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Wednesday, February 4th, 2026
Today, the House has canceled their contempt vote for the Clintons as they agree to testify before the House Oversight Committee; a judge lifts the order requiring the government to preserve evidence in the murder of Alex Pretti; eight additional federal prosecutors are resigning from the Minnesota US Attorney's Office; New York Attorney General Letitia James will deploy legal observers to federal immigration operations; a federal judge says ICE facilities must allow lawmakers to make unannounced visits to detention camps; Chief Justice John Roberts is making Supreme Court employees sign non-disclosure agreements; a judge blocks the Trump administration from ending Temporary Protected Status for Haitians; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.
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How Donald Trump Is Connected to Epstein's Sex Trafficking Ring

Stories
Black Trans Trailblazers That You May Not Learn About in History Class | Erin In The Morning
House Cancels Contempt Vote As Clintons Agree to Testify on Epstein | The New York Times
How the Supreme Court Secretly Made Itself Even More Secretive | The New York Times
Minneapolis live updates: More federal prosecutors leave Minnesota US attorney's office | ABC News
Judge says Trump administration must let lawmakers make unannounced visits to ICE detention facilities | POLITICO
Judge lifts order to preserve evidence in Alex Pretti shooting | POLITICO
Trump, in an Escalation, Calls for Republicans to ‘Nationalize’ Elections | The New York Times
New York AG Letitia James will deploy legal observers to federal immigration operations | MS NOW
Judge blocks Trump administration from ending Temporary Protected Status for Haitians | PBS News

Good Trouble
There is a petition on 5calls.org to contact your representatives to demand the resignation of Stephen Miller. He's already despised by many around the world, and within the administration, so if we can get the American People behind the petition we may be able to get him pushed out all together.  
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026
Today, Georgia sues the government to get their ballots back; Trump announces he’s closing the Kennedy Center; a Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis has been charged with DUI after being found asleep in his car covered in vomit; the mayor of Portland has demanded ICE leave after gassing children; there’s a measles outbreak at the Dilly concentration camp; Donald Trump ordered Gabbard to be at the Fulton County raid after Todd Blanche said he wasn’t involved at all; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.
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BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Epstein Files Tipster Tells Me About Her Friend Being Trafficked to Epstein Through Trump Modeling Agency

Stories
Gabbard Arranges Trump Call With FBI Agents After Georgia Election Center Search | The New York Times
Mayor of Portland, Oregon, demands ICE leave the city after federal agents gas protesters | POLITICO
ICE halts "all movement" at Texas detention facility due to measles infections | CBS News
Border Patrol employee found ‘covered in vomit’ in St. Paul, charged with drunk driving | Sahan Journal

Good Trouble
From Marcie Wheeler (@emptywheel) on Bluesky
As the House prepares to fight over how much of DHS to shut down, I encourage you to pick your favorite factoid from this Garret Graff report on CBP/ICE criminality and send it to your Member of Congress. 
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Accountability for ICE and CBP However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is — the reality is far far worse.

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Photos: S.F. protesters spell out 'Abolish ICE' in human banner on Ocean Beach
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Monday, February 2nd, 2026
Today, Propublica has identified the two CBP agents that murdered Alex Pretti - Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez; the DOJ released their final and incomplete production of the Epstein Files; every single Senate Democrat and two Republicans voted to defund ICE but Republicans blocked the amendment; ICE has expanded their power to arrest people without warrants; four Black independent journalists were arrested for covering a church protest; Bovino mocked a prosecutor's Jewish faith during a call with lawyers; ICE shattered someone’s skull and then told the hospital they did it to themselves; massive peaceful protests erupted across the country against ICE and Customs and Border Protection; the top FBI agent in Atlanta has been sacked after refusing to go along with the Fulton County election office raid; a Texas Democrat who was outspent 20 to 1 has flipped the District 9 State Senate seat with a 30 point swing in a stunning upset; five year old Liam Ramos and his father have been released from the Dilley concentration camp and are back home in Minneapolis; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.
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Will Trump Send the Military to Seize Voting Machines?
 
The Latest
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Epstein Files Tipster Tells Me About Her Friend Being Trafficked to Epstein Through Trump Modeling Agency
Stories
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting | ProPublica
Here’s What to Know About the Millions of Pages of Epstein Documents | The New York Times
ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants | The New York Times
Don Lemon arrested after covering protest at Minnesota church | NBC News
Takeaways from AP report on ICE claims that immigrant shattered his skull running into wall | AP News
Bovino Is Said to Have Mocked Prosecutor’s Jewish Faith on Call With Lawyers | The New York Times
Atlanta FBI boss ousted after balking at 2020 election probe | MSNOW
Partial government shutdown begins as funding lapses despite Senate deal |CBS News
Protesters take to streets in U.S. to decry ICE tactics in Minneapolis | The Washington Post
Democrat Taylor Rehmet wins solidly red Texas Senate seat in stunning special election upset | Texas Tribune
Preschooler Liam Ramos and father land in Minneapolis after being released from immigration detention | CNN
Good Trouble
How to Film ICE | WIRED
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→Defund ICE (UPDATED 1/21) - HOUSE VOTE THURSDAY
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Allison is in contact with one of the complainants from the Epstein tips documents released this week, and shares what she told the FBI; so where is the 302? 
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Wednesday, January 29th, 2025
Trump tried to seize the power of Congress by halting all appropriations - and a Biden appointed judge blocked it hours later; Trump has asked two million federal workers to voluntarily resign; the CDC has been ordered to stop working with the World Health Organization; top USAID staff have been put on administrative leave; federal employees have filed a lawsuit over the HR at OPM government wide email for privacy concerns; Republican state attorneys general are pressuring Costco to drop their DEI programs; Jim Acosta announces he’s leaving CNN; Trump has moved to fire Dem members of the EEOC and NLRB; six transgender service members are suing Trump and Pete Hegseth over the ban on trans people serving in the military; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.

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Republican attorneys general call out Costco for maintaining DEI policies - Kate Gibson | CBS News
More than 50 career civil servants at USAID are placed on administrative leave - Abigail Williams, Vaughn Hillyard and Raquel Coronell Uribe | NBC News
CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of an extended withdrawal - MIKE STOBBE | AP News
Trump administration will offer the roughly 2 million federal workers a buyout to resign - Garrett Haake and Amanda Terkel | NBC News
Lawsuit alleges new Trump administration email system for federal employees raises privacy concerns - Tierney Sneed | CNN Politics
D.C. federal judge temporarily blocks Trump plan to pause federal aid spending - Daniel Barnes | NBC News
Dem AGs set to challenge Trump’s ‘clearly unlawful’ federal aid freeze - KYLE CHENEY | POLITICO
Six active duty service members file first lawsuit challenging Trump's transgender troop ban - TARA COPP | AP News

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