🗳️RESULTS: Last night, Michigan and Missouri held primaries in critical races that could determine the future of democracy. 🧵From a win for citizen-led initiatives to a key contest that could move the needle on the SAVE America Act, here are the results you need to know👇
Pamela Smith
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However, the measure would not have applied directly to citizen-led referendums, like the recently-rejected redistricting bid aimed at blocking the GOP’s new gerrymander. More on that effort below👇
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 TOTALLY worth the time to watch Senator Whitehouse take down the Judiciary Committee! open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...
Sen. Whitehouse Destroys Trump Pick In Blistering Confirmation Vote Speech
'Reasons To Vote Against Him Number In The Hundreds'
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God, I am so disgusted by this fascist legislature and statehouse! 🤬 #Missouri #PeopleNotPoliticians #WeThePEOPLE
BREAKING: Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins rejected both an anti-redistricting referendum and the proposed Respect Missouri Voters amendment, arguing both are unconstitutional and setting up a court fight. (@stlpublicradio.bsky.social)
MO SOS Hoskins rejected a referendum on a 2025 map aimed at ousting @cleaver.house.gov. It's a decision that's not unexpected and will be challenged in court. And if Hoskins is wrong... some election officials have broached the possibility of redo congressional primaries in the fall:
Hoskins rejects Missouri congressional redistricting map referendum, setting up court fight
The GOP Secretary of State’s decision was expected. Proponents of placing the GOP-leaning map up for a statewide vote will go to court to put a vote on the plan on the November ballot.
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We’ll see you in court, motherf@€ker! 🤬🤯 www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
Missouri secretary of state blocks referendum seeking to undo the GOP’s redrawn congressional map
Opponents of last year’s redistricting push attempted to put the issue on the ballot, but Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins said the effort was unconstitutional.
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This should be the biggest news of the week. www.npr.org/2026/08/02/g...
Capital One says it closed Trump Organization accounts over money-laundering concerns
The bank is asking a judge to permanently dismiss a lawsuit from Trump-affiliated businesses, arguing a monthslong internal review — not the Jan. 6 riot — explains why hundreds of accounts were shut d...
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In his explosive interview with The Economist, the SpaceX billionaire inadvertently revealed something darker about his true vision for the future—and about his affinities with global fascism. trib.al/iujKkiD
The Real Reason Elon Musk Keeps Insisting DOGE Cuts Killed “Zero” Kids
In his explosive interview with The Economist, the SpaceX billionaire inadvertently revealed something darker about his true vision for the future—and about his affinities with global fascism.
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Exclusive: court records reviewed by the Guardian show that procedures included force-feeding, intravenous forced hydration and involuntary blood draws
‘Stark example of brutality’: Trump’s ICE used court orders in plan to force-feed at least 10 hunger strikers in detention
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THIS is STILL happening across this country, on a smaller scale than Minneapolis but with the SAME violence and disregard from human beings. They are hoping you don’t notice. SEE THIS AND REPORT IT!!
On Jan. 11, Gregory Bovino watched as his Border Patrol agents dragged a man out of his car at a St. Paul Speedway, knelt on his back until he lost consciousness, and dragged his limp body into the back of a van. The man's name is Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano and this is his story.
🚨🚨🚨🚨 www.texasobserver.org/ice-car-chas...
ICE Never Stopped Chasing People in Cars in the Rio Grande Valley
Immigration agents sped after a vehicle through a residential neighborhood on the same day of the agency’s traffic stop pause, reportedly endangering a mother and son—before pulling a gun on and brief...
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Our nation's #PublicHealth is worse since Trump took office last year. Americans are paying in more ways than one for this administration's incompetence. #MedSky
ICYMI, J.D. Vance wanted to use a military helicopter to ferry his son to a private golf lesson. The absolute gall and waste of military resources for private, personal reasons is just astonishing. www.ms.now/news/veeps-s...
Vance’s security detail ‘fed up’ with hastily arranged personal and family travel requests
Secret Service sources said the Vance family asks included getting their young son to a golf lesson on a military helicopter.
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My cats butt hole is more intelligent than RFK jr. This is the idiot who is supposed to keep America safe and healthy, good luck with that. #FuckTrump #VoteBlue
'Man who eats road kill' slammed for calling CNN anchor 'flustered'
An epic CNN shouting match earned scathing rebuke for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Sunday after he "barked" unsubstantiated facts then accused his interviewer of being "flustered." "I am ...
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🚨 RFK JR. UNLOADS MEDICAL MISINFORMATION ON CNN America’s health secretary blamed Fauci for pandemic lockdowns while pushing false and misleading claims about measles, RSV, Tylenol and COVID vaccines. The conspiracy theorist isn’t outside the government anymore. He runs HHS.
Suck a total freaking MORON! 🤯 THIS is the guy in charge of our HEALTH?!?!?! OMG! 😳
The ridiculous RFK Jr has a teeny tears tantrum as he's held to account by a far smarter, far better informed CNN journalist. It's excellent youtu.be/YNrEjDnQa8g?...
"I don't think this is really what I voted for if I was voting for immigration reform," Maureen Mendrek-Laske told Newsweek.
Trump Voter Angry as ICE Take Nanny—‘I Thought We Were Targeting Criminals’
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PLEASE, PLEASE take 100 minutes to listen to these truths and then SHARE!! Americans NEED TO KNOW that Medicare for All is the only solution for this profit driven sick care system we have now! 📣📣📣📣 www.youtube.com/live/ASV9lma...
Universal Healthcare: Now is the Time for Medicare for All
YouTube video by US Progressives
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"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."