Sen. Jim Banks: "President Trump has done so much to bring long-term, lasting peace to the Middle East" 🙃

Hegseth is interrupted by a second, third, and fourth round of protesters in quick succession

Murray: "He has told us over 40 times now that a deal is near and the war will be over soon. But now he's asking for $70 billion more and for us to just trust him it'll work out."

Facts still matter. When the president tries to set up election interference with lies and distorted truths, we need to fight back with knowledge. Join us at 12:45 today for a conversation about Trump’s efforts to set up a federal takeover of our elections. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

SCHATZ: You tell my constituents why this war is going so well HEGSETH: *serves up a long word salad of Trump glazing that doesn't answer the question* SCHATZ: Let me get a question back in here

JUST IN: Roger Rogoff, who was appointed interim US attorney by judges in Washington state and immediately fired by President Trump, is suing to block his removal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Today, we are holding a hearing on Trump’s destruction of our national monuments. This Administration must be held accountable.

State attorneys general have sued over the merger between Paramount and Warner Bros, which is now temporarily paused. But new reporting from ProPublica found that FCC officials have been accepting gifts from Paramount while making decisions favorable to the corporation. Hello?

Sen. Reed: "You were completely aware that the Strait of Hormuz could be closed?" Hegseth: "We had U.S. boats that surrendered to Iranian ships under the Biden administration." Sen. Reed: "Your fallback to the Biden administration is a very obvious excuse for what I think is...gross negligence."

NEW: In a win for voters, a federal judge Monday dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Republican National Committee (RNC) seeking to force New Jersey to release sensitive voter data. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

As Hegseth, a key backer of the Iran disaster, testifies in the Senate, recall that his personal wealth manager also acts as a lobbyist for group working to influence him to “promote pro Israel policies." Hegseth won't comment substantively on the relationship. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Time to play hardball. Republicans did. Kentucky Republicans changed the Senate succession law to stop a Democratic gov from appointing McConnell’s successor. Beshear says the state Constitution gives him the power to fill statewide vacancies. @govandybeshear.bsky.social #KYSpecialElection 1/2

The Trump admin WITHHELD that nearly 100 U.S. troops were injured by Iran in the past 2 weeks. 400+ Americans have been injured. 18 service members have been killed. It's a tremendous sacrifice. But Trump can't even explain how America is better off or how his war will end.

The defense budget was $841 billion in 2024.

THIS 👇 AS WELL ! WHY KASH ?....

“The error was discovered and corrected in 2024, while Philip D. Murphy was governor, but never publicly disclosed, Ms. Sherrill said.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/n...

Susan Collins lied to Mainers. She helped destroy Roe v. Wade, she advanced Trump's $990 billion Medicaid cuts, and she gave ICE $70 billion continue its rogue terror campaign. Together, we will replace her with a Senator who gives a damn about the working people of this country.

Rep. Thomas Massie and I are leading the fight against military integration with Israel. Congress was denied a vote on an amendment to stop it. Now we will fight to strip this provision in the conference between the House and Senate.

I’m headed to the Senate Floor to ask my colleagues if we can all agree on this simple truth: climate change portends a cascade of financial market collapses that would destabilize the national and global economies.

Epstein survivor Virginia Giuffre's brother Sky Roberts says Todd Blanche showed a "complete lack of humanity" toward survivors, recalling Blanche telling him: "Virginia is not here. Your sister's not here to provide that testimony," despite evidence Giuffre provided implicating Prince Andrew.

HEGSETH: We had US boats that surrendered to Iranian ships during the Biden administration-- REED: Listen -- we're talking about the war you started. Not a situation in which oil was flowing freely, we weren't losing personnel. So your fallback to Biden is just a very very obvious excuse

ALERT: Todd Blanche submits answers to written questions from Senators And he appears to leave the door WIDE OPEN to giving taxpayer money to convicted Jan 6 cop beaters

Oh my god they’re really just recycling their Iraq War material like how we try to post our old viral tweets on Bluesky but they never do well.

Reminder: Hegseth was pushed out of TWO veterans nonprofits amid financial mismanagement allegations, running groups into debt, overspending on parties/events, and treating funds like personal accounts. Now, he's bankrupted the Pentagon despite a record budget and is demanding another $1.5 trillion

Ken Paxton just ran away from a press conference because reporters started asking questions he didn't like. If he can’t even answer basic questions about where he votes and his 15 properties, Texans can’t trust him to be honest or transparent about anything.

🚨Caught on camera: Ken Paxton PANICS when asked about owning 15 homes worth $9 million on a $153,000 government salary. Paxton dodges, stammers, then says “I’d like to keep today to law enforcement!” Classic Paxton—refuses to answer, cuts the presser short. Texans deserve better.

Trump is killing efficiency and crushing consumer choice, making it harder to buy cost-cutting appliances and cars. Fuel efficiency standards have saved American drivers $5 trillion since 1975. My Gas Money Saved Act would bring them back.

Duckworth: "He appointed the most incompetent secretary of defense in our nation's history. All he seems to be worried about is testosterone levels in our troops instead of making sure that he actually has a plan to execute this mission in Iran and ending it before even more Americans get killed."

NEW: A new Trump email to supporters warns them their application “failed because of technical difficulties.” The link doesn’t fix an application. The application never existed. It does, however, take them to a page to send money to fix the “problem.”

BREAKING: More than 6,000 non-citizens were added to New Jersey’s voter rolls due to a software error, Gov. Mikie Sherrill says, with “fewer than 400” of them casting ballots in various elections since 2023.

Mass voter challenges are likely to occur in the 2026 midterm elections, the Brennan Center for Justice warned Tuesday, with the potential to “undermine the democratic process," reports David Lightman.

Excellent Substack post here on what is raw corruption.

Wow -- Ken Paxton and his team abruptly shut down a news conference and bail after journalists try to ask him about his various scandals

Trump is using an unprecedented web of nonprofits, cultural organizations, and other groups to stash away over half a billion dollars for his corrupt policies and pet projects, donated by corporations & the ultra-rich.   This is corruption on a scale we've never seen before.

How the threat of an ICE detention center galvanized a Trump-country coal town www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"In a brazen assault on the First Amendment and an affront to the Constitution, I believe I was targeted, arrested and detained by the Trump administration for speaking out against the ongoing atrocities Israel is committing" Silence is not an option. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

If Washington can withhold funding, maybe it’s time those states considered withholding those tax dollars until the federal government honors its obligations.

The Trump administration announced it was withholding more than $1 billion in Medicaid funds from California and Minnesota. Both California and Minnesota are net donor states, meaning they pay more in federal taxes than they receive back from the federal government through federal spending.

I wonder why the GOP isn't talking about the evils of fascism and Nazism?

Q: Dems ditched Graham Platner after sexual assault allegations. Two members of your conference -- Max Miller and Cory Mills -- face domestic violence allegations. Why keep them in the conference? MIKE JOHNSON: The key word there is 'allegation'

Corporations spend more than $1.5 billion a year on union-busting. That’s $1.5 billion they could have spent on higher wages, better benefits, and improving workplace safety. Remember: if they weren’t so scared of worker power, they wouldn’t fight so hard against unions.

Looks like more Trump corruption. Will any Republicans in Congress see or care? www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

AOC: Ask Peter Thiel. Ask Elon Musk. Ask Mark Zuckerberg if they want one of these data centers in their own backyard. Ask any one of us here on this committee. If anyone wants to live right next to one of these centers, please raise your hand.

A sitting FBI Director. Hosted by Russia's spy service. Agenda: blank. Timing: weeks before the midterms. I did the deep dive. It's worse than the headline. www.jackhopkinsnow.com

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche asked a federal judge Monday to spare him a $1,000-a-day fine, calling a contempt push against him "absurd." www.msn.com/en-ca/news/o...?

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Mitch McConnell’s staff have declined to answer basic questions about what work he is doing—37 days after he was loaded into the back of an ambulance and vanished from public view. His staff refused to even say if the senator had spoken to any of them in recent days.

KANEW: “Bill Maher says he’s open to voting for Vance in 2028… Bill Maher is not your friend, Democrats. He’s John Fetterman with a talk show. Time to turn him off.”

“.. up from 5.9% today.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...