Barbara Boyd argues the Senate’s repeated blocking of Donald Trump’s agenda is driven less by narrow Republican margins than by powerful donor networks, focusing on Oracle founder Larry Ellison and his ties to Tony Blair.
She profiles Ellison’s major political spending (including backing Tim Scott, Lindsey Graham, and the NRSC) and links it to Senate leadership under John Thune, a longtime Mitch McConnell protégé aligned with the postwar globalist order.
The episode claims Blair’s Tony Blair Institute - funded heavily by Ellison - spent years building a case for regime change in Iran, working through venues like CFR and UANI, but Trump limited action to strikes on nuclear infrastructure without regime change.
Boyd says Blair is now rebranding via a “Radical Center” manifesto while advancing surveillance and digital ID models, and urges overwhelming midterm victories to “shock” or replace Senate obstructionists.
Chapters
00:00 The Monday Brief - Intro - June 1, 2026
01:34 The Money: Larry Ellison and the Senate
04:23 Blair's Empire: Forever Wars and the 2028 Agenda
08:21 The Surveillance State They're Building
