The Democratic Coalition

08/06/2026

He's 67. He stopped his bike. He reached in to feel the water.

The National Guard held him five hours and a US Attorney charged him with a felony carrying ten years.

Somebody should tell her what her own engineer found eight days earlier.

https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/republicans-counted-on-an-empty-room

08/06/2026

A UFC cage fight got booked on the White House lawn.

Two months later a 67-year-old Olympian was in handcuffs.

Those two facts are connected.

https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/republicans-counted-on-an-empty-room

08/06/2026

Great question, Trump: Where is our refund for the extra money these corporations charged us?

08/06/2026

Kris Kobach is the attorney general of Kansas, and he has spent years going after his own state's Supreme Court.

The reason is simple. In 2019 that court ruled abortion is protected under the Kansas constitution. It also ordered the legislature to actually fund public schools. Kobach and Kansas Republicans have never gotten over either one.

So on Tuesday's ballot they put his fix: throw out the panel that screens who can sit on the Kansas Supreme Court, and make the judges run political campaigns instead — raising money, taking sides, the whole thing.

Kansans set that panel up for a reason.

In 1956, a Republican governor lost his primary. On his way out the door, he arranged to be handed a seat on the state Supreme Court. The chief justice resigned, the governor resigned, and the man who replaced him appointed the outgoing governor to the open seat.

Kansas was disgusted. The next year, more than 70 percent of them amended their constitution to make sure it could never happen again.

Tuesday, Kobach asked them to undo it.

The state Republican chair spent that morning posting a video warning that the vote was the difference between Kansas becoming Detroit or Kansas becoming a land of prosperity.

Roughly 62 percent of Kansans voted no.

Kobach doesn't get the court. The same judges are still sitting on it. And abortion is still legal in Kansas this morning because of it.

Share this with anybody who thinks red states are a lost cause.

https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/republicans-counted-on-an-empty-room

08/06/2026

Tarrant County, Texas has 1.3 million registered voters and had 316 places to vote on Election Day in the last midterms.

On Tuesday, county commissioners were scheduled to close 140 of them before November.

County Judge Tim O'Hare said it would save a million dollars. Tarrant County is sitting on more than eighty million dollars in reserves.

Here is what happened instead.

People showed up. Enough of them that the county had to open an overflow room. They stayed nearly seven hours. One after another they walked to that microphone and told three Republican commissioners exactly what closing 140 polling places would do to people who take a bus, or work a shift, or can't drive anymore.

O'Hare had warned everyone at the start that applause would not be tolerated. When the room clapped for a speaker who criticized how he runs things, he ordered deputies to clear the chamber.

Later, he had Lon Burnam removed. Burnam is 73 years old and served eighteen years in the Texas House. Four sheriff's deputies carried him out by his hands and his feet and booked him into the county jail.

And then O'Hare folded anyway. He moved to shelve his own agenda item and admitted the cut was too large — which is what a room full of Texans had been telling him all day.

A hundred and forty polling places in Texas are still open right now because ordinary people gave up a Tuesday.

He'll try again in September. They already know what it takes.

Share this with somebody who thinks showing up doesn't matter.

A Texas county tried to erase 140 polling places, Missouri killed the governor’s tax scheme, and Kansas buried Kobach by 24 points

08/06/2026

ICYMI: The Trump regime demanded every Colorado voter's private file. One woman refused, and a Republican-appointed judge just made it permanent.

On December 1, the Justice Department emailed Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold an agreement to sign. It demanded every registered voter's full name, birthdate, home address, and either their driver's license number or the last four digits of their Social Security number.

The department assured her the document "cures all potential concerns a state might rightfully raise" about private data.

Two days later Griswold wrote back one sentence: "We will not be producing unredacted voter files or signing the MOU."

So they sued her.

Federal law requires the Justice Department to state a basis and a purpose when it demands records. Judge Philip Brimmer — appointed by George W. Bush — found the December email did neither. It described itself as a follow-up to correspondence that began in May. The May letter had never asked for the private file at all.

Brimmer dismissed the case with prejudice and ruled that letting the department try again would be futile. It cannot be refiled.

That's twenty rulings against the DOJ on voter rolls. They have not won one. At least eight of those came from judges Donald Trump appointed himself.

And it wasn't the only loss this week. A federal judge in Maryland blocked the regime's ban on helping new citizens register to vote and found it was likely built on discrimination. A county of 49,000 people in North Carolina ran off a $19 billion data center. And 70% of Americans now say Trump is failing them on the cost of living — the issue voters say will decide their vote in November.

Ninety days to go.

Read the full report:

They sued her. It went badly. Plus a $19 billion walkout and his worst poll yet.

08/06/2026

This regime cannot be trusted that they are not simply using our military and our troops to make money off the markets.

Trump's reckless war of choice in Iran has been an embarrassing national tragedy that has cost us in American lives, economic stability, and international credibility.

08/06/2026

It's time to come together for Abdul.

08/06/2026

Twenty-three percent of Americans think he's handling the price of groceries well. Twenty-three.
https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/the-trump-regime-wanted-every-colorado

08/06/2026

How is this not a bigger story?!?!

Capital One Financial hit back against a lawsuit over its decision to close ‌the Trump Organization's bank accounts years ago, stating that it did so after a review by anti-money laundering experts.

The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to Trump's clownishly corrupt family business.

Capital One is seeking to dismiss ​the case by casting doubt on claims of illegally debanking — or denying services on religious or political grounds — ​the Trump Organization.

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