Noah tackles the escalating political fight over rent, then checks in on voting rights, gun-rights ads, mystery safeguards, a senator’s burger stock, and a brutal DFL weekend.

Darius Novak, who has no active party affiliation, has released a surrogate campaign ad supporting Republican Senator Royce Whitman. No script or targeting details were provided.

Noah Stewart examines the growing fight over whether working people can afford to stay where they live, as politicians pitch inflation plans, accountability ads, and bourbon-pageantry distractions.

Mason examines why this week’s strongest political signal was not a slogan, but a growing fight over whether working people can afford to remain in the communities they sustain.

A new ad from Darius Novak promotes Royce Whitman’s inflation agenda through energy production, deregulation and tax cuts, while offering few specifics on how those steps would lower household costs.