Swear Her In! - An Interview With Adelita Grijalva - Simon Rosenberg

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Evening all. The cowardly Speaker continues to refuse to seat a duly elected Member of Congress. This extraordinary abuse of power from Mike Johnson is an unprecedented betrayal of the House and the legislative branch. It's another sign of their descent into authoritarianism and disregard for our democracy. An incredible slap in the face to the people of Adelita's district and Arizona. A furthering of the malevolent cover up of the crimes of sex traffickers and pedophiles.

The woman of the moment, Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva, dropped by to give our community an update on her fight to take her rightful place in the House. Yes, the whole thing is ridiculous. Watch this Orwellian video the Congresswoman has made about how she has been given access to her office but cannot actually do any work there:

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To repeat, the cowardly Speaker keeps claiming there is no work to do, and thus there is no reason for the House to be in session. A reminder that the House was required by law to have passed a budget by September 30th to fund the government for the fiscal year beginning on October 1st.

The Republicans failed to pass a budget and the government ran out of money, and in fact there is no budget, or even a process to create a budget. Johnson should have had the House back here working to get a final year end budget passed, and instead we have this. Nothing. No work. Just epic lying and horseshit, an historic and reckless abdication of Johnson’s important role in our Constitutional order.

Soon Adelita Grijalva will be sworn in and take her rightful place in Congress. Watch our discussion and get to know her a bit better. It's clear after this outrageous experience she is going to become an even more powerful leader and warrior for the people of her district and all of us… - 10/21/2025.