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.
This doesn’t make us safer, see why ⬇️
At some point, we have to talk about @CookPolitical and other “prognosticators” who had me and other southern candidates labeled as solid R for much of the campaign cycle. They made it much more difficult to fundraise and are part of the reason the South has been neglected for so long.
They’re only a reflection of the past and mysteriously avoid any accountability when they’re wrong. One of their “analysts” was extremely condescending to me (not Jessica) when I tried to make my pitch for why they were wrong about my rating like he knew something about MS politics when he’s never been to the Sip. This attitude hurt Jaime Davis & others so much.
Incoming Rep. Don Leonard says top House Democrats have threatened to “make [his] life a living hell” and cost him re-election if he continues attaching conditions to his support for Hakeem Jeffries for speaker.
His conditions: 1) a vote on an amendment to end Citizens United and 2) “end U.S. support for the war in Iran and the country, Israel, that led us into it.”
He says Jeffries is refusing to meet with him and the threats are like something “out of a movie.”
@yemisi Liberty University is not sending their best I'm afraid.
@yemisi and the rest of the third way troglodytes are struggling to gracefully accept their newly minted irrelevance.
Matan Kahana is about to become Speaker of Israel's Knesset. Gadi Eisenkot's bloc picked him this week. This is what he has said about Arabs and Palestinians"
1) In June 2022 he was a deputy minister. He told high school students in Efrat (a settlement): "If there were a button you could press that would make all the Arabs here disappear... I would press that button."
2) In the same talk he called the Palestinian account of 1948 "nonsense." His apology was for an "unsuccessful choice of words." He never took back the wish.
3) A month before that, he wrote about a dream in which "all the Arabs decided one morning to emigrate to Switzerland."
4) In July 2021 he backed the law that bars Palestinian spouses of Israelis from citizenship. He said whoever votes against it "wants to flood Israel with thousands of Palestinians."
4) In December 2020 he wrote that "it is madness to legislate the equality law."
5) During the May 2021 unrest in Lod he wrote that the police should "protect the Jews from Arab rioters" instead of separating the sides.
6) In February 2021 he called the Arab MKs Heba Yazbak, Sami Abu Shehadeh and Mansour Abbas "supporters of terror" who have "no place in the Knesset."
7) In 2025, asked about the bid to expel MK Ayman Odeh, he said: "We must not build on Arab seats." On election night, October 28, 2026, he repeated that there would be no government that relies on Arab parties.
8) In September 2022 he said Ben-Gvir "loves the State of Israel." In the same breath he called the Arab party Balad "full-on terror supporters."
9) In February 2025 Trump proposed moving Gaza's population out. A radio host called it forced transfer. Kahana answered that it was "voluntary emigration" and said "we need to embrace this solution."
10) The day after, he called humanitarian aid to Gaza "aid to murderers."
This is the man the bloc that ran against Netanyahu chose to preside over Israel's parliament, including over its Arab members. He is an unrepentant racist and will lead the Knesset despite that.