<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[TruthPulse]]></title><description><![CDATA[Empowering Democracy, One Donation at a Time]]></description><link>https://www.pulseoftruth.org/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 21:59:07 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.pulseoftruth.org/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[How the Electoral College Was Designed, and the Real Arguments For Changing It]]></title><description><![CDATA[THE QUESTION Every four years, somebody points out a candidate can win the popular vote and still lose the election, it happened in 2000 and 2016. Somebody else defends the system as core to American federalism. Who's actually right about what it was built to do? WHAT WE KNOW The Electoral College came out of the Constitutional Convention as a compromise. Some framers worried a direct popular vote would let dense states dominate; others worried leaving it to Congress made the presidency too...]]></description><link>https://www.pulseoftruth.org/post/how-the-electoral-college-was-designed-and-the-real-arguments-for-changing-it-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ac029bd2291ee73d35a3a32</guid><category><![CDATA[Government Watch]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 22:02:29 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>peterbollino</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why the National Debt Became Politically Radioactive, and What the Math Actually Shows]]></title><description><![CDATA[THE QUESTION Politicians on both sides invoke the national debt constantly, existential threat, talking point against the other guy's spending, or "worry about it later." What do the government's own nonpartisan projections actually say? WHAT WE KNOW CBO's latest projections show debt held by the public rising from 101% of GDP at the end of FY2026 to 120% by 2036, and to 175% by 2056 under current law, more than three times the 50-year average. In dollars: roughly $31 trillion today to $56...]]></description><link>https://www.pulseoftruth.org/post/why-the-national-debt-became-politically-radioactive-and-what-the-math-actually-shows</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ac028801bab6ecf4e302551</guid><category><![CDATA[Government Watch]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 21:56:41 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>peterbollino</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[How the Electoral College Was Designed, and the Real Arguments For Changing It]]></title><description><![CDATA[THE QUESTION Every four years, somebody points out a candidate can win the popular vote and still lose the election, it happened in 2000 and 2016. Somebody else defends the system as core to American federalism. Who's actually right about what it was built to do? WHAT WE KNOW The Electoral College came out of the Constitutional Convention as a compromise. Some framers worried a direct popular vote would let dense states dominate; others worried leaving it to Congress made the presidency too...]]></description><link>https://www.pulseoftruth.org/post/how-the-electoral-college-was-designed-and-the-real-arguments-for-changing-it</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6abd77485b12256eb4ef335e</guid><category><![CDATA[America Today]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:55:53 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>peterbollino</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immigration and Wages: What Economists Find When They Run The Numbers]]></title><description><![CDATA[THE QUESTION "Immigration is driving down wages for American workers." It's one of the most common lines in the immigration debate, and one of the least evidenced, on either side. What does the actual peer-reviewed research say? WHAT WE KNOW Most recent academic research finds immigration has, at most, a small effect on native-born wages overall, and often a modestly positive one. A meta-analysis of 88 studies from 1985 to 2023 found major variation by methodology, but the more rigorous,...]]></description><link>https://www.pulseoftruth.org/post/immigration-and-wages-what-economists-find-when-they-run-the-numbers</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6abd76e26b3ed45d65f8cfcf</guid><category><![CDATA[America Today]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:54:17 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>peterbollino</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Would Real Election Fraud Look Like In The Data?]]></title><description><![CDATA[THE QUESTION Every cycle, fraud claims spread fast, dead voters casting ballots, ballot-stuffing, noncitizens voting en masse. Believers cite anecdotes. Skeptics cite the lack of prosecutions. Neither settles it. So what would large-scale fraud actually look like in the data, and how would anyone catch it? WHAT WE KNOW Real auditors don't chase anecdotes. They look for statistical fingerprints: batches of ballots with identical or sequential signatures, turnout that doesn't add up against...]]></description><link>https://www.pulseoftruth.org/post/what-would-real-election-fraud-look-like-in-the-data-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6abd75f5dea0b5f5d31c4981</guid><category><![CDATA[America Today]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:50:19 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>peterbollino</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Happened to America's Manufacturing Jobs, And Who Benefited?]]></title><description><![CDATA[THE QUESTION "Globalization destroyed the American middle class." You've heard it from the populist right and the progressive left alike. The U.S. lost 5.7 million manufacturing jobs between 2000 and 2010. Was that trade, automation, or something else? And who actually came out ahead? WHAT WE KNOW Both trade and automation played real roles, economists still argue over the split, and the honest answer isn't clean. MIT research from Autor, Dorn, and Hanson found rising Chinese import...]]></description><link>https://www.pulseoftruth.org/post/what-happened-to-america-s-manufacturing-jobs-and-who-benefited</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6abd758adea0b5f5d31c48cf</guid><category><![CDATA[America Today]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:48:39 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>peterbollino</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Medicaid Fraud Is Real. So How Big Is It, and Why Is Washington Defunding Some of the Watchdogs?]]></title><description><![CDATA[THE QUESTION The federal government is in the middle of the biggest anti-fraud push Medicaid has ever seen. Billions in payments frozen. State fraud units defunded. Every state ordered to recheck its providers. Officials say fraud is draining the program. Critics say the threat is overstated and the response is political. Both sides throw around big numbers. So how much Medicaid fraud is there, really? WHAT WE KNOW Start with the size of the program. Medicaid costs about $930 billion a year...]]></description><link>https://www.pulseoftruth.org/post/medicaid-fraud-is-real-so-how-big-is-it-and-why-is-washington-defunding-some-of-the-watchdogs</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6abd69edd158844e87d8a2b2</guid><category><![CDATA[Fruad]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 19:59:05 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>peterbollino</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Fraud in Minnesota's Safety Net Actually Hurt Kids, and What the Funding Fight Is Really About]]></title><description><![CDATA[THE QUESTION Minnesota has become the center of the largest wave of public-program fraud prosecutions in the country, pandemic food money, autism therapy billing, childcare assistance, all of it. The dollar figures are staggering. But did this fraud actually hurt kids, or is that framing overstated? And separately, is the federal government's response, freezing hundreds of millions in Medicaid funding, actually fixing the problem or punishing the people the programs were built to help? WHAT...]]></description><link>https://www.pulseoftruth.org/post/how-fraud-in-minnesota-s-safety-net-actually-hurt-kids-and-what-the-funding-fight-is-really-about</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6abd694bdea0b5f5d31c2eec</guid><category><![CDATA[Fruad]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 19:56:50 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>peterbollino</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The National Guard Deployments: What's the Legal Basis, and How Do They End?]]></title><description><![CDATA[THE QUESTION Over the past year, federalized National Guard troops showed up in Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland, and other cities, citing threats to federal personnel and property during immigration-enforcement protests. Governors and courts pushed back hard. What was the actual legal basis, and what happened to it? WHAT WE KNOW Normally, the Posse Comitatus Act bars the military from domestic law enforcement, with narrow exceptions, the best-known being the Insurrection Act, which the...]]></description><link>https://www.pulseoftruth.org/post/the-national-guard-deployments-what-s-the-legal-basis-and-how-do-they-end</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6abd68ff7908d26646ef9c42</guid><category><![CDATA[Government Watch]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 19:55:08 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>peterbollino</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>