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🚨 In a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court ruled that federal law does not require mail-in ballots to be received by Election Day, holding that states may count ballots postmarked by Election Day but received afterward if state law allows it.

🚨 In a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court ruled that federal law does not require mail-in ballots to be received by Election Day, holding that states may count ballots postmarked by Election Day but received afterward if state law allows it.

🇺🇸 THE SUPREME COURT RULED AGAINST US TODAY. CONGRESS CAN STILL FIX THIS! Before you throw your phone across the room, hear me out. Yes, Barrett and Roberts sided with the liberals today. Yes, it is a gut punch. Yes, Alito's dissent is going to age like fine wine while this majority opinion ages like milk. We covered all of that. But this fight is not over. Not even close. Here is what the majority opinion actually did, whether they intended to or not. They handed us a roadmap. The Court ruled the way they did because the current federal election statutes are silent on when mail-in ballots must be RECEIVED. They only govern when elections must be HELD. The majority found that gap in the law and drove straight through it. Congress can close that gap tomorrow! This is not wishful thinking. This is constitutional bedrock. Article One of the Constitution gives Congress explicit authority to override state election rules for federal elections. They have done it before. In 1845 fraud was rampant because states held elections on different days and voters were crossing state lines casting multiple ballots. Congress stepped in and mandated a single uniform Election Day and that was the end of it. One law fixed it then. One law can fix it now. All Congress needs to do is pass legislation stating clearly that mail-in ballots in federal elections must be RECEIVED by Election Day, not merely postmarked. That is it. That closes the loophole the Court just created. The majority opinion even pointed toward this solution directly, essentially telling us that if the American people want this rule, go get it through your elected representatives. So that is exactly what we are going to do. This is where your energy belongs right now. Not in despair. Not in rage. In action. The midterms are coming and every single House seat matters. Every Senate seat matters. We have already primaried out a number of RINOs this cycle and the new Congress is going to look different from this one. A bigger majority changes everything. With enough seats we pass the legislation. We close the loophole. We establish once and for all that Election Day means what every honest American knows it means. The day you vote is the day your ballot had better be in the hands of election officials. Full stop. The left thinks today's ruling ends this fight. It does not end anything. It clarifies the battlefield and points us directly at the next objective. Roberts and Barrett may have failed us today. But the Founders did not. They built a system with a remedy for exactly this kind of moment. That remedy is Congress and Congress answers to us. Stay in the fight. The next move is ours.

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