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Our closing argument: The midterms are a referendum on who runs your life

Election is a choice between Republican's small government and Democrats' embrace of the radical DSA

By Lisa McClain Fox News

Published September 28, 2026 7:00am EDT

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The coming midterms lay bare a divide that runs deeper than policy and older than any party platform. Beneath every debate sits a single question, and it is the question on which this election turns: Who do you trust to run your life, you or the government? House Republicans' answer is our closing argument.

The current Republican majority arrived in Congress in January 2025 and spent the next 20 months answering that question. After record highs of hundreds of thousands of illegals streaming over the southwest border into the country under President Joe Biden, we’ve slammed the door shut. We now have the most secure border in modern American history.

Families in El Paso, Texas no longer worry about migrants roaming the streets at night. We’ve funded and empowered law enforcement for the first time since 2020, resulting in the largest recorded drop in violent crime in FBI history. Now a mother in Chicago can let her son play outside after school without worry.

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