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Congressional Republicans advance federal ‘don’t say trans’ school bill

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/trans-identity-education-ban

https://www.opb.org/article/2026/01/27/representative-marie-glusenkamp-perez-washington-vancouver-politics/ #ICE #appropriations #funding #government #ushouseofrepresentatives #democrats #republicans #DINO #politics #uspol #uspolitics #Activism #resist #protest #politicalviolence #violence #vandalism #traitor #law

A court ruling could shrink Black representation in Congress – NPR

Politics

A Supreme Court ruling could bring historic drop in Black representation in Congress

January 8, 2026, 5:00 AM ET

By Hansi Lo Wang

The United States could be headed toward the largest-ever decline in representation by Black members of Congress, depending on how the Supreme Court rules in a closely watched redistricting case about the Voting Rights Act.

For decades, the landmark law that came out of the Civil Rights Movement has protected the collective voting power of racial minorities when political maps are redrawn. Its provisions have also boosted the number of seats in the House of Representatives filled by Black lawmakers.

That’s largely because in many Southern states — where voting is often polarized between a Republican-supporting white majority and a Democratic-supporting Black minority — political mapmakers have drawn a certain kind of district to get in line with the Voting Rights Act’s Section 2 provisions. In these districts, racial-minority voters make up a population large enough to have a realistic opportunity of electing their preferred candidates.

But at an October hearing last year for the redistricting case about Louisiana’s congressional map, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority appeared inclined to issue this year another in a series of decisions that have weakened the Voting Rights Act — this time its Section 2 protections in redistricting.

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In Trump’s Second Year, Congress Weighs How to Reassert Its Power – The New York Times

Congressional Memo

A Diminished Congress Weighs Whether to Reassert Its Power

Lawmakers head into President Trump’s second year facing questions about whether they can reclaim congressional clout in the face of his power grab.

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By Carl Hulse, Reporting from Capitol Hill, Jan. 2, 2026

Congress learned some hard lessons about the limits of its power during the first year of the second Trump administration, when Republican leaders in both chambers largely declined to check a president unconstrained by law or custom.

President Trump barreled ahead with scant deference to the House and Senate. He abruptly changed the statutory name of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, summarily withheld funds from congressional priorities, claimed broad tariff power that the Constitution invests in Congress, and launched military attacks off South America without authorization from the legislative branch.

Now, with midterm elections that will decide control of Congress less than a year off and with lawmakers hearing from anxious constituents about high prices and economic distress, Congress must decide whether to try to assert itself more and reclaim some of the power it has ceded to the president, or to continue to accept a shrinking role and diminished status.

“The president would be better off if the Republican House pushed back more,” said Representative Don Bacon, a Nebraska Republican who has sometimes opposed Mr. Trump’s policies and approach. “I think his tariff policy would be better. I think it would be better on Ukraine. I think we could push him in a much better direction if he was open to it.”

“But,” added Mr. Bacon, who has opted not to seek re-election, “if you feel like you have a bunch of lackeys that are going to do whatever you say, then he doesn’t feel constrained.”

With both chambers controlled by Republicans loyal to the president, pushback from Capitol Hill has been scattershot and largely ineffective, and oversight virtually nonexistent. Even when some Republicans have been stirred to join Democrats in raising objections to the administration’s legally questionable actions, lawmakers have struggled to get the White House to back off or reverse course.

The president has the ability to move expeditiously; Congress, not so much.

Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

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More Epstein, a Maxwell pardon, another election (maybe): what Trump will bring us in 2026

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/donald-trump-2674837596/

'Extremely effective': How Dem star Jasmine Crockett flexes in face of GOP rants

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/jasmine-crockett-2674825695/

Sarah McBride knew some Democrats would betray trans people, so she lobbied Republicans

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/sarah-mcbride-lobbies-republicans

House passes bill banning Medicaid from covering gender-affirming care for youth

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/medicaid-gender-affirming-care-bill

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s bill criminalizing gender-affirming care for minors passes with Democrats’ support

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/mtg-trans-youth-care-ban

‘Poor babies’: Top Senate Republican mocks Dems fuming that Trump misled Congress

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trump-venezuela-2674441728/

Unelected right-wingers want to give Trump's GOP yet more power — here's how we stop them

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.rawstory.com/gerrymandering-2674404503/

The Democratic candidate in the Texas Senate race is going to be an LGBTQ+ ally

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/jasmine-crockett-james-talarico-lgbtq

AOC splurged nearly $50K on pricey hotel stays, dining and renting Puerto Rico concert venue where Bad Bunny performed

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Colin Allred targets first LGBTQ+ congresswoman from Texas for House seat as Jasmine Crockett runs for Senate

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/colin-allred-challenges-julie-johnson

The next out member of Congress may be a gay man from Utah

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/utah-gay-man-runs-congress

Trump broke the law with this horrible threat — and it will be his doom

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/donald-trump-2674337767/

Where is bi former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema now?

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/where-is-kyrsten-sinema-now

Chi Ossé, Black gay NYC Council member, files for potential challenge to Hakeem Jeffries for Congress

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/chi-osse-challenges-hakeem-jeffries

CNN – What Matters – November 10, 2025

Editor’s Note: Below is a re-formatted post from a CNN Newsletter. It will appear online soon. The newsletter is sent first, then it is published online in a later cycle. I’ve posted it here, because of my comments. This 8-member “deal” on the side is a huge mistake. Read more below. –DrWeb

: Democrats seethe over shutdown deal.
They might be celebrating in a year

The likely end to the longest-ever government shutdown has Democrats turning on each other in searing anger.
 
The prevailing opinion appears to be frustration that eight senators freelanced a deal with Republicans.
 
While it does not guarantee the extension of expiring enhanced subsidies for Obamacare health insurance plans, it does guarantee there will be a Senate vote on that subject.
  
Sen. Tim Kaine, who helped finalize the deal, defended it on CNN Monday. Kaine noted that the White House had pledged to rehire federal workers fired during the lapse in government funding and to bar further reductions in force at least until January 30.
 
That’s not good enough for many Democrats who were feeling powerful after victories in mostly blue-state elections last week. They wanted to hold out for more guarantees from the White House, even as the nation’s air travel system started to buckle under the strain of air traffic controllers not being paid and people who rely on the government for assistance buying food went without.
 
There’s no guarantee that House Speaker Mike Johnson will allow a House vote on extending the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies, but Kaine argued that if senators pass it with bipartisan support and Johnson ignores it, the GOP will pay a political price.
 
“Their midterm election next year would look a lot worse even than the shellacking they got last week in Virginia and elsewhere,” Kaine said.
 
The expiring enhanced subsidies, according to analysis by KFF, will be felt more in states that voted for Trump in 2024, and could result in millions of people opting not to have health insurance at all.
 
This shutdown, assuming it ends and is not repeated in January, won’t be top of mind for voters in midterm elections next year, but it’s still worth taking a look at what happens at the ballot box after a shutdown.

DrWeb’s Comment…

“While it does not guarantee the extension of expiring enhanced subsidies for Obamacare health insurance plans, it does guarantee there will be a Senate vote on that subject.” –article quote

I have highlighted in bold a quote from the article. It is embarassing to post the truth for these eight renegades. They got scammed, including Catherine Cortez Masto, one of my Senators I used to support in Nevada.

To believe that quote, is to believe or trust Trump. I don’t.

These 8 should have known better. I don’t believe or trust the Trump Senate. I don’t.

It won’t vote on the subject, or the votes will vote to remove Obamacare and/or the subsidies, surprise surprise.

All the damn signs point to Trump erasing Obamacare (ego thing to do), and replacing it –after many years of asking GOP for any national health plan, they will dump something out and call it National Health Care by Trump.

Watch, wait, Trust me. They are screwed, these 8, we are screwed by the failure to support the Democratic Party (outliers not welcomed). All those closed days –accomplished NOTHING. Because of these 8 fools. –DrWeb

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These cowards can still stop Trump — and history will condemn them if they don't

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.rawstory.com/mike-johnson-2674253856/

Mike Johnson, a defender of a dictator, wildly blames Zohran Mamdani for the government shutdown

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/voices/mike-johnson-blames-mamdani-shutdown

Thanks to one man, Trump has successfully mounted a coup

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/thanks-to-one-man-trump-has-finally-mounted-a-coup/

Illinois Army captain says Dems are ‘rolling over’ on LGBTQ+ rights. He’s running for Congress to change that

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/dylan-blaha-illinois-democrat

'Terrorizing Americans': Dems slam Trump's federal firings as shutdown pain worsens

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/government-shutdown-2674202791/

Out NYC Councilman Erik Bottcher files to run for Rep. Jerry Nadler's seat, raises nearly $700k in one day

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/erik-bottcher-nyc-congressional-run

Fighting Democrats' setbacks by Reagan, Gingrich, and Bush required resolve; Trump shutdown is no different

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/voices/democrats-need-resolve-during-shudown