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  • Maria Elvira Salazar Fires Back at Brandon Gill Over DIGNITY Act

    04/08/2026 4:48:01 PM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 29 replies
    Floridian Press ^ | 04 08 2026 | Joseph Quesada
    U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.) has fired back at fellow GOP Texas Congressman Brandon Gill over his remarks on the Dignity for Immigrants while Guarding our Nation to Ignite and Deliver the American Dream Act (DIGNIDAD). “The Dignity Act is mass amnesty and would constitute a terrible betrayal of our voters,” Rep. Gill claimed in a post on X. In response via X, Congresswoman Salazar wrote, “READ. THE. BILL. BEFORE. YOU. OPEN. YOUR. MOUTH.” “Calling the DIGNITY Act 'amnesty' isn’t just wrong. It’s a deliberate distortion and it exposes just how little you know about the bill,” Rep. Salazar...
  • Here Are The 8 Most Insane Things In The ‘DIGNIDAD’ Amnesty Bill

    04/10/2026 8:46:47 AM PDT · by chickenlips · 60 replies
    The Federalist ^ | April 9. 2026 | Brianna Lyman
    Despite President Donald Trump winning on the promise of “mass deportations,” a handful of spineless Republicans, alongside Democrats, are trying to push a mass amnesty act known as the DIGNIDAD Act — or, for English speakers, the DIGNITY Act. The legislation is billed as not being amnesty, but would give millions of illegal aliens — both so-called DREAMers/DACA and non-DREAMers/DACA — a legal status. But co-sponsor Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., insists it’s not amnesty, so much so that she’s screaming at people on X to “READ. THE. BILL. BEFORE. YOU. OPEN. YOUR. MOUTH.” So I read the bill. And...
  • Massie leads in Kentucky GOP primary

    04/09/2026 9:16:25 AM PDT · by RandFan · 63 replies
    X ^ | April 9 | QuantusInsights
    @QuantusInsights Our polling shows Thomas Massie with a clear advantage in KY-4. He has the stronger ballot position, the deeper reservoir of prior support, and a district electorate that appears more open to independence than simple allegiance politics. Gallrein still has a path, but for now Massie remains the candidate to beat.
  • These 20 Republicans Are Pushing For an Amnesty. Is Your Congressman on the List?

    04/07/2026 3:20:59 PM PDT · by CFW · 78 replies
    Townhall ^ | 4/7/26 | Joseph Chalfant
    A contingent of House Democrats and Republicans have banded together to advance an amnesty bill that they definitely want you to think is not actually an amnesty. 20 Republicans so far have joined in as co-sponsors on the bill, betraying the agenda of the Trump administration and the will of the electorate. @realBrandonGill Make no mistake about it: The so-called 'Dignity Act' is amnesty. It gives amnesty to any illegal alien that crossed the border before 2021, any illegal married to a U.S.citizen, and also massively expands visas—-including permanent residence for F-1 international students. It would bring mass deportations to...
  • Rep. Nancy Mace: Bondi Legally Compelled To Testify Before Congress About Epstein Files, "This Isn't Going Away"

    04/03/2026 9:17:31 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 26 replies
    RealClear Politics ^ | April 3, 2026 | Ian Schwartz
    Back to Videos Rep. Nancy Mace: Bondi Legally Compelled To Testify Before Congress About Epstein Files, "This Isn't Going Away" Posted By Ian Schwartz On Date April 3, 2026 Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) on "CNN News Central" reacted to the ousting of Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche being nominated to replace her. Mace said while Bondi may no longer be the Attorney General, she is still subject to a congressional subpoena to testify to the House Oversight Committee. "I made my point very clear yesterday when I issued the subpoena that was voted on by...
  • Springtime for RINOs

    03/30/2026 5:38:36 PM PDT · by little jeremiah · 18 replies
    https://www.kunstler.com/ ^ | Mar 30, 2026 | James Howard Kunstler
    “This sort of derangment is a novel psychopathology in the human species. . . a synthesis of low-IQ feminized brain scramble & neurotic lunacy." JD Haltigan on X Went to the No Kings assemblies in my town and the next nearby town on Saturday. Mental illness as far as the eye could see. Old folks, too, as far as the eye could see, predominately of the female persuasion: the devouring grandmothers. The Democratic Party has marshalled mental illness as its premier campaign strategy, and lately it is winning bigly around the country as mental illness becomes the go-to cope option...
  • Vance Wins CPAC Straw Poll, but Rubio Gains Steam Among MAGA Faithful

    03/28/2026 3:39:37 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 37 replies
    The New York Times ^ | March 28, 2026 | Kellen Browning
    Vice President JD Vance won this year’s straw poll of attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference, with 53 percent of respondents saying he was their preferred choice in the 2028 Republican presidential primary. The figure, announced by organizers on Saturday, was a slight drop from his 61 percent support in last year’s poll, and it came as Secretary of State Marco Rubio continued to emerge as a contender in early 2028 conversations. Mr. Rubio earned 35 percent of the vote at CPAC this year, a leap from his 3 percent in 2025. The poll, which came as CPAC wrapped...
  • Data Republican has words for John Thune

    03/27/2026 1:06:45 PM PDT · by DFG · 58 replies
    X ^ | 03/27/2026 | DataRepublican (small r)
    Hello Senator Thune, At 3 AM on Friday, March 27th, in a near-empty chamber, you passed a bill by voice vote that excludes all funding for ICE and CBP. Let me repeat that: voice vote. No roll call. No record of who was there. No accountability. Just you, Barrasso, and a handful of senators shuffling paper in the dead of night while America slept. You could have demanded a recorded vote. You chose not to. You could have held the line for five more days until the House returned. You chose not to. You could have used the same procedural...
  • Iran war splits older and younger conservatives - as pressure builds for Trump to find exit ramp

    03/27/2026 8:21:49 PM PDT · by RandFan · 10 replies
    BBC ^ | 27 March | Anthony Zurcher, North America correspondent, reporting from CPAC in Dallas
    A majority of the American public, polls suggest, have been against the ongoing US-Israeli military campaign in Iran from the day it started. Republicans, however, have largely stuck by their president as the war approaches the end of its fourth week. But that may be changing. At the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Texas, some of the party faithful expressed concern about why the US started this war, how Donald Trump is going to end it and whether the effort has been worth the costs. "I just wish that there was more transparency on why we're doing what...
  • Conservatives gather for CPAC as MAGA fights over Iran war

    03/26/2026 3:30:37 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 11 replies
    ABC News ^ | March 26, 2026 | Hannah Demissie
    Conservatives from across the country will descend on Texas this week for the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), one of the largest gatherings for Republicans in the year. But the yearly gathering comes during a fraught time for the party as the ongoing war with Iran has split some of President Donald Trump's MAGA followers. And for the first time in nearly a decade, Trump will not attend the event. A White House official told ABC News that Trump could not attend due to his schedule and the ongoing conflict in Iran. Vice President JD Vance, who spoke at the...
  • Pentagon Seeks $200 Billion to Fund Iran War The request, which the White House has not yet submitted to Congress, is already encountering some resistance.

    03/19/2026 2:30:51 PM PDT · by Cronos · 7 replies
    New York times ^ | 19th March 2026 | Helene Cooper, Tony Romm,
    The Pentagon has asked for $200 billion in funding for the war in Iran... The request has been sent to the White House, the military official said, which will review it before any request for funds is formally submitted to Congress. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the proposal. The request was reported earlier by The Washington Post. “Obviously, it takes money to kill bad guys,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said when asked about the request during a news conference on Thursday, adding: “As far as the $200 billion, I think that number could move.” On Capitol...
  • We need to wakeup Senator John Thune.

    03/13/2026 8:12:52 AM PDT · by factmart · 69 replies
    Self | 3/13/2026 | Factmart⅞
    We need to wakeup Senator John Thune. The Save America Act is America's last Chance. If he could get it passed he would become a hero. This bill is common sense. If the democrats win again, Filibuster is gone. If he loves America, he needs to make this his number one passion. Any ideas to wakeup him up. I mean not to say how bad he is but how to change his mind. Maybe a march for Thune. Real ideas, please. Please pray that God would change his mind.
  • Donald Trump’s Iran War Splits Republicans: [Most Republicans support, and moreso most MAGA]

    03/08/2026 8:34:38 PM PDT · by Words Matter · 29 replies
    Newsweek ^ | 3.2.26
    At least four U.S. service members have died. ... Respondents who identified as MAGA Republicans are 30 points more likely than non-MAGA Republicans to say they strongly approve of the military action and 34 points more likely to say it will reduce the threat Iran poses to the United States, CNN reported. They were also 50 points more likely to say they have a “great deal of trust” in Trump to make the right decisions regarding Iran... Among Republicans, 77 percent said they approve of the decision to take military action in Iran, while 23 percent disapproved. Fifty-eight percent said...
  • Republican Congressman Darrell Issa Will Retire End of Term

    03/07/2026 11:43:24 AM PST · by Olog-hai · 26 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 6 Mar 2026 | Paul Bois
    Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) announced on Friday that he will be retiring at the end of his term, potentially leaving his seat vulnerable to a Democrat in the midterms. Issa issued the announcement to retire soon after the deadline to register as a candidate in a district that became vulnerable to Democrat control after being redrawn last year. “This decision has been on my mind for a while, and I didn’t make it lightly,” Issa said. “First, we built the right campaign infrastructure, support has been overwhelming — including from President Trump — and our polling was unmistakable: We would...
  • John Thune urges Trump to endorse John Cornyn ‘early’

    03/04/2026 12:57:11 PM PST · by RandFan · 113 replies
    Politico ^ | March 4 | Jordain Carney
    Senate Majority Leader John Thune urged President Donald Trump on Wednesday to deliver a swift endorsement of Texas Sen. John Cornyn to potentially forestall what is widely expected to be an expensive and nasty primary runoff against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Thune told reporters he hasn’t yet spoken to Trump since the election returns from Tuesday’s primary came in but indicated he intends to personally redouble his efforts, saying Wednesday that “hopefully” the president will give Cornyn his influential nod. “[If] Trump endorses early, it saves everybody a lot of money, and … 10 weeks of a spirited campaign...
  • Republican Governor tells Kristi Noem GET OUT OF MY STATE as Trump insiders warn growing mutiny 'is a huge problem'

    02/27/2026 8:51:25 AM PST · by DFG · 78 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 02/27/2026 | PHILLIP NIETO
    Donald Trump's immigration crackdown is fracturing his own party, with Republican governors openly defying the White House over detention expansion as political fallout from the carnage in Minneapolis threatens to cost him at the midterms. Kristi Noem was rebuffed this week when she tried to build a new illegal migrant camp in New Hampshire by the state's Republican Governor Kelly Ayotte. Merrimack residents were outraged when it emerged that the Homeland Security Secretary planned to use their town to expand Trump's mass deportation effort. Ayotte, a moderate Republican governing a blue state, informed Noem that she would not assist in...
  • Victor Davis Hanson: Trump, Beware—These ‘Unforced Errors’ Could Hand Democrats a Midterm Win

    02/15/2026 6:52:59 AM PST · by texas booster · 82 replies
    The Daily Signal YT Channel ^ | Feb 14 2026 | Victor Davis Hanson
    With only nine months until the midterm elections, Democrats will scrutinize every move President Donald Trump takes as they fight to reclaim control of the House and the Senate. Victor Davis Hanson lays out the narrow road ahead to victory for Trump and the GOP during the 2026 midterm elections. History is not on the incumbent’s side. Messaging mistakes and unforced errors could shift key voters and hand Congress back to Democrats. Hanson explains what it will take to hold a Republican majority—and why the stakes for these midterm elections could not be higher—on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson:...
  • RINO Senators Could Sink The SAVE Act

    02/10/2026 9:49:46 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 39 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 02/10/2026 | M.D. Kittle
    The House this week is set to take up the SAVE America Act (the SAVE Act 2.0), an election-integrity measure that some Senate Republicans can’t seem to get behind even though the vast majority of Americans already have. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise’s office confirms the SAVE America Act, which would require proof of U.S. citizenship to register and photo identification to vote in federal elections, will hit the floor on Tuesday. While Democrats will spend hours making a mockery of truth and reality in opposing it, the legislation is expected to pass mostly along party lines — as the...
  • GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski comes out against Trump's election bill, with a warning to her party

    02/10/2026 9:10:45 AM PST · by cotton1706 · 89 replies
    NBC News ^ | 2/10/26 | Sahil Kapur
    WASHINGTON — Sen. Lisa Murkowski became the first Republican senator to speak out against the SAVE Act, a sweeping election bill backed by President Donald Trump that would require proof of citizenship to vote nationwide.
  • Lawler: ‘Not Realistic’ to Kick Out Over 25 Million Undocumented People

    02/09/2026 9:14:33 AM PST · by Kazan · 164 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 8 Feb 2026 | Pam Key
    Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) said it was “not realistic” to remove over 25 million people in this country who are undocumented.’#Lawler said, “Look, this is an issue that I’ve been focused on for years. You know, for 40 years, we have not solved our immigration crisis. The American people were rightly outraged by what happened under the Biden administration, where you had over 10.5 million migrants cross our border, most of them illegally. You know, porous Southern border needed to be shut down. President Trump did that. The fact is, we have had nine straight...