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@_abie_NA @KeoghValis26896 @elonmusk It is not possible that you are such a fool. Really, you get it, and this is just click bait. Not even a Democrat can be that ignorant and foolish.

@KeoghValis26896 @elonmusk What part of my statement mentioned legality ? Or what part do you not understand that; Legal and illegal immigrants are all IMMIGRANTS ?

That is literally their plan

@elonmusk Why can't our Senators see this and work for us by forcing the Save America Act through? How about it @SenatorLankford? What say you @LeaderJohnThune? Do your damn job!

UPDATE: State Senator Ally Seifried, who claims to be conservative, was seen walking out of the chamber refusing to end SNAP benefits for illegals. She is up for reelection and has drawn a primary opponent. Call & email her office: (405) 521-5555 — ally.seifried@oksenate.gov

@johnrich Oklahoma requires ID to vote. And you can return to your precinct later to find the final votes taped to the window. One day, fair and accurate.

Fine with me👌

@Snarkio_ One of the biggest societal problems we have is that many of us, perhaps most of us, simply can't trust the information we're given. Personally, I question everything and pay attention to the words used in the reporting. I don't believe most politicians when they speak either.

Tulsa Flyer; a local non-profit "news" outlet, just dropped this gem on an article: "Despite the billionaire's cash funding most of what we wrote about and our non-profit,we're totally independent... honest."

I have two stacks on my desk. The left stack is financial disclosure forms from members of Congress. The right stack is waivers for members who filed their financial disclosures late. The right stack is always taller. On Wednesday morning, I watched a soldier get arrested on CNN. I am a Disclosure Analyst for the House Ethics Committee. I have held this position for eleven years. My job is to receive the forms, verify their completeness, and file them. I do not investigate. I do not flag. I do not refer. I file. I have a lanyard. The lanyard says ETHICS. The soldier's name is Gannon Ken Van Dyke. He is thirty-eight years old. He was stationed at Fort Bragg. He was Special Forces. In December, he created an account on a prediction market called Polymarket. On January 2nd, he bet $32,500 that the president of Venezuela would be removed from power. On January 3rd, he helped remove the president of Venezuela from power. He collected $409,881. He has been charged with five federal crimes. Commodities fraud. Wire fraud. Unlawful use of confidential government information. Theft of nonpublic government information. Unlawful monetary transaction. The Department of Justice called it "the first-ever insider trading prosecution on event contracts." I watched this on the television in our break room. Then I walked back to my desk and processed a late financial disclosure from a member of the House Financial Services Committee who purchased $250,000 in bank stocks eleven days before his subcommittee held a closed-door hearing on proposed capital reserve changes. The filing was forty-seven days late. The STOCK Act requires disclosure within forty-five days. The penalty for late filing is $200. I waived it. I waive most of them. In 2021, fifty-four members of Congress and senior staff violated the reporting rules. The fines were minimal. Most were waived. I have a form for the waiver. The form has a box that says "Reason." I write "administrative delay." In ethics, "administrative delay" means the member's office forgot and then remembered when a reporter called. My approval rate is one hundred percent. In any other field, that number would trigger an audit. In mine, it is called thoroughness. Let me show you what I processed this year. January. A senator on the Armed Services Committee sold defense contractor shares worth $1.2 million. Three days later, his committee received a classified briefing that the Iran campaign had exceeded its projected cost by 340%. The stock dropped 8%. He filed the disclosure sixty-one days late. I calculated the fine. $200. His chief of staff asked if it could be waived. He did not ask what the senator traded on. Nobody asks that. The form does not have a field for it. I waived the fine. The senator's portfolio returned 23.4% in 2025. The S&P 500 returned 16.8%. February. A representative on the Energy and Commerce Committee bought pharmaceutical stocks worth $400,000. Two weeks later, her committee advanced a bill that would extend patent exclusivity for the exact drug class she purchased. The stocks rose 14%. She filed on time. There was no fine. There was no investigation. There was nothing to investigate because buying stocks in companies regulated by your own committee is not illegal. It is legal. The STOCK Act made it legal by making it disclosed. In Congress, disclosed means legal. In my office, legal means filed. March. A member whose spouse manages a portfolio worth $9.2 million reported forty-three separate transactions in a single quarter. Twelve of them were in sectors directly affected by legislation the member co-sponsored. The timing on eight of those twelve was within a two-week window of committee action. I logged all forty-three. None were flagged. We do not flag. We file. I asked my supervisor once what would happen if I flagged a filing. She said we do not have a form for that. I never asked again. In 2020, I processed 847 disclosures. In 2023, 1,211. In 2025, 1,614. The number of enforcement actions in each of those years was zero. The numerator changes. The denominator does not. I want to tell you about the soldier again. He made $409,881. He tried to delete his Polymarket account by calling customer service and saying he lost access to his email. He moved his profits into a foreign cryptocurrency vault and then into a new brokerage account. He used his real identity. He placed thirteen bets. Every single one was connected to an operation he personally participated in. In my eleven years, I have processed disclosures from members of Congress who traded on: Pending FDA approvals they learned about in committee. Defense appropriations they voted on. Trade policy they negotiated. Pandemic response measures they drafted. Interest rate decisions they were briefed on before the public. None of them have been charged. None of them have been investigated by the Department of Justice. None of them have been referred to the SEC. The STOCK Act has produced zero prosecutions since it was signed on April 4th, 2012. Fourteen years. Five hundred and thirty-five members. $635 million in trades last year alone. Zero cases. My daughter asked me once what happens when someone breaks the rules. I told her we write it down. She asked what happens after that. I said it depends. She was nine. She is twenty now. It does not depend. Nothing happens after that. The soldier made $409,881 and faces decades in prison. Nancy Pelosi entered Congress in 1987 with a portfolio worth approximately $785,000. It is now worth $133.7 million. That is a return of 16,930%. The Dow Jones returned 2,300% over the same period. Professional fund managers who beat the market for three consecutive years are considered exceptional. She has beaten it for thirty-seven. If a hedge fund produced those returns, the SEC would subpoena the records on a Thursday. She produced them from a building with a chapel and a gift shop. She announced her retirement last year. No investigation was opened. No disclosure was flagged. Her filings were on time. In my office, on time means compliant. Compliant means closed. I want to tell you about the fine. $200. That is the maximum penalty for violating the STOCK Act's disclosure requirements. $200 for a member of Congress whose portfolio gained $4.7 million in a single quarter. I calculated what $200 represents as a percentage of $4.7 million. It is 0.004%. I could not find a comparison that made it meaningful. It is less than the price of the parking pass in the Rayburn garage. It is less than lunch at the members' dining room if you order the crab cakes, which I am told are excellent though I eat at my desk. Since 2012, thirty-one bills have been introduced to restrict congressional trading. I keep a list. The list is longer than the STOCK Act itself. On March 5th, 2026, a representative from Michigan introduced the thirty-second. He called it the "No Getting Rich in Congress Act." The bill would prohibit the President, Vice President, members of Congress, and their spouses from trading individual stocks, cryptocurrency, futures, and commodities while in office. The bill was referred to committee. The committee has not scheduled a hearing. The committee is chaired by a member whose spouse executed $2.1 million in trades last year. The bill will be reviewed. In my office, reviewed means read. Read means acknowledged. Acknowledged means a status has been assigned. A status is the absence of an action that has been given a name so it looks like one. The soldier used classified information to make $409,881 on a prediction market. He has been charged with five federal crimes. The Department of Justice announced the case on the same day I processed three disclosures from members who traded on committee knowledge worth a combined $3.8 million. The difference between the soldier and the members is not what they did. It is the building they did it in. He did it from Fort Bragg. They did it from the Capitol. He used a prediction market. They used the New York Stock Exchange. He bet on a military operation. They bet on the legislation they write. He did not write the law. They did. They wrote the STOCK Act. Then they funded its enforcement at zero dollars. Then they set its maximum penalty at $200. Then they gave my office the authority to waive it. Then they traded $635 million. The soldier flew to Caracas. He breached a compound. He put his body between a mission and a bullet. The people who ordered the operation were in a building with a credenza and sparkling water. They did not go to Caracas. They went to their brokerage accounts. The soldier made $409,881 and is now in federal custody. The people who knew what he was going to do before he did it made more and filed less. His prosecution is not a failure of the system. It is the system. One conviction per decade, at the lowest level, so the briefing slides can say enforcement exists. The $409,881 is not the crime. It is the cost of making $635 million look supervised. In my field, we call this self-regulation. The soldier's Polymarket account has been frozen. His military career is over. He will spend years in federal prison. My office will process every congressional disclosure filed this year. Every trade logged. Every $200 fine calculated and waived. The system is immaculate. Fourteen years. Zero prosecutions. $635 million a year. A 16,930% return. I have not leaked a document. I have not filed a complaint. I have not deviated from the process one single time. The process was written by the people whose forms I process. As long as the disclosures go up and the cases don't, my performance review says I am meeting expectations. My lanyard still says ETHICS. In eleven years, nobody has asked me to define the word.

@HawleyMO Meanwhile, Seniors CANT get adequate Medicare coverage for eyeglasses, dental, hearing aids, cataracts and such, WTF is wrong with the Senate? And the RINO gop, they especially suck.

In the dead of night, the Senate voted to allow billions in taxpayer money to go to trans treatments - hormones, puberty blockers - for MINORS. Unconscionable. Is the House now going to do the same?

Yesterday I laid it bare for you all... John Thune, the smirking Senate ringmaster of the uniparty circus, wasn’t going to let the Save America Act see daylight before the midterms. Not because he lacks the votes. Not because the American people haven’t roared their mandate. But because the establishment’s pathology runs deeper than any “procedural delay.” Rep. Andy Ogles just confirmed it in real time, voice cracking with the rage of a man watching the Republic get slow-walked into the grave. “He’s running out the clock,” Ogles seethed. “It’ll be too late to implement for the midterms…I can’t even begin to ponder why that’s a good strategy. It’s stupid.” Stupid? No. Calculated. Malignant. This is Thune’s signature move...the velvet dagger of the institutional class. They don’t oppose Trump’s agenda because it’s “extreme.” They oppose it because codifying it would sever the veins that feed their permanent DC ruling caste. Every safeguard against election fraud, every barrier to the bureaucratic deep state, every mechanism to restore sovereignty to the people becomes a mortal threat to the oligarchs who have spent decades turning the Senate into their personal veto chamber. They don’t want Trump’s agenda enshrined in law because that would make the will of the voters harder to nullify next time. And they sure as hell don’t want MAGA to prove, once and for all, that the Republic still belongs to its citizens instead of to the consultant class, the lobbyists, and the donor overlords who own both wings of the uniparty. This isn’t politics. This is psychological warfare dressed in Robert’s Rules of Order. Thune and his ilk suffer from the classic oligarchic neurosis: a terror of genuine popular sovereignty that borders on the pathological. History is littered with these men...late-Roman senators who filibustered land reforms while the plebs starved, Weimar conservatives who dithered while the center collapsed, believing their genteel delays would preserve their sinecures. They always bet the Republic can absorb one more betrayal. They always lose the Republic in the process. The philosophy here is as old as Thucydides: when elites fear the demos more than they fear tyranny, they will sacrifice the constitutional order itself to keep the game rigged. That is precisely what we’re witnessing. They are proving, with chilling precision, that they would rather burn the last vestiges of electoral integrity than let Trump and MAGA institutionalize the populist revolt of 2024. They don’t want Trump gone because of "mean tweets." They want him...and every last one of us...gone because we represent the final rupture in their 80-year grift. The Save America Act isn’t just legislation; it’s the codification of the people’s verdict. Delay it past the point of enforcement and you don’t just neuter one bill...you neuter the mandate. You tell every future populist movement: “Your votes don’t matter. The clock is ours.” That is not conservatism. That is the soft totalitarianism of the administrative state wearing a three-piece suit and calling itself “bipartisan statesmanship.” Fuck that. And fuck the pretense that this is anything other than deliberate sabotage of the Republic they swore to defend. The establishment GOP isn’t incompetent. It’s complicit. They have chosen the long game of managed decline over the short-term pain of actually governing like the Article I branch the Founders intended. We see you, Senator Thune. We see the pathology. We see the venom behind the smile. The American people gave you the Senate, the House, and the White House for a reason. Pass the goddamn Save America Act. 💀⚔️⚖️

@CharlesMcCallOK Don't freeze Property Tax theft, eliminate it. Why can't I enjoy my last few years without worrying about losing my house (paid for) so I can fun run-away spending for our school districts. The same districts that fail in teaching our kids by the way. Stop the Theft!

The tax cuts I passed are saving the average Oklahoma family $2,000 every year. I passed the largest tax cut in state history, cut personal and corporate income tax rates, and eliminated the grocery tax, the franchise tax, and the marriage tax to put Oklahoma families first. And I’m not done yet, I’m just keeping started. I’ll cut income taxes, freeze property taxes, and keep more money in your pocket.

@SenatorLankford @OU_WGymnastics @okcthunder It won't matter without the Save America Act. You are part of a group of 100 worthless, self-serving losers that think you are above us all. And you are perhaps the worse one of the bunch. 2028 coming up!

This week we are reauthorizing FISA and starting the process on a "skinny" reconciliation bill to fund CBP and ICE. So, some more vote-a-rama's are in our future. That's What's Moving on Monday! #thunderup

@LeaderJohnThune @DHSgov Nothing you do will matter if you don't protect our elections. But you know this. You are far worse that any speaker we've ever had, and that includes LyinRyan. And our other REP SENATORS put up with you, so they are no better. What a sorry lot you 100 are.

For 67 days now, Democrats have refused to fully fund @DHSgov. That is unacceptable. And it’s why Republicans are going to move forward this week with a budget resolution that will allow us to take up a funding bill for the law enforcement and border security components of DHS.

@sworthzolas1972 @RepLuna How do you know who is American and who is Illegal? You don’t. And you know it.

@RepLuna Stop trying to make it harder for Americans to vote. Get the fuck out of here with that crap. This is America 🇺🇸

Just so America knows, after two weeks in recess, John Thune is no longer considering the SAVE America Act.

@kentuckygrl @nickshirleyy But, no masks for ICE agents? DOX them all you can. Such hypocrisy.

@nickshirleyy Bonta has responded.

🚨 Exposing California's corrupt "Stop Nick Shirley Act", instead of going after the fraudsters California is now going after the people exposing the fraud. This bill AB 2624 will: - Criminalize journalists with misdemeanors, $10,000 fines, imprisonment, and content takedown - Let immigrant based NGOs' funding be confidential - Take away freedom of the press from journalists - Protect any "immigration support services" information from being public (healthcare, legal services, etc) This bill was created by the Attorney General's WIFE Mia Bonta to stop fraud from being exposed. Please like and share this video everywhere! By trying to silence and intimidate journalists, they are trying to hide the truth from you. EXPOSE ALL THE FRAUD.

@RepBrandonGill Why was this vote allowed to proceed? Pelosi would never have allowed that without knowing the outcome in advance. The GOP leaders are weak and ineffectual. Both houses should have positive ratings in the low single digits.

No serious country tolerates unlimited foreigners breaking and entering. When people come to America, they come on our terms, for our benefit.

@chrisbulski @elonmusk Hush now. Your call to prayer is going off and you don’t want to miss it. It’s taking over Main Street today. Europeans are lost. Restore Britain!

@elonmusk European here. This is ridiculous, not interesting. Civilized society doesn’t need guns.

Interesting

@BrandonStraka If only @LeaderJohnThune knew someone who could make these things happen... That person could solve the DHS shutdown properly and pass the Save America Act as well. If he only knew someone who cared. Wouldn't that be great!

Sen. John Thune blasts Democrats over the prolonged shutdown, accusing them of rejecting funding measures repeatedly. "You voted no 13 times!" He warns the impasse is impacting real people’s lives.

@Pontifex How much is the Vatican worth? And the Pope, what is his financial worth? Hate hypocrites.

Hundreds of millions of people throughout the world are immersed in extreme poverty. Yet, disproportionate wealth remains in the hands of a few. It is an unjust scenario, in the face of which we cannot fail to question ourselves and commit to change things. There is no lack of resources at the root of disparities, but the need to address solvable problems related to a more equitable distribution of wealth, to be achieved with moral sense and honesty.

@AGRobBonta You're pissed because you were caught.

We’ve taken down a hospice fraud ring responsible for $267 Million in fraud against the Medi-Cal system. This isn’t a political game for us. This is about protecting taxpayer dollars and the programs Californians rely on. oag.ca.gov/news/press-rel…

@RepMariaSalazar Your lies are disgraceful. You will only be able to fool the weak-minded and unfortunately some few of them are Republicans. Sorry, stupid Republicans like yourself that need to be removed from our Peoples house.

1/ DOES THE DIGNITY ACT CONFLICT WITH THE DEPORTATION AGENDA? NO. Let’s separate MYTH from FACT.

@benonwine Backed up twice and still missed them. crap

Italian man racing to reach his pregnant wife is blocked by climate activists glued to the road. He pleads with them to move. They refuse. So he drives through. Was he justified — YES or NO?