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September 11, 2026 · DispatchWhat Nancy Mace Believes About Rape
She built a political identity on the word. Then, in one unguarded interview with journalist Tara Palmeri, something different came out: she called a factual question about Trump's accusers 'rape shaming,' could not name a single one of the 20-plus women, and said she would not recommend women come forward. Her own floor speech describes a blackout after two vodka sodas at a property owned by the man she accuses of rape, and a question her children asked that she never answered.
September 11, 2026 · DispatchMace Accused Tara Palmeri of 'Rape Shaming.' She Then Said the Only Trump Accuser She Could Name Was a 'Porn Star' Who 'Wasn't Accusing Him of Rape.'
In a September 7, 2026 uncut release of her September 1 interview, journalist Tara Palmeri showed two exchanges she cut from the original broadcast. In the first, Mace called Palmeri's question about how she reconciles supporting Trump with women's advocacy 'rape shaming.' In the second, asked whether she believes the women who accused Trump of rape, Mace named only a 'porn star' she believed was not accusing him of rape, apparently not knowing that E. Jean Carroll specifically accused Trump of rape and a jury found him liable for sexual abuse.
September 11, 2026 · DispatchGet Maced Posts Three Straight Misses After 9-Day Hiatus, 9/11 Episode Stalls at 2,873 Views
Three consecutive Get Maced episodes since returning from a 9-day hiatus are all underperforming. The 9/11 anniversary episode posted just 2,873 views and stalled, the worst number in the show's history, on a day when a Republican congresswoman doing a patriotic 9/11 special should have had a captive audience.
September 10, 2026 · Dispatch"I gave up my political career for that discharge petition. And I would do it all over again."
Opening her Sept. 1, 2026 interview with Tara Palmeri, Rep. Nancy Mace said she gave up her political career for the Epstein victims discharge petition and would do it again. She then confirmed that Trump 'ultimately punished' her for it: 'Oh, 100%.'
September 10, 2026 · Dispatch"I just go off the rails sometimes": Mace responds to critics who call her 'crazy'
Rep. Nancy Mace, in a Sept. 1, 2026 interview with Tara Palmeri, acknowledged that she sometimes 'goes off the rails' but pushed back on critics who call her 'crazy,' saying: 'Being nice has gotten us off the rails. I'm just bringing back common sense.'
September 9, 2026 · Dispatch"I'm in the files": Mace tells Palmeri she is named in the Epstein files, questions FBI credibility
Rep. Nancy Mace told Tara Palmeri on Sept. 1, 2026 that she is in the Epstein files. When Palmeri raised a Jane Doe connected to Donald Trump, Mace said she believed the FBI 'didn't find it credible,' and added: 'I don't know if we can trust the FBI on this one.' Mace has stated publicly that she appears in the files as a victim, not a perpetrator.
September 9, 2026 · DispatchMace: "I was 16 years old and was assaulted... I am going through something similar again"
Rep. Nancy Mace, in a Sept. 1, 2026 interview with Tara Palmeri, described how being raped at 16 shaped who she is, and said: 'I am going through something similar again. And why does this keep happening?' Mace did not specify what recent event she was referring to.
September 9, 2026 · DispatchMace on Trump and the GOP machine: "He's definitely part of figuring out who gets to stay and who gets to go"
Rep. Nancy Mace, asked by Tara Palmeri whether Donald Trump is part of the political machine, said he is 'definitely part of figuring out who gets to stay and who gets to go.' The exchange came during a Sept. 1, 2026 interview after Mace described Kevin McCarthy talking trash about her on Fox News.
September 9, 2026 · Dispatch"Oh, 100%": Mace says Trump punished her for standing up for victims, still calls him a good man
In a Sept. 1, 2026 interview with Tara Palmeri, Rep. Nancy Mace confirmed that Donald Trump 'ultimately punished' her for standing up for victims, saying 'Oh, 100%.' When Palmeri asked whether Trump is a good man, Mace said: 'I think so. I think he's got it in his heart.'
September 8, 2026 · Dispatch"I'm leaving Congress because I can't get shit done": Mace explains exit in her own words
Rep. Nancy Mace told Tara Palmeri on Sept. 1, 2026 that she is leaving Congress because she 'can't get shit done,' citing her inability to pass women's safety legislation as the defining frustration of her tenure.
September 8, 2026 · DispatchNancy Mace lost her cool and cursed through a Jubilee debate on trans athletes, telling the host to 'sit the fuck back down'
Rep. Nancy Mace lost her cool repeatedly as the guest debater on Jubilee Media's 'The Split,' an episode on the WNBA and trans athletes. Pressed by progressive host David Mauricio, she cursed on camera at least three times, told him to 'sit the fuck back down,' and, as the segment closed, called him 'the most venomous son of a bitch I have ever sat across.' Along the way she admitted she had 'no idea' whether any trans athlete had ever played in the WNBA ('Not that we know of'), would not say who won the 2020 election, could not point to the DSM for her 'mental illness' claim, and conceded she 'got [her] ass kicked' in the governor's race.
September 8, 2026 · DispatchNancy Mace introduced 90 bills this Congress. Zero became law.
Rep. Nancy Mace, in a Sept. 1, 2026 interview with Tara Palmeri, acknowledged she introduced 90 bills this Congress and that zero became law. Asked what she actually accomplished without Nancy Mace, she pointed to the 'bully pulpit.'
September 8, 2026 · DispatchMace claimed she took "about six weeks" off the campaign after her father died. She was on a debate stage seven days later.
On September 1, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace told journalist Tara Palmeri she left the campaign trail 'for about six weeks' after her father died April 14, and 'probably didn't raise any money' or 'make any phone calls at the end.' The public record contradicts the timeline at every point: she appeared in a formal multi-candidate debate at the College of Charleston on April 21, seven days after his death and two days before his April 23 funeral. By May 8, her X archive shows full campaign activity. On May 27 she posted '18 hours on the campaign trail today.'
September 5, 2026 · Dispatch"262 times in 36 hours": Mace's X habit becomes the story
On November 20, 2024, former Mace communications director Natalie Johnson called out the sheer volume of Nancy Mace's X posts about the Capitol bathroom fight, writing that Mace had tweeted 262 times in 36 hours about a bill aimed at one incoming member of Congress. The post became a clean public marker for a broader pattern: X posts flagged for hateful conduct, official-account replies aimed at private citizens, and later disputed reporting that former staffers were told to use burner accounts to boost her online.
September 4, 2026 · DispatchMace targets Celeste Keaton with anti-LGBTQ slur on X
On July 31, 2026, from her personal X account, Rep. Nancy Mace posted a photo of a named individual, Celeste Keaton, and wrote 'She looks like a dyke,' using an anti-LGBTQ slur that runs against X's own hateful-conduct policy. Maceopedia documents the post as part of Mace's public language record. Maceopedia has not independently verified, and does not repeat as fact, the separate allegation Mace attached about the individual.
September 4, 2026 · DispatchNancy Mace loses in federal court: Bryant's suit accusing her of defamation and a blackmail conspiracy moves forward
Nancy Mace has lost in federal court. On September 4, 2026, U.S. District Judge Bruce H. Hendricks rejected her pro se bid to move the case out of state court, ruling her removal untimely 'by several measures,' and remanded Berg v. Bryant to the Charleston County Court of Common Pleas. That sends Patrick Bryant's third-party case against Mace forward in state court, a case that accuses her of defamation and of a civil conspiracy to hack his phone and blackmail him into signing over property. The Court affirmed the magistrate judge's recommendation with modifications, overruled Mace's objections, denied her motion for oral argument, and terminated her duplicate federal case as moot. The ruling is procedural: it does not reach the merits, and Mace's immunity defenses travel with the case. The order (ECF No. 36) is reproduced below. The allegations are disputed and unproven; Mace denies Bryant's claims, and Bryant denies Mace's.
September 4, 2026 · DispatchNancy Mace, on Piers Morgan: 'I don't believe there's been genocide in Gaza'
On the September 1, 2026 Piers Morgan Uncensored panel, Rep. Nancy Mace was pressed repeatedly by a fellow panelist to call the war in Gaza a genocide and refused, saying, 'I don't believe there's been genocide in Gaza.' She defended Israel without qualification ('I think Israel is protecting Jews as they should. I support Israel'), rejected a two-state solution ('This has been Israel's land'), and, asked to condemn the killing of civilian children in Gaza, pivoted instead. A panelist confronted her over pro-Israel PAC money, calling her 'bought and paid for.'
September 2, 2026 · DispatchMace Calls Herself an 'Empty Nester' on Camera: She Has Joint Custody of Her Daughter
On Capitol Hill on September 1, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace told TMZ she is an 'empty nester and single' and got a puppy 'so I could have a baby to take care of.' Mace has joint custody of her 17-year-old daughter from her 2019 divorce from Curtis Jackson. 'Empty nester' is a term for parents whose children have grown and left the home, not parents with joint custody of a minor. Her own words on camera confirm her daughter is not living with her.
September 2, 2026 · Dispatch'Don't Trans My Dog': Mace Catches Burchett Misgendering Her Havanese on Capitol Hill
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) walked into a TMZ interview on Capitol Hill, joked that Mace's Havanese puppy Millie bit him, then misgendered the dog. Mace told him: 'Don't trans my dog.' Burchett defended himself: 'I'm not transing your dog.'
September 2, 2026 · Dispatch"I'd rather feel a needle than go talk to a therapist": Mace ties tattoos to three years of trauma, on camera with TMZ
On Capitol Hill, Sept 1 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace told TMZ on camera that her tattoos are 'definitely related to the trauma I've been through the last three years' and that she would 'rather sit and feel a needle than go talk to a therapist.' She went on to say tattoo-getting is part of a healing process she shares with many women who have been through trauma.
September 2, 2026 · Dispatch"Back to the private sector I go", outgoing Rep. Nancy Mace confirms she is leaving Congress for the private sector in January
On Capitol Hill on September 1, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace told TMZ she is definitively leaving Congress in January and returning to the private sector. "Back to the private sector I go," she said, adding she would "go back and work like every other hardworking American."
September 2, 2026 · DispatchMace tells Piers Morgan her tattoos helped her process trauma: "One of the ways that I have dealt with that trauma is by artwork, is by the tattooing"
In a September 1, 2026 interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored, Rep. Nancy Mace directly connects her public tattoo reveal to trauma recovery, says she was 'not hiding behind the trauma' of recent years, calls out the Pete Hegseth double standard, and confirms she has more than nine tattoos. She says leaving Congress means she can finally go sleeveless freely.
September 1, 2026 · DispatchMace's Halloween Post: 'I'm Going To Dress Up As A Liberal White Woman'
On the morning of September 1, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace posted from her personal verified X account: 'For halloween this year, I'm going to dress up as a liberal white woman.' The line ran over a staged image of a figure draped head to toe in black, face fully covered, a gloved hand on a podcast microphone before the lit Capitol. It is not a one-off. It is the capstone of a documented month-long run of 'liberal white woman' material from Mace: a 'Get Maced' episode titled 'THE ENEMY WITHIN,' a Daily Wire op-ed under her byline calling liberal white women a 'national security threat,' and Facebook teasers. This dispatch shows the post and lays out the record; readers can judge it for themselves.
September 1, 2026 · Dispatch3 Times Nancy Mace Went Against Trump
September 1, 2026 · DispatchThe Art of Defamation: How Mace Uses Her Office and Her Questions to Skirt the Law on Judge Gosnell
September 1, 2026 · DispatchNancy Mace's 'Get Maced' bump is already fading: the subscriber growth is decelerating, the typical episode is losing viewers, and her search interest is back to baseline
Two weeks after the tattoo-reveal spike that launched 'Get Maced,' the metrics that measure whether anyone is actually watching have turned down. Nancy Mace's subscriber growth has decelerated 41 percent, her typical episode has lost about 10 percent of its audience, and Google search interest in her name has fallen from its August peak back to single digits, all while she posts four nights a week. Her total-view count still rises, carried by a few outlier clips, and her subscriber tally still ratchets up. But the trend lines that measure real attention are cooling. If the pattern this site has documented holds, the open question is what she does next to pull the number back up.
September 1, 2026 · DispatchMace missed another vote yesterday. The only House members skipping more are on medical leave.
The U.S. House came back on Monday, August 31, 2026 from its five-week August recess, and Rep. Nancy Mace missed both of the first two roll-call votes, one of 42 members absent. It fits a documented pattern: Mace has missed 36.1% of all 2026 votes through August, more than one in three, against a House median near one in fifty. The only two sitting members who have missed a larger share of 2026's votes, Thomas Kean Jr. and Frederica Wilson, were both on disclosed medical leave. Mace has given no public reason for her absences.
August 31, 2026 · Dispatch'There Is a Breach of Trust Here': Fox News Asks Johnson If Mace Will Be Punished for Classified Leak
On March 26, 2026, Fox News host Bret Baier pressed House Speaker Mike Johnson live on Special Report: would Rep. Nancy Mace face punishment for walking out of a classified Iran briefing and immediately posting about its contents on X? Johnson declined to directly accuse her but conceded 'there is a breach of trust here' and that leaking classified information 'is not lawful,' stopping short of any sanction.
August 30, 2026 · Dispatch'More Republican Members Than Nancy Mace Has Tattoos': Kevin McCarthy's Fox News Jab
On a Fox News Channel segment that aired in August 2026, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy analyzed Florida's election results and Ron DeSantis-era redistricting, then landed a line on Nancy Mace's tattoos: 'We'll have more Republican members than Nancy Mace has tattoos. And that's just today.' The clip was reshared on X by @GOP_is_Gutless the same day. Mace has said she has nine tattoos by her own account, and on August 30, 2026 told NewsNation she might have 'more than nine.' McCarthy's line is his own quip, quoted and attributed; Maceopedia adopts no characterization of Mace.
August 30, 2026 · DispatchThe Babylon Bee turns the Mace tattoo bit into a video: matching ink with a sleeveless Speaker Johnson
Two days after it ran the joke as a fake news article, The Babylon Bee turned its Nancy Mace tattoo bit into a produced, roughly 24-second AI video, posted August 20, 2026. It imagines Mace and House Speaker Mike Johnson discovering they got the exact same arm tattoos, complete with an AI Johnson in a sleeveless dress shirt showing matching JUSTICE, roses, and saint ink. It is satire, AI-generated, and none of it happened, but it is a clean marker of how far Mace's viral tattoos have burrowed into the culture.
August 30, 2026 · DispatchMace, on NewsNation: her tattoos are 'free speech,' and 'I might have more than nine'
In an August 30, 2026 NewsNation Live interview, Rep. Nancy Mace framed her tattoos as an expression of free speech rather than a shot at President Trump, saying, 'I've always supported the president's policies. He's not always supported mine,' and tying the ink to 'the beauty of the First Amendment and free speech.' She also revised her own tattoo count upward on camera: 'I have a few tattoos. I might have more than nine, as what's been publicly reported.'
August 30, 2026 · DispatchThe Record: What Nancy Mace Has Said About Being Sexually Assaulted, Whom She Told, and What Reached Authorities
August 30, 2026 · DispatchIn Her Own Words: The High-School Rumors in Mace's Memoir, and the Rape She Revealed Years Later
August 29, 2026 · DispatchMace Greets El-Sayed's Senate Primary Win: 'Every Single Muslim Holding Public Office in America Is a Trojan Horse'
August 28, 2026 · DispatchConservative talk show host: disgraceful Nancy Mace...Go away
On CNN This Morning on August 28, 2026, conservative radio host Jason Rantz (KTTH Seattle) tore apart Rep. Nancy Mace's proposal to bar naturalized citizens from serving in Congress, on the federal bench, or in the Cabinet. Host Audie Cornish, herself a naturalized citizen, asked Rantz point-blank: 'I want to ask, when will I be American?' Rantz refused to defend the resolution, said Mace 'does not represent the mainstream of Republicans or Americans on this particular topic at all,' and closed with a direct rebuke: 'This is a disgraceful bill by a disgraceful Nancy Mace, who's been rejected by Republicans. Go away!'
August 28, 2026 · Dispatch'I Really Want Her to Get the Death Penalty, and I'd Prefer It to Be Public': On Thursday Night's 'Get Maced,' Nancy Mace Turned the Lindsay Clancy Trial Into an On-Air Call for a Televised Execution, With the Jury Still Out
On her Thursday, August 27, 2026 'Get Maced' live stream, Nancy Mace devoted a segment she titled 'the face of evil' to the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother whose jury had just begun deliberating. Mace told her viewers, 'I really want Lindsay Clancy to get the death penalty, and I'd prefer it to be public,' having acknowledged in the same breath that Massachusetts has no death penalty, where the maximum sentence is life without parole and no verdict had been reached. She also disclosed her own postpartum experience to draw a line against Clancy ('the only difference is I didn't murder my children'), mocked the defense attorney's closing ('I don't know any darn good moms who murder all three of their children'), and built the rest of the hour around a thesis about the gap between who people claim to be and who they are: Hillary Clinton in the Hamptons, Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed and his physician title, and a closing tribute to Dolly Parton. This is Maceopedia's review of the broadcast, every quote verbatim from her own stream.
August 27, 2026 · DispatchNancy Mace Attacks the Girl Scouts: 'New Girl Scout Uniform Dropped'
On August 27, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace posted about the Girl Scouts twice within six minutes: first re-posting the same niqab 'GIRL SCOUT TROOPS OFFER ISLAMIC FAITH PATCHES' meme comedian Rob Schneider had used, then an AI-generated image of a girl in a full Girl Scout uniform whose face is entirely covered by a green veil, captioned 'New Girl Scout uniform dropped.' Both followed a direct reply she had left two days earlier under Schneider's post, in which she wrote that the Girl Scouts were 'promoting the oppression of women with the Islam badge.' All of it grew out of a viral 'Islamization of Girl Scouts' claim that began with War Room co-host Natalie Winters on August 24 and spread through Laura Ingraham, Jack Posobiec, Laura Loomer and others. Girl Scouts of the USA called the claim misinformation and said the organization 'is not a religious organization and does not teach religion'; CAIR called the campaign 'manufactured outrage.' This dispatch shows every post as a screenshot, reproduces each verbatim with attribution, and adopts none of the speakers' characterizations.
August 27, 2026 · DispatchNancy Mace's Top 10 Most Viral Moments: the makeup-store meltdown, the tattoo reveal, and the eight spikes in between, by Google Trends
A ranked scoreboard of the ten moments that sent Nancy Mace's name up the Google Trends chart, from a cell-phone video of her cursing out a constituent in a makeup store to this month's tattoo reveal. Each moment is dated, sourced, scored by search interest, and shown with its own trend graph. The through-line: not one of the ten spikes is a law she passed.
August 26, 2026 · DispatchAmateur Hour: Nancy Mace's First 'Get Maced' Live Stream Was Muted at the Open, Out of Focus in the Middle, and Watched Live by Fewer Than 1,000 People
On the night of the August 25, 2026 South Carolina runoff for the late Lindsey Graham's Senate seat, Nancy Mace went live on her personal @NancyRMace YouTube channel for the first time ever: a 45-minute, one-camera runoff-watch show she opened by admitting the microphone had been muted the whole time she'd been talking, narrated her own camera going out of focus, and paused near the 40-minute mark to go get a glass of water. Fewer than 1,000 people watched it live. The content whiplashed too: she spent the front half prosecuting the appointment of Graham's sister Darlene ('It's not an heirloom... it could be Donald Duck, it could be Mickey Mouse') and the back half, once Darlene won and Mace's own pick Ralph Norman lost, congratulating 'Senator Graham' and pledging to help her. Her staff prompted her on air to remind viewers to subscribe. This is Maceopedia's television-critic review of the broadcast, with the full edit of the night's quotes and snafus.
August 26, 2026 · DispatchNorman snubs Mace: no mention, no thank-you at all in his concession speech. She broke with Trump to endorse him.
Rep. Ralph Norman lost the South Carolina Republican U.S. Senate runoff to Sen. Darline Graham Nordone on August 25, 2026, and conceded in Rock Hill. In the roughly six-minute speech he thanked a dozen supporters and endorsers by name: Mark Sanford, Dan Bishop, Pat Harrigan, Rick Scott, Mike Lee, Nikki Haley, Adam Morgan, and more. One name never came up: Nancy Mace. Five weeks earlier, Mace broke publicly with President Trump to endorse Norman, calling him a warrior who 'doesn't bend, doesn't break, and doesn't back down,' and Norman had thanked her on camera and in writing as 'a fearless conservative fighter.' When it counted, on the night the race ended, he did not mention her once. We transcribed the full concession to confirm it: zero mentions of Mace.
August 26, 2026 · DispatchNewsweek puts Nancy Mace's tattoo reveal in its 'reinvention season' roundup
Newsweek's Aug. 26, 2026 entertainment roundup placed Nancy Mace's newly visible tattoo sleeves in a broader 'reinvention season' frame, noting that she is leaving Congress after a fifth-place finish in South Carolina's Republican gubernatorial primary and linking the tattoo reveal to her new YouTube show and post-Congress plans.
August 25, 2026 · DispatchNancy Mace Puts 'Get Maced' on a Clock: A Fixed Nightly Show, 8PM Monday Through Thursday
For most of 2026, Nancy Mace's 'Get Maced' videos dropped whenever the news did: near-daily, but on no fixed day and at no fixed hour, a loose feed of studio monologues tied to whatever fight she was picking that afternoon. As of August 25, 2026, that is over. Her personal YouTube channel, @NancyRMace, now carries a schedule banner reading 'GET MACED, 8PM, MONDAY - THURSDAY,' and the channel's own description bills the operation as 'the nightly show Washington wishes you'd skip,' with 'New episodes Monday through Thursday night at 8PM ET,' promising 'a cold open, the day's biggest stories, and a close cable news won't give you... Done in 30 minutes or less.' The channel is now verified and has roughly 45,700 subscribers, up from about 22,300 two weeks ago. The move converts a scattershot upload habit into appointment television, a named time slot four nights a week, and it is the most formal commitment yet to the media brand a current staffer told Maceopedia she is building to 'pay the bills' after she leaves Congress in January 2027.
August 25, 2026 · DispatchUSA Today folds Nancy Mace's podcast, bikini promo, and tattoo reveal into the politician-as-influencer problem
USA Today opinion columnist Ingrid Jacques published an Aug. 25, 2026 column arguing that public officials are spending too much time building personal media brands and not enough time governing. Nancy Mace is one of the examples: Jacques points to Mace's bikini promotion, tattoo reveal, and Get Maced podcast while noting she remains a sitting member of Congress.
August 24, 2026 · DispatchShe Used the SLED Investigation as a Campaign Weapon. Then She Finished 5th and Endorsed Wilson Anyway.
August 23, 2026 · DispatchNancy Mace's Top 5 Political Failures: dead last for governor, the Speaker she toppled for nothing, and one law in nine years, a post office
A catalog of the record. Across nine years in office Nancy Mace built a national brand and almost no results to match it. She finished dead last, fifth of five, in the 2026 Republican primary for governor. She helped throw out a sitting Speaker of the House and got a more MAGA Speaker, three weeks of paralysis, and a revenge primary for her trouble. She lost to Lindsey Graham the one time she ran against him, in 2014, then talked herself out of his seat in 2026 after polling at 10 percent. Of the 192 bills she has sponsored, the only ones enacted rename post offices. And the Trump endorsement she remade her whole career to win went, twice, to her opponents. Every figure and quote below is public and dated.
August 23, 2026 · DispatchMace Won't Talk About Brian Musgrave, and He Isn't Even Under the Gag Order
A year ago this week, a federal judge ended Brian Musgrave's defamation case against Rep. Nancy Mace, not because her 'predator' accusation was found true, but because the court held she was immune. Eighteen months after she named the Fort Mill businessman from the House floor, there is still no criminal charge, no evidence produced, no retraction, and SLED has told him he is not a target. Musgrave was never a party to the case Mace is gagged in, and his own case is closed, so nothing bars her from answering for the accusation. She simply does not.
August 22, 2026 · DispatchNancy Mace says she is "now regretting" not running for the Senate. She finished fifth of five for governor, then ruled herself out of this very seat.
In an August 21, 2026 episode of her Facebook show 'Get Maced,' Rep. Nancy Mace watches a rival in the South Carolina U.S. Senate runoff and says, 'I'm now regretting I'm not running for the US Senate.' The line lands against her own recent record. Ten weeks earlier she finished fifth of five in the June 9 Republican gubernatorial primary with 12.1 percent. When Lindsey Graham's Senate seat then opened, she polled at 10 percent, tied for third, and on July 20 she publicly ruled herself out. This dispatch sets her on-camera regret next to the results and polling she is regretting.
August 21, 2026 · DispatchThe $174,000 Ends in January: What Mace's Final Disclosure Says About the Paycheck Problem
August 21, 2026 · DispatchHow 'Normal' Is 'Normal Nancy'?
- August 21, 2026 · Dispatch
Rare Earth, Wellness, and Defense Tech: Nancy Mace's Post-Congress Wish List
August 21, 2026 · DispatchMace's Final Disclosure: Zero Liabilities and No Beach House on the Books
- August 21, 2026 · Dispatch
'I Kind of Want to Whittle Sticks': Nancy Mace Says She's Done With Elected Office
August 20, 2026 · Dispatch'I Really Hope You're Okay': Kat Timpf Reacts on Fox to Nancy Mace's Tattoo Explanation
On the August 19, 2026 'Watters' Cooler' segment of Fox News' 'Jesse Watters Primetime,' Fox News contributor Kat Timpf reacted to Nancy Mace's nine new tattoos. Timpf said she was fine with the tattoos themselves ('you do you'), but that Mace's stated reason, that she got them partly to feel 'the pain she felt she needed to feel,' changed her read: 'so now I don't know so much anymore.' She closed on a line of concern: 'I really hope you're okay. I hope things are better now.' Every characterization here is Timpf's own or Mace's own, quoted and attributed; Maceopedia asserts nothing about Mace's health in its own voice.
August 20, 2026 · Dispatch'A Cry for Help, Frankly': BlazeTV's Stu and Dave Spend 15 Minutes on Nancy Mace's Tattoos
BlazeTV's 'Stu & Dave Do America' devoted a roughly 15-minute segment on August 19, 2026 to mocking Nancy Mace's nine new tattoos. Host Stu Burguiere read Mace's own Politico quote, 'I don't know that I'll ever be okay with myself,' as 'a cry for help, frankly,' and argued that she showed the tattoos off at every turn and then objected when people noticed. The hosts also recapped her February 2025 House-floor allegations against her ex-fiancé, which he denies and which remain unproven and contested, before closing the segment with AI-generated 'tattoos' for other politicians. Every characterization in this dispatch is the hosts' own or Mace's own, quoted and attributed.
August 20, 2026 · DispatchHis Ex-Wife of 20 Years: 'He Was Never Abusive in Any Way to Me, Not Physically, Emotionally, Nor Verbally'
August 19, 2026 · Dispatch'Freaky Tattoos': What Donald Trump Reportedly Said About Nancy Mace's Ink
As Nancy Mace's nine-tattoo reveal blew up online, an old line from the president came back around. According to FITSNews, Donald Trump had already weighed in on Mace's ink, reportedly telling a group of South Carolina politicos last December that he'd heard she had several 'freaky tattoos.' The two-word take resurfaced in August 2026 when Mace debuted the tattoos herself on her new YouTube show. Neither Trump nor Mace has publicly confirmed the remark.
August 19, 2026 · DispatchNancy Mace's 'OnlyFans Soft Launch' Hazy IPA: the beer-can meme her own Lowcountry is passing around
A parody beer can, 'Nancy Mace's OnlyFans Soft Launch Hazy IPA,' credited to the provocateur Brooklyn brewery Participation Trophy Brewing, has been making the rounds after Mace's bikini-and-tattoos reveal. The detail that lands it on Maceopedia: The Co-Op (uncensored), a Sullivan's Island institution in Mace's own SC-01 district, shared it to its ~54,000-follower Instagram story. It is satire. There is no OnlyFans.
August 19, 2026 · Dispatch'A book about being gay': Nancy Mace's Mrs. Dalloway tattoo and the queer classic behind it
When Nancy Mace went sleeveless to launch her 'Get Maced' podcast, the tattoo that drew the sharpest reaction was the one she has actually named: the opening line of Virginia Woolf's 'Mrs. Dalloway,' inked on her arm. Menswear writer Derek Guy asked her about it on X: 'I'm curious what inspired you to get the opening line of Mrs. Dalloway tattooed on your arm... it's at the dinner party where she wrestles with her homosexual memories.' GO Magazine and other outlets ran with the irony, one of Congress's most vocal opponents of transgender rights wearing the first line of a novel long read as a landmark queer text. Mace answered the furor over her 'sleeves' but has not addressed the book's meaning.
August 19, 2026 · Dispatch'Absolutely... was not invited': House Majority Leader Steve Scalise came to Nancy Mace's own Lowcountry to lift her replacement, and Mace was left off the list
In mid-August 2026, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise swung through South Carolina to boost Jenny Costa Honeycutt, the Trump-endorsed Republican nominee for the 1st Congressional District seat Nancy Mace is vacating. Scalise appeared at a Charleston event in the heart of Mace's own district, alongside Honeycutt and Rep. Mike Haridopolos. Nancy Mace, still the sitting congresswoman for that district, was nowhere in sight. Asked whether Mace was part of it, a source in Honeycutt's campaign said she was 'Absolutely... not invited.'
August 19, 2026 · Dispatch'A cry for help': on The Ingraham Angle, Raymond Arroyo goes after Nancy Mace's tattoos, and Laura Ingraham defends her
On the August 17, 2026 edition of Fox News's The Ingraham Angle, contributor Raymond Arroyo used his 'Seen and Unseen' segment to call Nancy Mace's newly revealed tattoos 'a cry for help' and 'a bad message to young women or anybody,' saying he wished she would 'pray to the Virgin rather than placing a tattoo of her on her bicep.' Host Laura Ingraham pushed back and defended Mace on air: 'I'm not a tattoo person, but I don't wanna, it's their personal choice.' Mace, for her part, had already answered her critics on X: 'Thoughts and prayers to all those affected by my sleeves.'
August 19, 2026 · DispatchAnti-Trans Mace Shows Up at a Dorchester School Board Meeting to Back Parents Protesting a Transgender Teacher
On the night of August 18, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace turned up at a Dorchester School District Four board meeting to back families protesting a fourth-grade teacher who is transitioning genders. 'These parents who are here tonight, they care,' Mace told the board during public comment, adding that 'these families are here because you know accommodations were made.' About ten people spoke. No South Carolina law bars a transgender person from teaching, and the district said it is legally obligated to respect its employees' rights. The ACLU of South Carolina said transgender teachers 'have every right to show up in the classroom without being harassed or intimidated.' The appearance drops a sitting member of Congress into a local school fight and fits Mace's long, self-documented record of anti-transgender statements. First reported by Live 5 News (WCSC).
August 19, 2026 · DispatchScalise and Haridopolos came to Charleston. Honeycutt's public thank-you named them, Biggs, Wilkins, and CHBA, but not Mace.
Jenny Costa Honeycutt's public Facebook post says she welcomed House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and Rep. Mike Haridopolos to Charleston, then joined them at Rep. Sheri Biggs' Salute to Liberty and addressed CHBA's legislative barbecue. The post names several Republicans and local stops. It does not mention Nancy Mace, whose SC-01 district includes Charleston.
August 18, 2026 · DispatchThe Babylon Bee gives Nancy Mace's tattoos the satire treatment: matching ink with Speaker Mike Johnson
The tattoo saga has reached the satire pages. On August 18, 2026, The Babylon Bee, the well-known conservative satire site, ran a fake news story imagining Nancy Mace and House Speaker Mike Johnson discovering they got the exact same arm tattoos by mistake, down to the roses and a Virginia Woolf quote. The joke lands because Mace really does have a Woolf Mrs. Dalloway tattoo and rose work, the pieces her viral reveal put on the map. The Bee is satire and none of it happened.
August 18, 2026 · Dispatch"I'm less likely to actually believe that what she was saying was true": Ben Shapiro on Nancy Mace's House floor speech
On the August 17, 2026 episode of The Ben Shapiro Show, Daily Wire host Ben Shapiro spent roughly nine minutes on Rep. Nancy Mace's tattoo reveal and, midway through, replayed her February 2025 House floor speech to criticize her use of congressional immunity. He called the sleeves 'a sign of a thing,' said that if an accusation 'is factual enough to say publicly, you should say it not from the floor of the house,' stated he did not know whether her claims were true, and closed with his opinion that she should 'get the care that she needs.' The allegations Mace made on the floor remain contested and unproven, the men she named deny wrongdoing, a gag order is in place, and related litigation is pending. This dispatch embeds the segment and reproduces the full transcript.
August 18, 2026 · DispatchMace wants a bill to ban staff from living with members. Her own staff say they lived with her.
On August 17, 2026, Sources Say News, the Capitol Hill outlet founded by reporter Juliegrace Brufke, reported that Rep. Nancy Mace's new push to bar House members from living with their staff runs into her own history. Mace introduced two resolutions on July 30, 2026, H.Res.1465 (no sexual relationships with House employees) and H.Res.1466 (no cohabitating with House employees, married couples excepted), pitching them with the line 'a boss and a roommate should never be the same person.' Multiple former Mace aides told the outlet that a senior campaign aide lived in an apartment above the garage at her Daniel Island home during her first campaign, and that in spring 2022 a senior aide was put up in the basement of her D.C. townhouse, sleeping behind a curtain a few feet from where Mace made her morning coffee. Mace's office flatly denies she ever lived with staff or maintained a 'crash pad,' and one source and a bill proponent draw a distinction between a short platonic stay in a separate space and living with a staffer.
August 18, 2026 · Dispatch'Thoughts and prayers to all those affected by my sleeves': Nancy Mace answers the furor over her tattoos
After a week of wall-to-wall coverage of her sleeveless 'GET MACED' debut, Nancy Mace posted a fresh set of photos of her tattoos on the night of August 17, 2026, and a caption to match. 'Thoughts and prayers to all those affected by my sleeves,' she wrote from her verified account, adding, 'My biceps should NOT be a news story.' The post, a couch selfie showing the color work up close, drew 2.8 million views in hours. It is the same day she corrected reporters on the bird on her shoulder, calling it a hawk.
August 18, 2026 · Dispatch"Right to bear arms"
A screenshot-style meme turns Nancy Mace's "right to bear arms" line into a visual pun, pairing her bare tattooed arms with an edited version showing literal bear arms.
August 17, 2026 · Dispatch'Hawk but same difference': Nancy Mace names the bird on her shoulder
For weeks, outlets covering Nancy Mace's sleeveless 'GET MACED' debut described the large bird tattoo on her shoulder as an eagle. On August 17, 2026, Mace corrected the record herself. After Laura Loomer defended her ink and Mace joked that 'the utter apocalypse over my biceps is funny,' a follower guessed 'Eagle on the shoulder?' Mace replied: 'Hawk but same difference!' It is the first time she has publicly identified one of her individual tattoos, and she treats the ink as plainly real.
August 17, 2026 · DispatchReal, or AI? A 'GET MACED' Tattoo Clip Is Circulating Before Nancy Mace's Own Episode Premieres
A 15-second video posted to X by a third party appears to show Nancy Mace debuting her tattoos and calling herself 'totally broken' for her 'GET MACED' show. Maceopedia cannot confirm the clip is authentic and could not trace it to any of Mace's own verified accounts. What we can verify: her own YouTube channel is premiering a tattoo-reveal episode, 'Nancy Mace BREAKS THE INTERNET with Tattoos,' on August 17, 2026 at 8:00 PM ET. Because that episode has not aired, we cannot yet compare this clip against the source footage, and her 'GET MACED' content has already raised AI-generation questions. We show the clip in full and will update with a verdict once the official episode premieres.
August 17, 2026 · DispatchNancy Mace's Tattoo Reveal Is Getting Killed in the Comments
August 17, 2026 · DispatchBen Shapiro on Nancy Mace's tattoo reveal: "Nancy Mace Has Joined the Hells Angels"
On the August 17, 2026 episode of The Ben Shapiro Show, Daily Wire host Ben Shapiro devoted a segment to Rep. Nancy Mace's tattoo reveal, reacting to the Politico profile in which she said she got nine tattoos 'in rapid succession' for 'the pain that I need to feel.' Titled 'Nancy Mace Has Joined the Hells Angels,' the segment framed the tattoos, and her February 2025 House-floor speech, as, in Shapiro's words, a 'sign of a thing,' and closed with his opinion that she should 'get the care that she needs.' The allegations Mace made on the floor remain contested and unproven; the men she named deny wrongdoing, a gag order is in place, and related litigation is pending.
- August 17, 2026 · Dispatch
Mace wants to ban members living with staff. Sources Say says former aides see a complication.
Juliegrace Brufke reported for Sources Say News that Rep. Nancy Mace introduced resolutions to bar House members from sexual relationships with employees and from living with employees, while former Mace staffers described earlier campaign and congressional arrangements they said complicate the line. Mace's office rejected the premise, saying the suggestion that she lived with staff, directed employees to stay at her home, or maintained a crash pad for federal employees is false.
August 16, 2026 · DispatchMace's 'Third World' Immigration Bill Lists Antigua and Barbuda as Two Separate Countries
August 16, 2026 · DispatchNancy Mace Rebrands Her Main X Account Into a 'Get Maced' Billboard
Nancy Mace has remade the top of her main X account, @NancyMace, into a promotion for her show. Her new banner is the glossy pink 'GET MACED' logo, set against a sparkle background and a studio glamour photo of her in a black tank with her tattoo sleeve on display, and her new profile photo is a polished beauty-shot headshot rather than her congressional portrait. The version stamps on the images place the changes on August 14 and 15, 2026. The branding is identical to the pink logo bumper that opens her August 11 studio video and to the tagline of her personal YouTube channel, @NancyRMace: 'Get Maced with Nancy Mace.' It is the clearest sign yet that the account she uses for her congressional fights is now doubling as the marketing channel for the media brand a current staffer told Maceopedia she is building to 'pay the bills' after she leaves office in January 2027. There is still no Nancy Mace podcast on Spotify or Apple; the operation is a video channel, and its front door is now her main political profile.
August 15, 2026 · DispatchOne of 192: Nancy Mace's Legislative Record
August 14, 2026 · DispatchNancy Mace's 'GET MACED' Podcast Intro Contains an AI-Fabricated Press Photo With Fake Network Mic Flags
One frame in the branded intro montage of Rep. Nancy Mace's 'GET MACED' podcast, posted to her own YouTube channel on August 12, 2026, is AI-generated or AI-composited. A native 1080p, region-by-region review by Maceopedia scored the frame 96 percent AI on the strength of three fabricated network microphone flags that read 'ADFT / MIEET' and 'PRBS / IEWS,' none of which is a real broadcaster. The 'West Virginia' banner in the very same frame is spelled correctly while the small logo text is gibberish, a signature of generative text rendering rather than video compression. This is a separate finding from the tattoo-sleeve question raised about the same intro, which remains unresolved and hedged.
August 14, 2026 · DispatchReal, or AI? Nancy Mace's 'GET MACED' Podcast Intro Has Viewers Asking
The intro montage in Rep. Nancy Mace's 'GET MACED' podcast opening includes frames showing an extensive colorful arm tattoo sleeve (an American-traditional eagle, mountain landscape, and roses) that struck many viewers as AI-generated, since it does not appear in other verified photographs of her, including real beach and surf footage from the same video. A frame-by-frame look at the moving footage, though, shows the ink tracking her arm through motion: a detail that argues against AI generation. Her former campaign manager testified under oath that her tattoos are, 'I think words.' Mace has a documented history of posting AI-generated images of herself, including in May 2026.
August 13, 2026 · Dispatch'Not That I Had a Filter Before': Mace Plans Companies and Commentary After Congress
August 13, 2026 · DispatchCan Nancy Mace Make a Living Off Her New Podcast?
August 13, 2026 · DispatchThe 'Trashy' face-tattoo meme
A digitally altered pool selfie of Nancy Mace circulating in August 2026 photoshops fake face tattoos onto her, including the word 'Trashy' across her forehead, a Playboy bunny, small stars, a lightning bolt, and hearts, plus 'JUSTICE' lettered down one arm. The image is not a real photograph; the joke riffs on Mace's own widely reported account of getting nine real tattoos 'in rapid succession' while serving in Congress.
August 12, 2026 · DispatchCan Nancy Mace Make a Living Off Her New Podcast?
A current staffer says Nancy Mace is auditioning for a media career to 'pay the bills' after she leaves Congress in January 2027. So Maceopedia ran the numbers on the video she posted August 11, and on the operation around it. The video even opens like a YouTuber's channel: a 'GET MACED' logo bumper, a beach-and-poolside swimsuit montage, and a spoken 'hit the subscribe button' pitch, all before a word of politics. The same clip drew about 153,000 views on X and about 15,000 on YouTube, a ten-to-one gap that shows how much of her reach is rented from the platform and the office rather than owned. Former staffers have also alleged, in reporting Mace denies, that some of her online support was manufactured through staff-run burner accounts. Her personal channel has 22,300 subscribers; her official House channel's recent videos draw 130 to 1,400 views apiece. Measured against the political podcasters who actually earn a living, the picture is the streaming economy's brutal power law: a handful of stars capture nearly everything, and everyone else earns close to nothing. At her demonstrated scale, the direct economics of 'this type of podcast' land around a low-six-figure business at best, roughly her current $174,000 congressional salary or less, and that is before the reach she is renting expires with the seat. On top of the math sits a legal problem: the defamation defense keeping her afloat right now depends entirely on her holding federal office.
August 12, 2026 · DispatchWho Is Jarvis? Nancy Mace's Favorite Reply Guy, and the Burner-Account Question
For more than a year, one of the most-watched running bits on X has been the flirtation between Rep. Nancy Mace and an anonymous account named Jarvis. She follows him, replies to him, and has posted 'we look good together.' On its face, @jarvis_best is no mystery but a phenomenon: an anonymous right-leaning comedy account posting since 2018, now past 113,000 followers. But there is a second version of the story. In May 2025, WIRED reported that former Mace staffers alleged she had them create 'burner' accounts to promote her and push back on critics; separately, an X post quoted by Alternet claimed a taxpayer-funded staffer created and ran the @jarvis_best account itself. That account-specific claim is an unverified social-media assertion whose author could not be identified, and Mace has flatly denied the burner-account allegations, calling her accusers 'bitter exes.' This dispatch pulls the public record together and lets readers judge. Updated August 12, 2026: Jarvis floated Mace as White House press secretary with an AI-generated podium image, and she answered him with a Taylor Swift 'I Love You' GIF.
August 11, 2026 · Dispatch'She was asked not to speak': Nancy Mace attends the renaming of the base in her own district, but never takes the podium
On Monday, August 10, 2026, Joint Base Charleston in North Charleston was ceremonially renamed Joint Base Lindsey Graham in honor of the late senator, who died July 11. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Gov. Henry McMaster, Sen. Darline Graham Nordone, and base commander Col. K. Michael Shirley II all spoke. Rep. Nancy Mace, whose SC-01 district includes the base and who has repeatedly claimed credit for its federal funding, attended the ceremony but had no speaking role and was not quoted by any outlet covering it. According to a current staff member, Mace was asked not to speak. She had skipped Graham's funeral on July 28, declined to run for his Senate seat, and endorsed Ralph Norman over Trump's pick, Graham's sister Darline, who spoke at the podium Mace did not.
August 10, 2026 · DispatchOn CNN, Mace says Muslims should 'go back to that country' as her 'trojan horse' furor spirals
What began as a single August 7, 2026 post from Rep. Nancy Mace's official account, calling every Muslim public officeholder a 'trojan horse,' spread over 72 hours into a national story. On August 9, Mace defended the claim live on CNN Newsroom, where anchor Omar Jimenez read her the First Amendment and Article VI's ban on religious tests for office. Across the segment Mace said she did not want to hear the Muslim call to prayer 'five times a day in an American city,' warned that 'our granddaughters' would be 'wearing burkas to school,' and told Jimenez that Muslims should 'go back to that country of origin.' She closed by saying she would 'ban all immigrants from those countries.' Minutes later she posted the clip herself with the line 'Islam has no place in Western society.' This dispatch reproduces the exchange verbatim as transcribed by five outlets, embeds Jimenez's own posted video, and catalogs the reaction across the political spectrum.
August 9, 2026 · DispatchRaw Story: Mace embraces the 'Islamaphobe' label while doubling down on Muslim posts
Raw Story covered Rep. Nancy Mace's August 9, 2026 escalation of her anti-Muslim posts. After critics condemned her August 7 claim that every Muslim public officeholder is a 'trojan horse,' Mace quote-tweeted Rep. Pramila Jayapal's criticism and doubled down on her personal @NancyMace account, writing that she did not want to be 'stabbed or blown up by a suicide bomber' or 'hear the call to prayer five times a day' and signing off 'Total Islamaphobe here' (her spelling). Raw Story reported the original trojan-horse post drew more than 7.6 million views.
August 8, 2026 · DispatchNancy Mace calls every Muslim holding public office a 'trojan horse'
MEAWW covered two August 7, 2026 posts from Rep. Nancy Mace's official X account, one saying every Muslim holding public office in America is a 'trojan horse' and another saying New York City is being 'overrun' by people who want to see the country burn. The entry reproduces the posts as primary-source artifacts and links the original X posts.
August 7, 2026 · DispatchMace calls every Muslim officeholder a 'trojan horse,' then declares: 'Total Islamaphobe here'
On August 7, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace wrote that every Muslim holding public office in America is a 'trojan horse' and a threat to national security and the republic. The next day, the satire account The Babylon Bibi posted an altered image replacing Muslims with Jews and adding a fake headline saying Mace had been removed from office. MEAWW fact-checked the removal claim as false, but the satire exposed the point: the same attack became instantly recognizable as bigotry when the targeted religious minority was changed. As criticism mounted, Mace doubled down, quote-tweeting a critic and signing off 'Total Islamaphobe here' (her spelling).
August 6, 2026 · Dispatch"60,000 Muslims Invade Spain" on Mace's official House account, then a no-comment repost of a meme naming Omar and Tlaib
Between July 31 and August 4, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace posted about Muslims across both of her X accounts. On August 4, on her personal account @NancyMace, she reposted, with no caption of her own, a meme from the account @RagingAmericans reading 'Radical Islam will destroy this country just like it's destroyed every other country it's touched if we don't put a stop to it!!' laid over a photo collage that includes Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, two sitting Muslim members of Congress. Four days earlier, on July 31, she used her official, taxpayer-funded congressional account @RepNancyMace to post an office-produced graphic carrying the U.S. House seal and headlined '60,000 MUSLIMS INVADE SPAIN,' with her own text describing 'around 60,000 Muslim "migrants" from Morocco' as 'criminals' whose 'culture is incompatible with Western civilization.' This dispatch reproduces both posts, distinguishes the words Mace wrote herself from the meme she amplified without comment, and links the July 27 post that anchors the pattern.
August 6, 2026 · Dispatch"We approve this message": Mace endorses the "MWGA" Waffle House meme
Mar (@Mardabadguy) answered one of Mace's Fauci posts with an AI-generated congressional "cover" that puts her in a full Waffle House uniform, hairnet, and cross earrings under the slogan "Make Waffles Great Again / MWGA." A day later, Rep. Nancy Mace quote-tweeted the meme mocking her and wrote: "We approve this message."
August 5, 2026 · DispatchSubscribe to Nancy Mace: The Studio Videos Now End Like a YouTuber's, and the Public Record Won't Say Who Pays
On August 5, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace posted another produced studio monologue to her personal @NancyMace account, a nearly four-minute reaction to Abdul El-Sayed's win in Michigan's Democratic Senate primary. The video ends the way a content creator's does: a branded card that reads SUBSCRIBE, Nancy Mace, over a glamour portrait. That end card is the clearest sign yet of what a current staffer already told Maceopedia the videos are, an audition for life after office. It also raises two fair questions a reader asked us: who produces this operation, and is any of it touching taxpayer money? We went to the public record for both. The short answers: no filing names a producer, and House rules bar official funds from exactly this kind of personal-brand content, which is why it lives on her personal feed and not her official one.
August 5, 2026 · Dispatch"There is no such thing as a trans kid," then "This": Mace endorses a follower's "just fcked up parents" reply
On August 4, 2026, at 2:30 PM ET, Rep. Nancy Mace posted on her official congressional X account, @RepNancyMace: 'There is no such thing as a trans kid.' The standalone post drew roughly 22,000 likes and about 880 replies. The next afternoon, August 5, Mace quote-tweeted one of the replies to it, a message from the account @GuntherEagleman that read 'Just fcked up parents,' and added a single word of her own: 'This.' Mace did not write the 'fcked up parents' line herself; a follower did, and she endorsed it by quote-tweeting it. Both of Mace's posts sit on her official House account and fit a cluster of statements she made about transgender people across late July and early August 2026. This dispatch reproduces every post verbatim, embeds them, and takes no position of its own.
August 5, 2026 · DispatchThe Congresswoman Has a Podcast Studio: Nancy Mace Is Auditioning for Life After Office, On Camera
A current member of Nancy Mace's staff tells Maceopedia the congresswoman is auditioning for a career in political media for after she leaves office, and that the escalating content is the strategy. Mace lost her primary for governor, is not running for re-election, and leaves Congress in January 2027. In her final months she has stood up a branded, studio-produced video operation on her personal account, a podcast set with a boom microphone and produced backdrops, posting to-camera monologues that rack up tens of thousands of views. This dispatch reports the staffer's account and lays the videos, in her own words and with view counts, alongside it.
August 5, 2026 · Dispatch"Not Chopping Their Dicks Off" and 9 More: A Top 10 of Nancy Mace's Curse Words, In Her Own Words
A member of Congress is supposed to model a standard of public conduct. The House even writes it down: its own decorum rules say members should refrain from profanity and vulgarity, and its Code of Official Conduct demands they 'reflect creditably on the House.' Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) has spent years testing where that standard sits. This dispatch first explains why vulgarity from a public official is treated as a breach of the office, then catalogs, in her own verbatim words, ten times Mace used profanity or crude language in public, on the House floor, in committee hearings, on live television, in confrontations caught on camera, and on her own verified social media. A second section lists every other one we could find in the public record. Every quote is reproduced exactly and linked to its primary source. The top ten runs from number ten up to number one: the July 2026 post in which she summarized U.S. military healthcare policy as 'not chopping their dicks off.'
August 4, 2026 · Dispatch"I want a man who looks at me the way white liberal women look at invaders who jerk off on beaches in front of kids": Mace's August 3 post
On August 3, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace, a lame-duck member of Congress who finished last in the June 2026 Republican primary for South Carolina governor and leaves the House in January 2027, posted on her personal X account, @NancyMace: 'I want a man who looks at me the way white liberal women look at invaders who jerk off on beaches in front of kids.' She attached a photograph of a woman in a bikini reaching toward a shirtless man, with no source given. The post drew roughly 26,700 likes and more than 1,100 replies in a sharply divided response: a large bloc echoed it, while a substantial share, several on verified accounts, called it racist and beneath a member of Congress, and a recurring thread disputed the photo as misattributed or digitally altered. This dispatch reproduces the post in her own words, embeds it, and records the reaction.
August 3, 2026 · Dispatch"Charges Are Not a Conviction": The Due-Process Standard Nancy Mace Keeps Only for Herself
In 2023, Nancy Mace voted against expelling George Santos, indicted on 23 federal counts, because 'charges are not a conviction.' Since then she has pushed a series of men to resign, moved to expel them, or named them 'predators' from the House floor, in every case before any charge was filed, and sometimes after a prosecutor or the accuser had already declined to pursue one. When the House Ethics Committee's own report landed on her, she asked for the very due process she denies them.
- July 30, 2026 · Dispatch
'Advice, tips, hacks?': Mace's 'week 4' carnivore post is the newest chapter in two years of public posts about her weight, her hair, and PTSD
On July 30, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace, a sitting member of Congress and announced candidate for South Carolina governor, asked her X followers for 'advice, tips, hacks' on the carnivore diet, 'heading into week 4.' The post drew more than 200 replies, many asking why a member of Congress was crowdsourcing meal-plan tips. It was not the first time. Since November 2024, Mace has posted repeatedly and publicly about her body: a roughly 30-pound weight loss she attributes to PTSD, a 110-pound frame, 'about half my hair' lost to what she called PTSD-driven stress, and a viral post about eating beans after an election loss. This dispatch collects those public posts, in her own words, with screenshots of each.
- July 30, 2026 · Dispatch
Mace says Fauci has 'no legal grounds' to plead the Fifth. The law says otherwise.
Rep. Nancy Mace issued a press statement on July 29, 2026, claiming that because Anthony Fauci holds a Biden pardon, he has 'no legal grounds' to invoke the Fifth Amendment. The statement contains a critical legal error: the pardon covers past conduct, not future perjury, which is exactly what Fauci said he was protecting himself from. Mace's position also directly contradicts her separate statement calling the same pardon 'legally questionable,' and her track record on Fifth Amendment invocations suggests the legal framing is politically, not principally, driven.
- July 28, 2026 · Dispatch
'He believed that showing up mattered': Mace issues a press release as every other SC House Republican attends Graham's funeral
On July 28, 2026, Sen. Lindsey Graham's casket lay in the US Capitol Rotunda and then was carried to Washington National Cathedral for his funeral. Every other South Carolina House Republican was there. Rep. Sheri Biggs and Rep. Joe Wilson presented wreaths at his casket. Reps. Russell Fry and Ralph Norman accompanied the South Carolina delegation. Rep. Nancy Mace, who spent two weeks publicly weighing a run for Graham's Senate seat and publicly clashing with him during his lifetime, did not attend. Her office issued a press release statement instead. Filing for the special election primary closed at noon the same day.
- July 27, 2026 · Dispatch
"Not all muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are muslims": Mace's July 27 post draws 53,500 likes
On July 27, 2026, at 7:04 PM ET, Rep. Nancy Mace posted on her personal X account, @NancyMace: 'Not all muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are muslims.' The post drew roughly 53,500 likes and 7,440 replies. It is the latest entry in a pattern of Mace statements about Muslims and Islam that runs from a June 2026 H-E-B endorsement through a November 2025 'Stop Muslim radicals' fundraising email to her own Muslim Brotherhood legislation, alongside her repeated line that opposing 'radical Islam' and Sharia law 'isn't Islamophobia.'
July 26, 2026 · Dispatch"If you think your child is trans, your child should be removed from your home to safety": Mace's July 26 post
On July 26, 2026, at 2:55 PM ET, Rep. Nancy Mace posted on her personal X account, @NancyMace: 'If you think your child is trans, your child should be removed from your home to safety.' The standalone post, carrying no article or event, drew roughly 8,300 likes and about 400 replies. It is one of a cluster of Mace statements about transgender people posted across late July 2026, and sits atop a record that runs from her November 2024 Capitol bathroom resolution through her September 2025 'straitjacket' remarks.
July 23, 2026 · Dispatch"Federally Sanctioned Segregation": Mace Moves to Dissolve the Congressional Black Caucus on Her Way Out the Door
Rep. Nancy Mace introduced a House resolution to dissolve the Congressional Black Caucus, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, calling them 'federally sanctioned segregation.' The CBC fired back that Mace has 'repeatedly made racist and bigoted comments about minority communities' during her tenure.
July 22, 2026 · Dispatch'It hasn't happened yet, has it?': Mace, smiling, calls out Trump's broken 50 percent electricity promise on camera
Stopped outside the Capitol by a MeidasTouch reporter and asked what her constituents are saying about affordability, Rep. Nancy Mace rattled off rising groceries, electricity, mortgages and rent, then finished the reporter's sentence about President Trump's pledge to cut power bills: 'By 50 percent. It hasn't happened yet, has it?' She smiled and turned away. The clip, posted July 22, 2026 and shared across X by @Acyn, landed two days after Trump's own self-imposed deadline to halve electricity prices passed with residential rates up about 18 percent instead.
July 22, 2026 · Dispatch"How self-loathing are they": Mace asks "how many Jews voted for Mamdani," doubles down when Piers Morgan calls it "an extraordinary charge." Israel's UN ambassador, asked twice, declines to agree.
On the July 22, 2026 episode of Piers Morgan Uncensored, Rep. Nancy Mace reacted to NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani's call for the federal government to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu by asking "how many Jews voted for Mamdani," calling Jewish New Yorkers who backed him "self-loathing," and saying she is perplexed by "this guy coming to America eight years ago from Kampala." Mamdani moved to New York in 1999, at age 7; eight years ago matches his 2018 naturalization, not his arrival. When Morgan called her words "an extraordinary charge," Mace repeated them. Later in the same episode Morgan put her quote to Israel's UN Ambassador Danny Danon twice; Danon declined to agree both times.
July 22, 2026 · Dispatch"Not Chopping Their Dicks Off": Mace's Entire On-Camera Answer on Military Healthcare. Her Amendment Was Later Stripped Anyway.
Rep. Nancy Mace celebrated a House vote restricting TRICARE gender-affirming care coverage by posting "Our military should be focused on troop readiness, not chopping their dicks off", then yelled at a Democratic colleague on the House floor and followed up by attacking her nose on social media.
July 21, 2026 · DispatchOne day after quitting the race, Nancy Mace endorses Ralph Norman and snubs Trump's pick for Graham's Senate seat
One day after ruling out her own Senate bid, Rep. Nancy Mace endorsed Rep. Ralph Norman for the South Carolina special election on July 21, 2026, breaking publicly with President Trump, who had endorsed Lindsey Graham's sister Darline Graham Nordone on July 17. Norman accepted the endorsement while pledging to 'stand with President Trump,' the same president whose candidate he and Mace are now both running against. Filing opens today and closes July 28, with the primary set for August 11.
July 21, 2026 · DispatchTwo threat sentencings in one day: the woman who sent kill texts went home until prison. The teenager who posted one tweet sat in jail 14 months.
On July 21, 2026, both pending threat cases against Nancy Mace ended. Shayla Addison, who sent five kill texts, a bomb-threat email, and two Instagram comments and had a record of nearly identical threats, was never jailed pretrial and got 27 months. Samuel Cain, a Greenville trans teenager who posted a single tweet that agencies reportedly could not tie to any weapon or plan, had already served roughly 14 months without bond and left with house arrest, five years of probation, and a permanent internet ban. Mace posted through all of it.
July 21, 2026 · Dispatch"When was your gender revealed?": Mace's five minutes with the Smithsonian's American History director
Nancy Mace spent her five minutes at the House DOGE subcommittee's Smithsonian hearing demanding yes-or-no answers from Dr. Anthea Hartig, the PhD historian who has led the National Museum of American History since 2019. On video, verbatim: 'what is a woman,' 'when was your gender revealed,' and a diary she called 'featuring a six-year-old' that the museum says was written by a 13-year-old.
- July 21, 2026 · Dispatch
"When was your gender revealed?": Mace and the Smithsonian's American History director
Rep. Nancy Mace's five minute round with Dr. Anthea Hartig, director of the National Museum of American History, at the House DOGE subcommittee's July 21, 2026 Smithsonian hearing, excerpted verbatim from the committee's own hearing feed: the interrupted greeting, the yes-or-no demands, the diary age mismatch, "what is a woman," and "when was your gender revealed."
July 20, 2026 · Dispatch"South Carolina, I'm in": Russell Fry becomes the fourth Republican to enter the race for Lindsey Graham's Senate seat
Rep. Russell Fry (SC-7) announced a bid for the U.S. Senate on X at 8:01 a.m. ET on July 20, 2026, becoming the fourth declared Republican in the special election for the late Sen. Lindsey Graham's seat, joining Mark Lynch, Duke Buckner, and Rep. Ralph Norman. Fry, 41, unseated five-term incumbent Tom Rice in a 2022 primary after Rice voted to impeach President Trump; Trump has praised Fry as 'outstanding' but has not endorsed him, having already backed interim Sen. Darline Graham Nordone. Candidate filing does not open until noon Tuesday, July 21, so none of the four declared candidates, or anyone else, has filed yet. About an hour after Fry declared, Rep. Nancy Mace posted an objection to dual candidacies, writing that 'if you're running for two offices at once, you've already told us who you are' and that she 'will never hand Hakeem Jeffries that gift.' She named no one, but on the facts as they stand only Fry fits: he won his SC-7 primary on June 9 and is already the Republican nominee for that seat, so he would appear on the November ballot for both offices, while Norman did not file for House reelection after running for governor. Mace has still not announced a decision of her own.
July 20, 2026 · Dispatch"I'm not chasing another title, I'm chasing justice": Nancy Mace rules out the Senate race, and with it, public office
On July 20, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace announced in a 64-second video on X that she will not enter the special election for the late Sen. Lindsey Graham's Senate seat. 'I want to be straight with you. I'm not running for the US Senate, not because I'm backing down from a fight, but because the one I'm already in matters right now.' The announcement came three days after President Trump endorsed Graham's sister, interim Sen. Darline Graham Nordone, for the full term. Combined with her June 10 decision not to seek re-election to the House, Mace is now set to leave public office when her term ends in January 2027. This dispatch reproduces the video statement in full, verbatim, alongside the separate written statement she posted with it.
- July 20, 2026 · Dispatch
"If you're running for two offices at once, you've already told us who you are": Nancy Mace objects to sitting House members seeking the Senate, without naming Russell Fry
Fifty-nine minutes after Rep. Russell Fry announced his campaign for the U.S. Senate on July 20, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace posted a standalone statement on X, without naming Fry: 'If you're running for two offices at once, you've already told us who you are. That's not about politics anymore - that's about power.' She grounded the objection in House math, warning that a sitting Republican House member who wins the Senate seat in November vacates his seat until next May, narrowing an already thin majority, and writing 'I will never hand Hakeem Jeffries that gift.' Mace is not on the November 2026 ballot herself: she lost the June 9 Republican gubernatorial primary, did not seek reelection to her House seat, and has said her House term ends in January 2027.
July 20, 2026 · Dispatch"I would be an idiot not to at least look at it": filing for Lindsey Graham's Senate seat opens Tuesday, and Nancy Mace has seven days
Candidate filing for the special election to fill the late Sen. Lindsey Graham's seat opens Tuesday, July 21, 2026 and closes one week later, July 28. Rep. Ralph Norman formally entered the race July 18, defying President Trump's endorsement of interim Sen. Darline Graham Nordone. Businessman Mark Lynch has also declared. Rep. Nancy Mace has not filed, has not announced, and has not closed the door, telling Fox News on July 12, 'I would be an idiot not to at least look at it.' This dispatch catalogs the filing calendar, the interim appointment, Nordone's July 18 tribute letter to her brother, Trump's 'RUN, DARLINE, RUN!' endorsement, the Emerson College poll showing Mace at 10 percent, and her own July 12 statements verbatim.
July 20, 2026 · Dispatch"The one I'm already in": Mace's Senate withdrawal was a statement about the case, made under a gag order that has never been lifted
Rep. Nancy Mace's July 20, 2026 announcement that she will not run for the Senate was, in both the video and the written statement, an announcement about litigation. She said she was leaving the race 'not because I'm backing down from a fight, but because the one I'm already in matters right now,' told supporters she has 'unfinished business,' and dated that business to the day she 'stood on that House floor.' That was February 10, 2025, when she named four men and told them they had 'bought yourself a one-way ticket to hell.' Three of those men are parties to Berg v. Bryant, where a gag order barring comment on the case was extended indefinitely in December 2025 and, on the documentary record, has never been vacated, dissolved, or found expired. It has also never been enforced. Mace contends it is unconstitutional.
July 19, 2026 · Dispatch"Which version of Nancy Mace will we get?": a nonbinary creator turns Mace's Senate flirtation into a software-update bit
On July 19, 2026, the YouTube and TikTok creator who posts as @defenestrans published an 85-second Short arguing that Nancy Mace's politics track her audience rather than her convictions, staged as a running joke about software updates. 'Nancy Mace has successfully upgraded to MAGA 5.0,' the host says, before running through 'Factory settings Nancy, District 1 Nancy, Governor's race Nancy, Senate DLC Nancy' and closing: 'I think she just has auto update on, and somehow every new version has more bugs than the last.' Two factual claims in the clip check out: Mace finished fifth in the June 9 Republican gubernatorial primary with 12.1 percent, and she has said on the record she will look at Lindsey Graham's Senate seat. The characterizations are the creator's own; Mace has not responded to the video.
July 18, 2026 · Dispatch"You could flip so many hash browns with this spatula."
After @Mardabadguy posted an AI-generated image of Mace in a full Waffle House uniform captioned "I know where all the waffles are being cooked," Mace quote-tweeted it and replied: "You could flip so many hash browns with this spatula."
- July 17, 2026 · Dispatch
"I know where all the waffles are being cooked": Mar hits Mace with the third Waffle House meme
As Mace tweeted about the Doug Band/Epstein/Clinton disclosures, @Mardabadguy replied with an AI-generated image of Mace in full Waffle House uniform, spatula raised, declaring "I know where all the waffles are being cooked", the third meme in a running series that collapses her Epstein crusade persona into her Waffle House biography.
- July 17, 2026 · Dispatch
Trump endorses Lindsey Graham's sister for a full Senate term, and puts Nancy Mace's decision in a harder box
President Trump endorsed Sen. Darline Graham Nordone for a full six-year term on July 17, 2026, the same day Axios reported that Rep. Nancy Mace is still considering a Senate bid despite the endorsement. The move closes the appointment lane Mace had been eyeing and forces a choice: run against Trump's chosen candidate in a primary where she trails at 10 percent, or stand down. This dispatch catalogs the full timeline, from Mace's 'I would be an idiot not to at least look at it' media tour on July 12, to her team's viability polling, to the Emerson poll showing her tied for third at 10 percent, to Trump's endorsement of Graham's sister.
- July 17, 2026 · Dispatch
"I know where all the waffles are being cooked."
As Mace tweeted about the Doug Band/Epstein/Clinton disclosures, Mar (@Mardabadguy) replied with an AI-generated image of Mace in a full Waffle House uniform, spatula in hand, declaring: "I know where all the waffles are being cooked.", a parody of her recurring "I know where all the bodies are buried" Epstein rhetoric.
- July 16, 2026 · Dispatch
First poll after Graham's death puts Nancy Mace at 10 percent, tied for third, as pollster says 'no candidate begins as a clear favorite'
The first poll taken after Sen. Lindsey Graham's death, an Emerson College Polling survey for Nexstar Media fielded July 14 to 15, found no clear front-runner in the Republican scramble for his South Carolina Senate seat. Rep. Nancy Mace drew 10 percent, tied for third with Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette and behind Rep. Ralph Norman (16 percent) and businessman Mark Lynch (13 percent). No candidate reached 20 percent, and 'undecided' led the entire field at 18 percent.
July 16, 2026 · DispatchSo he can go fly a kite
Rep. William Timmons called his South Carolina colleagues 'thirsty' for eyeing Sen. Lindsey Graham's seat within 24 hours of his death and said he cannot support Nancy Mace or Ralph Norman. Mace's response, captured by Fox Carolina: 'So he can go fly a kite.'
- July 16, 2026 · Dispatch
"So he can go fly a kite", Mace fires back at Timmons over Graham's Senate seat
After Rep. William Timmons said he could not support Nancy Mace or Ralph Norman for Sen. Lindsey Graham's seat and called the rush to claim it 'thirsty,' Mace's on-camera reply to Fox Carolina was blunt: 'So he can go fly a kite.'
- July 15, 2026 · Dispatch
"If you import the third world, you will become the third world": Mace's Third World Immigration Moratorium Act
On July 15, 2026, four days after Lindsey Graham's death and as she weighs a run for his Senate seat, Nancy Mace introduced the Third World Immigration Moratorium Act, a bill that would bar entry of aliens from 39 designated countries plus holders of Palestinian Authority travel documents, codifying President Trump's travel-ban proclamation into permanent statute. Her press release framed it as moving to 'slam the door,' and her own words went further: 'If you import the third world, you will become the third world.' This dispatch catalogs the bill, the full country list, its exceptions, and Mace's verbatim statements from her office's announcement.
July 14, 2026 · DispatchNancy Mace Answers Boosie Badazz After Her Name Surfaces in a $600,000 Pardon-Scam Claim
A NOTUS investigation published July 13, 2026 reported that rapper Boosie Badazz paid Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman about $600,000 on the promise of a presidential pardon, and that Wohl invoked a list of MAGA-aligned names, including Nancy Mace, as having endorsed the effort. Most named figures denied involvement or stayed silent, and Mace's office declined to comment to NOTUS. A day later, when Boosie publicly called out the same names on X, Mace was the one who replied and offered to connect him with her office staff.
July 14, 2026 · DispatchSeth Meyers: 'I just think we need to ban politicians from posting memes'
Seth Meyers used his July 14, 2026 'A Closer Look' segment to skewer Rep. Nancy Mace's Godfather III meme, posted the day after Lindsey Graham's death to hint at a Senate run, alongside Trump's Mount Rushmore, Star Wars, and Pope memes, landing on: 'I just think we need to ban politicians from posting memes.'
July 13, 2026 · DispatchPrediction Markets Put Nancy Mace Near the Floor in the Graham-Seat Scramble
Across Kalshi, Polymarket, Manifold, and PredictIt snapshots checked July 13, Nancy Mace was priced as a long-shot in the South Carolina Senate special-election scramble, ranging from tiny fractions of a percent on Polymarket to 3 cents on Kalshi and roughly 1.4 percent on Manifold. PredictIt showed 10 cents, but its stale order book made that a weak signal rather than a clean consensus.
July 13, 2026 · DispatchWe want someone 'sane': Trump insiders fume as Nancy Mace floats run for Senate seat
AlterNet reports that after Sen. Lindsey Graham's death, the Trump White House moved to keep Nancy Mace away from his Senate seat, with one Trump official telling Axios they would 'drop $2 million on her head' if she reached a runoff because 'all we want is a Republican who is sane.' Trump recommended Graham's sister, Darline Graham Nordone, for the interim appointment, while Mace told Axios she was being unfairly singled out since two men had announced within hours of Graham's passing and she had not.
July 13, 2026 · DispatchSo Apparently Nancy Mace's Fifth Stage of Grief Is Running for Senate
Jezebel writes that Nancy Mace began floating herself for Lindsey Graham's Senate seat within hours of his death, posting the Godfather Part III 'they pull me back in' line around 9:43 a.m. Sunday and telling Fox News she would 'never going to shut the door.' A source confirmed to Jezebel that Mace is considering the run and plans to poll an exploratory bid this week, potentially using leftover federal campaign cash, one month after her fifth-place governor-primary finish and twelve years after her first run at Graham's seat also ended in fifth place.
July 13, 2026 · DispatchTrump Team Reportedly Irate Over Nancy Mace Floating Her Name as a Graham Replacement: 'All We Want is a Republican Who is Sane'
Mediaite reports that the Trump White House fumed as Nancy Mace touted herself as a candidate for Lindsey Graham's Senate seat hours after his death, posting the Godfather Part III 'they pull me back in' line the morning the news broke. One Trump official told Axios her move was 'in poor taste, even for Mace'; another said they would 'drop $2 million on her head' in a runoff. Trump instead recommended Graham's sister, Darline Graham Nordone, as interim senator, with Sen. Tim Scott backing the pick.
July 13, 2026 · Dispatch"It may have ended my political career": Nancy Mace to Chris Cuomo
On NewsNation's CUOMO, two days after Lindsey Graham's death opened a U.S. Senate seat, Nancy Mace said Trump's opposition following her Epstein-files break "may have ended my political career," conceded "I got my butt beat in the governor's race," and, in an answer nominally about ICE, argued that endorsements "do matter, especially in South Carolina." Chris Cuomo urged her on air to run in the special election.
July 13, 2026 · DispatchLawler rips Mace over 'grotesque' Graham succession post
The Hill reports that Rep. Mike Lawler publicly tore into Nancy Mace over the Godfather Part III clip she posted after Lindsey Graham's death, replying on X that 'literally no one is pulling you back in,' calling the post 'grotesque' and 'vile,' and declaring her 'completely unfit to serve.' The piece notes Mace is expected to poll a Senate primary bid this week, with a person familiar with her thinking summing up her mindset to The Hill as 'YOLO.'
July 12, 2026 · DispatchMace honors Lindsey Graham after months of public clashes: 'We did not always agree'
After Sen. Lindsey Graham died at 71 from what his office described as a brief and sudden illness, Nancy Mace posted a respectful Instagram tribute calling him a South Carolina giant and acknowledging, 'We did not always agree.' The post landed against a recent public record of friction: during her 2026 governor campaign, Mace demanded that President Trump remove Graham from the Situation Room over Iran, attacked him as sending 'someone else's kids to war,' and months earlier fired back after Graham backed Tim Scott's rebuke of her Charleston airport conduct. The longer arc stretches back to 2014, when Mace challenged Graham in the Republican U.S. Senate primary and finished fifth.
July 12, 2026 · DispatchTownhall says Mace is 'already talking' about taking over Graham's Senate seat
Within hours of Sen. Lindsey Graham's death, Nancy Mace was already publicly and privately linked to the scramble for his Senate seat. Axios reported she was 'strongly considering' a run. Fox aired her saying she would 'be an idiot' not to look at the opportunity. Then Mace posted a Godfather clip with the line, 'Just when I thought I was out... they pull me back in...' Townhall, writing from conservative media, framed the speed more harshly: 'Just hours after' Graham's passing, 'vultures' in South Carolina politics were already scheming for the empty seat.
- July 12, 2026 · Dispatch
'I would be an idiot not to': how Nancy Mace's answer on Lindsey Graham's Senate seat changed across one Sunday
Sen. Lindsey Graham died late Saturday night, July 11, 2026. By Sunday, Rep. Nancy Mace was on CBS, Fox, CNN and her own X account, and her answer on whether she would run for his Senate seat kept moving. She led with grief ('we're stunned'), posted a Godfather meme at 9:43 AM ('they pull me back in'), told Fox 'I'm never going to shut the door' and 'I would be an idiot not to at least look at it,' told CBS 'I would be remiss if I didn't at least consider it,' and by that afternoon told CNN 'we can't afford to lose any seats in the House, I'm not pursuing it' before adding 'there will be time to decide.' Every line is verbatim from her July 12 appearances, reproduced here so readers can judge.
- July 12, 2026 · Dispatch
A 'Mace for Senate' domain has sat registered since 2023, its owner hidden behind private WHOIS
A reader sent Maceopedia an ICANN registration-data lookup for maceforsenate.com. The public record shows the domain was created on August 24, 2023, nearly two years before Lindsey Graham's death opened a South Carolina Senate seat that Nancy Mace is now publicly weighing. Whoever registered it has kept their identity private: the registrant name, organization, and phone are all redacted, and the domain serves no website. Maceopedia independently confirmed the record against Verisign's authoritative RDAP database. The record does not establish who owns the domain, and this dispatch makes no claim that it is Mace or her campaign.
- July 12, 2026 · Dispatch
Trump allies say they can 'block Rep. Nancy Mace' from Graham seat appointment
As Nancy Mace's team explored a fast run for the Senate seat left open by Lindsey Graham's death, the sharper signal came from Trump's orbit. Politico reporter Meredith Lee Hill posted that Trump allies said they would be able to 'block Rep. Nancy Mace' from the seat, while Political Wire's excerpt framed it as blocking her from the appointment and privately pointed to her public clashes with Trump. The report landed the same morning Trump said on Meet the Press that he already had 'somebody' in mind for the vacancy, though Gov. Henry McMaster formally controls the interim appointment.
- July 12, 2026 · Dispatch
One Sunday, four networks: how Nancy Mace’s answer on Lindsey Graham’s seat changed through the day
A real-footage supercut of Nancy Mace’s July 12, 2026 media tour, the day Sen. Lindsey Graham died. Across CBS, Fox, CNN and her own X account, her answer on whether she would run for his Senate seat moved from grief, to a coy “they pull me back in” tease, to “I’ll certainly take a look,” to “I would be an idiot not to,” to “I’m not pursuing it,” to “there will be time to decide.” Every line is verbatim; readers can judge.
- July 10, 2026 · Dispatch
'Just needs a little filler in her face': Mace mocks Charlize Theron amid Ozempic rumors, months after telling Politico she was 'totally broken'
After Charlize Theron drew a wave of Ozempic speculation and health-concern commentary for looking noticeably thinner at the July 8, 2026 Paris premiere of 'The Odyssey,' Nancy Mace joined the pile-on. Replying on July 10 to a post mocking the actress, Mace wrote: 'Just needs a little filler in her face. She'll be fine.' The line lands against a record Mace built herself. In a February 2026 Politico profile she said she got nine tattoos 'in rapid succession' as 'the pain that I need to feel' and called herself 'totally broken,' and her own former consultant testified under oath that during that stretch she was 'drinking too much, and losing a ton of weight.' Her office has said how she chooses to heal 'is her decision alone.' This dispatch places her public words side by side and takes no position on anyone's health.
- July 10, 2026 · Dispatch
'You really believe that?': NewsNation's Leland Vittert fact-checks Mace in real time as she goes '100% deep state' on the UFO files
On July 10, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace went on NewsNation's 'On Balance' to talk about the Pentagon's latest UFO file release, and host Leland Vittert spent the segment pushing back on her. When Mace claimed 'three-letter agencies' are blocking UAP documents, Vittert pressed: 'Come on, you really believe that?' and asked whether she really believed that over 80 years these agencies 'have managed to keep secrets from everybody, and nobody has ever spoken out.' Mace answered, 'I 100% think the deep state,' and said it hides information 'not only from the American public, but from elected officials.' Earlier she called one released video 'a cluster of balloons,' said 'I'm not an expert in this,' and later conceded she had 'seen no proof' of aliens. Her words and the host's skepticism are reproduced here in full so readers can judge.
July 6, 2026 · DispatchPro Se: Nancy Mace has lost her lawyers again, this time in her own defamation suit against Eric Bowman
On July 6, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace filed a Motion to Lift Stay in her own defamation case against Eric Bowman, and she filed it pro se, representing herself. On the coversheet she crossed out the entire 'Plaintiff's Attorney' block by hand, wrote 'N/A,' and wrote 'Pro Se.' The motion states she 'is now proceeding pro se in this matter, as reflected in the Notice filed June 30, 2026.' It is the second time in this cluster of cases she has gone without counsel. The three attorneys who filed and briefed the Bowman case for her, local counsel Andrew B. Moorman, Sr. and the two Washington lawyers she brought in pro hac vice, William M. Sullivan, Jr. and Alex G. Anderson, are no longer her counsel of record. A separate notice filed the same day names all three and asks the Clerk of Court to remove them. The complete eight-page motion, and the counsel-withdrawal notice, are reproduced below. Allegations on every side are contested and unproven; Bowman denies Mace's claims and has moved to dismiss, and Mace denies Bowman's.
July 5, 2026 · Dispatch"Plans to give you hope and a future": Mace posts a Sunday scripture verse, and the reply thread answers back
At 9:00 AM on Sunday, July 5, 2026, Nancy Mace posted Jeremiah 29:11 to X, a serene verse about the Lord's plans 'to prosper you and not to harm you.' The reply thread answered with a pile-on: hypocrisy jabs, scripture thrown back at her, 'MAGA Jesus is not Jesus,' and a handful of amens. Scripture posting is a documented, years-long habit for Mace, and Sunday morning is one of its most consistent slots. This dispatch catalogs the post and the public reaction, lays out the competing readings of why she posts these verses, and takes no position on Mace's medical or psychological state.
July 4, 2026 · Dispatch"I Muted Nancy Mace and Life Is So Much Better"
On the Fourth of July 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace posted a "250 years... God bless the United States" message. Koosemar (@koosemar) replied with a fake wellness-magazine cover, "CLEARER," whose headline read "I MUTED NANCY MACE AND LIFE IS SO MUCH BETTER," reframing the act of muting her as self-care.
July 3, 2026 · Dispatch'There's no other route': Mace's own cited Supreme Court ruling on birthright citizenship lays out a third option she didn't mention
Three days after the Supreme Court struck down Trump's birthright-citizenship executive order in Trump v. Barbara, Mace told followers a constitutional amendment is 'the only way' to fix the issue and that 'there's no other route.' The ruling she was citing includes a third path she left out: Justice Kavanaugh's separate opinion arguing Congress could rewrite the existing citizenship statute without touching the Constitution at all, though the majority and legal commentators dispute whether that route would actually survive review.
July 2, 2026 · DispatchBuzzFeed's June politics photo roundup puts Nancy Mace back-to-back: the TRANS MICE Act, then the fifth-place beans post
BuzzFeed's June 2026 political-photo roundup placed Nancy Mace in consecutive slots: first for the TRANS MICE Act post that drew a transgenic-mice correction, then for her post-primary beans post after finishing fifth in the South Carolina Republican governor's race. The pairing is useful because it shows how the national internet saw the month: not as isolated posts, but as a fast sequence of spectacle, correction, campaign collapse and meme aftermath.
July 2, 2026 · DispatchEndora answers Mace's Waffle House quote-post with a Grok Imagine flame clip
After Rep. Nancy Mace quote-posted Mar's "Hold the Waffle" meme with "South Carolina raised us right," Endora (@EndoraArodne) replied with a short Grok Imagine video and the caption, "You're drunk again, aren't you Nanc."
July 2, 2026 · Dispatch"Hold the Waffle": Mar turns Mace's "Hold the Line" graphic into a Waffle House meme
Rep. Nancy Mace posted a branded "Hold the Line" graphic on July 2, 2026. Minutes later, Mar (@Mardabadguy) replied with a "Hold the Waffle" edit that swapped the Capitol motif for Waffle House, extending the internet's running joke about Mace's self-described Waffle House waitress biography.
- July 2, 2026 · Dispatch
BuzzFeed: Mace lands in the June politics photo roundup for TRANS MICE and the post-loss beans post
Bella Arnold's BuzzFeed roundup of wild June 2026 political photos includes Nancy Mace in consecutive entries: #3 for the TRANS MICE Act post and #4 for the post-primary beans post after her fifth-place South Carolina governor result. The entry is useful because it shows national internet coverage treating those two Mace moments as adjacent parts of the same June spectacle.
- July 2, 2026 · Dispatch
Endora's Grok Imagine flame clip
After Rep. Nancy Mace quote-posted the "Hold the Waffle" meme, Endora (@EndoraArodne) replied with a short Grok Imagine video showing a stylized Mace figure with hair and earrings on fire, captioned, "You're drunk again, aren't you Nanc."
- July 2, 2026 · Dispatch
"Hold the Waffle"
After Rep. Nancy Mace posted a branded "Hold the Line" graphic, Mar (@Mardabadguy) answered with a "Hold the Waffle" edit that swapped the Capitol backdrop for Waffle House, tying Mace's tough-on-accountability slogan back to her long-running Waffle House biography.
June 30, 2026 · DispatchYou don't know anything about MKUltra, which is the purpose of this hearing.
At a June 30, 2026 House Oversight hearing convened specifically to examine the CIA's MKUltra program, Rep. Nancy Mace spent roughly the first two of her five allotted minutes questioning the hearing's non-MKUltra witness about Anthony Fauci, COVID-19 origins, and vaccine side effects. When the witness told her, eight separate times, that the subject was outside her expertise, Mace told her: 'You don't know anything about MKUltra, which is the purpose of this hearing.' Only then, with most of her time gone, did she turn to the witnesses who were actually there to discuss MKUltra.
June 30, 2026 · DispatchWas this the voyeurism Nancy Mace was talking about?
Nancy Mace posted that voyeurism is a real issue. The clearest test of what she means is her own May 20, 2025 House Oversight hearing, which she titled 'Breach of Trust: Surveillance in Private Spaces,' where she held up a poster-sized still she said showed her own body and called it nonconsensual hidden surveillance. Maceopedia asks the narrower public-record question her hearing never answered: was that a hidden camera in a private space, or footage from a room with open windows facing a public or shared space? The two are not the same factual claim, and voyeurism turns on the difference.
June 28, 2026 · DispatchIn an X thread, Mace says the amount should be higher. The public-record receipt says the earlier number was tied to photos.
After Maceopedia resurfaced the Berg-call line about '150K each,' Rep. Nancy Mace replied that the amount 'should be more' and connected the thread to 'what was done to me and others.' The public-record receipt matters because the recorded call discusses a civil lawsuit, photos, and money, not an adjudicated criminal finding.
June 26, 2026 · DispatchThe "confirm what genitals" meme
A user-submitted image macro places a bathroom-stall photo beside a quote attributed to Nancy Mace: "I need to confirm what genitals you have. I don't want you making ME uncomfortable."
June 25, 2026 · DispatchPalmetto Voice ties Mace's foreign-born judge attack to the naturalized-citizens lane
The Palmetto Voice argued that Mace's attack on a foreign-born federal judge after her fifth-place governor primary finish fits a broader pattern that includes her natural-born-only constitutional amendment, criticism of Rom Reddy, and her Trump/Epstein conflict. The outlet's 'defeated and spiraling' frame is commentary, not a Maceopedia finding.
- June 25, 2026 · Dispatch
The Palmetto Voice says Mace is 'defeated and spiraling' after attacking a foreign-born judge
The Palmetto Voice published a June 25, 2026 Substack column and Facebook post arguing that Nancy Mace's post-primary attacks on a foreign-born federal judge fit the same pattern as her naturalized-citizens amendment, her criticism of Rom Reddy, and her continuing Trump/Epstein conflict. The outlet's 'defeated and spiraling' framing is its own commentary.
June 25, 2026 · DispatchQnotes frames Mace's anti-trans turn and primary collapse
QnotesCarolinas published a June 25, 2026 political profile connecting Nancy Mace's fifth-place South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary finish to her high-profile anti-transgender campaign, her Trump/Epstein break, the House Ethics/OCC reimbursement referral, and criticism from former staffers and Republicans. The headline and sharper labels are Qnotes' own framing.
June 23, 2026 · Dispatch"Lost in Trans-lation": health journalist Gary Schwitzer gives Mace his 4th Health News Pinocchio Award for confusing transgenic with transgender mice
On June 23, 2026, health journalist Gary Schwitzer awarded Nancy Mace his 4th Health News Pinocchio Award for repeatedly confusing transgenic mice (a standard cancer-research tool) with transgender mice, and doubling down after public correction. His verdict: standing by a mistruth several times, even after being publicly corrected, and doing so on multiple platforms is noteworthy.
June 20, 2026 · DispatchIrish Star: Mace 'eviscerated' over 'trans mice' as replies pile up
The Irish Star rounds up the viral reaction to Nancy Mace's June 18, 2026 'TRANS MICE Act' post, which claimed the American taxpayer is funding experiments on 'trans mice.' The piece collects the X replies and quote-posts correcting her (transgenic, not transgender), reproduces the community note appended to the post, and quotes Mace's clapback defending the bill. The 'dumbest member of Congress' and 'bozo' framing is the commenters' and the outlet's own characterization.
June 20, 2026 · DispatchThe Poke: Mace mistook cancer-research mice for 'transgender experiments'
The Poke, a UK comedy and satire site, covers Nancy Mace's June 18, 2026 post promoting her 'TRANS MICE Act,' which declared that 'animals should not be used for radical transgender experiments.' The piece's own one-line summary states that Mace 'mistook transgenic experiments for cancer research for transgender experiments,' and collects the replies correcting her. The harsher framing in the headline is the outlet's own commentary.
June 19, 2026 · DispatchRemember when Nancy Mace read a CNN guest's "kissy emoji" text into the congressional record?
A look back. On September 19, 2024, Rep. Nancy Mace used part of a House Oversight Committee hearing to enter into the official record a screenshot of a text she said Vanderbilt professor Michael Eric Dyson sent her after they clashed on CNN: "Shh don't tell anybody. We look good together," with a kissy emoji. Dyson denied hitting on her, said it was a joke, and called Mace "a bigot and racist." The clip is circulating again. In her own words and his, readers can judge.
June 19, 2026 · DispatchTrump endorses both SC runoff candidates: 'These were the two that I was hoping would get into a Runoff'
On June 19, 2026, four days before the June 23 South Carolina Republican gubernatorial runoff, President Trump posted on Truth Social that rather than choose between the two candidates still standing, Lt. Gov. Pam Evette and Attorney General Alan Wilson, he would endorse both. He wrote that 'these were the two that I was hoping would get into a Runoff, and they did.' Neither is Nancy Mace, who finished fifth (about 12.1 percent) in the June 9 primary and has said her vote to release the Epstein files cost her Trump's support. The Washington Post had reported on June 16 that Trump was weighing exactly this dual endorsement. Post & Courier reporter Caitlin Byrd surfaced the post.
June 18, 2026 · Dispatch"We don't have any faith in our justice system": after the loss, Mace recirculates a February Epstein documentary
On June 18, 2026, nine days after conceding fifth place in the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary, Nancy Mace recirculated a clip from Tommy G's February 25, 2026 YouTube documentary on the Epstein files, paired with a post declaring a 'two-tiered system of justice' and 'no faith' that co-conspirators will ever be jailed. The clip is nearly four months old; she surfaced it days after framing her defeat as the price of her Epstein-files vote. This dispatch catalogs the posts as public artifacts and takes no position on Mace's medical or psychological state.
June 18, 2026 · Dispatch"Radical transgender experiments": Nancy Mace's "TRANS MICE Act" goes to war with the transgenic lab mice scientists use to study cancer
On June 18, 2026, Nancy Mace promoted her 'TRANS MICE Act' on X, declaring that 'animals should not be used for radical transgender experiments' and calling it 'ideological cruelty.' The bill, H.R.4512, is real. So is the problem: the mice are transgenic, not transgender. Transgenic mice are genetically modified rodents used to study cancer, endometriosis, infertility and other diseases. Scientists and the research-advocacy group Americans for Medical Progress say the studies have nothing to do with gender identity. The post went viral as a self-own; the photo Mace attached is a standard transgenic research mouse.
June 18, 2026 · DispatchNancy Mace Has TOTAL BREAKDOWN Over Ilhan Omar
The progressive show The Ring of Fire devotes a four-minute segment to Nancy Mace's June 15, 2026 post calling for the deportation of Rep. Ilhan Omar, a naturalized U.S. citizen and sitting member of Congress, tying it to her fifth-place finish in the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary. The Ring of Fire is a commentary program, so its 'total breakdown' headline is the channel's own characterization.
June 17, 2026 · DispatchA federal magistrate recommends sending the case Mace removed to federal court back to state court, finding her pro se removal 'untimely': 'it is RECOMMENDED that Bryant's Motion to Remand be GRANTED and that the case be REMANDED to state court.'
On June 17, 2026, U.S. Magistrate Judge Molly H. Cherry issued a Report and Recommendation in the case Rep. Nancy Mace removed to federal court (Berg v. Bryant, docketed federally as No. 2:26-cv-00305-BHH-MHC), recommending that the case be remanded to state court. The recommendation is procedural, not a ruling on the truth of anyone's allegations: the magistrate found that Mace, who removed the case and briefed the remand motion pro se, was on notice the case was removable by December 12, 2025, so her January 29, 2026 removal of the entire case was untimely. A Report and Recommendation is not a final order; the parties have 14 days to object, and U.S. District Judge Bruce Howe Hendricks will make the final decision. The underlying allegations are disputed and contested; Mace denies Bryant's claims, and Bryant denies Mace's.
June 16, 2026 · DispatchCourt 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.
June 16, 2026 · DispatchMAGA Nancy Mace's humiliating defeat
Australia's national broadcaster, the ABC, gives Nancy Mace a two-minute Planet America segment tracing her arc from her post-January-6 clashes with Trump, through a Trump-loyalty reinvention and her anti-transgender and Epstein-files turns, to a fifth-place finish in the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary. Planet America is the network's satirical US-politics explainer, so its sharper characterizations are the program's own framing.
June 15, 2026 · DispatchMace calls deporting 'Somalia-first' Ilhan Omar the best '250th birthday present to America'
On June 15, 2026, six days after finishing fifth in the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary, Nancy Mace posted on X and Facebook that 'there would be no better 250th birthday present to America than seeing Somalia-first Ilhan Omar deported.' Omar, a sitting U.S. representative, has been a naturalized U.S. citizen since 2000, and fact-checkers note U.S. citizens are not subject to deportation. The post is the latest in a running Mace-Omar feud that runs back through her September 2025 censure push and her May 2026 constitutional amendment. This dispatch catalogs the post as a public artifact and takes no position on Mace's medical or psychological state.
June 14, 2026 · DispatchJezebel reader-comment feature on Mace's loss
Jezebel's recurring 'Comment of the Week' feature frames itself as a postmortem on Nancy Mace's political career following her fifth-place finish in the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary. The post highlights a reader comment and revisits Mace's anti-transgender resolution targeting Rep. Sarah McBride.
June 13, 2026 · DispatchThe 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.
June 11, 2026 · DispatchMace 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.
June 11, 2026 · Dispatch‘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.
June 11, 2026 · DispatchNancy 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.
June 11, 2026 · DispatchNancy Mace vows to be 'more of a menace than ever' following election loss
The Hill reports on Nancy Mace's defiant response to her fifth-place finish in the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary, in which she pledged to remain politically active. The piece quotes Mace saying she intends to be 'more of a menace than ever' as her House term winds down.
June 11, 2026 · DispatchOnline reaction to Mace's primary loss
Them rounds up the social-media reaction to Nancy Mace's last-place finish in the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary, cataloging the jokes, memes and commentary that followed. The LGBTQ+ outlet ties the online response to Mace's high-profile anti-transgender legislative push during her time in Congress.
- June 10, 2026 · Dispatch
‘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.
June 10, 2026 · DispatchAfter 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.
June 10, 2026 · Dispatch"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.'
June 10, 2026 · Dispatch'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.
- June 10, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
June 10, 2026 · DispatchThe 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.
- June 10, 2026 · Dispatch
Ace of Spades HQ pans Mace's fifth-place primary finish
The long-running conservative blog Ace of Spades HQ mocked Nancy Mace's fifth-place finish in the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary, casting her as a self-promoter who 'cynically tried to ride the Epstein Files to victory,' and folding her into a call to 'purge all the flakes, grifters, hangers-on, fame-whores.' Like the National Review and Washington Times pieces, the criticism comes from her own side of the aisle.
June 10, 2026 · DispatchBathroom 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.'
- June 10, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
June 10, 2026 · DispatchNancy Mace Hit With Total Embarrassment During CNN Segment
On election night, CNN's panel momentarily forgot Mace was even in the governor's race, with host Kaitlan Collins announcing she didn't see Mace's name among the top candidates, prompting John King to scroll to find her at the bottom of the results. The moment encapsulated her campaign's collapse.
- June 10, 2026 · Dispatch
Mace posts a cryptic throwback after her primary loss
The Daily Beast reports that Nancy Mace responded to her loss in the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary by posting a photo of baked beans on X, a nod to a viral 2024 meme. The piece notes Mace attributed her defeat to her support for releasing the Epstein files over President Trump's objections.
June 10, 2026 · DispatchMS NOW opinion on Mace's loss and her record
In an opinion piece for MS NOW, Anthony L. Fisher argues that Nancy Mace's failed gubernatorial bid caps a career he characterizes as defined by reversals. The column contends that Mace briefly broke with Trump after January 6 before realigning with him, and lost his endorsement after supporting release of the Epstein files.
June 10, 2026 · DispatchNational Review on Mace's primary loss
Writing for National Review the morning after Mace's fifth-place finish in the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary, staff writer Jeffrey Blehar published a valedictory column declaring her electoral career over. Blehar called Mace 'one of the more disturbed politicians I have ever encountered' and said he had stopped writing about her out of stated concern for her well-being. The piece is opinion commentary; Mace has not publicly responded to it.
June 10, 2026 · DispatchNational Review post-mortem on Mace's primary loss
In a National Review 'Corner' post, Matthew X. Wilson argues that Nancy Mace's gubernatorial collapse was self-inflicted, casting her as a politician who courted controversy for attention. The piece likens her trajectory to that of Marjorie Taylor Greene, whose congressional resignation it references.
- June 10, 2026 · Dispatch
Nancy Mace's Future After Losing the South Carolina Governor's Race
The New York Times reports on Nancy Mace's standing after her fifth-place finish in the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary. Having given up her 1st District House seat to run for governor, Mace faces an uncertain political future as her term ends.
June 10, 2026 · DispatchAfter Mace's gubernatorial primary loss: what comes next?
The Post and Courier reports on Nancy Mace's fifth-place finish in the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary and what it means for her political future. The piece notes that Mace gave up her 1st District House seat to run for governor and has said she does not plan to seek reelection to Congress, leaving open questions about her next move.
- June 10, 2026 · Dispatch
Is Mace's political career over? From Trump ally to SC primary defeat
A video segment from The Hill examines whether Nancy Mace's political career is over following her fifth-place finish in the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary. The discussion traces her arc from Trump ally to her defeat in the governor's race.
- June 10, 2026 · Dispatch
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.'
June 9, 2026 · Dispatch'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.
- June 9, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
June 9, 2026 · Dispatch'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.
June 9, 2026 · DispatchOn 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.
June 9, 2026 · DispatchMace 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.
June 9, 2026 · Dispatch'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.
June 9, 2026 · DispatchUnder 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.
June 9, 2026 · DispatchMace's gubernatorial bid ends in primary defeat
The Daily Beast covers Mace's last-place finish in the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary, tracing her political transformation from Trump critic to MAGA ally and detailing the numerous controversies, including disputes with colleagues, accusations by former staffers, and her anti-transgender legislative push, that marked her congressional career.
June 9, 2026 · DispatchNancy Mace concedes SC governor race, endorses AG Alan Wilson
Mace conceded her gubernatorial campaign before 9 p.m. on primary night after finishing in last place with roughly 11.6 percent of the vote, endorsing AG Alan Wilson over Trump-backed Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette for the runoff and saying she believes her vote to release the Epstein files cost her the race.
- June 9, 2026 · Dispatch
"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.
- June 8, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
June 8, 2026 · DispatchGretchen 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.
- June 7, 2026 · Dispatch
On her first recorded call with Ali Berg, Mace lays out a civil suit against Patrick Bryant: 'He can sell a building or two, settle, be done' and accusers 'can get 150 K each'
FITSNews published the full audio of Nancy Mace's first recorded phone call with Ali Berg. Across 44 minutes Mace asks the call stay 'private,' spends little time on the alleged assault or the man she names as the assailant, never offers a victim advocate or a referral to law enforcement, and instead pitches a civil lawsuit against her ex-fiancé Patrick Bryant, predicting he will 'sell a building or two, settle,' and that accusers could 'get 150 K each.'
June 7, 2026 · DispatchKevin McCarthy says Mace was not in the running for Trump's endorsement
On Fox News' Sunday Night in America, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy rejected the premise that Donald Trump had snubbed Nancy Mace by endorsing another candidate in South Carolina's 2026 Republican gubernatorial primary. McCarthy told Trey Gowdy that Trump had been looking at the attorney general and lieutenant governor, criticized Mace's truthfulness, placed her around fifth, and said she was not in the running for the endorsement. Fox later posted the clip behind its FOX One subscription roadblock, and Internet Archive's TV News capture preserves the broadcast transcript around 6:19-6:20 p.m. PDT.
June 7, 2026 · DispatchMace 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."
- June 7, 2026 · Dispatch
"You have to hit him in his pocketbook with a civil suit": the first recorded call with Ali Berg, in her own words
A produced supercut of Rep. Nancy Mace's first recorded phone call with Ali Berg (April 6, 2024), published by FITSNews on June 7, 2026, after the recording was produced in ADW v. Berg. Across 44 minutes Mace pitched a civil lawsuit and a payout, never mentioned the police, and never offered Berg a victim advocate or counselor.
June 7, 2026 · DispatchNancy Mace Cornered on Her Fake AI Photos With Trump
Mace was confronted on air about sharing AI-generated photos depicting her with Trump during her governor campaign; she denied they were fake while simultaneously accusing her opponent Pam Evette of running fake AI videos against her.
- June 7, 2026 · Dispatch
Leaked Call Details Origins of Nancy Mace's 'Scorched Earth' Campaign
FITSNews obtained a recording of an approximately 45-minute call between Mace and Alexis 'Ali' Berg, the woman whose allegations became central to Mace's public campaign against her former fiancé Patrick Bryant; raising questions about how the allegations evolved from a private conversation into a national political narrative.
June 3, 2026 · DispatchAfter 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.
- May 31, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
May 31, 2026 · DispatchThe '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.
May 31, 2026 · DispatchEven 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.'
- May 29, 2026 · Dispatch
"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.
- May 29, 2026 · Dispatch
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."
- May 29, 2026 · Dispatch
“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.’
- May 29, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
May 20, 2026 · DispatchMace 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.
May 20, 2026 · DispatchMace 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.
May 20, 2026 · Dispatch'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.
April 20, 2026 · DispatchThe 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.
- April 15, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
- April 9, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
April 2, 2026 · DispatchMace 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.
- April 1, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
April 1, 2026 · DispatchDHS reminds Congress: TSA perks still on hold
Semafor reports that DHS confirmed the suspension of TSA courtesy escorts for members of Congress remained in effect as of April 1, 2026; the piece also covers the distinction between TSA courtesy escorts and Capitol Police escorts, and includes Rep. Rick Larsen's defense of congressional security arrangements.
March 26, 2026 · Dispatch'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.'
March 25, 2026 · Dispatch'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.
March 24, 2026 · DispatchMace 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.
- March 24, 2026 · Dispatch
Nancy Mace Responds to Video of Her 'Skipping' TSA Airport Security Line
Newsweek reports on a viral video showing Mace and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz being escorted past a TSA security line at Reagan National Airport during the government shutdown; Mace's office called it a misrepresentation and said the escort was Capitol Police, not TSA.
March 20, 2026 · DispatchMace 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.
March 20, 2026 · DispatchMembers 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 · Dispatch
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.
March 18, 2026 · DispatchAnonymous 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.
March 18, 2026 · DispatchSenate Bill Would End Congress Members' 'Special Treatment' at Airport Security
AirlineGeeks covers Sen. John Cornyn's 'End Special Treatment for Congress at Airports Act' (S.4123), which would prohibit federal funding for expedited TSA screening access for members of Congress while allowing them to use publicly available programs like TSA PreCheck.
March 18, 2026 · DispatchDonald 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.
- March 18, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
- March 17, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
March 17, 2026 · DispatchBessent'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.
March 12, 2026 · DispatchMace 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.
March 12, 2026 · DispatchNancy 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.
- March 12, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
March 12, 2026 · DispatchRep. 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.
March 12, 2026 · DispatchRep. 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.
March 12, 2026 · DispatchRep. 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.
- March 6, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
- March 6, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
- March 5, 2026 · Dispatch
'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.
March 5, 2026 · Dispatch'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 4, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
- March 4, 2026 · Dispatch
The House rejects Mace's bid to release unproven harassment records, 357-65
On March 4, 2026, the House voted 357-65 to reject Rep. Nancy Mace's resolution directing the Ethics Committee to publicly release its records of alleged member sexual misconduct, including allegations the Committee had never substantiated. The bipartisan objection was about due process: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said the measure was rushed and could expose both the accused and victims to the release of unproven claims, and the Ethics Committee warned it would chill victim cooperation. The lopsided vote made it the rare Mace women's-safety measure that even most of her own party would not support as written.
- March 4, 2026 · Dispatch
"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."
- March 4, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
- March 4, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
- March 4, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
- March 4, 2026 · Dispatch
?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 · DispatchHouse 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.
- March 3, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
March 3, 2026 · DispatchNancy 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.
March 3, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
March 3, 2026 · DispatchNancy 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.
- March 2, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
- March 2, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
March 2, 2026 · DispatchMace 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.'
March 2, 2026 · DispatchNancy Mace Ethics Probe Deepens
The House Office of Congressional Conduct unanimously voted to recommend further review of allegations that Mace received $9,485.46 more than her actual D.C. lodging expenses between January 2023 and May 2024; per the OCC report, Mace and three staffers allegedly declined to cooperate, prompting the OCC to recommend subpoenas.
March 2, 2026 · DispatchUS Rep. Nancy Mace accused of misusing taxpayer funds to cover her DC housing and meals
Caitlin Byrd reported the Office of Congressional Conduct found 'substantial reason to believe' Mace improperly claimed nearly $9,500 in excess housing reimbursements tied to her $1.6 million Capitol Hill townhouse, also billing over $9,400 for food. Mace refused to cooperate with the OCC probe; her lawyer called the report 'fundamentally flawed.'
March 2, 2026 · DispatchHouse Ethics to investigate Mace on reimbursement practices
Roll Call's same-day Washington-bureau confirmation that the House Ethics Committee had opened a formal investigation into Mace's reimbursement practices, amplifying the Post and Courier's reporting for a DC-insider audience.
March 2, 2026 · DispatchNancy 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.'
March 2, 2026 · DispatchRep. 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.
March 1, 2026 · DispatchThe 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.
- February 27, 2026 · Dispatch
'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.'
February 27, 2026 · DispatchMAGA Rep's Truly Bizarre Office Design Revealed
Companion writeup of the Kruse Politico profile, highlighting the strange office details, thick blackout curtains, dog beds, food on the floor, a Trump cardboard cutout in a 'MACE' hat, and a whiteboard filled with phrases like 'Go girl' and profanities. Deepened the public narrative of instability.
February 27, 2026 · Dispatch'I Don't Know That I'll Ever Be OK With Myself'
Kruse followed Mace for months producing a sweeping narrative profile examining her origin story, political rise, trauma disclosure, and erratic recent behavior, concluding with her own admission she may never feel whole. The Daily Beast ran a companion piece the same day highlighting the office's bizarre decor, dog beds, crumbled biscuits, a Trump cardboard cutout wearing a 'MACE' hat, and a profanity-filled whiteboard.
- February 24, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
- February 24, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
- February 17, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
- February 16, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
February 15, 2026 · Dispatch"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.
- February 15, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
- February 12, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
February 11, 2026 · Dispatch"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."
- February 11, 2026 · Dispatch
"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.
- February 11, 2026 · Dispatch
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.'
- February 11, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
- February 10, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
February 4, 2026 · DispatchMace 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.
February 4, 2026 · DispatchTrans People Saw the Nancy Mace Crack-Up Coming Long, Long Ago
The New Republic argues that Mace's anti-transgender rhetoric and subsequent personal controversies fit a documented pattern in which intense anti-trans campaigning by public figures has historically preceded broader public unravelings.
- February 2, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
February 2, 2026 · Dispatch"She's Not OK": Bombshell Report Details Nancy Mace's Downward Spiral
New Republic writeup of the NYMag profile; secondary amplifier same day as original, characterizing the reporting as documenting a 'downward spiral.'
February 2, 2026 · DispatchNancy Mace Is Not Okay
A sweeping multi-source profile based on interviews with multiple former staffers alleging Mace made aides run late-night liquor runs, clean her Airbnb rentals, upvote Reddit posts ranking her among the 'hottest women in Congress,' and operate burner social-media accounts on her behalf. Staffers described erratic, emotionally volatile behavior. Mace denied all allegations, calling it a 'hit piece.'
- January 27, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
- January 27, 2026 · Dispatch
'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.
January 27, 2026 · DispatchCivil Case Tied to Nancy Mace Careens Deeper Into Chaos
Judge Hocker ordered materials subpoenaed by plaintiff Alexis Berg's attorneys turned over to the court for private review, as dueling emergency motions clashed over whether materials Mace voluntarily shared in June 2025 could be used in litigation, with Mace, now representing herself, filing an 82-page emergency motion to reclaim them as privileged.
- January 26, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
January 22, 2026 · DispatchNancy Mace: 'I WILL NOT BE SILENCED'
Mace filed a five-page letter attacking Judge Hocker as running a 'kangaroo court,' fired her attorneys, announced plans to represent herself, and declared she would not comply with the gag order, while simultaneously seeking removal of the case to federal court.
January 21, 2026 · DispatchIn 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.
January 19, 2026 · DispatchSanctions Showdown: New Filing Accuses Nancy Mace's Lawyers of Fabricating Legal Citations
Patrick Bryant filed a motion seeking Rule 11 sanctions after Mace's attorneys allegedly submitted fabricated case citations and false quotations in a court memorandum, then distributed an 'amended' version without disclosing the original errors, with the filing suggesting AI-generated legal research as a possible explanation.
- January 16, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
January 16, 2026 · DispatchHouse 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.
January 16, 2026 · DispatchHouse Ethics Committee Extends Review of Nancy Mace Matter
The U.S. House Ethics Committee announced it was extending its review of the OCC referral concerning Mace's alleged improper lodging reimbursements, with next steps to be announced by March 2, 2026, the committee noted that an extension does not itself indicate a violation occurred.
- January 15, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
January 15, 2026 · DispatchMace 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.
- January 15, 2026 · Dispatch
“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.
January 13, 2026 · DispatchGag Order Showdown: New Motion Targets Nancy Mace
Attorneys for Patrick Bryant and Eric Bowman filed a contempt motion seeking civil sanctions, and possible incarceration, against Mace for allegedly violating the court-ordered gag order within hours of its issuance through social media posts, campaign emails, and congressional newsletters.
January 11, 2026 · DispatchWhile 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.
- January 7, 2026 · Dispatch
"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 · Dispatch'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 3, 2026 · DispatchWhile 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.
December 31, 2025 · DispatchA pinned post viewed 20,000+ times: Mace calls South Carolina a 'pedophile paradise' while the gag order is in effect
On December 31, 2025, from her verified @RepNancyMace account, Mace published and pinned a post attacking the South Carolina Attorney General, calling the state a 'pedophile paradise' at a time when a gag order in Berg v. Bryant was in effect. The post reportedly re-shared content from her December 27, 2025 video. A contempt motion filed January 12, 2026 attaches it as Exhibit 9 and notes the post had been viewed more than 20,000 times. Mace disputes the validity of the gag order and its application to her.
December 28, 2025 · DispatchThe List: '10 Rep. Nancy Mace Outfits That Were A Complete Disaster'
The women's news and lifestyle site The List ran a 10-entry fashion roundup by Cole Hediger arguing that Rep. Nancy Mace's professional wardrobe leans on 'dated designs, tired cuts, and downright strange accessories.' It walks event by event, from a 2023 White House Correspondents' after-party through a 2025 Christmas post, and critiques each look.
December 27, 2025 · DispatchBowman's lawyer reports a December 27 Instagram video to the judge as a gag-order violation
On December 27, 2025, while the Berg v. Bryant gag order was in effect, Mace posted a video on Instagram from @repnancymace; counsel for co-defendant Eric Bowman, Robert Merting, emailed Judge Hocker on December 29 to report it, and Bryant and Bowman's January 12, 2026 contempt motion attaches it as Exhibits 5-7, contending it referred to Bowman by name in terms implying criminal conduct 'that has not been alleged in this litigation.'
December 22, 2025 · DispatchBryant's counsel to Berg's attorney: 'Describing in detail what I contend is confidential before the Order is in place would defeat the very purpose of having a confidentiality order'
On December 22, 2025, Patrick Bryant's attorneys at Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani filed a seven-page opposition to Berg's motion for a blanket confidentiality order in Berg v. Bryant, Case No. 2025-CP-10-03124. The brief argues that the photographs and recordings Berg now seeks to seal were already made public by Rep. Nancy Mace, with Berg's consent, during Mace's February and May 2025 congressional speeches. Bryant's counsel agrees that Berg's medical and therapy records should be confidential, but opposes a blanket designation. Attached as Exhibit A is a 23-page compilation of counsel emails documenting a six-week dispute over what, if anything, required protection. All allegations in the underlying litigation are disputed and contested; Bryant denies the claims against him; Berg, Mace, and all named parties deny Bryant's allegations; no matter has been adjudicated.
- December 19, 2025 · Dispatch
In her own sworn Answer, Mace admits she 'placed an air tag on Bryant's car for one day in August 2023'
In her December 19, 2025 Answer to Patrick Bryant's Third-Party Complaint, Rep. Nancy Mace admits under oath that she placed a tracking device on Bryant's car and attempted to access his laptop, while denying Bryant's allegation that she intended to weaponize what she found. The filing is Mace's own account, in her own words, on the public court record.
- December 17, 2025 · Dispatch
'There are at least two people in Mace's car': Bryant's counsel refuses to delete the recording, and announces an amended complaint
The recording of Nancy Mace's first phone call with Ali Berg, produced by Berg's counsel in the ADW v. Berg civil case, quickly became a courtroom fight. When Berg's counsel designated it confidential, Bryant's counsel refused to delete it, argued witnesses in the car undermined any privacy claim, and announced he would amend the complaint against Mace based on its contents.
December 11, 2025 · DispatchMace tells Fox Business she's 'gone into hiding' over security fears
On Fox Business with Maria Bartiromo on Dec. 11, 2025, Rep. Nancy Mace said she had 'gone into hiding' and described her last public appearance as an incident three weeks prior, a claim The Daily Beast found contradicted by her own documented schedule, votes, and social-media posts.
- December 11, 2025 · Dispatch
Nancy Mace Claims She's Gone Into Hiding in Unhinged Fox Interview with Maria Bartiromo
The Daily Beast reported on Rep. Nancy Mace's Fox Business appearance with Maria Bartiromo, during which Mace claimed she had gone into hiding for security reasons following the airport controversy. The piece noted that Mace's claim contradicted public records showing she had appeared on cable news, voted on the House floor, and made district appearances during the same period.
December 11, 2025 · DispatchRepublican Torches 'Entitled Brat' Nancy Mace Over Her F-Bomb Airport Tirade
The Daily Beast reported on South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson's CNN appearance in which he rebutted Rep. Nancy Mace's accusation that he orchestrated the airport police report, calling her conduct a reflection of someone who sees law enforcement as servants. Wilson disputed Mace's claim that he was behind the investigation.
December 10, 2025 · DispatchWilson on Mace's 'hit job' claim: 'a categorical lie'
The night after Rep. Nancy Mace told CNN that AG Alan Wilson had orchestrated the airport police report against her, Wilson appeared on CNN and called the accusation 'a categorical lie' and 'delusional,' describing Mace as 'an entitled, spoiled brat.'
- December 10, 2025 · Dispatch
2025 in review: from Congress to a governor's bid
A look back at 2025, the year Nancy Mace's focus turned toward the South Carolina governorship while serving her third term in the U.S. House.
- December 10, 2025 · Dispatch
Nancy Mace accused the SC Attorney General of 'political hit job.' He says that's a 'categorical lie.'
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson appeared on CNN's 'The Source with Kaitlan Collins' the night after Rep. Nancy Mace's interview, flatly denying her claim that he orchestrated the airport police report. Wilson called Mace's accusation a 'categorical lie' and described her conduct as that of 'an entitled spoiled brat.'
December 10, 2025 · DispatchNancy Mace Tries Her Damndest To Deflect Responsibility For Her Wild Airport Tantrum
HuffPost covered Rep. Nancy Mace's CNN appearance with Kaitlan Collins, focusing on Mace's denial that she called officers an idiot and her partial admission that portions of the police report were 'falsified.' The piece noted Mace later contradicted herself on X, posting that she had in fact called one person an idiot before.
December 10, 2025 · DispatchJudge issues gag order restricting Nancy Mace and others from speaking about ongoing lawsuits
The Post and Courier reports that Judge Hocker imposed a sua sponte gag order barring Mace and eight other parties from publicly discussing two related civil lawsuits, following her February 2025 House floor speech accusing four men of sexual exploitation.
December 10, 2025 · DispatchNancy Mace and Alan Wilson take their feud national as SC governor's race intensifies
The Post and Courier framed the dueling CNN appearances by Rep. Nancy Mace and Attorney General Alan Wilson as a nationally televised escalation of their rivalry in the 2026 South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary. The two candidates appeared on the same CNN program on consecutive nights to trade accusations about the Charleston Airport incident.
CHS Airport police conclude investigation into Nancy Mace 'spectacle'
Spectrum News 1 reported on the conclusion of the Charleston Airport Police investigation into Rep. Nancy Mace's October 30 conduct, publishing Chief James Woods's full findings and noting both the airport's partial responsibility for a vehicle-color miscommunication and Mace's failure to follow checkpoint procedures.
December 9, 2025 · DispatchMace tells CNN's Kaitlan Collins the airport police report was 'falsified'
On CNN's 'The Source with Kaitlan Collins' on Dec. 9, 2025, Rep. Nancy Mace called the airport police report '100% fictitious' and accused SC Attorney General Alan Wilson of orchestrating its contents, a claim Wilson rejected the following night.
- December 9, 2025 · Dispatch
Nancy Mace claims police report about airport incident was 'falsified'
CNN's Kaitlan Collins interviewed Rep. Nancy Mace on 'The Source,' pressing her on the airport police investigation findings. Mace called the report a 'political hit job' and claimed it was 'falsified,' attributing the report to a conspiracy involving South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson.
December 9, 2025 · DispatchGagged: Judge Issues Order in Nancy Mace Case
Retired S.C. circuit court judge Donald B. Hocker issued a gag order prohibiting Mace and other parties to the Berg-Bryant civil litigation from making any public statements about the cases, barring speech across all platforms including social media.
December 9, 2025 · Dispatch'You're saying the officers are lying?' MAGA rep confronted with her own words by CNN host
Raw Story covered Kaitlan Collins's confrontation of Rep. Nancy Mace on CNN's 'The Source,' focusing on Collins's direct question to Mace about whether her denial of the police report meant she was accusing the officers of lying. Mace replied by calling the report '100% fictitious.'
December 9, 2025 · DispatchPolice investigation finds Nancy Mace caused 'spectacle' at South Carolina airport
The Washington Examiner reported on the Charleston Airport Police's published investigation findings, which concluded Rep. Nancy Mace's behavior turned a minor vehicle-color miscommunication into a public 'spectacle.' The article noted Mace had complained about waiting and directed profanity at officers.
December 9, 2025 · DispatchNew video of Rep. Nancy Mace's airport incident released
CNN's report airing the released Charleston International Airport surveillance footage of the October 30, 2025 escort encounter. The surveillance video is silent; the disputed verbal details come from the police report.
December 8, 2025 · DispatchAirport police investigation: Mace turned a 'minor miscommunication' into a 'spectacle'
An internal investigation by the Charleston County Aviation Authority Police, reported by The Washington Post on Dec. 8, 2025, found that while officers shared some responsibility for a vehicle-color mix-up, Mace's 'continued failure to follow established procedures' was what turned a minor miscommunication 'into the spectacle that this issue has become.'
- December 8, 2025 · Dispatch
Police investigation faults Nancy Mace for profanity-laced airport tirade
The Washington Post reported on an internal police investigation concluding that Rep. Nancy Mace turned a minor vehicle-color miscommunication into a 'spectacle' through her conduct at Charleston International Airport. The investigation found she had berated TSA officers and airport police with profanity and insults in an October 30 incident.
December 1, 2025 · DispatchWhile under the gag order, Mace's congressional office sends a mass newsletter about the case: 'I WILL NOT be silenced.'
On December 1, 2025, while the Berg v. Bryant gag order was in effect, a mass email newsletter from Rep. Nancy Mace's congressional office, headlined 'Rep. Nancy Mace says 2 more women accuse her ex-fiancé of abuse,' named Patrick Bryant, recited unproven allegations, and declared 'I WILL NOT be silenced.' Bryant and Bowman's January 12, 2026 contempt motion attaches the newsletter as Exhibit 8, contending it violated the gag order.
December 1, 2025 · DispatchNancy Mace's senior adviser resigns, urges voters to 'scratch her from list' in SC governor's race
Austin McCubbin, a longtime political strategist and senior adviser on Nancy Mace's South Carolina gubernatorial campaign, resigned in December 2025 and publicly urged voters to reject her candidacy. McCubbin characterized Mace as having become 'a proxy for Rand Paul's 2028 presidential campaign' due to funding from Paul-affiliated groups, framing his departure as a principled objection to outside influence over her campaign. The resignation marked a significant internal fracture as Mace sought Donald Trump's endorsement in the 2026 governor's race.
November 28, 2025 · DispatchTwo days into the gag order, Mace posts: 'IMPEACH ALL CORRUPT JUDGES', 'especially including those in South Carolina SPECIFICALLY.'
On November 28, 2025, two days after Judge Hocker entered the sua sponte gag order in Berg v. Bryant, Mace posted from her verified @RepNancyMace account calling to impeach 'all corrupt judges,' adding in the same thread 'especially including those in South Carolina SPECIFICALLY.' Bryant and Bowman's January 12, 2026 contempt motion makes the post Exhibit 4 and contends it violated the gag order.
November 26, 2025 · DispatchUnder four hours after the gag order reached her lawyer, Mace posts about a co-defendant's bond: 'Not nearly enough.'
On November 26, 2025, the same day Judge Donald B. Hocker entered a sua sponte gag order in Berg v. Bryant and circulated it to all counsel at 2:23 p.m. Rep. Nancy Mace replied at 6:43 p.m. from her verified @RepNancyMace account to a post reporting that co-defendant Eric Bowman had been granted bond on domestic-violence and harassment charges, writing: 'Not nearly enough. Very concerned for the safety of his victims. Keeping them in my prayers tonight.' A contempt motion filed January 12, 2026 attaches the post as Exhibit 3 and contends it violated the order within hours of its issuance; Mace disputes both the motion and the validity of the order, calling it unconstitutional and unenforceable.
- November 20, 2025 · Dispatch
Sources: Nancy Mace Bracing for 'Another Viral Airport Video'
FITSNews reported, citing anonymous sources, that Rep. Mace was anticipating release of footage from a separate November 21, 2024 confrontation at Reagan National Airport (DCA), a distinct, earlier episode unrelated to the October 30, 2025 Charleston airport incident. No video had been publicly released as of the report date, and the account rested on a single-source anonymous witness.
November 19, 2025 · DispatchMace tells Rep. Cory Mills 'You're a disgrace' on the House floor as her censure resolution is read
As a clerk read Mace's censure resolution on the House floor in November 2025, she confronted Rep. Cory Mills face-to-face and told him 'You're a disgrace'; reporters also observed her appearing to mouth an additional expletive.
November 19, 2025 · Dispatch"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.
- November 18, 2025 · Dispatch
"A historic day for every survivor": Mace on the House floor as the Epstein files bill passes 427-1
On November 18, 2025, the House passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act 427-1. Mace, speaking on the floor, called it a historic day for survivors nationwide.
- November 18, 2025 · Dispatch
OCC Board votes 6-0 to refer Mace over reimbursement practices
The bipartisan Office of Congressional Conduct voted unanimously to find 'substantial reason to believe' Rep. Nancy Mace engaged in improper reimbursement practices, referring the matter to the House Ethics Committee.
- November 18, 2025 · Dispatch
“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.’
- November 18, 2025 · Dispatch
'Where is the Video?': Court Filings Challenge Nancy Mace's Story
Court filings reveal that even the plaintiff's own attorney acknowledged to the court that he did not have the video Mace claimed to have discovered; Bryant's counterclaim accuses Mace of allegedly accessing his phone without authorization, and the article reports his request for a TRO to compel in-camera review of the alleged evidence.
- November 18, 2025 · Dispatch
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.
November 17, 2025 · DispatchPatrick Bryant: 'Today I authorized my attorneys to file a temporary restraining order against Nancy Ruth Mace'
On November 17, 2025, Judge Donald B. Hocker entered an order in Berg v. Bryant ending pseudonym use in the case, ruling that the identities of the plaintiff and a witness were already known to the public. Bryant announced a temporary restraining order motion the same day.
November 17, 2025 · DispatchThe AI "poop" video
Hours after an emotional CNN appearance about Epstein-file victims, Rep. Nancy Mace posted an AI-generated video depicting herself as a fighter pilot dumping waste on a male figure, drawing widespread mockery for trying to "out-Trump Trump."
- November 14, 2025 · Dispatch
Patrick Bryant publishes Mace's emails to his lawyers: 'You poked the wrong bear. And you will pay dearly.'
On November 14, 2025, Patrick Bryant published screenshots of emails he said a sitting Member of Congress sent to his attorneys and process server, including a profanity-laced reply to a cease-and-desist letter, an email authorizing service on two attorneys, and a reply from one of those attorneys stating she does not represent Mace. The screenshots are reproduced below; the allegations on every side are disputed and unproven.
November 13, 2025 · DispatchMace defies Trump pressure: "I was one of four Republicans" to sign the Epstein petition
On November 13, 2025, Mace publicly confirmed she had signed the discharge petition to force release of the Epstein files, standing firm after Trump pressured Republican signers to back down.
- November 13, 2025 · Dispatch
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.
November 13, 2025 · DispatchRaging 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.'
- November 12, 2025 · Dispatch
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.
November 11, 2025 · DispatchEditorial: Mace's airport tirade, counterpunches show contempt for police, public
The Post and Courier editorial board condemned Rep. Mace's conduct at Charleston International Airport, arguing that a scheduling mixup by airport officials did not excuse her public tirade. The board also criticized her subsequent social-media counterpunches as demonstrating contempt for law enforcement and the public.
November 7, 2025 · DispatchNew Filings Accuse Nancy Mace of Fabricating Sexual Assault Claims
FITSNews covered Bryant's third-party complaint accusing Mace, Melissa Britton, and Jane Doe of conspiring to fabricate sexual assault allegations for personal and political gain. Bryant denied all underlying allegations. Mace denied Bryant's account and called the filing an attempt to pay her again. All allegations are contested; litigation is active.
- November 6, 2025 · Dispatch
Patrick Bryant: 'Today I filed a counterclaim and third-party complaint… Where is the evidence?'
On November 6, 2025, Patrick Bryant announced he had filed a counterclaim and third-party complaint in Charleston County Court against Nancy Mace and alleged co-conspirators, denying he had ever assaulted anyone and demanding evidence.
November 6, 2025 · DispatchDid Nancy Mace make a Lindsey Graham gay joke after he called out her alleged temper tantrum?
LGBTQ Nation analyzed Mace's social-media response to Sen. Lindsey Graham's rebuke of her airport conduct, reading her post, 'Interesting. Lindsey Graham all of a sudden wants to talk about women', as an insinuation about Graham's sexuality. Mace did not confirm or deny that reading.
November 6, 2025 · DispatchEx-fiancé sues Rep. Nancy Mace, claims she fabricated sexual assault allegations
Local Charleston television station Live 5 News was the first outlet to publish Bryant's lawsuit against Mace alleging she fabricated sexual assault claims. All allegations are contested; Mace denied Bryant's account; litigation is active.
November 6, 2025 · DispatchLegal threats, an airport rant and a routine meeting turned odd as SC governor spat escalates
The SC Daily Gazette placed the airport incident in the broader context of Mace's escalating feud with Gov. Henry McMaster and the South Carolina governor's race, connecting the tirade to legal threats and political maneuvering.
November 6, 2025 · Dispatch"Politically Motivated": Congresswoman To Sue American Airlines Over Defamation Amid Gubernatorial Campaign
Aviation trade publication Simple Flying covered Rep. Mace's threatened defamation suit against American Airlines from an industry angle, noting the lawsuit threat came amid her declared run for South Carolina governor. The piece quoted Mace's campaign director calling the coverage of the airport incident 'politically motivated.'
November 5, 2025 · DispatchLindsey Graham backs Scott: 'nothing but positive, respectful engagements'
Sen. Lindsey Graham backed his colleague Tim Scott on X, writing that he concurred with Scott's statement about airport security personnel and had experienced 'nothing but positive, respectful engagements' with police and TSA agents at Charleston International Airport.
November 5, 2025 · DispatchMace fires back at Scott and Graham: 'REAL MEN PROTECT WOMEN'
After both of South Carolina's Republican senators publicly rebuked her over the Charleston airport confrontation, Rep. Nancy Mace posted a series of combative responses on X, questioning why male senators with personal security would criticize a woman who says she can't get the same protection, and writing 'REAL MEN PROTECT WOMEN.'
November 5, 2025 · DispatchMace announces intent to sue: 'SUING FOR DEFAMATION!!'
On Nov. 5, 2025, Rep. Nancy Mace announced she had retained attorney Larry Klayman and intended to sue the Charleston Airport, American Airlines, and others for allegedly falsifying incident reports after her Oct. 30 confrontation. As of June 2026, no complaint had been filed in any court.
November 5, 2025 · DispatchOver 50 leaders sign letter backing Charleston airport workers amid Mace's lawsuit threat
More than 50 South Carolina elected officials and civic leaders signed an open letter expressing support for Charleston International Airport workers in the wake of Rep. Mace's October 30 incident and her subsequent threat to sue the airport. The letter praised the professionalism of airport and TSA personnel.
November 5, 2025 · Dispatch61 state leaders sign letter in support of Charleston International Airport following Rep. Mace incident
ABC Columbia reported that 61 state and local officials, including state senators, house representatives, mayors, county supervisors, sheriffs, and school board members, signed a letter defending Charleston International Airport personnel after Rep. Mace's October 30 incident and announced legal action. The letter called the airport a vital economic engine for the region.
November 5, 2025 · DispatchTim Scott & Lindsey Graham throw Nancy Mace under the bus, her response is nuts
Daily Kos aggregated the statements from senators Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham rebuking Mace's airport conduct alongside Mace's escalating social-media responses, characterizing the sequence as a break between Mace and her fellow South Carolina Republicans. The piece highlighted her 'falsifying police incident reports' post and her vow to run for governor.
November 5, 2025 · DispatchSen. Tim Scott denounces Rep. Mace naming him following situation at CHS airport
Sen. Tim Scott publicly distanced himself from Mace after she invoked his name in connection with the airport incident, stating it is 'never acceptable' to berate police officers and emphasizing that elected officials serve the public.
November 5, 2025 · DispatchRep. Mace announces plans to sue Charleston Airport, others for defamation
Live 5 News reported Mace's announcement that she had retained attorney Larry Klayman and planned to sue American Airlines and Charleston International Airport for defamation, following the October 30 incident. The report was clear that no lawsuit had been filed as of November 5, 2025; Klayman characterized the airport's documentation as a coordinated effort to damage her reputation.
- November 5, 2025 · Dispatch
Nancy Mace Completely Loses It After She's Called Out by Both of Her Home State GOP Senators Over Airport Fiasco
Mediaite covered Mace's escalating social-media responses after senators Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham publicly rebuked her conduct at Charleston International Airport, including her post characterizing their criticism as an attack on a woman and her implied jab at Graham. The piece also reported Mace's announced defamation suit against American Airlines and the airport.
- November 5, 2025 · Dispatch
Nancy Mace faces backlash, legal threat fallout from airport clash
The Post and Courier, South Carolina's paper of record, covered both senators' condemnation of Mace's airport conduct and reported on the legal threats she issued against the airport after the police report and surveillance footage became public.
November 5, 2025 · DispatchGraham backs Scott over Mace in airport dispute
Sen. Lindsey Graham sided with Sen. Tim Scott over Rep. Mace in the wake of the Charleston airport incident, describing his own interactions with airport and security staff as consistently positive and respectful.
November 5, 2025 · DispatchCongresswoman defends airport behavior as colleagues call her out
The Hill provided a chronological overview of the October 30 Charleston airport incident and the ensuing controversy, covering Mace's public defense of her conduct alongside the senators' rebukes and the community letter. The piece drew together the competing accounts of what happened that day.
November 5, 2025 · DispatchNancy Mace threatens defamation lawsuit against American Airlines, Charleston airport over October incident
WCNC reported that Rep. Mace, through attorney Larry Klayman, announced plans to file defamation suits against American Airlines and Charleston International Airport over the October 30 incident. As of the report date, no lawsuit had been filed; Mace's team characterized the incident documentation as deliberately falsified.
- November 4, 2025 · Dispatch
Tim Scott rebukes Mace over airport tirade: 'We work for them, not vice versa'
South Carolina's junior senator Tim Scott publicly rebuked Rep. Nancy Mace the day after she invoked his name during her Oct. 30 airport confrontation, saying it is 'never acceptable to berate police officers, airport staff, and TSA agents' and that members of Congress 'work for them, not vice versa.'
November 4, 2025 · DispatchNancy Mace demands airport CEO resign after claims she mistreated staff
Fox News reported on Rep. Nancy Mace's demand that Charleston International Airport CEO Elliott Summey resign following the release of an incident report alleging she mistreated airport staff and officers during her October 30 flight. Mace called the report fabricated and announced she was exploring legal options.
November 4, 2025 · DispatchTim Scott Hits Back at Nancy Mace Over Congresswoman's Airport Saga
NOTUS reported Sen. Scott's pointed response to Mace's invocation of his name in the airport incident aftermath, with Scott contrasting his own respectful treatment of police and airport staff with Mace's reported conduct.
- November 3, 2025 · Dispatch
'How many times are you going to call your daddy, Alan?', Mace's Nov. 3 barrage at AG Alan Wilson and his father, Rep. Joe Wilson
On November 3, 2025, Mace fired a string of X posts at her chief Republican gubernatorial rival, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, mocking him as 'not man enough' and suffering from 'Low T,' accusing him of running to 'your daddy' (his father, U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson) to 'go after me,' and calling Alan Wilson, in her words, a 'p*dophile protector.' Wilson has accused Mace of 'ranting and raving' and his office has said she mischaracterized prosecution data; the two later reconciled, and after Mace finished fifth in the June 2026 primary she endorsed Wilson.
November 3, 2025 · Dispatch
Mace calls airport police report 'a complete and total political hit job'
On November 3, 2025, Mace responded to the published police report from her October 30 airport confrontation by dismissing it as a political attack and defending the use of profanity.
November 3, 2025 · DispatchMace on Charleston airport dispute: 'Did I drop an F-bomb? I hope I did'
On November 3, 2025, Mace told reporters she would not apologize for her conduct toward TSA officers and police during an October 30 dispute at Charleston International Airport, saying she hoped she had dropped an expletive.
- November 3, 2025 · Dispatch
Mace refuses airport apology: 'You are not going to get it'
On November 3, 2025, Mace flatly refused to apologize for her conduct toward Charleston airport officers, calling them 'incompetent government employees.'
November 2, 2025 · DispatchWATCH: Video shows moments of reported incident involving US Rep. Nancy Mace at Charleston airport
WIS-TV was the first outlet to publish FOIA'd surveillance footage from Charleston International Airport showing moments from the October 30 incident. The video, obtained by WIS, contains no audio.
November 2, 2025 · DispatchMace alleges security breaches after Charleston Airport tirade
After the police report and surveillance video became public, Mace went on offense, alleging that the airport's release of information constituted a security breach, and defiantly defending her conduct toward officers.
November 1, 2025 · DispatchRep. Nancy Mace cursed and berated Charleston airport police over escort, incident report says
CBS News reported on the Charleston airport police incident report, quoting officers' written account of Mace's conduct and noting that any other traveler behaving the same way would have prompted a police response.
October 31, 2025 · DispatchNancy Mace Airport Incident Detailed in Police Report
The first outlet to publish the FOIA'd Charleston airport police report, FITSNews broke the story of Mace's October 30, 2025 altercation and printed the verbatim profanity quoted by officers in their report.
October 31, 2025 · DispatchPolice report: Nancy Mace cursed and berated officers at airport altercation
NBC News reported on the Charleston airport police report detailing Mace's conduct on October 30, 2025, quoting officers' own written account of the altercation and noting the wider political context.
October 31, 2025 · DispatchNancy Mace Responds After Reports She Cursed at Police, TSA in Airport
Newsweek reports on a police incident report from Charleston International Airport in which multiple officers stated Mace berated them using profanity and invoked her congressional status; Mace disputed aspects of the account, saying all members of Congress use the same entrance and citing security concerns.
October 31, 2025 · DispatchNancy Mace berated airport police and TSA agents, incident report says
The Washington Post's first major national report on the FOIA'd Charleston airport police report, detailing Mace's conduct toward officers and TSA agents on Oct. 30, 2025. The piece put the incident on the national radar the day after the report surfaced.
October 30, 2025 · DispatchMace to airport police: 'This is no way to treat a fucking U.S. Representative'
According to the official Charleston International Airport police report, Mace berated officers at the airport on October 30, 2025, invoking her congressional status.
- October 30, 2025 · Dispatch
Mace to airport officers: 'You would never treat Tim Scott like this'
Per the official police report, Mace invoked Sen. Tim Scott's name during her October 30, 2025 confrontation with officers at Charleston International Airport.
October 30, 2025 · DispatchThe 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.
October 28, 2025 · DispatchMace posts 'Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve' during governor run
While campaigning for South Carolina governor, Mace posted the anti-same-sex-marriage slogan 'Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve', three years after voting for the Respect for Marriage Act.
September 19, 2025 · DispatchMace at Bowman bond hearing: 'I hope he rots in jail for the rest of his life'
On September 19, 2025, Mace spoke publicly at Eric Bowman's domestic-violence bond hearing and stated she hoped he would spend the rest of his life in prison.
September 18, 2025 · DispatchMace tells D.C. mayor the city has become a 'poster child for DEI and gender madness', and 'this is not her time'
At a House Oversight Committee hearing on September 18, 2025, Mace told D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser that the District had become a 'poster child for DEI and gender madness' and cut off Bowser's responses by declaring 'this is not her time.'
September 18, 2025 · DispatchAfter censure fails, Mace turns on Republican colleagues: 'They showed us exactly who they are. Never forget it.'
On September 18, 2025, after four Republican colleagues voted with Democrats to table her Omar censure resolution, Mace attacked them publicly, including Rep. Cory Mills, whom she had earlier praised as a mentor.
- September 18, 2025 · Dispatch
Mace to D.C. Mayor Bowser: 'What is a woman?'
During a September 18, 2025 House committee hearing, Mace pressed D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on the definition of 'woman' under the D.C. Code.
September 18, 2025 · DispatchMace to Mayor Bowser: 'You can be quiet as I ask you questions'
During the same September 18, 2025 House committee hearing, Mace cut off D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser mid-response with a pointed instruction.
- September 18, 2025 · Dispatch
"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 17, 2025 · DispatchMace's Omar censure resolution built on a quote Omar never said
On September 17, 2025, Mace introduced a House censure resolution against Rep. Ilhan Omar alleging she had 'mocked' Charlie Kirk's killing; journalist Mehdi Hasan stated publicly that Omar had condemned the killing, and Omar noted the resolution contained no direct quote from her. The resolution failed 214-213.
September 17, 2025 · DispatchMace tweets: 'Why did Ilhan Omar marry her brother? Immigration fraud? Brotherly love?'
On September 17, 2025, during her push to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar, Mace posted a tweet invoking the unsupported claim that Omar married her brother to gain U.S. citizenship. The public-record fact check: Omar legally married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009, but Snopes, PolitiFact, Africa Check and Fox have all described the brother-marriage allegation as unsupported, unresolved, or unsubstantiated.
- September 17, 2025 · Dispatch
Mace to Rep. Ilhan Omar: 'One-way ticket to Somalia'
During her push to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar, Mace posted on X that she had a 'one-way ticket to Somalia' with Omar's name on it.
September 16, 2025 · Dispatch
Mace says transgender people 'are violently ill and should be in a straitjacket with a hard steel lock on it'
On September 16, 2025, in a street interview first reported via Don Lemon's Bluesky, Mace called Tyler Robinson, the man arrested for Kirk's assassination, 'radicalized' by the transgender community, and said trans people should be institutionalized.
September 12, 2025 · DispatchMace on threats after Kirk shooting: 'The hate pouring in from Democrats is vile, evil, and unhinged'
On September 12, 2025, after Mace's office received threats in response to her claims about Kirk's shooter, she issued a statement attributing all threats to Democrats while framing her own false claims about the shooter's identity as protected speech.
September 11, 2025 · DispatchMace after Charlie Kirk shooting: 'Democrats owned what happened today'
On September 11, 2025, Mace told reporters that Democrats bore responsibility for Charlie Kirk's killing, but declined to apply the same logic when asked about a Republican-linked shooting of a Minnesota lawmaker.
- September 11, 2025 · Dispatch
Mace after Kirk assassination: 'I'm gonna be louder than I've ever been until this shit stops'
Immediately after Charlie Kirk's assassination on September 11, 2025, Mace pledged to escalate her rhetoric, framing Democratic speech as having caused the killing.
September 11, 2025 · DispatchMace speculates before any arrest that Kirk's shooter 'was a tranny or pro-tranny'
On September 11, 2025, before any suspect was arrested in Charlie Kirk's assassination, Mace told reporters the killer was likely transgender, based on nothing; the man later arrested had a partner who was reportedly transitioning.
- September 10, 2025 · Dispatch
Mace shouts 'What the hell is your problem? You are disgusting' at Rep. Jacobs on House floor, then offers surgeon referral on X
During defense-bill debate on September 10, 2025, Mace shouted at Rep. Sara Jacobs on the House floor, then followed up on X offering Jacobs a referral to a plastic surgeon.
September 10, 2025 · Dispatch'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 5, 2025 · DispatchS.C. Chief Justice Consolidates Cases Involving Nancy Mace, Former Fiancé
South Carolina Chief Justice John Kittredge assigned retired circuit judge Donald B. Hocker to oversee five civil lawsuits and two criminal indictments stemming from Mace's February 2025 House floor speech, with the order noting that additional civil lawsuits were expected and could be added to the docket.
September 3, 2025 · DispatchNancy 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 2, 2025 · Dispatch
Mace tweet: 'Full blown panic attack' after leaving Epstein victims briefing early
On September 2, 2025, Mace posted on X explaining she had left an Oversight Committee briefing with Epstein victims early, describing a panic attack she said was triggered by listening to their accounts.
August 18, 2025 · Dispatch'Recuse themselves': Mace's official press release demands the prosecutor's removal and a state investigation into her
On August 18, 2025, Rep. Nancy Mace issued an official congressional press release headlined 'Solicitor Scarlett Wilson Tipped Off Abuser and Leaked Evidence to Harm Victim,' demanding that the elected Ninth Circuit Solicitor recuse from 'any and all cases related to this victim,' be removed from all domestic-violence prosecutions, and face 'a full and immediate state investigation into Wilson's misconduct.' Wilson responded that prosecutors are 'required by law and ethical rules to provide all relevant information to the defense' and that she would not 'play a part in the circus sideshow.' The allegations on all sides are unproven and contested.
- August 13, 2025 · Dispatch
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.
August 7, 2025 · DispatchMace at Myrtle Beach town hall: 'I'm a victim of the justice system like you all are'
At her gubernatorial campaign kickoff town hall on August 7, 2025, Mace cast herself alongside constituents as a victim of the justice system and pledged to bring 'law and order' to South Carolina.
August 6, 2025 · DispatchMace launches governor campaign declaring 'I am Trump in high heels' and vowing to 'burn it down to the ground'
At a Myrtle Beach town hall on August 6, 2025, Mace officially launched her South Carolina gubernatorial campaign by vowing to burn down what is broken in the state and calling herself 'Trump in high heels.'
- August 6, 2025 · Dispatch
“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.’
August 4, 2025 · DispatchMace enters SC governor's race: 'South Carolina doesn't need another empty suit'
On August 4, 2025, Mace officially announced her campaign for South Carolina governor, framing her candidacy as a contrast to what she called 'empty suits.'
July 29, 2025 · DispatchCrossroads 2026: Nancy Mace To Make 'Special Announcement' Next Week
FITSNews previewed Mace's August 4, 2025 announcement of her bid for South Carolina governor, noting she was polling neck-and-neck with AG Alan Wilson and contextualizing the campaign launch within the ongoing controversy from her February 2025 House floor speech.
July 21, 2025 · DispatchThe 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.
July 3, 2025 · DispatchThe 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.
July 2, 2025 · Dispatch'No sleep, no problem. Pink pajamas and all': Mace livestreams an overnight pajama road trip to the 'Big, Beautiful Bill' vote
With her flights to Washington canceled, Rep. Nancy Mace hired a van and drove overnight from Charleston to the Capitol in pink polka-dot pajamas, posting the whole way under the banner 'One Big Beautiful Girl's Road Trip.' She stopped at a Wawa (AC/DC, 'If D.C. had a theme song') and a Waffle House, and arrived July 2, 2025 with the line: 'No sleep, no problem. Pink pajamas and all, we're here to pass @POTUS's Big, Beautiful Bill.' The House passed the bill the next day.
July 2, 2025 · DispatchThe pink-pajamas road-trip mockery
When Rep. Nancy Mace livestreamed an overnight drive to Washington in pink pajamas to vote for the 'Big, Beautiful Bill' in July 2025, much of the loudest mockery came from her own side. Conservative accounts ratioed the posts as attention-seeking 'performance art,' with Collin Rugg calling it 'What a clown' and others telling her to 'put on some presentable clothes and get to work.'
- June 27, 2025 · Dispatch
Mace's own motion shows she signed a quitclaim deed to her ex-fiancé on Feb. 13, 2025, three days after accusing him of crimes on the House floor
Mace's June 27, 2025 motion to enforce her settlement with Brendan (Patrick) Bryant documents that she executed a quitclaim deed transferring the beach house to him on Feb. 13, 2025, days after her Feb. 10 floor speech, while their property settlement was still being carried out.
June 19, 2025 · Dispatch'The solicitor leaked evidence': Mace accuses the prosecutor in her own cases on a national podcast
On June 19, 2025, on the PBD Podcast, Rep. Nancy Mace named Ninth Judicial Circuit Solicitor Scarlett Wilson, the elected chief prosecutor whose circuit would handle the cases arising from Mace's own allegations, and accused her of leaking evidence, refusing to prosecute rape, and having 'inserted yourself into this investigation and … obstructed the investigation.' Wilson answered that her office was not running the investigation, SLED was, and said 'I have no idea what the Congresswoman is referring to.' The Post and Courier reported that when it asked Mace's office, repeatedly, for evidence of the obstruction claim, none was provided. The underlying allegations are unproven and contested.
June 10, 2025 · Dispatch'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.'
- June 3, 2025 · Dispatch
Patrick Bryant: 'People often ask, how did I ever love Nancy Mace?'
On June 3, 2025, Patrick Bryant reflected publicly on his former relationship with Nancy Mace while sharing coverage of her abrupt reversal on LGBTQ issues.
May 28, 2025 · DispatchThe '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.
May 26, 2025 · DispatchText messages show draft complaint revised line by line, with edits including: 'change statehouse floor to floor of the United States House of Representatives'
Exhibit E to Bryant's December 22, 2025 opposition to a confidentiality order in Berg v. Bryant is a set of text-message screenshots between a contact identified as 'N M' and Alexis Berg, dated Monday, May 26, 2025. The thread includes an attachment titled 'Proposed Complaint, Ali's edits.docx' (228 KB), followed by a series of messages that walk through the draft complaint bullet by bullet, proposing specific textual changes. Bryant contends in the filing that these texts show Rep. Nancy Mace was 'actively drafting and revising the allegations' in Berg's complaint. Berg and Mace deny improper coordination; Berg's counsel has described any such suggestion as baseless. The litigation is ongoing and the allegations are unproven.
May 23, 2025 · DispatchPost & Courier front page: Mace strategist testified she asked him to 'blackmail' her former fiancé
On May 23, 2025, The Post and Courier's front-page lead reported sworn deposition testimony by Rep. Nancy Mace's former campaign strategist, Wesley Donehue, who said the congresswoman asked him to blackmail her former fiancé over two jointly held homes. Mace's office disputed the characterization 'blackmail.'
- May 23, 2025 · Dispatch
Under oath, former Nancy Mace strategist says SC congresswoman asked him to 'blackmail' her ex
Under oath in a deposition, Mace's former campaign strategist Wesley Donehue testified that she asked him to 'blackmail' her ex-fiancé Patrick Bryant over property and photos, not to contact police, and that he refused. Mace contests the characterization; all parties deny the most serious allegations; litigation is ongoing.
May 21, 2025 · DispatchBombshell Deposition: Nancy Mace's Former Strategist Unloads
FITSNews broke the Donehue deposition story two days before the Post and Courier, publishing lengthy excerpts of Donehue's sworn testimony that Mace pressed him to blackmail Bryant and that the original complaint contained no rape or sex-trafficking claims. Mace denies the characterization; all parties are adverse in ongoing civil litigation.
May 21, 2025 · DispatchNancy Mace on Louder with Crowder, May 21, 2025
Rep. Nancy Mace appeared on Steven Crowder's 'Louder with Crowder' program on May 21, 2025, one day after chairing the House Oversight hearing on surveillance in private spaces. The episode was titled 'Donald Trump, James Comey, and Naked Congresswomen? It's an Explosion of News.' Mace's allegations against the named men are contested and unproven; all deny wrongdoing, and related litigation remains pending.
May 20, 2025 · DispatchPatrick Bryant: 'I categorically deny the false and outrageous claims made by Nancy Mace'
On May 20, 2025, the day Rep. Nancy Mace testified before a House Oversight subcommittee, her former fiancé Patrick Bryant issued a public statement denying her allegations and demanding she repeat them outside the protections of Congress.
May 20, 2025 · DispatchAt her own surveillance hearing, Mace displays a 'naked silhouette' of herself: 'That's my body. You can see the silhouette.'
Chairing a House Oversight subcommittee hearing she titled 'Breach of Trust: Surveillance in Private Spaces,' Rep. Nancy Mace held up a poster-sized image she said depicted her own body, told the room it had been captured by hidden surveillance without her consent, and said no one had been arrested. She tied the image to her ex-fiancé, Patrick Bryant, who categorically denies her allegations; the matter is contested and in ongoing litigation.
- May 20, 2025 · Dispatch
“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 · DispatchNancy Mace Parades Her Own Naked Photos in Bizarre Hearing
Mace displayed before a House Oversight Committee hearing what she described as a silhouette image she said depicted her, allegedly taken without her consent by her ex-fiancé and others. Her ex-fiancé and the other accused men deny all allegations. Litigation is ongoing.
- May 20, 2025 · Dispatch
Breach of Trust: Surveillance in Private Spaces, House Oversight Committee Hearing
Rep. Nancy Mace chaired a May 20, 2025 House Oversight Committee hearing titled 'Breach of Trust: Surveillance in Private Spaces,' centering on allegations that private individuals had been secretly recorded. The hearing is directly connected to the Musgrave v. Mace defamation litigation; Mace's allegations and the named men's denials are contested and unproven, and related litigation remains pending.
May 14, 2025 · DispatchExhibit F: The Britton Texts Bryant Says Show No Evidence Was Ever Delivered
Attached to Bryant's December 22, 2025 public opposition to a confidentiality order in Berg v. Bryant, Exhibit F is a set of text messages between Melissa Britton and Alexis Berg spanning March through May 2025. Bryant contends the messages show that Britton refused to provide Berg with any promised evidence of the alleged assault. Berg and Britton deny wrongdoing; Berg's counsel has called any suggestion of improper coordination baseless. The exhibit pages carry a CONFIDENTIAL designation applied by Berg's counsel, and the confidentiality dispute is itself before the court.
- May 12, 2025 · Dispatch
Mace's own defamation complaint puts her House-floor accusations, and the men's furious replies, into the public record
Suing Eric Bowman for defamation on May 12, 2025, Mace's complaint confirms she 'identified four individuals' from the House floor and reproduces, verbatim, the very accusations she calls false, including claims she steered VA contracts and 'destroy[ed] innocent men with zero evidence, zero charges.'
May 7, 2025 · DispatchThe '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.
- May 7, 2025 · Dispatch
"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."
April 25, 2025 · Dispatch
Patrick Bryant on Mace's reversal: 'Just two years ago, she sounded like an entirely different person'
On April 25, 2025, Patrick Bryant shared a column on Nancy Mace's political shift, contrasting her 2023 support for LGBTQ rights with her later rhetoric and noting the timeline of their breakup.
April 21, 2025 · DispatchMace repeats anti-trans slur at USC student who asked her to apologize: 'Is tr*nny really derogatory?'
At a Turning Point USA campus event, a 20-year-old transgender USC student asked Mace to apologize for using an anti-trans slur; Mace responded by questioning whether the term is derogatory and repeating it.
April 20, 2025 · DispatchThe 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.
April 19, 2025 · DispatchMace at Ulta Beauty: 'Fuck you. You are absolutely fucking insane.'
On April 19, 2025, Mace was recorded confronting constituent Ely Murray-Quick at an Ulta Beauty in Mount Pleasant, S.C., after Murray-Quick asked when she would hold a town hall; Mace posted the video herself.
April 14, 2025 · Dispatch"A-E-I-O-U Instead of L-G-B-T-Q": A Pre-K Teacher's Reply to Nancy Mace Goes Viral
On April 14, 2025, Rep. Nancy Mace posted on X that she wants kids to learn about "A-E-I-O-U instead of L-G-B-T-Q." A pre-K teacher, Zoë Rose Bryant, replied that the alphabet is already in the curriculum and that her class was "working on S-T-F-U" that week. The exchange went viral.
April 11, 2025 · DispatchMace asks Iowa crowd for permission to use anti-trans slur, then repeats it three times
On April 11, 2025, speaking at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition, Mace asked the audience whether she could say the anti-transgender slur, then repeated it three times to laughter while praising Iowa for removing transgender people as a protected class.
April 8, 2025 · DispatchNancy Mace Calls Her Constituents 'Ugly,' 'Nasty,' Doubles Down on Refusing Town Hall
After refusing to attend a March 2025 town hall in her district, Mace posted a video calling constituents who had been calling her office 'ugly,' 'hateful,' and 'nasty.' The comments were widely condemned as contemptuous of her own voters.
April 5, 2025 · DispatchNancy Mace 'Thirst Trap' Sparks Social Media Backlash
A crop-top jogging photo Mace posted to social media prompted a wave of commentary ranging from lewd to anti-trans, drawing coverage of the unintended backlash and her pattern of posting attention-seeking content.
April 3, 2025 · DispatchProsecutors drop charge against man who Rep. Nancy Mace claimed 'physically accosted' her
CNN's companion to the NBC charges-dropped story; confirmed prosecutors declined to prosecute James McIntyre and included McIntyre's own statement directly rebutting Mace's account of being physically assaulted.
April 2, 2025 · DispatchProsecutors drop charge against man who Rep. Nancy Mace accused of assaulting her at the Capitol
Prosecutors dropped the misdemeanor assault charge against foster-care advocate James McIntyre, whom Mace had accused of 'physically accosting' her at a December 2024 Capitol event. Three eyewitnesses said McIntyre had simply shaken her hand. The dismissal drew wide coverage, which characterized the charge's collapse as undercutting Mace's account.
March 28, 2025 · DispatchRep. Nancy Mace was invited to a town hall, but declined. Voters wonder: Is she listening to us?
Byrd reported on a March 28 Mount Pleasant town hall attended by 200-plus constituents, with Mace's chair sitting empty after she declined the invitation, calling organizers 'paid agitators.' The story framed a pattern of constituent avoidance.
March 19, 2025 · DispatchPatrick Bryant shares Live5 report: Mace declines Mount Pleasant town hall, citing 'left-wing extremists'
On March 19, 2025, Patrick Bryant amplified a Live5News report that Rep. Nancy Mace declined an invitation to a Mount Pleasant town hall, citing concerns about 'left-wing extremists.'
March 14, 2025 · DispatchMace posts 'Estrogen doesn't love you' at a transgender influencer
From her official congressional X account, Mace replied 'Estrogen doesn't love you' to a transgender influencer's transition photo; the post drew roughly 15 million views.
March 14, 2025 · DispatchUS Rep. Nancy Mace sued for libel and defamation after making public accusations of abuse
Brian Musgrave, one of the four men Mace accused by name in her February 2025 House floor speech, filed a federal defamation and libel suit against her. The case was ultimately dismissed as to floor-speech claims under the Speech or Debate Clause, though the judge left open whether Mace's social-media statements were protected. All allegations are contested; Mace denied wrongdoing.
March 14, 2025 · Dispatch'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.
- March 10, 2025 · Dispatch
Patrick Bryant on Brian Musgrave: 'Absolutely everything said about him is a lie'
On March 10, 2025, Patrick Bryant publicly defended his longtime friend Brian Musgrave, one of the men Mace named on the House floor, pointing to a CNN interview in which Musgrave denied Mace's allegations.
March 10, 2025 · DispatchExclusive: Man accused as 'predator' by Rep. Nancy Mace breaks his silence
In an exclusive interview with CNN national correspondent Randi Kaye, aired the evening of March 10, 2025 as a segment on 'Anderson Cooper 360°', Brian Musgrave, one of the four men Rep. Nancy Mace named in her House floor speech, denied her allegations on camera: 'Absolutely not. No, no.' Mace's allegations are contested and unproven; the dispute is the subject of ongoing civil litigation.
March 9, 2025 · DispatchPatrick Bryant shares P&C report: Mace 'declined to answer' on private vs. taxpayer-funded defense
On March 9, 2025, Patrick Bryant shared a Post & Courier report on the legal exposure facing Rep. Nancy Mace after her House floor speech, spotlighting that her office declined to say whether she would use a private or taxpayer-funded attorney.
- March 9, 2025 · Dispatch
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.
- March 5, 2025 · Dispatch
"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.
February 15, 2025 · DispatchMace pins clip of herself repeating slur with caption: 'Rumor has it, saying it three times summons a Leftist meltdown'
In February 2025, Mace pinned a clip of herself repeating an anti-transgender slur three times at a House hearing to her official congressional X account, captioning it as a joke about triggering political opponents.
February 11, 2025 · DispatchMace tweet: 'I cannot unsee what you did to this young woman in a rape tape'
On February 11, 2025, Mace posted on X responding to John Osborne's denial, alleging she had discovered a rape tape on Patrick Bryant's phone.
- February 11, 2025 · Dispatch
Patrick Bryant: 'I hope others will stand up for John Osborne'
On February 11, 2025, a day after Mace's House floor speech, Patrick Bryant publicly defended his friend John Osborne, calling the consequences Osborne faced 'without being investigated, without being charged, and without a shred of real evidence.'
February 11, 2025 · DispatchRep. Nancy Mace details accusations of rape and sexual abuse in a speech from the House floor
Mace used a 50-plus-minute House floor speech to accuse four named men, including her ex-fiancé Patrick Bryant, of rape, sex trafficking, and other crimes. All four men categorically denied the allegations to NBC. The speech triggered multiple defamation lawsuits and is central to ongoing litigation; all allegations are contested and unproven.
February 10, 2025 · DispatchMace's floor speech: 'I'm going scorched earth' on predators
In a roughly 53-minute House floor speech on February 10, 2025, Mace named multiple men she alleged had assaulted or exploited her and other women, vowing to 'burn this system to the ground' if necessary.
- February 10, 2025 · Dispatch
"Arrest me. Take me to jail." Mace brings handcuffs to the House floor
During her February 10, 2025 House floor speech, Rep. Nancy Mace said she had been told she would be investigated and could be arrested for coming forward, then held up a pair of 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.' Nearly a year later she repeated the offer in a written statement to the court in Berg v. Bryant. The men she has accused deny the allegations and the civil litigation is ongoing.
- February 10, 2025 · Dispatch
“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 · Dispatch
"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 5, 2025 · DispatchMace tells Rep. Connolly she won't be 'counseled by a man over men and women's spaces'
Continuing her exchange with Rep. Connolly at the February 5 Oversight hearing, Mace said she would not take guidance from a man on gendered spaces and characterized transgender women as having 'mental health issues.'
February 5, 2025 · DispatchMace repeats anti-trans slur three times on hearing record after colleague's objection: 'Tr*nny, tr*nny, tr*nny!'
When Rep. Gerry Connolly raised a parliamentary objection to Mace's use of an anti-transgender slur, she repeated it three times on the record at the same House Oversight hearing.
February 5, 2025 · DispatchMace opens USAID hearing with anti-trans slur: 'Does this advance the interests of American citizens, paying for tr*****s in Guatemala?'
At a House Oversight Committee hearing on USAID foreign spending, Mace opened with a question using a slur directed at transgender people.
January 28, 2025 · DispatchMace on potential governor rival: 'I will take him out'
On January 28, 2025, before formally announcing her own gubernatorial run, Mace vowed to personally ensure an unspecified potential opponent never became South Carolina's governor.
January 28, 2025 · DispatchThe 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.
- January 15, 2025 · Dispatch
"What is a woman?", Mace vs. Martin O’Malley
Rep. Nancy Mace’s full exchange with former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley at the January 15, 2025 House Oversight Committee hearing on federal telework. Mace repeatedly asks O’Malley, then a candidate for chair of the Democratic National Committee, to define what a woman is; he deflects (“I’m talking to a woman right now, distinguished woman, elected representative”); and when Mace asks him to define a man instead, he answers by pointing to his sons.
January 14, 2025 · Dispatch"If you want to take it outside", Mace challenges Rep. Jasmine Crockett at a House Oversight meeting
At the House Oversight Committee's January 14, 2025 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; Chairman James Comer said the remark could just mean stepping out for a coffee. Mace said she meant a conversation, not a fight; Crockett's office called it a threat of physical violence.
January 14, 2025 · DispatchNancy 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 · DispatchJasmine 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 · Dispatch"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 · Dispatch
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.
December 17, 2024 · DispatchMace says mystery drones being "craft from outer space" has "to be on the table"
Asked in December 2024 whether the wave of unidentified drones over New Jersey and the Northeast could be alien in origin, Rep. Nancy Mace said on the record that 'craft from outer space' had to be 'on the table' as an option.
December 12, 2024 · DispatchRep. Nancy Mace Threatens Media For Reporting On Handshake She Says Was Assault
After media reported eyewitnesses contradicted Mace's assault account of the McIntyre incident, Mace went on far-right media to threaten defamation suits against any outlet that questioned her version of events, a threat that was itself widely covered as an attempt to intimidate journalists.
December 11, 2024 · DispatchIllinois man arrested, accused of attacking Rep. Nancy Mace on Capitol grounds
James McIntyre, 33, of Illinois was arrested and charged with assaulting a government official after a confrontation with Mace at the Rayburn House Office Building; Capitol Police said McIntyre shook Mace's hand 'in an exaggerated, aggressive' manner while saying 'Trans youth deserve advocacy,' though a witness described the encounter as 'a passionate shake' rather than an assault.
December 11, 2024 · DispatchThis GOP Rep. May Have Lied About Trans Activist Attacking Her
New Republic report citing three eyewitnesses who said McIntyre simply shook Mace's hand and asked her to support trans youth, directly contradicting her claim of physical assault. Published the day before Mace's media-threat appearance.
December 11, 2024 · DispatchChicagoan charged with violently shaking hand of anti-trans Rep. Nancy Mace, Capitol police say
The Chicago Sun-Times reports on the arrest of Chicago-area resident James McIntyre, noting his background as a foster youth advocate and quoting a witness who disputed that the handshake constituted an assault; McIntyre pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge.
December 10, 2024 · DispatchMace tweet: 'I was physically accosted at the Capitol tonight by a pro-tr*ns man. FAFO.'
On December 10, 2024, Mace posted on X alleging she had been physically accosted at the Capitol by a 'pro-tr*ns man'; Capitol Police arrested foster-care advocate James McIntyre, whose charges were later dropped in April 2025.
December 9, 2024 · DispatchNancy Mace and Beans
A December 2024 birthday-barbecue photo posted by Rep. Nancy Mace spawned an enduring internet meme after progressive commentator Kyle Kulinski's quote-tweet, 'That's a lot of beans you nasty ass bitch', went viral and was documented on Know Your Meme as Confirmed.
December 6, 2024 · DispatchRep. Nancy Mace's posts flagged for hateful conduct amid anti-transgender campaign
X flagged multiple posts by Mace for violating its hateful conduct policies after she used language critics characterized as an anti-transgender slur when referring to protesters outside the Supreme Court; GLAAD noted that identical posts on Instagram remained unmoderated.
December 5, 2024 · DispatchMace posts on X: 'If tr*****s is considered a slur then cis should be too'
The day after posting a video mocking arrested transgender protesters with a slur, Mace posted on X defending her word choice by arguing the term 'cis' should be treated the same way.
- December 4, 2024 · Dispatch
Mace mocks arrested transgender activists with anti-trans slur in Capitol video post
After transgender activists were arrested at a Capitol sit-in protesting her bathroom bill, Mace posted a video using a slur to describe them.
November 25, 2024 · DispatchBathroom Obsessive Nancy Mace Called Herself 'Pro-Transgender Rights' Just Last Year
Rolling Stone documented the sharp contradiction between Mace's 2023 'pro-transgender rights' and 'be who you want to be' statements and her 2024 campaign to ban trans women from Capitol bathrooms, specifically targeting Rep.-elect Sarah McBride.
November 21, 2024 · DispatchBooed at Georgetown
At a November 2024 internet policy summit at Georgetown, trans digital-rights activist Evan Greer (Fight for the Future) unfurled a Pride flag and confronted Rep. Nancy Mace over her anti-trans rhetoric; after Mace responded by misgendering Greer and making a crude remark, the crowd audibly booed. Clips of the exchange passed 1 million views.
November 20, 2024 · DispatchHer ex-comms director torches her
Natalie Johnson, Mace's former communications director, publicly derided the November 2024 bathroom-bill push as 'a ploy to get on Fox News,' writing that Mace tweeted about the bill 262 times in 36 hours despite it applying to a vanishingly small fraction of Congress. The posts were widely covered by Mediaite, Salon, and Newsweek.
November 19, 2024 · DispatchMace invokes rape survival to justify bathroom bill targeting Rep.-elect McBride: 'Yes and absolutely, and then some'
On November 19, 2024, Mace cited her own history as a rape and domestic-abuse survivor as justification for her transgender bathroom resolution, and confirmed directly that it targeted Rep.-elect Sarah McBride.
- November 19, 2024 · Dispatch
Mace on transgender bathroom resolution: 'This is the last war on women and I aim to stop it'
On November 19, 2024, Mace introduced a House resolution barring transgender women from Capitol restrooms the week before Rep.-elect Sarah McBride was to be sworn in as the first openly transgender person elected to Congress.
- November 19, 2024 · Dispatch
Rep. Nancy Mace says her anti-trans bathroom bill 'absolutely' targets Rep.-elect Sarah McBride
NBC confirmed Mace's own admission that her Capitol bathroom resolution directly targeted Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender person elected to Congress. The candid admission generated sustained national criticism.
November 15, 2024 · DispatchMace posts 'McBride, a biological male, does not get a say in women's private spaces' and 'if you have balls we don't want you in the women's bathroom'
Mace posted two statements on Instagram and social media targeting Rep.-elect Sarah McBride while promoting her Capitol bathroom-access resolution in November 2024.
November 13, 2024 · Dispatch"Come at me bro": Mace's most striking lines from the 2024 UAP hearing
Co-chairing the November 13, 2024 House UAP hearing, Rep. Nancy Mace put the alleged classified program name 'Immaculate Constellation' on the record, pressed a former Pentagon official on whether the government had reverse-engineered alien craft, and challenged the DoD's claim it had no crash-retrieval programs. The hearing's primary transcript is in the official GovInfo record.
- November 13, 2024 · Dispatch
Nancy Mace's UAP leadership recognized by journalists, Congressional colleagues, and UAP advocates
Mace has received documented praise and recognition for her leadership on UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena) from mainstream journalists, Congressional colleagues across the aisle, Pentagon officials, and key figures in the UAP advocacy community. Here is a comprehensive catalog of verified statements from the July 2023 and November 2024 Congressional hearings on UAP.
- November 13, 2024 · Dispatch
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 · Dispatch
“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.’ The full hearing video is public (House Oversight Committee, C-SPAN); the quote is verified against the official transcript.
- November 13, 2024 · Dispatch
“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.’
- October 24, 2024 · Dispatch
Buttigieg's one-word ratio
Mace promoted a federally-funded interchange project in her district, then-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg replied with a single word: 'Um.' The project was funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law she had voted against. LGBTQ Nation later reported she 'freaked out' when a reporter asked her about taking credit for the same law (August 2025).
October 14, 2024 · DispatchMace declares herself 'THE LEADING VOICE on women's issues'
Invoking her account of surviving rape and domestic violence, Mace posted on X that she is 'THE LEADING VOICE on women's issues in the party.'
- August 28, 2024 · Dispatch
A sworn affidavit attributes a statement to Mace: 'I hacked into his [Patrick's] computer and phone'
A sworn affidavit by South Carolina journalist Ashleigh Messervy attests that at a private August 28, 2024 meeting, Rep. Nancy Mace, after explaining she 'used to be a programmer', told her: 'I hacked into his [Patrick's] computer and phone.'
August 15, 2024 · DispatchAsked on CNN to call Trump's "she turned Black" attack on Kamala Harris out of bounds, Mace says: "I didn't say it, and I would not say it"
On CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip on August 15, 2024, the panel pressed Rep. Nancy Mace again and again to simply say that Donald Trump's claim that Vice President Kamala Harris "turned Black" was out of bounds. Mace would not. "I didn't hear him say it," she said, then "I am not going to weigh in on her race," then "I didn't say it, and I would not say it." Host Abby Phillip: "This doesn't take that much courage, honestly, to just say that was out of bounds." In the same appearance Mace insisted she would say Harris's name "any way that I want to." The clip, posted by Acyn, was captioned "one of the most embarrassing moments I have ever seen from Nancy Mace."
August 15, 2024 · DispatchMace defies CNN panel on Harris name pronunciation: 'I will say Kamala's name any way that I want to'
On August 15, 2024, Mace repeatedly mispronounced Vice President Kamala Harris's name on CNN after initially saying it correctly, then defiantly told the panel she would say it however she wanted when called out for disrespect.
- August 15, 2024 · Dispatch
'Doesn't Take That Much Courage!' CNN's Abby Phillip Stunned Mace Refuses To Denounce Trump Race Attacks on Kamala Harris
Mediaite's account of the August 15, 2024 CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip panel. Asked to say that Donald Trump's claim that Vice President Kamala Harris turned Black was out of bounds, Rep. Nancy Mace repeatedly refused, saying she had not heard the comment and would not weigh in. Host Abby Phillip told her it did not take much courage to say it was out of bounds. In the same segment Mace insisted she would say Harris's name any way that she wanted, drawing objections from Michael Eric Dyson and Keith Boykin.
July 22, 2024 · DispatchMace tells Secret Service Director: 'You're full of shit today. You're just being completely dishonest.'
On July 22, 2024, Mace confronted Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle at a House Oversight hearing on the Butler assassination attempt, calling her dishonest and filing an impeachment resolution against her the same evening; Cheatle resigned the following day.
- July 22, 2024 · Dispatch
"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 21, 2024 · DispatchMace files 25th Amendment resolution: 'Joe Biden is a national security risk'
One day after Biden withdrew from the 2024 presidential race, Mace filed a privileged House resolution urging Vice President Harris to invoke the 25th Amendment, arguing Biden lacked the cognitive ability to finish his term.
- June 27, 2024 · Dispatch
"It's not story time", Mace vs. Maya Wiley on defining woman
A supercut of four verbatim moments from Rep. Nancy Mace's questioning of Maya Wiley, President and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, at the June 27, 2024 House Oversight hearing on employment discrimination, from the opening question to Mace cutting off Wiley's answer and reclaiming her time.
- June 20, 2024 · Dispatch
Six months after her $16,700 fine was slashed to $1,200, Mace still hadn't paid. She says she 'cut a check this week.'
Six months after the S.C. House Ethics Committee reduced Mace's state ethics fine from $16,700 to $1,200, public records showed she had still not paid. Confronted with those records, Mace said she 'cut a check this week.'
- June 20, 2024 · Dispatch
After records showed she still hadn't paid ethics fine, Rep. Mace says she 'cut a check this week'
Six months after the S.C. House Ethics Committee reduced Mace's $16,700 fine to $1,200, public records showed she still had not paid even that reduced amount. Confronted with the records, Mace said she had 'cut a check this week.'
June 2, 2024 · Dispatch
Mace defends flip to endorsing Trump: 'We've had three-and-a-half years of Joe Biden now, and it's pretty easy'
Appearing on NewsNation on June 2, 2024, Mace defended her decision to endorse Donald Trump after years of publicly criticizing him following January 6.
May 10, 2024 · DispatchEx-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.
April 28, 2024 · DispatchMace calls assassination hypothetical 'asinine,' pivots to 'How much did Bill Clinton pay off the women?'
In the same April 28, 2024 NPR interview, Mace dismissed the Supreme Court's presidential immunity assassination hypothetical as asinine, then deflected questions about the Stormy Daniels hush-money trial with a rhetorical question about Bill Clinton that NPR's fact-check addressed.
- April 28, 2024 · Dispatch
Mace calls NPR interview 'clickbait' and accuses host of being 'leftists in the media'
On April 28, 2024, during a live NPR interview about Trump's criminal trial and Supreme Court immunity arguments, Mace accused host Ayesha Rascoe of bias and called the interview 'clickbait for NPR'; NPR ran a fact-check of her statements in the same broadcast.
April 11, 2024 · DispatchMace on CNN endorses state-by-state abortion votes: 'Every state should put this issue on the ballot. Let the people decide'
On CNN on April 11, 2024, Mace endorsed a state-by-state approach to abortion policy and called Arizona's 1864 abortion ban 'a terrible law.'
- April 6, 2024 · Dispatch
The first recorded call with Ali Berg, April 6, 2024: full supercut, in her own words
A produced vertical supercut of Rep. Nancy Mace's first recorded phone call with Alexis "Ali" Berg (April 6, 2024), published by FITSNews on June 7, 2026, after the recording was produced in ADW v. Berg. Across 44 minutes Mace pitches a civil lawsuit and a payout, never mentions the police, and never offers Berg a victim advocate or counselor.
- April 6, 2024 · Dispatch
Easily all of us can get $150,000 each: the money line from Mace's first call with Ali Berg
A 19-second vertical clip of the money line from Rep. Nancy Mace's first recorded phone call with Alexis "Ali" Berg, April 6, 2024. Rather than a referral to law enforcement or a victim advocate, Mace pitches a civil lawsuit against her ex-fiance Patrick Bryant and tells Berg a payout of about $150,000 each is realistic. FITSNews published the full audio on June 7, 2026, reporting the recording was produced in the ADW v. Berg civil litigation. Mace's allegations on the call are unproven and contested; the people she names deny wrongdoing.
- April 2, 2024 · Dispatch
Ten months before accusing him from the House floor, Mace sued her ex-fiancé to split the beach house they owned together
On April 2, 2024, Mace filed a partition action against Brendan (Patrick) Bryant to divide or sell a jointly owned Isle of Palms beach house. Her own complaint records that she and the man she would later accuse of crimes each held 'an undivided one half' interest in the property.
March 15, 2024 · DispatchNancy Mace's Old Email Surfaced in the Ashley Madison Leak
In March 2024, The Spectator's Washington gossip column 'Cockburn' reported that an old realtor-era email address belonging to Rep. Nancy Mace turned up in the searchable database from the 2015 Ashley Madison hack. The column itself is careful: Ashley Madison never verified email addresses at signup, so anyone could have entered hers, and it flags a possible smear or prank. The verified fact is narrow, her email appeared in the leaked database, and Mace's office did not respond to requests for comment.
March 15, 2024 · DispatchWhy is Nancy Mace's email in the Ashley Madison leak?
The Spectator's Washington gossip column 'Cockburn' reported that an old realtor-era email address belonging to Rep. Nancy Mace turned up in the searchable database from the 2015 Ashley Madison hack. The column is careful to note innocent explanations: Ashley Madison never verified email addresses at signup, so anyone could have entered hers, and it raises the possibility of a smear or a prank. Mace's office did not respond to requests for comment.
March 10, 2024 · DispatchMace to Stephanopoulos: 'I live with shame'
On March 10, 2024, Mace pushed back at George Stephanopoulos on ABC's This Week after he pressed her on endorsing Trump given her public history as a rape survivor.
- March 10, 2024 · Dispatch
Nancy Mace defends her support for Trump after he was found liable for sexual assault
George Stephanopoulos pressed Mace, a self-identified rape survivor, on her continued support for Trump after a jury found him liable for battery and defamation in the E. Jean Carroll case. Stephanopoulos repeatedly described the verdict as 'rape', a characterization Trump later sued ABC over, settling for a $15 million library contribution. The interview made national headlines as a painful public confrontation of Mace's stated values against her political alignment.
February 5, 2024 · DispatchA Major Sign of Trouble in Nancy Mace's Office: Total Staff Turnover
Reported that all nine of Mace's D.C. staffers who were in place on November 1, 2023 had departed by February 2024, all but one voluntarily, describing a 'toxic,' 'demoralizing' environment and an abusive management style. The story triggered a cluster of follow-up coverage the same day.
February 5, 2024 · DispatchNancy Mace Is So Toxic That Her Entire Staff Ditched Her
New Republic writeup of the same mass staff-departure story, citing 'toxic' workplace culture; ran the same day as the Daily Beast and Salon pieces, amplifying the story's reach.
February 5, 2024 · Dispatch"She's a joke": Nancy Mace's ex-aides spill the beans after entire staff bails in just 3 months
Salon's same-day companion to the Daily Beast staff-turnover story, adding quotes from ex-aides describing Mace as 'delusional,' a micromanager who demanded eight-minute response times including on Christmas Eve, and who allegedly used Capitol Police to intimidate staff.
February 2, 2024 · DispatchMace endorses Trump: 'Donald Trump is the only man who can save America'
On February 2, 2024, Mace endorsed Donald Trump over fellow South Carolinian Nikki Haley ahead of the state's Republican primary.
January 22, 2024 · DispatchMace endorses Trump over Haley: 'It's been a complete shit show since he left the White House'
On January 22, 2024, Mace endorsed Donald Trump over Nikki Haley, who lives in Mace's own congressional district and had backed her in 2022, the day before the New Hampshire primary, reversing her post-January 6 declaration that Trump had no future in the GOP.
January 10, 2024 · DispatchMace calls for Hunter Biden to be 'arrested right here, right now, and go straight to jail'
During the January 10, 2024 House Oversight contempt hearing, Mace called for Hunter Biden's immediate on-site arrest after he appeared uninvited, making national headlines for the confrontational delivery.
January 10, 2024 · DispatchMace erupts at Hunter Biden: 'You are the epitome of white privilege… you have no balls to come up here'
On January 10, 2024, Mace directed a profanity-laced tirade at Hunter Biden after he made a surprise appearance at a House Oversight contempt hearing, also calling for him to be arrested on the spot.
January 8, 2024 · DispatchMace mocked George Santos's 'manufactured' résumé, voted against expelling him, then hired his communications director
On January 8, 2024, a year to the day after she called George Santos's 'entire resume in life manufactured,' Nancy Mace was reported to have hired his former communications director, Gabrielle Lipsky, into the same role, amid record turnover in her own office.
December 20, 2023 · DispatchEditorial: Don't slash SC ethics fines; kick deadbeats off the ballot
The Post and Courier's own editorial board called out Mace by name for mounting $16,700-plus in state ethics fines as a state legislator for late campaign-finance filings, and criticized the legislature's decision to reduce her tab, framing her as an ethics 'deadbeat' whose career should be at risk.
December 14, 2023 · DispatchShe pleaded hardship. The committee gave her a 93% discount on $16,700 in unpaid ethics fines.
The S.C. House Ethics Committee voted unanimously to cut Mace's $16,700 in accumulated state campaign-finance fines to $1,200 -- just over 7 percent of what she owed -- after she appealed citing financial hardship, COVID-era family health issues, and post-January 6 death threats. Mace earns a $174,000 congressional salary and had purchased a $3.9 million home. She had ignored committee outreach for years.
December 14, 2023 · DispatchNancy Mace racked up nearly $17K in fines as a state rep. She will only pay a fraction of it.
Nick Reynolds reported that the S.C. House Ethics Committee voted unanimously on December 14, 2023 to reduce Mace's $16,700 in unpaid state campaign-finance fines to just $1,200 -- 7 percent of what she owed -- after she filed an appeal citing financial hardship, COVID-era family health issues, and death threats. Mace earns a $174,000 congressional salary and, with her partner, had purchased a $3.9 million Isle of Palms home. Committee members noted she had ignored repeated outreach for years.
- December 14, 2023 · Dispatch
SC's Nancy Mace owes $1,200 in ethics fees after legislators reduce her tab
Jessica Holdman reported that the S.C. House Ethics Committee voted unanimously to reduce Mace's $16,700 in state campaign-finance fines to $1,200. The fines had first surfaced in P&C reporting in 2021, resurfaced as a 2022 campaign issue, and sat unaddressed for years despite repeated staff outreach. Mace closed her campaign account in late November by donating $3,800 to a domestic abuse shelter and writing off $11,200 as accounting errors.
December 1, 2023 · DispatchMace votes against Santos expulsion: 'George Santos is an a--, who, like every other American, deserves the presumption of innocence'
On December 1, 2023, Mace voted against expelling Rep. George Santos despite having called his entire résumé 'manufactured' eleven months earlier, arguing the expulsion vote was about shifting congressional power rather than accountability.
November 2, 2023 · DispatchNancy 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.
October 11, 2023 · DispatchMace refuses to back Scalise for Speaker: 'I cannot, in good conscience, vote for someone who attended a white supremacist conference'
On October 11, 2023, Mace said on CNN she could not vote for Steve Scalise as House Speaker because he had spoken at an event associated with David Duke's white nationalist organization in 2002; Scalise ultimately withdrew his candidacy.
October 11, 2023 · DispatchMace wears scarlet-letter shirt: 'I will do the right thing every single time'
On October 11, 2023, one week after voting to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Mace wore a red 'A' T-shirt to Congress and described feeling demonized as a woman for her vote.
October 5, 2023 · DispatchMace tells CNN 'I have not been fundraising off of this', contradicted by her own timeline
On October 5, 2023, Mace denied fundraising immediately after McCarthy's ouster on CNN, but reporters had been tipped about a fundraising appeal she sent within one hour of the vote, the same behavior she had condemned in Matt Gaetz nine months earlier.
October 5, 2023 · DispatchWatchdog Wants Nancy Mace Probed for Soliciting Cash on Fox
Justin Baragona reported on Campaign for Accountability's October 2023 OCE complaint against Mace for allegedly soliciting campaign donations while standing in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda during a Fox Business appearance, a practice that may violate federal law.
- October 5, 2023 · Dispatch
Nancy Mace Straight Up Lied About Her Post-McCarthy Ouster Fundraising on CNN
Mediaite documented Mace's self-contradictory behavior: she blasted Gaetz in January for fundraising off the McCarthy speaker fight, then fundraised off McCarthy's ouster within an hour of the vote, then lied to CNN's Kaitlan Collins about the timing, all while claiming she had not been fundraising 'every step of the way.'
October 5, 2023 · DispatchThe Scarlet Letter shirt
After voting to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy in October 2023, Rep. Nancy Mace appeared on television wearing a red 'A' shirt, saying she was being demonized. Late-night hosts mocked the choice: Seth Meyers covered it in 'A Closer Look,' and Stephen Colbert produced a doctored image completing the word while comparing her to 'less Hester Prynne, more Alvin Chipmunk.'
- October 4, 2023 · Dispatch
Mace fundraises in the Capitol Rotunda on live TV; ethics watchdog files complaint
On October 4, 2023, Rep. Nancy Mace appeared on Fox Business from inside the U.S. Capitol Rotunda and told viewers she was fundraising off the political moment in real time. Federal law bars soliciting campaign contributions in any room or building occupied in the discharge of official duties. An ethics watchdog filed a complaint with the OCE the next day.
October 3, 2023 · DispatchMace explains McCarthy ouster vote: 'This isn't about left vs right. This is about trust and keeping your word.'
On October 3, 2023, Mace was one of eight Republicans to vote to remove Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker, citing his failure to keep his word on women's issues legislation and a balanced-budget amendment.
- October 3, 2023 · Dispatch
“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.
September 3, 2023 · DispatchMace tells CNN's Dana Bash: 'we cannot be assholes to women'
In a September 3, 2023 CNN interview with Dana Bash, Mace said Republicans must change their approach to abortion policy, using an expletive to make the point.
July 27, 2023 · DispatchMace's SC Prayer Breakfast anecdote about fiancé Patrick Bryant
On July 27, 2023, at the South Carolina Prayer Breakfast, Mace shared a bedroom anecdote about her then-fiancé Patrick Bryant that Fox News described as 'a little TMI.'
July 27, 2023 · DispatchUFO 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 · Dispatch
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 · Dispatch
"TMI": GOP Rep. Nancy Mace tells prayer breakfast audience she turned down sex to be there
At a Christian prayer breakfast hosted by Sen. Tim Scott, Mace joked about turning down sex with her then-fiancé to attend, saying 'a little TMI' after the punchline. Conservative commentators expressed outrage at the impropriety; the story revealed Mace's pattern of saying attention-grabbing, self-undermining things in public settings.
July 26, 2023 · Dispatch"Human or nonhuman biologics?", Mace's question that defined the 2023 UAP hearing
At the July 26, 2023 House Oversight UAP hearing, Rep. Nancy Mace asked whistleblower David Grusch whether the government's recovered remains were 'human or nonhuman biologics.' Grusch answered: 'Non-human.' The two-word reply made Mace the congressional face of a hearing that trended worldwide and set off days of internet memes.
July 26, 2023 · DispatchWhistleblower 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 · DispatchUFO 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 · DispatchUFO 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 · Dispatch
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 · Dispatch
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 · Dispatch
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 · Dispatch
"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 14, 2023 · DispatchGOP Rep Flip-Flops on 'Asshole' Abortion Bill: Just Travel
Mace was overheard in an elevator calling a DOD abortion-travel reimbursement amendment 'an asshole move, an asshole amendment,' then voted for it when the measure came to the floor. She was confronted by CNN's Kaitlan Collins about the hypocrisy, generating the 'being assholes to women' clip.
June 9, 2023 · DispatchMace on Trump indictment: 'Joe Biden just secured Donald Trump's nomination for Republicans in 2024'
On June 9, 2023, Mace went on Fox News to denounce the federal indictment of Trump on classified documents charges as politically motivated, predicting it would secure Trump's 2024 Republican nomination, reversing her post-January 6 calls for accountability.
May 30, 2023 · DispatchMace announces debt ceiling 'no' vote: 'Republicans got outsmarted by a President who can't find his pants'
On May 30, 2023, Mace announced her vote against the McCarthy-Biden debt ceiling deal with a tweet containing a crude reference to perceived Biden cognitive decline that went viral and drew condemnation.
April 30, 2023 · DispatchMace says DeSantis six-week abortion ban 'isn't the way to change hearts and minds. It's not compassionate.'
On April 30, 2023, Mace criticized Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's six-week abortion ban as uncompassionate toward rape and incest victims, calling a 15-to-20 week ban with exceptions the 'sweet spot.'
April 23, 2023 · DispatchMace warns Republicans on ABC: 'We're going to lose huge if we continue down this path of extremities'
On ABC's This Week on April 23, 2023, Mace urged Republicans to find middle ground on abortion messaging, warning that the party would suffer major electoral losses if it continued on an extreme path.
February 8, 2023 · DispatchMace at Press Club dinner: 'Since Marjorie Taylor Greene started behaving, the rate of Jewish space laser attacks is now zero'
On February 8, 2023, Mace delivered a joke at the Washington Press Club Foundation dinner openly lampooning Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's 2018 conspiracy theory that California wildfires were started by a 'Jewish space laser.'
- February 8, 2023 · Dispatch
"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.
- January 8, 2023 · Dispatch
Mace on congressional trust: 'If you want a friend you can trust, get a dog'
On January 8, 2023, Mace summed up the difficulty of trusting colleagues in Congress after the chaotic McCarthy speaker votes with a line that became widely quoted as a pithy summary of Washington dysfunction.
- January 8, 2023 · Dispatch
Mace calls Matt Gaetz 'a fraud' for fundraising off speaker votes, then does the same nine months later
On January 8, 2023, Mace attacked Rep. Matt Gaetz for sending fundraising emails after each vote against Kevin McCarthy for Speaker; nine months later, Mace sent her own fundraising appeals within an hour of voting to oust McCarthy herself.
- January 8, 2023 · Dispatch
Mace says George Santos's 'entire résumé in life was manufactured', then votes against his expulsion
On January 8, 2023, Mace was among the first Republicans to publicly attack George Santos's fabricated biography; eleven months later she voted against expelling him from Congress, calling it a political maneuver.
July 19, 2022 · DispatchMace on Respect for Marriage Act: 'If gay couples want to be as happily or miserably married as straight couples, more power to them'
On July 19, 2022, Mace tweeted in support of the Respect for Marriage Act after voting yes as one of 47 House Republicans, making a self-deprecating joke about her own multiple marriages, a stance she publicly reversed in October 2025.
May 8, 2022 · DispatchMace tells Face the Nation she supports rape exceptions: 'I am pro-life, but I do support exceptions for rape. I'm a rape victim myself'
On CBS Face the Nation on May 8, 2022, Mace said she is pro-life but supports rape and incest exceptions to abortion bans, citing her own experience as a rape survivor.
November 30, 2021 · DispatchMace corrects MTG's spelling, calls herself 'not a religious bigot (or racist)' in intra-GOP Twitter brawl
On November 30, 2021, Mace responded to Marjorie Taylor Greene calling her 'trash in the GOP Conference' by first correcting Greene's grammar, then attacking her on substance over the Lauren Boebert anti-Muslim remarks controversy.
November 30, 2021 · DispatchMarjorie Taylor Greene calls her 'trash'
In November 2021, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene called Rep. Nancy Mace 'the trash in the GOP Conference' after Mace criticized Rep. Lauren Boebert's Islamophobic remarks about Ilhan Omar. Mace fired back, calling Greene 'batshit crazy' and 'a grifter' to reporters, per The Hill and The Post and Courier.
November 28, 2021 · DispatchMace on Fox News: natural immunity gives '27 times more protection' than vaccines
On November 28, 2021, Mace told Fox News that natural immunity provides 27 times more protection against COVID than vaccination, the same day she told CNN she was a proponent of vaccinations and masks.
November 28, 2021 · DispatchMace tells CNN 'I have been a proponent of vaccinations', hours after telling Fox natural immunity is 27x better
On November 28, 2021, Mace presented two contradictory vaccine messages on the same day: telling Fox News that natural immunity is 27 times more protective, then telling CNN she had been a consistent proponent of vaccinations and masks.
August 6, 2021 · DispatchBill Maher: Nancy Mace "looks to me like a traitor for the corner office"
In the closing 'New Rule: The Big Liars' editorial of his August 6, 2021 Real Time, Bill Maher used Nancy Mace as his prime example of a politician who abandoned principle for the perks of office. Maher noted that after January 6 she gave a dozen interviews in a single day condemning Trump, then went quiet and voted to remove Liz Cheney for making the same case. His verdict: a lot of people think she is a patriot, but she looks to him 'like a traitor for the corner office.' Mace has since been a Real Time panel guest three times, defending her turn toward Trump to Maher's face.
July 29, 2021 · DispatchMace posts maskless Capitol video: 'I follow science, not Pelosi. Come and get me.'
On July 29, 2021, Mace posted a video walking maskless through the Capitol to defy the CDC-recommended mask mandate reinstated during the Delta variant surge, calling it an 'insane power grab' by Speaker Pelosi.
February 8, 2021 · DispatchMace boasts on Fox News she has been 'living rent-free' in AOC's Twitter account
On February 8, 2021, Mace appeared on Fox News to gloat about her social-media feud with AOC over the January 6 Capitol attack, framing her challenge to AOC's trauma account as a winning political play.
February 4, 2021 · DispatchMace tells AOC 'I deal in facts. Unlike you, apparently.', then fundraises off the feud
On February 4, 2021, Mace attacked AOC's credibility over her January 6 account on Twitter, then sent a fundraising email the same day using the same line as a solicitation.
February 4, 2021 · DispatchMace calls MTG committee removal 'unprecedented', weeks after warning QAnon was leading the GOP
On February 4, 2021, Mace defended Marjorie Taylor Greene from being stripped of her committee assignments, weeks after warning that QAnon conspiracy theorists were leading the Republican Party toward a constitutional crisis.
February 3, 2021 · DispatchMace tweets 'Insurrectionists never stormed our hallway' to undercut AOC's Capitol trauma account
On February 3, 2021, Mace publicly disputed AOC's account of fearing for her life on January 6, despite Mace herself having reportedly told reporters she barricaded in her own office out of fear that day.
January 17, 2021 · DispatchMace asks on Meet the Press: 'how do we hold a president accountable that put all of our lives at risk?'
Eleven days after the Capitol attack, Mace appeared on NBC's Meet the Press and questioned how Congress could hold the president accountable for the January 6 riot.
January 13, 2021 · DispatchMace invokes 'both sides' on Capitol attack while voting against impeachment
On the day of the second impeachment vote, Mace drew moral equivalence between the Capitol attack and months of left-wing unrest on the House floor, then voted against impeachment.
January 13, 2021 · DispatchMace warned 'QAnon conspiracy theorists' were leading the GOP, then voted to oust Liz Cheney months later
On January 13, 2021, Mace defended Liz Cheney from removal by warning that QAnon conspiracy theorists were leading the party; by May 2021 she reversed course and voted to oust Cheney from leadership.
January 13, 2021 · DispatchMace cites due-process concerns to justify 'no' vote on impeachment after condemning Trump
On January 13, 2021, Mace publicly condemned Trump for the Capitol attack and then used procedural objections about the speed of the impeachment process to justify voting against it.
- January 13, 2021 · Dispatch
Mace says on Fox News she does not know 'how you go forward and defend the indefensible' and Trump has no future in the GOP
One week after the Capitol attack, Mace told Fox News that Trump had no future in the Republican Party and that his principles would have to be championed without his name or brand.
January 10, 2021 · DispatchMace tweets Capitol rioters were 'domestic terrorists' and calls on GOP to stop 'coddling extremists'
Four days after the January 6 Capitol attack, Mace posted on Twitter that the rioters who assaulted police were domestic terrorists and urged her party to rebuild around respect for rule of law.
January 8, 2021 · DispatchMace in GOP group chat: 'I'm disgusted by what you and other Q-conspiracy theorists did'
On January 8, 2021, in a leaked GOP freshmen group chat published by Politico, Mace directed sharp criticism at colleagues she linked to QAnon in the immediate aftermath of the January 6 Capitol attack.
January 7, 2021 · DispatchMace says Trump's legacy 'entirely wiped out' the day after the Capitol attack
The day after the January 6 Capitol attack, Mace told a local TV station that the riot had erased everything Republicans had accomplished under President Trump.
January 6, 2021 · DispatchMace tells CBS News while sheltering during Capitol breach: 'I'm begging the president to get off Twitter'
While sheltering in place during the January 6 Capitol breach, Mace told CBS News she was begging President Trump to stop posting on Twitter.
- January 6, 2021 · Dispatch
Sheltering in the Capitol on Jan. 6, Mace says 'This is not who we are'
As rioters breached the Capitol, Mace posted from her locked-down office that protesters assaulting Capitol Police was 'wrong' and that she was 'heartbroken for our nation.'
October 12, 2020 · DispatchMace campaign ad claims Cunningham 'voted for $5 million in taxpayer funds' for campaigns, rated Half True
A 2020 Mace attack ad claiming Joe Cunningham voted for $5 million in taxpayer funds for politicians' campaigns was rated Half True by PolitiFact, which found the funds came from fines rather than taxes and that the personal-expense rules did not apply to Cunningham.
- April 24, 2019 · Dispatch
Mace's first public disclosure: 'It can take 25 years to get up the courage'
On April 24, 2019, during the South Carolina abortion-bill debate, Mace made her first public disclosure of being a rape survivor, describing how long she had kept the experience private.
Key Dispatches
- September 8, 2026 · Dispatch
Nancy Mace lost her cool and cursed through a Jubilee debate on trans athletes, telling the host to 'sit the fuck back down'
Rep. Nancy Mace lost her cool repeatedly as the guest debater on Jubilee Media's 'The Split,' an episode on the WNBA and trans athletes. Pressed by progressive host David Mauricio, she cursed on camera at least three times, told him to 'sit the fuck back down,' and, as the segment closed, called him 'the most venomous son of a bitch I have ever sat across.' Along the way she admitted she had 'no idea' whether any trans athlete had ever played in the WNBA ('Not that we know of'), would not say who won the 2020 election, could not point to the DSM for her 'mental illness' claim, and conceded she 'got [her] ass kicked' in the governor's race.
- September 4, 2026 · Dispatch
Nancy Mace loses in federal court: Bryant's suit accusing her of defamation and a blackmail conspiracy moves forward
Nancy Mace has lost in federal court. On September 4, 2026, U.S. District Judge Bruce H. Hendricks rejected her pro se bid to move the case out of state court, ruling her removal untimely 'by several measures,' and remanded Berg v. Bryant to the Charleston County Court of Common Pleas. That sends Patrick Bryant's third-party case against Mace forward in state court, a case that accuses her of defamation and of a civil conspiracy to hack his phone and blackmail him into signing over property. The Court affirmed the magistrate judge's recommendation with modifications, overruled Mace's objections, denied her motion for oral argument, and terminated her duplicate federal case as moot. The ruling is procedural: it does not reach the merits, and Mace's immunity defenses travel with the case. The order (ECF No. 36) is reproduced below. The allegations are disputed and unproven; Mace denies Bryant's claims, and Bryant denies Mace's.
- August 28, 2026 · Dispatch
'I Really Want Her to Get the Death Penalty, and I'd Prefer It to Be Public': On Thursday Night's 'Get Maced,' Nancy Mace Turned the Lindsay Clancy Trial Into an On-Air Call for a Televised Execution, With the Jury Still Out
On her Thursday, August 27, 2026 'Get Maced' live stream, Nancy Mace devoted a segment she titled 'the face of evil' to the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother whose jury had just begun deliberating. Mace told her viewers, 'I really want Lindsay Clancy to get the death penalty, and I'd prefer it to be public,' having acknowledged in the same breath that Massachusetts has no death penalty, where the maximum sentence is life without parole and no verdict had been reached. She also disclosed her own postpartum experience to draw a line against Clancy ('the only difference is I didn't murder my children'), mocked the defense attorney's closing ('I don't know any darn good moms who murder all three of their children'), and built the rest of the hour around a thesis about the gap between who people claim to be and who they are: Hillary Clinton in the Hamptons, Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed and his physician title, and a closing tribute to Dolly Parton. This is Maceopedia's review of the broadcast, every quote verbatim from her own stream.
- August 26, 2026 · Dispatch
Amateur Hour: Nancy Mace's First 'Get Maced' Live Stream Was Muted at the Open, Out of Focus in the Middle, and Watched Live by Fewer Than 1,000 People
On the night of the August 25, 2026 South Carolina runoff for the late Lindsey Graham's Senate seat, Nancy Mace went live on her personal @NancyRMace YouTube channel for the first time ever: a 45-minute, one-camera runoff-watch show she opened by admitting the microphone had been muted the whole time she'd been talking, narrated her own camera going out of focus, and paused near the 40-minute mark to go get a glass of water. Fewer than 1,000 people watched it live. The content whiplashed too: she spent the front half prosecuting the appointment of Graham's sister Darlene ('It's not an heirloom... it could be Donald Duck, it could be Mickey Mouse') and the back half, once Darlene won and Mace's own pick Ralph Norman lost, congratulating 'Senator Graham' and pledging to help her. Her staff prompted her on air to remind viewers to subscribe. This is Maceopedia's television-critic review of the broadcast, with the full edit of the night's quotes and snafus.
- August 25, 2026 · Dispatch
Nancy Mace Puts 'Get Maced' on a Clock: A Fixed Nightly Show, 8PM Monday Through Thursday
For most of 2026, Nancy Mace's 'Get Maced' videos dropped whenever the news did: near-daily, but on no fixed day and at no fixed hour, a loose feed of studio monologues tied to whatever fight she was picking that afternoon. As of August 25, 2026, that is over. Her personal YouTube channel, @NancyRMace, now carries a schedule banner reading 'GET MACED, 8PM, MONDAY - THURSDAY,' and the channel's own description bills the operation as 'the nightly show Washington wishes you'd skip,' with 'New episodes Monday through Thursday night at 8PM ET,' promising 'a cold open, the day's biggest stories, and a close cable news won't give you... Done in 30 minutes or less.' The channel is now verified and has roughly 45,700 subscribers, up from about 22,300 two weeks ago. The move converts a scattershot upload habit into appointment television, a named time slot four nights a week, and it is the most formal commitment yet to the media brand a current staffer told Maceopedia she is building to 'pay the bills' after she leaves Congress in January 2027.
- August 23, 2026 · Dispatch
Mace Won't Talk About Brian Musgrave, and He Isn't Even Under the Gag Order
A year ago this week, a federal judge ended Brian Musgrave's defamation case against Rep. Nancy Mace, not because her 'predator' accusation was found true, but because the court held she was immune. Eighteen months after she named the Fort Mill businessman from the House floor, there is still no criminal charge, no evidence produced, no retraction, and SLED has told him he is not a target. Musgrave was never a party to the case Mace is gagged in, and his own case is closed, so nothing bars her from answering for the accusation. She simply does not.
- August 19, 2026 · Dispatch
Anti-Trans Mace Shows Up at a Dorchester School Board Meeting to Back Parents Protesting a Transgender Teacher
On the night of August 18, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace turned up at a Dorchester School District Four board meeting to back families protesting a fourth-grade teacher who is transitioning genders. 'These parents who are here tonight, they care,' Mace told the board during public comment, adding that 'these families are here because you know accommodations were made.' About ten people spoke. No South Carolina law bars a transgender person from teaching, and the district said it is legally obligated to respect its employees' rights. The ACLU of South Carolina said transgender teachers 'have every right to show up in the classroom without being harassed or intimidated.' The appearance drops a sitting member of Congress into a local school fight and fits Mace's long, self-documented record of anti-transgender statements. First reported by Live 5 News (WCSC).
- August 16, 2026 · Dispatch
Nancy Mace Rebrands Her Main X Account Into a 'Get Maced' Billboard
Nancy Mace has remade the top of her main X account, @NancyMace, into a promotion for her show. Her new banner is the glossy pink 'GET MACED' logo, set against a sparkle background and a studio glamour photo of her in a black tank with her tattoo sleeve on display, and her new profile photo is a polished beauty-shot headshot rather than her congressional portrait. The version stamps on the images place the changes on August 14 and 15, 2026. The branding is identical to the pink logo bumper that opens her August 11 studio video and to the tagline of her personal YouTube channel, @NancyRMace: 'Get Maced with Nancy Mace.' It is the clearest sign yet that the account she uses for her congressional fights is now doubling as the marketing channel for the media brand a current staffer told Maceopedia she is building to 'pay the bills' after she leaves office in January 2027. There is still no Nancy Mace podcast on Spotify or Apple; the operation is a video channel, and its front door is now her main political profile.
- August 12, 2026 · Dispatch
Can Nancy Mace Make a Living Off Her New Podcast?
A current staffer says Nancy Mace is auditioning for a media career to 'pay the bills' after she leaves Congress in January 2027. So Maceopedia ran the numbers on the video she posted August 11, and on the operation around it. The video even opens like a YouTuber's channel: a 'GET MACED' logo bumper, a beach-and-poolside swimsuit montage, and a spoken 'hit the subscribe button' pitch, all before a word of politics. The same clip drew about 153,000 views on X and about 15,000 on YouTube, a ten-to-one gap that shows how much of her reach is rented from the platform and the office rather than owned. Former staffers have also alleged, in reporting Mace denies, that some of her online support was manufactured through staff-run burner accounts. Her personal channel has 22,300 subscribers; her official House channel's recent videos draw 130 to 1,400 views apiece. Measured against the political podcasters who actually earn a living, the picture is the streaming economy's brutal power law: a handful of stars capture nearly everything, and everyone else earns close to nothing. At her demonstrated scale, the direct economics of 'this type of podcast' land around a low-six-figure business at best, roughly her current $174,000 congressional salary or less, and that is before the reach she is renting expires with the seat. On top of the math sits a legal problem: the defamation defense keeping her afloat right now depends entirely on her holding federal office.
- August 12, 2026 · Dispatch
Who Is Jarvis? Nancy Mace's Favorite Reply Guy, and the Burner-Account Question
For more than a year, one of the most-watched running bits on X has been the flirtation between Rep. Nancy Mace and an anonymous account named Jarvis. She follows him, replies to him, and has posted 'we look good together.' On its face, @jarvis_best is no mystery but a phenomenon: an anonymous right-leaning comedy account posting since 2018, now past 113,000 followers. But there is a second version of the story. In May 2025, WIRED reported that former Mace staffers alleged she had them create 'burner' accounts to promote her and push back on critics; separately, an X post quoted by Alternet claimed a taxpayer-funded staffer created and ran the @jarvis_best account itself. That account-specific claim is an unverified social-media assertion whose author could not be identified, and Mace has flatly denied the burner-account allegations, calling her accusers 'bitter exes.' This dispatch pulls the public record together and lets readers judge. Updated August 12, 2026: Jarvis floated Mace as White House press secretary with an AI-generated podium image, and she answered him with a Taylor Swift 'I Love You' GIF.
- August 11, 2026 · Dispatch
'She was asked not to speak': Nancy Mace attends the renaming of the base in her own district, but never takes the podium
On Monday, August 10, 2026, Joint Base Charleston in North Charleston was ceremonially renamed Joint Base Lindsey Graham in honor of the late senator, who died July 11. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Gov. Henry McMaster, Sen. Darline Graham Nordone, and base commander Col. K. Michael Shirley II all spoke. Rep. Nancy Mace, whose SC-01 district includes the base and who has repeatedly claimed credit for its federal funding, attended the ceremony but had no speaking role and was not quoted by any outlet covering it. According to a current staff member, Mace was asked not to speak. She had skipped Graham's funeral on July 28, declined to run for his Senate seat, and endorsed Ralph Norman over Trump's pick, Graham's sister Darline, who spoke at the podium Mace did not.
- August 6, 2026 · Dispatch
"60,000 Muslims Invade Spain" on Mace's official House account, then a no-comment repost of a meme naming Omar and Tlaib
Between July 31 and August 4, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace posted about Muslims across both of her X accounts. On August 4, on her personal account @NancyMace, she reposted, with no caption of her own, a meme from the account @RagingAmericans reading 'Radical Islam will destroy this country just like it's destroyed every other country it's touched if we don't put a stop to it!!' laid over a photo collage that includes Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, two sitting Muslim members of Congress. Four days earlier, on July 31, she used her official, taxpayer-funded congressional account @RepNancyMace to post an office-produced graphic carrying the U.S. House seal and headlined '60,000 MUSLIMS INVADE SPAIN,' with her own text describing 'around 60,000 Muslim "migrants" from Morocco' as 'criminals' whose 'culture is incompatible with Western civilization.' This dispatch reproduces both posts, distinguishes the words Mace wrote herself from the meme she amplified without comment, and links the July 27 post that anchors the pattern.
- August 5, 2026 · Dispatch
Subscribe to Nancy Mace: The Studio Videos Now End Like a YouTuber's, and the Public Record Won't Say Who Pays
On August 5, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace posted another produced studio monologue to her personal @NancyMace account, a nearly four-minute reaction to Abdul El-Sayed's win in Michigan's Democratic Senate primary. The video ends the way a content creator's does: a branded card that reads SUBSCRIBE, Nancy Mace, over a glamour portrait. That end card is the clearest sign yet of what a current staffer already told Maceopedia the videos are, an audition for life after office. It also raises two fair questions a reader asked us: who produces this operation, and is any of it touching taxpayer money? We went to the public record for both. The short answers: no filing names a producer, and House rules bar official funds from exactly this kind of personal-brand content, which is why it lives on her personal feed and not her official one.
- August 5, 2026 · Dispatch
"There is no such thing as a trans kid," then "This": Mace endorses a follower's "just fcked up parents" reply
On August 4, 2026, at 2:30 PM ET, Rep. Nancy Mace posted on her official congressional X account, @RepNancyMace: 'There is no such thing as a trans kid.' The standalone post drew roughly 22,000 likes and about 880 replies. The next afternoon, August 5, Mace quote-tweeted one of the replies to it, a message from the account @GuntherEagleman that read 'Just fcked up parents,' and added a single word of her own: 'This.' Mace did not write the 'fcked up parents' line herself; a follower did, and she endorsed it by quote-tweeting it. Both of Mace's posts sit on her official House account and fit a cluster of statements she made about transgender people across late July and early August 2026. This dispatch reproduces every post verbatim, embeds them, and takes no position of its own.
- August 5, 2026 · Dispatch
The Congresswoman Has a Podcast Studio: Nancy Mace Is Auditioning for Life After Office, On Camera
A current member of Nancy Mace's staff tells Maceopedia the congresswoman is auditioning for a career in political media for after she leaves office, and that the escalating content is the strategy. Mace lost her primary for governor, is not running for re-election, and leaves Congress in January 2027. In her final months she has stood up a branded, studio-produced video operation on her personal account, a podcast set with a boom microphone and produced backdrops, posting to-camera monologues that rack up tens of thousands of views. This dispatch reports the staffer's account and lays the videos, in her own words and with view counts, alongside it.
- August 5, 2026 · Dispatch
"Not Chopping Their Dicks Off" and 9 More: A Top 10 of Nancy Mace's Curse Words, In Her Own Words
A member of Congress is supposed to model a standard of public conduct. The House even writes it down: its own decorum rules say members should refrain from profanity and vulgarity, and its Code of Official Conduct demands they 'reflect creditably on the House.' Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) has spent years testing where that standard sits. This dispatch first explains why vulgarity from a public official is treated as a breach of the office, then catalogs, in her own verbatim words, ten times Mace used profanity or crude language in public, on the House floor, in committee hearings, on live television, in confrontations caught on camera, and on her own verified social media. A second section lists every other one we could find in the public record. Every quote is reproduced exactly and linked to its primary source. The top ten runs from number ten up to number one: the July 2026 post in which she summarized U.S. military healthcare policy as 'not chopping their dicks off.'
- August 4, 2026 · Dispatch
"I want a man who looks at me the way white liberal women look at invaders who jerk off on beaches in front of kids": Mace's August 3 post
On August 3, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace, a lame-duck member of Congress who finished last in the June 2026 Republican primary for South Carolina governor and leaves the House in January 2027, posted on her personal X account, @NancyMace: 'I want a man who looks at me the way white liberal women look at invaders who jerk off on beaches in front of kids.' She attached a photograph of a woman in a bikini reaching toward a shirtless man, with no source given. The post drew roughly 26,700 likes and more than 1,100 replies in a sharply divided response: a large bloc echoed it, while a substantial share, several on verified accounts, called it racist and beneath a member of Congress, and a recurring thread disputed the photo as misattributed or digitally altered. This dispatch reproduces the post in her own words, embeds it, and records the reaction.
- August 3, 2026 · Dispatch
"Charges Are Not a Conviction": The Due-Process Standard Nancy Mace Keeps Only for Herself
In 2023, Nancy Mace voted against expelling George Santos, indicted on 23 federal counts, because 'charges are not a conviction.' Since then she has pushed a series of men to resign, moved to expel them, or named them 'predators' from the House floor, in every case before any charge was filed, and sometimes after a prosecutor or the accuser had already declined to pursue one. When the House Ethics Committee's own report landed on her, she asked for the very due process she denies them.
- July 28, 2026 · Dispatch
'He believed that showing up mattered': Mace issues a press release as every other SC House Republican attends Graham's funeral
On July 28, 2026, Sen. Lindsey Graham's casket lay in the US Capitol Rotunda and then was carried to Washington National Cathedral for his funeral. Every other South Carolina House Republican was there. Rep. Sheri Biggs and Rep. Joe Wilson presented wreaths at his casket. Reps. Russell Fry and Ralph Norman accompanied the South Carolina delegation. Rep. Nancy Mace, who spent two weeks publicly weighing a run for Graham's Senate seat and publicly clashing with him during his lifetime, did not attend. Her office issued a press release statement instead. Filing for the special election primary closed at noon the same day.
- July 27, 2026 · Dispatch
"Not all muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are muslims": Mace's July 27 post draws 53,500 likes
On July 27, 2026, at 7:04 PM ET, Rep. Nancy Mace posted on her personal X account, @NancyMace: 'Not all muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are muslims.' The post drew roughly 53,500 likes and 7,440 replies. It is the latest entry in a pattern of Mace statements about Muslims and Islam that runs from a June 2026 H-E-B endorsement through a November 2025 'Stop Muslim radicals' fundraising email to her own Muslim Brotherhood legislation, alongside her repeated line that opposing 'radical Islam' and Sharia law 'isn't Islamophobia.'
- July 26, 2026 · Dispatch
"If you think your child is trans, your child should be removed from your home to safety": Mace's July 26 post
On July 26, 2026, at 2:55 PM ET, Rep. Nancy Mace posted on her personal X account, @NancyMace: 'If you think your child is trans, your child should be removed from your home to safety.' The standalone post, carrying no article or event, drew roughly 8,300 likes and about 400 replies. It is one of a cluster of Mace statements about transgender people posted across late July 2026, and sits atop a record that runs from her November 2024 Capitol bathroom resolution through her September 2025 'straitjacket' remarks.
- July 22, 2026 · Dispatch
'It hasn't happened yet, has it?': Mace, smiling, calls out Trump's broken 50 percent electricity promise on camera
Stopped outside the Capitol by a MeidasTouch reporter and asked what her constituents are saying about affordability, Rep. Nancy Mace rattled off rising groceries, electricity, mortgages and rent, then finished the reporter's sentence about President Trump's pledge to cut power bills: 'By 50 percent. It hasn't happened yet, has it?' She smiled and turned away. The clip, posted July 22, 2026 and shared across X by @Acyn, landed two days after Trump's own self-imposed deadline to halve electricity prices passed with residential rates up about 18 percent instead.
- July 21, 2026 · Dispatch
One day after quitting the race, Nancy Mace endorses Ralph Norman and snubs Trump's pick for Graham's Senate seat
One day after ruling out her own Senate bid, Rep. Nancy Mace endorsed Rep. Ralph Norman for the South Carolina special election on July 21, 2026, breaking publicly with President Trump, who had endorsed Lindsey Graham's sister Darline Graham Nordone on July 17. Norman accepted the endorsement while pledging to 'stand with President Trump,' the same president whose candidate he and Mace are now both running against. Filing opens today and closes July 28, with the primary set for August 11.
- July 21, 2026 · Dispatch
Two threat sentencings in one day: the woman who sent kill texts went home until prison. The teenager who posted one tweet sat in jail 14 months.
On July 21, 2026, both pending threat cases against Nancy Mace ended. Shayla Addison, who sent five kill texts, a bomb-threat email, and two Instagram comments and had a record of nearly identical threats, was never jailed pretrial and got 27 months. Samuel Cain, a Greenville trans teenager who posted a single tweet that agencies reportedly could not tie to any weapon or plan, had already served roughly 14 months without bond and left with house arrest, five years of probation, and a permanent internet ban. Mace posted through all of it.
- July 17, 2026 · Dispatch
Trump endorses Lindsey Graham's sister for a full Senate term, and puts Nancy Mace's decision in a harder box
President Trump endorsed Sen. Darline Graham Nordone for a full six-year term on July 17, 2026, the same day Axios reported that Rep. Nancy Mace is still considering a Senate bid despite the endorsement. The move closes the appointment lane Mace had been eyeing and forces a choice: run against Trump's chosen candidate in a primary where she trails at 10 percent, or stand down. This dispatch catalogs the full timeline, from Mace's 'I would be an idiot not to at least look at it' media tour on July 12, to her team's viability polling, to the Emerson poll showing her tied for third at 10 percent, to Trump's endorsement of Graham's sister.
- July 16, 2026 · Dispatch
First poll after Graham's death puts Nancy Mace at 10 percent, tied for third, as pollster says 'no candidate begins as a clear favorite'
The first poll taken after Sen. Lindsey Graham's death, an Emerson College Polling survey for Nexstar Media fielded July 14 to 15, found no clear front-runner in the Republican scramble for his South Carolina Senate seat. Rep. Nancy Mace drew 10 percent, tied for third with Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette and behind Rep. Ralph Norman (16 percent) and businessman Mark Lynch (13 percent). No candidate reached 20 percent, and 'undecided' led the entire field at 18 percent.
- July 6, 2026 · Dispatch
Pro Se: Nancy Mace has lost her lawyers again, this time in her own defamation suit against Eric Bowman
On July 6, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace filed a Motion to Lift Stay in her own defamation case against Eric Bowman, and she filed it pro se, representing herself. On the coversheet she crossed out the entire 'Plaintiff's Attorney' block by hand, wrote 'N/A,' and wrote 'Pro Se.' The motion states she 'is now proceeding pro se in this matter, as reflected in the Notice filed June 30, 2026.' It is the second time in this cluster of cases she has gone without counsel. The three attorneys who filed and briefed the Bowman case for her, local counsel Andrew B. Moorman, Sr. and the two Washington lawyers she brought in pro hac vice, William M. Sullivan, Jr. and Alex G. Anderson, are no longer her counsel of record. A separate notice filed the same day names all three and asks the Clerk of Court to remove them. The complete eight-page motion, and the counsel-withdrawal notice, are reproduced below. Allegations on every side are contested and unproven; Bowman denies Mace's claims and has moved to dismiss, and Mace denies Bowman's.
- June 30, 2026 · Dispatch
You don't know anything about MKUltra, which is the purpose of this hearing.
At a June 30, 2026 House Oversight hearing convened specifically to examine the CIA's MKUltra program, Rep. Nancy Mace spent roughly the first two of her five allotted minutes questioning the hearing's non-MKUltra witness about Anthony Fauci, COVID-19 origins, and vaccine side effects. When the witness told her, eight separate times, that the subject was outside her expertise, Mace told her: 'You don't know anything about MKUltra, which is the purpose of this hearing.' Only then, with most of her time gone, did she turn to the witnesses who were actually there to discuss MKUltra.
- June 30, 2026 · Dispatch
Was this the voyeurism Nancy Mace was talking about?
Nancy Mace posted that voyeurism is a real issue. The clearest test of what she means is her own May 20, 2025 House Oversight hearing, which she titled 'Breach of Trust: Surveillance in Private Spaces,' where she held up a poster-sized still she said showed her own body and called it nonconsensual hidden surveillance. Maceopedia asks the narrower public-record question her hearing never answered: was that a hidden camera in a private space, or footage from a room with open windows facing a public or shared space? The two are not the same factual claim, and voyeurism turns on the difference.
- June 19, 2026 · Dispatch
Remember when Nancy Mace read a CNN guest's "kissy emoji" text into the congressional record?
A look back. On September 19, 2024, Rep. Nancy Mace used part of a House Oversight Committee hearing to enter into the official record a screenshot of a text she said Vanderbilt professor Michael Eric Dyson sent her after they clashed on CNN: "Shh don't tell anybody. We look good together," with a kissy emoji. Dyson denied hitting on her, said it was a joke, and called Mace "a bigot and racist." The clip is circulating again. In her own words and his, readers can judge.
- June 17, 2026 · Dispatch
A federal magistrate recommends sending the case Mace removed to federal court back to state court, finding her pro se removal 'untimely': 'it is RECOMMENDED that Bryant's Motion to Remand be GRANTED and that the case be REMANDED to state court.'
On June 17, 2026, U.S. Magistrate Judge Molly H. Cherry issued a Report and Recommendation in the case Rep. Nancy Mace removed to federal court (Berg v. Bryant, docketed federally as No. 2:26-cv-00305-BHH-MHC), recommending that the case be remanded to state court. The recommendation is procedural, not a ruling on the truth of anyone's allegations: the magistrate found that Mace, who removed the case and briefed the remand motion pro se, was on notice the case was removable by December 12, 2025, so her January 29, 2026 removal of the entire case was untimely. A Report and Recommendation is not a final order; the parties have 14 days to object, and U.S. District Judge Bruce Howe Hendricks will make the final decision. The underlying allegations are disputed and contested; Mace denies Bryant's claims, and Bryant denies Mace's.
- June 16, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
- June 10, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
- June 9, 2026 · Dispatch
'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.
- June 9, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
- June 9, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
- June 8, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
- June 7, 2026 · Dispatch
On her first recorded call with Ali Berg, Mace lays out a civil suit against Patrick Bryant: 'He can sell a building or two, settle, be done' and accusers 'can get 150 K each'
FITSNews published the full audio of Nancy Mace's first recorded phone call with Ali Berg. Across 44 minutes Mace asks the call stay 'private,' spends little time on the alleged assault or the man she names as the assailant, never offers a victim advocate or a referral to law enforcement, and instead pitches a civil lawsuit against her ex-fiancé Patrick Bryant, predicting he will 'sell a building or two, settle,' and that accusers could 'get 150 K each.'
- June 7, 2026 · Dispatch
"You have to hit him in his pocketbook with a civil suit": the first recorded call with Ali Berg, in her own words
A produced supercut of Rep. Nancy Mace's first recorded phone call with Ali Berg (April 6, 2024), published by FITSNews on June 7, 2026, after the recording was produced in ADW v. Berg. Across 44 minutes Mace pitched a civil lawsuit and a payout, never mentioned the police, and never offered Berg a victim advocate or counselor.
- March 4, 2026 · Dispatch
"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."
- February 24, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
- January 21, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
- January 15, 2026 · Dispatch
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.
- November 14, 2025 · Dispatch
Patrick Bryant publishes Mace's emails to his lawyers: 'You poked the wrong bear. And you will pay dearly.'
On November 14, 2025, Patrick Bryant published screenshots of emails he said a sitting Member of Congress sent to his attorneys and process server, including a profanity-laced reply to a cease-and-desist letter, an email authorizing service on two attorneys, and a reply from one of those attorneys stating she does not represent Mace. The screenshots are reproduced below; the allegations on every side are disputed and unproven.
- September 2, 2025 · Dispatch
Mace tweet: 'Full blown panic attack' after leaving Epstein victims briefing early
On September 2, 2025, Mace posted on X explaining she had left an Oversight Committee briefing with Epstein victims early, describing a panic attack she said was triggered by listening to their accounts.
- May 20, 2025 · Dispatch
At her own surveillance hearing, Mace displays a 'naked silhouette' of herself: 'That's my body. You can see the silhouette.'
Chairing a House Oversight subcommittee hearing she titled 'Breach of Trust: Surveillance in Private Spaces,' Rep. Nancy Mace held up a poster-sized image she said depicted her own body, told the room it had been captured by hidden surveillance without her consent, and said no one had been arrested. She tied the image to her ex-fiancé, Patrick Bryant, who categorically denies her allegations; the matter is contested and in ongoing litigation.
- February 10, 2025 · Dispatch
Mace's floor speech: 'I'm going scorched earth' on predators
In a roughly 53-minute House floor speech on February 10, 2025, Mace named multiple men she alleged had assaulted or exploited her and other women, vowing to 'burn this system to the ground' if necessary.
- August 28, 2024 · Dispatch
A sworn affidavit attributes a statement to Mace: 'I hacked into his [Patrick's] computer and phone'
A sworn affidavit by South Carolina journalist Ashleigh Messervy attests that at a private August 28, 2024 meeting, Rep. Nancy Mace, after explaining she 'used to be a programmer', told her: 'I hacked into his [Patrick's] computer and phone.'
- February 2, 2024 · Dispatch
Mace endorses Trump: 'Donald Trump is the only man who can save America'
On February 2, 2024, Mace endorsed Donald Trump over fellow South Carolinian Nikki Haley ahead of the state's Republican primary.