BREAKING: The Epstein Files Release Act Has Passed Both the House and Senate And Washington Is Imploding

A bipartisan rebellion, a White House pressure campaign, and a shattered GOP: the fight over the Epstein files just triggered the biggest political rupture in years.

Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) stand alongside Epstein victims during a news conference Tuesday. Credit POLITICO.

The Senate has officially passed the Epstein Files Release Act, setting off a political detonation that neither party was prepared to contain.

After weeks of internal Republican warfare, public pressure, White House interventions, and a rare cross-ideological alliance led by Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna, the upper chamber was forced into action. Senate Democrats — led by Chuck Schumer — warned they would block any attempt to weaken the House version.

Schumer framed it with cutting clarity:

“In trying to hide the truth, Donald Trump has provoked the fiercest rebellion he has faced among his supporters.”

Inside the GOP, the backlash has been volcanic.

The Trump White House spent months pressuring three Republican women — Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, and Nancy Mace — to withdraw their signatures from the discharge petition that forced the vote. Boebert was even summoned to the White House Situation Room.

All three refused.

And that refusal is what made this moment possible.

The result:
A forced vote the White House desperately tried to block and a Senate that had no choice but to pass the bill cleanly.

Even Oversight Chair James Comer quietly admits DOJ is unlikely to release anything meaningful without legal compulsion. Which means this bill — despite its limitations — is the first direct structural challenge to the bureaucracy that has slow-walked disclosures for years.

The political aftershocks are already visible:

— Trump publicly split with MTG over this bill
— MAGA grassroots are openly accusing each other of shielding predators
— Survivor-advocates call the vote a “justice milestone”
— Senate Democrats vow to oppose any last-minute carve-outs in reconciliation

As Rep. Mace put it:

“It’s a symbolism of justice for all of us… I’m emotional about it right now.”

This is no longer about documents.

This is about who gets protected, who gets exposed, and who still holds power in Washington.

And now that both chambers have passed the bill, the only fight left is ensuring the files are released exactly as written — without bureaucratic sabotage, national-security exemptions, or quiet administrative redactions.

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It Is Now Unmistakable What Speaker Mike Johnson Is Protecting

It is painfully clear that when Speaker Mike Johnson claims he is “protecting the intelligence community,” he is not talking about domestic agencies, national-security rules, or oversight structures known to the American public.

What he is protecting are Isræl’s intelligence arms — Mossad, Unit 8200, Aman (Military Intelligence) — networks repeatedly tied to political shielding, judicial interference, and evasion from U.S. accountability.

New reporting from DropSite News now documents these channels across jurisdictions — showing how U.S. cases involving politically sensitive suspects repeatedly vanish once they cross into the orbit of these networks.

This week’s votes didn’t just elevate that tension.
They exposed it.

DropSite News Epstein Expose Series

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A House Revolt for Transparency — Massie Rejects Johnson’s Amendments

In a near‑unanimous vote of 427–1, Reps. Thomas Massie, Ro Khanna, and Marjorie Taylor Greene successfully passed the Epstein Files Release Act in the House — without any alterations.

Speaker Mike Johnson had proposed amendments that would have shielded wealthy, powerful men from scrutiny and undermined victims’ credibility. Rep. Massie refused these changes, calling them a direct attack on justice and questioning the moral and religious basis behind the Speaker’s proposal.

“I cannot allow amendments that turn victims into targets and protect the powerful,” Massie later told CNN, highlighting the gravity of the situation.
“This is about truth. About accountability. And about ensuring every name, every file, every document sees the light of day.”

This was not just a political statement. It was a stand for complete transparency.’

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Speaker Mike Johnson discuss the proposed amendments

Proposed Changes by Speaker Mike Johnson. Shared by Rep. Massie — outlines exactly how the amendments would have hidden names and minimized accountability.

CNN Interview: Rep. Thomas Massie Critiques Speaker Johnson
Massie explains on air why the proposed amendments threaten victims and undermine justice, and calls out the moral contradictions.

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What Happens When Accountability Fails?

To understand why the clean passage of this bill matters, we have to look at what happens when justice is selectively enforced and how political actors intervene to shield offenders.

One case makes the stakes unmistakable:

Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, an Israeli cybersecurity operative working directly under Netanyahu’s office, was caught in a U.S. undercover sting targeting predators of minors. Eight men were prosecuted. He was the only one who vanished.

Despite a federal extradition order, Tom fled to Israel and the case evaporated under the oversight of Sigal Chattah, the Israeli-American Acting U.S. Attorney who transferred his file out of the U.S. system entirely.

That is not a loophole.
It is a system.

And it is the same system that protected Epstein’s network — the billionaires, intelligence assets, and power brokers whose names still sit buried in sealed files.
Read the full breakdown — Tom’s role, his ties to Netanyahu’s digital-surveillance apparatus, and how he escaped U.S. jurisdiction — in the article I’ll link below.

But the takeaway here is simple:

If a protected intelligence-linked predator can vanish in 2025, imagine what they will try to do with the Epstein files.

That is why the bill must remain pristine:

— No carve-outs
— No redactions
— No “national security” shields
— No donor protection
— No diplomatic exemptions
— No bureaucratic slow-walking

Every file.
Every name.
Every document.

Released exactly as written.

Because when power shields predators, the only counter-power left is exposure.

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Washington Is Already Preparing the Counter-Attack

Do not underestimate what comes next.

Passing the bill was the easy part.

The implementation phase is where:

— Agencies slow-walk releases
— Intelligence officials claim “classification conflicts”
— Billionaires hire legal teams to pre-challenge disclosures
— The White House explores “temporary holds”
— Lobbyists push for “privacy protections”

This is the moment the deep state, its political patrons, and its donor networks feared most.

And they will attempt to claw back control at the administrative level.

That is why public pressure must intensify — not fade.

Because for the first time in decades:

Congress has voted to expose the system.
Now the system will fight back.

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BONUS: A Documented Pattern: Further Reading & Correlated Cases

The case above is not an aberration. It fits a broader, well‑documented pattern in which individuals accused of crimes involving minors evade U.S. accountability after entering Israel’s orbit of legal and institutional protection.

Below are key investigations and reports that demonstrate this pattern in plain terms:

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CBS News:

“How Jewish American Pedophiles Hide from Justice in Israel”

CBS found numerous American suspects — some with active INTERPOL red notices living freely in Israel for years, shielded by legal loopholes and inconsistent cooperation between jurisdictions. [Read more here]

CBS News

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Haaretz

“Sadistic Rituals’: Survivors Testify to Knesset About Childhood Sexual Abuse Network in Israeli Religious Ceremonies”

Survivors described prolonged abuse, including rαpє, torture, and ritualized violence, alongside systematic silence from authorities. [Read more here]

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The Guardian

When Abuse Becomes Policy, Not an Accident

VIDEO EVIDENCE: Sde Teiman Assault — Israeli Soldiers Caught on Camera

The Guardian obtained surveillance footage from Sde Teiman, Israel’s most notorious detention facility, showing multiple IDF soldiers sexually assaulting a Palestinian detainee. The video sparked global outrage — but inside Israel, the response revealed something even darker. [Read more here]

RELIGIOUS ENDORSEMENT: Chief Rabbi Blesses the Soldiers Accused of Assault

Shortly after the footage surfaced, one of Israel’s most powerful religious authorities — a chief rabbi closely tied to Netanyahu’s government and considered part of his inner circle — publicly blessed and “forgave” the soldiers implicated in the assault.

This wasn’t fringe.
This wasn’t marginal.

This was the political-religious establishment signaling that such acts are not only tolerated — they are sanctified.

And as you’ll see in the next section, when the survivors and their families finally appeared in court, the system’s priorities became unmistakably clear.

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Middle East Eye

“Israeli Crowd Applauds Soldiers Accused of Raping Palestinian Prisoner”**

Two soldiers charged with gang‑rαpє were met in court with applause, cheers, and open solidarity. Their supporters chanted the name of their military unit as the suspects embraced.

This is not the posture of a system committed to accountability.
It is the posture of a system accustomed to impunity. [Read more here]

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As George Orwell warned, “All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.”

— Phantom Pain
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Thank you for reading and for refusing the comfort of ignorance.

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