The Resistance Is Winning: Spanberger Signs Nearly 1,000 Bills The Regime Hates, Trump Lawyer Gets Disbarred, and Mamdani Moves To Tax Oligarchs

Plus, ICE survivor moves to sue DHS

In Virginia, the governor signed nearly 1,000 bills into law. In New York, the mayor put billionaires on notice. Aliya Rahman filed the first step to sue over Trump’s immigration abuses, and his allies are still facing consequences for January 6.

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TRUMP’S LAWYER GETS DISBARRED

John Eastman — Jan. 6, 2026

Trump’s election lawyer John Eastman wrote the blueprint for stealing the 2020 election. After Biden decisively won, he advised Mike Pence to ignore the Constitution and hand Trump the presidency. Last week, the California Supreme Court disbarred Eastman, finding him guilty on 10 of 11 charges.

Eastman’s already been suspended in DC, where the Court of Appeals is now deciding whether to disbar him there too. Trump tried to protect him with a pardon. It didn’t work. Eastman still could face prison time in Arizona for his role in the fake electors scheme.

Five years after January 6, the reckoning continues. Good.

A MINNESOTAN FIGHTS THE REGIME

Aliya Rahman

The Trump regime sent thousands of agents into Minnesota to terrorize communities. One person they attacked was Aliya Rahman, while she was on her way to a doctor’s appointment. They smashed her window, dragged her onto the street, and denied her medical care in detention until she lost consciousness. A cellmate had to beg guards to help.

After all that, they thought she’d stay quiet. They were wrong.

The community erupted. Protesters flooded the streets outside the federal building where Rahman was held. She was released without charges.

Last week, Rahman filed the mandatory first step before she can sue DHS—a Federal Tort Claims Act complaint—via her attorneys at the MacArthur Justice Center. “This shows we can hit back,” Rahman said. “This is not the country we’re going to have.”

Rahman is one of dozens of Minnesotans building similar cases against the regime’s invasion. The broken glass from Rahman’s smashed window is still crunching in her car door. But Rahman stands defiant: “Every time you try to break my body, you fuel my spirit.”

NEW YORK IS COMING FOR THE OLIGARCHS

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani — April 15, 2026

On Tax Day, NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani stood in front of a $238 million Manhattan penthouse and announced a proposal for New York’s first-ever tax on luxury second homes. The penthouse belongs to Ken Griffin—a hedge fund billionaire and one of the largest Republican donors in the country.

“When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich,” Mamdani said. “Well, today, we’re taxing the rich.” The proposal would levy an annual surcharge on 13,000 luxury properties worth more than $5 million, resulting in more than half a billion in tax revenue a year. Over 93% of New Yorkers support it.

It now heads to the state legislature with momentum and broad public support.

Billionaires like Ken Griffin spent millions electing politicians who protected them. Mamdani wasn’t one of them.

SPANBERGER SIGNS 972 BILLS

VA Gov. Abigail Spanberger

Former Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin—a Trump crony—spent four years vetoing legislation in Virginia that would actually help people. Last year, the commonwealth elected Democrat Abigail Spanberger, who “carefully reviewed” all 1,100 bills sent to her desk—and signed 972 of them into law.

One of them requires federal agents to show a judicial warrant before making civil immigration arrests at Virginia courthouses. Another makes Virginia the 19th jurisdiction to join the National Popular Vote Compact—the effort to elect presidents by popular vote. These are just two of 972—and Spanberger is just getting started.

“We the People have the power to make change, the power to stand up for what is right, and the power to demand more of our nation,” Spanberger said. In November, we have the chance to elect more leaders like her—and take the House and Senate away from a party that does Trump’s bidding instead of yours.

The resistance is not just a moment—it’s a movement. And November is coming.

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Scott

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