Colleen D Swain 💙

We can't seem to stop the unlawful "whitewashing and bulldozing of our history and culture, created over centuries by the many people who have built the United States, in service to the small vision of Trump and his enablers." July 25, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/heathercox… #TrumpRegime

I know how much fun the Democratic civil war is to talk about especially on the right. But the real 2026 battle isn't Dem vs. socialist, it's Dem vs. GOP in swing districts, and a new Fox poll has Dems up 53-46 overall and 59-41 in close counties. D+10 on inflation and D+9 on the economy. Trump's only up with white voters, by 1 point. Think about that.

-Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25. -Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19. -Sgt. Angel Rampersad, 28 -Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, 30. Don't let a draft dodger and a drunk former Fox & Friends Weekend co-host erase them.

When Trump said “I’m not going to start a war,” many Americans believed that promise - and voted for him. When he said his Iran war would be over in a few weeks, many believed that too. Americans today are fed up with the cost of this war - and the lies.

Zohran Mamdani: “Democrats have been branded as socialists for longer than I can remember. I remember President Obama being called a socialist almost every single day by Republicans and it didn’t stop him from delivering not just on his first term but his second term. People are hungry for a vision of the Democratic Party that has more to do with the New Deal than the raw deal that so many Americans have been forced to accept”

Final vote total for the NDAA today which tragically merges our military technology and supply chains with Israel’s. Let’s hope this version fails in the Senate because Section 219 is a betrayal of our sovereignty.

Political violence is wrong—full stop. Left-wing violence is rising, but the data still shows right-wing violence is still more prevalent. When Tom Homan comes out and says that he’s concerned we’re going to have to bury an ICE agent, it feels totally disconnected from reality for most. Americans Alex Pretti and Renee Good are dead. Immigrants Joan Guerrero and Lorenzo Araujo are gone, too. Until there’s accountability for rogue ICE actions, the anger will continue to boil over.

The Department of War has allegedly violated the Endangered Species Act, Clean Water Act, and National Environmental Policy Act by fast-tracking oil and gas pipeline construction through wetlands, streams and rivers.

A federal agent killed Renee Good. Then Trump's DOJ pressured prosecutors to investigate the dead victim and her widow, not the shooting. And... Greg Bovino threatened to "put down" protesters and mocked a Jewish US attorney as one of "the chosen people." Political interference, intimidation, and antisemitism. This isn't law enforcement. It's power protecting itself.

James Talarico: “You may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you. Your boss at work, he cares about politics. Your landlord, he cares about politics. Your insurance company cares about politics. Until you care about politics, they’re gonna keep using the political system to screw you over”

After New Yorkers elected Zohran Mamdani as mayor, across the nation, American voters are waking up to the realization that they too can elect politicians who actually care deeply about their constituents.

Reporter: Isn’t there concern that this slippery slope to socialism inevitably ends up as full-blown communism? AOC: I mean, no. I think that’s very silly. We can’t even raise the minimum wage. Do they really think communism is going to happen? No. They’re trying to scare people because they don’t want us talking about the fact that we all have a right to health care. So they want to call everything they don’t like communist because if people actually wake up to the fact that their elected officials are screwing them over when they get here, they’re going to realize they deserve better and that health care as a right isn’t crazy. They want to call this stuff communist because they don’t want us to realize that the rest of the developed world has guaranteed health care. They want to call it communist because they don’t want you to know that Germany, Italy, the UK, Canada—everybody else—has it better than us, and we spend the most money for the worst care in the developed world.

Congress just voted AGAIN to END the WAR in Iran. Four of us on the Republican side: myself, Barrett, Davidson, Fitzpatrick.

Trump hating Jon Ossoff is probably the strongest endorsement Jon Ossoff could get. If Trump’s against him, he’s doing something right.

ICE has cancelled plans to convert two Pennsylvania warehouses into migrant detention centers following intense pressure from Governor Josh Shapiro.

🇺🇸 Thomas Massie says Americans should stop consuming Fox News slop and should start paying attention to their pockets being drained by inflation.

My Republican colleagues love to accuse Democrats of Trump Derangement Syndrome. But the real Trump derangement is from Republicans, who swallow all of their pride to satiate the insecure, narcissist in the White House who needs to have everything named after him. Sad, really.

Ossoff: "Aren't we all tired of living under an administration where we know we have to ask about every single thing whether the first family is getting paid and lining their own pockets?"

BREAKING: All 212 House Democrats have joined my motion to force a vote blocking President Trump's taxpayer-funded slush fund for convicted criminals and other allies and to nullify his family-sized Super Pardon for any criminal, civil or tax offenses committed by him, any of his sons and all of his businesses. Now looking for six Republicans who say they oppose this illegal insurrectionist slush fund and want to protect the taxpayers to join us to end this corrupt self-dealing once and for all.

Rep. Raskin: "DHS is rounding up workers with lawful status working at small businesses as roofers, plumbers, landscapers, farmhands, and nurses. They're arresting refugees who went through stringent vetting to come here and targeting immigrants who are following the law by showing up at their court hearings and ICE check-ins. At what point will we finally say enough to this? This is not America."