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@BasedMikeLee
Aug 19 • 7 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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🧵 1. As President Trump has made clear, it’s time to end mail-in voting

Utah should lead the way on this

Other states will follow
#ElectionIntegrity
#UtahFirst
2. Mail-in voting opens the door to fraud & undermines trust in our elections

By contrast, in-person voting with ID ensures security & transparency Image
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3. States like Texas & Florida are already tightening voting laws

Utah has the chance to be a model for the nation by prioritizing election integrity Image
4. Let’s push for legislation to eliminate mail-in voting and require voter ID

The Utah legislature should lead on this & then encourage other states to do the same

It’s time to restore confidence in our elections Image
5. Don’t confuse mail-in voting (where all voters automatically receive ballots by mail) with absentee voting (where alternative voting options can be arranged based on need—e.g., illness, disability, military deployment, travel, etc.)

Some wrongly conflate them—perhaps in an effort to scare people into thinking that ending mail-in voting would be unfair to military personnel and Americans with disabilities—but mail-in voting and absentee voting are very, very differentImage
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6. Absentee voting has long been managed responsibly and should be preserved

The same cannot be said of (non-absentee) mail-in voting, which presents far too many risks that can’t adequately be mitigated
7. Please share this thread if you agree that President Trump is right—that it’s time to end mail-in voting—and follow if you’d like to see more posts like this one Image

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Aug 15
🧵 1/ The Left’s latest push to “save democracy” is just a rebrand of their war on the Constitution. This @nytimes piece calls for abolishing the Senate, ending the Electoral College, and packing the Supreme Court. Let’s break this down. Image
2/ The Constitution gives each state equal representation in the Senate, balancing raw majority rule. The Electoral College ensures smaller states aren’t drowned out by big states. These are just two of the many deliberate, counter-majoritarian design features in our Constitution. The Left calls them “undemocratic.” In a sense, they’re right, but that’s the whole point of the Constitution—to restrain government, even (especially) when the majority doesn’t want the government to be restrained. nytimes.com/2025/08/14/opi…
3/ Why? Because these constitutional protections sometimes undermine their agenda. The Constitution isn’t a tool for unchecked majority rule—it’s a shield against it. That’s why I wrote Saving Nine—to show how our Constitution and independent judiciary protect us from mob rule. Image
Read 7 tweets
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Aug 12
1/6 🚨 HUGE WIN! President @realDonaldTrump just invoked Section 740 of the DC Home Rule Act, putting DC police under federal control and deploying the National Guard

This bold move addresses the rampant crime that’s plagued our nation’s capital for too long

Thank you, Mr. President, for prioritizing safety!
#FederalizeDC
2/6 The Constitution is clear: Article I, Section 8, Clause 17 gives Congress “exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever” over DC

Home Rule has been a disaster, enabling soft-on-crime policies that endanger residents and visitors alike

It’s time to repeal it entirely
#RepealDCHomeRule
3/6 DC’s murder rate is skyrocketing, carjackings are epidemic, and even DOGE staffers aren't safe

This isn’t just a local issue—it’s a national embarrassment, and the Constitution itself makes it a national issue

Federal oversight will restore order and make DC a model city again

@elonmusk and other prominent figures weighed in on this after Big Balls was attacked, noting that this is one of countless examples of the urgent need for change
Read 6 tweets
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Aug 11
🧵 1. With President Trump’s anticipated announcement tomorrow, August 11th, on stopping violent crime in DC, it’s time to push hard for federalizing our nation’s capital city

DC’s chaos under Mayor Bowser demands it—let’s revisit her 2020 blunder that sheds light on this
2. Mayor Bowser evicted over 1,200 National Guard troops, including Utah’s 19th Special Forces Group, from DC hotels during the George Floyd protests in 2020

She called the troop deployment escalatory, but they were protecting federal buildings and keeping order when DC couldn’t—or wouldn’t!
3. That eviction made DC less safe

Kicking out the Guard left DC exposed amid chaotic protests, with fires, vandalism, and clashes raging

Stripping away trained troops signaled weakness, putting residents, businesses, and monuments at higher risk of violence and looting
Read 8 tweets
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Aug 8
🧵 1/ If the residents of DC want to be part of a state, the solution is *not* DC statehood

Any solution should involve reverting land ceded by Maryland for the creation of DC—excepting only a narrow corridor encompassing the White House, Capitol, & Supreme Court—to Maryland
2/ Let’s start with some historical context

DC was established by Congress under the Residence Act of 1790, allowing President George Washington to select a site for the federal capital along the Potomac River, not exceeding 10 miles square (100 square miles) Image
3/ Land was ceded by both Maryland (about 69 square miles) and Virginia (about 31 square miles) to form this diamond-shaped district that we now call DC Image
Read 18 tweets
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Aug 6
🚨 Trump’s right to demand a federal takeover of DC after juveniles brutally attacked a DOGE staffer—it’s time to end the Home Rule disaster!

Here’s why Congress must act NOW:

🧵 1/12 Under the Constitution, Congress is supposed to be DC’s lawmaking body “in all cases whatsoever”

Article I, Section 8, Clause 17 empowers Congress “To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District … as may … become the Seat of the Government of the United States” 🇺🇸 #FederalizeDC
#BOWSERAct
2/12 In 1973, Congress began delegating that power to locally elected DC officials under the so-called DC Home Rule Act
3/12 This runs counter to the plain meaning and clear purpose of the Constitution, which made a clear choice to have our nation’s capital city run under the direction of Congress, not local officials
Read 12 tweets
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Jul 30
🧵 1. The confirmation backlog keeps getting longer as Senate committees continue to approve nominees much faster than the Senate is voting on them
2. This morning alone the committee I chair—Energy & Natural Resources—just approved three more nominees, who will now be added to the quickly growing backlog

Another committee on which I serve—Foreign Relations—also reported out three more today
3. That’s *six* more nominees added to the backlog from just *two* Senate committees; many other committees continue to approve nominees at the same rate

This problem isn’t going to go away on its own

The Senate must address this aggressively
Read 7 tweets

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