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This is a very long post. I am duplicating the first section here, regarding the Save America Act. At the end is the link to the complete post. It is worth your time and attention. I promise.

THE COMPLETE LIST OF CONGRESS MEMBERS WHO HAVE DECIDED THEIR AGENDA MATTERS MORE THAN YOU DO

Let me say something at the very beginning that you need to understand before we go any further.

Your congressman does not represent Democrats. Your senator does not represent Republicans. They do not represent the donors who funded their campaign, the party bosses who gave them their committee assignments, or the cable news anchors who invite them on television. They represent EVERY SINGLE PERSON in their district or their state. Period. That is the entire job. That is the oath. That is the contract they signed with you the moment they put their hand on a Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution of the United States.

Not the people who voted for them. EVERYONE.

That means the conservative in a blue district who just wants to show ID to vote — the same ID he showed to buy cold medicine last Tuesday — deserves representation. The veteran in any state who is losing $1,400 a month because the government he bled for is picking his pocket deserves representation. The working parent who does not want their tax dollars funding the salaries of people who cannot be bothered to DO THEIR JOB deserves representation.

What you are about to read is not a partisan attack. I am going to call out members of BOTH parties by name, on the record, using their actual votes. I am going to tell you which party most of the offenders belong to, because the data is what it is, and I refuse to lie to you just to seem balanced. I am also going to call out Republicans by name when the data demands it, because intellectual honesty requires it.

What I ask is simple. Read this. Look up your representative in these lists. Ask yourself one honest question:

Is this person doing the job you hired them to do?

Because in far too many cases — the documented answer is no.

— ILHAN OMAR AND THE MOST REVEALING THING HAPPENING IN POLITICS RIGHT NOW —

Before we get to votes and data, I need to talk about something that I think tells us more about the state of political representation in America than almost anything else I have seen.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) represents Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District. Minneapolis. She was elected to represent the people of that district. ALL of them — the Somali community that supported her, yes. But also the veterans. The business owners. The parents. The conservatives. The people who voted against her. Every single person who lives in that district is her constituent, and every single one of them is owed her attention, her responsiveness, and her accountability.

She has blocked her constituents from commenting on her X account.

Not her personal account. Her PUBLIC PLATFORM where she speaks about public policy. She does not want the people she supposedly serves to be able to respond to her, disagree with her, or even ask her a question. She decided that her comfort with her own ideas is more important than the most basic democratic function that exists: the ability to talk back to your government.

I want you to sit with that for a second.

This is a sitting member of Congress. An elected official. Someone who campaigned on “representation” and “democracy” and “giving voice to the voiceless.” And she literally — not figuratively, LITERALLY — will not let the people whose district she represents speak to her.

SHE DOES NOT WANT YOUR VOICE. She wants your vote, and then she wants your silence. She will collect the paycheck, wield the power, make the decisions, cast the votes, and you will sit down and stay quiet and be grateful she showed up at all.

That is not democracy. That is not representation. That is not what elected officials are supposed to be.

IT IS THE ANTITHESIS OF DEMOCRACY. It is the mindset of a ruler, not a representative. And @IlhanMN has made it crystal clear: she is about her own agenda, her own ideology, and her own political brand. The constituents she was elected to serve are nothing more than a vehicle she used to get there.

Quinn’s Law #22 is operating in plain sight: liberals love democracy until it does not go their way. And apparently, that extends to blocking the literal voices of the people who elected you.
Now let us get into the votes.

— VOTE ONE: THE SAVE ACT — VOTER ID — 83% OF AMERICA WANTS IT —

Here are some numbers I want you to hold in your head.

Pew Research, August 2025: 83% of Americans support requiring government-issued photo ID to vote.

Gallup, October 2024: 84% of Americans support photo ID at polling places.

Among self-identified Democrats: 67-71% support it.

Let me be precise about what 83% means. That is not a slim majority. That is nine out of ten people agreeing on something in a country where nine out of ten people cannot agree on what to order for lunch. That is the kind of consensus that makes pollsters double-check their methodology because they cannot believe the number is that high.

The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act — the SAVE Act, H.R. 22 — passed the House of Representatives on April 10, 2025. It requires proof of citizenship to register to vote. It does not take away anyone’s right to vote. It requires that the person voting is who they say they are. The same thing you do when you cash a check, board an airplane, or buy NyQuil.

It passed 220-208.

Every single Republican — all 216 of them — voted YES. Four Democrats crossed over and voted YES: Case (HI), Golden (ME), Cuellar (TX), and Perez (WA). These four members looked at 83% support in their own districts and decided to do their job. Credit where it is due. Genuinely.

The other 208 Democrats voted NO.

Two hundred and eight members of Congress looked at 83% support among the American public — including majority support from their own voters — and voted against it anyway. They did not represent their constituents. They represented their party.
Here they are. Every single one. By state.

I want you to find your representative. Look them in the eye at your next town hall — if they even hold one — and ask them why 83% support was not enough.

ALABAMA: Figures, Shomari | Sewell, Terri A.
ARIZONA: Ansari, Yassamin | Stanton, Greg
CALIFORNIA (43 members): Aguilar, Pete | Barragán, Nanette Diaz | Bera, Ami | Brownley, Julia | Carbajal, Salud O. | Chu, Judy | Cisneros, Gilbert Ray | Correa, J. Luis | Costa, Jim | DeSaulnier, Mark | Friedman, Laura | Garamendi, John | Garcia, Robert | Gomez, Jimmy | Gray, Adam | Harder, Josh | Huffman, Jared | Jacobs, Sara | Kamlager-Dove, Sydney | Khanna, Ro | Levin, Mike | Liccardo, Sam | Lieu, Ted | Lofgren, Zoe | Matsui, Doris O. | Min, Dave | Mullin, Kevin | Panetta, Jimmy | Pelosi, Nancy | Peters, Scott H. | Rivas, Luz | Ruiz, Raul | Sánchez, Linda T. | Sherman, Brad | Simon, Lateefah | Swalwell, Eric | Takano, Mark | Thompson, Mike | Torres, Norma J. | Tran, Derek | Vargas, Juan | Waters, Maxine | Whitesides, George COLORADO: Crow, Jason | DeGette, Diana | Neguse, Joe | Pettersen, Brittany
CONNECTICUT: Courtney, Joe | DeLauro, Rosa L. | Hayes, Jahana | Himes, James A. | Larson, John B.
DELAWARE: McBride, Sarah
FLORIDA: Castor, Kathy | Cherfilus-McCormick, Sheila | Frankel, Lois | Frost, Maxwell | Moskowitz, Jared | Soto, Darren | Wasserman Schultz, Debbie | Wilson, Frederica S.
GEORGIA: Bishop, Sanford D. | Johnson, Hank | McBath, Lucy | Scott, David | Williams, Nikema
HAWAII: Tokuda, Jill N.
ILLINOIS (14 members): Budzinski, Nikki | Casten, Sean | Davis, Danny K. | Foster, Bill | García, Jesús G. “Chuy” | Jackson, Jonathan L. | Kelly, Robin L. | Krishnamoorthi, Raja | Quigley, Mike | Ramirez, Delia C. | Schakowsky, Janice D. | Schneider, Bradley Scott | Sorensen, Eric | Underwood, Lauren
INDIANA: Carson, André | Mrvan, Frank J. KANSAS: Davids, Sharice KENTUCKY: McGarvey, Morgan
LOUISIANA: Carter, Troy A. | Fields, Cleo
MAINE: Pingree, Chellie
MARYLAND: Elfreth, Sarah | Hoyer, Steny H. | Ivey, Glenn | McClain Delaney, April | Mfume, Kweisi | Olszewski, Johnny | Raskin, Jamie
MASSACHUSETTS (9 members): Auchincloss, Jake | Clark, Katherine M. | Keating, William R. | Lynch, Stephen F. | McGovern, James P. | Moulton, Seth | Neal, Richard E. | Pressley, Ayanna | Trahan, Lori
MICHIGAN: Dingell, Debbie | McDonald Rivet, Kristen | Scholten, Hillary J. | Stevens, Haley M. | Thanedar, Shri | Tlaib, Rashida
MINNESOTA: Craig, Angie | McCollum, Betty | Morrison, Kelly | Omar, Ilhan
MISSISSIPPI: Thompson, Bennie G.
MISSOURI: Bell, Wesley | Cleaver, Emanuel
NEVADA: Horsford, Steven | Lee, Susie | Titus, Dina
NEW HAMPSHIRE: Goodlander, Maggie | Pappas, Chris
NEW JERSEY: Conaway, Herbert | Gottheimer, Josh | McIver, LaMonica | Menendez, Robert | Pallone, Frank | Pou, Nellie | Sherrill, Mikie | Watson Coleman, Bonnie
NEW MEXICO: Leger Fernandez, Teresa | Stansbury, Melanie A. | Vasquez, Gabe
NEW YORK (19 members): Clarke, Yvette D. | Espaillat, Adriano | Gillen, Laura | Goldman, Daniel S. | Jeffries, Hakeem S. | Kennedy, Timothy M. | Latimer, George | Mannion, John | Meeks, Gregory W. | Meng, Grace | Morelle, Joseph D. | Nadler, Jerrold | Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria | Riley, Josh | Ryan, Patrick | Suozzi, Thomas R. | Tonko, Paul | Torres, Ritchie | Velázquez, Nydia M.
NORTH CAROLINA: Adams, Alma S. | Davis, Donald G. | Foushee, Valerie P. | Ross, Deborah K.
OHIO: Beatty, Joyce | Brown, Shontel M. | Kaptur, Marcy | Landsman, Greg | Sykes, Emilia Strong
OREGON: Bonamici, Suzanne | Bynum, Janelle | Dexter, Maxine | Hoyle, Val T. | Salinas, Andrea
PENNSYLVANIA: Boyle, Brendan F. | Dean, Madeleine | Deluzio, Christopher R. | Evans, Dwight | Houlahan, Chrissy | Lee, Summer L. | Scanlon, Mary Gay
RHODE ISLAND: Amo, Gabe | Magaziner, Seth SOUTH CAROLINA: Clyburn, James E.
TENNESSEE: Cohen, Steve
TEXAS (11 members): Casar, Greg | Castro, Joaquin | Crockett, Jasmine | Doggett, Lloyd | Escobar, Veronica | Fletcher, Lizzie | Garcia, Sylvia R. | Gonzalez, Vicente | Green, Al | Johnson, Julie | Veasey, Marc A.
VERMONT: Balint, Becca
VIRGINIA: Beyer, Donald S. | Connolly, Gerald E. | McClellan, Jennifer L. | Scott, Robert C. “Bobby” | Subramanyam, Suhas | Vindman, Eugene
WASHINGTON: DelBene, Suzan K. | Jayapal, Pramila | Larsen, Rick | Randall, Emily | Schrier, Kim | Smith, Adam | Strickland, Marilyn
WISCONSIN: Moore, Gwen | Pocan, Mark

That is 208 members of the United States House of Representatives who voted against the will of 83% of Americans.

Now I said I would call out both parties. True to my word: on the Senate side, the SAVE Act procedural vote on March 17, 2026 failed 51-48. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) was the only Republican to vote against advancing it. She called it federal overreach. The other 47 NO votes were all Democrats or Democrat-aligned independents. Murkowski’s name belongs on this list too, and it is going on it.

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) was absent for that vote and has publicly stated he is “a no” — calling the entire debate a “waste of time” with “0% chance of passing.” So he gets a special mention: he did not even show up to vote against it. He just told you, publicly, that he does not think it matters. Real profile in courage there, Senator.

The Senate NO votes on the SAVE Act procedural vote:
Alsobrooks (D-MD) | Baldwin (D-WI) | Bennet (D-CO) | Blumenthal (D-CT) | Blunt Rochester (D-DE) | Booker (D-NJ) | Cantwell (D-WA) | Coons (D-DE) | Cortez Masto (D-NV) | Duckworth (D-IL) | Durbin (D-IL) | Fetterman (D-PA) | Gallego (D-AZ) | Gillibrand (D-NY) | Hassan (D-NH) | Heinrich (D-NM) | Hickenlooper (D-CO) | Hirono (D-HI) | Kaine (D-VA) | Kelly (D-AZ) | Kim (D-NJ) | King (I-ME) | Klobuchar (D-MN) | Luján (D-NM) | Markey (D-MA) | Merkley (D-OR) | Murkowski (R-AK) | Murphy (D-CT) | Murray (D-WA) | Ossoff (D-GA) | Padilla (D-CA) | Peters (D-MI) | Reed (D-RI) | Rosen (D-NV) | Sanders (I-VT) | Schatz (D-HI) | Schiff (D-CA) | Schumer (D-NY) | Shaheen (D-NH) | Slotkin (D-MI) | Smith (D-MN) | Van Hollen (D-MD) | Warner (D-VA) | Warnock (D-GA) | Warren (D-MA) | Welch (D-VT) | Whitehouse (D-RI) | Wyden (D-OR)

And Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) — absent and publicly opposed.

Ask yourself something. If 67% of DEMOCRATS support voter ID — and polling consistently shows they do — then who exactly are these senators representing? Because it is not their constituents. It is not even ONLY the Republican constituents that pushed this — most of their own Democratic base supports it too, but these senators are not polling their district. They are polling their donors, their party bosses, and whatever the current temperature is on the idea that Orange Man Bad means you vote NO on anything he touches, even when 67% of your own people are standing behind it. Quinn’s Law #6: facts are the enemy of liberalism. The fact that their own base supports this bill is apparently not a fact they are willing to deal with.

— A BRIEF WORD ABOUT THE ARGUMENT THEY WILL MAKE —

They will tell you this is about voter suppression. They will tell you that requiring ID disenfranchises people who cannot get one.

I want to address this as a teacher, because when a student gives me an argument this weak, I do them the courtesy of actually explaining where the logic fails.

We already require ID to: buy alcohol, buy tobacco, drive a car, board a plane, cash a check, open a bank account, buy a gun legally, rent an apartment, get government benefits, and in many states, enter a federal courthouse. The left has never once described any of those ID requirements as “suppression.”

They require ID at the DNC convention to get in the door. No, seriously — they do.

If the argument is that some people cannot access a government ID, the answer is to help them GET one — not to abandon the verification process entirely. And the bill does not prevent people from getting an ID. It simply says that when you participate in the most fundamental act of self-governance in a democratic system, you should be able to confirm you are who you say you are.

Eighty-three percent of Americans already understand this. The 208 members on that list above chose party loyalty over that 83%. Remember their names in November.

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