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My friends, they’ve said it again: voter ID is suddenly “Jim Crow 2.0.” According to Democrats like Senator Chuck Schumer, requiring proof of citizenship or showing an ID at the polls is somehow equivalent to poll taxes, literacy tests, and segregation. That claim isn’t just dishonest—it’s historical malpractice.
In today’s Toddcast, I walk through exactly why this comparison collapses the moment you apply facts, history, and rudimentary logic. We played a revealing soundbite from Morning Joe, where even the liberal host acknowledged that 71% of Democrats and 95% of Republicans support voter ID. Schumer’s response? Americans only support it because they “don’t understand how racist it is.”
That’s nonsense.
The SAVE Act simply requires proof of citizenship when registering to vote. The Save America Act goes one step further and requires photo ID at the polls—something states like Indiana have done for years, while also issuing free voter IDs to ensure it is not, in any way, shape or form, a “poll tax.” That’s not suppression. That’s common sense.
Only U.S. citizens should vote in U.S. elections—and calling that ‘Jim Crow’ is a lie.
I also spent time explaining what actual Jim Crow laws were: poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses, white-only primaries, and segregation statutes. These laws were passed during Reconstruction by Democrat-controlled legislatures and were explicitly designed to keep black Americans from participating in civic life. Comparing those atrocities to modern voter ID laws isn’t just wrong—it’s insulting to history.
Here’s the simple truth: only U.S. citizens should vote in U.S. elections. If that statement offends someone, the problem isn’t voter ID. The problem is staring back at them when they look in the mirror.
This is why the left is panicking. Deportations. Citizenship verification. Voter ID. These ideas are wildly popular with the American people—and devastating to a party that depends on chaos, confusion, and lawlessness at the ballot box.
If you want the full breakdown, including the history lesson the media refuses to give you, I encourage you to listen to today’s episode.
Conservative, not bitter.
Todd
Key Highlights from Today’s Toddcast
🗳️ Proof of citizenship protects election integrity
📜 SAVE Act exposes flaws in voter registration
🇺🇸 The SAVE America Act—and how it differs from the SAVE Act
🪪 Voter ID is common sense, not Jim Crow
📊 Majority of Democrats support voter ID
🏛️ Jim Crow history destroys modern comparisons
🔥 Gaslighting collapses under historical facts
Today’s Stack of Stuff
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Todd Talk: Accountability Is Not Radical: Bureaucrats Aren’t the Boss
My friends, yesterday the Wall Street Journal reported something that should have been standard procedure for decades. The Trump administration is working to make it easier to fire high-ranking career officials who refuse to do their jobs.
The idea is simply this. If your role is to carry out the administration’s policies, and you choose to obstruct, delay, or undermine them, you can be shown the door. That’s not radical. That’s accountability. Most Americans don’t have lifetime immunity at work. If you’re insubordinate in the private sector, you’re fired. Period.
In the executive branch, the ultimate boss is the President of the United States. Not a bureaucrat. Not a committee. If these rules take effect, people who won’t do the job can be terminated. And that’s a good thing.
The Soft Bigotry of “Low Expectations”—Revisited
There’s a quieter insult buried beneath the left’s outrage over voter ID—one they rarely acknowledge, and are never asked to defend.
It’s the assumption that certain Americans are incapable of meeting any standard whatsoever.
When Democrats claim that requiring identification to vote is “racist,” what they are really saying—whether they admit it or not—is that millions of minorities are somehow unable to do what virtually every adult in America already does: obtain a basic form of ID.
That idea isn’t compassionate. It’s condescending.
Extremely condescending.
This isn’t a theoretical debate. Identification is required to board a plane, open a bank account, cash a check, rent an apartment, buy certain medications, apply for government benefits, and even enter many government buildings. No one claims those requirements are oppressive. No one calls them “Jim Crow.” No one pretends they’re insurmountable barriers—until voting enters the conversation.
Suddenly, we’re told that black Americans, Hispanic Americans, the poor, the elderly—pick your preferred demographic—are uniquely incapable of navigating the same systems they already use in everyday life.
That’s not a valid concern. It’s offensive and deceptive.
And it reveals far more about the mindset of the people making the argument than about the people they claim to be “protecting.”
The reality is simple and deeply inconvenient for the narrative: states that require voter ID routinely provide free identification. My State of Indiana does. Many others do. The purpose isn’t exclusion—it’s verification. The goal isn’t suppression—it’s integrity.
Yet instead of engaging that reality, critics retreat to emotional manipulation. They reach for the most radioactive language available—“racism,” “Jim Crow,” “voter suppression”—because those words aren’t meant to persuade. They’re meant to silence.
Once a policy is labeled immoral, the debate is over. Facts no longer matter. History becomes optional.
But many Americans are simply not buying it anymore.
The same citizens who are trusted to work, travel, bank, and raise families are apparently “too fragile” to show an ID at the ballot box? That argument doesn’t hold any water at all.
If the Radical Left truly believed in equality, they would stop arguing that some Americans are less capable than others based upon their race, gender and ethnicity.
Because the real bigotry here isn’t voter ID.
It’s the belief that expectation itself is discrimination.