Tough Time To Be Trump: Ballroom Construction Blocked, PBS, NPR Win, and Voter Suppression Law Struck Down While 36 House Republicans Call It Quits

Plus, the most powerful Republican in North Carolina just lost by 23 votes

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MISSOURI SUPREME COURT STEPS IN—FINALLY

St. Louis No Kings — June 14, 2025

Missouri Republicans made it a crime to help your neighbor vote. That law just ended. The GOP had timed it deliberately, with the law taking effect right before the 2022 midterms.

It made it a felony to pay someone to help register voters, criminalized absentee ballot assistance, and required civic organizations to register with the state before collecting voter registration applications at community events.

The law was so vague that reimbursing a volunteer for parking or pizza could trigger criminal penalties. Violators faced jail time, fines, and permanent loss of their right to vote.

Voting rights groups sued before the law even took effect and fought back in courts for years—never backing down. On March 24, the Missouri Supreme Court called it “facially unconstitutional restrictions on core political speech” and struck it down. Because the ruling was decided on Missouri constitutional law, it cannot be appealed to the US Supreme Court.

THE FIRST AMENDMENT BEATS TRUMP AGAIN

Trump went after PBS and NPR, but a federal judge stopped him cold.

His May 2025 executive order directed every federal agency to defund NPR and PBS. The Department of Education then cut millions in PBS funding, which led to one-third of PBS Kids staff being laid off.

On Tuesday, US District Judge Randolph Moss permanently blocked it. The order, Moss ruled, “seeks to exclude NPR and PBS from receiving federal grants because they have provided more positive coverage of his political opponents than of his party and allies.” He made it clear that the First Amendment “does not tolerate viewpoint discrimination and retaliation of this type.”

Regime attorneys couldn’t cite a single court case in history that allowed this kind of political retaliation against the media. Because there isn’t one. Trump’s order is gone.

EVERY VOTE COUNTS

Phil Berger (Left) and Sam Page (Right)

North Carolina Senate leader Phil Berger, one of the most powerful Republicans in the state, lost his reelection bid by 23 votes. Two recounts confirmed it and he has finally conceded.

Berger had been in the NC Senate for over 25 years. He passed the bathroom bill, restricted abortion, gerrymandered state maps, gutted teacher pay, and stripped powers from Democratic governors.

He had a “Complete and Total” Trump endorsement and outspent his challenger 40-to-1. But that wasn’t enough to defeat local sheriff Sam Page, who had spent years watching Berger take voters in the district for granted. The last straw was when Berger tried to push a casino through next to Camp Carefree—a summer retreat for chronically ill children. Berger’s own son, a county commissioner, cast one of the votes to approve it.

Trump personally called Page and asked him to drop out—he said no. After the ballots were counted—three times—Berger lost.

“For decades, Senator Berger has put power, politics, and special interests ahead of the people he was elected to serve,” said Senate Minority Leader Sydney Batch.

Trump’s endorsement. Forty-to-one spending. Twenty-five years of power. None of it was enough. Good riddance.

REPUBLICANS ABANDON SHIP

Mike Johnson

Last week, Transportation Committee Chairman Sam Graves of Missouri became the 36th House Republican to announce they won’t seek reelection—already surpassing the 34 who fled before the 2018 wave when Democrats won the House by 40 seats.

Many are taking notice of races like Berger’s, deciding they’d rather quit than serve under a Democratic majority. Even members in safe seats who could walk to reelection are out.

“It’s not just rank-and-file Republicans who aren’t running for reelection,” Puck chief Washington correspondent Leigh Ann Caldwell said. “Chairmen of committees have announced their retirement, and they are seeing the writing on the wall.”

The DCCC put it flat out: “Republicans know they are going to lose in November. By retiring now, they’re avoiding the inevitable humiliation of losing their seats—and gavels.”

They know what’s coming. So do we.

TRUMP DOESN’T OWN IT

Trump demolished the East Wing of the White House to build himself a ballroom. A federal judge just told him to stop.

On Tuesday, US District Judge Richard Leon—a George W. Bush appointee—granted a preliminary injunction halting construction. “No statute comes close to giving the President the authority he claims to have,” Leon wrote.

Leon noted that the National Trust for Historic Preservation—the nonprofit behind the lawsuit to halt the project—is likely to prevail.

“The President of the United States is the steward of the White House for future generations of First Families,” the judge wrote. “He is not, however, the owner!” Leon was direct: “construction has to stop!”

The resistance is working. Trump is losing and we’re not even close to done.

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I have one question for you today.

Why do you think so many Republicans in the House are abandoning ship?