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Tuesday was another encouraging Special Election day for Democrats in the Trump Era, as a potential Blue Wave continues to build.\xa0 Maricopa County, AZ's new, even-more computerized polling place election system broke down in several precincts -- a potentially ominous sign for the expected higher turnout in the upcoming mid-terms in November.\xa0 In the state's 8th Congressional district, considered a deep "red" House district in a deep "red" state, Republican Debbie Lesko reportedly defeated first time Democratic candidate Dr. Hiral Tipirneni by only\xa0 5 points in a district that Trump won by 21 points in 2016. Although the Dems lost, election analysts regard the 15+ swing from "red" to "blue" as one of the strongest signs yet that Republicans in the House and Senate may be in very big trouble this fall. Similarly, in New York special elections for the state legislature, one Assembly seat flipped from R to D for the first time in forty years, and state Democrats won a majority in the state Senate for the first time in years \u2013 but due to a quirk of NY politics, the GOP will remain in control until the current session ends. In D.C., Donald Trump's swamp of corruption continues apace:\xa0 Mick Mulvaney, the Interim Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) told a crowd of bankers and their lobbyists they need to boost their campaign donations to the GOP for more favorable treatment, admitting -- out loud -- that as a Congressman, he would only meet with lobbyists who donated to him. But embattled\xa0 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief\xa0 Scott Pruitt continues to lead the Trump Administration corruption cavalcade -- Mother Jones' environment journalist REBECCA LEBER reports on Pruitt's "most destructive move yet\u201d:\xa0 a deceptive new rule that would bar what Pruitt falsely describes as the use of "secret science" that would conveniently gut the agency's rule-making process for public health regulations.