NEW: Nate Schatzline is a voting fraud conspiracy theorist who believes he is at war with demonic forces and has close ties to a movement of "prophets" that helped spark Jan 6. So why did Gov. Greg Abbott just give him a $275,000 job as a senior advisor on "election integrity" issues? (Gift link).

He Sees Politics as a Spiritual Battle Against Demonic Forces. Now He’s Advising the Governor.

Meet Nate Schatzline, the Christian nationalist and former state representative who is helping Greg Abbott manage “election integrity.”

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When Felon47’s power is used to defend the accused instead of supporting the alleged victims, it speaks volumes about him! Am I surprised. Hell no! It’s a betrayal of every survivor who fought to be heard! #SheShed #ViVaHerAlliance POTUS #PedophileOfTheUnitedStates

🧵🧵🧵 A scandal that hardly anyone knows happened is Trump giving traitor Michael Flynn $1.25 million in your tax money. Flynn, Trump’s 1st national security adviser, pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI but was pardoned by Trump. He sued, alleging "weaponization," and DOJ paid him in March. 1/4🧵

Justice Dept. Settles Flynn’s Wrongful Prosecution Suit for $1.25 Million (Gift Article)

The agreement was an extraordinary example of how the Trump administration has offered legal relief to those aligned with the president.

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Jennifer Schulze (@newsjennifer.bsky.social ): If you want to know what David Ellison would do w/ CNN, look at CBS, "a raging dumpster fire with non-stop controversies ... meddling in editorial content to make it more Trump-friendly and historic declines as the audience runs away as fast as it can."

David Ellison can’t be trusted with CNN

We've already seen how Ellison has wrecked CBS. Don't fall for his PR push on CNN.

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Trump's early training period as a KGB agent. Ivana, later Ivanka, his 'minder'. Soviets had dummy runs of Krasnov playing USA president. Mock Oval office, lie-detector training, character assassinations, election rigging, judicial taming and tampering, disqualification free press, postal sabotage.

**°•.FAFO.•°**@fafo-ez-one.bsky.social · 2d ago

#ProudBlue #Defend A must-read🧵w/ receipts by @markjacob.bsky.social on how Trumpism echoes the policies of Stalinism in the Soviet Union. It seems even more relevant today, as R’s want to label Ds as Communists. From purging opponents, to rewriting history, weaponizing govt. & more. Wake up! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 21h ago

As Republicans try desperately to make the public think democracy defenders are "communists," I thought I'd re-up this thread of mine from last year.

🚨Tarrant Co. wants to eliminate 140 Election Day voting sites and we have until 5pm TODAY to submit a comment. Here are 9 ready-to-use messages for Tarrant Co. residents, people across TX and people across the country, plus how to submit them. open.substack.com/pub/steviesa...

🚨 Tarrant County Wants to Cut 140 Election Day Voting Sites.

We Have Until Monday August 3rd at 5 P.M. to Make Sure We are Heard

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Banger report from @shaanthx.bsky.social on self-dealing from Oregon's Republican gov. hopeful. Sen. Christine Drazan registered a new consulting business in 2023, then a new nonprofit 3 weeks later, then paid her consulting biz $100k from the nonprofit. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/08/04/h...

How Drazan’s consulting firm pocketed nearly $100k from her nonprofit with little oversight  • Oregon Capital Chronicle

The situation offers insight into how one of Oregon’s most successful recent Republican politicians handled her finances ahead of a campaign.

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They're probably hoping you won't hear about this. But tomorrow in TX, Tarrant County officials meet to vote on a GOP plan to cut almost HALF of Election Day voting locations, plus 8 early voting locations, some of them on campuses. Not hard to guess why. fortworthreport.org/2026/07/30/t...

Tarrant County considers cutting 140 Election Day polling sites for November

County commissioners vote Aug. 4 on proposed reductions to the number of early voting and day-of sites for the midterms.

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AIPAC spent $61,000,000 propping up the campaign of a candidate who embodies crazy ex-girlfriend energy. And they may as well have blown it up — like Israel likes blowing up members of the press and humanitarian aid workers.

This ignorant tree stump of a human being shouldn’t have any say in our educational policy. Naming her Secretary of Education is like inviting a raccoon in to fix your computer. She’s an idiot who has NO idea what she’s doing. She’s nothing but an eager saboteur. www.forbes.com/sites/zachar...

Education Department Wants Reform Commitments From All Universities By End of 2026

The education secretary did not threaten to withhold federal research funding from universities, but asked them to provide “full transparency” on a number of Trump-administration priorities.

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Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "

Schiff: "This is someone who has violated his code of ethics blatantly, misled this committee, supported establishment of a fund for cop beaters, covered up docs implicating president in the Epstein files, use DOJ to enrich the president. Is this who we're prepared to confirm as AG? It appears so."

Republicans and DOGE are entirely to blame for this nightmare.

WatchYourRepsTN&SC@watchyourrepssc.bsky.social · 2d ago

And it begins! First deaths reported as cyclospora outbreak continues in the US www.actionnews5.com/2026/08/03/f...

Minnesota! 📣 Ever think about what the $4.4 billion of federal taxpayer dollars spent on mass deportations could buy instead? We did. Wednesday, we're launching a tool that shows the economic tradeoffs of Trump's immigration + deportation assault on our communities. Get a peek here 👇

The cost of mass deportations in states like Minnesota—and what federal tax dollars could be funding instead

This week, EPI will release a new tool showing the cost of mass deportations to taxpayers in every U.S. city, county, and state. For the first time, the actual economic tradeoffs imposed on all taxpay...

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This is so true. Texans you have to turn Texas back to blue. You have to want better.

So tired of how mean and expensive campaign ads are in Tennessee. If Marsha has good ideas, she should talk about that. Instead, she's working around campaign finance laws and spending millions to attack the other Republicans running for governor.

Tennessee Lookout@tennesseelookout.com · 2d ago

ICYMI: In May, U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn nearly emptied her federal campaign account, donating $4.8 million to the Club for Growth PAC. Months later, a subsidiary PAC gave a nearly identical amount to her gubernatorial campaign in what one campaign finance expert called a "workaround."

“Today is August 4, 2026.” www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_...

More invasion of our privacy!

ACLU@aclu.org · 2d ago

The Senate is considering a bill that would empower the federal government to spy on customers at retail locations across the country. This isn’t about countering theft, it’s about getting our data and aiding the Trump administration’s deportation campaign. Tell your Senators to vote NO.

Wow. Iowa MAGA Senate candidate Ashley Hinson has taken nearly $90,000 in donations from billionaires named in the Epstein Files. https://www.thedailybeast.com/exclusive-iowa-gop-senate-candidate-ashley-hinson-faces-fresh-heat-over-epstein-pen-pal-campaign-donor-cash/

MAGA Candidate Faces Fresh Heat Over Epstein Pen Pal Cash

Ashley Hinson took close to $100,000 in campaign funds from billionaires with ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

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We’re spending an awful lot of time undoing lessons that previous generations already learned the hard way... and then putting them back because we re-learned the reason they were there in the first place.

Pentagon restores mandatory flu shots for all recruits as boot camp outbreak sickens nearly 300

The Pentagon says military boot camps are once again requiring flu vaccinations for all recruits. This change comes amid a flu outbreak at Lackland Air Force Base boot camp, which has sickened nearly ...

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#VoteBlue.

Team Talarico@teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 3d ago

Ken Paxton said the Uvalde shooting was part of a “plan” by “God.” 21 elementary school children and teachers were murdered in the shooting.

FYI: Blanche rescinded the ORDER establishing the slush fund, not the underlying “settlement.” The settlement says any changes must be agreed to by ALL parties, not just Todd. This “rescission” isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.

The architects and supporters of Project 2025 might be the most abjectly cruel people who have ever lived. Trump leading the pack. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...

Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It (Gift Article)

The White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children. Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy — and brushing teeth.

nytimes.com

Read this, and let it sink in really deep. Then go back and read it again. This is being brought up again because the 🍊 grifter sued Capital One for closing accounts over suspected money laundering .... Date they did this was 2021 😳😒 You know as in between his two presidencies

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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🚨NEW: Todd Blanche’s new order rescinds the May 18 Anti-Weaponization Fund—but quietly leaves the May 19 IRS immunity settlement intact. Instead of rescinding it, the accompanying memo reaffirms DOJ’s interpretation, arguing the immunity applies only retroactively and only to the parties involved.1/