Liz Oyer was fired for refusing to recommend restoring gun rights to Trump ally Mel Gibson. Her Senate testimony isn't just about one official — it's a documented account of how the DOJ is being rebuilt to punish independence and reward compliance.
The State Department's Cuba security report doesn't document a foreign threat — it names American activists, labor organizers, and journalists who criticized U.S. policy. That's not intelligence. It's a blacklist.
The CLARITY Act would curb Trump's crypto self-dealing. The moderate Democrats backing it are also cashing checks from the industry they'd constrain — exposing a donor dependency that makes the party's anti-corruption posture largely ceremonial.
Pete Hegseth proposed $340 billion in Pentagon cuts in February. The plan vanished without explanation. Now he wants a 44% budget increase to WWII-era spending levels — while gutting diversity programs and leaving contractor revenue untouched.
Residential electricity costs have risen 18 percent since January 2025 as the administration's self-imposed 18-month deadline to cut bills in half came and went. The trade war, AI datacenter expansion, and renewable energy cancellations didn't just fail to lower prices — they were structurally guara
Initiative 645 has cleared Washington's signature threshold, putting the state's new millionaires tax on the November ballot. The repeal campaign reveals how organized wealth uses direct democracy as a veto on redistributive legislation.
The company suspected in a cyclospora outbreak gave $2.2 million to GOP infrastructure — including $1 million to a Trump-aligned PAC days after the administration delayed the food tracing rule it would have been required to follow. Thousands are now sick.
New Mexico AG Raúl Torrez says the DOJ is withholding unredacted Epstein files from the only active criminal investigation into his network. The federal government says it's following the law. The deadline to explain that position expires July 31.
A 50-46 party-line Senate vote preserved the Trump administration's AI-driven Medicare coverage review program. Every Republican voted to keep algorithms — operated by private contractors — between seniors and their care.
A White House teleprompter operator allegedly used advance knowledge of Trump's speeches to win more than $100,000 on prediction markets. The CFTC is investigating — and the case exposes a structural vulnerability the industry's self-regulatory claims cannot explain away.
A new DHS rule cuts foreign journalist visas to 240 days and imposes stricter limits on Chinese reporters. The policy doesn't ban coverage — it makes sustained accountability journalism operationally impossible for a targeted class of reporters, while giving the government plausible deniability abou
Two-thirds of Rep. Shri Thanedar's campaign cash came through AIPAC bundlers, according to The Intercept — a financial architecture that makes his $600K crypto loss secondary to the deeper question of whose interests a 67-percent-AIPAC-funded congressman actually represents.
The split between Hakeem Jeffries and Katherine Clark on the Massie Israel aid amendment is the news. The bigger story is that House Democratic leadership no longer has the institutional capacity to hold a coherent position on Israel — and has no policy alternative to offer.
Todd Blanche's refusal to rule out armed federal agents at polling places isn't ambiguity — it's a roadmap. The administration has already deployed agents near voting sites in Texas and California. The only thing standing between that precedent and November is a set of pending lawsuits.
FCC Chair Brendan Carr is moving to eliminate a TV ownership cap that Congress wrote into law specifically to stop the FCC from changing it. The companies positioned to benefit are already in the middle of a federal lawsuit over the same rule.
The Election Assistance Commission — the only federal body that certifies voting machines — has lost its last independent Democratic members. The 2026 midterms are 16 months away.