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What Happened Today – August 18

🔥✈️🇺🇸 Foreign leaders flew into a militarily occupied Washington for a wartime summit, 3½ years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

NATO and EU heads pressed Trump on Ukraine while DC streets sat under armed patrols, restaurants down by one-third, democracy suffocating at home. This is what authoritarian rule looks like. Stopping it is on us.

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You are in the same suit. I changed, you did not.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, responding to a pro-Trump pundit at a press conference who needled, “You look fabulous in that suit.”
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