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Senator Raphael Warnock pulls no punched in our interview, taking on Trump, JD Vance and the authoritarian regime. “They’re people who know they’re losing,” he said.

Discussing negotiations in the Senate on funding the Department of Homeland Security, Warnock said, “certainly the presence of ICE around sensitive locations, to including polling stations, churches, schools…those are things I will have my eyes on as we talk about whether or not there is a path to fund the Department of Homeland Security under Donald Trump and JD Vance.”

And on House Speaker Mike Johnson pushing back on the demand for ICE agents not to wear masks, Warnock called Johnson, “pathetic.”

“Here is a man who is the Speaker of the House, saying without evidence that there are questions about…voting my mail,” Warnock said, calling Johnson, “deeply irresponsible.”

Watch the full interview.

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Trump is scared about the mid-terms—let’s be clear about that. He knows if Republicans lose control of the House and possibly the Senate he will be investigated and bogged down, unable to do many dangerous things. He’ll be held in check on much.

So it’s not a coincidence that he went on Dan Bongino’s podcast and called for elections to be “nationalized” as he saw more losses for the GOP.

As I discuss in this Substack Live, Trump’s threatening proclamations are a measure of our success. His other schemes—like mid-decade gerrymandering—aren’t working out. We’re winning, and he’s going to further extremes.

That doesn’t mean, however, that we shouldn’t take him seriously.

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The execution of protester Alex Pretti, an intensive care nurse at the VA in Minneapolis, has stunned the country and the world.

Ten bullets fired on him AFTER the licensed gun owner was disarmed by a gang of masked ICE goons. (Minnesota is an open carry state, and video shows he never brandished the gun.)

Donald Trump is ramping up state terror. Join Joe Sudbay joined me for Substack Live at 2 PM ET today.

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Back from a brief vacation, joining readers in a Substack Live for discussion of the latest madness imposed on the world by America’s debilitating dictator.

I’m back on my SiriusXM program on Tuesday, Jan 20th, 3-6ET

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A lot here as we talk about the MAGA closet today—some the names you’ve heard and much more—as Trump assaults LGBTQ rights.

And we look back on the GOP gay scandals of the past.

Pam Spaulding was at the forefront of those with Pam’s House Blend, her terrific blog, as was Joe Sudbay, then at Americablog.

And for more reading up on our discussion, see below.

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Retired Army Major General Randy E. Manner knew many of the generals in the room in Quantico, Virginia when Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth gave unprecedented speeches that sounded alarms throughout the military and the country.

For over three decades Manner served the country in many positions in the Pentagon and around the world.

Prior to retiring from the Army as a Major General, he served as the Deputy Commanding General of the United States 3rd Army in Kuwait, as the Acting Vice Chief of the National Guard Bureau, and as the Acting and Deputy Director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

General Manner has come on my program regularly, and this week we spoke about the gathering, at which he said the generals were used as “props” and which he said showed “our president seems to be slipping quite a bit, even from the campaign, let alone from years ago, into the depths of, quite frankly, self-serving dictatorship.”

And that was just the beginning. Listen in to the full conversation.

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Joe Sudbay, host of “State of the States” on SiriusXM Progress joined me on my SiriusXM program yesterday to talk about the Trump’s military occupation of DC, where he lives, and where he has experienced the intimidating, chilling atmosphere.

And we tried out something new. We did the interview live on Sirius XM and as a Substack Live. Something fun to try out, but of course we had some kinks to work out. For the first minute and a half or so, Joe couldn’t be heard on the Substack Live, while he could be heard on SiriusXM.

But in short order we worked it out, and Joe could be heard on Substack. So just realize that, as I’m posting the conversation here. You won’t hear Joe at first, but will you hear Joe after the first couple of minutes—and it’s worth waiting for his take.

Always a great conversation and a lot of smart discussion about what’s happening in DC.

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There are so many strands to this discussion with Joe Sudbay, host of SiriusXM Progress’ “State of the States,” and it seems like we’re jumping around several times from the Epstein saga and Trump’s lack of control, to the economic warning signs and the jobs numbers to the GOP’s rigging of elections and the big, bad bill.

What ties it all together, however, is both the danger of the moment we’re in and Trump’s unraveling as he has strong headwinds against him while he’s trying to destroy democracy. And Democrats are fighting back!

Watch and let me know your thoughts!

Thank you Randy Scobey, Hirut Kidane-mariam, Michael deCamp, Jenny Benjamin, Kevin Paquette, and many others for tuning into my live video with Joe Sudbay! Join me for my next live video in the app.

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