This is the fist bump everyone needs to be talking about.
Ted Cruz and fellow Republicans celebrating after blocking a bill to help toxin-exposed veterans survive.
We have NEVER seen a Democratic Secretary of Defense reprimanded for disrespecting the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Veterans Day, no less.
#DemsFightForVeteransCare
Trump and his entire administration is nothing more than cons, corruption and grifters. Notice how everyone else is making money except for hardworking Americans? 🤬 https://t.co/vVZANqX25B
BREAKING: LEADERSHIP! Sen. Chris Van Hollen demands that Congress REMOVE the borderline treasonous provisions in the defense bill that would entwine the U.S. military with Israel.
This man is one hell of a fighter...
"Today, I led 11 of my Senate colleagues in calling on House & Senate leadership to strip the upcoming defense bill of provisions that MANDATE defense & intelligence cooperation with Israel — including one advanced by Netanyahu himself," Van Hollen wrote on X.
He reshared a video from July in which he outlined the problems in detail—
"A little while ago, I got off the Senate floor, where I urged my colleagues to vote no tomorrow to advance the National Defense Authorization Bill," said the senator. "And I gave three reasons..."
"One, it's a bloated budget to a Pentagon that continues to fail to pass an audit. Number two, no restraints on Trump's illegal war against Iran, essentially giving a green light to that illegal war that's been disastrous for the American people."
"But there are two provisions that have gotten very little attention, that are kind of crawling through quietly. Both have to do with greater support to the government of Israel," Van Hollen explained. "One of them is a provision Netanyahu has taken credit for pushing, which would require more joint defense cooperation between the United States and Israel."
Netanyahu has indeed been pushing for this measure and it's easy to see why. The American people have soured on Israel as an ally thanks to the atrocities in Gaza. We don't want to see our tax dollars flowing overseas to kill innocent Palestinians. Recognizing that shifting opinions mean their blank check days are over, Israel wants to mutate America's support into a more opaque, yet no less lethal, form. They want to mandate a deep entanglement of our countries, using our national-security apparatus to secure their own interests.
"We know from our own experience that Israel has previously vetoed our ability to act in our own national security interests when we wanted to send some weapon systems to Ukraine that had been co-produced with Israel," said Van Hollen. "And Israel blocked us from doing it."
"Another provision requires, mandates, that the U.S. government share more intelligence with the government of Israel," he went on. "Look, we can share intelligence with the government of Israel or any other government when we want. Why would the United States Congress order the executive branch to share more intelligence, regardless of what the government of Israel is doing? Why would we be doing that? We shouldn't."
"It's not in our national security interests to do it. We can always choose, on a case-by-case basis, to do whatever we want. Let's not mandate it," he concluded.
We commend Senator Van Hollen for taking a stand on this issue. This country has suffered enough from Israel First politicians choosing that foreign country's priorities over what's best for Americans.
Van Hollen's name has been bubbling up amongst the Democratic base since the blue tsunami, with many calling for him to challenge Chuck Schumer for the Senate Majority Leadership. He says he “hasn’t shut the door" on the possibility.
What do you think?
Please ❤️ and share if you support Senator Van Hollen!
CNN: 11 Democrats missed Hegseth’s impeachment vote
OJEDA: I say shame on them for not showing up. They had an opportunity to finally get rid of this buffoonery that we have and they failed. So you know what? I think the 120th Congress, we'll take that up.
Some road work is easy to see.
A new lane. A smoother surface. A bridge repair.
Some of it shows up in what doesn’t happen: the crash avoided, the safer merge, the curve that’s easier to see at night, the backup that doesn’t turn dangerous.
That’s the real value of road funding. It helps get people home. Maintain the Miracle! https://t.co/BJF1kFfPcK
Today, on Remembrance Day, we pause to honour and remember the courage, sacrifice and service of those who served and those who continue to serve.
We remember the lives lost, the families forever changed, and the importance of carrying their stories forward.
Lest we forget. ❤️
#alwaysremembered #lestweforget
Racism Is Alive and Well in Mississippi: They're Trying to Steal a Senate Seat From a Black Man
This is naked voter suppression dressed up as "election integrity." Thousands of Mississippians are being screwed out of their votes right now because the state's Republican secretary of state deliberately used sloppy commercial credit data to purge the rolls — and the mess is landing hardest in a race where a Black Democrat is beating a Republican incumbent.
Scott Colom is narrowly ahead of Cindy Hyde-Smith. That lead is under attack because large numbers of voters were forced onto provisional (affidavit) ballots after their names vanished from the poll books. Both campaigns admit thousands of people were hit. CNN has the receipts.
Andrew Couch is one of the casualties. He'd voted at the same polling place in the last two elections without a problem. On Election Day he was told he was registered in a county he hadn’t lived in for six years. On Monday he was informed his ballot is dead. His reaction: "I'm very upset. If people lose faith in the process… it's going to hurt voter turnout in the future." That's the point.
Secretary of State Michael Watson signed off on using Experian credit data to flag "moved" voters. The result: more than 230,000 people — roughly 1 in 9 registered voters statewide — were dumped into inactive status and left off the poll books before Election Day (Mississippi Today). In a state where over 9 percent of residents are unbanked, this data was always going to be garbage. Experian itself has run away from the whole thing, telling CNN its product "was not designed or intended to validate voter records" and that it stopped working with the state in early 2025.
This isn’t some innocent clerical error. It's the same old Mississippi playbook: make it harder for certain people to vote when the outcome looks like it might go the wrong way. A Black man is on the verge of winning a Senate seat the state hasn't handed to a Democrat in decades, and suddenly the rolls are a disaster. This is Republican racism in action.
Democrat Chuck Hubbard has increased his lead over incumbent House Republican Virginia Foxx in North Carolina from 99 votes to 325 votes.
Let’s go, Chuck!
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