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Everyone needs to get loud The Save America Act was passed by the House into the Senate 238 days ago. Senate Leader John Thune has been blocking it FOR 238 DAYS Mandatory Voter ID and Proof of Citizenship was a core Republican campaign promise in the 2024 election Either pass it or remove John Thune as leader. Enough is enough Voter ID is not controversial, even Democrat voters overwhelmingly support it. The only reason not to pass it is fraud
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This is day 262 of asking @LeaderJohnThune to pass the SAVE America Act.
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🚨 WE ARE WATCHING AN EXTRAORDINARY PSYCHOLOGICAL BATTLE OVER PERCEPTION. Turn on the media and you'd think EVERYTHING is dramatically worse under President Trump. Then look at the numbers. Compared with the same stage of Biden's presidency, the figures being circulated show: INFLATION 🟦 Biden: +12.3% 🟥 Trump: +4.3% GROCERIES 🟦 Biden: +15.8% 🟥 Trump: +3.3% GAS 🟦 Biden: +69% 🟥 Trump: +12% RENT 🟦 Biden: +7.7% 🟥 Trump: +4.5% ELECTRICITY 🟦 Biden: +19.1% 🟥 Trump: +8.4% NEW & USED CARS 🟦 Biden: +23.9% 🟥 Trump: −1.2% That doesn't mean Americans aren't feeling real affordability pressure. They ARE. But during Biden's term, I REMEMBER the media making it feel like everything was fine but the opposite was felt by Americans in the real world. Today, it seems to be the opposite. People's conditions are improving but the perception is that life is worse. That's exactly why you have to separate how people feel, what they're being told, and what the underlying data actually show. We're heading toward the 2026 midterms. QUESTION EVERYTHING. CHECK THE NUMBERS YOURSELF. 🇺🇸
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Spot the difference… Capitalist Elon Musk: $3 trillion in value with Companies Pays the salaries of 150,000 Lives in a trailer Communist Bernie Sanders: $36 trillion of debt while in Congress Pays the salaries of 0 people Lives in multiple homes Creator vs Grifter.
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Y’all were quiet at $5.02 a gallon and 9.1% inflation. Now gas is $4.06 and inflation is 3.4% and suddenly it’s a crisis. The numbers didn’t change sides. You did.
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Congress has not worked enough days in 2026 to qualify for SNAP, just in case you were curious who was actually sponging off our tax dollars.
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Number of arrests under Republicans: 2020 Stolen Election: 0 Jan 6: 0 Mar-a-Lago: 0 Biden Autopen: 0 Jeffrey Epstein clients: 0 DOGE Findings: 0 COVID: 0 Benghazi: 0 Russia Collision Hoax: 0 Ukraine Impeachment Hoax: 0 Funding Nationwide Protests: 0 Democrats Allowing illegals Voting: 0 Open Border Coordinators Republicans are going into Midterms - Without passing Voter ID - No proof of citizenship for voting - No mail in ballot reform - No mainstream media propaganda reform - No term limits passed - Mass deportations are not anywhere near what people voted for
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House Republicans passed over 70 bills this week alone — that adds to our total of over 900 bills passed through the House so far this Congress. We’ve DELIVERED for Americans by: 🇺🇸 Enacting the largest middle and working class tax cut in US history 🇺🇸 Creating new incentives to build and hire American 🇺🇸 Adding the biggest boost to job creation in decades 🇺🇸 Establishing Trump accounts for every American child  🇺🇸 Restoring safety and order to our cities 🇺🇸 Stopping American deaths from the scourge of fentanyl 🇺🇸Closing the border By contrast, the Democrat agenda is very simple: grievance politics, bigger government, higher taxes, open borders, and zero security.
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The 119th congress was the least productive in history, no congress has enacted less legislation or laws. Johnson has cancelled a total 63 scheduled voting days in the house, granting members an extra 2 months PTO, with no house votes scheduled until after the election. govtrack.us/congress/bills… ms.now/news/dhs-shutd… snopes.com/fact-check/mik… cbsnews.com/news/house-can…
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This is day 240 of asking @LeaderJohnThune to pass the SAVE America Act. Yes, 240 consecutive days of asking Leader Thune to secure our elections.
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This is day 230 of asking @LeaderJohnThune to pass the SAVE America Act.
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If you had trusted the settled science of the day, here is how it would have gone. 1890s: you dose the baby with Bayer's new cough syrup, the non-addictive alternative to morphine, marketed for children. It was heroin. They named it after the German for heroic. 1900s: you rub calomel teething powder on your infant's gums. It is a mercury compound, and it leaves a generation with pink disease. Swollen, peeling hands and feet, screaming for months, and some of them died. 1910s: you cook in Crisco, launched by a soap and candle company, because cottonseed oil is modern and lard is what your mother used. The process that made it solid produced trans fat, banned outright a century later. 1920s: you drink Radithor, certified radioactive water, on prescription. Eben Byers took fourteen hundred bottles for his vitality. His jaw was removed in pieces and he was buried in a lead coffin. 1930s: a chemist dissolves a new sulfa drug in diethylene glycol, which is antifreeze. It kills 107 people, mostly children, and only then does America give the FDA power to demand safety testing. 1940s: your doctor lights a Camel in the surgery. More doctors smoke them than any other brand, and the advert runs in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which sold him the page. 1950s: DDT is sprayed over your kitchen, your garden and your children at school. The man who found its insecticidal properties has already been given a Nobel Prize. 1960s: your wife takes thalidomide for morning sickness because it is remarkably safe. More than ten thousand children are born with missing and shortened limbs. 1970s: the country puts down the butter and picks up the margarine, on the instruction of the American Heart Association. The fat everybody switched to was banned in 2015 as unsafe at any level. 1980s: the fat comes out of everything and sugar goes back in to make it edible. Obesity begins a climb it has never come off. 1990s: your father is prescribed OxyContin, because fewer than one per cent get addicted. The company later pleads guilty to criminal misbranding, and the overdose count runs into hundreds of thousands. 2000s: you take Vioxx for your knee. It is pulled in 2004, and the FDA's own safety officer estimates tens of thousands of excess heart attacks. Not one of those was fringe. Every one had a professional body, a literature and a man in a white coat standing behind it. Nobody who followed that advice was stupid. They were obedient, to the most qualified people available. Settled is a word about money. It means the questions stopped being funded, so they stopped being asked. So which of today's instructions will your grandchildren read out in disbelief. The oil washed in hexane and built into every cell you own. The statin that blocks the pathway making your hormones, to prevent one heart attack per hundred people. The injection where a third of the loss is muscle. The infant formula built out of vegetable oil. All settled. None of it funded to be otherwise.
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This PERFECTLY explains the Capitalism vs Socialism argument for America “So now, Colombia rejected a socialist. Peru rejected a socialist. El Salvador, Chile, Honduras, Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina all rejected Marxist or socialist leadership. And Venezuela was destroyed by socialism. Latin Americans are rejecting socialism after having tried it. So why are Americans accepting socialism, having never tried it? Well, partially because most Americans don't know what socialism is It's not healthcare for all or affordable housing. Socialism isn't a synonym for all the things I want, but I'm not getting in my capitalist country. It's not a vibe. It's an economic system characterized by collective or governmental ownership of the means of production. Means of production meaning infrastructure used to produce goods and services like factories, farms, and companies. Capitalism also isn't a vibe. It's not billionaires and corporations controlling politics. It's not a synonym for all the things I hate about my country. It's an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, AKA the means of production. Now, just like Mac versus Windows, there are different versions of capitalism and socialism. Finland, Norway, Denmark, and Sweden are less capitalistic than America, but they are still capitalist. Although they have a few exceptions to the rule, private companies own the means of production, not the government in those countries. Now, you might like certain programs that socialism promises, like universal healthcare, but those programs aren't tied to a specific operating system. You can run Photoshop on Mac or Windows, just like you can have universal healthcare in socialism or capitalism. But it seems we as a people keep getting more confused about what socialism is. In 1949, 34% of Americans correctly identified socialism as government ownership of the economy. By 2018, only 17% did, and I suspect it's even worse now. American politicians are confused, too. In 2015, Denmark's prime minister had to correct Bernie Sanders and say, "Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy." Zoran Mamdani is a democratic socialist. Democratic socialism is a version of socialism. Now, you could argue that socialism just hasn't been done right yet. And when every socialist experiment at the national level in the 20th century failed, and every experiment in the 21st century is failing, maybe the problem isn't that socialism hasn't worked in practice, it, that it almost certainly can't work in principle. And maybe the assertion that this time will be different isn't optimism, it's actually just unfalsifiability, where a theory cannot ever be contradicted by actual evidence. We have bugs in this version of capitalism that need to be fixed, principally that there is too much money in politics, that billions of dollars speak louder than millions of voices. And you know what? The socialists might create healthy pressure to fix those bugs. That's good, but that's different than changing the whole operating system. Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease. Because when there's never been a successful socialist country in history, and the countries who have actually experimented with it are abandoning it, the results start to speak for themselves. And lately, they're speaking Spanish.” And just so we’re crystal clear, here are the stated goals of the Democratic Socialists of America in America - Abolish the US Senate - Replace the Presidency and Supreme Court - Abolish the Electoral College • Abolish police and the prison system • Abolish ICE, grant amnesty to all immigrants and end visa restrictions • Public ownership of the largest corporations - Defund the US military - End economic sanctions on Iran - Government owned social housing
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The US has one of the most progressive tax schemes ever devised in human history. The top 1% pay for 46% of ALL taxes collected. The bottom 50% pay only 2%. When socialists complain about our tax system, they are either stupid, lying, or both.
The top 0.1% paid $440 billion in federal income taxes. The bottom 80% paid $350 billion. Yes, the top 0.1% paid more than the entire bottom 80% COMBINED. The tax code is already extremely progressive. Leftists know this. There’s almost nothing left to extract from income. That’s why they’ve shifted the target from income to assets. They now want to expropriate asset owners through property taxes and wealth taxes. But even then, total confiscation would only fund the government for a few months, while destroying the productive capital that generates future wealth. Essentially, they’re trading the future for a few short months of spending. And no amount will ever satisfy them, because the real goal is to forbid wealth creation itself. No one is allowed to rise above the lowest common denominator. But the truth remains that the government already has more than enough revenue. We have a spending problem, not a revenue problem.
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Dear Elon Musk, Thank you for buying Twitter and turning it into 𝕏 The World would have no clue what is going on in Spain without you Sincerely, 77+ Million MAGA Patriots
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Our biggest weakness today is the lack of courage in leadership and culture; everyone wants common sense, but everyone is too afraid to demand it. So today, we are launching The WAR Foundation. thewarfoundation.com Together, we will: Win the war against political corruption with innovative new media. Advocate for transparency, accountability, and integrity in government and culture. Restore common sense and roll back the long march of socialism through our vital institutions. The WAR Foundation is being created to fight where others won’t. We will use the same innovative arsenal we used to capture the world’s attention in our campaign: hard-hitting media, investigative research, educational campaigns, and strategic partnerships in government and media to push back on the communist rot, shine a light on government failure, challenge entrenched interests, and empower citizens with the truth. Above all, we will be bold, unapologetic, and fearless. Our campaign was just the beginning. You want more? JOIN THE WAR
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🚨 SIGN THE PETITION to demand a special session to MAKE BIRTH TOURISM A FELONY... STOP BIRTH CERTIFICATES FOR NON-CITIZENS... and more to protect Texas from SCOTUS's absurd birthright citizenship ruling!! Sign here and share! 👇 secure.winred.com/texans-for…
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If your rule of constitutional interpretation leads you to conclude your nation must destroy itself then your rule of constitutional interpretation is wrong.
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Dear SCOTUS, The American dream belongs to American children. Not anchor babies from illegal aliens. Sincerely, We the People
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REMEMBER: There is no version of Socialism where you own 3 houses and Bernie Sanders owns none
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“Get the hell outta here.” This is the attitude that our elected officials have for Republican voters — contempt. “I’m the assh@le saying you can’t come in.” If you know anyone in South Dakota, please show them this video. I never ask you to make things viral.
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