President Donald Trump has taken action to implement new policies to shut down mail-in voting fraud, and Democrats have wasted no time in announcing efforts to oppose it.Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that directs the secretary of Homeland Security, with the aid of the Social Security Administration, to compile a list of U.S. citizens in each state who are eligible to vote.'The American people sent him back to the White House because they overwhelmingly supported his commonsense election integrity agenda.' The order further asks the U.S. Postal Service to adjust its rules and send ballots only to people on the voter list for each state and that all mail-in ballots be sent in secure envelopes that include a unique tracking barcode.Each state will receive a list of the eligible voters no fewer than 60 days prior to each regularly scheduled federal election. The order also directs the U.S. attorney general to prioritize investigating and possibly prosecuting anyone — including state and local officials, public and private entities, and individuals — involved in sending ballots to ineligible voters.Democrats immediately accused the president of infringing on Americans' right to vote with the order as well as the right of states to run their elections."This is another desperate, illegal power grab that shows a total lack of respect for the American people and our Constitution," read a statement from Oregon State Secretary Tobias Read."The Constitution is clear: states run elections. Oregon’s gold standard vote-by-mail elections are secure, fair, and accurate," he added. "We don’t need decrees from Washington, D.C. My message to the president: We’ll see you in court.""This Executive Order is a disgusting overreach from the federal government and shows how little the Trump administration understands about election administration," said Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes (D). Fontes likewise pledged to take Trump to court over the EO.White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson released a statement to the Daily Caller about the order."Election integrity has always been a top priority for President Trump, and the American people sent him back to the White House because they overwhelmingly supported his commonsense election integrity agenda," she said.Congress is currently debating the SAVE Act, also called the SAVE America Act, which would require voters to provide proof of citizenship when registering to vote in federal elections. Democrats have promised to vehemently oppose the bill's passage."The president will do everything in his power to defend the safety and security of American elections and to ensure that only American citizens are voting in them," Jackson added. "Congress should also expeditiously pass President Trump’s SAVE America Act to protect elections for generations to come."RELATED: 'Dead on arrival': Chuck Schumer says Dems will 'go all out' to defeat voter ID bill The president has threatened to veto any other bill the Congress passes until the SAVE Act is passed."It must be done immediately. It supersedes everything else," he wrote on social media earlier this month.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Democrat Rep. Susie Lee of Nevada took to social media earlier this week to post an ill-tempered tirade filled with profanity. Lee let out a flurry of F-words in response to an article detailing President Donald Trump's plans to attend the Supreme Court's oral arguments on a landmark birthright citizenship case. Notably, Lee's profile banner on X brands her as "America' #1 Most Bipartisan Member of Congress." 'Clearly my language touched a nerve.'"So f**king f**ked up," Lee said in a now-deleted post with a timestamp of 1:03 a.m. Wednesday. "I'll pray they f**k him to his face. Sorry, I say f**k a lot these days."Rather than apologizing for her low impulse control, Lee doubled down and defended her incoherent rant, claiming Trump has violated the Constitution and its separation of powers. RELATED: SCOTUS asks pointed questions as fate of Trump's birthright citizenship order hangs in the balance Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call Inc./Getty Images"Clearly my language touched a nerve — my nerve was touched by the attacks on our Constitution and its separation of powers," Lee said in a post later that morning. "I took an oath to protect and defend it."Administration officials and allies of the president mocked Lee's lack of professionalism, insinuating she has a drinking problem that contributed to her lack of online inhibition.Brandon Herrera, a Republican congressional candidate from Texas, piled on to the ratio on Lee's childish follow-up post. "I’m gonna need you to take an oath to stop swearing until you get good at it," Herrera said in a post on X. "Currently you sound like a 9 year old trying to impress the older kids."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

For a brief moment, X stopped reading like a machine built to aggravate, divide, and degrade the people using it. Instead of the usual sludge of foreign bots and demoralizing propaganda, American users found themselves, thanks to a new auto-translation feature, staring at something unexpected: a flood of posts from Japan celebrating the United States. Monster trucks, backyard barbecue, Old West revolvers, bluegrass music, country songs, and all the rowdy symbols of American life that our own elites often treat as embarrassing were suddenly being admired from abroad. It reminded Americans that our culture is not only real, but vivid enough that another people can see its beauty even when we have been taught to sneer at it ourselves. If Americans and Japanese are to continue to enjoy our distinct cultures, we must fight to maintain the true diversity that makes a civilization worth preserving.Status in the U.S. and many other Western nations is acquired by looking down on the folkways of the average American.Most Americans know that there is a strong current of appreciation for Japanese culture in the U.S. Americans eat Japanese food, watch anime, read manga, practice karate, and revere samurai movies. While we were once in a brutal war, Americans have come to respect the noble and beautiful traditions of the Japanese. What many Americans did not know is that the Japanese also have a robust subculture of appreciation for American culture.Americans are constantly told that they have no culture, or that what they do have is shallow, vulgar, and unworthy of defense. In much of elite life, status comes from mocking the tastes and traditions of ordinary Americans. Status in the U.S. and many other Western nations is acquired by looking down on the folkways of the average American. It is not just that the Japanese love American culture, but that they seem to focus specifically on rural Southern and Western archetypes. Banjos playing “Take Me Home, Country Roads," barbeques grilling comically large steaks, monster trucks crushing everything below them. The Japanese love and celebrate everything that American elites have trained the population at large to sneer at.Recently, many people have been asking the question “What is an American?” But the Japanese seem to know right away. There is no confusion, no debate. The answer is obvious and plays itself out in the memes, re-enactments, and celebrations the Japanese enjoy while honoring American culture. Sometimes another people can identify your defining traits more clearly than you can, especially after your own institutions have spent years trying to dissolve them.In a period when many people in the United States feel estranged from their own inheritance, it was oddly heartening to see ourselves reflected in a nation we admire. If the Japanese know who Americans are, then the least we can do is be proud to act like the Americans the Japanese love.This sudden outburst of cultural appreciation also puts to bed the idea that Americans are xenophobes who hate other countries. Japan’s love for the U.S. is reciprocated with great fervor by Americans. But why are Americans so willing to appreciate and embrace the Japanese while being dismissive of so many other countries? The answer is simple: The Japanese are worthy of admiration. Not all cultures are equal, and the Japanese have emerged from the devastation of war to rebuild a high-trust society on a foundation of rich history and honorable conduct. It turns out that Americans don’t hate other cultures; they simply save their appreciation for those that deserve it.The social media cultural exchange also highlighted the importance of real diversity and the need to protect distinct cultures. Both the Americans and Japanese hold reciprocal appreciation for each other’s civilizations and want to see them continue into the future. Americans want our grandchildren to be able to visit Japan in 100 years and experience what we celebrate now, and the Japanese feel the same about the U.S. An island called Japan that had the same borders and topography but was filled with Indians, Palestinians, and Somalians would not be the same. If the island chain of Japan were full of Haitians, it would not be Japan; it would be Haiti with some cherry blossoms.RELATED: Disney’s ‘Gay Days’ are canceled. Don’t pop the champagne just yet. Blaze Media IllustrationThat is the point that modern ideology cannot admit. A nation is not just a market, a legal zone, or a patch of land inside a set of borders. It is the Japanese people, their way of life, and the culture they create that define the nation. Japan has been better than most modern nations in protecting its identity, but the country is under immense pressure to open its borders. Like much of the modern world, Japan is experiencing a massive decline in birth rates and is struggling to care for its elderly population while replacing its workforce. After dabbling in increased immigration to bolster its workforce, the nation has elected a right-wing government to reimpose restrictions. A civilization can survive low birth rates for a time; it cannot survive replacement.Americans are beginning to understand the same truth about themselves. If Japan would cease to be Japan after demographic replacement, then the United States would cease to be the United States under the same conditions. America is a real, distinct culture with traditions, folkways, and history that are worthy of pride. America is not just an economy or an administrative zone attached to a flag. We need to stop being shamed into rejecting our culture or treating it as the banal background for a global empire. Japan is beautiful because the Japanese have built a civilization worth preserving. America is beautiful because Americans built a distinct culture worth preserving. That culture deserves more than ironic detachment or ritual embarrassment. It deserves loyalty. The Japanese, in their odd and affectionate way, reminded Americans of something many had forgotten: This country is real, its inheritance is beautiful, and it is worth preserving.