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Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, a newsletter that would like to console President Donald Trump for losing the Nobel Peace Prize. The Surge has been there, bud. Buck up, put in the offseason work, and you’ll be right there for 2026.

The government has been shut down long enough that we’ve found a way to blame Jeffrey Epstein for it. In the government’s absence (RIP government), we’ve got some elections to talk about. Plus, another indictment of someone the president doesn’t like. Cool?

Let’s start with an old pal.

1. Marjorie Taylor Greene

Democrats’ new Republican best friend.

The Georgia congresswoman whom Democrats spent years

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