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Tuesday, February 17, 2026

For Epstein Victims and Members of Congress, It’s Time to Put Up or Shut Up

For Epstein Victims and Members of Congress, It’s Time to Put Up or Shut Up

I don’t want to be that guy who throws the red challenge flag on the victims of child sex trafficking at the hands of Democrat Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirator and fellow Democrat Ghislaine Maxwell, but someone has to. Someone has to because the “justice” these women are demanding, or are claiming to demand, is fully and completely within their grasp, and their grasp alone. Yet, they don’t seem willing to take it. Sooner or later, they have to put up, or shut up, don’t they?

There comes a point at which you either put your money where your mouth is or you stop talking trash. People who talk about how tough they are, or how good they are at something, often get really quiet when challenged to a fight or a game. If I didn’t hate basketball, if I loved it and thought I was a really, really good free-throw shooter and told everyone how I was the best at it, it’d look pretty bad if I passed on every $20 shoot-off I was challenged to.

I’m not trying to belittle the abuse the accusers of Epstein suffered, but some of them have come out and admitted to being escorts or adults when their entanglement started. If you were an adult, even if you were only 21, you’re a consenting adult. When I was 21, I was pretty stupid, but I was still an adult. It’s not any different for anyone else. When a handful of these women are demanding something – in this case, the names of abusers – that, at least theoretically, is fully within their ability to provide…and then they don’t, I have questions.

They know who abused them. If those men are out there, living their lives and likely abusing more women (because I can’t imagine a pedo stopping), then the refusal to name and charge them becomes something akin to enabling further abuse, doesn’t it?

But we don’t get those questions; we don’t get any real questions at all. People in the media are afraid to press these women on anything for fear of being accused of being insensitive. Personally, I’ll happily be insensitive if it gets monsters off the streets. I’ll also happily be insensitive if it helps expose fraud.

I’m not referring to the women who have not come forward – everyone has the right to privacy and keep their personal torment to themselves, should they so choose – I’m talking about the women who hold press conferences regularly in Washington, DC. They aren’t shy about accusing the Trump administration of “covering up” things they could easily “uncover” by simply talking, yet they don’t. I just find it odd.

Just like I find it odd that Democrats seem to be coordinating with them at hearings, or maybe it’s just a major coincidence.

And then there are Congressmen Ro Khanna, D-CA and Thomas Massie, R-KY, who keep promising to release “names” if the Justice Department won’t un-redact them in the files. These two have absolute immunity for anything they say on the Floor of the House, thanks to the speech or debate clause of the Constitution. They can’t be criminally prosecuted for revealing top secret information, and they can’t be sued civilly for slandering anyone at all, even in the most heinous and deliberate way. There’s a reason Congresswoman Nancy Mace only accused her ex-fiancé and some of his friends of horrible sexual abuse against her on the House Floor and not anywhere else, including a criminal complaint.

Khanna and Massie can expose monsters, if they exist, and save more victims…but they aren’t. Why the hell not?

I would never presume to tell anyone how to grieve, nor would I tell anyone how to deal with trauma. But if you enter the public arena and make allegations, wild or not, I will question you, even if it’s considered politically incorrect to do so. I’m sympathetic to the cause – as a father of 2 girls, I want all sexual predators sunk to the bottom of the ocean – but that sympathy will not override my logic. I have a question, and first among them is why are these people demanding someone else release information they have themselves?

The reluctance to simply do it themselves, what they insist they want, has me wondering why. No one will sue – you can’t enforce a non-disclosure agreement to cover up a crime and even if someone sued them, how do you think that would work out for them? Could you imagine? Anyone accused would immediately be assumed guilty in the court of public opinion and all the sympathy would remain with the accusers.

The only things stopping them from talking – from the women who regularly attend press conferences demanding things to Members of Congress demanding things – is them. It’s time to put up, I think.

https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2026/02/12/for-epstein-victims-and-members-of-congress-its-time-to-put-up-or-shut-up-n2671177?utm_source=thdailyvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&utm_content=ncl-nwPWutE48W&_nlid=nwPWutE48W&_nhids=nc0oRsxZha7Zls

Democrats Try to Hold Government Hostage As Shutdown Looms, Demanding 'Sanctuary Locations' at the Polls

Democrats Try to Hold Government Hostage As Shutdown Looms, Demanding 'Sanctuary Locations' at the Polls

By Becky Noble

Democrats continue to insist that the hill they are willing to die on is to do everything possible to keep illegal immigrants, even those who have committed violent crimes, in the country. Their latest "strategy" is to shut the government down to avoid funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which, in turn, funds Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). On Tuesday, Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-WY) took to the Senate floor to slam what he called Democrats' "Christmas list of demands" to force Republicans' hands and shut the government down for the second time in six months.

Barrasso said of the Democrats' list of demands:

“The more we learn about the demands coming from the minority leader and that party, the less the normal American citizen likes them — and that’s especially if you are concerned about any safety or any security in the community in which you live.”

Barrasso also mentioned the latest hoops that Democrats would like to make the federal government jump through to remove illegal immigrants from the country. They are demanding that ICE obtain judicial warrants instead of administrative warrants. Judicial warrants must be issued by a court and signed by a judge.

The question of whether administrative warrants grant ICE officials the right to enter a residence is highly contested. (Our friend and fellow contributor Shipwreckedcrew has a good explainer on that issue here.) Barrasso rightly pointed out that forcing ICE agents to use judicial warrants instead of administrative warrants would be "a dramatic change, and it would grind immigration enforcement to a halt.” But then again, that's the whole idea. Barrasso continued, saying:

“You know what it would do? It would lock in place the chaos that Joe Biden and the Democrats foisted upon this country with their wide-open border policy. Democrats’ preference is to release illegal immigrants who are criminals right onto our streets. They prefer that over holding them until immigration officials can come to pick them up if they’ve been arrested.”

But the most ridiculous, and the most telling of all the items Democrats are expecting Republicans to cave to, is their desire to ban immigration enforcement at alleged "sensitive locations." What is a sensitive location, you ask? Any place of worship, hospitals, and schools. However, they now want one more added to the list: polling locations.

Sen. Barrasso asked the question we all want the answer to: “Why in the world would they (ICE) be there if they (illegal immigrants) are not trying to vote? Why indeed? We have been told time and again that illegal immigrants do not vote. Really? In December of 2025, two men in New Jersey, Muhammad Muzammal and Muhammad Shakeel, were indicted for illegally voting in a federal election and making false statements while applying for U.S. citizenship. They applied for citizenship after they voted. In May of 2024, a study by Just Facts showed that roughly 10 to 27 percent of non-citizens are illegally registered to vote. Barrasso added:

“That tells you how far to the left the Democrats have moved… Democrats seem fixated on protecting illegal immigrant criminals at polling places. Democrats energetically oppose commonsense policies to protect the integrity of the ballot.”

ALSO READ: Funding Showdown: Democrats Seek to Defang ICE With Long List of Ridiculous Demands

The problem is that while Democrats are trying to stick it to ICE, what they are really doing is just making life difficult for regular Americans. Not funding DHS also means no funding for other agencies like the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

Democrats have a pretty clear choice. Fund DHS, or shut down the government, all in the name of placating their radical base and putting illegal immigrants before American citizens. It's those same American citizens who are becoming increasingly aware that Democrats' decision-making leaves a lot to be desired.

Editor's Note: This article was updated post-publication for clarity.

https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2026/02/11/democrat-hold-government-hostage-as-shutdown-looms-and-all-but-say-the-quiet-part-out-loud-n2199046?utm_source=rsmorningbriefingvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

What’s Wrong With White Women?

What’s Wrong With White Women?

by John Hinderaker in Crime, Leftism, Liberals, Riots

Joel Kotkin takes up a question that has lately been on many minds: “Why are young white women so angry?” He notes that the cities that are most violently left-wing are also the whitest:

[T]hey remain predominantly white at a time when most big cities – New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston – are roughly two-thirds non-white. White people represent 60pc of the populations of Minneapolis and Seattle, while in Portland the figure is nearly 70pc.

It is ICE that is diverse, not the white radicals who riot against law enforcement:

Ironically, the very organisation these people have been protesting against – ICE – is heavily Latino in many parts of the US and around 30pc staffed by Latinos at a national level. Inconveniently for the progressive narrative, both shooters in the tragic death of Alex Pretti appear to have been Hispanic.

I don’t think the death of Pretti–a criminal who died, albeit accidentally, while committing a crime–was particularly tragic, compared with millions of other deaths. But the point remains.

On a national basis, the progressive Left is estimated to represent roughly 8pc of the total US population. …
The illiberality of these folks was revealed in a recent study in the Left-leaning Atlantic, which dubbed them “the most politically intolerant Americans”. It found that the most intolerant county in America, for example, is located not in rural Alabama but in Massachusetts (Suffolk county). This is an area dominated by universities and is home to diversity-obsessed mayor Michelle Wu.

But why white women, in particular?

Look at the demonstrations and they aren’t dominated by “people of colour”. Instead, the crowds are made up to a considerable extent by white people, especially women. This also seemed to be the case with the recent No Kings protests, according to research from American University scholars. Psychotherapist Jonathan Alpert described these demonstrations as “a kind of group therapy playing out in the streets”.

There evidently is a significant portion of America’s white women who are in need of such therapy:

[P]rogressive white people are now perhaps the most radical and agitated section of US society. Gen-Z women, in particular, are more likely to take radical positions than their male counterparts. These include the “fangirls” rallying to the cause of Luigi Mangione, who is on trial for murdering health care executive Brian Thompson in broad daylight. This female dominated cult seems determined to elevate him into an almost Christ-like martyr.

Progressive white women have absolutely no moral sense. They seem to think that by defending murderers, rapists, child molesters and drug dealers, they are doing good. What causes such stupidity? College is probably part of the problem:

Young women’s radicalisation may stem in part from the fact they are now far more likely to go to such indoctrination mills. Today, 47pc of women in the US have college degrees, compared to just 37pc of men – a 10-point gap that has widened dramatically. Research published in 2024 showed 2.4 million more female than male undergraduates enrolled in American colleges (8.9 million vs 6.5 million), and in 2021, men received only 42pc of bachelor’s degrees – the lowest share on record.
This indoctrination is most common in the humanities and social sciences, departments that also tend to be more female. Students in these disciplines have been at the forefront of campus unrest about whatever is the cause of the day – climate change, transgenderism, Gaza and now ICE.

A walk down memory lane! The “issue” constantly changes, but it makes no difference because the issue is always bogus. The cause of riots isn’t the alleged issue, rather it is a form of mental illness. More on the role of education:

Indoctrination in such things as the “settler colonial” paradigm at universities no doubt plays a part. This phenomenon now extends increasingly to high schools.

In Minnesota, it is now a legal requirement to teach anti-Americanism, beginning in kindergarten.

There is more at the link: it is mostly single women, and women without children, who are manning the far-left barricades. As usual, I think economic causes are underappreciated:

There also appears to be an economic component. Women, particularly unmarried women, tend to be employed more heavily in “helping professions” such as medical care and teaching, even as many traditional male jobs, particularly in manufacturing, construction and transportation have disappeared. Whereas high taxes and regulation pose problems in the general economy, women predominate in fields that benefit from more government spending.

Hence the over-representation of teachers and nurses in the ranks of the rioters.

Whatever the cause, these far left (and often violent) women are dragging down the cities where they live:

In 2020 Minneapolis, the site of George Floyd’s death, suffered several days of intense rioting after the killing. At the same time, Seattle also erupted, spawning a mini-Havana near its downtown, while Portland, half a continent away, suffered sustained rioting.
All these cities, once considered beacons of successful urbanism, are all suffering from a loss of domestic migrants, high property vacancies and persistent crime. Portland now has the second highest crime rate in the US and its once fashionable downtown is down on its luck. The same can be said of the once flourishing cores of Seattle and Minneapolis.

Wherever it goes, leftism brings destruction. The role currently being played by white women in that destruction is understandable but, by historical standards, weird.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/02/whats-wrong-with-white-women.php

Monday, February 16, 2026

New York’s Winter Shows That Mamdani Is Not a Socialist, but a Devout Muslim

New York’s Winter Shows That Mamdani Is Not a Socialist, but a Devout Muslim

Rabbi Michael Barclay

If there was ever a doubt as to where Zohran Mamdani’s true allegiance lies, it should be clear to everyone by now that he is not actually a socialist; he is, in fact, a devout Muslim with Islamic allegiances trumping any other political value.

Socialism, by definition, means to take care of everyone. Although the elite in a socialist society live extremely well, and everyone else lives poorly, the concept created by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels seeks to eliminate the perceived inefficiencies, irrationalities, unpredictability, and crises that socialists traditionally associate with capital accumulation and the profit system. In essence, socialism is supposedly, according to its supporters, the safety net and pathway to ensure that everyone is taken care of, has a standard of living, and is safe.

Mamdani ran on a campaign that he is a socialist who just happens to be Muslim. But he took his oath of office on a Quran, which is at its roots antithetical to the socialist value system. With the harsh winter that New York has been experiencing, we have seen his devotion to Islamic values over those of Marx and Engels.

While socialism is theoretically committed to the well-being of all people in society, the Quran teaches something entirely different. The primary text of Islamic theology is extremely clear: all infidels are to be converted, enslaved, or killed. The only people who matter to the observant Muslim are other observant Muslims who are dedicated to the goal of the Quran: a worldwide caliphate run by Sharia law. That includes Christians, Jews, and even other Muslims who are not observant and seeking to establish a worldwide caliphate.

The harsh winter New York has been experiencing has shown Mamdani’s true colors, and they are not socialist. The New York Post reported on Tuesday that 18 homeless people have died outside because of the weather. Even before his inauguration, Mamdani committed to reversing his predecessor’s policy of clearing out homeless encampments. At the time, he said that this policy was in order to ultimately provide them with real housing, but as we have seen over the last week, this was never his intention.

Rather, it is clear that his intention is and has always been to let the infidel die.

Brian Stettin, who was a senior adviser in former mayor Eric Adams’ administration, made it simple and clear when he told the Post, “When a person is in imminent danger, there is no debate. Whatever ideological divides we have should not have any impact on these policies during a ‘Code Blue.'” And former city Comptroller Scott Stringer expressed it well, saying, “The question is: Is it ideology or incompetence for the lack of action? Saving lives is the most important thing you can do as an elected official. The standard has to be in this extreme weather, ‘Can they survive the night?”

Many Americans are taking Mamdani to task for being cruel and heartless. They are mistaken. As Robert Spencer has so eloquently taught countless times, including before Congress, Islam is not a religion of peace. It is not a religion seeking to take care of everyone who is not Muslim. It is devoted to the purpose of creating a worldwide caliphate. By allowing homeless infidels to die, Mamdani is simply living by his theological standards in practice.

The lesson here is not just about Mamdani and New York. We already knew that this man was dangerous to American society with his “socialist” values. The greater lesson is for the rest of America to recognize that we cannot continue to elect Muslims into political office. As difficult as that is to say, it is true, as the Quran is directly antithetical to American values and goals. Islam is not a religion of peace, nor is it a “Chinese menu” that you can pick and choose from. From the Islamic theological point of view, either you accept Islam completely, including what should be done to all infidels, or you are yourself an infidel who must be converted, enslaved, or killed.

All Americans better wake up and realize that the enemy is already within, or we will undoubtedly, God forbid, have more cities facing the tragedies that New York is now dealing with.

https://pjmedia.com/rabbi-michael-barclay/2026/02/11/new-yorks-winter-shows-mamdani-is-not-a-socialist-but-a-devout-muslim-n4949379?utm_source=pjmediavip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm

Watchdog Says Fulton County Had More Votes Without Ballots Than Biden’s ‘Win’

Watchdog Says Fulton County Had More Votes Without Ballots Than Biden’s ‘Win’

Catherine Salgado

Among the 2020 election evidence the FBI seized in Fulton County comes the revelation that over 17,000 digitally tallied votes apparently have no actual ballots to match. So says a Georgia election watchdog.

This is tremendously important because Joe Biden “won” Georgia in 2020 by a mere 11,000 votes. The allegation not only casts doubt on the 2020 presidential election results, but also on the security of our election systems ahead of a crucial midterm election. Not only Georgians but all Americans should be concerned about this case and the strong possibility that Biden actually did not win that state in 2020.

And what about other states? If even one county in a single state had election-altering issues, the high likelihood is that others did as well. In fact, in my own state of Arizona, there is evidence that there were multiple illegal ballot types being counted in the 2020 results, among other serious problems. And if these problems are not addressed, they will come back to bite us in another election.

Real Clear Investigations senior reporter Paul Sperry posted on X on Feb. 10, “Georgia election watchdog Garland Favorito of Atlanta-based VoterGA.org just told me that the FBI raid of Fulton County's ballot warehouse will show that ‘Fulton certified [mostly Biden] votes for which they have no ballots. There are 17,852 certified votes for which they have no digital ballot images and likely no ballots.’ In 2020, Biden's margin over Trump in Georgia was a narrow 11,779 votes.”

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In other words, if Favorito's claim turns out to be true, the number of illicit votes cast in Fulton County exceeded the margin by which Joe Biden won the state.

The impact of a stolen election is incalculable. The 2020 election results changed not only America but the world forever. All the wars that broke out as foreign governments and terrorist entities realize how weak the Biden administration was, all of the domestic crises, the massive influx of illegal aliens, the lost jobs, the many judges (including a Supreme Court justice) appointed, the many children permanently mutilated with “transgender treatments” — it would be impossible to list all the tragic results here.

I am currently reading in Daniel Greenfield’s fascinating historical work, Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers' Fight Against the Left, about the origins of the Democrat Party and how it always depended on fear, lies, election fraud, bribery, and corruption to gain and retain power. And from the very beginning, Democrats always espoused one or more policies as key parts of their platform that were directly in contradiction to the principles laid forth in our Founding documents.

Some things never change, but one thing that ought to change — for the better — is Republicans’ determination to crush the election fraud apparatus. We keep trying to tell ourselves that leftists deep down have similar goals and standards of integrity to us, but this is simply not true. Just as Democrats are proud of dismembering unborn babies and chopping off teenagers’ breasts, so they also — along with some RINO allies — do not believe it is wrong to rig elections so long as it benefits them.

https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/02/11/watchdog-says-fulton-county-has-more-votes-without-ballots-than-bidens-win-n4949373?utm_source=pjmediavip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm

From Wallace to Walz

From Wallace to Walz

by Scott Johnson in History, Illegal immigration, Minnesota, Tim Walz

The resistance to the enforcement of immigration law by state and local authorities bears just about all the hallmarks of the resistance to desegregation by George Wallace and others who adhered to the doctrine of “massive resistance.” It’s a point John, Bill, and I have each made in our own way. I traced the roots back to the Confederacy in “Inside the battle of the Twin Cities.”

Last week Wall Street Journal Main Street columnist Bill McGurn took a look at legal issues raised by the January 18 anti-ICE Cities Church riot in Saint Paul. Now in this week’s column he turns to the doctrine of massive resistance to the enforcement of immigration law promulgated by the state and local authorities in “Minnesota Burning.” He takes as his theme the line that runs from George Wallace to Tim Walz. He writes:

The battle between federal agents trying to enforce the law and Minnesota state officials working to ensure that it can’t be enforced has a more immediate precedent that might surprise Gov. Walz and the rest of Minnesota’s ICE resisters.
It dates to 1964, when Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy dispatched the Federal Bureau of Investigation to Mississippi to find three young civil-rights activists who had gone missing. Their bodies were discovered six weeks later beneath an earthen dam. The men had been killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan and the local sheriff’s office. The film “Mississippi Burning,” starring Gene Hackman, was loosely based on this story.
The FBI’s lead investigator was Joe Sullivan, whom Tom Clancy called “the greatest lawman America ever produced.” Sullivan was also a colleague of my father, an FBI agent. Sullivan once told me that he’d discovered that police departments and other government institutions in Mississippi were infested with Klansmen. They were, he said, a “state within a state,” operating to nullify federal law and deprive African-Americans of their rights.
Isn’t the nullification of federal law what’s happening in Minnesota today? The attacks on ICE may be cloaked in righteousness, but it’s self-righteousness.
The historical ironies abound. Today the activists operating to force ICE to leave have zero appreciation that their defiance of federal authority puts them in the same position as George Wallace and like-minded Southern sheriffs and governors.
In 1957 President Dwight Eisenhower had to invoke the Insurrection Act to enforce federal court orders to integrate Little Rock Central High School after the Supreme Court held in Brown v. Board of Education (1954) that segregated schools were “inherently unequal.” John F. Kennedy did the same five years later to help black students trying to enter Ole Miss.
JFK did so again in 1963 at the University of Alabama. There Gov. Wallace infamously stood in the university’s doorway to prevent two black students from matriculating.
Today the same sort of clash over federal authority is playing out on the streets of Minneapolis. There the anti-ICE forces believe they can nullify the enforcement of U.S. immigration law and get ICE to abandon their city.

McGurn turns to Professor John Yoo:

“Walz and Frey have put themselves in the same constitutional camp as Bull Connor and the Southerners who led the ‘massive resistance’—as they called it then—campaign to Brown v. Board of Education,” says John Yoo, a UC Berkeley law professor who served in the Justice Department during the George W. Bush administration. “The segregationists denied that the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution gave the national government the right to finally interpret and execute federal law.
“Regardless of the policy merits of the immigration enforcement policy,” he says, “there is no doubt that immigration law is purely federal, that it gives the federal government the right to enforce it free of obstruction by the states. It leaves Trump in the same position constitutionally as those who wanted to enforce Brown upon a recalcitrant South.”

George Wallace vowed “segregation today…segregation tomorrow…segregation forever.” If only Walz were as candid as Wallace, the anti-ICE resistance could also adapt his vow to their own uses: “illegal immigration today…illegal immigration tomorrow…illegal immigration forever.”

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/02/rhymes-with-segregation.php

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

By Rusty Weiss

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.

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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