Watch now   No Kings. No Thieves. No Tyrants. When millions march this Saturday, they'll need more than outrage—they'll need a plan. Filmmaker Patrick Lovell has one: "The Clean New Deal." Zev Shalev and Patrick Lovell Oct 16 Millions will march Saturday against tyranny. They’ll return home Sunday. And Monday morning, the kleptocrats will still be looting. Patrick Lovell understands the gap between protest and power. The filmmaker spent years documenting how 2008’s financial crisis was engineered theft—$71 trillion in backdoor bailouts flowing to the architects of fraud while American families lost everything. Zero bankers imprisoned. The con never ended; it gave us Donald Trump. Now Lovell has assembled what he calls the New Untouchables: former federal prosecutors and regulators who actually put elite criminals behind bars. These aren’t theorists—they secured 7,000 convictions during the savings and loan crisis with a fraction of the resources available today. They know how to dismantle corruption because they’ve done it. Their proposal, the Clean New Deal, does something movements rarely achieve: it names the disease. Not partisanship. Not ideology. Corruption. Autocrats don’t emerge from nowhere. They grow out of institutional rot. Trump’s shell companies, Wall Street’s derivatives casino, the Supreme Court’s dark money pipeline—the common thread isn’t left versus right. It’s impunity. The law stopped applying upward. Justice became a commodity for purchase. Democracy became a brand name on an empty system. Anti-corruption must become America’s organizing principle because it’s the one issue that transcends tribe. If corruption remains the operating system, every other reform fails. You can’t rebuild healthcare when insurance lobbyists write legislation. You can’t address climate change when fossil fuel executives control energy policy. You can’t restore voting rights when dark money owns state legislatures. The Clean New Deal targets corruption’s infrastructure. Restore Glass-Steagall’s separation of commercial and investment banking—repealed in 1999 by the same Phil Gramm who mentored Russell Vought. For seventy years, that law prevented banks from gambling with depositor money. Its death opened the path to 2008’s collapse and every pump-and-dump scheme since. Overturn Citizens United. Dark money isn’t free speech—it’s legalized bribery that poisons every democratic institution. When corruption becomes legal, even good people get compromised. End qualified immunity, judicial immunity, presidential immunity. These legal fictions place power above accountability. Pack the Supreme Court to break the Roberts Court stranglehold. Ban congressional insider trading. Each reform answers a simple question: who is above the law? Working with the Government Accountability Project, Lovell has access to over 2,000 federal whistleblowers—Justice Department attorneys, FBI investigators, agency professionals who watched the system rot from within. The strategy bypasses corrupted federal institutions entirely: use state legislatures and their subpoena power to create evidentiary records that federal corruption can’t suppress. Some proposals face obstacles. A constitutional convention in this climate invites chaos. But the framework succeeds by diagnosing what decades of political combat obscured: American democracy is drowning in legalized theft masquerading as capitalism. The movement needs both energy and architecture. Saturday provides the former—millions demonstrating that resistance exists. What comes Monday requires the latter: professionals who know how to investigate financial crime, prosecute RICO enterprises, and rebuild regulatory systems that actually regulate. Corruption is democracy’s climate change. It warms the soil until nothing honest can grow. Forty years of organized looting—from Iran-Contra’s cocaine-funded operations through 2008’s bailout heist to Trump’s crypto billions—didn’t happen by accident. It was engineered by people who understood systems and how to manipulate them. Reversing that requires equivalent sophistication applied toward democracy instead of its destruction. The New Untouchables represent institutional memory. They know what criminal enterprises look like at scale and how to dismantle them. Combined with thousands of whistleblowers holding evidence, they form the skeleton of an accountability system operating outside captured federal institutions. The Clean New Deal offers something movements rarely provide: professionals who know how to fly the plane. Right now, drunks are in the cockpit and the descent is steep. Marching proves resistance exists. Replacing the pilots with people who know how to land safely requires technical competence married to moral force. No Kings will be a show of numbers. The Clean New Deal is a show of structure. One is energy; the other is direction. Together they could become what America needs—not another burst of outrage, but a campaign for clean power in the truest sense. “No Kings. No Thieves. No Tyrants” because you can’t save democracy while tolerating the constant theft of the money it its coffers. The Clean New Deal framework is available at thecleannewdeal.org. The Con documentary series streams free at thecon.tv.

 

LIVE EVENT! The Greatest Heist: How Trump and Epstein Rewrote American Power An exclusive deep dive into the first ten chapters with Patrick Lovell—Thursday, October 9 at 7 PM ET Zev Shalev and Patrick Lovell Oct 9 ∙ If I told you there was a burglary happening in your home right now, would you do something to stop it? That’s exactly what is happening. - Zev Shalev The crime started decades ago. The evidence scattered across continents. The perpetrators hid in plain sight while the world looked away. Now, the full story comes into focus. Tonight, investigative journalist and producerPatrick Lovell sits down with me for the first detailed public conversation about The Greatest Heist—my investigation into how Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein executed what may be the largest criminal conspiracy in modern history. This paid subscriber event represents your first chance to hear the framework of chapters 1-10, the foundation upon which everything else rests. The heist wasn’t about money, though billions changed hands. The target was power itself—the machinery of American democracy, the levers of international influence, the architecture of intelligence operations. Trump and Epstein understood what most missed: control the right people at the right moments, and you can redirect the course of nations. Patrick brings the perfect combination of skepticism and insight to this conversation. He’s covered intelligence operations, financial crimes, and institutional corruption for years. He knows which questions expose the seams in a narrative, where the evidence must be airtight, and how seemingly disconnected events form patterns visible only from altitude. The first ten chapters establish the timeline, the players, and the operational methodology. We trace Epstein’s transformation from math teacher to financial operative, his connections to intelligence services, and his peculiar specialty: cultivating kompromat on powerful men. We examine Trump’s parallel rise, his debts to foreign actors, and their decades-long partnership that created leverage points throughout American institutions. This isn’t speculation. Every claim roots in documents, testimony, and verified connections. The research spans property records, flight logs, financial filings, sealed court documents, and intelligence reports. Understanding how the heist worked matters more than outrage about it happening. The mechanisms they exploited still exist. The vulnerabilities they identified remain unpatched. The networks they built continue operating. Exposing the methodology prevents repetition. Tonight’s event offers something rare: sustained attention to a complex story. No commercial breaks. No algorithmic interruptions. Just two journalists working through evidence and argument in real time, approximately 90 minutes. Subscribers can submit questions in advance or during the live session. The heist succeeded because most people couldn’t imagine the crime’s scale. The audacity itself provided cover. Who would believe that a reality TV star and a financier with dubious credentials could compromise American democracy at its highest levels? The Greatest Heist removes that disguise. Chapter by chapter, the investigation maps how they did it, who helped them, and why the system failed to stop it. Join us TONIGHT October 9 at 7 PM ET. Paid subscribers receive the Zoom link via email. Can’t attend live? The recording posts to the subscriber archive within 24 hours. The crime happened. The evidence exists. The conversation you must hear is tonight. A guest post by Patrick Lovell Producer, investigative journalist, provocateur, and somewhere between Fletch, Gonzo, Carlin and LD when I regenerate.