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DHS Secretary Confirmation Clashes

• 🔥 Rand Paul accuses Mullin of anger issues: Republican Sen. Rand Paul accused Homeland Security secretary...

• Schumer, Klobuchar, Padilla unite in Senate to attack Trump's Save America Act, warning of major voter implications
• Bill risks targeting voters...

Tensions boil in Mullin's confirmation hearing:

• Dem grilling: Hassan demands loyalty to law over president; Mullin vows Constitution
• ICE &...

Jefferson County clerk Yates challenges DOJ's push for unredacted voter lists, arguing it violates state law and risks sensitive personal information – spotlighting federal-state clashes over election data privacy.

Trend alert: Supreme Court intervening months before midterms on state election rules.

• Mail-in ballots: Docket case on deadlines, potentially...

Heather Cox Richardson's latest Politics Chat video addresses key questions:

• First Amendment protections for media amid Supreme Court dynamics
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• SCOTUS immunity framework: Ruled in Trump v. United States dividing actions into absolute, presumptive, and no immunity categories, impacting...

Major red flag for election integrity: David Harvilicz, Trump's DHS official overseeing elections infrastructure, demands banning voting machines for...

State accountability bites hard: NY judge slaps Trump with $454M civil fraud penalty for inflating assets to secure loans/insurance, accruing $114K...

Suppressed intel reveals Chinese efforts to meddle in U.S. elections as early as 2020, per a National Intelligence Council report.

• Konnech scandal:...

SAVE Act Senate Showdown

• 🔥 Brennan Center Warning: The SAVE Act comes before the Senate and could block more than 21 million Americans from...

SAVE Act advances in Senate amid fierce progressive pushback:

• Sen. Reed slams it as ultra-partisan voting suppression jammed through at Trump's...

• GOP priority push: Trump's #1 SAVE America Act, overhauling federal voting rules, faces Tuesday Senate vote – Dems plan full block.
• Rights...

Trump scores an epic court loss against CNN in his defamation lawsuit, dubbed a devastating ruling—even as he brags about dominating the media. Another rebuke to his media attacks.

Federal judge halts Trump admin's push to force Colorado into SNAP pilot requiring 100,000 recipients in five metro counties to recertify. Key judicial check against executive overreach harming working-class aid.

Urgent Voter Purge and State Defenses

• ⚡ NC Board of Elections Mass Purge: North Carolina State Board of Elections is attempting new rules for...

Litigation accelerates on mail-in ballot rules:

• Four election integrity groups filed an amicus brief
• Supporting case to end post-Election Day ballot counting
• Requests Supreme Court not allow state laws permitting it

Multi-front GOP push risks mass disenfranchisement via unreliable SAVE database, despite vanishingly rare noncitizen voting (99 cases since 1982;...

• Gov. Bob Ferguson signs SB 6084 Tuesday, clarifying double voting as class C felony—even across states on same date.
• Overwhelming passage: Senate...

Timeline of Trump executive push on Fed independence:

• Judge blocks subpoenas: Boasberg halts DOJ probe into Powell's Fed HQ renovations, citing no...