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| | | | WHAT WE'RE WATCHING | | ✌️ Border Patrol agents threatened a mass exodus if Harris wins. Border Patrol agents voiced plans to leave the agency if Kamala Harris wins in November, citing frustration with low morale and lack of support under the current administration. Despite recruitment efforts, the agency has lost over 4,000 personnel since 2020, and suicide among agents has surged. | 🇮🇱 The US warned Israel of a potential arms embargo. A leaked letter revealed that the Biden administration has given Israel 30 days to improve humanitarian conditions in Gaza or face possible policy changes, including an arms embargo. The letter calls for increased aid and humanitarian pauses, signaling growing tension between the US and its closest Middle Eastern ally. | 🔎 Damning evidence emerged against Liz Cheney in her Jan. 6 investigation. Newly uncovered documents reveal that former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) communicated directly with January 6 committee witness Cassidy Hutchinson, bypassing her attorney and potentially violating ethical standards. The findings raise serious concerns about Cheney's role in shaping the narrative of the Jan. 6 investigation and further undermine its credibility. | ✅ A Georgia judge ordered election boards to certify results despite fraud concerns. Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney made it clear that election officials do not have the power to block certification based on their own investigations or suspicions that results were fraudulent. "Georgia voters would be silenced," according to the judge. "Our Constitution and our Election Code do not allow for that to happen." |
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| | | WHAT WE'RE HEARING | Jason Greenblatt lambasted the "intellectual and diplomatic classes" for calling to reintroduce a meaningless UN resolution to end the war in Lebanon. Gen. Mark Milley reportedly called Donald Trump "a fascist to the core." Kamala Harris said "there's no question" that a reparations plan for black Americans has to be studied. Donald Trump slammed Bloomberg's editor-in-chief for being "wrong" about everything.
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| | | IN THE LOOP | 252,000 ballots were cast yesterday on Georgia's first day of early voting, skyrocketing from the 136,000 cast in 2020. Kamala Harris accused Trump of having a Biden-esque senior moment. ABC News debunked this claim. Tackle your credit card debt by paying 0% interest until 2026. If you have credit card debt, a 0% intro APR card can help. You can also earn up to 20,000 miles after spending $500 in 3 months with this popular low interest card!* Donald Trump defended his use of tariffs during a feisty interview at the Economic Club of Chicago. The US and Canada designated the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network as a terrorist group.
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| | | MY THOUGHTS | Kamala panders, stereotypically | Good morning. Following Obama's lead, Kamala Harris is scrambling to win back Black men. Her latest pitch? "Elect me, and I'll let you smoke marijuana legally." The internet erupted, criticizing her for reducing policy to stereotypes — and missing the real reason this demographic is abandoning her: the economy. | What makes this even more ironic? As San Francisco DA, Harris convicted nearly two thousand Black men for marijuana offenses. | |
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| | | WASHINGTON | DOJ punishes Virginia for preventing non-citizen voting | | The DOJ sued Virginia for removing ineligible voters too close to Election Day Gov. Youngkin and conservatives argue the lawsuit targets election integrity efforts and is politically motivated Since 2006, Virginia has removed non-citizens from its voter rolls all the way through October
| The story | With just three weeks until Election Day, the race is heating up not only on the campaign trail, but in the courtroom. | The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit against Virginia, alleging that the state violated the National Voter Registration Act by removing voters from election rolls too close to the November election. | Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) signed an executive order in August requiring daily updates to voter lists, including identifying and removing non-citizens. However, the DOJ argues that this process, conducted within 90 days of Election Day, is illegal, risks errors and confusion, and potentially strips American citizens of their right to vote. | Youngkin swiftly condemned the lawsuit, calling it a politically motivated attack on the legitimacy of Virginia's elections. | He pointed out that removing non-citizens from voter rolls all the way through October has been a normal practice in Virginia — a process also taken up by the last two Democratic governors. | The Virginia governor called it "unbelievable" that the DOJ would suddenly instruct the state to stop removing non-citizens from its voter rolls less than 30 days out from the election. | The politics | Critics of the DOJ's decision to prosecute Virginia, such as Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Virginia state Senator Glen Sturtevant (R), argue that it exposes the Justice Department's real priorities — targeting the state for cleaning its voter rolls instead of pursuing those responsible for illegally registering non-citizens. | Mike Davis, a legal adviser to Donald Trump, accused the DOJ of targeting states like Virginia and Alabama for political reasons, claiming that as Democratic leaders see Kamala Harris' campaign faltering, "the more desperate they're going to get with their lawfare." | One entity defending the DOJ's lawsuit is CBS News, which issued a fact-check on whether it is truly "unprecedented" to block Virginia from cleaning its voter rolls too close to the election. One individual they spoke to claimed that states are using routine yearly list maintenance as evidence of voter roll issues that don't actually exist. | However, multiple states, including Virginia, Alabama, and Texas, have already purged thousands of non-citizens from their voter rolls, indicating the problem does exist and validating their efforts to ensure voter rolls are in order. | What the media missed | Mainstream media sources reporting on the DOJ's lawsuit against Virginia often omit a key fact: Virginia removes non-citizens from its voter rolls on a case-by-case basis, not through a large-scale purge, as federal law prohibits. | This individual review process has been required by Virginia law since 2006, and has taken place under Democratic and Republican governors. | The DOJ claims Virginia violated federal law by conducting this voter maintenance too close to the election, but because the state's actions are not part of a systematic removal, it's unlikely they actually broke the National Voter Registration Act. | The state also notifies voters multiple times before removing them and allows those wrongly removed to register again on Election Day, which they say keeps them within the law. | By leaving out these important details, many media outlets create a misleading narrative, suggesting Virginia's actions are more extreme than they really are. | Why it matters | Virginia's and many other states' efforts to remove non-citizens from voter rolls are essential to protecting election integrity. Media outlets, including CBS' Face the Nation, like to constantly remind conservatives that federal law already prohibits non-citizens from voting in federal elections. | However, because many states do not require proof of citizenship when registering to vote, many non-citizens can enroll anyway. Congressional Republicans tried to pass the SAVE Act, requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote, but it was a non-starter for Democrats. | 10 to 27 percent of non-citizens in the United States may be registered to vote, and up to 2.7 million of them could end up voting in the upcoming election. | |
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| | | OUR QUESTION TO YOU | 📊 Is there ever a situation where a non-citizen should be allowed to vote?Poll results will be in tomorrow's newsletter | | | POLL RESULTS FROM YESTERDAY | 📊 Should the federal government legalize marijuana? | 🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 👍 Yes (238) | 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 👎 No (838) | ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🤔 Other (49) | 👍 Yes: "Why not? No worse than alcohol... we know how prohibition worked." — Rebecca 👍 Yes: "And tax the heck out of it!" — Kelly 👎 No: "When I was younger, I used to think so...comparing it to alcohol prohibition. But now I see how it's a motivation killer, an escapism route for young people, and has utterly transformed the college town and nearby cities here in Oregon where it's now legal." — W.T. 👎 No: "Let the states decide." — Gordon 🤔 Unsure: "The truth needs to be told about marijuana, it's still the same "gateway" drug that lowers IQs, only now it's more potent than ever before." — Jim 🤔 Unsure: "Only for medicinal purposes." — Angeli | | | | 1,125 votes |
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| Today's newsletter was written by Brandon Goldman and Ari David. | |
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