Voting isn't just a right. It's an act of resistance. When they try to steal our voices, we speak louder. When they build walls, we break them down. When they suppress, we SHOW UP. #GoodTrouble Weekend of Action. Be there. #USDemocracy

Ken Paxton vowed to crack down on "illegal voting." He may have violated Texas election law. Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite warning that "it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records."

NEW: Platner is struggling with the decision to drop out and wants to give input on how his replacement is chosen. He is expected to “speak on the future of his run” tonight. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

This week's Defiant Weekly has everything. - A "Weekend at Bernies" with Mitch McConnell. - trump blows up Iran ceasefire like a toddler. - And cognitive decline highlights NOBODY in the GOP wants to talk about. LIVE on my YouTube at 6:30PM

NEW: Trump's long-running campaign to restrict voting access and seize control over elections has so far been met with a series of legal losses. Now, the White House is shifting gears and adopting a new strategy: intimidating election officials and forcing states to overhaul election operations.

I was talking with Mitch McConnell today. He said Elaine Chao cleared Trump’s bathroom of classified information and took them to China. Suddenly, medical alarms started blaring. I heard staff yelling, “Elaine, plug him back in!” Then someone shouted, “Clear!” … and the phone went dead.

There have got to be better flight schools than this.

This has to END NOW! Lorenzo Salgado Araujo spent 35 years building homes and supporting his family, only to be killed on his way to work. ICE’s "self-defense" claim cannot just be taken at face value. We need a completely independent investigation and full transparency now. JUSTICE NOW!

"Trump is now going through something like the stages of wartime grief: Denial that America failed; anger, which has led to renewed attacks; and then bargaining, as if the Iranians could somehow be bought off like a gang of recalcitrant construction workers in New York. None of it has worked."

I was back in Immigration Court this week, this time for the hearing of a sweet little three-year-old girl, I’ll call her Estrella. She’s been in federal custody, separated from her family for more than 10 months – even though her mom lives here in NYC. The cruelty is truly mind-boggling. 🧵

An upcoming bill would require companies seeking to operate fully autonomous vehicles in New Jersey to use cameras plus two other sensing technologies, most commonly lidar and radar. This would effectively ban Tesla’s camera-only Robotaxi system in NJ unless the company changed its hardware.

I don’t know why you guys have such trouble believing that all these people have really talked to Mitch McConnell when Trump talked to Teddy Roosevelt last week

Trump can’t stay conscious. McConnell is brain dead. Tom Kean, Jr. disappears for months. They’re taking government handouts.

The vice president literally stops mid-speech to check if the boss is calling. Not a national emergency. Just making sure he's not in trouble. That's not leadership—that's a hall monitor checking for the principal. You deserve leaders who lead, not wait for permission #Blues

Gov. Andy Beshear of Kentucky sent a letter to Senator Mitch McConnell on Wednesday demanding that he update his constituents on his health as rumors swirl about the Republican senator’s condition after his hospitalization last month.

Really sick of Donald Trump bringing down the value of the United States. Republicans may not want to admit that Trump hates this country and wants to see it in ruin, but anyone paying attention can see how he feels in his every destructive action. And I’m fucking sick of it.

A new analysis by Popular Information estimated that Trump racked up a $103 billion bill for the Iran war in 120 days, and they have no plan to pay for it. Missiles, interceptors, and bombs total about $46.7 billion. Also Russell Vought lied to congress about it. www.rawstory.com/trump-iran-w...

Trump’s too f*cking stupid & uncultured to appreciate a magnificent country like Spain but as he trashes it yet again & calls them bad people I would expect a NATO head to speak up on their behalf. But Rutte just sits there silent like there’s 10GB of kiddie porn on his laptop.

Ken Paxton Texas Attorney General Voted Illegally It's a Felony to use a false address on voter registration. Ken Paxton's wife kicked him out and divorced him on Biblical grounds - Adultery. Why did he commit Voter Fraud - using his old address - six times? open.substack.com/pub/lonestar...

This is all just ballooning foreign policy malpractice. The negotiations are a “waste of time” because Trump’s negotiators change by the day. So do his goals and demands. It’s all gross incompetence that is costing American taxpayers and consumers billions.

Donald Trump: "They made up a phony word, affordability” Please keep saying this until the midterms. 🙏 Courtesy of @atrupar.com

#MitchMcConnell was kind enough to fit me into his busy schedule for a 20-minute phone conversation. He said not to worry about the #EpsteinFiles because he’s arranged to have them automatically released, unredacted, as soon as the President signs the SAVE Act!

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge in Washington, D.C. has denied the Department of Homeland Security’s request to pause her order shutting down use of its modified SAVE system to certify registered voters’ citizenship status. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Todd Blanche is thwarting the court order to release the remaining Epstein files. Clearly, he is in violation and should be held in contempt. Ultimately, he should be disbarred! #ProudBlue #DV1 #Pinks substack.com/@katiephang/...

AIPAC can keep spending tens of millions of dollars in this race because we're gonna win anyway.

Congress named it for Kennedy in '64. A board can't overrule Congress to sell naming rights to its own chairman. Rule: a public monument is NOT a personal branding opportunity, no matter who signs the memo. A court just told Donald, “Hell NO” on an attempt to put his name back on the building.

The ceasefire with Iran just collapsed & oil prices are spiking. You're paying for this war every single day. This is what chaos looks like—and what it costs. We need builders who prevent crises, not politicians who stumble into them.

New rule: you should have to be able to properly identify a country before you’re allowed to bomb it.

I’m not buying these alleged Mitch McConell phone calls with GOP colleagues. The GOP has zero credibility. We need a picture of McConnell holding up a copy of today’s newspaper.

Inside the Kremlin a sudden and acute sense of crisis.

A total violation of international law. Eswatini is imprisoning people from multiple countries no crime, based on no violation of law in that country, and with the direct knowledge and acquiescence of the United States.

Trump didn't leave the NATO summit in his new Qatari-gifted jet. It's unclear why he's not flying in the new jet he's been touting for months.

Trump walked away from the Iran ceasefire, called it a waste of time. Oil markets are rattling, prices climbing. You'll pay more at the pump and for groceries because he'd rather put on a show than get results. Chaos isn't a strategy—it's just expensive.

@Mike Nellis: If Scott Jennings and John Thune can have a 20 minute phone call with Mitch McConnell, he should be able to shoot a 60 second proof of life video. #Blues #DOOR

Newsom's Correct, California's Stand Alone Economy, Ranks As The 4th or 5th Largest In The World,Depending on fluctuating International Currency Values. If CALI Were It's own country, its GDP of $4.3 Trillion,would put it Alongside Super Powers....... (LA Times, Sacramento Bee)

In rape culture, everything a woman says means yes and nothing she says means no. This seems to assert that though she said not to come over, said no repeatedly, struggled against Platner, an ambiguous prior comment constituted irrevocable consent. Not a shocking breach not to include it.

Hey, Patriot Front boys, this you? 🤔🤭🤣

Putin Is Losing His Grip On Russia Leaked European Intelligence dossier revealed Russia is starving for money and workers. Putin’s so paranoid he’s hiding in a bunker. His closest ally Sergei Shoigu is demoted and named, in writing, most likely to overthrow him. open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...

Also, they're too dumb to spell "independence."

I probably shouldn’t have to explain this but there was never gonna be a real peace agreement with Iran, Trump & his kids are making too much money off of market manipulation and the war itself, his aim is to get the press to stop paying attention to it.