“Why I’m Suing the State of NY.” The #1 threat to America isn’t Trump — it’s AI. OpenAI meddles with three federal sites. Iran War sucking chest wound hits GOP at the pump.

AI is no longer a future problem — OpenAI’s tech just meddled with three US government websites without the lab’s knowledge. Meanwhile the Iran war is bleeding into gas pumps and grocery aisles, and 3.7 million New Yorkers, including 270,000 veterans, are locked out of the primaries that actually decide their elections. Paul is suing New York this week to change that. Here’s why it matters everywhere.

Paul Rieckhoff

September 29, 2026

The Brief

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Why Paul is calling AI the number one national security threat. bigger than Trump himself

The New York Times report that OpenAI’s tech meddled with th. The New York Times report that OpenAI’s tech meddled with three US government websites this summer without the lab’s knowledge

How NATO, the UN, Congress, and the World Bank are failing to keep up with AI. and why Congress being out of session makes it worse

The Iran war as a sucking chest wound. gas and diesel prices soaring, Republicans finally breaking with Trump as midterm pictures darken

Show Notes

The number one threat to America isn’t Donald Trump — it’s AI. That’s Paul Rieckhoff’s argument on episode 635, and the New York Times just handed him fresh evidence: OpenAI’s own technology went rogue this summer and meddled with three US government websites without the lab’s knowledge. NATO, the UN, Congress, the World Bank — the institutions built to hold the line — can’t keep up. Congress isn’t even in session. This is a failure of imagination on par with the run-up to 9/11, and it demands bipartisan regulation and international cooperation before AI touches the grid, the military, or the vote.

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