Hey there —
Thirty percent off through Monday night. Summer is over Monday night too, which is the whole reason for the deadline.
Before you decide whether that is worth it to you, here is what you would have been paying for since June. Not a pitch about what we are going to do. Eight things we already did.
1. Independent Voters Are Surging. This May Be A Democratic Secret Weapon.
Dan Osborn, Brian Bengs, and Bob Chew—the latter in Colorado where independents just cleared 50%—are among a new class of independent candidates testing the power of that label this election.
2. World War NEXT Digs Into Russia’s Next Attack On America—And It’s Already Started.
Olga Lautman and Ken Harbaugh joined Cliff to talk about how the next attack on American democracy from Russia has already started—and it’s aimed at the Midterms.
3. Cliff Shared His Personal 9/11 Story—Up Close And In Person On That Tragic Day
Cliff wasn’t just in NYC that day—he was blocks from the Twin Towers and headed into Ground Zero when tragedy struck. Listen to his harrowing first-person account.
4. Ken Harbaugh Took Us Inside Ukraine’s Resistance.
The women intercepting Russian soldiers’ text messages and turning them into drone coordinates. Ken delivered a full accounting of what he saw while writing his incredible piece for The Atlantic.
5. Jamie Raskin Nukes Trump On Pardons
Cliff sat down with Rep. Jamie Raskin, ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, about the committee’s new report on Trump’s pardons.
6. Justin Wolfers Did The Math Cable News Will Not.
Two billion dollars made on crypto, and whose pockets it came out of — which turned out to be his own voters’.
7. Hunter Biden Sat Down With Us And Dodged Nothing.
His father’s health, which turned out to be actual news. His own recovery — “I’m not an addict anymore,” and the one thing he says he can never let himself do again.
8. Andy Borowitz Stopped Pretending To Be Neutral.
“I am a Democrat. I’ve never pretended to be both sidesy.” One of the sharpest comedy writers in America on the life of a comedy writer, on Fox, and on why equal-opportunity satire is a lie people tell to keep their jobs.
That is eight. There were about a hundred and thirty-five others.
None of it came from a network, a sponsor, or anybody upstairs. It came from members, which is the only reason we can publish a piece going after our own side and not have to clear it with anyone first.
Forty-two dollars for the year. Three fifty a month. Ends 11:59 p.m. Pacific, Monday, September 21.
—Cliff