Donald's New Owner  —  [Substack was down for a while and is still a little glitchy.  I hope this reaches you.]  —  Donald Trump has always been for sale.  It used to be shocking how many people were willing to prop him up in the hopes of profiting off his increasingly seamy ventures.

We watched 20 Trump rallies.  His racist, anti-immigrant messaging is getting darker.  —  A POLITICO analysis of more than 20 of his rallies and campaign events shows Trump has demonized minority groups in all of them.  —  Donald Trump vowed to “rescue” the Denver suburb of Aurora, Colorado …

Why Is Trump Gaining With Black and Hispanic Voters?  —  Five possible explanations for the increases in support, particularly among young men.  —  In 2016, Donald J. Trump became the Republican nominee and ultimately won the presidency after calling many Mexican immigrants rapists …

America First Policy Institute, a group advising Trump, says its systems were breached  —  A group helping to lay the groundwork for a future Donald Trump administration said its computer systems were breached, marking the second known instance that people supporting the former president have been the target of a cyberattack.

Is Ron DeSantis secretly preparing an effort to block Florida's abortion measure?  —  Late Friday, the Florida Department of State's office released a report alleging fraud relating to petition circulation and collection for the abortion rights measure that will be Amendment 4 on this fall's ballot in the state.

Voter registration deadlines hit, focus shifts to actually getting people to vote  —  The deadline to register to vote in 2024 has already passed in more than a dozen states, and time is running out in many more places through October.  —  Millions of Americans have enrolled to cast a ballot this year …

Harris weighing where to put more distance between her and Biden  —  Trump has been criticizing her for an answer to a question in which she initially declined to say anything she would have done different the past four years.  —  WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris' team …

‘As serious as it gets’: Trump ally stuns with ‘petrifying’ answer about executing enemies  —  Former Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, the controversial figure Donald Trump named to be his White House national security adviser, stunned observers with his answer to a question about potentially executing political enemies.

Mystery Drones Swarmed a U.S. Military Base for 17 Days.  The Pentagon Is Stumped.  —  U.S. officials don't know who is behind the drones that have flown unhindered over sensitive national-security sites—or how to stop them

Far-right website admits there was no fraud at 2020 vote count in Atlanta  —  Gateway Pundit settled defamation lawsuit brought by election workers it had falsely accused of wrongdoing  —  The far-right website the Gateway Pundit acknowledged for the first time on Saturday …

Vance points out the ‘biggest difference’ between leadership of Trump, Harris during campaign stop  —  Veteran homelessness increased 7.4% between 2022 and 2023  —  Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, set the record straight on how former President Donald Trump's and Vice President Kamala Harris' leadership styles …

The Supreme Court Takes a Nuclear Waste Case Almost Too Wild to Believe  —  The Supreme Court took up a spate of new cases last week as the justices regrouped for a new term.  Although the court is obviously trying to duck controversial disputes before Election Day, it took up some strange …

Where Is the Fierce Urgency of Beating Trump?  —  Barack Obama got blunt in Pittsburgh on Thursday.  He chided Black men who are not supporting Kamala Harris, saying that some of “the brothers” were just not “feeling the idea of having a woman as president.”