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Senate GOP Can Fix Elections, Boost Trump, And Wreck Dems With The SAVE Act, by Rachel Bovard – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Senate GOP Can Fix Elections, Boost Trump, And Wreck Dems With The SAVE Act, by Rachel Bovard

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John-Thune. Image Credit. Gage Skidmore. Wikimedia Commons. Cropped. CC By-SA 2.0

By Rachel Bovard, The Federalist, February 02, 2026

Rachel Bovard is the vice president of programs at the Conservative Partnership Institute. She served on Capitol Hill for over a decade, including as legislative director to Sen. Rand Paul and the executive director of the Senate Steering Committee.

A voter ID filibuster would be a 24/7 GOP campaign ad.

What if I told you Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., has the power and the votes — right now — to save Republicans’ congressional majorities, President Trump’s second-term agenda, and maybe the republic itself, all while poleaxing Democrats on the short side of an 84-15 issue?

It sounds like fantasy. But like the Lady of the Lake from Arthurian legend, 2026 is offering up to the GOP a political weapon almost as powerful as Excalibur itself: an extended Democrat talking filibuster of national voter ID legislation.

Popular Idea, Toxic Opposition

Requiring voters to prove their citizenship is one of the most popular ideas in the country, with 84 percent of Americans supporting and only 15 percent opposed. That’s why 36 states and most of the world’s developed countries already have it on the books. …

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Senate GOP Can Fix Elections, Boost Trump, And Wreck Dems With The SAVE Act, by Rachel Bovard

Why ICE Exists, by Kevin Cohen

Fr. Jerry Pokorsky: Sleep and the Beatitudes

By Rachel Bovard, The Federalist, February 02, 2026

A voter ID filibuster would be a 24/7 GOP campaign ad.

What if I told you Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., has the power and the votes — right now — to save Republicans’ congressional majorities, President Trump’s second-term agenda, and maybe the republic itself, all while poleaxing Democrats on the short side of an 84-15 issue?

It sounds like fantasy. But like the Lady of the Lake from Arthurian legend, 2026 is offering up to the GOP a political weapon almost as powerful as Excalibur itself: an extended Democrat talking filibuster of national voter ID legislation.

Popular Idea, Toxic Opposition

Requiring voters to prove their citizenship is one of the most popular ideas in the country, with 84 percent of Americans supporting and only 15 percent opposed. That’s why 36 states and most of the world’s developed countries already have it on the books. …

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