{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.marshall.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/senator-marshall-americans-want-no-part-of-marxism/", "Senator Marshall: Americans Want No Part of Marxism", "2026-07-21", "2026", "2026-07", "Republican", "Senate", "KS", "Roger Marshall", "M001198", "www.marshall.senate.gov", "marshall", "https://www.marshall.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/", "scraper", "Senator Marshall Joins Newsmax\u2019s The Big Take with Ed Henry\n\nWashington \u2013 U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kansas), joined Newsmax\u2019s The Big Take with Ed Henry to discuss the rise of Marxism in the Democrat party, ending the Iran War, gas prices across the country, passing the SAVE America Act, illegal immigrant voters in New Jersey, and the woke agenda being pushed in the Smithsonian museums.\n\nClick HERE to download the full video.\n\nOn the rise of Marxist Democrat candidates:\n\n\u201cWell, run, Kamala, run, and all these communists \u2014 they\u2019re certainly at least Marxists. So, the mainstream Democrats today are socialists, right? Socialists want bigger government, higher taxes; they\u2019ve got a government program for everything \u2014 that\u2019s your mainstream Democrats. So, here\u2019s this new group of folks that are certainly left of them \u2014 Marxists who want to blow up everything. They don\u2019t want borders; everyone should get amnesty \u2014 you know \u2014 free food for everybody. Free, free, free. And that\u2019s really hard to run against as a conservative Republican. But certainly, these Marxists out there, I think, help Republicans in the long term. Mainstream Americans want no part of Marxism.\u201d\n\nOn the strategy to end the Iran War:\n\n\u201cLook, I feel really comfortable with what the strategy is right now. Remember, I have these three basic goals. Number one is Iran cannot have nukes, next is no boots on the ground, and then thirdly is we need to pay attention to the price of gas and groceries. Now, Ed, I hate war. President Eisenhower once said, \u2018I hate war as only a soldier who lived it can.\u2019 My dad served, my brother served, I served, my son is serving. Look, I don\u2019t want war, but I think the benefits of eliminating Iran with any nuclear weapons for generations to come is worth the price. And I just deeply mourn the loss of 18 soldiers who have made the ultimate sacrifice. And I\u2019m so grateful for the hundreds of thousands of Americans who paid the price for freedom, and unfortunately, you know, freedom is not free. So, I\u2019m hanging in there with the president, but we got to rip the band-aid off and get this taken care of and done sooner than later.\u201d\n\nOn gas prices in America:\n\n\u201cYeah, well I think that\u2019s the number one challenge right now. You can just see our polling numbers go up or down based upon the price of gasoline. Thank goodness we have American energy independence. At least we\u2019re not depending on foreign countries right now as well. So as soon as this Iran conflict is over, we\u2019ll see that price come plummeting down again as well. But I\u2019m concerned about it, I have empathy towards the situation, and that\u2019s why I\u2019m hoping the President can just get this finished sooner than later.\u201d\n\nOn the SAVE America Act and illegal immigrants being registered to vote in New Jersey:\n\n\u201cWell, look, we have certainly at least 50 votes that would vote for some form of the SAVE America Act. Republicans are in favor of voter ID, in favor of proof of citizenship, and putting guardrails around mail-in ballots as well. But again, it takes 60 votes. That\u2019s the challenge over here \u2014 it takes 60 votes. The question we should be asking is: why won\u2019t one Democrat \u2014 let alone even 10 of them \u2014 vote in favor of voter ID? I think we should put these on one at a time on the Senate floor and for a whole week make the Democrats explain why they\u2019re against voter ID, why they\u2019re against proof of citizenship. Why do they think that unsolicited ballots going out to dead people, people that have moved, and canceling out my ballot \u2014 why that\u2019s a good idea or not. So, I do think that the Republicans want the SAVE Act, but how do we get there with the 60 votes remains the challenge.\u201d\n\nOn a woke agenda in the Smithsonian museums:\n\n\u201cYeah, Ed. Well, I think the last thing we need is the Smithsonians masquerading as DEI propaganda programs. And if I could just share a quick story of when I became a patriot. Second year of med school, my wife and I have our first baby. We don\u2019t have any money \u2014 my dad had served, brother had served, so I said it\u2019s my turn to serve; we need to get some money. So, we went to join the military. We did our basic training at Fort Belvoir, just down the river from Mount Vernon, and we spent all that summer. We would go to one Smithsonian at a time and spend an evening, an afternoon, a day there, and that\u2019s when I became a patriot. So, the last thing we need is history being distorted. Just present American history just as truthfully as you can with all of our warts, with all of our sins, and then let we the people decide how to interpret that. But I think that that\u2019s an America First agenda that I believe in, and so I just couldn\u2019t be more disappointed that these DEI programs are for real. Since 2014, the Smithsonians have had a DEI program and agenda; they\u2019re implementing it. They do have exhibits that push boys as girls and then making illegal aliens here citizens, that type of thing. So, they do have a DEI agenda; it makes me sick. 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