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The Agriculture Lobby’s Amnesty Bill

SAWA: The Sneer at American Workers In April I went through the DIGNIDAD Act section by section and called it what it is: an awful amnesty bill slicker and roughly four times larger than the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli scam. It still sits in committee. It should die there. Now comes the industry-specific sequel. H.R. 9535, the Securing Agriculture’s Workforce Act of 2026, introduced by House Agriculture Chairman G.T. Thompson, arrives wrapped in the language of modernization and food security. Supporters insist it contains no pathway to citizenship. They call it practical reform so farmers can secure a legal workforce. Read the bill.…

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Thune’s Failure

Thune’s Weakness on the SAVE America Act The base already knows. Sean Spicer said it out loud on The Huddle: enthusiasm is soft, and the failure to pass the SAVE America Act is a primary reason. I am in that base. I work Texas Republican politics. I hear what people say when the cameras are off. Spicer is right. When voters who delivered unified government watch the House pass a core election-integrity bill repeatedly while the Senate finds reasons not to finish the job, the energy drains. That is not complicated. It is cause and effect. The underlying problem is concrete.…

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The Citizenship Act of 2026

A Constitutional Response to the Supreme Court Earlier this month, I wrote that the Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. Barbara wouldn’t stand the test of time. Justice Thomas said as much in his dissent. The majority took the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, stripped it of its original meaning, and turned it into something approaching an automatic territorial grant: the very thing the Reconstruction framers never intended. The dissents from Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch laid bare the flaws. Justice Kavanaugh, while joining the judgment against the Executive Order, quietly left the door open for Congress. That door is now…

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Republicans Got Played

The Housing Bill That Gave Democrats Everything They Wanted Follow-on to “The DSA’s Housing Trojan Horse” and “¡Afuera!” I warned you. The ROAD to Housing Act was never a serious supply-side fix. It was a cash cow for sanctuary cities, fraudsters, nonprofits, and the Democrat Socialist machine bent on turning American housing into a government-controlled enterprise. Now it’s law. And Democrats are celebrating like they just won the lottery. Senator Elizabeth Warren and her allies are flooding their feeds, crowing about this “groundbreaking” victory. They call it the biggest housing bill in decades, claiming it will build more units, lower costs,…

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The DSA’s Housing Trojan Horse

How a “Bipartisan” Bill Rewards Sanctuary Cities and Illegals President Ronald Reagan vetoed the Big Dig: the massive Boston highway project sold to Congress as a modest infrastructure fix. Lawmakers overrode him anyway. What followed was a textbook Washington story: initial cost estimates ballooned from a few billion into more than $14.6 billion (plus interest), with years of delays, leaks, design failures, graft, and federal taxpayers left holding the bag. Reagan was right then. History is about to rhyme. The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act now sitting on the President’s desk follows the same script. Marketed as a commonsense answer…

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Pride Before the Fall

MLB's Selective War on Christian Conscience Just days ago, three San Francisco Giants pitchers, Landen Roupp, JT Brubaker, and Ryan Walker, took the mound during the team's Pride Night wearing the league-issued rainbow caps. They did not protest. They did not disrupt the game. They simply added a quiet inscription in white: “Gen 9:12-16.” That passage from the Book of Genesis carries the original meaning of the rainbow. God declares to Noah: “This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: I have set…

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Codify Caribe II

The Virginia Bus Crash Should Never Have Happened: Congress Must Attach Real Reform to the THUD Bill Five Americans are dead because the system that is supposed to keep unqualified drivers off our highways failed completely. On Friday, a charter bus slammed into slowed traffic on southbound I-95 in Stafford County, Virginia. The crash killed a family of four: Dmitri Doncev, his wife Ecaterina, their 13-year-old daughter Emily, and 7-year-old son Mark, along with another 25-year-old woman. Dozens more suffered serious injuries. This was not an unavoidable accident. It was the direct result of a chain of inexcusable failures. The driver,…

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Lies, Loopholes, and Legalization

Why the DIGNIDAD Act is a Worse Amnesty Than 1986 A couple of months ago, I wrote about the recurring trap of so-called “comprehensive immigration reform,” the same old song where tough-sounding border talk gets paired with large-scale legalization that functions as backdoor amnesty. Well, here it is in black and white: H.R. 4393, the “DIGNIDAD (Dignity) Act of 2025.” Introduced last July by Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-FL) and Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX), this 261-page bill is still sitting in committee. It has picked up around 39 cosponsors, roughly split between Republicans and Democrats, and endorsements from business groups, faith…

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Why Mike Johnson’s Stand Matters

The House Fidelity to Framers’ Design In the raging battle over DHS funding and border enforcement, Speaker Mike Johnson is not merely holding a tough line; he is leading the House of Representatives to fulfill its precise constitutional purpose: acting as the energetic, popularly accountable check against a Senate that the 17th Amendment has nationalized and detached from the states the Framers intended it to protect. The fresh events of this weekend have laid the drama bare for anyone willing to see it. In a rare overnight session, the Senate under Majority Leader John Thune passed a unanimous consent deal that…

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Thune’s Midnight Folly

How Senate Leadership Played the House and the Base for Suckers, and Why the Speaker's Backbone Points the Way Forward In the wee hours of March 27, 2026, around 2:30 to 3 a.m., the U.S. Senate passed a unanimous consent request to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security. Only about five senators were physically present on the floor: Republicans John Thune, Eric Schmitt, and Bernie Moreno (presiding), plus Democrats Brian Schatz and Andy Kim. The deal cleared funding for TSA, the Coast Guard, FEMA, CISA, and other non-enforcement functions while explicitly carving out full funding for Immigration and Customs…

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