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FOX 24 US For months now, the far-right’s desire to pass the SAVE America Act — a voter suppression bill championed by election deniers and President Donald Trump that would require people to provide proof of citizenship and photo ID to be able to vote — has hobbled Republican leadership and their efforts to pass various legislative priorities. Trump, aided by MAGA lawmakers on Capitol Hill, have slowed down or scuttled attempts to finalize several GOP priorities, in the process torpedoing their own party’s agenda and beclowning colleagues ahead of what is expected to be a critical midterm election. House…

FOX 24 US Good morning. Hope you had a good holiday weekend. Here are a few stories TPM is following heading into this week… What Freedom Truly Means Heading into a very hot weekend, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani advised city residents to set their thermostats to 78 degrees, part of an effort to avoid overtaxing the power grid.  Naturally, right-wing influencers and MAGA activists were appalled that Mamdani would attack New Yorkers’ freedom in this way ahead of America’s 250th birthday.  “This is what socialism looks like, folks,” declared Vivek Ramaswamy, who is running for governor in Ohio. “First…

FOX 24 US Good morning!  For the next few months (at least), I’m going to be posting a few stories every morning that TPM reporters are closely tracking. We’ll still be doing Morning Memo, our flagship daily newsletter, too. While Morning Memo captures all the stories you need to know, the yet-to-be-named thing you’re reading here will focus in on a couple of stories that TPM reporters are following — and, likely, reporting on — closely (as well as a few other odds and ends that captured my attention). We hope to make this briefing an email at some point…

FOX 24 US You wouldn’t know it from the right’s ongoing social media tantrum, but the Supreme Court turned in another slate of decisions this term that gave Republicans nearly everything they wanted.  The upholding of birthright citizenship — the cause of much of the angst — was less a defeat for the right and more a revelation that four justices do not believe that everyone born on American soil automatically becomes a citizen under the 14th Amendment. Many court watchers anticipated a 9-0 ruling reinforcing the right, or at least a 7-2 with the typical crank allotment for Justices Samuel…

FOX 24 US WASHINGTON, DC – I visited the Great American State Fair on several days over the past week. Yes, it’s empty. Security is extremely tight, with no clear reason as to why. Federal marshals, Oklahoma state troopers, and others roam the area, providing a mini-museum of cops. The mini-arch is as half-assed as everyone says it is. But President Trump’s Freedom250 project and the Great American State Fair is really a corruption story. And, in true MAGA fashion, there’s no real effort to hide the graft here: it’s all playing out in front of you. The fair itself showcases…

FOX 24 US Power Grab on Hold for Now A second judge has blocked aspects of a March order by President Trump that would require the Postal Service to only send mail ballots to voters the federal government has deemed to be eligible.  Postmaster general David Steiner attracted quite a bit of attention last month when he told the Senate the USPS was ready to carry out Trump’s order. The very next day, the majority of it was blocked by Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama-appointed district court judge in Massachusetts. Another judge, Trump-appointed Carl John Nichols, a district court judge…

FOX 24 US The right is incandescent with rage over the Supreme Court’s (closer than expected) rejection of the Trump administration’s bid to rewrite the Constitution via executive order.  In a 6-3 ruling (but really 5-4 on constitutional grounds), the Court ruled that children born on American soil to undocumented immigrants or those temporarily present are citizens, despite a Trump executive order to the contrary.  For Republicans, controlling every lever of government is simply not enough; if their Supreme Court turns in anything but a 100 percent win rate, it’s cause for prolific online tantrums.  The cope ranges from the…

FOX 24 US Vance Just Wants to Close a Constitutional ‘Loophole’ Vice President JD Vance went on Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show last night to chart a path forward for the nativist movement in the U.S. following Tuesday’s too-close-for-comfort Supreme Court ruling on birthright citizenship.  It’s what you might call a rich text.  He first described “birthright citizenship,” an idea enshrined in the Constitution, as “a loophole that now exists in our immigration system.”  He spoke of “congressional or statutory changes” to “make it harder for people to actually take advantage of” said “loophole” — before acknowledging that five justices…

FOX 24 US House Democrats grilled Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought about his refusal to release appropriated funds in a timely manner during his Tuesday morning testimony in front of the House Appropriations Committee’s Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee. “Have you released all appropriated funding to each intended agency through the apportionment process?” House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) asked Vought during the hearing. “We are working through the apportionment process expeditiously. I can’t say we have done every single one of them but if you have one that you are particularly interested…

FOX 24 US This story was originally reported by Grace Panetta of The 19th. Meet Grace and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. Melat Kiros was born in 1997, the year her representative in the U.S. House, Democrat Diana DeGette, took office. On Tuesday, Kiros hopes to unseat her.   The next frontier of the fight for the Democratic Party is in Denver, where DeGette, a 15-term incumbent and longtime progressive, is facing her most serious primary challenge yet from Kiros, a 29-year-old democratic socialist and first-time candidate.  Democrats’ widespread dissatisfaction and anger with their party leadership…