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  • One Hour Podcast with Rep. Thomas Massie

    10/30/2025 1:34:01 PM PDT · by RandFan · 30 replies
    X ^ | Oct 30 | Matt Kibbe
    @freethepeople One of the main reasons why the government remains shut down — and why Speaker Johnson (R-La.) is preventing the House of Representatives from convening — is that Massie has the votes to release the Epstein files.
  • VP Vance was asked about Rep. Thomas Massie

    10/30/2025 2:41:52 AM PDT · by RandFan · 72 replies
    X ^ | Oct 30 | JD VANCE
    Q: Why is President Trump going after Thomas Massie? JD VANCE: It's one thing to disagree with the party on an issue...voting against the party on *EVERY single issue*? Every time we've needed Thomas for a vote, he's been completely unwilling to provide it. That's why Trump turned his ire on Massie. We could never count on him for some of the most difficult votes. I say that as someone who knew Thomas well before I got into politics.
  • Don’t Go Talking Smack About Our Girl Susan Collins

    10/30/2025 7:12:06 AM PDT · by DIRTYSECRET · 20 replies
    It's super weird to have a Republican in New England, and we conservatives need to sit back, shut up, and enjoy the ride. As far as I'm concerned, she gets a permanent "Get Out of Conservative Media Outrage" card. She's not a Thom Tillis or a Jim Lankford who talks a good game about being conservative and proceeds to stick us in the back.
  • Rand Paul: Trump could see ‘all hell break loose’ with further involvement in Ukraine, Venezuela

    10/29/2025 1:29:56 PM PDT · by RandFan · 59 replies
    The Hill ^ | 10/24/25 11:58 AM ET | by Ryan Mancini
    Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) warned on Friday that President Trump’s growing involvements in Ukraine’s war with Russia and in the Caribbean Sea against Venezuela could further unravel and greatly upset the MAGA base. Paul, in an interview with Dasha Burns on Politico’s “The Conversation” podcast, said the $20 billion “economic stabilization” agreement with Argentina could be “the dealbreaker … because it’s an enormous amount of money.” “But if there is more money going to Ukraine, and it looks like he is coming down on the side of getting us involved with Ukraine on their side of the war [with Russia]...
  • Five Senate Republicans join Democrats to rebuke Trump’s Brazil tariffs

    10/28/2025 4:59:50 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 50 replies
    CNN ^ | Updated: 7:03 PM EDT, Tue October 28, 2025 | Morgan Rimmer, Ted Barrett
    The Senate passed a resolution Tuesday aimed at ending President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Brazil, with five Republicans joining Democrats in a rare bipartisan rebuke of the president over trade policy. Sens. Rand Paul, Thom Tillis, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and former Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell sided with Democrats in the 52 to 48 vote. McConnell has long been critical of Trump’s trade policy, and said in a statement ahead of the vote, “Tariffs make both building and buying in America more expensive. The economic harms of trade wars are not the exception to history, but the rule.” The...
  • Rand Paul Trashes Republicans for Always Caving to Trump

    10/27/2025 2:46:58 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 48 replies
    The New Republic ^ | 10/24/25 | Malcolm Ferguson
    Senator Rand Paul is tired of being the only Republican senator willing to stand up to President Trump. The libertarian spoke with Politico’s Dasha Burns just days after being deliberately left out of Trump’s gathering of GOP senators in the Rose Garden. “We have everybody but one person here,” Trump said Wednesday. “We’re just missing one person. You’ll never guess who that is. Let me give you—he automatically votes no on everything. He thinks it’s good politics. It’s really not good politics.”
  • 🚨 JUST IN: Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) accuses President Trump of doing what CHINA and IRAN do when he "executes" narco-terrorists

    10/26/2025 3:29:28 PM PDT · by conservative98 · 123 replies
    X ^ | 26 Oct 2025
    🚨 JUST IN: Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) accuses President Trump of doing what CHINA and IRAN do when he "executes" narco-terrorists "I would call them extrajudicial killings. This is akin to what China does, what Iran does with drug dealers -- they summarily execute people without presenting evidence to the public. So it's WRONG."
  • Tucker on Trump / Massie and Sen. Lindsey Graham

    10/24/2025 3:37:34 AM PDT · by RandFan · 60 replies
    X ^ | Octg 24 | Tucker Carlson
    @Holden_Culotta Tucker Carlson: “What the hell is going on that Thomas Massie is a target, but Lindsey Graham has a Trump endorsement?” “Of all the members of Congress that I know, Massie is the most principled.” “If Lindsay Graham continues to get elected, then the whole MAGA thing is totally fake.” “I don’t think there are many people in the country who live out Donald Trump’s own stated principles more precisely than Thomas Massie does.” “His personal life … is like one of the most impressive things I’ve ever heard.” “He is self-reliant in the most American sense.” “This is...
  • Rand Paul vows support for Thomas Massie amid Trump-backed primary challenge

    10/24/2025 9:32:56 AM PDT · by conservative98 · 25 replies
    Politico ^ | 10/24/2025 05:00 AM EDT | By Faith Wardwell
    Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) pledged to support his colleague Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) as he faces a Trump-backed primary challenge in 2026. In an interview with POLITICO’s Dasha Burns for “The Conversation,” Paul said threats lobbed at Massie from President Donald Trump and others close to the president should raise alarms for any lawmaker, and vowed to help his Kentucky colleague maintain his seat. “Thomas Massie is going to win,” Paul said. “I’m going to help him. I’m going to be with him every step of the way.”
  • RAND PAUL: America needs diplomacy over endless war, real debate before military action, and fiscal sanity, not $2–3 trillion deficits

    10/20/2025 6:55:56 PM PDT · by RandFan · 161 replies
    X ^ | Oct 19 | @RandPaul
    @RandPaul On @MeetThePress, I made it clear: America needs diplomacy over endless war, real debate before military action, and fiscal sanity, not $2–3 trillion deficits from either party. I’ll stand with President Trump when he’s right and stand up to government overreach when he’s not.
  • Thomas Massie says: Don't Tell Us There's Nothing in the Epstein Files

    10/19/2025 8:11:53 AM PDT · by RandFan · 87 replies
    X ^ | Oct 19 | Thomas Massie
    @RepThomasMassie First the British Ambassador lost his job and now the Prince lost his title. Don’t tell us there’s nothing in the Epstein files. The truth is coming out and we will not give up. Repost this and tag @SpeakerJohnson if you want him to quit delaying the vote.
  • Trump asked dual citizen Miriam Adelson: “What do you love more, the United States or Israel?”

    10/14/2025 2:05:24 AM PDT · by RandFan · 167 replies
    X ^ | Oct 13 | Rep. Thomas Massie
    @RepThomasMassie Trump asked dual citizen Miriam Adelson, a billionaire running nasty ads against me in Kentucky, “what do you love more, the United States or Israel?” She refused to answer him. He says that might mean she loves Israel more. This isn’t AI, it’s real video…
  • Rep. Thomas Massie banks career-best fundraising haul despite Trump forces trying to oust him

    10/10/2025 6:01:24 AM PDT · by RandFan · 21 replies
    The Washington Times ^ | Oct 9 | The Washington Times
    Rep. Thomas Massie is turning his defiance of President Trump into dollars. The Kentucky Republican raised more than $750,000 in the last three months — surpassing his previous best fundraising quarter since entering Congress by more than $100,000. “A lot of times, candidates get tripped up when Trump endorses their opponents because they can’t raise money, that basically shuts off all the fuel to the engine of their campaign, and that is not the case with me,” Mr. Massie told The Washington Times. Mr. Massie credits the surge in donations to Republican voters. “Every time he’s attacked me, there has...
  • Donald Trump’s fortress economy is starting to hurt America: The pain coming from trade and immigration restrictions cannot be postponed forever

    10/10/2025 11:10:52 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 55 replies
    The Economist ^ | 10/09/2025
    Brick by brick, President Donald Trump is building a wall around the world’s largest economy. As America’s tariff barriers on everyone else have gone up, so has the drawbridge, making it harder for migrants to enter the country. The president wants to turn America into a fortress that keeps out foreign incursions. In fact, he is cutting America off from the very goods and talent that helped make its economy the envy of the world. Already the damage is starting to show; once wreaked, it will not easily be reversed. That is not how investors see it. In the six...
  • VIDEO: Rand Paul Publicly Condemns Trump's Strikes On Venezuelan Boats, Demand He Show Evidence

    10/09/2025 6:21:19 AM PDT · by RandFan · 68 replies
    YouTube / U.S. Senate ^ | Oct 9 | Sen. Paul
    During remarks on the Senate floor Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) President Trump's lethal strikes against alleged Venezuelan narco boats in international waters.
  • Former heads of US Bureau of Labor Statistics say Trump's attacks erode trust in data

    10/08/2025 5:35:10 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 26 replies
    Reuters.com ^ | October 8, 20251:57 PM CDT | Lucia Mutikani
    Summary BLS loses senior leaders as Trump targets agency's integrity About 12 of 35 senior leaders have left amid Trump's criticism Modernizing data collection suggested to improve response rates WASHINGTON, Oct 8 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's unwarranted attacks on the integrity of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics were undermining trust in economic data and had accelerated retirements of key personnel at the agency, former BLS commissioners said on Wednesday. During a discussion at the libertarian Cato Institute, Erica Groshen and William Beach, who headed the agency under presidents of both parties, said the BLS had lost 12...
  • Mike Johnson faces growing internal revolt over shutdown

    10/08/2025 2:41:54 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 49 replies
    Axios ^ | October 8, 2025 | Kate Santaliz , Andrew Solender
    The longer the government stays shut down, the shorter House Republicans' patience seems to be getting with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.). Why it matters: Johnson's decision to keep his chamber on an indefinite break in the middle of a government shutdown isn't sitting well with some in his conference — and that could put pressure on the speaker to change course. From frustration over the stalled vote on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files, to questions about whether — as Johnson argues — the chamber really has no business to attend to in Washington, GOP lawmakers are beginning to get antsy....
  • Greene says she’s felt more pressure on Epstein petition than any other issue

    10/08/2025 11:20:43 PM PDT · by RandFan · 38 replies
    The Hill ^ | 10/07/25 11:04 PM ET | by Tara Suter
    Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said Tuesday that she has faced more pressure over a petition to trigger a House vote compelling the release of files linked to Jeffrey Epstein than any other issue. “My signature is on that discharge petition, and there has not been another issue where I have ever received more pressure than that one, and I’m pretty much shocked by it. I can’t imagine — I’ve never understood how this is an issue,” Greene told NewsNation’s Blake Burman on “The Hill.” “I think when it comes to women being raped, especially when they were 14 years...
  • Massie: Why are we [the House] in recess? Epstein!

    10/05/2025 1:27:46 PM PDT · by RandFan · 50 replies
    X ^ | Oct 5 | Rep. Massie
    @RepThomasMassie The government is shutdown, but the House refuses to go back in session. Why are we in recess? Because the day we go back into session, I have 218 votes for the discharge petition to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files. @SpeakerJohnson doesn’t want that to be the news.
  • Senator Rand Paul SAVAGES the Continuing Resolution which "keeps spending at Biden's reckless levels"

    10/04/2025 2:53:05 AM PDT · by RandFan · 54 replies
    X ^ | Oct 4 | Senator Rand Paul
    @SenRandPaul This continuing resolution keeps spending at Biden’s reckless levels: no real cuts, no debt reduction. It’s the same old Washington game of borrowing more and ignoring fiscal responsibility. We need to stop the spending spree and get government under control.