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Let Vets Vote. 3.1 Million New Yorkers Locked Out of Primaries. Rieckhoff & IVA Files Landmark Lawsuit

A new lawsuit backed by independent veterans takes aim at New York’s closed primaries—and puts a fundamental question before the courts: Is voting a right of citizenship or party membership?

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/ October 1, 2026

Let Vets Vote. 3.1 Million New Yorkers Locked Out of Primaries. Rieckhoff & IVA Files Landmark Lawsuit

Bob Chew: Colorado’s Independent Navy Vet taking on Hickenlooper — and the Republicans and Democrats

With Colorado voters increasingly rejecting the two-party label, Navy veteran Bob Chew explains why he left the GOP, joined the Forward Party, and is betting on an independent breakthrough in 2026.

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/ September 28, 2026

Bob Chew: Colorado’s Independent Navy Vet taking on Hickenlooper — and the Republicans and Democrats

Polygraphs, Purges, and the Snake Pit Inside Hegseth’s Pentagon. What is the Pentagon Doing About AI?

Washington Post reporter Dan Lamothe pulls back the curtain on a Pentagon defined by press restrictions, unexplained leadership shakeups, internal polygraphs, military influencers, and growing questions about transparency and credibility.

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/ September 16, 2026

Polygraphs, Purges, and the Snake Pit Inside Hegseth’s Pentagon. What is the Pentagon Doing About AI?

Pentagon In Chaos. Driscoll Out. Hegseth Paying Trolls on X. Plus: Independents Flex Nationally

With Democrats moving left and Republicans moving right, more and more moderates and independents are left politically homeless. Paul Rieckhoff argues that the future belongs to independent voters, who are close making up a majority in the US.

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/ September 3, 2026

Pentagon In Chaos. Driscoll Out. Hegseth Paying Trolls on X. Plus: Independents Flex Nationally

Independent Vets Surging In Idaho, Montana, Nebraska & South Dakota. Achilles Up 5 On Risch.

In his weekly Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Wednesday hit with Connell McShane on News Nation, Paul lays out the great American betrayal of Afghanistan, the Afghan allies still hung out to dry, and the surging map of independent veteran candidates the legacy media keeps missing.

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/ August 27, 2026

Independent Vets Surging In Idaho, Montana, Nebraska & South Dakota. Achilles Up 5 On Risch.

3 Million Independents Locked Out of Voting in Florida’s Closed Primary

Millions of independent voters were locked out of taxpayer-funded elections in Florida, including 640,000 veterans. Plus, the DSA continues its takeover of the Democratic Party, and Stephen Colbert for Senate?

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/ August 20, 2026

3 Million Independents Locked Out of Voting in Florida’s Closed Primary

Senator Joe Manchin, Heather Manchin, And Their Plan to Break the Two-Party Machine

Joe and Heather Manchin are betting that a handful of independent victories in 2026 could break the two-party grip on Congress—and they’re building the organization to make it happen.

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/ August 12, 2026

Senator Joe Manchin, Heather Manchin, And Their Plan to Break the Two-Party Machine

Paul Rieckhoff: Mamdani's Board of Elections Quietly Crushes NYC Open Primaries

NYC's Board of Elections rejected 42,000 petitions demanding open primaries, affecting a million independent voters. Meanwhile, independent candidates in South Dakota, Nebraska, Idaho and Montana are positioning themselves as kingmakers in the Senate.

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/ August 10, 2026

Paul Rieckhoff: Mamdani's Board of Elections Quietly Crushes NYC Open Primaries

Former DNC Chair Ridicules Independents — Calls Them a 'Schtick'

In wake of Graham Platner's exit in Maine, former DNC Chair Jaime Harrison and Paul Rieckhoff get in a heated debate over the future of the Democratic Party, which Rieckhoff argues is run by a generation of "establishment leaders and grifters."

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Righteous Media

/ July 10, 2026

Former DNC Chairman Jamie Harrison makes remarks at the 2022 DNC Summer Meeting.