Famous Words They Wish They Never Uttered

Trump’s… “Pretend I’m on the ballot!”

People did!

 

Read What He Said

Read what this legislator said. It's really amazing what he admitted to in his anger.

Texas state rep calls on Abbott to curb Hinojosa’s power before inauguration

The Hill

by Ryan Mancini

11/04/26

Texas state Rep. Brian Harrison (R) on Wednesday called on Gov. Greg Abbott (R) to curb Gov.-elect Gina Hinojosa’s (D) power before she is sworn in next year.

“We still have total power in Texas, and we must act like it by using the remaining ten weeks to restore separation of powers and limit the emergency powers that Governor-Elect Hinojosa is set to inherit, which would allow her to destroy liberty in Texas by executive fiat,” Harrison wrote in a lengthy post on the social platform X.

Hold it right there! “We still have total power in Texas!" Total power?

Harrison wrote that Hinojosa should not have “unchecked emergency powers” and that “the urgency is undeniable… and inaction is intolerable.” He claimed that Hinojosa will “inherit the powers of a DICTATOR.”

“Due to the absurd (and almost certainly unconstitutional) Texas emergency powers laws, Gov. Hinojosa will literally have the power to modify laws, ignore laws, or create and enforce laws – including criminal laws – on a whim!” Harrison said.

So, are you saying that right now you have the powers of a dictator?

Hinojosa will likely enter her new role with more powers than anticipated on the campaign trail, The Houston Chronicle reported. She could also face roadblocks, as Texas Republicans have vowed to “hold the line” against the state Democrat’s agenda.

So, the people chose Governor-elect Hinojosa, and the Republicans are pissed. Now they want to ignore the will of the people and hamstring the governor.

The strong night for Democrats in Texas did not apply solely to Hinojosa and Sen.-elect James Talarico (D-Texas), as Democratic state Rep. Vikki Goodwin defeated Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R), and Democrats won the races for state attorney general, comptroller, railroad commissioner and agriculture commissioner.

Democrats also won the Texas state House, concluding the 24-year run Republicans held in both state Legislature chambers.

Yup! The Republicans are doing everything they can to sabotage the will of the voters!

Democrats seize power in Texas, ending decades of GOP dominance

Texas’ governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and every other statewide candidate fell, upending the state’s political power structure in one night.

Texan Triburne

By Eleanor Klibanoff

Nov. 4, 2026

Everything has changed.

A blue tsunami of epic proportions swept through Texas Tuesday night, decimating the largest, most influential red state and ending the longest statewide shutout of any political party in the country. Democrats up and down the ticket, buoyed by national anger toward President Donald Trump, won seats they haven’t been viable contenders for in decades despite historic spending from their opponents.

Gov. Greg Abbott, the most powerful and well-resourced governor in modern Texas history, was unseated by Gina Hinojosa. Attorney General Ken Paxton, who in past elections cast off impeachment, indictment and infidelities, fell to James Talarico in his bid for the U.S. Senate. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, the iron-fisted ruler of the Texas Senate, went down to a little known state representative. Republicans lost the attorney general’s office, one of the most influential conservative legal positions in the country. The new congressional map Republicans drew yielded them no gains — in fact, they lost one seat overall.

Even with all their cheating and gerrymandering, they lost! And now they want to cripple the Democrats.

First, both sides will have to emerge from what seems to be a collective shell shock gripping the governing class of the Lone Star State.

In true Texan style they circle the wagons!

“No one ever thought he would be even close to losing. No one thought it. No one talked about it,” said Brendan Steinhauser, a GOP consultant. “He was a rock solid candidate and that tells me this is about something bigger than the candidates we put up or the races they ran.”

So, what does that tell me? After 30 years of Republican control, they now want to subvert the will of the people!

Texas Republicans should hope that this election was decided by a lot of Republicans choosing to stay home, or even cross party lines, in rejection of Trump, Steinhauser said. The only other alternative would be that the state suddenly found a whole lot more Democratic voters, which would make these victories more durable in the future.

No! After 30 years, the people finally woke up!

Like a wounded animal turning on itself, the Texas Republican Party is now looking for someone to blame. In the process, they're devouring their own.

One guy, at least, believes the Texas GOP’s loyalty to Trump is not to blame for Tuesday’s results. In fact, he’s blaming Texas Republicans for not being MAGA enough.

“If Greg Abbott, the Governor of Texas, hadn’t become a RINO in the last six months of his Political Life, he wouldn’t have lost,” Trump posted on social media Tuesday night. “He went back to his original formula, and it wasn’t pretty!”

Sen. Bryan Hughes, you just keep thinking that! Go on and attack your fellow Republicans! You have your blinders on, and that's exactly why they lost. They tried to appease the far right and failed to see that voters were fed up with MAGA, woke politics, ICE, and, most of all... Trump!

And now they're trying to sabotage the duly elected governor!

A Has Been? A Flash In The Pan?

The $64,000 question is will they change their ways? Will Republicans in Congress stand up to Trump. Has his gold leaf started to peel?

Trump-backed Republicans lose dozens of US midterm races, raising questions over his influence

Guardian analysis shows how tumbling approval ratings may have hurt candidates backed by US president

The Guardian

Ariana Baio in Washington

Thu 5 Nov 2026 

Dozens of Republican candidates directly endorsed by Donald Trump lost their US midterm election races, according to analysis by the Guardian, raising questions over the power of the president’s support.

In past elections, Trump’s endorsements have been coveted. In the final stages of this year’s campaign, he actively urged voters to act as though he were on the ballot.

But just half of the 26 candidates Trump endorsed for the US Senate had won their elections as of Wednesday at 5pm ET, according to a Guardian tally.

Of the 23 candidates for state governor endorsed by Trump, only nine had won their elections. Twelve were defeated, with two races still to be called.

Has Trump endorsements turned to a Jonah?

The US president’s base has been loyal to his choices. In 2022, approximately 82% of candidates endorsed by Trump went on to win their race, according to the New York Times.

While some races still have yet to be called, his endorsement appears to have had a weaker impact on candidates’ prospects in this year’s midterms. The US president’s handpicked candidates running in closely watched races failed to resonate with conservative voters, even in deeply red states.

Is Trump's endorsements become the "Touch of Death?"

The US president’s gubernatorial endorsements performed the worst of the three categories. Democrats flipped five governor seats including in Texas, which hasn’t seen a Democratic governor in more than 30 years, and in Iowa, which hasn’t had a Democrat running the state since the mid-2000s.

His Golden Touch turns out to be "Fools Gold"

A Dirty Old Man!

[Editorial]

Or the Emperor Has No Clothes!

The glitter has come off and what the people see is a tired old man. But it is not just the U.S. — the world is seeing that too!

From Kyiv to Moscow, and Tehran to Tel Aviv, all eyes were on the Democrats' big win as foreign powers weigh how a flipped Congress will affect international relations.

The world is reacting to the Democrats' sweeping midterm elections victory

NPR | By Kate Bartlett

November 4, 2026

One color dominates international headlines about the U.S. midterm election results. French newspaper Libération called the Democrats' win "une vague bleue," or blue wave, Britain's Daily Mail dubbed it a "historic blue tsunami," and The Times of India's headline ran "midterm blues for Trump."

Countries at war were also watching closely, with Ukrainian newspaper The Kyiv Independent's online headline hopeful: "Democrats seize control of Congress in blow to Trump, potential boost for Ukraine."

Russia had a different take. Rossiyskaya Gazeta, the state-run daily newspaper, suggested the results would in fact be a blow to Ukraine, which has firm support from the European Union. "Brussels, brace yourself. After the Republicans' defeat, Trump's wrath will fall on Europe," read the headline.

Russia is right about one thing… Trump's wrath. Where will it fall? Who will he blame for his defeat? Because it was his defeat, he can’t wiggle out of it this time by blaming others.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who has an acrimonious relationship with Trump, was forthright in his response.

"Yesterday, American society voted against policies that only impoverish. Against hate. Against machismo. Against climate denialism and against the privileges of the elites," Sánchez wrote on social media.

He then alluded to the recent election in Brazil, where the left-wing incumbent president defeated a Trump ally, as well as upcoming Spanish elections later this month. "It happened in Brazil. It just happened in the U.S. And it will happen soon in Spain," he wrote.

The elephant in the room is no longer hidden… it has been exposed!

CBS News reported that;

South Africa

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa told reporters Wednesday that the U.S. election results would "introduce a new era in world relations."

"We have seen that the Democrats have taken control of the Senate and of the House, and the people of America have spoken," he said. 

The Trump administration has had tense relations with South Africa, sanctioning officials it accuses of allowing the persecution of the country's White Afrikaner population and inviting its members to apply for refugee status in the U.S. — an opening that some 17,000 have sought to take advantage of.

[…]

France

French Economy Minister Roland Lescure declined on Wednesday, during an interview with the BFM television network, to predict whether President Trump would "accept" the rebuke by American voters or stick to the policies widely perceived as having precipitated the midterm Republican defeat.

[…]

Norway

Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere on Wednesday called the U.S. election results "a powerful political signal about a change of course among American voters."

"Voices are now emerging in American politics that are closer to us than the president and the administration have stood for, for example on climate and environment, and in foreign policy and development aid policy."

Trump on the world stage just got the hook! They see him as a weakened old man and are emboldened by it!

One of the results is that now Iran knows that they won the war... it only remains the terms of ending the war.

A bell has rung… and now we need to wait and see how everything settles down. Right now, the world is like a giant game of Pick-Up Sticks, and we have to watch as foreign leaders remove sticks from a jumbled pile, one by one, without disturbing any of the other pieces.

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P.S. Now that the Democrats control Congress… Trump should be worried that they will release the Epstein files.

$442 Million

Do you know what that amount represents?

That is the amount that Musk spent on the election! That is immoral! According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, that is roughly 162 times greater than the entire lifetime earnings of an average American worker.

Musk jokes about GOP losses after spending big in midterms

The Hill

by Julia Shapero

11/04/26

Tech mogul Elon Musk joked about the GOP’s steep losses early Wednesday, after spending more than $442 million boosting Republicans in the midterm elections.

Democrats swept control of both chambers of Congress on Tuesday, winning competitive races across the board and even ousting Republicans in several races viewed as long shots.

Can you imagine being able to joke about tossing over $400 million away like that? What arrogance! When a single individual has the financial power to spend more on a political campaign than hundreds of families will ever see in their lifetimes combined, it naturally sparks intense conversations about wealth, influence, and democracy.

“Guess my election-interfering space lasers didn’t work this time,” Musk wrote on the social platform X, which he owns.

Ha, ha!

He also poured money into America PAC, the super PAC he launched during the 2024 elections. The technology executive gave $76.8 million in October alone, on top of the $76 million he contributed to the super PAC between July and September.

“Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now,” Musk added in a separate X post early Wednesday.

It was just an investment to him.

And it all when up in smoke yesterday... poof! Four hundred dollars. Gone!

A Shellacking?

As of 1:00AM

I will be updating this as results come in.

In governors races...

Democrats flipped at least 3 Republican-held governor seats:

• Georgia: Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms defeated Republican Rick Jackson, flipping the governorship after more than two decades of Republican control. She will succeed term-limited Republican Governor Brian Kemp.   
• Iowa: Democrat Rob Sand won the Iowa governor's race, defeating Republican Zach Lahn. He succeeds Republican Governor Kim Reynolds, who chose not to seek re-election.   
• Ohio: Democrat Amy Acton defeated Republican Vivek Ramaswamy, shifting the seat from Republican to Democratic control. She will succeed term-limited Republican Governor Mike DeWine.  

In the House...

According to projection reports from news outlets:   

• Colorado's 8th District: Democrat Manny Rutinel defeated incumbent Republican Rep. Gabe Evans.
• Iowa's 2nd District: Democrat Lindsay James defeated Republican Joe Mitchell to take the seat previously held by GOP Rep. Ashley Hinson.
• Kentucky's 6th District: Democrat Zach Dembo won the open seat previously held by Republican Rep. Andy Barr.
• Missouri's 2nd District: Democrat Fred Wellman defeated incumbent Republican Rep. Ann Wagner.
• North Carolina's 11th District: Democrat Jamie Ager flipped the seat, marking the first Democratic victory in the district since 2010.   
• Ohio's 15th District: Democrat Don Leonard defeated incumbent Republican Rep. Mike Carey.
• Pennsylvania's 8th District: Democrat Paige Cognetti defeated incumbent Republican Rep. Rob Bresnahan Jr.
• Pennsylvania's 10th District: Democrat Janelle Stelson defeated incumbent Republican Rep. Scott Perry.

In the Senate...

Flipped Senate Seats

• Maine: Democrat Troy Jackson defeated five-term Republican incumbent Sen. Susan Collins, ending her 30-year tenure in the Senate.   
• North Carolina: Democratic former Governor Roy Cooper won the open Senate seat left by retiring Republican Sen. Thom Tillis, defeating Republican nominee Michael Whatley.   
• Ohio (Special Election): Democrat Sherrod Brown reclaimed his U.S. Senate seat by defeating Republican incumbent Sen. Jon Husted.   
• Texas: Democrat James Talarico defeated Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for the open seat previously held by Sen. John Cornyn, becoming the first Democrat to win a Senate seat in Texas in decades.

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So far in Alaska (The results are not official yet)...

Major Contests Overview

• U.S. Senate: The race features Democratic candidate Mary Peltola and Republican incumbent Senator Dan S. Sullivan. Early reported figures show preliminary leads as votes continue to be tallied.   
• Gubernatorial Race: The four-way general election includes Democrat Jonathan S. Kreiss-Tomkins alongside Republican candidates Dave Bronson, Treg Taylor, and Bernadette M. Wilson.   
• U.S. House (At-Large Seat): Alaska's single U.S. House seat remains uncalled while preliminary totals are processed state-wide.

Update @ 7AM

Preliminary returns from Alaska show tight contests in key statewide races:

• U.S. Senate: Incumbent Republican Dan S. Sullivan holds a narrow lead over Democrat Mary Peltola. Neither candidate has reached an outright majority, and no race call has been made while initial precincts continue reporting.   
• Governor: Democrat Jonathan S. Kreiss-Tomkins is currently leading the broad multi-candidate field, followed by Republican Bernadette M. Wilson and other primary contenders.   
• U.S. House (At-Large): Ballot counting is ongoing for Alaska's single U.S. House seat, with initial tallies remaining too early to call.

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Does it meet the defining of a Shellacking? Believe it or not... it doesn't. The election fits the pattern of a normal mid-term election but,

I will say yes.

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Early Voting & Total Ballots:

Record Early Voting Volume: Approximately 54 million Americans cast ballots during the pre-Election Day early voting period, exceeding early voting totals from the 2022 midterm elections by nearly 9 million.   

State Highs: In Texas, over 7.7 million voters cast ballots during the early voting window—a 40.5% turnout of registered voters before Election Day.

Break down by age groups:

Demographic Group	Electorate Share	Key Voting Pattern & Alignment
Young Voters (Ages 18–29)	~10% of total voters	Supported Democratic U.S. House candidates by a +47 margin (71% Democrat vs. 25% Republican).
Middle-Aged Voters (Ages 30–44)	Moderate share	Favored Democratic House candidates over Republicans (59% to 36%).
Older Adults (Ages 65+)	High proportion of voters	Slightly preferred Republican candidates (51% Republican vs. 47% Democrat).
Hispanic Voters	~16% of eligible voters	Backed Democratic U.S. House candidates over Republicans by roughly 60% to 33%.

It is us old fogies that "stood by our man" everyone else saw the light!

Neither major statewide race in Michigan has been officially called yet, as vote counting remains active across the state:

• Gubernatorial Race: Democrat Jocelyn Benson leads Republican John James as ballots continue to be processed.
• U.S. Senate Race: Democrat Abdul El-Sayed leads Republican Mike Rogers as precincts report preliminary totals.
• U.S. House Delegations: In Michigan's congressional districts, 9 of the 13 U.S. House seats have been called so far.

It looks like the Democrats picked up House seats in Michigan.

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Historic LGBTQ+ Federal Milestones

• First Openly Gay Man Elected to the U.S. Senate: Democratic Representative Chris Pappas won the U.S. Senate election in New Hampshire, defeating Republican nominee John Sununu. Pappas becomes the first openly gay man elected to serve in the upper chamber of Congress.   

House Re-Elections & New Entrants:

• Sarah McBride (D-DE): The nation's first openly transgender member of Congress won re-election to represent Delaware's at-large district.   
• Sharice Davids (D-KS): Secured a fifth term representing Kansas's 3rd Congressional District.
• Ritchie Torres (D-NY): Won a fourth term representing New York's 15th Congressional District in the Bronx.  
• Mark Pocan (D-WI): Won re-election to extend his tenure as one of the longest-serving LGBTQ+ members of the U.S. House.   
• Jeremy Moss (D-MI): Won Michigan's 11th Congressional District, becoming the state's first openly LGBTQ+ member elected to the U.S. House.   
• JD Ford (D-IN): Won election to the U.S. House, unseating an incumbent to become the first openly gay member of Congress from Indiana.   

Key State Legislative Wins:

Bentley Hudgins (D-GA): Won a seat in the Georgia House of Representatives (District 90), making history as the state's first openly transgender and nonbinary state lawmaker.  

Voting Pattern & Demographic Alignment

According to nationwide voter surveys, LGBTQ+ voters turned out heavily for Democratic candidates down the ballot, supporting Democratic House candidates by wide margins as part of the broader surge in young and suburban voting blocs.

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Trans Referendums:

In the 2026 U.S. midterm elections, a small number of statewide ballot measures concerning transgender issues were put directly to voters.

Passed Referendums

Nebraska — Initiative Measure 442 (Sex Requirement for School & College Sports): Passed. This initiative constitutionally restricts participation in female athletic teams at public schools and postsecondary institutions strictly to individuals categorized by biological sex at birth.

Defeated Referendums

Missouri — Amendment 3 (Gender Transition Procedures for Minors & Abortion Ban): Rejected. Voters defeated this constitutional amendment, which sought to ban minors from receiving gender transition procedures, cross-sex hormones, or puberty blockers, alongside other provisions.

Still being counted, Colorado (Proposition 134 & Proposition 135), Arizona (Proposition 318), and Washington (Initiative 638)

[Update 4:45PM: Colorado Proposition 134: Voters rejected the measure, with approximately 70.55% voting NO and 29.45% voting YES. It would have required school and college sports teams to be assigned based on biological sex.]

Several openly transgender women won their races in the 2026 U.S. midterm elections across federal and state levels:

Federal Elections:

• Sarah McBride (Delaware — U.S. House of Representatives): Democrat Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender person elected to the U.S. Congress, won reelection to represent Delaware's at-large congressional district.   

State Legislative Elections:

• Leigh Finke (Minnesota — State House): Representative Leigh Finke, Minnesota’s first openly transgender state legislator, won reelection to her seat in the Minnesota House of Representatives.  

State & Local Races: 

• Other historic state legislative victories include Bentley Hudgins in Georgia (winning a seat in the Georgia Assembly as a transgender nonbinary lawmaker). In Alabama Democrat Allison Montgomery won the election for Alabama House District 25. She defeated Republican incumbent Phillip Rigsby in the Huntsville-area district, making her the first openly transgender person elected to the Alabama State Legislature.

We run... we win!

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Trump's reaction (The blame game is in full stream):

• Blaming Candidate Quality: Trump distanced himself from the defeats by claiming he had no personal responsibility. On Truth Social, he posted: "I wasn't on the Ballot and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE!" He stated that voters simply didn't like some of the Republican candidates, adding that certain candidates had alienated his MAGA base by fighting him in the past.
• Targeting Specific Republicans: Trump specifically criticized defeated Texas Governor Greg Abbott, calling him a "RINO" (Republican in Name Only). However, he expressed no regrets about endorsing other losing high-profile candidates like Ken Paxton in Texas or Darline Graham in South Carolina.
• Praising Democrats: In a shift from his usual rhetoric, Trump congratulated the Democrats, stating that they "did a good job" and "fought hard".
• Veto Warnings & Bipartisanship: While Trump noted he is prepared to work with the new Democratic majority, he also warned that he holds total veto power and will reject any "insane" legislation they send to his desk.
• The Impact of the Iran War: Trump acknowledged that his decision to go to war with Iran impacted the midterms due to rising gas prices, though he maintained it was a "very wise decision" that he would make again.

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8:20AM Overall Spending Breakdown

Total Cycle Advertising: Estimated to reach $11.6 billion.   

House Races ($1.5 Billion total):

• Democratic-aligned advertisers: ~$787.3 million   
• Republican-aligned advertisers: ~$678.9 million   

Senate Races:
Total ad spending in key Senate battlegrounds has seen record levels, led by the Texas Senate race, which alone attracted over $500 million to $573 million in total advertising spend.  

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10:00 AM: Gerrymandering!

How It Worked for yesterday's Midterms?

The Republican Strategy: 

States controlled by Republican legislatures redrew congressional maps to turn previously competitive or Democratic-leaning seats into safer Republican districts. They used cracking (diluting Democratic concentrations) and packing (bundling heavy Democratic voting blocs together) to engineer a favorable baseline map.   

The Goal: 

Protect their U.S. House majority by picking up a buffer of redrawn seats heading into the midterm cycle.   

Did it block the Democrats?

No — yesterday's results showed that the aggressive gerrymandering largely backfired.   Because a strong "blue wave" national environment took hold, the defensive buffers Republicans drew were breached:

Dems Surmounted the Maps: 

In states like Texas and Florida, Democrats won key seats and held onto competitive Rio Grande Valley and Central Florida districts that Republicans had specifically redrawn to flip.   

Gerrymandering Backfire: 

When a party stretches district lines too thin to maximize seats (giving themselves modest 5-to-10 point advantages across multiple districts), a larger-than-expected swing by the opposing party can cause all of those newly drawn "safe" seats to collapse simultaneously.   

Outcome: 

Rather than insulating the GOP, Democrats claimed majorities in the House by winning multiple seats drawn explicitly to favor Republicans.   

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(I used Gemini AI & ChatGPT AI to organize and tabulate the results and the HTML table)

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My analysis:

The Democrats do not have enough votes to overturn a veto... so it is going to be a cantankerous two years. The big question is has any of the Republicans developed backbones? So for the next two years with a divided Congress without a veto-proof majority guarantees a combative, high-friction. environment.

In Maine: it looks like Sen. Collins backed Trump one too many times in critical votes.

Some voters complained about Trump not being on the ballot. Irish Business Times reported...

A confused voter demanding to know why Donald Trump's name was missing from his ballot has sparked a political talking point, after a video shared on X appeared to show a man complaining that he could not find the US president among the candidates.

According to the footage as described, someone explains that Trump is not running in the midterm election. The exchange serves as a reminder of a basic fact about American politics, even as Trump himself urges voters to treat the November contest as a referendum on his presidency.

Well if it was... Trump lost!

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To do list:

• I think that the Democrats need to balance the budget with a "Cut the deficit tax" on those making more than a million dollars a year!
• Investigate fraud & corruption. (I don't think any criminal cases going forward. Because if they find corruption it will be the DOJ to prosecute the case. Do you really think the DOJ will go against Trump family?)
• Impeach cabinet members who put Trump before the Constitution (i.e. DOJ and the Department of Defense)
• Investigate DOGE

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3:30PM

Tammany Ring

[Editorial]

Did you ever hear of it?

It was a major corruption ring in New York City back in the 1890s. The "Tammany Ring" was the inner circle of corrupt political bosses and leaders who ran Tammany Hall, the headquarters of a private political organization. Then in the 1920s, we had the "Teapot Dome" scandal, where public officials bypassed normal channels to hand out lucrative federal assets to private corporate friends behind closed doors.

Hey, wait a minute… we’re not talking about Trump, are we? We’re talking about something that happened a century ago... right?

We’re not talking about the Reflecting Pool fiasco, where the job was rushed through a no-bid process... correct? Teapot Dome was in the 1920s.

And we’re not talking about the "Bleeding Statues" you know, the gold-plated statues on the bridge over the Potomac?

What? You haven’t heard of the "Bleeding Statues"? Well, you know how Trump rushed a $5 million no-bid federal project to regild the "Arts of War" and "Arts of Peace" bronze horse statues near the Lincoln Memorial? Turns out you can’t do that in a week or two. It’s a multi-year project requiring proper curing of the materials used. As a result, the protective layers are bleeding down onto the stone pedestals. Now, where have we heard that before? Oh! I know... the Reflecting Pool!

Meanwhile, the "Arc de Trump" is also a no-bid contract!

And Trump’s pièce de résistance, the White House Ballroom, is yet another no-bid contract! The icing on that cake is that no one can find any building inspection records... you know, for plumbing, electrical, or structural safety. If any of the work was substandard or if corners were cut, we’ll never know!

Now, questions are being raised over Trump’s War. Before the invasion of Iran, financial watchdogs and federal authorities uncovered multi-billion-dollar spikes and suspiciously timed oil market bets made just minutes or days before major conflict announcements.

The "Tammany Ring" and the "Teapot Dome" scandal used to be the benchmarks for American corruption... but Trump has set a whole new gold standard.

[/Editorial]

The Flyover!

Do you remember the flyover by Air Force 1 of the White House on Halloween?

Trump billed it as a special treat for the trick-or-treaters on Halloween. Well people noticed that there were an awful lot of camera crews recording it!

This is from the White House photo...

A photo op... that cost us taxpayers hundred of thousand of dollars, as one commenter wrote, it cost more than most people make in a year.

You want to make a bet that you see this photo creeping up in ads for Trump

The Quite Before The Storm

It is the day before the elections. It is the quiet before the storm. Everyone is poised to see what Trump will do next. Here in Connecticut, early voting is closed today.

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Trump is trying to get his grubby little hands on the elections. So far, the courts have slapped his hands away.

The latest development came just yesterday, when Republicans once again got their hands slapped in Alaska. The brouhaha centers on candidates running for Congress with duplicate or nearly identical names—specifically, Daniel J. Sullivan.

So far, the courts have heard, and will hear, two state-court proceedings, one federal district-court proceeding, and a federal appeal. In the proceedings so far, the courts have ruled against the Republicans. And the odds are that they will lose their appeal as well. There was nothing illegal about Daniel J. Sullivan's candidacy!

But there's another name on the ballot that you don't hear much about. He's also running for office, but against a Democrat. Perhaps that's why Republicans have been so quiet about him.

His name is Eric Hafner. He's sitting in a federal prison in New York, has never set foot in Alaska, and is running for Congress as a Democrat.

So I have three questions about the coverage of the Alaska brouhaha:

Political incentives: Which party benefits from highlighting each controversy?

Media incentives: Which story generates more national attention, conflict, and audience interest?

Editorial consistency: Why wasn't the Hafner precedent made a central part of the national reporting on Sullivan?

The third question is the biggie! It points out the hypocrisy of the Republicans and the news media.

Well It Did What It Was Designed To Do!

Alternate title: Rinse and Repeat!

Alaska Democrats ask judge to remove imprisoned out-of-state U.S. House candidate from November ballot

September 5, 2024 by Eric Stone, Alaska Public Media – Juneau

The Alaska Democratic Party is asking a judge to kick a convicted felon serving a 20-year sentence in a New York federal prison off this November’s general election ballot. Eric Hafner is challenging Democratic Congresswoman Mary Peltola for Alaska’s lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Hafner placed sixth in the top-four primary. He advanced to the general election ballot after the third- and fourth-place candidates dropped out in an apparent effort to consolidate the Republican vote.

Hafner is currently in federal prison for threatening public officials in New Jersey and has never lived in Alaska. He’s running as a Democrat but does not have the backing of the state party. Any candidate can run under whatever party banner they like under Alaska’s open primary system. The Alaska Democratic Party’s executive director did not respond to an interview request.

Yep… the Republicans did it in the last election too! What is the difference between the two?

The party says that means he never should have been certified as a candidate in the first place. They also argue that Alaska’s election laws don’t allow the sixth-place candidate to advance to the general election under any circumstances. The Democrats say his presence on the ballot could also siphon voters from Peltola.

Oh gee, where have we heard that before?

The courts allowed him to stay on the ballot just like they ruled now! Newsweek wrote about him here…

Who Is Eric Hafner? Democrat on Alaska Ballot Accused of Being GOP Ploy

By Steve Mollman and Joshua Rhett Miller

Oct 29, 2026 

A Democrat serving a 20-year federal prison sentence has advanced to Alaska's general-election ballot for a second time, renewing scrutiny of an unusual candidate whom the state's Republican Party went to court to help keep on the ballot.

Eric Hafner, who has never lived in Alaska, advanced from the state's 2026 U.S. House primary after also making the general-election ballot in 2024. His candidacy is drawing fresh attention amid the explosive controversy over Alaska's two Dan Sullivans.

Why isn’t this all over the evening news?

Why isn’t the FBI investigating him and the Republicans? Huh?

I want to repeat… under Alaskan law, all it takes is $100 to get on the ballot! That allows anyone to get on the ballot… if anything needs to be changed, it’s their law.

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Updated: 3:20PM

The judge has ruled on the case...

Judge tosses Trump's attempt to block Alaska Senate results if GOP incumbent loses

November 1, 20262

NPR News

Hansi Lo Wang

A federal judge has thrown out the Trump administration's highly unusual attempt to block the certification of results from a key U.S. Senate race in Alaska if the Republican incumbent loses.

In a ruling released Sunday, U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason found the federal government does not have the ability to bring this lawsuit, which cited the preamble of the National Voter Registration Act.

It asked the judge to stop state officials from certifying election results to allow for an investigation into whether voters were confused by having two similarly named Senate candidates appear on Alaska's ranked-choice ballot.

But Judge Gleason concluded that such a court order would likely violate Alaskan voters' right to a secret ballot.

"The absence of any explanation from the United States as to how its requested relief could redress its alleged injury while simultaneously maintaining the secrecy of the ballot is telling," wrote Gleason, a nominee of former President Barack Obama.

Of course Trump's team is going to appeal!

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Updated: 11/2 @ 7:30AM

Ball & Strikes reported that;

This case started back in May, when Daniel J. Sullivan filed to run for Senate as a Republican, despite never having previously been affiliated with the party. After the state GOP complained, the Alaska Division of Elections determined that under state law, Daniel J. Sullivan was ineligible to run because he did not file “in good faith for the purpose of genuinely pursuing election,” and instead sought to “confuse or mislead” voters. The letter noted, for example, his request to be identified as “Dan,” like the incumbent. It also alluded to the subject matter of the Times story, highlighting his work with a political consultant who is a “known longtime supporter of Democratic candidates,” including Peltola.

Sullivan appealed, and in June, an Alaska trial court judge reversed the Division of Elections’s decision. The gist of Judge Thomas A. Matthews’s order, which the Alaska Supreme Court later affirmed, is that under state law, the qualifications to run for Senate straightforwardly track the language of the U.S. Constitution: Candidates must be at least 30 years old and citizens for at least nine years, and live in the state they seek to represent. Given that Daniel J. Sullivan checks all three boxes, Matthews found that officials had no authority to invent an additional “good-faith” requirement and use it to “exclude an otherwise qualified candidate.”

Look, everyone knows that this was done to “confuse or mislead” the voters... however it is not against the law.

Whatever you think of Daniel J. Sullivan’s candidacy, it is not an illegal effort to stop people from voting: He is running for office, under his real name, in the state where he lives. Anyone who gets “tricked” into voting for him (and only for him) is still, in fact, voting. Even if one of the more ambitious Trump prosecutors decides to give it a shot, the First Amendment will present serious challenges, since going after candidates and their supporters for ostensibly harboring ulterior motives would criminalize a lot of things that parties in this country already do.

You know what they always say... if you don't like the law change it! I did.

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For The First Time!

[Editorial]

We have been on the ballot before. They wanted to ban us, but voters in the past voted for us in referendums. However, this election appears to be different! For the first time, referendums might take away our rights guaranteed under Constitution and the Fourteenth Amendment!

In his famous 1963 "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Martin Luther King Jr. critiqued people who sit back, watch the political landscape, and stay silent while their rights are rolled back. We are in a similar situation now!

King famously wrote about the danger of people who prefer "order" over justice:

"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice…"

It is not just the Trumps and the MAGAs of the world; it is the ordinary person who votes to take away

the rights that every other citizen has, people who know nothing about trans people but are willing to deny us of our rights!

In the South, laws were passed banning Black people from playing sports and banning them from using White bathrooms. Why? Because it made White people uncomfortable to sit at a lunch counter with a Black person. They used religion to justify it… they quoted the Bible to show that it was alright to discriminate.

They normalize bigotry. White people said they were not racist, but they kept Black people in menial jobs… because "that’s just the way it is." Children growing up in school thought nothing of the fact that there were Black and White schools—it was perfectly normal to them. That is what the Republicans are doing to LGBTQ+ people… making it seem okay to discriminate against us. Making it seem okay to refuse to sell us a cake because your religion says it's okay. The Republicans are hoping for another generation of bigots.

White people voted for racist candidates because of their economic policies or because they brought new factories to town… totally ignoring their bigotry and discrimination!

In two days, we go to the polls… how are you going to vote? Are you going to take away a person's rights because you believe the Republican lies about us? You believe that a child gets a “sex change” at school. You hear them say, “Well, I’ve always voted Republican,” as they put their blinders on to what ICE is doing, to the corruption, to Trump being cozy with Putin, to the war, and to the lunacy of Trump. They turn a blind eye and hold onto fantasy visions of the era of Father Knows Best.

Vote to end the craziness of the Republican party. Vote for sanity! Don't take away our right to be ourselves.

[/Editorial]

No Body Wants Him.

Sniff, sniff.

The Alaskan Republicans told Trump to stay out of it!

The Republican candidates said... "You're not welcome!"

Alaska officials ask judge to deny Trump administration’s ‘impossible’ demand to set aside Senate ballots

The Republican-led state government urged the judge to dismiss the “unwarranted federal interference” in the Alaska Senate race.

NBC News

Oct. 31, 2026

By Kyla Guilfoil

The Republican-led state government in Alaska implored a federal judge on Saturday to permanently dismiss the Trump administration’s lawsuit that seeks to block the certification of the Alaska Senate race if GOP Sen. Dan S. Sullivan loses.

“The United States’ opposition provides no reason for this Court to entertain this meritless lawsuit any longer,” the filing said, adding that “the relief demanded is inappropriate and not even possible given Alaskan voters’ vital right to ballot secrecy.”

Wah, wah... they don't want me!

Some Republicans want Trump to stay away from their midterm campaigns: ‘We’ve told them he cannot come’

President told battleground lawmakers at a Rose Garden dinner Wednesday that he will be heavily involved in the final 30 days

The Independent

Andrew Feinberg

Friday 04 September 2026

Republicans in some of the most competitive races in the country have told President Donald Trump's political operation that they do not want him campaigning in their districts this fall — including in seats he won by double digits two years ago.

"We've told them he cannot come," a senior Republican working on a competitive House race in such a district told Politico, which reported the account Friday. "Candidly, he would not be helpful here."

Wah! Nobody wants me!

The crowds are dwindling, and he is looking more and more like an "old man" on stage. They are booking him into smaller venues so the empty seats don't show!

The British Mirror is telling it like it is...

Donald Trump humiliated as Ohio rally held in 'tiny' venue as crowd size dwindles

President Donald Trump appears to be getting humbled with the turnout for his recent campaign rallies as the president seems to be struggling to get more attendees

Angelica Cheyenne

28 Oct 2026

President Donald Trump doesn't appear to have the same turnout for his campaign rallies for the upcoming midterm elections as he did for his 2024 presidential election — and it's showing.

While the 80-year-old POTUS continues to brag about how many people are either attending his recent rallies or who want to, the venues where his events are being held tell a different story. For example, Trump's Mississippi rally on Monday took place in a venue that only held 1,400 people despite claiming that 22,000 people were outside watching in a town with only 14,000 residents.

Despite much of Trump's MAGA base believing there to be a phantom crowd of thousands, there hasn't been any video evidence this far to support the commander-in-chief's claim of 22,000 attendees.

Wah! Nobody is coming anymore! Sniff, sniff!

Alaska!

That is all I have to say, and you know exactly what I mean.

There are two Dan Sullivans on the ballot:

Sullivan, Dan S. (Registered Republican) Incumbent

Sullivan, Daniel J. Jr.

Can you tell the difference? Can you pick out which Sullivan is the Republican? Can you tell who is the Independent?

That is what the battle is about! The Republicans are hopping up and down, pointing fingers! "SEE! SEE! See what they did!"

Okay, how did he get on the ballot? For that, we have to look at how you get on the ballot in Alaska. In most states, you have to collect "X" number of signatures from voters, but not in Alaska.

In Alaska, all you have to do is pay $100 and... voilà, you are on the ballot!

The Alaska Supreme Court has put in its 2¢!

In June, CBS News reported that…

The battle of the Dan Sullivans is on. 

The Alaska Supreme Court ruled Monday that a Republican candidate with the same name as GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan can challenge the sitting lawmaker in the state's Senate primary in August. The high court upheld a ruling from a lower court judge that cleared the way for Daniel J. Sullivan to appear on the primary ballot, reversing a decision by state officials earlier this month that he was ineligible because he was allegedly trying to confuse voters.

The state Supreme Court directed Alaska's Division of Elections to decide how Daniel J. Sullivan should be listed on the ballot "within the confines of existing Alaska ballot design law."

The Alaska Supreme Court ruled on whether the state could keep the second Sullivan off the ballot. The court said no. The feds have zero jurisdiction over Alaska!

Verdict writes:

Yet the fact that there is a genuine reason for concern does not mean that there is a legal basis for the DOJ’s lawsuit. There is not, as should be apparent to anyone with even a rudimentary legal education who reads the DOJ complaint. It cites no provision of federal law obligating states to mitigate any confusing effect of candidates with similar names. That’s because there is no applicable federal law.

But you know darn well this is going to the Supreme Court!

However, I don’t think that it will end in the courts; I think that it will end on January 3rd, when Congress begins the new term and swears in members as mandated by the Twentieth Amendment.

The question will be… "Will Congress vote for the party or the voters?"

If there is a problem, then it is with Alaska state law. Here in Connecticut, you need 1% of voters to sign a petition for you to get on the ballot in Alaska the is simply too low. But that is a state decision to make, not a federal one!

Then we have this...

[/Political Analysis]

I’m Not Voting!

How many time have you heard… the parties are the same! Or “My vote won’t make a difference? 

Didn’t you see ICE agent kill a person in cold blood and then lie about what happened? Haven’t you heard about the war in Iran? Haven’t you seen all the anti-trans laws that have been passed? Haven’t you heard all the lies? One party is trying to wipe us off the map. One party is passing laws to protect us! 

As for your vote not making a difference? 

Three dictators have just been voted out of office! In just over six months, Hungary voted Orbán out, Serbia's voters rejected Vučić's ruling party, and Brazil reelected Lula over Bolsonaro's son. Elections can change the course of a country. Show up and vote!

How many times have you heard this?

I’m a Republican…

But they’re talking about the “ol'-time Republicans” — back when the debate was government vs. government. Before Trump, the argument was over small government, like the EPA, OSHA, MSHA, NIOSH, CDC, and the whole alphabet soup.

But now it’s “anti-” they’re against the “melting pot,” they interfere in the doctor-patient relationship, they’re against the LGBTQ+ community, and they criminalize homelessness. They are not your parents’ party!

Here in Connecticut, the shift was very clear. I do a workshop on trans history, and these are the slides…

The first slide is the vote in the Senate in 2007. Notice the vote: Yea = 30, Nay = 4. Almost unanimous!

This slide is the vote when the bill was passed the nondiscrimination bill in 2011…

Right down party lines!

One of the Republican senators that I knew was for the bill. In the first Senate vote, he voted for the bill, but in the second vote he voted against it, and when the bill passed, he gave us a thumbs-up.

For those who still vote red because they have always voted red, it’s time to wake up and smell the roses, as they are led down the road to fascism! Vote Blue!

Hacked!

Trump has been saying that the voting machines can be hacked! Which is just another one of Trump's lies!

Don't you think that the states tried to hack them before they bought them? Does Trump think that the states are to stupid to test them?

Connecticut Tried to Hack Its New Voting Machines Before Buying Them. Here's What Happened.

As national claims about voting machine security  resurface, Secretary Thomas explains why voters can have confidence in tabulator results.

In the 2012–2018 hit TV show Scandal, created and produced by Connecticut resident Shonda Rhimes, voting tabulators are rigged to help ensure that character Fitzgerald "Fitz" Grant is elected U.S. president.

Recently revived claims from the White House that foreign-made components in voting machines present a national security risk and could lead to tabulators being hacked this election have resurfaced in the news.

But Secretary of the State Stephanie Thomas is among top U.S. election officials assuring the public that, just like Scandal, that story is fiction. And she has a compelling story to share about why Connecticut voters can be confident their votes will be counted accurately.

In 2024, as Connecticut prepared to invest $20 million to replace voting equipment that had been in use for nearly two decades, Secretary Thomas and other state election officials wanted to be sure the equipment they were considering could withstand attempts to compromise its security.

So, Secretary Thomas said, they enlisted researchers from UConn's Voting Technology Research (VoTeR) Center to try to hack the tabulators made by the companies competing for the contract.

Known as white-hat hacking, the practice involves authorized attempts to breach computer systems to uncover weaknesses before malicious actors can exploit them.

As part of the process, UConn researchers also examined the procedures used to prepare and operate the equipment, looking for potential vulnerabilities that could affect election security.

Just another one in Trump's endless lies. He is trying to weaken our electoral process, to create doubt in our elections! To subvert elections in the United States!

Are We Being Set Up As The Fall Guy?

Are we being set up as the fall guy in the elections if they go bad for the Democrats? Already, some are trying to distance themselves from us! A number of Democrats have backed away from us. Reuters reported that,

After being caught flat-footed on transgender issues in the last US election, Democrats in tight midterm races are pursuing different strategies, with some adopting more conservative stances and others trying to deflect, according to a Reuters review of campaign messaging and interviews with nine ​party strategists and insiders.

Ahead of the November 3 election, vulnerable Republican candidates have renewed their attacks over transgender rights, a message that political strategists say helped Donald Trump and his party win unified control of ‌Washington in 2024.

My answer... it is the economy!

Why Republicans are focusing on transgender issues in competitive 2026 campaigns

PolitiFact

By Caleb McCullough

August 28, 2026

A recent Kansas ad targeting Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Adam Hamilton, a United Methodist pastor, shows him standing in front of footage of dancing drag queens and says he “preaches the gospel of woke.”

The ad, one of many using anti-transgender rhetoric to attack Democrats in competitive midterm elections, misleadingly stitches together clips to make the case that Hamilton is out of touch with voters on social issues. When the ad quotes Hamilton saying, “How we define gender… we have a whole array of sexualities,” it is combining separate sentences he said in an interview to create a quote he never said.

We can't take their bait! It is the price of food, it is the price of heating oil, it is the war, it is Russia... it is not us!

Democratic response is fractured

Although the Republican attacks are unified, Democrats’ responses are not.

Some candidates have publicly distanced themselves from Republicans’ most extreme accusations. Turek in Iowa and Talarico in Texas both said they oppose gender affirming surgeries for minors, without arguing for a broad ban on medical treatment. 

Now is not the time for education... now is the time to call out the Republicans on not wanting to talk to the farmers in Iowa about imported beef! Not wanting to talk to truckers about the price of diesel! Not wanting to talk about Trump getting palsy-walsy with Putin.

Anti-trans ballot measures are a political test run for the 2028 presidential election

LGBTQ+ movement leaders warn that anti-trans ballot measures in five states could become a testing ground for a broader political strategy in the 2028 presidential election.

The Advocate

By Shelby Chestnut, Sarah Kate Ellis, Kevin Jennings, Andy Marra, Kelley Robinson

Oct 05, 2026

In 2004, a coordinated wave of ballot initiatives against marriage equality swept the country, leaving a trail of political wreckage for our community and the entire nation. That same playbook is back for the 2026 midterm elections, and just like more than two decades ago, it’s not about public safety or protecting children, it’s about political power.

As LGBTQ movement leaders with decades of advocacy experience, we need to loudly sound the alarm because transgender people face a coordinated assault on this year's ballots in five states.

We are going back to the 1950s! After the elections, we need to educate! We are born this way! But our #1 focus is November 3^rd!

Trump...

I was watching Washington Week with The Atlantic on PBS. One segment was on the ad by Vivek Ramaswamy in the Ohio gubernatorial race. Ramaswamy ran an ad that featured his Democratic opponent, Dr. Amy Acton's mother, saying that she lies!

Well, what the ad didn’t say was Dr. Acton was sexually abused as a 12-year-old, and the state took her and her brother away from the mother because of her husband, who fled the country.

Enter into this Trump, who added his 2¢, saying when asked about the father during a press conference... ”I know nothing about him!”

It figures… that Trump doesn’t think anything is wrong with pedophilia.

Election Interference?

The Trump administration is pushing politically motivated investigations of candidates and states just before the elections, accompanied by attention-grabbing headlines!

BT (Before Trump), there was an unwritten rule that politicians followed: no “bombshells” in the last 60 days before an election. But, as usual, Trump throws historic precedents out the window.

The voters were flagged earlier this year by a federal voter verification tool that is known to produce false positives, and Recorder Justin Heap referred them to county prosecutors for review.

Vote Beat Arizona

By Sasha Hupka

September 28, 2026

Most Maricopa County voters flagged as potential noncitizens by an error-prone federal system are citizens after all, according to county detectives.

Rachel Mitchell, the county’s top prosecutor, said on Monday her office had completed a monthslong investigation into 60 suspected noncitizens who had cast ballots in prior elections.

Of those, she said 52 were citizens, and eight were not. Mitchell, a Republican, said all but one of the noncitizen voters appeared to have been erroneously registered while renewing their driver’s licenses.

[...]

Her announcement comes after Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap, a Republican, referred 207 individuals to county and state prosecutors for review in the spring. He identified the potential noncitizens on the county’s voter roll while attempting to confirm the citizenship status of 61,681 voters impacted by a longstanding state record-keeping error.

The database that flagged the voters as noncitizens — called Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE — has repeatedly proven to be unreliable. Maintained by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, SAVE was originally used to check immigrants’ eligibility for public benefits but was revamped and expanded last year to be used as a mass voter verification tool. However, it has produced false positives in several states.

So to put this in perspective: out of 2,589,827 voters in the district the feds identified 207 unqualified voters, but a review only found 8 who voted illegally. Or  0.00032%! And for those 8 no charges were announced, and the county attorney attributed the registrations to a flaw in the driver's-license registration process.

But the Trump adminstration have also broken the traditional 60 days break in new attack ads or false claims.

Omar home search raises fears about election season probes

‘There’s lots of reasons to suspect this is politically motivated,’ one expert says

Roll Call

By Michael Macagnone

October 13, 2026

A search of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home has sent shockwaves through electoral politics weeks before the midterms, as experts said it appeared to flout longstanding norms meant to keep prosecutors out of elections.

While the Minnesota Democrat herself has been on a glide path to reelection in a deep-blue district, some worry it could set a wider precedent for how the Trump administration handles investigations of other politicians. 

Homeland Security Investigations agents carried out a federal search warrant of her D.C. home on Monday, according to Omar and officials. It comes as Republicans face an uphill battle to retain control of the House and after President Donald Trump has criticized Omar for years and publicly accused her of immigration fraud.

The timing of the search raises serious questions, according to several experts. David Sklansky, a professor at Stanford Law School and former federal prosecutor, said the search, even though it was conducted by Homeland Security officials, may have run afoul of two Justice Department policies, one formal and one informal.

Trumped-up charges!

Reuter reported...

Summary

• DOJ brings 'voting by aliens' cases at an unprecedented rate
• Noncitizen voting prosecutions a 'tier one' priority for Trump White House, official says
• Recent spate of cases a small fraction of votes cast

WASHINGTON, Sept 23 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump’s administration is ramping up criminal prosecutions of noncitizens accused of voting in US elections as he presses claims of widespread election ​fraud ahead of the November midterms.

Lies, lies, and more lies to justify whatever Trump has planned for the elections!

Here in Connecticut, we are not exempt from Trump’s wrath.

Sec. of State urges calm as CT faces DHS election investigation

Inside Investigations

Brandon Whiting

September 2, 2026

Yesterday, Stephanie Thomas, Connecticut’s Secretary of the State, held a press conference to respond to reports that Connecticut would be one of nine states the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials intend to investigate in the coming weeks for election fraud. Thomas, who had neither confirmed nor denied the report’s validity or spoken to DHS officials, said she held the conference to assure Connecticut voters that elections will proceed as usual.

“Every time there’s a news report, voters are getting impacted,” said Thomas. “They’re confused. They’re scared. So whether the news report is true or not, what I am addressing to Connecticut voters is that we will have an election, that there are many people, many agencies working to make sure that it is a secure election on many fronts, and that if something should happen, we have the people and the tools to address it.”

According to a DHS memo obtained by CNN, starting today, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) personnel will begin a “coordinated criminal voter fraud surge initiative to pursue investigative leads, conduct field interviews, and support timely prosecutorial review.” HSI, which falls under the umbrella of ICE, employs over 7,100 special agents, who are primarily tasked with investigating human trafficking, narcotics smuggling, financial and cybercrime and IP theft. The memo reportedly states that HSI personnel will continue these investigations until mid-October. In addition to Connecticut, HSI will reportedly be investigating New York, Pennsylvania, Washington, Wisconsin, Missouri, Georgia, California and Nevada.

Gee, aren't we lucky!

"Bail Out Trump's A**"

There is renewed questioning... Is Trump Putin's stooge?

Boy, did Trump blow it! Now everyone is mad at him. He has been clutching at straws as he goes down.

Down, down, down, down

I'm goin' down, down, down, down

I'm goin' down, down, down, down

I'm goin' down, down, down, down

Bruce Springsteen "I Goin' Down"

Nobody likes it at all! Well, except Putin... he's got Trump beholden to him now.

"Getting paid by Putin": Democrats criticise Trump's waiver of sanctions under Lindsey Graham Act

ANI News

Oct. 17, 2026

Several US representatives and democrats have strongly criticised President Donald Trump decision to waive sanctions related to Russian fuel sales that were to take effect under the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act, a month after signing the Bill.

The law, which has now been paused, would have imposed tariffs of up to 100% on goods brought into the US from the five largest importers of Russian crude oil or gas, which include India and China.

The move comes amid a diesel deal with Russia in the backdrop of soaring diesel prices in the United States ahead of the November midterm elections.

Several US lawmakers accused Trump of siding with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

California Governor Gavin Newsom‘s office accused Trump of getting paid by Putin. “OK. Someone has to be getting paid by Putin. Who? And how much?” the X post read.

This has raised a lot of questions. 

Trump invoked Section 115 of the Graham Act, which authorises the President to waive the application of any sanctions provision with respect to a foreign person, any restriction with respect to a person, and any duty under the law.

"I have submitted to the Congress a certification that the issuance of such a waiver is in the national interests of the United States and a report explaining the basis for the certification, consistent with section 115(b) of the Graham Act," Trump said in the order.

Somehow, I don't see Congress seeing bailing out Trump's ass from the fire as a "National Interest."

If this had happened six months ago, Republicans would have been groveling at Trump's feet... but now, the emperor has no clothes!

And get this, even the Russian Pravda had this to say: "Betrayal of the people of Ukraine": 12 US senators write to Trump over deal with Putin.

No... Trump & company are on a sinking ship... and you know what rats do on a sinking ship?

The Canadian CBC writes,

'Betrayal' of allies

"Granting Moscow the ability to sell Russian diesel freely in global markets damages American security interests and is a betrayal of the people of Ukraine, who continue to defend themselves from Putin's murderous, illegal war," the senators said in their letter.

"This deal is a gift to our adversary and a betrayal of ‌our Allies; it should be rescinded."

The letter was signed by Republicans Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Susan Collins of Maine, Alan Armstrong of Oklahoma, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska ​and John Cornyn of Texas, as well as six Democrats.

[...]

The administration has not yet told lawmakers whether it would impose the sanctions or issue ⁠a waiver.

I don't know about Congress, but... I think the public knows what's happening!

Israel dangles a plum in front of Trump → Trump bites it → Gets stuck in a quagmire → Frantically looks for a way out → Iran laughs at him and cuts off the oil → Trump grasps at the life ring Putin throws at him.

No... this is not "National Interest," this is "Bail Out Trump's Ass." The people know the truth!

Down, down, down, down

I'm goin' down, down, down, down

I'm goin' down, down, down, down

I'm goin' down, down, down, down