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🚨 IMPEACHMENT WARNING TO REPUBLICANS

Side with Massie and Jeffries to impeach Pete Hegseth, and you won’t have a future in the Republican Party.

@VeteranAction is watching every vote.

Vote NO.

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🚨 LEADERSHIP FIGHTS ON THREE FRONTS: DELAY THE VOTE. STOP BLOCKING BURCHETT. FINISH THE LAME-DUCK JOB.

Monday, November 9, 2026

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THE DELAY FIGHT

Sen. Ron Johnson sent Conference Chair Tom Cotton a letter signed by five senators — Johnson, Ted Budd, Rick Scott, Mike Lee and John Kennedy — demanding a real conference discussion before any leadership elections. Under conference rules, five signatures force that meeting.

They want the talk at 9 a.m. Tuesday, when the elections were set to begin, and a delay until members hear how candidates plan to lead and how they'll counter emboldened Democrats. Holding the vote first, they wrote, would be "political malpractice."

Sens. Dave McCormick and Jim Banks are also calling Tuesday "too soon," though they did not sign the letter.

Thune has not publicly answered. Senate GOP aides told Roll Call that Tuesday's "robust" conversation probably won't delay anything, and that they still expect leadership elections that day. They waved off the push as the same senators who "sow discord" every year.

Five senators asking for a real accounting after the worst losses in decades is not discord. It's the job.

Sen. Rick Scott put it plainly: Republicans "failed. We had a horrible night... Instead of having an election, the first thing you do is you say, 'OK, what are we going to change?'"

Semafor reports the forced meeting may end in a conference vote on whether to delay. In 2022, Republicans shut down a similar delay push.

Sen. Mike Lee raised the bar: Republicans have "no business" holding leadership elections until they've discussed what happened and know who's in the conference. The Alaska and Mississippi Senate races are still undecided.

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THE BURCHETT FIGHT

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) wants Marsha Blackburn's Senate seat once she becomes governor. The appointment is hers alone — not Washington's, and not the current governor's.

Radio host Todd Starnes says his sources tell him Thune is "actively campaigning" to stop Blackburn from naming Burchett.

Burchett's response, in his own words:

"I had an off-the-record conversation with a fairly prominent member of the media that said Thune had sent the word out that he does not want me because I would not do what leadership told me to do... And I said, you know what, you're exactly right."

"I'm sure John Thune is a good guy, but I don't think his leadership is what we need right now."

Thune has not commented publicly. Washington Examiner reporter David Sivak says his sources tell him Thune has had no conversations with Blackburn about the seat and has never asked about the appointment, and that Blackburn hasn't started interviewing yet. So far it's Burchett's account against unnamed sources.

The Nashville Banner reports Blackburn's shortlist is Burchett, Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs, Rep. Chuck Fleischmann and Deputy Gov. Stuart McWhorter.

Blackburn says Washington is not making the decision. Burchett says if he isn't appointed, he will run for the seat in 2028.

This is exactly why First Ballot 2028 exists. Leadership protects leadership. Voters pick the senators.

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⏳ LAME-DUCK ROADMAP: 32 DAYS TO THE DEC. 11 FUNDING DEADLINE

Today the House Freedom Caucus sent GOP leaders 8 priorities to pass before Democrats take over Congress in January:

1️⃣ A reconciliation bill with defense modernization, family tax relief and expanded HSAs, paid for with at least $1T in spending cuts
2️⃣ Write Trump's border policies into law and ban sanctuary cities
3️⃣ Freeze spending at current levels (no year-end omnibus)
4️⃣ Ban stock trading across all branches of government
5️⃣ Term limits
6️⃣ Energy permitting reform
7️⃣ Voter ID for federal elections
8️⃣ Confirm Trump's nominees

Their message: no leaving town until it's done.

What's realistic? The Senate GOP says nominees are a top priority. Most bills need 60 Senate votes, and there are only about 5 weeks of session left.

Which priority matters most to you? 👇

@freedomcaucus @SpeakerJohnson

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🗳️ TONIGHT ON THE SENATE FLOOR

At about 5:30 p.m. ET, the Senate votes on cloture to take up the bipartisan permitting reform bill (vehicle H.R. 2347). It needs 60 votes. Watch how your senators vote.

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MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD TODAY

Call the U.S. Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121 and ask for your Republican senators.

Ask them:

Will you vote to delay the leadership election?

Will you support ending the legislative filibuster? If not, what is your plan to pass what you promised voters?

What will you demand from anyone seeking leadership?

Save their answers. They belong in First Ballot 2028's candidate review.

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First Ballot 2028.

Mission: First Ballot 2028 covers the 2028 primaries for President, every U.S. Senate seat on the ballot and all 435 House seats.

Every candidate gets the same scrutiny: their record, their positions, their endorsements, their organizational ties and who funds them, all checked against original sources.

We give voters plain facts, verified results and the questions candidates don't want asked. That way the people at the kitchen table know as much as the people in the war room.

Vision: An informed, organized grassroots that doesn't wait for party insiders or the media to choose its candidates.

We want every voter in our network to walk into their primary, from the White House race to their own House district, knowing exactly who they're voting for.

And we want them to keep holding that person accountable after the votes are counted.

🔔 TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS

#Firstballot2028

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