It’s past time to BAN CONGRESSIONAL STOCK TRADING!  No member of Congress [or the White House] should be trading stocks. Period. The American people deserve to know their representatives are working for them, not corporations and stock portfolios. It’s time to ban Congressional stock trading.

More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.

Republican FCC Commissioners Brendan Carr and Olivia Trusty approved Paramount’s merger with Skydance in July 2025. Months later, as it eyed a merger with Warner Bros., Paramount gifted both commissioners tickets to the Kennedy Center's swanky gala. If that isn’t corruption, I don’t know what is.

Today:

Heartless. Shameful. A little sanity would go a long way here.

Adam Kinzinger@adamkinzinger.substack.com · last wk.

A mother gave the government her fingerprints, tax records, and DNA to get her 6-year-old daughter back. She did everything officials asked. ICE used that information to find and arrest her. A child welfare system became a deportation tool. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Because of the disastrous Citizens United decision, our democracy is on sale to the highest bidder. From AI to crypto, corporate interests are spending huge amounts of money to corruptly shape policies in their favor. It's time to get Big Money out of politics.

Since then, he has attempted to seize ballots, sued 30 states for their voter rolls, dismantled the Election Assistance Commission, and pushed to pass the SAVE Act which would disenfranchise millions of voters across the country. We cannot allow this type of corruption to become normalized.

The documents Trump cited don't even make his case - and actually refute much of it. But that didn'tg matter. No foreign regime, no spies, no saboteurs have yet matched the damage that America’s own president just did tonight to faith in U.S. elections. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Trump Just Did More Damage to Elections Than China

His speech was a mashup of charges that aren’t supported by the documents he released.

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When the righteous stand up to the craven, democracy wins.

Norm Eisen@normeisen.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Constitution is clear: states run elections Now Mullin says states lose security funding unless they purge voters through a system a court already blocked They want to coerce states before the midterms, but we will not let them Free & fair elections are non-negotiable

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The entire system is set up for Donald Trump and his billionaire buddies to get rich, while working families get left behind. It doesn't have to be this way. That’s why I’m not taking a dime of corporate PAC money.

Read the statement following Trump‘s unhinged rant of our National Task Force On Election Crises: electiontaskforce.org/national-tas...

Todd Blanche can't be trusted to oversee the Department of Justice. He doesn't respect the rule of law and has shown a severe lack of integrity time and time again. The Senate must reject his confirmation.

Trump made $636 million from his crypto memecoin in 2025. He got a cut any time someone traded the coin, which he frequently encouraged his supporters to do. The one million of them who bought it ended up losing $3.81 BILLION. Trump will grift his own supporters to enrich himself.

Microsoft is laying off 4,800 workers today. Its CEO made $96.5M in 2025, a 22% increase from the previous year. Microsoft made $101B in net income last year — and raked in up to $12.5B in tax breaks from Trump's Big Ugly Bill. This is what a rigged system looks like.

“Trump’s total profits from World Liberty reached $799 million last year, according to his financial disclosure, including hundreds of millions from the United Arab Emirates, which secretly moved in early 2025 to buy nearly half the company. ... {gift link} www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/u...

Nearly a Million Investors Lost a Total of $3.8 Billion on Trump Crypto Coin

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Write or call your elected reps. Nothing is more important for our political system than this.

Rep. Joe Neguse@neguse.house.gov · last mo.

My resolution proposing a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision now has 88 co-sponsors! (You can view the full list at: congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-joint-resolution/122) I won’t stop fighting to get it across the finish line.

This video from the great @mollyjongfast.bsky.social is so informative and important. If you care about getting money out of our politics, be sure to watch it. youtu.be/wLz2BzCx1ZY?...

Project 2029: Campaign Finance Reform Comes First

YouTube video by Fast Politics w/ Molly Jong-Fast

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Senator @ossoff.bsky.social knows from experience that running on an anti-corruption platform isn't just good politics, it leads to good policies that keep his constituents front and center. #GASen

Ossoff doubles down on anti-corruption message in reelection bid

U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff's first general election TV ad highlights his bipartisan investigation into Georgia's foster care system and legislation combating child sex trafficking.

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All of these cases are basically litmus tests for any Dem nominee. Are immigrants Americans? Do trans Americans deserve human rights? Are corporations superhumans who get to spend endlessly on elections to put whoever they want into power? These are simple questions with simple answers.

Sotomayor: "The Court gives the President a power unknown even to the English Crown against which the Founders revolted, elevating him above his once-coequal branches by transforming a duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed into a license to act in defiance of those very laws."

This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious. Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal.

A Terrible Thing Happened to My Family

Even in today's climate, there should be one fundamental principle everyone respects: whatever you think about someone in politics, you leave their kids alone.

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Please read and call. Flood the zone.

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · last mo.

I just sent this out to Democracy Docket premium members, but in light of the Postmasters comments this morning threatening voting by mail, I felt it is urgent to post it online for everyone. Please read and share. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/mail...

What a surprise! Who knew all they had to do was science the thing! But now that science is no longer in vogue, this is what you get.

Buttons (Ashley) 🏴‍☠️#OFMDForLife🏴‍☠️ 🏳️‍🌈🤡@sevensugars.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

I don’t donate to much, but if you really want to have an impact in the war to save our republic, support Marc Elias!

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨BREAKING: Maryland Federal Court DISMISSES Department of Justice lawsuit to gain access to state voter data. A big victory for our clients Maryland/DC Alliance for Retired Americans and democracy. DOJ is now 0-9 in these cases. We are undefeated.🗳️💪⚖️ www.democracydocket.com/cases/maryla...

People struggling to pay bills are cheering on the president and his allies become richer at their expense. All because he claims to hate the same people they do. Culture war is powerful, and awful.

Breaking News from The Halfway Post: BREAKING: Donald Trump is reportedly furious that the annual ranking of US presidents by a committee of 50 top presidential historians was released today, and the committee almost unanimously ranked Trump’s second term as the worst in US history.

Don’t kid yourself for a moment, he fully intends to disrupt the mid terms because otherwise he knows he’ll not only get impeached but removed by the new democratic Senate and then hopefully prosecuted and jailed but I’m skeptical of him ever going to jail like any other human would be.

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 2mo ago

Oh. So Tulsi Gabbard wrote a report showing that voting machine vulnerabilities didn’t flip any votes. And now she’s not the DNI anymore. Hmm. www.reuters.com/world/white-...

🚨ENDORSEMENT ALERT🚨 We’re excited to endorse Seth Bodnar to represent Montana in the U.S. Senate. Seth knows working people are paying the price for corruption. He’s fighting for Montanans, not special interests. We look forward to helping him win in November.

The more money corporations corruptly pour into our elections, the less money they pay in taxes while prices get higher for everyday people. This is exactly why we need to get corporate money out of politics.

Public Citizen@publiccitizen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

At least 88 corporations paid $0 in federal income tax last year. Those 88 corporations also happened to spend $852 MILLION on political lobbying the last three election cycles. They're essentially making a 3,000% return on investment. The system is rigged.