Forget Law and Order — Trump’s Troop Deployments Are Dress Rehearsals for Nullifying Your Vote

Monday night, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker came right out and said it. Trump sending troops into American cities has nothing whatsoever to do with crime or policing but, instead, is all about stealing the 2026 election:

“Eight of the top 10 states with the highest homicide rates are led by Republicans,” Pritzker said bluntly. “None of those states is Illinois.”

In fact, the cities with the highest crime and homicide rates are Memphis, Tennessee and St. Louis, Missouri respectively, both in Red States.

A Reichstag fire is blazing in Trump’s America and we know exactly who is fanning the flames

US Border Patrol outside the Japanese American National Museum where Gov. Gavin Newsom was holding a redistricting press conference Aug. 14 in Los Angeles. Photo by Getty Images

As Gavin Newsom stood inside the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles to announce a California redistricting initiative aimed at countering gerrymandering in Texas ordered up by Donald Trump, federal agents in tactical gear massed outside. Helmets. Guns. Concealed identities. No clear explanation. Just presence.