“Alaska’s House and Senate contests are set for November’s general election, after the results in the state’s nonpartisan top-four primary put fringe candidates on the ballot, including one who shares the same name as the incumbent and a felon serving a 20-year prison sentence in New York,” CBS News reports.
U.S. Allies Push Back On Trump’s Economic Approach
“Nearly every session at the Group of 20 meeting of finance ministers and central bankers in Asheville, N.C. this week began with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent extolling the state of the U.S. economy under President Trump and urging other countries to be more like America,” the New York Times reports.
“America’s allies were not always receptive. At several points, representatives from Europe, Canada and other nations friendly to the United States criticized the administration for moves that they say have hurt their economies.”
U.S. Shoots Down Drones with Lasers at Border
“This week, the U.S. Army used a high-energy multipurpose laser to shoot down three drones near the U.S.-Mexico border, which official reports claimed were ‘posing a physical threat to U.S. military personnel and CBP partners,’ referring to Customs and Border Patrol,” Wired reports.
Local Concerns Bulldozed by Trump’s Border Wall Plan
“The Trump administration has a blunt message for state and local officials trying to prevent construction of a wall and other security measures along the 2,000-mile southern border: Resistance is futile,” Axios reports.
“Driving the news: President Trump’s envoys recently met privately with officials from Texas border counties where residents have pushed back against construction, saying the plans are unnecessary in rugged landscapes with few immigrant crossings and that they’d harm the environment.”
”The officials were told bluntly at the closed-door meeting with Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott that there would be no negotiating.”
San Francisco Dems Break with Party Over Billionaire Tax
“San Francisco Democrats have broken with their statewide party over California’s proposed billionaire wealth tax, rejecting Proposition 40 in a lopsided vote that exposes a growing divide over whether taxing extreme wealth is worth the potential economic consequences,” Fortune reports.
“The San Francisco Democratic Party voted 17-4 to oppose Proposition 40—with five members abstaining, five members absent, and one member with no endorsement.”
Jeffries Tries to Set the Stage for Party Discipline
“House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and the Democratic leadership team announced Tuesday night that the party would probe Reps. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA) and Jared Golden (D-ME) for siding with Republicans on a key rule vote on Tuesday,” Punchbowl News reports.
“This is a major step for Jeffries, House Minority Whip Katherine Clark and Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar, who called Golden and MGP’s action ‘a significant breach of trust.'”
“The Democratic trio is trying to set the stage for party discipline after watching the House Republican Party devolve into a consequence-free zone, where rank-and-file members defy the GOP leadership on a daily basis.”
Iran Launched Cyberattacks on U.S. Infrastructure
“Iranian hackers have targeted not only U.S. water systems but also America’s telecommunications, energy and other infrastructure in recent weeks,” NBC News reports.
“The attempted cyberattacks have focused on automated systems connected to the internet and so far have not been successful. But they underscore Iran’s readiness to retaliate against the U.S. beyond its interests in the Middle East.”
Trump Aides Push to Keep Iran War ‘Quiet’ for Now
“Top aides to President Donald Trump are pushing to keep the Iran war from escalating before November’s midterm elections to staunch Republican electoral losses, a strategy that is already under strain as the United States and Iran resume their back-and-forth attacks,” Reuters reports.
“White House officials will consider ramping up military action after the November 3 vote, said the sources, who requested anonymity to describe internal thinking, though any return to full-scale conflict is far from a given.”
Americans Hate ‘Lake America’ and Trump’s Trade War
Aaron Blake: “President Donald Trump has dropped another clunker in the laps of his fellow Republicans in the run-up to the 2026 midterm elections.”
“His new trade war with Canada and his related move to change the name of Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’ are the latest in a series of unpopular actions.”
“In fact, new polling suggests they’re even more unpopular than Trump’s previous tariffs and efforts to rename things.”
Teamsters Union Leaders Support Republicans
“The powerful Teamsters union is backing Republican candidates in the 2026 election cycle even after members have voted to support their Democrat opponents,” The Guardian reports.
“The 1.3 million-strong union’s president, Sean O’Brien, angered many members and union leaders in 2024 when he became the first union president to speak at the Republican national convention.”
Chevron Expands in Venezuela
“Chevron plans to significantly expand its operations in Venezuela, the U.S. oil giant said on Wednesday, taking yet another step to broaden the U.S. sphere of influence in the South American country,” the New York Times reports.
“The Houston-based company, already Venezuela’s largest private oil producer, said it would more than double its production in the country over the next five years to 600,000 barrels a day. That represents over half of Venezuela’s current output.”
Bloomberg: How Trump’s Venezuela oil deal gives the U.S. direct control.
Key Republicans Are Starting to Turn On Hegseth
“As President Donald Trump’s war with Iran drags on, a growing number of House Republicans are sounding the alarm about top-level turnover at the Pentagon — with some of the GOP’s most prominent national security voices openly criticizing the recent departures,” MS NOW reports.
Mediaite: Trump reportedly “expressed concern” over Hegseth’s Army purge in private meeting.
Fiscal Restrain Goes Out the Window Under Trump
“Donald Trump returned to the White House promising to get the United States’ financial house in order by slashing the scope of the federal government, ending costly ‘forever wars’ and spurring economic growth to tame spiraling deficits,” Reuters reports.
“Instead, the national debt has surged past $40 trillion in the first 19 months of his second term. Federal spending has grown, not shrunk. The six-month-old Iran war has become an expensive stalemate. And the cost of servicing the U.S. debt, meanwhile, has grown as yields on some U.S. bonds hit their highest levels in nearly two decades.”
The Air Marshals Keeping Watch On Eric Swalwell
“On August 8, former Representative Eric Swalwell boarded a United Airlines flight from Frankfurt, Germany, to Washington, D.C. He didn’t know it, but federal agents were watching him throughout the nine-hour trip,” The Atlantic reports.
“The FBI had asked the Federal Air Marshal Service to covertly monitor Swalwell on board and to watch him use his electronic devices, to see whether its officers could visually ascertain his passcodes… Air marshals are trained to blend in with other passengers and quietly keep tabs on their subjects, who are usually suspected terrorists or potential hijackers, not politicians.”
Iran Retaliates and Defies Trump’s Warning
“Iran retaliated against new U.S. strikes overnight, launching missiles and drones toward U.S. positions in the region in defiance of President Donald Trump’s warning Tuesday that such actions would see Iran ‘hit again at a much harder and higher level,’” the Washington Post reports.
”The overnight attacks came after U.S. forces launched a new round of strikes inside Iran, military officials said Tuesday, an expansion of attacks that recently resumed after weeks of a tenuous ceasefire.”
Americans See Sprawling Government Corruption
“The count of Americans who believe that corruption is widespread in government is at its highest point in the last 20 years,” Semafor reports.
“Almost nine in 10 Americans say that government corruption is widespread, according to new Gallup polling, an increase of 10 percentage points in the last year.”
Trump Pushed Construction Projects as Courts Sat By
“President Donald Trump has said he was puzzled when aides told him he could build a massive new White House ballroom without seeking approval,” the Washington Post reports.
Said Trump: “Sir, this is the White House, you’re the president of the United States. You can do anything you want.”
”The president has spent his second term in office testing — and often proving — that claim. Within a week of his remarks, Trump had torn down the White House’s East Wing to build his planned ballroom, the most significant change to the White House grounds in generations. He has since directed workers to cut down beloved trees in public parks, ordered up statues at the White House and across the city, and announced plans for new monuments, shaped by his own views for the nation’s capital.”
Pentagon in Crisis as Hegseth Tightens Control
“The Pentagon has entered a period of profound institutional turmoil, as a crisis of leadership at home converges with a crisis of capacity abroad,” Axios reports.
“Why it matters: Six months into the Iran war, Pete Hegseth presides over a Pentagon with fewer senior leaders, fewer critical weapons and less public accountability than at any point in President Trump’s two terms.”
CNN: Army leadership void fuels fears about Hegseth’s culture war fixation.
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