To secure a bright and healthy future for the next generation, we cannot afford to tear down the very safeguards that keep pollution and energy waste in check. Rolling back the environmental gains that took decades of work is not policy, it is theft. It steals cleaner air, safer water, and a livable world from the children who will inherit what we leave behind.
"Original bill" with zero amendments to address concerns about it. This is why it will not pass.
We need to fire all of you. If you cannot negotiate and fix issues with the bill, then you are not doing your jobs as elected officials.
I’m giving Democrats one more chance to support the popular SAVE America Act—the original bill passed by our colleagues in the House.
This time, I expect a majority of the Senate to vote for secure elections.
Can a mere handful of Democrats stand with us?
Ten? Five?
One?
There is no valid reason to refuse REAL debate over the SAVE Act issues.
There is no valid reason to ignore the concerns being raised about it.
There is no valid reason why Election Day as a national holiday should not be part of this conversation if the stated goal is genuinely to improve American elections.
If you want stronger proof of citizenship requirements, then negotiate the safeguards that keep eligible citizens from being blocked by bureaucracy. That is exactly why concerns about access to documents, name mismatches, rural access, and administrative errors have to be addressed directly.
So where are the amendments? Tell everyone why you oppose addressing concerns.
Where is the pathway for citizens whose documents do not neatly match their current legal identity, including married women whose names changed, trans people whose records may not match, naturalized citizens, elderly voters, and people who have had to replace old records?
Where is the push to improve REAL ID, universally add citizenship markers to driver's licenses or state IDs, expand enhanced ID access, or create a secure verification system that helps eligible citizens comply instead of trapping them in paperwork?
Where is the demand to make Election Day a national holiday so working people are not punished for having jobs? If this is really about election integrity and not voter suppression, then prove that every eligible citizen's voice matters, not just the ones most convenient for your party.
"Make it easy to vote and hard to cheat" is a fine slogan.
Now do the work required to make it true.
Debate the bill. Amend the bill. Negotiate like Congress is supposed to negotiate.
Otherwise, stop pretending the only objection is that people want cheating. That is not an argument. That is a dodge.
There’s NO valid argument against the SAVE America Act.
My bill would make it easy to vote.
And hard to cheat.
As soon as DHS is fully funded (as it should be within 48 hours), the Senate should resume consideration of it—and stay on the bill until it passes.
Pass it on.
@Ask_Spectrum I have a business client that they have not been able to get their lines transferred in a week and were told that they could not even forward their old numbers to a phone because, and I quote "Only some guy in a basement in middle America can do this"
They are asking us to come out and move their phones from their new building to their old building so they can at least get calls.
Someone needs to do something. This is unacceptable. What number can they call to get this done?
For reference, when they log into their spectrum portal to forward their lines themselves, they get an error message.
They cannot do business without their lines.
Trump’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on the Trump administration’s plans for a new $250 bill featuring Donald Trump:
“At present, no living person can be on U.S. currency…So right now, there’s proposed legislation in front of the house, in front of the senate, to change the first requirement so that a living person, Donald J. Trump, could be on the $250 bill. So it’s all in the hands of, it’s all up on Capitol Hill. So, at treasury, we prepare things in advance”
The idea that this "realigns" the state's representation to match reality is absurd.
These Republicans already ran in these districts and lost. The voters in those areas already made their choice. Redrawing the map after the fact so those voters get absorbed into districts designed to overpower them is not representation. It is a workaround for losing.
This fundamentally bypasses the will of the voters in those communities. Their voices are not being honored. They are being diluted, buried, and politically neutralized.
This is not about making the map more accurate. It is about changing the rules after voters already said no.
My recommendation? Democrats, independents, and people who feel politically homeless should seriously consider banding together behind strong independent candidates in the newly combined districts. That may be the best chance to depoliticize representation and break the two-party map-rigging game entirely.
Because if the goal is to silence voters by cracking them apart and stuffing them into "safe" districts, the answer should be to make those districts unsafe for partisan control.
What do you think, @Fwd_Party?
🚨 BREAKING: The Louisiana House has PASSED the state’s updated Congressional maps, REMOVING a Democrat district, making it 5R-1D
The vote was OVERWHELMINGLY in Republican favor at 66-35.
LFG! We’re ON TRACK to have this map implemented by the 2026 midterms! 🔥
On to the Louisiana Senate, and then to the Governor’s desk 🇺🇸
Donald Trump does not get to rewrite election law by executive order.
That is the issue.
We have a process for passing laws in this country. If Congress wants to change federal election rules, then Congress can debate it, vote on it, and pass legislation. If states are responsible for administering elections, then states follow their own lawful processes.
The president does not get to skip all of that with a signature and a photo op.
If Biden had signed an executive order expanding mail-in voting nationwide, the same people cheering this would be screaming about federal overreach, executive tyranny, and the Constitution by sunrise.
So let's stop pretending this is about "election integrity."
It is about whether the law matters only when your side is not the one trying to bypass it.
Citizenship requirements already exist. Election law already has procedures. What Trump wants is not lawful process. It is presidential control over elections, and no one who claims to care about constitutional government should be cheering that on.
🚨 JUST IN: A federal judge has REFUSED to strike down President Trump's executive order that requires citizenship to vote and secures mail-in voting
GOOD! Keep it that way! 🔥
Why would Democrats SUE to let illegals vote?
The judge noted that the main reason for denying Democrats' request is that no hard enforcement action has been taken yet.
That's likely to change as we get closer to the election.
Democrats will NOT give up cheating. This has to win in court!
"Not even debatable" is always funny when the argument is just recycled right-wing economics pretending to be settled history.
FDR was not perfect, but acting like the man who led the country through economic collapse and WWII is the constitutional villain while openly backing a movement built around ignoring courts, threatening judges, attacking the press, and treating executive power like a personal weapon is peak selective outrage.
You do not get to clutch pearls over "separation of powers" only when the president had a D next to his name.
FDR dangerously undermined the Constitution by deliberately weakening the Constitution’s twin structural protections: federalism and separation of powers
Calling him the GOAT president is blasphemy
Update.
Some added backstory, because this makes the situation even more absurd.
He originally went to a local hospital, where they recognized this was an urgent medical situation. It was serious enough that they flew him to another hospital for care.
Let that sink in.
This was not treated like a minor tooth problem. This was not treated like something he could casually follow up on later. One hospital saw the severity of what was happening and had him medically transported because the infection was urgent and dangerous.
Now the very hospital he was flown to is reportedly trying to stabilize him with antibiotics and discharge him because he is somehow not considered "bad enough" for continued inpatient treatment.
It is a private hospital.... Go figure.
We are talking about a tooth abscess that progressed into necrotizing fasciitis, a rapidly destructive flesh-eating infection, and osteomyelitis, an infection that has reached the bone. Doctors have reportedly given him roughly a 50/50 chance of surviving this.
Yet somehow, the system already seems focused on how quickly he can be moved out the door.
When healthcare is locked behind insurance, money, and billing incentives, the question stops being "what does this patient fully need?" and starts becoming "what is the least we can do before he becomes someone else's problem?"
He is the primary caregiver for his mother. He has always tried to help others, and now his friends are trying to figure out how to help him, how to help his mom while he is out of commission, and how to navigate a medical nightmare that never should have reached this point.
Right now he urgently needs an oral surgeon willing to work with him on a payment plan.
We are in Central Florida. If anyone in the region knows an oral surgeon, dental specialist, patient advocate, charity clinic, nonprofit, legal aid contact, social worker, caregiver resource, or anyone else who may be able to help us navigate this, please reach out.
A man with a potentially deadly flesh-eating infection should not need friends scrambling to find someone willing to take payments so he can continue receiving care.
No one should be fighting for their life over a tooth infection in 2026.
This is not a healthcare system designed around human well-being.
This is managed abandonment behind a paywall.
One of my friends is currently in the hospital because a tooth abscess turned into what is called necrotizing fasciitis and now osteomyelitis.
To put that in plain English: an infection that started in his tooth spread into the surrounding tissue, became a rapidly destructive flesh-eating infection, and then reached the bone.
This is not "just a bad toothache."
This is life-threatening.
Doctors have reportedly given him roughly a 50/50 chance of surviving.
Now ask yourself how something this horrific even happens in one of the wealthiest countries on Earth.
Not because modern medicine failed.
Not because doctors lacked the ability to treat it early.
Not because this condition was unavoidable.
Because healthcare and dental care in the United States are locked behind a financial paywall.
This is the reality people keep trying to sanitize or ignore. Americans are constantly told to seek preventative care while living in a system where prevention itself is treated like a luxury. Routine dental visits, antibiotics, imaging, emergency visits, specialist appointments, prescriptions, insurance deductibles, copays, out-of-network costs. Every step comes with another financial barrier standing between people and treatment.
So people wait... People grit their teeth and bare through the pain, hoping they can recover on their own.
They wait because they are scared of the bill.
They wait because insurance either does not exist or barely covers what they need.
They wait because one appointment can spiral into debt they cannot realistically absorb.
They wait, even if they might have insurance, because things like dental care is treated like some optional add-on instead of an essential part of healthcare.
What's sickening is politicians choose not to fix the issue and act shocked when preventable infections become medical catastrophes.
Healthcare needs to be comprehensive. The human body does not separate "medical" and "dental" problems the way insurance companies do. An infection in your mouth does not magically stop because an accountant decided teeth belong in a different coverage category. It spreads. It reaches tissue. It reaches blood. It reaches bone. It becomes deadly.
What makes this even more infuriating is that this outcome was likely preventable with relatively basic early intervention. A country with some of the most advanced medical technology in the world still allows people to deteriorate to this point because access to care is rationed through money first and humanity second.
That is backwards and barbaric.
People love talking about freedom in this country, but there is nothing free about being trapped in a system where your ability to survive depends on whether you can afford access to treatment early enough. There is nothing civilized about allowing people to gamble with infections because they are terrified of financial ruin.
Meanwhile....
Insurance companies post record profits.
Pharmaceutical companies post record profits.
Hospital executives collect massive salaries.
Politicians argue endlessly on television while ordinary people sit at home hoping pain will somehow go away before it bankrupts them. Burries them in crippling debt
This is not a country that puts the well-being of our citizens first. This is not a healthcare system designed around human well-being.
It is a monetization system built around extracting profit from suffering.
What makes this even darker is that if he survives, and yes, that is an if because this infection is that serious, he will likely wake up to another nightmare waiting for him.... The bill.
ICU care.
Surgeries.
Specialists.
Imaging.
Long-term antibiotics.
Rehabilitation.
Follow-up treatment.
Even after surviving a flesh-eating infection and bone infection that never should have progressed this far, he may still spend years buried under medical debt because healthcare in America is treated like a privilege you purchase instead of a basic human necessity. This is further exacerbated because of the
the loss of work and income while he's recovering...
No one should be fighting for their life over a tooth infection in this country.
Yet here we are...
One of my friends is currently in the hospital because a tooth abscess turned into what is called necrotizing fasciitis and now osteomyelitis.
To put that in plain English: an infection that started in his tooth spread into the surrounding tissue, became a rapidly destructive flesh-eating infection, and then reached the bone.
This is not "just a bad toothache."
This is life-threatening.
Doctors have reportedly given him roughly a 50/50 chance of surviving.
Now ask yourself how something this horrific even happens in one of the wealthiest countries on Earth.
Not because modern medicine failed.
Not because doctors lacked the ability to treat it early.
Not because this condition was unavoidable.
Because healthcare and dental care in the United States are locked behind a financial paywall.
This is the reality people keep trying to sanitize or ignore. Americans are constantly told to seek preventative care while living in a system where prevention itself is treated like a luxury. Routine dental visits, antibiotics, imaging, emergency visits, specialist appointments, prescriptions, insurance deductibles, copays, out-of-network costs. Every step comes with another financial barrier standing between people and treatment.
So people wait... People grit their teeth and bare through the pain, hoping they can recover on their own.
They wait because they are scared of the bill.
They wait because insurance either does not exist or barely covers what they need.
They wait because one appointment can spiral into debt they cannot realistically absorb.
They wait, even if they might have insurance, because things like dental care is treated like some optional add-on instead of an essential part of healthcare.
What's sickening is politicians choose not to fix the issue and act shocked when preventable infections become medical catastrophes.
Healthcare needs to be comprehensive. The human body does not separate "medical" and "dental" problems the way insurance companies do. An infection in your mouth does not magically stop because an accountant decided teeth belong in a different coverage category. It spreads. It reaches tissue. It reaches blood. It reaches bone. It becomes deadly.
What makes this even more infuriating is that this outcome was likely preventable with relatively basic early intervention. A country with some of the most advanced medical technology in the world still allows people to deteriorate to this point because access to care is rationed through money first and humanity second.
That is backwards and barbaric.
People love talking about freedom in this country, but there is nothing free about being trapped in a system where your ability to survive depends on whether you can afford access to treatment early enough. There is nothing civilized about allowing people to gamble with infections because they are terrified of financial ruin.
Meanwhile....
Insurance companies post record profits.
Pharmaceutical companies post record profits.
Hospital executives collect massive salaries.
Politicians argue endlessly on television while ordinary people sit at home hoping pain will somehow go away before it bankrupts them. Burries them in crippling debt
This is not a country that puts the well-being of our citizens first. This is not a healthcare system designed around human well-being.
It is a monetization system built around extracting profit from suffering.
What makes this even darker is that if he survives, and yes, that is an if because this infection is that serious, he will likely wake up to another nightmare waiting for him.... The bill.
ICU care.
Surgeries.
Specialists.
Imaging.
Long-term antibiotics.
Rehabilitation.
Follow-up treatment.
Even after surviving a flesh-eating infection and bone infection that never should have progressed this far, he may still spend years buried under medical debt because healthcare in America is treated like a privilege you purchase instead of a basic human necessity. This is further exacerbated because of the
the loss of work and income while he's recovering...
No one should be fighting for their life over a tooth infection in this country.
Yet here we are...