Trump’s latest attack on American democracy relies on an old tactic. Throughout his second administration — and even dating back to his first — Trump appointees have laundered documents they claim prove Democratic and “deep state” malfeasance through credulous right-wing outlets, counting on MAGA media to amplify their conspiracy theories and hoping that mainstream outlets would pick them up as well. Now they’re applying the same playbook to election denial.

On Thursday night, Trump plans to use a White House address to relitigate his Big Lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him. While details are sparse, reports suggest he could use declassified intelligence documents to accuse China and Venezuela of election interference and target the 2020 Senate elections in Georgia. Allies in the election denial community have suggested such claims could be used as a "predicate" to declare a “national emergency” that would justify an executive order implementing voter suppression policies by fiat.

Right-wing journalist John Solomon and Trump crony Bill Pulte, recently installed by the president at the White House and as acting director of national intelligence, respectively, are reportedly leading the effort to scrounge up the documents Trump will use to make his case — and taking those records out of context to support his conspiracy theories (“They try to put bits and pieces together and then make these conclusions,” one administration official told MS NOW).

The New York Times journalist Jonathan Swan has spent the past 11 years covering President Trump through three political campaigns, his first, and now second, term in office and the ongoing war with Iran. Swan says aside from the COVID-19 pandemic, he can't remember a time where Trump looked "as stuck as he looks right now."

"It's pretty clear he realizes that this war [with Iran] has not gone well, has not played out the way that Netanyahu pitched him or that Trump himself thought [it] would play out," Swan says. "Trump is someone who is naturally given to hubris, but I think we saw a very extreme version of that with this war."

Swan and his co-author Maggie Haberman spoke with more than 1,000 sources for their new book, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump. The book paints a picture of an unrestrained president remaking the American government and its international relations in profound ways.

The White House has found a novel way to ensure Donald Trump’s nominees ascend to power.

Federal judges in the Western District of Washington swore in former King County Superior Court Judge Roger Rogoff as U.S. attorney Wednesday morning. Within 54 minutes, Trump fired him.

The district’s 17 federal judges have been trying to find a replacement for Seattle’s First Assistant U.S. Attorney Neil Floyd, after Trump failed to formally nominate him. Floyd was appointed in October, though his name was never officially advanced to the Senate for consideration.

Federal law grants a district’s judges the power to appoint a U.S. attorney if the president and the acting attorney general fail to do so within 120 days, subsequently stonewalling the procedural Senate hearings.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/50092776

American imperialism wages war abroad to subjugate Iran. It wages the war at home against the class that must pay for it and whose opposition must be broken.

The Department of Justice wants to intervene in a lawsuit to force a massive voter roll purge in California.

Tom Fitton, the president of the far-right legal group Judicial Watch, boasted on social media Wednesday that the DOJ seeks to “clean nearly 1 million dirty voter names from California’s voter rolls” after the department filed its motion to intervene as a plaintiff Monday.

Judicial Watch has led the charge in seeking to purge voter rolls in Oregon, Colorado, Kentucky and New York.

The motion comes nearly two months after Judicial Watch filed its initial complaint, arguing the state has not made a “reasonable effort” to purge the names of voters who have moved out of state, in accordance with Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA).

Republicans seem to view Francesca Hong as their weakest opponent in a general election. They are spending $2.2 million in an apparent attempt to aid her primary campaign.

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.

Some Democrats in the state have fretted over the prospect that Ms. Hong, a democratic socialist with unabashedly left-wing views in a distinctly purple state, might advance out of a crowded August primary — and then deliver the governor’s mansion to Representative Tom Tiffany, the likely Republican nominee, in November.

Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed released his 2025 federal tax return Wednesday, following weeks of pressure from primary rival U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.).

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aI4HmuW4EmMR0y9JDZ_l-3P2Np51p4z0/view

Numbers from Hill article:

According to the return, a joint filing with his wife, Sarah Jukaku, El-Sayed’s reported total income for 2025 was $686,069 and adjusted gross income was $675,246. The couple reported $130,749 in wages, $262,299 in capital gains and $292,881 in additional income reported on Schedule 1.

They reported a total federal tax of $134,942 and a refund of $6,122. The campaign said the capital gains tax stems from the sale of a property that Jukaku’s parents had bought in their names, along with their children, and the additional income is from El-Sayed’s podcast and Jukaku’s medical practice.

The return does not establish net worth, which measures assets rather than income. El-Sayed’s June 2025 financial disclosure estimated his net worth at between $580,000 and $1.7 million.

Stevens’ 2025 tax return shows an adjusted gross income of $169,970.

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/64890

A slim majority of voting Democrats defied leader Jeffries, backing failed Massie amendment to cut $3.3 billion

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This raises prices for people because they're now competing with datacenters to buy electricity

Journalists were subpoenaed by previous administrations, and they stood by their sources

unfortunately he'll still be in government....