𝐂𝐍𝐍'𝐒 𝐕𝐀𝐍 𝐉𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐒 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏 𝐕𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐉𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐂𝐔𝐋𝐓 𝐎𝐍 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐕 CNN’s panel was supposed to deliver sober election-night analysis. Instead, viewers got Van Jones grinning ear to ear over Democratic wins and declaring, “𝘠𝘰𝘶’𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘮𝘺 𝘫𝘰𝘺? 𝘐’𝘮 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘺, 𝘐’𝘮 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘺, 𝘐’𝘮 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘺.” Jones rattled off his reasons: “𝘞𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘨𝘢𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦, 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴 𝘗𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘏𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘦. 𝘞𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘢 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘧𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘪𝘴, 𝘑𝘶𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘢 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘰𝘯. 𝘞𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢. 𝘞𝘦’𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦.” Fair enough — a win is a win, and Democrats are entitled to celebrate a good night. That’s where a normal segment would have ended. 𝐉𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐤𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠. “𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘣𝘪𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘳. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘮𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘉𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳,” he said. Then he reached for a comparison no cable news host should reach for on live national television. “𝘈𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘰 𝘑𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘒𝘰𝘰𝘭-𝘈𝘪𝘥. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘑𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘺,” Jones said, straight-faced, to a national audience. 𝐉𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐢𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐚 𝐩𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 — it’s the 1978 massacre where cult leader Jim Jones m∗rdered more than 900 of his own followers, over 300 of them children, with cyanide-laced punch. Jones wasn’t finished: “𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘒𝘰𝘰𝘭-𝘈𝘪𝘥, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘧𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺... 𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘑𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵. 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘫𝘰𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵, 𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘨𝘰 𝘵𝘰 𝘑𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘯. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵, 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘴.” This is the same network that spends its days lecturing the country about “dehumanizing rhetoric.” 𝐎𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐓𝐕, one of its top anchors told tens of millions of Republican voters they’re on their way to a cyanide-poisoning massacre — and grinned while he said it. CNN didn’t cut away, didn’t push back, didn’t apologize. 𝐍𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐲𝐞. For the network that polices everyone else’s words, this was just Tuesday night. 𝐕𝐚𝐧 𝐉𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐬-𝐦∗𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭’𝐬 𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐬 — 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲.

𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐘 𝐉𝐀𝐂𝐊𝐒𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝐒𝐂𝐇𝐔𝐌𝐄𝐑’𝐒 𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐏 𝐓𝐎 𝐖𝐈𝐍 𝐌𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐄 — 𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐍’𝐓 𝐂𝐑𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐇𝐈𝐌 𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐑 Chuck Schumer spent months trying to put Troy Jackson in the United States Senate. He took the meeting after Jackson’s own campaign made clear it didn’t want the national party’s help, then told reporters, 𝘸𝘦’𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘵, 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘚𝘶𝘴𝘢𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦. It worked. Jackson is Maine’s new senator, and Democrats just got the majority Schumer has been chasing for years. So Fox News asked Maine’s newest senator-elect the obvious follow-up: would he vote to make Chuck Schumer the Senate Majority Leader? 𝘕𝘰, Jackson said, flat, no hedge, before the panel back in studio even finished rolling the tape. He didn’t pretend otherwise. 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱, Jackson said. 𝘊𝘩𝘶𝘤𝘬 𝘚𝘤𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘥, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱. Translate that out of senator-speak: 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐭, 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐜𝐥𝐞, 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐣𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲, just told the country on camera that he’s 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦 for the job Schumer has wanted back since Republicans took it from him. Fox’s own panel didn’t pretend to be surprised either. They called it a brewing civil war between the party’s “normy” wing and the DSA bloc that, in their words, had a really good night. 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞—𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐦. He got his majority back. Whether he gets to lead it is now somebody else’s decision. 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐠𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐩 𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞.

𝐈𝐋𝐇𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐑 𝐖𝐈𝐍𝐒 𝐀 𝐅𝐈𝐅𝐓𝐇 𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐌 𝐁𝐘 𝟔𝟎 𝐏𝐎𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐒 — 𝐀𝐒 𝐅𝐄𝐃𝐒 𝐁𝐔𝐈𝐋𝐃 𝐀 𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐃𝐄𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓 𝐇𝐄𝐑 Tuesday was a brutal night for Republicans almost everywhere. It wasn't brutal in Minnesota's 5th District. 𝐈𝐥𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐎𝐦𝐚𝐫 cruised to re-election over veteran state trooper John Nagel, 𝟕𝟔.𝟓% 𝐭𝐨 𝟏𝟔%, even as the Trump administration builds an immigration fraud case aimed at stripping her citizenship and deporting her. Since 2016, the FBI and Homeland Security have investigated whether Omar legally married one of her own siblings, 𝘈𝘩𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘕𝘶𝘳 𝘚𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘌𝘭𝘮𝘪, to get him a green card — while she was still filing joint tax returns with a different man, 𝘈𝘩𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘏𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘪, whom she'd entered an Islamic marriage with back in 2002. Federal prosecutors have reportedly started referring to her in court filings as “𝘐𝘭𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘕𝘶𝘳 𝘚𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘌𝘭𝘮𝘪” — what sources told the 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘠𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘗𝘰𝘴𝘵 is her real name. On October 12, Homeland Security Investigations agents took the rare step of executing a search warrant on Omar's Washington, DC home less than 30 days before the election — making a covert federal probe into a sitting congresswoman suddenly, publicly real. Investigators are also looking at whether Omar or her father lied about her birthdate to obtain citizenship in 2000, and whether she and her consultant husband understated their net worth on financial disclosures. Omar's response to the raid was to call it political targeting: ““𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴, 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘐 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘥.”” Her Republican challenger ran explicitly on the district's own fraud scandals — one of her former campaign staffers already pleaded guilty to laundering money from a program meant to feed hungry kids. ““𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘵𝘢 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺'𝘷𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘯,”” Nagel said after his primary win. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐫𝐞-𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐰𝐚𝐲. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞. Source: New York Post

𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐇 𝐂𝐈𝐑𝐂𝐔𝐈𝐓 𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐒 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏 𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐒𝐄𝐈𝐔 𝐀𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐅𝐋𝐈𝐏-𝐅𝐋𝐎𝐏𝐏𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐄𝐄 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒 𝐈𝐍 𝟏𝟐 𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐒 On Election Day afternoon, the Ninth Circuit's full 11-judge en banc panel voted 6-5 to let the Trump administration keep demanding that California and Washington State set aside suspected noncitizen ballots. U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli didn't wait to spike the football, writing on X that 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘢𝘸 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘴. 𝘚𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘫𝘶𝘥𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘩 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘴. He added: 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘷𝘰𝘳. It took three reversals in twelve hours to get there. A three-judge panel first lifted a district judge's restrictions on the DOJ. Then the full court voted to rehear the case en banc, wiping that ruling out. Hours later, the 11-judge panel restored it anyway, 𝐩𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭’𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐥. Chief Judge Mary Murguia, who pushed for the rehearing, dissented — insisting the Justice Department's request to flag illegal ballots amounted to voter intimidation. The fight is over roughly 20,000 California ballots and more than 400 in Washington State that the DOJ flagged as potentially cast by noncitizens — people the government says registered and voted, in some cases more than once, while in the country illegally. States already sequester ballots routinely for signature mismatches and provisional review. The DOJ simply asked them to do the same here until citizenship could be verified. That wasn't good enough for 𝐒𝐄𝐈𝐔, 𝐀𝐅𝐒𝐂𝐌𝐄, 𝐋𝐔𝐋𝐀𝐂 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐀𝐀𝐂𝐏, who sued to brand the request itself as "unlawfully intimidating, threatening, or coercive." The Ninth Circuit's majority wasn't buying it, ruling the executive branch — not a coalition of unions — gets to call the ball on enforcing citizenship law at the ballot box. It's the same fight playing out in the DOJ's broader Operation Protect the Vote, which has already charged 28 green-card holders across California, including a Long Beach woman and a La Puente man accused of lying about their voting history on naturalization paperwork. The restrictions stay paused while the appeal plays out, and SEIU's allies can keep fighting in court. But on the day it mattered most, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐰 𝐰𝐨𝐧 — 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐰𝐬𝐮𝐢𝐭. 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐩-𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐂𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐮𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐰 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐭.

𝐎𝐔𝐓𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝟐𝟐-𝐓𝐎-𝟏, 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐃𝐎 𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐑𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐒 𝐆𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐏𝐒 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐄𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐃-𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐁𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐎𝐓 𝐌𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐄𝐒 Colorado went for Democrats up and down the ballot Tuesday night, 60% to 35% in the top-line races. But buried underneath that blowout, three citizen-led ballot measures that the state's own Democratic Party officially opposed were cruising to victory anyway, according to live returns reported by conservative correspondent Ben Bergquam. Proposition 133 would mandate 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞 for trafficking a child for sex, up from the current 8-to-48-year sentencing range. With roughly 60% of the vote counted, it was leading 𝟖𝟔𝟓,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐭𝐨 𝟓𝟎𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎. Proposition 134, requiring school and college athletes to compete on teams matching their biological sex, was ahead by 𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟎𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬. Proposition 135, banning gender-transition surgery for anyone under 18, was winning too. The campaign behind all three, Protect Kids Colorado, didn't get there with money. Bergquam reported the group was outspent 𝟐𝟐 𝐭𝐨 𝟏 by its opposition and says its volunteers were threatened for their trouble. “𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘵 22 𝘵𝘰 1,” Bergquam said on air. “𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥... 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘯 𝘗𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘰.” That's the part that makes the margins remarkable: a 22-to-1 cash gap is the kind of number campaign consultants say decides elections before a single vote is cast. The group's own yard signs were being stolen by the truckload earlier in the campaign — organizers caught one thief on camera after hiding GPS trackers inside them. None of it worked. In a state that just handed Democrats a 25-point statewide win, voters still carved out space to protect kids on their own terms. 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐝𝐬. 𝐈𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐛𝐮𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞. Source: @RealAmVoice

𝐑𝐎𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐓 𝐆𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐈𝐀, 𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐈𝐑, 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐒 𝐈𝐍 𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐂𝐀𝐏𝐒: “𝐋𝐀𝐖𝐘𝐄𝐑 𝐔𝐏” 𝐀𝐒 𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐂𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐒 𝐓𝐀𝐊𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒 Democrats hadn’t even finished celebrating before CNN was asking the question Washington is now bracing for: how much energy will the new majorities spend on oversight and investigations? CNN’s congressional reporter said the answer is already showing up on social media. She called it “𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐞𝐫𝐚 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬” arriving as the results were still coming in, and said it 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 “𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞’𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐧.” Her first example was Rep. Robert Garcia, the current ranking member of the House Oversight Committee and, in CNN’s words, the incoming chairman. Per CNN, he posted two words in all caps: “𝘭𝘢𝘸𝘺𝘦𝘳 𝘶𝘱.” That is the man in line to hold the gavel and the subpoena pen on the committee with the widest reach in Congress. His message, on the night the majority flipped, wasn’t about prices, jobs, or the border. It was about 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲. CNN walked through Democrats’ own posts as examples of what is on their minds. Voters were told this election was about their kitchen tables. The people they just empowered are already talking about subpoenas, and your tax dollars will fund every hearing. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐣𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐲𝐞𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐥𝐚𝐰𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐬.

𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐈𝐑𝐄𝐒 𝐅𝐋𝐄𝐃 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐀 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 $𝟐𝟕 𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐍 — 𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐈𝐓𝐒 𝐖𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐇 𝐓𝐀𝐗 𝐈𝐒 𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀𝐍𝐘𝐖𝐀𝐘 On election night, California’s proposed 5% wealth tax on billionaires was trailing in the vote count — and the billionaires it was built to hit had already made their move. Fox News flagged the list on-air: Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick, and director Steven Spielberg had all shifted their residency out of the state before the January 1, 2026 cutoff that would have triggered the bill. Kalanick didn’t hide why the timing mattered. 𝘖𝘯 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 18, 𝘐 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘛𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘴, he confirmed — fourteen days before the deadline that would have made him a California taxpayer on a slice of his own fortune for the very first time. Forbes put a number on what walked out the door with them: $𝟐𝟕 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐚𝐱 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐞, gone before a single ballot was cast. Page alone accounted for roughly $13 billion of that total and Brin another $12 billion — money Sacramento had already built into its spending plans. And now the tax itself is coming up short anyway. The same billionaire class it targeted poured more than $𝟑𝟎𝟎 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 into defeating it, and as results rolled in Tuesday night, the measure was trailing after leading comfortably just a month and a half earlier. California tried to squeeze its richest residents and walked away with the worst of both outcomes — the money already left, and the tax built to replace it may not even survive the count. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐰𝐢𝐜𝐞. 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐚 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 $𝟐𝟕 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐚 𝐭𝐚𝐱 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐰𝐚𝐲. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐚𝐱 — 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐚 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠-𝐨𝐮𝐭-𝐨𝐟-𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐞.

𝐍𝐄𝐖𝐒𝐎𝐌 𝐓𝐎 𝐅𝐄𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐋 𝐀𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒 𝐈𝐍 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐀: "𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏 𝐂𝐀𝐍'𝐓 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐎𝐍 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐀 𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐄" On Election Day, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement posted a blunt warning on X aimed at anyone tempted to break the law at the ballot box: "𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺, 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶. 𝘞𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯, 𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘯𝘰 𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘦." It was meant as a deterrent against noncitizen voting. California Governor Gavin Newsom turned it into a 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐭. Newsom didn't just push back on ICE — he mirrored the agency's own words and fired them straight at its agents. "𝘐𝘧 𝘠𝘖𝘜 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘶𝘱 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺, 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶. 𝘞𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯, 𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘯𝘰 𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘦," he wrote, lifting ICE's own threat and pointing it at the federal officers enforcing it. Then he kept going. In a follow-up post, Newsom addressed "𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐟𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩'𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐟 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐚" directly, warning that if they "𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘵𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶. 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘰𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘢 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦," he wrote — a direct claim that a governor's prosecutors can reach further than a presidential pardon. This is the same governor who signed a new California law making ballot seizure a felony, in the same week the Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration's bid to seize 20,000 California ballots over noncitizen-voting concerns. Newsom isn't defending an abstract principle here — he's 𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐟𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧'𝐬 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐚𝐰𝐬. DHS says ICE has no operation planned at polling sites. That didn't stop Newsom from telling federal agents, on the record, that his state's "justice" system answers to no one in Washington — not even the man who appoints them. 𝐆𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬𝐨𝐦 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐟𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐚𝐰 𝐞𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐨𝐧. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 — 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐚 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫.

𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏 𝐓𝐎 𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍 𝐀𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐈𝐃𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐌𝐒: 𝐁𝐄𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄, 𝐎𝐑 𝐈'𝐋𝐋 𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐒𝐇 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐉𝐎𝐁 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐈𝐋𝐘 Fox News asked President Trump point blank, with the midterms now behind him and speculation swirling over what comes next with Tehran: is he going forward with more against Iran? His answer came in two parts, and the second one is the one Iran needs to hear. "𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵, 𝘯𝘰," he said, "𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘭𝘺, 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘭𝘺, 𝘪𝘧 𝘐𝘳𝘢𝘯 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦, 𝘐 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭." No immediate strike is planned, and the administration isn't telegraphing a timeline. But Trump made clear that the lull is a choice, not a limit, and that choice is his to revoke the moment Tehran tests it. He laid out the offer on the table: "𝘐𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘥𝘰, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸, 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘱, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘧 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺'𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘯𝘶𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘱𝘰𝘯 — 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥." 𝐀 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥, 𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐬 𝐚 𝐧𝐮𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐦𝐞'𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 is the off-ramp Iran still has. If Tehran walks away from that instead, Trump left no ambiguity about what follows: "𝘖𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘦, 𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘫𝘰𝘣 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘺." That's not a threat issued in the heat of a crisis — it's a calm, post-election answer from a president who just watched his own party lose both chambers and didn't blink on Iran policy anyway. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐝𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐖𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐨𝐧. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝. Behave, sign something binding, and give up the bomb for good — or find out exactly how easily this president means what he says. 𝐓𝐞𝐡𝐫𝐚𝐧 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠: 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐦 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥, 𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭.

𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐙𝐎𝐍𝐀 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐍𝐄𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐒𝐊𝐀 𝐁𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐃 𝐌𝐄𝐍 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐖𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐍’𝐒 𝐒𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐒 — 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐃𝐎 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐖𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐓𝐎𝐍 𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐃 𝐁𝐄 𝐍𝐄𝐗𝐓 Even as Democrats swept control of Congress on election night, voters in two states drew a line both parties’ own legislatures had refused to draw for years. 𝘝𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘈𝘳𝘪𝘻𝘰𝘯𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘕𝘦𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘢 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯’𝘴 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘶𝘴𝘱 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦, Fox News reported live from the anchor desk as the returns came in. Arizona’s Proposition 318 and Nebraska’s Fairness for Girls initiative both do the same basic thing: they write into law — and in Nebraska’s case, into the state constitution itself — that teams designated for women and girls stay reserved for biological sex. Nebraska’s measure made the ballot after organizers turned in a 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝟐𝟏𝟏,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬, and the state’s Supreme Court unanimously threw out every legal challenge trying to keep it off the ballot. What makes this sting for Democrats isn’t just Arizona and Nebraska. It’s that 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐨𝐧 — two of the bluest states in the country — are on the cusp of doing the exact same thing national Democrats refuse to even discuss. Lawmakers in both state capitols already k!lled similar bills before voters forced the question straight onto the ballot themselves. That’s the real story here: the same party that just 𝐰𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞 can’t win this argument with its own voters. Democratic legislators in Denver and Olympia buried this policy behind closed doors, so their own constituents went around them and put it directly to a vote. Arizona and Nebraska’s results are in. Colorado and Washington are still counting — but if even one of those two deep-blue states joins them, it’s the clearest signal yet that this fight isn’t red versus blue anymore. It’s common sense versus everyone else, and in state after state, common sense keeps winning. 𝐕𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝𝐧’𝐭 — 𝐩𝐮𝐭 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥𝐬’ 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬. 𝐓𝐰𝐨 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩-𝐛𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐛𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭.

𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐌𝐄𝐑 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐍𝐄𝐘 𝐌𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐘 𝐌𝐎𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐌𝐄𝐑 𝐂𝐀𝐔𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐈𝐍 𝟐𝟖𝟏-𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐎𝐑 𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 Florida Sheriff Grady Judd just closed out a week-long undercover sweep aimed at the men who prey on children, and he did not sugarcoat what his detectives found. 𝘐𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘯𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘺 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘦𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘹 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘯, Judd said as Polk County announced 𝟐𝟖𝟏 𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬 in the operation. One of the men booked told investigators he used to zip into the Mickey Mouse costume at Walt Disney World. Judd said deputies caught him showing up to meet who he believed was a child while 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬, a detail detectives flagged as evidence of the specific fetish he came hunting to feed. He wasn't the only one clocking in at the parks between shifts hunting kids. Deputies say 𝟏𝟕 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝟖𝟏 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐨𝐫 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐬, 13 from Disney and four from Universal, all netted in the same predator and prostitution sweep. Disney confirmed to the outlet that every employee implicated has since been 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝. The rest of the roundup reads like a warning label. A coach for the Davenport Titans youth football team is accused of messaging girls as young as 11. An active-duty Navy sailor was also booked. And 32 of the suspects were in the country illegally, while 24 showed up to their meetups carrying firearms. Disney can fire a man out of a costume. It can't erase the fact that a trusted character performer walked around children all day while nursing exactly the fetish he got arrested for. Polk County just proved these predators don't stop at the park gates — some of them clock in. 𝟐𝟖𝟏 𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬, 𝟏𝟕 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞-𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐛𝐚𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 — 𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞, 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐲'𝐬 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬.

𝐙𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐊𝐘 𝐀𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐒 𝐌𝐄𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐀 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐎𝐅 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐒𝐒 𝐎𝐋𝐆𝐀 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐒𝐀𝐕𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐇𝐊𝐘 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree on November 2 awarding First Lady Melania Trump the Order of Princess Olga, First Class — one of Ukraine's highest honors for women, reserved for exceptional contributions in science, education, culture and charitable work. The decree credited her with a “𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯” to humanitarian support for Ukraine, including efforts to help children who were deported or forcibly moved out of Russian-occupied territory. The honor comes after Mrs. Trump personally helped broker a six-day ceasefire that evacuated civilians from Oleshky, a Russian-occupied town in the Kherson region that was on the brink of collapse. It was 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚'𝐬 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥-𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐, and it let nearly 800 people escape a city where food, water and medicine had run out. “𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘖𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘩𝘬𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘦. 𝘖𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘩𝘬𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵-𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘳 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳,” she said, describing a population of mostly elderly residents “𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘦, 𝘧𝘰𝘰𝘥, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳.” President Trump backed her up directly to reporters: “𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘯. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘴. 𝘉𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘩𝘦𝘳, 𝘴𝘰 𝘴𝘩𝘦'𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘫𝘰𝘣.” Russia didn't exactly return the good faith. Kyiv's General Staff said Moscow's forces used the humanitarian window to 𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐩𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, drawing only a shrug from Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, who called repositioning during a ceasefire “𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦.” Even so, the evacuation held, and Ukraine's own human rights ombudsman is already asking the First Lady to run the same playbook in other occupied towns. While cable news obsessed over Tuesday's midterm fallout, 𝐌𝐫𝐬. 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞'𝐬 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐲 to keep working the phones on her own peace mission. Ukraine just decided that mattered enough to pin a medal on her for it. 𝐔𝐤𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞'𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐖𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧.

𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍'𝐒 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐈𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐄𝐑 𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐈𝐃𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐌𝐒: “𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐒 𝐒𝐀𝐈𝐃 𝐍𝐎 𝐓𝐎 𝐖𝐀𝐑, 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐖𝐄 𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐎𝐑𝐒𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐆𝐄” Tehran didn't wait a day to claim Tuesday's election as its own victory. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, speaker of Iran's parliament, framed the Democratic sweep as a referendum on American strength itself: “𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘕𝘖 𝘛𝘖 𝘞𝘈𝘙, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘨𝘦.” This is the same Ghalibaf who, since the recent U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran's nuclear and missile sites, has argued that 𝐖𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐨𝐧'𝐬 "𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞" collapsed in that war. Now he's reading a congressional election as proof he was right all along. An adversary that just absorbed strikes on its own weapons program is treating a House and Senate flip as evidence that the United States has lost its nerve. That's not a Democratic talking point. That's a hostile regime grading our politics by how weak it thinks we've become. Elections have consequences at home. They have an audience abroad too, and this one just told you exactly what Tehran heard. 𝐀𝐧 𝐚𝐲𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐡'𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐢𝐝𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮. Source: @Telegraph

𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐂𝐇𝐔𝐒𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐒 𝐒𝐂𝐑𝐀𝐏𝐒 𝐈𝐓𝐒 “𝐀𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐌 𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐘 𝐎𝐑 𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐅𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐄” 𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐄 Nick and Audrey Jones had fostered 𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬. Greg and Marianelly Schrock had cared for 𝟐𝟖 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐱 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬. Then the state told both families their faith made them unfit parents. Massachusetts' Department of Children and Families required every foster parent to sign an agreement promising to affirm a child's stated gender identity, use chosen pronouns, and encourage medical transition if a child asked for it, no exceptions for religious conviction. The Joneses refused to sign. DCF moved to pull their license and take away their 𝟏𝟕-𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡-𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫. The Schrocks' license was simply discontinued in June 2025 over their beliefs on sexuality and gender. In September 2025, Alliance Defending Freedom sued DCF's leadership in federal court on behalf of both families, arguing the mandate violated their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Three months later, the state folded. On 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟔, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓, DCF issued an emergency policy change stripping the gender-ideology mandate out of foster care licensing entirely, just as a preliminary injunction hearing was bearing down on it in court (𝘈𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘮). Massachusetts didn't settle quietly behind closed doors. It rewrote a statewide licensing policy rather than defend it in front of a federal judge, because the policy was never going to survive contact with the Constitution. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐣𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞. Source: Adflegal

𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐔𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐒, 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐁𝐄𝐂𝐀𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐖𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐄𝐀𝐊. 𝐖𝐄 𝐃𝐎𝐍'𝐓 𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐕𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐀𝐍𝐘𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄. I'm starting with my own side, because that's where the lesson is. Republicans were handed the House, the Senate and the White House, and too many of them spent it worrying about how they'd look, who they'd offend and whose feelings they might hurt. 𝐖𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞. We can't keep sending people to Washington who flinch every time the other side calls them a name. 𝐖𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐞𝐬, and right now we have a bench full of people who won't. We've seen what happens to weak people. They get rolled. Tonight, they got rolled. Now, Democrats. You sent some of the most radical people in American politics to Washington, people willing to do things no serious party would try. In January you get the gavels. So here's my challenge: 𝐝𝐨 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦. Most bills in the Senate still need 60 votes, and anything you pass still lands on President Trump's desk. So nothing real happens unless you work with the other side. Show us you're capable of bipartisanship. Build something instead of just investigating someone. Every race, live: 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐬, 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐧. 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐬, 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧. 𝐈'𝐦 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐧𝐞.

𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐂𝐑𝐀𝐓 𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐖𝐒 𝐅𝐋𝐈𝐏𝐒 𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐓𝐇 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐀'𝐒 𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐓 — 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐖𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐍 𝐒𝐂 𝐇𝐀𝐒 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐄 The Associated Press called it Tuesday night: pediatrician 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐰𝐬 has defeated Republican Darline Graham for the U.S. Senate seat, roughly 51 percent to 47 percent. It is the first Senate seat South Carolina has handed Democrats since 1998 — and Andrews becomes the first woman the state has ever elected to the chamber. Graham, the late Senator Lindsey Graham's sister, was appointed to finish his term after he d∗ed suddenly in July. She won a bruising special GOP primary runoff in August, but her general-election campaign stumbled badly down the stretch, by multiple accounts, including conservative outlets covering her own state. Andrews, a Charleston pediatrician, ran unsuccessfully for a U.S. House seat against Rep. Nancy Mace in 2022 before mounting this campaign. She had no prior elected office and no statewide name recognition going in. Republicans have held this seat continuously since Strom Thurmond, through Lindsey Graham, through his sister. South Carolina was supposed to be unloseable for the GOP. Republicans spent the cycle bracing for losses in Georgia and the House. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐚𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠. Source: @EricLDaugh

𝐀 𝐌𝐀𝐍 𝐀𝐋𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐘 𝐃𝐄𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐎 𝐌𝐄𝐗𝐈𝐂𝐎 𝐈𝐒 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐕𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐎𝐅 𝐀 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟐 𝐓𝐀𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐀 𝐌∗𝐑𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐄𝐄 𝐑∗𝐏𝐄𝐒 Miguel Urbano-Vazquez picked up 39-year-old Sharon Van Gilder at the Golden Rooster Tavern in March 2002. Hours later her 𝐧𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐝, 𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 was dumped on a county road, his DNA inside her. He wasn’t finished. That June he lured a homeless woman hitchhiking to Seattle into a garage and beat her with a wrench while he r∗ped her. In August he and two other men r∗ped and beat a 29-year-old woman in the same garage. In October he slit a 40-year-old woman’s throat and r∗ped her in an alley. DNA finally linked him to Van Gilder’s m∗rder in 2012 — ten years after he m∗rdered her. By then he had already been deported to Mexico. It took investigators until 2019 to find him and until March 2023 for the FBI to arrest him in a town outside Mexico City. He was extradited to Pierce County last year. On Tuesday, 𝟐𝟒 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫, a Pierce County jury convicted Urbano-Vazquez of aggravated first-degree m∗rder and three counts of r∗pe. The surviving victims — now in their 40s, 50s and 60s — testified in open court about the hours they spent being r∗ped and left for dead. “𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯,” Van Gilder’s cousin, Brenda Doty, told KOMO News. He’s set to be sentenced Dec. 11 and faces life without parole. 𝐓𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐲-𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬. 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞, 𝐧𝐨 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞. Source: New York Post

𝐓𝐖𝐈𝐂𝐄-𝐃𝐄𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐆𝐀𝐋 𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐍 𝐊!𝐋𝐋𝐒 𝟐𝟏-𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑-𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐆𝐄 𝐇𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐘 𝐂𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐀𝐈𝐍 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐆-𝐖𝐀𝐘 𝐂𝐑𝐀𝐒𝐇 Ryan O’Shea was 21 years old. A senior at the University of New Haven, he was assistant captain of the club hockey team, president of his Kappa Sigma chapter, and an NYPD intern who dreamed of wearing the badge himself one day. Just before midnight on October 16, driving home from a hockey game, O’Shea was hit head-on on I-91 in North Haven, Connecticut, by a pickup truck 𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐚𝐲 down the highway. The impact spun his car into oncoming lanes, where it was struck twice more. He was pronounced dead at the scene. State police identified the driver as 31-year-old Guillermo Carmona-Lopez. DHS says he’s a Mexican national who was arrested by Border Patrol in 2013, issued a final order of removal, deported — and quietly re-entered the country at an unknown time and place. DHS’s own statement: 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘥𝘺. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘸𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘻𝘦𝘳𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. UNH retired O’Shea’s No. 5 jersey on the ice. Friends remember the infectious laugh, the guy who’d push your buttons for 30 minutes just to crack a smile out of you, who always put everyone else first. 𝐓𝐰𝐨 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞. Connecticut State Police say the investigation is still open. What isn’t open to debate: a man the government had already ordered out of this country — twice — was still driving on an American highway the night he took a 21-year-old’s life. 𝐃𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐰𝐢𝐜𝐞, 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐚 𝟐𝟏-𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫-𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞. Source: @GuntherEagleman

𝐃𝐎𝐉 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐄𝐒 𝟒𝟎+ 𝐒𝐔𝐁𝐏𝐎𝐄𝐍𝐀𝐒 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 "𝐃𝐄𝐂𝐎𝐘 𝐃𝐀𝐍" 𝐒𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐌𝐄—𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏 𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐀𝐖𝐘𝐄𝐑 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐒𝐄𝐂𝐔𝐓𝐄𝐃 With Alaska's Senate race still on the ballot today, the Justice Department dramatically widened its criminal probe into the "𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐲 𝐃𝐚𝐧" scheme —the alleged Democrat plan to recruit a copycat candidate just to confuse voters and bleed votes from the real Sen. Dan Sullivan (R). CNN reports 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝟒𝟎 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐣𝐮𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐩𝐨𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐬 and records-preservation notices went out by Wednesday evening, with more expected, after a New York Times report on Democrat Mary Peltola's campaign handed investigators evidence they hadn't had before. One DOJ official put it bluntly: “𝘚𝘶𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘸𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘳.” Trump didn't mince words about who he blames. Asked about the vanished copycat candidate: “𝘏𝘦 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘩𝘦'𝘴 𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘵𝘺. 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘢 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘶𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦. 𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘣𝘺 𝘚𝘤𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘳 —𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘢𝘸𝘺𝘦𝘳, 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘤 𝘌𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘥 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦.” Investigators are reportedly weighing federal civil rights charges over the scheme. Trump has separately said of Peltola and the decoy candidate himself: “𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘥.” One Senate seat, and maybe the majority margin, may hinge on a race nobody can even agree was run fairly. 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐥𝐚𝐰𝐲𝐞𝐫 𝐮𝐩—𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐣𝐮𝐫𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞. Source: @EricLDaugh

𝐌𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐕𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐎𝐍 𝐂𝐍𝐍: 𝐈 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐒, 𝐁𝐔𝐓 𝐖𝐄 𝐆𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐉𝐀𝐂𝐊𝐒𝐎𝐍 𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐕𝐎𝐓𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐘𝐖𝐀𝐘 On Election Day, CNN put a microphone in front of Maine voters in the Senate race between Republican Susan Collins and Democrat Troy Jackson. One voter, speaking live on air, said: “𝘐 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘚𝘶𝘴𝘢𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘵. 𝘐 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘳.” Then came the pivot. “𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘩, 𝘶𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺, 𝘸𝘦 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘭𝘪𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘢. 𝘚𝘰, 𝘺𝘦𝘴, 𝘸𝘦 𝘨𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘑𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦.” 𝐀 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐭 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐰𝐚𝐲. It wasn’t the only voice in the segment. CNN’s reporter on the ground said many of the Jackson voters described their ballot as “𝘢 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘚𝘶𝘴𝘢𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘴” and “𝘢 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘋𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘥 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱.” A Collins supporter in the same report said “𝘚𝘩𝘦’𝘭𝘭 𝘥𝘰 𝘢 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘫𝘰𝘣.” That is the whole Democratic pitch in one sound bite. The argument isn’t about Jackson’s record or what he’d do for Maine. It is 𝐚 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲-𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞, with a senator these voters say they respect as the price. CNN’s reporter also described the other side of it: Collins backers say she is the one bringing dollars back to the state of Maine. The polls close tonight, and Maine will decide whether a senator they admit they like is worth more than the party fight in Washington. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐂𝐍𝐍 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐬. 𝐓𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡.