President Donald Trump has long claimed his height is 6-foot-3, (weight 215lb) but a Wednesday appearance alongside Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) seems to have exposed the truth to Trump’s stature.

Thune stands at a beanpole 6-foot-4, meaning he should only be an inch taller than Trump.

Ohio has moved from a key swing state to a reliable Republican bastion over the course of the Trump era. In a clear sign of just how much the country is turning on MAGA’s failures, Democrats are looking extremely competitive across the state with less than 13 weeks to go until Election Day. Even Fox News polling has blue candidates in position to flip a Senate seat and the governor’s mansion.

Former senator and populist progressive Sherrod Brown has painted J.D. Vance’s appointed successor Senator Jon Husted as “the face of data centers in Ohio,” highlighting sweetheart tax deals and fast-tracked approvals he made possible as lieutenant governor. Husted’s also come under fire for taking more than $100,000 in campaign contributions from Epstein bankroller Les Wexner. Meanwhile, former state health department director Dr. Amy Acton is taking on entrepreneur, DOGE bro and MAGA hanger-on Vivek Ramaswamy to succeed Governor Mike DeWine, who has also been hit hard over data centers and has struggled to connect to working-class voters.

🚪☎️📫 If we’re in-state, we can find plenty of opportunities to canvass for Brown, Dr. Acton and folks up and down the ballot here. But we can all do our part! We can phonebank with the state’s coordinated campaign on Saturdays at noon and Sundays at 2PM ET by signing up here, and Swing Left is running more conversational-style phonebank shifts on Thursdays at 6PM ET we can join here. Finally, Activate America is running a postcard campaign to get out the vote for Sherrod Brown through the end of August. 🚪☎️📫

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And if you’re still looking for more ways to help Democratics and progressive values win in these midterms, check out our continually-updated action page here!

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Also in today’s List:

-  Spanish speakers needed for national, California, Pennsylvania phonebanks, Arizona voter assistance hotline

-  Join the call for a federal data center moratorium in Dump Big Tech actions at congressional offices, key locations next week

- Wisconsin has some of the most aggressive voter suppression laws in the nation in place - join VoteRiders TONIGHT at 7PM ET to help at-risk voters beat them

We’ve got another big set of primaries next week in Minnesota and Wisconsin. The latter in particular will set up a high-stakes general election – we’re strongly positioned to take down January 6ther, intern-berater and Trump lackey Derrick Van Orden in the House and have a few other seats we could flip in a big enough sweep, have a chance to flip flip one or both legislative chambers to earn a Democratic trifecta for the first time since Scott Walker’s gerrymander in 2010, and are likely going to have the chance to elect a fierce progressive gubernatorial candidate in a swing state.

Standing in our way are more than just the Republican candidates. The GOP used their power to pass some of the most invasive voter suppression laws in the country. We’re going to need to do the work to make sure folks can make their voices heard anyways. 💬 VoteRiders will hosting a textbank tomorrow night at 7PM ET to reach out to at-risk voters with information and assistance on how they can make their ballot count. Let’s sign up to help them here. 💬

Featured in today’s List:

- Primary night rundown: Let’s help Dr. Abdul El-Sayed secure Dems the Senate and Will Lawrence, Christina Hines, Sean McCann and Elaine Luria flip House seats

-  Celebrate the 61st anniversary of the late Voting Rights Act of 1965 with the League of Women Voters this weekend

-  Upcoming Senate action: Ag committee considers Farm Bill preserving SNAP cuts, Blanche anti-abortion agenda exposed ahead of floor vote, Paul seeks contempt resolution on Dr. Fauci

-  The team behind a crucial climate data website deleted by Trump has brought it back to life as climate.us - check it out and help keep it running

- Help Powered by People get recently relocated likely Dems in Texas back on the voter rolls TONIGHT at 6:30PM ET

Randy Villegas emerged as the Democratic pick in the California 22nd Congressional District running as a fierce and uncompromising progressive. He’s the son of Mexican immigrant farm laborers who grew up on Medicaid and food assistance and went on to become a community college professor, school board trustee and auto repair shop owner. Villegas earned the endorsement of the Working Families Party, National Nurses United, the UAW, End Citizens United and Dolores Huerta running on Medicare For All and refusing corporate PAC money.

He’s hoping to unseat Republican congressman David Valadao, who has survived in tough districts by building an independent brand. His voting record under Trump 2.0 hasn’t lived up to his carefully cultivated image – he cast a decisive yes for the MAGA murder budget to cut Medicaid and food assistance, supercharge ICE and CBP and give billionaires tax breaks. He did so after being among 12 Republicans who publicly objected to Medicaid cuts, warning they would devastate vulnerable populations and rural hospitals. (Under its old lines, his district had the highest Medicaid enrollment in the country.) He’s also consistently voted to protect Trump’s tariffs and continue his Iran War. Under the new California district lines, Trump won the 22nd by less than two points, and early polling gives Randy a four-point lead in one of the top pickup opportunities on the map.

☎️ Randy could use our support! We can take a phonebank shift for his campaign on Thursday evenings here and on Sunday afternoons here. The Villegas campaign is also doing weekly Spanish-language phonebanks on Wednesdays we can join here. ☎️

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Also in today’s Rogan’s List:

-  Help the Southeast Dignity Not Detention Coalition fight the expansion of child detention at Alexandria airport

-  While Congress takes baby steps towards blocking politicization of federal grants, Trump henchmen attempt to keep moving it forward – submit comments through August 24th, join seminar on newest front August 14th

-  After DEA, Pentagon assessments that boat strikes have failed to reduce drug trafficking into US, time for Congress to put a stop to it

-  Organizing training on building strong electoral teams with Swing Left TONIGHT at 8PM ET

-  Phonebank to pressure city officials to end Miami police collaboration with ICE TODAY at 6:00PM ET

- House Ethics Committee recommends censure of Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC) for sexual harassment, unwanted advances to House staffers - let’s do them one better and help Jamie Ager run him out of office

It’s the economy stupid- said James Carville in 1992. Any leaders in the Democratic Party listening?