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Nancy Mace on the Epstein Petition Four: 'None of Us Are Coming Back'

Four House Republicans signed the 2025 petition that forced the vote on the Epstein files: Nancy Mace, Thomas Massie, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert. On Nov. 9, CNN projected that Boebert lost her Colorado seat, which would leave none of the four in the next Congress. Boebert has not conceded. That afternoon Mace posted, 'We are the Fearless Four. And none of us are coming back,' and, 'We paid the price. And I'd do it all over again. No regrets.' In September she said all four had been 'targeted for political annihilation.' Here is what she said, and how each of the four is leaving.

Wednesday, November 11, 2026.

On Monday afternoon, CNN projected that Rep. Lauren Boebert had lost her Colorado seat. If the projection holds, none of the four House Republicans who signed the petition that forced a vote on the Epstein files will be in Congress in January. Nancy Mace was one of the four. Here is what she has said about it, and how each of them is leaving.

"None of us are coming back"

CNN's Decision Desk projected on Monday, Nov. 9, that Democrat Eileen Laubacher, a retired Navy rear admiral, would win Colorado's 4th District (CNN). At 4:11 p.m. Eastern, Mace posted on X from her campaign account, @NancyMace:

We are the Fearless Four. And none of us are coming back.

We stood with the Epstein survivors when it was politically toxic. We put the truth and victims first.

We paid the price. And I'd do it all over again. No regrets.

Marjorie resigned. Thomas lost his primary. Lauren lost her election. I ran for governor and came up short.

3 million files are out because we refused to shut up.

Fearless doesn't mean invincible. Fearless means we didn't flinch.

She tagged Greene, Boebert and Massie. The post carries a picture of the four in front of the Capitol that X labels "Made with Grok Imagine," an AI image tool. Her first version went up at 4:09 p.m. and began "We were the Fearless Four." Two minutes later she edited it to "We are," and moved "We paid the price" up to the third paragraph.

What she said before

On her podcast, Get Maced, on Sept. 22, talking about Boebert: "She was one of only four Republicans to sign on to the discharge petition for the Epstein files. I was one of those four. And every one of those four have been targeted for political annihilation."

On election night, Nov. 3, on Piers Morgan Uncensored: "I'm one of the only four Republicans who voted to release the Epstein files. Three of us aren't coming back to Congress because of that vote" (2:18:43). Our election-night dispatch has the rest of that broadcast.

What we could verify

  • The four. The House passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act on Nov. 18, 2025, by 427 to 1 (House Roll Call 289), so nearly every Republican voted for it. What set the four apart was the discharge petition that forced the vote. Mace, Massie, Greene and Boebert were its only Republican signers when it reached 218 signatures on Nov. 12, 2025 (Newsweek).
  • Greene resigned from Congress effective Jan. 5, 2026.
  • Massie lost his May 19, 2026, Kentucky primary to Ed Gallrein, whom Trump endorsed.
  • Mace did not run for a fourth House term. She ran for governor and did not make the runoff in the June 9 Republican primary. Her term ends Jan. 3, 2027.
  • Boebert. CNN's projection had Laubacher at 48.8 percent and Boebert at 47.9 percent with 98 percent of the vote counted. As of Tuesday, Nov. 10, the Associated Press had not called the race (Newsweek), and CBS News still rated it a toss-up. Laubacher has declared victory. Boebert has not conceded. On X she wrote, "Election week isn't finished! Let's finish counting every vote and hearing every voice before declaring anything." She told reporters she hoped the remaining military and overseas ballots would be counted by Friday (CBS Colorado). Colorado orders an automatic recount when the margin is within half of 1 percent of the winner's total.
  • "Lauren lost her election." That is CNN's projection, not a final result.
  • "3 million files." On Jan. 30, 2026, the Justice Department said it had published about 3.5 million pages under the act. She counts files; the department counted pages.
  • "Targeted" and "we paid the price." That is her explanation. Each of the four left a different way. Greene resigned. Massie lost a primary to a Trump-endorsed challenger. Mace gave up her House seat to run for governor. Boebert, whom Trump endorsed days before the election, is projected to have lost a general election to a Democrat, in an election in which Republicans lost both the House and the Senate (AP).

Since then

At 8:30 p.m. on Nov. 9, her official account, @RepNancyMace, posted: "STILL waiting on the UNREDACTED Epstein Files to be released..." At 1:30 p.m. on Nov. 10 it posted: "The Epstein Files Transparency Act was passed to END the cover-ups, NOT continue them."

The video above uses her own words from Get Maced and Piers Morgan Uncensored, then an AI-generated voice reading a script written and checked by Maceopedia.

Sources

  • November 4, 2026 · Dispatch

    Nancy Mace on Election Night: 'The Only Thing Worse Than Being Fed a Pile of Sh*t Is Being Asked to Swallow It'

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  • November 9, 2026 · Dispatch

    Nancy Mace Returns for Her Last Weeks in Congress: A Hegseth Impeachment Vote, an Epstein Petition and a Seat Gone Blue

    Congress returns Nov. 9 for a five-week lame-duck session, and Rep. Nancy Mace is back for her final weeks before she leaves the House on Jan. 3. Rep. Thomas Massie is expected to force a vote this week on impeaching Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. On Nov. 6 Mace posted: 'Pete Hegseth is not to blame for the Iran war.' Her seat goes to Democrat Nancy Lacore, the retired Navy vice admiral Hegseth fired last year. Mace is one of four Republicans on Massie's second Epstein files petition, which is two signatures short. Here is what is on her plate this week, what she has said about each item, and what the record shows.

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    On Piers Morgan Uncensored's election-night panel, Rep. Nancy Mace said she has called Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed 'jihad adjacent' because of his family and a student group. Podcaster Dave Smith, who said 'I'm an immigration restrictionist and I'm an America First, you know, right winger,' answered: 'if you're making allegations that these guys are secret jihadists, like, where's the evidence of this?' The two items she cited are in the public record: his half-sister's 2012 and 2013 posts about relatives in the Muslim Brotherhood, and his seat on the board of the University of Michigan's Muslim Students' Association from 2003 to 2007. Bridge Michigan's fact check found 'no evidence that El-Sayed has ties to the organization.' El-Sayed won Michigan's Senate seat that night. Every quote below is checked against the broadcast audio.

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  • November 4, 2026 · Dispatch

    Mark Levin to Nancy Mace: 'STFU You Washed Up Political Loser'

    At 4:20 a.m. the morning after the Republican midterm losses, Rep. Nancy Mace quoted Fox News host Mark Levin on X: 'STFU. No one wants to hear a word from you. Your beloved Iran War lost seats everywhere.' At 4:44 she added: 'Mark Levin is a moron.' At 6:46 Levin answered: 'STFU you washed up political loser. You're angry because you'll actually have to now work for a living. You're one of the most mentally unhinged POS to ever be in Congress.' He ended: 'Good riddance, crackpot.' At 9:05 she replied: 'In a civilized society we'd have already put you on an ice floe and shoved it out into the middle passage.' Here is every post in order, with links, and what the record shows.

  • November 3, 2026 · Dispatch

    Nancy Mace Says She Promised Three Terms in 2020. The Only Pledge on Record Says Something Else.

    Nancy Mace says that when she first ran for the House in 2020 she promised to serve only three terms. The pledge she signed as a candidate in 2019, the U.S. Term Limits pledge, is a promise to co-sponsor and vote for a term limits amendment; it does not say the signer will leave office. We searched the 2020 record for the personal promise she describes and found it in no source from 2020. This page sets her statements beside the record, with every source.