Republicans Set A Trap. It Snapped Shut On Them.

Plus: a judge kills Trump’s voter suppression scheme twice, Delaware locks profiteers out of its hospitals, and four counties tell Big Tech no

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NEW MEXICO TELLS BIG TECH: NOT HERE

Sierra County voted Tuesday in a town called Truth or Consequences. Fitting name. The vote was unanimous: an 18-month moratorium on data centers—the fourth New Mexico county to do it this year.

Commissioner Sandy Jones didn’t mince words: “This wasn’t about saying ‘no’ to technology; it was about saying ‘yes’ to our water, our families and the Sierra County way of life.”

The fight is over Project Jupiter—Oracle and OpenAI’s massive data center under construction in southern New Mexico’s Chihuahuan Desert. Communities found out what it would do to their water supply and showed up angry.

Santa Fe County acted too. Residents packed the chambers, and commissioners responded by lowering their trigger threshold—the point that forces full reviews and can halt new data center permits—from 100 megawatts down to just one. That’s about the electricity use of 1,000 homes.

The regime invited Big Tech in. Four New Mexico counties locked the gate.

JUDGE SHUTS DOWN VOTER SUPPRESSION—AGAIN

New Hampshire passed a law requiring voters to show a birth certificate, passport, or naturalization papers just to register. In May, US District Judge Samantha Elliott—a Biden appointee—threw it out, calling it “an unjustifiable burden on the right to vote in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments.”

The state appealed and asked Elliott to pause her own ruling. On July 22, she refused.

That matters for November. New Hampshire’s law—the same proof-of-citizenship requirement Trump’s been pushing nationally as the SAVE America Act—is dead through the September primary and the general election.

At least 100 voters were turned away in 2025 municipal elections because they couldn’t produce the right papers. They’re protected now.

NEBRASKA IS NOW A SENATE RACE

Democrats alleged that Republicans planted a candidate—William Forbes—in the Nebraska Democratic primary to knock out Cindy Burbank, the actual Democrat in the race. After a GOP challenge, Burbank got pulled from the ballot by the Secretary of State, but the Nebraska Supreme Court reinstated her. She won the May 12 primary with 89% of the vote.

Then, on July 17, she walked into Secretary of State Bob Evnen’s office and filed to step aside. He confirmed he had no authority to stop her under Nebraska law.

She formally declined her nomination to clear the way for Dan Osborn—independent, Democratic-backed—who now goes one-on-one with GOP Sen. Pete Ricketts in November. In 2024, Osborn held a Republican Senate incumbent in Nebraska to a six-and-a-half-point race.

The GOP scheme to rig the primary just handed Republicans their toughest possible matchup.

DELAWARE JUST DID WHAT THE REGIME WON’T

Gov. Matt Meyer sat down at the Henrietta Johnson Medical Center in Wilmington, Delaware on July 20 and signed three healthcare bills into law. A year earlier, private equity ownership gutted a hospital system just across the border in Pennsylvania—leaving hundreds of thousands of people with only two hospitals in their entire county.

Delaware decided not to wait for that to happen to them.

Three laws. One afternoon. Private equity is locked out of Delaware hospitals until 2028. Anyone earning under $47,000 a year gets free care. And starting next year, hospitals can’t charge insurers whatever they want anymore—prices come down for everyone.

The hospital industry threw everything at it, claiming the bills would kill 4,000 jobs. Sen. Ray Seigfried spent 25 years running a hospital system. His verdict on their scare campaign: “disgraceful.”

In Delaware, your hospital answers to you—not a hedge fund.

This is what it looks like when Democrats are given the opportunity to govern. I’m not sure what Republicans are doing.

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Democrats show time and time again that when given the chance to govern, they do what they can to help as many people as possible. Republicans do the opposite. What do you call that?