Great News For Democracy That’s Terrible For Trump. Wonderful.
Fifteen people went home. A pollution plan died. A Republican lost his own city. Eight big wins inside.
Happy Saturday, friend. I’m glad you’re here.
Sit with me for a minute before the weekend gets going. Around here, Saturdays are for rounding up eight wins against the regime, and this week gave me plenty to work with.
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1. TRUMP PICKED THE JUDGE. THEN HE LOST.
Trump put Eric Tostrud on the federal bench. On Monday, Tostrud threw out the regime’s entire lawsuit. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison keeps every limit his state put on police helping ICE. Those officers work for the state, not the White House.
2. TRUMP’S LAWYERS QUIT. NAVARRO STILL LOST.
Peter Navarro defied a Jan 6 subpoena and served four months in federal prison for it. The DOJ refused to defend the conviction, so Navarro’s lawyer argued the appeal with nobody on the other side. Three judges upheld it Tuesday. The privilege he hid behind was never his to take.
3. FIFTEEN WALKED OUT. ICE COULDN’T STOP IT.
Seventeen people were supposed to walk out of immigration detention in Nevada, but ICE kept the doors shut for months. Judge Richard Boulware wrote that the government was rebelling against the basic rule that court orders get obeyed. He put sanctions on the table. Fifteen of those detainees are now free.
4. A TRUMP ALLY’S CNN GRAB JUST STALLED
A Trump-friendly family was about to buy CBS News and CNN. A dozen Democratic attorneys general sued to stop it. On Friday, the deal got frozen until 2027.
5. THOUSANDS OF BALLOTS JUST GOT SAVED
For years, Kansas gave mail ballots a few extra days to arrive, so votes stuck in the mail still counted. Last year, Republicans took those days away. This month, weeks before the August primary, Judge Carl Folsom put them back. Without his ruling, thousands of ballots would be thrown out.
6. THEY PULLED THEIR MONEY. THE BANK CAVED.
For months, towns and everyday people moved their money out of Citizens Bank. They were angry it loaned money to the two biggest ICE detention contractors. It added up to hundreds of millions of dollars. Then Citizens gave in and said it would cut ties with both companies. The bank won’t call that a loss, but we all know it was.
7. SEVEN THOUSAND COMMENTS, ONE DEAD PERMIT
Ohio’s environmental agency wanted to let data centers dump wastewater into rivers, streams, and Lake Erie. That water can carry PFAS, forever chemicals that never break down. Seven thousand people wrote in against it, and the agency backed off. Those strangers just did the job lobbyists get paid big bucks for.
8. HE QUIT HIS SEAT TO RUN FOR MAYOR
Arizona Republican Jeff Weninger already represented Chandler at the state capitol, so winning its mayor’s race should’ve been easy. Instead he lost by seventeen points to Matt Orlando, a retired Air Force colonel backed by local Democrats. Weninger had given up his statehouse seat to run. Now he has neither.
The whole Trump propaganda machine runs on one simple idea—that power belongs to whoever has the most money, the biggest platform, and the loudest microphone.
Nobody in this edition could be bought or bullied. Trump has every kind of power there is, and this week it still wasn’t enough. It won’t be enough next Saturday either, when it’s somebody else’s turn in some town most of us hadn’t heard of before.
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Onward!
Scott
Tell me in the comments: which of these eight wins surprised you the most, and why?
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The Ohio permit surprised me the most. Seven thousand people wrote in and the agency backed off. That’s proof that steady, local pressure can beat corporate influence, and it gives me real hope.