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  Sunday Dose of Democracy: VIDEO OF THE DAY: DOJ drops bombshell midterm announcement Brian Tyler Cohen and legal expert Marc Elias of Democracy Docket break down the Trump administration's deeply alarming announcement that they will be deploying 1,000 "election monitors" to polling places around the country. They say they're to ensure compliance with the Civil Rights Act, but we all know the Trump administration couldn't care less about civil rights...and are VERY interested in tilting the midterm elections in their favor. Take Action: Stop Trump from destroying the Forestry Department! Natalie Harp is the high priestess of the Cult of Trump Jeet Heer, The Nation : "I’ll confess I was leery when Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff turned long-standing speculation about the relationship between Donald Trump and his 35-year-old aide Natalie Harp into a hot topic of national debate. It’s long been known that Harp is obsessed with Trump to the point of creepiness, and...

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Today in Politics, Bulletin 445. 8/21/26 Ron Filipkowski Aug 21 ∙ … Wild new revelations in the Natalie Harp saga as Daily Beast published a few of the letters she sent Trump during their trip to Scotland. DB: Natalie Harp’s intimate letters to Trump are being revealed in full for the first time—showing her spilling her heart, and saying she is “unworthy” of him. “You are all that matters to me. I don’t want to ever let you down.” … “The Daily Beast is publishing them amid swirling questions over the national security implications of 35-year-old Harp’s status as 80-year-old Trump’s most significant gatekeeper, even being used as a conduit to the president by foreign leaders. … The extraordinary letters were written in 2023, either during or after Harp accompanied Trump on a trip to Scotland and Ireland. They reveal Harp’s utter devotion to Trump. She even tells him she is envious of women “whose only job seems to be to talk with you and look pretty.” … “I want that job!!” she writes i...