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The SAVE Act, referred to by some tragically misguided individuals as the SAVE America Act, has nothing to do with saving America – or Americans – in any way, shape, or form. An appropriately named SAVE Act would help save us all from Donald Trump.
Instead, the SAVE Act is all about saving Trump and the Republicans from an almost certain humiliating defeat in the 2026 elections. Already, there is clear evidence of deeply Republican districts that voted for Trump’s re-election in 2024 by double digits now turning blue. Hell, in Georgia, a Black Democrat named Shawn Harris is in a runoff election against a Republicanto fill the House seat vacated by Marjorie Taylor Greene. This is after he came out ahead in the earlier special election, but just not enough to win the seat outright.
I’ll say it again: A Black Democrat is now in a position to fill the Congressional House seat vacated by the once rabidly and mindlessly pro-Trump Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. A rabid, mindless pro-Trump Republican who represented a deep red district in Georgia (for crying out loud), who was first elected in 2020, then again in 2022, then again in 2024, could now be replaced by a Black Democrat. Even if he loses, the fact that this man forced a runoff in the Congressional district that Greene won three times in a row…?
But Shawn Harris isn’t the only one. This Trump-No-More phenomenon is happening across the country in heavily Republican congressional districts that formerly voted for Trump and now don’t want to be associated with the man. A growing number of ex-MAGA are now willing to do what was once considered unthinkable and impossible to atone for the sins of their past voting history.
The only way for Republicans to turn back the blue wave that’s coming is for Republicans to do what they do best, and that’s to cheat like their lives depend on it – which, politically speaking, they do.
Which brings us back to the SAVE Act. Because the SAVE Act is all about cheating by any and all means necessary.
Proof of Citizenship for Registration: Prohibits states from registering individuals for federal elections unless they provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship (DPOC).
Acceptable Documents: Includes a U.S. passport, birth certificate, or certain forms of government-issued photo ID that explicitly indicate citizenship.
In-Person Requirement: Requires this documentation to be presented in person to an election official, which critics argue effectively ends the convenience of mail-in and online registration.
National Photo ID Requirement: Mandates that all voters present a valid photo ID to cast a ballot in person or submit a copy of their ID when voting by mail.
Voter Roll Purges: Requires states to establish programs to identify and remove noncitizens from existing voter rolls using federal databases, such as USCIS’s SAVE system.
Penalties & Legal Action: Establishes criminal penalties for election officials who register ineligible individuals and creates a “private right of action,” allowing individuals to sue officials for alleged non-compliance.
So essentially, the SAVE Act is a voter suppression bill. Or to quote the Campaign Legal Center:
“In addition to requiring burdensome documentation to register to vote, the SAVE America Act would implement an extreme documentation requirement at polling places and for mail voters that is more onerous than almost every single state voter ID law currently in effect.
“Moreover, under the SAVE America Act, every single state would be forced to submit its voter registration list to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for comparison to the agency’s error-ridden database. This is a plain attempt to bully states into sharing voters’ sensitive personal information with the federal government that federal officials might be unable to otherwise access.
“Alarmingly, the SAVE America Act includes no restrictions on what the federal government can do with the sensitive data once DHS receives it and no safeguards against using the data to force voter purges or unduly question election results.”
And now consider this: most married women take their husband’s last name, so their birth certificate doesn’t match, if they even have one. 50% of Americans don’t have passports, and it takes time and money to get either a passport or a copy of their birth certificate—essentially a “poll tax,” which was ruled unconstitutional in 1966 by the Supreme Court.
Trump tries to say mail-in voting, which started during the Civil War, is full of fraud, even as he himself uses it. The military and Americans Abroad have been voting by mail for decades. He wants vote counting to stop at the closing of the polls local time, and not allow counting of any ballots after that, even though many jurisdictions don’t even start counting until then, and have a “grace period” to receive and count ballots that come in for about five days after the polls close. Some states have been doing all-mail-in voting for decades. He also wants to eliminate early voting, which has been in place for years. He wants states to give the Department of Homeland Security their voting records and wants voters purged monthly. He doesn’t realize that what he’s proposing negatively affects a lot of his base.
The SAVE Act passed the House last month, but faces an uphill battle in the Senate, where Republican Senate Leader John Thune says he has nowhere near the 60 votes necessary to pass the bill, and he has no intention of breaking the filibuster for 51 votes instead - and he doesn’t have 51 votes either.
This bill does not need to be saved. It needs to be flushed.
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