October 2, 2026

02c U.S. Politics – Election

SAVE Act Will Pass Only If There Are Consequences For Opposing It– thefederalist.com

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The leadership shrug is a remarkable new political gesture.

Members of Congress who declared their opposition to Lyndon Johnson’s most important legislative priorities tended to be woken by phone calls in the middle of the night from an angry president. Johnson was fond of physiological imagery, so members of his party who declared their independence would hear that he planned to cut their throats or alter their sexual anatomy. In profane rants, holdouts learned that federal spending for things like highways was about to become quite scarce in their district or their state, and everyone back home was going to know who had caused the sudden money drought with his stupidity.

In person, the “Johnson Treatment” – “an incredible, potent mixture of persuasion, badgering, flattery, threats, reminders of past favors and future advantages” – was known for its physical aggression, as the 6’4″ president leaned forward and shoved his face into deeply uncomfortable proximity with men who weren’t getting with the program. When he met with members of Congress, Johnson wasn’t asking.

Last week, Senate Republicans announced that they just don’t have the votes to pass the SAVE America Act, an election security bill with measures that Republican voters have strongly supported for years. “That’s just a function of math, and there isn’t anything I can do about that,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune said. This is how Republicans are pretending that Congress works: Leaders ask every member what they feel like doing, and then the members all say how they want to vote, and then leadership accepts their decision and the conversation ends. A caucus is a counting mechanism, and can’t be anything else. Thune’s “there isn’t anything I can do about that” is a gesture of make-believe helplessness that defies 250 years of legislative history.

 

Pew Tries To Hide Americans’ Hesitancy About Unlimited Abortion– thefederalist.com

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Abortion polling is notoriously deceptive and known to strategically skew and misrepresent public opinion to favor abortion activists’ radical agendas. Pew Research Center’s latest survey appears to be no different.

In its 2026 American Trends Panel analysis, Pew uses its January 2026 survey of more than 8,500 U.S. adults to assert that a majority of Americans, 60 percent, “continue to say abortion should be legal in all or most cases.”

Pew suggests that number means states’ attempts to use the post-Dobbs v. Jackson era to outlaw or limit abortion are unpopular and out of touch. The research center’s write-up of its newly retrieved data even notes, in bold, that “In recent years, the public has become more likely to say obtaining an abortion in their area would be difficult.”

Network Evening News Spends Only 8 Percent of DHS Shutdown Coverage Blaming Dems– www.newsbusters.org

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Since February 14, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been largely shut down after funding lapsed because Democrats demanded changes to President Trump’s deportation policies, leaving government workers such as TSA agents to work without pay and turn to food banks.

A Media Research Center study found that, since the start of the DHS shutdown, only eight percent – or 125 seconds – of the 26 minutes and 22 seconds on the shutdown across the flagship evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC have brought up the fact that the long lines at airports are because of the left’s obstructionism.

MRC analysts examined every mention of the DHS shutdowns and its effects (mainly at America’s airports) by journalists, starting on February 14 on ABC’s World News Tonight, the CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News and tallied both the total coverage and allusions to Democratic demands to reopen DHS.

MAGA Ramps Up Pressure on Trump to Dump Cornyn › American Greatness– amgreatness.com

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Biggest wildfire in Nebraska history continues to burn out of control

Energy Secretary Wright says war with Iran ‘will certainly’ end in next few weeks

Pope escalates call for ceasefire in Iran by addressing those responsible for the war

Trump officials target media over Iran war reporting

Hegseth’s “no quarter” Iran talk alarms legal experts

MAGA ramps up pressure on Trump to dump Cornyn

Hundreds Rally in London for Iranian Regime at Banned Pro-Palestinian Protest

Dem Rep. Smith: Iran War Has ‘Exacerbated’ Domestic Threat Problem

Merkel Blasted for Calling on Migrants to Vote Against Populist AfD Party

Obama Center Seeks Skilled Unpaid Volunteers While CEO Valerie Jarrett’s Salary Is $740K

Rich Get Richer: Hollywood Elites Treat Themselves to Oscars Gift Bags Worth $350,000 in Luxury Swag

New York Times Criticized for Framing of Michigan Synagogue Attack Coverage– www.newsbusters.org

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The New York Times has caught a lot of justified flak the last few days for how softly it has framed its profiles of the Islamic perpetrator of an anti-Jewish attack on a Michigan synagogue. “The Michigan Synagogue Attacker Was a Quiet Restaurant Worker.” At least Sunday’s print headline was better: “Recalling Attacker’s Last Days Before Driving Into Synagogue.”

Critics faulted the terrorist-sympathetic framing of the story, like another headline: “Family Members of Michigan Synagogue Attacker Died in Airstrike in Lebanon.” The story initially included insistence from sources that members of the man’s family killed in an Israeli air strike there were not members of Hezbollah.

As confirmation of the man’s Hezbollah links emerged, that denial was quietly excised.

Minnesota Elections Official Finally Admits What We All Knew About Illegals Voting– townhall.com

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We have been told for years that there is no need for stricter identification requirements in American elections. The Left has claimed that our elections are secured, and that the Right has simply lied about the issue, or they want to put up restrictions on women or minorities voting by instituting measures to prove citizens and identity before casting a ballot. When put on the record, it seems that those on the Left are finally telling the truth about the matter: illegals are easily able to vote in American elections.

ABC Pushes CNN Lie Trump Had No Plan for Hormuz, Says Vote Dem in Nov.– www.newsbusters.org

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Despite CNN being forced to walk back their fake news over the weekend where they suggested the U.S. military and the Trump administration didn’t have a plan to protect the Strait of Hormuz, ABC News program The View still pushed it during their Monday episode. The news show then went on to encourage people to vote for Democrats in the November midterms.

Chronically aggrieved co-host Sunny Hostin pushed the false claim there was no plan for dealing with Iran’s efforts to close the Strait, then suggested the national average price of gas was $8-per-gallon because of it:

I can’t believe that the president didn’t know that Iran’s response to this would be to close the Strait of Hormuz and not allow tankers in. And now our energy prices are going off the rails, $8 for gas.

Dire Straits for Midterms? Gas Price Surge Troubles Senators– www.dailysignal.com

pgnewser March 13, 2026 0

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Amid uncertainty in a vital global shipping lane brought on by the conflict with Iran, gas pump prices are way up.

Some in Congress think that could be a problem for their constituents and for Republicans’ chances in the midterms.

“Naturally, we’re all really concerned,” Sen. Jim Justice, R-W.Va., told The Daily Signal of the gas prices.

Nevertheless, Justice framed it as part of the cost of taking on Iran.

SAVE America Act Faces Likely Defeat as Thune Declines Talking Filibuster Fight– legalinsurrection.com

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Despite pressure from President Donald Trump and the more than 90% of Republicans who support the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has declined to pursue either of the two paths that could potentially carry this bill across the finish line.

The SAVE America Act would require voters to present proof of citizenship when they register to vote and a photo ID at the ballot box. Regardless of party affiliation, roughly 80% of the electorate supports this legislation.

4 Reasons Vote-By-Mail Is Insecure– thefederalist.com

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Sen. John Fetterman says he no longer would support the SAVE America Act in its “current state,” and that President Donald Trump is “constantly critical on mail-in voting,” which, according to Fetterman, is “safe.”

But mass mail-in voting is highly insecure — and the SAVE America Act would help solve several critical issues with voting by mail.

Trump Declares Moratorium on Legislation Until SAVE Act is passed

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President Trump is about to be tested after the U.S. Senate just passed a bill, a fair housing bill favored by the Democrats (but with bipartisan support). Before the passage, President Trump declared “I won’t sign any new legislation until SAVE Act is Passed.” The SAVE Act would make citizen-based photo ID required and would also end mass mailer elections (which are no elections at all).

John Thune appears to be doing everything he can to protect his RINO colleagues from vote accountability by pushing for a straight floor vote requiring 60 votes to pass. He has chosen this route rather than force his RINO colleagues to vote down a procedural change that would force the Democrats to do a verbal filibuster. Due to a procedural rule change that started to be exploited in the 70s, the procedural filibuster replaced the verbal one. This has allowed the filibuster to become a de facto requirement for nearly every bill passed by the Senate (which has sometimes helped the republicans).

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Trump: I Won’t Sign Any New Legislation Until SAVE Act Is Passed – gellerreport.com

Nothing illustrates how deeply corrupted and dangerously compromised the American voting system has become more than the extraordinary resistance Americans encounter when attempting to enact even the most basic voter safeguards and anti-fraud protections.

A healthy democracy welcomes safeguards. Only a corrupted system fights them. When a nation must wage a political battle simply to enact the most basic safeguards against voter fraud, it is no longer merely debating policy — it is confronting the corruption of its own electoral system.

The president knows how to force movement on the issues most important to him. He drew a line in the sand Friday, declaring he will veto every bill that reaches his desk until the SAVE America Act passes the Senate: “I will not sign any other legislation until the SAVE Act is passed,” Trump announced (Townhall).

Hours later, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) announced his support for ending the silent filibuster to pass the bill—a procedural breakthrough that likely clears the path to final passage. Notably, Cornyn is in a runoff with Texas AG Ken Paxton who announced: The Save America Act is the most important bill the U.S. Senate could ever pass, and I’m committed to helping President Trump get it done. I would consider dropping out of this race if Senate Leadership agrees to lift the filibuster and passes the SAVE America Act (Paxton).

The president’s ultimatum puts every appropriations bill, every defense authorization, and every continuing resolution on hold until Senate Democrats and wavering Republicans decide whether election integrity is worth the standoff. Trump: It must be done immediately. It supersedes everything else. MUST GO TO THE FRONT OF THE LINE. I, as President, will not sign other Bills until this is passed (Truth).

Excellent. Without election integrity nothing else matters. The Save Act must pass.

Upset in Virginia After Muslim Democrat Busted for Racist Tweets– www.dailysignal.com

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A Republican won a deep-blue Northern Virginia county-level seat in a major upset Tuesday after revelations that her Democratic opponent made racist social media posts more than 10 years ago.

Republican Jeannie LaCroix, 64, won a special election for a Prince William County Board of Supervisors seat, defeating Democratic nominee Muhammed Sufiyan Casim, 36, a Muslim Pakistani immigrant, who in the 2010s made a series of online posts containing racist, misogynist and antisemitic content, Potomac Local News reported.

Democrat and Republican head to Georgia runoff election for Marjorie Taylor Greene’s seat – US politics live | Trump administration– www.theguardian.com

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The Democrat Shawn Harris will go head-to-head with Republican Clay Fuller in a run-off after they came out ahead in a special election to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene in Congress on Tuesday night.

The election for the state’s 14th congressional district has been seen as a test of Donald Trump’s sway and may provide a rare opportunity for Democrats in a deep-red pocket of north-west Georgia.

Former prosecutor Fuller has Trump’s endorsement and had raised more than $1m leading into voting on Tuesday, but Harris, a retired army general who faced Greene two years ago, has raised more than four times as much.

John Fetterman Says He Will Never Vote For Current Version Of Election Integrity Law– dailycaller.com

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Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman said on Wednesday that he will never vote for the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act in its current form.

Fetterman said on “The Takeout with Major Garrett” that he is against restrictions on mail-in voting, arguing that it is safe and has even been supported by Republicans. The SAVE Act would require all Americans to show proof of citizenship with documentation in person before voting, which would largely impact mail-based and online voter registration.

“I don’t support [it] in its current state to vote Save America. And the president is constantly critical on mail-in voting, and that’s ridiculous,” Fetterman said. “It’s safe. Some of the best examples in the country are from red states like Ohio and Florida, of course. And now I have a unique perspective on that too, as in 2019, as I was lieutenant governor, the Republicans in Pennsylvania pushed for mail-in voting.”

Thune Chooses SAVE America ‘Show Vote’ Over Talking Filibuster– www.dailysignal.com

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A source familiar with the matter has confirmed to The Daily Signal that Senate Majority Leader John Thune will bring the SAVE America Act to a vote next week without moving forward with a talking filibuster.

The suspected vote was previously reported by Politico and the Washington Examiner.

“I can confirm, it looks like Thune is planning to bring it to a vote next week as a show vote,” the source told The Daily Signal. “Despite outrage from GOP voters and the specific request of the president, he is not planning on pursuing a standing filibuster or any other method to actually pass the bill.”

John Cornyn Touts Support from Pastors with Ties to Soros-Linked Group That Lobbied for ‘Gang of Eight’ Amnesty– www.breitbart.com

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Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), battling a runoff challenge from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), is touting support for his Senate campaign from pastors who are signatories of the Evangelical Immigration Table, a group linked to George and Alex Soros’s Open Society Foundations, and which has a record of backing amnesty for illegal aliens living in the United States.

This week, Cornyn rolled out his campaign’s Faith Advisory Council, which comprises five pastors across Texas. Among those pastors are Max Lucado of Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Dr. Jack Graham of Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, and Dr. Gus Reyes of Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission in Dallas.

Thune Covers For RINO Pals As He Does His Screw America Act– thefederalist.com

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Stuck in a do-nothing U.S. Senate, the SAVE America Act would be safer in a Canadian euthanasia clinic.

And Senate Majority Leader John Thune has become a laughable Pawn Stars meme, effectively telling President Donald Trump and fellow Republicans, ‘The best I can do is a Screw America Act.”

He’s helpless. That’s the South Dakota Republican’s answer to the urgent call from actual conservatives warning him that the window for critical election integrity reform is quickly closing. Just call him John “Very, Very Difficult” Thune.

FBI Seizes 2020, 2024 Election Records from Notorious Maricopa County, AZ

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Maricopa County, AZ is seen as the epicenter of 2020 election fraud suspicion, surpassing its closest rival, Fulton County, GA, in evidence that is difficult for skeptics to simply dismiss. Now that county is under an FBI microscope, with the announcement of election records being seized from Maricopa County from the bureau.

Republican State Senate President Warren Petersen confirmed the action by the FBI, posting on X, “Late last week I received and complied with a federal grand jury subpoena for records relating to the Arizona State Senate’s 2020 audit of Maricopa County. The FBI has the records. Any other report is fake news.”

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Trump Celebrates Report FBI Seized Arizona Election Records – dailysignal.com

President Donald Trump celebrated a report that the FBI obtained election records from Arizona’s largest county, a move that follows a federal raid last month on a Georgia county’s elections department.

Maricopa County, the site of the reported FBI raid, has been a contentious jurisdiction for elections, particularly after Joe Biden beat Donald Trump narrowly in the state in 2020.

Trump wrote “Great!!!” in a Truth Social post about the report of the FBI demanding election records.

The state Senate conducted a forensic audit of the 2020 election returns in Maricopa County.

Trump’s 2020 Electors Fully Free from Prosecution after Michigan DA Surrenders

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Michigan DA Dana Nessel has decided she will not pursue charges against 16 Trump electors from the 2020 election who attempted to claim they should be recognized as the real delegates because the election was stolen. The Trump electors were charged with election fraud, a charge that doesn’t stick, as a district court judge ruled, saying they were being charged for freedom of speech, not for committing fraud.

Now, after looking for ways to defy the district judge’s ruling, the DA has given up the fight. She claimed, “My office did not reach this decision lightly, though after a thorough assessment of the resources and time required to pursue justice in these cases, the pace and difficulty with which various courts have dealt with criminal violations of election law, and our likelihood of success given stringent appellate review standards, I have decided not to pursue an appeal.”

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Michigan Attorney General ends prosecution of those charged in 2020 election scheme  CBS News
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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said she has ended efforts to seek criminal prosecution over a false certificate of votes regarding Michigan’s results in the 2020 presidential election.

This follows up on a district judge’s decision last September to dismiss criminal charges against 15 people who each faced multiple counts of forgery and conspiracy to commit election forgery.

Joe Biden won Michigan by nearly 155,000 votes, and the overall national election results during the 2020 election cycle. But there were criminal investigations in multiple states, including Michigan, over efforts by some people to present Donald Trump rather than Joe Biden as the election winner that year. Mr. Trump did win in the 2024 presidential election and is currently serving his second term in office.

U.S. presidential race results are presented by the states’ representatives, known as electors, then certified through the Electoral College.

The actions leading to the charges in Michigan involved a document signed in December 2020 that falsely listed the names of people claiming to be the state’s representatives to the Electoral College. The matter was referred to federal authorities, with no charges resulting; then Nessel pursued a state investigation.

There were originally 16 Michigan residents charged in the case; a cooperation agreement then led to the dismissal of charges against one.

“My office did not reach this decision lightly, though after a thorough assessment of the resources and time required to pursue justice in these cases, the pace and difficulty with which various courts have dealt with criminal violations of election law, and our likelihood of success given stringent appellate review standards, I have decided not to pursue an appeal,” Nessel said in her announcement and report issued Monday.

John Thune REFUSES to Nuke the Filibuster to Pass SAVE Act: “That’s Not Going to Happen”– wltreport.com

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s true colors are showing again…

Despite President Trump making it very clear that the SAVE America Act needs to get passed as soon as possible and urging Senate leadership to nuke the filibuster, Sen. Thune is completely refusing to take action.

Sen. Thune told NBC News that a talking filibuster is “more complicated and risky” than people realize and that he doesn’t believe it would work.

GOP Sen. Bernie Moreno Outlines Why John Thune Struggles To Move SAVE America Act Forward– dailycaller.com

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Republican Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno on Tuesday listed reasons why Senate Majority Leader John Thune faces difficulty moving the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act through the chamber.

The Republican-controlled House passed the SAVE America Act in February 2026 by a 218–213 vote, requiring documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register for federal elections. Thune said the bill faces an uncertain path in the Senate because Republicans currently lack the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster. Moreno said on “The Ingraham Angle” that Thune has limited leverage over several Republican members who are pushing their own priorities instead of coordinating with party leadership.

DNC Sues Trump Over a Plan That May Not Even Exist – PJ Media– pjmedia.com

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The Democratic National Committee filed a lawsuit on Mar. 10, 2026, in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, targeting several federal agencies within the Trump Administration, naming the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the U.S. Department of Defense as defendants.

The lawsuit alleges that the DNC sent close to a dozen FOIA requests to the Justice Department (DOJ), Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Defense Department (DOD) in October “concerning potential deployment of federal agents and troops to polling places, drop boxes, and election offices.” 

“Nearly five months later, the DNC has received neither substantive responses nor responsive documents, not even a list of documents withheld under statutory exemptions,” the suit added. 

Leavitt Responds to Thune on SAVE America Act– www.dailysignal.com

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt reacted to Senate Majority Leader John Thune saying the math doesn’t add up to pass President Donald Trump’s SAVE America Act.

“I think the urgency behind his need to pass the SAVE America Act and his desire to get this country- saving legislation passed have been made quite clear,” Leavitt said of the president on Tuesday.

Thune, R-S.D., had said, “The votes aren’t there to nuke the filibuster, and the votes aren’t there for a talking filibuster.” These are the only options for the Senate to pass the bill without the customary 60 votes to end debate.

Politico Buries Republicans Who Could ‘Upset’ California Gubernatorial Primary– www.newsbusters.org

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It’s  the Great Fear that is just eating away at the poor folks at Politico. It was first expressed by that periodical in December when they suddenly realized that with so many Democrats (and none clearly in the lead) that in the open primary for governor of California that it was possible that with only  two Republicans in that race, that both of them could end up in first and second place due to the Democrats splitting up the rest of the votes among themselves.

A couple of months later in February that fear not only did not go away but intensified with poor Politico going full delusional to the extent of pretending that if they only concentrated on the top two Democrat candidates while absurdly ignoring the two GOP candidates whom many polls are showing in the first and second spot, thus qualifying to run against each other in the general election, that maybe the problem would just go away. The result of completely ignoring the Republican candidates who could both qualify for the general election earned Politico some well deserved mockery.

Georgia’s Special Election To Replace MTG Ends In A Run-Off Situation– wltreport.com

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It was election night in Georgia on Tuesday night.

Georgia residents in the 14th Congressional District hit the polls on Tuesday to vote for former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene’s replacement.

Rep. Greene resigned from Congress on January 5th.

However, there was no clear winner because neither the Republican candidates nor the Democrat candidates reached the 50% threshold needed, resulting in a future runoff.

Trump says his bill would ‘guarantee the midterms.’ House Republicans are moving on.– www.politico.com

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DORAL, Florida — President Donald Trump told House Republicans Monday he had one overriding legislative priority for 2026. Then they spent Tuesday talking about just about anything else.

Trump’s demand for passage of an updated SAVE America Act — a GOP elections bill that the House has advanced two versions of already — was met with less than complete enthusiasm from leaders gathered for the annual Republican policy retreat.

Speaker Mike Johnson and other senior lawmakers gave the unmistakable impression they now consider that bill to be a Senate problem — even after Trump insisted the House take it up a third time and add on more controversial provisions, such as a near-total ban on mail voting.