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Jul 9, 2025 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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HUGE free speech win today.

In 2016, @DougMackeyCase posted this meme telling Clinton supporters to "vote from home."

The Biden DOJ charged him with election interference—and tried to jail him for sharing a joke online.

But the Second Court just threw out his conviction. 🧵 Image
The backstory: On January 27, 2021—just a few days after taking office—the Biden DOJ charged Mackey with conspiracy to “injure, oppress, threaten and intimidate persons in the free exercise and enjoyment of...the right to vote.”

For sharing a political meme on social media. Image
While the district court refused to throw out the case, the Second Circuit has thankfully determined that the DOJ never presented sufficient evidence of a "conspiracy" required for conviction. Image
It’s important that this decade-long witch hunt has ended. Congratulations to @DougMackeyCase for a long-overdue vindication.

But there are still unanswered questions that the current DOJ must look into.
This was clearly a political prosecution—one of many example of the Biden DOJ weaponizing the criminal justice system.

The Biden Administration built the most draconian, chilling censorship machine in U.S. history. I saw it firsthand as AG of Missouri:
These people need to answer for what they did.

The DOJ should investigate who in the Department was responsible for bringing and prosecuting this case and take whatever action is necessary to ensure a miscarriage of justice like this does not happen again.

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Jan 15
Territorial expansion is a time-honored American tradition—think Louisiana Purchase, Alaska. We're a frontier people—it's in our blood.

Acquiring Greenland isn't a silly idea. It makes all the sense in the world.

Here's why. 🧵
Greenland is the only place where the U.S. can simultaneously:
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The shortest paths for ICBMs and advanced air-breathing threats from Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea to the U.S. run over the High North.

Greenland buys America time—to identify the threat, prepare to intercept, and determine the best response. Image
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Jan 14
The "Times of India" is coming after me (again) for attacking OPT—our most abused immigration scheme.

OPT:
• Subsidizes foreign labor
• Undermines young Americans
• Creates Visa Mills

OPT was created by executive regulation. It can be ended by executive regulation. Image
That's why I called on Secretary Noem and Director Edlow to overhaul or end this terribly broken program.

The entire OPT system rigs the game against Americans. America First means AMERICANS first.
Over the past 5 years, OPT has increased nearly 30%.

It's time for action. OPT, as we know it, has to go. Image
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Dec 23, 2025
For years, the State Department was a vehicle for exporting leftism to the world.

Under President Trump and Secretary Rubio, it's protecting Americans from the world's attempts to impose leftism on us.

Talk about an upgrade. Image
I'm overjoyed by today's announcement that the State Department is taking action against the foreign architects of the censorship-industrial complex.

This is an issue that is near and dear to my heart. It was the subject of two letters I wrote last week.
Below, you can read my letter to @UnderSecPD laying out the case for sanctioning the foreign bureaucrats and NGOs who are trying to impose left-wing Euro-style speech codes on Americans. This is an urgent fight—for our country and for Western civilization.
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Nov 15, 2025
The Optional Practical Training program is a cheap foreign-labor program for big companies and universities.

But it's undermining young Americans.

It’s time to overhaul or possibly end this terribly broken program all together. 🧵 Image
OPT boxes young Americans out of the workforce, discriminates against American workers in favor of foreign labor, and suppresses wages and job opportunities for U.S. graduates. It distorts our higher education system, feeds “visa mill” fraud, and threatens our national security.
Under OPT, foreign nationals can work in the U.S. on student visas for up to 12 months after graduation, and up to three years for STEM fields.

In practice, it’s become a shadow guest-worker program, with no caps, labor-market tests, or any meaningful limits or standards at all.
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Last month, I wrote to Secretary Rubio urging him to designate the international Antifa networks as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.

Antifa is a global terror network—and it's time we treated it like one.

An international system is driving left-wing violence on U.S. soil. 🧵
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Oct 31, 2025
This is the first time I’ve called for a judge’s impeachment.

Normally, appellate courts and the Supreme Court rein in rogue district judges. Not Boasberg—he’s truly lawless.

He’s openly biased, gone rogue, and likely broken the law.
I called for his discipline in July after his extrajudicial statements revealed bias against the Trump Administration.
Soon after, the DOJ filed a misconduct complaint against Boasberg, citing his threat to the integrity of the judiciary.
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