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Congress did what hardworking Americans have been demanding: the House narrowly approved a nearly $70 billion reconciliation package to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection through fiscal year 2029, delivering long-term resources to the men and women who defend our borders and enforce our laws. This is a decisive victory for law-and-order conservatives who have watched the border turn into a revolving door while Washington dithered.
That funding didn’t come easy; Republicans had to fight through months of Democratic obstruction and procedural games that left critical homeland functions in limbo and culminated in a 76-day partial DHS shutdown earlier this year. The choice Republicans faced was clear: protect the nation’s security or surrender oversight to those who weaponize bureaucratic chaos for political cover. Voters don’t forget who stands with border agents and who stands with open-border chaos.
South Carolina Representative Russell Fry, speaking on a conservative platform like Wake Up America, rightly sounded the alarm about the broader problem: the weaponization of supposedly nonpartisan outfits that cozy up to federal power and then turn that influence into a cudgel against Americans with traditional values. Fry’s voice is the kind of straight-talking oversight we need — not more sanctimony from an out-of-control activist class that thinks it can operate above the law.
Congressional Republicans have escalated scrutiny of the Southern Poverty Law Center, issuing subpoenas and hauling its interim CEO before the House Judiciary Committee at a hearing titled “The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate, Part II.” Lawmakers demanded answers about the SPLC’s informant practices and its close coordination with federal officials, and they made clear that no organization should be permitted to act as an unaccountable political arm of the government.
Those demands are hardly abstract: a federal grand jury returned an indictment this spring charging the SPLC with multiple counts of wire and bank fraud and conspiracy related to a paid-informant program that prosecutors say funneled more than $3 million to individuals tied to extremist groups. If true, the allegations spell a betrayal of donors and an intolerable corruption of civil-society trust that demands full accountability. Conservatives are right to insist that taxpayer-facing policy and law enforcement not be guided by partisan private lists and secret deals.
Republican oversight has long argued that groups like the SPLC have too much sway over federal policy and too little transparency, and recent hearings have shown those concerns were not paranoid conspiracy but practical problems with real consequences. Men like Rep. Fry and Chairman Jim Jordan are delivering the oversight the American people were promised — exposing how ideological tagging and private influence can chill speech, de-bank local groups, and channel power into unaccountable institutions. The remedy is simple: sunlight, limits on government reliance on private political actors, and restitution when donors or the public are deceived.
Patriots don’t cower when institutions are exposed; we demand reform. Congress secured long-term funding for our border defenders and is now demanding answers from an activist nonprofit accused of abusing its influence. That combination — resourcing law enforcement while rooting out corruption and political weaponization — is exactly what Americans expected when they sent conservatives to Washington. Support those who stand for sovereignty, accountability, and the rule of law.
