Policy

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 Excuses

When Leadership Becomes Explanation John Thune sat down with Sean Hannity and offered the same defense he has repeated for months. Here is the exchange on eliminating the legislative filibuster: Hannity: Getting rid of the filibuster: nonstarter? You don’t have the votes? Thune: Well, we don’t. And I’ve actually, I’ve had this conversation with the president many times, I think as you know. I actually suggested at one point that they, his team, come up and sit down and visit with some of my colleagues. So they came up, about twenty Republican senators, and fifteen were a no on getting rid…

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Rand Paul’s Relentless Document War

The Paper Trail They Tried to Bury Rand Paul does not traffic in vibes. He collects documents. While most of Washington moved on, while the same officials who shaped the COVID response collected awards, wrote memoirs, and settled into think-tank sinecures, Paul kept prying open the record. One FOIA fight, one transcribed interview, one redacted package at a time. The result now sits in his Senate Homeland Security “Reading Room”: a growing archive that maps the distance between what the public was told and what the people in charge actually knew, funded, and protected. Follow the money. Follow the research. Follow…

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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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New Jersey’s Voter Roll Failure

A Textbook Case for Passing the SAVE America Act On Tuesday, New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill stepped to the podium and admitted what Democrats have spent years denying: non-citizens had made their way onto the state’s voter rolls, and some had voted. Roughly 6,600 people who had explicitly answered “no” when asked if they were United States citizens still ended up registered between June 2023 and June 2024. Preliminary numbers showed fewer than 400 cast ballots. Sherrill blamed a software glitch at the Motor Vehicle Commission under her predecessor, Phil Murphy. She ordered removals, launched an investigation, and promised accountability. Then…

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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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Cowtown Cops vs. the Constitution

If the FWPD Gets the First Amendment Wrong, They Can’t Be Trusted on the Fourth Fort Worth, Texas: Cowtown. The city that still carries the scent of stockyards and the stubborn spirit of independence. Yet this June, at Trinity Pride Fest, officers of the Fort Worth Police Department turned that proud legacy into a black mark. Multiple officers, including a supervisor, warned Christian street preachers that “offensive speech” could earn them tickets and that stepping onto public sidewalks risked arrest for trespassing. One preacher pressed: Could saying “homosexuality is a sin” or addressing a biological male as “sir” get him cited?…

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Reclaiming America’s Story

Inside the Smithsonian’s Assault on American History Americans have every right to expect their flagship national history museum to tell the story of the United States with honesty, balance, and pride. The National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution was founded for precisely that purpose: to commemorate our heritage of freedom, highlight the basic elements of American life, and instill a deepened faith in the country’s destiny. Yet a comprehensive White House report released this month tells a different tale. Titled Saving America’s Story: How Ideological Capture at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History Erases Our Heritage,…

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¡Afuera!

Why Trump Must Veto the ROAD to Housing Act In my last column I warned that the Democratic Socialists of America have a coherent, long-term strategy for American housing: aggressive rent controls paired with tenant “protections” and subsidized “social housing” models designed to gradually displace private property owners and decommodify shelter. That Trojan horse has now breached the gates. In New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani just delivered on a signature campaign promise: a rent freeze on roughly one million rent-stabilized apartments. And Congress has handed him, and every other DSA-aligned operator across the country, the federal fuel to make the…

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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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