Republican Club of SE Volusia County

07/17/2026

If you missed President Trump's address to the nation tonight you need to know what he just released because it is significant regardless of where you stand politically.

Four major bombshells were dropped tonight with declassified documents to back them up.

First. The federal government has known for years that electronic voting machines and ballot counting systems are vulnerable to foreign attack. Declassified intelligence assessments spanning from January 2020 to June 2026 state that Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea all have the capability to compromise US election infrastructure. The same documents say centralized voter registration databases and pollbooks are the most vulnerable targets. They knew this and said nothing publicly.

Second. China stole 220 million American voter files. Names, addresses, phone numbers, party affiliation. The largest compromise of election data in American history. Intelligence agencies knew about it starting in 2020 and according to the White House, members of the intelligence community actively suppressed and downplayed the information rather than alerting the President or the American people.

Third. The FBI uncovered evidence of large scale voter registration fraud in Michigan in 2020. State police raided a Democrat get out the vote organization in Muskegon. Canvassers admitted to FBI agents they signed voter registration forms in other people's names and submitted registrations for people who did not exist. The Biden DOJ slow walked the investigation for years. Director Patel has now been directed to fully investigate and prosecute.

Fourth. A DHS review found approximately 278,000 non-citizens registered to vote in federal elections. And that is with Democrat states refusing to share their voter files. The real number is higher.

You can agree or disagree with Trump on anything. But these are declassified government documents. The White House has published them for anyone to download and read. This is not a speech. This is a document dump.

Go read them yourself at and form your own opinion.

Working Man's Truth — No Spin, Just Truth

Author: Tracy Pelletier

07/17/2026

Stop by we have all candidate’s information and all the information on dates for the upcoming primary election!

07/17/2026

Duncan is amazing! 💕

07/17/2026

REC voter guide:

07/14/2026

Great advice!!

Volusia County Beach Safety is expecting large holiday crowds this weekend. Beach goers are encouraged to plan ahead and make safety a priority while enjoying the beach this Independence Day!🛟🌊

Beach Driving Area Tips:
• Set up on the east, or ocean side, 20 feet away from the traffic lane.
• Look left, right, then left again before crossing the traffic lane, and hold your child’s hand.
• Never let the traffic lane separate you from your children.
• Consider setting up in one of the designated non-driving beach areas if you have small children.
• The speed limit is 10 mph.
• Be aware of soft sand conditions.
• Download the Volusia Beaches app for beach conditions, open access points, and staffed lifeguard towers.
• Always swim in front of a staffed lifeguard tower!

07/10/2026

Yesterday was momentous occasion as we gather for an extraordinary meeting, electrified by the presence of distinguished guests! We are thrilled to welcome US FL congressman Cory Mills, esteemed Florida house representative Chase Tramont, and our inspiring school board district 3 representative Jesse Thompson.

07/09/2026

Author: Anne Starr

For years, the H-1B visa program has been a house with the lights on and the front door wide open.

What was designed to fill genuine skill gaps in the American workforce quietly morphed into a pipeline for cheap labor, fraudulent applications, and — as we’re now learning — something far darker. Washington knew, the lobbyists knew, and the tech giants filing 60 to 70 percent of all H-1B applications certainly knew.

And for years, nobody with any authority bothered to look under the hood. But hey, the lobbyists were happy, so why rock the boat?

That started to change in September 2025, when the Department of Labor launched Project Firewall to investigate abuse of the H-1B program. By November, 175 investigations were underway. The Secretary of Labor personally certified the launch — a first in the department’s history.

Senators Chuck Grassley and Dick Durbin, in a rare bipartisan moment, fired off letters to major corporations demanding answers about their hiring practices.

Now the real hammer has dropped. Labor Department Inspector General Anthony D’Esposito announced the Trump administration’s first major fraud investigation targeting H-1B and PERM visa abuse, labor trafficking, and the systematic displacement of American workers. Dozens of subpoenas have already been issued.

From Fox Business:

“This is another example where fraud is fueling violent crime. Much of the visa and the human trafficking that we see when it comes to this foreign labor is tied to cartels, is tied to transnational gangs, and this is the work that we should be doing, not only to make America safe again, but to make America more affordable again.”

This isn’t a paperwork problem. D’Esposito made clear that fraudulent foreign workers have been placed in medical facilities and doctors’ offices — positions where unqualified individuals are, in his words, “actually putting people in harm’s way.” California, New York, and Illinois top the list of states where these abuses concentrate. Why am I not surprised?

Major Indian IT firms have already slashed their H-1B filings — TCS down 53 percent, Wipro down 62 percent, HCLTech down 47 percent. Companies that built entire business models around funneling foreign labor into American jobs are suddenly finding other arrangements. Funny how that works when someone actually enforces the law.

A federal judge did strike down the administration’s $100,000 employer fee for H-1B petitions, calling it an overreach. The courts will keep being an obstacle. Shocking, I know.

That’s the question that should keep every American up at night. The fraud indicators were never hidden — wage theft, workers not performing their listed duties, employees not even located where their paperwork claimed. I’d love someone to explain to me how that went unaddressed for decades.

Your neighbor’s kid who couldn’t break into tech. The nurse working alongside someone who shouldn’t have been in the building. This is what a broken system looks like at street level.

Call me old-fashioned, but I think American workers deserve better. At least now, someone’s kicked open the door and turned on the lights. Let’s make sure they stay on.

07/09/2026

Conservative.com

I keep hearing people complain that Europe is so much better than the United States because it offers universal health care, generous paid parental leave, subsidized college, longer vacations, and a seemingly endless list of government benefits. The implication is always that America lacks these things because conservatives or Republicans stand in the way.

Nonsense. The reason America does not have a European-style welfare state is much simpler: the people demanding those programs do not want to pay for them.
If you believe government health insurance is the answer, then by all means advocate for it. Create a government insurance option. But pay for it yourself, together with the people who want to participate. If you believe parents should receive three months of paid leave, then create a system funded exclusively by the people who want that benefit. If you think workers deserve higher wages than the market currently provides, start a business and pay them those wages. If you believe Social Security benefits should be expanded, contribute more money to the program alongside everyone else who agrees with you. You want high speed rail? Raise the money! What do you need me for?

There is nothing preventing the Left from implementing many of the policies they claim to value in the states they already control. California could pursue a single-payer healthcare system. New York could expand paid family leave even further. Much of the Northeast is governed almost exclusively by Democrats. If these programs are as obviously beneficial as their advocates insist, those states are free to adopt them and ask their own taxpayers to finance them.

But that is precisely where the enthusiasm tends to fade. It is one thing to demand generous government benefits. It is another to explain to your own constituents why they must pay substantially higher taxes to sustain them. And that is the part of the European model its American admirers rarely discuss.

In the United States, the bottom half of income tax payers contribute next to nothing; the bottom 1/4th actually pay a negative rate. But European countries finance their expansive social benefits with the value-added tax, or VAT, which is just a sales tax by another name, which in many European countries is around 20 percent or higher and applies to everyday purchases made by nearly everyone, rich and poor alike. Income taxes and payroll taxes are also generally higher than in the United States. Those benefits are not free. They are purchased through broad-based taxation that touches virtually every citizen.

So the next time someone tells you America should be more like Europe, the first question should not be whether universal health care or paid leave is a good idea. It should be whether they are willing to pay European taxes to fund European benefits, starting with a 20% sales tax on basically everything.

If the answer is no, then they are not advocating for the European model at all. They just want to live off of your money.

07/06/2026

Look at these four photos, and feel what God just showed you, because in these four photos… there is a lesson that no school on earth could ever teach your children. Two young boys. Two school photos. Two faces full of innocence with absolutely no idea what God was quietly preparing them for. The boy on the top left; JD Vance. Grew up with nothing. Father absent. Mother struggling. No money for food some nights. Joined the Marines because college was not affordable, and built everything from absolute zero. The boy on the bottom right; Marco Rubio. Father stood behind a bar his entire life. Mother cleaned hotel rooms. Three jobs at the same time just to make ends meet and their son built himself from nothing into the voice of 340 million Americans. Two different struggles. Two different stories. One identical truth. Poverty is not your ending. It is just your beginning. And today… I sat my children down. And showed them these four photos. And told them. If JD Vance could become Vice President with no money and no father at home. And Marco Rubio could become Secretary of State with a bartender father and a hotel maid mother. Then you… with everything you have… have absolutely no excuse.

Today… share this with every child in America. Because these two school photos just became the most powerful motivation any young person needs. 😭🙏🇺🇸

JD and Marco just proved that where you start… has absolutely nothing to do with where God is taking you. (Copied and edited)

07/03/2026

Sharing for those who wish to attend. This is not an endorsement of the candidate and is not sponsored or paid for by the SE Volusia Republican Club.