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8 hours ago | 
wakeuptopolitics.com | Gabe Fleisher
Hi all,Thanks for your comments on this morning’s piece on due process — I hope you found it helpful. Here’s a link in case you haven’t read it yet, plus a link to the piece it’s following up on:Do you still have lingering questions about the case? Then I want to hear them!In fact, if you have any burningquestions on government, politics, history, or more — drop them in the comments and I’ll try to answer them in my Sunday mailbag piece.
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13 hours ago | 
wakeuptopolitics.com | Gabe Fleisher
American politics has been gripped by debates about “due process” lately. It has become a rallying cry for Democrats, who charge that due process has been denied to migrants deported by the Trump administration.
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3 days ago | 
wakeuptopolitics.com | Gabe Fleisher
During Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s confirmation, a significant amount of attention was devoted to allegations about his drinking habits and his treatment of women, including a last-minute affidavit by his ex-sister-in-law that expounded on both. Less attention was paid to claims that he mismanaged the two organizations he had previously led, a pair of veterans groups named Vets for Freedom (VFF) and Concerned Veterans for America (CVA).
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4 days ago | 
wakeuptopolitics.com | Gabe Fleisher
Hi everyone! Happy Easter to all who celebrate. I’m here today with your weekly Sunday mailbag column for paid subscribers.
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6 days ago | 
wakeuptopolitics.com | Gabe Fleisher
Donald Trump and his allies are fond of the phrase, “Promises made, promises kept.” And they have a point: whether you like what he’s doing or not, you can’t deny that he’s doing. In less than three months in office, Trump has signed a record 130 executive orders, making progress on a wide array of his policy objectives. Tariffs? Check. Cracking down on border crossings? Check. Leaving the Paris climate deal? Check. Unwinding federal DEI programs? Check. January 6th pardons? Check. The list goes on.
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1 week ago | 
politicspoliticspolitics.com | Justin Robert Young |Gabe Fleisher
In a recent Oval Office meeting, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni sat across from Donald Trump as part of a European Union effort to navigate the ongoing trade turbulence. The meeting was cordial enough. Meloni emphasized transatlantic unity and expressed hope for deeper economic collaboration. Trump, however, was unmoved. He praised Meloni personally, but made his stance clear: the U.S. is not in a rush to finalize trade deals.
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1 week ago | 
wakeuptopolitics.com | Gabe Fleisher
I wasn’t planning to write again (yet) about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the migrant deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador despite an order protecting him from being sent there, but I continue to be frustrated by politicians from both parties (and their associated media outlets) telling only half the story and skewing the facts in one direction or the other.
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1 week ago | 
thepreamble.com | Gabe Fleisher
Before there was January 6, 2021, there was May 9, 1798. Amid the specter of a potential war with France, President John Adams had set the day aside as a “National Day of Humiliation, Fasting, and Prayer,” urging all Americans to ask God to protect the nation from foreign threats and domestic disunity. Instead, the opposite happened.
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1 week ago | 
wakeuptopolitics.com | Gabe Fleisher
You know the drill. Got a question about Kilmar Abrego Garcia? Or about the Alien Enemies Act? Or 2026 Senate races? Or gubernatorial races? Or anything else? Drop it in the comments and I’ll try to answer it in my Sunday mailbag piece:
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1 week ago | 
wakeuptopolitics.com | Gabe Fleisher
Good morning! It’s Wednesday, April 16, 2025. Election Day 2026 is 566 days away. No top story today, but I want to catch you up on a developments in a few different areas I’ve been tracking… In yesterday’s newsletter, I wrote that we were in wait-and-see mode in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the unauthorized immigrant who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, but that a test of the Trump administration’s compliance with the courts could be a few days away. Make that a few weeks away.
