A Chokehold Slips, and Tehran Gets Restless.

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Iran’s best weapon in this war hasn’t been a missile. It’s been a map. Hormuz is narrow. The world’s oil has to pass through it. Tehran knows that, and since February it has played the strait like a card: squeeze it, spook the markets, wait for Washington to deal. The card is losing its value. The U.S. Navy and the Gulf producers have gotten good at this. They fend off attacks. They slip around them. They get the tankers through. The numbers show it. Middle Eastern crude exports this month are near their highest since the war began. Kpler says

Trump’s MAGA Midterm Ask: Vote Like It’s Me.

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Donald Trump won’t be on the ballot this November. He’d like his voters to forget that. “MAGA, pretend I am on the ballot,” the president wrote on TRUTH Social. In seven words, he named the Republican Party’s biggest midterm problem and offered his own solution. The problem is simple. The man who brings out the base isn’t running. The people who are running can’t bring them out the same way. A lot of voters will show up for Trump. Fewer will show up for a House candidate they’ve never met. The post started as a thank-you. Trump praised Heritage Foundation

Election Integrity Wins Before the Midterms.

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Only citizens vote in American elections. That’s the law, and until Friday, a federal judge was making it harder to enforce. The Supreme Court fixed that. By a 6-3 vote, the justices granted the Trump Justice Department’s emergency request and put on hold a June ruling from a Washington, D.C., judge who had blocked Homeland Security’s upgraded SAVE citizenship database, the tool states and localities use to confirm that the people on their voter rolls are citizens. The majority was direct. It said the challengers’ claims “likely lack merit” and signaled it expects to reverse the lower court. The justices

The Revolution Always Comes for Its Own.

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Give Hasan Piker this much. He doesn’t make you guess. The streamer, one of the most-watched voices on the American left, was mid-rant this week when he turned his fire on moderate Democrats, the ones who resist the party’s progressive wing. “I will throw you in prison, okay? I want to put you physically behind a prison. I want Chinese-style communism to happen inside of the Democratic Party right now, okay?” he said. “I want to do Cultural Revolution s**t when I see that.” He wasn’t talking about Republicans. He was talking about his own side. That’s the part worth

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