Is it the beginning of the end? Perhaps the beginning of the beginning of the end, as little pockets of resistance in the form of protests, court filings, and rebellion from some Republicans have gotten us started on the road to reclaiming American values and ideals. 

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GOOD NEWS

Bondi has meltdown in front of House Judiciary Committee: Appearing before the House Judiciary Committee for questioning, Attorney General Pam Bondi refused to apologize for how the Justice Department handled the release of the Epstein files, even when confronted by a group of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims who were in attendance. Instead, she became visibly agitated and went on the attack, attempting to deflect by bringing up her predecessor, Merrick Garland. She also hurled insults at lawmakers, reading directly from a burn book, at one point shouting at Ranking Member Jamie Raskin, “You don’t tell me anything, you washed-up loser lawyer!” YAHOO

Minnesota immigration enforcement surge is ending, Trump border tsar says: The Trump administration is ending a massive immigration crackdown that swept across the Minneapolis-St. Paul area and other Minnesota communities, border czar Tom Homan said Thursday, concluding an operation that led to thousands of arrests, angry mass protests and the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens. AP

In victory for Democrats, Virginia Supreme Court says redistricting vote can go forward: In a big win for Virginia Democrats’ efforts to counter President Donald Trump’s GOP gerrymanders in other states, the Virginia Supreme Court said the state can hold its special election on Democrats’ own redistricting plan. The referendum vote is scheduled to take place on April 21. DEMOCRACY DOCKET

Democrat Chasity Verret Martinez wins Louisiana state House special seat in district Trump won: Louisiana Democrat Chasity Verret Martinez defeated her Republican opponent by double digits in the special election Saturday night for a state House seat in a district President Trump won by 13 points in 2024. Martinez won 62 percent of the vote compared to 38 percent for her Republican opponent, Brad Daigle. CBS

House votes to disapprove of Trump’s Canada tariffs: A symbolic vote. Nevertheless, six Republicans joined Democrats in voting to block President Trump’s tariffs on Canada. Cracks in the cult? Predictably, Trump threatened those in his party who voted against his tariffs in a Truth Social post moments before the vote was finalized. POLITICO

NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL

US Firms Paid Nearly 90 percent of 2025 Tariff Costs, NY Fed Study Says: A Federal Reserve Bank of New York report released Thursday, using data from the U.S. Census Bureau and Foreign Trade Statistics through November 2025, found Americans paid for nearly 90 percent of the tariffs in 2025, including 94 percent of the levies from January to August of last year, 92 percent from September to October, and 86 percent in November. FORTUNE

US adds 130K jobs in January, but barely gained any in 2025: The U.S. added 130,000 jobs in January but gained far fewer jobs than initially reported in 2025, according to data released Wednesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). (Can we trust any of this data? Who knows?)

DEMOCRACY IN DANGER

Trump delivers partisan appeal to uniformed soldiers at Fort Bragg: “You have to vote for us,” said President Trump in a campaign-style rally at Fort Bragg. Army policy prohibits partisan displays, and most service members refrained from cheering. WP (paywall)

A federal tool to check voter citizenship keeps making mistakes: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rolled out the revamped tool while it was still adding data. That led to widespread misidentification, particularly for citizens born outside the U.S. TEXAS TRIBUNE

State election officials brace for possible Trump interference in midterm results: Top bipartisan election officials from around the country are growing increasingly alarmed by what they see as President Trump’s unprecedented push to interfere in the midterm elections. POLITICO

IMMIGRATION  

Trump administration working to expand effort to strip citizenship from foreign-born Americans: Over the past several months, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the agency within DHS that’s responsible for legal immigration, has been sending experts to its offices around the country or reassigning staff members to focus on whether some citizens processed through those offices could now be denaturalized. NBC

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to spend $38 billion turning warehouses into detention centers, documents showy: USCIS expects to spend an estimated $38.3 billion on a plan to acquire warehouses across the country and retrofit them into new immigration detention centers with capacity for tens of thousands of detainees. GUARDIAN

US spent $40 million to deport roughly 300 migrants to nations other than their own: The Trump administration spent at least $40 million to deport roughly 300 migrants to countries other than their own as immigration officials expanded the practice over the last year to carry out President Trump's goals of quickly removing immigrants from the U.S. ABC

Several ICE agents were arrested in recent months, showing risk of misconduct: Investigators said one immigration enforcement official got away with physically assaulting his girlfriend for years. Another admitted he repeatedly sexually abused a woman in his custody. A third is charged with taking bribes to remove detention orders on people targeted for deportation. At least two dozen U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees and contractors have been charged with crimes since 2020. AP

ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next: Federal records show that over the past several months, ICE and DHS have carried out a secret campaign to expand ICE’s physical presence across the U.S. Documents show that more than 150 leases and office expansions have or would place new facilities in nearly every state, many of them in or just outside of the country’s largest metropolitan areas. WIRED (paywall)

CORRUPTION ALERT  

Bridge Owner Lobbied Administration Before Trump Blasted Competing Span to Canada: The billionaire owner of a bridge connecting Michigan with Canada met Howard Lutnick, the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, on Monday hours before President Trump lambasted a competing span, in the latest flashpoint in the deteriorating relationship between the United States and Canada. NYT (paywall)

Justice Department moves to dismiss Steve Bannon's criminal case: Bannon, a longtime ally of President Trump, was convicted in 2022 on two counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to appear for a deposition before the House committee that investigated the insurrection and declining to produce documents requested by the committee. NBC

SCIENCE, HEALTH, AND SAFETY

Trump administration erases government’s power to fight climate change: President Trump on Thursday announced he was erasing the scientific finding that climate change endangers human health and the environment, ending the federal government’s legal authority to control the pollution that is dangerously heating the planet. WRAL

Trump to direct Pentagon to buy coal to revive industry: President Trump is set to direct the Pentagon to use government funding and Pentagon contracts to sustain U.S. coal-fired power plants, Bloomberg News reported. REUTERS

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