Category: US

Freedom Caucus Holds Defense Bill Hostage Over Election Law, Forcing House Into Early July 4 Recess Fourteen House Republicans joined Democrats on June 30 to block a procedural rule that would have paired the National Defense Authorization Act with the SAVE America Act as linked legislation before the July 4 recess. The vote fell 198-224,…

Federal Judge Orders Pentagon to Stop Escorting Reporters — Pentagon Immediately Vows to Appeal U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman ruled on July 1 that the Pentagon’s policy requiring journalists to be accompanied by a government escort throughout the building violates the First Amendment, issuing a preliminary injunction barring the Department of Defense from enforcing…

Democrats’ Civil War Goes Nuclear in Colorado: 29-Year Veteran Congresswoman Ousted by 29-Year-Old Socialist Colorado’s June 30 Democratic primary delivered a series of shocks that analysts called one of the most dramatic single-night reshapings of a state’s Democratic delegation in recent memory. Rep. Diana DeGette, who has represented Denver’s 1st Congressional District since 1997, lost…

Trump Earned $2.2 Billion in 2025 — Mostly From Crypto. His Investors Lost Their Shirts. President Trump’s annual financial disclosure, released June 30, shows he earned $2.2 billion in total income in 2025 — more than triple his reported 2024 income [1]. Approximately $1.4 billion came from cryptocurrency ventures: $635 million in royalties tied to…

Vance Says Resuming War With Iran Is “Up to the Iranians” as Nuclear Talks Crawl Forward in Doha Vice President JD Vance told reporters on July 1 that the United States could resume military operations against Iran if the current ceasefire breaks down, stating the president “is not going to send our military back in…

House Republicans Torch Their Own Agenda, Send Congress Home Early to Dodge a Voter ID Fight House Speaker Mike Johnson dismissed lawmakers for an extended July Fourth recess on July 1, after 14 Republican members joined Democrats to kill a procedural rule in a 224-198 vote, freezing the chamber’s entire legislative calendar [1]. The failed…

A 29-Year-Old DSA Candidate Just Ended Diana DeGette’s 30-Year Congressional Career — Denver’s Democratic Establishment Is in Shock Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old Ph.D. student and former attorney running as a democratic socialist, defeated 15-term incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette in the Democratic primary for Colorado’s 1st Congressional District on June 30, 2026, ending DeGette’s three-decade career…

Republicans Are Pushing Courts to Allow Voter Roll Purges Inside the 90-Day Election Window — And the Stakes Are the 2026 Midterms Republican state officials in Arizona and Ohio are mounting a coordinated legal effort to reinterpret a longstanding provision of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 that bars election authorities from running systematic…

Supreme Court Says States Can Ban Trans Girls From Women’s Sports — Everyone Is Furious for Different Reasons The Supreme Court ruled 6–3 on June 30, 2026 that state laws requiring student athletes to compete according to their biological sex at birth do not violate Title IX or the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth…

Political Parties Can Now Spend Unlimited Money Alongside Their Candidates — The Supreme Court Just Supercharged the Two-Party Machine The Supreme Court voted 6–3 on June 30, 2026 to strike down a 1974 post-Watergate federal law limiting how much money political parties can spend in direct coordination with their candidates. The case, National Republican Senatorial…