Episode 31: Inside the SAVE America Act: Policy, Process, and Public Opinion

The Reagan Faulkner Show: Episode 31 goes inside the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, cutting through the left’s fear‑mongering to explain what the amendment actually does, why it requires proof of citizenship and voter ID for federal elections, and how it closes loopholes that let noncitizens remain on voter rolls.” “Reagan breaks down provisions for married women and voters without documents, exposes the real numbers behind ‘disenfranchisement’ claims, reviews polling that shows broad bipartisan support, and explains the high‑stakes push for a talking filibuster in the Senate to secure America’s elections before the next midterms.

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What's up, guys, and welcome back to the Reagan Faulkner Show. So if you've been following along in the news recently, you'll know that the swamp in D.C. is deeper than ever. There is so much going on in D.C. We had our Lincoln Douglass Reagan gala this weekend. I got to talk to a few of our representatives and people who have been up there, people in local politics that know what's going on up there, and they're just saying how crazy it is. And so I want to take today to really dive into one of the most crucial things that's happening in the Senate that I don't feel like we're actually hearing the nuance on. We're just hearing the talking points, but first, we need to do some updates from the last episode. The last episode, we talked about the DHS shutdown, the lack of funding, and I wanted to do a quick update that I actually learned today when I was listening to Senate hearings on C-SPAN. So as I was watching these Senate hearings, I overheard one of the senators say that DHS is actually funded through 2029, thanks to appropriations from the one big, beautiful bill. So we think that they're fighting about appropriating DHS, giving them money, right? But that's not true. They have all of their funding, like $75 billion to $100 billion worth of funding, fully funded through 2029. Now the reason that all of this is being held up is because Senate Democrats want to force certain stipulations. Now we talked about some of these stipulations in the last episode. We talked about how they want them to wear body cams, they want them to take off the face coverings. We talked about why some of that was ridiculous and can't happen, specifically the face coverings and the 8,000% increase in death threats that ICE agents are receiving. But specifically, Hakeem Jeffries posted a video on Instagram that I also happened to see this morning, saying that they want complete assurance that ICE agents will not be in what he calls, quote-unquote, sensitive areas. In these sensitive areas, the one that he really harked on were polling places. So this is assumably why Republicans, why Senate Republicans aren't caving on this bill. They're not doing the whole like, where the Democrats are like, oh, we'll fund everything except ICE and CBP, and Republicans are like, no, it's not that at all. The Democrats are refusing to pass the bill, according to Hakeem Jeffries, until they have assurance that ICE is going to stay out of sensitive areas like polling places, which is ridiculous. It's utterly stupid to bar ICE agents from polling places when it's blatantly illegal, blatantly illegal for undocumented immigrants to vote in US elections. Now, Hakeem Jeffries mentioned a couple of these other sensitive locations, which include schools, hospitals, and places of worship. So, you know, whatever. He can talk about other ones. I haven't done enough research to say whether I agree with those or not, but I definitely think that ICE agents should be allowed to be at polling places, and I do think they should be at polling places. We've seen so much voter fraud recently. They 100% should be at polling places, and the place of worship being a sensitive area is pretty ironic to me, since they just praised Don Lemon for storming a place of worship for his own political agenda, but that is not what today's episode is about. Those are a few brief updates from last episode that I learned. Now, today's story, we're getting into the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, also known as the Save America Act. We're going to talk a little bit about what is actually in the bill, some of the arguments or debate topics that the left is using to try to say that the bill is no good, the American polls for this bill, how many people actually won it, and we're going to talk a little bit about what the talking filibuster actually is, because I don't think anybody's really explained it, at least that I haven't seen. None of our politicians have actually explained what the talking filibuster means in language that everyday Americans can understand, so let's jump right into it. Now, the first kind of misconception is that this is a new bill and a new piece of legislation. This is wrong. It is not a new bill. It is not a new piece of legislation. What it actually is is an amendment to the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. The National Voter Registration Act of 1993 does exactly what it sounds like. It stipulates, explains, and provides policies and procedures for how Americans can register to vote. This includes exactly what I just said, how one may register to vote. It includes what documentation is required. It includes how states handle Americans who have moved out of their states or moved out of their districts and how they can't just blatantly wipe their registration because those Americans can come back and still vote. They can do things when they send mail and say, we don't want to be registered to vote in this district anymore, but they can't just sweep records when people move. So those are a little bit about the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. A little bit about what it does. Very basic piece of legislation. I didn't see anything too crazy in it. I read the summary that's on the government website where you can find different House bills and Senate bills. I didn't read the entire document, but I did read the entire Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or the Save America Act, so that you don't have to. And what I found in there, again, it's an amendment. You can go read it if you want to. There's a lot of bullet points where it's like strike this, add that, strike this, add that, move this. It's a little choppy to read, not like a normal piece of legislation. But all of this scary boogeyman language, all of these catastrophic consequences that the left wants you to think is going to happen if this gets passed, it's fear-mongering. None of it's true. Literally, literally, y'all, none of it is even true. I was baffled when I was reading this bill. I was like, where's all the scary stuff they're talking about? It's literally not there. So let's talk about what this bill actually does. Or look, even I'm doing it. What this amendment actually does. The Save America Act requires proof of citizenship to be shown when Americans are registering to vote. Pretty simple, pretty basic. This can include a lot of different materials. And I mean like a ton of different materials. It's very specific in the bill, like has to be signed by this person, has to have this stamp, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But for the purpose of this episode, we're going to tackle it from a 30,000 feet in the air perspective. And I can tell you with assurance, I can tell you this for a fact. These are specific documents that are eligible. So instead of diving into every nuanced possible piece of documentation that you can provide, you can register to vote using your passport. You can register to vote using your birth certificate. You can register to vote using a military ID. And you can register to vote using your naturalization paperwork. These are four fairly basic documents that the majority of people in the United States have. And if you have a problem with me saying the majority of the United States has these pieces of paper because of things that Senate Democrats have been saying and far left, well not even far left, just regular left influencers, we'll get into the actual statistics regarding that in a few minutes. Now, the Save America Act requires photo identification to vote in federal elections. Now, I feel like I keep hearing like, oh, it's photo, photo identification to go to any election. No, municipal elections do not count. It is only for federal elections. So president, any Senate seats that might be open, any House seats up in D.C. that might be open. Municipal elections do not count. Small local elections do not count. These are for federal elections where you have to use your photo identification. Now, here in North Carolina, it really doesn't matter. We have to show photo ID to vote in any election. But for other states, that is different. And this bill would only make you have to show your ID for federal elections. Now, it also requires states to remove noncitizens from lists of registered voters. Who knew that noncitizens were even on lists of registered voters? But yes, the Save America Act does require that illegal immigrants and noncitizens that are eligible to vote be removed from these lists. So this all sounds really common sense, right? This makes sense. If you want to register to vote, you have to, you know, work with a board of elections official. You have to make sure it's all done legally. You have to make sure you actually live in the U.S. You have to prove that you are who you say you are. We're going to take the illegal immigrants off the list of registered voters and eligible voters, right? This makes sense. So one thing I actually, I want to go off track real quick. This was something when I was writing the episode that really, like, peeved me. So you know those get out to vote drives? You know where everybody's out there trying to register you to vote and you, like, have no piece? I don't know if this is just a student problem, but I know in 2024, there were, like, three months where I had no piece. Everybody was trying to make me register to vote. I didn't want to register to vote with strangers because it's literally up to them to return my paperwork. So if they didn't do that, then I wouldn't be registered to vote. I wanted to go to the Board of Elections. I wanted to do my voter registration myself with somebody who works for them and knows what they're doing instead of doing it with some random canvasser that's not even from my school. So there were so many strangers on my campus. I mean, there were so many strangers, weird, weird, random grassroots groups, like, do you want to register to vote? Do you want to register to vote? Do you want to register to vote? They literally chased my boyfriend. They tried to chase him from the gym to his next class one day. No, I don't want to register to vote with you. I'm going to the Board of Elections. Like, it was wild. These were Kamala Harris 2024 canvassers. They were actually Planned Parenthood canvassers. They were grassroots organizations that I've never even heard of canvassing. None of them were actually registered student orgs. Like, they were not allowed to be there, but nobody stopped them. No school official got in the way. Our local chapter of Turning Point actually did a get out to vote register to vote, or what was it? Pet a goat register to vote was what they did, and all the tables were booked that day. So they didn't actually book a table. They just used a piece of grass, brought their own table, just like these grassroots organizations that weren't even registered student orgs. Turning Point is a registered student org. They just didn't book the table. They were kicked off campus. They were, like, straight up kicked off campus for this, even though they were a registered student org. Now, Planned Parenthood and Kamala Harris 2024 and these random grassroots orgs, they didn't get kicked off campus. Not at all for doing the exact same thing, except at least Turning Point, they knew who they were. I mean, all the officers are, you know, there's paperwork and stuff with the school. We know who the officers are. We don't even know who these strangers were. They were openly admitting that they were getting paid, that they weren't even from where I live, that they were from other parts of North Carolina, that they were from other states. It was wild. And they registered thousands of students from all over the country that go to my school. All these different people from all these different states or different parts of North Carolina registered them in our local area just to vote locally for the presidential election. Now, where'd they go? They disappeared. They went and they're preparing for 2026, 2028, whatever they're doing now. All these random other grassroots organizations are gone. And now these people are registered to vote in local elections that they know nothing about. They're skewing metrics, they're skewing data, and they don't, they have no clue what they're doing because they're either not from here and they're just not going to vote, which, you know, like I said, is going to skew metrics and skew data or they're going to go vote and they aren't going to do their research. And they quite frankly don't really care because they're not going to live here after four years. They're going to go home and they're going to get a job and move somewhere else. And then they're going to leave the county in a terrible shape because they didn't do any research because all of these grassroots organizations from other places came in and registered them to vote here and have absolutely no care for what happens once they move out and go do their next thing that the grassroots orgs do. And now all these students are stuck here, either not voting or voting very uneducatedly, which is arguably worse. So the SAVE Act will stop this. That is why we just went on this tangent. You can't do that anymore. You have to go work with an official. You have to bring your passport or your birth certificate. You can't just, you know, put random stuff on a document and hope it gets approved. Like, which not saying that that's what happens. Yeah, you do have to have a social security number. I believe I had to put my driver's license number on there. Like there were certain things you had to have to make sure it was as secure as possible. But still, if random humans are signing people up to vote on a random college campus, that's probably not how we need to register to vote, in my personal opinion. I feel like if I have to go to the DMV to get my driver's license, then I should have to go to the Board of Elections to register to vote. That would only make sense. But anyway, that's over. SAVE America Act will stop this ridiculous use of college kids as pawns in a game that they don't even know that they're playing. It'll stop all of that, which I am a huge proponent of and a huge fan of after seeing what happened in 2024. Now back on track, the Democrats keep debating saying that married women are too dumb to figure out how to register to vote, saying that marginalized communities may not have birth certificates or passports and they'll be prevented from voting. It's just going to be the 1960s all over again. It's going to be the 1920s for women. Women can't vote. Black and brown people can't vote. It's just, you know, it's all over, guys. We're going back. We're going back in time. Yeah, all of that's a lie. Literally all of that's a lie. There are very specific rules and mandates for these situations, and we're going to read them now. We're going to read what the bill actually says about these specific situations. So mind me, I may be staring at my laptop as I read this for a minute, but it says, Additional processes in certain cases process for those without documentary proof. In general, subject to any relevant guidance adopted by the Election Assistance Commission, each state shall establish a process under which an applicant who cannot provide documentary proof of United States citizenship under paragraph one may, if the applicant signs an attestation under penalty of perjury that the applicant is a citizen of the United States and eligible to vote in elections for federal office, submit such other evidence to the appropriate state or local official demonstrating that the applicant is a citizen of the United States and such official shall make a determination as to whether the applicant has sufficiently established United States citizenship for purposes of registering to vote in elections for federal office in the state. Affidavit requirement. If a state or local official makes a determination under clause I that an applicant has sufficiently established United States citizenship for purposes of registering to vote in elections for federal office in the state, such determination shall be accompanied by an affidavit developed under clause III signed by the official swearing or affirming the applicant sufficiently established United States citizenship for purposes registering to vote. Development of affidavit by the Election Assistance Commission. The Election Assistance Commission shall develop a uniform affidavit for use by state and local officials under clause II, which shall, one, include an explanation of the minimum standards required for a state or local official to register an applicant who cannot provide documentary proof of United States citizenship to vote in elections for federal office in the state and, two, require the official to explain the basis for registering such applicant to vote in elections. We're almost there, guys. This is the last one. B, processing case of certain discrepancies in documentation. Now, this is the one for women. This is the one for all you married women who don't know how to go and register to vote because the Democrats don't think you're smart enough to figure it out. There's a literal clause in here just for y'all. Subject to any relevant guidance adopted by the Election Assistance Commission, each state shall establish a process under which an applicant can provide such additional documentation to the appropriate election official of the state as may be necessary to establish that the applicant is a citizen of the United States in the event of a discrepancy with respect to the applicant's documentary proof of United States citizenship. They literally have thought through everything in this bill. Basically, what that last clause is saying is, like, you can provide supplemental materials. So, let's say your birth certificate has your maiden name on it and you've been married. Then you can have your marriage certificate. Let's say that you've been married four different times. Then you can bring your divorce certificates and your marriage certificates and show them kind of the process of what happened. It just allows you to provide supplemental material when you register to vote, and it's going to be fine. I'll take your supplemental material. Obviously, if, like, everything is clean and makes sense and you haven't, you know, been marrying for weird reasons or done anything sketchy or suspicious, then you're going to be able to register to vote. It's not that big of a deal. They have literally thought through everything. Every base has been covered. They have the American people in mind, and they just want us to have safe and secure elections where we can vote without worrying about, you know, foreign actors or illegal immigrants entangling their politics or their lack of understanding or them being manipulated by other people and other candidates to vote a certain way. It's just for Americans. It's to make elections better, and a lot has changed since 1993 when the bill was written that it's amending. A lot has changed, and these are really, really important changes. Now, this begs the question, how many people actually don't have a birth certificate or a passport? I never really thought that this was an issue, so I did a little bit of research, and the Brennan Center for Justice, which wrote this study that the majority of Democrats are citing in their, you know, their counters and their opposition to the Save America Act, this is what the study says, or a portion of it. I'm going to read, you know, this is quote, our research indicates that more than 9% of Americans of voting age, or 21.3 million people, don't have proof of citizenship readily available, and it goes on. We're going to keep reading. It goes on to say what readily available actually means, because I thought it meant like destroyed or something, and it doesn't mean that. There are a myriad of reasons for this. The documents might be in the home of another family member or in a safety deposit box. That's what not having it readily available means. It's in a safety deposit box at the bank, and at least 3.8 million don't have documents at all, often because they were lost, destroyed, or stolen. So, then I thought, all right, what's 3.8 million of all eligible voters? And it's a smaller percentage than this, because the only thing I could find was data from July 1st, 2023. But based on quick math, as of July 1, 2023, there was an estimated 262,083,034 Americans 18 or older eligible to vote. So, we can find a percentage of 3,800,000 Americans out of that huge number I just said, and we find that 1.5% of Americans have lost the necessary paperwork, it's been destroyed, or it's been stolen. 1.5%, and that number is way smaller, because a lot more people are eligible to vote now in 2026 than July 1, 2023. That number is probably smaller, and I just think that's ridiculous, that all of this fighting is going on for 1.5% of the population, and not even 100% of the population votes in every election. How do we know that this 1.5% of the population is even active voters, that they're even civically engaged? This could be 1.5% of the population that doesn't even vote. It's ridiculous. Now, I also looked up, is it that hard to order a new birth certificate or to get a passport, and it's really not. So, in order to get a new birth certificate, at least in North Carolina, it is super, super easy, y'all. You follow a series of prompts, you end up on a third-party website, and you follow some more prompts on the third-party website, and you order your birth certificate. It's really not that hard. It's like as easy as ordering something off of Amazon if you don't have the Buy Now with one click. It's literally that easy. It's about $37.95 if you want to mail it to your house. It's about $57.95 to overnight it. Now, I understand that people might not have $40 to $60 of disposable income for something like this, but in the grand scheme of things, they've been saying it's so expensive, like it's a couple hundred dollars or a thousand dollars. It's less than $100. It's not that bad if you don't even have to overnight it, and arguably, you shouldn't be overnighting your birth certificate. You should know that you don't have your birth certificate or your passport or whatever way prior to trying to register to vote. Instead of a birth certificate, you can also select marriage certificate, divorce certificate. Getting a passport, that's a different website and a different thing. It's still not that crazy hard. I did it right when I got to college. It's not that bad. It takes like a month to get it, but it's really not this big of a deal for this to their only debate, for this to be their only piece of opposition is that people are missing their birth certificates or that women aren't smart enough to take their marriage certificate to the board of elections with their birth certificate. Now, additionally, the Save America Act allows people to utilize identification that's consistent with the Real ID Act of 2005. This is the same thing that TSA and airports require you to use. All of us should have this. Now, some are different. Some Real IDs don't have like your place of citizenship or your place of birth, which is where your passport or your birth certificate comes into place. But still, most of it's relatively consistent. If everybody has a Real ID, it's really ridiculous to be having this argument in this fight and also when only 1.5% of the population is missing the necessary materials. Now, I want to talk a little bit about in comparison to this, what do you need to get a passport? Because we'd like to think that maybe our elections are as secure, even more secure than getting a passport. So getting a passport is a five-step process. You need either a birth certificate, a naturalization document, or a certificate of citizenship. Then you need either a driver's license, a military ID, or a state ID. Then you might need some paperwork. If it's the first time you're getting a passport, if your name has been changed, or if your passport's been expired for over 15 years. Then you need a two-by-two passport photo, two inches by two inches. Then you might need additional paperwork. This can include a marriage certificate for name changes or a court order or also a parental consent form if you're doing a passport for a child under the age of 16. It is absolutely ridiculous that we need all of this to get a passport to travel out of the country, to come back into the country, but we don't have anything like this to even vote. Up until this point, and we don't even know if it's going to pass, we haven't had anything this stringent for voting and determining the course of our country. That's ridiculous, y'all. Now, I want to touch back on my favorite part, which is the fact that married women are going to be disproportionately affected. If you look that up, if you literally look up, like, will women be disproportionately affected by the SAVE Act? There's so many articles and quotes saying, like, yes, even Co-Pilot says, yes, women may be disproportionately affected. It's wild. So we're going to touch on a couple of quotes from some of the female Democratic leadership. So first, according to PolitiFact, Amy Klobuchar, who is the candidate for Minnesota governor now that Tim Walz has decided to not run for re-election, she's a senator for Minnesota, she stated on March 17th regarding the SAVE Act that it creates, quote, bureaucratic hurdles, this is a quote from PolitiFact, for Americans to register to vote or change their registration, and this is Amy Klobuchar, particularly for the 69 million women who have chosen to change their name when they get married. Why should they be penalized? Just take your marriage certificate to the Board of Elections. PolitiFact also states, quote, Rep. Catherine Clark of Massachusetts, the second-ranking House Democrat, said Republicans, quote, decided to make it harder for women to vote, end quote, and require them to sort through a, quote, minefield of red tape. Again, just take your marriage certificate to the Board of Elections. Again, PolitiFact states, quote, Rep. Lauren Underwood, Democrat from Illinois, called it a, quote, voter suppression bill. Nearly 69 million women in America have a birth certificate that does not match their current name, and therefore 69 million American women would no longer be eligible to vote, Underwood said. Just take your birth certificate to the Board of Elections. It's not that hard. There's, there's a clause just for this situation in the actual bill. So women, women are smart enough to decide if they want an abortion, figure out how to get, you know, figure that out, smart enough for that, smart enough to engage in hookup culture and follow, follow people like Alex Cooper telling them to just act like a man. They're smart enough for that. Women are smart enough to vote. We're smart enough to vote. We're smart enough to look up our candidates and, you know, figure out who's going to be best for our country. We're smart enough to keep fighting a war on the wage gap that doesn't even exist anymore and keep saying that we're smart and able-bodied as men, that we can, you know, participate in corporate America just as well as men. We're smart enough to do all of this, but we're not smart enough to take our marriage certificate out of the safe or out of the safe deposit box at the bank and take it to the Board of Elections. That's where we're not smart enough. That's like where we draw the line and we're like, okay, women, you can do all of this, but you're too stupid to get your marriage certificate and take it to the Board of Elections. It's ridiculous, y'all. This entire argument is just absolutely absurd and absolutely ridiculous. Now, obviously, I do believe that women are smart enough to do this. I just, why are they saying that we are? Why are they acting like this is such a huge problem? Like, you're literally smart enough to get married and, for most people, plan your entire wedding, pick a suitable man to be married to, but you can't get your marriage certificate and take it to the Board of Elections. You can get your birth certificate, but not your marriage certificate. It's insane. I literally cannot comprehend it. I'd also like to add that if you are genuinely too lazy to get your passport or your birth certificate or your marriage certificate out of your safe deposit box or you're too lazy to order the replacements, and I'm not talking about people who don't have internet access and they don't have enough money and all that. I'm talking about people who are genuinely just too lazy to do it when we're talking about the hurdles because it's in the safe deposit box. I don't want those people voting in elections. If you're that lazy, then how am I going to trust that you actually studied up on our candidates and on the election and on who's on the ballot and know who the responsible person is to vote for? Again, we're in America. You have your freedom of speech. You can vote Republican, Democrat, Independent. I don't care who you vote for. I just care that you know who you're voting for and you know what they stand for, and if you're too lazy to go get like one or two of these items out of a safe deposit box or from a different family member's house, then I know full well that you're not putting in enough effort to study the candidates and know who you're voting for. Now, let's address one more thing about the Save America Act. As much as I want every inclusion that President Trump is talking about, they're not in the current draft of the bill or of the amendment. The no child utilization until age 18, no men and women's sports, an ID requirement for mail-in ballots, and then the stipulation on who can use the mail-in ballots, only military and people with disabilities, none of that's in the actual bill. These are all amendments that need to be added when we get further along in the process of debate and get closer to voting on it. These are all amendments that need to be added that are not in the bill right now. The Democrats literally have their panties in such a wad over these like three bullet points, but they haven't even happened yet. They're not in the bill. They still need to add the amendments. It's insane, and it's complete clickbait when you see articles talking about this or people who are just going crazy over it because it's not even there. Now, what do the polls say? According to the White House, fresh polling underscores the Save America Act's popularity with Americans. 71% support the Save America Act, including 69% of independents and half of rank-and-file Democrats. It goes on to say 81% favor requiring voter ID backed by 79% of independents and 70% of Democrats. 80% want states to purge noncitizens from voter rolls. That makes sense. I'm interested in who the other 20% are. 75% support proof of citizenship to vote. 61% support sharing unredacted voting records with the Department of Homeland Security. 60% call the Save America Act a common sense way to stop fraud and protect the security of our elections. 58% recognize at least some voter fraud exists in the U.S. That's a majority of Americans. 85% agree only U.S. citizens should vote in our elections, including 84% of independents and 82% of Democrats. So the polls are in favor of the Save Act. People want this. It's not partisan. Republicans, Democrats, and independents are all in favor of the Save Act. They're all in favor of what it's doing, like specifically the voter part, specifically what's actually written into the bill right now. Americans want that. Now, the GOP has been discussing the idea of the talking filibuster, and it's extremely divided. So I want to touch on that one last thing before we wrap up the episode. What is the talking filibuster, and why are we so divided over it? In a talking filibuster, this is how it would be carried out. Senator Thum, who is the Senate Majority Leader, he would make the Save America Act the pending business before the Senate and not sign a cloture petition. Now, a cloture petition is a document. The petition has to be signed by 16 senators, and then it has to be passed by a 60-senator vote to bring the piece of legislation to the floor. If 60 people do not vote on the cloture petition to bring it to the floor, then it dies. It doesn't get to see the light of day. It doesn't get to be voted on. It just dies. Once this happens, so once he doesn't sign the cloture petition, and he says it's pending business in the Senate, then there's a vote. There's a vote by a simple majority. It passes to bring the bill to the floor, and then the filibuster begins. Once this happens, senators are allowed two indefinite speeches per legislative day. Legislative day lasts from the beginning of the legislative period that we're talking about, when that simple majority passes to bring the bill to the floor. That's when the legislative day starts, and it lasts until adjournment. This is very different than a calendar day. When a legislative day happens, everything on the calendar day gets moved and shifted. Our senators can't really do anything else because they're in a legislative day when legislation is happening and being passed. It can last way, way, way, way more than a day. I previously mentioned each senator has two opportunities to speak indefinitely and continuously. They cannot sit. They cannot leave. They cannot use the bathroom, and they can only consume milk and water. In theory, there are 47 Senate Democrats. Just them could last 47 days if they each took 12-hour speaking periods. So the GOP senators are saying that it's too extreme. It's going to result in missing too much work, too many hearings. Other legislation isn't going to be heard. They won't get to spend time with their families. It's just too much of a sacrifice. Now, my argument to them is we see the suffering of all of these DHS agents in various departments. We know the suffering ahead if illegals continue voting in our elections. It's time for them to take this sacrifice. This is a bill that 80% of Americans want. It is time to make the sacrifice to pull the talking filibuster. These people are public servants. We have put hours and hours and hours of our days and our lives in campaigning for them, phone banking for them, door knocking for them. We've made a sacrifice to get them into Congress. Now, they need to make a sacrifice to us to make sure that we have safe and fair and free elections and that we aren't being taken over by foreign actors and illegal immigrants that are voting because they've been manipulated or that have come into our country to wreak havoc and they're voting in a certain way to harm us. In whatever way that they're voting, we just need to make sure that only U.S. citizens can vote. It's a law. It's literally a law. Only U.S. citizens should be able to vote. So why would we not put barriers in place to make sure that illegal immigrants and undocumented immigrants can't vote? It only makes sense. That's like having a rule in your student handbook that you can't do a certain thing, but you know full well that even if you do it, you're not going to get in trouble. It's like that. We need to put something in place to make sure that we have more confidence that there are not 58% of Americans knowing that there's some form of fraud in our elections. We need to put things in place to make sure that our elections are more safe and more secure and less prone to fraud. Americans want the Save America Act passed. Americans want fair elections. We don't want foreign actors and illegal immigrants voting in our elections. We want to control the direction of our nation. We want to make sure we're steering our ship, our nation, in the correct direction. We don't want other nations steering our ship, steering our country, taking it in the direction that they want to take it in. It's time for the left to stop lying. It's time for them to stop fear mongering and stop lying about what's in this bill. The bill is fair. The bill is nuanced. It explains what to do in certain situations. They need to stop lying. They need to stop treating women and black and brown people like marginalized victims. We are smart enough to register to vote. I promise you we are smart enough to register to vote. We have common sense. We don't have enough sense to come in out of the rain, but we do. We know how to get our birth certificates and how to get our marriage certificates or how to order it online like an Amazon order and make sure that we can vote if it's something that we're passionate about and something that we want to do and something that we care about. Democrats need to treat Americans with the dignity that we deserve. And the GOP also needs to do the same thing and take this sacrifice to invoke the talking filibuster so that we can get this thing through and make sure that our midterms are safe and fair and secure. Thank you so much for joining me on this episode of the Reagan Faulkner Show. I know it was a little bit of a longer one, but there is just so much to cover. This is such a nuanced bill, and it's not really that big, but there's just so much misinformation about it. I hate that word, but that's what's out there about it. There's so many lies, and I just wanted to break everything down. Remember to check us out on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok at the Reagan Faulkner Show, Facebook and Instagram at the Wilmington Standard for more content while you wait for the next episode to come out. And be sure to like and subscribe so that you don't miss an episode of the Reagan Faulkner Show and drop a comment on what you want to see us talk about next. Thank y'all so much, and I will see you on the next one.