Main Street Independent — Advocacy

Evanston's Housing Repair Is the Right Thing to Do

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

Some American cities are finally trying to fix what they broke.

The Form Is a Census, and the Census Is Mine

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

Billie Jo is a hand on the bookkeeping bench of the 14 limited-liability companies I own through two holding entities inMississippi and one in Delaware.

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The Court Constitutionalizes the Sex Binary

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

The Court is using the Constitution to ban transgender girls from girls' sports.

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The Journal Laundered the Originalist Fictions That Nearly Dismantled Birthright Citizenship

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

The Journal is laundering the originalist fictions four Justices nearly used to dismantle birthright citizenship.

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The Roberts Court Hands Democracy to the Wealthy

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

The Supreme Court handed American democracy to the wealthy on Tuesday.

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The Roberts Court Sold the Midterms to the Donor Class

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

The Roberts Court just gave the donor class the November midterms.

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The Supreme Court's Constitutional Wrecking Ball

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

The conservative supermajority is hiding a power grab behind originalism.

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Four Companies, Not the DSA, Are Setting Your Prices

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

Your grocery bill isn't rising because of a Democratic Socialists of America flier.

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Our Tremendous Soldiers Did EXACTLY What I Said They Would Do in Memphis — A TOTAL Win

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

What happened in Memphis last night was a TREMENDOUS success for law and order, maybe the MOST successful operation in the history of our Country, believe me.

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J.D. was working for me the whole time, a beautiful 4D operation

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

On the Fourth of July, a beautiful day, the biggest Fourth of July crowd in history, the historians are saying bigger than 1776, The Atlantic — a very failing magazine, tremendous people used to write for them — republished an essay J.D. Vance wrote TEN YEARS AGO, before most of you even knew who J.D. was.

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Giménez, DeWine, and Lawler are very weak Republicans, and the Haitians are going home, believe me

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

The Supreme Court — tremendous Supreme Court, the BEST Supreme Court, very loyal, I picked them, I picked every single one, believe me — ruled last month that my administration can end Temporary Protected Status for 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians.

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The Democratic Partnership of Sam Altman

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

The attitude in Silicon Valley toward government used to be tax but don't regulate us — and the country paid the price for it.

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The Conjugal Order, and the Spouse It Excludes

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

[Robert P. George, "Obergefell, Eleven Years On"](https://www.nationalreview.com/2026/07/obergefell-11-years-on/) (National Review, July 5, 2026) sets out the case for the conjugal understanding of marriage with the precision the subject requires.

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Fossil Fuels Killed Twenty-Five Americans in the Heat Dome

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

The fossil fuel industry killed at least twenty-five Americans in this week's heat dome.

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How James Freeman Recruited You With Washington

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

James Freeman's July 3 "Best of the Web" column for The Wall Street Journal's opinion page, timed to the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, had one job: convert a national holiday into a liberty-frame editorial.

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The Smoke and the Mirror: How Freeman's NHS Strawman Hides the American Extraction

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

The Wall Street Journal Opinion page's July 6 "Best of the Web" column offers afamiliar comfort to its subscribers.

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The 'Ratepayer Protection' Act protects everyone except ratepayers

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

Castor's subcommittee just made residential ratepayers underwrite the AI data center buildout.

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The Water District Is Forcing Ratepayers To Fund A Luxury Developer's Gated Enclave

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

The Lakeside County Water and Sewer District is forcing ratepayers to fund a private luxury enclave.

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Six Justices Just Sold the Midterms

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

The Supreme Court just made it constitutional for the wealthy to buy the midterms.

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The Court Uses 'Biology' to Strip Transgender Girls of Equal Protection

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

Six justices stripped transgender girls of equal protection by redefining them as "biological males." B.P.J. is a girl.

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The Originalist Architecture of a Stateless Caste

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

The dissent in *Trump v. Barbara* is the constitutional blueprint for a hereditary caste of stateless American children.

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The Restoration That Wasn't

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

The Roberts Court did not restore the Constitution this term.

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The Roberts Court Picks Its Constitution

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

The Roberts Court is rewriting executive power to capture the regulators of corporate conduct while shielding the Fed from the president it doesn't trust.

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The Supreme Court Legalizes Coordinated Political Bribery

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

The Roberts Court legalized coordinated political bribery for the highest bidder.

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What's in plain sight isn't socialism. It's speculative housing, unaffordable childcare, and worse healthcare.

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

I'll grant her the scaffolding.

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A Massachusetts Ballot That Voters Were Owed

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

When the donor class tries to slip a tax cut past voters, the courts should demand clarity.

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Outside the Covenant: The 250th and the Body in Gaza

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

On the 250th anniversary of the republic, Aaron Evans, vice president of the Young Leadership affinity group for the Washington, D.C., chapter of Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, has set down in these pages ([Fox News Opinion, July 5, 2026](https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/america-250-supporting-israel-honors-our-nations-founding-principles)) what deserves to be read with care.

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I Kept The $18 And Called It A Bright Spot.

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

Otha is a wet-weight unit on theloading dock of the industrial laundry I own through an LLC in Toledo.

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Every Regulator Is Removable. The Fed Is Not.

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

The Roberts Court gave Trump control of every regulator in Washington.

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Justice Alito Manufactures a Definition the 1845 Statute Does Not Contain

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

Justice Alito's Watson dissent manufactures a definition of "election" the 1845 statute does not contain, in service of a decade-long Republican campaign to suppress mail voting.

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Originalism Confessed Across 194 Pages

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

Justice Thomas is inventing a domicile fiction to strip citizenship from millions of children.

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The Roberts Court Engineered a Transgender Exclusion Bypass

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

The Supreme Court stripped transgender girls of constitutional protection on Tuesday.

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The Roberts Court Legalized Unlimited Money Laundering Through Political Parties

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

The Roberts Court legalized unlimited money laundering through political parties.

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New Deal Rollback, Not "Americanism," Is Destroying the Middle Class

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

Rich Lowry is genuinely distressed that the ghost of Karl Marx might be polling well in Queens.

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The Order That Sorted Brittany

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

In a [profile in The Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/opinion/ed-meese-and-the-originalist-court-4d69bbda) of Edwin Meese III at ninety-four, James Taranto marks the Supreme Court's decision in *Trump v. Slaughter* as the latest entry in a forty-year ledger.

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Markwayne Mullin Priced the Poor Out of the Oath

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

Markwayne Mullin signed the proposed rule that prices the citizenship oath above the reach of the people who would swear it.

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I Set the Line Speed. The Fed Calls It the Natural Rate.

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

Tomás is a body at the second-station cut of the beef plant I own through two shells outside Liberal, Kansas.

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Four Originalists, Four Original Meanings

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

Justice Clarence Thomas tried to strip millions of American children of their citizenship.

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Originalism, Whatever the Result Requires

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

The Editorial Board wants conservative justices to abandon text and precedent for partisan outcomes.

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The Court Erases Trans Girls and Calls It Equality

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

The Court erased transgender girls from school sports on Tuesday.

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Trump's Regulators Are His Now. The Fed Is the Carve-Out.

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

The Roberts Court has handed Donald Trump control of every agency that regulates working Americans.

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Extraction, Not Democratic Socialism, Is the Real American Theft

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

The real American theft isn't socialism.

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Stop Worrying About the Word. The Working-Class Agenda Is the Point.

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

The word "socialism" is the wrong fight.

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The Great ObamaCare Lifeline

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

The Trump administration is creating a health-insurance crisis for working Americans, and its own data prove it.

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Outside the Covenant

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

Heather Johnston, founder of the U.S. Israel Education Association, sets out the case plainly in ["America and Israel: A covenant, not a contract"](https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/america-israel-covenant-not-contract) (Fox News, July 1, 2026).

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The Man Who Priced Your Child Is a Graduate of Mine.

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

Julieta is a hand on the wafer line I hold through two shells in Cayuga County, New York.

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Conservative Originalism Is a Hostage to the Coalition That Built It

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board has called a 5-4 statutory reading a "liberal win." That filing is not legal analysis.

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Four Justices Fabricated Originalist Pretexts To Authorize Disenfranchisement

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

Thomas, Alito, Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch fabricated four mutually exclusive readings of the same twelve words to strip the children of undocumented immigrants of their constitutional citizenship.

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The Court Outlaws Fighting Corruption

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

The Supreme Court has made fighting political corruption unconstitutional.

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The Supreme Court Codifies a Biological Caste, 6-3

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

The Supreme Court codified a biological caste thisweek, stripping transgender girls of their civil rights in West Virginia and Idaho by a 6-3 vote.

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The Unitary Executive Has a Central-Bank Exception

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

The Roberts Court picked which executive agencies the President controls.

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Vance's Memoir Bought His Exit. The Working Class Got the Elegy.

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

The working-class Americans JD Vance wrote about don't need another memoir about their decline.

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The Corporate Check Bounced. The Welfare State Walked In.

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

The corporate check bounced in Denver last night.

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The Mortgage, Not the Rent Cap, Is Killing New York's Buildings

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

The mortgage is what's starving New York's rent-stabilized buildings — not the rent cap, not the tenants, not the mayor.

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Courts give me the biggest, most beautiful deportation tools in history—advisers say nobody cares, very sad!

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

*PARODY — In the voice of Diklis Chump, by Main Street Independent.

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Trump Flies a Foreign King's Jet, and the Workers Get the Bill

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

In my shop in Redemption Springs, when the supplier we've been paying for two years calls on a Friday afternoon to say the part is going to be six months late, I don't thank him for the loaner.

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Barton Swaim Weaponizes Original Sin to Sanctify a Radical Deregulatory Coup

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

Barton Swaim's "What the Founders Didn't Trust," in the July 1 *Wall Street Journal* online edition and the July 2 print edition, treats the 18th-century American Founders as a unified philosophical school whose "anthropology of original sin" licenses a specific 2026 policy program: a unitary-executive Supreme Court decision that consolidates regulatory power in the hands of whatever populist pres...

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The Rent Freeze Is the Oldest Arrangement There Is

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

Elvia is a body in 4B of a six-unit walk-up I own in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

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National Grid Pays for Microsoft's Power

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

National Grid pays Microsoft $1.75 billion to build a private power grid.

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A 1990 Statute Becomes a License for Discrimination

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

The Roberts Court is helping Donald Trump deport refugees based on racial animus.

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