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FOX 24 US National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, the Trump White House’s memo directing federal law enforcement to consider progressive beliefs as indicators of domestic terrorism, has done a lot of things. It’s brought a broad conspiracy case against nonviolent protestors in Minneapolis, netted half-century sentences on terrorism charges for a Texas anti-ICE protest that turned violent, and sparked what one former counterterrorism prosecutor described to TPM as a COINTELPRO-like law enforcement war on opposition protestors. It’s also causing trouble for those extremely aggressive and extremely online people who might be inclined to make extremely inadvisable social media posts. Recent…

FOX 24 US The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives marched alongside neo-Nazis at the deadly 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, a new Talking Points Memo investigation can reveal. Marshall Rawson — who won an upset victory in Florida’s District 10 Republican primary last month — attended the infamous Charlottesville rally, considered the largest white supremacist gathering in a generation, marching with the League of the South, a racist and antisemitic neo-Confederate group that advocates for the secession of southern states from the U.S.  Video footage reviewed by TPM shows Rawson and…

FOX 24 US As the Census Bureau wades deeper into politics, governance changes at an agency committee that handles data privacy, scientific analysis and stewardship issues have opened the door for Trump administration interference, current and former agency staffers told TPM. Some of the most significant changes have put President Donald Trump’s political appointees in leadership roles on the historically nonpolitical committee, just as the Bureau has emerged as a hot-spot for right-wing-driven policymaking. Former Census Bureau employees say the changes remove accountability mechanisms from Census Bureau decisionmaking and could make it easier for important data privacy policies to forgo…

FOX 24 US This story was originally reported by Amanda Becker of The 19th. Meet Amanda and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. How many women does your employer have in management positions compared to industry peers? Are a retail chain’s Black workers as likely to be in public-facing roles as its White workers? Did a trucking company hire qualified women at the same rate it hired qualified men? It will be much more difficult to answer these and other questions related to gender, race and ethnicity in workplaces once President Donald Trump’s U.S. Equal Employment…

FOX 24 US The Supreme Court stayed a Missouri federal court order Thursday, blocking a maximal Republican gerrymander for the 2026 midterms — at least for now.  Litigation has been unfurling at lightning speed, and this latest development is a major loss for Republicans. On Tuesday, two contradictory developments occurred within hours of each other: a) the U.S. Supreme Court declined to overturn the Missouri Supreme Court’s ruling that Missouri could not use its new 7 Republican-1 Democrat gerrymander in the general election, and b) federal district court judge Stephen Clark ruled that Missouri can’t use any other map but…

FOX 24 US U.S. District Judge Stephen Clark denied Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins’ (R) request that he stop the Missouri Supreme Court from holding him in contempt.  “Numerous considerations counsel this Court against enjoining a state court of last resort, particularly before it even conducts a hearing,” wrote Clark, a Trump appointee, late Wednesday. “For starters, the Supreme Court of Missouri is a fellow court, and a court of a separate sovereign.” As the battle over Missouri’s congressional map has become fiercer, the clash between state and federal courts has befuddled even the lawyers involved in the case.…

FOX 24 US With his poll numbers at record lows, gas prices at record highs, and mounting signs of momentum for the Democrats, President Donald Trump just debuted a novel strategy to secure votes: bribery. Speaking at the Republican National Committee’s historically unheard of midterms convention on Wednesday evening, Trump offered to pay Americans $5,000 each if — and only if — the GOP is victorious in the upcoming elections.  “Because we’ve done so well and because our country is making so much money that only I can make this promise to you and here is my promise, if the…

FOX 24 US Louisiana was met with a chilly reception Wednesday, as it pushed to make the abortion pill mifepristone less accessible nationwide. The state is arguing that the Food and Drug Administration is to blame for mifepristone being prescribed to Louisiana patients by blue state providers and entering the state through the mail, because it lifted the in-person dispensing requirement during the Biden administration. It then had to add a couple more steps to find an injury, settling on the extra money it has to pay through Medicaid when certain patients who took that mifepristone go to the emergency…

FOX 24 US A version of a federal rule proposing to exclude certain noncitizens from being counted in the 10-year Census was published to the federal register this morning, and is more aggressive in several ways than the draft version first revealed in full last month by TPM. The final version explicitly proposes a citizenship question on the census, excludes refugees and asylees from the count, and changes how members of the military are to be tallied. It also narrows the list of immigrants the Census Bureau would classify as U.S. residents, as President Donald Trump’s administration seeks to wield…

FOX 24 US The Supreme Court on Tuesday denied Missouri Republicans’ attempt to jam through a new gerrymander that would leave Democrats with only one House seat to their seven. Minutes later, U.S. District Judge Stephen Clark — a Trump appointee — handed down a temporary restraining order requiring Missouri to use the new maximal Republican gerrymander. The state is now under contradictory orders; an appeal of Clark’s ruling could come as soon as tonight. “We have a very clear Missouri Supreme Court decision and the state today says that decision is valid and in effect,” Chuck Hatfield, counsel for…