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400 Emails Later, The Vote Was 7-0
Last week, Trump posted on social media that the only reason a community wouldn’t want a data center is if it wants to end up backwards and poor. The night after, seven members of the Planning and Zoning Commission in Prosper, Texas, took a vote on a data center.
A Dallas-area developer wanted farmland rezoned to put one up. It would cover roughly 225,000 square feet and cost around $580 million. Town staff had already recommended the project for approval. That’s usually where a story like this ends. But then more than 400 emails came in against the data center.
Dozens showed up to the commission meeting and spoke for over an hour, some coming from towns next door. No one could tell them how much electricity the data center would pull from the community, because the power draw depends on the tenant, and no tenant has signed. According to the developer, the entire project would only come with 20 to 50 permanent jobs.
Even Prosper Mayor David Bristol stood up as a private citizen and asked the commission to deny it. All seven members voted no. A half-billion-dollar project didn’t get a single yes vote. That recommended rejection is scheduled to be in front of the Town Council Tuesday night.
A Fox News poll in July found voters oppose building a data center in their area by forty points, 70 to 30. The group most likely to say yes was MAGA supporters, and even they came in under 50%. Prosper loudly said what most of the country is already thinking.
A 19-Year-Old Made A Former Governor Answer
When Jonah Bevin was five years old, he came to the US from Ethiopia—he’s 19 now. He spent time in boarding schools for troubled teens, including one in Jamaica that the police raided while he was in its custody.
Last year, a judge let him into his parents’ divorce case to ask for child support covering that time. His father is Matt Bevin, the Trump-endorsed former Governor of Kentucky.
Child support is calculated from what a parent earns. So the court ordered both parents to open their books. Jonah’s mother did—Bevin turned in a financial statement that was blacked out.
The judge ordered him again and he ignored her. So she held him in contempt in March, giving him more time. When Bevin blew that deadline, the judge issued a warrant for his arrest.
Bevin spent the summer refusing to show up to the courtroom. When his son took the stand in July, Bevin asked if he could watch via video—because showing up in person meant he’d be getting arrested. The judge said no.
Deputies arrested him Thursday on a Christmas movie set at a Kentucky horse farm. The next day, Judge Angela Johnson denied him bond and ordered him to serve 60 days. A former GOP governor is sitting in a jail cell rather than show a judge what he earns in a child support case brought by his own son.
California Beat The EPA And The Oil Lobby
California’s been setting car exhaust limits way before Washington, and federal law has protected that for 60 years now. California writes what is considered the standard, and the Clean Air Act requires the EPA to sign a permission slip unless it can point to one of a few narrow exceptions. It’s signed more than 75 of them.
Congress has a fast track for killing a federal rule—simple majority, no filibuster, done. It can’t do that to a permission slip, because a permission slip isn’t a rule. Each of these documents says so, in the EPA’s own words, printed in the government’s own record book.
So Lee Zeldin’s EPA took four of those waivers, one of them signed more than 15 years ago, and suddenly started calling them rules. Nothing else changed. Then the EPA mailed them to Congress for the fast-track treatment and stapled the original paperwork to the back—including the page that says it isn’t a rule.
Judge Beryl Howell blocked it and threw out two attempts to toss the case, which came from the EPA and the oil industry. Then the judge wrote that it might look like a clever policy move, but it undermines honest compliance with the law—which is what Americans should expect from executive branch agencies.
They didn’t just get caught. They confessed in writing and mailed it in.
A Judge Just Saved Mail Voting Again
Nearly a third of America votes by mail, and North Carolina put the first ballots out on Friday. In March, Trump ordered the Postal Service to screen them first. Before your state can mail you a ballot, it would be required to upload your name to a new federal portal. It would also need to get its envelopes approved in DC. Anything that doesn’t line up gets handed back to the state, which means it never reaches you.
Federal Judge Indira Talwani blocked Trump’s order in June, so the regime took it to the Supreme Court claiming they were being harmed every day they couldn’t act. Then, a few weeks ago on a Friday night around nine o’clock, the Postal Service issued its final rule. Three days later the justices ruled for the regime, saying states sued too early because no final rule existed yet. It had existed for three days.
Talwani had a word for that. Feigned. She wrote that the Court had accepted the government’s feigned compliance. And when election officials from more than 20 states swore that complying this late was impossible, she noted the government didn’t even respond.
On Friday, Talwani blocked the mandatory parts of the new USPS rules and refused to pause her order while the regime appeals. Likely unlawful, she found. Likely unconstitutional. And on this timeline, people losing their vote was practically inevitable. The regime is back at the Supreme Court as I write this. But as of now, no one can be forced into that portal, because the judge read the calendar and said absolutely not.
It’s been a long road to get here. But after a decade of fighting Trump and his accomplices, there’s no way we’re slowing down now.
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A Trump-endorsed former governor is sitting in a cell today because his 19-year-old son wouldn’t back down. Who’s the next one who belongs in there? (name your top 3)
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Two focuses for today!
**Yosemite.** A Nevada developer wants a strip of the park for a private road. 1,172 letters in the first three days. https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-stop-trumps-yosemite-giveaway
**Mail voting.** Hearing is Thursday, and ballots are already going out in some states. https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-protect-our-use-of-voting-by-mail-and-voting-machines/
They dropped new rejection rules in North Carolina the same morning the first ballots went out. Cooper is ahead anyway. That’s not a reason to get quiet. That’s a reason to check your registration and tell two people.