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What Happened Today – August 6

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🚩 Today showed the systematic rewiring of the government into a weapon.

They’re disappearing the Constitution from official websites, deploying the National Guard to forcibly take DNA from detained migrants, and forcing FEMA disaster-relief employees to become deportation agents or lose their jobs.

They want you to get tired and look away. We have to see it all.

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Today’s Quote

“Due to a technical error, some sections of Article 1 were temporarily missing on the Constitution Annotated website. This problem has been corrected, and the missing sections have been restored.” 

-Library of Congress statement explaining why the online Constitution it maintains had blocks of text removed.

Yesterday’s Most Read Story

Tennessee executed intellectually disabled Byron Black despite defibrillator warnings, with inmate reporting severe pain attorneys predicted during lethal injection.

Today’s GovBrief News