Wilson County Republican Party of TN

11/10/2026

11/10/2026

Democrats just won the Senate.

Republicans have until January 3 to stop them from taking the courts too.

Remember what Democrats did the last time they were in this spot.

After the 2024 election, Chuck Schumer knew he was losing the Senate. He knew Trump was coming back.

He didn’t sulk. He didn’t take the holidays off.

Straight through Thanksgiving and Christmas, his Senate confirmed 22 lifetime judges. 21 district judges. One appeals court judge.

Look at what they bought.

Amir Ali squeaked through 50-49 on a day a Republican senator was absent. Within weeks of Trump taking office, Ali was ordering the administration to pay out frozen foreign aid.

Sparkle Sooknanan got through 50-48 on December 3. Since then she has shielded Media Matters from a federal investigation, halted the deportation of hundreds of Guatemalan minors, and blocked the administration’s citizenship check on voter rolls.

Two votes. Two lifetime seats.

Ali was born in 1985. He could still be ruling in the 2060s.

That’s what one lame duck buys you.

Now it’s our turn. And Republicans have no excuse.

Fill every seat. Every appeals court seat. Every district seat. Send up a nominee for every vacancy and give every one of them a vote before January 3.

Work weekends. Work Christmas week. Get every Republican senator on the floor for every roll call. One empty chair put Amir Ali on the bench for life. Never again.

And scrap the blue slip.

The blue slip isn’t a law. It isn’t in the Constitution. It isn’t even a Senate rule. It’s a committee courtesy that lets a single Democrat veto a federal judge in their home state.

Courtesy is supposed to run both ways. Democrats stopped returning it.

In Trump’s first term and under Biden, opposing senators returned hundreds of blue slips. In Trump’s second term, Chuck Grassley says they’ve been “few and far between.” It took until June of this year for Democrats to return a single one for a Trump judicial nominee.

That’s not a tradition. That’s a blockade.

Republicans already ended the blue slip veto for appeals courts in 2017. Finish the job.

Don’t tell me Democrats will honor it when they’re back in power. Harry Reid blew up the filibuster for judges in 2013 the minute it got in his way. They will scrap the blue slip the day it suits them.

Here’s what’s coming if Republicans flinch.

In 2015 and 2016, a Republican Senate confirmed just 22 of Obama’s judges and handed the next president more than 100 open seats. Democrats watched. Democrats learned.

On January 3, Schumer takes the gavel with at least 54 seats. Every vacancy left open is a seat he holds for a Democratic president in 2029.

This isn’t about Trump. Trump leaves in 2029. These judges will be ruling long after he’s gone.

It’s about the seat.

Democrats were ruthless in 2024. They will be ruthless in 2027.

The only question is whether Republicans have the spine to be ruthless now.

Thune. Grassley. Fill every seat. Scrap the blue slip. No more excuses.

Should Republicans scrap the blue slip and confirm every judge before Democrats take over? Yes or no?

11/09/2026

Democrats flipped five counties in the Tennessee governor’s race compared to the 2024 presidential race.

11/09/2026

On November 11, Americans will honor Veterans at ceremonies, parades and community gatherings nationwide. 48 regional sites in 24 states are official partners of VA as we honor America’s Veterans this year.

Find an event near you: https://news.va.gov/150268/veterans-day-selects-regional-sites-2026/

11/08/2026

The election results are in, and conservatives took a hard hit this week. Democrats won control of both the House and the Senate on Tuesday, and the left is already taking its victory lap.

It would be easy to turn off the news, tune out the noise, and hope things get better on their own. That is exactly what the other side is counting on.

Look at what they have been telling us they want. Progressive Democrats have spent years floating plans to pack the Supreme Court and scrap the Electoral College so a handful of big cities can pick every president.

The Democratic Socialists of America went even further this summer. Their new "Workers Deserve More" platform calls for abolishing the U.S. Senate, expanding the House through proportional representation, and replacing the president and the Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress.

Read that again slowly. One chamber would hold every lever of federal power, with no Senate to slow it down, no independent president to veto it, and no independent court to stop it.

James Madison warned us about this in Federalist No. 47. He wrote that putting legislative, executive, and judicial power in the same hands "may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."

This is not some fringe wish list sitting in a drawer. According to Fox News, candidates seeking a DSA endorsement are expected to campaign in line with that agenda, and DSA-backed candidates keep winning.

If the left captures Congress and the White House in 2028, the guardrails our Founders built could be on the chopping block.

That is why silence is not an option. Too many young Americans are hearing that the Constitution is outdated and socialism is compassion. If we do not stand up now, organize, and make the case for the republic, a whole generation may stop believing it is worth defending.

The fight did not end on Tuesday. It just got more urgent.