FiveStack with Dean Blundell & Zev Shalev

THE GOP’S ELECTION FIX IS IN Four to three Friday morning. Virginia voters had passed the redistricting amendment 52-48 four weeks ago — a margin of about three hundred thousand votes — to undo the Republican-favored 2022 map and flip up to four GOP-held House seats. Justice D. Arthur Kelsey wrote for the majority. The legislature, he held, took its second vote on the amendment four days before th...

The President of the United States lost the Saudis. The Commerce Secretary forgot his story. A federal judge found a lost note by Jeffrey Epstein, Elon Musk’s ex-partner says she’s done with right, and Ted Turner — the man who built 24-hour news — died on a day tailor-made for cable news.. Trump declared “Operation Project Freedom” on Truth Social Sunday. He told nobody — not Mohammed bin Salman,...

Today’s FiveStack is brought to you by GroundNews — FiveStack viewers get 40% off their Vantage plan. Today the President of the United States looked at a sustained naval battle in the Strait of Hormuz and called it a skirmish. The Senate looked at a billion dollars for a ballroom and called it modernization. The Met looked at a hundred-thousand-dollar seat and called it culture. A Canadian provin...

The FiveStack with Dean Blundell and Zev Shalev is broadcast LIVE Monday-Friday at 3 PM ET at Narativ.org and it’s 100% free. Sign up today and never miss a show. We opened cold today with breaking news out of FBI HQ: Kash Patel is now threatening to sue anyone who calls him “J. Edgar Boozer.” Yes. Really. The FBI Director — fresh off losing a defamation suit against former assistant director Fran...

The FiveStack with Dean Blundell and Zev Shalev is broadcast LIVE Monday-Friday at 3 PM ET at Narativ.org and it’s 100% free. Sign up today and never miss a show. PLUS get 35% off annual subscriptions this weekend only. 5️⃣ The 60-Day Dodge Trump sent letters to Congress today claiming the Iran war “has terminated” and that hostilities ended on April 7. The Senate killed the war powers resolution...

5️⃣ Hegseth Grilled — “Obliterated” Doesn’t Add Up Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Dan Caine took chairs in front of the House Armed Services Committee at ten this morning to defend a $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget. Hegseth told the chamber that Iran’s nuclear facilities had already been “obliterated” before Trump launched the war, then told Adam Smith the war was justified anyway because “t...

Today’s FiveStack is brought to you by GroundNews — FiveStack viewers get 40% off their Vantage plan. 5️⃣ Carr Comes For Kimmel And Disney FCC chair Brendan Carr opened an investigation into ABC and Disney on Tuesday, threatening eight broadcast licenses over a Jimmy Kimmel monologue delivered three days before the Washington Hilton incident. Kimmel had quipped that Melania Trump carried “the glow...

5️⃣ DC Rolled Its Eyes And Wolf Blitzer Lost A Shoe The first thing the room did when the shots rang out was nothing. Wajahat Ali was outside the Hilton when it happened, held back by police as the perimeter went up. “Everything was chill,” Ali said. “The residents of D.C. just rolled their eyes. People are like, did someone try to shoot this mother effer? You think it’s real? You think it’s stage...

Today’s FiveStack is brought to you by GroundNews — FiveStack viewers get 40% off their Vantage plan. 5️⃣ The Soldier Who Bet On His Own Mission Federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment overnight charging a U.S. special forces soldier with using classified information about the Maduro raid to place cash bets on the outcome. Gannon Ken Van Dyke, who reports to the Joint Special Operations Command...

5️⃣ Laura Loomer Loses A federal judge in Florida, a Clinton appointee, granted summary judgment to Bill Maher and HBO, killing Laura Loomer’s $150 million defamation suit before it reached a jury. “Summary judgment, which means the judge laughed at it,” Blundell said. The suit targeted a September 2024 Real Time bit in which Maher named Loomer as the president’s likely mistress. Her own depositio...

FIVESTACK just posted our biggest live Substack audience ever — 6,000 of you watched us as we were live. Thank you for spending your time with us. Come back every day! Monday -Friday at 3 PM ET 5️⃣ Patel’s “Never Intoxicated” Presser — And Who Trump Hires On Purpose The FBI Director of the United States of America stood at a DOJ podium yesterday and told a room of reporters he has “never been into...

Today’s FiveStack is brought to you by GroundNews — FiveStack viewers get 40% off their Vantage plan. 5️⃣ Vance Off The Plane, China On The Board Vice President JD Vance didn’t even bother traveling Islamabad for talks on Iran, trump claimed it was for security concerns but no Iranian delegation had left for Pakistan. On CNBC’s Squawk Box, Trump described intercepting an Iranian vessel carrying “t...

5️⃣ The Strait of ‘Iran’, Open but Chained Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi declared the Strait of Hormuz “completely open” on Friday morning. President Trump quote-posted “THANK YOU!” in all caps and then, in a second Truth Social post the same morning, confirmed the U.S. naval blockade would remain in force “until such time as our transaction with Iran is 100 percent complete.” “It’s easy...

Trump stepped onto the White House lawn on his way to Vegas today and said something that may actually be true: Iran is close to agreeing to no nuclear weapons — not for 20 years, not for 30, but permanently. He also confirmed the second aircraft carrier was sent “in case we don’t make a deal” and said if they do, “it’ll be leaving very soon.” We’ve heard “close to a deal” before. But this time wa...

Pakistan’s army chief was in Tehran as we went to air today. The ceasefire expires April 21. Three American aircraft carriers are closing in. The diplomacy and the military buildup are happening simultaneously — and as Olga put it on today’s show, it feels exactly like a trap. “The Americans are piling all their resources into a part of the world where you can’t really escape,” she said. “It’s a t...

There’s a pattern hiding in plain sight. Each story today reads like a separate news cycle. A military standoff in the Persian Gulf. An election office captured by loyalists. A congressman accused of rape. A new pope who refuses to blink. A Canadian prime minister reshaping the Western alliance. But pull back and look at all five at once, and what you’re watching is a single crisis playing out acr...

Wajahat Ali of The Left Hook is sitting in for Dean Blundell, who’s away. Before the countdown, Zev and Waj tore into Donald Trump’s escalating holy war with Pope Leo — the blasphemous AI image of Trump as a healing Christ-figure, his tarmac slam calling the first American Pope “a very liberal person” who “likes crime,” and his press conference insistence that the image was just “me as a doctor.”...

DEAN IS OUT THIS WEEK 5️⃣ Melania’s Epstein Press Conference Backfires In an unprecedented move, First Lady Melania Trump held a surprise press conference in front of the White House press corps to deny any knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse, any relationship with Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell, and any involvement in criminal activity. The denial came just hours after Brazilian former model Amand...

5️⃣ Canada’s Endless Acronym Becomes an Elon Musk Op A clip of NDP MP Leah Gazan using the full “MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+” acronym on the floor of Parliament exploded online after Elon Musk amplified it through Alberta separatist David Parker of Take Back Alberta, who repackaged it as proof that Canada is forcing citizens to rattle off a 15-letter identity pledge. “That is an op,” Dean said flatly on the...

5️⃣ Vance Campaigns for Orbán Vice President JD Vance spent day two of his Budapest visit openly campaigning for Viktor Orbán ahead of Hungary’s April 12 parliamentary election, a vote Orbán’s Fidesz is trailing in for the first time in more than a decade. Zev called the trip a transparent audition. “Vance is desperately trying to position himself as being outside of this war, being anti this war,...

5️⃣ A Major Named American Express The story of the daring F-15E rescue Trump took a victory lap for this morning got a lot weirder once the photos came out of the wreckage Iranian forces picked through in Isfahan. Geneva Convention ID cards. State of Israel automated border-control receipts. American Express cards. American flag underwear. “God, what is wrong with these guys?” Malcolm Nance, a fo...

5️⃣ Noem’s Husband Exposed Cross-dressing photos of former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s husband Bryon surfaced today — hundreds of messages sent to multiple women showing him in fake breasts and pink spandex as part of what’s being described as a “bimbofication” fetish. Dean Blundell, who broke the story on his Substack, walked through the messages in detail, including exchanges on a fetish platfor...

Before the countdown even started, Dean Blundell broke news from a fresh court filing: the ATF was unable to match the bullet recovered from Charlie Kirk’s autopsy to the rifle allegedly used by Tyler Robinson. The bullet fragmented on impact with bone, making conclusive ballistics analysis impossible — though the spent shell casing at the scene did match Robinson’s weapon. Robinson’s defense team...

5️⃣ No Kings — 8 Million March Two days after the largest single-day protest in American history, the question is what happens next. Eight million Americans turned out across all 50 states in over 3,300 organized events demanding an end to the Iran war, democratic backsliding, and the suppression of the Epstein files. “250 years of American history, there has never been a bigger protest against it...

5. Kash Patel Hacked by Iran The FBI director got hacked by the enemy he’s supposed to be fighting. An Iran-linked hacking group called Handala breached Kash Patel’s personal Gmail account and published photos, emails, and personal documents online dating from 2010 to 2022 — and the DOJ confirmed the material is authentic. Among the leaked files: photos of Patel in Cuba smoking cigars next to cars...