Progressives score MAJOR election win

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Last night's results deserve a full victory lap.

In Maine, Graham Platner — a Democratic challenger who survived a rough pre-election news cycle — won his primary and will now face Susan Collins in what could be the most consequential Senate race of the midterms.

In California, Randy Villegas defeated incumbent Jasmeet Bains in a congressional primary, a clear win for progressives in a seat that can flip from red.

In Los Angeles, left-wing city council member Nithya Raman officially advanced to the mayoral runoff after seeing off Spencer Pratt — and Trump and Vance are now claiming, without evidence, that the race was rigged.

And Mike Johnson says election fraud is so bad, it simply can’t be proven.

Yes — it’s just shocking that a leftwing candidate is winning in a leftwing city.

On the MAGA side, Nancy Mace's gubernatorial run ended in humiliation, and Lindsey Graham spent $27 million just to avoid a runoff — a show of profound electoral weakness from a five-term incumbent.

Trump is claiming Iran shot down a U.S. Army helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz and that the U.S. "must respond" (The Guardian US) — while simultaneously dispatching JD Vance to tell reporters a peace deal could "absolutely" come before the midterms (The Guardian US). These two positions are not compatible, and the administration knows it. Trump himself admitted the chopper was downed by the military he spent years "obliterating" through budget cuts and loyalty purges (The Daily Beast).

How does a decimated military take down a sohpsitcated American aircraft?

Trump’s response to all of this? He flew to Madison Square Garden to watch basketball. The peace deal framing is now its own ongoing documented lie: The Daily Beast counts months of "we're very close" claims with nothing to show for them (The Daily Beast). Meanwhile, Zelenskyy told reporters he warned Trump directly that Putin is "playing games" with Washington (The Guardian US) — a detail that lands harder now that Trump's Iran optimism is following the same script.

The president also used a clip from The West Wing to justify the new Iran strikes (The Daily Beast) — omitting the crucial context that the fictional president in that scene was ordering a retaliatory strike, not a pre-emptive one.

On a typical day under Trump, ICE holds an average of 25 babies and toddlers in custody — a figure 10 times higher than during the final year of the Biden administration, according to a new analysis by MS NOW and The Marshall Project.

At least 500 children aged 3 and under have been detained since Trump took office. At least 175 of them were held beyond the court-mandated 20-day limit.

"Our immigration system is breaking children," pediatrics professor Marsha Griffin told MS NOW.

Meanwhile, ICE quietly moved to stop reporting deaths that occur within 30 days of a detainee's release — erasing accountability at the exact moment the agency is expanding its reach into nurseries.

Separately, a Wisconsin mosque leader has lost 30 pounds in two months because agents won't treat his diabetes.

And they just funded this system for three more years.

The House just passed a $70 billion funding package for ICE and border enforcement, enough to sustain Trump's mass deportation apparatus through the remainder of his term.

The bill, which cleared the Senate last week, funds Homeland Security agencies at current enforcement levels for three years — meaning no future Congress can simply defund the operation by cutting next year's appropriations.

Meaning: don’t rely on Democrats to undo this if they come into power.

That's not hyperbole — it's the literal position his DOJ took in federal court last week.

Judge Patricia Millett of the D.C. Circuit asked DOJ lawyer Yaakov Roth point-blank: if the government moved fast enough to tear down the Statue of Liberty, could anyone stop it? Roth's answer: "I think that's right, yes."

The case stems from Trump demolishing the White House East Wing — with no congressional authorization — to build a 90,000-square-foot personal ballroom. By the time anyone sued, three million pounds of steel rebar were already in the ground.

The administration's legal theory: move fast enough, and no one has "standing" to challenge you in court. Congress can't stop it either, since Trump can veto any bill and Republicans are too scared to override him.

Millett named it herself: "Move fast and break things, and then nobody has standing." Roth said that was essentially correct.

That's not a legal argument. That's a king talking.

The 2026 Social Security Trustees Report dropped quietly amid the war news, but its findings are not quiet: the trust fund is draining faster than previously projected, with a potential cash crisis within six years.

Progressive groups are pointing directly at Trump's policies as an accelerant.

The ask from advocates is blunt: tax the wealthy more, now.

This story is about to collide with the "big beautiful bill" debate in a way that will be impossible to ignore. Every Republican who votes to cut taxes for billionaires while Social Security bleeds is handing Democrats a weapon.

That’s it for today. We’ll see you tomorrow!