D.C. Circuit Court Clears the Way for USPS to Enforce President Trump’s Requirement — States Must Turn Over Voter Rolls for Citizenship Checks or USPS Won’t Deliver Mail Ballots in the 2026 Midterms
July 18, 2026
A federal court has declined, for now, to block a U.S. Postal Service rule tied to President Donald Trump’s executive order on election administration, allowing the policy to remain in place while legal challenges continue.
The ruling clears the way for the USPS to move forward with rules that force states to submit their voter rolls for citizenship checks if they expect the Postal Service to deliver mail-in and absentee ballots for the November midterms.
The order directs the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and the USPS to work together to verify citizenship and prevent ineligible voters from receiving and casting mail ballots in federal elections.
The order requires states to submit detailed manifests, including voter names, addresses, and unique barcode identifiers, at least 60 days before federal elections so USPS can verify eligibility and track ballots.
States that refuse to hand over the lists or follow the new security standards (special “Official Election Mail” envelopes with intelligent mail barcodes) will simply not have their ballots delivered by the Postal Service.
In June, Postmaster General David Steiner told Congress flat-out that the USPS WILL NOT DELIVER mail-in and absentee ballots in any state that refuses to comply with the President’s election integrity Executive Order.
An Obama-appointed judge in Boston, Indira Talwani, blocked key parts of the implementation, claiming the federal government was somehow trampling on “state authority” over elections.
On July 17, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals stayed that injunction. Judge Carl Nichols declined to issue a preliminary injunction sought by Democrat-led states and left-wing groups, concluding they had not yet demonstrated the immediate harm necessary for such relief. As a result, the challenged provisions were permitted to move forward at that stage of the litigation.
According to SCOTUS Wire: “The panel said USPS is likely to win on appeal for two independent reasons: (1) the challenge is likely premature because it targets a proposed (not final) rule, and (2) even if adopted, the rule likely would not violate USPS’s 2021 settlement agreement with the NAACP.”
The panel said USPS is likely to win on appeal for two independent reasons: (1) the challenge is likely premature because it targets a proposed (not final) rule, and (2) even if adopted, the rule likely would not violate USPS’s 2021 settlement agreement with the NAACP.
Former Top Clinton Aide Doug Band Had an Embarrassing Day as He Was Grilled in Front of Congress Over Jeffrey Epstein Ties, His Flirtations With Ghislaine Maxwell
July 18, 2026
Bill Clinton, his former top aide Doug Band, and the shadow of Epstein – photos by Wiki Commons
Humiliating questions just kept coming.
We have been reporting here on TGP on the fact that former Bill Clinton’s top aide Doug Band was vastly featured in the DOJ’s ‘Jeffrey Epstein Files’, and later gave a closed-door testimony to the House Oversight Committee.
Band was reportedly the creator of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), an entity which both Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell have, in court documents, alleged to help conceive and fund.
We also reported that Band’s testimony did carry substantial danger for Clinton. Back in 2020, Band aired his grievances against the Clinton family in a long Vanity Fair interview.
“Band told me he had been trying to push Epstein out of Clinton’s orbit ever since their much-discussed 2002 trip to Africa aboard Epstein’s private 727, dubbed the ‘Lolita Express’. Band recalled that Epstein had made a bunch of ridiculous claims on the trip, like boasting that he invented the derivatives market. Band said he had no idea about Epstein’s sex crimes back then but got enough bad vibes that he advised Clinton to end the relationship. But Clinton continued to socialize with Epstein and take his money. In 2006 Epstein donated $25,000 to the Clinton Foundation. Clinton made more than two dozen trips on Epstein’s jet around this time, Epstein’s flight logs show.”
And here we have the kicker:
“In January 2003, according to Band, Clinton visited Epstein’s private Caribbean Island, Little St. James. Band said it was one of the few trips he declined to go on in his time with Clinton. A Clinton spokesperson said the president had never been to the island and provided detailed travelogue entries of the period in question that did not contain a visit.”
So, there we have it, Band saying Clinton went to Pedophile Island.
Today, a month after his closed-door appearance before Congress, reports are arising on the contents of this humiliating day.
Band was reportedly forced to address the size of his penis, in ‘humiliating grilling before Congress about his once flirtatious friendship with Jeffrey Epstein’s madam Ghislaine Maxwell’.
TRANSCRIPTS: @GOPoversight released the transcript from Leon Black’s and Doug Band’s transcribed interview as part of the investigations into Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Doug Band was a special assistant to President Clinton and later deputy assistant to the President… pic.twitter.com/uBfVykNgqK
“Doug Band, who appeared for a closed-door interview with the House Oversight Committee last month, was peppered with questions about the ’embarrassing’ trove of emails he exchanged with Maxwell during the 2000s – including one where she described him being ‘hung like a horse.’
In other emails read out by members of the panel, Maxwell described herself as Band’s ‘pimp’ and ‘lover’.
Band reportedly admitted flirting with Maxwell, but denied ever having an affair with her.
“In another email read out by the committee, Maxwell offered to arrange ‘the s****y Spanish girl’ next time Band was in New York, along with a ‘cool poised Swedish type’.
‘Let me know when you next go to Europe as I do have some interesting and fun friends that you could hook up with,’ Maxwell told Band, according to the email.”
Republican Rep. Nancy Mace pressured Band over why would Maxwell say he was ‘hung like a horse’ if they didn’t have a sexual relationship.
“In his testimony, Band denied ever seeing Clinton doing anything compromising with Epstein or any of his victims.
On the trips on Epstein’s plane where Clinton was present, the former president would go to the back and meet with the pedophile privately in his office, according to Band.“
He also didn’t confirm that Clinton went to Little St. James Island, walking back his earlier claim.
New: A longtime aide to Bill Clinton walked back a prior claim that the former president visited Jeffrey Epstein’s island, according to two sources familiar with closed-door testimony on Capitol Hill.https://t.co/knW11COrkx
“In 2020, Band told Vanity Fair that Clinton visited Epstein’s private island in 2003. In February, however, Clinton testified that he was never on Epstein’s island — and on Tuesday, Band amended his previous assertion during his own interview with the panel, the sources said.
‘He turned out to clearly not know the difference between the truth and a lie’, Mace told CNN. ‘He contradicted his Vanity Fair interview from a couple of years ago. He testified today that he had no knowledge of Clinton going to Epstein island, but he used some very vague language in how he did it. It was all very obtuse and obstructive language when he did answer’.
Band stated he had no evidence that Clinton went to Epstein’s island, and he doesn’t remember why he told Vanity Fair that he did, one of the sources told CNN.
‘He was the worst witness we’ve ever had’, Mace told CNN. ‘He just said, ‘I do not recall’ on damn near every answer and he contradicted himself multiple times’.”
Grieving Mother of Noelia Castillo Ramos Using Daughter’s Secret Journal to Try and Hunt Down Gang Rape Attackers After Her Euthanasia Death
July 18, 2026
A grieving mother in Spain is now using her late daughter’s secret journal to launch a desperate search for the men, widely reported to have been North African migrants, who gang-raped her years ago.
Yolanda Ramos received the diary from her 25-year-old daughter, Noelia Castillo Ramos, on the day she died by euthanasia in a Barcelona hospital in March.
The journal contains details about the horrific gang rape that Noelia was subjected to when she was 21 in the town of Salou in Tarragona province, along with accounts of other sexual assaults she suffered.
Before her death, Noelia had publicly spoken about surviving multiple sexual assaults in television interviews, including a gang rape at a nightclub and other attacks.
She never named the perpetrators, and Spanish authorities have never identified any suspects.
After reading the diary, her mother said she finally understood many things about what her daughter had endured and decided to take action by filing formal complaints to pursue justice.
The New York Post reports that the diary “recounted meeting a waiter in the town of Salou in Tarragona, being drugged, plied with alcohol, and raped by three men.
“Noelia spoke about the rapes on television, and on the very day she died, she gave me her diary. When I read it, I understood many things,” Yolanda Ramos said in a video about her criminal complaints.
WATCH:
@abc.es «Mi hija no tenía ninguna enfermedad terminal, tenía enfermedades mentales», así comienza el vídeo que ha publicado Yolanda, madre de Noelia Castillo, más de un mes después de que la joven de 25 años recibiese la eutanasia en un centro sanitario de Sant Pere de Ribes, el Sant Camil, donde permanecía, en la comarca del Garraf (Barcelona). Una grabación, que ha publicado en una red social, y en la que se dirige al líder de la oposición, el popular Alberto Nuñez Feijóo para que haga «desaparecer» la ley de la muerte asistida. Más información, en ABC.es #NoeliaCastillo#Eutanasia#MuerteAsistida#España#Vida♬ Sad song by piano and violin(886018) – NOVA
Spain’s euthanasia law permits assisted suicide for adults experiencing serious, chronic, and disabling conditions that cause unbearable suffering.
Noelia had become paraplegic in 2022 after jumping from a fifth-floor building in a suicide attempt triggered by the trauma of the gang rape.
Her father fought for over a year and a half in Spanish courts and even appealed to the European Court of Human Rights to stop the euthanasia, arguing her capacity was compromised by borderline personality disorder and the effects of the assaults.
Courts ultimately ruled that Noelia had the mental capacity to make the decision.
In an interview three days before her suicide, Noelia said, “I simply want to go in peace and stop suffering.”
“The happiness of a father, a mother, or a sister cannot take precedence over the happiness of a daughter.”
Unacceptable and Dangerous: Georgetown’s China Initiative Gives CCP-Linked Groups Access to Future US Policymakers
July 18, 2026
In the latest anti-American move made by American academic institutions, Campus Reform is reporting “Georgetown University has spent the last decade building one of the nation’s most prominent China-focused academic pipelines while receiving tens of millions of dollars in Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-linked funding and nearly $1.5 billion in foreign gifts and contracts since 1992.”
This is outrageous and dangerous in light of President Trump’s address Thursday night to the nation and the revelations of what the CCP engaged in.
President Trump has argued that China interfered in our elections.
The CCP or Chinese Communist Party has sought to undermine America from within at every turn.
Georgetown has raked in billions from foreign governments. Georgetown increased tuition prices for hard-working American families. This fall, undergraduate tuition will cost American students $74,520 before room, board, and fees are factored in, more than doubling since 2006.”
This is outrageous and unacceptable.
“The university has also helped create opportunities for Chinese state-linked institutions and CCP-tied organizations to gain access to the next generation of U.S. policymakers in Washington, D.C.”
If this seems like a recipe for disaster its because it is.
“The university’s Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues was launched in 2016 with a $10 million “gift” from the Hong Kong-based Spring Breeze Foundation. A 2020 Department of Education Section 117 report stated that Spring Breeze was financed by CP Group and noted the company’s extensive commercial relationships with the CCP. ”
According to this student writing at Campus Reform, this is not a typical exchange program but rather a subversive CCP initiative.
“By 2019, the initiative had launched five research groups, supported 43 student fellows, organized 16 U.S.-China workshops, produced 23 podcasts, funded graduate study tours in China, and hosted 35 public events. ”
“Georgetown has charged families premium prices for access to elite civic and policy leadership opportunities while simultaneously building channels for CCP-linked institutions to reach the students most likely to enter American government, diplomacy, law, and national security work.”
This is ominous; there should be exactly 0 cooperative programs that give the CCP any access or benefit from our universities, as they clearly cannot be trusted.
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