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We Want Citizenship Verification. This Is Not How You Get It.
The Trump administration went to the Supreme Court on Sunday for the third time, asking the justices to let the Postal Service implement new mail ballot rules for November. Solicitor General John Sauer filed a 40-page emergency application. States challenging the rule must respond by 10 a.m. Tuesday. Read More.
Congress Just Cancelled September. Here's What Was Supposed To HappenThis Month
House Republicans announced Thursday that they are scrapping the last two weeks the chamber was scheduled to be in session before the midterm elections. Read More.
Your Favorite Influencer Is In A Government Group Chat. A Bunch Of Them Are Getting Paid.
The entire premise of the influencer economy is that you are getting somebody's honest opinion. That is the product. Not a press release, not a campaign ad, just a person with a phone telling you what they actually think. Read More.
Mike Lee Tells Leadership How to Save the Senate
Senate Majority Leader John Thune warned this week that Republicans could lose control of the Senate in November. Read More.
It Was Never About Age. Massachusetts Just Proved It.
For a year now, the political press has explained Democratic primaries through a single lens: young challengers versus old incumbents. Generational change. Fresh faces. Time for the boomers to go. Read More.
The Database Is Flagging Citizens. That Is Our Problem, Not Theirs.
Constitutional Rights PAC has spent this entire summer arguing that only American citizens should vote in American elections, that voter rolls should be accurate, and that the SAVE America Act deserves a floor vote the Senate refuses to schedule. Read More.
Fourteen Legislative Days Left. Congress Has Scheduled Zero Hard Votes.
The House returns Monday and will move quickly on a Senate-passed stopgap bill to fund the government at current levels through December 11. It will pass four full weeks before the September 30 deadline, which by congressional standards is roughly the equivalent of arriving at the airport a day early. Read More.
For Forty Years It Was Sacred. Then It Started Costing Them Seats.
The Washington Post published a story this morning under a headline its own newsroom must have winced at: Congress could get a lot whiter with Democratic redistricting. Read More.
We Checked The Senate Calendar. Election Integrity Isn't On It.
Republican voters have spent three weeks being told that September is when the Senate gets serious about the SAVE America Act. Leadership went home in August without passing it. The explanation offered was that the votes were not there and that the fight would resume when senators returned. Read More.
She Won. Can She Prove They Were Wrong About Her.
Darline Graham won South Carolina's Senate runoff Tuesday by about five points, turning back Congressman Ralph Norman with President Trump's endorsement and more than $800,000 from MAGA Inc. behind her. Read More.
A Senate Seat Is Not An Inheritance
South Carolina votes today, and conservatives across the country should be paying attention to a runoff most of the national press has filed under human interest. Read More.
September 15 Is The Test. Everything Before It Was Talk.
The grassroots revolt over the SAVE America Act has now reached Senate leadership, and Majority Whip John Barrasso's answer this week is a good illustration of why it is not subsiding. Read More.
A Warning For Conservatives: The Map Is Moving, And It Is Not Moving Our Way
Every cycle produces a moment when the people who track these races professionally start saying the same thing at the same time. That moment arrived this week, and conservatives who care about holding the Senate need to read the numbers rather than the commentary. Read More.
They Agreed In Writing To Hide Their Writing
David Morens, who spent sixteen years inside the Office of the Director at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy to commit offenses against and defraud the United States. He is 78 years old and faces up to five years in federal prison. Read More.
What Conservatives Need To Know About Today's Florida Primaries
Florida votes today. Polls opened at 7 a.m. and close at 7 p.m. local time, which means the panhandle finishes an hour behind the rest of the state and the full picture will not be clear until after 8 p.m. Eastern. Here is what actually matters, and it is not only the name at the top of the ballot. Read More.
