I think that the following two shorts are very important re the SAVE America Act U.S.. The second short is just incredible! I hope you can post them.
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Here's how Dangerous this VOTER SUPPRESSION Act would be
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In April 2024, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene threatened to force a vote to remove Rep. Mike Johnson from the speakership. Johnson's hold on the gavel was in genuine danger. As he considered his options, he saw only one way out: a press conference at Mar-a-Lago with Donald Trump to announce a new legislative effort built on lies about elections and designed to attack voting rights.
The gambit worked. At the hastily organized press conference, Johnson repeated false claims about noncitizen voting, and Trump expressed support for the embattled speaker. Greene stood down. The crisis had been averted.
Over the following weeks, the details of the promised legislation were worked out, and the SAVE Act was born.
No one, except for Donald Trump, took the new bill seriously. Democrats controlled the Senate, and Joe Biden was in the White House. The bill was crafted to lend support to Trump's obsession over his 2020 election defeat and to satisfy the election deniers in the GOP caucus. |
The core of the bill was the requirement that every voter must prove their citizenship when they register and that registration must take place in person. This meant that online and mail-in voter registration would be prohibited.
The most controversial provision required that the name on a person's ID match the documents used to prove citizenship — meaning that married women, and anyone else who had changed their name, would face serious obstacles using birth certificates to establish their citizenship. It was estimated that tens of millions of women would face potential disenfranchisement.
Other provisions imposed civil and criminal liability on election workers who register voters without the proper documentation and required states to purge noncitizens from their voter rolls.
In July 2024, the bill quietly passed the House on a near party-line vote. By then, Johnson's political standing had improved within his party. Yet, everyone assumed the SAVE Act was dead.
Everyone, that is, except Donald Trump.
In September, Congress was facing a potential government shutdown if it did not pass a new spending bill. Members of both parties wanted to pass a continuing resolution to postpone the fight until after the 2024 election.
But Trump had given Johnson his public backing on the implicit understanding that Johnson would deliver a new voter suppression law — and he aimed to collect. "If Republicans don't get the SAVE Act, and every ounce of it," Trump posted on social media, "they should not agree to a Continuing Resolution in any way, shape, or form."
Trump's efforts failed. Congress passed a continuing resolution, and the government was kept open. But that was not the end of the SAVE Act.
With Republicans in control of Congress and Trump in the White House, the voter suppression law was reintroduced in 2025. Its provisions were identical to those of the earlier bill, and its fate was the same. It passed the House, but Senate Democrats strongly opposed it, and it had no path to overcoming a filibuster and becoming law.
Once again, everyone assumed the SAVE Act was dead. Republicans went on to enact deeply unpopular legislation and Trump's poll numbers plummeted.
As we entered 2026, it became clear that Republicans were set up to lose control of Congress in the midterm elections. What followed was predictable.
Rather than moderate his positions or respond to public concern, Trump escalated — moving from lies about election fraud to something far more alarming. He has mused about canceling elections altogether and made clear he believes Republicans should take direct control of the voting and counting process.
In remarks that drew widespread alarm, he declared that states are merely his "agents" in conducting federal elections — a claim that turns the Constitution on its head. His Department of Justice has been transformed into an instrument of political retribution, voter suppression, and election subversion.
Alongside these actions came a new version of the SAVE Act — the SAVE America Act. While the original bill focused on adding a proof-of-citizenship requirement, this new version went much further.
Strict voter ID was added, including for those voting by mail. The updated bill would also require states to share sensitive voter data with the Department of Homeland Security. It would take effect immediately, giving election officials no opportunity to implement its many changes.
The House passed this version on Feb. 11, 2026, and it now sits before the Senate. But fearing a landslide defeat in November, Trump is demanding the GOP go further still.
In recent days, he has added additional requirements to what he calls the "watered down" version passed by the House — including a ban on mail-in voting except for military personnel and those who are ill or traveling, as well as restrictions targeting the transgender community. These additions have nothing to do with voting eligibility; they are simply the price Trump is extracting from Senate Republicans.
Trump has spent the last few weeks ratcheting up pressure on Senate Majority Leader John Thune to shepherd the bill through the Senate. The problem is that Thune does not have the votes to accomplish this.
Several Republican senators have already said they will not support the measure. Others will vote for the bill, but they will not vote to lower the threshold for overcoming a Democratic filibuster. It has even been suggested that House Republicans may not have the votes to pass the newer version if it were to reach them.
None of this will satisfy Trump. He was promised the SAVE Act in 2024 and expected Republicans to sacrifice their own political futures to enact it. He remains insistent today that they do the same with an even more suppressive bill.
In the end, Senate Republicans will not pass this bill. The SAVE Act will again go dormant.
But if history is any guide, it will not be for long. Each time it returns, it is broader, more punitive and more dangerous.
The question is no longer whether Trump will push a version of this legislation that strips millions of Americans of their right to vote. We know he will. The question is whether enough Americans understand what is at stake — and whether the institutions designed to protect their rights will hold. We all must make sure they do. |
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