The Watchdog Trump Fired Speaks Out, A Damning Fox Poll Calls Him Unfit, and His Secret ICE Prison Stopped Cold

They can fire the watchdog. They can't fire the truth.

A shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner dominated every headline this weekend, burying four stories the regime hoped you would miss. We didn’t lose focus. The resistance can’t afford to.

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HAGERSTOWN FOUGHT BACK

The federal government spent $102.4 million to turn a warehouse outside Hagerstown into a cage for 1,500 human beings. Residents had no say.

Patrick Dattilio founded Hagerstown Rapid Response, dug through county records, and organized the community to fight back. A billboard went up on Dual Highway last week: “ICE camp is planned 5.6 miles ahead. Not in our community. Speak out now.”

Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown sued. A federal judge stopped the project cold. ICE is now “reconsidering the plans and scope.” Translation: they lost.

Dattilio told NPR why the community keeps fighting the federal government: “Their power still comes from the people. And we are the people.”

FOX BRINGS BAD NEWS FOR THE REGIME

Trump has spent more than a year telling Americans the economy is booming—and a new poll from his favorite network admits that not even his own folks believe him. Fox found that 70% of Americans say the economy is getting worse.

Democrats now lead Republicans on the economy for the first time since 2010. Even more damning, 55% of voters say Trump is mentally unfit for office. We’re reminded of that daily—especially when he fell asleep in the Oval Office again last week.

GOP pollster Daron Shaw said there is no path for the GOP to turn this around before the midterms. Trump will scream fake news, but it’s their own pollster showing MAGA viewers what losing looks like.

THEY FIRED THE WATCHDOG

Jacqueline Smith

Stars and Stripes is the newspaper American troops read in war zones. It’s funded by the Pentagon, but required by Congress to stay editorially independent. Four months ago the Pentagon announced plans to refocus the paper away from what it called “woke distractions that syphon morale.”

Part of that plan was firing Jacqueline Smith, whose last day is today.

Smith was the first woman ever to serve as the paper’s watchdog—hired by Congress to protect the paper’s independence. Under Hegseth, Stars and Stripes was banned from printing syndicated columns, outside stories, and comic strips. He’s now pushing Bible content into a publication read by troops of every faith and no faith. Smith told CNN: “It seems to me that the Bible has no place in the running of the Pentagon.”

Rep. Jamie Raskin had enough, and sent a letter signed by 38 House members demanding Hegseth back off. Six days later, Smith got her termination form, even though her term wasn’t up for eight more months. She was fired with no explanation, no warning, and no appeal. The form she was handed simply read: “This action is not grievable.”

Smith used her final column to tell Congress and the public exactly what was happening inside Stars and Stripes—on the record, in her own words—before they could stop her. It was published with the title “The Pentagon is trying to silence me.” She knew they would come for her. She published anyway.

They can fire the watchdog. They cannot fire the truth.

WHITTIER FLIPS

Vicky Santana (Left), James Becerra (Middle), and Aida Susie Macedo (Right)

Today in Richard Nixon’s hometown of Whittier, California, three Democrats will be sworn in as mayor and to the city council. They beat Republican-backed incumbents in three landslide blowouts—all receiving more than 61% of the vote.

This is what the electoral map looks like everywhere right now. Communities are fighting back and winning. Voters are delivering their verdict at the ballot box. The regime’s own propaganda network is publishing poll numbers that destroy it.

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