Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) tried to take a victory lap Tuesday night. The grassroots took the lap away from him.

Thune posted a slick message claiming Republicans have spent the last two years delivering “more money in your pocket,” “safer streets,” and “more opportunities to get ahead,” while Democrats opposed the agenda “at every turn.”

The numbers tell the story. As of Wednesday morning the tweet had about 1,400 likes and more than 10,500 replies. That is not engagement. That is a public flogging.

Then came the Community Note.

X users attached a note that read:

The 119th Congress was the least productive in history — No Congress has enacted less legislation or laws. Johnson has cancelled a total 63 scheduled voting days in the House, granting members an extra 2 months PTO, with no House votes scheduled until after the election.

Republicans have spent the last two years delivering on our agenda.

More money in your pocket. Safer streets. More opportunities to get ahead.

Democrats have spent much of the last two years opposing our goals at every turn. pic.twitter.com/WW7D78FbRf

— Leader John Thune (@LeaderJohnThune) September 22, 2026

The note is not the only problem for Thune. The Congressional Record résumé of activity for 2026 makes the Senate bottleneck impossible to spin.

According to the latest Résumé of Congressional Activity covering January 3 through August 31, 2026, the House passed 291 House bills.

The Senate passed only 20 of them. That leaves roughly 271 House bills still pending without a Senate floor vote under Leader Thune.

Fucing liar! pic.twitter.com/OTP1OzsfFr

— Lisa Rich (@LisaRich_III) September 22, 2026

Grassroots organizer Scott Presler’s reply is now the real story. It has more than 12,700 likes, nearly ten times Thune’s original post.

“You have spent the last 2 years doing nothing to secure our elections after Republican voters delivered the popular vote & all 3 branches of gov’t.

Even DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said, ‘We have 300,000 [non-citizen registered voters] we’re looking into.’

The question millions of Americans have is why don’t you care about us?”

You have spent the last 2 years doing nothing to secure our elections after Republican voters delivered the popular vote & all 3 branches of gov’t.

Even DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said, “We have 300,000 [non-citizen registered voters] we’re looking into.”

The question… pic.twitter.com/UodGa2FFEx

— ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) September 22, 2026

Voters handed Republicans the White House, the House, and the Senate. They asked for one thing above almost everything else: clean elections. Proof of citizenship to register. Voter ID. Removal of ineligible names from the rolls.

Thune would not do it.

Hunter Eagleman, a retired homicide detective, went straight at the record:

“You literally haven’t don’t shit. Our elections are still NOT secured. 40 MILLION still going to the Taliban. You’ve spent 8 weeks this year on vacation.”

You literally haven’t don’t shit.

Our elections are still NOT secured.

40 MILLION still going to the Taliban.

You’ve spent 8 weeks this year on vacation.

— Hunter Eagleman (@Hunter_Eagleman) September 22, 2026

Another user posted a screenshot and wrote: “Yet you refused to pass the SAVE act.”

Yet you refused to pass the SAVE act.. pic.twitter.com/PhmvAbYMfy

— Tired of the willfully ignorant.. (@kemicalkid19) September 22, 2026

Michael Flynn Jr. asked the question every patriot has been asking for months: “Are u fckn kidding? Election security anyone?”

Are u fckn kidding?

Election security anyone?

— Michael Flynn Jr (@realmflynnJR) September 22, 2026

Here’s more:

You haven’t delivered a damn thing. Two years in charge and all you’ve been is a RINO roadblock. Elections still unsecured, SAVE Act still dead, and you’re patting yourself on the back. Absolutely nothing. pic.twitter.com/BV66Fw2dKb

— Lexi (@LexiMurica) September 22, 2026

Donald Trump is signing deals around the world and expanding American power. Meanwhile, you can’t even whip your own party into passing the SAVE Act.

What a contrast in leadership.

You are such a loser.

— TMK (@themagaking) September 22, 2026

Read the room comrade, you are toast. The most ineffective Congress in all of history, only passing 2% of bills passed by the House. You sir are failed leadership. pic.twitter.com/GFcGRi8VA5

— Romich (@romich1011) September 22, 2026

Seriously, are you mocking us? Who writes these? You spent the last 2 years blocking the Trump agenda.

— Tara Servatius (@TaraServatius) September 22, 2026

The only thing you have delivered is obstruction, you backstabbing swamp snake. Here you are running pro forma sessions to block the agenda your constituents voted for. pic.twitter.com/eM4bb85NDx

— Salty J (@jjargonay) September 22, 2026

You have had enough time to pass the Save America Act , ensuring that only American citizens vote,yet you haven’t done it. You are a great traitor who will be gone in 2028. pic.twitter.com/NrxrlHnxyz

— Claudia Yadette (@ClaudiaYadette1) September 22, 2026

https://t.co/GdvcDrmaO1

— The Seed (@theseed59788459) September 22, 2026

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President Trump went off in a late-night Truth Social post, slamming CNN’s Kaitlan Collins and the “SLEAZEBAGS” in the Fake News Media for “ranting and raving like Lunatics” over him at the United Nations General Assembly. 

This comes after major TV outlets, including CNN and Fox News, suspended coverage for the TV pool after CNN was barred from the White House press pool to cover Trump’s trip to New York.

But CNN showed up anyway.

As the Gateway Pundit reported, Trump roasted CNN’s Kaitlan Collins upon arriving at the UNGC on Tuesday morning, trolling the network for traveling to New York after being excluded from the press pool. “I’m surprised that CNN is here covering me. You shouldn’t be here,” he told Collins.

Trump later trolled CNN again when asked about his ban of CNN, MS Now, and Politico during a meeting with UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham, noting, “By the way, they said they weren’t going to be here, but they came.”

“I knew that would happen. What are they not going to be with President Xi tomorrow?” He added. “But they say, ‘we will not cover Trump.”

Then, Trump continued roasting the outlet and the other leftist “SLEAZEBAGS” who were “ranting and raving like Lunatics, in the Press Area, at the United Nations.”

“All of the SLEAZEBAGS, like Third Rate ‘Reporter,’ Kaitlan Collins, of Fake News CNN, a truly unhappy person, said they weren’t going to be covering me,” the President wrote just before midnight while flying on Air Force One back to Washington, DC. “Why was she there? She’s got a ‘TRUMP’ addiction, and so does CNN and MSDNC. They’re all sick, treasonous, and demented!”

“The ‘good news’ is that they have a great, for them, and totally disloyal Judge,” Trump added, slamming District Court Judge Tim Kelly, the same Trump appointee who ruled in favor of Jim Acosta and CNN in a lawsuit after Trump banned CNN during his first term.

Moments later, Trump posted a parody social media video, showcasing a “day in the life of a CNN reporter.”

“My life as someone who tells lies all day long,” the creator says while getting out of bed in the get-ready-with-me-style video. “First, I get up, then I put on my fake news outfit! I just can’t wait to make up a bunch of false rumors about Trump today,” he continues while dressing and putting on makeup.

All right! Let’s go bash Trump 24/7, here we go!”

WATCH:

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Sunny Hostin shocked her co-hosts on Tuesday’s episode of The View by revealing that she was the holdout juror who stopped a Manhattan jury from convicting Daniel Rakowitz, the East Village killer cannibal known as the Butcher of Tompkins Square Park.

Rakowitz killed a woman, dismembered her, ate her, and claims to have fed parts of her remains to homeless people.

The women were discussing the Lindsay Clancy mistrial in Massachusetts, where one juror refused an insanity verdict in the case of the mother who brutally strangled her three children to death.

Hostin said she wanted Clancy to be found not guilty by reason of insanity.

“The reason I felt so strongly about this holdout juror is because I was a holdout juror in the Daniel Rakowitz case. I don’t know if people remember it, the Butcher of Tompkins Square Park,” Hostin said.

Joy Behar asked, “The guy who ate the victims?”

Alyssa Farah Griffin said, “You got this guy off?!”

“That’s how much I believe in the insanity defense. He fed her body parts to the unhoused,” Hostin explained. “All that being said, it was so clear to me in the jury room. We were sequestered for nine days. One juror threw a chair at me, they were so angry with me. But, one by one, I picked them off. I said, ‘What about this? What about that?’ We ended up, all 12, unanimously voting that he was not criminally responsible on reason of insanity. He is still in a mental institution being treated. That’s a different type of prison, and he’s being treated because he’s sick.”

WATCH:

Sunny Hostin brags about being a holdout juror that prevented The Butcher of Thompson Square Park from going to prison.
She admits “once he killed her, he chopped up her body parts, yes, boiled her body parts … and fed her body parts to the unhoused.” pic.twitter.com/sLbElgLuGt

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) September 22, 2026

Hostin said producers checked and found her in The New York Times under her birth name, Asuncion Cummings.

Several jurors told the paper one holdout had blocked a guilty verdict.

“That was me,” she said. “And it was because I saw clearly that he was psychotic; he was in psychosis. He did not mean to kill her, and once he killed her, he panicked. He chopped up her body parts, yes, boiled her body parts, tried to commit the perfect crime, and then he fed her body parts to the unhoused.”

She said the jury was sequestered for nine days, and one got so mad they threw a chair at her.

“One juror threw a chair at me; they were so angry with me. But one by one, I picked them off. I said, ‘What about this? What about that?’ We ended up, all 12, unanimously voting that he was not criminally responsible by reason of insanity. He is still in a mental institution being treated. That’s a different type of prison, and he’s being treated because he’s sick.”

Guest host Star Jones joked about moving down the couch.

On August 19, 1989, Rakowitz, then a 28-year-old dishwasher and pot dealer in the East Village, killed Monika Beerle, 26, a Swiss dance student at the Martha Graham school who also worked as a dancer and shared an apartment with him.

Police said she had tried to make him move out.

Rakowitz told detectives they fought and he killed her, then bought a saw and bags and dismembered her in the bathtub.

He boiled bones, he said, “to disinfect them.”

He left her skull in a bucket of kitty litter in a Port Authority Bus Terminal baggage room and led detectives there after his arrest.

A homeless man, Milton Irrizary, testified that Rakowitz brought soup into Tompkins Square Park that contained a human finger.

Rakowitz bragged about the killing in the park and later referred to himself as a cannibal.

The jury deadlocked on an evidence-tampering count over the dismemberment. The judge declared a mistrial on that count.

Rakowitz ended up being sent to Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center, the maximum-security hospital on Wards Island.

In 2004, a retention jury found him still mentally ill, lacking insight, and in need of inpatient care, but not currently dangerous.

Beerle never received justice.

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On August 12, The Gateway Pundit’s Patty McMurray reported that Michigan attorney Kevin Kijewski filed a verified complaint in the Michigan Court of Claims on behalf of Bridgewater Township Clerk Michelle McQueer.

Kijewski, a former Republican candidate for Michigan Attorney General, first gained statewide attention for successfully defending Clifford Frost, one of the Republican alternate electors targeted by Attorney General Dana Nessel. After securing the dismissal of the charges against Frost, Kijewski was inspired to seek the AG nomination, running on a platform to end partisan lawfare and restore the rule of law.

Here is a screenshot of Michelle McQueer’s lawsuit against Jocelyn Benson.

The lawsuit challenged Rule R 168.48, issued under Benson’s authority, which requires clerks to delete electronic poll book software and all associated files within seven days after an election is certified.

Could Benson’s requirement to willfully destroy election documents in advance of the 22-month federal and state preservation statute put clerks in jeopardy of being criminally charged?

Federal law states:

-52 U.S.C. § 20701 requires every “officer of election” to retain and preserve all records relating to voting in federal elections for 22 months.

-52 U.S.C. § 20702 makes it a federal crime for any person to willfully destroy, conceal, or alter those records.
Penalty: up to a $1,000 fine, up to one year in prison, or both.

The complaint argues the rule collides with federal statute (52 U.S.C. § 20701), which requires election officers to preserve all records relating to acts of voting in federal elections for 22 months. Willful destruction of those records is a federal crime. Michigan law (MCL 168.811) similarly prohibits the destruction of election returns, poll lists, and federal-office ballots before the same 22-month period expires.

McQueer contended the electronic poll books contain unique, detailed data — including activity logs, timestamps, ballot transactions, and operator actions — that are not fully preserved in printed reports or the Qualified Voter File. Once deleted, that information is gone. She asked the court to declare the seven-day deletion rule invalid or unenforceable where it conflicts with the longer retention requirements, and to issue an injunction blocking its enforcement against those protected records.

This was far from Benson’s first major legal setback on election procedures.

In 2020, Benson issued guidance directing local clerks to apply a strong presumption in favor of accepting absentee ballot signatures and to look for “any redeeming qualities” when comparing them. Allegan County Clerk Robert Genetski and the Michigan Republican Party sued, arguing the directive amounted to a binding rule that bypassed the required Administrative Procedures Act process. In March 2021, the Michigan Court of Claims agreed and ruled Benson’s signature-matching guidance invalid. The decision came too late to affect the 2020 election, but it marked a clear loss for the Secretary of State in court.

Benson is also facing mounting workplace discrimination claims. Multiple Black employees in her Department of State have filed lawsuits alleging a racially hostile environment, unequal treatment, and retaliation. One former employee received a $775,000 settlement. Additional lawsuits followed in 2026, with reports describing the filings as marking at least the fourth such complaint in recent years.

At the same time, Benson has refused to fully comply with demands from the Trump Justice Department to turn over Michigan’s complete voter rolls so non-citizens can be identified and removed. She provided only a limited public version and has fought broader disclosure in federal court.

Former Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox is also suing Benson for records related to her past service on the board of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Benson served as a director from 2014 to 2018, a period that overlaps with years in which federal investigators later alleged the organization directed millions of dollars to paid informants associated with extremist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan. Cox and House Republicans have demanded full transparency into her role and any related communications.

The new electronic poll book lawsuit comes as Benson continues to oversee Michigan elections while facing discrimination claims, resisting federal voter-roll requests, and answering questions about her SPLC board service. For a Secretary of State already carrying a record of court losses and unresolved controversies, the latest challenge adds to growing legal and political pressure.

Yet another group is now demanding transparency in Jocelyn Benson’s non-transparent elections and fighting to require proof of citizenship in upcoming elections.

Earlier this month, Americans for Citizens Voting-Michigan held a press conference that included two Michigan lawmakers, including Speaker Pro Temp and Election Integrity Committee Chair Rachelle Smit. The event highlighted a recent video released by James O’Keefe that draws on information provided by Patty McMurray of The Gateway Pundit that exposes an Iranian non-citizen, Afshin Masheli, who served jail time for first-degree sexual assault and appears on the DHS “Worst of the Worst” Criminal Aliens list. Masheli, a non-citizen, has voted three times in Michigan elections. Iran has refused to take him back despite a final removal order.

BREAKING: James O’Keefe Releases ANOTHER Shocking Undercover Video From Michigan Showing Him Asking “Voters” About Duplicate Absentee Envelopes For Same Person

Link in the comments. pic.twitter.com/5sJocsRYVu

— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) August 11, 2026

The purpose of the press conference was to draw attention to the August 24, 2026 meeting of the Michigan Board of State Canvassers, which will decide whether to certify the Citizen Only Voting Amendment for the November 3 ballot. The petition, which gathered more than 700,000 signatures, has already been submitted to the Board of Elections.

On Tuesday, Attorney Kevin Kijewski announced that a Michigan judge sided with the plaintiff. Benson asked the judge to throw the case out. The judge told her “no” on every ground!

Kevin Kijewski posted this recap on X.

THE CASE IN 30 SECONDS:

The electronic poll book is the laptop record of everyone who checked in to vote at your precinct.

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s new state rule says clerks must DELETE it 7 days after the election is certified.

Federal law says KEEP it 22 months. Destroying it early is a FEDERAL CRIME.

My client, Bridgewater Township Clerk Michelle McQueer, asked the State which law to follow. ELEVEN MONTHS. NO ANSWER. So she sued.

WHAT HAPPENED TODAY:

– The Court of Claims denied the State’s motion to dismiss. COMPLETELY.

– The State said she waited too long. DENIED. The court: it “cannot fault plaintiff for waiting.” The power to answer her “was completely in their hands.” (pp 19, 21)

– The State said she skipped the process. DENIED. The court: it “will not support defendants delaying in resolving the administrative proceedings and then fault plaintiff for filing suit.” (p 19)

– The State said a clerk can’t bring this case in any court. DENIED. The court: she sued “to ensure that she … complies with state and federal law and therefore will not be criminally charged.” That’s not the kind of case the State’s cases are about. (pp 21-22)

– And the order protecting her records STAYS IN PLACE.

WHAT THE JUDGE WROTE:

The State said criminal liability is “speculative” because DOJ hasn’t prosecuted anyone yet. The judge, in Footnote 3:

“The Court finds this contention to be quite remarkable and reckless.”

And Footnote 5:

“Plaintiff’s suit also could derivatively save the SOS from being criminally charged federally.” READ THAT ONE TWICE. FROM THE HEARING, SEPTEMBER 16: – To the State’s lawyer, first sentence: “Off the top, you lose on the laches.” (p 5)

– When Benson’s lawyer argued the burden on the State: “You’re arguing practicalities. But you know what? I have to comply with the law. I have to follow the law.” (p 11)

– On calling out the State’s specious claim that a clerk can’t bring this case: “I’m with you on that. You’re right.” (p 16)

– The State’s own lawyer, on the record: “You’re not going to hear a merits argument from me.” (p 11)

WHAT’S NEXT:

The State now has to defend the rule on the merits, which it has AVOIDED SINCE THE START. Benson’s lawyers promised in court to issue rulings on her requests within two weeks. Once those land, both sides file, and the judge decides whether a state rule can order clerks to delete what federal law says to keep.

ONE CLERK. TWO LAWS. A JUDGE WHO READS AND CARES ABOUT THE LAW.

Full opinion (Sept22): http://tinyurl.com/pollbookruling

Hearing transcript (Sept 16): http://tinyurl.com/pollbooktranscript

Let’s make Michigan safe, normal, and responsible again! 

And here is Kevin Kijewski’s announcement on X.

BENSON ORDERED CLERKS TO DELETE ELECTION RECORDS. A CLERK SUED. BENSON ASKED A JUDGE TO THROW IT OUT.
TODAY HE SAID NO. ON EVERY GROUND.

THE CASE IN 30 SECONDS
The electronic poll book is the laptop record of everyone who checked in to vote at your precinct.
Michigan Secretary… https://t.co/rPl9zm64hy pic.twitter.com/OSppf1hoqe

— Kevin Kijewski (@KevinKijewski) September 22, 2026

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Here is the kind of news the fake news media hates to report if they report it at all.

Thanks to President Trump’s policies, US poverty rate has reportedly been cut in half.

Reuters is out with a report on the new Census Bureau numbers. The headline on the piece points to a US poverty rate of 10.2% for 2025, according to the Census Bureau.

But that is not all.

For years the Democrats and their media allies told us the sky was falling. They told us the American economy was crushing working families.

WRONG.

The economy is booming for average Americans. And we all know the fake news will not report this.

So will Democrats admit they were wrong once again? Will they cheer this excellent news for working Americans?

Not likely.

Don’t look for this news on the front page of Politico or CNN or MS NOW. They are too interested in reporting on chlorophyll in the Lincold Memorial Reflecting Pool after President Trump cleaned up the nation’s capital.

The Reuters report is behind a wall, so we will update this post as more of the Census Bureau numbers come out.

More great news for Americans and bad news for Democrats!

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Newly released law enforcement bodycam footage obtained by the California Post reveals a chaotic 4:20 a.m. confrontation outside Miami’s notorious 24-hour strip club and nightclub E11EVEN, where officers were forced to draw a taser directly at WNBA player Paige Bueckers.

The wild incident, which occurred on March 5th following a championship party, resulted in the arrest of Bueckers and Dallas Wings teammate Arike Ogunbowale.

According to police affidavits, Ogunbowale allegedly struck a nightclub worker in the face with a closed fist before officers intervened to restore order.

When Miami police officers arrived on the scene to regain control of the rowdy crowd, video footage shows a tense standoff. As officers moved in to detain Ogunbowale, sports elite and onlookers swarmed the arresting officers.

When Bueckers and fellow player Jackie Young stepped into the officer’s path, attempting to shield Ogunbowale, an officer was forced to unholster his Taser, pointing the less-lethal weapon directly at Young’s chest and then squarely at Bueckers’ face while repeatedly ordering the crowd to “Back up!”

Rather than complying with standard law enforcement commands, members of the entourage threw temper tantrums at the police for simply doing their jobs. Unrivaled host Maria Clifton was captured on video screaming at the arresting officer:

“Stop it. Do not put handcuffs on her. Are you f*ing kidding me? She’s a champion. Get off her, she did nothing!”

WATCH:

Bodycam footage of WNBA star Arike Ogunbowale being arrested outside E11EVEN nightclub in Miami, as Paige Bueckers tried to intervene and an officer pointed a Taser at her.

Arike Ogunbowale’s misdemeanor battery charge was eventually dropped in May. pic.twitter.com/c7mg0lbaHt

— FearBuck (@FearedBuck) September 22, 2026

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