Is the SAVE America Act Worth Nuking the Filibuster? Signs Now Point to Yes.
By Ward Clark | 5:30 PM on February 18, 2026
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I was always a proponent of keeping in place that Senate institution, the filibuster. I always thought it should have gone back to a talking filibuster, where one had to actually stand up there and hold the floor for however long it took, instead of the current silent thumbs-up-their-fourth-points-of-contact version, but I was always in favor of keeping the filibuster in place. The Senate, after all, is the upper chamber of Congress. It's not supposed to be prey for the passions of the moment, like the larger and more volatile House of Representatives, although that role as a "cooling saucer" was in part nullified by the ill-advised 17th Amendment. The Senate, after all, was supposed to represent the various state governments, not the population; another notion that got whacked by the 17th Amendment. But the filibuster remained, and I always was a supporter of that.
You'll notice I used the past tense in all that. I'm changing my mind on the filibuster now; here's why, and I'm going to tell you.
Our elections are a mess. Mail-in voting, no ID requirements, people who shouldn't be voting, voting, shady vote-counting processes; it's hard to have much, if any, faith in our elections. The SAVE America Act aims to fix that, in large part by requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote and requiring the presentation of a government-issued ID to vote. States are already free to put those practices into effect; here in Alaska, at least in the Mat-Su, we have to show an ID to vote, and also have to sign off on the voter registration log. But some of our larger states, some of our bluer states, are working to make elections as fuzzy as possible. The SAVE America Act will change that - if we can get it passed. That's where the filibuster comes in.
A recent piece at the American Spectator makes some good points:
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