U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) bucks President Donald Trump's claim that the Jeffrey Epstein scandal is a "Democratic hoax." MAJOR GARRETT: "On the Epstein matter, Sen. Marshall, do you regard it as a Democratic hoax?" MARSHALL: "No, not at all."
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U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) bucks President Donald Trump's claim that the Jeffrey Epstein scandal is a "Democratic hoax." MAJOR GARRETT: "On the Epstein matter, Sen. Marshall, do you regard it as a Democratic hoax?" MARSHALL: "No, not at all."
Missouri State Rep. Marla Smith (D-St. Louis) notes no person of color signed off on GOP's illegal gerrymandering bill: "My ancestors marched, died, struggled so that they would have representation ... And when you create a map that disenfranchises them, you eliminate their voice."
ILLINOIS OFFICIALS PREVENT TRUMP’S DOJ FROM ACCESSING SENSITIVE VOTER DATA On Tuesday, the Illinois State Board of Elections (ISBE) denied a request from the Department of Justice (DoJ) which asked for sensitive voter information. Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/4p8EE3l
Missouri State Rep. Deaton (R), bumbles his way through State Rep. Aune's (D) grilling of him not providing any demographic data for the GOP's illegal gerrymandering bill. AUNE: "What are you hiding?" DEATON: "I'm not hiding everything. Everything I have is you're, you're available."
Missouri State Rep. Ashley Aune (D) trashes Rep. Dirk Deaton (R), sponsor of the GOP's gerrymandering bill, for asking representatives to vote on his bill without giving anyone the detailed map data. DEATON: "What data specifically do you seek?" AUNE: "Any data would be great."
Pressed by U.S. Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN), HHS Secretary RFK Jr. falsely claims he didn't blame the Annunciation Catholic Shooting on SSRIs and psychiatric drugs. (He did, on Fox and Friends last week.)
U.S. SEN. AMY KLOBUCHAR (D-MN): "We can't figure out that some of these people that have bought these guns, that have been involved in mass shootings shouldn't have these guns? In today's world, with all this stuff online, we're not able to put the resources into figuring that out?"
U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) calls for "common sense gun violence prevention laws" in response to the Annunciation Catholic School shooting in Minneapolis. "You don't have to have an assault weapon in a deer stand, but that's what he used that day in that church."
U.S. SEN. TINA SMITH (D-MN): "When were you lying, sir: when you told this committee that you were not anti-vax or when you told Americans that there's no safe and effective vaccine?" RFK JR.: "Both things are true."
U.S. Rep. Dean (D-PA) calls out the Trump administration for supporting Israel: "With very little resources, emaciated children too weak to walk or speak ... the Trump administration responds with its usual weakness and cruelty, denying injured Palestinian children passage to the U.S. for care."
U.S. Rep. Greg Landsman (D-OH) on HHS Secretary RFK Jr. causing chaos at the CDC: "When you're upending the CDC and our public health system, unfortunately you're going to see these outbreaks. And we're all going to turn to the professionals, and he's going to have gotten rid of a lot of them."
U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS), a physician, speaks out against the hepatitis B vaccine. He says he "doesn't see the benefit" in it if there isn't hepatitis in the family. Every unvaccinated person has some risk for hepatitis, according to the Hepatitis B Foundation.
U.S. Rep. Al Green (D-TX) on President Donald Trump stonewalling the release of the Epstein files: "The awesome power that the president has of simply saying 'let's get this done, let's release it,' and you don't. Why wouldn't people think that there's some sort of cover up?"
Energy bills have been steadily increasing since President Donald Trump took office in January, partially thanks to state and national Republicans ousting Biden-era clean energy policies and prioritizing nonrenewable energy sources. https://bit.ly/4gh6xSQ
CONSERVATIVE WISCONSIN SUPREME COURT JUSTICE WILL NOT SEEK REELECTION NEXT YEAR In a statement, Conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley said she believes the way to “rebuild the conservative movement” will not be as a minority member on the court. https://bit.ly/45Pz12k
Epstein survivor Chauntae Davies says the late alleged sex trafficker had a framed picture of Donald Trump on his desk. "His biggest brag, forever, was that he was very good friends with Donald Trump."
Jeffrey Epstein survivor Lisa Phillips announces that a group of fellow survivors are going to compile their own list of known abusers. "Now, together as survivors, we will confidentially compile the names we all know who were regularly in the Epstein world."
At the same time survivors of Jeffrey Epstein spoke out in Washington D.C., President Donald Trump shunned them and called it "a Democrat hoax." "...They're trying to get people to talk about something that's totally irrelevant to the success we've had as a nation."
Two days after pleading guilty to domestic abuse and assault, Oklahoma state Rep. Ty Burns (R-Morrison) said he will officially resign from his position effective Oct. 1. https://heartlandsignal.com/2025/09/02/oklahoma-republican-lawmaker-resigns-after-pleading-guilty-to-domestic-abuse/
House Republicans defending President Donald Trump sending the National Guard to Washington D.C. leave their press conference to loud chants of "shame!"
J.B. Pritzker (D): We have reason to believe that Stephen Miller chose the month of September to come to Chicago because of celebrations around Mexican Independence Day that happen here. It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try and disrupt community picnics & peaceful parades
ILLINOIS GOV. J.B. PRITZKER (D): "I'm aware that the president of the United States likes to go on television and beg me to call and ask him for troops ... I refuse to play a reality game show with Donald Trump again."
President Donald Trump on sending the National Guard to Chicago: "Well, we're going in. I didn't say when, but we're going in."
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (DFL) on the feasibility of getting a state assault weapons ban passed: "We need the question called. Let's have the debate. Let's have the argument. Let's move forward and take the vote, because that is what our constituents are demanding."
Donald Trump suggests arming teachers to solve the school shootings. "If you took a small percentage of teachers that were in the military, that were distinguished in the military, that were in the National Guard, etc., etc., and you let them carry, that's something that a lot of people like."
Gov. Laura Kelly prevents Kansans’ Social Security numbers and personal data from insecure sever https://heartlandsignal.com/2025/08/29/gov-laura-kelly-prevents-kansans-social-security-numbers-and-personal-data-from-insecure-sever/
Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst reportedly not seeking reelection in 2026 https://heartlandsignal.com/2025/08/29/iowa-sen-joni-ernst-reportedly-not-seeking-reelection-in-2026/
Democrat Catelin Drey wins Iowa special election, removes Republican supermajority https://heartlandsignal.com/2025/08/28/democrat-catelin-drey-wins-iowa-special-election-removes-republican-supermajority/
GOP-authored Michigan bill would legalize discriminating against women who receive abortions https://heartlandsignal.com/2025/08/27/gop-authored-michigan-bill-would-legalize-discriminating-against-women-who-receive-abortions/
SEN. KLOBUCHAR (D): "Right now, some doctors & nurses that are sitting in an operating room with a little kid trying to save them from a shot in the stomach or shot in the neck. And that's what we think of viscerally now. But to just let it go there & say 'thoughts and prayers' is no longer enough."
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D): "These were Minneapolis families. These were American families ... Don't just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church."
ANA CABRERA: "You can't even get through the first week of school in Minnesota without a school shooting." U.S. SEN. AMY KLOBUCHAR (D-MN): "When you have so much access to guns right now and so many guns out there on the streets, you're going to continue to see these kinds of mass shootings."
BREAKING: Suspected shooter of the Catholic School in Minneapolis confirmed dead.
Minnesota State Sen. John Hoffman (DFL) at his first public appearance after surviving an assassination attempt: "We must call Americans to action in ways that don't incite intimidation and political violence, right? Having our own homes violated by evil cannot be the new normal, right?"
Constituent: at Rep. Mark Alford's (R-MO) town hall: "I am pissed, and I am pissed at you ... You need to take your head out of Trump’s ass and start doing your representation of us."
Per WCCO, the One Big Beautiful Bill's cuts to SNAP has ended the University of Minnesota's healthy eating SNAP program. "We educated in the schools; we worked with seniors. It's one thing to tell someone you need to eat more fruits & vegetables. It's another thing to have them have access to it."
Sen. Duckworth (D-IL) on Trump's threats to have the military occupy Chicago: "This is just another sad desperate attempt by a small man to distract the American people from the price spikes his own policies are still causing and the countless personal scandals he's trying to sweep under the rug"
J.B. Pritzker (D) on Trump calling him out this morning: "Trump looked at the assembled cameras and asked for me personally to say, 'Mr. President, can you do us the honor of protecting our city?' Instead, I say, Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. You are neither wanted here nor needed here."
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) says Donald Trump has not contacted him or Mayor Brandon Johnson since saying he is sending the military to Chicago: "We found out what Donald Trump was planning the same way that all of you did: We read a story in the Washington Post."
IOWA REPUBLICAN ZACH NUNN POSTS AD FEATURING AN OUT-OF-DISTRICT CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL OPERATIVE A recent political ad released by U.S. Rep. Zach Nunn (R-IA) features a conservative political operative portraying herself just as an “Iowa mom.” FULL STORY: https://bit.ly/47IxU5N
Daniel Hawkins (R), Kansas House speaker and state insurance commissioner candidate, brags about targeting Medicaid to help slash another $200 million in the state budget. “Just like we've seen on the federal level, Medicaid has lots of opportunity in it.”
HOT MIC: Georgia Senate candidate and U.S. Rep. Mike Collins (R) tells a constituent that President Donald Trump is in the Epstein files and calls to release them.
THE LATEST ON REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS REDRAWING THEIR OWN DISTRICTS IN HEARTLAND STATES President Donald Trump is pressuring states where Republicans hold a trifecta to redistrict — sometimes illegally — before the 2026 elections. https://bit.ly/41TiOqi
Michigan State Rep. Pohutsky (D) on Trump using the National Guard against citizens. "My father served in World War II. He went & liberated one of the concentration camps ... And this type of authoritarian activation of our troops & utilizing them against citizens ... is very, very frightening."
Missouri House Minority Leader Ashley Aune talks state GOP’s rumored redistricting scheme with WCPT’s Patti Vasquez https://heartlandsignal.com/2025/08/20/missouri-house-minority-leader-ashley-aune-talks-state-gops-rumored-redistricting-scheme-with-wcpts-patti-vasquez/
REPORT: MICHIGAN CHILD CARE PROGRAM SHUTS DOWN AFTER LOSING FEDERAL MONEY Focus: HOPE, a community organization in Detroit that provides child care services to low-income families, will shut down its Head Start program after losing its federal grant money. https://bit.ly/4oFi9md
MSNBC'S NICOLE WALLACE: "What have your past few weeks and days been like?" TEXAS STATE REP. RON REYNOLDS (D): "It has been a living nightmare ... We have $500-a-day fines. We have threats of arrest. We have the United States Sen. John Cornyn asking the Justice Department to hunt us down."
Texas State Rep. Ron Reynolds (D): "My wish is that more Democrats would grow a backbone and fight just like the Texas Democrats did by breaking quorum ... We need to make sure that blue states respond ... It is time for Democrats to stand up to fight, to preserve our democracy."
Michigan State Rep. Alicia St. Germaine (R-Harrison Township) says people blocking traffic in protest amounts to false imprisonment and "holding somebody hostage." "Maybe I'm trying to get to the airport. I just booked a $5,000 cruise. I might be pretty pissed off."
Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier (D), who is staying at the state capitol after rejecting a police escort mandated by the House speaker, gets told to leave a DNC press call she was forced to make in the bathroom or face a felony charge.
Defending her bill to ban protests via blocking highways, Michigan State Rep. Alicia St. Germaine (R) says it's not fair for her to be prosecuted for hitting someone with her car. "I don't think it's fair for, say, myself, if I injure somebody, that now I have to be persecuted."
Stephen Miller insults people protesting him and the Trump administration's National Guard occupation of Washington D.C. "All of these elderly, white hippies, they're not part of this city and never have been."
BRIAN FITZPATRICK GETS CREDIT FOR VOTING FOR TAX CUTS, TRIES TO DODGE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR SLASHING MEDICAID AND SNAP U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) is attempting to dodge responsibility for originally supporting President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill. https://bit.ly/4oKlZur
Texas State Rep. Charles Perry (R) while endorsing his bill to ban THC: "Every state that is legalized recreational pot may have less people in prison, but they have more people laying on the street and ... less people working because of lost productivity." (??)
Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters to force out-of-state teachers to take ‘America First’ test heartlandsignal.com/2025/08/18/o...
The Alaska summit wasn't Trump's only failure on Friday. His attack on behalf of Elon Musk against liberal watchdog @mmfa.bsky.social and the 1A also failed... at least for now. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/edwineis...
Michigan Republican lawmakers have introduced legislation to overturn the state’s ban on conversion therapy, a set of practices that attempt to force members of the LGBTQ+ community into being straight. heartlandsignal.com/2025/08/13/m...
SEN. DUCKWORTH (D): "Have you even seen what [Trump] done to the White House? How much gold and gilding he's put in that? It is gaudy and ugly, and it's not what America is about. And the last time I was in a room that gaudy and ugly was Saddam Hussein's toilet. And we flushed him down the toilet."
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s comments belittling autistic people: "Kids and adults with autism, loving contributors to our society, don't deserve to be stigmatized by a weird nepo baby who once stashed a dead bear in the back seat of his car."
Missouri State Rep. Ashley Aune (D) calls out Republicans that aim to further gerrymander the state: "They're gonna do exactly what Daddy Trump told them to. They're gonna hit that button, and they're going to give us a 7-1 map in Missouri ... It's bullshit, and we won't stand for it in Missouri."
Lenexa (KS) Councilwoman Melanie Arroyo revealed that local police recently investigated her citizenship after an anonymous person filed a complaint with the Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI). The KBI, overseen by AG Kris Kobach (R), closed the case after she proved her naturalization.
WCPT's Richard Chew has a call to action after Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) says "everything is on the table" to fight back against Donald Trump and the Texas GOP. "Start right now. Don't wait six months and say, 'Well, I'll start the call.' Make these calls now."
Can Democrats bring the fight to Trump's turf? The answer better be yes! I talked about what that's going to take with new Democrat and former GOP congressman @walshfreedom.bsky.social. I hope you'll give it a listen: omny.fm/shows/the-bi...
Texas State Rep. Jolanda Jones (D-Houston) on Meet the Press NOW: “Here's the problem with Trump: He's a bully. He's a liar, and he doesn't respect anyone or the Constitution or democracy or us. So if that's what you wanna do, you started it. We're gonna finish it.”
HEARTLAND STATES ARE AT THE CENTER OF REDISTRICTING ARMS RACE Heartland states are at the center of a growing redistricting battle as America’s political parties fight for control of Congress in the 2026 midterm elections. heartlandsignal.com/2025/08/06/h...
GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn announces Tennessee gubernatorial bid heartlandsignal.com/2025/08/06/g...
Texas State Rep. Ramón Romero Jr. (D) on the bomb threat that was called on the Illinois hotel the Texas Democratic lawmakers were staying at: "We are safe ... This definitely troubling, when people use the dog whistles, like 'hunt them down.' ... We will not be deterred."
REPORTER: "Why not go back and fight it out or negotiate with Republicans on these maps?" TEXAS STATE REP. GENE WU (D): "Because there's no interest in negotiations. The Republicans can only do what Donald Trump tells them to do. They have no independent thinking."
U.S. Rep. Crockett (D-TX) on Sen. Cornyn's (R-TX) hard right turn: "I'm convinced the only way that you can succeed with MAGA is you got to cheat on your wife, you gotta have some felonies hanging over your head, you gotta do something that makes you a little saucy before they will get behind you."
Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair Gene Wu on why Democrats are threatening to redistrict blue states in retaliation of the Texas GOP: "As long as Republicans are unwilling to obey the law and listen to the people, Democrats don't really have a choice."
CNN'S BRIANNA KEILAR: "Why do this in a census off year when you just redistricted in 2021?" TEXAS STATE REP. MITCH LITTLE (R): "Because we can." KEILAR: "Why should you, though?" LITTLE: "Because it's good for our party."
Texas State Rep. Brian Harrison (R-Midlothian) says Democrats deserve to be redistricted out: "These democrats deserved to be punished." He then repeatedly dodges The Hill's Cory Smith on why redistricting is necessary if Donald Trump's policies are supposedly so popular.
CBS NEWS REPORTER: "You willing to go to jail over this?" TEXAS STATE REP. ANN JOHNSON (D): "This threat of arrest, this is not normal. Do not think that we can turn into a nation where you arrest and jail your political opposition"
"Tax the rich" chants erupt at U.S. Rep. Mike Flood's (R-WI) town hall.
ILLINOIS GOV. J.B. PRITZKER (D): "If they're gonna cheat, then all of us have to take a hard look at what the effect of that cheating is on democracy . And that means we've all got to stand up and do the right thing. So as far as I'm concerned, everything is on the table."
CBS NEWS: "You know that Republicans ... look at what you guys are doing and thinking you're running away from the fight..." TEXAS STATE REP. ANN JOHNSON (D): "Yeah, no. Abandoning your job is going to Cancun in the middle of a deadly freeze, right?"
I wrote this for anyone who has friends--like I do- who fell for the GOP lies about Democrats and Sydney Sweeney. I hope you will give it a read: open.substack.com/pub/edwineis...
REPUBLICANS THROUGHOUT THE HEARTLAND PROP UP BOGUS CHEMTRAIL CONSPIRACY Republicans throughout the Heartland are passing bills that ban “chemtrails,” which do not exist. heartlandsignal.com/2025/07/31/r...
Saturday on WCPT: how Trump has made us less free, less prosperous and less safe. My guests: + @sbagen.bsky.social + @walshfreedom.bsky.social + @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social of @propublica.org + Economist Rob Shapiro 🎧 1-4pm CT @heartlandsignal.bsky.social 🤳Stream bit.ly/3DAcG8s
I'm proud to be a Democrat. On the biggest questions of the last hundred years, and continuing to this day, Democrats have delivered a healthier, freer, more prosperous America. We need to work together to do it again. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/edwineis...
MISSOURI GOP CONSIDERING SPECIAL SESSION TO GERRYMANDER STATE EVEN MORE Republicans in Missouri, who control the state legislature and governor’s mansion, are reportedly considering calling a special session this year to redraw the state’s congressional maps. heartlandsignal.com/2025/07/31/m...
Oklahoma State Superintendent Walters falsely claims he's been cleared of screening a video of naked women during a meeting. When a reporter says the County Sheriff's Office didn't clear him, Walters said it told him yesterday he was cleared. The sheriff's office said an hour ago he wasn't cleared.
Denying that he had a video of naked woman on a TV in his office during a meeting, Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters baselessly claims Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) directed school board members to fabricate the story, falsely says he's been cleared and threatens the media.
OKLAHOMA SUPERINTENDENT RYAN WALTERS UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR CLAIMS OF VIDEO OF NAKED WOMEN PLAYING IN OFFICE bit.ly/4l3hdoO
Prominent Texas state Rep. Giovanni Capriglione (R-Southlake) has been accused of having a 17-year affair with an exotic dancer, who says the anti-reproductive rights lawmaker paid for multiple abortions for “his own personal gain.” heartlandsignal.com/2025/07/28/a...
President Donald Trump’s tariffs on imported vehicles and auto parts has cost General Motors, the United States’ largest automobile manufacturer, $1.1 billion in the second quarter of 2025 alone, according to the company. heartlandsignal.com/2025/07/28/a...
4 HEARTLAND STATES WHERE REPUBLICANS HAVE OBSTRUCTED DIRECT DEMOCRACY Republicans across the Heartland continue to blatantly undermine direct democracy and the will of voters in their state. heartlandsignal.com/2025/07/24/4...
WISCONSIN GOV. TONY EVERS WILL NOT SEEK A THIRD TERM On Thursday, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers (D) announced that he will not seek a third term in office in 2026, giving the state its first open gubernatorial race in 16 years. Full story here: heartlandsignal.com/2025/07/24/w...
U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) on President Donald Trump being friends with Jeffrey Epstein: "They knew each other. They ran in the same circles. It's just like me. I know a lot of dirtbags myself."
U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX) on the GOP's redistricting efforts in Texas: "Republicans are covering for predators because that's what the felon in the White House has asked them and ordered them to do."
Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) grills Christopher Fox, the intelligence community inspector general nominee, over President Trump trying to distract the public from the Epstein files by attacking President Obama. "My ten-year-old nephew understands that was a distraction."
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) questions whether people could even trust what Ghislaine Maxwell says if she were to be subpoenaed.
U.S. Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) speaks out against civil rights laws and the civil rights movement. "Rather than protecting the constitutional order of the founders, it has become the vanguard of a revolution of political-legal-social-even-moral underpinnings of American society."
Mike Johnson to start House recess early to block bipartisan push to release Epstein files heartlandsignal.com/2025/07/23/m...
U.S. Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO) on using subpoena power to release more information on the Epstein files (despite using it for the Hunter Biden laptop): "If I felt like that it was a priority for Americans, then of course. But like I said, this has not been something that's been a driving force."
U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) can't get a yes-or-no answer from Alex Adams, nominee for Assistant Secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services, on if he would review the Trump administration's firings at Head Start.
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) praises the controversial "Alligator Alcatraz" in Florida and calls for one in Texas: "I'm hopeful that other states will step up to help in similar ways. If we could find a way to make something like this work in Texas, I would strongly support it."
Pritzker joins Democratic governors in fighting against Trump’s tariff policies heartlandsignal.com/2025/07/22/p...
Democrats have a critical job to do- it's nothing short of saving the country. So when democrats trash other democrats, that's really unhelpful. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/edwineis...