2026SepAugJulJunMayAprMarFebJan2025DecNovOctSepAugJulJunMayAprMarFebNovember 202530 briefsSunSMonMTueTWedWThuTFriFSatS 1Donors and power grabs take precedence in Donald Trump's world. 2Expect Trump to continue using multiple distractions to avoid the humanitarian crisis we face. 3Tuesday is Election Day and our chance to begin restoring the norms we once lived under. 4Trump continues governing like an emperor even as today's election returns show Americans are unhappy with… 5Our biggest challenge is to bear witness to the suffering around us. 6JD Vance called a federal judge's order absurd tonight. 7The shutdown in the Republican-controlled federal government continues to expose systemic problems, includi… 8They're not hiding the lies anymore. 9Trump spent Sunday taking victory laps while Democrats folded. 10Trump went to the Supreme Court twice to stop food aid for 42 million Americans. 11Trump again refused to rule out attacking Venezuela today. 12They returned after six weeks and chose Epstein files theater over hungry children. 13The administration is suppressing dissent at every level. 14MAGA is eating itself in plain sight. 15They're pillaging our treasury. 16Donald Trump didn’t suddenly decide that transparency is good. 17Don't get distracted from our crumbling healthcare infrastructure. 18Trump's own supporters finally forced his hand today. 19Legislators and attorneys who should know better showed the world an ugly, lawless side of politics today. 20The authoritarian machine exists, but institutions are gumming up its works. 21"MTG turns on Trump and resigns. Mamdani and Trump are new best friends. I am so confused." 22Trump's flailing is driving him to extremes. 23A keen political strategist I know was concerned after the election that a new presidency would undermine A… 24A federal judge dismissed Trump's prosecutions of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney Gen… 25They make up rules, punish the resisters, and defy the courts. Then a damning tape leaks. 26Today is issue #300 of GovBrief Today, the publication I started ten days into Trump's second term when I w… 27This is what the President of the United States posted on Thanksgiving Day. 28They're making their own enemies. 29Members of Congress get better polling data than we do, so watch what they're doing. 30The amateurs are running the wars. ← October 2025December 2025 →