HuffPo: “Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died. Bernard LaFayette, III, said his father died Thursday morning of a heart attack. He was 85. On March 7, 1965, the beating…

The Post and Courier: “A woman who claims she was abused as a minor by both Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump has given the FBI vivid accounts that include aspects of her life corroborated by The Post and Courier through public records.”

NY Times: “The moment captured the instincts of a campaign that was defined by strategic restraint rather than aggressive reaction. It was a stay-the-course strategy that transformed the soft-spoken Presbyterian seminarian into a national figure who might offer Democrats a chance to win a Senate seat in Texas for the first time in decades. Mr….

NY Times: “By Friday, clips of the challenger, Brandon Herrera, shooting Nazi-era weapons and discussing his copy of “Mein Kampf” were circulating widely among Democrats. Suddenly Mr. Gonzales’s district — the solidly red Texas 23rd — appeared to Democrats as one they could flip in November. Democratic strategists in Washington were exploring whether to dedicate…

WaPo: “Texas has excluded about two dozen Islamic schools from its new $1 billion voucher program for allegedly being linked to terrorist groups, a decision that has led to a lawsuit and claims of discrimination from the Muslim community. The state’s comptroller, who oversees the program, barred schools that he said have hosted events organized…

YouTube: “With rare access and unflinching restraint, the documentary The Alabama Solution exposes the human cost of confinement in stark – at times difficult to watch – detail. The film sets out and succeeds in offering a view of a mass incarceration system laid bare. If what we see is functioning as designed, should it…

The Atlantic: “Three days after President Trump announced his “Complete and Total Endorsement” of the Louisiana congressional candidate Blake Miguez, the Republican contender posted a video from outside the West Wing boasting of his close relationship with Trump and his team. “I just got done having some great meetings with the White House,” he told his supporters…

NY Times: “Last week, James Fishback, a 31-year-old running for governor in Florida, was speaking to a packed house at the Queens Harbour Yacht and Country Club in Jacksonville. Every one of the room’s almost 100 seats was taken, and people were standing several rows deep around the perimeter, with more listening from the lobby…

CBS News: “Eight defendants were found guilty Friday of providing material support to terrorists for their roles in the antifa attack on the Prairieland ICE detention center in 2025, marking one of the most sweeping terrorism‑related convictions in the case to date. The verdicts came as nine defendants stood accused in the July 4, 2025,…

Political Wire: “A judge ruled this week that a top Georgia Republican Party official, who has promoted former President Donald Trump’s claims of widespread voter fraud affecting the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, has repeatedly voted illegally,” NBC News reports. “Brian Pritchard, first vice chairman of the Georgia Republican Party and a conservative talk show host,…