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JD Vance Polices Patriotism While Backing Authoritarianism

Pragmotiv — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 23:02:29 GMT

JD Vance loves to police everyone else’s patriotism – especially Democrats – while backing authoritarian moves like the Insurrection Act and Trump’s agenda.
In this episode of Pragmotiv News, Tre breaks down why JD Vance is a fake patriot and how his rhetoric about “loving America” is really about controlling dissent and protecting his own power.

Pragmotiv News is a pro‑democracy news and commentary channel that unapologetically defends Black voters, workers, and everyone targeted by MAGA politics.

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Trump Loses MAGA: Supporters Walk Out Mid-Speech [BIG RIP INCOMING]

Pragmotiv — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 01:48:18 GMT

Trump is losing the one thing he thought he owned forever: the crowd. In this episode, we show Trump supporters literally walking out mid-speech as the MAGA base finally starts to crack.

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Is America’s Credit Card Bubble About to Burst?

Pragmotiv — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:14:12 GMT

America’s economy doesn’t look fine—it looks unstable. When 6 in 10 cardholders have to carry a balance just to survive, that’s not prosperity; that’s a system in serious trouble.

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President Obama Threw a Party Trump will Never Get

Pragmotiv — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:13:40 GMT

Barack Obama just threw the most star‑studded party in recent history at his new presidential center — and Donald Trump wasn’t even invited. Here’s why that guest list hurts Trump’s ego more than any joke from 2011.

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You Can’t Gerrymander the Senate: Why 2026 Could Save Democracy.

Pragmotiv — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:37:35 GMT

Republicans didn’t just “win” the Senate — Mitch McConnell used it to rig the Supreme Court for a generation. In 2026, the same chamber that stole Merrick Garland’s seat could be the one that saves American democracy.

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From Kennedy Center to the Lincoln Memorial, Trump’s Makeover of History Is Falling Apart

Pragmotiv — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 03:50:25 GMT

Donald Trump’s 80th birthday celebrations didn't exactly go as planned, featuring a series of public PR blunders his team desperately tried to hide from the public. From "puke green" reflecting pools to literal canvas cover-ups, this week was a chaotic series of missteps for trump

They Got Scared: Georgia GOP Backs Off Plan to Gut Black Districts

Pragmotiv — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:58:58 GMT

Don't be fooled by the Georgia GOP’s sudden retreat on redistricting—it’s not a change of heart, it’s a calculated, panicked trap to trick voters before the midterms because they know the tide is turning.

Trump Is Abusing the DOJ to Go After Gavin Newsom

Pragmotiv — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:49:36 GMT

Did Donald Trump weaponize the Department of Justice for personal payback? In this episode, we break down California Governor Gavin Newsom’s bombshell allegation that Trump ordered federal agencies to "find a crime" to take down his political rivals.

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In this segment of Pragmotiv News, host Tre dives into Governor Gavin Newsom’s statement accusing Donald Trump of using the power of the federal government as a personal weapon. The discussion highlights allegations that federal investigators targeted the California governor's family, friends, and former associates in a desperate search for dirt. Exploring the broader implications of a weaponized justice department, the video examines how the abuse of agencies like the FBI and DOJ signals a dangerous shift toward authoritarianism and political retaliation.

Republican Town Hall ERUPTS as Trump Supporter Realizes He's TERRIBLE on Jobs

Pragmotiv — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 03:38:31 GMT

Republican Rep. Mike Flood gets humiliated at his own town hall after telling voters You have to work to get free healthcare and the crowd immediately turns on him.

Trump FAKES a “WIN” as OBAMAS OUTSHINE HIM and MAGA EXPLODES

Pragmotiv — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 02:01:41 GMT

Donald Trump just signed a new "ceasefire" with Iran, but it’s nothing more than a desperate attempt to distract from his own failures. This deal proves that while he might be out of office, the Obamas are still living rent-free in his head.

Trump CRACKS and RUNS as Reporter SMACKS DOWN his lies.

Pragmotiv — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:40:56 GMT

Donald Trump completely loses his composure and walks out of a chaotic interview after being confronted with live data. We're breaking down the exact moments the interview went completely off the rails.

Trump HUMILIATED Amid WORST EVER Economic News

Pragmotiv — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:28:48 GMT

Donald Trump was relentlessly booed in New York City just as a devastating new inflation report exposed how badly the economy is failing regular people. He promised lower prices, but the cost of living under his administration has hit a terrifying breaking point

Whistleblower EXPOSES Trump Officials’ ‘Death File’ Scheme

Pragmotiv — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:59:09 GMT

They didn't just make a mistake—they built a system to turn citizens into "ghosts" on paper. We’re breaking down the deliberate, administrative plan that aimed to "kill" millions of people by weaponizing Social Security records.

Scott Pelley’s First Interview Since Leaving CBS – He’s Not Holding Back

Pragmotiv — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:02:06 GMT

Scott Pelley is finally pulling back the curtain on his firing from CBS, and he’s not holding back on the new network leadership. We're breaking down his explosive New York Times interview to expose the real power shift happening behind the scenes at legacy news institutions.

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Everything You're Getting Wrong About the Boycott [DEEP DIVE]

Pragmotiv — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:26:09 GMT

You’ve been told to boycott, but you’ve been fed a narrative that doesn't hold up under scrutiny. Everything you think you know about the morality of this tech boycott is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the modern world.

In this deep dive, we strip away the emotional rhetoric to reveal the reality of global semiconductor supply chains and the logical fallacies fueling current boycott trends. We examine the geopolitics of technology, the hypocrisy of selective consumer activism, and why lumping individuals in with the actions of their government is a dangerous, ineffective standard. This episode cuts through the noise to provide a clear, reasoned perspective on why this specific Apple boycott argument is fundamentally broken.

The Brutal Reality They Can't Handle

Pragmotiv — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:06:04 GMT

Trump supporters are waking up to a harsh new reality: they are losing everything. From painful family estrangements to getting kicked out of the neighborhood BBQ, the social collapse of the MAGA movement is happening in real-time, and they are begging the internet for sympathy.

The GOP Revolt: How the "Gang of Six" Just Froze Trump’s Agenda

Pragmotiv — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:01:22 GMT

Donald Trump’s biggest enemy right now isn’t the Democrats—it’s his own party. Six Republican senators just broke ranks to form the “Gang of Six,” completely freezing the administration’s legislative priorities just months before the critical midterms.

Trump Supporters Can't Handle The Truth (DEBATE MELTDOWNS)

Pragmotiv — Fri, 29 May 2026 23:01:05 GMT

Their behavior is getting more extreme, and we’re watching them SNAP in real-time.

Hawaii Bypasses Supreme Court! (Citizens United is Over?)

Pragmotiv — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:57:17 GMT

[00:00:00] For 16 years, American politics has been bought and paid for by invisible corporate money. We’ve been told there was nothing we could do about it, and that the Supreme Court made its decision and that was that. But now that changes. One state just decided it’s done asking for permission.

Before we get into the details, let’s look at the source of this problem. In 2010, the US Supreme Court ruled in Citizens United v. FEC that corporations have a First Amendment right to spend unlimited amounts of money on elections. This ruling effectively opened the floodgates for billions in dark money political spending by groups that aren’t required to disclose where their money is coming from.

Now, the state of Hawaii is taking a radically different approach. Instead of [00:01:00] arguing about free speech, they are challenging the legal existence of corporations themselves. Let’s see how they’re doing it

[ Clip from Ali Velshi on MSNOW:

I wanna begin this hour with a simple question that many of you have been screaming at your TV screens for some time now.

To whom does this democracy, whose 250th anniversary we are celebrating this year, to whom does this democracy actually belong? Same question raised earlier this month by the Hawaiian Republican State Representative Kanani Souza as she opened the floor debate on a bill that effectively bans corporate spending on elections in her state.

If you haven’t seen Souza’s speech, you absolutely should look it up and watch it. Here’s a clip:

Hawaii State Rep Souza: Hawaii is not waiting for permission not following the lead of others we are leading we are making history by restoring a fundamental truth power [00:02:00] belongs to people not corporations especially political power for too long we have lived with a legal fiction that a corporation can stand shoulder-to-shoulder with a human being in the political arena that it can spend without limit influence without accountability and project a voice so powerful that it overwhelms the very people our Constitution was written to protect but here in Hawaii we are not bound to accept that outcome as inevitable

Ali Velshi on MSNOW:

This is a very big deal. Hawaii just did something remarkable and genuinely historic. It passed a bill into law with near unanimous bipartisan support that effectively bans corporations from spending money to influence state elections, and it did this by redefining what powers a corporation actually has. [00:03:00] Hawaii Governor Josh Green signed it on May 14th, making Hawaii- ]

And see, that’s something that a lot of people don’t realize, is that states have more power than many people think.

When you start a business, whether it’s an LLC or corporation, you have to go through your state’s secretary of state office, and you have to sign a lot of documents. You have to file a lot of paperwork, and it’s completely up to the state as to whether or not you can become a business or not. So states give that power, and they can take it away.

So Hawaii has just done the remarkable thing of trying to bypass Citizens United, which puts the power back into the people’s hands, because the average person is not a billionaire. The average person is not a [00:04:00] billion-dollar corporation with endless amounts of money that they could spend on their certain candidate or on a super PAC.

Now, full disclosure, there’s limits that one person can donate to a political campaign, but there’s no limit in how much a corporation can spend on a super PAC, and that’s where the power comes from. Because I don’t know if y’all remember this, but during the 2024 campaign, super PACs used gender-affirming care as a attack ad against Kamala Harris.

If it wasn’t for Citizens United, maybe they wouldn’t have had the money to run those ads in all those swing states taking Kamala Harris’s words out of context. That is just one of the tactics that they used to sway that election. Those super PACs have a lot of money and a lot of leeway [00:05:00] To just do whatever.

And it completely muddles the waters where the will of the people gets drowned out.

Clip of Ali Velshi on MSNOW

[ The first state in the nation to take on Citizens United and doing so in a way that no state has done before. This is good news because it’s a model that at least a dozen other states are working on following.

Now, obviously, you know the story of Citizens United, but it’s worth repeating. In 2010, the United States Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that corporations, like people, have a constitutional right, a First Amendment right, to spend unlimited money in elections. Soon after that decision, the floodgates opened, as you would expect.

From 2010 to 2024, outside groups spent more than $4 billion with a B on federal elections alone. Dark money, spending by groups that are not required to disclose their donors, hit a record $1.9 [00:06:00] billion in the last presidential cycle. State Senator Carl Rhodes, the Hawaiian bill’s lead author, noting the scale of the problem, said, quote, In 2006, dark money was less than $5 million nationwide.

In 2024, there was over a billion dollars with a B anonymously spent in the presidential election alone, end quote. For more than a decade, decade since that infamous ruling, Americans were told that there was nothing to be done. You want to fix it? Good luck. Amend the Constitution. Good luck waiting for a different Supreme Court.

But a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress named Tom Moore did not accept that. And what he came up with is, frankly, very clever. Moore’s insight was this. Citizens United asked whether the government could regulate a corporation’s right to spend money in elections. The court said no, it could not.

But the Supreme Court was never asked, nor did it ask, a different, more fundamental question. Does a corporation have the power, not the right, [00:07:00] the power to spend money on elections in the first place? And that question, it turns out, belongs entirely to the states. Here’s the key to understanding this.

Corporations are not born. They are, in fact, created by state law. Unlike humans who are actually born, corporations are created by state law. They are given their powers by state law. They are dependent on state law for their very existence, which is why people choose to incorporate in various different states based on the rights that that state offers.

Anyone who-]

Exactly. Exactly. A state like Delaware has over 66% of the Fortune 500 companies incorporated there Meaning if Delaware were to pass a law like this, that would effectively end Citizens United. Companies like Chase, CVS, and Amazon are incorporated in Delaware, and they have spent millions in the 2024 election cycle.

[00:08:00] So Citizens United going away in Delaware would effectively stop them from being able to meddle in elections. But we also need other states to get on board with this, too. California is home to companies like Apple, and Apple will be governed by California’s laws. Not saying that Apple spends money in elections, but I’m just saying if they wanted to, if California passed a law like this, it would stop companies with as deep of pockets as Apple from being able to spend in elections.

Clip of Ali Velshi from MSNOW

[-even has a small company knows that a corporation in America is a state entity.

Chief Justice John Marshall established this principle in 1819, writing that, quote, “A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it.”

End quote. Pretty simple writing. In other words, corporations only [00:09:00] exist because states created them and gave them their powers, things like the right to own property, to sign contracts, to sue, and to be sued. That 200-year-old Supreme Court decision has never been superseded. So Tom Moore’s strategy, he calls it the corporate power reset, builds directly on this concept.

States create corporations. States grant corporations their power. States have always retained the authority to rewrite that list. And what the state grants, the state can take back. So instead of trying to restrict corporate speech, which is the, where Citizens United dwells and where states have lost repeatedly in federal court, Hawaii simply decided that it will decline to grant corporations that power in the first place.

It is a subtle distinction, but it may be a legally and politically consequential one. It makes Citizens United irrelevant, at least within the borders of states that adopt this new way of thinking about it. Hawaii’s new law, which takes [00:10:00] effect on July 1st of next year, redefines corporations doing business in the state as entities that do not possess the power to spend money on elections or ballot measures.

It does not eliminate super PACs, but it cuts off their most corrosive fuel source: anonymous corporate money. Super PACs can still op- ]

Elections should be paid for by the people. Political campaigns and organizations should seek donations from the people. Corporations shouldn’t be nowhere near that.

In a perfect world, elections would be grassroots, with $20 here, $30 there from actual voters. You shouldn’t need a billion dollars to run for president. That’s not how it used to be. We, as a people, need to reset the way we think about elections. It can’t be just about getting the US House, the US Senate, [00:11:00] and the presidency.

We need to think about local elections, state and local elections, because these states hold a lot of power in this country, because they’re basically 50 little countries I don’t know if anybody else thinks about it that way, but that’s how I think about it. Each state is basically its own little country; all formed under the Constitution and the federal government of the United States.

So they hold a lot of power in these corporations and how we conduct elections, as we have found out. So it is increasingly important that we make sure we’re paying attention to our state legislatures, to our governors, state secretaries of state, and state attorneys general, because these are important positions.

So we can’t just go to [00:12:00] the polls with whoever’s running for US House or US Senate or for the president. We have to focus on when our state elects its legislature and show up in that election. And with Citizens United being effectively gone, if states get on board with this, it makes it that much easier

The Red State Revolt Has Begun.

Pragmotiv — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:01:16 GMT

The GOP thought the Deep South was a guaranteed lock, but a sleeping giant just woke up in Louisiana. After a series of controversial moves, deep-red conservative voters are now doing the unthinkable—lining up in the blazing heat to recall their own Republican governor.

So what exactly was the breaking point that made Jeff Landry's own base turn on him so fast? And is this the first domino to fall in a massive political shift across the entire South?