The Trump Regime Wanted Every Colorado Voter’s File. Jena Griswold Refused.

They sued her. It went badly. Plus a $19 billion walkout and his worst poll yet.

Congress goes home this week.

By Friday they’ll be back in their districts, standing in front of chamber of commerce breakfasts and Rotary lunches and county fairs. For a few weeks they have to look at us instead of at each other. Every one of them knows what August is: when a member finds out whether their voters are paying attention.

We’ve spent all year making them uncomfortable in Washington. Now they come to us.

Hit the ❤️ like button and restack this one. A county of forty-nine thousand people in North Carolina just ran off a nineteen billion dollar data center. Most people have no idea it happened.

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HE PUT THEIR OWN WORDS IN THE OPINION

For decades volunteers stood at the back of naturalization ceremonies with clipboards, and people could register to vote in the minutes after they took the oath. The League of Women Voters signed up more than 122,000 new voters that way in 2024 alone.

US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) shut it down in August 2025. The change took effect the same day it was announced—with no public comment period—and after that only state and local election officials were allowed to help.

The National Council of Jewish Women’s Greater New Orleans section sued in November. The League of Women Voters followed, and the cases were consolidated.

Judge Adam Abelson blocked the ban on Monday and found it was likely driven by discriminatory intent. In the same policy, USCIS had swapped the words “naturalization candidate” for “alien”—including for people who had already taken the oath and become citizens—and dropped the requirement that new citizens be handed a copy of the Constitution and a voter’s guide.

The 2017 rules are back in force while the case proceeds. The volunteers can stand at the back of the room again.

GRISWOLD ANSWERED THEM IN ONE LINE

On December 1 the DOJ emailed Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold an agreement to sign that demanded she hand over every voter’s name, birthdate, address, and either their driver’s license number or the last four digits of their Social Security number. The department assured her it “cures all potential concerns a state might rightfully raise” about private data.

Griswold answered two days later: “We will not be producing unredacted voter files or signing the MOU.” So the regime sued her.

The law requires the Justice Department to state a basis and a purpose when it demands records. Judge Philip Brimmer, appointed by George W. Bush, found the December email did neither, calling itself only a follow-up to correspondence that began in May. The May letter never asked for the private file at all.

He dismissed it with prejudice and closed the case, finding that letting the department try again would be futile. The DOJ has gone after states across the country for their voter rolls and lost every case so far—twenty times now. At least eight of those rulings came from judges Trump appointed himself.

$19 BILLION WENT LOOKING FOR FRIENDLIER GROUND

Energy Storage Solutions wanted to drop a $19 billion, 900-megawatt data center in Kingsboro, North Carolina—using as much electricity as more than 700,000 homes, in a county of about 49,100 people. Commissioners had already rewritten the zoning ordinance to let it happen.

Janice Bulluck, an organizer with Edgecombe Neighbors for Data Center Accountability, spoke at the December 1 meeting, in a room packed with residents wearing red. James Wrenn reminded the board that Edgecombe stopped a regional hazardous waste dump near Conetoe in 1988 and an IBP hog slaughterhouse in Kingsboro in 1996.

David Batts, 69, who lives about a mile from the site, warned commissioners that residents would primary them, and in March he beat four-term incumbent Donald Boswell.

County Manager Eric Evans announced on July 6 that the company had pulled out. Energy Storage Solutions President Dan Shaffer didn’t dress it up in an email to the Rocky Mount Telegram five days later—investors “insisted that we move forward with other projects that we have in friendlier communities.”

On Monday night, the commissioners adopted a 24-month moratorium on data centers. It passed unanimously.

TRUMP IS UNDERWATER

Reuters and Ipsos polled 4,505 Americans from July 29 through August 3 and asked how Trump is handling their cost of living. Only 23% approved, 70% disapproved, and 51% of the country disapproved strongly.

Voters named cost of living as the single biggest factor in their vote this November—well ahead of immigration. Registered voters now trust Democrats over Republicans to handle it, 39 to 32. On the economy overall, the Republican advantage that survived Biden’s entire presidency is gone.

Trump’s overall approval sits at 35. Forty-eight percent of the country strongly disapproves, and among independents that number is 49. Quinnipiac put him at 32 last week, an all-time low in their polling, with 68% saying he is not focused enough on the problems most Americans are facing.

But polls don’t vote, and that’s where we come in. We dig up the stories corporate media will never touch. We put them in front of millions every day on social media. Then we organize pressure campaigns—with countless calls and more than 800,000 letters sent to Congress from our operation since November 2024.

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Republicans think August is a break. It’s the opposite. Not one of them gets a quiet day between now and November. Help us win this:

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Onward!

Scott

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