#2020November 2 · 1 hr 1 min
Monday, November 2, 2026
Today, a federal judge tosses Blanche and Trump’s lawsuit seeking to block certification of the Alaska election results; Senator Chris Murphy suffered a minor stroke Sunday and is recovering at Johns Hopkins; a federal judge imposed a sweeping emergency order halting various aggressive tactics employed by the Trump administration in recent days to pressure election officials across the country; over 40% of the names on DOJ’s list of 20,000 California non-citizens are not even on the voter rolls; the FBI is trying to fabricate voter confusion over the Dan Sullivans in Alaska; the ICE officer who purposefully ran down a man in Houston has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon; ICE paid $495M for a $75M prison and Congressional Democrats want to investigate; a judge is weighing blocking the construction of Trump’s arch; a judge has dismissed Trump’s defamation case against the Wall Street Journal; Haley Stevens has endorsed Abdul El-Sayed’s Republican opponent Mike Rogers; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.
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Mr. Kushner has published his response on his website: https://jaredkushner.com/posts/response-to-matthew-coles-book/
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