The Border is Everywhere: American Politics February 2026

Judge frees father & son, rips USAholes a new one, though they may appeal, Blanche whines:
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/01/5-year-old-liam-ramos-released-minneapolis-ice

Good afternoon!

Latest ep of Reveal:

...Brady was one of many Indigenous people working to build energy sovereignty for tribal nations—work that continues despite the administration clawing back federal funds.

This week on Reveal, we’re diving into how small communities across the country are navigating the current administration’s policies and how they show up in everyone’s lives, no matter where you are in this country. We’ve partnered with The Daily Yonder to share a story about the solar energy hopes of tribal nations; The Tributary in Jacksonville, Florida, to learn how local and state DOGE are complicating efforts to run the city; and Idaho-based reporter Heath Druzin to hear how the Trump administration’s immigration policy is rupturing the state’s Republican Party.

listen or read:
https://revealnews.org/podcast/local-news-doge-solar-power-immigration-idaho-jacksonville-florida-tribal-nations/

https://www.propublica.org/article/alex-pretti-shooting-cbp-agents-identified-jesus-ochoa-raymundo-gutierrez

the pigs who murdered pretti are named

good rundown of the US's ethnic cleansing campaign:
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/trump-ice-haitians-springfield-ohio-20260201.html

Interesting testimony on history of cpb criminality: https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountability-for-ice-and-cbp

>the pigs who murdered pretti are named

*sniffs* names sound FOREIGN to me...

/s if that's not clear

7 and 11 years of experience each in case you know anyone still blathering about training

Ghoul In Chief Stephen Miller was feeling frisky on the eve of Black History Month:

Plenty of countries in history have experimented with importing a foreign labor class. The West is the first and only civilization to import a foreign labor class that is granted full political rights, including welfare & the right to vote. All visas are a bridge to citizenship.

if not for that last sentence, he could be talking about post-slavery America.

7 and 11 years of experience each in case you know anyone still blathering about training

anyone who signed up to be border patrol even in “normal” times is a ghoul and yeah they are now being encouraged to unleash their id

Ochoa, who goes by Jesse, graduated from the University of Texas-Pan American with a degree in criminal justice, according to his ex-wife, Angelica Ochoa. A longtime resident of the Rio Grande Valley, Ochoa had for years dreamed of working for the Border Patrol and finally landed a job there, she said. By the time the couple split in 2021, he had become a gun enthusiast with about 25 rifles, pistols and shotguns, Angelica Ochoa said.

curious how big a deal that actually is I mean I assume there's a ton of variance in those elections but a 30 point swing is fuckin crazy, seems to imply that even Trump's absymal polling numbers aren't capturing how terribly he's doing right now

― frogbs, Sunday, February 1, 2026 3:20 PM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

id imagine there a real big enthusiasm gap which then is amplified in a minor election like this

― lag∞n, Sunday, February 1, 2026 3:25 PM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

or not

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Amazon’s gold-plated rollout for Melania Trump’s documentary resulted in opening-weekend ticket sales of $7 million in the United States and Canada, box office analysts said on Sunday. That gave “Melania” the best start for a documentary (excluding concert films) in 14 years.

It was a face-saving result for the first lady — last week, ticket sales were pacing at about $5 million — but not for Amazon, which spent an exorbitant $75 million to buy distribution rights to “Melania” and market its release in 1,778 domestic theaters. Theater owners keep roughly 50 percent of ticket sales, meaning that Amazon will end the weekend with about $3.5 million to show for its investment.....

....The audience was overwhelmingly female (70 percent) and over the age of 55, according to Amazon.

At the Cinemark Valley View and XD in Cleveland on Friday, the audience for a “Melania” screening included a couple of buses worth of people from a nearby senior center. “It was a nice fluff piece,” Gordon Wilson, 80, said as he exited. Another Cleveland attendee, Anita Dloniak, 68, chuckled when she heard that some of the other ticket buyers called the film propaganda. “What did they think it was going to be?” she said.

Bob Schmidt, 60, went to see “Melania” at the Alamo Drafthouse on Staten Island on Friday. He rarely goes to the movies anymore, he said, but he bought a ticket to send a message to what he called the liberal movie industry. “I wanted to see this movie kick Hollywood’s ass,” Mr. Schmidt said. (During the screening, attendees erupted in applause during the scene when President Trump is sworn in. Someone shouted, “Trump 2028!”)

Something about those lithe, waifish bodies and the square black brutality of the redactions. Makes me think of Abu Ghraib. Sickening.

(Argh, should have gone in the Epstein thread)

the border is everywhere!

Quite

or not

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― lag∞n, Sunday, February 1, 2026 10:42 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

sheesh that might be one of the most dire results I've ever seen for either political party

please clap!

what did u do tulsi

WASHINGTON—A U.S. intelligence official has alleged wrongdoing by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in a whistleblower complaint that is so highly classified it has sparked months of wrangling over how to share it with Congress, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the matter.

The filing of the complaint has prompted a continuing, behind-the-scenes struggle about how to assess and handle it, with the whistleblower’s lawyer accusing Gabbard of stonewalling the complaint. Gabbard’s office rejects that characterization, contending it is navigating a unique set of circumstances and working to resolve the issue.

A cloak-and-dagger mystery reminiscent of a John le Carré novel is swirling around the complaint, which is said to be locked in a safe. Disclosure of its contents could cause “grave damage to national security,” one official said. It also implicates another federal agency beyond Gabbard’s, and raises potential claims of executive privilege that may involve the White House, officials said.

https://archive.ph/f2Dk9

oh and here are some uhhh interesting crosstabs from that recent FOX poll - these are white, no degree voters...not a great sign if he's underwater with them

Do you approve(51%) or disapprove(49%) of the way Trump is handling immigration: +2 (overall sample: -10, GOP: +70)
ICE is being too aggressive: 55%
of that 55%, ICE is being too aggressive because they're going after the wrong people: 49%
Is Trump spending too much time (41%), about the right amount of time (41%) or not enough time (18%) on immigration and border security: -23%
Do you approve (44%) or disapprove (55%) of how Trump has handled the economy: -11 (overall sample: -19, GOP: +56)
Have you been personally helped (20%) or hurt (41%) by Trump's economic policies: -21%
Is the country better (32) or worse off(50) now than a year ago: -18
Are you better(21) or worse(40) off financially than you were a year ago?: -19
Would Democrats (50) or Republicans (48) do a better job on helping the middle class: +2
Would Democrats (50) or Republicans (48) do a better job on affordability: +2
Is Trump spending too much time (5%), not enough time (71%) or about the right amount of time (24%) on the economy: -66
How motivated do you feel to vote in November elections? Extremely Motivated: 49% (overall sample: 56%. GOP: 51%)
Do you approve(28%) or disapprove(70%) of the job Congress is doing: -42 (overall sample: -43, GOP: -6)
Do you Approve (49%) or Disapprove (51%) of the job President Trump is doing: -2 (overall sample: -12, GOP: +70)
Do you strongly disapprove of the job President Trump is doing: 38% (overall sample 45%, GOP: 6%)

‪Scott Horton‬ robertscotthorton.bsky.social‬

I have spoken with several senior FBI counterintelligence officers who believe that there is a reasonably strong prospect that Tulsi Gabbard is a foreign intelligence asset.

https://bsky.app/profile/robertscotthorton.bsky.social/post/3mduym2tnps2n

who could have seen that coming?

Duhhhh

I have a hard time envisioning her as much of an asset to anyone, but if she is it’s certainly not to the ol’ USA.

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trying to parse that WSJ story. the complaint has been seen by the inspector general, who has determined the allegations involving gabbard aren’t credible, but also they’re stonewalling congress for some reason, also the whistleblower hasn’t just informed congress themself, and also the whistleblower’s lawyer hasn’t seen the complaint?

It is confusing but members of Trump's admin have always had a tendency to try and block investigations even when the accused was likely to be exonerated.

A normal thing totally innocent people do

A representative for the inspector general said the office had determined specific allegations against Gabbard weren’t credible, while it couldn’t reach a determination on others.

xp

Gabbard now on the front page of the NYT for being Trump’s eyes and ears in the Georgia election raid. Is this even the story referenced above? Or just more Tulsi Tulsi-ing? The pearl-clutching about this is honestly pathetic. Like Trump is working closely with the FBI to persecute ppl who have wronged him? No shit!

Like can we just retire this sentence formula? They write it as if there’s any thought put into which “level” he has taken his actions

Even for a president who has radically transformed the Justice Department and the F.B.I. by trampling over their political independence and using them as tools for personal retribution, Mr. Trump appears to be taking that kind of involvement to a new level.

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were through the looking glass here people

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if we can rock together, why can't we guac together

That's a lot of avocado toast

The people in charge of prosecuting Trump's political enemies are going to start meeting daily.

Justice Department officials are expected to meet Monday to discuss how to reenergize probes that are considered a top priority for President Donald Trump — reviewing the actions of officials who investigated him, according to a source familiar with the plan.

Almost immediately after Pam Bondi stepped into her role as attorney general last year, she established a “Weaponization Working Group” to review law enforcement actions taken under the Biden administration for any examples of what she described as “politicized justice.”

She said the group would focus on investigations into Trump conducted by former special counsel Jack Smith and his staff; Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and New York Attorney General Letitia James; and any “improper” investigations into the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.

But after a year, the group has not produced anything publicly.

In recent weeks, Trump has been pressuring Justice Department officials for results in these and other investigations, recently admonishing a group of US attorneys for failing to deliver on cases he wants brought.

The Weaponization Working Group is now expected to start meeting daily with the goal of producing results in the next two months, according to the person familiar with the plan.

A rightwing Brazilian influencer who claimed Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown targeted only “crooks” has been arrested by ICE agents in New Jersey.

Júnior Pena, whose full name is Eustáquio da Silva Pena Júnior, declared his support for the US president in a recent video message to his hundreds of thousands of social media followers.

“I [support] Donald Trump – I like the guy,” announced the South American TikToker and Instagrammer whose account purports to show “the reality of the United States” from a migrant’s perspective.

In a previous video, Pena reportedly urged Brazilians to stay calm and not “despair” after reports that ICE agents were rounding up migrants, including Brazilians. “But they’re all crooks. The lot of them,” he falsely claimed of the migrants being seized.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/02/rightwing-brazilian-influencer-junior-pena-arrested-by-ice

Ooooof

In recent weeks, Trump has been pressuring Justice Department officials for results in these and other investigations, recently admonishing a group of US attorneys for failing to deliver on cases he wants brought.

At the same time he reminded the DOJ that they should "go find me those 13,000 votes I needed in the 2020 Georgia election. Oh, and don't forget to nail that Raffensperger guy to the wall, too."

Every report about this is just evidence for the defense in whatever terrible cases they come up with. But as we were saying the other day, the point is not necessarily to put people in jail (tho they'd love to), but to bully and harass them as much as possible.

If the constitution survives all this it would be good to pass some more laws about the president not using federal police powers against opponents. Theoretically that's what the whole special prosecutor system is for, but Bondi's just totally ignoring all that. And god knows how much SCOTUS will even let them rein in the "unitary executive" — although more likely if it's a Democratic president.

A federal judge says Trump can't take away Haitians' TPS status, meaning they don't get to stage an ICE pogrom in Ohio like they were apparently planning. This is her conclusion:

There is an old adage among lawyers. If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table.

Secretary Noem, the record to-date shows, does not have the facts on her side or at least has ignored them. Does not have the law on her side or at least has ignored it. Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, she pounds X (f/k/a Twitter).

Kristi Noem has a First Amendment right to call immigrants killers, leeches, entitlement junkies, and any other inapt name she wants. Secretary Noem, however, is constrained by both our Constitution and the APA to apply faithfully the facts to the law in implementing the TPS program. The record to-date shows she has yet to do that.

By accompanying Order, the Court GRANTS Plaintiffs' Renewed Motion for a Stay under 5 U.S.C. § 705.

she's more of a puppy-pounder I think

In defending the undocumented, Good violated the sanctity of The Homeland, which is to say that she questioned the divine promise of American soil to a mythical and singular people.

For The Homeland is not “The State” or even “The Country.” The Homeland is not defined by simple geography. It exists beyond laws and norms. It is unconcerned with traditional American concepts like “liberty,” “freedom” or “pluralism.” The Homeland is that piece of earth providentially deeded to The Volk. The Homeland’s borders are drawn in untainted blood, its sanctity exemplified in proper gender conduct and the fulfillment of gender roles. It is The Homeland that ICE venerates in its recruitment posts festooned with victorious white settlers and vanquished indigenous Americans. It is The Homeland that the late Charlie Kirk was fond of invoking:

I want to be able to get married, buy a home, have kids, allow them to ride their bike till the sun goes down, send them to a good school,have a low-crime neighborhood, not to have my kid be taught the lesbian, gay, transgender garbage in their school. While also not having them have to hear the Muslim call to prayer five times a day.

Und every Land can be a Homeland, if its People just Stay Home (except for Special Assignments)!

A student at the university where I teach turned himself in to the feds today relating to similar charges that Don Lemon faces. He apparently helped Lemon coordinate and navigate in St Paul.

Like Lemon, he is a Black man. 21 years of age. When asked about it he said “This is the price of being unapologetic about humanity and love of Christ.”

Good on him— he will hopefully be out of custody soon.

Yes, good on him, though I think I woulda run, and not just because so secular.

Coates reminding me of this unexpected bit, in an article about Arkansas protecting its People from a flagrant race traitor/teacher ov Critical White Studies: Swedish race science once grouped the Finns, Sami, and Hungarians together as offshoots of the so-called “Turanian” people, a hypothetical ancient Asian group.* Don't tell Orban---he's got enough on his plate right now.
*https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2026/02/02/an-ordinary-white-a-review-of-the-book-at-the-center-of-ualrs-extraordinary-dustup

well, those languages are related, they're all in the Uralic family

yep, nothing else like them, altho I know it as "Finno-Ugric"

and fwiw some linguists definitely think the group is related to Mongolians, moreover I also personally think they are related to some indigenous Americans from the original land bridge crossing, I have studied both Quechua and Finnish and there are a LOT of weird similarities.

(sorry for derail)

Tom Tiffany, a Republican running for governor in Wisconsin, is calling on the Dems to return the donations from Reid Hoffmann on account of him being at Epstein island, implying they are covering for pedophiles. This man of course is endorsed by Trump, obviously making this hypocritical to the core, which all the comments are pointing out, though it kinda hit me now that all those comments are boosting his post in the algorithm, and maybe all these Republicans are posting rage bait on purpose, and that this is how politics works now, and it's not so much that Trump figured it out as it is he happened to flourish as the human embodiment of rage bait

Meanwhile Jeffries told Dems earlier this week no bringing up a vote on authorizing Trump in Iran until next week. Jeffries and Schumer want it both ways - they are in agreement with some of Trump’s actions but want to appear to be opposed to the process and the actions

Now you have a president who is giving you what you want, so let’s see how you respond.” - Trump to the Iranian people
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“Let’s see how you respond “! Up to 7,000 Iranian protesters were already killed lately. But yeah the unarmed people have to respond for Trump now and overthrow their government

"Don't disappoint me".

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-says-it-launched-pre-emptive-attack-against-iran-2026-02-28/

Another imperialist war launched by rogue fascist states.

So glad no one in the US can afford anything but our tax dollars are going to protect a bunch of pedophiles and ethnoreligious fascists

To put it plainly, goddamn these murderous motherfuckers and everyone enabling them in both parties. Many many people are going to be killed and hurt, and they haven’t even bothered to say what for except in the vaguest dumbest sense. Idiot children in charge of weapons of mass destruction. A good reason not to have those weapons in the first place.

I voted for Crockett in the primary because I'm not OK with politicians who talk about Christianity as much as Talarico does. I'll vote for him in the general. Not stressing too much about my choice because I don't think either of them can beat Paxton. He's like Trump, the more he does crimes the more Texas Republicans love him.

So glad no one in the US can afford anything but our tax dollars are going to protect a bunch of pedophiles and ethnoreligious fascists

don’t forget a large chunk going directly to Trump’s pocket

The slush fund is coming from inside the adult diaper

Many many people are going to be killed and hurt, and they haven’t even bothered to say what for except in the vaguest dumbest sense.

This more than anything is at the heart of why this is yet another impeachable high crime.

Zohran Mamdani denounces 'catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression'
In a statement posted on social media, New York’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani, condemned the strikes on Iran and sought to reassure Iranian New Yorkers that they will be safe in the city.

Mamdani wrote:

"Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war. Americans do not want this. They do not want another war in pursuit of regime change. They want relief from the affordability crisis. They want peace. I am focused on making sure that every New Yorker is safe. I have been in contact with our Police Commissioner and emergency management officials. We are taking proactive steps, including increasing coordination across agencies and enhancing patrols of sensitive locations out of an abundance of caution. Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city — you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here."

The slush fund is coming from inside the adult diaper

Thank you for your attention to this splatter

they are running the war from Mar-A-Lago, literally

‪Mark Harris‬
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I'm hearing reports that the elderly despotic leader is now afraid to reenter the capital and is attempting to establish a functioning government in a gilded palace located in a remote southern part of the country.

lol

probably running it on a signal chat accidentally shared with some rando

Meanwhile Jeffries told Dems earlier this week no bringing up a vote on authorizing Trump in Iran until next week. Jeffries and Schumer want it both ways - they are in agreement with some of Trump’s actions but want to appear to be opposed to the process and the actions

Infuriating

guys i think i found the president's reddit account

https://www.reddit.com/r/civ/comments/10gdsu/can_anyone_tell_me_how_not_to_be_a_warmongering/

no wait i got confused, the actual american president would never say "thanks"

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/four-guys-walked-into-a-dc-bar-and-bragged-about-iran-strikes-hours-before-the-military-operation-tmz/

Four men in a Washington, D.C., bar reportedly bragged about the U.S. strikes on Iran hours before the military action took place, according to Mark Geragos, attorney and co-host of the 2 Angry Men podcast with TMZ’s Harvey Levin.

Geragos said he was sitting in the bar area at Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab on 15th St NW, at around 3:45 p.m. Friday afternoon getting ready for the podcast when he overheard the men at a high-top table talking loudly about Iran....Mark said “one of the men said in a voice loud enough for him to clearly hear … the U.S. was going to bomb Iran ‘today.'”

“Mark’s not sure who these guys were, but Joe’s is .2 of a mile from The White House,”

The guy sat on this info and didn't talk about till he joked about it with his tmz pal

The most extensive Iran strike report I've seen:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2dyz6p3weo

Just over an hour later, Trump confirmed US involvement in the strikes.

"We're going to destroy their missiles and raze their missile industry to the ground. It will be totally again obliterated," he said in a video posted on Truth Social.

..."When we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take. This will be probably your only chance for generations."

oh, i think it’s pretty clear they’re going to do the the whole old trick of installing a pro-west capitalist stooge and then taking the oil

Whut does this mean?

to me it means that, after they install the pro-west capitalist stooge and take the oil, the oligarchs in the united states will say “well the people of iran had a chance to take over but they didn’t realize the opportunity and thank us for our involvement, so we had to do it ourselves"

you know, like how here in the united states, if a bunch of bombs went off and trump and rubio and vance and the drunk dod guy and miller and everyone suddenly died, there would be a very easy transfer of government power to the people of the united states

what does this mean is a hard question to answer given there's a good chance Trump didn't think about what it meant and never will

Everyone knows the easiest way to establish a stable government is to create a power vacuum and then wait for the legitimate democracy to "trickle up"

its crazy, the President of the United States has no plan whatsoever, I think its pretty clear that he was just manipulated into doing it by the same guys that paid him a billion dollars to be on the World Peace board

All the LA Iranian ex-pats celebrating on social media seem pretty ghoulish.

The regime there was legitimately fucked. A lot of people left because of it. Very understandable why they would celebrate. If Russia bombed DC and knocked out Trump I'm sure a lot of American ex-pats would celebrate too

Yeah cool

missle industry...totally again obliterated,

“totally again obliterated “ is fucking amazing fwiw, sometimes this guy uses language in a way that is just astonishing

i hate him and want him dead ten years ago, still

avoiding hyperbole not a strong suit for the pres or for our current terrible existence

oh, i think it’s pretty clear they’re going to do the the whole old trick of installing a pro-west capitalist stooge and then taking the oil

there isn't really a clear route to even installing some pro-us stooge like pahlavi. they're going for libya-style total state collapse & civil war

to me it means that, after they install the pro-west capitalist stooge and take the oil, the oligarchs in the united states will say “well the people of iran had a chance to take over but they didn’t realize the opportunity and thank us for our involvement, so we had to do it ourselves"

then, when the people of Iran attempt to overthrow the the pro-west capitalist stooge and it looks like they'll succeed, we will 'surge' foot soldiers into Iran to pursue counter-insurgency and 'pacify' the country by killing large numbers of wedding guests via drone attacks

https://i.postimg.cc/0jkH6tch/images-(5).jpg

for that reason, the only one he'll claim, probably.

and every time he has to do it again, it's the fault of all the Dems and Rinos, incl. all Presidents since 1979, who left him alone to fix it.

i think it’s pretty clear they’re going to do the the whole old trick of installing a pro-west capitalist stooge and then taking the oil

I saw someone aver that in fact the Iranian government already has about four layers of leadership in place; yes, Khameini was killed, but there's already a chosen successor, almost certainly someone these fucking morons have never even heard of.

All the LA Iranian ex-pats celebrating on social media seem pretty ghoulish.

― Who's going to stop 200 balloons? Nobody! (President Keyes), Saturday, February 28, 2026 7:23 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

they suck shit. they’re a huge contingent in my neighborhood

theyre royalists

Some Iranian ex-pats like that in northern Virginia/DC too, while some Iranians feel stuck - hating all the prior regimes of Iran, hating the Trump US and the 1950s US that first overthrew a government there and put in the shah that led to the theocrat regime

I have a lot of friends from Iran or whose families were from Iran, there is a huge divide in the diaspora response. Obv no one supports the IRGC. There are people thrilled with this and lots of people fucking horrified at it and the latter are also horrified at the former.

Is it even likely that the theocratic Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran becomes undone?

The Assembly of Experts are already talking about selecting the next Supreme Leader, they don't have to he named Khameini to rule like one.

Some people suggesting a return to the pre-1979 monarchy which....yeah

Any new regime that appears to be installed by the west is going to face many years of civil war.

like i said yesterday, I have the impression that the Iranians have a pretty robust governmental apparatus and clear plans for continuity and succession, which our leadership doesn’t seem to understand.

Also remembering for no reason when Netanyahu told Congress in 2003 we could solve the Middle East’s problems by conquering Iraq.

some thinktanky mfer was saying he knows the shah’s kid and he’s a democracy/constitutional democracy fan and i’m just fuck you. and this has nothing to do even with the character of the shah’s kid. it’s “is he legitimate” and no he’s a despot’s child. fuck, i hate humans sometimes.

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swordsThe child of the man forcibly installed as ruler by British and American agents 75 years ago is no basis for a system of government.

New thread for March: "totally again obliterated": American Politics March 2026