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Republicans are growing increasingly “uncomfortable” as a confluence of factors have “scrambled the political math in typically red Texas,” Axios reported Sunday, factors that could potentially flip a seat that has been held by a Republican since 1994.

Among the strongest factors is Texas’ demographic shift, with more than 2.5 million Americans having moved to the Lone Star State since 2020.

The ongoing renovations to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool being carried out by the Trump administration have yet to address a major “underlying problem,” according to documents obtained and reported on by The New York Times, a problem that if not addressed, could leave the floor of the iconic pool “invisible under a layer of green murk.”

“Twelve-inch pipes under the surrounding parkland are responsible for moving large volumes of water from the pool to [a] treatment plant and back again. When it works, that system is supposed to filter all of the pool’s four million gallons every three days or so,” reads the Times’ report.

President Donald Trump’s “pursuit of retribution” has led to the ousting of several GOP lawmakers he’d perceived as inefficiently loyal, but in doing so, may very well have doomed his future nominees for the remainder of his term, health care reporter Joseph Choi argued Sunday in an analysis published in The Hill.

Earlier this month, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) was defeated in his GOP primary race by his Trump-backed challenger, Rep. Julia Letlow (R-LA). Cassidy was among the few Republican lawmakers to vote to convict the president for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, and would go on to call for Trump to drop out of the 2024 race.

Donald Trump may be close to a legal reckoning on the classified documents case, according to a legal expert.

Joyce Vance, the former United States attorney who has become one of the most widely read legal analysts of the Trump era, says a key appeals court is signaling it has lost patience with the judge who has spent more than a year blocking the release of the classified documents portion of Jack Smith's special counsel report — and that Trump's strategy of rigging legal proceedings in his favor by eliminating genuine opposition is running out of time.

Democratic governors and lawmakers across the nation have devised an "unusual" plan to cripple President Donald Trump’s “anti-weaponization fund” designed to award taxpayer-funded payouts to his supporters – including violent Jan. 6 Capitol rioters – a strategy that would deny recipients a single penny from the fund, The Washington Post reported Sunday.

“It's simple: If you're a New Yorker who takes from Trump's illegal January 6th slush fund, NY will tax 100% of it,” said Alex Bores, a New York assemblymember and Democratic Congressional candidate. “If you storm the Capitol and you take from the slush fund, too bad, we’re taking it.”

Norman Eisen, the former White House ethics czar who has been coordinating legal challenges against the Trump administration, declared Friday a landmark day for democracy after courts handed him back-to-back wins on two of the most high-profile cases in his portfolio.

In a Substack post titled "Contrarians Strike Two Mighty Blows Against Trump," Eisen described the victories as among the biggest in his organization's more than 300 active legal cases and matters.