2026

What 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.

Mace 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.

"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%.'

"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.'

"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.

Mace: "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.

Mace 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.

"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.'

"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.

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.

Nancy 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.'

Mace 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.'

Mace 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.

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.

Nancy 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.'

Mace 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.

'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.'

"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.

"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."

Mace 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.

Mace'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.

3 Times Nancy Mace Went Against Trump

Nancy 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.

Mace 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.

'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.

'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.

The 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.

Mace, 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.'

The Record: What Nancy Mace Has Said About Being Sexually Assaulted, Whom She Told, and What Reached Authorities

Mace Greets El-Sayed's Senate Primary Win: 'Every Single Muslim Holding Public Office in America Is a Trojan Horse'

Conservative 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!'

'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.

Nancy 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.

Nancy 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.

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.

Norman 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.

Newsweek 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.

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.

USA 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.

Nancy 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.

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.

Nancy 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.

How 'Normal' Is 'Normal Nancy'?

Rare Earth, Wellness, and Defense Tech: Nancy Mace's Post-Congress Wish List

'I Kind of Want to Whittle Sticks': Nancy Mace Says She's Done With Elected Office

'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.

'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.

'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.

Nancy 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.

'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.

'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.'

'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.'

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).

Scalise 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.

The 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.

"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.

Mace 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.

'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.

"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.

'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.

Real, 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.

Nancy Mace's Tattoo Reveal Is Getting Killed in the Comments

Ben 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.

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.

Mace's 'Third World' Immigration Bill Lists Antigua and Barbuda as Two Separate Countries

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.

Nancy 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.

Real, 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.

The '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.

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.

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.

'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.

On 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.

Raw 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.

Nancy 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.

Mace 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).

"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.

"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."

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.

"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.

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.

"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.'

"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.

"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.

'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.

'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.

"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.'

"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.

"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.

'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.

"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.

"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.

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.

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.

"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.

"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."

"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.

"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.

"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.

"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.

"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.

"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.

"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."

"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.

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.

"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.

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.

So 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.'

"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.'

"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.

Nancy 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.

Seth 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.'

Prediction 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.

We 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.

So 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.

Trump 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.

"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.

Lawler 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.'

Mace 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.

Townhall 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.

'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.

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.

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.

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.

'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.

'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.

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.

"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.

"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.

'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.

Endora 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."

"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.

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."

"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.

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.

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.

In 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.

The "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."

"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.

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.

Trump 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.

"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.

"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.

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.

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.

Mace 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.

The hot-tub photo that became a Nancy Mace meme

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

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

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

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

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

Nancy Mace Introduces Bill To Separate Gubernatorial Races By Gender

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bathroom sheriff, fifth place

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

Latest Republican Out of a Job After Forcing Epstein Release

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

Epstein Files Crusade Takes Down Nancy Mace

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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.

Primary day: South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary

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

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

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

Kevin 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The 'Iron Lady' crashout

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

Even MAGA called it 'thirsty'

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

"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.

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."

“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.’

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.

Mace continues House duties amid governor run

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

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

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

'If you were not born in America'

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

The Cory Mills expulsion fight

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

Polling in the SC governor's race: spring 2026

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

Mace commends Melania Trump for advocating for Epstein survivors

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bessent's 'Silicon Valley' jab

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

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

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

Nancy Mace Leads American Rescue Effort in Israel Amid Iran War

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

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

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

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

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

Rep. Mace Evacuates Americans from Middle East

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

Rep. Nancy Mace Travels to Israel to Help Evacuate Americans

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

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.

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.

'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.

'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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

?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.

House squashes effort to force release of Ethics Committee files

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

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

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

Nancy Mace reacts to Ethics Committee's housing budget allegation

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

South Carolina politics: Nancy Mace ethics reimbursements

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

Nancy Mace ethics investigation, housing costs reimbursement

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

Campaign-trail activity picks up in early spring

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

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

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

Mace questions Hillary Clinton in released Oversight deposition video

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

Nancy Mace ethics inquiry: alleged improper reimbursement

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

Rep. Nancy Mace under House Ethics Committee investigation

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

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

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

Mace says DOJ is withholding "terabytes" of Epstein records

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

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

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

Mace presses the CIA on any relationship with Epstein and Maxwell

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

Mace demands the unredacted Epstein co-conspirator memo from SDNY

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

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

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

Mace 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nancy Mace Demands Immediate Release of Unredacted Epstein Files

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

Lawmakers Demand DOJ Stop Tracking Their Epstein Files Searches

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

House Ethics Committee extends Mace reimbursement review, sets March deadline

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

House Ethics Committee reviews allegations against Rep. Mace

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

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

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

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

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

“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.

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

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

"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.

'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.'

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

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