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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis warned Republicans to take notice after Democrats stunned the GOP by flipping a deep-red Texas state Senate seat, and CNN data analyst Harry Enten said the numbers back up that concern. Union leader Taylor Rehment defeated Trump-endorsed conservative Leigh Wambsganns in a district Trump carried by 17 points in 2024 — only for the Democrat to win it by 14, marking a jaw-dropping 30-plus-point swing. While some Republicans blamed the loss on bad weather, Enten dismissed that excuse, pointing instead to a broader pattern of Democrats dramatically outperforming Kamala Harris’s 2024 margins in special elections nationwide. Historically, he noted, that kind of overperformance has reliably foreshadowed major midterm losses for the party in power, warning that Republicans ignore the Texas result — and the trend behind it — at their own peril.

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Despite toning down his public rhetoric, President Donald Trump has not abandoned his long-standing fixation on absorbing Greenland into U.S. territory, according to an administration insider speaking to Zeteo. The official told reporter Asawin Suebsaeng that Trump “still wants it” and has privately pushed aides to find a way to make it happen by the end of his current term, even eyeing 2029 as a target. Advisers say Trump believes Europe is merely placating him with the status quo of U.S. military bases on the island, while critics argue the supposed national security and mineral-resource justifications don’t hold up. As NATO allies publicly smooth things over, Suebsaeng reports the threat hasn’t vanished so much as gone dormant — a face-saving pause in what he calls Trump’s ongoing flirtation with MAGA-style imperialism.

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Rep. Nancy Mace’s penchant for spectacle and scorched-earth politics has left a trail of burned bridges — and former staffers now say they’re alarmed by what they describe as a sharp personal and professional decline. According to a New York Magazine report, even aides who disliked the South Carolina Republican say her explosive House floor speech accusing an ex-fiancé of abuse, followed by a public meltdown at a Charleston airport, marked a turning point where everything became centered on her own grievances. Former staffers described an erratic, intimidating workplace marked by excessive drinking, fixation on online attention, misuse of staff for personal errands, and behavior they believe signals deeper mental health struggles. As her standing in South Carolina’s GOP gubernatorial primary slides and a House Ethics inquiry looms, even longtime associates say the best outcome for Mace may be stepping away from politics altogether.

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A right-wing Brazilian influencer who publicly applauded President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown has now found himself caught up in it. Júnior Pena, a social media personality with hundreds of thousands of followers, recently praised Trump and falsely claimed federal agents were only targeting “criminal” migrants — just days before he was detained by immigration authorities and sent to a New Jersey detention facility, according to multiple reports. Pena, who has lived in the U.S. since 2009 and is known for attacking Brazil’s left-wing president while boosting far-right figures aligned with Trump, was taken into custody Saturday as deportations of Brazilians surge under the administration. His detention underscores growing fear within immigrant communities, where even vocal supporters of Trump’s policies are learning firsthand that the dragnet does not stop at political loyalty.

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A leading scholar of authoritarianism is warning that Donald Trump is already falling into the same self-destructive traps that doomed history’s most notorious strongmen. Writing in The New York Times, NYU professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat argues Trump’s growing fixation on personal infallibility, loyalty over competence, and performative bravado mirrors patterns seen in figures like Benito Mussolini and Vladimir Putin — patterns that often end in political collapse. As Trump brushes aside expert advice, doubles down on unpopular priorities, and reacts angrily to waning public support, Ben-Ghiat says the signs of “autocratic backfire” are flashing red. Unlike past dictators, Trump still operates within a democracy, leaving him exposed to courts, voters, and history itself — and making his unraveling more likely, not less.

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A mysterious whistleblower complaint accusing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard of wrongdoing has been sealed away—literally—sparking alarm on Capitol Hill and raising fresh questions about transparency and executive power. According to The Wall Street Journal, the explosive complaint has been locked in a safe for months, kept out of reach of lawmakers and even the whistleblower’s own attorney, amid claims it could cause “grave damage” to national security if revealed. The filing reportedly implicates another federal agency and may trigger assertions of executive privilege tied to the White House, while Democrats on the intelligence committees have been repeatedly blocked from reviewing it. The unusual secrecy, stretching nearly eight months, has only deepened suspicions that Gabbard’s office is stonewalling Congress over a potentially devastating allegation.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson ran headlong into a fact-check wall Sunday after repeatedly trying to revive debunked claims of voter fraud in Georgia’s 2020 election. Appearing on Meet the Press, Johnson brushed off concerns that Donald Trump could meddle in future elections as “comical,” falsely citing Georgia as proof of election “schemes.” The NBC moderator pushed back forcefully, noting that multiple recounts found no evidence of fraud and that Georgia’s Republican leadership has affirmed the results. Despite Johnson’s careful phrasing and visible irritation, he was repeatedly cut off and corrected for contradicting established facts, leaving his claims collapsing under scrutiny on live television.

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Newly released Epstein files have revived long-simmering rumors about Donald Trump’s personal life, after a 2019 text exchange between Jeffrey Epstein and former Trump strategist Steve Bannon appeared to suggest the president skipped his family during the 2018 holidays to spend time with his personal secretary, Madeline Westerhout. In the texts, Epstein bluntly tied Trump’s absence from his family to Westerhout, prompting a stunned reaction from Bannon. The messages surfaced alongside earlier claims from Trump biographer Michael Wolff, who alleged Trump stayed at the White House during the government shutdown for the same reason. While Westerhout has forcefully denied any affair and Trump has never addressed the allegations, the texts indicate the rumor was circulating privately among Trump’s inner circle years before it became public.

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The Department of Justice quietly scrubbed multiple Jeffrey Epstein-related documents from its website Friday, including files containing explosive allegations involving President Donald Trump, shortly after announcing the release of millions of records. The Bulwark’s Sam Stein noted that references to Trump in the documents were difficult to read before the pages disappeared entirely less than an hour later, though archived versions quickly surfaced on social media. Those records include disturbing claims from multiple complainants, including allegations of sexual assault involving a minor and assertions that Trump had close contact with Epstein. The sudden removal has raised fresh questions about transparency and accountability, fueling suspicion that the DOJ is selectively shielding politically sensitive material despite publicly touting the document dump as a move toward openness.

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The United Nations is warning it is on the brink of an “imminent financial collapse” just weeks after President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of dozens of UN organizations and treaties, slashing a major source of global funding. In a letter to ambassadors cited by Reuters, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said the crisis is already disrupting programs and will worsen rapidly as key member states refuse to honor their financial commitments. While Guterres did not name the US directly, the warning comes after Trump withdrew from more than 60 international agreements, including major UN bodies, cutting off roughly $820 million a year from the world’s largest economy. The funding loss has already forced the cancellation of hundreds of millions of dollars in grants, including lifesaving programs targeting maternal mortality and sexual violence, prompting Guterres to warn that without swift action the UN could run out of cash by July.

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Sen. Lindsey Graham lashed out at House Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday as a federal shutdown deadline approached, furious that House Republicans moved to kill a provision allowing senators to sue the federal government for damages if their data was accessed without notice. According to reporting shared by journalist Jamie Dupree, Graham accused House leaders of jamming him and made clear he has no intention of backing down from the payout provision tied to the Jan. 6 investigation. The South Carolina Republican warned that the slight would not be forgotten, signaling fresh intraparty tensions as GOP leaders scramble to avert a shutdown while managing simmering resentment inside their own ranks.

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Former Republican strategist Rick Wilson warned that the financial collapse hitting American farmers is rapidly becoming a political crisis for the GOP as the midterms approach, with many of Trump’s most loyal voters paying the price for his policies. Writing on Substack, Wilson said rural counties that overwhelmingly backed Trump are now watching family farms buckle under tariffs that wiped out export markets, slashed crop income, and drove profits into a historic plunge. He added that the administration’s immigration crackdowns compounded the damage by gutting the farm labor force, leaving crops unharvested and losses piling up. The result, Wilson argued, is a slow-motion electoral disaster for Republicans tied to an incumbent whose agenda is bankrupting the voters who put him in power.

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A former federal prosecutor is sounding the alarm after federal authorities swarmed a Georgia election field office, warning the move may preview a broader Republican effort to take over election machinery ahead of the 2026 midterms. Joyce Vance said the Fulton County search, tied to Trump’s long-running fixation on the 2020 election he lost, raises urgent questions about whether future elections will be free and fair. While she stressed it is highly unlikely the probe will uncover real voter fraud, Vance warned that any case emerging from the seized ballots would inevitably cast doubt on their integrity once in DOJ custody, especially given the Trump administration’s record of misleading courts. She argued the investigation itself could be used as a pretext to strip a heavily Democratic county of control over its elections, calling it a dangerous roadmap for undermining confidence, seizing ballots, and consolidating partisan control of elections nationwide.

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