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Quote:BREAKING: Representative Adelita Grijalva comes out swinging with a showstopping speech in Congress and slams Mike Johnson for his shameful “abuse of power.”
History was made on Capitol Hill today — and the MAGA Speaker of the House looked absolutely miserable doing it.
After a seven-week standoff, Speaker Mike Johnson was finally forced to swear in Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-Arizona)— the daughter of the late progressive icon Raúl Grijalva — after nearly two months of denying over 800,000 Arizonans their right to representation. Why the delay? Because the moment Grijalva took her oath, the Trump-aligned Republican Party lost control of the one thing they’ve been desperate to bury: the vote to release Jeffrey Epstein’s Department of Justice files.
And in a scene straight out of a political movie, Grijalva wasted no time. Moments after raising her hand to swear allegiance to the Constitution, she turned, walked across the chamber, and signed the discharge petition that will force a floor vote to make Epstein’s files public.
Her words were thunderous: “Justice cannot wait another day.”
The chamber erupted. Democrats chanted “A-DE-LIT-A!” as Johnson stood frozen behind her, stone-faced. Republican seats? Empty. Because while Democrats were celebrating democracy, the Republicans were hiding — again.
Grijalva’s swearing-in wasn’t just a formality. It was a direct blow to Mike Johnson’s obstruction and Donald Trump’s fear of the truth. For 50 days, Johnson refused to administer her oath — even though he swore in two Republicans during a so-called “pro forma session” earlier this year. The reason? Her seat tipped the balance just enough to hit the magic number: 218 signatures — the threshold to force the Epstein files vote onto the House floor.
And let’s be clear: Trump’s name is all over those files. Even Elon Musk admitted it.
Emails released this morning by House Democrats from Epstein’s estate claim Trump “spent hours” at Epstein’s house with one of his trafficking victims. Epstein even bragged that Trump was so fixated on young women at his pool that he “walked straight into a glass door.” Trump, of course, denies everything — just like he denies every other scandal that surrounds him.
For weeks, Grijalva fought back from the sidelines, launching a relentless campaign to shame Johnson for silencing her district. She showed up on Capitol Hill anyway. She held rallies. She took her case to the press. She even posted videos from outside the locked House chamber, calling Johnson’s power play what it was: an abuse of power designed to protect Donald Trump.
Even some Republicans had to admit it. Marjorie Taylor Greene broke ranks to say, “She should be sworn in.”
And today, Adelita Grijalva proved that persistence and principle can still beat corruption and cowardice.
Her father spent decades fighting for the working class, for immigrants, and for Indigenous communities across Arizona. Today, his daughter carried that legacy forward — and in doing so, may have just cracked open the door to one of the most explosive scandals in modern American history.
Because now that the petition has 218 signatures, Congress will be forced to vote on whether to release the full trove of Epstein investigation files — the ones that could expose the powerful men who enabled his child trafficking network, including those still walking the halls of power today.
Mike Johnson tried to silence a congresswoman to protect Donald Trump. Instead, he handed her the mic that could finally make the truth public.
Occupy Democrats will say it loud and clear: Adelita Grijalva just did what the entire Republican Party refused to do — stand up for justice, democracy, and the victims
Donald Trump’s allies would rather erase.
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