New Whistleblower Breaks Silence On DOJ’s Corruption, Trump Nominee’s Racist Texts Derail Confirmation, and James Comey Fights Back The courage is contagious Scott Dworkin Oct 21 As the No Kings protests continue to make Trump visibly unravel, I’m glad to have great news for you today. Stories that expose more of the GOP’s brazen stupidity, and prove that countless folks are standing up to this tyranny alongside us. Let’s jump in. SWEAR GRIJALVA IN, SERIOUSLY At the Tucson, Arizona No Kings protest, folks had a message for Mike Johnson—who still refuses to swear in Rep.-Elect Adelita Grijalva. The crowd loudly chanted “Swear her in,” before Grijalva spoke. “Standing in union and solidarity is what we must do for those who can’t be here, who are afraid of this administration,” Grijalva said. “We have to come together as a community and stand up for them.” “We are the 99%,” Grijalva added. “We must remind them: We are here. We’re not going anywhere. And we’re going to make some changes in this next election.” COMEY MOVES TO DISMISS Former FBI Director James Comey moved to dismiss the Trump regime’s case against him. In a filing, his legal team stated that the Constitution “forbids the government from retaliating against individuals for their protected speech.” Calling the indictment “an egregious abuse of power,” the motion to dismiss says “government officials may not use courts to punish and imprison their perceived personal and political enemies.” FORMER DOJ ATTORNEY SPEAKS OUT Former Justice Department attorney Erez Reuveni is now blowing the whistle on Trump and the DOJ’s rampant abuse of power. Reuveni says he was wrongfully terminated after refusing to go along with orders to falsely label Kilmar Ábrego García as a gang member—who had been “mistakenly” deported to El Salvador. Reuveni told his supervisor at the time: “No way ... that is a lie. And I cannot sign my name to that.” “I took an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution,” Reuveni says. “I would not be faithfully abiding by my oath if I stayed silent right now.” We need more folks speaking out against the Trump regime like this. MORE RACIST GOP TEXTS EXPOSED Trump’s nominee for head of the Office of Special Counsel, Paul Ingrassia, just got caught up in a new racist GOP texting scandal. This is likely to derail his nomination. The messages were so egregious, Majority Leader John Thune says his nomination won’t make it through. I’m glad Ingrassia was exposed before taking the role. RECKLESS STUPIDITY At a Marine anniversary event with JD Vance, an artillery shell detonated early, leading to shrapnel “striking and damaging” a California Highway Patrol vehicle. The Trump regime knew it was reckless and dangerous, but they did it anyway. CHP Border Division Chief Tony Coronado called it “unusual” and “concerning,” saying: “It is highly uncommon for any live-fire or explosive training activity to occur over an active freeway.” And Governor Gavin Newsom said: “The White House shouldn’t be so reckless with people’s lives for their vanity projects.” Newsom is right—but this is the kind of chaos we are dealing with—a Republican Party that doesn’t care about anything but money and themselves. That’s why I’ve fought back against their corruption for 20+ years now, and taken on Trump for nearly a decade. We’re constantly calling out the regime’s propaganda and dangerous choices—via our daily news reports, our massive social media campaigns, and our unmatched Contact Congress initiative. 100% of what we do is funded by amazing supporters like you. No billionaires, no ads, no nonsense. So if you haven’t already, please join us as a paid subscriber today: Onward! Scott Help this news break through the noise—like this post and re-stack using the ♻️ button below! I have two questions for you today. What are your thoughts on the live-fire training exercise over an active freeway? Do you think the charges against Comey should be dismissed? For all contact Congress links, or to volunteer, you can go here: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-up-for-the-watchdog-coalition NEW: Pay our troops during the Trump shutdown and ensure federal workers get back pay https://tinyurl.com/y728zzuu NEW: Cancel GOP healthcare cuts and end Trump’s shutdown: https://tinyurl.com/2z8s7hdh Demand Brendan Carr Resign: https://tinyurl.com/35xjx8dj Demand Tom Homan Resign: https://tinyurl.com/3e5ku3um Pass the bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act: https://tinyurl.com/3yfw2m7a Demand answers about Trump’s visibly deteriorating health: https://tinyurl.com/sk9xm38v Protect our use of voting by mail: https://tinyurl.com/bde676xm Push back on Trump’s DC takeover: https://tinyurl.com/2jpp94yk Support law to unmask ICE: https://tinyurl.com/bp8cau82 Investigate the Jeffrey Epstein trafficking case: https://tinyurl.com/4pfh2p4f Links to everything we are doing: https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/how-were-fighting-trump Here is my interview with James Talarico: https://tinyurl.com/mmu4eydj COMMENTS:  Please don't forget all the civil servants who are being fired and furloughed. My partner and I have lost our careers because of the fascists. Help us resist so we can stay in the fight as whistleblowers: https://democracydefender2025.substack.com/p/democracy-defender-reader-poem Tonight NO Kings organizers are having a Debrief of No Kings at 8 pm ET. Register here: www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/858246/ If you cannot attend , No Kings normally posts recordings within 24 - 48 hours here: www.nokings.org Currently they have a great video montage posted on the main page (just scroll down a little). It shows still photos and short video clips of protests from around the country! Including from a lot of ruby red states! I think we all know we are less safe with this regime in the White House… Firing live ammo over a freeway is just another example of how incompetent they are, and shines a light on the pedophile, sociopath and narcissist in charge, and his deranged tendencies. And yes, ALL of the charges against Comey, Leticia James, and Bolton should be dismissed. The guy who brought the charges against them is the one who should be in prison! He should also release a Epstein files and stop demolishing the White House. There is also the “3.5 rule” (Erica Chenoweth) which which states that non-violent protests enacting a threshold of 3.5% of a population has never failed to bring about change. A small minority can change the world. Let’s go y’all time to turn up the volume. We need to hit them where it hurts. We must stop giving them our money and make them LOSE theirs. Disney FAFO'ed. So can the rest: https://open.substack.com/pub/andrawatkins/p/every-dollar-spent-and-bit-of-attention?r=5mwrm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false BRAVO TO CA GOV GAVIN NEWSOM for taking action to protect PEOPLE when the MAGA MAGGOTS were too stupid to do so!  FWIW: Not only did BRAIN DEAD LOSER JD VANCE attend the CALIFORNIA VANITY IDIOCY, but FOX DRUNK HEGSETH & others.  excerpts; Vice President JD Vance, the first former Marine to hold the office, will lead the festivities alongside Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan, and Marine Corps Commandant General Eric M. Smith. The Interstate 5 closure controversy—what to know Rumors swirled this week that Interstate 5 would shut down for the live-fire demonstration, sparking criticism from Governor Gavin Newsom and viral posts on social media. The truth? No public highways — including I-5 — will be closed, according to Marine Corps officials. All training occurs on approved ranges under strict safety protocols. Caltrans confirmed it was briefed on potential plans but said the decision to keep I-5 open was “the right one.” Officials emphasize that while the event includes live-fire exercises, risk assessments, and rehearsals, safety measures will ensure safety. Expect noise advisories and possible traffic slowdowns near base gates, but not full closures. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/california/2025/10/16/marine-corps-celebrates-250th-anniversary-at-camp-pendleton/86734332007/ I encourage you to subscribe to ZEV SHALEV's SUBSTACK NARATIV  This is just an excerpt, but JPMORGAN CHASE failed to report BERNIE MADOFF's scam & could have stopped him.  SCOTT BESSENT is COVERING UP EPSTEIN INFORMATION. WHY?  Who are they protecting?  NEVER STOP ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT EPSTEIN/MAXWELL until ALL INFORMATION has been made public,  At the time, many of the emails from JPMORGAN CHASE were made public.  JPMORGAN CHASE knew what EPSTEIN was doing & according to emails, may have participated in EPSTEIN's 'services.'  EXCERPTS: Jamie Dimon Has Some Explaining to Do About Epstein JPMorgan’s CEO is blaming a single former executive for the bank’s Epstein relationship. The facts don’t support that story. Zev Shalev Oct 21 JPMorgan Chase processed $1.1 billion through Jeffrey Epstein’s accounts. Wire transfers to Russian banks. Payments to women in Belarus, Turkmenistan, and Turkey. Cash withdrawals of $300,000 at a time. The bank’s own compliance officers screamed warnings for years. The general counsel wrote that Epstein “should not be a client.” Anti-money laundering specialists flagged transaction after transaction. And now, after Senator Ron Wyden demanded answers, JPMorgan Chase has offered America a scapegoat: one former executive, Jes Staley. The bank wants you to believe that a single employee—however senior—orchestrated the entire relationship with a sex trafficker whose criminal enterprise moved more than a billion dollars through their systems over fifteen years. It’s an insult to basic intelligence. Consider the timeline Wyden laid out. In 2006, Mary Callahan Erdoes, CEO of JPMorgan’s wealth management division, learned about Epstein’s suspicious cash withdrawals and sex crime charges. She kept him as a client. In 2011, after compliance officers and the bank’s general counsel explicitly warned her that Epstein showed signs of money laundering and human trafficking, she still took no action. That same year, she personally delivered a $9 million settlement check to Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse. Two years later, in 2013, Erdoes finally confronted Epstein about his cash transactions. JPMorgan terminated him as a client. Then the bank sat on that decision for six years before filing a single suspicious activity report with federal regulators. Six years Federal law requires banks to flag suspicious transactions immediately—within 30 to 60 days. JPMorgan waited until 2019, after Epstein’s arrest made headlines, to file reports on 4,725 transactions totaling $1.1 billion. Those reports detailed payments that facilitated sex trafficking across international borders, including hundreds of millions processed through correspondent accounts at Russian banks that are now under U.S. sanctions. The bank claims it didn’t know. The documents say otherwise. Internal emails show decisions about Epstein marked “pending Dimon review”—referring to CEO Jamie Dimon, who testified under oath that he never knew Epstein was a client until 2019. Yet his general counsel was reviewing Epstein materials “for Jamie” back in 2008. Wyden isn’t having it. His second letter to Dimon, released last week, demands the internal communications, the “Project Jeep” review JPMorgan conducted after Epstein’s second arrest, and every document related to why the bank waited six years to report transactions it knew were suspicious in 2013. The senator’s investigation reveals another thread. Both Epstein and Trump were JPMorgan clients during the same period. Trump himself claims he banked with JPMorgan for 40 years—meaning he was there throughout Epstein’s entire 15-year relationship with the bank, from 1998 to 2013. The same institution processing $1.1 billion for a sex trafficker was simultaneously managing accounts for the future president. When JPMorgan finally cut ties with Epstein in 2013, he landed at the same institution already managing Trump’s wealth. Trump had entered Deutsche Bank’s Private Wealth Management division in 2011 through Kushner connections. Two years later, on August 19, 2013, Jeffrey Epstein opened his Deutsche Bank accounts—entering the same division, under the same banker, Rosemary Vrablic, who was already managing Trump. The date itself carries historical weight—August 19 marks the anniversary of the failed 1991 Russian coup attempt. Both men, rejected by mainstream banks, now operated through the same high-risk private wealth management operation under the same executives. Deutsche Bank, with its notorious appetite for “damaged clients” and spectacularly weak compliance controls, processed another $400 million in Epstein transactions before regulators forced a reckoning. From August 2013 forward, both accounts ran parallel—same institution, same division, same management team systematically overriding compliance warnings for both clients. Now Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent sits on the full Epstein file. Wyden’s investigators found it earlier this year—thousands of bank records documenting the financial architecture of a sex trafficking operation that spanned continents. The Trump administration won’t release it. Won’t even confirm the dates of JPMorgan’s suspicious activity reports.∙ PAUL INGRASSIA is part of the GOP ROT exposed by POLITICO.  They are NAZIS! Occupy Democrats https://youtu.be/-ga7cxUDwiE?si=L-xMYQRCQ9cJcVmt Oct 18, 2025 Trump's Saturday is off to a TERRIBLE start! SAMUEL DOUGLESS, 27, PARTICIPATED IN THE GOP ROT that has been widely publicized & circulated by YOUNG REPUBLICANS.  These are REPUBLICAN LEADERS - NOT CHILDREN!  Below are just a few articles addressing this NAZI GROUP that praise HITLER, spewed HATE, BIGOTRY & RACISM:  FROM MOTHER JONES:  No One in the GOP Hitler Chat Was a “Kid” We checked. Sorry, JD Vance. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/republican-hitler-group-chat-nazi-politico/ ALL WHO POSTED SHOULD BE CALLED TO RESIGN JUST AS VERMONT IS DOING! (Also note that the article originated from our loacl PBS STATION: WBUR - that's why PBS & NPR funding is crucial.) Vt. Republican state senator faces calls to resign after posting racist messages in group chat October 15, 2025 Peter Hirschfeld, Vermont Public excerpt: A first-term Republican state senator from Orleans County is facing pressure from members of his own party to resign after a story published by Politico Tuesday detailed his involvement in a racist text chat between members of Young Republican chapters in four states, including Vermont. Samuel Douglass, 27, was part of a historic red wave last November that saw the GOP pick up six seats in the Vermont Senate and reconfigure the balance of power in the Legislature. Last week, Douglass was one of six Republican lawmakers nominated for “Legislator of the Year” at the Vermont GOP’s Awards Night in South Burlington. On Tuesday evening, Republican Gov. Phil Scott called on Douglass to resign after a leaked group chat showed Douglass and his wife using racist and antisemitic language with fellow young Republicans from across the country. “The hateful statements made in this group chat are disgusting and unacceptable,” Scott said in a written statement Tuesday. “The vile, racist, bigoted, and antisemitic dialogue that has been reported is deeply disturbing. There is simply no excuse for it. Those involved should resign from their roles immediately and leave the Republican party — including Vermont State Senator Sam Douglass.” https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/10/15/vermont-republican-senator-racist-group-chat-politico?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WBURToday_Editorial_101625&utm_term=calling+on+a%26nbsp%3bfirst-term+GOP+state+senator+to+resign&utm_id=152275&sfmc_id=24374920 New York assemblyman fires chief of staff involved in Young Republican group chat  by Ashleigh Fields - 10/15/25 New York Assemblyman Michael Reilly fired his chief of staff over his participation in a group chat with young Republicans where Hitler references and racist jokes were made. Peter Giunta, who served in Reilly’s office for more than five years, was linked to offensive texts in a Telegram chat that was first reported by Politico. THE HILL: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5556650-young-republican-hitler-jokes/ THIS HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS GOP ROT ELSEWHERE!  "VILE TEXTS EXPOSE GOP ROT" The Young Republican Telegram chat wasn’t private chatter. It was a window into a party teaching cruelty as culture; mocking decency and betraying the voters who trusted it. Michael Cohen Oct 16 Vile Texts Expose GOP Rot The Young Republican Telegram chat wasn’t private chatter. It was a window into a party teaching cruelty as culture; mocking decency and betraying the voters who trusted it. Michael Cohen and MeidasTouch Network Oct 16 Newsom asks House panel  to probe Young Republicans group chat by Ryan Mancini - 10/15/25 https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5557421-newsom-calls-investigation-young-republicans-texts/?utm_source=www.readthesmile.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=the-smile-10-16&_bhlid=95b0bd398b9d31bc5eb485aba1b698c2a298174f New York assemblyman fires chief of staff involved in Young Republican group chat  by Ashleigh Fields - 10/15/25 New York Assemblyman Michael Reilly fired his chief of staff over his participation in a group chat with young Republicans where Hitler references and racist jokes were made. Peter Giunta, who served in Reilly’s office for more than five years, was linked to offensive texts in a Telegram chat that was first reported by Politico. THE HILL: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5556650-young-republican-hitler-jokes/ Remembeer that MEIDAS TOUCH reported this 'exercie,' the ORANGE TURD denied it & corporate media & SNOPES attacked MEDIA TOUCH claiming it was FALSE INFORMATION... MAGA GOP TELL SO MANY LIES, THEY CAN'T KEEP THEM STRAIGHT! IF REPUBLICANS DIDN'T LIE, NO ONE WOULD ELECT THEM! It was reported that 170 US CITIZENS are being held by ICE GESTAPO! ICE GESTAPO ABUSE, ASSAULT, ATTACK & DISAPPEAR PEOPLE! More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WBURToday_Editorial_101725&utm_term=ProPublica&utm_id=152526&sfmc_id=24374920 THERE IS VIDEO THAT INDICATES HE NEVER STEPPED OVER THE BLUE LINE, BUT WAS PEPPER SPRAYED BY ICE GESTAPO SNIPERS. ARRESTED FOR FREE SPEECH! WBUR TODAY (OUR LOCAL PBS STATION) REPORTED THIS ABOUT ICE ABUSE) In a tense time, political jester Robby Roadsteamer hopes humor can keep the peace Salem native Robby Roadsteamer was arrested after taunting ICE while wearing a giraffe costume during a protest in Portland last week. Underneath his absurdity, there's a serious aim: bringing laughter to highly charged situations. Read more. https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/10/21/robby-roadsteamer-comedian-protest-ice-trump?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WBURToday_Editorial_102125&utm_term=https%3a%2f%2fwww.wbur.org%2fnews%2f2025%2f10%2f21%2frobby-roadsteamer-comedian-protest-ice-trump&utm_id=153435&sfmc_id=24374920