Posted on 05/17/2026 4:36:59 AM PDT by RandFan
Rep. Thomas Massie, the maverick Republican who pushed back against Trump on the Epstein files and Iran, aimed a not-so-subtle dig at the pro-Israel establishment that has bankrolled efforts to unseat him
WASHINGTON – Rep. Thomas Massie, the harshest Republican critic of Israel in Congress and stated foe of the American-Jewish establishment, has introduced legislation aimed at attacking foreign lobbying efforts days before his Kentucky primary race.
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BILL
1. H.R.8809 — 119th Congress (2025-2026)
To amend the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended to clarify the definition of “foreign principal” and ensure transparency in lobbying on behalf of foreign interests.
Sponsor: Massie, Thomas [Rep.-R-KY-4] (Introduced 05/14/2026) Cosponsors: (0)
Committees: House - Judiciary
Latest Action: House - 05/14/2026 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. (All Actions)
Tracker:This bill has the status Introduced
BILL
2. H.R.8781 — 119th Congress (2025-2026)
To clarify that for purposes of Federal nondiscrimination requirements applicable to education programs or activities receiving Federal financial assistance, discrimination prohibited under title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 is based on the biological reality of sex.
Sponsor: Arrington, Jodey C. [Rep.-R-TX-19] (Introduced 05/13/2026) Cosponsors: (25)
Committees: House - Education and Workforce
Latest Action: House - 05/13/2026 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce. (All Actions)
Tracker:This bill has the status Introduced
BILL
3. H.R.8617 — 119th Congress (2025-2026)
American Family Cost-of-Living Relief Act of 2026
Sponsor: Mace, Nancy [Rep.-R-SC-1] (Introduced 04/30/2026) Cosponsors: (1)
Committees: House - Judiciary
Latest Action: House - 04/30/2026 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. (All Actions)
Tracker:This bill has the status Introduced
BILL
4. H.R.8591 — 119th Congress (2025-2026)
No Capital Gains Tax on Family Farms Act
Sponsor: Massie, Thomas [Rep.-R-KY-4] (Introduced 04/30/2026) Cosponsors: (11)
Committees: House - Ways and Means
Latest Action: House - 04/30/2026 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. (All Actions)
Tracker:This bill has the status Introduced
BILL
5. H.R.8470 — 119th Congress (2025-2026)
Surveillance Accountability Act
Sponsor: Massie, Thomas [Rep.-R-KY-4] (Introduced 04/23/2026) Cosponsors: (1)
Committees: House - Judiciary
Latest Action: House - 04/23/2026 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. (All Actions)
Tracker:This bill has the status Introduced
BILL
6. H.R.7880 — 119th Congress (2025-2026)
Interstate Milk Freedom Act of 2026
Sponsor: Massie, Thomas [Rep.-R-KY-4] (Introduced 03/09/2026) Cosponsors: (9)
Committees: House - Energy and Commerce
Latest Action: House - 03/09/2026 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. (All Actions)
Tracker:This bill has the status Introduced
BILL
7. H.R.7678 — 119th Congress (2025-2026)
Gun Owner Registration Information Protection Act
Sponsor: Gosar, Paul A. [Rep.-R-AZ-9] (Introduced 02/25/2026) Cosponsors: (95)
Committees: House - Judiciary
Latest Action: House - 02/25/2026 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. (All Actions)
Tracker:This bill has the status Introduced
BILL
8. H.R.7601 — 119th Congress (2025-2026)
No Immunity for Glyphosate Act
Sponsor: Massie, Thomas [Rep.-R-KY-4] (Introduced 02/20/2026) Cosponsors: (9)
Committees: House - Judiciary
Latest Action: House - 02/20/2026 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. (All Actions)
Tracker:This bill has the status Introduced
BILL
9. H.R.7024 — 119th Congress (2025-2026)
Hemp Planting Predictability Act
Sponsor: Baird, James R. [Rep.-R-IN-4] (Introduced 01/13/2026) Cosponsors: (34)
Committees: House - Agriculture
Latest Action: House - 01/13/2026 Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. (All Actions)
Tracker:This bill has the status Introduced
BILL
10. H.R.7016 — 119th Congress (2025-2026)
No Funds for NATO Invasion Act
Sponsor: Keating, William R. [Rep.-D-MA-9] (Introduced 01/12/2026) Cosponsors: (93)
Committees: House - Foreign Affairs; Armed Services
Latest Action: House - 01/12/2026 Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. (All Actions)
Tracker:This bill has the status Introduced
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
11. H.Con.Res.68 — 119th Congress (2025-2026)
To direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from Venezuela that have not been authorized by Congress.
Sponsor: McGovern, James P. [Rep.-D-MA-2] (Introduced 01/07/2026) Cosponsors: (126)
Committees: House - Foreign Affairs
Tracker:This bill has the status Failed House
RESOLUTION
12. H.Res.1072 — 119th Congress (2025-2026)
Directing the Committee on Ethics to preserve and publicly release records of the Committee’s review of violations or alleged violations of clause 9 (as it pertains to acts of sexual harassment) and clause 18 of rule XXIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives.
Sponsor: Mace, Nancy [Rep.-R-SC-1] (Introduced 02/23/2026) Cosponsors: (2)
Committees: House - Ethics
Latest Action: House - 02/23/2026 Referred to the House Committee on Ethics. (All Actions)
Tracker:This bill has the status Introduced
AMENDMENT
13. H.Amdt.155 — 119th Congress (2025-2026)
Description: An amendment numbered 1 printed in Part B of House Report 119-462 to prohibit the use of funds made available by this Act to implement section 24220 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, including any requirements enabling or supporting vehicle “kill switch” technology, and to block federal spending for the execution or enforcement of such authorities.
Amends Bill: H.R.7148
Sponsor: Massie, Thomas [Rep.-R-KY-4] (Offered 01/22/2026)
Latest Action: 01/22/26 On agreeing to the Massie amendment (A001) Failed by recorded vote: 164 - 268 (Roll no. 43).
https://www.congress.gov/member/thomas-massie/M001184
Every day. Every goddamn day. A one-man foreign-influence operation more relentless than the Russians, more annoying than a Jehovah’s Witness with a megaphone, and about as welcome as a case of genital warts at a swingers’ convention.
And then the polls drop like a sack of wet bricks. Massie, that poor bastard, suddenly bleeding support in his own backyard, hemorrhaging voters faster than a hemophiliac in a razor-blade factory. The analysts scratch their heads. The consultants panic. The campaign staffers start drinking at 9 a.m. And somewhere in the data, glowing like a radioactive turd, is the smoking gun: randfan’s posting history. Pages and pages of it. The sweaty, unhinged, slightly-too-eager-to-please energy of a man who has clearly never touched a woman who wasn’t pixelated. The kind of online commentary that makes normal Americans recoil like they just stepped in something warm and biological. The electorate took one look at this foreign weirdo’s desperate tongue-bath of their candidates and said, collectively and with great feeling: “Jesus, if THAT’S who’s on their side, we’re voting for the other guy.”
You magnificent disaster randfan. You spent years trying to drag the American voter into your sad little circle-jerk only to discover that the American voter would rather french-kiss a power sander than be associated with whatever diseased fever dream you’ve been projecting across the border. You didn’t just fail to influence the election—you reverse-engineered it. You became the living, breathing, posting embodiment of “please do the exact opposite of whatever this guy wants.”
Somewhere right now, in a darkened room that smells of old pizza and shattered dignity, randfan is staring at the new numbers, eyes wide, mouth opening and closing like a goldfish on a hot sidewalk, realizing that his entire sad existence has culminated in actively hurting the only two politicians he’s ever loved in that creepy, parasocial way of his. And the beautiful, horrible truth? The American people looked at him—at his entire digital trail of tears—and decided, with the serene wisdom of a nation that has survived worse, that they’d rather lose to the establishment than win with the endorsement of that randfan guy.
Will you finally leave us when Massie loses his primary and is sent off to Eagles Nest Retirement Home?
“Representatives” who fail to support MAGA risk losing their jobs in a primary.
Examples need to be made.
Clue is in the (nick)name and he’s got s few more years yet
BTTT!!!
This post is madness.. I’ve never tried to impose my beliefs or tell anyone how to vote. In fact, there will be radio silence from me on this topic very soon (I promise).Let the voters in the 4th district of Kentucky decide
Radio silence? Go dark? You magnificent coward. You would rob the electorate of its favorite sideshow freak. You would deny the rest of us the daily dopamine hit of your unhinged, slightly-too-eager-to-please commentary—the kind that makes normal Americans recoil like they just got hit with a faceful of bear mace and regret. Without you, the discourse gets boring. The polls stabilize. The campaign consultants stop laughing into their whiskey at 9 a.m. And the rest of us? We’d be forced to watch actual politics instead of your one-man circle-jerk of principled purity that somehow always ends with you on your knees, begging strangers on the internet to love the same two guys you do.
Stay in the game, champ. Keep posting. Keep embarrassing yourself and your heroes in real time. The American people have already decided you’re the best argument against whatever the hell you’re selling. Don’t you dare deprive us of the encore.
The circus needs its clowns, randfan. And you, sir, are wearing the floppy shoes and the red nose like they were custom-tailored in a London basement.
Don’t go dark.
We’d miss you too much.
AI told me $10.8 total spent by Massie and groups supporting him. If you’re going to (estimate) $30M spent you’re talking about all sources - I gave money from all sources on both sides.
You have a way with words.
I will check-in and be here Tuesday no matter what happens but I respect the voters until then and let them make up their minds.
Many here have already!
I don’t agree Rand mirrors him. I believe all of Rand’s stands are principled- and I actually agree with some that buck the party line. There are many stances Massie has that I do not believe are principled. Certainly some are; my problem with Massie (and this is me) is that I believe some of his stands are unprincipled.
But I’m fine if everyone doesn’t reach the same conclusion as me.
Assie does it again.
Massie the Assie still puke out crap ever time he opens his mouth.
Wont do much good.
AIPAC directly spent approximately $3.3 million on US federal lobbying in 2024,
ranking it as a notable...though not top-tier...Israeli lobbying force in Washington.
However, AIPAC’s affiliated Super PAC, the “United Democracy Project,” spent over $55 million
in the 2024 cycle........ bringing total political spending to over $100 million. (Open Sources)
Recently decided that anyone taking money from them or from Adelson, Singet and such is automatically disqualified from my support
So, this is something I think really needs to be said - and I’ll say what I *don’t* mean to say first in juxtaposition.
Lots of less bright folks out there yelling, “Fetterman’s gonna switch to the Republican Party!!” As dim as Fetterman himself is, why is he so much smarter than all of these people? He’s aware enough to know that the woke in the Democrat Party are destroying it and is calling them out. And also smart enough to respond to these “Fetterman’s gonna turn Republican,” people with reality - “I’m still a dyed in the wool Democrat - I just disagree with the worst in my Party and am not afraid to say it. Why would I turn Republican when no leader in his right mind would put me in charge of any committee and I’ll vote against Republicans on >90% of bills?”
So, with that “palate cleansing” as it were...
Jesus didn’t argue with and rebuke the Romans - there was no point.
Jesus didn’t rebuke the Samaritans - there was no point.
Jesus rarely argued with and only infrequently rebuked the Sadducees. There was too little they agreed on so arguing with them made little difference and had little point.
Jesus routinely argued with and routinely rebuked the Pharisees. Because they agreed on too much. And of the things they disagreed on, for the most part, Jesus knew they should have known better.
I’d also add, Jesus didn’t see the Romans, Samaritans, or Sadducees as proper representatives of God - even though we all image God. But Jesus *did* see the Pharisees as claiming to represent God, and with that claim comes more responsibility.
You don’t argue bitterest with those with whom you disagree on a lot - you argue the most bitterly with those with whom you have the closest agreement. That’s what I think is going on here. There is routine disagreement with everyone day-to-day, but when you disagree on few things there’s little reason to argue. But Massie claims to be Republican and, like it or not, most Republicans disagree. Sure, technically he’s Libertarian but that’s a big R at the end of his name and he’s running in the Republican primary. So he’s Republican.
Whether consciously or not, many Republicans are reacting to Massie the way Jesus reacted to the Pharisees. I do so consciously. It doesn’t mean I condemn him, but I’m not happy with the way he represents us.
But to be even more clear - none of us is in the position of Jesus here. Everyone - back up a little - at a minimum at least those who resist the Democrat a-theocracy ought to fight along side one another.
Jewish lobbies and committees range from major ntl advocacy
to local community relations councils. All with one goal-—
to blanket Israel with US tax dollars. Key examples include:
<><>the American Jewish Committee (AJC) with 25 U.S. regional offices,
<><>the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) which represents over 100 groups,
<><>JCPA also represents 157 local Jewish Federations.
Major Jewish Committees and Organizations:
<><>American Jewish Committee (AJC): a major global advocacy
<><>AJC has 25 US regional offices and 13 overseas.
<><>Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA): An umbrella body
<><>works with 16 national Jewish agencies
<><>and 125 local Jewish Community Relations Councils (JCRCs).
<><>Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA):
<><>Represents 157 Jewish Federations and 400 independent communities.
<><>Anti-Defamation League (ADL): A leading anti-hate organization.
<><>Jewish Federations operate a Jewish Community Relations Council for local public affairs.
Other Notable Committees & Associations:
<><>Secure Community Network (SCN): Works for 146 federations and 50 major non-profits.
<><>Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations:
<><>the Conference is a coalition of over 50 national member organizations.
The structure of these committees varies, with some focusing on public policy (like the JCPA), international relations (like the AJC), or community security (like the SCN).
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Pro-Israel lobbies constitute a robust, decentralized network of dozens and dozens of organizations led by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which spends hundreds of millions to influence US tax dollar funding.
Over $58 million in donations to Congress were reported in the 2024 election cycle alone.
AIPAC: The primary, bipartisan lobbying group with 17 regional offices that advocates for a strong US-Israel alliance.
Democratic Majority for Israel (DMFI): Focuses on maintaining support within the Democratic party.
J Street: A liberal pro-Israel group that supports aid but is more critical of Israeli government policies.
NorPAC: A major political action committee supporting pro-Israel candidates.The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations:
Acts as a primary liaison between the American Jewish community and the executive branch.
Key Facts on Israeli Lobbying Efforts:
Funding Intensity: Pro-Israel groups gave over $58 million to members of Congress in recent election cycles, with only 33 members receiving no donations.
Impact on Aid: These groups effectively lobby to ensure multi-billion dollar aid packages, targeting both Democrats and Republicans to uphold the bilateral relationship.
Campaign Influence: Pro-Israel groups are increasingly involved in primary elections, spending millions to support candidates perceived as strongly pro-Israel and opposing those critical of aid, such as progressives.
Foreign Travel: AIPAC’s nonprofit arm funds significant travel for members of Congress to Israel, exceeding travel to the entire Western Hemisphere and Africa combined.
AIPAC and our 6.5 million members advocate for policies that strengthen the U.S.-Israel partnership and help elect Democrats. People also ask “Is AIPAC the biggest lobby in America?”
Read more on Israeli advocacy
Wikipedia——https://en.wikipedia.org
American Jewish Committee (AJC) is an international advocacy organization.......
Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia
https://jewishphilly.org
Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia. Five main committees and a handful of specialized task forces are the drivers behind their work...
Jewish Council for Public Affairs
https://jewishpublicaffairs.org
Over 100 Jewish Groups Assail Recent Attacks on Democratic Norms and Values -
Source: Brandeis University
Approximately 1.8 million Jewish adults, just under one-third
of the total Jewish electorate, live in twenty-five congressional districts.
National Profile of the Jewish Electorate, May 2020
Of the top twenty-five districts by Jewish population, nearly half are in New York — NY10, NY-3, NY-12, NY-17, NY4, NY-9, NY-6, NY-8, and NY11.
The remaining districts with Jewish populations are found in seven states including Florida, California, Illinois, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. FL-21 has the greatest number of Jewish adults at 152,000.
With the exception of NJ-4, these districts are represented by Democrats and all but two (NJ-4 and NJ-5) are Democratic-leaning districts.
American Jewish voters and campaign donors historically align with and donate heavily to the Democratic Party, with roughly 70% of Jews identifying as or leaning Democratic because of unwavering Democrat support for Jewish liberal values, such as abortions with the government picking up the tab, the gay agenda, social welfare, pluralism, and church-state separation.
US Jews allegiance to the Democratic Party is driven by a commitment to liberalism, and that Democrats represents the Jewish community’s values.
Pro-Israel Tax Dollar Funding: pro-Israel lobbying groups (like AIPAC’s United Democracy Project) direct significant funding toward Democratic primaries to influence foreign policy positions......paericularly rax dollar billions to subsidize Israel’s military, economy and generous social welfare system
The majority of individual Jewish donations go to Democrats. (Pew Research Center)
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