Trump handed out National Medals of Science to Big Tech CEOs and declared a “Golden Age” of American innovation. His administration has canceled billions in research grants, including 2,500 NIH grants, and American scientists are fleeing overseas. Meanwhile, Trump has traded $3.2 billion in stocks and bonds since taking office, nearly three times the entire Congress. Also: Jon Ossoff and Abdul El-Sayed win their Senate debates, ProPublica finds Ken Paxton billed Texas $3.3 million for security on personal trips, a Politico poll shows Trump voters want Republicans to break with him, and Texas ranchers sue to stop Trump’s Big Bend border wall.

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Kimberly Guilfoyle, Trump’s ambassador to Greece, texted a donor asking him to wire $100,000 to her American Express account so it “won’t show up anywhere,” according to hundreds of messages obtained by the Wall Street Journal. Adam Kinzinger breaks down the access-for-cash scheme, the million-dollar offer, and why she wanted the whole thing moved to Signal. Plus, Trump midterm chiefs Chris LaCivita and James Blair get paid by a pro-Russia enclave in Bosnia, Tina Peters and Cleta Mitchell pitch Trump on seizing voting machines, Trump ties FEMA disaster aid to Republican rallies, and Texas Republican Bo French’s racist post raises $488K for his opponent.

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The Justice Department's civil rights division has lost more than 300 career lawyers under Trump, and the New York Times just revealed who's replacing them. One hacked a Florida election system twice and was sent to monitor a polling place in Minneapolis. Another was pulled off a murder case for reading privileged defense communications. A new senior counsel called January 6th a false flag. Also on today's Kinzinger Report: Susan Collins' rough first debate against Troy Jackson, the Wall Street Journal's look inside Scott Bessent's Treasury Department, DHS surveillance of more than 150 voter registration groups, and the senior voters pushing Democrats toward a Senate majority.

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A plague outbreak in Russia, and the Kremlin wants everyone to stop asking. One lab worker is dead, a second death is reported, and nearly 200 contacts are in quarantine while Moscow insists it's pneumonia. Adam Kinzinger breaks down what we know, why the WHO is the only channel left, and why Trump sounds a lot friendlier about this outbreak than he ever did about COVID. Plus: Trump retreats on taxpayer-funded political ads and hands them to his super PAC, Tillis regrets confirming Hegseth and RFK Jr., Trump bars Politico from Air Force One despite a court order, and Democrats eye a once-in-a-generation shot at state legislatures.

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Dozens of Republicans are endorsing Democratic candidates ahead of the 2026 midterms, and new polls show Democrats competitive in red states Trump won by double digits. Conor Lamb fills in for Adam Kinzinger on why the GOP's "vote for the team" strategy is cracking. Plus: more leaked Ken Paxton audio, Trump doxxing Senator Tom Cotton, The Atlantic's report on Kash Patel and the FBI's 2020 election probe, and Trump's reversal on mail-in voting.

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Trump told TIME he won't rule out invoking the Insurrection Act or declaring a state of emergency around the 2026 midterms. Adam Kinzinger breaks down what the Insurrection Act actually is, why federal law bans troops at polling places, and why a losing president five weeks out is talking about the military at all. Also today: the Justice Department reopens Watergate to review Richard Nixon's prosecutors, Trump says he regrets picking Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett, FHFA Director Bill Pulte slashes the inspector general investigating him, and Congress leaves town with no affordability bill while Democrats gain ground on voter registration in swing states.

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Trump is spending the final month before the midterms campaigning in Texas, Oklahoma, Iowa and Alabama, some of the reddest states in the country, while a new AP poll puts his approval at 30 percent and his economic approval at a record low 26 percent. Two thirds of Americans say Trump's policies are driving higher prices. Adam Kinzinger explains why the 2026 midterms have turned into a rescue mission. Adam also gets into Trump's plan to let AI companies regulate themselves, the $500 HealthCare.gov checks that come with a letter from Trump, Elon Musk and Newt Gingrich leading the Pentagon's Project Meridian weapons study, and the U.S. withdrawal from the GRECO anti-corruption panel.

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Ken Paxton was secretly recorded at a private Washington fundraiser admitting Trump's Republican convention in Dallas dropped his poll numbers and hurt the whole GOP ticket. The tape went to the New York Times, Paxton's campaign is calling it manipulated, and James Talarico leads every independent poll in the Texas Senate race while Paxton dodges a Fox News debate.

Plus, Republicans hype a migrant caravan a thousand miles from the border just ahead of the midterms, a new poll shows Hispanic voters swinging hard toward Democrats and flipping Republican-drawn districts in Texas and Florida, Speaker Mike Johnson calls Democratic investigations of Trump a nightmare and promises more of the same if the GOP keeps the House, and the White House censors its America.gov chatbot after it contradicted Trump on the 2020 election, tariffs, and the Big Beautiful Bill.

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