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

Executive Order 14318 promised a "golden age" of AI infrastructure. A year later, ratepayers are footing billions while environmental review is stripped away.

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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
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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
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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
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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