Rachel Maddow

at the site of Jeffrey Epstein's former ranch.

People protesting at the site of that ranch for full disclosure and for full accountability for people involved in Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of girls and women and his sex trafficking ring.

I should tell you that ranch in New Mexico, Jeffrey Epstein's ranch in New Mexico has a new owner now.

That ranch was bought secretly just a couple of years ago by a Texas Republican named Don Huffines, H-U-F-F-I-N-E-S, Huffines.

You might've seen his name in headlines this week because he was just nominated by Texas Republicans last week to be their nominee for state comptroller.

Honestly, Texas Republicans just nominated for statewide office the proud new owner of Jeffrey Epstein's ranch.

Mr. Huffines has not been accused of any wrongdoing related to Epstein's crimes, but Texas Republicans must just be so proud.

They own Epstein's ranch!

I'm sure they got a great deal.

Speaking of Republicans' core message to voters for the election this year, in Arizona today, we learned that the Trump administration subpoenaed records from the 2020 election from Maricopa County, which is where Phoenix is in Arizona.

You might remember after the 2020 election, which Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden, both nationwide and specifically in Arizona, you might remember after that election, the Republican-controlled Arizona Senate

contracted, seriously, with a company that called itself Cyber Ninjas.

And they spent taxpayer money on that contract to do a bizarre circus of an audit of the Maricopa County ballots from the 2020 presidential election.

And at that audit, among the things they did was they checked the ballot paper to see if it might have bamboo fibers in it, because that would mean China did it.

China stole the election.

Cyber Ninjas sadly and surprisingly went out of business not long after their bizarre audit adventure with Maricopa County's ballots, but today we learned that the same Republican-controlled Arizona Senate that contracted with Cyber Ninjas to do that to their 2020 ballots

Today, we learned they also have happily complied with a Trump administration subpoena of some kind to hand over all the Maricopa County elections data that still exists from 2020.

No word on if that included any test strands of bamboo.

Or maybe ninja outfits.

This comes on the heels of a number of luminaries from the QAnon movement starting to explain to various podcasters that they themselves have drafted an executive order that Trump is going to sign to proclaim a national emergency of some kind over the 2026 midterm elections.