A War Hero Just Handed Trump His Worst Week Yet

Plus: Musk got referred to prosecutors, and a teacher’s aide ICE forced out came home

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THEY SAT IN SILENCE. NOW SHE’S HOME.

When ICE forced Yessenia Ruano out of Milwaukee, her city held fourteen minutes of silence—one for every year she’d lived there. This week, they got her back.

Yessenia fled El Salvador in 2011 after gangs murdered her brother. A trafficking survivor with a pending legal case to let her stay, she spent fourteen years working at a bilingual school and raising her twin daughters, both US citizens. Then ICE denied her request to stay and forced the choice: be dragged out, or leave with her girls. She chose to leave.

Her lawyers didn’t. They took the regime to court for illegally deporting crime victims, and a federal judge ordered ICE to bring her back. On July 8, she walked out of Chicago O’Hare airport, calling it “a dream and a miracle.”

The regime meant to erase her. A judge brought her back.

MUSK’S OWN SIDE TURNED HIM IN

Last year, Elon Musk spent more than $20 million trying to buy a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. This week, a bipartisan election board found he may have broken the law doing it.

He handed out $1 million checks on a Green Bay stage, and posted online offering a million dollars to people who voted in the race. It didn’t work—his candidate lost by ten points.

That online post is what drew the referral. The Wisconsin Elections Commission, in a 5-1 vote that included Republicans, found probable cause that it violated the state’s bribery law and referred the case to a district attorney who can file criminal charges. Prosecutors have 40 days to respond.

The regime insists the oligarchs buying our elections are patriots. Musk’s own side just told a prosecutor otherwise. His fortune bought him the checks, the ads, the stage—and nothing that truly mattered.

HOCHUL MADE BIG TECH BLINK FIRST

One in four New Yorkers already can’t cover their electric bill. So this week, Gov. Kathy Hochul told the AI giants moving into her state: not until you prove you won’t make it worse.

On July 14, Hochul signed an order making New York the first state in the country to freeze new data center construction. These are the massive server farms behind AI—and they gulp enormous amounts of electricity and water.

The freeze runs up to a year while the state writes tougher rules. Hochul’s also moving to strip the tax breaks these companies were handed.

Trump warned states not to regulate the AI industry. Hochul did it anyway, declaring that “progress shouldn’t arrive with a higher utility bill.”

They expected a red carpet. Instead, they got a stop sign—and working families got a governor who put them ahead of Big Tech.

66 YEARS. ONE WORD: NO.

For sixty-six straight years, the defense bill has passed in Congress. It’s the one thing Washington always does. This week, Senate Democrats stopped it cold.

Trump escalated his illegal war on Iran, a war that’s already cost 15 American servicemembers their lives. Then he demanded the Senate hand him $1.15 trillion—the largest defense budget ever proposed. Democrats refused to sign the permission slip.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth, who lost both legs on a battlefield in Iraq, said it clearly: Trump “wants to rebuild Iran before he rebuilds America, and it’s outrageous that Republicans are willing to roll over and let him.”

The vote was 50-46. Republicans can bring it back—but for the first time in 66 years, they couldn’t move it, because Democrats wouldn’t blink. Duckworth, who knows firsthand where these wars lead, drew the line and refused to move off it: “Enough is enough.”

ONWARD

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Scott

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BEFORE YOU GO—SOUND OFF IN THE COMMENTS

Yessenia spent a year in exile and walked back through the airport with her daughters. When was the last time a piece of news actually gave you hope?

Sen. Duckworth drew the line on Trump’s war and said enough is enough. What’s the one fight you most want Democrats to take up before the midterms?