05/11/2026
SEND MAGA MARSHA HOME! VOTE HER OUT!
from Jason Hodge:
She wants to be your governor. Let's talk about what she's actually done as your senator.
Marsha Blackburn has represented Tennessee in Congress since 2003. That's over two decades. So the first question anybody should be asking before handing her the governor's mansion is simple: what has she done for you?
Let's start with your internet. In 2017, Blackburn led the effort in Congress to let your internet service provider sell your browsing history — your medical searches, your financial problems, what you look up at 2am when you can't sleep — to the highest bidder without your permission. She said it would "enhance" your privacy. She said that with a straight face while having accepted nearly $700,000 in telecom industry campaign money over her career. Verizon, AT&T, the major cell carriers — they didn't just donate to her. They singled her out for more money than almost anyone else in Congress right around that vote. A Tennessee software engineer was so angry he raised over $100,000 trying to buy her browsing history in protest. The bill passed. Your data became a product. She got paid.
Then there's the opioid crisis. Tennessee has been gutted by it. While communities across Appalachia were being buried, Blackburn co-sponsored legislation that made it harder for the DEA to crack down on opioid distributors — raising the legal bar they had to clear before pulling shipments. DEA officials and internal Justice Department documents said it hamstrung their enforcement. The bill passed unanimously because most members of Congress had no idea what was buried in it. She knew.
She voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act — a bill that independent analysts projected would strip health coverage from 23 million Americans — in a state where uninsured rates and chronic illness burdens are already above the national average. She called the ACA's original passage a day when "freedom dies a little bit." Apparently freedom means your neighbor loses their coverage.
She voted against the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure bill. The one for roads, bridges, broadband, and water systems. Rural Tennessee — the part she's always claiming to fight for — needed that bill more than almost anywhere in the country.
Now let's talk about what she's done for herself.
Federal Election Commission records — confirmed by the New York Times — show that since 2002, Blackburn's campaigns paid over $370,000 to firms owned by her daughter and son-in-law, operating out of the basement of their Nashville home. This happened even in years when she ran completely unopposed. The Congressional Integrity Project called it exactly what it looks like: using campaign money to enrich her own family. Over her career, the FEC made 57 separate requests for additional information about her campaign spending. An internal audit prompted by one of those inquiries found nearly $400,000 in previously unreported contributions and expenses.
And now — right now, in 2026 — a Republican activist from Knoxville has filed a sworn complaint with the Tennessee Registry of Election Finance alleging she's been funneling her Senate campaign funds into her governor's race. Her Senate campaign went from having one full-time employee (a bookkeeper) to 17 staffers and five consultants, spending $200,000 on private planes, while her governor's campaign account showed almost none of that activity. That's not a clerical error. That's a pattern.
Speaking of patterns.
Her last in-person town hall was February 2017 in Fairview. When constituents showed up angry, she went on CNN and told Anderson Cooper that most of them weren't even from her district. Organizers had required everyone to show ID at the door proving they lived there. Wolf Blitzer confronted her with video of the crowd confirming they were constituents. She has not held a single in-person town hall since. That was nine years ago.
Instead she does "tele-town halls" — scripted phone calls she controls completely, where she decides who gets through, who gets called on, and what gets discussed. Then she takes a friendly question, walks onto the Senate floor, and announces that Tennesseans are demanding she pass whatever she was going to push anyway. That's not constituent engagement. That's a prop.
She also won't debate her primary opponent. When reporters asked directly if she'd commit to a debate or hold town meetings, she said she "talks to Tennesseans every day." That's her answer. She talks to Tennesseans every day. On her terms. Through a phone she controls. In rooms she picks. With questions she approves.
And this week, the same day the Supreme Court handed down a 6-3 ruling that effectively gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, Blackburn didn't wait an hour. She immediately called on the Tennessee legislature to reconvene in a special session to eliminate Memphis's congressional district — the state's only remaining Democratic seat and a majority-Black district that has existed specifically because of Voting Rights Act protections. Her words: "It's essential to cement President Trump's agenda." Not: it's the right thing for Tennesseans. Not: it reflects the will of the voters. Cement the agenda. When the governor didn't move fast enough, she called Trump directly, and he posted on Truth Social about it within hours.
Tennessee already lost Nashville's Democratic district to gerrymandering in 2022. Now she wants Memphis too. Every single congressional seat in this state drawn to guarantee one party wins, permanently, regardless of how Tennesseans actually vote.
She wants to be governor so she can make that map a reality. And she wants you to believe the tele-town hall where she hand-picked a question about the SAVE Act proves she's listening.
She's not listening. She hasn't listened since February 2017. And the comment section on her own Facebook post — thousands of angry Tennesseans responding to that very tele-town hall announcement — already knows it.
If this informed you, please share it. Not for me — but because an informed citizenry is the only real defense democracy has. The algorithm rewards outrage. Help me prove that facts travel just as far.
