It’s official: Donald Trump has never been more desperate than he is right now.
Over the weekend, he managed to sell out American soldiers, our allies, and the country with reckless abandon by announcing that the United States would be bailing out Vladimir Putin. Again.
How, you might ask?
Well, Trump now wants the United States to supply energy markets with diesel fuel from Russia in an effort to bring down the sky-high gas prices that Trump himself caused by launching his dunderheaded war of choice in Iran. In other words, he wants the United States to help underwrite the Russian war machine that has killed hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and threatened NATO security. This being the same Russian war machine that gave Iran the locations of American troops in the Middle East, which they have since used to kill American soldiers.
Read that back. The president of the United States of America wants to open the financial floodgates to a country helping to kill Americans. There aren’t words to describe how abhorrently anti-American that is.
Since 2025, Ukraine has launched a series of counter-assaults against Russia that have forced them to retreat, denied them key victories, and turned the tide of the war itself. They’ve launched drone attacks into the heart of Russia, taking their oil refineries, factories, and data centers offline for months at a time. In a win for democracies across the globe, online Russian bot activity has fallen nearly 80% since Ukraine’s attacks on Russian data centers. Those same bots have been promoting right-wing, fascistic movements in Germany, Italy, Brazil, and most of all, the United States.
In other words, Trump just lost his strongest (and fakest) supporters. Rest In Peace to those like Tracy2XQueen, a loyal MAGA supporter whose photos were as fake as her identity. Saddest of all, somewhere out there, a MAGA clown just lost his AI girlfriend. Our condolences.
In a war that appeared to be more lopsided than any in modern history, Ukraine has not just resisted Putin’s assault but wrecked the Russian economy and shattered his veil of invincibility in the process.
Enter Donald Trump.
Following Ukraine’s successes, Trump took to social media, launching a blistering attack on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, demanding that he stop his attacks in Russia and threatening to end U.S. intelligence sharing with Ukraine immediately if they didn’t. This information isn’t just critical to Ukrainian offensive capabilities, but absolutely vital to their efforts to evacuate buildings before Russian attacks, intercept incoming missiles, and minimize civilian deaths. This all while Russia continues to bomb hospitals, schools, and refugee camps.
For Trump, there’s the pipe dream that aiding Russia might bring some relief to Americans collapsing under the weight of soaring energy costs caused by the war in Iran and that it might bring an end to the slaughtering of tens of thousands of his loyal, online, fake bots.
If you think we’re joking or exaggerating, we promise you, we aren’t.
Prior to Ukraine’s attacks, online accounts of MAGA influencers from Musk to Trump were swarmed with hundreds of thousands of supportive, cultish comments.
Since the attack?
Hundreds of thousands has fallen to tens. Not tens of thousands, just tens.
While we all sounded the alarm on Russia’s election interference in 2016 and subsequently forgot about it, their efforts have only grown in scale, sophistication, and effectiveness.
That is, until Ukraine took them offline.
Put quite simply, the only people that have been trying to rig elections over the last decade have been Trump’s MAGA Republicans. They’ve openly colluded with Russia, supported pro-Russian governments (as recently as last week when Trump’s own aides literally flew to the Balkans to support a Putin-backed government), and sold Americans out at every turn just to cling to power.
Despite Ukraine’s successful silencing of the vast majority of Russia’s online bots, that doesn’t mean efforts to subvert the 2026 midterms aren’t still underway, nor does it mean we can afford to take our foot off the gas. MAGA still has a wide array of paid influencer mouthpieces eager to parrot whatever talking point Trump wants. Musk and his billions continue to bankroll campaigns to try and buy elections. While bot activity has fallen, misinformation campaigns rage on.
In 2026, it isn’t hyperbole to say that our victory genuinely does have to be too big to rig.
The National Guard that Trump called up has been seen at ballot drop boxes in DC. He’s laid the groundwork to deploy ICE to polling locations. He’s set the stage to try to challenge and overturn close elections. November can’t just be a win – it has to be a landslide that even Trump can’t deny.
We have an election in just nineteen days. Early voting has already begun in 21 states.
There’s too much on the line and too much at stake to be complacent.
Talk to your friends, knock on doors, make phone calls, send texts, or do whatever you can to get as many pro-democracy voters to the polls as possible, because while Trump may have (or had) his bots, we have the only thing that really matters: votes.
In 19 days, let’s wash MAGA away with them.
It’s game time.
Call Congress to stop the Dirty Diesel Deal with Putin!
https://5calls.org/issue/ukraine-russia-war-sanctions-diesel/
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