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March 27, 2026

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Internal emails revealed DHS acting General Counsel Joseph Mazzara urged agents to have 'started hitting' Los Angeles anti-ICE protesters

Internal Department of Homeland Security emails, disclosed by the watchdog group American Oversight on March 27, 2026, showed that then-acting DHS General Counsel Joseph Mazzara suggested federal agents in Los Angeles should have "just started hitting" anti-ICE protesters and should have arrested "everyone that couldn't get away" during the June 2025 demonstrations. American Oversight obtained two versions of the records — one with failed redactions and one with successful ones — indicating an attempt to conceal Mazzara's remarks. The disclosure followed a federal court's ruling that the accompanying National Guard deployment to Los Angeles was illegal.

Hegseth struck two Black men and two women from Army one-star general promotion list

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth unilaterally struck four Army colonels — two Black men and two women — from a roughly three-dozen-name list recommended for promotion to brigadier general, removals revealed March 27, 2026 by the New York Times; the majority of the remaining names are white men. Army leadership, including Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, had refused Hegseth's requests for months before he crossed the names off himself earlier in March, and it is unclear he has legal authority to do so. Neither the Pentagon nor the White House has offered any performance-based rationale for the removals.

FCC Chair Carr boasts at CPAC that Trump is 'winning' against the 'fake news media'

At the Conservative Political Action Conference in Grapevine, Texas on March 27, 2026, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr declared that President Trump "is winning" his fight against the "fake news media," citing the defunding of PBS and NPR, the departures of named journalists and hosts, and ownership changes at CBS and CNN as "results." Carr added the administration was "not at the point yet" of "raising the mission accomplished flag," a week after he had warned broadcasters they would "lose their licenses" over Iran War coverage he called "hoaxes and news distortions."

DOJ admits in Rhode Island filing that voter-data analysis it denied in court has begun

One day after telling a federal judge at argument in United States v. Amore that no analysis had been conducted on the nonpublic state voter registration data in its possession, DOJ's Civil Rights Division filed a "Clarification of Record" admitting that preliminary internal analysis had in fact begun — specifically, identifying and quantifying "duplicate and deceased" registered voters in each state. The correction came a day after CBS News revealed DOJ was finalizing a deal to share voter-roll data with DHS, and after DOJ attorneys had assured judges in Connecticut and Minnesota that the data was not being analyzed or shared.