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Dispatches

Incidents

  • "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.

    June 27, 2024 · Incident

  • The scarlet letter 'A' (Oct. 2023)

    On October 10, 2023, a week after voting to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Rep. Mace walked into a closed-door Speaker candidate forum wearing a white tank top printed with a large red letter 'A', her self-described 'scarlet letter', saying she would not be 'demonized' or shamed into silence for her vote.

    October 10, 2023 · Incident

  • Nancy Mace and the UAP hearings

    Rep. Nancy Mace chaired or co-chaired two major House Oversight UAP hearings, July 26, 2023 and November 13, 2024, and made a series of on-record statements about unidentified aerial phenomena, recovered craft, and alien technology. The 2023 exchange about 'nonhuman biologics' went globally viral; the 2024 hearing drew formal cross-aisle praise. In December 2024 she said alien craft 'has to be on the table' in the New Jersey drone controversy.

    July 26, 2023 · Incident

Wiki & people

  • Max Miller

    Republican congressman from Ohio's 7th district and former Trump White House official who became a Mace adversary in July 2026 when she called his ex-wife's domestic abuse allegations 'horrific' and demanded he be investigated and resign if the claims prove true.

    July 29, 2026 · Wiki

  • Russell Fry

    U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 7th District who unseated an impeachment-vote Republican in 2022 and entered the 2026 special Senate race to succeed the late Lindsey Graham.

    July 20, 2026 · Wiki

  • Staff Turnover in Nancy Mace's Office

    Nancy Mace's congressional and campaign operations have shown a recurring pattern of rapid staff departures: her entire nine-member Washington office turned over within three months in late 2023, a senior campaign consultant resigned publicly in December 2025, and four staff members, including Mace herself, declined to cooperate with the House Ethics Committee's 2025-2026 reimbursement investigation. Mace disputes former staffers' accounts of her management, and has in turn accused some ex-aides of sabotage; those competing accounts are contested and unadjudicated.

    July 4, 2026 · Wiki

  • Legislative Record: Every Bill Nancy Mace Has Introduced

    A complete list of every bill Nancy Mace has sponsored in the U.S. House of Representatives across the 117th, 118th, and 119th Congresses -- 187+ bills introduced, three enacted (all post office renamings).

    June 27, 2026 · Wiki

  • Rape Shield Enhancement Act: Narrowing the Accused's Defense

    Of all Rep. Nancy Mace's women's-safety bills, the Rape Shield Enhancement Act (H.R. 10094, reintroduced as H.R. 3596) is the one aimed at the rights of the accused themselves. It would direct changes to the Federal Rules of Evidence that further restrict what a criminal defendant may introduce about an accuser and narrow the defense's access to an accuser's records. Legal authorities have long recognized that each expansion of rape-shield protection collides with the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause and the accused's right to present a defense; this bill leans into that tension rather than resolving it.

    June 20, 2026 · Wiki

  • Nancy Mace's Bills and the Rights of the Accused

    Rep. Nancy Mace has used her House Oversight chairmanship and her 'leading voice on women's issues' brand to advance a series of measures that strip protections from the accused: a resolution to publish accusations the House Ethics Committee never proved (rejected 357-65), a takedown regime that removes online content on an unverified report, and a bill narrowing what a criminal defendant may show a jury. Named legal and civil-liberties critics, and members of both parties, warn these erode due process and tilt the process against the accused. This page documents those measures first, then the full verified ledger of her women's-safety bills.

    June 20, 2026 · Wiki

  • Congressional Career

    Nancy Mace's tenure representing South Carolina's 1st congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives, elections, committee work, legislative record, and notable votes from 2021 through the present.

    June 10, 2026 · Wiki

  • Nancy Mace: Overview

    A biographical overview of Nancy Mace, U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 1st congressional district and the first woman to graduate from The Citadel's Corps of Cadets.

    June 9, 2026 · Wiki

  • George Santos

    Former U.S. Representative (R-NY) expelled from the House in 2023 after his biography was exposed as largely fabricated. Rep. Nancy Mace branded his résumé a fabrication, then voted against expelling him, then hired his communications director; by 2026 Santos was publicly urging Mace's staff to turn on her.

    April 21, 2026 · Wiki

  • Cory Mills

    Republican congressman from Florida who became the subject of a public censure and expulsion campaign by Rep. Nancy Mace amid domestic-violence and stolen-valor allegations.

    November 19, 2025 · Wiki

  • 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.

    November 18, 2025 · Wiki

  • 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.

    July 15, 2025 · Wiki

  • 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.

    July 15, 2025 · Wiki

  • 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.

    July 15, 2025 · Wiki

  • 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.

    July 15, 2025 · Wiki

  • 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.

    January 14, 2025 · Wiki

  • UAP & the Hearings

    Mace's role in the two House Oversight UAP hearings, the July 26, 2023 exchange that defined the moment, the November 13, 2024 joint hearing she co-chaired, her most striking on-record statements, the bipartisan praise she earned, and the internet reaction that followed.

    December 17, 2024 · Wiki

  • Anna Paulina Luna

    U.S. Representative from Florida (R-FL) and a strong advocate for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) transparency. She has worked with Rep. Nancy Mace on bipartisan legislative efforts to advance government disclosure on the subject.

    November 13, 2024 · Wiki

  • Luis Elizondo

    Former head of the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) who testified before Congress on November 13, 2024 at a House Oversight subcommittee hearing on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena co-chaired by Rep. Nancy Mace.

    November 13, 2024 · Wiki

  • Robert Garcia

    U.S. Representative from California (D-CA) and ranking member of the House Oversight Committee. He has partnered with Rep. Nancy Mace on bipartisan Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) oversight and legislative efforts.

    November 13, 2024 · Wiki

  • Tim Burchett

    U.S. Representative from Tennessee (R-TN) and one of the most vocal congressional advocates for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) transparency. He has partnered with Rep. Nancy Mace on bipartisan UAP legislation and congressional hearings.

    November 13, 2024 · Wiki

  • Gabrielle Lipsky

    Communications staffer who was George Santos's spokeswoman, resigned the day after the House Ethics report that preceded his expulsion, and weeks later was hired by Nancy Mace into the same role, amid record turnover in Mace's office.

    January 8, 2024 · Wiki

  • Dan Hanlon

    Dan Hanlon served as chief of staff to Rep. Nancy Mace from 2021 until he was fired in December 2023, and was named in the Office of Congressional Conduct's 2025 reimbursement review as one of four individuals who refused to cooperate with investigators and were recommended for subpoena.

    December 5, 2023 · Wiki

  • Kevin McCarthy

    Former U.S. Representative and 55th Speaker of the House (R-CA) who was removed from the speakership on October 3, 2023, a vote in which Nancy Mace was one of eight Republicans to support removal.

    October 3, 2023 · Wiki

  • David Grusch

    Former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer and member of the Pentagon's Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Task Force who testified before Congress in July 2023 as a whistleblower, claiming the U.S. had recovered non-human biological remains from UAP crash sites.

    July 26, 2023 · Wiki

Media coverage

  • Members Of Congress Caught Skipping TSA Lines During Shutdown Chaos

    Live and Let's Fly reports on the viral video of Mace and Wasserman Schultz at Reagan National (DCA), covers Sen. Cornyn's 'End Special Treatment for Congress at Airports Act,' and contextualizes the episode within a shutdown that left TSA officers working without pay.

    March 20, 2026 · Media

  • Nancy Mace 'Had Full-Blown Panic Attack' After Meeting Epstein Survivors

    Newsweek reported on September 3, 2025 that Rep. Nancy Mace left a closed-door House Oversight Committee briefing with Jeffrey Epstein abuse survivors and stated she had experienced a full-blown panic attack, describing symptoms including sweating, hyperventilating, and shaking, while listening to survivors' accounts. Mace, who has publicly disclosed her own history as a sexual assault survivor, tied her reaction to her personal trauma. The briefing was part of the House Oversight Committee's investigation into how federal agencies handled the Epstein case and the release of related records.

    September 3, 2025 · Media

  • 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.

    January 14, 2025 · Media

  • 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.'

    January 14, 2025 · Media

  • 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.

    January 14, 2025 · Media

  • UAP video turning point

    NewsNation correspondent Ross Coulthart reported on the November 13, 2024 joint House Oversight/National Security subcommittee UAP hearing co-chaired by Rep. Nancy Mace, characterizing it as a 'turning point' in congressional awareness and signaling Congress's renewed intention to challenge the defense and intelligence community on UAP transparency.

    November 13, 2024 · Media

  • Ex-aides dispute Rep. Nancy Mace's claims that staff 'sabotaged' her

    The Washington Post reported on May 10, 2024 that Rep. Nancy Mace had accused former members of her congressional staff of sabotaging her office, including claims that ex-aides hacked her phone, mismanaged the budget, spied on her children, and tried to destroy office devices. Former staffers interviewed by the Post vehemently disputed Mace's account, pushing back on each allegation. The exchange extended a long-running national story about the unusually high turnover in Mace's office.

    May 10, 2024 · Media

  • Nancy Mace Set 'Quotas' for Staff of How Many Times She Wanted to Appear on Television Per Day: Report

    Mediaite reported on November 2, 2023 that, according to documents obtained by The Daily Beast, Rep. Nancy Mace's staff handbook required her communications team to book her on national television between one and three times per day and on local television at least six times per week. The handbook, which Mace wrote herself, also allocated more than one-third of her congressional office's annual budget, approximately $500,000, to 'marketing,' an unusually high proportion for a congressional office. Former aides described an office culture in which legislation served primarily as a vehicle for media opportunities rather than policy outcomes.

    November 2, 2023 · Media

  • UFO hearing: non-human biologics and UAPs

    NPR reported on the July 26-27, 2023 House Oversight subcommittee hearing on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, covering whistleblower David Grusch's testimony about alleged government recovery of non-human biologics and the congressional response including questions from Rep. Nancy Mace.

    July 27, 2023 · Media

  • Have aliens visited Earth? After UFO hearing, Nancy Mace wants evidence she can touch

    Post and Courier reporter Anna Byrd profiled Rep. Nancy Mace's role in the July 2023 House Oversight UAP hearing, where Byrd characterized Mace as 'a breakout star for her line of questioning that boldly went where no congressional hearing has gone before.' The piece explored Mace's efforts to secure tangible evidence of non-human artifacts.

    July 27, 2023 · Media

  • Whistleblower tells Rep. Nancy Mace the government has recovered non-human biologics

    ABC News 4 (Charleston) reported on the July 26, 2023 House Oversight hearing, covering whistleblower David Grusch's direct testimony to Rep. Nancy Mace about alleged government recovery of non-human biologics from crashed aircraft.

    July 26, 2023 · Media

  • UFO whistleblower testifies before Congress

    CNN reported on the July 26, 2023 House Oversight subcommittee hearing where whistleblower David Grusch testified about alleged U.S. government possession of recovered non-human craft, with Rep. Nancy Mace among the lawmakers pressing him for details.

    July 26, 2023 · Media

  • UFO whistleblower admits to the existence of non-human biologics

    NBC News covered the July 26, 2023 House Oversight hearing in which whistleblower David Grusch testified about the U.S. government's alleged possession of non-human biologics recovered from crashed aircraft, highlighted through video of his exchange with Rep. Nancy Mace.

    July 26, 2023 · Media

  • Whistleblower at UAP hearing claims U.S. found 'non-human' remains

    Roll Call covered the House Oversight subcommittee hearing on July 26, 2023, where whistleblower David Grusch testified about alleged U.S. government possession of non-human biologics recovered from aircraft of 'non-human' origin. Rep. Nancy Mace questioned Grusch directly on whether any recovered biologics were human or non-human.

    July 26, 2023 · Media

  • House UAP secrecy hearing

    The Hill covered the July 26, 2023 House Oversight subcommittee hearing on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, where whistleblower David Grusch testified about alleged government secrecy surrounding recovered non-human craft and biologics.

    July 26, 2023 · Media

Mockery & memes

  • '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.

    March 5, 2026 · Mockery

  • The Ilhan Omar feud

    A running public back-and-forth between Rep. Nancy Mace and Rep. Ilhan Omar across 2025-2026. Omar's replies consistently drew broader attention than Mace's attacks, including a March 2026 exchange in which Omar told Mace to 'stay off social media when you are drunk,' and a September 2025 censure effort that failed 214-213 after Omar noted the resolution contained no actual quote from her.

    March 1, 2026 · Mockery

  • '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.'

    January 7, 2026 · Mockery

  • '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.

    September 10, 2025 · Mockery

  • "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.

    January 14, 2025 · Mockery

  • The 'non-human biologics' hearing

    Mace's deadpan questions about 'non-human biologics' and her demand for evidence she could touch made her the congressional face of a UAP hearing the internet spent days turning into a meme.

    July 26, 2023 · Mockery

Clips

  • ?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.

    March 4, 2026 · Clip

  • "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.

    January 7, 2026 · Clip

  • "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.

    September 18, 2025 · Clip

  • “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.

    May 20, 2025 · Clip

  • "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.

    March 5, 2025 · Clip

  • “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.

    February 10, 2025 · Clip

  • "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.

    February 10, 2025 · Clip

  • "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.

    January 14, 2025 · Clip

  • “Come at me bro”, Mace puts a classified UAP program name on the record

    Co-chairing the November 13, 2024 House UAP hearing, Mace read an alleged classified program name into the record: ‘Immaculate Constellation.’ No public video of the hearing exists, so this is a quote card built from the official transcript.

    November 13, 2024 · Clip

  • “Reverse engineer alien craft?”, Mace presses a Pentagon witness

    At the November 13, 2024 UAP hearing, Mace pressed former Pentagon official Luis Elizondo on whether secret programs aimed to reverse-engineer recovered craft. He answered ‘Yes.’

    November 13, 2024 · Clip

  • "You're full of sh*t today", Mace interrogates Secret Service Director Cheatle

    A supercut of three verbatim moments from Rep. Nancy Mace's questioning of Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle at the July 22, 2024 House Oversight hearing on the attempted assassination of President Trump. Cheatle resigned the following day.

    July 22, 2024 · Clip

  • “When you shake my hand”, nine moments from Mace's McCarthy-ouster presser

    A supercut of nine verbatim moments from Rep. Nancy Mace's press conference outside the Capitol on October 3, 2023, the day the House voted 216-210 to remove Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the first Speaker in U.S. history ousted by a motion to vacate. From her opening shot on broken promises to the chaos she warned McCarthy would leave behind.

    October 3, 2023 · Clip

  • "Human or nonhuman biologics?", three moments from Mace's UAP hearing questioning

    A supercut of three verbatim moments from Rep. Nancy Mace's questioning at the July 26, 2023 House Oversight UAP hearing, opening on the biologics exchange, then her questions about government contact with extraterrestrials and the recovery of craft and bodies.

    July 26, 2023 · Clip

  • "Where did you go to medical school?", Mace vs. Twitter CLO Vijaya Gadde

    A supercut of three verbatim moments from Rep. Nancy Mace’s questioning at the February 8, 2023 House Oversight Twitter Files hearing, from her setup on Stanford and Harvard doctors censored by Twitter, to the viral medical school exchange with Vijaya Gadde, to Mace pressing Gadde on what authority she had to override doctors.

    February 8, 2023 · Clip