The Wall Street Journal has video of Ken Paxton, the Republican nominee for Senate in Texas, at a Dubai New Year’s Eve party with two fugitives indicted for stealing $15 million from a Chicago hospital. One of them donated $190,000 to Paxton’s campaigns. Adam breaks down the video, the Texas attorney general’s donor problem, and why none of this is new. Also: Republicans push back on Pete Hegseth’s plan to livestream the Nidal Hasan firing squad execution, Trump’s new White House press secretary stumbles through her first briefing, Kimberly Guilfoyle resigns as ambassador to Greece after the access-selling scandal, and DHS raids Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home in Washington.

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Trump lifts Russia sanctions to buy diesel from Putin, and senators from both parties say it’s illegal. Adam Kinzinger breaks down the Russian energy deal, the 2022 law Congress passed, Thom Tillis and Mike Pence pushing back, and why it hands Putin a lifeline. Plus Ukraine’s drone strikes on Yandex data centers and Russia’s bot farms, a federal judge pulling Trump’s taxpayer-funded ads, a Politico poll on undecided midterm voters, and the DOJ antitrust investigation into five TV networks.

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Trump handed out National Medals of Science to Big Tech CEOs and declared a “Golden Age” of American innovation. His administration has canceled billions in research grants, including 2,500 NIH grants, and American scientists are fleeing overseas. Meanwhile, Trump has traded $3.2 billion in stocks and bonds since taking office, nearly three times the entire Congress. Also: Jon Ossoff and Abdul El-Sayed win their Senate debates, ProPublica finds Ken Paxton billed Texas $3.3 million for security on personal trips, a Politico poll shows Trump voters want Republicans to break with him, and Texas ranchers sue to stop Trump’s Big Bend border wall.

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