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Twenty-six days before the midterms, the Justice Department is planning to send roughly 1,000 federal “election monitors” to polling places. It won’t say where.

The NAACP is now suing to find out who they are, how they were trained and what legal authority they’re using. The group warns the DOJ “will effectively run out the clock” until Election Day.

Harmeet Dhillon, who runs the department’s Civil Rights Division, says monitoring is “something that DOJ does.”

The monitors already had a test run. Wyoming’s Republican governor, Mark Gordon, reportedly called their conduct during the state’s primary “aggressive” and “irregular.”

And according to the NAACP’s complaint, one monitor stationed in Minnesota pleaded guilty in 2016 to illegally hacking a Florida government election website.

That’s who they’re sending to watch for election crimes.

Meanwhile, newly released DHS documents show ICE ingested 50.6 million voter records from a Justice Department dataset while hunting for noncitizen voters, plus another 48.4 million gathered by a senior adviser to DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin.

By late May, all that digging had produced 64 administrative arrests. Most of the cases were never referred for prosecution.

The same documents show DHS weighed sending undercover agents into voter groups and authorized agents to “disrupt activities.” DHS has looked into more than 150 organizations, mostly in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

DHS’s message to anyone it suspects: “We will find you, arrest you, and you will face the consequences.”

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Trump was at the future site of a Navy submarine plant in Baltimore on Tuesday when he turned to Russ Vought, his budget director and one of the architects of Project 2025.

“We have some big surprises coming up in another few weeks, right, Russ?”

Then he kept going: “He’s going to be one of the very important people in the history of our country, in my opinion.”

A few weeks from now is right around Election Day.

Trump calls Vought his “Grim Reaper,” and he’s earned it. He has overseen sweeping civil service cuts and the shutdown of USAID. As acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, he tried to fire more than 90% of its staff.

In Trump’s first term, Vought froze $214 million in security aid to Ukraine, the freeze at the center of Trump’s first impeachment.

Nobody at the White House has said what the surprises are. Based on Vought’s résumé, we wouldn’t expect a gift basket.

Ken Paxton has a leak problem.

For at least the third time recently, someone recorded Trump’s Texas Senate pick complaining behind closed doors. This time Axios got audio from a D.C. fundraiser, where Paxton told donors and lobbyists what’s sinking his campaign:

“It’s not tariffs… it’s the war, it’s gas prices, it’s diesel, over $6 per gallon… people are feeling the pinch.”

“So that’s by far our biggest problem.”

He also admitted he’s not exactly in charge: “I’ve never been in a race where I felt less control over the campaign.”

His campaign called the recording a “non-story.”

Hours later, Trump flew to San Antonio to rally for him anyway.

Protesters interrupted him again and again. As one was being led out, an older man in a red MAGA hat grabbed him by the shirt and pulled his hair, all on C-SPAN. Trump’s response: “He’s going back home to mom right now.”

Then Trump asked the crowd, “Who the hell fills up an arena like this for a midterm?” as C-SPAN’s camera panned across dozens of empty seats.

At one point, a video on the big screen showed the back of Trump’s head. He did not take it well:

“Getting a little bit thin up there, I’m not happy.”

“This is not good news. Now I’m depressed.”

Then he went back to insulting James Talarico, who leads Paxton by about four points in the polling average.

Trump flew to Texas to save his candidate and spent the night mourning his hairline.

The Democratic National Committee sued the Trump administration in federal court Wednesday to stop it from spending taxpayer money on TV ads that glorify Trump.

The ads have cost more than $12 million so far, according to AdImpact. The money comes out of $20 million in Homeland Security funds, part of a package Congress passed for immigration enforcement.

On Monday, Trump said his super PAC would pay for future ads. On Wednesday morning, a new one aired on Fox & Friends anyway, ending with “Paid for by the U.S. Government.”

It’s called “Final Battle,” and it’s virtually identical to one of his 2024 campaign ads.

Asked whether he’d pay back the money already spent, Trump said, “We’ll decide.”

Eighty-six percent of Americans disapprove of using tax dollars for these ads, per Reuters/Ipsos. Even Senate Majority Leader John Thune says taxpayers shouldn’t be paying for them. JD Vance says they’re “not partisan.”

Meanwhile, Trump wants Palm Beach County to turn his golf club, which sits on county-leased land, into a Camp David-style retreat for world leaders, at “no cost to the federal government.” His lawyer says it would be as recognizable as “Camp David, Windsor Castle, or the Elysee Palace.”

In 2017, Trump said he could enjoy the real Camp David “for about 30 minutes.”

A Reuters analysis found 41 of 62 Republicans in competitive House and Senate races are putting distance between themselves and the president.

At least a dozen have scrubbed Trump’s name, photo or endorsement from their campaign websites. In Florida, Mike Beltran, who’s running against Rep. Kathy Castor, took down his Trump photo and every mention of Trump.

Nebraska Sen. Pete Ricketts criticized Trump’s plan to expand beef imports, then showed up at his rally Monday anyway.

The White House insists Trump is the party’s “unequivocal leader, best messenger and unmatched motivator.”

In North Carolina, Trump’s handpicked Senate candidate, Michael Whatley, is down nine points to Roy Cooper and just paused his TV ads. Senate Leadership Fund, the top GOP Senate super PAC, already pulled out after spending at least $30 million on him.

His spokesperson’s explanation: “Undecided voters who break late decide the election in North Carolina.”

Trump won North Carolina three times. So much for the best messenger.

Asked in the Oval Office Wednesday whether Democrats would try to impeach him if they win back Congress, Trump went down a list:

“I could’ve done very bad things to Hillary Clinton.”

“I could’ve done very, very bad things to Joe Biden.”

“I could’ve done very bad things to Barack Hussein Obama.”

He says he held back out of respect for the presidency. Then he added: “I can do whatever I want, if I want.”

This is the same president who has gone after James Comey and Adam Schiff, and who accused Obama of treason in May.

He was asked about impeachment. He answered with a threat, 26 days before an election.