Today’s Episode EP 665

Ty Pinkins on Obama, Clinton, Schumer — and the Democrats who sacrifice Black voters every cycle

One day before the election, independent veteran Ty Pinkins joins Paul from Vicksburg to detail how the national Democratic Party has used Black voters in Mississippi as sacrificial lambs for forty years — and how the media is erasing his name from election maps while partisan hacks smear him as a spoiler. This is what the rigged two-party system looks like when a 21-year Army vet with two law degrees refuses to kiss the ring. It’s also what the independent movement looks like when it finally scares the machine.

November 2, 2026

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Ty Pinkins on Obama, Clinton, Schumer — and the Democrats who sacrifice Black voters every cycle

EPISODE665

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On the eve of election day, Paul Rieckhoff sits down with Ty Pinkins — Army veteran of 21 years, three combat tours, Bronze Star recipient…

The Brief

→ Four things from today’s episode

Ty’s thesis. the national Democratic Party uses Black voters in Mississippi as sacrificial lambs to juice presidential-year turnout — and has since 1982

The receipts. Musgrove 2000, Childers, Barria, Espy 2018, 2020, Presley 2023 — the same “it’s this close” playbook every cycle

“The only group that’s offered me money to drop out is Democrats”. the summer-long pressure campaign nobody’s reporting on

Why the DNC asked Democrats to clear the field in South Dako. Why the DNC asked Democrats to clear the field in South Dakota, Idaho, and Nebraska for independent veterans — but refused to do it in Mississippi