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BREAKING: LINDSEY GRAHAM’S SISTER TAPPED TO SERVE REST OF HIS TERM
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- Jul 13, 2026
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Summary
Dean Blundell and Zev Shalev returned from a two-week break to five headlines telling one story: one man pulling power into his own hands, and only the courts and the states pulling back. Watch the full countdown at narativ.org. 5️⃣ A Senate Seat, Filled by Truth Social It became official an hour after the show ended: Governor Henry McMaster appointed Darline Graham Nordone — Lindsey Graham’s sister, who has never held public office — to serve out his term, hours after Trump announced the pick by Truth Social and preempted the governor’s own press conference. On the show, Zev played Graham’s final tape — Kyiv, 24 hours before his death, announcing the White House had agreed to his Russia sanctions bill — and walked the who-benefits board on a death the medical examiner calls natural causes and Iranian state TV calls a kill. The whole story, including the photograph propping up Mitch McConnell’s empty seat, is in the episode. 4️⃣ Twelve States Move to Stop the Ellison Media Empire California AG Rob Bonta led a 12-state antitrust suit to block Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery — CNN, HBO and CBS News under Larry Ellison’s family, Trump’s biggest donor, who already holds Oracle and TikTok. Zev takes you inside how media owners actually collude — he watched it from inside CBS — and Dean names what Jake Tapper’s weekend Trump interview was really about. 3️⃣ ICE Kills Again — Maine This Time ICE agents shot and killed a man in his car in Biddeford, Maine this morning — the second fatal ICE shooting in under a week, at least the fourth death this year — and it took the Maine House Speaker, not the agency, to tell the public. Biddeford poured into the streets. Dean connects it to the Houston foreman ICE admits it killed by mistake last week,…