Adventure

[Rick Scott @SenRickScott]

When it comes to the filibuster, a lot of folks in the Senate are hiding behind “precedent” that isn’t really there.

For the majority of its history, this chamber didn’t rely on a 60 vote threshold for legislation — even after the cloture rule was established.

If we want to accomplish what the American people expect of us — like SECURING OUR ELECTIONS — we need to get back to that.

Use it or lose it. Either enforce the filibuster or get rid of it. But we can’t continue like this.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Passing the SAVE America Act now—as Democrats are cratering—would close the deal for us in November

It’d take a few weeks in the Senate

And it’d be 💯 worth it

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Great talk with @SpeakerJohnson last night.

The House has passed the SAVE America Act and other similar versions of the bill three times.

Speaker Johnson is as committed as ever to ensuring it becomes law, including keeping it on the NDAA (a “must pass” bill) as it comes over from the House to the Senate, and fighting for it thereafter.

He assured me that MIRV process will guarantee the two bills are merged and received in the Senate as one bill, with the SAVE America Act in the base text.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Help us save America

By passing the SAVE America Act

Please encourage your senators to resume debate on the Senate floor—with a plan to keep debating it until it passes

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

@LeaderJohnThune @TaxCuts Cool.

Let’s pass the SAVE America Act now.

As I’ve been asking you to do for months, please bring it up now and announce that we will debate it until it passes.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 NOW: Sen. Mike Lee calls on Senate GOP leadership to FORCE senators to stay in town, skip recess, work weekends to surge the SAVE America Act to President Trump's desk

This would be great for the midterms!

"The truth is we haven't TRIED what I believe it takes to get the SAVE America Act passed, which is to put it on the floor and to say we're going to debate this for weeks!"

"And we'll stay through weekends, we'll stay through previously scheduled recesses if necessary, but we're going to stay on this bill until it passes!"

"Nothing sharpens the mind, nothing hastens agreement, nothing will bring about face-saving and perfecting amendments quite like the obligation to stay in and debate something that is popular with the American people."

"When filibustering senators trying to slow it down are becoming steadily less popular in their arguments."

EXACTLY! 👏🏻

[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

DR. FAUCI NEEDS TO STAND TRIAL NOW! For years, “The Science” looked the American people in the eye and called us dangerous conspiracy theorists for questioning the COVID narrative. But yesterday, on her final day, @DNIGabbard threw open the blinds and exposed everything.

Before COVID ever escaped, Fauci's NIAID was sending taxpayer dollars through EcoHealth Alliance to the Wuhan Institute of Virology to conduct risky research on bat coronaviruses. I exposed evidence of this all the way back in 2021. Now, we have the definitive receipts.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Seven Simple Points Explaining How We Can Pass The SAVE America Act—And Save America!

(1) Bring the SAVE America Act back to the Senate floor next week, making clear that we will keep debating the bill until we pass it.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Americans don’t want FISA 702 without a warrant

They want the SAVE America Act

If you’re with me on this, post one of these: 🇺🇸

[Tim Burchett @timburchett]

Exhaust the opposition. Pass the Save America Act.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

We don’t have 60 votes for the House-passed SAVE America Act

But we do have a simple majority

Given the bill’s widespread bipartisan popularity, we could pass it with a simple majority—by debating it until it passes

I explain how in this clip

Share if you want this to happen

[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

The SAVE America Act NEEDS TO BE PASSED. Trump just announced that it was put in a $350 billion budget reconciliation bill, Recon 3.0. We can argue about the military funding (I think Trump can and must rebuild our military to be as cutting edge as possible), but the Save America Act is a MUST.

Susan Collins just flipped, so Republicans have 50 votes. PASS IT. Get rid of the zombie filibuster, which isn't even a law. It’s just a Senate “rule.” WE HAVE THE VOTES. Call your Senators and tell them to pass the Save America Act NOW.

[Tim Burchett @timburchett]

Why would you do this unless you wanted to cheat. https://t.co/unymBF4EBV

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

I’m about to offer the House-passed version of the SAVE America Act on the Senate floor in connection with tonight’s vote-a-rama

This one should get at least 51 votes

Will keep you posted

[Attorney General Ken Paxton @KenPaxtonTX]

Every Paxton Patriot must get to the polls TOMORROW.

Stand with President Trump and fight for Texas.

FIND YOUR POLLING LOCATION AT https://t.co/gIpC38c8ot

[Attorney General Ken Paxton @KenPaxtonTX]

“Vote for Ken Paxton on Tuesday, HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!!!”

Thank you, Mr. President!

Texas, make sure to get out and vote on Tuesday, May 26!

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: President Trump just went full KEN PAXTON MODE on Sen. John Cornyn — MAGA is storming the polls on Tuesday

"Ken’s opponent was VERY disloyal to me, as President, and didn’t fight hard enough for the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT - VOTER I.D., PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP, NO MAIL-IN BALLOTS (with exceptions for Military, Illness, Disability, or Travel!). What more needs to be said??? Vote for Ken Paxton on Tuesday, HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!!!"

🇺🇸🇺🇸 @ScottPresler @KenPaxtonTX

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

Filmed this outside of Senate Majority Leader Thune’s office with the door wide open.

Made a promise that if Leader Thune did NOT pass the SAVE America Act by the end of April,

I would help DEFEAT Senator Cassidy & Senator Cornyn.

Making good on my promise.

[Rasmussen Reports @Rasmussen_Poll]

Update: Virginia vote totals observed GOING DOWN?

Virginia is more and more looking like a trap for Big Cheat

CC: @ParikhClay

[The Lone Raccoon @FSociety_1942]

VIRGINIA

OK, I am trying to organize my thoughts about yesterday's vote in Virginia. Here is my analysis from my capturing of the election night reporting data.

There was an "f-curve" at 8:59pm that was actually preceded by a near f-curve at 8:43. These 2 updates wiped away what had been a decent lead for "no redistricting". Interestingly, at 9:16 there was another big jump for "yes".

From my analysis, most of the votes from all 3 of these came from Fairfax County, one of Virginia's most reliable vote manufacturing hubs.

My old pet peeve, totals going down rather than up, was way too frequent. 23 counties had at least one case of "negative votes", including Chesterfield's whopping 71,903 deduction at 10:45 this morning (April 22). Augusta had a 11,968 deduction at 10:18. A whopping 13 counties had deductions in the SAME REPORT at 7:41PM on the 21st (for a total of 18,476). This is not acceptable and needs explained. (Other than, "well these numbers aren't official". They are official enough to show on the news.)

And, of course, the referendum was ultimately lost because of mail-in votes. About 10% of the total was mail-in, and about 73% were "yes". We have no way of knowing how many of these were real people casting a vote for themselves, but they added net 137,000 votes for "yes" and that is almost 50,000 more than the currently reported winning margin for "yes". (The same applies for the election of Commissar Spanberger)

In summary, a completely preventable train wreck. I hope that the Republican leaders in Virginia are now convinced that mail-in ballots and machine counting are not our friends. I also hope they start asking the hard questions of counties like Chesterfield.

It's going to be easiest to read this, shrug, and move on. Please don't. Please forward on, especially if you know people in Virginia. But the same thing will happen in every other state, eventually, if its not stopped.

You can see the raw data for yesterday's election at https://t.co/gbCFN6lnyk - select Virginia, unknown party, then statewide or whatever county you want to examine. I'm here if anyone has questions.