Thanks so much for being here today. A judge Trump himself put on the bench just told the EPA it had no right to kill $7 billion meant to put solar panels on more than 900,000 lower-income households. That’s one of the wins I cover today. Plus one investigation into how the regime let Bayer pick its own rules.
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Trump’s Own Judge Says Killing Solar Was Unlawful
The regime killed a $7 billion solar program in a single day. On Friday, a judge Trump appointed ruled the killing unlawful and undid it.
The program was called Solar for All. The $7 billion had already been awarded to help more than 900,000 lower-income households go solar, and it was meant to cut their electric bills by at least 20 percent. Early on August 7, 2025, an EPA official emailed his boss a plan to kill it. Three hours later, Deputy Administrator David Fotouhi wrote back: “Please proceed accordingly.” That afternoon EPA head Lee Zeldin went on X and called the program a “boondoggle.”
The EPA argued that Trump’s tax law left them without the power or the money to keep the program going. So we went ahead and pulled Congress’s own math. It shows the law took back just $19 million, and the judge in the case found it was leftover office money, not the $7 billion that was already awarded. Even GOP Rep. Morgan Griffith told his committee that grants already handed out “would still be going forward.”
Federal Judge Mary McElroy put those words up against the regime’s excuse, ruling the EPA never had the power to do it. McElroy declared the termination “unlawful” and threw it out.
Anh Nguyen owns her home in Atlanta. She had applied for free rooftop panels through Georgia’s solar program. She was the only individual among the eight who sued, alongside a union, legal aid advocates, solar nonprofits, and small solar companies.
It took the regime three hours to kill Solar for All. It took more than a year, and a judge Trump picked, to put it back in play for families like Anh Nguyen’s.
Seize Ballots Before The Count Is Final? Felony.
California just made it a felony to grab ballots before the count is final. On Saturday, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 282, making it a crime to take ballots, election records, or voting machines before the results are official. And anyone who orders others to do it faces up to four years behind bars.
This isn’t just out of fear—it already happened in Riverside County. A citizens’ group there said the count in last November’s special election was off by 45,896 votes. The county’s elections chief said the real gap was 103, and that nothing in the group’s claim would have changed the result. The measure on that ballot won there by about 80,000 votes.
Republican Sheriff Chad Bianco seized about 650,000 ballots anyway. When California AG Rob Bonta ordered him to stop, Bianco took 426 more boxes. The California Supreme Court finally froze his investigation in April.
The new law immediately goes into effect. A second law makes local officials tell the state about any warrant for election materials within a day. That way the state’s lawyers can get to court fast. The legislature wrote there is “no legitimate law enforcement reason” to seize ballots except to interfere with counting them and certifying the results.
Six weeks before the midterms, every California ballot is safer than it was last week. The next sheriff who tries what Bianco did could be facing felony charges.
EPA Handed Bayer A Menu. Bayer Ordered.
Dicamba is a weedkiller that turns into vapor in hot weather after it’s sprayed. It can drift up to a mile, damaging gardens, trees, and crops along its path. Federal courts have twice thrown out the EPA’s approval of it for spraying over growing crops.
Conservation and farm groups sued over dicamba, and in the process they’ve pried loose dozens of pages of the EPA’s files. We went ahead and read them—here’s what we found.
During a private meeting in May 2025, the EPA walked Bayer, the company that makes Roundup, through a slideshow with two different choices on when farmers would be allowed to spray dicamba. One was no spraying on days hotter than 85 degrees, the other was 95 degrees, with limits. Of course, Bayer chose 95, which means spraying on more days, claiming that made things easier on farmers.
What we found buried in an EPA memo is a number we haven’t seen reported: when Minnesota put in an 85-degree cap, plus an earlier end to the spraying season, damage reports fell by a whopping 95 percent. The EPA says other factors may have been involved. But that same 85-degree limit was the other choice the EPA put in front of Bayer.
Another slide from that May meeting revealed that the EPA’s scientists flagged Bayer’s own estimates for missing the worst spikes of dicamba in the air. That slide was marked to be removed from the version shown to Bayer’s competitors. The public knows because those groups sued.
The same EPA office sets the rules for every pesticide used on the food we eat. It says dicamba isn’t likely to cause cancer, but a National Institutes of Health study of nearly 50,000 farmers and pesticide sprayers found those who used the most dicamba were almost twice as likely to get liver or bile duct cancer. The researchers say more study is needed to show dicamba is the cause. Researchers have also found dicamba in the bodies of 2.5 times as many pregnant women in the Midwest as a decade earlier.
There are two ways to hold the EPA accountable for letting Bayer pick. The groups that sued already have the EPA in front of the same court that threw out dicamba’s approval in 2020, and that court can throw it out again. And if Democrats flip either chamber of Congress in November, they can force the EPA to hand over records and testify under oath. This paper trail is a great place to start.
Kentucky Is Erasing Medical Debt For 130,000 People
Starting this week, letters are going out to around 46,000 Kentuckians telling them that medical debt they owed has been erased. Undue Medical Debt, the nonprofit behind it, says more than $103 million is already gone. Nobody had to apply or fill out any forms. If your debt qualified, the letter just shows up.
On September 15, Gov. Andy Beshear signed an order sending Undue $2.5 million. The group buys old medical bills from hospitals and collectors for pennies on the dollar and cancels them, and Beshear’s office says every dollar erases about $100. When it’s done, about $250 million in medical debt is expected to be gone for more than 130,000 Kentuckians.
Melissa Henry of Paducah stood with Beshear at the announcement. Back surgeries had left her choosing “between keeping the lights on and food in the fridge” and paying down her bills. Beshear said $3,500 of her debt has been wiped out, and she said it “gave me hope.” Beshear wrote plainly in his order: “Healthcare is a basic human right.”
The regime spent this year in court fighting to keep $7 billion from working families. One Democratic governor redirected $2.5 million and is erasing about a quarter of a billion.
We only have 42 days until the midterms. Six weeks left to do everything we can to flip Congress and get rid of Trump’s rubber stamp forever.
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California made it a felony to take ballots before a vote count is final. What’s one protection you’d want for every election where you live?
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This is why I stay in this fight. Not the headline. The part where a Trump judge reads Congress’s own math, a sheriff gets told no in writing, and a governor wipes $3,500 off a woman’s kitchen table without making her fill out a form. That’s what winning looks like when nobody’s watching cable.