Day: March 6, 2026

Ilhan Omar was told "go back to Africa" and escorted out by security — and that's just the opening act. Republicans forced through a 218-to-211 vote removing Ilhan Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee, cutting her off from classified briefings, foreign policy decisions, and direct oversight of U.S. alliances. That's not just political drama — that's a member of Congress, elected by real voters, locked out of the room where war and peace decisions get made. Meanwhile the full House voted 372-to-53 to declare Iran the world's top state sponsor of terrorism, and over fifty Democrats blocked it. Look — when committee seats get stripped, security gets called, and racial slurs allegedly get thrown around the halls of Congress, the pressure on every institution holding this country together just cracked. What happens next to the people those committees were supposed to protect?