https://www.leftscoop.news Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:29:19+0000 en-us hourly 1 https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/trump-retreats-to-red-state-safe-spaces-as-gop-fears-his-campaign-damage/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63410 2026-09-25T23:11:03+00:00 Julian Hayes Trump promised an aggressive campaign blitz across 35 places, but Republicans are steering him toward safe territory in Alabama and Oklahoma while operatives openly suggest his presence could hurt candidates in the contests that actually need help. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/republicans-had-690-days-to-defy-trump-and-chose-cowardice/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63407 2026-09-25T23:11:03+00:00 Maya Bennett Facing a looming election disaster, Republican candidates are suddenly distancing themselves from Trump’s Iran conflict and other policies. Their votes, however, reveal continued alignment with the president after nearly two years of obedience. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/trump-voters-savage-ken-paxton-as-bad-amoral-and-corrupt/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63429 2026-09-25T23:11:03+00:00 Daniel Mercer With fewer than six weeks before Election Day, polling shows Ken Paxton losing to James Talarico as Trump voters call the Republican nominee corrupt and GOP spending fails to erase Talarico’s early attacks. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/hollywood-star-torches-rich-white-men-for-wrecking-entertainment/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63426 2026-09-25T23:11:03+00:00 Maya Bennett Issa Rae’s biting assessment comes as Hollywood faces corporate consolidation, artificial intelligence, disappearing jobs, and political resistance to regulation, leaving workers to absorb the damage while wealthy executives continue expanding their control. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/fbi-hack-is-an-even-bigger-catastrophe-than-it-first-appeared/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63423 2026-09-25T23:11:03+00:00 Julian Hayes ShinyHunters obtained deeply sensitive information involving FBI personnel, applicants, families, and specialized assignments, while Director Kash Patel remained publicly silent as the agency scrambled to investigate a humiliating breach of its own systems. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/shocker-yet-another-voter-fraud-claim-goes-down-in-spectacular-flames/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63420 2026-09-25T23:11:03+00:00 Elena Brooks DHS claimed thousands of noncitizens appeared on Nevada’s voter rolls, then narrowed its allegation to 185 people. Nevada officials checked every case and found that all 185 were citizens, leaving the administration’s latest voter fraud narrative in ashes. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/ken-paxton-picks-a-spectacularly-petty-fight-with-drag-queen-alyssa-edwards/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63417 2026-09-25T23:11:03+00:00 Claire Sullivan Ken Paxton tried to turn James Talarico’s admiration for drag queen Alyssa Edwards into campaign ammunition. Edwards fired back by highlighting her Texas roots, community contributions, and Paxton’s apparent preference for culture war theatrics over policy and leadership. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/trump-team-revels-in-relentless-brutality-against-immigrants/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63414 2026-09-25T23:11:03+00:00 Daniel Mercer The administration is pushing the Supreme Court to preserve third country deportations while using procedural word games to evade lower court orders, extending a campaign defined by cruelty toward detained immigrants. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/missouris-redistricting-fiasco-could-finally-bury-trumps-mid-decade-power-grab/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63404 2026-09-25T23:11:03+00:00 Maya Bennett Missouri Republicans’ attempt to impose a Trump friendly congressional map has produced conflicting court orders, contempt proceedings and voter backlash, while broad national opposition threatens to make mid decade redistricting a politically toxic dead end. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/leon-black-is-tedious-and-william-cohans-bloated-book-makes-it-worse/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63401 2026-09-25T23:11:03+00:00 Claire Sullivan William Cohan secured extraordinary access to Leon Black and Apollo’s inner circle, but his sprawling account favors billionaire gossip and competing insider narratives over serious scrutiny of private equity’s effects on patients, workers, taxpayers, and the broader economy. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/private-equity-landlords-swarm-a-multibillion-dollar-double-dip-bailout/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63398 2026-09-25T23:11:03+00:00 Daniel Mercer A possible $2 billion to $3 billion settlement is drawing nearly 1,000 property owners, including hundreds of LLCs tied to major investors, even as Starwood linked properties previously collected more than $10 million in federal disaster relief in Florida. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/judges-crush-ices-shady-bid-to-keep-third-country-removals-alive/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63395 2026-09-25T23:11:03+00:00 LSN Staff The appeals court made clear that its rejection of Trump’s third country removal policy took immediate effect, protecting one Peruvian man while ICE charter flights continued moving toward known removal destinations in Africa. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/tommy-tuberville-loses-it-over-furries-flying-the-friendly-skies-watch/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63338 2026-09-25T23:11:03+00:00 LSN Staff Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville devoted a 20 minute Senate floor speech to attacking transgender people and warning that furry community members work as pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers, turning a harmless hobby into his latest object of political panic. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/kamala-harris-in-2028-democrats-should-brace-for-another-crushing-disaster/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63320 2026-09-25T23:11:03+00:00 Claire Sullivan Gavin Newsom says he will stay out of the 2028 presidential race if Kamala Harris runs, while her donor outreach and rejection by several Democratic candidates raise serious questions about whether another campaign can survive the primaries. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/trump-administration-blows-off-legal-deadline-buries-potentially-damning-fisa-opinion/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63311 2026-09-25T23:11:03+00:00 Daniel Mercer The administration is withholding a potentially damning surveillance opinion while pushing Congress toward a clean Section 702 reauthorization using a November deadline that privacy advocates say does not reflect when lawmakers must actually act. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/unions-unleash-a-bold-new-blueprint-to-build-progressive-power/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63314 2026-09-25T23:11:03+00:00 Julian Hayes Labor leaders across three swing states are turning extensive worker conversations into concrete agendas, seeking to strengthen organizing, support aligned candidates, challenge corporate power, and reconnect with members who feel abandoned by both party establishments. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/trumps-team-is-racing-to-make-america-sicker-than-ever/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63344 2026-09-25T23:11:03+00:00 Elena Brooks The Trump administration is targeting nursing home infection reporting, delayed COVID-19 vaccine access for a program serving about 52% of children, and is removing 760,000 people from Affordable Care Act plans under an unclear fraud standard. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/a-foul-musk-looms-over-the-paramount-and-warner-bros-merger/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63350 2026-09-25T23:11:03+00:00 Daniel Mercer Paramount’s conservative owners may seek an investment from Elon Musk, potentially giving the Republican donor influence over CNN, major film and television production, and an expanding media empire already accused of pushing CBS News sharply rightward. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/trump-unleashes-a-prediction-market-gambling-nightmare/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63332 2026-09-25T23:11:03+00:00 Maya Bennett Kalshi wants federal approval for margin trading as Trump regulators help prediction markets expand nationwide, even while most users lose and Donald Trump Jr. holds influential roles at both Kalshi and Polymarket. https://www.leftscoop.news/2026/09/f-35-stealth-components-somehow-fell-into-chinas-hands/ https://www.leftscoop.news/?p=63347 2026-09-25T23:11:03+00:00 Julian Hayes Australian F-35 components intended for inspection in the United States instead traveled through South Korea and Hong Kong before reaching the Chinese government, raising serious questions about commercial shipping, military logistics, and political accountability.