Think More: Thursday, July 30, 2026
30 million J6 phone records, China's 220 million voter files, Fauci pleads the Fifth, and the AI buildout fight.
Lead · What the Files Show
Judicial Watch Sues Over the J6 Committee’s Transfer of 30 Million Phone Records to the FBI
Judicial Watch | judicialwatch.org
Judicial Watch has sued the Justice Department for records on the House January 6 Committee’s transfer of roughly 30 million lines of telephone toll data to the FBI. A 2023 FBI interview summary says former Rep. Adam Kinzinger offered the database, assembled under congressional subpoena by former Rep. Denver Riggleman. Senate Judiciary reported last October that Arctic Frost investigators tolled eight Republican senators’ personal phones.
What the Files Show
Spy Chiefs Say China’s Grab of 220 Million Voter Files Meets the Definition of Election Interference
The White House released a fact sheet approved by the chiefs of the CIA, NSA, ODNI, and Homeland Security finding that China’s acquisition of American voter registration data, begun in 2020 and grown to roughly 220 million records, meets the intelligence community’s own definition of election interference. Democrats counter that no ballots were altered.
Fauci Pleads the Fifth, and Kruiser Says Vindication Comes Too Late
Stephen Kruiser watched Anthony Fauci invoke the Fifth Amendment before Senate Republicans a day after his personal diaries surfaced, and concluded that being proven right settles no accounts. Biden’s preemptive pardon likely forecloses federal charges; Florida’s attorney general has opened a state investigation. The four years the country lost, Kruiser writes, cannot be recovered.
Who Counts as the People
The Justice Department Wakes a Deportation Court That Sat Unused for 30 Years
The Justice Department filed the first case ever brought in the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, seeking to deport Nazira Haji Zada, an Afghan woman in Fort Worth whose son and son-in-law were convicted in an ISIS-inspired Election Day plot. Congress created the court in 1996 to allow classified evidence. Zada has no criminal record.
Weingarten’s Roadmap for Removing Illegal Aliens From the Count That Sets House Seats
Ben Weingarten | The American Mind
Ben Weingarten argues that the apportionment base, which sets House seats and electoral votes, was never meant to count foreigners. His playbook runs from installing a committed Census Bureau director to building a noncitizen database before 2030 and restoring the citizenship question. In 2020 the Court dismissed a similar effort without reaching the merits.
Each Party Picks Its Heirs
A Democrat Who Testified for the Blind Sheikh Campaigns for Michigan’s DSA-Backed Candidates
Brady Knox | Washington Examiner
Adam Hamawy, the Democratic nominee in New Jersey’s 12th District, is campaigning in Michigan before Tuesday’s primary for Donavan McKinney and Senate candidate Abdul el Sayed. Hamawy testified for Omar Abdel-Rahman in 1995 and traveled to Bosnia in 1994 with a charity later designated a terror financier. His campaign says he condemns that violence.
The Right’s Nixon Revival Is a Proxy for the Fight to Succeed Trump
Will Rahn reads the vogue for Richard Nixon among young conservatives, complete with Nixon Foundation hype videos, as an argument about the future rather than the past. Christopher Rufo describes the appeal as that of a self-made man “taken down in a deep state coup.” Rahn calls it a preview of the battle to succeed Trump.
The Confidence Deficit
Two French Novels on How a Civilization Talks Itself Into Surrender
Nathan J. Pinkoski reads Jean Raspail’s The Camp of the Saints alongside Michel Houellebecq’s Submission and finds the same error in both: characters who cast foreigners as spiritual saviors. Raspail’s West destroys itself out of guilt, Houellebecq’s out of boredom. Both collapse, Pinkoski writes, when a people loses the will to remain itself.
McCormick Says the AI Industry Has Not Earned the Towns’ Trust
Senator Dave McCormick told a Manhattan Institute audience that America cannot win the AI race without building data centers, and that the industry has forfeited local trust by buying land through shell companies and hiding power and water figures. He would have developers pay their own transmission costs, hire locally, and disclose terms before communities commit.
The stalled American buildout: Senator Dave McCormick, Manhattan Institute remarks, July 29
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Pennsylvania voters opposed to one nearby
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