Trump’s White House UFC Fight Could Be Blocked, Paxton’s Own Lawyer Endorses Dem Talarico For Senate, and Nancy Mace Gets Crushed In South Carolina

Plus, Lexington takes a stand against data centers

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LEXINGTON SAYS NO

Lexington Councilman Tyler Morton

Tyler Morton isn’t famous. He’s a first-term city councilman in Lexington, Kentucky, who last Tuesday helped do what Republicans in Congress won’t—told Big Tech to stop.

The trigger was a sale the city didn’t even know about until it was done. A Dallas company called DartPoints quietly purchased the former Lexmark data center for $29 million. No notice to the mayor or heads-up to the council. Just a done deal—and an assumption the city would fall in line.

Instead, the council voted unanimously to freeze all data center development in the city. The message was unmistakable: not here, not like this.

Mayor Linda Gorton didn’t mince words. “They do not produce many jobs,” she said, “and have the potential to increase utility costs on local residents. I support very tight controls.”

The moratorium runs through October, giving the council time to write regulations before a single permit gets filed.

Tech giants are used to buying first and asking for forgiveness never. In Lexington, they ran into something money can’t move—a city council that works for its community.

MACE OUT

Nancy Mace

GOP Rep. Nancy Mace spent years treating Congress like a reality show. When Rep. Sarah McBride arrived as the first openly transgender member of Congress, Mace greeted her with a bathroom ban written for an audience of one. When asked if she was deliberately targeting her new colleague, Mace said: “Yes and absolutely, and then some.”

That was Mace’s idea of public service—find someone to humiliate, point a camera at them, and fundraise off the wreckage.

On Tuesday night, South Carolina Republicans showed her the door. Mace didn’t just lose the gubernatorial primary—she finished a distant fifth. She conceded from her Charleston headquarters, calling the race “a spiritual battle between good and evil.” Apparently she didn’t know which side she was actually on.

Here’s the gift Mace left behind—she walked away from her congressional seat to chase the governor’s mansion, and won’t be on the ballot to defend it. A Democrat held that seat as recently as 2018. Come November, there will be no incumbent on the ballot—an open race in the best Democratic environment in years.

Mace wanted a promotion. She handed us an opening instead. Thanks, Nancy. And good riddance.

THEY’RE SUING. HE’S SELLING.

This Sunday, Trump plans to host a UFC cage fight on the White House lawn. He’s calling it a celebration of America’s 250th anniversary. It happens to fall on his 80th birthday.

Two Virginia residents—a Vietnam veteran and a civic activist—sued to put a stop to it, and now a federal judge is weighing whether to do just that.

The Public Integrity Project is leading the lawsuit, which says the regime skipped the legal permits and environmental review to build a massive structure on land that belongs to every American—not to Trump.

It also cites reports that Trump bought up to $50,000 in stock in TKO, UFC’s parent company, in May. Their lawyer, Brendan Ballou, laid it out: this is “a profound misuse of our sacred national monuments for private gain.”

Trump’s family isn’t waiting for the ruling. While a judge decides if the event is even legal, his sons are already selling commemorative coins with their dad’s face on them—up to $11,999.99 apiece.

Patrick Holland, managing editor at CNET, reviewed the gold and said: “Sometimes it looks like those gold coins that Scrooge McDuck would jump into for DuckTales. Other times, it’s got a mustard vibe to it, and yet other times, it kind of looks like a urine sample.”

PAXTON’S OWN LAWYER

Dan Cogdell

No one on Earth knows Ken Paxton’s secrets quite like Houston-based attorney Dan Cogdell, who spent nine years defending the Texas AG. That includes a long-running federal securities fraud investigation and Paxton’s historic 2023 impeachment trial.

This week, Cogdell endorsed Democrat James Talarico over his former client. Last year, he donated $6,500 to Paxton’s campaign—in March, he donated $1,000 to Talarico’s.

Cogdell went on national television and said Talarico is focused on issues people care about—gun violence, schools, and healthcare—and that Paxton hasn’t mentioned any of it. He defended Paxton vigorously in court—but as he put it, the Constitution “does not require me to vote for him or endorse him.”

Talarico is 37, a former sixth-grade public school teacher from San Antonio, and polling shows he has a real shot at doing something Texas hasn’t done since 1988—elect a Democrat to the US Senate. When your own defense lawyer jumps ship after nine years, the verdict is already in.

THE REGIME WILL NEVER GET IT

The regime will never understand what they’re up against. I’ve helped lead this fight since February 2016, and the people in it are the most amazing and remarkable I’ve ever encountered. City council members. Veterans. Teachers. And readers like you who show up every single day even when it’s hard.

That’s why I do this. That’s why you’re here. And that’s why we’re going to win.

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Scott

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