Kevin Grant

The Supreme Court Just Signaled Something Deeply Disturbing About the Next Term A court fundamentally hostile to the rights of voters places the court increasingly at odds with democracy itself.

My New One at @slate.com on the Supreme Court Potentially Killing the Remaining Pillar of the Voting Rights Act: “The Supreme Court Just Signaled Something Deeply Disturbing About the Next Term” slate.com/news-and-pol...

Immigrants are leaving the US workforce in very large numbers.

Remittance payments US→MX plummeting, down 2+ million from a year ago.

Biggest decline in >30 years - a period that includes a homebuilding depression and a 100-year financial crisis.

A New Cycle of Texas Gerrymandering: Your Questions Answered - Bolts The Texas legislature began meeting in a special session last week to adopt a new congressional map that will, they hope, provide additional seats to the GOP in next year’s... Read More

NEW: Texas Republicans have unveiled a new gerrymander to gain as many as 5 seats in next year's midterms.

*Can they do that? What data must they use? What are legal avenues here!?*

You sent us a ton of questions. And a redistricting expert who knows Texas inside out answered 9 of them:

How States Can Fill Election Security Gaps Left by Federal Cuts From cybersecurity assessments and training to coordination with law enforcement agencies, state governments need to provide wide-ranging support to ensure smooth and secure elections.

In the face of growing election security threats, states need to ensure that cyberattacks and other incidents don’t affect the voters casting ballots or election workers counting them.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

New details about police activity after lawmaker shootings raise questions about response The Minnesota Star Tribune found that Brooklyn Park police waited more than 60 minutes to enter the Hortman home and that several law enforcement agencies were unaware of the situation for hours.

They waited *more than an hour* to enter the Hortman home after watching Mark Hortman get shot in the doorway

Unbelievably tragic & heartbreaking

And, of course, they publicly congratulated themselves on a great, lifesaving police response when they’d let a lawmaker bleed out. Uvalde is everywhere

Brunswick County, N.C. urges residents to sign up for emergency alerts Southeastern North Carolina county urges residents to register for alerts with the peak of hurricane season approaching

Brunswick County, N.C. urges residents to sign up for emergency alerts down-ballot.info/brunswick-co...

I Watched 20 Arrests In Trump’s America. Here’s What They Looked Like. "This is fishing in a stocked pool. You tell them, 'Show up at this location,' and then they show up and you grab them,” one federal agent involved with immigration court arrests told HuffPost.

New: Five days in immigration court.

I witnessed 20 arrests over five days in lower Manhattan. It only takes a couple of seconds for agents to transform New Yorkers attending appointments into detainees.

www.huffpost.com/entry/five-d...

Under Siege From Trump and Musk, a Top Liberal Group Falls Into Crisis

Musk and Trump have often talked about the lawfare against them, but here's what happens when they use their influence and/or money to go after their opponents.

Media Matters is edging closer to the brink after years of legal battles and it's not getting easier: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/u...

Gaza is starving. So are its journalists | Jodie Ginsberg A desperate situation has become catastrophic. If we do not act now, there will be no one left to tell anyone’s story

I have been a reporter for 25 years. I know the risks reporting in war zones. This is not that situation. This is systematic silencing by Israel.

If we do not act now, there will be no one left in Gaza to tell anyone’s story.

Me today for @theguardian.com

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Over at DOJ, the Deputy Attorney General (DAG) is personally visiting Ghislaine Maxwell in prison.

Weird? Very.

Let me explain.

I think it’s worth noting this piece generated the most unsubscribes I’ve seen in a while, and the newsletter version had the lowest open rate in many months. These horrors persist in part because too many people go to great pains to avoid them.

Homeland Security DHS account on X: Remember your Homeland's Heritage. New Life in a New Land - Morgan Weistling

The official DHS account is now tweeting about “your homeland’s heritage”

Hegseth Signal messages came from email classified ‘SECRET,’ watchdog told The revelation contradicts the Trump administration’s longstanding claims that no classified information was shared by the defense secretary’s account during the “Signalgate” scandal.

Justice Department Told Trump in May That His Name Is Among Many in the Epstein Files Bondi also told president at the meeting that Justice decided to not release more Jeffrey Epstein documents because of the presence of child pornography and the need to protect victims

These two stories broke within a half-hour of each other.

Bondi Fires First Replacement After Judges Reject Habba Appointment Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: In a display of executive defiance, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi fired the first assistant U.S. attorney for New Jersey — just hours after a panel of federal judges blocked Alina Habba from continuing as the state’s top federal prosecutor. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

Deaf, mute and terrified: ICE arrests DACA recipient and ships him to Texas Javier Diaz Santana, who is deaf and communicates using sign language, was swept up in a federal immigration raid at his job in Temple City. He could not communicate in handcuffs. His attorney says U....

Deaf, mute and terrified: ICE arrests DACA recipient and ships him to Texas www.latimes.com/california/s...

Lawmakers Push For Ghislaine Maxwell Testimony as GOP Leaders Work to Avoid Epstein Vote “Bring her in. Let’s hear it,” said Rep. Thomas Massie.

New: Lawmakers Push For Ghislaine Maxwell Testimony as GOP Leaders Work to Avoid Epstein Vote
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We’re not going to play political games with the Epstein Files, by politically adjourning the entirety of the House of Representatives until September to avoid a vote on releasing the Epstein Files.

more of this plz

Mike Johnson on canceling Congress until September: "We're not going to play political games with [Epstein]"

Breaking News 1m ago Speaker Mike Johnson said he would shut down the House until September to block a vote on calling for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

What would they say if this happened in another country?

Trump's Labor Department proposes more than 60 rule changes in a push to deregulate workplaces The U.S. Department of Labor is aiming to rewrite or repeal more than 60 “obsolete” workplace regulations adopted under previous presidential administrations.

Trump Regime hates workers: Department of Labor wants to rewrite or repeal more than 60 “obsolete” workplace regulations, ranging from minimum wage requirements for home health care workers & people with disabilities to standards governing exposure to harmful substances. apnews.com/article/labo...

The NIH Is Capping Research Proposals Because It's Overwhelmed by AI Submissions The NIH wrote that it has recently “observed instances of Principal Investigators submitting large numbers of applications, some of which may have been generated with AI tools."

The NIH, which has faced major budget cuts, is now overwhelmed with submissions for grants because they’re getting spammed with AI generated applications

www.404media.co/nih-capping-...

We have been in touch with Andry Hernández Romero’s legal team and are grateful he is alive and are engaged with both the State Department and his team.

This is happening days after the AI called for a second Holocaust and one day after Elmo was hacked on the same website, resulting in… only a handful of people leaving

It's Not Just Epstein. MAGA Is Angry About a Lot of Things Pockets of Donald Trump’s most loyal base are increasingly angry at what they view as the administration's failure to fulfill its promises.

It's not just Epstein stuff. Pockets of Donald Trump’s most loyal base are increasingly angry at what they view as the administration's failure to fulfill its promises.

Here's what they're saying:

People didn’t “used to be fine” without air conditioning during heat waves in the U.S. - a lot more people *just died*.

According to this study, air conditioning has cut heat deaths in the U.S. by around 80% since 1960.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Sierra Club Managers Accuse Group’s Leader of Failing to Fight Trump More than 100 employees declared their lack of confidence in Executive Director Ben Jealous after the organization announced layoffs.

The executive director of the Sierra Club, Ben Jealous, is on leave. No answers yet as to why he's gone or if he's coming back.

ICYMI: My story on managers telling the the board of directors they don't think Jealous is a good leader against Trump 👇

Hundreds of layoffs are planned across the State Dept in the coming days, including much of the foreign & civil service. Do you work, or have you worked, at the agency? If so, we want to hear from you.

You can reach my reporters:

Brett Murphy on Signal at 508-523-5195

And @annamaria.bsky.social

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HAPPENING NOW: Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia are back in court following yesterday’s wild evidentiary hearing.

The parties have re-convened for oral argument on Abrego’s motion to be returned to Maryland if he’s released from criminal custody in TN next week.

Follow along ⬇️ 🧵