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🚨BREAKING: Voting advocates filed a lawsuit Tuesday, asking a state court to quickly put a redistricting referendum on the November ballot as Missouri Republicans inch closer to thwarting voters’ efforts to block gerrymandered new voting maps. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Missouri voting advocates sue after redistricting referendum rejected
Missouri voters have fought for nearly a year to put the gerrymander to a statewide referendum vote in November.
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🚨BREAKING: A pro-democracy legal group sued Tuesday for access to public records that could shed light on a federal immigration agency’s involvement in President Donald Trump’s efforts to undermine the 2026 midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Lawsuit seeks evidence of federal immigration agency’s role in Trump’s voter purge plans
Democracy Forward went to court after USCIS failed to disclose the public records, despite multiple Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests about the agency’s involvement in Trump’s unprecedented a...
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BREAKING: Rep. Chuck Edwards says he is withdrawing from his re-election campaign, days after the House Ethics Committee recommended censure over sexual harassment allegations. He has repeatedly denied wrongdoing.
Rep. Chuck Edwards drops re-election bid after censure recommendation over harassment claims
“After much prayer and reflection, I’ve decided to withdraw from my re-election campaign,” Edwards, R-N.C., said early Wednesday after mounting pressure over his conduct toward two female staffers.
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Tapper: Senator Moreno said on Sunday that you have admitted privately that you need to get help. Miller: That’s projection. Tapper: Have you ever said that? Miller: No, not to him. Tapper: To anyone? Miller: I think a lot of people within this country see a therapist
Susan Collins is a NO on Todd Blanche for AG: “While I believe Mr. Blanche is a capable lawyer, the Department of Justice has become increasingly political.” Unlikely to change the outcome; he can lose two Rs and get confirmed. Collins voted YES on Blanche as Deputy AG last year.
Democrats haven’t held the Pa. Senate in nearly 50 years. Philly’s suburban swing districts may change that Democrats have big policy plans if they win the three seats they need for a majority in the state Senate. whyy.org/articles/pen...
Pa. Democrats are aiming for the ‘trifecta’ in Harrisburg
Democrats have big policy plans if they win the three seats they need for a majority in the state Senate.
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Ron Johnson: "Aaron Rodgers was smart enough to take ivermectin when he got covid ... unfortunately, more people didn't follow him. We wouldn't have had as many of athletes falling unconscious, sometimes dead on the field of play. You've seen the video reels of this happening in 2021."
Advocates warn about Trump’s vouchers for private and religious schools Proponents of a new federal school voucher program believe that 89% of the commonwealth’s K-12 population would be eligible to receive scholarships. keystonenewsroom.com/news/educati...
How delusional can Republicans be? Do they really think Todd Blanche (and DJT) will really give up this slush fund? And, why should Trump et al. be free from IRS audits? Absolutely sickening. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08...
Trump Live Updates: Blanche Wins Over G.O.P. Holdouts; Iran Denies Direct U.S.-Iran Talks (Gift Article)
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NEW: Capital One closed hundreds of Trump accounts for money laundering. We wouldn’t have known if Trump hadn’t sued. Now he’s got tax immunity. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-capita...
NEW: Capital One Closed Hundreds of Trump Bank Accounts for Anti-Money Laundering Reasons
"A bottled water company, a winery, a golf course, a construction payroll firm, and a real estate brokerage, and hundreds of other businesses" were debanked. Trump claims it was for political reasons.
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A brutal new poll for Trump shows why Democrats must run against his corruption Running on corruption may be more difficult than many Democrats suspect, but that makes their doing so all the more necessary.
Opinion | A brutal new poll for Trump shows why Democrats must run against his corruption
Running on corruption may be more difficult than many Democrats suspect, but that makes their doing so all the more necessary.
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Trump says banks closed his accounts after the Jan. 6 insurrection for political reasons. Capital One Financial Corp. said in a court filing that it closed them after an internal review by the bank’s anti-money laundering team raised red flags. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Capital One Cites Money Laundering Review in Trump-Related Suit
Capital One Financial Corp. said in a court filing late Friday that it closed accounts belonging to President Donald Trump’s sprawling real estate company in 2021 for legitimate reasons after an inter...
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Q's on Senate Dem leadership embrace of CR. Why now? Why let GOP senators go home for recess taking credit for a bipartisan deal? Why does it run until Dec. 11? Why give a lame duck GOP Congress a final bite at the apple with ability to pressure Dems with threat of pre-Xmas shut down?
🚨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/
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...
Opinion | The War That Could Swallow the World (Gift Article)
Whatever is happening in Iran, it isn’t working.
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NEW: The Fauci hearing this week was a GOP travesty. But it showed how Republicans are better at long-term messaging warfare than the Dems, as I explain in my OUR LAND newsletter. link.motherjones.com/public/46838... For a FREE trial subscription to OUR LAND, go to davidcorn..com.
RFK Jr: Trump wanted to end lockdowns. In Fauci's diary, he talks about how the president was calling him trying to get him to reopen the country BASH: The lockdowns were down by governors K: They cited Fauci B: Govs were hearing from hospitals that their ICUs were overrun K: That's not true
If the Trump regime wants any credibility at all on health issues they should stop this guy from ever being on TV. He sounds unhinged.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoRFK Jr: Dana, you probably don't understand this because you're not a scientist BASH: Well you're not either! RFK Jr: I know you're flustered now
RFK Jr should never be on TV. inarticulate at best and downright scary.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoBASH: How do you prepare for next pandemic? RFK Jr: We did almost everything wrong B: But what about now? K: We need to protect our rights B: ? K: During covid we dismantled our rights B: But I'm asking what *to* do K: You were part of the problem B: You want to sit here and attack me?
BASH: I want you to use your bully pulpit to tells parents who have not vaccinated their kids that they should vaccine their kids for measles. Will you do that? Look into the camera RFK Jr: I'll say it right now. Parents should get their children vaccinated for measles.
As disgraceful as you might think Paul Weiss is, it's much worse. A must read. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u...
How a Top Law Firm Went From Standing Up to Trump to Bending the Knee
Paul Weiss was a progressive stalwart for decades and led the legal resistance against President Trump in his first term. Then it surrendered without a fight. This is the inside story of its transform...
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While leaders in both parties race to gerrymander more districts, voters want leaders willing to speak out about the harm to all of us when leaders choose their voters. This clip went viral fast. Thank you Secretary Pete Buttigieg youtu.be/PSOEavPFk0Q?...
This is why we need to end gerrymandering
YouTube video by Pete Buttigieg
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Pete Buttigieg@petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 4d agoGerrymandering lets politicians choose their voters instead of the other way around. Until we end that, it will remain difficult to achieve the things most Americans already agree on.
America is on the verge of becoming a place where the prison system is distorted to reward or punish people over politics.
Todd Blanche’s New Grip on the Federal Prison System
Critics worry a little-noticed policy shift could let the attorney general reward allies, punish enemies, and sideline longstanding Bureau of Prisons processes.
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