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Trying To Get The SAVE Act Passed

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If you weren’t already convinced that America needs the SAVE Act to insure honest elections, watching the elections in California should convince you. However, John Thune seems to be having a lot of difficulty getting the SAVE Act passed. I am not sure how much of that difficulty he is actually creating.

On Tuesday (updated Wednesday), Just the News posted an article about a suggestion by Senator Marsha Blackburn on how to breakup the logjam.

The article reports:

Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., is reviving an idea to end the current Senate parliamentarian’s blockade on the Save America Act election integrity law: enact a term limit for the position.

Blackburn told Just the News on Tuesday her legislation from a year ago to set term limits for the parliamentarian was gaining renewed steam as the GOP voter base stews over the chamber’s inability to pass President Donald Trump’s signature election law, imposing voter ID in citizenship checks.

“Now, when it comes to the parliamentarian, last year you had Senators Tuberville, Marshall, and I who filed a bill that called for term limits on the parliamentarian. And this is a discussion that has popped back up because of some of the decisions of the parliamentarian,” Blackburn told the Just the News, No Noise television show.

“I think it’s appropriate to term limit the parliamentarian,” she added. “You know, you have different positions, different assigned, and different offices that are term limited, whether it’s serving as on the Fed, or whether it’s serving on certain commissions, or in certain appointments, and we think it’s appropriate that the parliamentarian be someone that is term limited also.”

As Trump has pressed Senate Majority Leader John Thune to fire Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, Blackburn said more senators have rallied around the idea of her legislation.

The SAVE Act is supported by over 80 percent of Americans (including Democrats and unaffiliated voters). If the Senate does not represent the voters, who does the Senate represent?

The SAVE Act

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On Friday, American Greatness posted an article titled, “Why the SAVE Act Matters.” The article lists a few problems that passing the SAVE Act would solve.

The article reports:

1. Dirty Voter Rolls—A National Scandal

The evidence that American voter rolls are riddled with ineligible registrations is not in dispute. The only dispute is over whether they should be fixed.

The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, under Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon, reviewed voter rolls from just 16 voluntarily cooperating Republican-leaning states and found tens of thousands of apparent noncitizens and hundreds of thousands of dead people still registered to vote. The administration subsequently sued 29 states—including blue-state heavyweights California and New York, and swing states Arizona and Georgia—to compel production of voter roll data under the National Voter Registration Act and the Help America Vote Act.

…2. Noncitizen Voting—Prosecuted Cases

Noncitizen voting is not a hypothetical. It is documented, prosecuted, and ongoing.

In Philadelphia, ICE and the FBI arrested Mahady Sacko, an illegal alien from Mauritania, for voting in seven federal elections dating to 2008—despite a 2002 removal order. In Coldwater, Kansas, Mayor Joe Ceballos—a legal permanent resident from Mexico—resigned and faced charges after voting in multiple elections. These are not isolated cases; they are confirmed examples of a vulnerability that Republicans argue the SAVE Act would directly address.

3. Mail Ballot Fraud—A Proven Mechanism

Democrats and their media allies spent years insisting mail ballot fraud is vanishingly rare. The prosecution record tells a different story—of widespread, real, and exploitable vulnerabilities (over 1400 cases in this database).

In Pennsylvania, a grand jury indicted three Democrats—Mohammed Nurul Hasan, Mohammed Munsur Ali, and Mohammed Rafikul Islam—for attempting to steal the 2021 mayoral election in Millbourne. Using Pennsylvania’s online voter registration portal (PAOVR), they changed the registered addresses of nearly three dozen non-residents to Millbourne addresses, requested mail ballots on their behalf, filled them out, and submitted them. The system’s vulnerability: anyone with basic personal information about a voter could modify that voter’s registration and divert their ballot to any address in the world. The candidate lost anyway—but the mechanism worked. The “safeguards” the AP assured voters existed did not stop it.

…4. ActBlue—Active Congressional Investigation with Significant Red Flags

This is not an allegation. This is an active, documented federal investigation backed by congressional subpoenas.

The House Judiciary, Oversight, and Administration Committees released a joint interim report in April 2026 finding that five current and former ActBlue employees—including its general counsel (fired), legal department personnel, and VP of customer service—collectively invoked the Fifth Amendment 146 times during depositions. Not once or twice. 146 times. Not a single substantive question was answered.

The report also found that ActBlue made its fraud-prevention rules more lenient twice during the 2024 election cycle, and that internal training materials directed fraud-prevention staff to “look for reasons to accept contributions” rather than scrutinize them. The entire legal and compliance team—every member—had resigned, been fired, or gone on extended leave by March 2025, in the months immediately following the election.

Please follow the link above to read the entire article. The amount of fraud in our elections is frightening.

Refusing To Use The Power You Have

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It seems that every time the Republican party gets control of Congress, it forgets to do anything with that power. We are a year and a half into the second Trump administration, and Congress has passed the Big Beautiful Bill and very little else. At least 80 percent of Americans support the SAVE Act, and the Republicans in Congress can’t get it passed. That is ridiculous. The blame for that falls on both Republicans and Democrats–if Americans support the bill, who does Congress represent?

On Monday, The American Thinker posted an article titled, “Kill the Filibuster—or Make Them Talk.” We know that if and when the Democrats take control of Congress they will end the filibuster and push their agenda through, yet the Republicans sit on their hands waiting for that to happen. If that is their attitude, why in the world should I vote for a Republican?

The article reports:

Five words: Power unused is power surrendered.

That’s the reality Senate Republicans now face.

With a narrow majority and a nation increasingly concerned about election integrity, Republicans face a choice: act decisively or allow procedural relics to dictate policy outcomes. At the heart of this dilemma is the filibuster — not a constitutional safeguard, not a sacred institution, but a Senate rule that has evolved into a minority veto.

And in its current form, it’s not even honest.

Today’s filibuster is a shadow of its former self. Senators no longer need to stand on the floor, speak for hours, or defend their obstruction before the American people. Instead, they merely signal an intent to filibuster, and legislation effectively dies unless 60 votes can be mustered for cloture. No speeches. No effort. No accountability.

That’s not deliberation. That’s abdication.

The filibuster is often spoken of in reverent tones, as if it were handed down alongside the Constitution. It wasn’t.

The article concludes:

Republicans can preserve the current charade and watch their agenda die under silent filibusters, or they can restore accountability by forcing senators to speak and defend their obstruction before the American people.

And if Democrats eventually regain full power—as they inevitably will—they have already signaled that they will eliminate the filibuster entirely to advance their agenda.

Republicans must decide whether they intend to govern or merely to occupy office.

Power unused is power surrendered.

If the Republicans intend to hold power in the midterm elections, they need to show the voters that they understand how to use power.

The Warning In The Vote

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On Wednesday, The Federalist posted an article about the results of the Indiana primary elections. Five of the seven state senators who opposed the redistricting of the state lost in their primary elections. One election was too close to call, and one of the senators who opposed redistricting won his election. The voters supported the candidates President Trump endorsed–not the establishment Republicans. This should be a lesson to all of the Republicans in the Senate–listen to the people–pass the SAVE Act.

The Federalist reports:

Indiana conservatives just sent a message to RINOs everywhere: FAFO. These voters are mad as hell and they’re not going to vote for spineless Republicans anymore.

Hopefully GOP senators performing in the failure theater production of “debating” the SAVE America Act heard Indiana’s message loud and clear.

Most of the Republican Indiana state Senate candidates endorsed by President Donald Trump won primary races Tuesday against incumbents who voted with Democrats to stop a congressional redistricting bill. As of late Tuesday evening, The New York Times election results showed challengers picked up at least five of the seven state Senate seats targeted by Trump and allied conservatives groups. Republican primary voters rejected politicians standing on “fairness” principles while Democrats employ every weapon in their political arsenal to wrest back control of the U.S. House. 

Indiana Sen. Jim Banks helped drive the campaign to oust the incumbents who helped kill a mid-decade redrawing of the red state’s congressional maps. The redistricting plan, urged by Trump, would have given Republicans two additional seats in a House of Representatives with a razor-thin GOP majority.

“Everyone in Indiana politics should have learned an important lesson today: President Trump is the single most popular Republican among Hoosier voters,” Banks said in a statement. “Indiana is a conservative state, and we deserve conservatives in our State Senate who have a pulse on Republican voters.” 

Ideally, the makeup of the Congressional delegation from each state should reflect the makeup of the voters in that state. Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to be the case. As much as I don’t like the Republicans redistricting to gain U.S. House seats, I don’t like what the Democrats have done with U.S. House districts in the past either. Why do the six New England states have no Republicans in the U.S. House? That is unfair. Until the Democrats stop creating districts in odd shapes to get Democrats elected, I am unwilling to condemn the Republicans for doing the same thing.

Why Should Anyone Vote For A Republican?

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On Wednesday, The Washington Examiner posted the following headline:

GOP failure to pass SAVE Act shows why Trump was elected

I totally agree. We elected Republicans to the White House, the House of Representatives, and the Senate, and we still can’t get a Republican agenda passed in Washington. We need new Republicans. We identified the fraud, but the bloated budget is still with us. The House passed a law to increase election integrity, but the law can’t even get a hearing in the Senate despite having 80 percent plus approval from both parties. If if does come to the floor, there is no guarantee it will pass.

The article notes:

Trump captured, and still dominates, the hearts and minds of the party faithful because establishment Republicans refused to lead. For decades, the base elected politicians who promised to do one thing, then got to Washington and did something else — or nothing at all. These faithless politicians are still with us and still blocking the progress America needs, guaranteeing that Trump-style disruption is both here to stay and destined to intensify.

In late February, a small group of Republican senators majorly delayed, and may have even killed, one of the Right’s top priorities — the SAVE Act. The bill would require that voters show valid identification before casting a ballot in federal elections. It would also require people to show proof of citizenship when registering to vote. Gallup polling shows that more than 4 out of 5 Americans support these reforms. Even people who dispute Trump’s assertions of widespread fraud still support these measures to protect the integrity of the ballot box. This is basic, even obvious, stuff.

But four Senate Republicans said no — not only to the president, but to their own voters as well as the vast majority of the nation. Using a procedural tactic, Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Thom Tillis (R-NC), and John Curtis (R-UT) refused to allow an open debate on the Senate floor about the SAVE Act. Tillis is a co-sponsor of the SAVE Act, but now that it’s in the news and Trump is demanding action, the senator won’t even let his colleagues discuss it on the record. That’s right: The 53-member GOP Senate majority can’t bring its own bill up for a vote. It’s not clear when, or if, that will ever happen.

The article concludes:

Obviously, there are complicated realities to passing legislation, the filibuster chief among them. But somehow, Democrats don’t have as many problems passing their priorities: Obamacare, Dodd-Frank, and former President Joe Biden’s multiple spending blowouts. They at least know how to bring big bills up for a vote. The GOP, even mostly transformed by Trump, still struggles to get that far.

The president isn’t the one standing in the way. It’s the lesser Republicans who never get tired of doing nothing, the wrong thing, or both. So long as they block even basic and wildly popular reforms such as voter identification, the base will demand the intensification of the MAGA revolution. Like so many other Republicans over the past decade, the current naysaying senators think they’re standing up to Trump. In fact, they’re empowering him and ensuring that voters elect more leaders like him.

What is the point of electing Republicans if they can’t do what they were elected to do?