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Spanberger signs bill sending abortion and same-sex marriage amendments to voters
Confidence requires clarity.

Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) signed a bill sending several constitutional amendments on same-sex marriage, redistricting, and abortion to Virginia voters.

Continuing her legislative blitz, Spanberger signed bills approving three major left-wing priorities for the November ballot. In a statement, the governor defended the move as responding to national “attacks” on Americans’ rights and freedoms.

“Virginia voters deserve the opportunity to respond to the nationwide attacks on our rights, freedoms, and elections. Everyone deserves the freedom to marry who they love — and Virginia’s Constitution should affirm that all families are welcome in our Commonwealth,” she said.

“Women in Virginia deserve the freedom to make their own reproductive healthcare decisions without politicians dictating their choices. When Virginians have paid their debt to society, they deserve to regain their right to vote. And when other states take extreme measures, I trust Virginia voters to respond,” Spanberger added.

Regarding the bill that sent a new redistricting map heavily favoring Democrats to the voters, Spanberger stressed it was “temporary and responsive.”

She handed the pens used to sign the bills to different Democrats in the legislature who had helped move the legislation forward.

Just the day before, Spanberger signed an executive order terminating any cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, another left-wing priority.

SPANBERGER ORDERS TERMINATION OF VIRGINIA COOPERATION WITH ICE

The amendments are all expected to pass by popular vote in November.

After winning big in November 2025, Virginia Democrats have looked to flex their newfound power by pursuing more controversial policies, such as reviving diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and reducing punishments for some crimes. Critics have accused Spanberger and Virginia Democrats of pursuing a more left-wing agenda than they let on during their campaigns, which were dominated by centrist messaging.

Republicans blast Democrats' Trump election meddling claims as hypocritical 'conspiracy theory'
Confidence requires clarity.

Senate Democrats are accusing President Donald Trump of trying to meddle in the upcoming election cycle, and Senate Republicans are calling them out. 
The topic of election integrity was again thrust back into the forefront by House Republicans last week, who demanded that voter ID legislation be included in a deal struck by Trump and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to fund the government. 
While that ultimately never came to fruition, the talking point and legislative push has remained. 
THUNE REJECTS TRUMP'S CALL TO NATIONALIZE ELECTIONS, WARNS DEMS TRIED THE SAME
Trump has called on Republicans to nationalize elections throughout the week; the FBI conducted a raid on an election hub in Fulton County, Ga.; and a cohort from the Senate GOP are pushing for the SAVE America Act to get a shot in the upper chamber. 
Senate Democrats see the moves as laying the groundwork for election interference during the 2026 midterm election cycle — a point that they railed against Trump and Republicans for years. 
"I think as Trump gets more desperate, he's looking at ways that he can rig the election anytime a Republican doesn't win," Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., told Fox News Digital. "He thinks it's unfair, and so he wants to tilt the rules to make sure the Democrats don't win." 
"So yeah, I think we ultimately have to be really vigilant about this," he continued. "The Constitution is crystal clear, the federal government can't run state elections, but that doesn't mean he won't try."
REPUBLICANS, TRUMP RUN INTO SENATE ROADBLOCK ON VOTER ID BILL
The accusation has made Senate Republicans balk, particularly after congressional Democrats raged against the GOP for questions of election integrity following the 2020 election and after Democrats pushed for their own, sweeping election reform packages under former President Joe Biden. 
Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., told Fox News Digital that Democrats’ charge was "ridiculous." 
"Sounds like a conspiracy theory," Schmitt said. 
"I think President Trump cares very deeply about the integrity of our elections," he continued. "If you ask the American people, they support voter ID by overwhelming numbers. So look, they've got some outrage of the week every week."
Trump’s comments to nationalize elections came first during an interview with former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino on his podcast, where the president said, "The Republicans should say, ‘We want to take over, we should take over the voting in at least many — 15 places.’" 
Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., shot back that a Democratic politician didn’t need to …

Kamala HQ account changes X username after backlash over ‘67’
The headline tells the story.

Kamala HQ changed its X username again after the account was rebranded as the progressive content media hub Headquarters. 

The X and TikTok accounts relaunched on Thursday under the new brand name Headquarters, with a video featuring former Vice President Kamala Harris sharing with users what to expect. This is the first time the account has been active since the 2024 election.

“It’s where you can go online to get basically the latest of what’s going on, and also to meet and revisit with some of our great, courageous leaders,” Harris says in the video. “So stay engaged, and I’ll see you out there.”

Welcome to Headquarters, the new Gen-Z led progressive content hub.
— HQ (@headquarters68_) February 5, 2026

The rebrand was created in partnership with the progressive nonprofit organization People For the American Way and alumni of the 2024 Harris campaign. Harris will serve in an honorary Headquarters role as chairwoman emerita.

The account relaunched on X as @Headquarters_67 on Thursday, but was later changed to @Headquarters68_.

“Using the 67 meme to appeal to young people is just so deeply insulting to our intelligence. We want good jobs, green spaces, affordable homes, community, and a habitable planet,” Climate Defiance, a climate movement organization, wrote on X. “Speaking to us through a washed up TikTok trend is infantilizing. Is it not?”

“Zohran Mamdani proved that Gen-Z wants to be talked to like actual adults and not just won over with s***** memes, the DNC’s response to that is an account with 67 in the @,” another user wrote on X. 

The Washington Examiner contacted Luminary Strategies and People For the American Way for comment about the username change.

What is ’67’?

Following the initial rebrand, some social media users were quick to criticize the account’s use of “67” in the username. 

The term “67,” pronounced “six seven,” emerged as a popular slang with Generation Alpha and Generation Z on social media, and became ’s word of the year in 2025.

KAMALA HARRIS RUNNING IN 2028 IS ‘BEST NEWS’ FOR GOP: JOE CONCHA

“Six seven (or 67 or 6 7, etc.) is a nonsensical expression used especially by teens and tweens that is connected to a rap song and also to a 6’7” tall basketball player,” according to Merriam-Webster.

Some users online have argued that the term means “so-so,” especially when paired with a physical up-and-down hand motion. Other times, however, the term is used without any context as …

Structural Jury Bias Observed in Federal Court in Key West
Why resist verification?

Judge David S. Leibowitz,
I am writing regarding the jury selection process I observed in your courtroom on Thursday in the Martinez case.
Given your education and professional training, it is difficult to believe you are unaware of the extensive body of research demonstrating how in-group loyalty, authority bias, and social alignment distort human judgment. These effects are not neutralized by good intentions or by asking jurors to declare themselves impartial.
Yet you presided over a jury pool heavily composed of active law-enforcement officers and immediate family members of law enforcement in a criminal case dependent upon government testimony — and treated this as a fair cross-section of the community.
Procedurally permissible does not mean intellectually honest.
What I witnessed was not the mitigation of bias, but its institutional endorsement. The court’s reliance on the convenient fiction that individuals embedded within enforcement culture can simply suspend those affiliations contradicts both common sense and modern behavioral science.
A system that allows government power to be judged largely by those aligned with that same power is not impartial. It is self-affirming.
As a citizen, I found the proceeding troubling.
As someone capable of basic critical reasoning, I found it astonishing that a court of this stature continues to pretend otherwise.
If this is the standard by which impartial justice is now defined, the term has lost any meaningful connection to reality.
Curtis Gibson

White House report card: Poll shows Trump approval on economy and affordability at a new low
Who's accountable for the results?

Welcome to the latest issue of Washington Secrets, where we will be rooting for Sam Darnold, the pride of New York, as no one calls him, in the Super Bowl. Today we have our weekly report cards, with John Zogby trailing his new poll with more trouble for Donald Trump, and we take a look at how you can waste your money with some sports-politics crossover betting …

Donald Trump and the White House tried to move on this week from the PR disaster of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions in Minnesota. Officials talked up an outlier poll that suggested the president’s approval rating had bounced back to 50%, and on Thursday, Trump addressed the National Prayer Breakfast and later launched a website for discounted prescriptions as part of an effort to remind voters that he is working to bring down costs.

But much of the week was focused again on foreign policy. On Monday, the United States secured a deal with India to cut tariffs in exchange for buying $500 billion of American goods and ending purchases of Russian oil. A day later, Trump welcomed Gustavo Petro, his Colombian counterpart, to the White House.

He started Friday with fresh controversy, after sharing a video on Truth Social that appeared to depict the Obamas as apes.

So what did our pollster and strategist make of it?

John Zogby: D

The week began with news that Trump and his sons are suing the IRS because an employee released three years of tax returns showing that they paid no federal taxes. The president nominated Kevin Warsh as chairman of the Federal Reserve, and Wall Street loved it.

But the markets are now down, gold and silver have lost ground after a renaissance, and bitcoin seems to have evaporated.

Job openings are at their lowest since the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Over 100,000 jobs were cut last month, more than twice the number cut in January 2025. Jobless claims have more than doubled.

A new John Zogby Strategies Poll, out later Friday, shows the president’s approval of handling the economy and affordability is at its lowest, with 3 in 5 disapproving. His approval rating overall and on eight other issues is down.

Trump decided to preach fire and brimstone at the normally bipartisan and staid National Prayer Breakfast — rivaling his performance at Davos recently. Now GOP leaders fear losing both houses in November.

“But he sent 700 ICE agents home from Minneapolis and continues to engage with the governor and mayor.”

Jed Babbin: C plus

This was a middling-good …

Please Help Me!
This feels like a quiet policy shift.

Yesterday, I opened up a letter addressed to me from a retired school teacher I've known for several years. She is conservative, she is Christian, and she is a patriot that is very concerned, like several conservative pollsters are reflecting of late, that President Donald Trump got off to a great start but has lost the base of support he had in 2024 because of an over-emphasis on foreign policy and not enough attention on the issues that won him the White House a little over 14 months ago. She knows her concerns will never be able to reach the President or his team directly, so she outlined her thoughts and sent it to me, because I produce a radio show on which Mr. Trump and his cabinet have appeared dozens of times over the years, appealing to me to be the messenger and conduit. I have neither the "juice" nor the inside track for which she gives me credit, but I figure I do have a column that is fairly well read here, and certainly could at least address her concerns, and perhaps serve as something of an interlocutor between desires, well-intentioned though they may be, and realities. 

FBI’s Fulton County Election Raid: Better 6 Years Late Than Never
Trust is earned, not demanded.

The FBI’s Jan. 28 raid on Fulton County, Georgia’s election offices was sorely needed. It should have happened in 2020.

Americans should be proud of this country but ashamed of its Fourth World voting system. While Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has modernized Florida’s elections, Republican Gov. Brian Kemp has light years to go before Georgians can feel equally confident about its votes.

Greater Atlanta is the black hole in which election integrity goes to die. 

“Fulton County’s voter rolls are, have been, and continue to be a complete mess,” Republican State Senator Greg Dolezal says in a jaw-dropping new video on X. In the Peach State, “it is illegal to be registered to vote from anywhere other than your primary residence.”

As of Jan. 5, “about 70 people are registered to vote right here,” Dolezal marvels at a UPS Store.

Dolezal visits 850 Oak Street. “There are 19 people registered to vote at this abandoned house,” he explains. Its windows are broken or boarded up. A brown and green blob of weeds and ivy slowly devours the front porch. Nineteen people do not live there. Nonetheless, that’s where they are registered to vote.

Next: 1445 Woodmont Lane. Dolezal says that “138 people registered to vote here”–a virtual-mailbox enterprise called .

“This is 477 Peachtree Street,” Dolezal states. “There are 70 people registered to vote here. It’s a homeless shelter that closed in 2017”–approaching nine years ago.

At 2625 Piedmont Street, Dolezal observes: “Another UPS Store–96 registered voters here, in direct violation of Georgia law.”

Such corruption should be alien to the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. Yet here it is, in a mid-term election year, with Sen. Jon Ossoff’s, D-Ga., seat at stake and the GOP’s emaciated majority in play. Control of Congress could hinge on “voters” enrolled at homes populated solely by termites.

The FBI absolutely should probe the perpetrators behind political lawbreaking. During the 2020 election, Fulton County was a full-blown crime scene.

The Election Oversight Group LLC last month released a shocking document —

“Fulton County: Report of Investigation of the 2020 General Election.”

–“According to Fulton County and the State’s own records, 148,319 absentee ballots were counted for the 2020 General Election, but only 125,784 voters were recorded as casting ballots. Therefore, 22,535 more ballots were counted than voters given credit for voting.” That’s right: 22,535 more ballots than voters. That’s called stuffing ballots. If Joe Biden scored just 52.2% of these phony ballots, that would equal his statewide 11,769-vote “margin of victory.”

–“It’s important to note that the number of absentee ballots literally doubled from midnight on Election Day, with 74,024 ballots reported,” the study states. “All 148,318 absentee ballots were accepted and counted without first performing mandatory signature verification.”

–“Of all 376,863 ballots cast in-person (early voting and election day) every corresponding ballot image was willfully destroyed in violation of both state and federal law.”

–“Thousands of ballots appear in the original November 3rd count that were not included in …

Federal judge tosses Missouri lawsuit over Starbucks DEI policies
This looks less like justice and more like strategy.

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by Missouri alleging Starbucks‘s diversity, equity, and inclusion policies violated federal and state law, finding state officials’ claims were too broad to proceed in court.

U.S. District Judge John Ross, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, granted the coffee giant’s request to toss the lawsuit after finding that Missouri “did not point to even a single Missouri resident who lacked ‘Starbucks’ preferred racial or sex characteristics’ and suffered an adverse employment action as a result.”

“The Court cannot reasonably draw the inference that any of them have been harmed simply because of Defendant’s alleged DEI policies, as Plaintiff leaves to the imagination the actual enforcement and implementation of these policies,” the Thursday ruling reads.

“Plaintiff failed to allege that any actual Missouri residents applied for an open position in Missouri and were rejected, were passed over for promotion, were disciplined or demoted unfairly, or tried and failed to take advantage of any other benefit of employment with Defendant because of a protected characteristic,” Ross continued.

Ross explained in his ruling that the “minimal allegations” brought forward by Missouri in its lawsuit are “devoid of non-conclusory and non-speculative allegations establishing any actual, concrete, and particularized injuries to Missouri citizens,” and for that reason, “dismissal is warranted.”

“Plaintiff fails to allege any actual adverse employment action undertaken as a result of unlawful discrimination, and the policies and goals described do not confer employment opportunities to one protected class at the expense or to the exclusion of another,” Ross said in his ruling.

“Plaintiff’s reliance on allegations that Defendant adopted certain alleged policies does nothing to establish actual justiciable claims without any allegations as to how those policies were actually enforced in a way that violated any law,” the ruling continues.

Missouri could appeal the ruling dismissing its lawsuit to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit.

The lawsuit was originally filed against Starbucks by then-Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey in February 2025. Bailey left his position as the top prosecutor in the Show Me State in August 2025 to become co-deputy director of the FBI.

“Racism has no place in Missouri,” Bailey said when the lawsuit was filed. “We’re filing suit to halt this blatant violation of the Missouri Human …

Comer probes sudden wealth jump tied to Ilhan Omar's husband, eyes link to Minnesota fraud
This is performative politics again.

House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., announced Friday that he's investigating companies linked to Ilhan Omar's, D-Minn., husband, citing a dramatic increase in value in a short time and raising questions about whether their success could be tied to widespread fraud schemes uncovered in Minnesota. 
In a letter published Friday morning, Comer said the Oversight Committee would conduct a closer look at the ventures of Tim Mynett, who married Omar in March 2020.
"We want to know: who’s funding this? And who’s buying access?" Comer said.
In his letter, Comer described how two of Mynett's companies, eStCru LL. and Rose Lake Capital LL., went from being worth $51,000 in 2023 to up to $30 million in 2024.
"Given that these companies do not publicly list their investors or where their money comes from, this sudden jump in values raises concerns that unknown individuals may be investing to gain influence with your wife," Comer wrote in his letter to Mynett, citing congressional financial disclosures.
The Oversight Committee is asking Mynett to produce communications regarding the companies’ latest audits, communications with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), correspondence with any other federal agencies and travel records to or from the United Arab Emirates, Somalia or Kenya.
Comer did not explain how the committee is approaching the investigation but hinted that lawmakers were on guard for possible connections to the fraud schemes in Minnesota.
"The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is investigating widespread fraud in Minnesota’s social service programs," Comer told Mynett in his letter.
EMMER WARNS WALZ COULD END UP 'IN CUFFS' AMID MINNESOTA FRAUD CLAIMS
Mynett and Omar have come under public scrutiny in recent months as financial reports revealed that the pair’s wealth has grown exponentially since Omar arrived in Congress in 2019.
Those concerns overlap with ongoing federal, state and congressional probes into as much as $9 billion in state funding that Minnesota may have lost to fraud. Through scores of schemes, fraudsters allegedly siphoned funding from government programs like daycare centers and health clinics while returning no benefits, greatly exaggerating their services and pocketing government funding.
Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn., the House whip and No. 2 Republican in the chamber, said he expects the public will soon secure answers through the Oversight Committee’s demands for additional details.
"As President Trump said last month: Time will tell all. I’m confident that Rep. Comer’s investigation into Ilhan Omar’s …

Energy Secretary Chris Wright pushes back on utilities’ call for more wind and solar
Who benefits from this decision?

Utility companies looking to add every possible electron to the electric grid will not have the full backing of the Trump administration, as Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the United States needs reliable energy, not wind and solar power.

Utility trade groups, large tech firms, and major manufacturers, as well as Republican and Democratic lawmakers, have called for the Trump administration to adopt an “all-of-the-above” energy strategy, which would include renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, to meet the growing demand brought on by artificial intelligence and address soaring electricity prices.

Wright pushed back on industry and Capitol Hill messaging on Friday during a press conference at the Energy Department’s headquarters, saying the focus should instead be on ensuring the electricity grid is designed for peak demand. 

“When I hear politicians say, ‘We just added more electrons on the grid,’ no, we don’t,” Wright said.

Wright lambasted wind and solar power, which can be added to the grid relatively quickly, saying the renewable alternatives fail to add anything meaningful to the total capacity of the electricity grid.

“Giving me extra electricity when I don’t need it — it’s just an extra cost,” he said. 

His remarks came just one day after Drew Maloney, CEO and president of the utility and investor-owned electric company trade group Edison Electric Institute, told the Washington Examiner that the industry needs all electrons, regardless of resources.

“You look at a state like Iowa … a large percentage of their power comes from wind. Texas has a good mix of wind and solar,” Maloney said. “But you need it all. And you see, like during a storm like this, you know, where we became very reliant on fossil fuel as sort of base load, you need that too. And we need more nuclear…we need as many electrons on the grid as possible right now.”

During Friday’s press conference, Wright touted the administration’s efforts to prevent blackouts and major disruptions as a result of the sweeping winter storm Fern, which hit dozens of states in late January. 

Ahead of the storm, the Energy Department took actions to keep five coal plants scheduled for closure online to meet demand. Three of these plants were within the affected storm region.

The decision to keep the facilities online has been met with pushback, including from two utilities operating one of the plants.

The facility, the Craig Generating Station’s Unit 1 in Colorado, is jointly …