One By One, They’re Going Down: Trump’s Former Adviser Pleads Guilty, His Voter Grab Loses Again, and A Senator Warns the Corrupt: Your Day Is Coming

Plus, a million families win big

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FORMER TRUMP ADVISER IS NOW A CONVICTED FELON

John Bolton—the man Trump once picked to be his national security adviser—pleaded guilty Friday in a Maryland courtroom to a federal crime.

He admitted to illegally keeping more than a thousand pages of the nation’s secrets and handing some to relatives who had no business seeing them. His punishment: a $2.25 million fine, and his government pension stripped away. And he could still go to prison.

Nobody’s shedding a tear. Bolton spent years as one of Washington’s loudest voices for war, beating the drum for one conflict after another. Watching him stand before a judge and answer for his own crimes is its own kind of justice.

Here’s what it tells you. The people who were certain the rules would never apply to them are finding out otherwise. One down. The rest should be watching. We certainly are.

NEW YORK JUST DID WHAT WASHINGTON WON’T

While the regime hands landlords and billionaires everything they ask for, New York City’s new mayor just did the opposite—and he did it in his first six months.

On Thursday night, the city’s Rent Guidelines Board voted 7 to 1 to freeze rent on nearly one million apartments. It’s the first two-year freeze in the board’s history. Mayor Zohran Mamdani picked six of the nine members. They delivered.

Under former Mayor Eric Adams, landlords got 12% in rent hikes while their profits jumped 30%. Working people paid more so the rich could pocket more. That stops now.

A million households in New York City just got told their rent won’t go up for two years—because they elected someone who promised it and kept their word.

When the right people get into office, they make our lives easier instead of harder. It just happened in New York. It can happen where you live too.

COURT SLAMS DOOR ON TRUMP’S PA VOTER GRAB

The regime spent all year trying to get their hands on the private voter records—names, addresses, even Social Security numbers—of millions of Americans. On Saturday, Pennsylvania became the latest state to slam the door in their face.

US District Judge Cathy Bissoon threw out the DOJ’s lawsuit demanding Pennsylvania hand over its voter files. And she’s not alone—court after court has tossed these same demands, in ten states now. Even some of Trump’s own appointed judges have ruled against him.

Here’s what’s quietly remarkable. The official who refused to hand over your data is Al Schmidt—Pennsylvania’s top elections officer and a Republican. This is the same man Trump attacked by name for refusing to overturn the 2020 election—and still wouldn’t back down. He protected voters of both parties, and he didn’t blink.

OSSOFF SAID WHAT OTHERS WON’T

At a packed rally in Savannah on Saturday, Jon Ossoff did what too many politicians won’t. He named names and dared them to answer.

He went after his opponent, Mike Collins—Trump’s hand-picked Senate candidate. Ossoff called him “a bigot and an antisemite under federal investigation for the illegal misuse of taxpayer dollars.”

Then he went further. “While hundreds of thousands of Georgians lose their healthcare, Mike Collins builds Trump a ballroom,” Ossoff said. “They worked harder burying the Epstein files than they ever worked to lower your grocery bill.”

Then he lifted the room. “A wave is building,” he said, “the kind that comes once a generation, when people have been pushed too far and they decide all at once and all together that enough is enough.”

It’s already happening. Republicans have been telling Ossoff that they’re voting Democrat for the first time in their lives.

Georgia turned out and changed the country once before, he reminded them. “We’ll do it again.” He’s right. And it won’t only be Georgia.

Every person you read about today had a choice. The judge could’ve looked away. The mayor could’ve broken his promise. The senator could’ve played it safe and said nothing. They didn’t. They used what power they had—and the powerful felt it.

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Bolton’s a convicted felon now. Who should be next?

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