So far this year, 16 states have enacted 29 laws that restrict the vote — a rise from previous years. 28 and parts of the 29th will be in effect for the 2026 midterms. Learn more in the latest State Voting Laws Roundup from the Brennan Center and @goldmanschool.bsky.social:

Enough is enough. Adelita Grijalva was elected on September 23. The people of Arizona have a right to be represented in Congress.   During today’s pro forma session, when the House is called to order I will seek unanimous consent to insist upon the swearing-in of Adelita Grijalva.

In Portland This highlights the importance of local police actions. Helping people after tear gas and other chemicals shows your priorities. Help your fellow citizens demonstrating peacefully. You want the public to support and believe in your officers? Then have them serve Portland, not feds.

Update from Oregon: Late last night, a judge on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals called for the full court to reconsider whether Trump can deploy National Guard troops in Oregon.

Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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"Young 'conservatives' have no conception of conservatism outside of the MAGA movement... They are utterly untethered to reasonable discourse...in a perpetual, hateful adolescence." - Peter Rothpletz, with his first 'First Draft' newsletter for Zeteo:

Thou shalt not support a man who bulldozes the White House to build himself a golden ballroom whilst the government is shut down because he doesn’t want the financial records tying him to Jeffrey Epstein to come out.

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NEW: In addition to his motion to dismiss based on the unlawful appointment of Lindsay Halligan, Mr. Comey has also filed a motion to dismiss the charges on vindictive and selective prosecution grounds. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A family member just sent this to me from Chicago O’Hare Airport-

BREAKING: A court ordered the Department of Defense to stop censoring educational materials discussing race and gender in schools on military bases. Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.

This.

We are living in a new era of political corruption, marked by unprecedented self-dealing at the highest levels of the presidency. Watch Dan Weiner and Jane Mayer discuss how to end the kleptocracy on The Briefing with Michael Waldman: bit.ly/4oeS7WB

Over 500,000 views before the Community Note fact check.

Always keep your cameras rolling. Federal officials are scheduled to appear in court today, where they’ll face questions over whether the government breached a prior order by deploying tear gas during immigration enforcement operations in the Chicago area.

U.S. elections are secure and accurate, but now the federal government is threatening that infrastructure. The Brennan Center is closely tracking the White House’s efforts to undermine election integrity: bit.ly/3IZMSdG

So, per reporting from Zeteo’s Asawin Suebsaeng, in today’s new ‘First Draft’ newsletter, Trump tried to get a newly-divorced Russ Vought, Project 2025 architect & now budget chief, laid at Mar-a-Lago. The details are, ahem, as crude as you’d expect from Trump. zeteo.com/p/trump-shit...

HEY New York Times, IT WAS SHIT HE DUMPED ON PROTESTERS! If he can post it, the least you can do is write it!

This is a blatant attempt to silence and isolate us. He’s stopping the trains, closing the freeways and firing live rounds into California. We will not be intimidated. We will not be silenced. #NoKings

There were at least 300,000 people at No Kings in NYC. Three Hundred Thousand.

Way to go, everyone! Huge turnouts from small towns to big cities all across the country!

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

Thousands of people have gathered in downtown Denver for today’s No Kings protest against the Trump administration. Similar smaller protests are being held across Colorado. #copolitics

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Apropos of nothing, once the President of the United States confirms covert CIA operations in a country… say, Venezuela, those operations are no longer covert. And it puts CIA officers at significantly more risk.

I am sounding the alarm that the GOP is engaged in an all out attack voting rights and free and fair elections. Voter suppression, gerrymandering, and troops in blue cities are just some of the ways they are using to try to rig the rules to keep power in 2026 and beyond. Pay attention and act!

Dave Norton

Remember these would this Saturday for No Kings...

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

I have to believe we are going to win in the end. Transition is ultimately a statement of faith in that. I do not intend to transition into a gas chamber victim.

Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.

Take America back. Together

I’ve had the good fortune of missing these ads entirely. I can’t believe our tax dollars are funding this crap. F*CK ICE‼️

“Kids”

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$40 billion going to Argentina & Air traffic controllers, IRS, Treasury, Social Security, Health & Human Services, CDC & more aren’t getting paid & Yam Tits wants to gut our Healthcare. The Government Shutdown is on Republicans Release The Epstein Files & Swear in Adelita !

These are the "kids" JD Couch Fucker wants you to forgive. All nazis.

Directors Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman built much of the documentary from footage that incarcerated men secretly recorded with contraband cell phones. As a result, the film offers an unfiltered view inside a system where overcrowding, untreated addiction and violence are routine.

🚨BREAKING: New York Court of Appeals UNANIMOUSLY UPHOLDS state law moving most county and town elections to even-numbered years. By aligning them with state and federal elections, it will boost voter turnout. Another victory for voters and defeat for the GOP! www.democracydocket.com/cases/new-yo...

Pritzker: "If the Constitution means anything -- and I guess we all are questioning that right now -- the Insurrection Act cannot be invoked ... they just want troops on the ground because they want to militarize especially blue cities in blue states."

"In terms of net contributions, 19 states sent more to the federal government than they received in 2023. The largest gaps were in New York ($89 billion), California ($78 billion), and New Jersey ($70 billion)" usafacts.org/articles/whi...