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2025

150 entries across the record carry this tag. Browse all dispatches, or jump to a group below.

Dispatches

Incidents

  • Charleston airport / TSA incident (Oct. 2025, June 2026)

    On October 30, 2025, Rep. Mace confronted TSA officers and airport police at Charleston International Airport, cursing loudly and invoking her congressional status. An official police report documented her conduct; she refused to apologize and called it a 'political hit job.' Fellow Republicans Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham publicly rebuked her, a threatened lawsuit named seven defendants, a December investigation found her repeated procedure failures drove the episode, and Mace fought publicly with CNN and AG Alan Wilson over an alleged falsified report. She finished last in the June 2026 GOP gubernatorial primary and subsequently conceded and endorsed Wilson.

  • Nose-job remark to Rep. Sara Jacobs (Sept. 10, 2025)

    During House floor debate on September 10, 2025, Rep. Mace shouted an obscene insult at Rep. Sara Jacobs, then followed up on X with an offer of a plastic-surgeon referral.

  • Epstein files floor speech and Oversight briefing (Sept. Nov. 2025)

    In September 2025, Rep. Mace left an Oversight Committee briefing with Epstein victims early, describing a panic attack. On November 18, 2025, she delivered a floor speech supporting the House vote to force release of all Jeffrey Epstein files.

  • USC umbrella misidentification (Aug. 24, 2025)

    On August 24, 2025, during a swatting hoax at the University of South Carolina, Rep. Mace posted a photo to her 500,000 followers on X identifying a student carrying an umbrella as the 'alleged school shooter.' The post was deleted after it was determined to be a swatting hoax.

  • The Epstein Files Fight

  • Mace vs. the Solicitor: the campaign against the prosecutor in her own cases (2025)

    Beginning in June 2025, Rep. Nancy Mace publicly accused Ninth Judicial Circuit Solicitor Scarlett Wilson, the elected chief prosecutor whose circuit would handle the cases arising from Mace's own allegations, of leaking evidence, 'obstruct[ing] the investigation,' and protecting an abuser, and demanded Wilson recuse, be removed from all domestic-violence prosecutions, and face a state investigation. Wilson denied wrongdoing, noted SLED ran the investigation, and said the disclosure Mace called a 'leak' was a discovery obligation required by law. The Post and Courier reported Mace's office provided no evidence for the obstruction claim when asked. Allegations on all sides are unproven and contested.

  • The 'Breach of Trust' surveillance hearing & the silhouette photo (May 20, 2025)

    On May 20, 2025, roughly three months after her House floor speech, Rep. Mace chaired a House Oversight subcommittee hearing she titled 'Breach of Trust: Surveillance in Private Spaces' and used it to repeat her accusations against her ex-fiancé Patrick Bryant, including by holding up a poster-sized 'silhouette' image she said depicted her own body, taken without her consent. Bryant and the other named men deny all allegations; the matters are contested and in ongoing litigation.

  • Ulta Beauty confrontation (Apr. 19, 2025)

    On April 19, 2025, Rep. Mace was recorded swearing at a constituent at an Ulta Beauty store in Mount Pleasant, S.C., after the constituent asked when she planned to hold a town hall. Mace posted the video herself.

  • The 'PREDATORS' poster outside her office (Feb.-Nov. 2025)

    After her February 10, 2025 House floor speech, Rep. Nancy Mace turned the prop into a fixture: a 'PREDATORS, STAY AWAY FROM' poster bearing the photos, names, and home towns of four named private citizens, which she mounted in the public hallway outside her Longworth office and pushed to her official social-media accounts. It stayed up for weeks, came down in late March 2025 (her press secretary said he knew nothing about its removal), and she revived the motif at a May 2025 Oversight hearing and again in November 2025, 'this will reside outside my office at the Capitol.' Photographs taken March 5, 2025 in the corridor outside her Longworth office show the board displayed alongside a companion 'NANCY MACE PROTECTS WOMEN' board listing her women's-safety bills. The four men deny every allegation; no criminal charges have been filed; the matters are contested, unproven, and in ongoing litigation.

  • Berg's February 2025 phone call to Erin Gunther

    In February 2025, Alexis 'Ali' Berg placed a recorded phone call to Erin Gunther, an Assignment Desk Works employee who held the position Berg once had. Across several public court filings, the call is described as one in which Berg repeated the sexual-assault allegations Rep. Nancy Mace had told her, while also stating she had no memory of the event, had never seen the alleged video, and that Mace was her only source. The audio and transcript are litigation discovery and are not public; what is public is how the call is recounted in filed pleadings, in a sworn affidavit quoted in a public memorandum, and in counsel's statements in open court. Every allegation on every side is contested and unproven, the parties deny the claims against them, no criminal charges have been filed, and the litigation is ongoing.

  • The 'PREDATORS' House-floor speech (Feb. 10, 2025)

    On February 10, 2025, Rep. Mace delivered a roughly 53-minute House floor speech making allegations against named men and vowing to 'burn this system to the ground.' The named individuals deny all allegations; civil litigation is ongoing.

  • "What is a woman?", Mace's recurring hearing-room test

    Across at least six House Oversight appearances from June 2024 to March 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace pressed an adversarial witness, Maya Wiley, Martin O'Malley, Fatima Goss Graves, Gov. Tim Walz (twice), and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, to answer 'What is a woman?' on camera. The clips, the verbatim exchanges, and her own posts are collected here.

Wiki & people

  • Alexis 'Ali' Berg

    Alexis 'Ali' Berg is the named plaintiff in Berg v. Bryant, No. 2025-CP-10-03124 (Charleston County Court of Common Pleas); she initially filed under the pseudonym 'Jane Doe' and has publicly contradicted the account that prompted the lawsuit.

  • John Mason Long

    Campaign manager for Nancy Mace's 2024 congressional re-election campaign (February, May 2024). In a sworn affidavit executed July 11, 2025 and later filed as a court exhibit, Long recounted statements and conduct Mace described to him during his employment. The allegations are unproven and contested; Mace denies wrongdoing.

  • Melissa Britton

    Melissa Britton is a Charleston-area businesswoman who is named as a Third-Party Defendant in Berg v. Bryant, No. 2025-CP-10-03124 (Charleston County Court of Common Pleas), and who is separately the subject of a related civil matter, Bowman v. Britton, No. 2025-CP-10-04343.

  • Vicki Pittman

    Vicki (Victoria) Pittman is a former housekeeper for Patrick Bryant whose sworn affidavit, describing a May 2025 encounter at Charleston International Airport in which she says Rep. Nancy Mace pressed her to corroborate personal allegations about Bryant, was submitted in the federal litigation over whether Mace acted within the scope of her congressional duties.

  • Israel: Mace's trips, statements, and the 2026 evacuations

    A topic hub covering Rep. Nancy Mace's documented engagement with Israel, the February 2025 congressional trip during which she tweeted about bombed buses and met Netanyahu, the May 2025 Facebook reflection, and the March 2026 Middle East missions in which she helped evacuate 155 Americans with Grey Bull Rescue, triggering a White House backlash.

  • Larry Klayman

    Conservative attorney and founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch whom Nancy Mace retained to pursue threatened defamation claims arising from the October 2025 Charleston airport confrontation.

  • D. Craig Brown

    D. Craig Brown of The Law Office of D. Craig Brown, LLC (Florence, SC) represented Rep. Nancy Mace as a Third-Party Defendant in Berg v. Bryant before being relieved by consent in January 2026.

  • Clay Higgins

    U.S. Representative Clay Higgins (R-Louisiana) cast the sole dissenting vote against the Epstein Files Transparency Act on November 18, 2025, citing due-process and witness-protection concerns.

  • Muriel Bowser

    At a September 2025 House Oversight hearing on D.C. crime, Rep. Mace questioned Mayor Bowser on DEI programs and the definition of 'woman,' sparking a widely reported exchange.

  • Ilhan Omar

    In September 2025, Rep. Nancy Mace sponsored a censure resolution against Rep. Ilhan Omar over Omar's remarks following the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

  • Brian Finch

    Attorney at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP in Washington, D.C., who worked on Mace's side in the GLT2, LLC v. Mace Rule 27 and sanctions matter (No. 2025-CP-10-00981) in 2025.

  • Jerry Theos

    Jerry N. Theos is a veteran Charleston criminal defense attorney who represented businessman Eric Bowman, one of the men Rep. Nancy Mace publicly named in her February 2025 House floor speech, and whose prior campaign fundraising for Ninth Circuit Solicitor Scarlett Wilson was reported as context in news coverage of the Bowman criminal proceedings.

  • Lauren Boebert

    U.S. Representative Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado), one of four Republican signers of the discharge petition for the Epstein Files Transparency Act, faced Trump administration pressure to withdraw her support.

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene

    U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia), one of four Republican signers of the discharge petition for the Epstein Files Transparency Act, who later reportedly resigned amid a feud with the Trump administration over her vote.

  • Ro Khanna

    U.S. Representative Ro Khanna (D-California) introduced the Epstein Files Transparency Act and co-led the bipartisan push to release unredacted files, alongside Nancy Mace and other lawmakers.

  • Thomas Massie

    U.S. Representative Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) filed the congressional discharge petition to release the Jeffrey Epstein files and was one of four Republicans to sign alongside Nancy Mace.

  • Alex G. Anderson

    Alex G. Anderson is a partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP in Washington, D.C., who served as pro hac vice counsel for Rep. Nancy Mace in Mace v. Bowman (No. 2025-CP-10-02733).

  • William M. Sullivan, Jr.

    Partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP in Washington, D.C., admitted pro hac vice as co-counsel for Rep. Nancy Mace in Mace v. Bowman (2025) and public spokesperson during the House Ethics Committee inquiry.

  • Ashleigh Messervy

    Ashleigh Messervy is a South Carolina journalist and former girlfriend of Patrick Bryant whose sworn affidavit describes an August 2024 meeting at which she says Rep. Nancy Mace told her 'I hacked into his [Patrick's] computer and phone' and recounted a series of unproven allegations about Bryant.

  • John C. Johnston

    John C. Johnston of Johnston Law, LLC (Mount Pleasant, SC) served as co-counsel for Rep. Nancy Mace in the settlement-enforcement phase of Mace v. Bryant.

  • Victoria W. Kurtz

    Victoria W. Kurtz is an attorney at Johnston Law, LLC in Mount Pleasant, SC, who served as counsel for Rep. Nancy Mace in the settlement-enforcement phase of Mace v. Bryant (No. 2024-CP-10-01725).

  • Kris Furniss

    Kris Furniss is a Mount Pleasant, South Carolina man and the ex-husband of Patrick Bryant's girlfriend whose written statement, describing a series of contacts in which he says Rep. Nancy Mace warned him about Bryant using unverified allegations and on May 9, 2025 texted him that Bryant 'is being investigated for potential wrongdoing and crimes committed against me and other women', was submitted in the federal litigation over whether Mace acted within the scope of her congressional duties.

  • Mary Grace W. Maybank

    Mary Grace W. Maybank is an attorney at Wyndham Law Firm, LLC in Mount Pleasant, SC, who served as co-counsel for Rep. Nancy Mace in GLT2, LLC v. Mace (No. 2025-CP-10-00981).

  • Robert J. Wyndham

    Robert J. Wyndham is the founder of Wyndham Law Firm, LLC in Mount Pleasant, SC, who served as counsel for Rep. Nancy Mace in both the GLT2 v. Mace matter (No. 2025-CP-10-00981) and Berg v. Bryant (No. 2025-CP-10-03124).

  • Robert Sneed

    Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Greenville office of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of South Carolina, representing the United States as substituted defendant under the Westfall Act in the federal defamation suit Musgrave v. Mace.

  • Neely Kelleher

    Neely Kelleher is a South Carolina woman and former girlfriend of Patrick Bryant whose sworn affidavit, describing an August 2024 meeting at which she says Rep. Nancy Mace made unverified allegations about Bryant and admitted accessing his phone by 'guessing his passcode', was submitted as an exhibit in the federal Musgrave v. Mace litigation over whether Mace acted within the scope of her congressional duties.

  • Wesley Donehue

    Wesley Donehue is a South Carolina Republican digital strategist who, in sworn deposition testimony made public in May 2025, stated that Rep. Nancy Mace asked him to help pressure her former fiancé using private images to obtain property; Mace's office publicly disputed the characterization.

  • Andrew B. Moorman, Sr.

    Founder of Moorman Law Firm, LLC in Greenville, SC, and lead South Carolina counsel for Rep. Nancy Mace in the Mace v. Bowman defamation suit (2025).

  • Eric Bowman

    Eric Bowman is a Charleston-area businessman whom Rep. Nancy Mace publicly named in a February 2025 House floor speech and later sued for defamation in May 2025; Bowman has denied the underlying allegations and disputed the suit.

  • John Mace McGrath

    John Mace McGrath is the chairman of the Berkeley County Republican Party and a nephew of Rep. Nancy Mace; a Citadel graduate and U.S. Army officer, he worked on Mace's 2024 re-election campaign before moving into county party leadership. The Washington Post reported that Mace confronted him at a May 1, 2025 JD Vance steel-plant event over an Alan Wilson endorsement, and during the 2026 governor's race he did not back his aunt's campaign.

  • Matthew B. Berry

    Matthew B. Berry, General Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives, oversaw the institutional defense of Rep. Nancy Mace in Musgrave v. Mace under the Speech or Debate Clause.

  • Jasmine Crockett

    U.S. Representative for Texas's 30th congressional district (Dallas) and a former civil-rights attorney. As Vice Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, the same committee as Rep. Nancy Mace, she has had several sharp public clashes with Mace, most notably the January 14, 2025 'take it outside' exchange.

Media coverage

  • Why the Epstein Files Vote Was Deeply Emotional for Rep. Nancy Mace

    WBUR's Here & Now interviewed Rep. Nancy Mace on November 18, 2025, the day the House passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act 427-1, exploring why the vote carried personal weight for her. Mace, who has publicly disclosed her own history as a sexual assault survivor, discussed her advocacy for Epstein survivors and her push to force the vote through the discharge petition.

  • Nancy Mace Tussles With Trump Over Epstein Document Dump

    FITSNews reported on November 13, 2025 on the emerging conflict between Mace and the Trump orbit over her refusal to withdraw from the Epstein discharge petition. The outlet covered Mace's public statement that day, in which she said she was one of four Republicans to sign the petition, as part of the broader standoff with the former president.

  • Trump Pressures Boebert and Mace to Drop Epstein Discharge Petition Support

    Axios reported on November 12, 2025 that former President Trump personally pressured Republican petition signers, including Mace and Lauren Boebert, to withdraw their support for the discharge petition to force a House vote on the Epstein files. The pressure came as the petition neared the 218-signature threshold needed to bypass Republican leadership.

  • Nancy Mace challenges Jasmine Crockett to a fight on House floor

    Daily Beast reported on the January 14 House Oversight Committee meeting where Rep. Nancy Mace told Rep. Jasmine Crockett they could 'take it outside' during a contentious floor debate over transgender rights.

  • Jasmine Crockett calls out 'Karen' Nancy Mace as dispute ramps up

    Newsweek reported on the January 14 House Oversight Committee dispute between Reps. Mace and Crockett, in which Mace challenged Crockett to take their debate 'outside,' and Crockett later called Mace a 'Karen.'

  • Crockett and Mace get into heated exchange over trans rights

    The Hill reported on the January 14 House Oversight Committee meeting where Rep. Nancy Mace told Rep. Jasmine Crockett she could 'take it outside' during a heated debate over transgender rights and bathroom access.

Mockery & memes

  • "I have a dog"

    On a November 19, 2025 Newsmax appearance, Rep. Nancy Mace said unprompted: "I'm not part of the powerful. I'm not part of the elite. I'm an island of one. I don't get invited to parties. I don't have any friends. I have a dog." Journalist Aaron Rupar posted the clip to X; it was widely shared as a self-own.

  • Raging at a satire account

    In November 2025, Rep. Nancy Mace replied furiously, using a slur, to an openly-satirical X post by The Halfway Post (comedian Dash McIntyre) joking that Boebert and Mace had recorded calls with Trump about the Epstein files. Mace did not appear to recognize it as satire. When criticized, she said 'satire accounts are supposed to be funny' and told critics to 'rot in hell.' Snopes rated the underlying claim 'Originated as Satire.'

  • The Charleston airport meltdown

    A police report described Rep. Nancy Mace's October 2025 outburst at Charleston International Airport as a 'spectacle'; reporting quoted her calling officers 'f***ing idiots' and 'f***ing incompetent.' A pro-Alan Wilson PAC ran an attack ad using the phrase 'She needs a therapist, not a promotion,' and CNN later released security footage of the incident.

  • 'Get your nose done'

    When Rep. Sara Jacobs argued on the House floor that cosmetic procedures are forms of gender-affirming care, Mace shouted 'You are disgusting' from her seat, then followed up on X with a remark telling the Jewish congresswoman to 'get your nose done,' which antisemitism watchdogs condemned as an antisemitic trope.

  • The national-debt note

    Mace sounded the alarm on the national debt hitting $37 trillion, then received a Community Note pointing out she had just voted for the 'One Big Beautiful Bill,' which the Congressional Budget Office projected would add roughly $4.5 trillion to the deficit.

  • The Coldplay kiss-cam misfire

    In July 2025, Rep. Nancy Mace tried to use the viral Coldplay kiss-cam video, in which Astronomer CEO Andy Byron and HR head Kristin Cabot ducked away from the camera, as a pro-Trump economic meme. Critics immediately noted that the couple in the clip recoiled and hid their faces, inverting the point she meant to make.

  • The Declaration of Independence gaffe

    On the eve of July 4, 2025, Mace posted disbelief that Hakeem Jeffries would call the Declaration of Independence an 'indictment', a claim that earned a Community Note and widespread ridicule, since the document's central section is a formal list of grievances against King George III.

  • 'Due process is for citizens'

    Mace's X post 'Due process is for citizens' drew wide attention and a Community Note explaining that the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments protect all 'persons' on U.S. soil, not only citizens. Critics also resurfaced her February 2023 post: 'Everyone deserves the right to due process.'

  • The 'bot army' allegation

    Public reporting described an allegation that Rep. Nancy Mace directed staff and used automated accounts to amplify herself online. Former consultant Wesley Donehue was quoted in that reporting describing her as someone who 'sits all night on the couch and programs bots.' Mace denied it, calling the sources 'bitter exes.' The allegation is contested and unproven.

  • The 'All-Gender Restroom' note

    Mace posted a photo of herself outside an 'All-Gender Restroom' sign in Austin, Texas, calling it evidence that 'there are only two.' A Community Note clarified that all-gender restrooms are single-occupancy, ADA-compliant facilities intended for anyone regardless of gender, drawing mockery from CNN's Andy Kaczynski and others.

  • The Ulta Beauty confrontation

    Over Easter weekend 2025, Rep. Nancy Mace was filmed cursing at a gay small-business owner at an Ulta Beauty in Mt. Pleasant, SC, telling him 'f*** you' and calling him 'absolutely f***ing insane.' Mace posted her own video of the exchange, which reached approximately 7 million views; the constituent said he stood 6-10 feet away and simply asked about town halls.

  • 'Bullying me for being hot'

    After Rep. Nancy Mace posted a dismissive comment on a 23-year-old trans woman's viral transition photo from her official congressional account, the woman, known online as Sabre, responded in a widely-shared Instagram reel that Mace was 'bullying me for being hot.' Mace was broadly criticized for targeting a private citizen from an official government platform.

  • The hot-tub "best friend's mom" meme

    A widely circulated hot-tub photo of Nancy Mace has been remixed into the stock "POV: your best friend's mom on a family ski trip" meme template, reposted by joke accounts since at least early 2025.

  • The Citadel 'first woman' note

    Mace invoked being 'the first woman to graduate from The Citadel' to oppose trans rights, drawing both a Community Note (a woman earned a Citadel graduate degree in 1970) and, separately, conservative commentator Matt Walsh's argument that The Citadel's forced admission of women made her a 'DEI graduate' by the same logic she was deploying.

  • "Take it outside"

    During the January 14, 2025 House Oversight Committee organizational meeting, Rep. Nancy Mace challenged Rep. Jasmine Crockett, "If you want to take it outside, we can do that", weeks after Mace had claimed an activist injured her arm with an aggressive handshake, a characterization critics disputed. The contrast spawned a round of memes pairing her challenge with images of full-body casts.

Clips

  • “A historic day for every survivor”, Mace as the Epstein bill passes 427-1

    On November 18, 2025, as the House passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act 427-1, Mace told the floor it was ‘a historic day for every survivor across the country.’

  • "Mayor Bowser, what is a woman?", four moments from Mace's DEI hearing

    A supercut of four verbatim moments from Rep. Nancy Mace's questioning of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser at the September 18, 2025 House Oversight Committee hearing, from the viral "I'm a woman, are you a woman?" exchange to Mace pressing on DEI language in D.C. code.

  • “I am Trump in high heels”, Mace launches her governor campaign

    At her August 6, 2025 Myrtle Beach campaign launch, Mace vowed to ‘burn it down to the ground’ and called herself ‘Trump in high heels.’

  • “I don’t even want to be here”, six moments from the hearing she ran on her own lawsuit

    A supercut from the House Oversight surveillance hearing Rep. Nancy Mace convened and chaired, a matter in which she is herself a party and key witness in related, ongoing civil litigation. From the chair she said she didn’t want to be there, named her litigation adversary, dared him to sue, pointed potential complainants to her congressional office, and gaveled the hearing closed.

  • "You're groomers", Mace vs. Fatima Goss Graves at the DOGE sports hearing

    A supercut of three verbatim moments from Rep. Nancy Mace's questioning of Fatima Goss Graves, President and CEO of the National Women's Law Center, at the May 7, 2025 DOGE Subcommittee hearing on women's sports, from the opening question on defining woman, through the trans athletes exchange, to Mace calling the witnesses "groomers."

  • "You all have blood on your hands", Mace confronts sanctuary city mayors

    A supercut of three verbatim moments from Rep. Nancy Mace's questioning at the March 5, 2025 House Oversight hearing with sanctuary city mayors from Boston, Chicago, Denver, and New York City, opening on her accusation, then her repeated "right side of history" question to multiple mayors, and Boston Mayor Wu's response.

  • “Today, I’m going scorched earth”, twelve moments from Mace’s 52-minute floor speech

    A supercut of twelve verbatim moments from Rep. Nancy Mace's February 10, 2025 House floor speech, from her scorched-earth declaration to naming four men, describing what she said she found on a phone, alleging she was raped after two vodka sodas, and asserting “these are not allegations, these are facts” while the named men deny everything and the civil litigation remains ongoing.

  • "Take me to jail", Nancy Mace brings handcuffs to the House floor

    A vertical supercut of Rep. Nancy Mace's February 10, 2025 House floor speech, in which she said she had been told she would be investigated and could be arrested for coming forward, then held up handcuffs and told the chamber, "If anyone would like to arrest me for standing up for women, here are my wrists. Arrest me. Take me to jail." It closes on her January 2026 written statement to the court that a judge would have to throw her in jail before she is silenced. The men she has accused deny her allegations and the civil litigation is ongoing.

  • "What is a woman?", Mace vs. Martin O’Malley

    A supercut of three verbatim moments from Rep. Nancy Mace’s questioning of former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley at the January 15, 2025 House Oversight Committee hearing on federal telework, Mace’s challenge, O’Malley’s “distinguished woman” dodge, and Mace pressing again.

  • "If you want to take it outside", Mace challenges Rep. Jasmine Crockett

    At the January 14, 2025 House Oversight Committee organizational meeting, Rep. Nancy Mace told Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) "if you want to take it outside, we can do that," after Crockett said "and chile, listen" while criticizing Mace's rhetoric on transgender people. A Democratic member moved to have Mace's words "taken down" as inciting violence; Mace later said she meant taking the conversation off the floor, not a fight.