DHS Targets Green Card Holders, and Democrats Confront Their Own Brand
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The Department of Homeland Security has formed a new 'Tactical Operations Division' specifically targeting lawful permanent residents for deportation, having already reviewed 2,890 cases with plans to remove at least 50 green card holders. The unit represents a significant expansion of immigration enforcement into a population that carries substantial legal due process protections — effectively industrializing what were previously handled as individual legal determinations.
In California, Governor Newsom declared his four-day return-to-office mandate for roughly 230,000 state workers 'final' despite union resistance and questions about office capacity, citing a $45 billion state budget deficit and arguing that in-person work improves productivity and service delivery. Newsom also hinted at a plan to 'keep Democrats in California's governor's race,' a signal of electoral anxiety in a state that should be safely Democratic.
New polling shows Trump underwater on approval ratings across every key 2026 Senate battleground state, including Arizona, Florida, and Ohio, prompting open debate within Republican circles about whether the president's active campaigning would help or hurt candidates in midterm races.
The Democratic Party faces its own structural dilemmas. Reporting indicates the DNC is quietly supporting independent candidates over its own nominees in several red-state races, suggesting party leadership believes the Democratic brand has grown too toxic in certain regions to be competitive. Harris campaign insiders are simultaneously speaking to what is being described as a 'secret 2024 autopsy' examining what went wrong in the last election cycle.
In Texas, the state Supreme Court blocked Governor Abbott's attempt to remove a Democratic legislator over walkout tactics — a rare instance of Republican-appointed judges constraining Republican executive authority on grounds of overreach.