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A Judge Stopped Him From Touching Your Ballot
In March, Trump signed an order directing the Postal Service to control how states send mail ballots. Under that rule, no state could mail ballots unless the Postal Service approved its envelopes and every mail voter was uploaded into a federal portal—a portal that wasn't even built yet. Yesterday, Judge Indira Talwani blocked it through the November election and refused to pause her own order so they could appeal.
Five Neighbors Got Their Town Its Vote
Five people in Trenton, Ohio, gathered enough signatures to get a vote on banning new data centers in the city. The law said they only needed 128, but the city council changed the number to 820 and threw the petition out. The Ohio Supreme Court unanimously overruled the council, said it disregarded the law, and ordered a special election so the town gets to decide for itself.
A 92-Year-Old Judge Told Him No For The Third Time
Trump’s spent years trying to get his 34 felony convictions into federal court, where he says his “presidential immunity” would wipe them out. But 92-year-old Judge Alvin Hellerstein said no for the third time. Hellerstein wrote that Trump was looking for a second bite at the apple, and that hush money to hide an alleged affair was never an official act of the presidency. Trump is still a felon.
Seven Students Stood Silent And Beat Their University
Fifteen students stood up at a Florida International University campus event in ICE OFF FIU shirts, said nothing, and walked out. The school brought disciplinary charges against seven of them and threatened to freeze their registration, financial aid, transcripts, and diplomas unless they recorded videos about their behavior. They sued, and Judge Jacqueline Becerra blocked all of it—nobody in one of those shirts did anything but sit, stand, and walk.
A Conservative Group Spent Two Years And Got Nothing
A right-wing group in Virginia wanted Minnesota’s voter list. They sued Secretary of State Steve Simon for two years and four months trying to get the data. Just last week, the Eighth Circuit threw the case out. The DOJ also went after Minnesota’s voter list—a federal judge dismissed that suit too. Simon hasn’t handed over any data—none.
The Regime Bet $44 Billion And Lost
In an effort to force the state of California to ban transgender girls from school sports, the DOJ sued. The regime was using $44.3 billion in school money as leverage against the state. Judge Cynthia Valenzuela threw the case out with prejudice. She ruled the regime never told the state that the money came with strings attached, and wrote it’s too late to add them. The kids keep playing.
Neighbors Stopped The First Data Center On Public Land
Eighty acres of federal land sit inside Boulder City, Nevada, and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) handed them to a developer for the first data center ever approved on federal public land. Nobody in Boulder City was asked. A career BLM official told a reporter the approval was unprecedented, done to satisfy Trump’s order telling agencies to fast-track data centers on federal land. Judge David Gunter halted the whole thing.
A Trump Judge Threw Out Musk’s Lawsuit
New York makes big social media companies file their own hate speech rules with the state. Nobody can force them to delete anything—they just have to say what those rules are. Elon Musk’s company sued rather than answer, drew a judge Trump appointed, and lost to Attorney General Letitia James so badly it can’t try again.
Trump would love it if we all thought that there was no way we could beat him, but these stories alone show that we can. Not to mention the fact we’ve beaten him time and time again.
I remember being in DC on election night in 2018, when Democrats won back the House. Leading up to then, we knew momentum was on our side, but it never felt like this. This one feels bigger.
There are more good people than bad in this country, in droves. And I truly believe if we keep sprinting through the finish line, we will balance the scales. Democrats will win back the House and Senate, and turn Trump into a lame duck. Then we can work on the one thing this regime truly deserves more than anything—accountability. It’s the only way we can make sure none of this ever happens again.
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They lose when somebody shows up at the counter with the right paper and refuses to leave. Trenton was that. FIU was that. Your town can be that.
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