Supreme Court allows DOGE to access social security data

• The U.S. Supreme Court gave the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) a green light to access millions of Americans’ most sensitive data.
  
  
• The unsigned 6-3 decision granted the Trump administration’s emergency request to suspend a lower court injunction that had temporarily limited DOGE’s access to non-anonymized records held by the Social Security Administration.

SCOTUS has a chance to kill mail-ballot grace periods

• Mississippi asked the Supreme Court to uphold its law to count mail-in ballots returned by Election Day and received by officials shortly after. The RNC filed a lawsuit to overturn the state’s grace period, which more than a dozen other states have as well. Marc and Paige Moscowitz break it down.

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• The Trump Administration is detaining and threatening students with deportation in retaliation for speaking out on issues they care about.
  
  
• The government cannot punish anyone for their speech or viewpoint — citizen or not. Demand Congress take action.

A win for Pennsylvania voters 

• The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a GOP challenge to a Pennsylvania ruling, ensuring voters can cast provisional ballots if their mail-in ballots lack inner secrecy envelopes.
  
  
• The legal battle began when two Butler County voters sued after their mail-in ballots were rejected. Pennsylvania’s highest court had affirmed their right to vote provisionally.

But a loss for Arkansas voters

• A federal court upheld the state's congressional map, saying that voters failed to prove their claims of intentional racial discrimination. Arkansas will retain its current map.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia on way back to U.S. to face criminal charges

• Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was wrongly sent to El Salvador without due process by the Trump administration, is on his way back to the U.S. to face criminal charges, according to reporting from ABC News.

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The Trump Administration's actions are the biggest threat to freedom of speech since the Red Scare. If the government can come after one of us for speech the administration disagrees with, they can - and will - come after any of us. Join the ACLU and tell Congress to defend our right to free speech.

Alabama asks SCOTUS to revive racially discriminatory map

• Alabama appealed its long-running redistricting case to the Supreme Court again — even though the high court and lower judges agreed that the state's original congressional map discriminated against Black voters.

What Democrats must do to win in 2028

• As Republicans work on betraying the American people, Democrats are finding a path forward. Former Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill sat down with Marc to discuss Elon Musk’s failure at DOGE, President Donald Trump’s obsession with tariffs, and the future of the Democratic Party.