Monday, August 24, 2026
Today, minority leader Hakeem Jeffries met in secret with Jared Kushner to discuss how a Democratic House could work with the Trump administration, the postal service has published its rule on refusing to send mail ballots to people not on a federal list, Trump’s claims about immigrants voting in Nevada turned out to be completely false, the Navy is weighing removing a black navy veteran’s name from a new ship and replacing it with Donald Trump, the DNC is suing the Justice Department for communications about ballot seizures during the midterms, the president will travel to South Carolina to campaign for Darline Nordone, trade talks with Canada have cratered and Mark Carney is fighting back, the Pentagon has fired the editor of Stars and Stripes, Republicans are criticizing the administration’s plan to import foreign beef, protected wild horses are heading to slaughter, and a court has slashed Alex Jones’ $50M payout to two Sandy Hook families.
GUEST: Author Jim Ruland on his piece about sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln
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Sources:
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/20/politics/navy-weighs-renaming-carrier-black-war-hero-to-trump
https://apnews.com/article/alex-jones-infowars-newtown-b7866ab5ef652bbc7307ae55b09937ce
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/us/politics/pentagon-fires-stars-stripes-editor.html
https://www.notus.org/immigration/baby-asylum-hearing
https://www.ms.now/news/postal-service-order-mail-in-voting-trump-election
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/us/politics/jeffries-kushner-private-meeting.html
Thank you for the update, Allison. As for Jefferies he takes dark money. I hope he will not be leader of the house.
I heard the beef from Argentina was rejected by China Bad beef being fed to the USA is ok?