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What Happened Today – August 20

Texas Republicans gerrymandered five more GOP seats in Congress as Trump deploys federal forces to cement his D.C. takeover.

Now CBP agents are even patrolling National Park Service sites across the city. At the same time, he’s gutting the IRS, CDC, and national intelligence so corruption keeps running wild. Authoritarianism advances by choking the vote, crushing expertise, and rewarding grift.

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We are not going to let the communists destroy a great American city, let alone the nation’s capital. And let’s just also address another thing. All these demonstrators you’ve seen out here in recent days, all these elderly white hippies, they’re not part of the city and never have been. And by the way, most of the citizens who live in Washington, D.C., are Black.

So we’re going to ignore these stupid white hippies that all need to go home and take a nap because they’re all over 90 years old.
Stephen Miller talking to National Guard troops inside Union Station in Washington on August 20 accompanied by Vice President Vance and Defense Secretary Hegseth.
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Jeanine Pirro announces DC federal prosecutors will no longer bring felony charges for carrying rifles or shotguns, effectively nullifying the city’s gun law.

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