Aileen Nakamura

My signal is annabower.24 if any other United States Attorneys want to text me!

Hahahahah

Gotta say, I’ve heard some incredible “off the record” jokes over the past 24 hours

Where we're at

Helps GOP
—TX: 5 seats toward GOP
—OH:2 seats toward GOP, but also 1 toward Dems
—NC: 1 Dem seat to likely GOP

Helps Dems
—CA: 5 seats toward Dems
—UT: 1 seat flips Dem

?
—MO: 1 seat to GOP... but veto referendum?
—VA: Dems trying
—FL: GOP maybe

GOP push stalls:
—KS
—IN

VRA
—...

Now a story: www.abc4.com/news/politic...

Voters Ousted This Pennsylvania Sheriff After He Signed Up to Collaborate With ICE - Bolts A populous, swing county replaced its GOP sheriff on Tuesday after months of controversy over his joining ICE’s 287(g) program. The Democratic winner promises he’ll end the contract.

NEW: Dems easily flipped the sheriff's office in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, a big swing county in the Philly suburbs.

So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract.

Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson:

DOJ submits new, air-brushed sentencing memo for Taylor Taranto, scrubbing references to his role in Jan. 6 Capitol Siege and Trump's social media post that led him to go to Obama's neighborhood with weapons. Here's the first scrubbing
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“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”

😂 Yes, a little unreal at times, but definitely a good watch with some seriously realistic questions.

GA Public Service Commissioners. After a lengthy (5 years!) delay, we finally have the chance to flip two of the 5 red seats to blue!

tbf Texans were convinced Obama would invade Texas and send people to camps during the Jade Helm military exercises. Weird how they're no longer concerned when their fever-dream fantasy is actually happening

Can Congress Better Represent Americans? 2:30 - 3:45 p.m. ET

Wednesday, I'll be joining @johncarey.bsky.social @mcpli.bsky.social @normornstein.bsky.social & Maria Perez for the launch of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences working group report on proportional representation. It's been a great project and discussions. Can sign up here, including Q&A:

Microsoft Azure, 365 down for thousands of users, Downdetector shows Microsoft's Azure and its suite of productivity software were down for thousands of users on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

Microsoft Azure, 365 down for thousands of users, Downdetector shows reut.rs/4oczIcC

NOW: U.S. Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino agrees to meet with a federal judge every evening until a preliminary injunction hearing, which is set for 11/5.

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." Anna Bower Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Judge Young is a Reagan appointee, by the way.

BREAKING: Judge Charles Breyer finds that the Trump administration violated the Posse Comitatus Act by using the military for domestic law enforcement purpose in Los Angeles.

He enjoins further violations of the Posse Comitatus Act ⬇️

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Hey, BlueSky. When they say "Free Speech" - they don't mean YOU.

This here is pretty fresh off the wires..

In Response to Trump’s Federal Takeover of the DC Police, Unlawful Gerrymandering, Silencing Speech, and Privacy Violations, Legal Advocates Announce New Grounds of Impeachment - Free Speech For Peopl... a non-partisan campaign led by Free Speech For People, has added new grounds for impeachment against Trump

BREAKING: Legal Advocates Announce New Grounds of Impeachment in Response to Trump’s Federal Takeover of the DC Police, Unlawful Gerrymandering, Silencing Speech, and Privacy Violations. freespeechforpeople.org/in-response-...

"Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing." ―Michael Beschloss

#Democracy #SocialJustice #QuoteOfTheDay

The Downballot’s live guide to redistricting in every state As states move forward with mid-decade redraws, we're continually updating this tracker

The new redistricting wars triggered by Trump & the GOP have unleashed a torrent of news. To help keep track of it all, we've published a guide to the latest developments in every state—28 in all—and we'll update it every time there’s something new to report.

You'll want to bookmark this one —>

Minnesota Dems have selected a candidate to replace Melissa Hortman, the former Speaker who was assassinated:

It’ll be Xp Lee, a former council member from Brooklyn Park.

WaPo just published an oped by Jeanine Piro demanding that DC repeal the “Second Look Act”. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

This is the law about which I posted this piece yesterday:

Very, very bad: A hack of the federal judiciary's case filing system may have "compromised the identities of confidential informants involved in criminal cases at multiple federal district courts." www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Stay strong TX Dems! We see you and we got you!

All Texans deserve to have our voices heard for the good of our beloved state.

@indivisible.org

@unroll.skywriter.blue
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Thank you so much for this badly needed thread, @susangreenhalgh.bsky.social !

with minimal access. So while I don't find the theories offered by This Will Hold very persuasive, that does not equate to suggesting that we have evidence that the election was secure - to the contrary - we have evidence that the software and systems were compromised before the election. And 16/

Voting experts warn of 'serious threats' for 2024 from election equipment software breaches The letter to the FBI, Attorney General Merrick Garland, special counsel Jack Smith and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency asks for a federal probe and a risk assessment of voting ma...

And possibly most important, before the '24 election, voting systems and proprietary software were improperly accessed by Trump allies, enabling potential bad actors to develop stealth, sophisticated attacks that could evade pre-election testing and be launched...15/ www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Addressing Insider Threats in Elections There is an active effort to recruit rogue election officials to sabotage elections across the country.

We know that insider threat - the possibility that a corrupted vendor employee or election official could allow physical assess to machines - is the number one risk, and yet it's hand-waved away and deftly ignored. 14/ www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

The voting machine hacking threat you probably haven’t heard about Modems help election officials report results quickly, but security experts say they’re too dangerous to trust.

We know that some of them STILL are using wireless modems that connect them to the internet. 13/ www.politico.com/news/2022/10...