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A former top Republican official delivered a strong warning to Democrats on Wednesday.

Michael Steele, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, said on MSNBC's "The Weeknight" that MAGA's latest election rigging scheme should be seen as a warning. MAGA Republicans in Texas are pursuing changes to the state's electoral map to eliminate five seats currently held by Democrats. Several other states have announced they are considering similar changes.

A municipal court judge in Somerset County who oversaw truancy cases threatened children who came before him and their mothers with deportation, according to a formal complaint issued by a judicial advisory board.

Former Fox News personality Geraldo Rivera tore into President Donald Trump over his treatment of immigrants, saying that he was wrecking the fabric of longstanding communities and ruining the lives of innocent people.

This came during a discussion on MSNBC of podcaster Joe Rogan, who previously backed Trump, now criticizing him sharply over his use of immigration laws to detain students who protested against the Israeli occupation of Gaza.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday admitted that a provision in Republicans' "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" is a mechanism for privatizing Social Security—something President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he won't do.

Speaking at a policy event hosted by the far-right news site Breitbart, Bessent touted the so-called "Trump accounts" available to all U.S. citizen children starting next July under the OBBBA signed by the president earlier this month.

A former CIA officer blasted Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday over claims she's made regarding former President Barack Obama and his intelligence agencies.

Susan Miller, who helped investigate Russia's meddling in the 2016 election, told The Guardian that Gabbard "clearly doesn’t understand" intelligence work. The Guardian's Robert Tait characterized it as Gabbard being "ignorant" of espionage work.

An ethics complaint has been filed against Federal Communications Chairman Brendan Carr, alleging he has engaged in "egregious misconduct."

At issue is a reaction to a statement from Carr, which The Freedom of the Press Foundation said exerted politically-motivated pressure on Paramount Global to settle a lawsuit from President Donald Trump last year against the CBS News division.

CNN anchor Jake Tapper threw some shade at a GOP leader on Wednesday for his flip-flop over releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) told MAGA podcast host Benny Johnson earlier this month that his party should "put everything out there" and let the public draw their own conclusions about the Epstein files. Johnson backtracked a week later when he said there is "no daylight" between House Republicans and the White House, which wants only "credible" Epstein files to be released.

Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters is alleged to have had an adult film on behind him during a state meeting.

Walters is the far-right Republican who attempted to mandate that every classroom have a Trump Bible in the state.

The husband of a Republican operative in Wisconsin, who proudly proclaimed he was voting for Donald Trump to take on child predators, has been arrested on child predator charges.

According to The Daily Beast, Scott Soucek, who is married to the Door County Republican Party chairwoman and former Republican National Convention Delegate Stephanie Soucek, posted on Facebook that he was backing Trump “to fight against human/child trafficking,” on behalf of “my children and my grandchildren.” He also posted social media memes accusing former President Joe Biden of inappropriately touching children.

Republicans have approved Emil Bove for a lifetime appointment on the federal appeals court, ignoring whistleblower reports about his questionable actions while in the Justice Department. And on Wednesday, a fourth came forward.

Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats posted on Bluesky, "A fourth whistleblower has come forward with information about Emil Bove, a Trump judicial nominee who Senate Republicans rubberstamped yesterday. Bove helped orchestrate the blanket pardons of violent January 6 rioters."

The Department of Justice may have unintentionally created a weapon that could take down the president, according to an analyst.

In mid-July, the DOJ fired Maurene Comey from her role as a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York. Comey is the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, and she was the lead prosecutor on the Jeffrey Epstein case. According to former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner, firing Maurene Comey was a mistake that could come back to haunt President Donald Trump as he tries to distance himself from Epstein.

FBI Director Kash Patel claims to have found a trove of classified documents on the Trump-Russia probe stashed in burn bags in a secret room within bureau headquarters.

Fox News Digital based its reporting on claims by sources whose roles or knowledge of the situation are not described in any way, but the report states that one of the documents was the classified annex to former special counsel John Durham's final report, which includes the underlying intelligence he reviewed on the origins of the counterintelligence operation Crossfire Hurricane.