A Colorado newspaper found a striking resemblance between a Republican running for governor and a supervillain, and it's daring readers to tell them apart.Denver alt-weekly Westword published a quiz Monday lining up 15 quotes from Victor Marx, the GOP gubernatorial frontrunner, against lines from Homelander, the mass-murdering antagonist of Amazon's "The Boys" who wraps himself in American flags and Bible verses.Marx, a 60-year-old Colorado Springs minister and social media personality, has become a national punchline ahead of Tuesday's primary, drawing segments from John Oliver and others over his far-fetched claims that he called in a U.S. airstrike on ISIS as a civilian, can exorcise demons over the phone, and that his ministry rescued tens of thousands of people.He has also publicly referenced killing, telling one podcast in January 2025 that "some people have to get killed. Some people have to die. It's what they choose." When 9News anchor Kyle Clark pressed him on how many people he's killed, Marx wouldn't say, responding, "I don't think that's important."Westword paired those lines with Homelander's own justifications for collateral deaths. The point, the outlet suggested, is how hard it can be to tell the difference.Several of Marx's signature claims are unverified or have been debunked. The Westword piece noted that law enforcement found no record of the childhood killing he described, and a claim that he rescued more than 45,000 women and children was removed after being challenged.The spectacle has alarmed Colorado Republicans, who fear the self-described "demon hunter" could become a liability, even as he out-raised both primary rivals heading into Tuesday's vote.
President Donald Trump downplayed pressure to sign a bipartisan housing bill Monday, arguing that it’s “unimportant compared to the SAVE America Act.” Affordability remains a top issue heading into November’s midterm elections, and while the president has seen national gas prices decrease in recent weeks following a ceasefire in the Iran war, he’s also made […]
In light of bombshell new corruption allegations against President Donald Trump and his family, a former Republican tore into his past colleagues for being asleep at the wheel in the face of "utterly obscene" abuses of the presidency.Over the weekend, the New York Times published a report detailing how the president's sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, are poised to profit from a new deal the federal government just reached with Kazakhstan, granting the U.S. access to key tungsten mines. The deal also appears set to financially enrich the family of Trump's commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick."According to the lengthy Times report, published Sunday, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Trump personally helped secure Kazakhstan’s agreement to grant mining rights to a U.S.-backed company, Kaz Resources," Mediaite explained in a piece about the Times' finding. The administration also approved preliminary applications for up to $1.6 billion in federal financing for the project, though the funding still requires additional approvals."It added: "Within weeks of those negotiations, investors linked to Dominari Securities, a financial firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, acquired a 20 percent stake in a corporate entity connected to the Kazakhstan venture. Around the same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, controlled by the Lutnick family and overseen by Howard Lutnick’s sons Brandon and Kyle, helped raise $210 million for a related company involved in the transaction."Responding to a post sharing this Mediaite coverage, Joe Walsh, an ex-Republican and outspoken conservative critic of Trump, lashed out against his past colleagues in Congress for letting such corrupt abuses take place."Public corruption, utterly obscene, at a scale we’ve never seen," Walsh wrote on X. "Why do they do it? [Because] they don’t believe their supporters give a damn about it, and they know the Republican-led Congress won’t do a damn thing about it."Walsh previously served as a Republican representative in Congress from Illinois, between 2011 and 2013. In light of Trump's ascendance in the party, he became a prominent conservative opponent of his agenda, ultimately leaving the party to become an independent in 2020. In 2025, he went a step further and began referring to himself as a "conservative Democrat."Public corruption, utterly obscene, at a scale we’ve never seen. Why do they do it? Bcuz they don’t believe their supporters give a damn about it, and they know the Republican-led Congress won’t do a damn thing about it. https://t.co/t0WTO9CaJ6— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) June 29, 2026
The Supreme Court has demolished Republicans’ efforts to delegitimize mail-in ballots, upholding a Mississippi law that allows a grace period to count ballots received after Election Day.In a 5-4 decision Monday split across ideological lines, the court ruled that ballots are valid up to five days after Election Day, so long as they were postmarked before it. Justice Amy Comey Barrett and Chief Justice Roberts were the two conservatives who sided with the liberal justices, and Barrett authored the majority opinion. Eighteen states and territories, including Mississippi, currently allow for mail-in ballots to be received after Election Day. That includes big Democratic states like California, Illinois, and New York. The ruling also protects states and territories that allow a grace period for ballots returning from overseas, such as for military service members.“The Constitution’s Elections Clause empowers state legislatures to ‘prescrib[e]’ the ‘Times, Places and Manner of holding’ congressional elections. Congress may ‘override’ most of these choices,” Barrett wrote for the majority. “By ‘default,’ however, ‘responsibility for the mechanics of congressional elections’ belongs to States. As Alexander Hamilton put it, the Constitution lodges power over congressional elections in state legislatures ‘primarily’ and in Congress ‘ultimately.’” Mail-in voting is a very basic, safe tactic that Trump himself has even used, despite crusading against it as fraudulent. By upholding it, the court has protected voting rights for thousands of Americans voting at home and abroad. This story has been updated.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s legal team says the demands being placed on him for his yearslong corruption case are comparable to Israel’s treatment of a Nazi war criminal. Defense attorney Amit Hadad, who is representing the prime minister as he continues to navigate a corruption trial that began in 2019, said at the Jerusalem […]
MAGA world is incensed after Trump-appointed Supreme Court Justice Amy Comey Barrett sided with the liberal justices—and even wrote the majority opinion—rejecting the Trump administration’s attempt to gut mail-in voting.The court on Monday ruled to uphold a Mississippi law allowing mail-in ballots to be counted up to five days after the election, so long as they were postmarked by Election Day. The decision effectively saves similar grace periods around the country, especially in big Democratic states. That was enough to set off Republicans.“A shockingly wrong opinion,” wrote Republican Senator Eric Schmitt. “Justice Barrett joins with the liberal justices to hold that federal election law does not preempt states who allow late mail-in ballots to be counted. This is terrible for election integrity. Another reason we must pass the full SAVE American [sic] Act.” “Remember Election Day?” said GOP Representative Abe Hamadeh. “This disastrous SCOTUS decision, authored by Justice Barrett, guarantees we’ll keep drifting away from it—as our sacred elections get bogged down by endless mail-in ballots and never-ending counts.”Trump supporters outside of Congress made their discontent clear, as well. “Barrett. AGAIN. WTF,” former Fox News host Megyn Kelly wrote.“Amy Coney Barrett was a gigantic fucking disaster of a Supreme Court appointment. Absolutely horrible in the long run. She totally forgot who appointed her to the Court,” right-wing influencer Joey Mannarino said. “Scum of the earth.” “Barrett is the biggest conservative judicial disaster since Souter,” conservative writer Hans Mahnke commented. “The difference is that few conservatives expected much from Souter whereas Barrett was supposed to be the future of the Court. The worst part is that she’ll be there pushing leftist policies for another 40 years.”This isn’t the first time the Trump appointee has seemingly backstabbed the movement that put her in position to be nominated for the Supreme Court. Conservatives also raged against Barrett last year after she joined the court’s liberal justices in dissenting against a decision granting Trump emergency relief to use the “Alien Enemies Act” to deport immigrants at whim.
A Republican judge handed acting Attorney General Todd Blanche his 10th straight court loss in the Department of Justice's quest to force states to hand over voter rolls.Judge Joseph N. LaPlante, a George W. Bush appointee in New Hampshire, dismissed every count of the federal government's lawsuit against the state Monday. No court has granted the Justice Department's request."The Attorney General all but abandoned any allegation that a HAVA violation had taken place," LaPlante wrote.HAVA — the Help America Vote Act — was one of two laws DOJ used to justify seizing states' voter rolls, including full names, addresses, driver's license numbers and the last four digits of voters' Social Security numbers."The demand does not identify any factual anomalies in New Hampshire's voter registration data, nor does it point to any complaint or pattern suggesting noncompliance," LaPlante wrote."'Absurd results' would follow from forcing states to hand over their own voter databases, LaPlante wrote — the law was never meant to reach 'a state's own evolving work product.'"The stakes go beyond New Hampshire. According to the Brennan Center for Justice, DOJ demanded full, unredacted voter rolls from at least 44 states and Washington, D.C. Most have refused.DOJ drafted agreements requiring states to remove any voters the federal government flagged within 45 days — a power the federal government has never held before, the Brennan Center reported. DOJ also admitted in court that a Department of Government Efficiency employee at the Social Security Administration signed an agreement with an outside group whose stated aim was to "find evidence of voter fraud and to overturn election results in certain States."Politico's Kyle Cheney first flagged Monday's ruling, noting that it was the 10th straight loss over the demand for state voter rolls.
The America 250 events were supposed to bring the country together, and Republicans were counting on it being a layup ahead of the last push before the midterm elections. It isn't working out that way, however. NOTUS reported on Monday that President Donald Trump's takeover of the events has been a disaster as he turned them from non-partisan pro-America events into MAGA spectacles.After the majority of the performers for his concert pulled out, Trump hosted a small political rally with only a few people willing to perform. The "Good Liars" calculated that about 1,000 people showed up for the event. The so-called "state fair" in the District of Columbia has been about as sparsely attended, and another concert was canceled after Vanilla Ice claimed "inclement weather in the area" inspired him to pull out at the last minute.The fair has gotten rough reviews, with an overpriced food court offering $25 pretzels, melted ice cream and empty booths inside the pavilion. At one point, a MAGA influencer dressed as Uncle Sam was arrested for lewd behavior. “I think that’s sad,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) told NOTUS when speaking about the 250 flop.“If the celebration of the miracle of democracy that comes from the founding of this nation becomes partisan, shame on us,” commented Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.).As one Democrat explained, the president simply can't have an event that isn't about him.“He can’t help himself — especially with things that don’t involve him, don’t praise him, don’t highlight him — President Trump couldn’t help but try making America’s 250th birthday all about himself,” Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Ca.) blasted during a Senate hearing last week. Padilla has also complained that taxpayer dollars are being wasted for another Trump vanity project. “Which donors have supported those efforts, let alone what requests might have been made alongside those contributions? How much of this has been pay-to-play or quid pro quo?” Padilla asked.For those alive during the 200th anniversary of the founding of the U.S. it was such a huge event that people still remember it. “I remember the 200th [anniversary] in 1976 and how the whole country celebrated together, and it’s unfortunate that it seems to be turning into a more partisan event,” Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) said when speaking to NOTUS reporters. “A campaign rally is not celebrating the 250th anniversary of the country,” she said. “I expect to attend something in New Hampshire for the 250th, and I think a lot of people will be attending events in their home states.”Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) lamented that she hopes the public celebrates what it means to be an American.“We’re already divided enough as a country, and I think this needs to be the one time where we all just say, isn’t it amazing that we’ve made it this far?” she said.Even Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) agreed it shouldn't be a partisan ordeal. Fitzpatrick wants to investigate where the money went. $150 million was allocated by Congress for the events.“There’s plenty of room for everybody and everything,” said West Virginia Sen. Shelley Moore Capito. “I don’t think the nation’s birthday needs to be a partisan event. I think July 4 should be a unifying event.”
Let me say the quiet part out loud and put it on the record, knowing it costs something inside my own party. I want documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote. So do most Americans. Gallup puts support for that idea at 83%. I don’t just believe election security matters. I believe that near-unanimity […]