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On July 13, several notable moments in the history of News stand out. In 1821, Nathan Bedford Forrest, American general and first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (died 1877) was born. In 1930, Sam Greenlee, American author and poet (died 2014) was born. In 1951, Rob Bishop, American educator and politician was born. In 1956, The Dartmouth workshop is the first conference on artificial intelligence. In 1960, Robert Abraham, American football player was born. In 1973, Watergate scandal: Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of a secret Oval Office taping system to investigators for the Senate Watergate Committee. In 1981, Martin Hurson Irish Republican Hunger Striker passed away. In 2011, United Nations Security Council Resolution 1999 is adopted, which admits South Sudan to member status of United Nations. In 2013, Vernon B. Romney, American lawyer and politician, 14th Attorney General of Utah (born 1924) passed away. In 2024, Thomas Matthew Crooks, American student, known for attempting to assassinate former US President Donald Trump (born 2003) passed away. Together, these milestones provide historical context for today's news news and ongoing narratives.
The NRSC Released a Memo Explaining Just How Good Today's Supreme Court Ruling Is for Republicans
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Off The Press
· Jun 29, 2026
Supreme Court to consider Trump push on Arizona voting laws
The Supreme Court said Monday it will consider a Republican push to enforce strict Arizona voting laws passed in the swing state after the 2020 election. The high court has allowed some similar rules to take effect temporarily before, including Arizona’s proof-of-citizenship requirement for state and local elections and a Virginia purge of voter rolls []...Click to read more
Law & Liberty
· Jul 9, 2026
Citizenship, Not Scrutiny
In BPJ, the Court gives a win to conservatives but retains a problematic framework for interpreting the Fourteenth Amendment.
PBS NewsHour
· Jun 29, 2026
Supreme Court will weigh Trump-backed Republican push to revive Arizona voting laws
The Supreme Court said Monday it will consider a Republican push to enforce strict Arizona voting laws passed in the swing state after the 2020 election.
The Daily Signal
· Jul 3, 2026
After SCOTUS Fails to Act, States Must Step Up to Save Election Day
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The current conservative Supreme Court rarely gets it wrong when it comes to election administration. But in this week’s ruling in Watson v. RNC, that reliable majority flipped on its head with Justices John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett siding with the liberals by holding that, despite plain language in federal law dictating...
The New American
· Jun 25, 2026
Have Conservatives Ever Seen a Culture War Battle They Couldn’t Lose?
“Republicans are conservatives,” said author and CEO Kenin Spivak recently. “Conservatives are conservative.” ... The post Have Conservatives Ever Seen a Culture War Battle They Couldn’t Lose? appeared first on The New American.
Townhall
· Jun 26, 2026
Scott Jennings: Republicans Are Winning the Argument Ahead of the Midterms
Scott Jennings: Republicans Are Winning the Argument Ahead of the Midterms
Bloomberg
· Jun 21, 2026
Senator Warnock Calls Republican Party a Cult
Senator Raphael Warnock (D-Georgia) delivers a pointed critique of the current state of the Republican Party, describing it as a cult centered around loyalty to President Donald Trump rather than principles or ideas. Watch the Senator discuss with David Gura on Bloomberg This Weekend how progress is not automatic, Americans need to resist despair and to continue advocating for positive change. (Source: Bloomberg)
Mother Jones
· Jul 8, 2026
The Secret Origins of the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket
Last month, the Supreme Court issued a number of landmark opinions involving transgender rights, campaign finance, executive power, and immigration. Those decisions were issued in the traditional way many of us recognize: pages and pages of arguments and citations, with each justice on the record voting yea or nay. But over the last decade, the []
The Hill
· Jun 29, 2026
Supreme Court agrees to take up part of Arizona proof-of-citizenship voter law dispute
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to take up a long-running dispute regarding a pair of Arizona voting laws that require Americans to provide proof of U.S. citizenship to vote. The justices granted the Republican National Convention’s (RNC) request to review an appeals court decision that found the state laws at issue were preempted by the...
Washington Examiner
· Jun 29, 2026
GOP doubles down on SAVE America Act after Supreme Court allows mail ballots to be counted late
Congressional Republicans are redoubling their support for the SAVE America Act, a bill that has left Washington in gridlock for months, after the Supreme Court ruled states can count mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day. The 5-4 decision in Watson v. Republican National Committee rejected a GOP-led push to end laws that permitted mailed []
We The Media
· Jun 29, 2026
[Photo] 🚨Supreme Court to hear case next term on challenges to Arizona’s efforts to remove no [...]
Supreme Court to hear case next term on challenges to Arizona’s efforts to remove noncitizens from its voter rolls. Read more in article linked below. https://thefederalist.com/2026/05/27/trump-doj-asks-scotus-to-weigh-arizonas-commonsense-proof-of-citizenship-laws/
National Review
· Jul 4, 2026
The Endurance of Our Declaration of Independence
America’s longevity can be attributed to our shared creed first articulated in the founding document.
Salon
· Jul 1, 2026
SCOTUS keeps papering over the antiquated Second Amendment
The Court's conservative majority turns to “history and traditions” to ignore the obvious — again
The Independent
· Jul 1, 2026
MAGA’s full-blown violent panic over birthright citizenship turns pregnant immigrants into the latest boogeyman
Right-wing outrage over a decision that affirms the 14th Amendment is 150 years too late, Alex Woodward writes
Knewz
· Jul 1, 2026
House Republicans push to repeal the 17th Amendment as feud with GOP senators gains steam
A group of House Republicans is seeking to repeal the 17th Amendment as tensions with Senate Republicans have deepened over the stalled SAVE America Act. While reports suggest the repeal proposal, introduced by Rep. Keith Self of Texas, has little chance of becoming law, the effort highlights growing frustration among House conservatives, who have accused...
NPR News
· Jul 1, 2026
A federal law bans late voter roll purges. Republicans are pushing to reinterpret it
There's a ban on most states systematically purging voter rolls within 90 days before Election Day. Republicans are pushing courts to reinterpret that longstanding protection for eligible voters.
ProPublica
· Jul 1, 2026
A Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification
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The Daily Wire
· Jun 30, 2026
Republicans Draw Up Game Plan To Address ‘Shockingly Wrong’ SCOTUS Ruling
Outraged over the Supreme Court’s decision to allow states to count mail-in ballots received after Election Day, Republicans are doubling down on their push to pass the SAVE America Act to “uphold election integrity.” Missouri Republican Senator Eric Schmitt called the court’s decision on Monday “shockingly wrong.” “A shockingly wrong opinion. Justice Barrett joins with ...
DNyuz
· Jun 28, 2026
‘Meet the Press’ Host Leaves Republican Senator Stammering on Air When Pressed on Election Fraud: ‘No Evidence!’
The SAVE Act is ostensibly intended to fix problems of voter fraud and election integrity in the United States. The trouble is that there’s “no evidence” of widespread issues, “Meet the Press” host Ryan Nobles told Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) on Sunday — and Marshall failed to counter with any proof of his own. After []
Coffman Chronicle
· Jul 8, 2026
Corrected Paperwork Is Not Accountability
A late six-figure stock disclosure shows how Washington turns transparency into paperwork after the public’s chance to scrutinize power is gone.
Conservative Review
· Jul 4, 2026
Meet The Members Of Congress Who Want To Turn Back Clock 100 Years On American Institution
Members of Congress are pushing to repeal the 17th Amendment and elect senators the way the Constitution originally decreed. Nine GOP House lawmakers have co-signed a joint resolution introduced by Republican Texas Rep. Keith Self to repeal the amendment that mandates that U.S. senators be chosen by direct election. If the resolution passes and is []
ArcaMax
· Jul 6, 2026
Filing reveals Florida House speaker's private client list, including Airbnb, Newsmax
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A newly filed federal financial disclosure provides the clearest public look yet of outgoing Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez’s private legal practice, revealing that the Miami Republican has been representing a far-right...
KTLA 5
· Jul 10, 2026
GLP-1 use hits record high as Medicare opens access
According to a new Gallup survey released Tuesday, 11 percent of Americans say they’re currently taking a GLP-1, a noticeable jump from the 3 percent who said the same in 2024. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/ktla?sub_confirmation=1
CNET
· Jul 7, 2026
Texas Can Keep Enforcing Its Age Verification Law for Mobile Apps, Supreme Court Says
Texas' controversial age verification law remains in effect while free speech advocates and tech critics fight it in court.
PolitiFact
· Jul 8, 2026
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Fact-checking campaign finance claims in MI Senate debate
Open Culture
· Jul 1, 2026
Isaac Asimov Laments the “Cult of Ignorance” in the United States (1980)
Rochester Institute of Technology, via Wikimedia Commons In 1980, scientist and writer Isaac Asimov argued in an essay that “there is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been.” That year, the Republican Party stood at the dawn of the Reagan Revolution, which initiated a decades-long conservative groundswell. Political strategist []
Fox News
· Jul 7, 2026
MORNING GLORY: The Supreme Court officially closes the books on another term
Only about a fifth of SCOTUS cases this term split along ideological lines, with Roberts and Kavanaugh each in the majority 95 of the time.
EL PAÍS
· Jun 23, 2026
Gordon S. Wood and the Revolution from below
For the historian who passed away this month, republican ideas lived in the words of the elite, while democracy transpired in the social world beneath them
KSAT San Antonio
· Jun 22, 2026
Judge blocks feds from using immigration database to check voter eligibility
A federal judge cited Texas’ use of the SAVE database, which flagged several voters who were actually citizens, and said the checks violated privacy and voting rights.
National Republican Senatorial Committee
· Jul 3, 2026
What They Are Saying: SCOTUS ruling supercharges NRSC’s political firepower ahead of November
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Earlier this week, the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling in National Republican Senatorial Committee v. FEC, reshaping the landscape of U.S. elections by allowing political party committees to spend without limit in direct coordination with their candidates. Republicans, who have spent years preparing for this moment, are poised to immediately benefit from this []
The Root
· Jun 28, 2026
GOP Beware: The Rise of the Political ‘Black BackLash’
Experts suggest Republicans celebrated small gains with minority voters way too early. Now, that progress is threatened by American backlash politics.
Crooks and Liars
· Jun 28, 2026
Onward And Upward ... And Onward
The SCOTUS ruling opens the door for states to draw discriminatory maps without consequence. The decision will impact Southern voters of color the most. And, of course, Republicans are joyous over this decision. Let's make the midterms painful for them. What’s on your radar this morning? - Karoli read more
Drudge Retort
· Jul 5, 2026
Supreme Court's Dramatic Moves Will Reshape Elections -- and Give the GOP a Midterm Boost
The timing and speed of the justices' moves are all but unprecedented in recent years, legal experts said. Republicans are expected to reap the most rewards.
Portside
· Jul 4, 2026
Most SCOTUS Decisions Are Now Made in Secret
Most SCOTUS Decisions Are Now Made in Secret barry Fri, 07/03/2026 - 20:12
Legal Insurrection
· Jul 4, 2026
Green Robes, Red Strings: National Security Watchdog Flags ELI’s CCP Ties to Judicial Training
If our political leaders are serious about both national security and the integrity of our courts, they must treat this as a counterintelligence problem, not just another Washington “review.” The post Green Robes, Red Strings: National Security Watchdog Flags ELI’s CCP Ties to Judicial Training first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion.
Must Read Alaska
· Jun 24, 2026
What Legal Counsel Actually Said About HB 195 Granting Pharmacists Ability to Prescribe Chemical Abortion (And It Isn’t What ADN Told You)
Editor’s note: this analysis was updated on June 23, 2026 to correctly attribute the memorandum referenced in the analysis to Legislative Legal Services, not the Department of Law. After Governor Dunleavy vetoed 9 bills, the Legislature successful overrode two of those vetoes, one of which was for HB 195. State legislators sold HB 195 as [] The post What Legal Counsel Actually Said About HB 195 Granting Pharmacists Ability to Prescribe Chemical Abortion (And It Isn’t What ADN Told You) appeared first on Must Read Alaska.
Watchdog Report
· Jul 1, 2026
Trump Just Broke A 150-Year Political Tradition
When a governing party rips up a century of habit to stage a full-scale national convention in the middle of a congressional cycle, it is not a gimmick; it is a bet against political gravity, and the Republican midterm convention planned for Dallas is exactly that kind of bet. Key Points The Republican National Committee []
Zeteo
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‘A First-of-Its-Kind’ Poll About Medicare for All
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Crime Prevention Research Center
· Jun 21, 2026
Some thoughts on the U.S. v Hemani Decision
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Yonhap News Agency
· Jul 1, 2026
House committee issues report accusing S. Korea of 'discriminatory attacks' on Coupang, other U.S. firms
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· Jul 9, 2026
Woke Isn’t Dead
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