After Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Republicans have been actively soliciting tips and info on social media comments about Kirk, helping drive a wave of firings in academia and government. My story for @stateline.org on free speech in this moment

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Breaking News: A federal grand jury is said to have indicted James Comey, after President Trump intensified his pressure campaign on the Justice Department.

Last week I looked at how some Republican states (in addition to Democratic states) had refused to turn over voter data

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New Hampshire is on the list, meaning Trump’s DOJ is now suing a Republican election official for voter data

BREAKING: The Justice Department sues six states for failing to turn over voter registration rolls.

There’s a growing number of these lawsuits fighting employment actions related to comments about Charlie Kirk — and some early signs of success. A federal judge ordered a South Dakota professor reinstated on Wednesday.

SC elections agency faces ongoing legal challenges over voter rolls amid directors’ firings scdailygazette.com/2025/09/24/s... by @jmholdman.bsky.social

🚨 NEW: The Trump DOJ has filed its friend-of-the-court brief in the Louisiana case challenging the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act.

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Breaking news: The DOJ will seek to indict former FBI director James B. Comey for allegedly giving false testimony about his role in investigating efforts to influence the 2016 election, days after President Trump told prosecutors punish his opponents.

A wildland firefighter who was arrested by immigration agents while fighting a wildfire in Washington state has been released from detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, his attorneys said Wednesday.

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A week after the federal government sued Oregon and Maine for not turning over personal information in state voter rolls, Washington’s secretary of state on Tuesday denied the Trump administration’s request for Washington voters' personal data. buff.ly/6VofmNL via @washingtonstatestandard.org

Any Dem faces significant challenges winning a Senate race in Kansas (last happened since the 1930s).

That said, Davids has worked to build up her ag cred in recent years & was endorsed by Kansas Farm Bureau last year.

Any path includes tamping down margins in rural counties...those votes add up

When President Donald Trump signed an executive order threatening to withhold funding from places with “cashless bail” policies, he escalated a national fight over how courts decide who should remain behind bars before trial.

@amandavhernan.bsky.social reports:
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People with autism, their family members and advocates said the messages coming from the Trump administration are harmful and wrong.

via @wisconsinexaminer.com
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That's the memorable scene, but the actual ending of the movie is Ford testifying before Congress (I think)

From @maddyfitz.bsky.social + @amelianews.bsky.social: Under a revised federal broadband program, thousands of households, businesses and community buildings across the country will be disqualified from the government’s push to provide more internet access.

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NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com

BREAKING: A federal judge just sumamrily struck Trump's complaint against the New York Times, essentially calling it, essentially, garbage.

Must be rewritten within 28 days.

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Via @jonshorman.bsky.social and @stateline.org: At least four states with Republican chief election officials have offered public data but not sensitive information sought by the Justice Department, while trying to avoid a fight with President Donald Trump. Another has refused to turn over any data.

From @jonshorman.bsky.social: As the Trump administration demands that states turn over voter data, some Republican state officials are pushing back.

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Breaking: Texas A&M University President Mark A. Welsh III will resign after more than a week of turmoil sparked by a viral video of a student confronting a professor over gender content in a children’s literature course.

RFK Jr.'s vaccine panel voted to no longer recommend a combined shot for measles, mumps, rubella and varicella for children under age 4.

Essential reading for Missourians from @katiereports.bsky.social. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/09/18/m...

DOJ this week sued Democratic officials in two states for refusing to turn over voter data. We’ll see whether the department expands its litigation to additional states

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