Army Secretary Tells Hegseth No, Montana Clears Path To Kill Citizens United, and a Small Town Beats Trump's Big Tech Allies At The Ballot Box

Plus, a judge called DOJ’s bluff

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ARMY SECRETARY TELLS HEGSETH NO

Pete Hegseth and Army Secretary Dan Driscoll

Paranoid Pete Hegseth has spent months trying to force Army Secretary Dan Driscoll out of the Pentagon. He fired Driscoll’s ally, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George, right in the middle of Trump’s attacks on Iran.

Driscoll refused for months to remove Black and female Army officers from the promotion list. Hegseth struck their names himself anyway—likely without the legal authority to do so.

Driscoll is JD Vance’s Yale Law School friend—and the White House told Hegseth he can’t touch him. So he’s been trying to make him quit instead. A current US official said Hegseth is “just really uncomfortable with anyone who could potentially be outshining him.”

The scheme is failing. Driscoll put it in writing on Tuesday: “I have no plans to depart or resign as the Secretary of the Army.” Retired Army reserve Col. Kevin Carroll summed up the internal battle: “It’s not like Driscoll is scheming and plotting to make Hegseth look bad. Hegseth takes care of that himself on a regular basis.”

MONTANA CLEARS PATH TO KILL CITIZENS UNITED

Sixteen years ago, the Supreme Court handed corporations the power to buy American elections and called it free speech. Montana just found an exit ramp.

The Montana Plan—a proposed Montana ballot measure that’s gaining steam—doesn’t overturn Citizens United. It goes around it. States grant corporate charters and decide the powers those charters include. It would simply remove “spending in elections” from those powers, killing dark money at the source.

The Montana Mining Association and the Montana Chamber of Commerce immediately ran to court to kill it before voters could sign on. But on April 2, the Montana Supreme Court rejected them 7-0.

You don’t file an emergency lawsuit to stop something you’re not afraid of. Seventy-four percent of Montana voters support it—including a majority of Republicans and independents. The campaign is driving toward a June 19 signature deadline—and the momentum is there.

Sixteen years of “nothing you can do.” Montana voters are doing something. We all should.

A JUDGE CALLED THE REGIME’S BLUFF

Image of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Last year the regime illegally deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia, in direct violation of a court order. They sent him to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT—a mega-prison which human rights groups have described as a torture facility. The Supreme Court ordered him returned.

The regime brought him back and immediately charged him with human smuggling based on a 2022 traffic stop—where he was released without a ticket. No warning, no citation, nothing. An injunction was put in place to stop the regime from deporting him again while that case proceeded.

The DOJ went to US District Judge Paula Xinis in Maryland and tried to deport him again anyway—this time to Liberia.

Xinis called their bluff: “You can’t have it both ways—he physically needs to be in this country to be prosecuted.” She said their arguments were “one empty threat after another” and didn’t budge. The injunction stands.

The regime walked into court trying to disappear a man, and walked out with nothing.

A TOWN HANDS TRUMP’S ALLIES A BIG LOSS

One town in Wisconsin just beat some of the richest companies on earth at the ballot box. Voters in Port Washington went to the polls Tuesday and passed a referendum with 66% voting in favor. It gives residents the power to reject future large developments—effectively blocking a proposed $458 million mega data center that was backed by Big Tech.

They organized on Facebook, got arrested at a public meeting, and won big. That’s not a miracle—that’s what happens when people decide they’ve had enough.

America is not going to be saved by billionaires, algorithms, executive orders, or dark money super PACs. It has always been saved by people in communities like Port Washington, who saw a massive backroom deal and said: not on our watch.

The resistance lives in our council chambers, courtrooms, and polling places. It lives wherever someone decides that the game isn’t over just because the powerful say so.

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Onward!

Scott

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I have two questions for you today.

What do you think about the effort to undo Citizens United in Montana?

How do you feel about the Army Secretary standing up to Pete Hegseth?