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Republicans Set A Trap. It Snapped Shut On Them.

Plus: a judge kills Trump’s voter suppression scheme twice, Delaware locks profiteers out of its hospitals, and four counties tell Big Tech no


We’re halfway through another week of Trump’s madness, so I’m glad you’re here for today’s edition—it’s full of good news.

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FIVE MORE KEY SENATE RACES

The analysis I’d give a war room. A follow-up to my Senate analysis from July 20—for paid subscribers only.

Maine. Troy Jackson leads GOP Sen. Susan Collins 49-46 in the first poll since he was nominated four days ago. Collins has never faced a Democrat like him before—a fifth-generation logger who’s spent his career representing the exact voters she needs to win.

Jackson’s fundraising surged in the first day after he was nominated at the state party convention, totaling nearly $2 million—from about 30,000 donors. Both sides are acting like this race is up for grabs, and they’re right.

Michigan. The primary is six days away: El-Sayed vs. Stevens for the open seat Gary Peters is leaving. Mike Rogers will be the GOP nominee—the same candidate Sen. Elissa Slotkin beat by a third of a point in 2024. Republicans are spending money right now to help El-Sayed win the Democratic primary. That could backfire—let’s see what happens Tuesday.

Nebraska. I cover this more below as well. What I don’t say there: GOP Sen. Pete Ricketts put in $5.25 million of his own money—a sign that internal numbers don’t look good. And outside groups have been slow to invest in his campaign so far.

His opponent Dan Osborn’s average donor, by comparison, gave $40—and Osborn’s grassroots haul of $1.8 million from individual donors has already outraised Ricketts’s $470,000. Most recent polling has Osborn up by five in a state Trump won by twenty. Osborn has turned this into a real race, and Ricketts knows it. This could be the sleeper that decides the majority.

Iowa. Joni Ernst is retiring, so it’s now an open seat. GOP Rep. Ashley Hinson is running against Democratic Iowa State Rep. and former Paralympian Josh Turek. April polling had Democrats up two in a state Trump won by thirteen.

Democratic outside groups have already booked more than $30 million in fall TV—an unusually early investment for the Iowa Senate race. If the Hawkeye State goes blue, the wave is bigger than anyone’s saying.

Florida. A special election to fill the remainder of Marco Rubio’s term. Lt. Col. Alex Vindman—the man Trump fired for testifying against him—has outraised appointed GOP Sen. Ashley Moody. Twenty percent of Vindman’s in-state donors are Republicans and independents. Moody won as AG but has never run for Senate, and appointed senators historically underperform.

The Bottom Line: The path to the four seats Democrats need runs through these five states. It’s July and there are signs that every one of them is moving our way.


NEW MEXICO TELLS BIG TECH: NOT HERE

Sierra County voted Tuesday in a town called Truth or Consequences. Fitting name. The vote was unanimous: an 18-month moratorium on data centers—the fourth New Mexico county to do it this year.

Commissioner Sandy Jones didn’t mince words: “This wasn’t about saying ‘no’ to technology; it was about saying ‘yes’ to our water, our families and the Sierra County way of life.”

The fight is over Project Jupiter—Oracle and OpenAI’s massive data center under construction in southern New Mexico’s Chihuahuan Desert. Communities found out what it would do to their water supply and showed up angry.

Santa Fe County acted too. Residents packed the chambers, and commissioners responded by lowering their trigger threshold—the point that forces full reviews and can halt new data center permits—from 100 megawatts down to just one. That’s about the electricity use of 1,000 homes.

The regime invited Big Tech in. Four New Mexico counties locked the gate.


JUDGE SHUTS DOWN VOTER SUPPRESSION—AGAIN

New Hampshire passed a law requiring voters to show a birth certificate, passport, or naturalization papers just to register. In May, US District Judge Samantha Elliott—a Biden appointee—threw it out, calling it “an unjustifiable burden on the right to vote in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments.”

The state appealed and asked Elliott to pause her own ruling. On July 22, she refused.

That matters for November. New Hampshire’s law—the same proof-of-citizenship requirement Trump’s been pushing nationally as the SAVE America Act—is dead through the September primary and the general election.

At least 100 voters were turned away in 2025 municipal elections because they couldn’t produce the right papers. They’re protected now.


NEBRASKA IS NOW A SENATE RACE

Democrats alleged that Republicans planted a candidate—William Forbes—in the Nebraska Democratic primary to knock out Cindy Burbank, the actual Democrat in the race. After a GOP challenge, Burbank got pulled from the ballot by the Secretary of State, but the Nebraska Supreme Court reinstated her. She won the May 12 primary with 89% of the vote.

Then, on July 17, she walked into Secretary of State Bob Evnen’s office and filed to step aside. He confirmed he had no authority to stop her under Nebraska law.

She formally declined her nomination to clear the way for Dan Osborn—independent, Democratic-backed—who now goes one-on-one with GOP Sen. Pete Ricketts in November. In 2024, Osborn held a Republican Senate incumbent in Nebraska to a six-and-a-half-point race.

The GOP scheme to rig the primary just handed Republicans their toughest possible matchup.


DELAWARE JUST DID WHAT THE REGIME 

WON’T


Gov. Matt Meyer sat down at the Henrietta Johnson Medical Center in Wilmington, Delaware on July 20 and signed three healthcare bills into law. A year earlier, private equity ownership gutted a hospital system just across the border in Pennsylvania—leaving hundreds of thousands of people with only two hospitals in their entire county.

Delaware decided not to wait for that to happen to them.

Three laws. One afternoon. Private equity is locked out of Delaware hospitals until 2028. Anyone earning under $47,000 a year gets free care. And starting next year, hospitals can’t charge insurers whatever they want anymore—prices come down for everyone.

The hospital industry threw everything at it, claiming the bills would kill 4,000 jobs. Sen. Ray Seigfried spent 25 years running a hospital system. His verdict on their scare campaign: “disgraceful.”

In Delaware, your hospital answers to you—not a hedge fund.

This is what it looks like when Democrats are given the opportunity to govern. I’m not sure what Republicans are doing.

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Scott

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