Chris Kromm

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NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵 propublica.org/article/trump-…

It's been 18 months since Hurricane Helene stormed through the South. Western North Carolina is still rebuilding — and meager federal funding and FEMA chaos has slowed the recovery. A by-the-numbers look by @chriskromm: facingsouth.org/2026/03/instit…

🙋🏻‍♂️Hey DC, WNC still needs and deserves promised resources and respect. #justsaying

"Georgia Republican Party official voted illegally nine times, judge rules" - Republicans finally managed to find some election fraud in Georgia: electionlawblog.org/?p=154895

CBS: Greg Bovino to retire at the end of the month from federal service. What a rapid downfall for an official who the Trump administration granted an immense amount of power in the president's first year in office. cbsnews.com/news/gregory-b…

Always helpful when a politician, in a rare bout of honesty, says the quiet part out loud

The South's political clout is growing: @ChrisKromm looks at new data showing Southern states could gain up to 9 Congressional seats and Electoral College votes after the 2030 census count: facingsouth.org/2026/03/souths…

NEW: We just published a deep dive into just how much billionaires are now dominating U.S. politics. We found 300 billionaire families accounted for 19% of federal donations in 2024. The deluge was even larger in many state and local races. 1/7 nytimes.com/2026/03/09/us/…

59-year-old Iranian national, Pejman Karshenas Najafabadi, died in ICE custody on March 1 in Mississippi. His death is the 11th in ICE detention since Jan 1 & third this week. ICE appears to have reported it about 5 days later, despite a 48-hour policy. austinkocher.substack.com/p/third-ice-cu…

Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday

@sarahlazare @astradisastra Military Keynesianism in full effect

This is a publicly funded industry, proof that the U.S. can create jobs programs and design industrial policy when it wants to, but only substantially does so for the purpose of war and violence

“A DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credible—and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying.”

A NYT visual investigation suggests it was a US strike on an Iranian school that killed 175 people, mainly children. nytimes.com/2026/03/05/wor…

UPDATE: Yesterday @FEMA announced more than $11 million for its Hazard Mitigation Grant Program. This is a step in the right direction for WNC homeowners who have been in limbo waiting to be bought out for months, but there are still hundreds of families waiting for answers on their damaged or destroyed properties in flood zones. I will keep working to accelerate progress so North Carolinians have the certainty they deserve.

Turnout in midterm primaries in NC: 2014: 15.8% 2018: 14.4% 2022: 19.8% 2026: 19.6% Presidential years: 2016: 35.7% 2020: 31.2% 2024: 24.1%

The preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 billion a day, a congressional official told me.

Includes the @TPUSA chapter president at Florida International University

The Floridian Press: Miami GOP Secretary's Group Chat Pushes Antisemitism, “Killing N***ers” “In a disturbing series of group chat obtained by The Floridian, Miami GOP Secretary Abel Alexander Carvajal ran a group chat in which the N-word was used over 200 times and members celebrated the removal of an African-American activist from the FIU College Republicans.” Link to article: floridianpress.com/2026/03/miami-…

This is just absolute, unequivocal bullshit. The IAEA says this is a lie. The UN says its a lie. The US intelligence community can't back up this assertion, nor can the Israelis. This is as bad as claims that Iraq had WMDs if not worse.