The Trump Dividend

The Trump Dividend

Author: Dan Proft September 10, 2026 Duration: 2:09:21

0:30 - Trump intros the "Trump dividend"...$5k for every American adult if we win

12:11 - Tex GOP Sen. nominee Ken Paxton on Talarico's transitions

32:09 - Trump makes broad patriotic appeal against those who hate America

51:34 - Patty Schiappa, republican candidate for DuPage Co Clerk, invites you to join the DuPage County GOP on Thursday September 17th at Harry Caray’s Italian Steakhouse in Lombard for a county-wide candidate meet and greet.For more info visit DuPageGOP.com

01:03:57 - Kara Dansky, civil rights attorney, feminist activist, and author of The Reckoning: How the Democrats and the Left Betrayed Women and Girls, looks at Enes Kanter’s lawsuit against the Chicago Sky. Kara writes at her substack The TERF Report 

01:19:43 - Maximillian Garely, writer and strategic advisor whose work focuses on technology, political economy, and the changing relationship between government and industry, shares his thoughts on Jacob Coxon’s resignation from Anthropic and the claim that AI could “kill us all by the end of the decade.”

01:39:49 - Retired physician and psychiatrist, Theodore Dalrymple: What inmates told me should change how we do justice. Theodore is also the author of  Agatha Christie and the Metaphysics of Murder 

02:00:20 - Senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, Veronique de Rugy, calls JD Vance’s proposed “parent-based childcare” payments A Convoluted Scheme to Pay Parents to Stay at Home. Follow Veronique on X @veroderugy

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