On July 13, 2023, a stock disclosure was filed with the Office of the Clerk of the United States House of Representatives. It recorded the purchase of NVIDIA call options — a leveraged bet worth between $1 million and $5 million — by Paul Pelosi, husband of then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi, while the House was actively negotiating the CHIPS and Science Act, the most consequential semiconductor legislation in modern American history. Six months later, the position had returned approximately $5 million. This is where today's episode begins. For twelve years, the STOCK Act — passed with near-unanimous bipartisan support — has promised to hold Congress to the same insider trading rules as the rest of America. In those twelve years, there have been zero criminal convictions. Not one. This episode names the members and documents the trades: Senator Richard Burr, who sold up to $1.72 million in hospitality and airline stocks the same day he received a classified COVID briefing, while publicly saying the virus posed no serious threat. Senator Tommy Tuberville, who traded soybean and grain futures while sitting on the Senate Agriculture Committee, the body with direct oversight over commodity market regulation. Senator David Perdue, who executed over 22,600 individual stock transactions in six years — the highest trading volume of any Senator during that period. Senator Kelly Loeffler, who began selling millions in stock the same afternoon she attended a Senate coronavirus briefing, while simultaneously purchasing shares of a remote-work software company. Then this episode explains why the law doesn't work — the 45-day disclosure window that gives trades weeks to settle before anyone finds out, the 2013 amendment that quietly gutted the online searchable database, the reform bills introduced in every Congress since 2020 that follow an identical pattern: introduction, coverage, committee, dead. And finally: what every major democracy except the United States has already figured out, what a real ban would look like, and what you can do about it. Independently reported. No advertisers. No corporate sponsors. Just the truth.