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One Year In, Trump's Data Center Order Is Costing Communities Dearly

Aug 25, 2026 · 6 min read
Americans are transferring their money to Trump
Federal

Since Trump Took Office: Beef Up 24%, Diesel Up 41%, Debt Up $3.7 Trillion

A line-by-line ledger of what has changed since January 20, 2025. Every figure is linked, most of them to the government's own servers, and the ones that cut against the argument are printed too.

Aug 25, 2026 · 30 min read
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Money

Trump's Regulator Just Approved Trump's Bank. The Paperwork Says That's Fine.

A Trump-appointed regulator approved a bank charter for a company the president's family owns a stake in, and ruled that every question about the conflict fell outside its jurisdiction.

Aug 25, 2026 · 8 min read
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Federal

Never Big on Facts, Ted Cruz Pushes a Debunked Miscarriage Stat

Ted Cruz claimed COVID vaccines caused an 82% miscarriage rate, then deleted the post. The real rate among vaccinated women was 12.6%. Among unvaccinated women, it was about the same. The thing that did raise pregnancy loss was catching COVID.

Aug 25, 2026 · 12 min read
Rows of empty voting booths in a polling place, with a line of silhouetted figures in suits standing along the back wall watching them, their long shadows stretching across the floor.
Elections

DOJ Plans Record 1,000 Election Monitors as Its Voter Fraud Cases Collapse

The Justice Department says it will deploy about 1,000 election monitors in November. The Civil Rights Division running the program is a fraction of that size, and its voter-fraud litigation has lost every case decided so far.

Aug 25, 2026 · 7 min read
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Economy

Vance Says Young People Can Buy Homes Again. Census Data Says Otherwise

Vice President JD Vance told an Ohio crowd that homeownership is "accessible again to our young people." Federal data released three weeks earlier shows the under-35 ownership rate falling to 35.2 percent.

Aug 25, 2026 · 11 min read
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Federal

She Pocketed a Slain Officer's Statue Fund. Trump Pardoned Her

Michele Fiore raised $70,000 for a slain officer's statue and spent it on herself, prosecutors proved. Trump's pardon wiped her conviction, and joins a long roster of fraud clemencies.

Aug 14, 2026 · 6 min read
A brass scale of justice tips violently out of balance: one pan holds a thin stack of papers while the other overflows with gold coins, set against a shadowed presidential seal carved in dark wood paneling.
Money

He Called the Bidens Corrupt. Then He Made $2.2 Billion in One Year.

Republicans spent four years calling the Bidens a crime family over foreign payments they never proved were illegal. Trump reported $2.2 billion in 2025 revenues, much of it from the same foreign interests he regulates.

Aug 14, 2026 · 9 min read
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Federal

The People Rewriting Your Child's Vaccine Schedule Admit They Have No Evidence

Trump signed an order to overhaul childhood vaccines, called the MMR shot "quite lethal," then admitted on camera he had no evidence — a one-word confession of unqualified policymaking.

Aug 13, 2026 · 5 min read
Lauren Boebert learns what happens when you don't play the devil's game
Federal

Five Felonies, Thirty Months Later: The Boebert Case and the Retribution Question

Tyler Boebert's charges describe a video made when he was 18 and the girl was 17. The case sat for thirty months, then came alive after Lauren Boebert defied Trump on the Epstein files and mocked his defunding of Colorado. Coincidence deserves proof.

Aug 13, 2026 · 10 min read
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Rights

The GOP's Problem With The Constitution

Nancy Mace's call to bar Muslims from office joins a documented pattern: courts have repeatedly found Trump-era actions violating the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments.

Aug 13, 2026 · 5 min read
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Federal

Sworn In Saturday, Breaking Promises by Monday: Todd Blanche's First Days as AG

Hours after being sworn in, AG Todd Blanche's DOJ issued a memo expanding Trump's executive privilege — after senators confirmed him on promises of restraint. His record with Ghislaine Maxwell suggested this all along.

Aug 12, 2026 · 6 min read
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Federal

Trump's Defense Lawyer Runs the DOJ — and He's the One Who Moved Ghislaine Maxwell

Todd Blanche, Trump's former criminal defense attorney and now attorney general, personally interviewed Ghislaine Maxwell — and days later she was moved to a cushy prison camp, against BOP policy.

Aug 12, 2026 · 7 min read
Another Trump appointee proves he's not qualified for his job
Federal

The Fauci Texts Show Science Working. The NIH Director Calls That 'Shocking'

The GOP's release of 11 Fauci texts shows a scientist weighing evidence in real time. The Trump-appointed NIH director's "shocking" framing is the real story.

Aug 12, 2026 · 5 min read
Meghan McCain wants in on the grift
Federal

Meghan McCain Wants Fauci Jailed Over a Text That Shows Science Working

Meghan McCain demanded Fauci be jailed over a 2021 text flagging a theoretical miscarriage risk. In 2021 she wanted him fired for delivering the vaccine too slowly, got both doses while not pregnant, then pivoted to selling an $89.99 vaccine "detox."

Aug 12, 2026 · 8 min read
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Elections

Trump Won't Rule Out 'National Security Emergency' to Restrict Voting in Midterms

Trump declined to rule out declaring a "national security emergency for elections" to impose voter ID and mail-in ballot limits without Congress — a power no president has ever claimed.

Aug 12, 2026 · 5 min read
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Federal

Hegseth Cut the Flu Shot Mandate for "Readiness." The Military Just Restored It.

Hegseth made the military flu shot optional in April, calling mandates a threat to readiness. By June 24, the services reinstated it for all recruits after a Lackland outbreak hit 275 cases.

Jul 1, 2026 · 5 min read
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Federal

Rep. Gary Palmer Voted Against the Infrastructure Law, Then Took Credit for Its Funding

Rep. Gary Palmer voted against the 2021 infrastructure law, then issued a release on signing day taking credit for $369 million it directed to a highway in his Alabama district.

Jun 2, 2026 · 2 min read