Channel
@Steve_Cortes
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Posts · Cite this entry
4,146subscribers
-239 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 3,162–10,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001151559496 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @Steve_Cortes |
| Created | 8 February 2021 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel) |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 12 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 18 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 12 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/Steve_Cortes |
Politics & activism — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 13 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 82% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Oct 2026, 05:57 | 4,146 | -14 |
| 5 Oct 2026, 07:15 | 4,160 | -43 |
| 27 Sept 2026, 08:19 | 4,203 | -39 |
| 18 Sept 2026, 09:20 | 4,242 | -19 |
| 13 Sept 2026, 19:16 | 4,261 | -10 |
| 9 Sept 2026, 23:41 | 4,271 | -24 |
| 4 Sept 2026, 11:20 | 4,295 | -12 |
| 31 Aug 2026, 14:58 | 4,307 | -7 |
| 28 Aug 2026, 13:03 | 4,314 | -7 |
| 25 Aug 2026, 16:48 | 4,321 | -7 |
| 22 Aug 2026, 22:18 | 4,328 | -15 |
| 19 Aug 2026, 04:55 | 4,343 | -7 |
| 16 Aug 2026, 08:25 | 4,350 | -14 |
| 12 Aug 2026, 19:04 | 4,364 | -7 |
| 9 Aug 2026, 16:04 | 4,371 | -13 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 15:43 | 4,384 | -1 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 10:35 | 4,385 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 09:51 | 4,385 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 26 May 2023 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 6 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 25 June 2023. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Measured directly from 4 videos with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.
An excellent essay by @ markgjudge on the decline of athletic journalists. Norman Mailer and Ernest Hemingway were serious boxers. Can anyone imagine Chris Hayes or Philip Rucker sparring? https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/courage-strength-optimism/the-sad-decline-of-the-journalist-as-athlete
The superb @ LarryTaunton explains the unholy alliance of the Political Left along with Big Business to push corporate cultural Marxism on America. Have a look and subscribe to his excellent channel! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nKigw7Eppo
A typical Iowa Republican voter explains why he’s switching to DeSantis after voting twice for Trump. RDS has shown effectiveness in fighting back against the Left’s culture war. https://siouxcityjournal.com/news/local/iowans-carl-cleveland-sergeant-bluff/article_cffa95d2-0069-11ee-bab7-2b9e48c75298.html
It’s telling, the online vitriol I get from hardcore Trump folks when I critique DJT policies, from the Right. For example, my article against his Kardashian/Kushner jailbreak “First Step Act” I don’t get policy responses, no facts or figures - instead just personal attacks.
See this new excellent @ prageru video on Small Business and minority entrepreneurs from Alfredo Ortiz of @ JobCreatorsUSA https://www.prageru.com/video/want-a-revolution-start-a-business
A very smart discussion of the presidential race with @ RyanGirdusky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb-XYOWTkOs
Housing Blues. The Biden WH, Dems, Media, and Wall St all sell the fantasy that the economy is fine. Working Americans report a very different reality. Unaffordable Housing sends confidence crashing. Cortes #ChalkTalk
If we are to save our Republic from the Oligarchs, we must smash politicized prosecutions. Two parallel systems prevail right now as conservatives — from presidents to pro-life ministers — are subjected to a whole different set of rules.
Nikki Haley, the “political weather vane,” thinks it’s an attack on DeSantis that he does NOT do what his donors want? Especially when behemoths like Disney seek to pollute the minds of young children? RDS should wear such criticism as a badge of honor!
Commercial Real Estate risks abound. $1.5 Trillion (with a "t") in mortgages come due over the next three years. Interest-only loans soared in recent years, and he end of zero % means seismic shifts for these borrowers. https://www.wsj.com/articles/interest-only-loans-helped-commercial-property-boom-now-theyre-coming-due-c3754941?st=q8iaudqv6q7l8cs
I really recommend the @ LarryTaunton show generally, and specifically this episode on his Top Five enemies of the State/Ruling Class: Tucker Carlson, Ron DeSantis, Clarence Thomas, Donald Trump, and Elon Musk. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ideas-have-consequences-with-larry-alex-taunton/id1614308509?i=1000612150682
Biden's Inflation -- smart analysis from Scott Bessent. https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2023/05/31/joe_bidens_year_of_aiding_and_abetting_inflation_902545.html
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @Steve_Cortes. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 12 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Steve Cortes” (@Steve_Cortes), 4,146 subscribers as measured 12 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/Steve_Cortes.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.