Think More: Thursday, August 6, 2026
The Arizona voter hack the DOJ ignored, the White House Fraud Ledger, the AAUP backs El-Sayed, and Spain's warning.
Lead · The Files Come Open
A Hacker Took 633,000 Arizona Voter Files in 2020. The Biden DOJ Let Him Walk
John Solomon & Steven Richards | Just the News
Declassified FBI files released Thursday by the White House Government Transparency Task Force show a Fountain Hills, Arizona, man scraped 633,000 Maricopa County voter records before the 2020 election, including more than 900 containing sensitive data on domestic violence victims, judges, and police. He confessed to agents; the Phoenix U.S. Attorney’s Office declined prosecution in July 2021, and the FBI closed the case in 2023.
The Files Come Open
The White House Opens a Fraud Ledger: $229.9 Billion Uncovered Since January 2025
The White House | whitehouse.gov
The White House launched The Fraud Ledger, a public docket for Vice President JD Vance’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud. By the administration’s own accounting, agencies have uncovered an estimated $229.9 billion in fraud since January 2025, stopped $56.4 billion a year through administrative action, and enforced $55.5 billion through indictments, settlements, and penalties.
GAO Finds Biden’s Education Department Left Loan Servicers in the Dark
House Committee on Education and the Workforce | edworkforce.house.gov
A Government Accountability Office report requested by Rep. Tim Walberg and Sen. Bill Cassidy finds the Biden Education Department left loan servicers in the dark on program changes; one request took six rounds of questions over two months to resolve. The chairmen tie the confusion to a forgiveness push across a $1.6 trillion loan portfolio.
The Fraud Ledger, by the administration’s accounting, since January 2025
$229.9B
Fraud uncovered by analysis
$56.4B
Stopped per year, admin actions
$55.5B
Enforced via indictments, settlements
The Left Picks Its Champions
The AAUP Ends a Century of Neutrality to Back El-Sayed, and He Wins
The American Association of University Professors issued the first national candidate endorsement in its history, backing Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary. Days later, he edged Rep. Haley Stevens by fewer than 15,000 votes. Roughly 40 Michigan members were polled before the national council signed off, a process critics call unrepresentative.
Behind the Antifa Summit, Rubio Builds an International Front Against Far-Left Terror
Kyle Shideler | The American Mind
Kyle Shideler goes behind the State Department’s Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism, which the Washington Post pronounced a flop before it began. Participants mapped four shared threats: infrastructure sabotage, foreign fighters, state-backed proxies, and targeted attacks. Secretary Rubio noted the old expert habit of treating a Marxist bomb as “a tragic excess of idealism.”
Lovers, Haters, and Doubters
The Guillotine Talk Sounds Businesslike Now
James B. Meigs | WSJ Free Expression
Reviewing Noah Rothman’s Blood and Progress, James B. Meigs argues that liberal elites built a permission structure that downplays and valorizes left-wing mayhem. Exhibit A: Michigan’s new Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, who condemned the Temple Israel bombing attempt, then explained that “hurt people hurt people.” Guillotine rhetoric, Meigs observes, now sounds like strategy.
The Boy Who Saluted a Country That Did Not Love Him Back
Lyceum takes up Tom Klingenstein’s video tribute to Clarence Thomas, the boy in Jim Crow Savannah who saluted a flag that did not yet love him back. Klingenstein sorts Americans into lovers, haters, and doubters; the doubting middle, taught to see the founding as hypocrisy, is the audience worth winning.
The Spanish Warning
Sánchez Reigns Abroad and Rots at Home
Christopher Caldwell | The American Mind
In an excerpt from his Claremont Review of Books essay, Christopher Caldwell profiles Pedro Sánchez as leader of the global anti-Trump opposition: courting China, refusing America the use of the Rota and Morón air bases, convening a Global Progressive Mobilization in Barcelona. At home he is jeered, three longtime advisors sit in jail, and an election looms by August 2027.
After Ceuta, the Case for Reading Madrid the Riot Act
Theodore Roosevelt Malloch & Felippe Cuello | Lyceum
Theodore Roosevelt Malloch and Felippe Cuello survey the wreckage after 70,000 migrants tried to storm Ceuta, Spain’s enclave on the Moroccan coast, and 98 drowned. Giorgia Meloni’s Italy led half a dozen EU members in suspending Spanish passports from Schengen privileges. The authors’ prescription: read Madrid the riot act and drop Spain from NATO.
The Streets and the State
A Third DEA Agent Says Albuquerque Let Fentanyl Walk, Then Punished Him for It
Empower Oversight asked the Office of Special Counsel to investigate retaliation against a third DEA whistleblower in Albuquerque who objected to the agency’s failure to seize large fentanyl shipments. His supervisor allegedly threatened to “ice” him like fellow whistleblower David Howell, and the complaint documents a year of transfers, denials, and singular administrative burdens.
San Francisco Already Built Its Permanent Underclass, No AI Required
Sanjana Friedman | City Journal
While San Francisco’s tech class trades memes about an AI-created permanent underclass, Sanjana Friedman points to the one state policy already built: at least 8,000 people on the streets and roughly 30,000 in subsidized single-room occupancies, sustained by cash payments, free paraphernalia, and tolerated disorder. Her warning is aimed at universal basic income enthusiasts.
