Elon Musk is reactivating America PAC for the 2026 midterms, per Axios, focused on Republican voter turnout through door-knocking and digital ads. The same PAC spent more than $260 million helping elect Trump in 2024.

I think this is worth celebrating. The left doesn't hate Musk because he's erratic or because of anything he said on X. They hate him because he's effective, and 2024 proved it. More than a quarter-billion dollars in ground game and digital, pointed at turnout, in the right states. That's a big reason Republicans won.

I'm not saying Musk's money alone flipped 2024, and I'm not saying it'll flip 2026 either. But having someone willing to write those checks on our side changes the math, and the other side knows it. I hope Georgia's on the target list.

You already know Fauci pleaded the Fifth. What you don't have is what he was actually asked.

Sen. Rand Paul opened by reading from NIH grant records and asking Fauci directly whether his agency funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Fifth. Paul asked whether Fauci had been truthful with this committee in 2021 when he testified under oath that no such funding existed. Fifth. Paul asked whether Fauci had any knowledge, before the pandemic, of the specific bat coronavirus experiments conducted at WIV under EcoHealth Alliance grants that NIH administered. Fifth. Sen. Bernie Moreno asked whether the lockdown policies Fauci recommended were justified by the science available at the time. Fifth. Moreno then asked him to look at the people seated behind him — family members of COVID victims, small business owners — and tell them whether he had any regrets. Fauci repeated the line his attorneys gave him and stared straight ahead.

The strongest argument for his silence is the one his own attorney David Schertler would make: Biden's pardon doesn't cover future perjury, so any answer that contradicts his 2021 testimony exposes him to a new charge the pardon can't touch. That's a real legal problem. But here's what that argument concedes — the truthful answer to at least some of those questions differs from what he told Congress five years ago.

In 2021, Fauci told Sen. Paul under oath: "Senator Paul, I have never lied before the Congress, and I do not retract that statement." He said it directly into the camera. Wednesday, asked whether that statement was true, he invoked the Fifth Amendment.

Even Sen. John Fetterman, Democrat of Pennsylvania, showed up in a suit and told Fauci to his face that conservatives were right about the lab-leak theory and that he regrets dismissing it as a partisan talking point. That's not a Republican saying it. That's the ranking party's own member, in the room, on the record.

Paul has scheduled a contempt vote for Aug. 5 in the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Florida AG James Uthmeier announced a state-level investigation Wednesday afternoon. The pardon Biden wrote covers federal offenses through its issue date. It doesn't reach Tallahassee.

Hands down, my favorite part of the day was Fauci’s exchange with Senator Moreno. Moreno asked him to turn around and look at the families sitting behind him, and say whether he regretted any of it. Fauci read his attorneys' sentence and kept his eyes forward. That's when Moreno asked who the hell he thought he was. Best exchange of the day, and not for the language. Reading it doesn't get you there. Watch the ninety seconds here.

Why? I read every one.

🏠 Deportation helps make affordability possible

The Hill's argument is simple and worth reading in full: mass deportation is housing policy, not just border policy, and the case it makes connects enforcement to the cost of the roof over your head in ways the last fifty years of immigration debate never did.

🗳️ Democrat governor DEFIES DOJ investigation into noncitizen voting — DOJ vows to press on

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill admitted on July 21 that roughly 6,600 noncitizens were mistakenly registered to vote and about 400 actually cast ballots. She's now refusing to hand the list to DOJ, calling the request a Privacy Act violation. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon says the state will comply through "all legal means" regardless.

💰 Broke and desperate DNC gambles its HQ after getting email-scammed

The RNC ended last month with $128.53 million cash and no debt. The DNC under Chairman Ken Martin had $16.3 million and owed $18.5 million. To cover a $15 million loan from Amalgamated Bank, the party put up its physical headquarters at 430 South Capitol Street as collateral — and didn't flag the building in the relevant FEC filings. The full picture of how they got here is worth the click.

🗳️ EXCLUSIVE: Resurfaced video shows James Talarico discussing 'exciting' opportunity to end 'over-policing'

Talarico is currently tied in polling with Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton for Texas's open U.S. Senate seat. After 2020 he called ending "over-policing of communities of color" a "really exciting" opportunity. He's now running as a pro-police moderate. Fox has the video.

🏛️ Schumer urges Fetterman not to leave Senate Democratic caucus

Schumer told reporters Wednesday he wants Fetterman to stay and called him a "very good" member of Congress. That Schumer had to say it out loud tells you where things actually stand between Fetterman and the caucus that increasingly can't stand him.