11 years ago tonight, Obama illuminated the White House with the colors of the Pride flag after the Supreme Court made marriage equality the law of the land.

📬 USPS LATEST: A federal judge blocked most of Trump’s 2026 anti-voting executive order ahead of the midterm elections in 23 states and D.C. But voting advocates aren’t celebrating just yet, given this administration’s record of defying and dodging court decisions. Here’s what could happen next:

My Uber driver in Branson was a Kennedy-Goldwater-Nixon-Nixon-Ford-Reagan-Reagan-Bush-Dole-Bush-Bush-McCain-Romney-Trump-Trump-Trump voter. He said that after Tuesday’s primary results in New York, there’s no way he’ll ever vote for a Democrat again.

Trump won this district by 9 points in 2024 bluevirginia.us/2026/06/frid...

Trump thought he had a bulletproof plan to lock down the midterms. Then 4 back-to-back collapses destroyed their playbook in 48 hours. See the raw receipts: 👇 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-came...

Massie: "I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections."

Did Democratic Socialists Just Take Over the Democratic Party? And how worried should the Dem establishment be? I answered both of those questions in a big piece today. chriscillizza.substack.com/p/did-democr...

Illinois expanded vote-by-mail because we believe voting should be easier, not harder. Now, Trump’s handpicked Postmaster General is threatening to withhold mail ballots unless states turn over voter rolls. That's not election security. It’s voter suppression.

[2/2] In her always insightful comments, Heather Cox Richardson reports on Trump’s latest efforts to interfere with the upcoming election, with Texas already helping him by turning over error-filled voter rolls.

NYT: A federal court in Massachusetts struck down crucial components of an executive order from President Trump that sought to place significant restrictions on mail voting as “unlawful, null, and void.” The order had, tried to use federal oversight of the U.S. Postal Service to regulate mail voting

TIME Magazine: Pennsylvania -- “the nation’s signature swing state" -- will be a key to this fall’s election cycle. Democrats need to pick up three total seats to gain control of the House and... Pennsylvania has three toss-up races, the most toss-up races of any state.

BREAKING: In a huge win, a federal court blocked parts of Trump's executive order targeting mail voting. The judge halted: ✔️A mandate to create lists of verified U.S. citizens eligible to vote in each state. ✔️ USPS' decision to only mail absentee ballots from certain individuals.

AXIOS takes a look at how the House Democratic Caucus may move to the Left in the next Congress and whether it will cause Leaders as much grief as the House Freedom Caucus caused Republican leaders.

NEW: The postmaster general told Congress that, under a new proposed rule, the USPS will not deliver mail ballots unless states hand over their voter lists to the Trump administration. The admission is evidence that the traditionally nonpartisan USPS is complying with Trump's mail voting attack.

Four years ago, SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade and stripped millions of Americans of their bodily autonomy. Since then, gerrymandered state legislatures have been able to pass dangerous abortion bans without any accountability. If we want to protect reproductive freedom, we need fair maps.

Today, the White House (Russ Vought) asked Congress to give Trump another $87.6 billion, mostly for Trump's war in Iran.

Thanks to Media Matters for their vigilance. @mmfa.bsky.social

DHS is refusing to release records about an unlawful anti-protester database designed to punish people for exercising their First Amendment rights – a tactic that ICE agents have been threatening protesters with for months. We're suing on behalf of @theintercept.com to expose the truth.

@campaignlegal.org put out an excellent statement on why President Trump's SAVE Act is so dangerous.

Sen. Peters: "Yes or no, if a state refuses to turn their absentee voter list over to the federal government, will the Postal Service still mail their ballots under this proposed rule?" Postmaster General David Steiner: "Under our proposed regulation, no."

The Philadelphia Inquirer has a great op-ed today by public education champion Mike Gottesman on how conservative judges will focus next on expanding religion and politics into public schools. We predict this will be a defining issue of the next Congress.

No comment. www.cnn.com/2026/06/22/p...

Professor Bob Reich @rbreich.bsky.social provides a great recap of the re-districting fights -- and why voting in state legislative election is so important this year. youtu.be/RdZmuDrLP-Q?...

What will the Republican Party look like after the end of the Trump era? Tim Miller of the Bulwark makes the case that it will look more like one of Europe's far-right, anti-immigrant parties rather than a return to classic Reagan-era Republicans. @timmiller.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/theb...

Touching water is not a crime! In fact our new @democracydefendersfund.org client Davy Hearn represented our country in doing just that in 3 Olympics & 8 world championships in his canoe Davy did nothing wrong & we will fight these charges as we discussed @allinwithchris.bsky.social

In Washington yesterday, U.S. District Judge Sooknanan ruled: “the federal government has knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote.” The threat continues. Thanks to TPM for highlighting.

David Axelrod and Jen Psaki have a great discussion on “Hacks on Tap” how a successful campaign is a decathlon — where being able to give a good speech is just one of many components of campaign success. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

Holland Cotter, chief art critic for the NYT, provides wonderful coverage of the New York Historical’s "Tang Wing for American Democracy." The exhibit — Democracy Matters — couldn’t be more timely.