A Democrat Leads in Kansas. That Was Monday.

Everything Blue Amp published last week, from Hegseth to Epstein to Obamacare, in one place.

Blue Amp Media and Cliff Schecter

Sep 28, 2026

Cliff’s Note:

Nearly everything below lives behind our paywall. If you’ve been reading the previews and wondering what you’re missing, this is the list.

For $60/year, you get it all: David Shuster on the impeachment Mike Johnson ran from, Olga Lautman on the Russian software she exposed before the feds did, Kait Justice on Epstein’s money men, and Jonathan Larsen’s court-filing dig into Vance’s “fraud” case. Five weeks out, this is the ammunition. Subscribe and read the whole week.

—Cliff

Here’s last week in one sentence: Republicans spent it running—from reporters, from a vote, and from their own voters’ health care. Mike Johnson sent the House home for seven weeks rather than let members vote on Thomas Massie’s articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth. The White House started throwing reporters out of the building. And JD Vance kicked 750,000 people off Obamacare to fight “fraud,” holding up a case that, as Jonathan Larsen found, started on Trump’s watch.

Meanwhile, the map ran away from Republicans. A Democrat is leading in Kansas. Every indicator in Matt Robison’s Midterm HQ dashboard moved blue, and the GOP is pouring $110 million into emergency defense. That is not a party playing offense. Five weeks out, the only way we blow this is by getting comfortable, which is exactly why Joe Walsh told us to work like we’re down. Here’s everything you missed.

Monday, September 21

Is Trump Headed for Dunkirk or Waterloo?—Cliff maps a Senate battlefield so wide that even a cautious Democratic senator is now saying nine seats. The headline: a Democrat, Adam Hamilton, leads Roger Marshall in Kansas, a state that hasn’t elected a Democratic senator since 1932.

Tuesday, September 22

Pete Hegseth Is Toast—David Shuster on Rep. Thomas Massie’s eight articles of impeachment against the defense secretary, and why Speaker Johnson recessed the House for seven weeks rather than hold the vote.

Wednesday, September 23

The Blue Letter: Trump Crashes Below 30% Approval—Cliff’s paid-member letter on a president under fire from his own party and lashing out at the press as the midterms slip away.
Banning Reporters Doesn’t Do What Trump Thinks It Does—The White House went after CNN, MS NOW, and Politico. David Shuster, who worked that briefing room, explains why the real reporting never happened there anyway.

Thursday, September 24

The Feds Say Their Phone-Cracking Software Was Secretly Russian—On Amped Up, Olga Lautman joins Cliff and David. Months ago she exposed Oxygen Forensics; now the Justice Department has charged its CEO with hiding the company’s Russian ownership.

Friday, September 25

Prosecutors Are Probing Epstein’s Lawyer and Accountant—Kait Justice, a year into the Epstein files, tells Cliff and David what Epstein’s longtime lawyer and accountant would know—and why prosecutors are now asking.
Trump BANS the Press—Satirists Take It from There—David’s weekly countdown of the top five AI political satire videos, from press-room parodies to a fictional Trump TV network.

Saturday, September 26

The GOP Just Got Sacked—Matt Robison’s Midterm HQ dashboard: a blue sweep across polls, ratings, and prediction markets; a $110 million tell; and two races to watch closely.
Joe Walsh: Ignore the Polls and Work Like You’re Down—On Tequila Talk, Cliff and Joe Walsh on why Republican money can’t buy back voters who’ve made up their minds, and the one Senate race Democrats could still find a way to lose.

Sunday, September 27

Vance’s ‘Fraud’: Not Getting Sick—Jonathan Larsen of The Fucking News on the 750,000 people Vance and Oz just cut from Obamacare, and the court filings on their star “Biden fraud” case, which tell a very different story.