🚨🧵🚨 1/10 Government shutdowns aren’t a bug—they’re a feature of a system that’s grown too big and too expensive

They illustrate why James Madison insisted the federal government’s powers must be “few and defined”

Let’s break it down 2/10 In Federalist 45, Madison wrote:

“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.”

He wasn’t being poetic

He was drawing a line in the sand

At the “No Kings” rallies, we saw countless, open calls for violence against President Trump and other Republicans

When pressed, some Democrats will shrug and insist that “both sides have bad apples who sometimes say bad things, but that doesn’t mean they reflect the views of their party as a whole”

That sounds like a good argument—and in the past it might have been

But open calls for violence among Democrats have recently become so common, widely accepted, and even celebrated—as they certainly were at the “No Kings” rallies—that this argument rings hollow

Those engaging in such behavior over the weekend appear to have done so with full, unbridled approval of their fellow protesters

And this happened in so many times—and in so many different locations—that it’s impossible to dismiss them as one-off exceptions

Please share this post if you agree, commenting on any examples you found especially troubling


This guy’s promoting the killing of federal law enforcement personnel—with the apparent approval of the crowd

🧵1/ The cry of “No Kings” echoes through American history

It’s a reminder that power belongs to the people, not unaccountable rulers

Today, that principle is under threat—not from wearers of crowns, but from federal bureaucrats who make binding laws without ever facing a vote 2/ The Constitution vests lawmaking power in Congress, elected by you

Yet federal agencies churn out roughly 100,000 pages of binding regulations—effectively laws—every year

These bureaucrats, who never stand for election, dictate how Americans live and work

That’s not liberty

That’s despotic rule by fiat

Is the University of Colorado committed to making Latter-day Saint students “feel [like] they belong”?

Or are we a disfavored religious minority? I’m referring of course to the “F the Mormons” chant at last night’s Colorado-BYU game

https://twitter.com/ronthe3manweav/status/1972135025832612248

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How Democrats Are Trying To Enlist Republicans In The Dem Effort To Move America Toward Socialized Medicine

1. Dems enact Obamacare “to make healthcare affordable”—with *every* Republican opposing it and warning that Obamacare will make healthcare more expensive, not less 2. Obamacare makes healthcare *less* affordable, with premiums going up every year, even as coverage and quality steadily diminish

Meanwhile, huge healthcare companies get rich as they consolidate and minimize competition, facilitated by Obamacare’s onerous regulations

🧵 1/ No other success a country enjoys—economically, intellectually, technologically, or otherwise—can compensate for a collapse in that country’s birth rate, which culminates in unmitigated societal demise 2/ Low birth rate and population collapse leads to extinction

🚨🧵 1/Repost if you think this is yet another good reason to end universal mail-in voting 2/ USPS unions like the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) & American Postal Workers Union (APWU) routinely endorse presidential candidates

Both NALC and APWU endorsed Kamala Harris in 2024 & all postal-worker unions overwhelmingly favor Democrats when they endorse

🚨‼️🚨 Read this thread to find out why Democrats are celebrating all over Utah tonight:

🧵 1/ Utah’s electoral system is under attack by Democrats and their leftist allies in the Utah courts

https://twitter.com/kimfcoleman/status/1960172720530051493

2/ Seven years ago, Utah voters passed a law (through a ballot initiative) creating a legislative redistricting commission

1/ Utah is a Republican state—one that has been served by exclusively Republican governors for decades. And we’ve had decades of Republican majorities in both chambers of the legislature. Why, then, does Utah have a number of avowed leftists serving in its judicial system?

https://twitter.com/kimfcoleman/status/1959067940537737494

2/ Utah’s judicial nomination system is broken. Republican governors often end up naming left-wing judicial nominees who don’t share their views on the proper role of the courts—including basic concepts like textualism, originalism, and judicial modesty. It’s time for reform—to empower the governor to pick judges who align with the governor’s vision.
#UtahJudicialReform

🧵 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

https://twitter.com/hauserdan/status/1957525633107653093

2. Mail-in voting opens the door to fraud & undermines trust in our elections

By contrast, in-person voting with ID ensures security & transparency

🧵 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. 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…

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

🧵 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

https://x.com/nytimes/status/1267324491912278018/video/1

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!

🧵 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

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1953206179079045402

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)

🚨 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

🧵 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

🧵1/ The TSA does violence to the Constitution and erodes liberty

Here’s why we must rethink its role
#TSA
#FourthAmendment #Liberty 2/ The Fourth Amendment protects us against “unreasonable searches and seizures”

TSA’s invasive pat-downs and body scanners—applied to every traveler without any specific, articulable basis for suspicion—clash with this core principle

Blanket searches aren’t “reasonable”

🧵1/ At the current pace, it’ll be April 2026 before we confirm the 135 Trump nominees now pending in the Senate

We need a game-changer

Otherwise, we risk extending rule by the leftist Deep State™️, which has outsized influence when GOP political appointees aren’t confirmed 2/ Shockingly, it’s about to get worse, as my projection focuses solely on the 135 nominees currently pending & awaiting floor votes

It does *not* account for new additions as committees keep reporting out nominees (including the 124 still in committee & future submissions)

🧵 1/ Marxism inspires people to wield government’s coercive power against their fellow citizens—inevitably causing immense harm—all while insisting that the harm is justified because “it’s for their own good” 2/ Once embraced, the “it’s for their own good” mantra can be misused to justify cruelty in almost any setting in which there is a pronounced power differential—including at work (mean boss), home (abusive spouse or parent), or school (tyrannical teacher)

1/ USAID has become a vehicle for pushing anti-American, radical far-left ideologies—all on the taxpayer’s dime. The problems go far beyond waste, fraud, and abuse. They undermine our security, promote extremism, and harm the very people they aim to help.
2/ USAID undermines American interests by failing to counter our adversaries like China. Instead of binding countries to us through trade and investment, we’ve wasted billions on a global green agenda that forces poor nations to rely on China for energy. Result? Recipients like South Africa (a top aid receiver) align with China in BRICS, support Hamas, and oppose us at the UN.

🚨🧵 1/ Alexis de Tocqueville warned us against the evils of socialism in *Democracy in America*—without using the word “socialism,” which had not yet entered common parlance 2/ Without using the word itself, Tocqueville described socialist systems as exercising “an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate”

“That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild”