Fifteen People Just Walked Out Of ICE Detention and More Great News That’s Terrible For Trump
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The resistance is winning. In courtrooms, city elections, and in places the regime never thought to watch. They need you to believe otherwise. You helped prove them wrong, whether you’ve been here with me since 2016 or if you showed up last Tuesday. Either way, I’m glad you’re here. Thanks for having my back. Real quick, hit the ❤️ like button and restack this edition. When you restack, these wins show up for everyone who follows you. That’s how a story about fifteen people walking out of ICE detention reaches somebody who needs a bit of hope today. My full read on a Senate race some had written off two weeks ago is waiting for paid subscribers this morning. They’re the reason I can keep it free for everyone else—become one today: MAINE JUST GOT BETTER, NOT WORSE
For paid subscribers only. My read on the race, not the cable-panel version. Corporate media wrote off Maine Democrats after Graham Platner’s campaign collapsed. Chaos, they called it—the best news Susan Collins heard all year. Then Tuesday night the first poll of the new matchup landed: Troy Jackson 49, Collins 46. He isn’t even the nominee yet. The convention is on Saturday. State law gave the party 14 days to find a replacement. More than 19,000 Maine Democrats turned out to help pick one. Jackson took better than 450 of the 500 delegate slots, and every rival folded behind him. That’s not a party in crisis. THE ONE OPPONENT SHE CAN’T COPYCollins has survived five elections by being the Republican rural Mainers think is one of them. Now she faces a fifth-generation logger from Allagash who spent eighty-hour weeks in the woods and, as Senate President, won his industry the bargaining rights lobstermen already had. He’s the real thing she’s spent thirty years imitating. His take on Collins: “Working Mainers can’t afford six more years of ‘concern.’” HER FLOOR JUST GAVE OUTCollins built her career on independents. In the same survey that put Jackson ahead, they went for him 46 to 42. Voters were also asked to grade Collins, and she scores well on delivering federal money—she chairs Appropriations, that’s the job. Everywhere else she’s underwater, with majorities rating her poor or very poor on legislative votes and on Cabinet and Supreme Court confirmations. Nobody forgot Kavanaugh. FOUR SEATS. THIS IS ONE.Democrats need four to flip the Senate, and Fox “News” just moved Maine into its toss-up column. When Fox starts warning its own audience, the panic is coming from inside their house. Every seat we take is another confirmation the regime can’t ram through and subpoena power it can’t block. Monday, right here, I’ll break down the new national polling and what it really means. But one thing is already clear: the ground is moving. Don’t believe anyone who says otherwise. HE MADE IT UP. SHOCKER.
Peter Navarro, Trump’s trade adviser, told the Jan 6 Committee he couldn’t testify because executive privilege covered him. Trump had shielded him, he claimed, and that was that. The House voted to hold him in contempt of Congress, and the DOJ indicted him soon after. He was convicted in 2023, served four months in prison, and then filed an appeal. On Tuesday, a federal appeals court finished picking his story apart. Navarro “asserted executive privilege unilaterally,” Judge Patricia Millett wrote in a unanimous 37-page ruling. He never consulted Trump about any of it. He decided on his own that he was protected, and he was wrong. The DOJ had originally prosecuted Navarro and won. Then, under Trump, it stopped defending that conviction. The judges upheld it anyway. Judge Amit Mehta had already handed Navarro the truth at sentencing: “You are not a victim.” Two courts, same answer. FIRED ALMOST IMMEDIATELY
The federal judges of western Washington State picked former prosecutor and County Judge Roger Rogoff unanimously. That’s how the position is filled when the Senate leaves it empty. He took the oath on July 15th, and less than an hour later an email from the White House told him he was fired. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche had promised as much before the judges even chose. Whoever they picked, he posted, would “suffer the same fate as others have.” He wasn’t bluffing. In New Jersey they fired Desiree Grace, a nine-year career prosecutor, the day the judges picked her. In Albany, Blanche fired Donald Kinsella by social media post. Both of them walked away quietly, and the regime took that as permission to keep going. Rogoff just ended that. He sued, naming Trump and Blanche both, and now they have to make their case in front of a federal judge. FIFTEEN PEOPLE WALKED OUT OFICE DETENTION
Two people in Nevada sued because ICE was holding them without bond hearings. In March, federal judge Richard Boulware struck down the policy behind it, and that ruling opened the door for hundreds more to finally see a judge. The government never appealed. It just ignored the order. This month, Boulware ran out of patience. “Three months have passed,” he wrote, “yet ICE has not conducted an initial custody determination.” The government, he said, was rebelling against the basic principle that a court order must be obeyed. He ordered 17 people released, and ICE cannot re-arrest a single one without first proving its case to an immigration judge. Fifteen people are free tonight—and two others are on the way out. Remember that the next time somebody tells you nothing works. HE GAVE UP HIS SEAT AND LOST ANYWAY
Republican Jeff Weninger held a seat in the Arizona House and gave it up to run for mayor of Chandler, the fourth-largest city in the state. The outgoing GOP mayor backed him. He lost by sixteen points to Matt Orlando—a retired Air Force colonel, six terms on the city council, in Chandler since 1983. Orlando is a registered independent who votes with Democrats. Weninger didn’t even wait for Maricopa County to finish counting. He conceded Wednesday on Facebook: “It’s clear that we came up short.” And the loss didn’t stop with him. The Republicans’ council candidate ran for one of three open seats and lost. This is Maricopa County in July. November is coming. WE DON’T JUST REPORT. WEORGANIZE.The wins are real and sometimes they’re quiet. They happen in district courtrooms and city council elections, and in every moment when one person decides the outcome isn’t settled yet. Not one of them happened on its own. Somebody filed. Somebody ruled. Somebody drove to a polling place in Arizona in July heat for a race the country wasn’t watching. That’s the half you don’t see. We build the campaigns and put the tools in your hands to act. More than 796,000 times since November 2024, our readers used them to pressure Congress with calls and letters. Go back a full decade and that number gets into the millions. We also run one of the largest anti-Trump operations on social media anywhere, reaching millions of people who’d never see a word of these wins otherwise. That takes staff, lawyers, and hours of work behind the scenes. It runs on readers, and that’s exactly why nobody can call here and get a story killed. Paid subscribers are the only reason that stays true, and I’m looking for 14 of you to join us today. Then hit the ❤️ like button and restack this. If somebody following you is close to giving up, what’s in this edition might be what brings them back. Onward! Scott What do you call it when people who weren’t supposed to win start winning all over the map? Let me know in the comments—I read all of them! Thanks for your support! Another way to help us out is by gifting subscriptions to friends and family! You can get yours by clicking the link. For all contact Congress links, or to volunteer, you can go here: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-up-for-the-watchdog-coalition COMMENTS: Many of us endured the TOADY TODD BLANCHE'S arrogant and insulting public comments and reviewed the complaints of judges and former prosecutors and that it's only a matter of time before the TOADY who is in LOVE with Daffy Don is disbarred.... In addition, THE EPSTEIN FILES! EPSTEIN'S VICTIMS endured abuse as CHILDREN that we can't imagine and the TOAD couldn't even be respectful? Any REPUBLICAN SENATOR who votes for TODD BLANCHE is too STUPID to hold PUBLIC OFFICE. REMEMBER THEIR NAMES! WORK TO VOTE THEM OUT OF PUBLIC OFFICE! Mitch McConnell dead or alive needs to answer Andy Beshear. “A columnist at Kentucky's largest newspaper has published what he called a "pre-obituary" of Senator Mitch McConnell, accusing the former Republican Majority Leader of dismantling civil rights protections he once championed and of enabling President Donald Trump despite privately calling him "stupid" and a "despicable human being." a 'pre obituary'~ such a perfect example of the upside-downness of now! Those fifteen people freed from ICE represent all of us. I stand with them. I wonder when this country became so twisted and evil to treat immigrants like this. I thought we had moved past such things. To not allow them a hearing? How is any of this legal. And all these people being killed by ICE. It is really shocking. Nothing is more important right now than abolishing ICE. By “right now” I mean immediately, before the midterm elections. We can’t sit passively — supine — as Trump plots to have thousands of his thuggish agents turning up at polling places across the country on Election Day. C’mon, all you democracy-loving officeholder/lawmakers — Do Something About It Now! There has always, throughout world history, ALWAYS been a segment of the population that is "evil and twisted" - they cycle in and out of power, but they are always with us. The battle of good vs. evil is with us forever: from Greek mythology, Medieval times, the Holy Bible, world wars I & II, now the trump/magas. Ongoing battle. Never ends. When tRump came on the scene This is what the resistance looks like. The map is shifting—quietly but relentlessly. If you want more of these wins, help us keep doing the work that makes them possible. If you haven’t already, become a paid subscriber today!!! Will be so happy to see Collins go and take her fake concern with her. Yes, she’ll take her fake concern and her pearls with her upon her exit from the Senate. I am from New England and so looking forward to feeling a negligible amount of concern for her well -being after she loses!! I love how you said that! Thanks for the chuckle ! I stand with you! It's always 'deep concern', and yes, it is fake as h*ll. Scott, I call that the most delicious wins of all! In the end, common decency, integrity, morality and truth will always win out over corruption! I was so glad to read these great wins that were a knock-out punch to this greedy, corrupt regime! It is important we do not become complacent and think we are going to win. For me, every day, I get up and get busy writing letters, postcards, making phone calls and signing petitions as if we were losing because it takes that commitment to ensure our candidates succeed. We have to keep fighting, America! Stay strong and stay safe! I call it Relief, and satisfaction. We will fight like Ukrainians and Vote like Hungarians. BLUE TSUNAMI 💙🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 Excellent Thanks, Scott, for sharing news that lifts sagging spirits, strengthens weary resolve, and proves to each of us that ALL of us together can make/be the changes we want to see! Great news day. Thanks as always for the great reporting. They can't cheat their way out of this mess they've created. Hire a serial bankrupter and here is what you should expect. Him to bankrupt everything he touches. The Orange Turd is in the process of doing so for the U.S.! Exploding DEBT and DEFICIT due to the BIG BEAUTIFUL DISASTER, pissing away $$$ as if it exists - STUPIDEST WAR IN U.S. HISTORY! Lying about the MILITARY EQUIPMENT that IRAN has destroyed - too STU[ID to consider the consequences! CENTCOM lies as well! Lying about U.S. CASUALTIES! "REDECORATING" destroying the ASBESTOS CONTAMINATED WHITE HOUSE, MAR-A-LARDO ROSE GARDEN, WANNABE KING'S ARCH, REFLECTING POOL that will cost MILLIONS to correct work of INCOMPETENT BOOBS, PENTAGON can't pass an audit and they're supposed to get more FUNDING? NO ONE FICTION WRITER could produce a credible novel with this cast of INCOMPETENTS! FOX NEWS WHISKEY HEGSETH in charge? Ignored INTELLIGENCE, got military personnel killed and then LIES? MCCONNELL IS DEAD, WIDOW REDECORATING and who's pretending ? Only REPUBLICANS voted to fund ICE GESTAPO THUGS who are flooding communities, killing people and deporting people who pay taxes and do jobs Americans refuse - pick crops. clean toilets and fill HEALTH CARE. Who is STUPID enough to support that? You all know the consequences of the BIG BEAUTIFUL DISASTER that destroyed healthcare, denies FOOD to hungry Americans and DESTROYS U.S. FARMERS. Rest assured because BRAIN DEAD SCOTT BESSENT says everything's fine as GAS PRICES EXPLODE! Susan Collins likes to look all worried and thoughtful, wringing her hands and sounding like she actually considers both sides of the political fence before casting her votes trump’s way. But she’s heinous and I hope Jackson wins big. (I say this without knowing much about him; but I know her.) Wonderful news from nearby Maine (I'm in Massachusetts). Troy Jackson is a better candidate than Graham Platner could have been, and the New England congressional delegation would *love* to see Collins retired. And bravo to Judge Rogoff in Washington state! I encourage everyone who can to subscribe to Scott's reporting of the news we need to hear. I get that for many of us money is thin. Still, even an occasional monthly bit, can help bring more coverage of what is really going on and is making a difference! Scott helps us contact our people in Congress about the important decisions they are making. To me, that alone is worth a subscription! Come on in the water is fine!! :-) I agree! Independent news sources are invaluable in a sea of AI fakes, click-bait headlines and manufactured rage. What do you call it when people who weren’t supposed to win start winning all over the map? Justice, karma, great! Democracy. It’s about time a fired federal judge fought back. This regime thinks they can do anything they want, but the judiciary is standing strong with a few exceptions, like SCOTUS. Most federal judges are ruling against the fascist regime, it really gives me hope. Wow! Maricopa County: I remember the infamous Sheriff Joe Arpaio. How things have changed! For the better! Good news, thanks, Scott and team. Toady Todd Blanche will be disbarred before Santa 🎅 2026? He is well along the path to "game over." A small gang of nearly 100 judges has focused on his blatant acts to ignore the Courts. Toady Todd will join the long list of defrocked Trump legal minds. GOP = Guardians of Pedos My upstairs neighbor is a brainwashed MAGA hater racist. And they certainly are not polite. He is 69 and decided to marry a 20 year younger than him Philippine woman. It took him 3 years to get her and her two teenage daughters over here. I just wonder that this MAGA racist had to go so far to marry a Philippine woman and not an intelligent, independent American woman. Probably because this woman stays in line with his ideas. At any rate, having compassion for these people is difficult - very difficult. They are so blinded by the lies of Trump and Fox News that they cannot see what is truly happening. I guess in order to be MAGA you need to be racist as well. Thanks for sharing your observations. Maybe they have a better life in the U.S. There's an acquaintance who's done work for me in the past - every time I drive past the house, the WIDE SCREEN TV has FOX NEWS = FAKE NEWS on the screen. Not evil, just STUPID! So pleased that Judge Roger Rogoff chose to sue both tRUMP and Todd Blanche (this should be another reason not to confirm Blanche as US attorney general). Even more pleased, that 15 have walked away from ICE detention for not having access to bond hearings. Thanks for the great news, Scott! When good and reasonable people win it’s called hope. And I hope that continues in Georgia where we want to keep Jon Ossoff as our senator. His opponent, Mike Collins is the U.S. representative for Georgia's 10th congressional district since 2023. May he suffer a similar fate as you reported in AZ. |
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