Trump’s Playbook Just Shattered: A Judge Blocked His Revenge Subpoenas, A Court Killed His Voter Purge, and The Senate Voted To Drag Him Out Of His Iran War

Plus: the vaccine study they tried to bury just got out anyway

Pour some coffee and sit with me a minute, because I’ve got great news. This week, the Trump regime ran into federal judges, the country’s top doctors, and its own party in the Senate—and lost every single time.

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THEY TRIED TO JAIL A GOVERNOR. HE WON.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz

A federal judge just caught the regime trying to drag Minnesota’s elected leaders in front of a grand jury for the crime of saying no.

The targets: Gov. Tim Walz, AG Keith Ellison, the mayors of Minneapolis and St. Paul, and county officials from across the metro area. Their offense was refusing to cooperate with the regime’s deportation machine.

On Monday, Judge Patrick Schiltz—the chief federal judge in Minnesota, a former Scalia clerk, and no friend of the left—took the whole thing apart.

He called the subpoenas “a blatantly unlawful and unethical use of the grand-jury process.” The evidence they were issued for unlawful reasons was “overwhelming,” he wrote, while the DOJ “struggled—without success—to identify a single plausible investigatory justification.”

“Today’s ruling is a victory for the rule of law and our democracy,” Walz said. The regime came to jail the people who refused to bow—and even a Scalia clerk wouldn’t stand for it.

THEY BURIED A STUDY. IT GOT OUT ANYWAY.

Back in March, government scientists finished a study showing the COVID vaccine cut emergency-room and urgent-care visits in half, and hospitalizations by even more—roughly 55 percent. It had cleared the CDC’s own scientific review and was set to run in the agency’s flagship journal.

Then the regime’s acting CDC director, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, personally pulled it—rejecting the test-negative design, a method scientists have trusted for decades.

On Tuesday, the study came out anyway, in JAMA Network Open, one of the most respected medical journals in the country. Same findings. Same method. Now sitting in front of every doctor in America.

Dr. Fiona Havers, who resigned from the CDC last year over the regime’s vaccine policy, called it “pretty aggressive interference by a political appointee into CDC scientific processes.”

The regime tried to bury the truth. Instead, it handed it a much bigger megaphone.

A JUDGE KILLED HIS VOTER-PURGE MACHINE

The regime took a federal immigration database, fed it Social Security numbers and citizenship records it knew were unreliable, and turned it into a machine for kicking Americans off the voter rolls. Then it handed twenty-five states the keys.

Sixty-seven million voter registrations were run through it. Legally registered citizens got flagged as foreigners—people like Anthony Nel, who became a citizen over a decade ago but still had his Texas registration cancelled. All of it months before an election that decides who controls Congress.

On Monday, US District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan shut the whole thing down. She ruled it broke three federal privacy laws, and ordered every state to stop running their voter rolls through it—no more flagging citizens as foreigners, no more purging legal voters before November.

The government, she wrote, “has knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote.”

They built it to throw legal voters off the rolls. Judge Sooknanan stopped them.

THE SENATE VOTED TO BRING THEM HOME

The regime started bombing Iran in late February and never asked Congress for permission. For four months, Trump’s party shrugged and let him. But Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia kept bringing it back to the floor, vote after vote after vote. Nine times the Senate came up short. On the tenth, everything changed.

On Tuesday, the resolution directing Trump to bring our troops home passed in the Senate 50-48. Four Republicans crossed party lines to vote yes. Trump raged on Truth Social, calling the four who broke with him “Republican Losers.”

Don’t mistake it for courage. This is just one crack in a door his party held shut—and it happened because the whole country turned against a war it never wanted, and they pushed back until the pressure got too heavy for even his own party to hold.

A wall like that never falls on its own. It falls when enough people lean on it.

Here’s what this week proved: they’re not as strong as they want you to believe, and we’re not as alone as they want us to feel. Every time the regime reached for more power, somebody stood up and said no. That’s not luck. That’s what happens when enough of us refuse to look away.

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Onward!

Scott

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Two questions for the comments: What does it tell you that even Republican-appointed judges won’t go along with the regime’s retribution campaign? Also, what’s giving you hope right now?