Download Barbara Boyd's briefing, The Real Revolution: The British and the Communists Are Trying to Kill Again, at https://prom.ac/realrev. Barbara Boyd starts with Barack Obama's October 24 rally in Detroit for Abdul El-Sayed and Elissa Slotkin and the red-green alliance, then looks at El-Sayed's 2012 statement backing Mohamed Morsi's government, Slotkin's posts at the National Security Council and the Pentagon, and the Sunrise Movement's board and funders. She follows Data Republican's files on former officials preparing around the Insurrection Act and 2028, the Democratic Socialists of America's platform, this month's riots in France and Noëlle Lenoir's interview with Michael Shellenberger, and closes with Marco Rubio and Jared Isaacman on the President, the American System, and making the November 3 midterms too big to rig.

00:00 Monday Brief Intro
01:21 Who Are El-Sayed and Elissa Slotkin, Really?
04:59 The Democrats Will Bring the French Revolution Here
09:06 This Battle Is 250 Years Old

Credits
Photos (CC BY): Tahrir Square, Cairo, 2011: Jonathan Rashad, CC BY 2.0; USAID headquarters, 2025: G. Edward Johnson, CC BY 4.0; Sunrise Movement, Pittsburgh, 2022: Mark Dixon, CC BY 2.0; Democratic Socialists of America, New York, 2011: David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0; Joe Biden, Des Moines, 2020: Phil Roeder, CC BY 2.0.
Other photos (public domain or CC0): U.S. Senate HELP Committee; Official U.S. Senate photo; U.S. Department of State; U.S. Navy (MC2 Jesse B. Awalt); Official White House Photos (Pete Souza, Daniel Torok, Molly Riley); U.S. Army National Guard (Spc. Jacob Jesperson); State Department (Freddie Everett); Pierre-Antoine Demachy (Musée Carnavalet); François Bouchot (Château de Versailles); John Trumbull (National Portrait Gallery); Alexander Gardner; Library of Congress; Howard R. Hollem, Office of War Information; Lyon, Paris, the Conseil constitutionnel, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Marine Le Pen: CC0. The Real Revolution by Barbara Boyd (Promethean Action, 2026), cover.
Video: Barack Obama on YouTube (Detroit, October 24, 2026); Oli London and Farai Mazhindu on X (Paris, October 2026); U.S. Department of State on X (Rubio, India Today, October 22, 2026); NASA (Jared Isaacman, October 23, 2026).
Quoted: The Washington Free Beacon; The White House (2014); Sunrise Movement; World Economic Forum; letter of 626 groups to Congress (2019); Inside Philanthropy; Ford Foundation; InfluenceWatch; U.S. News & World Report; DataRepublican on X; Elissa Slotkin at the UChicago Institute of Politics; Jonathan Turley (Fox News; X); Public, Michael Shellenberger with Noëlle Lenoir; Commission on Presidential Debates; Public Sénat; whitehouse.gov/manufacturing

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Susan Kokinda opens with Chatham House's October 15 warning that President Trump could come out of the midterms "unshackled from electoral constraints," and Secretary of State Marco Rubio's answer in Mumbai: "we're no longer going to be defensive." The episode looks at the author of that warning, Dr. Andrew Payne, and his book War on the Ballot, at Halford Mackinder's doctrine, and at Chatham House director Bronwen Maddox on the members of Congress who have come to Chatham House in the run-up to their own elections, with Secretary Rubio on America First. It then turns to the reaction to the President's diesel deal with Russia and his openness to a meeting with Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, from the Council on Foreign Relations to the Wall Street Journal's "Yalta 2" editorial, with President Trump and Secretary Rubio on talks about nuclear weapons, and the ASEAN, APEC and G20 summits ahead. It closes with what the President is doing without the Congress: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on the tariff authorities, the EPA's repeal of the 2024 power-plant rules, Defense Production Act funding for refining, federal loans for power, drug and manufacturing plants, the White House's $11.3 trillion investment count, and 21 new plant sites announced since October 1.

00:00 Saturday Wrap-Up Intro
01:20 Off the Reservation
04:24 Yalta Panic
08:26 He Doesn't Need Their Permission

Credits
Photos: Dr. Andrew Payne, © Chatham House; War on the Ballot (Columbia University Press, 2023), cover; Chatham House, London: Chatham House, CC BY 2.0; Council on Foreign Relations, New York: Ajay Suresh, CC BY 4.0; Trump and Xi, Oval Office, September 24, 2026: The White House. Public domain: U.S. Department of State (Rubio); Official White House Photo (November 27, 2018 briefing; July 4, 2025 bill signing); Architect of the Capitol; Lafayette (Mackinder); The Geographical Journal, April 1904; Benjamin D. Applebaum (Trump and Putin, Anchorage, August 15, 2025); U.S. Army Signal Corps / National Archives (Yalta, 1945); Natural Earth (map).
Video: Forbes Breaking News and Mirror Now (Rubio, Mumbai, October 20–21, 2026); Chatham House (Bronwen Maddox, October 16, 2026); U.S. Department of State (Rubio with Breitbart News, October 15, 2026); The White House (October 19, 2026); 2WAY (Scott Bessent, October 20, 2026); Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Operation Teapot, 1955); U.S. House Armed Services Committee (April 29, 2026).
Quoted: Chatham House; Andrew Payne; Council on Foreign Relations, Stephen Sestanovich; The Wall Street Journal editorial board; EPA; Department of Energy; USDA; Department of War Office of Strategic Capital (via Fierce Pharma); Export-Import Bank; The White House, "The Trump Effect"; company, state and federal plant announcements, October 1–23, 2026.

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Join us for a live broadcast, with your hosts Barbara Boyd, Susan Kokinda and Adam Sturman. Thursday October 22nd at 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific every Thursday. We take your questions from both the Youtube live chat and our Newsletter Subscribers!

This week: Zelensky's war reaches American oil, and a color revolution comes home. Secretary of State Rubio says Ukraine struck ships carrying American-owned oil, "probably not deliberately." The ships were foreign-flagged tankers. Rubio told Zelensky to end the war. At home, the Washington Post reports that a small group of national security officials is quietly advising states on how to prepare for possible Trump administration interference in the midterms. Barbara calls it a repeat of the 2020 color revolution playbook: Too Big to Rig vs. Communist Revolution. Leaked recordings published as "The Democracy Files" allegedly lay out "redlines" for declaring the federal government illegitimate.

On the board: Zelensky's war vs. Trump's peace, the Russian diesel deal and the bill to block it, the Post story and the Democracy Files, and the Trump-Putin-Xi alignment with Rubio's Central Asia and India trip, twelve days before the November 3 midterms. Plus the Monday Brief you need. NOT ABOVE THE LAW: Bessent's $1.2 Billion Strike on the Empire's Banks: https://youtu.be/x5V1S-75QTA

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