House Republicans are running scared.
Literally.
On Wednesday, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson announced that the House would be adjourning early (yet again) and would not be back in session until after the November midterm elections.
Coincidence?
We think not.
Despite their weak attempts to project strength and confidence, Trump and Johnson are reading the same polls we are.
Republicans aren’t just behind in blue districts, or battleground districts, or even light red districts. They’re behind in ruby-red, solidly Republican (or so we thought) districts.
To make matters even worse, Republicans are staring down the very real possibility that all of that gerrymandering they did back in 2025 to try and rig the 2026 midterms will blow up in their face and end up handing the Democrats additional seats because of how toxic Republicans have become nationwide. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Republicans are collapsing across literally every demographic: with voters in every race, in every state, at every level across the country.
When you realize that, Johnson’s scramble to get Republicans back home to try and salvage whatever’s left of their careers starts to make a lot more sense.
And yet, that still isn’t the full picture.
Not only has Republican leadership sent the House home early this week, it’s the fifth time.
House members will only work 84 days between January and November of 2026. From July through November of this year, members of the House were in session for just 6 days.
Yet they’ll still collect their full six-figure salaries.
To give some context, Americans will have worked 223 days between January and November.
While you’re putting in 40, 50, even 60 or more hours every single week, 5 days a week, House Republicans have been punching the clock and refusing to show up for work. If you did that, you wouldn’t get paid, and you’d get fired pretty damn fast.
For Republicans?
Perks of power.
Mind you, this is the same Republican Party that has unilaterally blocked universal paid leave at every turn. The contradiction is deafening.
All this begs the question: why do the same Republicans that are now going home to beg you to send them back to Washington seem to hate their jobs so much?
The answer is quite simple: when the going gets tough, they’d rather skip town.
Just this week, Representative Thomas Massie (a Republican) began collecting signatures for a new discharge petition compelling Trump and his MAGA-infested DOJ to release the rest of the Epstein Files (where Trump is mentioned more than 38,000 times). Massie also introduced articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth – and he very well may have had 218 votes for it. In a Republican-majority Congress.
At the same time, Republicans are being drowned in calls from constituents demanding they pass new regulations on AI development and data centers in the wake of the damning revelations about AI’s very real potential to kill us all within a decade, and the much closer possibility that AI could have the power to take down the entire internet in just 6 months to a year.
Rather than, you know, stay in Washington and address the needs of Americans, they’ve once again bowed before the Dear Leader, who forbade them from passing any new regulations, providing any more transparency for survivors of Epstein (we all know why), or doing anything else that might make our lives even slightly better.
So keep this in mind as you balance your job (or two), child care, health care, groceries, rent, and soaring gas prices. While you’re doing that, just know Republicans are at home relaxing and collecting a salary you pay.
If they hate showing up to work so much, why don’t we do them all a favor and send them packing for good?
No matter what games they try to play or rules they try to rig, we can wash these insider-trading, Trump-glazing swamp monsters away in just 45 days.
The choice is yours to make. Let your voice be your vote, and let us unite as one to tell Trump and MAGA that not only are their days numbered, but their time is up.