The SAVE Act NEEDS to pass ... and it’s THIS simple



The SAVE America Act is a common-sense bill that would ensure American citizens would decide American elections by requiring voter ID and getting rid of mail-in ballots — which BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler could not be more on board with.

“It’s basically just elementary voter ID. This should have been passed weeks ago. Why hasn’t it been?” BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler asks, before introducing the vice president of programs at the Conservative Policy Institute, Rachel Bovard.

“She knows what’s going on and who is to blame and what needs to happen to get the SAVE Act passed,” Wheeler says.

“It has passed out of the House — twice, actually. So what we’re dealing with: You have the SAVE Act, and then you have the SAVE America Act. And that is where we are now focusing, is the SAVE America Act,” Bovard explains.


“We had to do a second vehicle, because the SAVE Act passed out of the House in April. It went over to the Senate, where it was then referred to the Senate Rules Committee. And Mitch McConnell is the chair of the Senate Rules Committee and doesn’t like this bill,” she says.

“I don’t know why. Inexplicably. He’s never spoken on it. He doesn’t like it,” she adds.

That’s when House and Senate conservatives, working together on the issue, tweaked the bill to reintroduce it as the SAVE America Act.

“They sent it over to the Senate, and they did something very strategic this time around. They packaged it in such a way, in what we call a message. So they sent it over to the Senate as a message. Meaning, normally, to get on a bill in the Senate, you have to overcome a filibuster. When you have a message, it’s privileged. You don’t. So you can get onto the bill, bypassing the filibuster altogether,” Bovard tells Wheeler.

“And the second thing that was so brilliant about what they did was when it comes over as a message, it doesn’t get referred to committee. It sits at the desk, where it is just now waiting for Majority Leader John Thune to call it up. Now, will it be subject to a filibuster then? I assume it will,” she says, pointing out that there are two ways to break a filibuster.

“The one everyone’s very familiar with is invoking cloture, which is 60 votes. But the other way is through physical exhaustion, which is the old-fashioned way, which is making senators stand and speak until they physically cannot do so any longer and then putting the question,” she continues.

“So instead of having to break through 60 votes, you break through physical exhaustion, and then in both cases, once you’ve broken the filibuster, the bill passes a simple majority," she says. “So that is where things stand right now.”

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Lone Republican defies Trump, votes to tank the SAVE Act



A lone Republican broke with President Donald Trump and his party Wednesday, nearly derailing GOP leadership’s push to advance the SAVE Act, a bill requiring proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections.

The House narrowly approved a procedural rule in a 216-215 vote, clearing the way for debate and a final vote on the legislation. Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky was the only Republican to vote no. All Democrats opposed the rule.

'A central issue for conservative voters.'

The vote was not on the SAVE Act itself. In the House, lawmakers must first adopt a rule that sets the terms for debate, including how long members may speak and whether amendments are allowed, before a bill can receive final consideration. If the rule fails, the legislation cannot move forward.

By approving the rule, the House advanced the SAVE Act to the floor despite Massie's vote.

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Republicans say the measure strengthens election integrity and addresses concerns about noncitizen voting, a central issue for conservative voters and aligned with Trump’s broader election security agenda.

Conservative commentator Greg Price said that Massie was “the only Republican who voted against advancing the SAVE America Act to the House floor,” sharing a screenshot of the tally. Commenters accused Massie of undermining a key GOP priority.

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Massie has previously supported citizenship verification requirements. He has co-sponsored related legislation and criticized leadership for failing to attach SAVE-style provisions to must-pass spending bills. At the same time, he has objected to procedural maneuvers he considers symbolic or unlikely to become law without broader structural reforms.

The SAVE Act now moves toward a final House vote. Its prospects in the Senate remain uncertain, particularly without changes to filibuster rules.

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Congress Breaks Record For Doing The Least

The House and Senate posted the lowest legislative output

'Stone cold LOSER' George Conway mounts New York congressional run — as a Democrat



Virulent Trump critic George Conway III has filed to run as a Democrat for Rep. Jerry Nadler's seat in New York, Federal Election Commission records show.

The supposedly conservative lawyer's decision to turn his coat fully inside-out has been years in the making.

Conway, the ex-husband of former Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway, turned sour after failing to seize an opportunity to serve in the first Trump administration's Justice Department.

'It's time to lay it all on the line.'

While Conway said that he changed his mind and withdrew his name from consideration to run the civil division of the DOJ in 2017 after Trump canned then-FBI Director James Comey, Trump claimed that Conway was "VERY jealous of his wife's success & angry that I, with her help, didn't give him the job he so desperately wanted."

Trump added that Conway was a "stone cold LOSER."

Over the years, Conway grew increasingly antagonistic toward the president, ranting about Trump on cable news and attacking him in the pages of liberal publications.

Two years after weeping with joy in his MAGA hat over Trump's 2016 win, Conway said in an interview, "I don't feel comfortable being a Republican any more."

The following year, he co-founded the anti-Trump group the Lincoln Project with a handful of former Republican operatives, including Rick Wilson, Steve Schmidt, Reed Galen, and John Weaver, who allegedly had a habit of sexually harassing young men online.

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According to a Dec. 17, 2019, op-ed that Conway co-authored with Weaver and the other Lincoln Project co-founders, the aim of the group was to "stem the damage [Trump] and his followers are doing to the rule of law, the Constitution, and the American character."

With this aim in mind, the Lincoln Project proceeded to stage a white supremacy rally, bankrolled efforts to torpedo Trump-aligned Republicans, and churned out pro-Kamala Harris content such as the recent "Be a Man, Vote for a Woman" ad.

Although Conway stepped away from the Lincoln Project in 2020, he did not give up his fixation with Trump.

Last year, he supported Kamala Harris' failed presidential campaign and launched a six-figure ad campaign hoping to dissuade Americans from voting for Trump.

After spending years throwing his money and hopes after losers and lost causes, Conway has decided to throw his hat in the ring.

In the first post on his new Substack page, Conway noted, "I'm going into the arena. I've already put my money where my mouth is, but now it's time to lay it all on the line. It's time to defeat Trumpism once and for all."

"We need Democrats to take over Congress — and not just any Democrats, but the most fearless and relentless ones," wrote Conway.

While New York's 12th Congressional District is a safe blue seat, Conway is hardly the only Democrat hoping to make it his own. Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of President John F. Kennedy; New York Assemblyman Micah Lasher (D); Democratic Socialist gun critic Cameron Kasky; and former Clinton White House fellow Jami Floyd are among the Democrat candidates presently in the running.

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Lawmakers Can’t Be Bothered To Work One Extra Day As Unfinished Business Piles Up

A long list of unresolved issues remain on the table

Congress fights Trump admin to keep more US troops in Europe and Korea



The Trump administration indicated in its newly released National Security Strategy that "the days of propping up the entire world order like Atlas are over" — that American allies will have to "take more responsibility for security in their neighborhoods," especially as America orients its focus to the Western Hemisphere and hardens its presence in the Western Pacific.

The strategy document specifically called for "Europe to stand on its own feet and operate as a group of aligned sovereign nations, including taking primary responsibility for its own defense."

It appears, however, that members of Congress want America to shoulder the burden of European defense indefinitely.

In order to withdraw US forces past the 76,000 mark, the Trump administration would have to demonstrate to Congress that such a move would not adversely impact American or NATO security interests.

The version of the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act finalized by both House and Senate negotiators and released on Sunday — a budget that exceeds President Donald Trump's $892.6 billion budget request for the Pentagon by $8 billion — would block the Pentagon both from reducing the number of troops "stationed in or deployed to the area of responsibility of the United States European Command below 76,000 for longer than a 45-day period" and from using any funds appropriated under the act to move any Pentagon equipment originally valued at $500,000 out of Europe.

In order to withdraw U.S. forces past the 76,000 mark, the Trump administration would have to demonstrate to Congress that such a move would not adversely impact American or NATO security interests. The number of U.S. troops stationed in Europe fluctuates between around 80,000 and 100,000.

Citing five sources familiar with the discussion, including a U.S. official, Reuters reported that Pentagon officials told European diplomats during a recent meeting that Washington expects Europe to take over most of NATO's conventional defense capabilities such as troops and missile defense by 2027. Failure to do so might prompt America to end its participation in certain NATO defense coordination mechanisms, said the sources.

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Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson said in a statement, "We've been very clear in the need for Europeans to lead in the conventional defense of Europe. We are committed to working through NATO coordination mechanisms to strengthen the alliance and ensure its long-term viability as European allies increasingly take on responsibility for conventional deterrence and defense in Europe."

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau added on X that "Europe must take primary responsibility for its own security."

"Successive US Administrations have been saying this in one form or another pretty much my whole life — look up the 1969 'Nixon doctrine' — but our Administration means what it says," added Landau.

The current version of the NDAA would also prohibit the administration from letting the head of U.S. European Command — Air Force Gen. Alexus Grynkewich — relinquish his role as NATO supreme allied commander in Europe.

Thanks to Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin (Ill.), the NDAA as written would also codify the Baltic Security Initiative, hamstringing any efforts on the part of the administration to suspend the program, which uses American funds to bankroll Baltic states' defense capabilities. Billions of U.S. dollars have been poured into the BSI in recent years even as Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia began investing more into their own defense.

In addition to ensuring that America remains bogged down in Europe, the 2026 NDAA as written has other provisions that might hamper the administration's ability to realize its national security strategy in full.

The legislation states that it is "the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Defense should continue efforts that strengthen United States defense alliances and partnerships in the Indo-Pacific region so as to further the comparative advantage of the United States in strategic competition with the People's Republic of China."

To this end, the legislation would prohibit obligating or expending any funds to reduce the total number of troops that are permanently stationed in or deployed to Korea below 28,500 or "to complete the transition of wartime operational control of the United States-Republic of Korea Combined Forces Command from United States-led command to Republic of Korea-led command" unless War Secretary Pete Hegseth provides an assessment and certification to Congress showing that doing so is in America's national interest and is being undertaken only after consulting with several foreign nations, including Korea and Japan.

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My crooked house made me rethink what really needs fixing



Our new addition is finally finished — level floors, wide doors, and a space where my wife, Gracie, can move freely despite her severe disabilities. After years of improvising in tight quarters, we’re grateful to have a place that works for us, even if it’s not perfect.

The new part of the house went up during Trump’s second non-consecutive term; the original part went up during the second term of the only other president to do the same, Grover Cleveland. Joining the two is a bit like welding a Tesla to a horse-drawn buggy — functional, charming, and only slightly defiant of gravity.

When most of life leans, you can still make one crooked thing right.

During construction, the fridge in our tiny kitchen got bumped off the carefully placed shims and tilted just enough to drive me crazy. Admittedly, that’s not a long trip.

I ignored it for about a week but finally couldn’t stand it anymore. Leveling a refrigerator in a cabin built during the Cleveland administration isn’t simple. There are pulleys, levers, questions about physics, and — in my case — a call to the engineering department at Montana State. They were not amused. My neighbor Charles, who often “pity helps” me, wasn’t available. I can’t prove it, but I think he hung up and immediately burst into laughter.

So I did it myself.

I knew it would be a project — and once I started, it could not easily be interrupted by caregiving duties. But exasperation collided with need, and I got down on the floor (at a slant) and went to work. It went exactly as expected: mild swearing, a few tears, and then a small victory. When the bubble on the level finally drifted near the center, I declared success, remembering that old rancher’s saying: “Most things can be fixed with baling wire and bad language.”

It’s level — well, Montana level — but I’ll take it.

Much of what I’ve faced as a caregiver over 40 years can’t be fixed. But small victories, like leveling a refrigerator in a house built when bread was 3 cents and buffalo still outnumbered politicians, remind me that even when most of life leans, you can still make one crooked thing right.

Everyone has a version of that tilted refrigerator — something off-kilter you keep meaning to fix but never quite reach. It might be a strained relationship, a stack of bills, or a heart worn down by too much bad news. You can’t straighten the world, but you can steady what’s right in front of you.

When life feels unsettled, taking time to level something — even a small thing — matters more than we think. Sometimes that quiet act of setting one thing right gives us just enough footing to stand through the rest of it.

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Years ago, city officials talked about “broken-window” policing: Neglect one thing, and the whole neighborhood starts to crumble. The opposite is also true. Fix one small thing, and a bit of order comes back. Leveling even one ordinary object pushes back against the chaos.

Most caregiving must be repeated tomorrow, but every so often something stays fixed. A grab bar anchored in the right place. A ramp that finally fits the chair. The day may still be full of mess and pain, but that one thing won’t need doing again. It stands there quietly, reminding you that not everything leans. Some things still hold. And sometimes that’s enough to remind you that you still can too.

When I turn on the news, I see dysfunction I can’t do anything about. But when I fix dinner, my refrigerator no longer leans.

There’s an old Appalachian saying: “Fix what you can. The rest was never yours to mend.”

Level what you can. Let the rest lean.

With Trump's blessing, House approves resolution to release the Epstein files: 'We have nothing to hide'



After months of pushback, the House passed a resolution to release the highly anticipated Epstein files.

Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna of California co-authored the resolution to release the Epstein files and forced the House vote Tuesday using a discharge petition. Lawmakers forced the floor vote after the petition secured 218 signatories last week, including Republican Reps. Nancy Mace of South Carolina, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Lauren Boebert of Colorado, and Massie.

'Of course we're for maximum transparency.'

Republican Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana was the lone no vote.

Although only four Republicans signed onto the petition, initially bucking their party, President Donald Trump changed course and encouraged rank-and-file GOP members to vote in favor of the resolution. Republican leadership later followed suit, with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) confirming Tuesday that he would vote in favor of the resolution.

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"As I said on Friday night aboard Air Force One to the Fake News Media, House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide, and it’s time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics in order to deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party, including our recent Victory on the Democrat 'Shutdown,'" Trump said in a Truth Social Post Sunday.

Johnson echoed Trump's message for transparency but mentioned several "dangers" in the current resolution he hopes will be amended in the Senate, including concerns for victims' privacy and inadequate handling of child sexual abuse materials.

"There's a handful of Republicans, Judiciary Committee members, and a few others who are really struggling, as I have been, about whether or not they can even vote yes today because of this," Johnson said during a presser Tuesday. "Because we don't have an absolute guarantee that this will be fixed in the Senate."

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Despite these concerns, Johnson urged the conference to "vote their conscience."

"Having now forced the vote, none of us want to go on record and in any way be accused of not being for maximum transparency," Johnson said. "So the only intellectually consistent position to have right now ... is to allow for everyone to vote their conscience and to go on record to say, 'Of course we're for maximum transparency.'"

The resolution is now headed to the Senate. If it passes, Trump confirmed that he would sign the resolution into law.

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Democrat INFIGHTING: Progressives blast congresswoman for opposing leftist’s apparent rigged succession scam



The Democratic Party, whose unfavorability rating is 58% according to the RealClearPolitics poll average, appears to be consumed by internal squabbles. In the latest, one Democrat's campaign to shame a colleague has prompted retaliation from other radicals on her side of the aisle.

Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.) introduced a House resolution on Monday to formally rebuke one of her Democratic colleagues, Illinois Rep. Jesús "Chuy" Garcia, for allegedly "undermining the process of a free and fair election."

Garcia filed to run for re-election on Oct. 27. Days later — after the deadline for candidates to file to run for Illinois' 4th congressional district had passed — Garcia announced his retirement and indicated that he would be withdrawing his nominating petitions.

'Some people need to learn how to stay in their lane.'

What appears to have really rankled Perez and other Democrats was that while Garcia failed to provide anybody else with a heads-up about his real intentions, he apparently tipped off his chief of staff, Patty Garcia, who managed to file to run in the district at the last minute, ensuring herself an opposition-free Democratic primary. Rep. Garcia subsequently endorsed his chief of staff.

Perez's resolution, which was also supported by Democratic Maine Rep. Jared Golden, claimed that Garcia's "actions are beneath the dignity of his office and incompatible with the spirit of the United States Constitution."

Garcia's office stated, "He followed every rule and every filing requirement laid out by the State of Illinois."

"It's not fun to call out a member of your own party," Perez told CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday. "But I think it's important that we're consistent."

"Election subversion is always wrong. That's not how we run things in this country, and that’s not the party that I want to be a part of," added Perez.

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Perez attempted last week to have Garcia punished for his underhanded succession play, prompting scorn from Garcia's Progressive Caucus ally Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D-Ill.), who said of the Washington congresswoman, "Some people need to learn how to stay in their lane."

Unswayed by the criticism of her peers, Perez made the case for his reprimand on Monday, stating on the House floor, "No one has the right to subvert the right of the people to choose their elected representatives."

The House advanced Perez's resolution as the motion to table it failed in a 211-206 vote.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) defended Garcia on Monday, telling reporters, "I do not support this so-called resolution of disapproval, and I strongly support Congressman Chuy Garcia. He has been a progressive champion in disenfranchised communities for decades."

Congressional Progressive Caucus members, all of whom reportedly stood up on Monday to condemn Perez, are reportedly now working to punish the Washington Democrat for championing transparency and choice in Democratic politics.

A lawmaker and a senior aide familiar with the matter told Axios that Progressive Caucus members are considering a resolution that would accuse Perez of lying about not taking corporate PAC donations.

Last year, End Citizens United, a group that endorsed and backed Perez's congressional campaign, claimed that while then-Republican congressional candidate Joe Kent had supposedly taken money from corporate PACs, "Perez has continued to abide by her pledge to reject corporate PAC contributions."

The National Republican Congressional Committee noted, however, that the Perez campaign had received numerous corporate PAC donations.

Sources told Axios that the resolution targeting Perez would reference reporting that her campaign and PAC accepted donations from various corporate sources, including the American Petroleum Institute PAC and American Forest and Paper Association PAC.

A spokesman for Perez did not respond to Axios' request for comment.

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FACT-CHECK: Yes, Democrats are responsible for the shutdown



Democrat lawmakers were quick to pin the government shutdown on their Republican counterparts, conveniently sidestepping their role in the gridlock.

U.S. Representative Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.) shared a post on X blaming Republicans for the shutdown.

"Civics 101: Republicans control all three branches of government. It's their responsibility to pass a budget," Houlahan wrote.

Other Democrat allies have shared similar half-truths on social media.

'This is the puzzling part, Senator Schumer actually voted for this exact same legislation multiple times.'

In response to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt's comments that the Democrats were responsible, Matt Corridoni, a Democratic strategist, replied, "Republicans control all three branches of the government."

Even former Vice President Kamala Harris chimed in on the debate, writing, "President Trump and Congressional Republicans just shut down the government because they refused to stop your health care costs from rising."

"Let me be clear: Republicans are in charge of the White House, House, and Senate. This is their shutdown," Harris added.

While the Republicans control the White House and hold a majority in both chambers of Congress, Democrats' remarks overlook a fundamental truth about how the U.S. government is designed to function, deliberately empowering the minority to block legislation.

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Republican lawmakers proposed a clean continuing resolution that, if passed, would have allowed the government to remain open by extending funding past the start of fiscal year 2026, which began on October 1. This CR would have acted as a temporary stopgap through November 21, allowing lawmakers time to negotiate a new full-year budget.

However, Democrats, who have refused to support the bill, blocked the bill by triggering a filibuster. Democrat lawmakers refused to budge unless Republicans allowed an extension for Affordable Care Act tax credits. It is important to note that these tax credits are set to expire at the end of the year, after the Republicans' CR would already have dropped off.

Republicans refused to accept Democrats' request, arguing that the health care programs use federal tax dollars to provide services to illegal aliens. Additionally, they contended that specific programs could be negotiated in the full-year budget.

To override the Democrats' filibuster, Republicans filed for cloture, which, if passed, would have forced a vote on the CR.

With a slim Senate majority, Republicans theoretically have enough members to pass a CR in a straightforward vote. However, they do not have the supermajority, 60 votes, needed to invoke cloture and end debate.

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Republicans' attempt to invoke cloture fell short by five votes, causing the CR to die by the October 1 deadline, thus triggering a shutdown.

Republicans have referred to the gridlock as New York Democrat Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's shutdown.

"Chuck Schumer has led them all to vote against it," House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) stated.

"I sent them in good faith exactly what they had voted for before. We did not put any Republican provisions in that."

Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.) had a similar message about Schumer.

"This is the puzzling part: Senator Schumer actually voted for this exact same legislation multiple times," she said.

"He voted for it once. He voted for it twice. He voted for it three times. And he voted for it a fourth time in March. But he won't vote for it today to prevent a government shutdown.

"That's why this is called a Schumer shutdown. Republicans do have control of the House. We do have control of the White House," Malliotakis continued. "But what people have to understand is that for a funding bill to get passed in the Senate, it does need seven Democrat votes."

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