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The Supreme Court Just Reminded America What Election Day Actually Is The New York Times dropped its predictable hit piece this weekend, and it was textbook left-wing spin from start to finish. Headline screaming that the Supreme Court “Could Make It Harder to Vote by Mail in the Midterms.” Sub-head claiming the RNC wants to “toss ballots” and disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of mostly Democratic votes. The whole piece painted President Trump as obsessed, the fraud concerns as “baseless,” and the 2020 “red mirage” as some innocent optical illusion. Make no mistake: that’s gaslighting, pure and simple. The Real Story from…

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Brute Force Smashmouth Politics

Make Their Shame Visible “I myself will lift up your skirts over your face, and your shame will be seen.” (Jeremiah 13:26 ESV) Read that again. God isn’t asking politely. He isn’t negotiating. He is declaring judgment on a people who forgot Him, chased after idols, trusted in lies, and lived in spiritual adultery. The image is brutal on purpose: skirts lifted over the face, naked shame exposed for all to see. No covering. No excuses. No quiet retreat into the shadows. That is exactly where we are with Senate Democrats right now. We are in the largest U.S. military engagement…

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Flaming Pissed and Ready to Fight

Start the Talking Filibuster on the SAVE America Act or Lose the Midterms They're right. Pass the SAVE America Act or lose the majorities in both houses. That's a fact. The base is flaming pissed at being gaslit by our own leadership. This is me looking at you, @LeaderJohnThune and @JohnCornyn https://t.co/xZEmz273tt— James K Bishop (@James_K_Bishop) March 9, 2026 That was my post yesterday, and nothing since has changed my mind. David Marcus gets the pulse of the street better than most. In his Fox News column, “Passing the Save America Act to save Cornyn is a fair deal,” he reports…

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A Primary Means to Focus Minds

Texas Tremors: Primaries Reshaping GOP Procedural Boldness In the shadowed halls of the United States Senate, where procedural intricacies often eclipse substantive debate, the current impasse over the SAVE America Act serves as a stark reminder of institutional inertia. Drawing from the legacy of Senate gridlock under leaders like Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell—an era that diminished hands-on floor expertise among establishment figures and elevated conservatives as the adept tacticians—we find ourselves at a crossroads. The SAVE Act, with its mandates for proof of citizenship in voter registration and photo ID requirements at the polls, passed the House with bipartisan backing…

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Talking the SAVE America Act Into Law

There's a Way Forward But Does Senate GOP Have the Will? Senate Majority Leader John Thune has a point when he calls floor time the coin of the realm. Every hour spent grinding through quorum calls, dilatory amendments, and endless debate is an hour not spent on confirmations, funding bills, or the next must-pass item on the calendar. It's the same scarcity that once let Al Gore extract promises of a clean vote on the 1991 Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq in exchange for his support. Thune's caution is real: reviving a true talking filibuster on the SAVE…

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No Endless Horizons in History

Defending the Senate’s Final Brake Folks, picture this: North Dakota Highway 46 stretches arrow-straight across the Red River Valley-121 miles from Oxbow near Fargo to Streeter and beyond. Flat as a tortilla, sky swallowing the road at the horizon. On a clear day, it looks infinite, like you could floor it forever and never hit a curve. No hills, no turns, no consequences-just open prairie and the illusion that every mile forward erases the last one. That's the lie history tells when we pretend changes happen in a vacuum. The road isn't endless. Every "straight shot" decision plants seeds that sprout…

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Let Democrats Cook

The Looming Democrat Shutdown Blunder Republicans Should Let Them Own Folks, we're staring down the barrel of another partial government shutdown this weekend, with the January 30-31 deadline looming like a Texas thunderstorm. Democrats in the Senate are digging in their heels, threatening to withhold the 60 votes needed to pass the DHS appropriations bill unless Republicans cave on so-called "reforms" to ICE-like requiring judicial warrants for arrests and detentions. It's all tied to the recent uproar over ICE and CBP actions, including that tragic shootings in Minneapolis. But let's call this what it is: political theater at its worst, and…

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No Backdoor Amnesty

The Amnesty Gateway in Lawler-Fitzpatrick Reforms Republican Representatives Mike Lawler and Brian Fitzpatrick recently released statements calling for what they term "comprehensive" and "common sense" immigration reform. On Tuesday, following the fatal shootings in Minneapolis involving federal immigration agents-incidents that claimed the lives of U.S. citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti-Lawler published an op-ed in The New York Times urging a "new comprehensive national immigration policy" that is "secure, lawful, and humane." He praised the Trump administration's border successes, including over 675,000 deportations and sharply reduced crossings, but insisted the system remains "broken for 40 years" and requires bipartisan action beyond…

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Making the American Dream Affordable Again

Embracing the RSC Plan for Lower Costs and Stronger America In Texas, where families like mine are still feeling the sting of high home prices, energy costs, and healthcare bills after four years of Biden-Harris policies, the American Dream has seemed farther away than ever. But the Republican Study Committee (RSC) has delivered a powerful response: the “Making the American Dream Affordable Again” framework for the next reconciliation bill. Unveiled on January 13, 2026, this isn't just another wish list-it's a vetted, Byrd Rule-tested menu of nearly 70 policy options, with about 70 percent already introduced as bills or passed by…

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The Quiet Exodus

Why Ten House Republicans Are Heading Home to Run Things As the wrapping paper settles and the last of the eggnog disappears this Christmas weekend, a quieter story has been unfolding in Washington-one that says more about the state of our politics than any headline-grabbing protest or viral clip ever could. Ten sitting Republican members of the U.S. House-ten-are leaving their seats not to retire to the lecture circuit or the lobbying suite, but to run for governor in their home states. Andy Biggs and David Schweikert in Arizona. Byron Donalds in Florida. John James in Michigan. Nancy Mace and Ralph…

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