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California Republicans appear to be on the brink of giving up their efforts to resist Gov. Gavin Newsom's anti-Trump vote to redraw his state's map in retaliation for MAGA-endorsed mid-decade gerrymanders elsewhere in the country, Ally Mutnick wrote for Punchbowl News on Wednesday.

Proposition 50, authorized by the legislature in response to Texas Republicans forcing through a redistricting plan that makes five Democratic-held congressional seats more favorable to Republicans, would, if approved by voters next month, temporarily suspend the state's redistricting commission and pass a map that similarly seeks to draw out five Republicans.

MSNBC’s Ken Dilanian erupted Wednesday over Attorney General Pam Bondi’s refusal to answer Senate questions about border czar Tom Homan allegedly accepting a $50,000 bribe caught on FBI video. Dilanian, who co-authored the original report on Homan’s recorded cash handoff, blasted Bondi for stonewalling Democrats and dodging accountability by deflecting questions with personal attacks. “There’s no reason she can’t say what happened to the money,” Dilanian fumed, calling her silence “obvious” and “infuriating.”

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President Donald Trump on Wednesday told MAGA influencers to turn over names of people they're investigating to FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi for prosecution.

Trump's comments happened during a roundtable discussion at the White House about Antifa. Several cabinet members attended the meeting, including Patel, Bondi, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and White House senior advisor Stephen Miller.

President Donald Trump gave off-the-cuff remarks at a round-table meeting on Wednesday that included Attorney General Pam Bondi, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, FBI Director Kash Patel, and others, where he acknowledged his administration has taken away some freedom of speech rights.

Trump talked about his administration demanding a mandatory minimum of one year in prison for "inciting riots."

A former advisor to Donald Trump warned the president Wednesday that he's not helping himself when it comes to his campaign of retribution against his perceived political enemies.

Speaking to CNN on Wednesday, Jim Schultz, a former White House lawyer, was asked what he would advise Trump to do when it comes to allegations around his targeting of FBI Director James Comey.

A pair of pro-MAGA social media accounts promoted by prominent Republican politicians and that push election fraud conspiracy theories in the United States has been exposed as being run by an Eastern European man who has never visited the United States, and was accused of violating campaign finance laws.

According to Rolling Stone, the X accounts Defiant L's and Resist the Mainstream "both [offer] takes on American politics, often alleging corruption and election fraud by Democrats, to a combined over 2 million followers. Republican lawmakers like Mike Lee, Nancy Mace, Andy Biggs, Eli Crane, and Dan Crenshaw, along with major political figures like Elon Musk, share the accounts’ posts on X, some claiming that 'illegals' or undocumented immigrants are fraudulently voting in American elections." Musk went so far as to call Defiant L's "one of the best accounts on X."

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) was accused of embarrassing himself after causing chaos in a congressional hallway by confronting House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY).

Instead of meeting with Jeffries in private on Wednesday, Lawler stopped the Democratic leader in front of a crowd of people to ask him to sign on to a temporary extension of subsidies for the Affordable Care Act. Democrats have said that they would not accept only one year of subsidies for the health care program.

Former Department of Homeland Security chief of staff Miles Taylor thinks he's probably next on the list of people to get the James Comey treatment from President Donald Trump.

Trump demanded that the Justice Department act on the former FBI director with a prosecution. On Wednesday, Comey was arraigned in court, and Taylor was in court to watch.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) has resorted to emails about "aliens" in an attempt to raise funds for her re-election campaign.

According to KDVR, Boebert questioned the existence of aliens and UFOs in an email sent to her supporters on Monday.

A federal judge has found that the Trump administration's Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Chicago are violating a 2022 consent decree by conducting arrests without a warrant and without proper risk assessment.

According to a report by Block Club Chicago, the ruling stems from a suit filed in March alleging "that such arrests violated a three-year consent decree banning warrantless arrests unless agents have probable cause to believe someone is in the United States unlawfully and is a flight risk."

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) spoke to an MSNBC reporter on the ground in Chicago for protests around the deployment of federal agents to raid the city.

President Donald Trump issued a Wednesday morning demand for Pritzker and the city's mayor to be put "in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers (sic)!”