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In a Truth Social post over the weekend, President Trump suggested he was haphazardly undercutting a core element of his mythos: that he is anti-war. That assertion, as questionable as it might be on its face, has been embraced by some of his most outspoken supporters.

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These recent events are part of an ongoing story, the ominous demonization of First Amendment-protected protest by Republicans in power, both implicitly via the Trump administration’s National Guard overreach, and explicitly via statements from local sheriffs and GOP governors alike.

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In his Sunday evening Truth Social screed, Trump (or whoever wrote it) acknowledged that his deportation agenda is rooted in retribution against the Dems and vindication of election-related conspiracy theories.

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You may have heard that due to southern migration patterns, Dems are electorally doomed come the 2030 census. I looked under the hood & some key factors — the pandemic, who is moving & the wildcard of immigration — make the future far less predictable. Dive in: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2030-ce...

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Just before Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) was forcibly removed from a Department of Homeland Security press briefing, forced to the ground and then handcuffed for asking a question, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem was in the middle of making a bizarre but crucial point.

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Ironically, Johnson is the Republican in the Senate most vocally opposed to the sweeping reconciliation package that’ll fund much of Trump’s fiscal agenda if it passes the upper chamber in coming weeks.

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The standoff he’s created in LA between civilians and the military is the real-life manifestation of a running bit in Trump’s psyche, a feud between himself and blue-voting municipalities that, up until this point, he largely stoked via EOs attacking sanctuary cities and those who govern them.

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There’s another Trump II agenda item the deployment ticks off by undermining the authority of California state officials and local officials in LA to determine when and how they might request backup in the face of unrest or sprawling demonstrations.

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✨ so thrilled to have one of the bests coming back to us at @talkingpointsmemo.com ✨

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We can’t talk about the protests in LA against mass deportation and President Trump itching to send in the military without a quick reminder that we all knew: talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

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There’s a meatier issue at the heart of the Breakup We All Saw Coming.

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Regardless of how this all might come back to bite them in the midterms, the embrace of the package is illustrative of GOP leadership’s eagerness to strip the legislative branch of its own authority during Trump II:

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It appears Musk’s beef with the spending bill runs deeper than his concerns that Congress shouldn’t authorize new federal spending when he’s trying to wipe out that concept. talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

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Under our system of government, of course, Congress approves spending, not the White House. That has been upside-down since January, one of many violations of the separation of powers that came with Trump II.

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While a Trump executive branch official undermining the credibility of an independent agency that serves as a check on his actions is not new, Trump’s allies in Congress have at least, up until this point, tried to operate with a veneer of respect for offices and agencies within its purview.

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Big picture, the non-partisan congressional watchdog is expected to issue more rulings in coming months as it works its way through nearly 40 other similar investigations into whether the Trump administration has violated the 51-year-old law in other ways.

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An outspoken Christian nationalist pastor and longtime advocate for bringing evangelical policy preferences into government met with Pete Hegseth this month. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/an-outs...

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The statements from U.S. Magistrate Judge Andre Espinosa mark one of the first times a federal judge has bluntly addressed the inappropriate actions of some of the characters President Trump has installed as heads of U.S. Attorney’s Offices since returning to the White House.

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