And, we were right.
You have to be alert, folks!
Judd Legum
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1. A network of purportedly progressive super PACs, spending millions in Democratic primaries across the country, is funded by a Republican dark money group, the American Prosperity Alliance (APA).2. Newly filed FEC documents reveal that three PACs that claim to oppose GOP policies — Lead Left PAC, Real Change PAC, and California Blue PAC — are wholly funded by Conservative Americans PAC.
Conservative Americans PAC received $30 million this cycle from a GOP dark money group, the APA.
3. The APA is a key part of the GOP financial infrastructure. It was established in 2022 and received $5.5 million in seed funding from the American Action Network, a non-profit associated with the House Republican super PAC, the Congressional Leadership Fund.
4. Since 2022, the APA has raised over $100 million from undisclosed sources. Millions of dollars were routed from the APA, usually through intermediaries, to the Congressional Leadership Fund and its sister organization, the Senate Leadership Fund.
5. The sham PACs have sought to bolster Democratic candidates that Republicans believe will be weaker in the general election, including fringe candidates with repugnant views.
6. In Texas’ 35th District, for example, Lead Left spent over $1 million supporting Maureen Galindo in the Democratic primary. Galindo, a sex therapist, pledged to transform ICE detention centers into a “prison for American Zionists”
7. This dirty tricks operation is still active. A related group is spending $1.5 million to influence tomorrow’s Democratic primary in New York’s 17th Congressional District.
https://bsky.app/profile/juddlegum.bsky.social/post/3mouwpbd6de2x
UPDATE:
FOUND THIS JUST THIS MORNING:
Politics & Poll Tracker 📡
@PollTracker2024NYT: G.O.P. Appears to Boost Socialist’s Primary Campaign for Wisconsin Governor
A super PAC tied to Republicans is spending $2.2 million on television advertisements that appear to be aimed at boosting the chances of Francesca Hong, a Democratic candidate for governor in Wisconsin.
Republicans appear to view Francesca Hong as their weakest opponent in a general election.
nytimes.com/2026/07/15/us/…
https://x.com/PollTracker2024/status/2077522720393134183
Anti-Semitism and Anti-Blackness
Two sides of the same coin.
If you have one, you have the other.
Black people are resting.
If the Jewish community of donors are ‘resting’ their funds until the DNC gets its act together
CLAP CLAP CLAP
Alex גדעון בן װעלװל
@JewishWonk
I don’t have evidence for this, just anecdotes, but Democrats humoring the far-left and antagonizing Jews I believe has contributed to the DNC being in the red financially. It will only get worse as the party continues to fail to fight back against bigots and extremists.
https://x.com/JewishWonk/status/2077893061397336360
Asked about ICE officers killing people and how they’ll be held accountable, Markwayne Mullin says “we’re turning up the heat on the streets”[image or embed]— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 11:35 AM · Jul 17, 2026
LongTime🤓FirstTime👨💻
@LongTimeHistory
Police in plain clothes ambush Black man pumping gas—repeatedly punch him during brutal arrest.
“I didn’t know they were agents,” he said.
“They had no bodycam, no badges, no nothing.”
“I thought they were just white guys at a gas station.”
2 agents hid behind car and the 3rd approached the man and pushed him in their direction.
At that point the agents jumped out and all 3 tackled the man and beat him with excessive force.
22-year-old Nakyje Kelly was first accused of having an expired registration sticker.
North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement later claimed he had marijuana in his car—he vehemently denies this.
Incident occurred at a One Stop gas station located in Jacksonville, North Carolina.
https://x.com/LongTimeHistory/status/2078139451667013690
Politics & Poll Tracker 📡
@PollTracker2024
Punchbowl News: The Congressional Black Caucus PAC is endorsing Haley Stevens for US Senate in Michigan
CBC spokesperson: “Haley has spent her career fighting for Black Michiganders.”
https://x.com/PollTracker2024/status/2078066648733376521
Ben Pershing
@benpershing
Truth Social will sell Wall Street firms quicker access to market-moving posts from President Donald Trump, the company said on Thursday.
https://x.com/benpershing/status/2077837791904272564
Melanie D’Arrigo
@DarrigoMelanie
Trump’s social media company is admitting that Trump’s social posts are designed to manipulate the stock market, so they are selling early access to these posts to profit from them.
Trump’s corruption has its own side-hustles of corruption.
https://x.com/DarrigoMelanie/status/2077864565342118362
Micah
@rincewind.run
cooked, low energy, things of that nature
in all seriousness: I’m not going to say we aren’t in trouble because we are obviously in trouble
but whining about the SAVE Act is not the act of someone with a coherent plan to steal the elections and when he tries it’s going to be a haphazard shitshow
https://bsky.app/profile/rincewind.run/post/3mqsmixvnqk22
Barron St John
@thedecoderring.bsky.social
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Over 50 Americans were indicted for interfering in the 2020 election. Not one was Chinese. Every single one worked for Donald Trump. Tonight he blamed Beijing. The Con is running full steam and the pattern is consistent. Read it here: barronstjohn.substack.com/p/the-call-is-always-coming-from-inside
https://bsky.app/profile/thedecoderring.bsky.social/post/3mqspmrkhls23
this needs to be an ad in Maine.
Period.
Question: Do you regret giving ICE more money, given the killings, including the one in your state?
Susan Collins:
Q: No regrets, Senator?
Collins: That money went to body cameras and training
Q: They didn’t wear cameras, though, did they Senator?
Collins:[image or embed]— Prem Thakker ツ (@premthakker.bsky.social) 11:15 AM · Jul 17, 2026
UH HUH
UH HUH
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com
Tom Homan: “It all go backs to the Dems … there’s still gonna be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth and let ICE enforce the laws that they enacted.”
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mqrfs7y66c23
The Senator from Georgia about his opponent’s son-in-law
Ossoff on Mike Collins’ son in law: “Has Mike Collins either personally or through his business or through his office or through his campaign paid this neo-Nazi, and is this neo-Nazi still based on Mike Collins’s property?”[image or embed]— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 5:15 PM · Jul 16, 2026
well well well
Sahil Kapur
@sahilkapur
Scoop: CBC-aligned PAC rolls out a new ad attacking Democrat William Lawrence in the MI-07 primary, going after his remarks on Black leaders and an establishment that “defangs the white left.” Rivals are Bridget Brink & Matt Maasdam. A key swing district. nbcnews.com/politics/trump…
https://x.com/sahilkapur/status/2077782071792075111
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
WARREN: How many of the enforcement actions and investigations that you’ve dropped were against companies that have donated to Trump?
VOUGHT: We’ve made every determination without regard to anything other than–
WARREN: That’s not my question and you know it. Here’s the ones we know of. Apple, Bank of America, Capital One, JP Morgan, Toyota, Walmart, Meta … more than 50 companies that we can document
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2077764947359002882
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
wow — Tillis eviscerates Vought about DOGE’s fake budget cuts, accusing him of “word salad answers” and tells him, “My understanding is the last time you worked in the business world was at B. Dalton’s books when you were putting yourself through law school … I don’t love the idea of DOGE shit we’re picking up because people did it wrong”
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2077804014180458679
The Bulwark
@BulwarkOnline
Sen. Alsobrooks slams Russ Vought: “I have to tell you, I couldn’t wait to get here on behalf of the 160,000 federal employees in my state. The actions taken toward our federal employees has been evil, absolutely evil, and it is the most galling aspect of what I regard as shameful tenure, at the OMB as director, has been your outright animosity and blatant hostility toward our federal workers.”
https://x.com/BulwarkOnline/status/2077789898073903400
This is big. The first vaccine tested to PREVENT pancreatic cancer in high-risk individuals
aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscov…[image or embed]— Eric Topol (@erictopol.bsky.social) 1:47 PM · Jul 16, 2026
Headquarters
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Sen. Cornyn: Is it your position that the weaponization fund is a ‘moot issue’?
Acting AG Todd Blanche: Yes, because it’s not moving forward.
Cornyn: But the settlement agreement remains as it was originally?
Blanche: Well… yes. I suppose if Trump’s counsel sought to enforce it, they could, including… including the weaponization fund.
https://x.com/HQNewsNow/status/2077750421142007856
Michelle Maxwell ™
RINO Removal Project
@MichelleMaxwell
🚨Please share this with the girls and women in your life. It could SAVE THEM if they experience this!
WARNING ⚠️:
Anyone with GIRLS… please read!! “Friday morning, Kelci was with a friend and had started getting, what she thought, was car sickness. Later, she had started to run a low grade fever. By the time we got home, it was 103.
When we got to the ER, they pushed two fluid bolus to try and raise her BP. And in the mean time, Kelci had started to turn red and they decided to transfer her to St. John’s Children’s Hospital in Springfield.
After lots of testing, 3 IVs, 1 arterial line and 1 central line and an extremely long night….we figured out what was wrong with our girl.
She had multiple organ failure. Our girl was dying. A parents worst nightmare. She had contracted Toxic Shock Syndrome, not from misuse of tampons, but because she wore one while swimming in the Lake at the Ozarks. The dirty water had absorbed through the string and the bacteria in the water caused Staph Infection, which led to the Toxic Shock Syndrome. She had also become septic (causing the shutdown).
Thank goodness her PICU Dr was able to recognize the red skin syndrome that is a sign of toxic shock.
The first night, our girl was hooked up to at least 5 antibiotics, pressers and still getting fluid bolus. The dr and 5 nurses stayed in her room from the time we got there Saturday, until 4:30am Sunday. They were wonderful!
She is still recovering, but drs say she will make a full recovery with no lasting effects to her organs or body!!”
**Shared with permission from Ashley Anthony
https://x.com/MichelleMaxwell/status/2077783127435440149
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Sahil Kapur
@sahilkapur
Scoop: CBC-aligned PAC rolls out a new ad attacking Democrat William Lawrence in the MI-07 primary, going after his remarks on Black leaders and an establishment that “defangs the white left.” Rivals are Bridget Brink & Matt Maasdam. A key swing district. nbcnews.com/politics/trump…
https://x.com/sahilkapur/status/2077782071792075111
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
Massie: “I don’t think the problem is that our elections aren’t secure because we control the House, Senate, White House, and to some degree we control the Supreme Court. So I ask my Republican colleagues, why are you complaining about election fraud? We won all the damn elections!”
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2077735995210883522
Headquarters
@HQNewsNow
Former Pardon Attorney: 2 days after Mr. Blanche was confirmed as Deputy Attorney General, he fired me from my position as a pardon attorney. I declined to rubber stamp a political favor for Trump’s friend and it cost me my job. Blanche sent US Marshals to my home in an effort to prevent me from speaking with members of Congress.
https://x.com/HQNewsNow/status/2077784370492940346
Marc E. Elias
@marceelias
🚨BREAKING: Kansas court BLOCKS law that disqualifies mail ballots that arrive after election day. Court restores three-day grace period for mail ballot return.
A huge victory for Elias Law Group, our clients and the voters of Kansas!
https://x.com/marceelias/status/2077768998574248370
The Lead CNN
@TheLeadCNN
‘If we don’t look with some professional skepticism at allegations then I think we’ve not done our duties,’ Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse told @jaketapper and added ‘when the allegations continue… you acknowledge that yes, there’s enough there to go forward. That’s the way prosecutors think. That’s the way I thought about this.’
https://x.com/TheLeadCNN/status/2077550284083966013
Magdi Jacobs
@magi_jay
People still don’t get how close Democrats came to a complete, unmitigated disaster. If the worst had come to pass for the party, Democrats who publicly minimized Lyndsey Fifield’s allegations in the NYT would have been partially responsible.
The GOP had a plan. They had Oppo on Platner–including assault allegations–and they planned to drop this Oppo in September, after the entire party latched themselves to the guy. Platner was gonna be their ace-in-the-hole.
I want to be clear about something: The Oppo the GOP has is *different* than what was vetted by the press. Lyndsey Fifield and Jenny Racicot were not giving their info to Republicans; they were giving their info to journalists. I wouldn’t be surprised if the GOP had gotten wind of their allegations, but, importantly, the GOP was *also* in possession of *other* info. Men like Platner are pathological in their behavior. This means they have multiple victims.
Meanwhile, Platner’s team was seeking to kill stories and intimidate everyone in Maine who spoke out. There are also allegations of pay-offs out there. (Perhaps @jaketapper can look into this if he hasn’t already).
Folks who knew about all of the above were desperate to get allegations out in the press BEFORE the June 9th primary. This includes myself.
Fifield was not politically motivated. She just wanted the truth to be known. Her allegations came out on June 4th. The NYT bungled the story in various ways, but the underlying allegations of domestic violence were serious. Tapper, to his credit, contacted Fifield immediately, perhaps noticing surface-level flaws in the reporting. (There were oddities).
Many Democrats did not take the allegations seriously. Worse, some, like Senator Whitehouse, actively derided Fifield, calling the allegations “unserious.” Fifield was relentlessly bullied online.
After this, I heard from many people: “Women are scared in Maine.” Again, the Platner team was running an intimidation ring. Maine is a “small” place in terms of population. A very hard environment to come forward in, particularly when up against a man like Platner.
Politico published Racicot’s allegations on July 6th, one week before the withdrawal deadline. The week prior, NBC news published a process story on Reckoning Action representing “multiple women” in Maine. Platner’s team fought to bury/delay these stories. People were terrified the stories were going to get killed.
This is what I want people to understand: There is a possible world in which Racicot’s story either did not come out or was delayed until after July 13th. In *that* world, the GOP gets a lot more power over the outcome. Platner’s team could kill stories in the press. They don’t have that power over the GOP.
If this had happened, there would have been multiple responsible parties, including Platner, Katz, the NYT, and, yes, Democrats like Whitehouse who created a permission structure to doubt and abuse Ms. Fifield. A permission structure that added to other victims’ hesitancy vis à vis coming forward.
When you hear about violence against women, you take it seriously. Failure to take it seriously almost led Democrats to total disaster. And, even though total disaster was mitigated, we’re still in a weaker position than we would have been if we’d taken Fifield seriously in early June. That’s a month of damage control we lost.
There are also more important considerations than politics. Ms. Fifield was publicly mistreated as a domestic violence victim, including by members of my own party. Domestic violence itself was minimized as “relationship toxicity.” This undoubtably had downstream effects, not just on the victims in this particular story, but also on victims everywhere.
Ms. Fifield acted with principle in this case. She didn’t give her story to the GOP in an attempt to strategically bring down Democrats. She gave her story to journalists because she wanted the truth to come out.
Ms. Fifield is owed an apology–not further smears from people in power.
Finally, again, I want folks to think of *everyone* who played a role in obstructing the truth, as well as how these actions could have easily exploded in the Democratic party’s face. If you follow the truth and act with principle, you will *always* find yourself in a better place than if you do otherwise.
It is frankly astonishing, given all of the above, that Jenny Racicot came forward at all. Also remarkable that Lyndsey Fifefield persevered. Very brave women who took great personal risk *regardless of politics* to get the truth out. Here, again, we owe a debt of gratitude to Reckoning Action. Likely to @jaketapper as well.
https://x.com/magi_jay/status/2077795046456541609
The Bulwark
@BulwarkOnline
Former DOJ Employee Elizabeth Oyer: “Mr. Blanche said yesterday that the settlement fund is dead. It is not. That is contract law 101. Mr. Trump or his sons could seek to enforce it at anytime.”
https://x.com/BulwarkOnline/status/2077762197548134508
🪷 A Harris Democrat✊🏾
@sephius1999
This is my view.
Israel has the right to exist.
Israelis should vote out Netanyahu and his cronies.
Palestine has the right to exist.
Palestinians need to KICK OUT the terrorists org Hamas and elect a pro-Democracy gov’t
These 2 things are NOT mutually exclusive
https://x.com/sephius1999/status/2077732163487715751
Michelle_BYoung
@michelle_byoung
This I think is the CONVENTIONAL view of MOST Democrats we’re just not the ones that are being listened to because the far left has hijacked the argument to make GAZA their pet issue and shout “genocide” at anyone who doesn’t agree with that
https://x.com/michelle_byoung/status/2077774431464649074
Headquarters
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Epstein survivor: The redactions are not the only problem with Todd Blanche’s nomination. Todd Blanche has never attempted to listen to us. Survivors in this room repeatedly asked to meet with Todd Blanche through multiple channels. He simply ignored us for the last 8 months. Blanche spent 9 hours meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell. He did not even spend 9 minutes meeting with the survivors.
https://x.com/HQNewsNow/status/2077766804194173300
Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸
@JudiciaryDems
BREAKING: Republican Sen. TILLIS indicates he will vote NO on Todd Blanche, ending his nomination in committee, unless Todd Blanche meets with Epstein survivors within two weeks.
3:40 PM · Jul 16, 2026
https://x.com/JudiciaryDems/status/2077780542557176128
You don’t say…..
(((robingillis)))✡🦁🐇🐱
@sweepybuns
I’ve noticed that whenever Stevens announces an endorsement from a Black leader, visits a Black church, posts a video from a Black pastor, etc. she has to turn off comments. She gets a massive amount of abuse and never turns them off any other posts. Says a lot about AES “fans.”
11:52 PM · Jul 15, 2026
https://x.com/sweepybuns/status/2077541804073701576
Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
ProPublica: Trump’s FCC Chairman Brendan Carr and fellow Republican commissioner Olivia Trusty received pricey gifts valued at tens of thousands of dollars from Paramount while the company had deals pending before the commission.
Among them, Carr and his wife sat in a private skybox at the Kennedy Center with David Ellison and other Paramount and CBS executives that are typically sold for $125,000 a ticket.
propublica.org/article/paramo…
https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/2077794178583437350
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Democracy Docket
@DemocracyDocket
ICE previously said it “found no responsive records” related to possible plans to deploy agents at the polls this fall, a tactic meant to intimidate voters and influence election outcomes.
The reality? ICE may have thousands of relevant documents — and hasn’t produced a single one. demdock.com/3T42TnI
https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/2077740144455549434
FactPost
@factpostnews
Vivek Ramaswamy argues that Black Americans were better off in the 1960s during Jim Crow and calls affirmative action “a form of psychological slavery” that is a “cancer on our nation’s soul”
https://x.com/factpostnews/status/2077473823633420660
🪷 A Harris Democrat✊🏾
@sephius1999
Immigrant families coming to America, wanting to be white-adjacent, are confirming the original sin of America.
They see what’s happening to Blk ppl and don’t want it for themselves, so they want “just” Blk ppl go back to live under Jim Crow so they don’t have to compete with us
https://x.com/sephius1999/status/2077756186590376418
Jemele Hill
@jemelehill
In 1960:
— Black poverty rate was 55 percent (overall poverty rate was 22 percent).
— Black unemployment rate was 12.4 percent (twice as high as white people)
— Only about 4 percent of Black people had a college degree.
I don’t have to explain the indignities and the violence that Black Americans suffered under Jim Crow.
He is saying that affirmative action was worse than that.
Clown is too good of a word for him.
https://x.com/jemelehill/status/2077755837335126320
Headquarters
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Sen. @CoryBooker: How do you feel knowing that the deputy AG Todd Blanche went to meet Ghislaine Maxwell and then gave her a cushy transfer, while he would not meet with you?
Epstein survivor: It’s devastating. I’d like to add to that that another survivor wrote a letter to Todd Blanche after that and requested a meeting with him, and she’s never heard anything back at all.
https://x.com/HQNewsNow/status/2077798711359410515
BMB Empower Network
@Bmbempower
🏠✊🏾 YOU CAN’T JUST DECLARE AMERICA “COLORBLIND” AND MAKE RACIAL DISCRIMINATION DISAPPEAR.
Christian Menefee highlighted a reality facing Black homeowners: Your home can be one of your family’s greatest sources of wealth—yet racial bias in the appraisal process can affect how that wealth is valued.
That’s why the Biden administration created the PAVE Task Force, strengthened the process for challenging questionable appraisals, expanded fair-housing protections, and worked to combat racial bias in home valuations. With Trump back in office, all the progress that directly impacted Black Americans has been undone.
This is bigger than the price of a house.
It’s about home equity. Refinancing. Generational wealth. The racial wealth gap.
If racial bias can still influence the value placed on a Black family’s biggest asset, then simply saying America is “colorblind” doesn’t solve the problem.
Ignoring race doesn’t end discrimination. Addressing discrimination does.
#BlackHomeownership #GenerationalWealth #RacialWealthGap #FairHousing #AppraisalBias #ChristianMenefee #trump #BlackAmericans
https://x.com/Bmbempower/status/2077770363606389003
🪷 A Harris Democrat✊🏾
@sephius1999
People don’t like Socialism and Republicans know that.
Don’t mistake ppl being tired of Trump with ppl accepting socialism. They’ll still vote Republican is you give them an easy out.
SO DON’T GIVE THEM AN EASY OUT!!!
https://x.com/sephius1999/status/2077770939006075142
uh huh
uh huh
The Bulwark
@BulwarkOnline
Sen. Alsobrooks: “You continue to traumatize them this fall by issuing a memo, directing agencies to prepare for mass firings…They were lining up in these hallways…many of them in tears.”
Vought: “You shouldn’t have shut the government down for more than 2 months on 2 separate occasions.”
Sen. Alsobrooks: “I will not fall for the Jedi mind trick when the Republicans have the keys to the kingdom.”
https://x.com/BulwarkOnline/status/2077790524572905724
Headquarters
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Sen. @DickDurbin: I kind of understood going into public life that if you wanted to get rich, this was the wrong job. How did Trump do in his 2nd term? $1.4 billion to his income from cryptocurrency. Mr. Blanche changed the federal regulation of cryptocurrency. To generate a $1.4 billion windfall for the president and money for the acting Attorney General is just plain wrong.
https://x.com/HQNewsNow/status/2077748884839825571
Joyce Alene
@JoyceWhiteVance
Senators don’t need to know anything more than what they saw yesterday to know Blanche is not fit to be AG. It was a long day of questions, but juxtaposing a few of them, which I’ve done in this piece, makes that clear. joycevance.substack.com/p/mr-blanche-g…
https://x.com/JoyceWhiteVance/status/2077736496484831261
The Bulwark
@BulwarkOnline
Sen Warner: “You said in your writings that you wanted to traumatize the federal workforce…Give yourself a grade on how much trauma you’ve brought to the federal workforce.”
Vought: “I think we’ve done an incredible job in running the CFPB.”
Sen. Warner: “Don’t use bureaucratic mumbo jumbo. Did you get an A, a B, a C, or did you fail? With your goal of traumatizing and undermining the federal workforce…I think you did a pretty damn good job.”
https://x.com/BulwarkOnline/status/2077771324806631538
Brian Allen
@allenanalysis
BREAKING: Rep. Thomas Massie has introduced the Epstein Files Transparency Act II, legislation that would give state attorneys general access to the Epstein files and authorize them to prosecute alleged Epstein associates under state law where applicable.
10:47 PM · Jul 15, 2026
https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/2077525532527190490
Because, of course….
Emma Uber
@EmmaUber7
NEW: The rare copies of the Emancipation Proclamation and 13th Amendment are being pulled from a new exhibit under the Lincoln Memorial after exposure to unsafe temperatures.
This follows my reporting yesterday on the exhibit’s conditions. @CityCast_DC
https://x.com/EmmaUber7/status/2077767235146338484
Joe Walsh
@WalshFreedom
Susan Collins may have just walked into the biggest political liability of her career.
PAXIS.app explains: This week’s ICE killing in Maine transformed immigration from a border issue into a hometown tragedy. The man killed was not the person agents were seeking, and the agents were masked, driving unmarked cars and not wearing body cameras, all the hallmarks of a gang trying to carjack you.
PAXIS helps immigrants and allies prepare for ICE encounters and deal with the consequences: GoFundMe.com/PAXIS
Now Collins owns the politics of it. As chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, she played a significant role in funding and expanding ICE.
Maine voters are rightly linking her to an agency associated with what looks more like a gang killing targeting nonwhite residents, with no accountability. The moderate brand that kept her in office for decades has unraveled.
https://x.com/WalshFreedom/status/2077407043678531635
FYI
𝓝𝓲𝓴𝓴𝓲 𝓑𝓪𝓻𝓷𝓮𝓼
@NikkiBarnes
🚨ATTENTION FLORIDA VOTERS:
Florida is a closed primary state. If you plan to vote in the August 18 primary for partisan races, you must be registered with that political party.
The deadline to register to vote or change your party affiliation is MONDAY, JULY 20.
Check your voter registration status and make any necessary updates here:
registertovoteflorida.gov/home
Do not wait until Election Day to find out your registration is not what you expected. Check it now.
2:46 PM · Jul 16, 2026
https://x.com/NikkiBarnes/status/2077766778143289392
This poor child :(
IG: olesoul57.2 ♉️ 5/12
@olesoul57_2
“Honor-roll student and Sachse High senior Daniel Erving left home to go fishing with friends and was found dead in Lake Ray Hubbard days later. A 19-yo has been charged with tampering with evidence with intent to impair in connection with the investigation. Another family is sadly left seeking answers after their loved one’s questionable death.“
https://x.com/olesoul57_2/status/2077131136095207456
Democracy Docket
@DemocracyDocket
⚠️ Trump’s DOJ wants to force a purge of nearly 1 million voters in California.
The push is happening against the backdrop of Trump’s crusade to seize statewide voter rolls — an effort that currently has a winless 0-15 record.
Here’s what will happen next: demdock.com/4vC6gzD
https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/2077581496840270037
Knew it the moment I stepped out my door this morning.
Colin McCarthy
@US_Stormwatch
BREAKING: Due to Canadian wildfire smoke, Detroit, Chicago and Minneapolis now represent 3 of the 4 worst major cities for air quality on the entire planet.
https://x.com/US_Stormwatch/status/2077764090030850383
Acyn
@Acyn
Blumenthal: As Trump’s personal henchman, Blanche could put agents at the polls to intimidate voters and maybe even turn them away. He can subpoena voter rolls. He can subvert democracy.
The powers of the attorney general are so far-reaching, with tentacles reaching into other agencies at the federal and local levels. He can issue directives that affect state and local law enforcement.
https://x.com/Acyn/status/2077537440924102686
Brian Allen
@allenanalysis
BREAKING: The House has passed the SAVE America Act by a 217–209 vote after attaching it to the National Defense Authorization Act.
The package includes voter ID provisions and now heads to the Senate, where it faces another high-stakes fight over election law and defense spending after House Republicans bundled the two measures together.
10:01 PM · Jul 15, 2026
https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/2077513951336657359
Carol Leonnig
@CarolLeonnig
EXCLUSIVE — VP arranged for his elementary school son to be flown in a military helicopter — for a golf lesson across town. @SecretService detail is getting “fed up” with Vance family entitled protection expectations and last minute travel
W @VaughnHillyard
ms.now/news/veeps-sec…
https://x.com/CarolLeonnig/status/2077493754760712635
Tara Setmayer 🌻 🇺🇸
@TaraSetmayer
I don’t want to hear anything about “waste, fraud & abuse” from Vance while he’s taking his kid to golf lessons aboard Marine Two at $20k+ an hour paid for by taxpayers.
While Americans struggle this administration keeps robbing us blind. THEY DON’T CARE.
https://x.com/TaraSetmayer/status/2077736570031915190
Miles Taylor
@MilesTaylorUSA
When I was in first administration, Trump wanted to “wiretap” White House aides because people were talking behind his back.
Now they’re actually seizing the phones of White House staff.
The dictator is getting nervous, folks.
10:31 PM · Jul 15, 2026
https://x.com/MilesTaylorUSA/status/2077521558742962346
DA PHUCK???!?
philip lewis
@Phil_Lewis_
A man broke into the “Today” show’s studio in New York City looking for Al Roker, confronting Craig Melvin and yelling racist slurs
https://x.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/2077798490088824949
Democracy Docket
@DemocracyDocket
WIN: A federal court refused to block three provisions in Arizona’s Elections Procedures Manual aimed at preventing voter intimidation at polling places.
Bans on electioneering, aggressive behavior and frivolous voter challenges will remain in effect.
https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/2077761581484564738
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
Sen. Alsobrooks tells Vought “I have been waiting for the opportunity to come face to face with you” and repeatedly calls his actions “depraved” and “evil”
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2077802308105019633
Jeremy
Spump.io
@jeremyct
My wife and I got into it last night about the grocery bill.
I pulled up an old Target order from February 2020.
28 items. $64.50.
Added every single one back to the cart just to see.
$158.30.
Same 28 items. Same store. Same cart.
$93.80 more.
In five years.
We didn’t buy more.
Didn’t upgrade anything.
Didn’t add a single extra item.
Just needed the same things we always needed.
They told us inflation was transitory. They told us it was under control. They told us the economy was strong.
Our cart didn’t get any of those memos.
145% increase in five years.
Not one member of Congress has looked at a grocery receipt in decades.
https://x.com/jeremyct/status/2077629748990095696
Because, of course…
Ken Paxton recently bought 3 Utah luxury condos worth $1.6 million. He then put them in a blind trust that shares an address with the Dallas home he appears to be sharing with a woman who is not his wife.[image or embed]— Robert Downen (@robertdownen.bsky.social) 11:31 AM · Jul 16, 2026
Andy Kaczynski
@kfile.bsky.social
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NEW: Senate candidate Mike Collins son-in-law—featured in campaign photos, registered to vote at a Collins-owned property and appearing to do work for his company— is a white nationalist influence who has promoted Nazi imagery and called for clearing America of minorities
http://www.cnn.com/2026/07/16/p...
https://bsky.app/profile/kfile.bsky.social/post/3mqr76robbk24
Political Polls
@PpollingNumbers
Rep. Jim Clyburn (D SC) endorses Haley Stevens in the Michigan Democratic Senate primary.
Haley Stevens
@haleyformi.bsky.social
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It’s an honor to be endorsed by the great Jim Clyburn!
As a civil rights leader and lifelong champion for working people, Rep. Clyburn is a steadfast fighter for voting rights, workers’ rights, and affordability for all. I’m proud to have Rep. Clyburn on Team Stevens!
https://bsky.app/profile/haleyformi.bsky.social/post/3mqr54ils472b
UH HUH
UH HUH
Miss Aja
@brat2381.bsky.social
Folks are mad that Haley Stevens made the Black Community a priority for 3 reasons.
1. It’s all fun & games until the Bernie & DSA bs has to win in actual swing states & swing districts.
2. She’s elevating Black Voices & Black Experiences
3. It shows a lot of us are pissed about the 2024 bs.
3:45 PM · Jul 15, 2026
https://bsky.app/profile/brat2381.bsky.social/post/3mqpln6q55k2o
GOP Ls
@GOP__Ls
🚨 The North Carolina Republican Party is now under fire after their plot to mass close polling locations in black communities has been exposed.
https://x.com/GOP__Ls/status/2077449380475347123
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com
TINA SMITH: Researchers in MN made a breakthrough in childhood cancer in Black kids with a grant. But it seems that according to your proposed rule, this type of research wouldn’t allowed bc it’s ‘DEI.’
VOUGHT: We are against DEI policies. We have intended to rid of them whenever we possibly can.
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mqrknjmjoc24
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊