God and Donald Trump
Paul Kengor, The American Spectator
A literal brush with death will change a man. As Donald Trump said at the National Prayer Breakfast two months ago, none of us knows exactly when our time on Earth will be over. Trump learned that most acutely in Butler. He said in Milwaukee that “Every single moment we have on earth is a gift from God.” With every action he now takes in his second term — a veritable cyclone of executive activity that makes FDR’s first one hundred days look like four years of Sleepy Joe Biden — Donald J. Trump is certainly seizing this moment.

GOP candidates win both Florida elections, overcoming vast fundraising deficits
Seth McLaughlin, The Washington Times
Trump-backed Republicans swept a pair of special congressional elections in deep-red Florida districts, overcoming strong fundraising from their Democratic rivals and giving the House GOP much-needed reinforcements on Capitol Hill. Republican state Sen. Randy Fine defeated Democrat Josh Weil, a teacher, in the 6th Congressional District in northeastern Florida. And Jimmy Patronis, the state’s chief financial officer, got the better of Democrat Gay Valimont, a gun control activist, in the 1st Congressional District on the Florida Panhandle.

WI Voters Overwhelmingly Approve Voter ID Amendment To State Constitution
M.D. Kittle, The Federalist
Wisconsin voters want the state’s voter ID law enshrined in the Badger State constitution. Not long after the polls closed, Decision Desk HQ projected the referendum question would win big. With 86 percent of the vote tally counted, yes votes were leading 62.8 percent to 37.2 percent, according to the New York Times. The numbers tracked along polling lines. A recent Marquette University Law School poll found 77 percent of Wisconsin voters surveyed said they support a photo ID requirement to vote, with just 22 percent opposed.

DeSantis: Democrat Brand Is Toxic Because It Allows ‘Defecation in the Streets’ – Not Because of Bad Marketing
Craig Bannister, MRCTV.org
The Democrats’ brand isn’t toxic because of bad marketing, Governor Ron DeSantis explained. Discussing a prosperity-enabled plan to provide property tax relief in his state, the governor addressed a comment by Governor Gavin Newsom suggesting that his party’s brand has become “toxic.” “That is not because of bad marketing – it’s because the results of their leftism have been toxic,” DeSantis said, citing the “defecation in the streets,” homeless tents and soft-on-crime policies that have are devastating Democrat-run states.

Bureaucratic Overhaul at HHS Unfolds as Senior Officials Face Relocation or Resignation
Daily Caller News Foundation (Emily Kopp), The Star News Network
Some leaders of the many sprawling agencies and centers that make up the Department of Health and Human Services have been given a choice: Move out of DC or resign. HHS began executing 10,000 layoffs as part of a massive restructuring of the department’s convoluted organization chart on Tuesday, according to several news reports. Thomas Nagy, deputy assistant secretary for human resources at HHS, began sending layoff notices in the early morning, immediately placing thousands of employees on administrative leave.

Elon Musk Destroys Jessica Tarlov With Two Minutes of DOGE Truth
Matt Margolis, PJ Media
Musk didn’t hesitate to push back. “Well, everything that DOGE does is an open book,” he responded, dismissing any suggestion of impropriety. “I think [we’re] the most transparent organization in government ever. Every single DOGE action is listed on the doge.gov website. It’s also listed on the X handle. So if anyone has a concern about any one of those actions, they can bring that up; they can raise that.” Rather than sidestep the question, Musk leaned into the idea of transparency and accountability.
 

Notorious J6 Jailer Plays Victim
Julie Kelly, Substack
After running roughshod over J6ers for four years, Howell now insists she is the victim of an “ad hominem attack” by the Trump DOJ, which last week asked Howell to recuse herself from presiding over a lawsuit brought by Perkins Coie, the infamous law firm responsible for the Steele dossier. The DOJ’s detailed account of her open hostility toward Trump and his supporters, Howell argued, represented “innuendo,” an “attack [on] the messenger,” and an attempt to “impugn the integrity of the federal judicial system”.