7/31: The Takeout with Major Garrett

President Trump holds Cabinet meeting at Camp David; 7 states report cyberattack on water systems.

Liberal court stuns with ruling that hands Trump major immigration win

A liberal-leaning First Circuit panel reversed two district court orders blocking Trump's TPS termination for South Sudan and Ethiopia migrants.

MAGA pastor who thinks Satanic forces run 'Austin swamp' handed major election role

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has sparked alarm with his appointment of a far-right Christian nationalist to advise him on election integrity.Abbott tapped Nate Schatzline, a two-term Texas House member and Fort Worth pastor, for a senior advisory role overseeing election policy, reported Texas Monthly. Schatzline resigned his House seat for the $275,000-a-year gig, where personnel records show he's tasked with "providing policy and strategic direction related to legislative and electoral matters."Schatzline is a Christian nationalist, a fringe belief that America was founded as a nation for Christians and all human law, including the Constitution, is subservient to Biblical law.He believes, among other things, that politics, and in particular defeating the Democratic Party, is a spiritual battle against Satanic forces, telling a reporter in 2025, “We really believe this is a spiritual battle. There are powers of darkness that I really believe control the Austin swamp, and I believe that those powers are at work today ... We’re talking about spiritual forces. We’re not talking about flesh and blood. We’re talking about principalities.”Additionally, Schatzline has spent years pushing debunked "Stop the Steal" claims about the 2020 election and previously proposed bills that would have further restricted voting access in Texas.Schatzline's ties run through Mercy Culture Church, a politically active Fort Worth congregation connected to the New Apostolic Reformation, a charismatic religious movement whose preachers played roles in mobilizing crowds ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. He also spent months as senior director for pastoral engagement at the National Faith Advisory Board, a group founded by televangelist and Trump spiritual adviser Paula White-Cain that connects the White House with conservative Christian leaders.Texas faces some marquee elections in the 2026 midterms. In addition to the battle over a congressional map Texas lawmakers aggressively redrew to try to add extra Republican seats, Abbott himself faces re-election, while state Attorney General Ken Paxton faces off against Democratic state Rep. James Talarico for the Senate seat.

Swing District Voters Want Major Change. That Could Help Democratic Socialists.

Two-thirds of voters said that “the country’s political and economic systems need fundamental change,” the poll found.

President Trump Takes Aim At Senate Majority Leader John Thune As Thune Continues To Resist SAVE America Act

At a recent rally in Marietta, Georgia, President Donald Trump intensified his pressure campaign on Senate Majority Leader John Thune, making passage of the SAVE America Act the centerpiece of his speech. The post President Trump Takes Aim At Senate Majority Leader John Thune As Thune Continues To Resist SAVE America Act appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Poll: Majority Of Americans Worried About ‘Ineligible’ Voters Casting Ballots As Dems Fight Voter ID

If the new Gallup poll shows anything, it's that Senate Democrats (and a few RINOs) aren't listening to what the people actually want.

Trump pick face-plants in first major address: 'Exactly what you don’t want'

President Donald Trump's handpicked chair of the Fed is off to a rough start after a major economic face-plant on Wednesday, according to a new report.Kevin Warsh's second news conference as Federal Reserve chairman was met with dismay as he lectured reporters about the Fed's commitment to fighting inflation and financial markets immediately called his bluff, the New York Times reported Thursday."We are going to be judged by how we perform," said Warsh. He attempted to frame the central bank's role in performative terms as he announced Fed held rates would be held steady at between 3.5 to 3.75 percent, the Times reported.That's when the $28 trillion U.S. government bond market delivered a swift and humiliating verdict."Long-term government borrowing costs shot higher as Mr. Warsh spoke, with the 30-year bond notching its largest one-day increase in more than a year," the Times reported. "Trading around 5.22 percent, it is at the highest level since 2007," the report noted. "The 10-year Treasury yield, which serves as the benchmark for borrowing costs around the world, also rose alongside expectations about inflation over a longer time horizon."Lael Brainard, who served as Fed vice chair before joining the Biden administration argued Warsh had made a simple mistake. "The markets initially interpreted the price stability tough talk as someone who was willing to take the necessary action to address inflation and then was surprised that there wasn't follow through," she said. Mark Cabana, an interest rate strategist at Bank of America, elaborated on that and offered a more brutal assessment to the Times. "As a central banker, this is exactly what you don't want," he said. "You don't want the market questioning your inflation credibility."

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