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🚨BREAKING: Trump DOJ’s voter roll crusade is now 0-19. A federal judge dismissed its Illinois case with prejudice, ruling that Congress never gave DOJ “a general auditing power” over state election officials.

After brutal Illinois defeat, Trump DOJ’s voter roll crusade is 0 for 19

DOJ has appealed nearly all of its voter roll defeats. Yet no court to date has ordered a state to provide the department with an unredacted statewide voter database.

democracydocket.com

July 27, 2026 On July 22, Sam Fortier of NOTUS reported that the Trump-appointed judges of the Presidential 1776 Award competition, emceed by Education Secretary Linda McMahon, apparently rigged the competition to cut out a 17-year-old Indian immigrant in favor of a homeschooled blonde girl from….

July 27, 2026

On July 22, Sam Fortier of NOTUS reported that the Trump-appointed judges of the Presidential 1776 Award competition, emceed by Education Secretary Linda McMahon, apparently rigged the competition to ...

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

This morning, after an all-night assignment, (I am an elder care giver,) I was in the kitchen fixing my client a couple Sanka, when she turned on the TV and the voice of Fred Roger's sang out. I cried.

July 22, 2026 “The Republican Party’s new favorite talking point is calling Democrats communists,” Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA) said yesterday on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. “Really? Communists? Did we accidentally step into a time machine?”

July 22, 2026

“The Republican Party’s new favorite talking point is calling Democrats communists,” Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA) said yesterday on the floor of the U.S.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

July 21, 2026 The front page of yesterday’s New York Times featured some of the 440,000 Americans from Arizona alone who have lost SNAP benefits since the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act made the deepest cuts to SNAP in its history, expanded work rules, and shifted costs to the states….

July 21, 2026

The front page of yesterday’s New York Times featured some of the 440,000 Americans from Arizona alone who have lost Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits since the Republicans’ On...

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com