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  Forwarded this email?  Subscribe here  for more   Watch now   Tuesday Afternoon News Updates — 3/31/26 America's allies are walking away Ben Meiselas  and  MeidasTouch Network Mar 31   Hi all, Ben here. It’s Tuesday afternoon, and there is a lot to get through today. Let’s just dive in. Upgrade to paid Trump woke up this morning in full meltdown mode (what else is new?), firing off a series of panicked Truth Social posts. He went after France, he went after the United Kingdom, and he basically told every American ally in Europe to go fend for themselves. Here’s what he posted about France: apparently the French wouldn’t allow U.S. military planes carrying supplies bound for Israel to fly over French territory. Trump’s response was to publicly threaten France, writing that “the USA will remember.” And then, in a separate post, he turned on the UK, telling them to “build up some delayed courage,” go to the Strait of Hormuz, and just “take” the oil...

    Tuesday, March 18 The Trump administration is working overtime to chip away at our democratic freedoms. Help support our pro-democracy news outlet as we strive to hold Trump accountable —  become a premium member for $120/year  and join us in the fight for a stronger, more transparent democracy. DOGE’s USAID takeover likely violated the Constitution Allowing Elon Musk to oversee the Trump administration’s attempted takeover of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) “likely violated the United States Constitution in multiple ways,” a federal judge in Maryland  determined . Judge Theodore Chuang rebuked Musk and DOGE for violating Congress’s constitutional authority to appropriate funds and create or shut down federal agencies. Almost 25K federal workers reinstated, Trump administration says The Trump administration   reported  in new court filings that nearly 25,000 fired probationary federal employees have been reinstated following a...

  It's  O ur  D emocracy! Ian live updates: South Carolina grapples with storm damage as Florida searches for survivors Today's Top Stories: Trump posts that McConnell has "death wish" in racist incitement to violence against the Republican leader and his wife Less than two years after Trump's thinly veiled calls for violence against another one-time ally led a mob on a violent crusade to "hang Mike Pence," the disgraced ex-president is not so subtly inciting his cult against McConnell. Take Action:  Tell Merrick Garland it’s time to indict Donald Trump! VIDEO OF THE DAY:  Lindsey Graham accidentally humiliates himself with dumbest comment possible The South Carolina senator continues to dig the Republican Party into a deeper and deeper hole. You love to see it. Take Action:  Demand the Senate reject Lindsey Graham’s national abortion ban! Doctors. Teachers. Women. LGBT+ kids. The GOP is waging culture war against all of them, and we can’t let them win S...

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