Thursday’s Great News That’s Terrible for Musk and Trump

Onward!

This is one of the worst weeks yet of Musk and Trump’s chaos, so I’m thrilled to share more good news with you today. I hope it shows you that there are incredible people fighting this tyranny alongside us, and gives you some relief—even if only for a moment.

Susan Crawford’s decisive 10-point defeat of Musk and Trump’s candidate in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race was an enormous win for democracy. In her victory speech, Crawford said: “As a little girl growing up in Chippewa Falls, I never could have imagined I’d be taking on the richest man in the world for justice in Wisconsin. And we won.”

Fmr. President Barack Obama congratulated Crawford, and praised Wisconsinites “for electing a judge who believes in the rule of law and protecting our freedoms.” Fmr. President Joe Biden said: “The will of the people prevailed, and Wisconsin demonstrated the strength of democracy to the nation … an important win for working families.”

And fmr. Vice President Kamala Harris weighed in, thanking everyone for their hard work. Harris also delivered a strong rebuke of Elon Musk, saying: “There is an unelected billionaire who should not—and will not—have a greater voice than the working people of Wisconsin.”

This huge win over the oligarchs in the White House will serve as a major boost for Saturday’s “Hand’s Off!” rallies, which will likely be the largest protests of the year.

Adding to Elon Musk’s woes, Tesla announced a 13% drop in new deliveries compared to last year—the sharpest decline in the company’s history. Tesla’s stock has plummeted 32% for the year, with analysts directly attributing the collapse to anti-Musk sentiment.

This week has also been a nightmare for Trump, whose announcement of nearly-worldwide tariffs backfired spectacularly. It ignited outrage and swift resistance on both sides of the aisle.

In a rare move of bipartisanship, 25 Republican and 25 Democratic Senators came together to introduce legislation that would impose sweeping sanctions against Russia—who was notably absent from Trump’s tariffs. The sanctions would include a 500% tariff on countries who buy products like oil and gas from Russia.

Separately, Senate Democrats and 4 Republicans joined forces to pass a resolution aimed at blocking Trump’s Canadian import tariffs.

In response to Trump, Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries said: “This is not Liberation Day, it’s Recession Day … Republicans are crashing the American economy in real time, and driving us to a recession.”

Fmr. VP Mike Pence said: “The Trump Tariff Tax is the largest peacetime tax hike in US history. These Tariffs are nearly 10x the size of those imposed during the Trump-Pence Administration and will cost American families over $3,500 per year.”

On top of reporting the good news daily, our activism arm—The Watchdog Coalition—has made tens of thousands of calls and sent more than 256,000 letters to the House and Senate, since November. We’re taking on DOGE and fighting to protect Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and so much more.

As proud, independent journalists, we don’t answer to sponsors or billionaire backers. And we’ll never back down to the Musk-Trump regime.

We’re building momentum, but we need all hands on deck.

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Onward!

Scott

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