RFK's HHS dropped a report called "Wolves in White Coats" claiming a nationwide fraud scheme behind trans health care for minors, and JD Vance took it straight to Fox News demanding a DOJ investigation. Only problem: HHS didn't write it. Lydia and Thomas track down who actually did, and the shaky evidence behind it. Then there's an Ohio Senate attack ad built on a de-transitioner's story that isn't quite what it seems. You sure about that, Senate Leadership Fund?

• "Wolves in White Coats: Doctors and Hospitals Who Pushed and Profited from the Fraud of 'Gender Medicine'", U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (8/13/2026)

• Do No Harm's "Stop the Harm" database methodology document

• Snopes fact-check of the "Wolves in White Coats" report

• Study on gender-affirming surgery utilization among cisgender and transgender/gender-diverse minors, JAMA Network Open (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)

• Ads misleadingly link Ohio's Sherrod Brown to Texas woman who had gender transition-related surgery, Politifact (10/14/2026)

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It's election night recap time, and Thomas and Lydia fly state to state checking in on the anti-woke villains WTW has covered in the past: Ken Paxton and Dan Patrick in Texas, Vivek Ramaswamy for Ohio's Governor, Susan Collins's Senate streak in Maine, voter ID measures across the country, James Lindsay's smug "Woke 2.0" prediction, and even Oklahoma. Not everything went the right way...but overall? A very, very good night to be woke.

Sources:

• James Talarico defeats Ken Paxton in the Texas Senate race
• Media Matters analysis of Fox News coverage of James Talarico
• Vikki Goodwin defeats Dan Patrick for Texas Lieutenant Governor
• Gina Hinojosa elected Texas Governor over Greg Abbott
• Amy Acton defeats Vivek Ramaswamy in the Ohio governor's race
• Troy Jackson unseats Susan Collins in the Maine Senate race
• California's voter ID ballot measure results
• Nevada's voter ID constitutional amendment results
• James Lindsay on "Woke 2.0"
• Robert Franklin elected Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction

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A Texas school board got so spooked by a girl playing the male lead in Little Shop of Horrors that they canceled the whole show and tried to swap it for Frozen. Their legal justification shifted citations mid-scandal, from the 2023 drag ban to a 2025 parental-rights bill, and somehow neither one actually says what they claim it says. Now the 17-year-old they benched is suing in federal court, and Lydia walks through the complaint line by line. Spoiler: Title IX did not get the memo that musical theater is supposed to be scary this year.

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