Trump’s Already Having A Very Bad Week. And We’re Not Sorry About It.

The resistance holds.

Donald Trump has spent four months suing his own government. Sit with how deranged that is. The sitting president, hauling the United States into court—against itself. Last week he was caught with the scheme. This morning it became real: $1.776 billion of our tax money, into a fund his own people control.

You don’t sue the government you run unless you decide the whole thing belongs to you. That’s the whole regime defined in a single move.

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A TEXAS COUNTY STOOD UP TO TECH BROS

On Tuesday, a place most people have never heard of did something the tech industry never expected—it said no.

Hill County, Texas, is about 55 miles south of Fort Worth. Residents learned that a 300-acre data center development was coming for their water and power grid, so they pushed back. The room erupted in cheers as County Judge Shane Brassell cast the deciding vote to put a one-year pause on new data center construction.

Pressure to support the data center was enormous. Developers called Commissioner Jim Holcomb the night before the vote, as late as 10pm, to lean on him. When nearby Hood County weighed the same pause, state Sen. Paul Bettencourt ran to AG Ken Paxton to shut it down. Hood County retreated.

Holcomb called out the racket: “The data center folks have found a sweet spot in the state that has limited regulations, limited enforcement, limited code, and they’re coming faster than we can keep up with.”

Hill County knew the developers and maybe their own state could take them to court. They didn’t care—they voted for the pause anyway. A rural Texas county decided its people’s water mattered more than AG Paxton’s threats and big tech money. Every county in Texas that was afraid to go first just learned they don’t have to be.

HOBBS VETOED THEIR GREED

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs looked at a GOP budget that traded children’s meals for billionaire tax cuts and vetoed it the same day it hit her desk.

The spending plan read like a hostage note: more than $600 million in breaks for billionaires, data centers, and special interests—to be paid for by throwing an estimated 200,000 Arizonans off Medicaid and food assistance, cutting $16 million from the Department of Child Safety, and walking away from $1.8 million that feeds 640,000 kids over the summer.

They passed it on a party-line vote and sent it to Gov. Hobbs—daring her to veto it. She did, without hesitation. The Republicans who built that dumpster fire adjourned until June and drove home. Remember that in November.

THEY MARCHED ACROSS THE BRIDGE AGAIN

Last month, the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act—a law that for sixty years protected Black voters from racist gerrymandering. Republican-led states responded by rushing to their drawing boards. Tennessee and Florida passed new maps, as Alabama, Louisiana, and Georgia are moving to do the same.

On Saturday, thousands of people said they won’t go down without a fight. They came by bus, car, and plane—from all across the country—to Selma, Alabama. People marched in silence across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where the late great John Lewis and hundreds of others were beaten for demanding the right to vote.

Tennessee State Senator Charlane Oliver

Then they filled the plaza in Montgomery where the 1965 Selma marches famously ended. Senators Cory Booker and Raphael Warnock, along with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, were there to speak. Tennessee state Sen. Charlane Oliver—who stood on her desk to protest her state’s gerrymander—laid it out: “They may draw some racist maps, but we are the South. The South belongs to us.”

TRUMP GOT CAUGHT

Trump got caught running a massive grift using taxpayer dollars—and the fight to stop him is happening now.

Here’s the scheme. In January, Trump sued the IRS for $10 billion, claiming it failed to protect his tax returns from a leak years ago. But look at who’s on each side. Trump’s the one suing—and Trump also has a stranglehold over the DOJ that defends the IRS. He spent months negotiating with himself.

This morning, the deal became official. Trump dropped the lawsuit in exchange for the DOJ creating what it’s calling the “Anti-Weaponization Fund”—$1.776 billion of your tax dollars—because looting taxpayers feels more patriotic with a founding-year price tag. As part of the deal, the IRS issued Trump a formal apology.

The fund is rotten to the core. The money comes from a pool of tax dollars Congress never gets to vote on. A commission of five hand-picked loyalists—who Trump can fire at will—will hand out the money and never have to tell the public a thing.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (L) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (R)

Rep. Jamie Raskin called the scheme “a $1,700,000,000 fraud on the American taxpayer.” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez brought the fire: “a billion dollars for a ballroom; $1.7 billion for a slush fund for the president’s friends.”

Judge Kathleen Williams had ordered Trump to explain by Wednesday how someone can sue a government they run. He didn’t wait—he settled this morning before she could rule. The fund is real. The money is moving. But 93 House Democrats filed papers with the court asking Williams to rule the whole scheme was unconstitutional from the start. They called it “corruption unparalleled in American history.”

Trump thought settling this lawsuit would end the fight. It didn’t.

PICTURE THIS

Picture that county courtroom in Texas. Four commissioners, deadlocked two to two. A judge holding the tie-breaking vote. He could’ve folded. He didn’t.

That’s what beating the regime looks like. Not just a big thunderclap. A room, a single vote, where someone was supposed to cave—but didn’t. It happened in that courtroom, in a governor’s office, on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Saturday—and this morning, when 93 members of Congress refused to let Trump’s grift go unanswered.

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What do you think about Trump’s $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund?

What are your thoughts on Hill County passing a one-year pause on new data center construction? Would you support a similar pause in your community?