Former three-time All-Star first-baseman Mark Teixeira, one of the most powerful switch-hitters in MLB history who played 14 years in Major League Baseball with the Texas Rangers, Atlanta Braves, Los Angeles Angels, and the New York Yankees while amassing a whopping 409 home runs, announced he would run for the GOP seat vacated in Texas’ 21st Congressional District by Rep. Chip Roy.
Roy announced on August 21 he would run for attorney general of Texas.
“Big news: I’m ready to go!” Teixeira wrote on X. “As a lifelong conservative who loves this country, I’m running for Congress to fight for the principles that make Texas and America great. It takes teamwork to win – I’m ready to help defend President Trump’s America First agenda, Texas families, and individual liberty.”
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Big news: I’m ready to go! 
As a lifelong conservative who loves this country, I’m running for Congress to fight for the principles that make Texas and America great. 
It takes teamwork to win – I’m ready to help defend President Trump’s America First agenda, Texas families,… <a href="https://t.co/bVb6j9qP6i">pic.twitter.com/bVb6j9qP6i</a>
&mdash; Mark Teixeira (@teixeiramark25) <a href="https://twitter.com/teixeiramark25/status/1961080787584897174?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Teixeira was twice a finalist for the Roberto Clemente Award, presented annually by Major League Baseball to a player who best embodies the game of baseball through extraordinary character, community involvement, and philanthropy on and off the field. He has served on the board of directors of DREAM, which uses sports and academic programs to help inner-city youth recognize their potential.
Teixeira has worked with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative-leaning think tank that has pushed for school vouchers, property tax caps, restrictions on state contracts with ESG-compliant businesses, and prison reforms. The organization has been <a href="https://www.expressnews.com/politics/article/texas-public-policy-foundation-20054168.php?utm_source=chatgpt.com">described</a> as the “most influential conservative think tank in the state.”
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“I am a Christian conservative, God-loving man who understood where the Northeast was going and didn’t want to raise teenagers there,” Teixeira, who moved from Grenich, Connecticut, back to Texas, said in an interview. “I loved our community in Grenich, Connecticut, great place for young kids; I wouldn’t want my kids to be teenagers, to be in high school and be in college in that area. The values that we teach at home were not being taught there, so coming back here, and having the no state income tax as a bonus. But it really was more about raising my family in a place where you can go to church and be proud of it. You can vote Republican and be proud of it. You can have conservative values and be proud of hanging a flag in your front yard or supporting police officers, supporting the military.”
“And that’s what we’ve got here, and it’s great to be back in Texas,” he concluded.
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Former Yankee And 3-Time MLB All-Star Running For Chip Roy’s Texas Seat

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President Donald Trump on Thursday called for the Republican Party to hold a national convention before the 2026 midterms, breaking with the traditional practice of waiting until the presidential election year.
Writing on <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115106822268468130">Truth Social</a>, Trump stated:
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The Republican Party is doing really well. Millions of people have joined us in our quest to MAKE AMERICA, GREAT AGAIN. We won every aspect of the Presidential Election and, based on the great success we are having, are poised to WIN BIG IN THE MIDTERMS. We have raised far more money than the Democrats, and are having a great time fixing all of the Country Destroying mistakes made by the Biden Administration, and watching the USA heal and prosper. The results are incredible, a record pace!!! In that light, I am thinking of recommending a National Convention to the Republican Party, just prior to the Midterms. It has never been done before. STAY TUNED!!! DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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Interestingly, the first national political convention in the United States was held in 1831 by the Anti-Masonic Party in Baltimore, Maryland. One year later, the Democratic Party held its first national convention, also in Baltimore, nominating Andrew Jackson for re-election. In 1839, the Whig Party, the predecessor to the Republican Party, which was founded in response to Jackson in the early 1830s, held its first national convention in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The Republican Party held its first national convention in 1856, at which it nominated the famed explorer and U.S. Senator John Fremont.
Neither the Republican Party nor the Democratic Party has ever skipped a convention every four years since they started the practice. Smaller parties, such as the Free Soil Party, the Know-Nothings, and the Progressives, held their conventions irregularly.
Some possible advantages of holding a national political convention every two years include increasing fundraising opportunities and providing the party with more frequent opportunities to address its platform in response to current events or shifting public opinion.

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Republicans are poised to lose their supermajority in the Iowa Senate after a leftist activist defeated a Republican businessman on Tuesday in a special election to fill a vacant seat. 
Democrat Catelyn Drey defeated Republican Christopher Prosch by about 800 votes to win Iowa’s 1st Senate district, <a href="https://wcmelepub.wcicc.com/">according</a> to preliminary election results. Drey, the founder of the leftwing group Moms for Iowa, earned 55% of the vote. 
&#8220;I’m just really incredibly honored that the folks in Senate District 1 believed in this campaign as much as the team did and I am looking forward to representing them well,&#8221; Drey <a href="https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/26/democrat-catelin-drey-wins-iowa-senate-special-election-defeats-republican-christopher-prosch/85819325007/">told</a> The Des Moines Register. 
Drey’s victory shifts the balance of the state Senate, leaving Republicans one seat short of a supermajority. Republicans still hold 33 of the state’s 50 Senate seats. Two-thirds of the Senate is needed to confirm state appointees, so Democrats could block anyone nominated by GOP Governor Kim Reynolds if they all vote in solidarity. 
The special election was called after Republican Senator Rocky De Witt died from pancreatic cancer earlier this summer. De Witt won the seat back in 2022 with 55% of the vote.  The district is located in Woodbury County, an area that backed President Donald Trump in the 2024 election with 61% of the vote. 
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Drey’s Moms for Iowa group backs action to support abortion and gun control. She was <a href="https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/planned-parenthood-advocates-iowa/sd-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">endorsed </a>by Planned Parenthood, which called her a “Reproductive Freedom Champion.” 
Democrats celebrated the victory, claiming that it was an indictment of Trump. 
“Iowans are seeing Republicans for who they are: self-serving liars who will throw their constituents under the bus to rubber-stamp Donald Trump’s disastrous agenda — and they’re ready for change,” Democrat National Committee Chair Ken Martin said. “They are putting Republicans on notice and making it crystal clear: any Republican pushing Trump’s unpopular, extreme agenda has no place governing on behalf of Iowa families.”
Iowa GOP Chair Jeff Kaufmann said the result was a flood of out-of-state money and volunteers activated by the Democrats. 
“National Democrats were so desperate for a win that they activated 30,000 volunteers and a flood of national money to win a state senate special election by a few hundred votes,” he <a href="https://x.com/kaufmannGOP/status/1960526514040266793">posted</a> on X. “If [the DNC] thinks things are suddenly so great again for them in Iowa, they will bring back the caucuses.”

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The Left has decided that they are done with normal male masculinity. 

Democrats are learning that soy is not a nutritional base for all things.
They’re learning this from Zohran Mamdani, who is likely the next mayor of New York City.
Democrats have been claiming that he&#8217;s the hot new thing in the Democratic Party, that he will lead the way to a bright new socialist future for America, starting with the most powerful financial capital on planet Earth.
But since we’re speaking about power, about a supposed socialist “strongman” in Zohran Mamdani, we should note that he’s going to be hard-pressed to be a strongman.
On Saturday, Mamdani showed up at the annual Men&#8217;s Day Open Streets event in Brooklyn, where a bunch of dudes were weight-lifting. Mamdani is 33, in the prime of life, and <a href="https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1959432709224435823?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1959432709224435823%7Ctwgr%5E7601b39cb46b542c1c7c113cc55412bc04dbd7ca%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fnypost.com%2F2025%2F08%2F23%2Fus-news%2Fzohran-mamdani-fails-to-bench-press-meagre-weight-while-trying-to-show-off-at-annual-mens-day-in-brooklyn%2F">tried to bench a bar</a> with two reputed 45-pound weights, a total of 135 pounds.
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If you are going to do something like this and you&#8217;re a public figure, you’d better know your limitations.
There must have been some time in his life when Mamdani was in a gym.
Maybe not.
If you don&#8217;t know how much you can bench-press, a public event in front of a giant crowd of people in the middle of a mayoral race is not a great time to try it out.
Let’s be clear: a decent amount of weight for a man to bench in the prime of his life is his own body weight. Mamdani looks like he weighs more than 135 pounds.
In any case, 135 pounds is not a lot of weight to bench-press.
For the record, I&#8217;m not a bench-press enthusiast; I max out at around 200 pounds. But I can lift 135 pounds 15 times, because that&#8217;s not a lot of weight.
So Mamdani had a heavily-muscled guy helping him try to lift the bar. Twice. They barely made it.
When he kicked a stranger’s soccer ball at the event, Mamdani had to take off his designer boots.
For the vast majority of normal men, this would be very, very embarrassing.
But the Left has decided that they are done with normal male masculinity. 
Done With It.
They have decided that the future of the Democratic Party is going to be an extraordinarily feminized party, not just because an outsized share of Democrats are now single women, but also because the kinds of men the Democratic Party wants to attract are not the kinds of men who lift heavy weights.
This is why you&#8217;ve seen, over the course of the last several years, a spate of articles talking about how lifting and going to the gym has become Republican-coded. There&#8217;s no reason it should be Republican-coded, except if you mean that testosterone is Republican-coded, and the idea that you should stay healthy and that you should lift is Republican-coded.
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This leads to this question: Why would someone want this kind of weak and feminized America?
The media clearly do. There&#8217;s a piece from Axios titled, “<a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/08/24/trump-american-identity-citizenship-immigration">Trump’s Identity Project</a>.” They write:
<blockquote>The MAGA movement&#8217;s obsession with American identity and Western civilization is shaping federal policy far more than in Trump&#8217;s first term — fueling a reckoning over who belongs and what history should be remembered. </blockquote>
I have a question: Why shouldn&#8217;t we all be a little obsessed with American identity in Western civilization? I thought that&#8217;s what America is about: what it means to be an American. A huge part of that is being the apotheosis of Western civilization. 
What are we supposed to represent? Non-Western civilizations, Third-World civilizations?
Axios continues, “In MAGA&#8217;s telling, America is the heir to ancient European civilizations, built on a Judeo-Christian foundation of white identity, meritocracy, traditional gender roles and the nuclear family.”
Notice how they slide in “white identity.” The idea of a Judeo-Christian foundation of white identity is a bizarre amalgam of two exclusive beliefs. Judeo-Christian identity is absolutely, by definition, not white identity.  Look at the history of the Catholic Church. Look at the history of Protestantism. Look at the billions of Christians all over planet Earth. And you tell me, are they all white? I don&#8217;t think so. Judaism is a Middle Eastern religion. It began in Israel, and plenty of Jews have dark skin.
Monotheistic religion is, by its very nature, non-racially based.
American identity, Axios and the media are telling me, has nothing to do with Biblical values, meritocracy, traditional gender roles, and the nuclear family.
That would come as a shock to every single one of the American founders.
Meritocracy, for the Left and the media, is apparently all about racism. But you cannot simultaneously hold to a belief in a meritocracy and to a belief in white identitarianism. Those two things are mutually exclusive. If you are for a meritocracy, that means that the person who is most meritorious, regardless of color, is the person who should get the job, who should advance in society.
Traditional gender roles are a part of Judeo-Christian foundations, of Biblical belief, and a foundational part of science, because it happens to be the case that men and women are different.
This is why dudes are making fun of Zohran Mamdani for not being able to lift as much as a pregnant lady could. There is something bizarrely effeminate about Mamdani’s performance.
It&#8217;s strange and it&#8217;s weird — and Democrats love it.
Perhaps they&#8217;re into the sort of androgynous Mamdani candidacy.
All of this does speak to the Democratic Party and the move to the Left that is being fostered by this effete set of liberals at places like Axios or in the New York City primary.
The results of this are very clear. If you get rid of things like biblical values, traditional masculinity, and the nuclear family, what do you end up with?
It’s not something most Americans want.

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Governor Kathy Hochul’s administration recently blew nearly $500 million in potential savings for New York taxpayers by failing to move seniors to a federally funded Medicare plan. That’s half a billion dollars — gone — because Kathy Hochul couldn’t get her act together. That’s money that could have gone to tax relief, infrastructure, and keeping your utility bills lower.
When it comes to utility bills, National Grid customers in upstate New Yorker should brace themselves for a 15% increase in their bill starting next month. This amounts to about $216 more per customer per year, thanks to Governor Hochul’s green energy scam agenda. Likewise, Con Edison has proposed double-digit rate increases that will raise costs for downstate residents, driving up their utility bills as early as January 2026.
And that’s just the average cost increases. Many families and small businesses will be paying far more at a time when they are already struggling and can’t afford any more increases in their cost of living and doing business.
These increases are not a reflection of market forces or a sudden spike in demand, rather, they are a direct result of action by the governor’s Public Service Commission, which Hochul controls. This board approved the increases to fund her ambitious climate mandates. It’s typical of Albany: self-righteous politicians pushing you to “do your part” by paying more, even when you’re already struggling.
Why are these things happening? For starters, Kathy Hochul is incompetent and instead of addressing these problems and protecting you, she prioritizes politics. Currently, she’s focused on her crusade to illegally gerrymander New York’s congressional map – a scheme that the courts, and voters, already rejected. When the rules don’t work for the Democratic Party, Hochul tries to change them.
Hochul and her cronies describe mid-decade redistricting as “undemocratic,” yet in the same breath she and her fellow New York Democrats <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/24/new-york-redistricting-hochul-00475043" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have declared</a> they will engage in mid-decade redistricting. In other words – their words – they’re going to take undemocratic actions in order to “save democracy” in America. The hypocrisy and absurdity of this is unparalleled, and New York voters can see right through it. The voters and the courts in this state have already made it clear the people must have the ability to choose their representatives, rather than politicians manufacturing uncompetitive districts and forcing their preferred candidates down everybody’s throats.
New York voters overwhelmingly supported a nonpartisan redistricting process. However, Democrats ignored them, blatantly gerrymandered districts, and when they were thrown out by the courts, they corrupted the Court of Appeals to get their way. Now, they are looking to stomp on the Constitution again for another shot at rigging the system to protect their power. Meanwhile, New York taxpayers continue to struggle with rising costs and a deteriorating quality of life in their communities.
This is not leadership. It’s political wheeling and dealing at its worst, and taxpayers are footing the bill.
Albany’s ruling class has made their priorities clear: your paycheck, your bills, and your future come second to their grip on power.
Until we get a governor who will put people over politics, rein in spending, protect ratepayers, and actually focus on making New York affordable again, New Yorkers will keep paying for Kathy Hochul’s failures.
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Robert G. Ortt was sworn into office as a New York State Senator for the 62nd District in January of 2015. He serves as the Republican Senate Minority Leader.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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The Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) has revoked its endorsement of hard-left state Senator Omar Fateh, a Democratic socialist, for mayor of Minneapolis after finding the endorsing convention had made numerous mistakes.
Fateh, whose parents immigrated to the United States from Somalia, is challenging incumbent leftist Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey in November.
“The Minnesota state senator, 35, is running on an uber-progressive <a href="https://www.fatehformayor.com/vision">platform</a> that includes cracking down on the police, getting ‘economic justice’ for LGBT and minorities, and keeping Minneapolis a sanctuary for not just illegal migrants but also for abortions and transgender drugs and surgeries, all while spending lots of taxpayer dollars,” The Daily Wire has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-omar-fateh-the-radical-somali-american-democratic-socialist-running-for-minneapolis-mayor">noted</a>.
Fateh has also consistently referred to Somalia as home, saying to the local Somali community, “I understand that our Somali communities are all connected to each other here in Minnesota and back home, and I ask for your support. There’s always been a link between our community here as well as back home and I’m running to bridge that gap and unite all of us and represent all of us because when we succeed here, we succeed everywhere.”
At the convention, after the second round of voting had been concluded, Fateh <a href="https://x.com/OmarFatehMN/status/1946761856275624188">claimed</a> he was the winner. But Frey’s campaign asked the state DFL to nullify the endorsement, saying the convention’s electronic voting system had failed, adding that delegates and alternates had been “inexplicably removed as delegates or downgraded before or at the DFL Convention.”
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On Thursday, the state DFL <a href="https://dfl.org/cbrc_decision/">vacated</a> the Minneapolis DFL’s endorsement of Fateh, writing, “After a thoughtful and transparent review of the challenges, the Constitution, Bylaws &amp; Rules Committee found substantial failures in the Minneapolis Convention’s voting process on July 19th, including an acknowledgement that a mayoral candidate was errantly eliminated from contention. As a result, the Constitution, Bylaws &amp; Rules Committee has vacated the mayoral endorsement.”
The DFL found that there was “highly inaccurate tabulation of the first vote in the mayoral endorsement,” pointing out that mayoral candidate DeWayne Davis was improperly dropped from the second round of voting because votes had been undertabulated. Thus, the results from the second round were considered invalid.
“The DFL also concluded that there were multiple delegate-related issues such as the failure to upgrade all alternate delegates, the loss of a credentials book, and the failure to secure the master credentials list which ‘was accessed by non-members of the credentials committee, including the campaigns,” Alpha News <a href="https://alphanews.org/state-dfl-strips-omar-fateh-of-party-endorsement-in-minneapolis-mayoral-race/">reported</a>.
A spokesperson for Frey’s campaign <a href="https://x.com/AntGockowski/status/1958638078152659011">said</a> the Fateh endorsement was “brazen cheating.”
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“The election, which is conducted via ranked-choice voting, will take place on Nov. 4th. Early voting <a href="https://vote.minneapolismn.gov/voters/calendar/">begins</a> Sept. 19th and runs through Nov. 3rd,” Alpha News added.
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The Democratic Party is in a &#8220;deep political hole&#8221; with voter registration, according to an analysis <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/politics/democratic-party-voter-registration-crisis.html">published</a> by The New York Times on Wednesday.
Between 2020 and 2024, Democrats lost ground to Republicans in all 30 states that track party affiliation when Americans register to vote, and the Times acknowledged the losses were &#8220;often by a lot.&#8221; In those 30 states, plus the District of Columbia, Democrats shed 2.1 million voters between 2020 and 2024. Republicans, meanwhile, gained 2.4 million voters.
&#8220;That four-year swing toward the Republicans adds up to 4.5 million voters, a deep political hole that could take years for Democrats to climb out from,&#8221; the Times wrote.
The major shift toward the GOP included vital swing states, such as Arizona and Pennsylvania, but Democrats also lost ground in the deep blue states of California, New York, and Massachusetts. In states where Republican voter registration was already blowing past that of the Democrats — such as Florida, Louisiana, Kentucky, and Oklahoma — GOP gains continued to grow.
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New York Times: &#8220;The Democratic Party is hemorrhaging voters long before they even go to the polls.
Of the 30 states that track voter registration by political party, Democrats lost ground to Republicans in every single one between the 2020 and 2024 elections — and often by a… <a href="https://t.co/gx94qL9EVP">pic.twitter.com/gx94qL9EVP</a>
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While Democrats still outnumber Republicans by party registration nationwide, more newly registered voters across the country chose the Republican Party over the Democratic Party for the first time since 2018. The Times also noted that the Democrats&#8217; voter registration numbers are helped by massive blue states like California and New York allowing people to register by party, while the largest Republican state, Texas, and many of the deep-red southern states do not.
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Decision Desk HQ&#8217;s director of data science, Michael Pruser, told the Times that there &#8220;seems to be no end&#8221; to the voter registration crisis for Democrats.
&#8220;There is no silver lining or cavalry coming across the hill. This is month after month, year after year,&#8221; he said.
In recent years, Democrats &#8220;fell asleep at the switch,&#8221; according to longtime Democratic strategist Maria Cardona. Even Tom Bonier, one of the party&#8217;s top voter registration experts, admitted to the Times that he &#8220;was wrong&#8221; after downplaying the Democrats&#8217; registration issues last year.
“Clearly, in retrospect, we can say the Democratic Party had dug itself in too deep a hole in the preceding four years for the Harris campaign to dig itself out in the last few months,” Bonier said.
Republicans, meanwhile, adjusted their strategy following President Donald Trump&#8217;s 2020 election defeat and <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/republicans-ballot-harvesting-fraud-claims-rcna151952">hit the gas</a> on voter registration and ballot harvesting strategies in 2024.
“We don’t like drop boxes, to be clear,” a Republican National Committee official said in May of 2024. “We’re still going to use drop boxes if we have to, if they’re available. Same thing with harvesting: Where it’s a practice that Democrats are partaking in, we’re going to partake in it, too.”
Republicans also benefited from the efforts of activist Scott Presler, who dedicated himself from 2021 to 2024 to registering Republicans in the all-important swing state of Pennsylvania. In the summer of 2024, voter registration in Bucks County, Pennsylvania — a competitive suburb of Philadelphia — shifted to a GOP advantage for the first time since 2007, according to the Times. Trump went on to win Bucks County in the 2024 election, becoming the first Republican presidential candidate to do so in the 21st century.
In Pennsylvania, Democrats held an advantage of more than 517,000 registered voters in 2020, but that lead has now <a href="https://x.com/ScottPresler/status/1954912806911844834">fallen to fewer</a> than 54,000. Much of that shift comes from Democrats switching their party affiliation to Republicans. From 2020 to 2025, around 314,000 registered Democrats flipped to registered Republicans, while just over 160,000 registered Republicans became registered Democrats.
Democrats are also losing support among young voters, who are shifting to the GOP. Last year, Republicans registered nearly twice as many voters under 35 as Democrats did in key states such as Nevada, the Times reported.

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President Trump renews his push to eliminate mail-in voting by executive order ahead of the 2026 midterms. The U.S. Navy deploys three destroyers off the coast of Venezuela as part of the Trump administration&#8217;s escalating war on drug cartels. The White House touts a string of recent victories, including progress on a Ukraine peace deal, a sharp drop in D.C. crime, and a record-high stock market.
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<h2>Trump Vows to End ‘Corrupt’ Mail-In Voting</h2>
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Topline: President Trump announced on Monday that he is renewing his push to eliminate mail-in voting nationwide by executive order ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, calling the practice a &#8220;fraud.&#8221; 
&#8220;We&#8217;re going to stop mail-in ballots because it&#8217;s corrupt,&#8221; Trump said Monday, arguing that it is the &#8220;only way&#8221; Democrats can win elections. The president is also taking aim at electronic voting machines, which he called &#8220;seriously controversial,&#8221; in favor of watermarked paper ballots. The expected executive order is likely to face immediate legal challenges, as states constitutionally control election administration. 
Democrats have vowed to fight the move. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (NY) said any measure making it harder to vote would be &#8220;dead on arrival in the Senate.&#8221; Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold called Trump a &#8220;weak president grasping at straws,&#8221; and claimed that mail ballots do not help one party over another. However, data from the 2024 election shows that Democrats were significantly more likely than Republicans to vote by mail, with an 18-point split between the two parties. 
<h2>U.S. Deploys Warships to Confront Venezuelan Cartel</h2>
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Topline: The U.S. Navy has deployed three guided-missile destroyers to international waters off the coast of Venezuela as part of the Trump administration’s escalating military confrontation with Latin American drug cartels. 
The deployment includes three Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, 4,000 sailors and Marines, P-8 spy planes, and at least one attack submarine. The move is a direct challenge to Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, whom the U.S. has indicted and designated as the head of a &#8220;narco terror cartel.&#8221; Maduro responded by threatening to deploy 4.5 million of his own militiamen. 
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said President Trump &#8220;is prepared to use every element of American power to stop drugs from flooding into our country and to bring those responsible to justice.&#8221; The U.S. currently has a $50 million bounty on Maduro. 
The military action has a historical precedent. In 1989, former President George H.W. Bush sent 20,000 troops into Panama to arrest dictator Manuel Noriega on drug trafficking charges. That invasion was justified by a legal memo asserting the president&#8217;s authority to arrest fugitives in other countries. 
<h2>White House Touts Wins on Peace, Crime, and Economy</h2>
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Topline: The Trump administration is touting a series of major victories on foreign and domestic policy, including significant progress toward a peace deal in Ukraine, a dramatic drop in D.C. crime, and a record-high stock market. 
Following his summit with Vladimir Putin, President Trump is pushing for a trilateral meeting with the Russian leader and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to finalize a peace deal immediately. European leaders, who had previously been critical of Trump, are now expressing optimism about his approach after he secured a major concession from Putin on a U.S.-backed security guarantee for Ukraine. 
At home, the federal takeover of the D.C. police is yielding dramatic results. The D.C. Police Union reports that in the last seven days, carjackings are down 83%, robberies are down 46%, and violent crime is down 22%. Attorney General Pam Bondi says nearly 500 arrests have been made since the crackdown began. 
The economic news is also positive. The DOW Jones Industrial Average touched an all-time high on Tuesday, defying predictions of a bear market. A new poll of economists shows that a majority now expect the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates in September, a move Trump has long advocated for that would likely boost the housing market.

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Morning Brief: Trump Vows To End ‘Corrupt’ Mail-In Voting, Moves Ships To Venezuela To Fight Cartels

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President Donald Trump said Monday that he was going to lead a charge against the use of mail-in ballots for elections. 
In a Truth Social post, Trump said that he would be signing an executive order to restructure the American election system and called for Republicans to take action to implement new election integrity measures. 
“I am going to lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS, and also, while we’re at it, Highly ‘Inaccurate,’ Very Expensive, and Seriously Controversial VOTING MACHINES, which cost Ten Times more than accurate and sophisticated Watermark Paper, which is faster, and leaves NO DOUBT, at the end of the evening, as to who WON, and who LOST, the Election,” Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115049485680941254">wrote</a>. “We are now the only Country in the World that uses Mail-In Voting. All others gave it up because of the MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD ENCOUNTERED. WE WILL BEGIN THIS EFFORT, WHICH WILL BE STRONGLY OPPOSED BY THE DEMOCRATS BECAUSE THEY CHEAT AT LEVELS NEVER SEEN BEFORE, by signing an EXECUTIVE ORDER to help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections.”
Trump added that states were &#8220;merely&#8221; agents of the federal government for the counting and tabulating of votes. 
“ELECTIONS CAN NEVER BE HONEST WITH MAIL IN BALLOTS/VOTING, and everybody, IN PARTICULAR THE DEMOCRATS, KNOWS THIS. I, AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, WILL FIGHT LIKE HELL TO BRING HONESTY AND INTEGRITY BACK TO OUR ELECTIONS. THE MAIL-IN BALLOT HOAX, USING VOTING MACHINES THAT ARE A COMPLETE AND TOTAL DISASTER, MUST END, NOW!!! REMEMBER, WITHOUT FAIR AND HONEST ELECTIONS, AND STRONG AND POWERFUL BORDERS, YOU DON’T HAVE EVEN A SEMBLANCE OF A COUNTRY,” Trump added. 
The post went on to argue that Democrats would be in trouble because of their support for transgender-identifying men playing in women’s sports, transgender policies, and lax border policies. 
Trump has long been a skeptic of mail-in ballots, arguing that they open the door to fraud. A Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/swing-state-voters-receive-mail-ballots-for-relatives-who-died-moved-away">investigation</a> before the November 2024 election found that mail-in ballots across the country were sent to voters who were deceased or had moved states. 
While speaking to reporters on Monday alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump again called for Republicans to take action. 
“We gotta stop mail-in voting. And the Republicans have to lead the charge. The Democrats want it. Because they have horrible policy. If you have mail-in voting, you’re not going to have many Democrats get elected. That’s bigger than anything having to do with redistricting, and the Republicans have to get smart,” Trump said.
Trump added that his lawyers were currently crafting an executive order taking aim at mail-in ballots.

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Election Fraud

The Texas Democrat representatives who fled the Lone Star State to stop a mid-decade redistricting are returning, according to an announcement by the caucus. This will allow the state to conclude its drawn-out attempt to reshape the 2026 congressional map.
&#8220;We killed the corrupt special session, withstood unprecedented surveillance and intimidation, and rallied Democrats nationwide to join this existential fight for fair representation– reshaping the entire 2026 landscape,&#8221; said state Representative Gene Wu, who leads Democrats in the Texas House, according to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/18/politics/texas-california-redistricting-fight">CNN</a>.
&#8220;We&#8217;re returning to Texas more dangerous to Republicans&#8217; plans than when we left,&#8221; Wu continued. &#8220;Our return allows us to build the legal record necessary to defeat this racist map in court, take our message to communities across the state and country, and inspire legislators across the country how to fight these undemocratic redistricting schemes in their own statehouses.&#8221;
The Texas Democratic legislators chose to leave the state rather than voting in the special session that was called for the redistricting vote, which expired Friday. After it expired, Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX) promptly called a second special session to finish the redistricting effort.
In a <a href="https://x.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1956382209876869610">statement</a> on X announcing the second special session, Abbott said, &#8220;There is critical work that is left undone. Texas will not back down from this fight. That&#8217;s why I am calling them back today to finish the job.&#8221;
The Texas House of Representatives convened at 12 p.m. CT Monday, which enabled the legislature to continue with the special session. The new congressional map could made official by as soon as the end of the week.
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The Texas lawmakers who fled the state have been hiding out in notoriously-gerrymandered <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-dems-cant-win-redistricting-fight-so-they-bravely-turn-tail-and-flee-the-state">Illinois</a> since August 4 while facing threats of fines and arrest for neglecting their duties from the Texas governor.
Abbott threatened to arrest the lawmakers at the start of the quorum break. &#8220;Once they step back into the state, they will be arrested and brought back to the Capitol and we will be conducting business,&#8221; Abbott told Fox News host Laura Ingraham at the time.
Soon after that, Abbott <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/abbott-to-awol-texas-democrats-respect-voters-or-be-removed?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Abbott+To+AWOL+Texas+Democrats%3A+Respect+Voters+Or+Be+Removed">revealed</a> plans to remove the representatives from office. Abbott said that the actions of the Democrats amounted to &#8220;an abandonment or forfeiture of an elected state office&#8221; and that Texas law empowered him to fill the vacancies.
On top of these threats by the state&#8217;s Republican governor, the AWOL Democrats were being slapped with a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ken-paxton-seeks-to-put-democrat-beto-orourke-behind-bars-over-fundraising-for-awol-dems?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Ken+Paxton+Seeks+To+Put+Democrat+Beto+O%E2%80%99Rourke+%E2%80%98Behind+Bars%E2%80%99+Over+Fundraising+For+AWOL+Dems">$500-per-day fine</a> while they missed the special session, which also aimed at lowering property taxes, addressing state education benchmarks, and resolving issues that arose after the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-tours-texas-flood-zone-as-death-toll-reaches-121?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Tours+Texas+Flood+Zone+As+Death+Toll+Reaches+121">July 4 floods</a> that rocked the state.
It is unclear what steps Governor Abbott will take against the representatives who fled the state as they return for the second special session.
The redistricting battle in Texas has since spilled over into blue states like New York and California, with Democratic state governors threatening to gerrymander their congressional districts to combat Texas&#8217; move.
California Governor Gavin Newsom notably responded to the controversy of Texas lawmakers fleeing the state by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/newsom-threatens-retaliation-says-texas-redistricting-will-trigger-new-california-election-maps">saying</a>, &#8220;[The Republicans] triggered this response and we&#8217;re not going to roll over and we&#8217;re going to fight fire with fire, but we&#8217;re going to do so not just punching with the weight of the fourth largest economy, the most populous state in our union.&#8221;
&#8220;We also will punch above our weight in terms of the impact of what we&#8217;re doing, and I think that should be absorbed by those in the Texas delegation,&#8221; Newsom continued. &#8220;Whatever they are doing will be neutered here in the state of California, and they will pay that price.&#8221;

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Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard published an email on Wednesday that raised a number of questions about former DNI James Clapper and how hard he pushed other members of the Intelligence Community (IC) to rally behind the Russia Hoax.
Gabbard shared a screenshot of the email, which was sent by Clapper in late December of 2016 to then FBI Director James Comey, then CIA Director John Brennan, and National Security Agency (NSA) Director Michael Rogers.
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🚨Newly declassified Top Secret emails sent on December 22, 2016 complying with President Obama&#8217;s order to create the manufactured January 2017 ICA about Russia expose how DNI James Clapper demanded the IC fall in line behind the Russia Hoax. Clapper admits that it was a &#8220;team… <a href="https://t.co/fVHq9E1no7">pic.twitter.com/fVHq9E1no7</a>
— DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) <a href="https://twitter.com/DNIGabbard/status/1955721194143146226?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Clapper&#8217;s email was a direct response to Rogers, who raised several concerns he had about the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) — which would ultimately go to President Barack Obama&#8217;s desk — that would become the Russia hoax.
&#8220;I asked my team if they&#8217;d had sufficient access to the underlying intelligence and sufficient time to review that intelligence,&#8221; Rogers wrote earlier that same day. &#8220;On both points my team raised concerns.&#8221;
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Rogers went on to say that he would need to see everything related to the assessment if the NSA was going to be asked to co-author or sign on to the finished product, saying that he wanted to have full confidence in what they were saying before it went to the president.
Clapper responded that evening:
<blockquote>Understand your concern. It is essential that we (CIA/NSA/FBI/ODNI) be on the same page, and are all supportive of the report — in the highest tradition of &#8220;that&#8217;s OUR story, and we&#8217;re stickin&#8217; to it.&#8221; This evening, CIA has provided to the NIC the complete draft generated by the ad hoc fusion cell. We will facilitate as much mutual transparency as possible as we complete the report, but, more time is not negotiable. We may have to compromise on our &#8220;normal&#8221; modalities, since we must do this on such a compressed schedule.</blockquote>
Clapper concluded the missive with one final thought: &#8220;This is one project that has to be a team sport.&#8221;

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A voting rights group started by twice-failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams should be stripped of its tax-exempt status for “blatant disregard” of non-profit rules, a watchdog organization argued Tuesday. 
The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) filed a <a href="https://65db7681-e755-4cff-abe7-1d9e373df4db.usrfiles.com/ugd/65db76_5ed5e2641c3e44a5b6d9fb9eac79d12b.pdf">complaint</a> with the IRS, saying that Fair Fight Action should be investigated for bankrolling an expensive election lawsuit it argues was only for Abrams’s personal benefit. The complaint comes just months after another one of Abrams’s election non-profit organizations was penalized for illegally spending millions to back her campaign. 
The lawsuit in question, Fair Fight Action v. Raffensperger, challenged Georgia officials over various election integrity measures in place during Abrams’ 2018 race against Republican Brian Kemp. After several years of litigation, Fair Fight Action lost its case when an Obama-appointed judge <a href="https://cases.justia.com/federal/district-courts/georgia/gandce/1:2018cv05391/257857/916/0.pdf?ts=1664630826">ruled</a> that Georgia’s election laws were constitutional and did not violate the Voting Rights Act. 
During the suit, Fair Fight Action was represented by a law firm operated by Allegra Lawrence-Hardy, one of Abrams’s <a href="https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/06/05/friends_with_benefits_stacey_abrams_funneled_millions_to_her_lawyer_1114621.html">close friends</a>.
“The law is clear that organizations with tax-exempt status must operate for the public good, not for the personal benefit of one individual,” FACT Executive Director Kendra Arnold told The Daily Wire. “Fair Fight Action’s activities, including funding what appears to be a failed politically motivated lawsuit that paid millions to a close personal friend, demonstrate a blatant disregard for these rules.”
Over the course of five years, Fair Fight Action paid the firm of Lawrence-Hardy over $20 million, according to <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/471427359">tax filings</a>. Fair Fight Action paid the firm $3,062,292 in 2019, $6,363,615 in 2020, $4,441,206 in 2021, $5,034,464 in 2022, and $1,300,280 in 2023.
Arnold argues that Fair Fight Action launched its lawsuit solely for Abrams’s benefit. 
“After she lost her first election for governor of Georgia in 2018, Fair Fight Action engaged in what appeared to be political activity and brought a lawsuit challenging Abrams’ election loss,” Arnold wrote in a letter to the IRS obtained by The Daily Wire. “The organization has served as an arm of Abrams’ political campaigns, notably funding a lawsuit directly challenging her first campaign loss and serving as a bridge between her two runs for governor.”
Once described by the New York Times as a “fundraising powerhouse for Democrats,” Fair Fight Action has struggled in recent years. In January 2024, it was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/30/us/politics/fair-fight-layoffs-stacey-abrams.html">reported</a> that the group was cutting 75% of its staff and was millions of dollars in debt. 
“In essence, an organization interested in providing a ‘common good’ for the citizenry would not put its existence or efficacy at risk to benefit a single individual,” Arnold told The Daily Wire. 
In her letter, Arnold pointed to the New Georgia Project, another one of Abram’s linked voting organizations that has faced scrutiny. The organization, which Abrams founded in 2013, agreed to pay $300,000 after the State Ethics Commission <a href="https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000194-6ae1-d7e4-af9d-eaf5fa010000">found</a> that the organization likely violated state campaign finance laws by failing to report over $7 million spent in support of Abrams. 
Arnold wants the IRS to impose a financial penalty and revoke Fair Fight Action’s tax-exempt status if merited by an investigation. 
“The facts above certainly indicate that the sole motivation of Fair Fight Action and its conduct has been to benefit a few individuals — not the community as a whole,” she wrote.

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