Good afternoon, everyone. I told you it was a busy news day, and I want to share an important afternoon update. This afternoon, Donald Trump is warning Republicans ahead of November about the possibility of his own impeachment. He is making quips about canceling the 2026 elections and, for the first time, acknowledging that public perception of his policies is not as positive as he once believed.
At the same time, the Republican majority in the House is faltering. Hilton is punishing a hotel that refused to house ICE agents, and Trump is using your taxpayer dollars to rewrite the history of January 6, 2021.
That is why independent media matters now more than ever.
I am not afraid of this White House. I am not afraid for my safety. I do not answer to political power, corporate media, or tech platforms. I answer to you.
Donald Trump warned House Republicans that if Republicans lose control of Congress in the midterm elections, Democrats will “find a reason” to impeach him again, framing the threat as a key reason for GOP voters to turn out.
Trump floated—then quickly walked back—the idea of canceling U.S. elections in remarks to House Republicans, framing it as a critique of Democrats while reiterating false claims about the 2020 election and warning he could be impeached if the GOP loses the midterms.
At the House GOP retreat, Trump complained about public opinion, insisting Republicans “have the right policy” while accusing Democrats of having “horrible policy,” and expressing frustration that voters don’t see it his way.
According to CNN, Trump administration officials told lawmakers that Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were injured while fleeing U.S. forces during their capture in Caracas, an operation involving Delta Force and heavy firefights that officials say was not intended as regime change, even as both appeared in court with visible injuries.
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado vowed to return home and rejected the authority of interim leader Delcy Rodríguez after the U.S.-backed ouster of Nicolás Maduro, praising Donald Trump for toppling Maduro while insisting her movement is ready to win a free election despite being sidelined amid a deepening crackdown and state of emergency.
Hilton has caved to the Trump Adminsitration and said it is removing an independently owned Hampton Inn Lakeville Minneapolis from its systems after the Department of Homeland Security accused the hotel of denying rooms to federal immigration agents; despite assurances from operator Everpeak Hospitality that the issue was fixed.
Five years after the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, Trump is using presidential power—through mass pardons, firings at the Justice Department and FBI, official messaging, and talk of compensation—to recast the violent siege as a peaceful protest and legitimize false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from Joe Biden.
On today’s anniversary, the White House launched an official webpage promoting Donald Trump’s narrative that the 2021 Capitol protesters were peaceful, blaming police for the violence and reviving false claims of a “stolen election,” including accusations against former Vice President Mike Pence for refusing to block certification of the electoral votes.
Rep. Doug LaMalfa, a 65-year-old Northern California Republican known for his leadership on agriculture, wildfire response, and Western water issues, has died, tightening the GOP’s already slim House majority and prompting a forthcoming special election in his safely Republican district.
Rep. Jim Baird and his wife were hospitalized after a serious car crash, with President Donald Trump saying they are expected to recover; the incident, coming a day after the death of Doug LaMalfa, further strains Speaker Mike Johnson’s razor-thin House majority as Republicans face potential absences during critical votes.
House margin math: Republicans hold a 1-vote majority in February; it grows to 2 votes in March if Marjorie Taylor Greene’s seat is filled; then drops back to a 1-vote margin in April once Mikie Sherrill’s seat is filled, tightening Speaker Mike Johnson’s floor math.
Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Thom Tillis publicly rebuked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for trying to punish Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly over a political video, warning that demoting him and cutting his military pension would be inappropriate and have a chilling effect on free speech.
The New York Post has confirmed that the Trump administration moved to freeze more than $10 billion in child care and social services funding to five Democratic-led states—California, New York, Illinois, Minnesota and Colorado—through the Department of Health and Human Services, citing alleged large-scale fraud and diversion of benefits to non-citizens, a move Democrats denounced as political retaliation that would harm low-income families.
Abortion will remain legal in Wyoming after the Wyoming Supreme Court struck down post-2022 abortion restrictions—including the nation’s first explicit abortion-pill ban—ruling they violate the state constitution’s guarantee of individuals’ rights to make their own health care decisions.
