Addison Wiggin and The Grey Swan are promoting the 2026 Midterm Election Blueprint, also branded as the GSI Election Blueprint. Here’s what the evidence can—and can’t—identify.
One promotion, several names — all of them point to the same pitch, and the same stock.
“A 52-Year-Old Law Is About To Strip Trump Of His Last Line Of Defense…” That’s the headline on Addison Wiggin’s campaign for Banyan Hill and Omnia, selling the paid publication The Grey Swan. The promotion calls itself “Buy This And Sell That Before The Midterms” and offers The 2026 Midterm Election Blueprint.
The pitch says certain household stocks held in 401(k)s and IRAs could be vulnerable before November 3, 2026, while deficit spending, dollar weakness and post-election rule changes create winners elsewhere. We identify the only defensible stock match below: ProShares Short S&P 500 ETF, ticker SH, with 72/100 confidence as a bonus-report candidate, not as the missing main Blueprint pick.
The useful fingerprints are unusually broad but still checkable: a “Crash Position” designed to profit when the market falls, a gold-linked royalty investment supposedly backed by BlackRock and Citadel, and an inflation-beating stock with a century-spanning dividend record. The central Blueprint, however, never gives the public a named basket we can test.
The same election pitch is also branded as “GSI Election Blueprint.” That refers to the same campaign, not a separate idea. Its bonus reports are titled “The Crash Position: How to Profit from the Chaos,” “Trump Gold Royalty Income” and “The Almost Perfect Inflation Beater.”
The only stock we can identify with enough evidence to name is ProShares Short S&P 500 ETF, or SH. It fits “The Crash Position”: ProShares says SH seeks daily investment results equal to the inverse of the S&P 500, and the fund can be bought and sold through an ordinary brokerage account. A sharp one-day market decline should therefore produce an approximate one-day gain for SH. That’s a real match to the mechanics, but it identifies a bonus report, not the unnamed Blueprint basket.
The other two bonus identifications remain guesses. Royal Gold, ticker RGLD, fits the royalty-business and institutional-holder clues: Royal Gold’s 2026 proxy lists BlackRock as a beneficial owner, and Citadel Advisors reported holding Royal Gold shares in its June 30, 2026 13F amendment. Altria, ticker MO, fits the inflation-beater story through the Philip Morris and Altria dividend history, including the long-term compounding record discussed by Knowledge at Wharton and in Bessembinder’s 2024 CRSP study.
The table below treats RGLD and MO as candidates, not settled answers. No public Banyan Hill, Omnia or Grey Swan page located for this campaign names the main Blueprint stock or basket, so we could pin down one bonus match and identify two plausible bonus candidates, but not the promised core recommendation.
The offer bundles 3 bonus reports that tease their own stocks. These get a sentence or two of copy each, so the evidence is much thinner than for the main pick and what follows is our best reading rather than a confident answer.
| Bonus report | Our best guess | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| The Crash Position: How to Profit from the Chaos | SH — ProShares Short S&P 500 ETF | 72/100 — solid |
| Trump Gold Royalty Income | RGLD — Royal Gold, Inc. | 62/100 — probable |
The claim-by-claim checks below separate genuine matches from statements that cannot be verified and claims that run ahead of the filings. They cover all 15 promotional claims, using ProShares’ fund materials, Royal Gold’s proxy and filings, Altria’s own dividend and heritage materials, SEC records, market data and the relevant academic research.
| The promotion claims | Verdict | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| The Blueprint names household stocks many Americans hold in 401(k)s or IRAs as vulnerable before November 3, 2026. | Can't verify | No public Banyan Hill or Omnia page naming the Blueprint's household-stock basket was located, so this generic description cannot be checked against a specific company. |
| The Blueprint names beneficiaries of deficit spending, dollar weakness and post-election rule changes. | Can't verify | The public record does not identify the Blueprint's beneficiary basket or provide a source tying those macro themes to particular stocks. |
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The promotion says positions must be made before November 3, 2026. That is the scheduled date of the 2026 U.S. general election, so the calendar date itself is real. What we could not verify is whether the Blueprint actually imposes that trading deadline.
We received this campaign on only one day, September 25, 2026. That record is too thin to judge whether the deadline rolls. There’s no week-long countdown to report here, just one observed appearance.
This is the third Addison Wiggin pitch we’ve identified. The earlier campaigns pointed to Franco-Nevada Corporation under “Trump Royalty Income” and Equinix under “Trump’s 50-Year Super Deal.” Equinix is down 0.21% since we revealed it; no performance figure was provided for Franco-Nevada.
The pitch’s central claim is that the midterms will put familiar 401(k) and IRA stocks at risk, while deficit spending, a weaker dollar and post-election rule changes reward a small group of alternatives. The chain breaks at the most important link: the promotion never publicly identifies that group. Without the names, the main Blueprint thesis can’t be tested.
The bonus material is more concrete, but it isn’t one tidy investment argument. SH matches the crash-hedge mechanics, yet its daily reset means a longer holding period can diverge materially from simply betting against the market. A one-day inverse result is not a permanent force field around a portfolio.
RGLD has the strongest clue-based setup but the weakest promotional support. Royal Gold’s filings do show BlackRock and Citadel connections, while the claimed BlackRock income, 1,645% historical return and possible 1,720% future return aren’t established by the cited records. The president’s disclosure also doesn’t show an investment in Royal Gold. MO has the strongest historical evidence of the three: its dividend and compounding record are real, even if “survived every crash” and “best-performing stock of all time” stretch beyond what the sources prove.
On the merits, SH is a tactical instrument, MO is the most firmly supported long-term business story, and RGLD is a plausible royalty candidate with a promotion that overshoots its evidence. As a basket, though, these are three very different bets, and the undisclosed main basket remains the hole in the middle of the pitch.
How confident are we? 72 out of 100. We identified ProShares Short S&P 500 ETF (SH) from the promotion's own clues and checked 15 of its claims against filings, earnings calls, ownership records, market data and public reporting. This is our analysis, not the publisher's disclosure — we have no relationship with them.
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| MO — Altria Group, Inc. |
| 78/100 — solid |
| The Crash Position gains when the market falls, with larger gains from a harder fall, in an ordinary brokerage account. |
| Checks out |
| ProShares says SH seeks daily investment results equal to the inverse of the S&P 500 and can be bought and sold through a brokerage account; a larger one-day market decline therefore produces a larger approximate one-day gain. |
| The Crash Position is cheap right now. | Can't verify | SH closed at $32.01 on September 25, 2026, near its $31.83 52-week low, but ProShares gives no valuation basis for calling an inverse ETF share price cheap. |
| The Crash Position will not remain cheap. | Can't verify | ProShares explains that SH resets daily and can diverge materially over longer holding periods, but neither the prospectus nor the market record establishes when or whether its current price will stop being cheap. |
| BlackRock and Citadel are invested in the gold-linked structure. | Checks out | Royal Gold's 2026 proxy lists BlackRock as a beneficial owner, while Citadel Advisors' June 30, 2026 13F amendment reported 259,296 Royal Gold shares. |
| BlackRock earns $17,184,974.40 a year from one investment in the structure. | Contradicted | Royal Gold's 2026 proxy lists BlackRock with 6,923,969 shares, and Royal Gold's 2026 dividend is $1.90 per share, implying $13,155,541.10 annually rather than $17,184,974.40. |
| The gold-linked investment returned 1,645% since 2008 versus 399% for gold. | Can't verify | Royal Gold's annual reports provide rolling five-year shareholder-return comparisons rather than the claimed 2008-to-date comparison; the available September 2021-to-September 2026 closing-price history shows a 154.9% gain, which does not test the longer claim. |
| The gold-linked investment could return 1,720% over the next two years. | Contradicted | RBC Capital's 2026 valuation was $260, while named-bank 12-month targets span roughly $218 to $350 against a $252.49 price; Royal Gold's five-year outlook covers production volumes, not an 18.2-fold equity return. |
| The President invested in this exact form of gold-linked investment. | Contradicted | President Trump's 2025 annual OGE disclosure lists BlackRock holdings but contains no Royal Gold or Citadel entry, so it does not show that he invested in RGLD. |
| The inflation-beating business survived every crash in the last hundred years. | Overstated | Altria's heritage page says a predecessor retained all employees and never missed a dividend during the Great Depression, and SEC records show the Philip Morris/Altria lineage continued through later crises; no source establishes the literal claim for every crash. |
| The stock is the best-performing stock of all time. | Overstated | Bessembinder's 2024 CRSP study ranks Altria first for cumulative return among 29,078 U.S. common stocks in its December 1925-to-December 2023 sample, which is narrower than 'best-performing stock of all time.' |
| Its regular dividends historically rose faster than inflation. | Checks out | Altria's dividend materials show the annualized dividend rising from about $1.52 in 2008 to $4.44 in 2026, a roughly 6.5% annualized increase over the period, above cumulative CPI growth even though dividends did not beat inflation every single year. |
| $1,000 invested in the stock in 1925 with dividends reinvested is worth $250 million today. | Checks out | Knowledge at Wharton, summarizing Jeremy Siegel, says $1,000 invested in Philip Morris in 1925 with dividends reinvested became more than a quarter-billion dollars; Bessembinder's later CRSP study implies roughly $2.65 billion by 2023. |
| The recommended positions must be made before November 3, 2026. | Can't verify | The 2026 U.S. general election is scheduled for November 3, 2026, but no public copy of the Blueprint was located to verify that the promotion imposes this specific trading deadline. |
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