Tea Party group launches massive campaign to end noncitizen voting

A grassroots effort from a conservative powerhouse has set its sights on a strategy toward getting the Senate to ensure election integrity.

At the same time that elected Democrats were throwing fits over President Donald Trump’s efforts to restore national sovereignty through mass deportations, those same leftists in Congress were adamant that the passage of a federal law requiring proof of citizenship to vote remained unnecessary. Given the limited window, to ensure a Republican majority continued to be a certainty, Tea Party Patriots Action launched an initiative to get the upper chamber to act on the SAVE Act.

Fully titled the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, a mere four Democrats sided with the House GOP in advancing the bill to the Senate in April 220-208. Since then, the SAVE Act has yet to be brought up for a vote, and the TPPA sought to encourage lawmakers to attach it to legislation for a key bill like the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to get it over the finish line.

“So much focus, up until last week, was on the reconciliation bill,” TPPA co-founder Jenny Beth Martin told The Hill. “And everyone has their priority … and they forget about other things that maybe aren’t as important to them. So we’re just trying to help remind them this is important to your constituents.”

“But they’ve been receptive. The members whom I’ve spoken to on both the House side and the Senate side have been receptive to what we’re doing,” she added.

In order to stir the Senate to action, the TPPA intends to engage in outreach at community events throughout the summer, including treating Aug. 23 as a day of action to promote the topic with rallies and sign-waving events across the nation. Ultimately, the plan aims to deliver petitions to Congress in September after launching an online and in-person drive as the organization embraces strategies akin to those taken in its stand against then-President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act.

“I understand the political environment we’re dealing with,” Martin contended to The Hill, “so they may not want to vote for it in the Senate as a stand-alone bill, but I think that if they voted for it in another piece of legislation, people are not going to look at it and go, ‘Oh, you evil person. How could you have possibly voted for that in must-pass legislation?’”

“President Trump is making some changes through executive orders, but executive orders can be fleeting when you have a new president,” she reminded, as much of Trump’s first actions in office were to strike down executive orders signed under former President Joe Biden. “It’s the right thing to do for our country. So we want to focus on it and see it through.”

Staff Writer

Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn’t researching current events and their impacts, you’ll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.

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