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Sunday, February 15, 2026

Trump Plans to Crush 'Horrible, Disingenuous Cheater' Dems With Voter ID EO to Lock Down Midterms, Beyond

Trump Plans to Crush 'Horrible, Disingenuous Cheater' Dems With Voter ID EO to Lock Down Midterms, Beyond

President Trump announced late Friday that he plans to pursue an executive order to enforce strict voter ID requirements nationwide, vowing it will happen for the 2026 midterms regardless of what happens with the Save America Act in Congress.

As RedState's Ward Clark reported, the Save America Act received a bit of a jolt in the arm with support from Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), bringing support to 50 votes. (Filibuster-proof passage still looks tough even at 50+1 with a VP JD Vance tiebreaker).

Still, the President is not going to rely on Congress to get this thing over the finish line. And it's hard to blame him on that front.

"The Democrats refuse to vote for Voter I.D., or Citizenship. The reason is very simple — They want to continue to cheat in Elections," Trump wrote on his Truth Social media platform. "This was not what our Founders desired."

He promised to develop a legal argument that he'll articulate to the American people shortly.

"There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not!" he promised.

Why Are Democrats Trying to Protect Illegals at Polling Places? GOP Senator Demands Answers

In a fiery follow-up, President Trump blasted Democrats for opposing an issue that a vast majority of the American people on all sides of the political spectrum support, referring to the resistance party as "horrible, disingenuous cheaters."

He urged Republicans to vociferously embrace voter ID as a winning message.

"Republicans must put this at the top of every speech — It is a CAN’T MISS FOR RE-ELECTION IN THE MIDTERMS, AND BEYOND!" Trump insisted.

"This is an issue that must be fought, and must be fought, NOW! If we can’t get it through Congress, there are Legal reasons why this SCAM is not permitted," his post continued. "I will be presenting them shortly, in the form of an Executive Order."

Already anticipating the pushback such an order would generate, the President expressed hope that the Supreme Court would view his order through the lens of trying to save the nation through secure elections. He went on to explain exactly why voter ID is so important to secure the midterms and what will happen if Democrats win bigly.

It should frighten every American.

"These Corrupt and Deranged Democrats, if they ever gain power, will not only be adding two States to our roster of 50, with all of the baggage thereto, but will also PACK THE COURT with a total of 21 Supreme Court Justices, THEIR DREAM, which they will submit easily and rapidly when they immediately move to terminate the Filibuster, probably in their first week, or sooner," Trump said.

"Our Country will never be the same if they allow these demented and evil people to knowingly, and happily, destroy it."

No lies detected.

Voter ID is a non-controversial issue. Americans want it. Even Democrat voters want it. And, despite Democrats suggesting minorities and women aren't bright enough to clear the hurdles to secure identification, every demographic wants it.

According to a Pew Research poll last summer, 83% of Americans favor requiring all voters to show government-issued photo ID to vote, including 95% of Republicans and 71% of Democrats. Just 16% of Americans are in opposition.

CNN data guru Harry Enten explained that the people are on board with Nikki Minaj and that support runs "across races."

“The bottom line is this: Voter ID is NOT controversial in this country. A photo ID to vote is NOT controversial in this country. It is not controversial by party, and it is not controversial by race," Enten said. "The vast majority of Americans agree.”

In a sane world, a bill like the Save America Act would zip through both chambers of Congress and be on the President's desk in short order. Instead, hampered by Democrats who seek to allow fraud to run rampant and Republicans who oftentimes struggle to find a spine to fight back, it has to be dragged across the finish line by the President.

https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2026/02/14/trump-plans-to-crush-horrible-disingenuous-cheater-dems-with-voter-id-eo-to-lock-down-midterms-beyond-n2199147?utm_source=rsmorningbriefingvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

Let’s Rip Democrats Apart for Fun (and Because They’re Truly Awful)

Let’s Rip Democrats Apart for Fun (and Because They’re Truly Awful)

Derek Hunter |

What a time to be alive, and by that I mean it’s really stupid. Not the time, per se, but a whole bunch of people in it who get attention, lie like crazy to the public, and make a lot of money while doing it. They aren’t all Democrats, but most are, and all deserve a swift kick in the ass, so put on our steel toe boots and give them one, shall we?

I thought the Super Bowl sucked. The game was boring for the first three quarters, and by the time anyone started scoring it was all over. The halftime show was garbage, not because Bad Bunny sucks – I think he does, but I know that most people don’t like the music I like either (or else you would’ve heard about them and they’d be rich musicians rather than just recovering alcoholics) – but because it was stupid. It sounded like the same song for 15 minutes and the non-stop repeating of about 8 words, coupled with a bunch of people grinding crotches. Innovative!

Watching morons like Ana Navarro almost cry on The View over watching a show with more in common with what should be flushed than applauded only cemented by opinion. “There was so much culture,” white people sobbed. I’ve never been to Puerto Rico, and don’t really care to go, but I have to assume they’ve come up with a little more than straw hats and self-hernia exams. Maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t really care.

The songs were stupid. Seriously, read the English translations of the lyrics and it’s like something a 13-year-old girl would write in her dream journal about her crush, only if she recently suffered a concussion. I’ve had belches with more substance.

I watched it because A) it’s my job to talk about what’s going on in the world, B) because I could ignore it while I took down our Christmas tree (yes, I’m aware of the date, but I’ve got two kids who beg every time I mentioned putting it away and they were upstairs, indifferent to both the game and the halftime show, so I took advantage of my opportunity).

I don’t speak Spanish, so I have no idea what the lyrics were, though I could tell they were repeated A LOT. No matter how fast the baby talk spewed from his mouth, you can’t make “I’m gonna take them all to the VIP, the VIP, hey. Say hello to auntie. Let’s take a selfie, say ‘cheese,’ hey. Let the ones I already f*cked smile. In a VIP, a VIP, hey Say hello to auntie Let’s take a selfie, say ‘cheese.’ Let those who have already forgotten about me smile,” sound anything other than stupid, no matter the language.

Speaking of stupid and language, Spanish wasn’t the only language used to convey idiocy. While they hate it because white people came up with it, Democrats still use English to communicate their dumbassery to their army of flying monkeys more than any other. And no, that’s not a commentary on the video that had Democrats pretending to be offended because it portrayed a bunch of liberal politicians as primates, including the Obamas.

How dare anyone treat the Obamas the same way they treated George W. Bush for 8 years? Everyone must be treated the same, except some people need to be treated differently based on their skin color.

Yeah, that’s actually what Democrats are saying, and have always said. They have never changed their objectives (power for them), only their tactics. Segregation and treating people differently out of racial hatred to hold on to power worked for them until it no longer did, now they preach segregation and treating people differently out of racial tolerance and diversity to hold on to power.

Sometimes reality is the best parody…

The Left brings this disconnect to the debate around voter ID. To them, voting is important, so sacrosanct, that any effort to ensure the integrity of that vote is forbidden. Go ahead and try to square that circle.

Of course, they claim voter fraud never happens, which is undercut by all the cases of voter fraud that are uncovered every year. That the media refuses to tie them all together, treating each as an isolated event and not part of a bigger picture, tells you everything you need to know – people not trying to hide anything don’t hide things.

Rather than try to find the few Americans who both can’t prove who they are and want to vote and help them get a photo ID to protect the integrity of voting, Democrats would rather those people (if they exist) not be able to work, bank, travel, enter a federal building, drink or have any semblance of a normal, productive life. Such compassion, and all to avoid protecting the integrity of voting. Weird, right?

To put the cherry on top of the hypocrisy cake, Democrats are going to filibuster the SAVE Act to bring security to voting. The filibuster that Democrats repeatedly called a “relic of Jim Crow” when they were trying to get rid of it when they controlled the Senate, to block what Democrats now call “Jim Crow 2.0.”

Of course, Democrats would know a lot about Jim Crow, since it was an invention exclusively of their design, so…

These people are awful, they truly are, and worse than anyone could ever convey. This is all in just one week; a few days, really. No matter how much contempt you hold these people in, it is not enough and never could be.

https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2026/02/10/lets-rip-democrats-apart-for-fun-and-because-theyre-truly-awful-n2671001?utm_source=thdailyvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&utm_content=ncl-DegZu2gKc9&_nlid=DegZu2gKc9&_nhids=ncyGZH9gh1kbls

When It Comes to Climate and Energy, Let’s Retire the Politics of Fear

When It Comes to Climate and Energy, Let’s Retire the Politics of Fear

By Gary Abernathy
February 06, 2026

In the latest example of the scare tactics favored by climate change alarmists, it was announced last month that 2025 “was the third-warmest in modern history, according to Copernicus, the European Union’s climate change monitoring service,” as reported by NBC News.

The story added, “The conclusion came as no surprise: The past 11 years have been the 11 warmest on record, according to Copernicus data. In 2025, the average global temperature was about 1.47 degrees Celsius (2.65 Fahrenheit) higher than from 1850 to 1900 — the period scientists use as a reference point, since it precedes the industrial era in which massive amounts of carbon pollution have been pumped into the atmosphere.”

As usual, our most affordable and reliable fuel sources were blamed.

“The primary reason for these record temperatures is the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, dominated by the burning of fossil fuels,” according to Samantha Burgess, the “strategic lead on climate” for the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, which operates Copernicus, according to the report.

Sometimes it feels like the climate change crusaders are oblivious to everything going on around them. For decades, they’ve been resorting to the same tired strategies to convince us that doom and gloom are just around the corner if we don’t change our ways. What they ignore is that their tactics aren’t working – more people than ever are tuning them out.

Americans in particular have grown wise to the predictions that don’t come true and the demands that don’t make sense. In fact, so badly has science become blatantly politicized that the number of people who have a great amount of trust in science keeps shrinking.

That fact was backed up by a recent Pew Research Center report that found that “Americans’ confidence in scientists remains lower than it was prior to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.” To many of us, it is now obvious that the inconsistent guidance on Covid and many pandemic edicts that were later found to be ineffective and even misleading demonstrated that science was not above being overtly politicized.

While the Pew study noted a Democrat-Republican disparagement regarding trust in science (Democrats trust it more, Republicans less), only 28 percent of all U.S. adults said they have “a great deal” of confidence in scientists “to act in the public’s best interest.”

I recently noted the welcome admission by manmade climate change believer Noah Kauffman, a senior research scholar at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy, who, writing for The Atlantic, said flatly that “the full effects of climate change are unknowable, and a more constructive public discussion about climate policy will require getting more comfortable with that.” Whether in regard to vaccines, dietary guidelines or climate change, in recent years science has too often found itself at the center of partisan political debates and lost the trust of many Americans by appearing to support certain causes over others based on ideology rather than pure scientific data.

But we can’t afford to let that happen when it comes to making energy decisions. Why? Because no one can deny that affordable energy is the key to economic prosperity for American households and businesses.

When energy costs are low, manufacturers can produce goods at a lower cost, resulting in more competitive products domestically and internationally.

When fuel is affordable – whether diesel, gasoline or jet fuel – all modes of transportation, including airlines, trucking and shipping companies, can charge less, resulting in savings for all consumers.

Heating, cooling and transportation costs represent the most significant share of most families’ budgets. When energy costs are reasonable, household spending on other goods and services increases, not only helping individual families but contributing to overall economic growth.

In addition to everything else, there is real damage caused by manipulating science in a way that puts climate over people. It puts people in danger and keeps them in poverty – and ultimately only a privileged few will benefit.

Consider the billions the Biden Administration doled out to political cronies on its way out the door in the name of the climate cause. Consider also the Obama Administration giving a half billion dollars to Solyndra, the solar panel company accused of engaging in “a pattern of false and misleading assertions,” only to see it go bust – all at the expense of hardworking, taxpaying Americans.

That’s why it’s important to remove the manipulation of the energy sector from the politicization that has infiltrated the scientific community. Americans should not be pawns in the effort to frighten our people or our government into abandoning our most reliable, affordable and increasingly clean energy sources.

There’s a better way. By passing the Affordable, Reliable, Clean Energy Act (ARC-ES), Congress can codify into law the guarantee that Americans will always have access to low-cost energy, regardless of the effort of progressive political groups to weaponize science in order to funnel tax dollars to prop up “alternatives.”

Anyone can manipulate data to come up with horrifying “what if” scenarios designed to frighten or intimidate people into making their preferred choices. That’s not how to make public policy. We need to pass ARC-ES to move past the days when the science that fewer people trust is manipulated to justify changes in energy policy that few people want. When it comes to science, let’s trade the politics of panic for the integrity of facts.

https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2026/02/06/when_it_comes_to_climate_and_energy_lets_retire_the_politics_of_fear_1162953.html

Trump Is Set to Make the 'Largest Act of Deregulation in the History'

Trump Is Set to Make the 'Largest Act of Deregulation in the History'

Dmitri Bolt

The Trump administration is set to repeal an Obama-era scientific finding that serves as the legal basis for federal greenhouse-gas regulation, marking the largest rollback of regulations in U.S. history.

From the Wall Street Journal:

The reversal targets the 2009 “endangerment finding,” which concluded that six greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health and welfare. The finding provided the legal underpinning for the Environmental Protection Agency’s climate rules, which limited emissions from power plants and tightened fuel-economy standards for vehicles under the Clean Air Act...
The final rule, set to be made public later this week, removes the regulatory requirements to measure, report, certify and comply with federal greenhouse-gas emission standards for motor vehicles, and repeals associated compliance programs, credit provisions and reporting obligations for industries, according to administration officials.

“This amounts to the largest act of deregulation in the history of the United States,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin added in an interview.

While the move would not directly affect emissions standards for power plants or oil and gas facilities, the rollback is expected to affect vehicle emissions standards and could open the door for the Trump administration to target environmental regulations more broadly.

"Repealing the Endangerment Finding is an essential step toward restoring sanity to federal energy and vehicle policy. Implemented by Obama-era bureaucrats, it has been used for years to justify costly and needless mandates that have driven up the price of cars and trucks," Jason Isaac, the CEO of the American Energy Institute, said. "Ending it dismantles the legal backbone of those mandates, delivers relief to consumers, and opens the door to rolling back similar regulatory overreach across the energy sector. This action restores the Clean Air Act to its intended purpose, reins in agency power the Supreme Court has already warned against, and returns major policy decisions to the people’s elected representatives.”

"President Trump continues to deliver for the American people," James Taylor, the President of the Heartland Institute, said. "The Obama administration's Endangerment Finding was a wrong-headed, politicized determination that defied science and stifled the American people. CO2 is the gift of life for planet Earth, not a pollutant or a threat to public health and welfare."

While the move should be lauded as a great success, some warn that the move can easily be undone by future administrations.

Steve Milloy, a former Trump EPA Transition Team Advisor and Senior Fellow at the Energy & Environment Legal Institute, argued that the next step should be overturning Massachusetts v. EPA, which allowed the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases. By overturning the Supreme Court decision, the Trump administration can ensure that the EPA is not allowed to simply regulate as it sees fit, and it must instead go through Congress, and in turn, the American people.

"Rescinding the endangerment finding is great, but it’s not the ballgame. Not only does the rescission have to stand up in court, it must result in the overturning of the 2007 Supreme Court decision in Massachusetts v. EPA, where the Court wrongly ruled that EPA could regulate greenhouse gases even though Congress did not expressly authorize it," Miloy said. "The 2022 SCOTUS decision in West Virginia v. EPA held that EPA must have express congressional authorization for major regulatory programs. So, endangerment finding litigation must result in West Virginia v. EPA trumping Massachusetts v. EPA. Even if the Trump EPA wins in court with respect to rescinding the endangerment finding, without also overturning Massachusetts v. EPA, the next Democrat-run EPA will simply re-issue the endangerment finding, and all the Trump EPA’s great work will have been erased."

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/dmitri-bolt/2026/02/10/trump-admin-to-rollback-key-obama-era-environmental-regulation-n2671039?utm_source=thdailypmvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&utm_content=ncl-hCzkRX2B6D&_nlid=hCzkRX2B6D&_nhids=nclznsdDtLyqls

Saturday, February 14, 2026

The Endangerment Finding Was Law, Not Scripture

The Endangerment Finding Was Law, Not Scripture

Amy Curtis

The Endangerment Finding Was Law, Not Scripture — *AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite*

Yesterday, President Trump made history by deregulating the EPA and revoking the Obama-era Endangerment Finding. That finding served as the legal basis for federal greenhouse gas regulation, which led to measures such as the wildly unpopular idle-stop feature, which shuts off an engine at a red light. I have a 2020 Honda-CRV that my teenage son will drive once he gets his license. It has that idle-stop feature, and I always disable it.

There will inevitably be lawsuits, of course, because the Democrats never want to let an opportunity to run our lives and ruin our economy get away from them. Axios may have spoiled their legal arguments, however, in posting a story that admitted carbon emissions would continue declining despite President Trump's "climate rollback." But I knew there would be Leftists freaking out about this perfectly sensible move.

The White House says the move will save American taxpayers $1.3 trillion, including an average of $2,400 per vehicle. That's fantastic news in a year where affordability is the headline. But I'm not here to talk about the economics. I'm here to talk about the religious fervor with which the Left has responded to the regulatory rollback.

That's exactly what this is, of course. The Left said we had to get religion (read: Christianity) out of the public sphere so we could move towards a more enlightened, scientific, and logical society. Religion, they argued, was holding us back from real progress. Nature, however, abhors a vacuum, and they didn't remove religion from the public sphere. They simply replaced it with another religion they preferred.

Sure, it's a "religion" where killing your unborn children is a sacrament, and there are 57 genders, but it's a religion nonetheless. Like the Aztecs and others who made sacrifices to appease the gods and control the weather, Democrats believe the same thing. And if "climate activism" is their form of worship, the EPA was their church.

In the fall of 2024, a Florida Democrat blamed Ron DeSantis' removal of the phrase "climate change" from state documents for Hurricane Helene. Nevermind that 2024 was a slow hurricane season, of course, with just two major hurricanes. State Senator Carlos Guillermo Smith didn't make that connection, however, writing on X, "Now is a great time to remember Ron DeSantis recently signed a bill deleting all references to 'climate change' from Florida law."

But ABC's David Muir took it one step further.

"Repealed U.S. power to regulate climate."

TO. REGULATE. CLIMATE.

Did David Muir really believe that until yesterday, the EPA was able to snap its fingers and control the weather? That it was the only thing standing between us and hurricanes, wildfires, and other disasters — ones that were occuring long before any of us drove an SUV, mind you — and somehow we've lost control over the climate?

How insane and unscientific is that.

But it is religious. Ancient religions believed that by behaving in certain ways, sacrificing a few dozen children or virgins, and appeasing the gods, they'd have favorable weather and a good harvest. Modern-day Democrats are no different. They have turned climate change into a religion, the faith-based arm of their rebranded communist agenda (something Rush Limbaugh predicted after the fall of the Berlin Wall).

If repealing one regulatory finding sends you into apocalyptic panic, maybe the problem isn’t the policy — it’s the "theology." The climate will do what climates have always done; the impact of mankind is a blip on the radar. The economy, on the other hand, responds directly to regulation.

And the EPA was never a weather-control device. It was a regulatory agency empowered by a legal interpretation that turned carbon into a moral offense. Revoking the Endangerment Finding doesn’t mean we've lost control over the climate. It simply restores a measure of sanity to a system that had begun treating a good quality of life and a strong economy as a sin requiring penance.

The hysteria tells you everything. When policy disagreements are framed as heresy, when regulatory changes are treated as apocalyptic events, you’re not watching science, you’re watching people defend a doctrine. And for many on the Left, climate activism has become less about data and more about devotion.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/02/13/fri-vip-dems-think-epa-can-control-climate-n2671266?utm_source=thdailyvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&utm_content=ncl-hX773y5nH5&_nlid=hX773y5nH5&_nhids=ncgMncGbIDQnls

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Sunday, February 15, 2026

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