The Hound | July 30

Hi there,

It’s Thursday. On the Fourth of July — America's 250th anniversary — a photo went viral showing a Black woman on a Washington, D.C., Metro train surrounded by members of Patriot Front, a white nationalist paramilitary group marching openly through the capital. It was not an anomaly. The permission he began granting in 2016 and is now greater than ever — and these groups are responding by becoming louder, more organized, and more public than they have been in decades.

🖊️ Sign the petition to call on the media to cover the rise of right-wing militias not as a fringe curiosity or a culture war footnote, but as a direct consequence of deliberate political choices made by this administration.

When a sitting president gives permission to paramilitary groups — and then dismantles the institutions that would hold them accountable — that is a story about power. The public deserves reporting that names it as such.

In addition, state abortion bans are impacting how doctors practice and are hurting women who aren’t even seeking abortion care at all. And the DNC lost nearly $30,000 from an email scammer pretending to be its Chair, Ken Martin.

Read about these, and more, with today’s stories:

The Rapid Rise of Right-Wing Militias (Mother Jones)

Iran Has Figured Out How to Overwhelm U.S. Air Defenses (The Intercept)

Trump and DOJ ask Supreme Court to toss $83 million defamation verdict in E. Jean Carroll case (AP News)

The Big Beautiful Bill’s Market-Based Health Care Delusion (The American Prospect)

DNC Lost Tens of Thousands to Scammer Pretending to Be Ken Martin (The New Republic)

How state abortion bans are affecting doctors and how they practice (PBS News)

Until next time,

Harry from The Hound

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