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That grief, if you let it, is not a reason to turn away from America. It is a reason to love her harder. Because knowing this history, all of it, sitting with it and letting it cost you something, that is the most profound act of love there is. Toward four kids in Greensboro in 1960, sitting at a lunch counter with their hands folded and their hearts hammering and their eyes straight ahead, showing this country a version of itself it hadn’t earned yet but they were going to demand it anyway. That is love of country. That is what keeping the promise looks like. America is a love story. Not a bloodline, not a velvet rope held by the people who got here first, a love story. Every time we have honored the promise she has grown stronger, more fully herself. Every voice in the room. Every face at the table. Every argument this country needed to hear. She has only ever been diminished by the ones who tried to decide who she was for. They’ll wave the flag for her. They just won’t open the door for you. That is not patriotism. That is fear draped in a flag. I have a daughter named Charlotte, and I can close my eyes right now and see her face, the way she looks when she’s figuring something out, when she’s becoming someone. I want her to know the true story of this country. Fannie Lou. Medgar. Selma. Greensboro. Not because this country is broken beyond redemption, but because she deserves to know what was paid so she could show up. What it cost. Whose body it cost. And I want her to feel the weight of what she inherited, and the weight of what she owes. And I want her to keep it too. I want everyone’s Charlotte to show up and keep it. The Charlotte whose mother works the early shift at a school building in Guilford County, who has never once stopped loving America even when America gave her every reason to stop. That Charlotte. Her voice doesn’t threaten this country. Her voice completes it. And so, I want to say something to the people pushing the SAVE Act, not with anger, because anger isn’t what I feel. I feel sorry for them. Sorry that they’ve somehow missed her majesty. Sorry that they’ve never stood in a room where every kind of American showed up and felt what this country is capable of being. Sorry that they confused a smaller America for a safer one, because anyone who has ever truly felt her knows that her greatness was never in the walls she built. It was always in the doors she opened. One day their grandchildren will find out where they stood. Whether they kept the promise or defaulted on it. Whether they held the door open or held it closed. I don’t think that’s the legacy any of them actually want. But it is the one they are building. You do not love America more than the rest of us. You just love a smaller one. Fannie Lou Hamer didn’t get beaten on a bus in Mississippi so we could build a smaller America. Medgar Evers didn’t die in his driveway so we could build a smaller America. And twenty-one million Americans, citizens, every one of them, do not deserve a smaller America. We made a promise. To our children. To every generation not yet born. We will leave this nation more free, more fair, and more just than the one we were handed. That is the promise. That is why we don’t stop. Push.

@ThomasBeyer @MichaelKGarrett @TheDemocrats If that were true, we would have a different president.

@MichaelKGarrett Total BS Other countries can do it but not the US ? Just say it: @TheDemocrats want mass voter fraud via unverified mass mail-in ballots AND ballot harvesting ! Just be honest

Today the President of the United States took your safety hostage. The men and women standing between you and the next attack on American soil, the ones pulling the early shifts, wanding your grandmother, waving your kids through the line, he will not pay them. Not until Congress passes a bill designed to keep twenty-one million eligible Americans from ever casting a ballot. He wants your fear. He wants their votes suppressed. And he wants you to call the whole thing patriotism. Let that sit for just a moment. They called it the SAVE Act. Let me tell you what it saves. And what it buries. It saves the comfort of fewer voices. A room where not everyone gets a seat. Where the voices that might complicate things, that might push back, that might outvote you, never make it through the door. It saves power for the people who already have it. That’s the whole bill. They’ll dress it in the language of security. Of integrity. Of protection. They wrap it in a flag– they always wrap it in a flag– but you cannot call it protection when the threat doesn’t exist. Non-citizen voter fraud is not a crisis. It is a ghost story told deliberately to people they need frightened. What is real, sitting right there in the text of the bill, is this: Twenty-one million Americans cannot meet its requirements. Born here. Buried their parents here. Raising their children here. Twenty-one million people this Congress looked at and decided were close enough to invisible. That is not a glitch. That is the point. And that number is not abstract. It has faces. It has names. It has stories this country already knows, and swore it would never repeat. Because there is a promise at the center of this country. That we will leave this nation more free, more fair, and more just than the one we were handed. The SAVE Act is a betrayal of that promise. It buries faces. It buries stories. It buries the lessons this country bled to learn. Fannie Lou Hamer walked into a Sunflower County courthouse in 1962 to register to vote. They handed her a literacy test. She studied. She came back. She answered every question. And they looked her in the eye and told her she failed. She was thrown off the plantation she’d worked for eighteen years, her husband lost his job by sundown, because she believed the Constitution applied to her too. Then they dragged her off a bus in Winona and beat her so badly that she carried the damage in her body until the day she died. And she still didn’t stop. She wasn’t just fighting for herself. She was fighting for the promise. For children she would never meet. She stood at the 1964 Democratic National Convention, scars and all, looked into a camera and asked America one question: “Is this America?” She was not alone in that question. Medgar Evers was twenty years old when he stormed the beach at Normandy, bleeding into French sand for a country he loved, for the promise of what it could be. He came home, put on a suit, and walked up to a courthouse to vote. They turned him away. He tried again, turned away again, until one night in his own driveway, in front of his own home, on the American soil he had crossed an ocean to defend, his wife heard a shot from inside and his children ran to the door. He died still waiting for America to keep its promise to him. Sit with that. Same bill. Different name. Literacy test. Poll tax. Grandfather clause. Constitutional interpretation exam administered by men who had already decided you’d fail before you opened your mouth. The names change. The legal language changes. The face never does. And every single time we defaulted on the promise, history recorded it. We don’t build monuments to those moments. We stand at the markers and something collapses in our chest and we whisper: how did we let this happen. How did we let this happen again. We cannot make that mistake again.

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GOP Senator Kennedy admits Trump is the reason for TSA shutdown: "He said said 'No deals with the Democrats.' We could have had TSA paid by the end of the week. But the President said 'No deal.'"

@CanadianDem @ProjectLincoln @BaddCompani I hope TSA employees become aware of this.

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@ProjectLincoln GOP Sen. Kennedy acknowledges Trump nixed a deal that would have reopened TSA and ease travel burdens. Why? "No deals with Democrats," Trump said. The GOP Congress rolled over, paws up. No Kings this Saturday. nokings.org

Page 12 line 22 is the DMV registration section. It subordinates motor vehicle registration to the proof-of-citizenship requirement — it doesn’t exempt it. Standard REAL IDs don’t indicate citizenship status and are available to non-citizens. Only enhanced driver’s licenses qualify — available in 5 states. Chip Roy admitted this during hearings. Senator Duckworth is correct. Senator Lee is pointing to the section that creates the problem, not the solution. I drafted legislation that actually fixes this — enhanced driver’s licenses accepted in all 50 states, free documents federally funded, database-first verification. Any Senator could introduce it tomorrow. mn06watch.com/articles/eisa-…

@Justcuz2170 @RealBarabbas Only the Enhanced Drivers License can be used for citizenship verification and are only available in 5 states. Real IDs are not EDLs

@RealBarabbas Voter rolls should be purged and the real ID does qualify under the American only right to vote act.

The Ohio Real ID doesn't qualify under the SAVE Act & SB293 means the voter rolls can be purged between now & November. Husted knows this but wants to mislead voters into believing it's just simple Voter ID & not the same voter suppression bill that disenfranchised 12% in Kansas

@BasedMikeLee @Katie1797375 x.com/RealBarabbas/s…

@Katie1797375 Read the bill

1. This is a lie 2. Read the damn bill 3. The text beginning on page 12, line 22 makes abundantly clear that what you’re saying isn’t true 4. Why can’t Senate Democrats argue against this bill without lying?

@SenEricSchmitt Your president said no on funding TSA, and everyone who walks into an airport thinks of Minneapolis.

Democrats don't actually want to resolve their DHS shutdown. They want chaos at airports. They want riots against ICE agents. Because they think it will help them achieve their goal of backdoor amnesty for millions of illegal aliens they let into our country. Not a chance.

@snowta @KensiWellington @AP That's allowing a 3rd party (USPS) to be involved in the election process. As long as your ballot is postmarked on or before that day, it should count. If the post office delays in getting those postmarked ballots to the boards of election, it shouldn't invalidate those votes.

@KensiWellington @AP It's called Election Day Ballot late? Too late.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court seems skeptical of laws in 14 states that allow counting of mail ballots that arrive after Election Day. apnews.com/live/supreme-c…

@NathalieLoiseau I wish the best for Hungary in the upcoming election! Seeing where your hard-earned money is going to is proof you need a new leader who is not in Putin's pocket. x.com/YoeriAlbrecht/…

Au moment où on apprend que le gouvernement d’Orban transmet des informations confidentielles au Kremlin, Marine Le Pen se rend à Budapest pour soutenir Viktor Orban. On ne saurait être plus clair.

@ShaunStromb @SecretaryBurgum I'm only about 6 or so episodes into this series, but I want him to turn on the oil companies so badly.

@SecretaryBurgum Was Landman there?

Just toured a cutting-edge oil site in Texas, where American innovation is making energy production cleaner, faster, smarter and safer than ever. This is American Energy Dominance in action, and Texas is leading the way to make energy more affordable for American families. 🇺🇸

@GodandCountryy Putin is giving Iran Intelligence to target our troops and *rump's not doing a thing about it. And *rump has lifted oil sanctions for Russia AND Iran. Who's this war helping?

Best Military in the World. Here is our President showing Putin what will happen if he doesn’t understand what our great Military is capable of. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@samstein If all of the republicans stood together and publicly said he's threatening (and has been), the world would cheer, as long as they did something about it. They created this mess; they should deal with his and the maga backlash. Oh, but the skeletons...

Punchbowl with a pretty significant report this morning, that more or less puts Trump now on the hook for the TSA funding lapse.

BREAKING: Retired top diplomat Phil Gordon just laid bare Trump’s staggering double standard: Trump and Republicans spent a decade mocking Obama for the 2016 Iran payment – calling it "insane" and "pallets of cash" – even though it was Iran's own frozen money! A decade ago, Trump slammed Obama for giving Iran back $1.7 billion of their own frozen assets, but now he is handing them TEN TIMES that in a futile effort to ease the oil price spike his war has caused! Now, Trump is handing Iran up to ten times that amount in exchange for nothing more than his hope it will provide temporary relief from the massive oil price surge his own illegal war triggered before the midterms. He's essentially bailing out his own economic mess with billions in de facto relief to the very regime he calls "evil" on which he launched an unprovoked attack. The concession got us the Iran nuclear deal, and resulted in getting hostages released, and strict, verified nuclear restrictions on Iran. This payment gets us nothing! No nuclear concessions, no hostage releases, no de-escalation: Iran gets to keep targeting U.S. forces, allies, and global oil supplies while Trump effectively pays them off to stop making gas prices even worse. "This is a desperate recognition of the situation Trump's own actions have created and the lack of available alternatives for dealing with it," Gordon said. He can’t will the drones out of the Strait’s airspace and mines out of the channel, he can’t just order gas prices to come down, and he can’t bring back the American soldiers who have already died in the conflict, so what's left? Since Trump only cares about money, there's your answer. This is how our president operates on the international stage. When all else fails, throwing our tax dollars at his self-inflicted disaster followed in a panicked payoff attempt to get oil prices down. It will be the biggest relief check Iran has ever cashed. If Obama acolyte Gordon's takedown on Iran cash has you furious at the double standard, like and share to expose the double standards of the worst president ever.