Walter Smoloski

Comms @HouseAdmin + @RepBryanSteil | Fmr @RepRileyMoore @TeamATHOS @RepAndyHarrisMD | Lover of @CorinneHDay, football, & the great outdoors.

RUN THE DAMN BALL

[House Admin. Committee GOP @HouseAdmin]

🚨 BONUS 🚨

Chairman @Jim_Jordan and @RepJamesComer will participate in tomorrow’s hearing with @actblue’s CEO.

Tune in at 10AM!

[House Admin. Committee GOP @HouseAdmin]

🚨 ActBlue News 🚨

Yesterday, attorneys for CEO Regina Wallace-Jones requested a subpoena for her attendance at tomorrow's hearing.

Chairman @RepBryanSteil has officially issued one ⬇️ and tomorrow's hearing is STILL ON for 10AM ET: https://t.co/QYYOmOBbtg

[Emily Brooks @emilybrooksnews]

News: House Administration Cmte Chair Bryan Steil sent a subpoena to ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones ahead of hearing tmrw. Letter says she originally voluntarily agreed to testify but attorney requested subpoena.

ALSO, panel plans to waive on Judiciary & Oversight Chairs JIM JORDAN and JAMES COMER for questioning in hearing.

[The Federalist @FDRLST]

CEO Of Dems’ Troubled Fundraising Platform Set To Testify On Capitol Hill
https://t.co/5xBjsPlLGo

[Emily Brooks @emilybrooksnews]

House just passed a bill to make the Librarian of Congress and director of the Government Publishing Office appointed by Congress rather than the president

It would also move the U.S. Copyright Office from the supervision of the Library of Congress, putting it under executive supervision

[House Admin. Committee GOP @HouseAdmin]

TOMORROW is the deadline for answers from the Maryland Election Administrator.

This ⬇️ does NOT instill confidence in our elections.

[Tim Meads 🇺🇸 @TimMeadsUSA]

“Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.” - John Adams

[Bryan Steil @RepBryanSteil]

✅ Increase campaign finance transparency
✅ Credit card donations must match donor
✅ Require CVVs for donations
✅ Prevent potential smurfing

My bill modernizes our campaign finance system for the digital age.

[Secretary Doug Burgum @SecretaryBurgum]

Get ready, Patriots!

One month until the 4th of July!

[Republican Study Committee @RepublicanStudy]

🚨 90% of Americans support election integrity because it's COMMON SENSE.

The SAVE America Act requires proof of citizenship to register to vote and ensures ONLY American citizens are deciding American elections.

We have talked about this long enough. It is time to pass it.

[Maeve Sheehey @MaeveSheehey]

The House Administration Committee’s top Republican is working to add restrictions on lawmakers using prediction markets to the panel’s signature stock ban bill and pass it this summer. For @bgov: https://t.co/Nkj7BQdKxO

[Bryan Steil @RepBryanSteil]

All ballots should be in by the close of polls, but that’s not how it works in California. I saw the process firsthand at LA Central Count in 2024.

The state actually accepts ballots up to A WEEK after Election Day 🤯

We should fix this. Pass the MEGA Act!

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

The richest man in America signed a document that could have gotten him hanged, and when someone sneered that he was safe because no one would know which Charles Carroll to come for, he picked up the pen and told the British exactly where to find him.

His name was Charles Carroll, and the colonies were crawling with men who shared it. His own father was Charles Carroll of Annapolis. So when the Declaration of Independence came to him for signing in 1776, a delegate made a cruel little joke. He said Carroll risked nothing by signing. There were so many Charles Carrolls that the King's men would never know which one to hang.

Carroll didn't argue. He leaned over the page and added three words to his signature: "of Carrollton." The name of his estate. His address. He was the only signer in the entire room who wrote down where he lived, and he did it on purpose, so that if the British wanted to come hang the traitor, they would know exactly which door to knock on.

That is who Charles Carroll of Carrollton was.

Here is what makes the moment even sharper. He was not a man with little to lose. He was the single wealthiest man in the thirteen colonies and the largest private landowner among them. While George Washington and John Hancock get talked about as rich men, it was Carroll who topped them all. When he signed, he was wagering the biggest personal fortune in America against a noose.

And he was the last man anyone would have expected to be there at all. Carroll was Catholic. In colonial Maryland, a colony founded as a Catholic refuge that had since turned on its own, Catholics could not vote. They could not hold public office. They could not worship in public. The most educated, wealthiest man in America was, in the eyes of the law, a second-class subject barred from the very government he was helping to create. He had spent seventeen years being educated by Jesuits in France and spoke five languages fluently, and back home he still could not legally cast a ballot.

So he became the only Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence, putting his name on a revolution that he hoped would build a country with room for men like him. That was its own enormous bet, made by a man the existing system had already shut out.

Then he simply outlived everyone.

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on the same astonishing day, July 4, 1826, exactly fifty years after the Declaration. When they were gone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton was the last living signer left on earth. For six more years he was the final human link to that room in Philadelphia, the last hand that had signed, a living relic of the founding that ordinary Americans traveled to see and shake.

He finally died in November 1832 at the age of ninety-five, fifty-six years after he wrote his address on a treason document and dared the empire to come find him.

The richest man in America. The only Catholic. The last one standing. He had more to lose than any of them, every legal reason to stay quiet, and he signed his full address anyway.

We remember the names we were handed in school. We forget the man who made sure his couldn't be mistaken for anyone else's.

Which Founding Father do you think history shortchanged the most?

[Fox News Politics @foxnewspolitics]

FIRST ON FOX: Three House committee chairs demand interviews with five ActBlue board members over allegations the Democratic fundraising giant misled Congress about its foreign donation screening practices.

The board members have until June 16 to voluntarily comply.

[Bryan Steil @RepBryanSteil]

🚨 ACTBLUE NEWS 🚨

@Jim_Jordan @RepJamesComer and I just requested documents and transcribed interviews with five members of ActBlue's Board of Directors.

We will continue to seek the truth.

[Matthew Foldi @MatthewFoldi]

INBOX:

Chairmen of @HouseAdmin, @JudiciaryGOP, and @GOPoversight, @RepBryanSteil, @Jim_Jordan, and @RepJamesComer Request Documents and Transcribed Interviews with Five ActBlue Board Members

[Bryan Steil @RepBryanSteil]

UNACCEPTABLE: We must secure our campaign finance system.

[Bryan Steil @RepBryanSteil]

It's past time ActBlue's CEO faced tough questions over the platform’s weak fraud prevention standards. 

On June 10th, we'll set the record straight. Tune in!

[House Admin. Committee GOP @HouseAdmin]

It’s Fun Fact Friday!

This week in 1976, Great Britain gifted the United States with a gold-embossed reproduction of the Magna Carta in honor of the bicentennial. Visit the crypt of the Capitol to see it today ⬇️

https://t.co/CMYWb20lDZ

[House Admin. Committee GOP @HouseAdmin]

"What precautions did you have in place to prevent this type of an error?"

WATCH @RepMGriffith on the Maryland mail-in ballot fiasco ⬇️