Adelita Grijalva Won as Expected, Discharge Petition at Issue

By Amy West (Sept. 26, 2025) 

Samuel asked us “1) First, what happens if a majority of a house of Congress wants to pass a bill, but the relevant committee doesn't bring it to a vote? Is there a way to override the committee, and if so, how does this work?”

The answer is that yes, there is at least one way: the “discharge petition.” (There are other ways, and since the House writes its own rules a majority of representatives can do almost anything by changing the rules, and that happens frequently. But for today we’ll stick to the discharge petition procedure.)

First, on Sept. 23, Arizona held its special election for its 7th district to fill the seat vacated by former Rep. Raul Grijalva when he died earlier this year. His daughter [pictured above], Adelita Grijalva, won as expected. 

The younger Grijalva is expected to be signature 218 on Rep. Massie’s (R-KY4) discharge petition which would bring to the floor a bill that would require the Trump Administration release files on Jeffrey Epstein. (It will put representatives on the record on Epstein files, but because the bill will likely die in the Senate it may not result in the release of the files.)

So what is a discharge petition?  As the Congressional Research Service says, 

Florida Surgeon General says Vaccines Should be a Choice. But What’s his Advice?

Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo has said they would remove requirements that schoolkids get vaccinated.  

But Ladapo has refused to say whether kids should be vaccinated at all.

Florida's Ban on Openly Carrying Guns is Unconstitutional, Appeals Court Rules

A three judge panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal, pointing to U.S. Supreme Court Rulings on Second Amendment Issues, said the open-carry ban is incompatible with the nation's "historical tradition of firearm regulation."

“No historical tradition supports Florida’s open carry ban,” Judge Stephanie Ray wrote in a 20-page opinion joined by Judges Lori Rowe and M. Kemmerly Thomas. “To the contrary, history confirms that the right to bear arms in public necessarily includes the right to do so openly. That is not to say that open carry is absolute or immune from reasonable regulation. But what the state may not do is extinguish the right altogether for ordinary, law-abiding, adult citizens.”

22 States Back The Amish In School Vaccine Fight – But Will Supreme Court Hear Their Case?

[See also "Florida Plans to Eliminate Vaccine Mandates"]

By Erik Wesner September 5, 2025 

We’ve been following the story of the Amish schools who faced fines reaching six figures for failing to adhere to New York’s vaccine requirement for school age children.  

The children in question were Amish, and the schools in question were Amish-run schools. Previously, New York provided a religious exemption, but that ended in 2019.  The Amish in turn rejected the requirement to make sure their students were vaccinated. This led to three schools racking up fines that totaled $118,000.

Loneliest Mail Carrier In The Nation

Tebra Morris drives 300 miles a day to deliver one of the longest and most remote mail routes in the nation, where she often travels longer distances between mailboxes than most postal carriers do for their entire routes.

The unofficial motto of the U.S. Postal Service proclaims: “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” 

RFK Report Expected to Link Tylenol to Autism

Steph Whiteside

Updated: Sep 5, 2025 / 11:13 PM CDT

(NewsNation) — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s upcoming report on autism is expected to link the use of Tylenol during pregnancy and folate deficiencies as causes for autism.

The report being prepared is expected to include a review of previous autism research, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.

It is also expected to suggest that the use of a medication derived from folate could be used to treat autism.

Autism has been a focus for Kennedy, who has questioned the increase in diagnosis, with 1 in 31 aged 8 affected by the condition. He has vowed to find a cause for the condition that many researchers say is largely genetic.

Heritage Foundation backs Reforms to Encourage Couples to have Children

Anna Kooiman, Taylor Delandro  

(NewsNation) — The Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank behind Project 2025, has a new rallying cry: “We must save the American family.”

Known for advocating for small government and conservative economic policy, the group is now promoting polices that call for deeper federal government involvement in family life, including encouraging married couples to have more children.

Without Free and Fair Elections, our Constitutional Republic Is Mere Illusion.

Scott McClallen for Townhall: 

President Trump says that he will issue an executive order to require voter ID to vote and minimize mail-in voting, he posted on Truth Social. 

“Voter I.D. Must Be Part of Every Single Vote. NO EXCEPTIONS! I Will Be Doing An Executive Order To That End!!! 

Also, No Mail-In Voting, Except For Those That Are Very Ill, And The Far Away Military. 

Wyoming’s Zero-Tolerance Wildfire Policy Leaves No Room For ‘Let It Burn'

Wildfire is recognized to have a cleansing and renewing role in nature, but allowing it take its natural course is considered too risky in Wyoming.

Most state and federal agencies in charge of public lands have a standing policy to go after every blaze with everything they’ve got, as soon as possible. 

“The State of Wyoming, we do not have a let burn policy, we have a put-out policy, immediately,” Wyoming State Forester Kelly Norris said during a recent interview with Cowboy State Daily Show with Jake Nichols. 

“The Bureau of Land Management has that same policy, obviously private lands have that same policy,” she added. 

In remote areas of vast National Forest land in Wyoming, the U.S. Forest Service has a more leeway to allow natural fires to burn. 

However, that can have dire consequences if a fire escapes a wilderness area, as did the massive Pack Trail Fire in northwest Wyoming in October 2024, Norris noted.