Trump has been flooding Truth Social in recent days with a series of indecipherable posts that appear to outline his interest in stuffing two anti-trans provisions into the SAVE America Act, a disastrous voter suppression bill.

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The FBI has expanded its investigation into President Trump’s delusion that the 2020 election was stolen from him, with reports that it issued a grand jury subpoena for documents about the election results in Maricopa County, Arizona.

Noem successfully fashioned herself as the face of the most unpopular and dystopian moments of Trump’s second term. Maybe the horseback rides across Mount Rushmore were worth it.

The heavy hand from Trump the day after a primary — the outcome of which many speculated would serve as some sort of indictment on Republicans voters’ appetite for MAGA as a whole — is revealing of perhaps deeper concerns about Texas’ fate now that Talarico is headed for the general election.

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"Trump started the war unilaterally, w/o making the case to Congress or the American public. He did not attempt to obtain congressional approval, and would likely veto any constraints the legislature passes. ..."

Read @kateriga.bsky.social on SCOTUS gutting the Voting Rights Act and the groups preparing for the day after talkingpointsmemo.com/news/voting-...

Much of Trump’s second term agenda — theatrical crackdowns on Medicaid fraud, violent mass deportation operations, efforts to gain access to the nation’s voter rolls — are all an attempt to lend an air of legitimacy to his broader goal: punishing Dems/Americans who did not vote for him.

A handful of House Republicans (mostly women) have called on Gonzales to resign from his position. Johnson was not one of those lawmakers. More from @emineirmakyucel.bsky.social in tonight's edition of Where Things Stand:

The statement piggybacks on an NPR report, which found that the public database of the files is missing over 50 pages of interviews and notes from conversations with a woman who told the FBI that Trump abused her when she was a minor.

Democratic attorneys general around the nation are creating a legal battle plan for the seemingly inevitable reality that will arrive this fall, when President Trump attempts to make good on his threats to interfere with states’ election administration.

It appears Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr is attempting to evade responsibility for the situation that unfolded this week on “The Late Show."

Doug Wilson, who once told me that he is trying to "get back to America in 1892," spoke at the Pentagon yesterday. A few stories from the archive, including our scoop last year on when he first met Pete Hegseth talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/an...

Join @allegrak.bsky.social and @hunterw.bsky.social for a Substack Live chat on the Fulton County raid and the fringe characters driving the Trump administration’s latest push to interfere in U.S. elections at 11 a.m. ET: talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/join-...

Comedian and “The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert called out his network for its compliance with the Trump administration’s ongoing attempt to crack down on dissent.

There is a potential near future in which Trump takes his army of ICE agents and floods polling places in areas that tend to not vote for Republicans during the midterm elections, an election-meddling rerun of what he has already done in blue cities and states around the country.

Bondi repeatedly skirted attempts on Wednesday by Dem Rep. Scanlon to get answers about the Trump administration's NPSM-7 directives that cast a bunch of non-controversial ideas — “anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity” — as worthy of investigation by federal law enforcement.

The affidavit was unsealed on Tuesday and shows that the investigation not only originated with Olsen, but also was based on thoroughly debunked claims about ballots in Fulton County in 2020 that Olsen has helped perpetuate.

The statistics obviously run counter to the Trump administration’s ongoing claims that it is only targeting the “worst of the worst” as part of its inhumane immigration enforcement in (mostly) blue areas across the country.

Slotkin’s lawyer — former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who was ousted during Trump’s first term for overseeing an investigation into the then-Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price — told Pirro that Slotkin would not agree to an interview with her office voluntarily.

@talkingpointsmemo.com is resurrecting The Franchise, a weekly newsletter that we used to send out back in the day, starting before and continuing while President Trump began spreading deranged conspiracy theories about his loss in the 2020 election.

From @nicolelafond.bsky.social and @khayahimmelman.bsky.social: "Bannon Describes Vision for ICE At Polling Places That Dems Have Been Warning About" talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

I enjoyed speaking with Brad yesterday about the long shadow of the War on Terror and how the Trump DOJ has begun to bring material support for terrorism charges against protestors associated w various left wing causes talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-d...

The dystopian hypotheticals as outlined by Dems and whispered into the ears of those closest to Trump are becoming less and less speculative each time Trump digs his heels in on one or another of his various authoritarian aspirations ...

Republican congressional leadership sorta rhetorically shot down the idea on Tuesday, which is, of course, not the same as legislatively safeguarding the sanctity of states’ rights to administer elections as outlined in Article 1 of the Constitution.

Extremely cool to have an excerpt from my new book, To Catch A Fascist: The Fight To Expose The Radical Right, in @talkingpointsmemo.com today.

While Trump has already smashed all norms associated with the firewall that typically exists between the White House and the DOJ, his reported direct communication with those investigating the 2020 election in Fulton County could raise future issues for any potential future prosecution:

"Along with all of the messages painting the protesters as part of a violent campaign, Miller has also continually advanced a very hyperbolic Great Replacement vision of the overall immigration picture." More from my colleague @hunterw.bsky.social in tonight's edition of Where Things Stand:

I'm on the Hill today (rare for me) with my friend, TPM's @kateriga.bsky.social. Blumenthal tells me that he wants any reform to DHS to include "replacing the top leadership." He was careful to specify that it's his perspective, not Dems as a whole, but one that he hopes they'll get on board with:

The FBI executed a search warrant on Wednesday at an election office near Atlanta in Fulton County, Georgia, a locale infamous among MAGA conspiracy theorists’ who fulminated about the 2020 election and beyond.

The mother and sister of two Trinidadian citizens who the Trump administration killed in a mid-October boat strike have sued the government in federal court, seeking “pecuniary, compensatory, and punitive damages.” More from @kateriga.bsky.social in tonight's edition of Where Things Stand here:

Sweeping public outrage over another killing by ICE may be enough to compel Dems to stand up to the Trump administration’s brutality, even if it means voting against funding for a bunch of other on-their-face harmless agencies and programs. More here:

The Trump administration has been using the president’s cruel mass deportation visions as a vehicle to, also, crack down on the residents of blue cities across the U.S. who did not vote for him.

What really matters is how Senate Dems respond once the legislation is brought up for a vote in the upper chamber, as Republicans will need support from at least seven Dems to pass the bill.

How exactly Congress will address the coming health care cost crisis — premiums are set to soar for millions of Americans in coming months — remains unclear.

If Pirro was looking for a way to please Trump in the midst of his outburst about U.S. attorneys not being sycophantic enough, both Slotkin and Powell would be obvious targets.

Trump has made his “retribution” objective explicit, spinning his administration’s plans to clamp down on First Amendment rights and his withholding of federal funding as some sort of deliverance for the “GREAT PEOPLE OF MINNESOTA” from their duly-elected leaders.

A usual level of uncertainty hangs over the typically far-more-straightforward question of which party will hold the upper hand in a critical election year. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-red...

Trump might torpedo the whole thing, whether the Senate passes the House extension or puts up its own bipartisan bill for a vote (which would then need to pass the House before being sent to Trump’s desk). More here:

"The fatal shooting of Good shows that the people who have been resisting Trump’s mass deportation push are risking their lives. However, waves of protests in the aftermath of her death show the threat is not stopping anyone from showing up." More from @hunterw.bsky.social in tonight's WTS:

From a 2015 fraud allegations focused on Minnesota day care centers overbilling state welfare agencies to an ICE agent killing a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday, @laylaayanna.bsky.social provides a definitive unpacking of how we got here:

Trump sent 2,000 ICE agents to Minnesota this week as part of his ongoing immigration enforcement assault across America.

By some counts, Dems need to flip just three seats in order to take back control of the lower chamber, but the status of Trump’s gerrymandering blitz — and Democrats’ own gerrymandering efforts to combat it — muddies the picture.

Kelly has continued to promote a similar line in response to each new Hegseth attempt to act on Trump’s long & much discussed interest in punishing elected Dems and anyone who dares criticize him: that he will fight all of the retribution efforts in defense of Americans’ freedom of speech.

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“… Immigrant New Yorkers, undocumented New Yorkers, are not simply living the challenges pertaining to their status,” Mamdani told @talkingpointsmemo.com’s @hunterw.bsky.social. “… They’re living both the affordability crisis and a crisis of dignity on the question of people’s immigration status.”

Massie is one of the only elected Republicans who has been consistently willing to criticize the president. But Trump’s Truth Social post about Reiner was so deranged that others are speaking up.

In the end, Trump’s intimidation tactics and blatant attempts to predetermine control of Congress were not enough to persuade the 21 Republicans to cave.

If Indiana Republicans cave to Trump today and agree to rig the 2026 elections, both Illinois and Maryland are in line to respond, notes @nicolelafond.bsky.social. Cites our interview with Rep Jamie Raskin pushing State Sen prez to drop his bizarre opposition: talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...