The Big Lie... SAVE Act!

Trump & Company is touting their latest attempt at voter suppression, they know it works because a state passed a similar bill!

Trump floats executive order on voter ID if SAVE Act stalls in Senate

The Hill

by Ryan Mancini - 02/13/26

President Trump on Friday indicated he will issue an executive order seeking to require voters to present proof of citizenship if the Senate does not pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, which passed in the House this week.

“There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not!” Trump wrote on Truth Social around 4:30 p.m. EST. “Also, the People of our Country are insisting on Citizenship, and No Mail-In Ballots, with exceptions for Military, Disability, Illness, or Travel.”

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“This is an issue that must be fought, and must be fought, NOW!” Trump wrote in a lengthy post on Truth Social. “If we can’t get it through Congress, there are Legal reasons why this SCAM is not permitted. I will be presenting them shortly, in the form of an Executive Order.”

He accused Democrats of being “horrible, disingenuous CHEATERS” who have “all sorts of reasons why it shouldn’t be passed, and then boldly laugh in the backrooms after their ridiculous presentations.”

You all have probably have heard of the Heritage Foundation, you know, the ones who did Project 2025. Well here is what they found.

 “Heritage has just added seven more fraud cases from Alabama, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Texas, to the database.    “With the addition of these seven cases, the database now holds 1,567 proven instances of election fraud, and we are tracking almost 300 additional potential cases that are in the investigative or prosecutorial stage by law enforcement.”

Wow! 1,567 cases! But out out how many? A 100 million?

• AP News reported Wisconsin found 46 cases of suspected fraud!
• AP News also reported: "A review of Iowa’s voter rolls last year found a fraction of that number — 35 people who are not U.S. citizens — were among more than 1.6 million Iowa voters who cast ballot in the 2024 election, and there were 277 noncitizens registered to vote out of nearly 2.3 million."
• The Austin-American Statesman wrote: Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson announced this week that a new review of Texas' voter registration rolls matched against a federal citizenship database identified that more than 2,700 possible non-citizens among the 18.6 million people eligible to vote.

Voter fraud is Trump's big lie!

But many Republicans are pushing it in the Big Lie, WABI writes about Susan Collins of Maine, 

Senator Susan Collins recently announced her support for the Save America Act. If passed, the bill would create stricter voter ID law requiring individuals to provide documented proof of citizenship when registering to vote and to show a photo ID before voting.

The bill passed the house last Wednesday and now makes its way to the senate.

When asked about her support for the legislation, Collins says passing the bill would ensure confidence in election results. Critics argue it would disenfranchise millions of voters.

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Did you know that Kansas passed their version of the SAVE America Act... and it had the desired affect, disenfranchising tens of thousands of voters, denying their right voters to vote.

‘We’ve been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country.’

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem

Hun? What? What does she mean by "the right people voting"? Yup, that is what SAVE America Act does. blocking "the wrong people" from voting! The ACLU wrote back in 2018 what the Kansas law did to voters!

The federal trial over a Kansas law requiring people to show citizenship documents like a birth certificate or passport when registering to vote begins on March 6 in Kansas City. The American Civil Liberties Union will represent the League of Women Voters and several individuals whose voting rights were violated. Kris Kobach — the secretary of state of Kansas, chief architect of the law, and the defendant in the lawsuit — will represent himself.

From 2013 to 2016, more than 35,000 Kansans were blocked from registering because of Kobach’s documentary proof-of-citizenship law — approximately 14 percent of new registrants. Many Kansans, including several of our clients, went to the polls on Election Day in 2014 with every reason to believe that they were registered, only to be told, “Sorry, you haven’t proven that you’re a U.S. citizen.”

We filed suit in 2016, charging that Kobach’s law undermines the fundamental right to vote and violates the National Voter Registration Act. In a preliminary ruling for the 10th Circuit, Judge Jerome Holmes, who was appointed by George W. Bush, found that the law had caused the “mass denial of a fundamental constitutional right.”

What does she mean by "the right people"? In 2020 the ACLU showed us the answer in 2018. In Kansas, over 35,000 citizens (14% of new registrants) were blocked from voting because they didn't have a birth certificate or passport handy at the DMV.

Judge Jerome Holmes, a George W. Bush appointee, called it a “mass denial of a fundamental constitutional right.” Even though the Supreme Court effectively killed the Kansas law in 2020, the Trump administration is using that exact same failed logic for this federal bill.

The Republican Strategy for 2026

Gerrymandering, the SAVE Act, and threats of using ICE at polling places are all parts of the same machine. It is designed for one thing: a Republican win on November 3, 2026. Their motto seems to be: "If you can't win honestly... cheat!."