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Democratic governors are leading the charge against Trump’s power grab—and they’re winning.

Democrats gave voters a voice and Americans made themselves clear: They do not support Trump’s undemocratic attempt to rig the midterms for Republicans.

Onwards to November.

Unregulated prediction market may endanger US national security, experts and lawmakers warn With how futures markets are structured, officials could place bets anonymously and influence combat operations to ensure they get a payout, experts say.

While an American weapons officer was evading enemy forces in Iran, there was a live betting market on what day he’d make it home.

Military Times is out with a piece everyone should read on how this goes from morally indefensible to a genuine national security threat.

Republicans are bringing up past Democratic statements decrying gerrymandering, as though we weren’t aware of this.

Of course we are. We tried making the argument in good faith. Y’all didn’t listen.

We’re supposed to not fight back now?

Nah, doesn’t work like that.

Trump Staffers Panicking Over His Mental Health Virginia voters deal Republicans major blow in redistricting wars, Army sergeant's wife arrested by ICE, Democrats investigate Patel's alleged alcoholism

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RFK Jr. has just claimed that he has done a better job of controlling the measles outbreak than any other country.

He then said that the world is in the midst of a measles pandemic.

“We just want answers. There’s no transparency. There’s none. [They are trying] to clear all this up by interviewing the trafficker? That’s the solution? We are so post-truth… That would be truly horrific. If there are videos, I want to know.“
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4 Democratic members of the House have died in office since this Congress started in January 2025. (That's roughly 2 percent of the Democratic caucus elected in November 2024.)

“Trump thankfully didn’t follow through this time; these words are a stark reminder of how reckless, immoral, and completely outside the bounds of international law [he] is… He is no leader of the free world. He is a dangerous and corrupt gangster, and that is how we must treat him.”
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“We're fighting wars. It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare.”
Donald Trump, April 2026

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One of the most telling pics of the year ... so far.

Democrats did not step back. We fought back. When they go low, we hit back hard. We won Prop 50 in California, reclaimed a seat in Utah, pushed back extremists in Ohio and halted toxic GOP efforts in Indiana, New Hampshire, Nebraska and Kansas. Tonight, thanks to the relentless work of Virginia Democrats, led by Governor Abigail Spanberger, Speaker Don Scott, State Majority Leader Scott Surovell and President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas, “YES” won and Donald Trump lost. Virginians spoke with a crystal-clear voice, voting to stop the MAGA power grab and protect the integrity of free and fair elections. This war is not over. Next week, Ron DeSantis is hauling the Florida legislature back into a special session to redraw maps because Republicans know they are on the verge of an epic defeat in November. DeSantis is clearly more interested in illegal gerrymandering than lowering the high cost of living or fixing our broken healthcare system. Right now, nearly 5 million Floridians are facing higher premiums because Republicans failed to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits. If Florida Republicans proceed with this illegal scheme, they will only create more prime pick-up opportunities for Democrats, just as they did with Trump’s dummymander in Texas. We will aggressively target for defeat Mario Díaz-Balart, Maria Elvira Salazar, Carlos Giménez, Kat Cammack, Anna Paulina Luna, Laurel Lee, Cory Mills and Brian Mast. We are prepared to take them all on, and we are prepared to win. Maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time.”

Hakeem Jeffries puts out a FAFO:

"We will aggressively target for defeat Mario Díaz-Balart, Maria Elvira Salazar, Carlos Giménez, Kat Cammack, Anna Paulina Luna, Laurel Lee, Cory Mills and Brian Mast....

Maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time"

Kaitlan Collins: [SCOTUS] rejected the appeal by Ghislaine Maxwell to overturn her conviction... Her only chance of getting out of prison is a pardon from you…

Trump: I’d have to take a look at it.

Collins: She’s convicted of child sex trafficking.

Trump: Yeah. I’d have to ask DOJ.

“In choosing to withhold three of the four interviews from the Epstein files, the DOJ has granted Maxwell potential blackmail on the sitting president* of the US… Maxwell has held this leverage over Trump since…2021… Trump’s DOJ… let her keep it.”
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You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

“No one empowers a trafficker — unless they have something they need to keep buried.”
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#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

The Fifth Circuit just upheld GOP law forcing the Ten Commandments in every Texas public school classroom. Republicans aren’t hiding it anymore: they want to replace education with religious indoctrination and shred church-state separation. Our kids deserve facts, not theocracy.
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Donald Trump and Republicans have tried to rig the 2026 midterms. Today in Virginia, voters sent them a clear message: The power is with the people.

Before tonight ends

I love great photography & love AOC @aoc.bsky.social

Brilliance today as AOC nailed RFKJR on fraud and incompetence during today's Congressional hearing
AOC...we should clone her
This great photograph taken WSJ reporter Liz Essley

RFKJR , SO INCOMPETENT
SO VILE

I just finished writing my reflections on tonight's big win in Virginia. I've been fighting this fight for ten years, including three cases in SCOTUS. Tonight we won a big one at the ballot box.

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This was so unfair. An idiot like RFK, Jr. didn't stand a chance against the brilliant AOC. Bless his heart.

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I'm Zach Wahls. A sixth-generation Iowan and a new generation of Democrat.

And I'm running for U.S. Senate to defeat Joni Ernst.

A reminder while Republicans bitch about Dems finishing the redistricting fight they started: they have full control of gov’t— they can pass a law banning gerrymandering any time they want. They won’t. Republicans aren’t mad gerrymandering exists; they’re mad that they’re not the only ones using it.

For the record: The Washington Post can go fuck itself.

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I know we should not be shocked any more but this a shockingly deranged post from the addled old failing man in the White House.

There are lot of Democrats in this country that can learn a thing or two from Democrats in Virginia tonight. Looking at you, Chuck Schumer.

Someone on "The Sopranos" spitting Italian slang for "you fucking idiot" that I had to look up online.

The DOJ was created to increase the capacity for federal prosecutions during Reconstruction esp. those to be brought under the newly enacted KuKlux Klan Act.

Now the DOJ is being used to prosecute a storied civil rights organization whose central mission has been to expose & dismantle the Klan.

Today is a good day for democracy 💥

Donald Trump, Greg Abbott, and Mike Johnson tried to rig midterms… and still took the L.

Virginia voters understood the assignment. They saw it for what it was and obliterated it.