Tennessee Republicans show how to handle Dem reps who foment chaos
This is what it looks like when the GOP finds its spine.
Monty L. Donohew | May 13, 2026
In a refreshing display of backbone, Tennessee House speaker Cameron Sexton delivered a clear message to the Democrat caucus: Political terrorism will not be tolerated in the Volunteer State. As Sean Davis of The Federalist reported Tuesday, every single member of the House Democratic Caucus has been stripped of all standing committee and subcommittee assignments following their disgraceful conduct during last week’s special session on congressional redistricting. The offenses? Coordinated disruptions inside the Capitol, including setting fires, attacking law enforcement officers, and turning the legislative chamber into a circus.
Tennessee Republicans, wielding their well earned supermajority, moved swiftly after the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling against racial gerrymandering to pass a new congressional map. The map eliminates the state’s lone majority-black district in Memphis, carved out under decades of race-based mapmaking, and redraws lines to better reflect Tennessee’s overwhelmingly conservative electorate. The result could deliver a clean 9-0 Republican delegation in November’s midterms. Democrats, predictably, lost their minds.
The actual outrageous acts are worth cataloging in detail because the corporate media won’t.
Elected Democrat representatives, including the usual suspects Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, locked arms in the well of the House chamber, physically blocking proceedings and refusing to yield. They coordinated with raucous protesters packed into the gallery, who blasted air horns and noisemakers in an orchestrated attempt to drown out the vote. When troopers moved to enforce order and clear the chamber, confrontations escalated — pushing, shoving, and outright resistance that led to arrests, including of Pearson’s brother. And in a moment of pure symbolism that perfectly captured the left’s priorities, Rep. Jones burned a Confederate flag replica inside the Capitol building itself, later railing against Republicans as a “white sheet caucus.”
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