Putin’s Winning Streak Begins to End November 3 September 25, 2026September 24, 2026 “I KNOW THE SECRET OF WHY TRUMP TRULY FEARS PUTIN” Well, there’s a bit of click-bait in that Daily Beast podcast title, but it’s definitely worth listening to the author of Betrayal: Trump, Putin and The New Age of Conquest. He details the decades-long relationship between Trump and Putin. Harding reveals what he experienced firsthand while reporting in Moscow, including the surveillance and intimidation campaign that ultimately led to his expulsion, before turning to the startling possibility that Russian state television has used Melania Trump as a warning to her husband. Russia’s intelligence services, he says, couldn’t believe their success in 2016 — let alone in 2024. OCTOBER 17! Here’s the No King’s Vote Early event I’ve signed up for— 2pm-4pm in New York. Click here to find one near you. There will be thousands around the country. Then, just a few days later, we go out and vote to end this nightmare . . . voting early, wherever possible . . . in unprecedented numbers. The momentous first step on what will be the long — long — road back to a country the free world can once again embrace and admire. Treating Putin as the corrupt, murderous war criminal he is, rather than a “savvy genius” who is the one man Trump has never insulted. BONUS I was deeply impressed by the extensive “election protection” resources and contingency planning the DNC has put in place, as outlined in a presentation I was privy to yesterday. I coughed up yet another $10,000 — which is not nothing to me, a poor writer on Social Security — because this is our moment. We don’t have to fight for democracy against a mad king at Valley Forge or against fascism on the beaches of Normandy or against Putin in Ukraine — none of which I would have been brave enough to do. But we do have to support the opposition.