The Menger Hotel in San Antonio has been welcoming guests since 1859, sitting directly across the street from the Alamo, and its walls have witnessed an almost unbelievable cross section of Texas and American history over more than 165 years of continuous operation. 🏨⭐🔥 Few buildings in the entire state carry this much accumulated history within a single structure.
The hotel was built by William Menger, a German immigrant brewer, originally as an extension of his successful brewery business, and it quickly became the social and political center of San Antonio, hosting figures ranging from Civil War generals to U.S. presidents over the decades that followed. Theodore Roosevelt reportedly recruited and organized his famous Rough Riders volunteer cavalry unit partly within the hotel's bar in 1898, before departing for the Spanish American War, a story the hotel still proudly tells today. The Menger has hosted a genuinely remarkable list of historical figures over the years, ...

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THE ULTIMATE TRUMP CARD — PLAN B
President Trump just went completely nuclear behind closed doors and in public, ripping into Senate Majority Leader John Thune and demanding he grow a spine, be a leader, and GET THE VOTES for the SAVE America Act.
No more excuses and no more RINO foot-dragging. This is the common-sense election integrity bill that slams the door on non-citizen voting, demands strict proof of citizenship, and requires real voter ID—something polls show the vast majority of Americans overwhelmingly support.
House Republicans already delivered their part, but Senate Republicans, led by Thune, keep whining about the filibuster and claiming they do not have enough votes.
They hold the majority; they could nuke the filibuster and force a real debate right now. Instead, they offer watered-down garbage like ballot harvesting tweaks while watching the country get sold out again by a cheating system.
This is not leadership—this is cowardice from a ...