The Grand Wazoo

How INSANE is this: trump wants to give money -- OUR MONEY -- to the millionaires and billionaires in United Arab Emirates. First $40 billion to Argentina, now this. That's not America first, is it?

I fully condemn the hateful rhetoric, lies, cruel and deliberate misinformation, and threats that my family, my staff, and I have been subjected to since the Iran War began nearly 8 weeks ago. These coordinated attacks and threats have only continued to worsen, most recently after I introduced Articles of Impeachment against Pete Hegseth. This conduct has crossed the line into threats to our physical safety, which we have reported to law enforcement. Bad actors have tried to smear my family and staff by circulating fake and AI-generated images and flat-out lying that my parents and I are not U.S. citizens. They have pushed xenophobic and sexist attacks and amplified absurd conspiracy theories about my family. They’ve even gone so far as to spread the outright lie that I am somehow tied to the regime. I will say this once and move on: these absurd allegations are entirely false and I denounce them in the strongest terms. These attacks aren’t about truth; they’re the product of desperation from those trying to distract from a failing, illegal war, rising costs of living, and an administration with no coherent strategy while Americans pay the price at the pump. And while they spread lies, American service members are being put in harm’s way, with real casualties mounting in a war that lacks both justification and direction. Let me reiterate, once again, that I have been unequivocal in my opposition to the brutal Islamic Republic regime, its repression of women, and its support for terrorism. My record on this issue is longstanding and crystal clear. My family has personally experienced the regime’s brutality.  It is in part why I am who I am today: A proud American speaking out for human rights and democracy, the rule of law, and, as a U.S. Congresswoman, the safety and security of Americans. It is also why I know the costs of freedom and stand firm against Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth’s illegal war. As a public figure, I fully expect public criticism and wholly respect Americans' constitutional First Amendment rights to free speech. I understand the high emotions during such a tenuous time for those who have family in both Iran and the United States. But I will not tolerate direct threats levied against my loved ones and staff who did not sign up for the public spotlight. I also won’t be silent as they are targeted, doxxed, and attacked online. This has not been a good-faith policy debate. It is a coordinated effort to smear, intimidate, and silence, and it will not succeed.   My duty is clear: to uphold the Constitution of the United States and to faithfully serve the people of Arizona’s 3rd Congressional District. It is the honor of my life to represent the people of Arizona in Congress, over 75 percent of whom are deeply opposed to this war. I remain committed to doing so with integrity and transparency.

The threats, lies, and xenophobic attacks against Rep. Ansari and her family are reprehensible. Disagreement is part of democracy. Targeting loved ones and spreading dangerous misinformation is not. No one serving their country should endure threats to their safety. I stand with @RepYassAnsari.

Watch what happens when I set the record straight on Virginia with Newsmax. Democrats won a statewide VOTER referendum in Virginia last night to change the voting maps to counter a partisan Republican redistricting by LEGISLATURES in Texas and North Carolina, which the Supreme Court approved. See the difference? Just like California voters, the people of Virginia approved a new map. Now that Democrats fought back in Virginia and across the redistricting map, you're going to hear Republicans cry a river, when it is their party who surgically perfected political mapmaking to gain advantages for the last 25 years. So when you see the crocodile tears, recognize them for what they are: performative victimhood by a group of people who accumulate power in dark rooms. This is how Republicans have seized national power using partisan political maps with no direct votes. Do you realize that a Republican gerrymander in Florida, which only survived because of a highly partisan state Supreme Court, is the difference in who is the Speaker of the House today, RIGHT NOW? Here in Florida, where I live, voters passed a Constitutional Amendment to end partisan gerrymandering called the Fair Maps Amendment. A friend of mine worked on that fight for two years to get it on the ballot and ratified, then five more years in court to finally get a compliant map after Florida's Republican legislature drew partisan maps in DEFIANCE of the voters' will. In 2022, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis supplied Republicans with a newly gerrymandered map that yielded four extra seats, representing the ENTIRE difference between Republicans controlling the House of Representatives last year and this year, or Democrats having the gavel. And Florida's Governor just called in the GOP-run state legislature in just six days from today, demanding yet another partisan gerrymander. Even Republican Congressmen like Mario Diaz-Balart (Fidel Castro's nephew) and former Mayor Carlos Gimenez have said publicly *they don't want a partisan gerrymandered map* this year. Yet, Governor Ron DeSantis declared open season to do new maps next week. Why? He is a lame duck. He needs a job. He's unpopular in his own state's party. Florida is expensive as HELL. Florida is losing residents for the first time. He met with Donald Trump recently. He wants a top job in Trump's Cabinet, like Pete Hegseth's job. This is how the sausage is made for these Republican maps. Back-room deals. Except when Donald Trump personally demands a gerrymander like in Texas. In Texas, the Republican Party pushed through a gerrymandered map that sorted voters by race, but a partisan Supreme Court allowed it anyway, further eroding the Voting Rights Act. In North Carolina, a two-seat change on its Supreme Court led to a rapid reversal of earlier decisions striking down partisan gerrymandering and a 7-7 map becoming an 11-3 map favoring Republicans because of that state's gerrymandered state legislative maps, despite North Carolina voters electing Democrats statewide for the last three terms as its Governors. Are you starting to see the pattern here? Wherever Republicans can rig the map and control something, they will do it. Time after time. I won't even go into the Koch Brothers-inspired 2010 redistricting bonanza driven by the Tea Party movement. Or North Carolina's old Republican mapmaker passing away and his kids giving his hard drives to voting rights groups who PROVED that Republicans were engaged in racial gerrymandering just a handful of years ago. That North Carolina Republican consultant was a national player in the GOP mapmaking scene. So when you see them bleating about gerrymandering to favor Democrats suddenly being bad, just ask yourself what it's really about. When America elected Democrats to run the House of Representatives in 2018's Blue Wave election, the FIRST thing they tried to do was pass a comprehensive government reform bill, HR 1, the "For the People Act." The For the People Act would have BANNED PARTISAN GERRYMANDERING FOREVER. Democrats passed it in the House. It never got a vote in the Senate, controlled by Republican Mitch McConnell. Democrats then proposed the Freedom to Vote Act in September 2021. It would have introduced national voter ID standards and allowed states to choose how to handle voter ID for elections. It would have ALSO BANNED PARTISAN GERRYMANDERING FOREVER. They could not break the Republican filibuster to get a vote. NOW, do you see what Republicans have been doing to choose their voters in American elections? These are just the most relevant examples. Democrats are fighting back out of political necessity, but only because Republicans started the war. And as we've all witnessed with Donald Trump's war of choice with Iran, when you start a fight with someone else, you don't get to unilaterally choose when it's over.

As I have been saying for a while this is going to happen and we need to start talking about it and pushing for it. We have to MAKE it happen If we take the defeatist approach that some Dems take—that he'll just magically disappear, or that we can just wait until Jan. 2029, ... (1/3)

BBC Business Correspondent Nick Marsh confirms a staggering conflict of interest. Donald Trump Jr sits on the advisory board of prediction markets where anonymous accounts are making millions by betting on highly classified US military operations just hours before they happen.

To be clear: Trump’s FBI is going after the Southern Poverty Law Center because they infiltrated and exposed the same dangerous right-wing extremist groups that many Trump allies are associated with.

When people say that Donald Trump donated 100% of his $400K salary back to the United States, I honestly don’t even know what to say. Trump has spent at least $400M on his golf trips during his presidency. That is one thousand times more than his “donated salary.” Here is the math, the data is publicly available: The estimated cost of a single golf trip is over $4 million. This includes Air Force aircraft, Coast Guard support, overtime pay, and more. The Secret Service alone pays up to $650 per night for lodging at his Mar-a-Lago resort. In total, Trump made close to 100 trips to play golf in 2025. That amounts to roughly $400 million in taxpayer money.

You could offer me footballer wages or any incentive in the world to stop helping dogs and I'd say no. Nothing in the world beats sitting with Sienna tonight in her new bandana 5 months after she came in totally broken telling her about her new family home. Priceless feeling

Spare me the complaints about Virginia's new districts. This is my new district in Texas. Unlike VA, I wasn't able to vote on it. The blue area is a very diverse part of the Dallas suburbs that was carved out & threw in with a bunch of rural (red) voters as far as 180 miles away!

Some of my colleagues keep pointing to the 60-day clock in the War Powers Act as cover for this war. Either they haven’t read the law or they're hoping you haven’t. The 60-day emergency provision exists for one situation: if the United States is attacked. Iran didn’t attack us, we attacked them. My Republican colleagues are abandoning their Constitutional responsibility.

Companies who donated as much as $63 MILLION to Trump’s presidential library fund either have no clue or won’t tell us where their money went. Is that money in Trump’s pockets?

Republicans have such short memories. We don't. We never forget.

Mother in ICE custody asks to go to son's funeral—agents took her to a "punishment room" instead. "They took my clothes and left me all alone with a single blanket," she says. "That is how they punish me for having cried after telling me my son had died." Her 1-year-old baby was still breastfeeding—when ICE separated him from mother along with her other 3 children. She had already lost a son to cancer in 2020—and says the only immigration check-in she ever missed was to take care of him on his deathbed. María de la Luz Loredo is afraid to cry or show any emotion now that she is back in her regular cell—for fear of being punished again. She is locked up at the El Valle ICE Processing Center in Raymondville, Texas.

AND ANOTHER MAGA PEDOPHILE! Silas Shelton, former pastor of Blanchester Community Ministries (OH), pleaded guilty to sex crimes against minors ages 13–15, dating back to 2019. In 2023 he showed up at a school meeting demanding Scholastic pull “Heartstopper” from the book fair, and said the gay teen romance made him “sick.” ✅ Not a drag queen ✅ Not an immigrant ✅ Not a Muslim

Call me crazy, but maybe two men who fathered 17 children with 6 different women shouldn’t be lecturing us about family values.

Again, if Republicans want to stop partisan gerrymandering they should vote for Democrats’ proposal for a national ban on partisan gerrymandering. If they don’t want to stop it, then stop whining.

Trump told you he’d run America like a business. He is. It’s called asset stripping. You sell the profitable pieces, gut the workforce, load it with debt, and walk away rich while everyone else holds the bag. Congratulations. You didn’t elect a president. You hired a liquidator.

Trump is giving $1 billion of our tax dollars to a foreign oil company for *canceling* a wind farm that would have lowered electricity rates.