Trump’s Worst Week Yet

A humiliating surrender, a wind ban in ruins, and a GOP power grab collapses in Georgia

Happy Juneteenth to all. On June 19, 1865, the last enslaved Americans finally learned they were free. However you’re marking it, I hope it’s a good one.

Now, to the news—and this week, the regime is losing. Some of it we won outright. Some of it they did to themselves. All of it is good news for us.

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SIX TRANS IDAHOANS JUST WON IN FEDERAL COURT

Chief US District Judge Amanda Brailsford

Idaho Republicans wrote a law to throw transgender people in prison—up to five years—for using the public restroom that matches who they are. Gov. Brad Little signed it in March.

Six transgender Idahoans sued to stop it. On June 16, Chief US District Judge Amanda Brailsford ruled the law likely unconstitutional, finding it “invites arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement.” Even Idaho’s own officers had warned there was no practical way to check a person’s sex without invasive searches.

The judge blocked its cruelest reach: Idaho can no longer jail someone for using a bathroom when they have nowhere private to go. And it shields every transgender person in the state, not just the six who sued.

Idaho’s attorney general is appealing, and part of the law takes effect July 1. But right now, no transgender Idahoan can be jailed for using a public restroom.

EIGHTEEN STATES JUST BEAT TRUMP’S WIND BAN

Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings

On his first day back in office, Trump signed an order blocking new wind power projects across the country. It put thousands of jobs and billions of dollars at risk, as well as the cheap, clean power that helps lower electricity costs.

Eighteen states refused to bend and took the regime to court. They won—a federal judge threw out the freeze as illegal. The regime appealed, then quietly gave up.

On June 15, the court made it final: the freeze was dead, and the wind projects, enough to power more than a million homes, could finally move ahead. Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings called it “a win for the rule of law.”

Trump tried to freeze the country’s wind power with a single signature. Eighteen states took him to court—and beat him.

TRUMP’S TOUGH-GUY ACT JUST FELL APART

For years, Trump sold himself as the tough guy who always wins. This week, the act fell apart.

He marched America into an illegal war with Iran, swearing he’d destroy its missiles and shut down its nuclear program. Instead, thirteen Americans were killed, gas and grocery prices jumped, and he agreed to give Iran—a regime that funds terrorists—everything it wanted: its missiles, its nuclear program, and up to $300 billion in sanctions relief. Then he called it a win.

Nobody’s buying it. Within two days the deal was falling apart, and even Republicans called it a surrender. Sen. Jon Ossoff said it plainly: “He is a disgraced president, humiliated on the world stage by his failed war.”

Here’s the good news. The strongman we were all told to fear just lost—badly, in front of the whole world, to one of the worst regimes on earth. A man who loses like that isn’t invincible. He’s beatable. And in November, we’re going to prove it.

GEORGIA REPUBLICANS FOLDED

When you’re afraid you’ll lose an election, you can try to win it—or you can try to rig it. In Georgia, Republicans went looking for the second option, and this week their plan collapsed.

Gov. Brian Kemp called a special session to redraw Georgia’s voting maps—part of Trump’s push across the South to weaken the Black vote before the midterms.

In response, fired up Democrats and civil rights groups packed the state Capitol, vowing to protest every day of the session. House Speaker Jon Burns told Kemp they wouldn’t redraw a single line this session.

“John Lewis never backed down from getting into good trouble,” Sen. Raphael Warnock wrote, “and I won’t either.”

In the very week America marks the end of slavery, the plan to weaken the Black vote in Georgia didn’t move an inch.

THE FIGHT CONTINUES

After fighting Republicans for decades, I’ve learned that hope isn’t something you sit and wait to receive. It’s a muscle. You build it by showing up and winning—one fight, then the next—until the regime that bet you’d give up is the one explaining how it lost.

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It’s not just an audience, it’s a movement with its sleeves rolled up. And if today handed you even a little taste of that, we need you in it.

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Onward!

Scott

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