The same list of demands for Republican state lawmakers popped up again and again across right-wingers on X, and some on the right couldn’t help noticing, or pointing out what it left out.
Activist Scott Presler and accounts including DataRepublican, Blend America, Sassafrass84 and JP Chamberlain each urged every GOP legislature to act immediately. They then laid out the same numbered agenda: banning sanctuary cities and ranked-choice voting, requiring photo ID and citizenship to vote, abolishing property taxes, suspending gas taxes, sharing complete voter rolls with the Justice Department and freezing rent increases. At least two versions called on Republican governors to convene special sessions, with one user tagging Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt and Republican Gov.-elect Mike Mazzei, telling them the state needed them.
DataRepublican is run by Utah software engineer Jennica Pounds, who was revealed in August to be a special government employee at the Defense Department. She announced in early October that she was resigning.
The posts come a week after Democrats flipped 12 state legislative chambers, according to unofficial results. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has already rejected calls for a special session to redraw maps or limit his successor’s powers. In Washington, congressional Republicans have about five weeks left in the majority.
Matthew Hurtt, a Leadership Institute director and chairman of the Arlington GOP, joked about the posts.
“Someone forgot to email me the talking points.”
He later added that someone had offered him talking points a few weeks ago before a live interview, and he turned them down.
Rev. Ben Johnson, who posts as @TheRightsWriter, weighed in: “This is an odd confluence of influencers sending identical tweets about how to handle the next two months. Particularly since it could just say, ‘Maximize mass deportations.’”
The rent freeze plank garnered attention, with Cameron Lopez, who lists himself as a data director, observing that the GOP appeared split on the idea. Chamberlain added a note to his own version saying the item needed better wording and was a no-go for him as written.
The voter roll demand comes after the Justice Department sued 29 states and Washington, D.C., for refusing to hand over full voter lists, including Oklahoma and Utah, both run by Republicans.
The list also called for opening “non-juror records” to public inspection. Presler began requesting Pennsylvania counties’ lists of people disqualified from jury duty as noncitizens in July, aiming to match them against voter rolls. A Votebeat and Spotlight PA review of 13 potential noncitizen voters flagged that way in one large Pennsylvania county confirmed none.
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