Joe Kent quit his job as the nation's top counterterrorism official to protest broken promises.
Much of MAGA wants a course charted to wage war on the Epstein class over that and a fist full of other injustices.
Tucker Carlson just dropped the hammer that has people thinking he’s White House bound after Kent and a few of the most prominent names in the America First movement flew to Maine to draft him.
Point One Goes Straight After the Epstein Class
Tucker Carlson spent Wednesday night laying out what he called a 10-point vision for the country.
He framed it as the foundation for "whatever comes next" when Trump’s final term in the White House comes to an end.
Point one did not start small.
Carlson wants presidents and federal agents held to the identical standard as everyone else.
He pointed to Jeffrey Epstein's decades of impunity as proof of what he called an "Epstein class" that buys its way out of consequences.
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That is the exact class voters sent Trump to Washington to break up in the first place.
Carlson’s 10-point manifesto looks a lot like the foundation of a presidential campaign to finish the job.
And that’s apparently what Thomas Massie, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Joe Kent flew to Carlson’s compound in Maine last week to discuss.
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The manifesto kept going from there.
Carlson listed foreign lobbying influence and corporate control of government as infringements on America and Americans’ sovereignty.
And he echoed Charlie Kirk on confronting the problems of over-financialization and high-interest debt threatening to turn Americans into slaves.
During Kirk’s final interview with Carlson – filmed weeks before he was assassinated – Kirk pointed directly at Mamdani and told Carlson that most people were missing the real story.
"This is yet another distress signal by young people to say, hey, if you're not gonna fix our life economically, we're going to get very radical politically," Kirk said of Mamdani and the rise of Democratic Socialists.
Kirk laid out the economic squeeze younger generations were facing in terms no one in Washington was willing to use.
Maybe that’s why he’s no longer with us, much more than the Deep State story about some Mormon kid killing him out of love for a furry.
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Tucker's 10-point manifesto drips with Charlie's influence.
Tucker wants Washington to reward people who farm, build, and make things with their hands again, not the monopolies and industries built on finance and speculative real estate.
He wants the government's JFK and 9/11 files finally unsealed for good.
He wants immigration paused until the fallout from AI becomes clear, benefits cut off for people here illegally, and English locked in as the only language allowed on a ballot or a government form.
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Carlson has said he has no intention of running for president in the past.
But none of his manifesto reads like words of a man who isn’t at least considering it for the good of the country.
The same can be said of Massie, Kent, and Greene.
Every One of Them Already Paid a Price for Saying This Out Loud
Massie knows exactly what it costs to vote on principle instead of party.
His race this year became the most expensive House primary in American history, and he lost it after a foreign aligned lobby set out to make an example of him for refusing to vote to send Americans’ tax dollars overseas.
He took the stage that night anyway, smiling, in front of a crowd chanting "America First."
"There is a yearning in this country for someone who will vote for principles over party," Massie told them.
Kent gave up his post as the nation's top counterterrorism official rather than stay quiet about the perils of entering another extended war of choice in the Middle East.
He resigned to protest it, and he hasn't walked that back since.
Greene walked away from a safe seat in Congress this year rather than keep quiet about promises she says still need keeping.
She posted a photo from Carlson's Maine cabin this month showing the four of them gathered around a wooden table.
Her caption left no doubt she believes Washington has broken promises it made to people like her.
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Carlson was infamously fired from Fox News for saying what he believed when it came to role of electronic voting machines in America’s election system.
Four people, four separate exits, and every one of them still fighting for the same platform they signed up for.
This Is the Fight the Old Guard Never Wanted
Washington has a playbook for people who won't stay quiet.
Outspend them, brand them as spoilers, and wait for the base to forget why they spoke up.
That playbook has never once made the underlying complaint go away.
You can beat a candidate in a primary, but you cannot buy back credibility once four independent voices start saying the same thing at the same time.
Carlson, Massie, Greene, and Kent aren't chasing a title or a committee assignment.
They're chasing the same promises that built the movement in the first place: no more forever wars, no more protected class, no more Washington insiders who never answer for anything.
Whether or not it drives a movement that becomes a party, fields candidates for office or even the White House, or one that works inside the existing party structures, it definitely forces a question every voter will eventually have to answer.
Who's still fighting for the promise, and who just wants everyone to stop asking about it.
One thing is for sure, there hasn’t been a real third party that’s found momentum in this country since Teddy Roosevelt’s Bull Moose Party.
Like a hurricane uprooting rotting trees – the longer it’s been since one made landfall in Hurricane Season, the more likely it is to happen this season.
Sources:
- Washington Times, "Tucker Carlson teases third political party," July 2, 2026.
- Tucker Carlson, live broadcast, Aug. 5, 2026.
- Marjorie Taylor Greene, post on X, Aug. 1, 2026.
- Thomas Massie, primary night remarks, May 19, 2026.
