Trump Says He’s “Worried.” That’s Great News For Us. Twenty-eight days until the midterms, and we have the pedal to the metal.

 

We’re in the last four weeks together, so here’s a find I held out of today’s edition. A letter from Sen. Ron Wyden quotes the license plate camera company admitting its police customers “were inaccurately informed” that it had no relationship with Homeland Security. That’s one of the slipperiest corporate excuses I’ve read. Become a Founding Member to keep us digging through November 3, or gift a subscription to someone who drives past one of those cameras every day. Trump Says He’s “Worried.” That’s Great News For Us. Republicans gave him the reason. Wait until you meet the river guide. Scott Dworkin Oct 6 Thanks so much for being here. Trump said he was “worried” out loud on Friday, and I’ve been smiling ever since. Four weeks before the midterm elections, the top spending group for Senate Republicans has walked away from a seat its own party holds. Wait until you see which state it ran to instead. First, I have a small favor to ask. Will you help me spread this great news? Tap the ❤️ like button, then restack—the button with the looping arrows—to put this edition in front of everyone who follows you. It’s like pinning a notice to a bulletin board at the grocery store. Trump needs everyone to think he can’t lose. This notice says otherwise. We have no billionaires or advertisers here. Just our amazing community of readers who fund our investigations, reporting, and organizing. We’ve sent more than 879,000 letters to Congress since November 2024, keeping the pressure on the House and Senate. And what we post on social media is seen billions of times a month, as we dominate the trends. Help us sprint through November and beyond by joining us as a paid subscriber today: Senate Republicans’ Top Spender  Just Left Trump’s Pick In April, the Senate Leadership Fund—the top spending group for Senate Republicans—announced a $71 million plan to put Michael Whatley from North Carolina in the Senate. Whatley is Trump’s pick and a former chairman of the Republican National Committee. Last month, a poll showed Whatley 15 points behind the Democrat, former Gov. Roy Cooper. Whatley called it a “trash poll.” Then the money packed up. On Friday, the New York Times reported the Senate Leadership Fund was canceling every ad it still had booked in North Carolina, including $18 million for the final month. Its own federal filings show $30.4 million spent through September. Nobody walks away from $30 million in a race they expect to win. “I am worried about him,” Trump told reporters that day. “I hope he wins.” Give it a month and he’ll swear he barely knew the man. Democrats need a net gain of four seats to take control of the Senate, and North Carolina would be one. The fund now has more than $8 million in ads reserved in Kansas, to protect a Republican senator in a state that last elected a Democrat to the Senate in 1932. A party spending October to hold Kansas isn’t trying to win anymore. It’s trying to survive Trump. California Drivers Make Lyft Pay  $272.5 Million Alvaro Bolainez has driven for Lyft, the mobile app that works like a taxi service, since its early years. Lyft calls its drivers contractors, not employees. Employees are owed minimum wage, overtime, and repayment for work expenses—contractors aren’t. California says that from 2016 through 2020, that label cheated Lyft’s drivers out of all three. “That’s not a business model, that’s exploitation,” says Rob Bonta, a Democrat and California’s attorney general. Bolainez, vice president of Rideshare Drivers United, says: “This was rent that didn’t get paid, food that wasn’t there for hungry kids.” More than 1,600 drivers filed wage claims with the state, and in 2020 the state and three of its big cities took Lyft to court. On October 1, California announced that Lyft had agreed to pay $272.5 million, the largest wage settlement in state history, officials say. At least $237 million goes to drivers. A judge still has to approve it, and Lyft admits no wrongdoing. Sure. Companies hand over $272.5 million all the time for doing nothing wrong. Meanwhile, Trump’s Labor Department has a rule in final White House review that’s expected to make it easier to label workers contractors. California made Lyft pay for that trick. The regime wants to make it easier to pull. Good luck with that. Drivers like Bolainez just showed they don’t give up. “We’ve waited six years for this,” he says. A Judge Calls Plate Cameras Mass Surveillance You’ve probably driven past one: a camera on a pole that photographs every license plate. Members of Congress count more than 120,000 from one company, Flock Safety. Police can type in a plate number and see where that car has been. A sheriff’s deputy in Oklahoma saw a car with a California plate. That was all he knew. He ran the plate and got back more than 50 sightings, a month’s worth. The stop turned up about 91 pounds of methamphetamine, news reports say. That’s the part Flock wants you to remember. The part it doesn’t: he could have run that search on any of us. Nearly every court to look at this has let police do it without a warrant, Judge Sara Hill noted. Last week, she ruled that this search needed one. She called the camera network “a type of indiscriminate mass surveillance,” threw out the evidence, and asked, “Why is it the government’s business where everyone goes all the time?” It isn’t. The regime’s own prosecutors fought to keep that evidence in, and they lost. Flock expects an appeal. At least 56 cities and towns have shut off, canceled, or rejected Flock this year, according to Sen. Bernie Sanders’s office. He and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have a bill called the Ban Flock Act. It would bar federal agencies, including Trump’s immigration agents, from using these cameras and cut off federal money to cities that keep them. Trump’s regime would love a map of where all of us go. A federal judge just said that takes a warrant. River Guide Gets Trump’s Big Bend  Wall Halted Billy Miller has guided people down the Rio Grande—the river that marks the Mexican border—through the Big Bend canyons of West Texas for more than 20 years. In April he sued Trump’s regime over its border wall there, joined by the Center for Biological Diversity, a conservation group, and the caretakers of a 1915 adobe church. To build it, the regime declared that dozens of laws didn’t apply, including the Endangered Species Act, and lined up more than $7 billion in contracts. All that for a region with about 1% of this century’s border arrests, an expert for Miller’s side says. That’s not border security. It’s a $7 billion monument to one man. I tracked down Miller’s court declaration. In August, he says, he “watched bulldozers and heavy machinery tear up vegetation” near Santa Elena Canyon, inside Big Bend National Park. At a hearing Friday, federal Judge Kathleen Cardone ruled on the spot: the regime “SHALL NOT build border barrier or related infrastructure” in the region until it follows the laws it brushed aside. Customs and Border Protection answered that it can secure the border while “preserving the unique landscape of the Big Bend region.” It said that after the ground was already torn up. The order is temporary and can be appealed. But the regime brought bulldozers, and Billy Miller, the church’s caretakers, and a conservation group brought the law. For now, they’re ahead. Twenty-eight days until the midterms, and we have the pedal to the metal. There’s no advertiser’s logo on this page and no owner’s name above mine. So when I write that this regime had bulldozers tear into a national park, nobody can make me tone it down. Paid subscribers are the ones who keep it that way. And that’s why they get access to my exclusive analysis of the midterm map, three times a week, built off my 23 years of running campaigns across the country. On Tuesday, November 3, starting at 8:30 PM Eastern, paid subscribers will also be with me live on Substack as the results come in. I hope you’ll support our work today, and join us on election night: Before you close this, hit the ❤️ like button and restack this edition. A river guide in Texas and more than 1,600 rideshare drivers in California each just won big. The people they beat would be happy if you kept that to yourself. Don’t. Onward! Scott Trump says he’s “worried.” What do you think he’s most worried about? Have you driven past a license plate camera? When did you notice it went up? 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 Scott Dworkin 1h Five letters today, about a minute each. Every one goes to your own members of Congress. Ban Flock's license plate cameras. Our newest letter. https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-ban-flock-mass-surveillance-cameras/ Impeach John Roberts. His new term started yesterday. https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-impeach-supreme-court-chief-justice-john-roberts/ Keep a Trump donor's private road out of Yosemite. https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-stop-trumps-yosemite-giveaway Ban AI nobody can control. https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-pass-the-ban-on-ai-we-cant-control/ Stop Trump from gutting the Forest Service. https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-stop-trumps-illegal-plan-to-destroy-the-us-forest-service/ Pick one or send all five, then tell me below how many you got through. Scott Dworkin 1h Also, after last night we have our Impeach Trump page back again: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-begin-drafting-articles-of-impeachment-against-trump/ COMMENTS:  Doin’ the Dworkin Daily!!!! He’s worried about being forgotten, essentially. My little town, Tahlequah, OK, home of the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma (you should look it up - cool history hereabouts) has decided to remove the Flock cameras. The sheriff said he didn’t really think they were a problem, but due to the hue and cry throughout the land, it was clear that the citizenry was full-on against their remaining. There ya go. ✊🏽 The retreat is the tell. Read the map, not the statement. That camera is not a traffic tool. Glad somebody finally said it out loud. About time the bill showed up. Trump is worried he will be held accountable GOOD! Except he's convinced that he's done NOTHING WRONG! DEMENTIA DON knows that you're just OUT TO GET HIM! tRump's bankruptcy attorneys insisted on meeting with him with 2 attorneys present because his statements were contradictory. Some have blamed drug abuse. Regardless, his comments, recollections, versions of events bounce around in his limited BRAIN and he has no idea of TRUTH or FACTS.  it's known and conspicuous!  The MAGGOT CULT embraced a MAD MAN who jeopardizes the WORLD!  Removing Republicans who enable DJT will be the first step in reclaiming America. MAGA must face the reality that every rotten thing he does affects them to; Get past their racism and think about the whole country not just themselves. 🗽🇺🇸 We will never forget the cowards who enabled this madness! It appears many Republicans (including Abbott and DeSantis) are also against mass surveillance so a bipartisan bill should work. Joan’s Substack1h Worried about??? when he invites Iran to blow up 2 California's cities??? He better be I've emailed senators etc all morning, Where s the 25th, why isn't Congress reacting? For Gods sake Congress wake up this President is Benedict Arnold #2 Benedict would be ashamed of Trump Did anyone hear about what T suggested what Iran can do...take out some major cities like LA and others. Saying it's a small price........I am beyond words...and shocked as well. He needs to be taken out 'now'. The whole administration NOW.... Thank you once again Scott for ALL that you do here!! Yes, absolute insanity. There is no world where that's an okay thing for the US president to say Trump is worried about himself. Absolutely nothing else. His remaining MAGA cult members don’t yet realize that they mean absolutely nothing to him other than a means to grabbing and holding power and wealth. Absolutely right. He only cares about himself. Not even his kids are safe. Scott, I think we need a very strong net 5-gain as a safeguard against Fetterman. Help Abdul El Sayed MD PHD here in Michigan. He is ahead by only a hair! Republicans are spending a ton of money here, so any donation would be helpful. He has such amazing ideas to rebuild only better, in the Senate. trump is worried that his grift is near an end. I wonder what the prediction markets have to say about him boarding his Qatari/US-taxpayer gift and absconding to Saudi Arabia or maybe a Putin owned dacha on the Black Sea. What a glorious day that would be. I'll go easy on accountability if he just goes away forever. =) The accountability must be for the sycophants, the hangers-on, the greedy and unforgivably morally corrupt who allowed trump’s corruption to flourish. The nation went too easy on on NIXON and he NEVER WENT AWAY! Was never charged with the REAL CRIMES for which he was guilty....but then KISSINGER was the real WAR CRIMINAL who covered-up KILLINGS and much else.  HISTORY NEEDS ALL CRIMES! So much work yet to do. I got my neighbor registered to vote here in Michigan yesterday. She moved here from out of State in the Spring. Need to finish the last of the Postcards To Voters batch. I have on the other hand voted already and had my ballot received and accepted, so that is done. I have done my donations for the month, also. The only thing Chump is worried about is his own orange butt. He could care less about anything else - including his own family. I’ve never seen a flock camera but as of now am actively looking for them. I’ve never seen a flock camera but as of now am actively looking for them. The demented demon needs to be charged and prosecuted for treason and war crimes. He does not care about America and democracy - he sells this country to the highest bidder - he and his corrupt family have profited in the billions by his position of power. He and his evil minions have murdered American citizens in our streets, immigrants in prisons, school children at their desks, fishermen in their small boats, and military personnel by starting an illegal war, and probably others that the public knows nothing about. He has invaded other countries, murdered their supreme leader, and captured other leaders of other countries without prior approval of Congress. He has accepted expensive gifts in exchange for preferential treatment from other countries. He has imposed illegal tariffs that have resulted in tremendous hardship on the American people. He torn down our historical White House in order to shape it in his own vulgar taste and imposed his name on other historical locations to satisfy his vanity. He is the most corrupt and evil occupant to ever set foot inside our government. He is a convicted felon, a pedophile protector with many undisclosed actions, a womanizing sexual predator, and a FAKE human being. He will go down in history as the most corrupt and evil person to ever hold the office of the president of this great county. THANK YOU! me too--called and emailed my FL senators. And Moody's office said she's been getting A LOT OF CALLS about this, so call away. These people sound so deranged. Trump's rallies are horrifying to hear him speak so incoherently and people applaud. What is wrong with these people. They applaud all his lies. We need the country to change. And we need to get money out of our politics. I hope there is a a serious rebuke in the mid-terms. But then my concern will immediately turn to 2028. I don't want to see President Tucker Carlson, or JD Vance or god knows what. Let me just say I want to give a loud Thank You to all of the "little" people (that's what this regime says working people are) like Billy Miller that sued this regime because he saw they were tearing up a place he held dear. All across this country, it is the working people that are standing up and speaking out against this corrupt regime. My hat is off to you, and you have my eternal gratitude! The question about the orange stain being worried, well, I doubt it. If anything, he has seen the writing on the wall and knows his days of running completely roughshod over all of us are coming to an end. I honestly do not know if I have driven past any cameras. I don't know what they look like. It is my considered opinion that all of these damn cameras out there spying on the American people must be banned - period. Keep fighting, America! Stay strong and stay safe! Vote BLUE in November!! Theodora’s Substack2h 🗄️ Release all the Epstein files and make 🍊 very worried!! 😟 If I read this correctly, "Trump’s Labor Department has a rule in final White House review that’s expected to make it easier to label workers contractors," is actually good news for Lyft drivers? Glad CA Lyft drivers sued! No, you’re right to question it. That rule is bad for workers who need health insurance, time off, and the rest of the protections a contractor label strips out. Dumpty has only one worry... losing. Losing in any form. He's never been held accountable in any way but financially in his life. He's shameless, so nothing immoral embarrasses him. He's not even fearful of prison; in his fantasy, he's too "special" for that. I did drive past a license plate camera when I was going from where I live to Newburgh New York. I was appalled. I noticed it about three months ago. We have a local election coming up and the cameras and detention centers, or what I call concentration camps, are top priorities for me in terms of voting. They need to stay out of the Hudson Valley, and stay out of our country.  CHILDREN are being held in ICE GESTAPO CONCENTRATION CAMPS called UNACCOMPANIED CHILDREN by ICE GESTAPO...  Investigations indicate that they are being KIDNAPPED!  One word is helping ICE quietly separate families again “You Kidnapped My Son” ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” Samantha Michaels and Isabela Dias October 5, 2026 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/10/ice-orr-office-refugee-resettlement-donald-trump-stephen-miller-family-separations-foster-care-deportations/?utm_source=mj-newsletters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-newsletter-10-05-2026 Eight years after the Trump administration first started separating migrant families, the current one is ripping them apart with a quieter tactic. It is a deception that hinges upon one word: “unaccompanied.” The designation allows federal authorities to place minors without a parent or a guardian in the US into shelters or foster homes. But in the case of ICE’s new strategy, countless children are being labeled as such for no reason, then separated from family members. My colleagues report: Federal agents have picked up hundreds of immigrant children in the interior of the country and sent them to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, a vast departure from prior administrations, when interior referrals to the agency were rare. Anywhere from 500 to more than 700 of these kids, according to sources familiar with the cases, had previously crossed the border alone and spent time in ORR custody, but were living with their sponsors when ICE returned them to the agency. These “re-referrals” are the subject of lawsuits and investigations. The result is an administration that, in effect, is creating a whole class of unaccompanied minors. The children caught up in this tactic are struggling, and family testimonies have been nothing short of harrowing: “You kidnapped my son.” “He’s small. He needs his father.” “You tricked me.” BIG PROFITABLE COMPANIES ARE CHEATING ALL OVER!  Notice that it's BLUE STATES that are prosecuting! FROM THE INTERCEPT: DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why. In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mamdani. https://theintercept.com/2026/09/23/doordash-delivery-nyc-mamdani-wage-theft-settlement/ Mayor Mamdani Announces Multimillion-Dollar Delivery Worker Wage Theft Settlement Three delivery app companies are accused of violating New York’s minimum pay law. Amir Khafagy Jan 30, 2026 https://documentedny.com/2026/01/30/mamdani-multimillion-settlement-delivery-workers-wages-uber-fantuan-hungrypanda/ NYC CONSUMER & WORKER PROTECTION:  Mayor Mamdani Wins Record $131.5 Million From DoorDash for Delivery Workers September 22, 2026 https://www.nyc.gov/site/dca/news/065-26/mayor-mamdani-wins-record-131-5-million-doordash-delivery-workers Uber, Lyft to pay Mass. drivers $32 minimum wage during rides under $175 million settlement Chris Lisinski, State House News Service Updated June 27, 2024 https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/06/27/massachusetts-attorney-general-uber-lyft-driver-wages FLOCK CAMERAS: A comment made elsewhere also reported that FLOCK CAMERAS also record PEDESTRIANS!  Just walking down the street, you're recorded!