🚨VICTORY: Supreme Court holds that federal Election Day statutes do not prevent Mississippi from counting absentee ballots postmarked by Election Day but received afterwards
A huge victory for our clients and the Elias Law Group team. https://t.co/ChsfYzdJQU
Watching the Watchers: The Steady State, an organization of more than 415 former national security, intelligence, diplomatic, military, law enforcement, and homeland security officials, on Thursday filed a federal lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) “for failing to release records about the agency’s monitoring of citizens engaged in constitutionally protected protest and political speech.”
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#BREAKING: Velshi: “Now, let’s be honest about what this voting bill actually [#SAVEAct] is. The premise is FALSE. Non-citizen voting essentially DOES NOT exist in America. I have lots of examples but tonight I’m going to give you Utah. Utah two million registered voters and found—I hope you’re sitting down for this—ONE confirmed non-citizen registration and ZERO instances of non-citizens actually voting.” 😳
Every defeat the DOJ suffers in its effort to gain access to state voter files brings us closer to protecting the midterm elections.
“The road ahead for democracy is narrow and filled with obstacles,” Marc Elias writes, “but we have already shown that we can clear them.” https://t.co/NciDLTiA6z
I have seen a lot of people ask why it's OK to require an ID to get into the Obama Presidential Library, but not to vote.
The problem is that it's not true that you need to show ID to get into the Obama Presidential Library.
Where the confusion arises is that if Illinois residents show their Illinois ID, they can get discounted or free admission.
But MAGA lies and MAGA believes lies, and then MAGA repeats lies.
🚨 NEW: Democrats introduce articles of impeachment for billionaire Trump appointee Linda McMahon.
Her husband is currently facing a lawsuit for sex trafficking.
💪🇺🇦Ukraine is reclaiming every piece of its land — step by step, meter by meter.
And where the occupier’s flag once stood, the Ukrainian will rises again.
This is not just about territory — it is about people, about home, about the right to be free on one’s own land.
Ukraine will not surrender to aggression. Ukraine is taking back what is hers — and will not stop until every last piece is free.
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Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out.
The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing.
Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees.
The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in.
Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal.
The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals.
The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion.
This is your tax money.
It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children.
This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close.
We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket.
Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.
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NEW: This week judges: blocked usage of a flawed DHS database to purge voters, cancelled two of Trump's anti-voting executive orders, and rejected DOJ access to several states' voter rolls.
It was a very bad week for Trump, but good for democracy.
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The numbers are in, and they are devastating.
5,000,000 Americans have dropped their Affordable Care Act coverage.
Here’s why.
Premiums on these plans doubled, on average, from last year to this one.
Deductibles hit a record high.
And families who were getting by suddenly found a monthly bill they simply could not pay.
So they did the only thing they could. They gave up the coverage they needed. And it did not have to be this way.
The reason costs exploded is that Trump and Republicans in Congress let the tax credits that kept these plans affordable expire. We fought to extend them.
We warned, for months, exactly what would happen if those credits went away.
Republicans pushed their agenda through anyway, in their Big Ugly Bill, and chose tax breaks for billionaires over keeping a working family’s doctor visit within reach.
Now look at how they’re trying to spin it.
The administration wants you to believe this drop is about fraud. That’s nonsense and they know it. Independent health policy experts have looked at the data and reached the same conclusion. People did not disappear because of some crackdown. They disappeared because they could not afford the bill anymore.
When you double someone’s premium, they drop the plan.
This is not complicated.
It is as cruel and cynical as it gets. And the people who did this are going to answer for it.
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One way to push back against an authoritarian is to mock him.
trump is so weak and insecure he is now demanding our respect.
So I’m sending him my favorite picture below.
Feel free to retweet and send your favorite picture or video to @realDonaldTrump.