over. El-Sayed responds by saying there is more that unites us than divides us and that there are thirteen weeks to beat Mike Rogers. One of those people understands the political landscape. The other is grifting for clout. Radell explains why the difference matters heading into November.

Then the debut of a new weekly segment: Follow the Money, This Week in Trump Corruption. Trump Media launched Truth API on August 1, selling financial firms a real-time feed of the President's Truth Social posts milliseconds before the public sees them, at up to 100,000 dollars a month, while Trump holds roughly 41 percent of the company and announces tariffs and military action on that platform first. Warren and Schiff have asked the SEC to investigate. Also covered: Capital One telling a federal judge it closed more than 300 Trump-linked accounts over money laundering concerns, framed accurately as a litigation position rather than a finding, plus the 1.776 billion dollar slush fund and the tax immunity deal at the center of the Todd Blanche confirmation fight.

Nuanced News: hackers compromised water systems in twelve states while the President blamed Minnesota, and the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act expires September 30. Blanche advanced out of committee 12 to 10. Elon Musk authorized up to 120 million dollars for America PAC across eight states including Ohio and Michigan, one year after saying he was done with politics. Plus the ADP jobs miss, 25 states suing over tariffs, the Minnesota nudify app ruling, Iran talks, the stalled Gaza roadmap, Colorado River water cuts, and the measles elimination review.

Research on a Dime goes deep on Michigan: who Abdul El-Sayed actually is, his real policy positions, the 49 to 47 result, the immediate unity from Haley Stevens and Mallory McMorrow, the down-ballot picture including Michigan 7 and 10, and why the DSA platform is a separate question from El-Sayed himself. Radell lays out why MAGA is the primary enemy, why DSA is not an ally, and why the money story is really a media attention story.

Breakdown in the Public: Supreme Court approval hit a record low 33 percent in Gallup polling, driven almost entirely by Republicans defecting after the Court ruled against Trump. Trump approval sits at 32 to 34 across three polls. Plus new data on who Americans actually consider elite.

Good News: global hunger fell below 8 percent for a third straight year, the first at-home tick test launches this month, and the Phoenix Species Project puts 200 million dollars behind 100 critically endangered species.

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What if the way to get big money out of politics is to make every voter a donor?

In this episode I sit down with Dan McMillan, a historian, former Brooklyn prosecutor, and founder of Make Voters the Donors, to break down his proposed reform called Voter Dollars. The idea, as Dan explains it: every registered voter would get an account of public campaign cash, one hundred dollars in a presidential year and fifty for the midterms, that they can only assign to the candidates they choose. With roughly 174 million registered voters, Dan argues that would give ordinary Americans enough collective giving power to compete with billionaires and special interests.

We trace how we got here, from the 1976 Supreme Court decision in Buckley v. Valeo that treated political money as protected speech, through Citizens United and the rise of super PACs. Dan makes his case for why public financing is the reform most likely to survive the courts, and he points to Seattle, which has run a democracy voucher system since 2017 and recently voted to renew it. He also lays out his swing state strategy focused on Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.

I press him on the hard questions too: whether tax dollars should fund campaigns while the country runs deep deficits, whether reform should start local rather than national, and whether either party in Washington would ever get behind it. As always, curiosity over confrontation, with the strongest objections handled fairly.

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Ohio's 7th Congressional District was rated Solid Republican. It is not anymore.

This week the Purple Political Breakdown Ohio Edition covers the race almost nobody outside Ohio was watching, and the reasons it moved. Congressman Max Miller is facing domestic abuse allegations from his former wife, Emily Moreno, who is the daughter of Republican Senator Bernie Moreno. Miller denies the allegations and has filed a defamation suit. No charges were filed in the police matter that made the records public. Those are allegations, they are not findings, and this episode labels them that way while covering the documented court record and the measurable political effect on a district Donald Trump carried by eleven points.

Also in this episode: Ohio counties sold record amounts of residents delinquent property tax debt to investors who can collect at up to eighteen percent interest, and a bipartisan bill to stop it. The two billion dollars in state and local sales tax exemptions that went to data center operators in a single year, and why Ohio lawmakers walked away from the vote to change it. Where Amy Acton and Vivek Ramaswamy actually stand on data centers and property taxes. Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur voting yes on HR 2616 and the backlash from her own base. Temporary protected status ending for Haitians and what it means for the Clark County workforce. And the two Ohio Supreme Court seats on your November ballot that will get almost no advertising and will outlast the next governor.

Segments include Statehouse Watch, District Watch on Ohio 9, County of the Week on Clark County, the deep dive on Ohio 7, and Research on a Dime on the Ohio Supreme Court.

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Keywords: Ohio 7th Congressional District 2026, Max Miller, Brian Poindexter, Emily Moreno, Bernie Moreno, Ohio Supreme Court 2026, Jennifer Brunner, Colleen O'Donnell, Dan Hawkins, Marilyn Zayas, Marcy Kaptur, Derek Merrin, Ohio 9th Congressional District, Amy Acton, Vivek Ramaswamy, Ohio governor race 2026, Ohio property tax, tax lien sales, Ohio data centers, Clark County, Springfield Ohio, Haitian TPS, Ohio midterms, Ohio voter guide.

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The Supreme Court struck down this administration's tariffs. So it found a different law and taxed 99.4 percent of everything America imports anyway. A federal judge blocked the order rewriting how you get a mail ballot. So it went to the Supreme Court, and the Postal Service started building the portal regardless. OpenAI sealed two AI models in a sandbox to test whether they could hack. The models picked the lock and hacked a real company on the way out.

Nobody in this episode broke a rule. Everybody found a way around one. That is the thread.

This week we launch a new opening segment, What Has Trump Said This Week, going straight to the tape on the fourth term comments and the Netanyahu remarks.

NUANCED NEWS: The tariff sequence nobody is explaining. Three different legal authorities in six months producing nearly the same outcome, each time a court closed a door. Section 301 after Section 122 after the Supreme Court struck the original Liberation Day tariffs. Then the same authority aimed at the European Union one day later over the Google antitrust fine, and a lawsuit filed by Friday afternoon. Plus the mail ballot executive order reaching the Supreme Court with a response due August 3, two federal appeals courts splitting on ripeness in the same week, and the postal portal getting built anyway. Plus the OpenAI containment breach, including the detail almost nobody reported: when OpenAI tried to defend against its own attacking agent, another American lab's safety guardrails made its model useless, so the defense ran on an open source Chinese model.

RESEARCH ON A DIME: Jay Clayton, confirmed Director of National Intelligence 51 to 47, and the surveillance law nobody will vote on. Section 702 of FISA has been dead since June 12. It is not being debated on its merits. It is collateral. And on July 10, the bipartisan 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act became law without a presidential signature for the same reason. Same bill. Two hostages. Then Michigan's Senate primary, the 36 million dollars in outside spending, and the 16.8 million from a group that does not have to say who funds it until after you vote.

BREAKDOWN IN THE PUBLIC: Is it actually harder now, or does it just feel that way? New Pew data on how young adults see homeownership, education, savings, and jobs, the Minneapolis Fed's argument that we may be measuring American homeownership 12 points wrong, and an honest steel-man of the case that the whole gerontocracy frame is a misdirection.

GOOD NEWS: States are revoking data center tax breaks after residents connected their power bills to the building down the road. Solar hit a quarter of all EU electricity for the first time. And a Stanford Medicine trial has kids with multiple food allergies eating full servings safely.

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Equal Vote Coalition & STAR Voting: Advocating for voting methods that ensure every vote counts equally, eliminating wasted votes and strategic voting.

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Future is Now Coalition (FiNC): A grassroots movement working to restore democracy through transparency, accountability, and innovative technology while empowering citizens and transforming American political discourse.

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What's the bigger threat to America right now: Israel's influence on U.S. politics, or Trump and MAGA itself? I sat down with a leftist creator (Cousin Ali on TikTok, Project Socio on YouTube) to dig into a tweet I put out that got people fired up, and to actually have the conversation instead of a shouting match.

He makes the case that AIPAC's money and influence over Congress and the presidency, including Trump's Iran policy, makes Israel's lobby a uniquely dangerous force in American politics, one he argues is more entrenched and harder to challenge than MAGA on its own. I push back where I think the comparison breaks down, we talk about the far right turn in Israel's own government (Ben-Gvir and company), the growing divide inside the Democratic party over AIPAC-aligned candidates, and where healthcare policy (public option versus Medicare for All) fits into the bigger picture of what the American left can actually deliver.

This is a solutions-focused, nonpartisan conversation. My guest's views are his own, and I bring my own pushback throughout, we don't always land in the same place, and that's the point.

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Ohio's governor race just got a new label. Cook Political Report moved Ramaswamy vs. Acton from Lean Republican to Toss Up, and Ohio's largest police union broke decades of habit to endorse a full Republican statewide ticket for the first time in recent memory. This episode covers both, plus the ten Ohio House seats that could decide whether Republicans keep veto proof control of Columbus.

In this episode: the Fraternal Order of Police of Ohio endorses Vivek Ramaswamy, Jon Husted, and Keith Faber for Attorney General, its first Republican AG endorsement in twenty years. Statehouse Watch covers the Ohio EPA's reversal on data center wastewater permits and the ten House Republican seats Democrats are targeting to break the sixty seat supermajority. District Watch breaks down Ohio's 14th (David Joyce vs. Maria Jukic) and 15th (Mike Carey vs. Don Leonard) congressional districts. County of the Week looks at Summit County's House Districts 31 and 35. Research on a Dime digs into a new KFF poll on who Americans actually think is committing Medicaid fraud, and how it lines up against Republican Attorney General messaging in Ohio's race between Keith Faber and John Kulewicz.

Plus: the billionaire money behind Ramaswamy's super PAC, Victors Not Victims, which has raised thirty seven million dollars from a small group of billionaire donors, more than eighty eight percent of its total funding.

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The Purple Political Breakdown is committed to fostering productive political dialogue that transcends partisan divides. We believe in the power of conversation, balanced information, and democratic participation to build a stronger society. Our mission: 'Political solutions without political bias.'

This week on Purple Political Breakdown, Radell Lewis breaks down a night where every major American institution seemed to bend under pressure at once.

The Iran war didn't end, it got worse. After the June ceasefire collapsed, the US and Iran have traded strikes across the region, eighteen American service members have died since February, and Congress is now being asked to approve $87.6 billion more to keep funding it, all while Trump quietly approved a 30-year nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia in the middle of the fighting.

Back home, attorney general nominee Todd Blanche confirmed a settlement that permanently bars the IRS from auditing Trump's own tax returns, Mahmoud Khalil filed a lawsuit accusing senior administration officials of using an 1871 law written to stop the Klan to target protesters, and a federal appeals court ended 60 years of desegregation oversight in Louisiana at the DOJ's own request.

Then there's the elections themselves. The Election Assistance Commission just lost its entire bipartisan leadership four months before the midterms, and Trump gave a primetime speech claiming newly declassified documents prove foreign election interference. Radell read the actual documents and breaks down what they really say, and don't say, about China, Russia, and the 2020 election.

Plus new Senate developments out of Maine and South Carolina, a fresh look at Arizona's governor race, a deep dive into why the public trusts both political parties less than ever, and why the conservative backlash to Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey turned out to have nothing to do with what audiences actually thought when they showed up.

We close things out, as always, with some good news: a record-breaking rescue operation in China, a promising new Alzheimer's treatment, 3D-printed organs manufactured in space, and humpback whales making a stunning comeback off the coast of Brazil.

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HeadOn: A platform for contentious yet productive conversations. It's a place for hosted and unguided conversations where you can grow a following and enhance your conversations with AI features.

Living Room Conversations: Building bridges through meaningful dialogue across political divides.

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Us United: A movement for unity that challenges Americans to step out of their bubbles and connect across differences. Take the Unity Pledge, join monthly "30 For US" conversation calls, wear purple (the color of unity), and participate in National Unity Day every second Saturday in December. Their programs include the Sheriff Unity Network and Unity Seats at sports events, proving that shared values are stronger than our differences.

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OtherWeb: An AI-based platform that filters news without paywalls, clickbait, or junk, helping you access diverse, unbiased content.

VOTING REFORM & DEMOCRACY

Equal Vote Coalition & STAR Voting: Advocating for voting methods that ensure every vote counts equally, eliminating wasted votes and strategic voting.

Future is Now Coalition (FiNC): A grassroots movement working to restore democracy through transparency, accountability, and innovative technology while empowering citizens and transforming American political discourse.

POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT

Independent Center: Resources for independent political thinking and civic engagement.

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Ohio just landed at number one on CNBC's 2026 list of the best states for business, the first time it has ever finished first. In this Ohio Edition of the Purple Political Breakdown, Radell Lewis follows the money and the power lines behind that ranking, and breaks down who is actually on your 2026 ballot in Ohio's 11th and 12th Congressional Districts.

We get into Elon Musk's five million dollar check to V PAC: Victors, Not Victims, the super PAC backing Vivek Ramaswamy, and the billionaire donors behind its nearly forty two million dollar haul (Jeff Yass, Ratmir Timashev, Bill Ackman, and Ross Stevens). Plus Ramaswamy's twenty five million dollar loan to his own campaign, the Secretary of State flag on more than five hundred thousand dollars in unitemized spending, Amy Acton's small-dollar contrast, and Sherrod Brown breaking with the building trades to hit Jon Husted over data centers in the Senate race.

Statehouse Watch covers the three hundred fourteen million dollars Ohio has made leasing public land to fracking, the new college syllabus rules under Senate Bill 1, the Medicaid anti-fraud law Senate Bill 315, and the Rooster case, where blogger D.J. Byrnes faces an October jury trial over an image texted to State Senator Jerry Cirino. County of the Week is Allen County and Lima, where Google's five hundred million dollar data center has neighbors up in arms.

District Watch, so you know who you are voting for:

Plus the latest AARP poll showing tight Governor and Senate races, and Ohio's nation-leading drop in Affordable Care Act enrollment after enhanced subsidies expired.

Political solutions without political bias, building a better Ohio on the way to a better America.

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The United States is bombing Iran for a fourth straight night, Senator Lindsey Graham is dead and his Senate seat went to his sister, the agency that certifies your voting machines just got emptied by email, and a text message that would not admit it was a bot tried to move Radell's opinion on Israel. The thread tonight is one question: who actually gets to decide, and who is being kept out of the room?

In this episode of Purple Political Breakdown:

Iran and the Strait of Hormuz: the June memorandum collapsed, the strikes and the naval blockade are back, oil is near 85 dollars, and the White House position keeps reversing faster than it can be reported. Why the missing story is not the policy, it is the absence of one.

Lindsey Graham: the senator's death, the appointment of his sister Darline Graham Nordone to the seat on the President's recommendation, and an honest look at the record, including the 2016 Merrick Garland blockade and the 2020 Amy Coney Barrett confirmation eight days before the election.

The Election Assistance Commission: what this quiet agency actually does for your vote, why firing every commissioner months before a midterm matters, and the receipts that connect it to the SAVE Act, the DOGE and True the Vote data deal, the ERIC exodus, and the CISA cuts.

Breakdown in the Public: the "Friends for Peace" texts Radell received, traced by reporters to Brad Parscale's firm and a nine million dollar Israeli Foreign Ministry contract, plus fresh polling on where American opinion on Israel actually stands.

Research on a Dime: the Maine Senate scramble to replace Graham Platner and who the Democrats might pick, and the new 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act that became law without a signature.

Good News to close: Pakistan's rooftop solar boom, a landmark NHS heart-attack prevention rollout, and a gene therapy giving deaf children their hearing.

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PODCAST NETWORK

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ALIVE Podcast Network: Check out the ALIVE Network where you can catch a lot of great podcasts like my own, led by amazing Black voices.

Link: https://alivepodcastnetwork.com/

CONVERSATION PLATFORMS

HeadOn: A platform for contentious yet productive conversations. It's a place for hosted and unguided conversations where you can grow a following and enhance your conversations with AI features.

Link: https://app.headon.ai/

Living Room Conversations: Building bridges through meaningful dialogue across political divides.

Link: https://livingroomconversations.org/

UNITY MOVEMENTS

Us United: A movement for unity that challenges Americans to step out of their bubbles and connect across differences. Take the Unity Pledge, join monthly "30 For US" conversation calls, wear purple (the color of unity), and participate in National Unity Day every second Saturday in December. Their programs include the Sheriff Unity Network and Unity Seats at sports events, proving that shared values are stronger than our differences.

Link: https://www.us-united.org/

BALANCED NEWS & INFORMATION

OtherWeb: An AI-based platform that filters news without paywalls, clickbait, or junk, helping you access diverse, unbiased content.

Link: https://otherweb.com/

VOTING REFORM & DEMOCRACY

Equal Vote Coalition & STAR Voting: Advocating for voting methods that ensure every vote counts equally, eliminating wasted votes and strategic voting.

Link: https://www.equal.vote/star

Future is Now Coalition (FiNC): A grassroots movement working to restore democracy through transparency, accountability, and innovative technology while empowering citizens and transforming American political discourse.

Link: https://futureis.org/

POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT

Independent Center: Resources for independent political thinking and civic engagement.

Link: https://www.independentcenter.org/

GET DAILY NEWS

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