The Rules

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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Texas Enforces the Covenant

Texas Enforces Sovereignty on Licenses While Washington debates the full rollout of The Great American Covenant, the solemn national pact built on the Assimilation Act, SCAM Act, and SAVE America Act, Texas isn't waiting. We're already putting the principles into practice at the state level. “Entry by merit. Citizenship by character and probation. Voting by verified Americans only.” That vision isn't just federal legislation anymore; it's Lone Star policy right now. The recent Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) crackdown on professional licenses and the 2025 gutting of in-state tuition for illegal aliens show exactly how the Covenant works on…

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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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TikTok Socialists Stay Silent on Cuba

Socialism's '93%' Myth in 2026: Stossel Fact-Checks It, Cuba's Collapse Crushes It John Stossel has made a career out of exposing economic illiteracy with facts, not slogans. His 2025 viral video "What Socialist Influencers Get Wrong (Just About Everything)" still hits like a sledgehammer. He calls out TikTok stars claiming "socialism works better than capitalism 93% of the time!", a meme directly ripped from a 1986 paper by Shirley Cereseto and Howard Waitzkin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJMGNVLAKC0 That paper ("Capitalism, Socialism, and the Physical Quality of Life," International Journal of Health Services) used 1983 World Bank data to claim socialist countries beat capitalist ones…

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Fisking French

David French’s “MAGA” Smear Proves He Doesn’t Know Texas A 25-year Texas politico reads the latest New York Times lecture on Christian character, and finds the same old outsider blind spot. I’ve been active in Texas politics for more than a quarter century: knocking on doors, phone banking, running precincts, serving as a Presiding Election Judge, and watching this state transform from a purple battleground into the solid red powerhouse that keeps delivering Republican supermajorities. So when David French, the Connecticut-based New York Times columnist, parachutes in with his Sunday piece “James Talarico Is a Christian X-Ray,” I recognize the familiar…

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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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The Weak as Props

Alex Pretti, the Wolves, and the Need for Shepherds I. Introduction: The Pretti Incident and Shifting Narratives Last week, the nation was fed a tidy martyr story: Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse at a Veterans Administration hospital in Minneapolis, gunned down by federal agents while “directing traffic” outside Glam Doll Donuts on Nicollet Avenue. The image was immediate and potent-an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire of Trump’s immigration crackdown, his death proof of rogue federal violence. Protests erupted from Minneapolis to New York and Los Angeles. Far-left networks wasted no time seeding the narrative: Pretti as saintly victim, the…

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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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Just Another Panic Monday

Watch the ICE Panic Melt in Real Time I called it on November 7, 2025, when the Panicans were losing their minds over the push to nuke the filibuster during the Democrat-caused shutdown fiasco. President Trump urged Senate Republicans to scrap the 60-vote rule and force through DHS funding and ACA fixes past Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s blockade. Weak sisters wrung their hands, warned of permanent damage, and begged for restraint. I said the Democrats were overreaching, they would cave first, and the base would stand firm. By mid-November, eight Senate Democrats crossed over, the longest shutdown in history ended…

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This is the Brezhnev Doctrine

How Irreversible Gains Are Engineered—and Now Defended Through Nullification In a Sunday morning post on X, @Geiger_Capital captured the asymmetry that has defined American immigration politics for years: "One President can open our nation’s border and purposefully mass release millions of unvetted illegal immigrants into the country. But the next President can’t remove them without obstruction, riots and legal hoops. If it continues, we have no sovereignty." One President can open our nation’s border and purposefully mass release millions of unvetted illegal immigrants into the country.But the next President can’t remove them without obstruction, riots and legal hoops.If it continues, we…

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