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Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller visited Washington, DC’s Union Station on August 20. They spoke with members of the National Guard during their visit. On August 11, President Trump ordered that the National Guard be deployed in Washington, DC under an emergency authority order to deal with crime. Washington, DC, has the lowest violent crime rate in 30 years, according to ongoing data from the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). During their visit to Union Station, there were many onlookers who were not happy with a visit from Trump Administration officials.

“There’s no reason to set the clock back, simply because Vladimir Putin gave him some political advice,” said Donna Brazile, former head of the Democratic National Committee and former chair of the DNC’s Voting Rights Institute. President Donald Trump said in his meeting with the Ukrainian president on Monday that he would issue an executive order before the 2026 midterms to end mail-in election ballots. Subsequently, the president also acknowledged his Alaskan conversation with Putin, in which the Russian president told him, “Your election was rigged because you have mail-in voting.”

After being told by Republicans who control the Texas House that she would not be permitted to leave the Texas State House after she refused to sign a “permission slip” for her freedom, Rep. Nicole Collier filed a writ of habeas corpus late on August 19.