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Dispatches

  • Court appoints former Judge Kristi Harrington as third-party neutral to sort the 11,000+ disputed files in Mace's Google Drive

    On June 16, 2026, Judge Donald B. Hocker appointed Kristi Harrington, a Charleston attorney and former South Carolina Circuit Court judge, to serve as a 'third-party neutral' in Assignment Desk Works, LLC v. Alexis Berg (Charleston County Court of Common Pleas, No. 2025-CP-10-2671), one of the cluster of cases tied to Rep. Nancy Mace and her former fiance, Patrick Bryant. Harrington's task is to review the more than 11,000 electronic files in what the court calls 'Mace's Google Drive,' files that both Mace and Bryant claim to own, and decide which, if any, must be turned over in discovery. The court split her fees between the two camps, warned the volume could make the process 'very cost-prohibitive,' and entered the order over Mace's objection. The order makes no finding on privilege, admissibility, ownership, or wrongdoing; the underlying allegations remain contested and unproven.

  • The hot-tub photo that became a Nancy Mace meme

    A hot-tub photo of Nancy Mace, recognizable enough to travel on its own, has spent more than a year as meme fodder, most durably under the stock 'best friend's mom on a family ski trip' POV template.

  • Mace vows to be 'more of a menace than ever' after the primary loss

    Days after her fifth-place finish in the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary, Nancy Mace struck a defiant tone, signaling she would stay politically active and saying she intends to be 'more of a menace than ever' as her House term winds down.

  • ‘Welcome back, Nancy Mace’: after a fifth-place primary loss, a viral Waffle House meme sends the self-described former waitress back to the marquee

    After Rep. Nancy Mace finished fifth in the June 2026 South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary, a meme spread online showing a Waffle House marquee reading ‘WELCOME BACK NANCY MACE!’ The joke lands on Mace's own oft-repeated biography, ‘high school dropout turned Waffle House waitress’, which she has invoked for years, from celebrating her 2020 congressional win at the Waffle House where she once worked to donning a paper Waffle House cap during her 2026 governor bid. The sign is a digital meme, not a real marquee.

  • ‘You tanked yourself’: in a viral Facebook reel captioned ‘Called it,’ Michelle Shara narrates Mace's fall from ‘leading the race’ to ‘bringing up the rear’

    A Facebook reel by Michelle Shara, viewed more than 358,000 times, pairs footage of Nancy Mace addressing a Greenville County Republican Party meeting with Shara's own deadpan voiceover. Over the clip, Shara needles Mace about collapsing from an early front-runner to a fifth-place finish in the June 9, 2026 South Carolina GOP gubernatorial primary: ‘last time we saw each other, you were leading the race. How have you managed to tank your campaign so badly that you were just bringing up the rear?’ The one-word caption, ‘Called it,’ frames it as a prediction come true. The harsh lines are Shara's commentary, not Mace's words.

  • After Mace finishes fifth in the governor's primary, a circulating post-election essay calls her collapse 'years in the making', Mace blames her Epstein-files vote

    A post-election essay by writer Mike Broemmel, circulating on Facebook, frames Nancy Mace's fifth-place finish in the June 9, 2026 South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary as the cumulative result of years of staff turnover, feuds and controversy, 'the cumulative effect of chaos.' Mace finished last among the major candidates with about 11 percent and did not advance to the June 23 runoff between Pamela Evette and Alan Wilson. Mace has denied the kinds of former-staff accounts the essay recycles and attributes her defeat to her vote to release the Epstein files.

  • "Getting my ass kicked": Mace's post-loss X tear, from beans to vowing "revenge" on Trump

    After finishing fifth (~12.1%) in the June 9, 2026 South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary, Mace posted a days-long run of defiant messages on X that outlets including Townhall, The Blaze and HuffPost described as a 'crash out.' She wrote she was 'getting my ass kicked,' posted a bowl of beans, vowed to be 'more of a menace than ever,' and said that the answer to whether she would get 'revenge on Trump for ending your political career' was 'yes.'

  • 'I chose wrong if the goal was winning an election': Mace blames her Epstein-files vote for the loss

    After her fifth-place finish in the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary, Nancy Mace attributed her defeat to her vote to release the unredacted Epstein files over President Trump's objections, and marked the loss with a baked-beans photo on X, a callback to a viral 2024 meme.

  • National Review post-mortem: 'How Nancy Mace Self-Immolated'

    National Review, a conservative flagship, ran a scathing post-mortem on Nancy Mace's fifth-place primary finish, arguing the collapse was self-inflicted by a politician who 'would say and do just about anything for attention.' The critique is notable for coming from her own ideological side.

  • The Washington Post traces Nancy Mace's 'rough downfall' to her fifth-place primary loss, and former allies, including Kevin McCarthy, go on the record: 'I just watched her change'

    In a June 10, 2026 post-mortem, The Washington Post's Natalie Allison reports that Nancy Mace's fifth-place finish in the June 9 South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary, a loss in which she failed to carry even her own home county and district, capped what the paper calls a 'rough downfall.' Drawing on more than a dozen former aides, colleagues and supporters, several speaking on the record, the piece quotes former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy ('the only thing I hope is she gets the help she needs') and former Mace staff describing burned bridges and chaos. Mace did not return the Post's requests for comment, has previously denied former-staff criticism, and attributes her defeat to her vote to release the Epstein files. Allegations involving named parties remain contested and unadjudicated; those parties deny them.

  • 'Buried the hatchet': after finishing fifth, Mace concedes the governor's race and endorses Alan Wilson, the rival she spent months branding a 'p*dophile protector'

    On the night of June 9, 2026, after finishing fifth in the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary with about 11.4% of the vote, Nancy Mace conceded and endorsed the man who advanced to the June 23 runoff, Attorney General Alan Wilson. 'I want a law-and-order governor, and that law-and-order governor is going to be Alan Wilson,' she told supporters, saying that 'in the last couple of weeks, Alan Wilson and I have buried the hatchet.' The endorsement reversed a year of attacks: as recently as November 3, 2025 she had called Wilson a 'p*dophile protector' on X. Wilson has rejected those attacks, his office said Mace 'drastically mischaracterized' prosecution data, and nothing in the exchange is a finding about either man's conduct.

  • On CNN's election-night board, anchors can't find Mace, John King places her 'at the bottom of the pack' as she finishes last in the GOP governor's primary

    During CNN's June 9, 2026 coverage of the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary, anchor Kaitlan Collins and data analyst John King could not initially locate Nancy Mace among the leading candidates on the results board. King scrolled to the bottom of the field to find her, calling Mace 'at the bottom of the pack.' Pamela Evette and Alan Wilson advanced to a June 23 runoff; Mace finished near the bottom of the major Republican field.

  • 'Ding dong the witch is gone': Nikki Haley's son toasts Mace's defeat, four years after his mother's ads helped save her seat

    Minutes after Nancy Mace conceded her fifth-place finish in the June 9, 2026 South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary, Nalin Haley, the son of former governor and U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley, quote-tweeted her concession with 'DING DONG THE WITCH IS GONE!,' then added 'Free at last, free at last.' The jab capped a four-year arc: in 2022 Nikki Haley cut TV ads calling Mace 'tough as nails' and 'a fighter' and helped her beat a Trump-backed primary challenger; in January 2024 Mace repaid her by endorsing Donald Trump over Haley, in Haley's home state, the day before the New Hampshire primary. The Haley camp had spent election day boosting Mace's rivals.

  • On primary morning, Mace recast a volunteer's megaphone grab as a 'physical assault' by Pamela Evette's 'employees'

    On June 9, 2026, the day South Carolina Republicans voted in their gubernatorial primary, Rep. Nancy Mace spent the morning posting about something that had happened the night before outside a rival's campaign stop in Greer. Across three accounts, before 9:15 a.m., she called it a 'physical assault' by 'one of Pamela Evette's employees,' a 'violent' act, and grounds for Evette to 'drop out of the race.' The Greer Police Department incident report describes the same event more narrowly: a man 'ran up to' a protester 'who was holding a megaphone and ripped the megaphone out of his hands,' then handed it to the officers already standing there. The charge was misdemeanor assault and battery in the third degree, citation issued on scene. Evette's campaign said the man, Blake Kirsch, was an unpaid volunteer on its finance committee, not a staffer, and condemned the conduct. Local stations led with 'volunteer' and 'megaphone snatched.' Mace finished last in the primary that day.

  • Mace concedes fifth place: "I voted to release the Epstein files and lost some support for that"

    On June 9, 2026, after finishing fifth with roughly 12.1 percent of the vote in the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary, Mace said she lost support because of her vote to release the Epstein files and called it a choice made on principle.

  • 'My time is up at the end of this year': Mace confirms she's leaving Congress

    In her concession after the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary, Nancy Mace confirmed she will not seek re-election to the U.S. House: 'my time is up at the end of this year.' Her House term ends in January 2027. She has described the exit as keeping a three-term pledge she says she made in 2020, a characterization examined below.

  • Under a gag order barring 'any comment about any aspect of this case,' Mace uses her televised concession speech to talk about 'predators that got away in my case'

    On the night of June 9, 2026, after conceding the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary, Nancy Mace told her Charleston election-night crowd, and a live television audience, that she had talked to Attorney General Alan Wilson 'about my case' and would help his administration ensure that 'predators that got away in my case … we finally put criminals behind bars.' Mace is a third-party defendant in Berg v. Bryant, where a November 26, 2025 gag order bars every party from 'making or publishing any comment about any aspect of this case' or about any party or person connected to it, and a January 12, 2026 civil-contempt motion over her earlier public statements remains pending. Both orders are reproduced in full below. Mace contends the gag order is unconstitutional; all underlying allegations are unproven and contested, and no court has ruled on the June 9 remarks.

  • Primary day: South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary

    The South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary is held June 9, 2026, with Mace polling at roughly 12-15 percent after Trump endorsed rival Pamela Evette on May 29.

  • Gretchen Carlson, who helped write the Speak Out Act, files a sworn declaration backing Alexis Berg

    On June 8, 2026, Alexis Berg's counsel filed a reply brief in Assignment Desk Works, LLC v. Alexis Berg (No. 2025-CP-10-2671) arguing that the federal Speak Out Act makes the non-disparagement clause ADW is suing on judicially unenforceable, because the dispute before the court involves sexual-assault allegations. Attached was a sworn declaration from Gretchen Carlson, the former Fox News anchor whose 2016 case helped inspire the Act, who states she has met with Berg and that 'this is exactly the situation we fought to address,' and offers to testify. ADW argues the Act does not apply. The motion is undecided; the underlying allegations are contested and denied.

  • Mace on CNN: releasing the Epstein files was "a price I am unwilling to pay" for an endorsement

    On CNN on June 7, 2026, days before the South Carolina governor primary, Mace said that if Trump's endorsement required her not to vote to release the Epstein files, it was "a price I am unwilling to pay."

  • After Trump endorses Pam Evette over her for governor, Mace floods X for days, a Farron Balanced commentary dubs the response a 'crash out'

    On May 29, 2026, President Trump endorsed Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette over Nancy Mace in the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary. In the days that followed, Mace posted repeatedly on X defending her congressional record and attacking Evette. In a June 3, 2026 commentary video, progressive host Farron Cousins (Farron Balanced) characterized the response as a multi-day 'crash out' and read a post he attributed to GOP consultant Justin Evans calling it someone losing 'touch with reality in real time.' The 'crash out' and mental-health framing in the video are the commentator's opinion; Maceopedia does not adopt them. Mace attributes her troubles to her vote to release the Epstein files.

  • Mace posts 'PAM is a SCAM' at gubernatorial opponent Lt. Gov. Pam Evette after debate withdrawal

    On May 31, 2026, Mace posted on X mocking her Republican gubernatorial primary opponent Lt. Gov. Pam Evette as a 'scam' after Evette withdrew from a scheduled debate.

  • "NO REGRETS": Trump endorses Evette over Mace; Mace ties the snub to her Epstein vote

    On May 29, 2026, President Trump endorsed Mace's primary rival Pam Evette for South Carolina governor. Mace responded on X with "NO REGRETS," directly linking the endorsement snub to her vote to release the Epstein files.

  • Mace continues House duties amid governor run

    The congresswoman continued her work in the U.S. House while campaigning for governor, now in her third term representing South Carolina's 1st district.

  • Mace introduces constitutional amendment to bar naturalized citizens from Congress: 'Not Somalia. Not any other country.'

    On May 20, 2026, Mace introduced a joint resolution to amend the Constitution to bar naturalized citizens from serving in Congress or on the federal bench, naming three Democratic members, all naturalized, as her motivation.

  • Polling in the SC governor's race: spring 2026

    Mace led the Republican gubernatorial field in early polling but her support began softening through April and May 2026.

  • Mace commends Melania Trump for advocating for Epstein survivors

    On April 9, 2026, Mace publicly commended First Lady Melania Trump for her advocacy on behalf of Jeffrey Epstein survivors, a notable alignment with the Trump family even as Mace continued fighting the Justice Department over file releases.

  • Mace after Bondi's firing: "She has stonewalled every effort to hold the guilty accountable"

    On April 2, 2026, the day President Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi, Mace issued a statement accusing Bondi of handling the Epstein files in a "terrible manner" and stonewalling the committee's accountability efforts.

  • 'President Trump has won the war, time to exit': Mace breaks with Trump on Iran and signals she'll vote with Democrats

    On March 26, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace told Axios that 'War with Iran needs to end. President Trump has won the war, time to exit,' and signaled she would 'most likely' vote with House Democrats on the next war powers resolution constraining the Iran war. She told Axios by text she was 'not voting to send South Carolina's sons and daughters into battle to die for the price of oil,' and warned on CNN that continuing the war could cost Republicans in the midterms. Political Wire summed the day up as 'Trump Loses Nancy Mace on the Iran War.'

  • 'Another Iraq': Mace walks out of a classified Iran briefing and tells Trump to take Lindsey Graham 'out of the Situation Room'

    On March 25, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace walked out of a classified House Armed Services Committee briefing on the Iran war and posted that she 'will not support troops on the ground in Iran, even more so after this briefing,' warning that 'the Washington War Machine' wanted to turn Iran into 'another Iraq.' The same week she demanded that President Trump remove Sen. Lindsey Graham 'from the Situation Room,' first on X and then on CNN. The posture put her against the Iran-hawk wing of her own party even as she continued to praise Trump.

  • Mace on the TSA line-skip video: 'This video is a misrepresentation'

    Mace's office disputed a viral March 2026 video showing her and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz being escorted past a TSA line at Reagan National, saying the escort was Capitol Police, not TSA, and was provided because of security threats.

  • Mace returns from a second Middle East trip with a 2,000-name manifest; separately, a mother publicly accuses Grey Bull Rescue of demanding $1M before returning her daughter

    Around March 19-20, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace completed a second evacuation trip, helping a South Carolina mother and her four sons travel out of Israel through Jordan. Mace said she held a manifest of over 2,000 stranded Americans. Separately, according to reporting attributed to Jewish Rhode Island and the Jerusalem Post, Dr. Lauren Hofstatter publicly accused Grey Bull Rescue, the nonprofit Mace embedded with, of demanding that approximately $1 million be raised before returning her daughter from Jordan. Grey Bull founder Bryan Stern denied the accusation. Mace defended the organization. The accusation is unadjudicated and is denied.

  • Anonymous White House officials blast Mace's Israel rescue missions as 'political gain'; Mace says she kept State informed throughout

    The Guardian reported on March 18, 2026, picked up by Raw Story and WTOC, that unnamed Trump White House and State Department officials were furious at Rep. Nancy Mace over her two evacuation trips to Israel. The anonymous officials alleged she contacted the Saudi government without notifying State, asked the administration to requisition a Saudi plane for ~300 people, and urged Americans toward Jordan without secured onward travel. Mace's office said she kept State informed and that State approved the DHS plane. The dispute is unresolved and every government critic spoke anonymously.

  • Mace flies to Israel, helps secure plane, and evacuates 155 Americans, including 11 infants, to Greece

    Rep. Nancy Mace traveled to Israel around March 8, 2026, after a stranded South Carolina constituent family asked for her help. Embedding with the veteran-led nonprofit Grey Bull Rescue, she helped secure a DHS/State Department-chartered plane. On March 12 she announced that 155 Americans, including 11 infants, had been flown out to Greece.

  • Mace: ethics probe is 'probably retaliation for Epstein, let's be honest'

    Four days after the House Ethics Committee publicly released the OCC report, Rep. Nancy Mace told The Daily Signal the investigation was likely retaliation for her push to release the Epstein files and attacked the OCC's presenting official by name.

  • 'To Simply Make Up a Legal Standard Is Inexcusable': Opposing Counsel Asks Court to Sanction Mace's Pro Se TRO Filing

    In a March 5, 2026 response filed in ADW v. Berg, Assignment Desk Works' counsel Rene Dukes told a Charleston court that Rep. Nancy Mace's pro se emergency TRO motion cited a four-part legal standard that does not exist under South Carolina law, misrepresented a second case as supporting a doctrine it does not mention, and contradicted itself on whether an attorney-client relationship ever existed. Dukes asked the court to deny the motion and sanction Mace under Rule 11, the rule that requires any litigant, represented or not, to certify that a filing has good-faith legal and factual support.

  • Mace's second subpoena targets the congressional sexual-harassment "slush fund"

    Also on March 4, 2026, the House Oversight Committee passed Mace's second subpoena, targeting records from the congressional office that paid out sexual-harassment settlements on behalf of members, though the full House later voted 357-65 to refer the matter back to the Ethics Committee, effectively killing it.

  • "One of the greatest cover-ups in American history": Oversight subpoenas Bondi on Mace's motion (24-19)

    On March 4, 2026, the House Oversight Committee voted 24-19 to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi on Mace's motion, as Mace declared the Epstein case "one of the greatest cover-ups in American history."

  • House votes 357-65 to block Mace's push to release congressional harassment settlement records

    Rep. Nancy Mace's H.Res. 1100 sought to force the release of records on taxpayer-funded sexual-harassment settlements paid on behalf of House members. The House voted 357-65 on March 4, 2026 to refer the resolution back to the Ethics Committee, shelving it. Mace's own office was later subpoenaed in May 2026 by the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights, which disclosed over $300,000 in settlements.

  • For All the Accusations, 'Not One Woman Other Than Defendant Has Brought an Action Against Bryant, Including Mace'

    In a two-page response filed March 4, 2026, ADW's counsel Rene Stuhr Dukes told a Charleston court that despite a coordinated effort by Ali Berg and Nancy Mace to level sexual-crime accusations against Patrick Bryant, no woman — including Mace herself — has filed a legal action against him. The filing is opposing counsel's argument, not a judicial finding; Bryant's denials and an open SLED investigation remain part of the record.

  • Campaign-trail activity picks up in early spring

    Campaign activity for the 2026 governor's race increased as spring began, with Mace leading early internal polling at roughly 24 percent.

  • Ethics Committee releases OCC report: Mace billed the max, exceeded actual costs by $9,485.46

    The House Ethics Committee publicly released the OCC's full report finding substantial reason to believe Rep. Nancy Mace claimed the maximum allowable lodging reimbursement every month she filed, exceeding the D.C. property's actual expenses by $9,485.46 across four months in 2024. Mace, her former chief of staff, and two other former staffers all refused to cooperate. The OCC recommended subpoenas for all four.

  • Mace questions Hillary Clinton in released Oversight deposition video

    The House Oversight Committee released video of Hillary Clinton's Feb. 26 deposition on March 2, 2026. Mace's questioning, including a heated exchange over Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and 9/11, drew sharply conflicting reviews, with critics saying Clinton bested Mace and Mace's own camp calling Clinton 'unhinged.'

  • 'The pain that I need to feel': Nancy Mace says she got nine tattoos 'in rapid succession' while serving in Congress

    In a February 27, 2026 Politico profile by Michael Kruse, Nancy Mace said she got nine tattoos 'in rapid succession' in late 2023 and early 2024, as her engagement to Patrick Bryant ended and staff churned through her office, describing them as 'the pain that I need to feel.' 'So my story is I am totally broken,' she told Politico. One is the opening line of Virginia Woolf's 'Mrs. Dalloway.' The tattoos had surfaced months earlier in sworn testimony from her former campaign manager, who said Mace called them her 'stress tattoos.'

  • Mace says DOJ is withholding "terabytes" of Epstein records

    On NewsNation on February 24, 2026, Mace said the DOJ had not released all the Epstein files and estimated the withheld material amounted to terabytes of data and potentially millions of documents.

  • Mace presses the CIA on any relationship with Epstein and Maxwell

    On February 17, 2026, Mace sent a letter to CIA Director John Ratcliffe demanding disclosure of any relationship between the CIA and Jeffrey Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell.

  • Mace demands the unredacted Epstein co-conspirator memo from SDNY

    On February 16, 2026, Mace sent a letter to U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton III demanding the unredacted 2019 SDNY memorandum on Epstein co-conspirators.

  • "This isn't going away until people go to jail": Mace rejects Bondi's claim all files were released

    On February 15, 2026, Mace posted a scathing social media thread rejecting AG Pam Bondi's claim that all Epstein files had been released, warning the issue would not go away until people were jailed.

  • Mace demands DOJ explain why Epstein files were pulled from its public site

    On February 12, 2026, Mace pressed the DOJ to explain why Epstein files had been removed from its public website, warning that one accomplice could not account for thousands of victims.

  • "It's creepy": Mace says DOJ is tracking which Epstein files members of Congress open

    On February 11, 2026, Mace said the DOJ was monitoring which Epstein files members of Congress opened and when, calling the surveillance of congressional access "creepy."

  • "Your days are numbered": Mace demands release after reviewing unredacted files at DOJ

    On February 11, 2026, Mace spoke out after reviewing unredacted Epstein files at the DOJ, warning that princes, former presidents, and billionaires named in the records would be held accountable.

  • Bryant's Own Lawyer Alleges Mace 'Stole' His Phone and Hired a PI to Extract Its Data

    In a public court filing, Patrick Bryant's attorney asserted in an email exhibit that Nancy Mace took Bryant's Samsung Galaxy S22 from his home and hired a private investigator to copy files off it. The allegations are unproven and contested; Berg's motion argues that Bryant's own pleadings directly contradict the account.

  • Mace demands Bill Gates testify under oath about his relationship with Epstein

    On February 4, 2026, Mace announced a demand that Bill Gates testify before the House Oversight Committee about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

  • Opposing Counsel Tells Court Mace's Motion Is 'Intended to Delay This Litigation, Harass Plaintiff, Its Members, and Agents'

    In a February 2026 court filing, ADW's counsel Rene Dukes argued that Rep. Nancy Mace had no legal standing to intervene in the ADW v. Berg breach-of-contract case and that her motion was frivolous, filed solely to harass and delay. Dukes also noted that Mace's filing invoked her own congressional floor speech, in which she had named private citizens who are members of the plaintiff.

  • Mace Calls ADW's Breach-of-Contract Suit a 'Fishing Expedition,' Moves to Dismiss It, Despite Not Being a Party

    On January 27, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace, not a party to ADW v. Berg, a breach-of-contract case between her company and a former employee, filed an Emergency Motion to Intervene, seeking to dismiss the suit, impose sanctions on both sides' attorneys, and block all discovery. Mace signed the motion herself, as a pro se litigant, and certified that she had skipped the required meet-and-confer with opposing counsel because, in her judgment, it 'would not be productive.' ADW v. Berg is a civil case in Charleston County; no findings of fact have been made.

  • 'This Court Now Stands as the Only Barrier': Mace Files Sworn Emergency Motion to Gag Opposing Lawyers

    On January 27, 2026, Nancy Mace filed a sworn, verified Emergency Motion for Temporary Restraining Order in the ADW v. Berg civil case, asking a Charleston County judge to bar opposing counsel, Patrick Bryant, and Berg's attorneys from accessing or using materials she called privileged. The motion — signed under oath by Mace personally — also places her gubernatorial candidacy on the official court record.

  • Mace voluntarily shared her Google Drive as 'helpful' evidence, then sent 'threatening' letters demanding it back

    In a January 2026 emergency motion, Ali Berg's attorney Marybeth Mullaney told a Charleston court that Congresswoman Nancy Mace had voluntarily handed over her Google Drive in June 2025, saying she believed it would be 'helpful' to Berg's defense, and then reversed course, sending what the motion calls 'threatening emails and letters' demanding Berg's counsel stop using the materials, return or destroy them, and 'claw back' items already produced in discovery. The motion asks the court to step in and decide whether Berg may keep using what Mace herself provided.

  • In a letter to the judge overseeing her gag order, Mace calls the court a 'Kangaroo Court' and moves the contempt matter to federal court: 'I will not be SILENCED.'

    On January 21, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace wrote directly to Judge Donald B. Hocker, the Charleston County circuit judge presiding over Berg v. Bryant, the case in which she is a third-party defendant under a gag order, calling the court a 'Kangaroo Court,' declaring the gag order unconstitutional, and announcing she was removing the contempt proceeding against her to federal court. Mace wrote the letter pro se, after she says she had discharged her counsel; it was stamped FILED on the state docket January 22, 2026. The full five-page filing is reproduced below. The allegations underlying the litigation are disputed and contested; Mace denies Bryant's claims, and Bryant denies Mace's.

  • House Ethics Committee extends Mace reimbursement review, sets March deadline

    The House Committee on Ethics announced it was extending its review of Rep. Nancy Mace's lodging reimbursement practices, with a next step due by March 2, 2026. Mace said she had spent over $100,000 in D.C. lodging costs and received far less in reimbursements.

  • Bryant moves for sanctions over 'fake, AI generated citations' in Mace legal brief, and a cover-up that compounded them

    Patrick Bryant filed a Rule 11 sanctions motion in the Berg v. Bryant litigation alleging that Rep. Nancy Mace's attorney submitted AI-fabricated case citations in a court brief, then, the motion alleges, attempted to conceal the error by filing an amended brief that itself allegedly continued to use fabricated citations. Bryant's motion documents the alleged cover-up paragraph by paragraph. Mace and her attorney D. Craig Brown dispute the allegations; no court has ruled on the motion.

  • Mace attacks AG Alan Wilson: 'If you're a pedophile, you definitely want Alan Wilson to prosecute your case'

    On January 15, 2026, Mace attacked her chief governor's-race rival, AG Alan Wilson, with a 'pedophile paradise' line after a child sex offender was arrested and released the same day; Wilson's office said Mace had 'drastically mischaracterized' the data she cited.

  • While the gag order holds, Mace promotes her 'Predators Act' as 'deeply personal'

    On January 11, 2026, with the Berg v. Bryant gag order in effect and days before the court's supplemental order, Mace promoted her 'Preventing Prosecutors from Protecting Predators Act' from her verified @RepNancyMace account, calling it 'deeply personal' and tying it to 'trauma' she says she experienced 'two years ago.' Opposing counsel flagged the post as a continued public statement about matters connected to the case.

  • While the gag order holds, Mace proposes Aggravated Voyeurism Act and ties it to her 'personal experiences' as a victim

    On January 3, 2026, with the Berg v. Bryant gag order in effect, Rep. Nancy Mace announced the Aggravated Voyeurism Act at the South Carolina statehouse and publicly tied it to her 'personal experiences' as a self-described victim of voyeurism. The announcement was not cited in the contempt motion filed January 12, 2026; it is presented here as a public statement made during the order's effective period. Mace disputes the validity and scope of the gag order.

Incidents

  • The Greer megaphone arrest (June 2026)

    On the evening of June 8, 2026, the night before South Carolina's Republican gubernatorial primary, a volunteer on Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette's campaign finance committee, Blake Kirsch, ran up to a man legally protesting outside an Evette campaign event in Greer, ripped a megaphone from his hands, and handed it to the police officers already on scene. Greer PD cited him for misdemeanor assault and battery in the third degree and booked him 'without incident.' On primary day, June 9, Rep. Nancy Mace turned the episode into an all-morning social-media offensive, calling it a 'physical assault' by Evette's 'employees' and demanding Evette 'drop out of the race.' Evette's campaign said Kirsch was an unpaid volunteer, not staff, and condemned the conduct; he resigned from the finance committee. Local stations led with 'volunteer' and 'megaphone snatched.' Mace finished last in the primary that day.

  • TSA line-skip video with Debbie Wasserman Schultz (March 2026)

  • Israel evacuation missions and the White House clash (March 2026)

    Rep. Mace made two trips to the Middle East in March 2026, embedding with veteran nonprofit Grey Bull Rescue to evacuate stranded Americans during the Israel, Iran war. 155 Americans including 11 infants were evacuated on the first trip. Anonymous White House officials accused her of conducting unauthorized outreach to Saudi Arabia and staging the missions for political gain; she denied this, and Grey Bull's founder called her 'fully embedded … to work to save lives.'

  • The House Ethics reimbursement investigation (2025-2026)

    The Office of Congressional Conduct voted 6-0 to refer Rep. Mace to the House Committee on Ethics over reimbursements from her official allowance for lodging at a D.C. property she co-owned. The Ethics Committee announced an expanded review in March 2026; no violation has been found.

  • The Epstein Files Fight

  • "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

  • 2026 Governor Campaign

    Nancy Mace's candidacy for Governor of South Carolina in the 2026 election cycle.

  • William J. Hunter

    William J. 'Bill' Hunter of Oliver Maner LLP (Savannah, GA) was admitted pro hac vice to represent Rep. Nancy Mace, as Intervenor, in Assignment Desk Works, LLC v. Berg, No. 2025-CP-10-2671, in April 2026, appearing alongside her local counsel F. Cordes Ford IV.

  • 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.

  • Sam Staley

    Sam Staley is a Charleston-area technology executive and a non-party witness whom Assignment Desk Works, LLC, the company of Rep. Nancy Mace's former fiancé Patrick Bryant, subpoenaed in Assignment Desk Works v. Berg, where a publicly filed motion to compel characterizes Staley as having connected Alexis Berg with Mace. The communications themselves were produced in discovery under a confidentiality designation and are not part of the public record; this entry summarizes only what the public court filing alleges.

  • Bryan Stern

    Founder and CEO of Grey Bull Rescue, a Tampa-based veteran-led crisis-response nonprofit that embedded Rep. Nancy Mace during her March 2026 Israel evacuation missions.

  • Lauren Hofstatter

    A mother who publicly alleged that Grey Bull Rescue delayed the return of her daughter from Jordan during the 2026 Israel, Iran war evacuation operations unless approximately $1 million was raised, allegations Grey Bull and founder Bryan Stern denied.

  • F. Cordes Ford IV

    F. Cordes Ford IV of Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP (Charleston) appeared as counsel for Rep. Nancy Mace, as Intervenor, in Assignment Desk Works, LLC v. Berg, No. 2025-CP-10-2671, beginning March 2026, after Mace had spent the prior weeks representing herself pro se in the related litigation.

  • 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.

  • Pam Bondi

    Pam Bondi served as U.S. Attorney General under President Trump and faced intense scrutiny from Nancy Mace over the Department of Justice's handling and release of the Epstein files.

  • 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).

  • 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).

Media coverage

  • Nancy Mace Introduces Bill To Separate Gubernatorial Races By Gender

    Satire. The Onion, a comedy publication, imagines Nancy Mace responding to her fifth-place finish in the South Carolina governor's primary by proposing to segregate gubernatorial elections by gender, a send-up of the bathroom-bill politics that defined her House tenure. No such bill exists.

  • Latest Republican Out of a Job After Forcing Epstein Release

    CNN characterized Mace's fifth-place finish in the June 9, 2026 South Carolina GOP gubernatorial primary as the latest example of a Republican losing their seat after forcing the Epstein files release, a framing that placed her alongside Reps. Massie, Boebert, and Greene as petition signers who paid an electoral price. The analysis is CNN's own characterization of the political outcome.

  • Epstein Files Crusade Takes Down Nancy Mace

    The Washington Times characterized Mace's primary loss as the Epstein files 'crusade' taking her down, a framing the outlet applied to her fifth-place finish in the June 9, 2026 South Carolina GOP governor race. The piece covers her concession remarks, in which she said she 'voted to release the Epstein files and lost some support for that,' and her statement that it was 'not a political opinion' but 'a moral emergency.'

  • Trump Endorses Pam Evette Over Nancy Mace for South Carolina Governor

    The Hill reported on May 29, 2026 that Trump endorsed Mace's primary rival, Lt. Gov. Pam Evette, for the South Carolina governorship, a snub Mace publicly attributed to her vote to release the Epstein files. The endorsement was widely covered as the direct consequence of the months-long standoff between Mace and the Trump administration over the file release.

  • Nancy Mace Blasts Bondi's Bid to Wriggle Out of Epstein Grilling

    The Daily Beast reported in April 2026 that Mace publicly blasted AG Pam Bondi's efforts to avoid complying with the Oversight Committee subpoena, characterizing Bondi's response as stonewalling. The piece covers the period between the subpoena vote and Bondi's firing, as Mace continued her public campaign to compel DOJ testimony.

  • Nancy Mace Returns From Second Middle East Trip Focused on Evacuations

    WTOC reports on Rep. Nancy Mace's return from a second evacuation mission to the Middle East, where she worked to help a South Carolina family and others escape the conflict zone.

  • Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary Pokes Fun at Nancy Mace's 'Tits'

    At a March 17, 2026 St. Patrick's Day roast in Charleston, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent mocked Mace with a crude 'Silicon Valley' joke about her body. One attendee disputed the exact wording, and Mace's campaign did not respond.

  • White House 'Seething' Over Nancy Mace's Unsanctioned Middle East Rescue Missions

    Raw Story reports (citing The Guardian) that anonymous White House officials were reportedly 'seething' over Mace's independent Middle East rescue operations and her direct outreach to Saudi Arabia without State Department coordination, accusing her of attempting to exploit the evacuation situation for political gain.

  • Nancy Mace Leads American Rescue Effort in Israel Amid Iran War

    The Daily Signal reports on Rep. Nancy Mace's role in coordinating the evacuation of 155 Americans stranded in Israel during the Iran conflict, working alongside the veteran-led nonprofit Grey Bull Rescue.

  • Nancy Mace Says She 'Jumped In to Assist' Americans Airlifted from War Zone

    Fox News covers Rep. Nancy Mace's account of helping evacuate 155 Americans from Israel during the Iran conflict with the veteran-led nonprofit Grey Bull Rescue, describing her role in securing an aircraft for the evacuation.

  • Rep. Nancy Mace Helps Evacuate 155 Americans from Israel Amid Iran Conflict

    Live 5 News reports on Rep. Nancy Mace's evacuation of 155 Americans (including 11 infants) from Israel during the Iran conflict, highlighting her partnership with the veteran-led nonprofit Grey Bull Rescue.

  • Rep. Mace Evacuates Americans from Middle East

    The Hill covers Rep. Nancy Mace's efforts to help evacuate 155 Americans stranded in Israel during the ongoing Iran conflict, highlighting her work with the veteran-led nonprofit Grey Bull Rescue.

  • Rep. Nancy Mace Travels to Israel to Help Evacuate Americans

    VINnews covers Rep. Nancy Mace's evacuation mission to Israel, where she helped secure the departure of 155 Americans stranded during the ongoing Iran conflict with assistance from Grey Bull Rescue.

  • Exclusive: Nancy Mace claims ethics investigation is retribution for Clinton Epstein deposition

    The Daily Signal published an exclusive interview with Mace where she claimed the ethics investigation was retaliation for her Epstein deposition work, characterizing it as part of a broader effort by political opponents ('the swamp') to undermine her.

  • House Oversight Subpoenas Pam Bondi Over Epstein Files on Mace's Motion

    CNBC reported on March 4, 2026 that the House Oversight Committee voted 24-19 to subpoena AG Pam Bondi on Mace's motion, after Mace declared the Epstein case would go down as 'one of the greatest cover-ups in American history.' The piece covers the escalation of Mace's fight with the Trump DOJ to a formal congressional subpoena.

  • House squashes effort to force release of Ethics Committee files

    Nina Heller reported on the House's rejection of Mace's H.Res. 1100 resolution to compel release of sexual harassment settlement records investigated by the House Ethics Committee, with the resolution referred back to the committee by a 357-65 vote.

  • Hillary Clinton Destroys Nancy Mace and Lauren Boebert in Table-Slamming Epstein Grilling

    The Daily Beast characterized the March 3, 2026 House Oversight Committee deposition, in which Mace questioned Hillary Clinton about the Epstein investigation, as Clinton 'destroying' her questioners, with Clinton pushing back sharply and Mace reportedly acknowledging she lacked supporting documents for part of her line of questioning. Neither Hillary nor Bill Clinton has been accused of wrongdoing in connection with Epstein; the piece covers Mace's committee conduct.

  • Nancy Mace reacts to Ethics Committee's housing budget allegation

    Dan Gooding reported on Mace's immediate reaction to the ethics investigation, covering her social media responses and framing of the allegations as retaliation for her Epstein investigation work.

  • South Carolina politics: Nancy Mace ethics reimbursements

    Spectrum News South Carolina covered the ethics investigation with focus on the local political implications of the OCC findings and the House Ethics Committee's formal review.

  • Nancy Mace ethics investigation, housing costs reimbursement

    The Washington Post's national coverage of the House Ethics Committee investigation into Mace's reimbursement practices, examining the Office of Congressional Conduct's findings that she claimed excess lodging expenses tied to her Capitol Hill property.

  • Nancy Mace ethics inquiry: alleged improper reimbursement

    Rachel Schilke reported on the Office of Congressional Conduct's referral to the House Ethics Committee, citing the OCC's finding of 'substantial reason to believe' Mace engaged in improper reimbursement practices. Mace's counsel responded that the report is 'fundamentally flawed.'

  • Rep. Nancy Mace under House Ethics Committee investigation

    WIS-TV, the ABC affiliate in South Carolina where Mace represents, reported the House Ethics Committee investigation on the day of the OCC referral, covering the allegations of improper housing and meal reimbursement practices.

  • Nancy Mace: DOJ Is Withholding 'Terabytes' of Epstein Records

    The Hill reported on February 24, 2026 that Mace, appearing on NewsNation, claimed the DOJ was withholding 'terabytes of data' and potentially millions of additional Epstein records, and that the scope of the case was 'much bigger than a prostitution and sex trafficking ring.' The piece captures Mace's continued pressure on the DOJ after Bondi's claim of full disclosure.

  • Mace Goes Off in Scathing Social Media Thread, Rejects Pam Bondi's Claim All Epstein Files Released

    Mediaite reported on February 15, 2026 that Mace posted a scathing social media thread rejecting AG Pam Bondi's claim that all Epstein files had been released, declaring 'This isn't going away until people go to jail' and calling the DOJ's handling a shame to victims. The piece documents Mace's escalating public confrontation with the Trump Justice Department.

  • Nancy Mace Demands Immediate Release of Unredacted Epstein Files

    FITSNews reported on February 11, 2026 that Mace, after reviewing unredacted Epstein files at the DOJ, publicly demanded their immediate release and stated that co-conspirator records had been redacted or were missing from the database. The report captures her remarks in which she told targets that 'your days are numbered.'

  • Lawmakers Demand DOJ Stop Tracking Their Epstein Files Searches

    The Hill reported in February 2026 that Mace and other lawmakers demanded the DOJ stop tracking which members of Congress opened specific Epstein files and when, after Mace described the monitoring as 'creepy' and said the system logged every file access. The story drew bipartisan condemnation of the DOJ's surveillance of congressional oversight activity.

  • House Ethics Committee reviews allegations against Rep. Mace

    ABC News 4 reported on the House Ethics Committee's extension of its review period for the investigation into Mace's reimbursement practices, providing local South Carolina coverage of the procedural development in the ethics probe.

Mockery & memes

  • Bathroom sheriff, fifth place

    After building a national brand on targeting Rep. Sarah McBride over Capitol bathroom access, Nancy Mace finished fifth, with roughly 12 percent of the vote, in the June 10, 2026 South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary. McBride's response from the LGBTQ Victory Fund gala became the day's most-shared line: 'Congress's top bathroom sheriff … in a respectful fifth place. Happy Pride, Nancy.'

  • The 'Iron Lady' crashout

    After President Trump endorsed Pamela Evette in the South Carolina governor's race, Rep. Nancy Mace posted a stylized 'IRON LADY' self-portrait to X. Commentators, including former GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger and Republican consultant Justin Evans, described the post in mental-health terms. Mace went on to finish fifth in the June 10 primary.

  • Even MAGA called it 'thirsty'

    After Trump endorsed Pamela Evette over Mace in the South Carolina governor's race, Mace posted a declaration of loyalty to Trump that drew mockery from across the political spectrum, including from Catturd, who called it 'so cringe because Trump didn't endorse her,' George Santos, who called it 'misleading,' and Jonah Goldberg, who responded with a GIF labeled 'so thirsty.'

  • The fake AI Trump photos

    After Trump endorsed Pamela Evette in the South Carolina governor's race, Rep. Nancy Mace posted AI-generated images of herself with Trump implying his support. X Community Notes flagged the images as AI-generated. CNN's Dana Bash pressed Mace on camera on June 7, 2026; Mace replied she "ha[s] pictures with the president that are real."

  • 'If you were not born in America'

    Rep. Nancy Mace posted that people who were not born in the United States should not 'hold power in our government,' paired with legislation to bar naturalized citizens from elected office. Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL) called her 'a racist, unstable individual' and pointed out the bill would also disqualify Republican Rep. Carlos Giménez, who was born in Cuba.

  • The Cory Mills expulsion fight

    After Rep. Cory Mills helped table Mace's Omar censure, the two traded dueling expulsion resolutions, Mace's citing allegations against Mills, Mills' citing her Charleston airport incident. Both allegations are contested and unproven; both members faced House Ethics scrutiny.

  • Scott Bessent's "Silicon Valley" joke about Nancy Mace

    Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent mocked Nancy Mace's body with a crude 'Silicon Valley' joke at a Charleston St. Patrick's Day roast, an example of the ridicule aimed at her from inside her own party.

  • Bessent's 'Silicon Valley' jab

    At a St. Patrick's Day dinner at Hibernian Hall in Charleston, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reportedly made a crude joke at Rep. Nancy Mace's expense, a Trump Cabinet member publicly demeaning a fellow MAGA Republican in her home state.

  • 'I'm not your prop', Tim Walz

    At a March 2026 congressional hearing, Mace again pressed Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to 'define a woman'; Walz replied, 'I'm not here to be your prop for your obsession,' a retort that drew wide coverage, with right-leaning outlets framing it as Mace scoring a point, while mainstream reporting favored Walz's rejoinder.

  • 'No, baby, you're not'

    At a January 7, 2026 House Oversight hearing, Mace told Rep. Ayanna Pressley 'No baby, you're not. You are not in order. You're out of order. Goodbye. You're done.' after a jab about Pressley landing an MSNBC slot. The clip went viral; Mace was widely mocked for invoking congressional decorum while calling a colleague 'baby.'

Clips

  • "Once I get my teeth stuck in you" -> "endorse Alan Wilson for governor": Mace's flip on Alan Wilson

    A real-footage then-vs-now supercut: Nancy Mace's June 9, 2026 endorsement of Attorney General Alan Wilson (C-SPAN) cut against her own March 4, 2025 House floor speech, where she vowed to make sure 'every South Carolinian knows your name forever' and that 'once I get my teeth stuck in you, I am not letting go.' Wilson rejected her attacks; nothing here is a finding about either man.

  • “NO REGRETS”, Mace ties Trump’s snub to her Epstein vote

    After President Trump endorsed her primary rival Pam Evette on May 29, 2026, Mace posted on X: ‘I voted to release the Epstein files. NO REGRETS.’

  • ?Pillaged and plundered by Somali pirates? four moments from Mace questioning Walz

    A supercut of four verbatim moments from Rep. Nancy Mace's questioning of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz at the March 4, 2026 House Oversight hearing on alleged misuse of federal funds, from accusing Walz of the worst fraud scandal in American history to the "34,200% increase" math exchange.

  • "What is a woman?", Mace vs. Gov. Tim Walz

    A supercut of the full exchange from Rep. Nancy Mace’s questioning of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz at the March 4, 2026 House Oversight hearing, Mace’s question, Walz’s "prop" retort, and Mace’s closing line on fraud.

  • “A pedophile paradise”, Mace attacks AG Alan Wilson

    On January 15, 2026, after a man Mace’s office described as a child sex offender was arrested and released the same day, Mace attacked her governor’s-race rival, AG Alan Wilson. Wilson’s office said she had ‘drastically mischaracterized’ the data she cited.

  • "No baby, you are done", Mace cuts Pressley's mic from the chair

    A supercut of two verbatim moments from the January 7, 2026 House Oversight hearing on alleged misuse of federal funds in Minnesota, Part I, Rep. Ayanna Pressley attempting to speak, and Chairwoman Mace cutting off her microphone.