Signal Fire

Everyone said Gen Z was lost after 2024, and then young people swung back hard on Tuesday. Black voters, Latino voters, women and non-college white voters moved away from MAGA too, and Democrats won in places like Kansas that were not supposed to flip.

Jon and Lisa break down why Gen Z swung back, why Democrats can win anywhere they put in the effort, and what Tuesday’s results mean for JD Vance, Marco Rubio and the push for hearings they call accountability, not retribution.

Articles from this weeks episode: https://newdle.com/collections/signal-fire-11-11

A longtime Republican adviser says state attorneys general should take on the Trump White House the way they took on Big Tobacco, because Trump still holds the pardon power. He also says Democrats should try to bring Starlink and SpaceX under government control so one man does not hold two critical national security assets. And he says Democrats should stop waiting for a normal governing partner and start acting like a dissident movement.

Lisa Senecal sits down with Stuart Stevens, a longtime Republican political adviser who worked on the Bush and Romney campaigns and is now a senior adviser to the Lincoln Project and co-founder of Lincoln Square Media, to break down how state attorneys general could hold the Trump White House accountable, why Starlink and SpaceX should not be controlled by one man, and why Democrats need to act like a dissident movement.

A New Mexico jury just ordered Meta to pay $25 billion in one of the largest verdicts in corporate history. Trump called Putin a humanitarian while Russia was dropping cluster munitions on Ukrainian civilians in Kyiv. And the Trump administration ended a 25 year program that left water barrels in the Arizona desert for migrants making a deadly crossing.

Jon and Lisa break down the $25 billion Meta verdict and what it means for big tech accountability, why Trump calling Putin a humanitarian while Ukraine is being bombed is a moral bankruptcy, and what ending the desert water program reveals about the real agenda behind this administration’s immigration policy.

Articles from this weeks episode: https://newdle.com/collections/sf-10-28

Trump is buying Russian diesel in violation of two laws his own party passed less than a month ago. Elon Musk shut down Starlink access for Ukraine preventing planned drone attacks and costing lives while he was accepting a medal of gratitude from Zelensky. And the federal government subpoenaed Ilhan Omar’s sister over immigration paperwork filed when Omar was 12 years old and had no legal authority to sign anything.

Jon and Lisa break down why Trump is defying his own party to buy Russian diesel, what Musk shutting down Starlink means for Ukraine and American foreign policy, and why the government is targeting Ilhan Omar’s family right before the midterm election.

Articles from this weeks episode: https://newdle.com/collections/signal-fire-oct-21

The White House pulled federal agents off real investigations to monitor Americans for legal protests. 281,000 legal immigrants who followed every rule are losing Medicaid this month under the One Big Beautiful Bill. And Utah just became the first state to allow AI to prescribe medication without a doctor in what experts are calling a preview of where healthcare is heading. Jon and Lisa break down how the White House is weaponizing federal agents against free speech, why legal immigrants are losing healthcare under the One Big Beautiful Bill, and what Utah’s AI prescription pilot means for the future of medicine.

Articles from this weeks episode: https://newdle.com/collections/signal-fire-10-14

Dozens of psychiatrists and mental health professionals are saying Trump must be removed from office and his mental and physical decline is accelerating. At the United Nations he threatened to annihilate a country of 92 million people and the media covered it like a normal speech. Mary Trump, a clinical psychologist and family member, has been raising the alarm while mainstream media coverage continues to normalize behavior that should alarm everyone.

Jon and Lisa sit down with Steven Beschloss, award winning journalist and Pulitzer nominated writer of the America America Substack newsletter, to break down why Trump's mental decline is a psychiatric emergency, why the media is failing to cover the real story, and what accountability looks like if Democrats take back the House.

Trump launched his own state TV channel this week and only 8000 people out of 174 million eligible voters watched it. He is also banning journalists from the White House. The Greenland deal Trump is calling a victory is a corruption vehicle for donors who bought up Greenland mineral rights years ago. And Trump gave Xi the highest level state visit while using China as the justification for taking Greenland.

Jon and Lisa break down the failure of Trump state TV, why the Greenland mineral rights deal is really about donor corruption, and what Trump welcoming Xi reveals about his foreign policy contradictions.

Articles from this weeks episode: https://newdle.com/collections/signal-fire-9-24

The Iran war has entered a new phase and it is hitting your wallet. Seven months in the conflict has expanded into a wider regional war with no exit strategy. The Saudi pipeline outage took 7 million barrels of oil off the market and sent oil prices spiking. Iran oil control is now a defining factor in global energy markets. Gas is now hitting $4.31 nationally and as high as $9 a gallon for diesel in some states. This is what the Iran war means for US foreign policy and for your wallet.

At a rally in Texas Trump held a personal loyalty oath ceremony where the crowd raised their right hands and pledged loyalty to him. Jon and Lisa break down the Saudi pipeline outage, the oil price crisis hitting American consumers, and why the Trump loyalty oath is more alarming than most people realize.

Tech companies have been writing their own rules for decades because regulators have never effectively stepped into this space. The Meta settlement the media called historic is structured so Meta might not actually pay the full $18 billion. And AI data centers are ending up in communities that do not have the power to push back.

Jon and Lisa sit down with Gaurab Bansal, executive director of Responsible Innovation Labs and former Obama White House adviser, to break down why big tech regulates itself, what the Meta settlement actually means for kids, and why AI data centers keep ending up in the wrong communities.

25 years after 9/11 America is still living with the damage it did to itself in response. Two decades of war, a surveillance state, and Afghan interpreters who risked their lives for America now being sent back to the Taliban to die. North Korea is pursuing a nuclear armed navy and Trump is calling Kim Jong Un a friend. Jon and Lisa ask what America learned from 9/11 and what blunders we are cooking up for ourselves right now.