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Donald Trump told a Florida crowd Friday it was treasonous to call the Iran war a loss, and made Germany pay for saying it first.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz had said it Monday in front of high school students. The Americans had no strategy, he told them, and an entire nation was being humiliated. By Friday afternoon the Pentagon was withdrawing 5,000 troops, and 25 percent tariffs were headed for German cars next week.

Trump notified Congress Friday that the war had ended. From Florida he warned that calling it a loss is treasonous. The pullout and the tariffs were Merz's penalty for getting there first. That drove thousands of Americans to protest in the streets across the country today. Find the next protest at Mobilize and bring a friend.

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Donald Trump told a Florida crowd Friday it was treasonous to call the Iran war a loss, and made Germany pay for saying it first.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz had said it Monday in front of high school students. The Americans had no strategy, he told them, and an entire nation was being humiliated. By Friday afternoon the Pentagon was withdrawing 5,000 troops, and 25 percent tariffs were headed for German cars next week.

Trump notified Congress Friday that the war had ended. From Florida he warned that calling it a loss is treasonous. The pullout and the tariffs were Merz's penalty for getting there first. That drove thousands of Americans to protest in the streets across the country today. Find the next protest at Mobilize and bring a friend.

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Speaker Mike Johnson, third in line for the presidency, called on Republican-led statehouses today to redraw their congressional maps before November.

Florida had already adopted a new Republican map hours before the Supreme Court ruling came down. Louisiana canceled a primary election that had already begun, so its legislature can redraw two majority-Black districts. By afternoon, Trump was on Truth Social telling Tennessee's governor to "PUSH HARD" on dismantling the state's only majority-Black congressional district.

Up to 18 districts where Black and Hispanic voters outnumber white voters are now threatened because the Voting Rights Act no longer protects them. Memphis is the seat Trump named today. Call your state legislators and demand they stop putting their thumb on the scale.

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A Secret Service officer fired four times at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, according to a Washington Post analysis of higher-resolution camera footage.

The footage doesn't capture every shot authorities say was fired, but it shows none from the suspect. An officer was wounded by a round the video doesn't show. The defense calls the government's case "built entirely upon speculation."

That news is overshadowed tonight by the Supreme Court gutting the Voting Rights Act. The 6-3 ruling struck down Louisiana's congressional map, with Justice Elena Kagan writing in dissent that the decision "renders Section 2 all but a dead letter." Louisiana's governor moved tonight to suspend the May 16 primary so his legislature can redraw it. The 1965 law fell at sunrise, and the new map was moving before sunset.

Eighteen other stories ran tonight. Every one matters. If you only have time for one right now, dig into the assassination attempt or the voting rights ruling. Both are destined for the history books.

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Tim Kaine tried today to stop a war before it started, and 51 senators said he was too early because there was no war with Cuba.

We have been in an undeclared war in Iran for sixty-two days. Thirteen American servicemembers are dead, gas is at $4.17, and U.S. bases in the region have sustained $5 billion in damage. The Senate had already voted down every war powers resolution on Venezuela and Iran. Today it added Cuba.

Three Republicans broke ranks to even allow the debate. The other 50 told Trump he is free to do whatever he wants to Cuba. Call through 5 Calls and Resistbot and demand your senators stop the next war before it starts.

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Doug Burgum bribed two more wind energy companies today to switch to oil and gas.

The Interior Department that Burgum runs started cutting checks after federal courts stopped the Trump administration from killing offshore wind projects already in development. Today's $885 million in taxpayer refunds came on terms that require every dollar to be spent on an LNG plant or an oil rig before the check clears.

A month ago, the same deal handed $928 million to a different company. A fourth is lining up next, and roughly $6 billion in offshore wind leases is still sitting on the table. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is investigating these reckless, unauthorized bribes. Call your representatives through 5 Calls and Resistbot and demand Congress ban them before they pay off another company.

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NBC News reported tonight a number the Pentagon has spent weeks refusing to give Congress: $5 billion in damage to American military bases from Iran's strikes.

In 2021, the World Food Program told the world's richest man it would take six billion dollars to keep 42 million people from starving. Elon Musk passed. The US government never wrote the check either. Now it's writing one for $5 billion in damage, on top of the $11.3 billion the war's first six days already cost.

The bill is going to keep growing, and the Pentagon wants a record budget to pay it. Call your representatives through 5 Calls and Resistbot and demand a full accounting before Congress approves another dollar.

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A Secret Service agent took a bullet for the president at the Washington Hilton tonight.

Forty-five years ago, agent Tim McCarthy was shot defending President Reagan on the sidewalk in front of the same hotel. Tonight at a checkpoint outside the ballroom, an agent took a shotgun round in the vest as Trump was rushed off the stage and guests dove under tables. The gunman never made it inside, and police have not yet described his motive.

Trump returned to the White House within the hour. From the briefing room podium, he pitched the new ballroom, telling reporters the Secret Service and the military are "demanding" it. None of that mattered tonight. The agent went home.

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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche today streamlined how the federal government kills convicts.

No modern president executed as many prisoners as Donald Trump did during his first term. The lethal injections he approved then are back. Blanche even okayed death by firing squad. To handle the presumed influx of executions, the Bureau of Prisons has been told to build a new execution facility, and Blanche has authorized prosecutors to seek death in nine more cases.

None of this is for the three people on federal death row tonight. It's for the nine Blanche just authorized and whoever the Department of Justice comes for next. To further tip the scales, Blanche changed the mercy rule. The last plea for mercy now comes only after the final appeal has run out, when there's nothing left to plead to. Call your representatives through 5 Calls and Resistbot and demand Congress block funding for the new federal execution facility before it gets built.

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