Sabrina Haake is a political analyst and 25+ year federal trial attorney specializing in 1st and 14th A defense. You can subscribe to her free Substack, The Haake Take.Veterans are standing in the middle of D.C.’s Memorial Circle at rush hour with banners denouncing plans for Trump’s arch. Their con…
Month: September 2026
Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Susan Collins (R-ME) accused the Trump administration’s budget office of breaking the law Friday after it moved to cancel $810 million in funding Congress had already approved.In a statement, Collins said the administration sent over the package of so-called poc…
Attorney General Todd Blanche quietly turned over unredacted handwritten FBI notes involving a woman who accused President Donald Trump of sexual and physical abuse when she was a teenager — but apparently left no notice on the court docket, according to attorney and journalist Katie Phang.Phang sai…
Some of President Donald Trump’s most loyal supporters are no longer rushing to his defense, according to a veteran Democratic pollster who said he watched it happen in real time.Cornell Belcher, who polled for Barack Obama’s campaigns and for the Democratic National Committee under Howard Dean, des…
Rep. Max Miller’s already ugly divorce has escalated into a legal showdown involving his own former father-in-law, Sen. Bernie Moreno, according to newly filed court documents obtained by TMZ.Miller reportedly issued subpoenas last week to Moreno and his wife, Bridget, Miller’s former mother-in-law,…
Artificial intelligence agents built by OpenAI tampered with websites run by three federal agencies this summer, and the company didn’t find out until much later, The New York Times reported Friday. The Education Department, the Commerce Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission were all…
President Trump has turned down a proposed pause in fighting with Iran and confided to aides that he anticipates striking the country again once this fall’s midterm elections have concluded, the Wall Street Journal reported.The rejected offer came out of weekend talks in Qatar, where Iranian represe…
President Donald Trump’s Saturday trip to Knoxville, Tennessee, will go without TV pool cameras after the White House barred CNN from traveling aboard Air Force One, The Washington Post reported Friday, citing two people familiar with the decision.CNN had been scheduled to fly with Trump to a colleg…
Former Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger ripped into President Donald Trump’s claim that the triumphal arch has a national security purpose.On Friday, Kinzinger appeared on CNN to discuss Trump’s claim that the arch will house snipers on its roof, giving it a national security purpose. Kinzinger…
Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa is out with a new ad recruiting an unlikely ally to her cause: a woman who attended the “Stop the Steal” rally on January 6 that immediately preceded the attack on the U.S. Capitol.”Greg Abbott is messing with Texas,” said the woman, self-descri…