June 15, 2021
The House Oversight Committee just released a series of fascinating memos that detail former President Trump's attempts to get the Department of Justice to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Trump, the emails show, repeatedly tried to wield the office of the presidency to suggest that widespread voter fraud was responsible for his election loss. In December, his assistant sent acting Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen an email claiming to show widespread voter fraud in Michigan. Later that month, the same assistant sent Rosen an email containing a draft lawsuit alleging election fraud, which Trump wanted the DOJ to file to the Supreme Court. Some of the emails detailed in the Oversight Committee memo are downright absurd. Former chief of staff Mark Meadows, according to the memo, repeatedly emailed Rosen over "claims of voter fraud caused by satellites from Italy." Read a summary here, or, if you can stomach 232 pages of DOJ documents, check out the full thing here. —Abigail Weinberg After years of threats, DACA has been reinstated—for now. BY ISABELA DIAS
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SOME GOOD NEWS, FOR ONCE
It’s an all-too-familiar story of state-sanctioned theft, land grabs in violation of Indigenous rights, and selective memory in the national news media. But the latest turn marks a major milestone. After Maine split away from Massachusetts generations ago, land controlled by the Passamaquoddy tribe was stripped. The tribe had acquired it under a treaty signed with Massachusetts, which then included Maine, after the Revolutionary War. Now, thanks to a sale of the island, supported by Indigenous communities, the tribe has reacquired almost all of the 150 acres in southwestern Maine’s Big Lake, which had been taken in violation of the treaty. A number of reporters have amplified the story, from the Boston Globe’s Charlie McKenna to the Portland Press Herald’s Colin Woodard, the Bangor Daily News’ Robbie Feinberg, and the Good News Network’s editorial staff, creating a composite portrait of local gains with national reverberations. Read their write-ups, and send more good news about Indigenous land and other areas of human rights to recharge@motherjones.com. —Daniel King Did you enjoy this newsletter? Help us out by forwarding it to a friend or sharing it on Facebook and Twitter.
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