Trump's NEW PLAN to gut birthright citizenship

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Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old lawyer and democratic socialist, defeated Representative Diana DeGette in Colorado's Democratic primary Tuesday — ending the career of a congresswoman who had held her deep-blue Denver seat for nearly three decades. Kiros's win is part of a broader Colorado insurgency: progressive attorney general Phil Weiser also defeated Senator Michael Bennet in the gubernatorial primary, and Manny Rutinel beat establishment-backed Shannon Bird in another congressional race.

Three races, three upsets, one night. The argument that progressive challengers can't win in competitive environments just got significantly harder to make.

The Supreme Court struck down Trump's executive order attempting to deny birthright citizenship to children born on U.S. soil to undocumented or temporary residents, upholding the Fourteenth Amendment in Trump v. Barbara. Trump's own appointees — including Amy Coney Barrett — voted against him, triggering a meltdown from Stephen Miller on Fox News and a full MAGA tantrum from Megyn Kelly, who accused conservatives of lacking courage.

But read the fine print before celebrating. The ruling was not unanimous. Justice Clarence Thomas dissented with a historically tortured argument that the Fourteenth Amendment was only ever meant as a narrow correction for formerly enslaved Black Americans — a reading Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson called out directly and scathingly in her concurrence.

More dangerously, Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence reportedly sketched out a roadmap for Congress to end birthright citizenship legislatively — and Trump, within hours of the ruling, was already calling on Congress to "start today.”

SCOTUS told Trump no, but that word doesn’t mean anything to people like him.

In the same term-closing session, the Court voted 6-3 to strike down the long-standing federal limit on coordinated spending between political parties and candidates. This removes one of the last guardrails preventing wealthy donors from funneling massive sums through party committees directly to candidates. The liberal justices dissented, raising alarms about corruption. This lands alongside a new Public Citizen report showing that nearly one-third of all corporate political spending since Citizens United has happened in the current 2026 election cycle alone — $517 million already, driven by crypto, Big Tech, and online betting.

The Court just poured gas on a fire that was already out of control.

The Supreme Court's conservative supermajority upheld laws in West Virginia and Idaho banning transgender women and girls from competing in female sports — a ruling that effectively greenlights similar bans in at least 25 other states.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh, writing for the majority, held that excluding trans athletes does not violate Title IX, the civil rights law prohibiting sex discrimination in education. The three liberal justices dissented in part.

The ruling centers on two students: Lindsay Hecox, a college student in Idaho, and Becky Pepper-Jackson, a 15-year-old in West Virginia. Hecox had tried to have her case dismissed, saying she feared harassment — the court heard it anyway.

For context on the scale of the "crisis" the court just legislated around: NCAA president Charlie Baker told Congress in 2024 that he knew of exactly 10 transgender athletes out of more than 500,000 students on college teams.

Trump gets his culture war trophy. Ten kids paid for it.

House Speaker Mike Johnson tried to force a vote on the SAVE Act — Trump's voter ID legislation — by attaching it to a must-pass defense spending bill. Republicans revolted. Johnson pulled the bill and sent lawmakers home early for an extended vacation. The collapse is a clean illustration of the House GOP's governing problem: they can't pass Trump's priorities without blowing up other Trump priorities, and the margins are too thin to absorb any defections. Trump responded by publicly diagnosing Lisa Murkowski with "Trump Derangement Syndrome" for daring to push back.

The SAVE Act is stalled. The defense budget is stalled. The speaker has sent people home for the holiday weekend. Governing is hard when your caucus is a hostage situation.