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[Anna Matson @AnnaRMatson]

I drove all around Massie’s district for 3 days and only saw two Ed signs in people’s yards. The rest were all at intersections where his campaign put them.

Massie, on the other hand, had multiple signs in yards on every street I went down.

[Andy Beshear @AndyBeshearKY]

Thomas Massie and I don’t agree on much.

But billionaires and special interest groups spent $35 million in Kentucky to unseat one conservative congressman — all because he stood up to Trump.

It’s everything that's wrong with our politics today.

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

God bless Thomas Massie.

He walks out of this with his honor intact. He’s a patriot & kept his integrity.

As long as the voters give their votes to whoever can run the most ads we will have politicians who are purchased by foreign governments & corporate interests.

[The Constitutionalist 🇺🇸 @WeWillBeFree24]

If you voted for Gallrein because Trump told you so, you're everything that is wrong with this country.

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

This is exactly what guys like John Boehner and Paul Ryan used to say.

It was a false proposition then, and it’s false now.

A member of Congress’s team should be the American people. It’s those they represent, not a political party or a man.

And the partisans in Washington consistently work together against the interests of Americans everywhere.

The war isn’t between Republicans and Democrats. It’s between those who love liberty and those who love power.

MAGA, Inc., is just the same old political establishment—but now they use Trump as a shield for violating your rights and abandoning the Constitution.

[Liam McCollum @MLiamMcCollum]

Before my generation even cared about Donald Trump politically, we were watching Thomas Massie and Ron Paul clips on YouTube, like this one from 2015, where Thomas Massie voted to force a debate on Obama sending troops to Iraq and Syria

The reality is that they hate Massie because he has a longer track record of being more consistent and more America First than they are

This also explains the generational divide on Massie, because younger generations have been able to track these votes with new media while everyone else was waiting to hear what Sean Hannity had to say about him

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

I can't think of a more glaring and revealing political irony than a politician who called his ideology "America First" proudly *boasting* that he's far more popular in Israel than in his own country: in fact, so popular there that he could be elected Prime Minister of Israel.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

AIPAC spent $9 million to take out Rep. Thomas Massie.

Trump megadonors spent another $7 million.

It was the most ever spent on a House primary race—all because he defied Trump on Gaza and Epstein.

NO, billionaire super PACs should not buy our elections. One person, one vote.

[Anna Matson @AnnaRMatson]

Thomas Massie: “For years I’ve been standing up for the Second Amendment, the First Amendment, the Fourth Amendment, the Fifth Amendment, the Tenth Amendment…

I just realized the Seventh Amendment is under attack!”

“The Seventh Amendment is your right to a jury trial.

They’ve taken it away for vaccines. If you get hurt, you can’t sue for vaccines. They’re trying to take it away for pesticides. They’re trying to take it away for these data centers.

NO!”

[Tom Woods @ThomasEWoods]

The Boomers of Kentucky embarrassed the United States on the world stage today.

Around the world, people genuinely wondered: can an American politician survive who doesn't repeat low-IQ platitudes about Israel and the Middle East?

The Boomers -- with their heterodox Christianity and FOX News propaganda -- gave their answer.

Republican politics is dominated by people who for some reason still think Sean Hannity is a smart guy, and Mark Levin is a constitutional scholar.

Pat Buchanan had given them the example of the learned and articulate right-winger -- and Pat was well to the right of Hannity and Levin -- but they decided to go with Tomi Lahren and Dan Bongino instead.

Oh, Massie voted this way or that, people will say, and that's why he was targeted in this unprecedented way. Yet there's Donald Trump out there campaigning for pro-amnesty Mike Lawler. So I don't believe you that this is a question of Massie's voting record (which is stellar, by the way).

Even if Massie had had a handful of objectionable votes, a million times more important than any Massie vote is this principle:

A patriot who values his country's sovereignty cannot allow three socially leftist billionaires who represent a foreign interest to buy a congressional seat and place a ridiculous empty suit in it.

Even if for some reason you don't like Massie, you as a patriot would have to dislike THAT a hundred times more.

These three billionaires never once set foot in Kentucky -- Kentuckians, to them, are lower than dirt, and exist solely to have congressional seats bought from them.

Put up a nonentity like "Ed Gallrein" who refuses to debate (how can any voter reward that?), have him utter a few Boomer slogans to satisfy the rubes, and otherwise hide him away. That was the strategy. Boomers (yes, I know there are exceptions) are too morally and intellectually corrupt even to understand what just happened.

But the rest of us understand.

Can you imagine "Ed Gallrein" leading the charge against the Covid restrictions? He would have been first in line for the damn "vaccine"!

Remember, too, that the folks who voted for "Ed Gallrein" tonight are the kind of people who think Marco Rubio is an impressive person, so there was no reaching them.

But the younger generations, who don't get their information from the insulting caricature of conservatism that is FOX News, aren't going to fall for the nonsense that snookered the Boomers -- and therein lies hope.

Incidentally, the easiest thing in the world would have been for Massie to buckle. Nobody reading this has the remotest idea the pressure that was brought to bear against him. Not one of his detractors could have lasted a week in Massie's shoes.

If Trump can sup in happy concord with Zohran Mamdani, the radical leftist mayor of New York, you'd think he could have spared a meal with Massie, whose track record proved he was not Trump's enemy.

Not that you'd know it from the anti-Massie brigade (half of whom used to love Massie before they were instructed not to love him), Massie defended Trump through two impeachments, grilled Merrick Garland over FBI assets on January 6, and defended Trump during Russiagate. By contrast, "Ed Gallrein" left the GOP when Trump was elected, and came back only when Biden was in office.

But since we're not completely dense, we know the real reason Massie could not be tolerated.

As Glenn Greenwald put it, "If the AIPAC/Adelson crowd wants someone out of Congress for disloyalty to Israel, they will be out of Congress.

"There are a few exceptions due to unusual districts, but not many. The Israel Lobby has unlimited funding and will spend limitlessly to expunge the blasphemous."

I repeat that no American patriot can tolerate, much less celebrate, this grotesque and demeaning situation.

The polls show that this situation won't exist forever. We will reach a point at which the foreign money (and that's obviously what it is) will at last be a mark of shame for the candidate receiving it. That will be a great day for American patriots everywhere.

Thomas Massie should hold his head high: he stood up against the machine time and again, knowing that it could one day lead to this.

Tonight we have to explain to our kids: in this world, the good guys don't always win. But you fight regardless of the prospects of winning. The fight for what is good and right is an end in itself.

For that reason, people will remember the Thomas Massies and the Ron Pauls. Nobody will remember "Ed Gallrein," not even as the answer to a trivia question.

[Jack Hunter @jackhunter74]

Thomas Massie is exactly the kind of citizen-leader the Founders envisioned.

The man who beat him is purely a creature of foreign interests, exactly what George Washington warned about in his farewell address.

Happy 250th.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

@tedcruz I proudly stood in the way of your AI-data center amendment to the Big Beautiful Bill that would have given those companies immunity from the law. In fact, @mtgreenee and I got it stripped from the bill. Did your big tech cronies still let you cash their checks after you failed?

[RyanMatta 🇺🇸 🦅 @Ryanmatta]

Ed Gallrein increase the voter turnout, in his race against the incumbent “Thomas Massie” by 356%. This has never once happened in any primary election in U.S. history going back to the 1970.

Total voter turnout out in a primary increased by over 100%. Going from 52,593 in 2024 to 105,361 in 2026. This has also never once happened in a primary election since 1970.

Thomas Massie lost by 10,280 ish votes. Ed Gallrein received 10,854 mail in votes yesterday.

Ed also received over 57,000 votes and he could get 100 people to show up to a victory party?

If you found any other anomalies please make a video, explain what you found, and share your research in the comments below.

[Eric Spracklen 🇺🇸 @EricSpracklen]

Hey @grok, if Thomas Massie has 1,545 donors in Kentucky, how many did Ed Gallrein have? Be concise.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

NEW: Oklahoma high school principal seen charging at and disarming a school shooter in footage obtained by @SHumphreyTV.

Pauls Valley High School Principal Kirk Moore is being called a hero after getting shot while stopping a school shooter.

The suspect, identified as 20-year-old Victor Hawkins, was a former student who said he wanted to shoot up the school “like the Columbine shooters did.”

While taking down the shooter, Moore was shot in the leg. He is expected to recover and says he is looking forward to returning to work as soon as possible.

"I look forward to returning to work as soon as possible so that I may continue my life’s work educating the next generation of Oklahoma leaders. Until then, my thoughts are with our outstanding students, safe today in the arms of their families and friends," he said.

Hero!

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Rand Paul just did the math on the border wall live on the Senate floor.

$6-8 million per mile.

1,000 miles needed.

Total cost: $6-8 billion.

They asked for $45 billion.

That’s $37 billion unaccounted for.

This is the same administration sealing the Epstein files.

Hiding wounded soldiers from their families.

Lying about dead schoolgirls.

Launching a war on “a feeling.”

And now $37 billion in border wall funding nobody can explain.

Where did it go?

Rand Paul wants an answer.

So do you.

[Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul]

America spends more on its military than any other country, four times more than China. Our defense budget isn’t inadequate; it’s massive. Proposing a 50% increase, another $50 billion, ignores reality: war isn’t free, in lives or in dollars. We’re already drowning in debt. The real threat isn’t foreign soldiers on our soil—it’s the debt being piled up by the military industrial complex and the big spenders in Washington.

[Clint Russell @LibertyLockPod]

Consider this. Donald Trump is headed to Kentucky tomorrow to Endorse Massie's opponent. Massie's opponent is a hard-core never Trumper. But Massie forced the Epstein file release so Trump is going to endorse the guy who left the GOP because of him

Let that sink in for a minute.

[Thomas Massie for Congress @MassieforKY]

I voted to release records of Congressional sexual misconduct.

Woke Eddie promises to always vote with the party, which means he would have been among the 357 who voted against it.

I want to drain the Swamp. Ed wants in because he thinks it’s a hot tub.
https://t.co/AgJY01IWPL

[Acyn @Acyn]

Neguse: Where is this company headquartered?

Noem: I don’t know.

Neguse: I don’t know either. We can’t find it. We did find an address that’s registered to a political operative. This company that received 143 million dollars was incorporated 8 days before this contract went out.

You want the American people to believe that this is all above board, that $143 million of taxpayer money just happened to go to this one company that doesn't have a headquarters, doesn't have a website, has never done work for the federal government before and is registered apparently or attached to a residence from a political operative, and of course one of the subcontractors of that contract, as you know, is a political firm that's tied to, to you back when you were governor of South Dakota?