Trump Came Back For Round Two. Letitia James Won Again.
Trump Came Back For Round Two. Letitia James Won Again.They confirmed Trump’s lawyer at 4:31 in the morning. It was the only thing that went their way.
Thanks for being here. The Trump regime’s entire strategy depends on us getting tired and giving up. I’m over ten years into this fight, and there’s no way that’s happening. Since you’re reading this, I bet you feel the same. Before we jump in, hit the ❤️ like button and restack this edition. Restacking puts it in front of everyone who follows you. That’s how these wins reach people who’d never see them otherwise. We’re proudly reader-funded with no advertiser, no boardroom, and no one ordering me to look the other way. On top of our reporting and investigating, we organize massive campaigns on social media along with letter campaigns and calls to Congress every day. Paid subscribers fund all of that. They also get my exclusive campaign analysis three times a week—today I’m focused on North Carolina. We’re just 85 days away from Election Day and we need all hands on deck. So join us today to help us flip Congress and turn Trump into a lame duck: No Spines In The GOP
GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy voted to convict Trump in 2021. Trump spent the next five years making Cassidy pay for it. He even recruited Julia Letlow to run against him. In May, Louisiana voters pushed Cassidy out, where he landed third in a three-way primary. Ouch. Cassidy could’ve voted any way he wanted. He chose to go out like a coward. On Friday, Cassidy announced he would vote to confirm Todd Blanche as Attorney General. By 4:31 the next morning it was done—50-49. I’m not shocked. This is the same hypocrite who spent weeks “agonizing” over Bob Kennedy’s horrific record on vaccines before caving when it counted. And Cassidy is a doctor. Seriously—which makes his surrender so much worse. It’s not just Cassidy. Every Republican who voted yes for Todd Blanche now owns every single thing he does at the Justice Department. We’ll make sure nobody forgets who they were. Onward. HUD Came Back For Round Two And Lost
There are 13,861 New York households with a roof over their head thanks to a federal program called Continuum of Care. A whopping 94% of that money goes directly into permanent housing. Under Trump, the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) tried to gut the program last year. But NY Attorney General Letitia James and a coalition of other AGs beat them in court. This year, HUD wrote new rules for the next funding round that would’ve capped permanent housing below what existing projects need to keep their doors open. Tens of thousands could lose their homes. So James sued again, along with 20 other attorneys general and two governors. On Friday, a federal court decided the new rules broke the law, and threw them out entirely. HUD must start all over again. James didn’t hold back: “It is shameful that this administration has tried repeatedly to break the law.” After two years, two lawsuits, and two losses for the regime, 13,861 New York families never knew how close they came to losing their homes. Thanks to those who pushed back, it looks like they never will. Delaware Put Back What The Court Tore Out
For six decades, the Voting Rights Act stopped racist politicians from slicing up voting districts to weaken the impact of Black voters. The Supreme Court gutted the law this year, and Republican politicians in numerous states are already redrawing maps because of it. On Thursday, Delaware Gov. Matt Meyer signed a bill to fight back. The new law bans discrimination, vote dilution, intimidation, deception, and language barriers at the polls. What the Supreme Court took out, Delaware just put back in. State Rep. Melissa Minor-Brown is the first Black person to serve as Delaware’s House Speaker. She reminded the crowd at the bill signing that before 1965, Southern states made Black Americans try to pass rigged reading tests just to register to vote: “It’s only been 61 years since literacy tests were outlawed.” A handful of states built this protection years ago. Delaware just proved it’s not too late for others to take action. After 83 Days, The Company Blinked
For 83 days, a group of 56 Teamsters held a strike at Breakthru Beverage in St. Louis. The company was attempting to strip worker protections from their contracts. This week, the workers won and ratified a new contract. The four-year deal includes higher pay, 40 hours of paid sick leave, and MLK Day as a paid holiday. It also reopens health benefit talks, and gives temporary workers a path to permanent status. Drivers for the company recently organized with Local 600—they landed a contract too. Chris Tongay of Teamsters Local 688 was clear: “When workers stay united, they win.” Thanks for supporting our work. If you want to do more, upgrade to a Founding Member or you could gift a subscription to someone who needs to hear this news: NOT LOOKING GOOD IN NC FOR GOP
What I’d tell a campaign manager with 85 days left. Thom Tillis isn’t running. Republicans are defending North Carolina with no incumbent Senator on the ballot. That’s over a decade of name recognition out the door. Meanwhile, Democratic nominee Roy Cooper served in office for nearly forty years. Four polling leads for Cooper tell the story. PPP had Cooper up 4, Carolina Journal up about 8, Newsweek up 11, and Fox News had him up by 9. Trump only won NC by 3 points in 2024. The enthusiasm gap is huge. NC Dems are running 9 points ahead of Republicans when it comes to extreme interest in the election. And 8 points ahead on overall motivation to vote. Among the most locked-in voters, Cooper’s up 15 points. Michael Whatley has never been on a ballot. Former state GOP chair, then RNC chair. That’s it. Cooper has won six statewide races before—five of them in years Republicans carried NC at the top of the ticket. Money isn’t working for them. A GOP-leaning group threw in $17 million for ads calling Cooper soft on crime. The Dem side responded with $2.26 million for ads. Even though they were outspent, Cooper’s still up 9. The bottom line: Tillis is out, Whatley took the nomination, and now he’s trailing by nine in a state Trump won. We need four seats to take the majority, and this looks to be the best pickup on the board. November is coming. With 85 days to go until the midterms, I’m sure Trump will try to do everything he can to distract us from our goal—winning. That’s what we’re focused on. On top of our reporting, we organize direct pressure on Congress—having delivered millions of letters and countless calls over the past decade. We also run our enormous social media initiative that punches holes through the MAGA propaganda machine, all while showing why Democrats must take back the House and Senate. We must put an end to Trump’s recklessness, and get on with our real work of holding the regime accountable. I can’t wait. Our list is long, and we forget nothing. Everything we do is solely funded by our readers. So if you haven’t yet, join us as a paid subscriber today. You’ll get access to exclusive content and be investing in one of the hardest-working operations out there: Before you go, hit the ❤️ like button and restack this. Fifty-six people in Missouri beat a corporation and almost nobody outside the state has heard about it. Onward! Scott How are you feeling about our chances to win the Senate seat in North Carolina? As we head into the final 85 days, I want to hear your thoughts! Let me know in the comments: 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 LETTERS FOR TODAY: Release ALL Epstein files: https://tinyurl.com/2uc9vca9 Data center pause: https://bit.ly/4twnWMU 25th Amendment Commission https://tinyurl.com/44afaxvd Protect US Forest Service: https://tinyurl.com/mrx8cvv7 Defend voting rights: https://tinyurl.com/3f3m728j Protect TPS: https://tinyurl.com/yc8rfa7j COMMENTS: Seeing the 56 Teamsters in St. Louis stand strong for 83 days and win every single key protection is such an inspiring reminder of labor/people power. With Delaware stepping up after SCOTUS gutted the VRA, state-level wins are stacking up. Keep the pressure on! Thanks for your reporting, Scott! Letitia James is a hero! She has accomplished so much in defense of our democracy and its leaders. We all need to hold on and keep resisting, especially by voting and then by insisting that our votes have counted. The New York Daily News and Jimmy Breslin could not have written more about what a CHEAT, CON MAN, LIAR, BIGOT and THIEF was, never mind his ROY COHN tactics. I will continue to fault VOTERS for their ignorance! The INTERNET was working and voters could have looked up information. This is under APPEAL. The verdict was not vacated. Trump’s $450 Million Fine For Civil Fraud Thrown Out By Appeals Court Aug 21, 2025 https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2025/08/21/trumps-450-million-fine-for-civil-fraud-thrown-out-by-appeals-court/ Will the same ignorance continue to prevail? The North Carolina numbers are massive. Staying in the fight matters. We aren't backing down—onward to November. Oh, yeah... and that IS a big day brightener! Thanks, Scott, for the update... keep on keepin' on! It's frightening and very wrong that only 100 Senators and 435 Representatives in Congress, hold the fate of 340 million People in this country along with the rest of the world's population, in their hands. BIG money controls our government, it controls our economy and it's trying desperately to control us. People do know that something is wrong with our government. But many don't know what is wrong or why. Great start to our week, Scott! You and your team are the tops! Leticia James is a super hero, no cape or fancy ads to speak for her! She knows that the rule of law and the Constitution are for the people, not the few with $$$! With Texas and North Carolina getting steamy, we need to work on the other close races...to stay positive and push forward to November for a HUGE voter turnout. NM is turning up the heat on their courts to get that vital info about that Zorro ranch. What a surprise that Blanch is in the Trumpstein files 😳 Tomorrow's TACO 🌮 Tuesday, what will DonOld flip on this time? duckduckgo ai brought this, worth being aware of regarding the impact of GLOBAL MARKETS: Why Japan’s Currency Crisis Could Signal a Global Debt Reckoning The Lincoln Square headline idea is essentially this: if Japan’s yen crisis worsens, it can expose how debt and funding stresses are “interconnected” across borders—so problems that start in one currency/sovereign funding market can spill into a broader global repricing of risk. Why Japan’s yen weakness can matter to “global debt” A weaker yen tightens financial conditions at home, then abroad When the yen falls, imported costs (energy, goods) rise, which can force higher domestic yields or push inflation concerns—raising the discount rate for risk assets globally. Low Japanese rates vs. higher foreign rates keeps carry-trade dynamics unstable If investors can earn a spread by borrowing yen and investing elsewhere, that activity can amplify flows in both directions. Once the yen moves sharply (or expectations shift), the “unwinding” can become fast, hitting markets that are linked to funding and leverage. The Atlantic Council piece frames this as carry-trade attractiveness persisting while yen pressure is influenced by interest-rate differentials and likely BOJ policy limits. Atlantic Council Japan is a major holder of safe assets, so pressure can become a funding/market problem If markets start to fear that Japan will need to sell foreign assets (like Treasuries) to deal with currency and funding stress, the result could be upward pressure on global bond yields—precisely the environment debt-laden borrowers don’t want. One widely discussed pathway is “asset sales → higher yields → wider risk spreads,” which then raises borrowing costs everywhere. Rising yields versus high debt can trigger a feedback loop Debt sustainability worries don’t only come from the debt level; they come from the cost of servicing it. JPMorgan’s discussion argues that with Japan’s very high debt-to-GDP, markets may eventually demand higher yields aligned with fundamentals—and that could pressure the whole system because Japan’s bond-market role is large. What “global debt reckoning” is pointing to (mechanically) This is less about a single default event and more about a global repricing: currency stress → higher risk-free yields / funding costs higher yields → higher debt servicing costs higher debt servicing costs → lower fiscal room / more refinancing risk refinancing risk + weaker confidence → further spread widening and tighter credit That chain is why yen volatility can be interpreted as a warning sign for broader sovereign/credit markets. Where the “signal” becomes more credible The Forbes piece emphasizes that Japan’s yen weakness has already gone to extreme levels and notes rare joint intervention, but suggests relief may be temporary because fundamentals (rate differentials, debt burden, demographics, energy costs) remain. It also points to the market worry that Japan might have to use dollars in ways that affect Treasury markets. Forbes My husband has been a union member, acting as a union steward for many years. Admittedly, when we first got together over 40 years ago, I was not a huge fan of unions. As a young couple, I was not thrilled that union dues were automatically deducted from his paycheck on a weekly basis --- money that we could use to pay bills. However, I now am a huge supporter of unions as I have seen the tremendous value of union representation against greedy corporations who abuse their workers to benefit their botton line. People Over Corporations!! ✊️✊️ TACO Trump is starting to look more like a YO-YO on the Iran War. Around and around he goes from all out war, to nothing!?!? This is leadership? Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome: that IS the definition of insanity. He is so drowning in all his illegal schemes, he will be lucky to die before he has to start actually paying for his defense. There has never been a more vile politician. It's possibly criminal that Congress and the Supreme Court have enabled him to gut our formerly great Constitution. At the very least, make his estate and entitled kids pay till it hurts and beyond. Experienced Military Experts have been fired by WHISKEY PETE. There are no American munitions left. Russia provided intelligence to IRAN to destroy MILITARY EQUIPMENT included PLANES. IRAN was providing DRONES to RUSSIA to bomb UKRAINE. How is it possible that these BOOBS never considered that the STRAIT OF HORMUZ would be closed? Leadership needs to be INFORMED! This from COMMON DREAMS: ‘Has Trump’s Invasion of Greenland Already Begun?’: Experts Fearful as MAGA-Linked Oil Company Prepares Unauthorized Drilling “Let nobody think Trump has given up on taking Greenland,” warned one professor of European politics. https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-greenland-oil?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=05c2faff8a-Top+News+%7C+Thur.+6%2F11%2F26_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-998917937b-600713157&mc_cid=05c2faff8a&mc_eid=766c895bd8 |
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