It was 2 AM on a Friday morning. Most of America was asleep. But inside the House chamber, a small band of Republican rebels was pulling off something their own leadership never saw coming. A group of conservative House Republicans just torpedoed not one but two attempts to ram through a long-term renewal of FISA Section 702, the controversial surveillance program that allows the federal government to collect electronic communications of foreign nationals, and in the process, sweep up data on American citizens without a warrant. Speaker Mike Johnson and the White House had been pushing hard for a clean five-year extension. President Trump himself urged Republicans to get it done. But roughly 20 GOP members said no. They wanted reforms. They wanted warrant protections for Americans. And they were willing to blow up leadership’s plans at 2 AM to make their point. Independent journalist Nick Sortor captured the moment on the House floor as Reps. Tim Burchett, Lauren Boebert, and Thomas Massie celebrated what they called “a win against the deep state.”