VIDEOS: SPEAKER JOHNSON WILL SWEAR REP GRIJALVA IN WHEN SHE WANTS & SWEAR HER IN PROTEST AT JOHNSON'S OFFICE AT THE CAPITAL & Sign the petition: Speaker Johnson delays swearing in Democrat who would force vote to release the Epstein files 7&15&16OKT25

 HOUSE speaker fascist fotze mike johnson r-LA continues to defend his pedophile and sexual predator masters by refusing to swear in newly elected Rep Adelita Grijalva D-AZ because she will be the 218th signature on the discharge petition requiring the House to vote on releasing the epstein files and client list. The first video shows on 7 OKT 25 speaker johnson saying he would swear her in as soon as she wants to be. The second video shows protesters going with Rep Grijalva to speaker johnson's office in the US Capital demanding he swear her in. She is still waiting to be sworn in. He is a sniveling, ass licking coward.  Following the videos is a request from Demand Progress to sign their petition to the US House demanding Rep Grijalva be signed in, please sign and share with family, friends and coworkers.....

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition? JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back R: Why not now? J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

TELL THE U.S. HOUSE: Speaker Johnson won’t swear-in newly elected Democrat Adelita Grijalva, who would be the majority-clinching 218th signature to finally force a vote on releasing the Epstein files. The Arizona Attorney General has threatened a lawsuit if she’s not sworn in to represent her constituents. It’s been 3 weeks of delay on Grijalva and months of delay on the Epstein files. Sign the petition: End the cover-up — force a vote on releasing the Epstein files!

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Speaker Johnson has delayed swearing in newly elected Democrat Adelita Grijalva for three weeks.¹ Grijalva pledged to be the 218th signature on the discharge petition to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files — making a majority in the House.² But Speaker Johnson and Trump are continuing to hide the truth from the public on Epstein’s crimes and accomplices.

Speaker Johnson is using bogus excuses to delay the swearing-in just like he and Trump have used blatant delay tactics to avoid a vote on releasing the Epstein files. Now, the Arizona Attorney General is threatening to sue in order to seat Grijalva if Johnson continues to deny the people of Arizona their representation in Congress.³

Members of Congress and allies marched the halls of the Capitol this week to call for an end to Johnson blocking Grijalva from taking office. Our lawmakers in the House must keep up the pressure to seat Grijalva, force a vote, and push for the release of the Epstein files!

Sign the petition: Don’t let Trump hide. Force a House vote to release the Epstein files!

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Two Republicans who were elected to the House in special elections this year were sworn in the NEXT DAY.⁴

But Johnson is continuing to delay Grijalva’s swearing in, cancelling House votes and prolonging the government shutdown while shielding some of the world’s most wealthy and powerful people from accountability for being in league with a convicted child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Rep. Thomas Massie, one of the lawmakers leading the discharge petition to force a vote in Congress on releasing the files, said, “I believe that Trump is trying to protect rich and powerful people who are his friends, and that is why this material is not getting released.”⁵ Trump is also trying to protect himself.

The discharge petition has bipartisan support and is just one signature away from taking a big step toward answering the calls of survivors, advocates, and the public. Our lawmakers must release the files NOW.

Sign the petition: Urge your U.S. Representative to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files!

Thanks for taking action,

Joey and the Demand Progress team

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Sources:

1. AZ Central, “Arizona attorney general threatens to sue over Adelita Grijalva swearing-in delay,” October 14, 2025.
2. Bloomberg, “The House Has a New Democrat — and a Shrinking GOP Margin,” September 27, 2025.
3. AZ Central, “Arizona attorney general threatens to sue over Adelita Grijalva swearing-in delay,” October 14, 2025.
4. The Los Angeles Times, “She won a landslide election. But Trump and Jeffrey Epstein have her stuck in limbo,” October 12, 2025.
5. The New Republic, “GOP Rep Rips Trump and Kash Patel for Covering Up Epstein Files Case,” September 22, 2025.

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Democrats further narrow GOP’s House majority with Arizona special election win 23SEP25

Adelita Grijalva will succeed her father, Rep. Raúl Grijalva, who died this year. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)

WELL DONE ARIZONA!!! Rep Grijalva, you are most welcome to the Antifa fight to save our democratic Republic, we know you will make your father and Arizona proud! And we know you will be among the Progressives in the House who will keep Jeffries and Schumer from enabling the drumpf / trump-vance administration and the gop / greed over people-republican party from imposing their authoritarian theocratic oligarchy.  

Democrats further narrow GOP’s House majority with Arizona special election win

Adelita Grijalva is the projected winner of the race to fill her father’s congressional seat, trimming a Republican House majority that was already historically small.

September 23, 2025 at 11:11 p.m. EDTYesterday at 11:11 p.m. EDT

Democrat Adelita Grijalva is the projected winner of the special election Tuesday in Arizona’s 7th Congressional District, further narrowing the already razor-thin Republican House majority.

Grijalva defeated Republican Daniel Butierez, a small-business owner, according to an Associated Press projection. The former Pima County supervisor entered the race as the heavy favorite after handily winning the Democratic primary and raising significantly more money than Butierez in the campaign to fill the seat of her father, Democratic Rep. Raúl Grijalva, who died earlier this year.

Here are some takeaways from her victory:

An already narrow Republican majority grows even slimmer

Once Grijalva is sworn in, Democrats will hold 214 seats in the House to Republicans’ 219. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) has at times struggled to hold his conference together, facing some rebellion on issues such as the debt ceiling and the release of files from the investigation into sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Republicans can lose just two votes from their conference and still pass legislation.

Grijalva’s victory comes on the heels of Democrat James Walkinshaw winning a special election in Virginia, and two more special elections are scheduled for later this year to replace Rep. Sylvester Turner (D-Texas), who died on March 5, and Rep. Mark Green (R-Tennessee), who resigned on July 20. The special elections will be held Nov. 4 and Dec. 2, respectively.

The House might have to vote on releasing the Epstein files

While Democrats are likely to be glad to have another vote in the House, Grijalva might be greeted warmly by an unlikely figure: Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky), who, alongside Rep. Ro Khanna (D-California), is collecting signatures for a discharge petition to force a vote on a bill requiring the Justice Department to release all unclassified files related to the investigation into Epstein, who died in prison while awaiting trial in 2019. (A discharge petition is a method of bringing a bill to the floor when the House speaker refuses to do so.) The petition had 216 signatures before Walkinshaw won his special election this month, with all House Democrats and four Republicans supporting it. Walkinshaw signed on shortly after being sworn in, and Grijalva’s assent would be the final signature of support needed to reach the 218 it needs to force a vote.

But even if the discharge petition is successful, and the House votes to pass the bill, the measure would need Senate passage and President Donald Trump’s signature to become law, which is unlikely to happen.

The Grijalva name lives on in Congress

Grijalva, 54, will succeed her father, Raúl Grijalva, in representing Arizona’s 7th District, which spans almost the entire length of Arizona’s border with Mexico and includes Tucson, Yuma and Nogales. The 77-year-old died of complications from lung cancer in March, ending a 12-term run in the House in which he established himself as a leading voice of the Democratic Party’s liberal wing.

Adelita Grijalva ran on a platform of building on her father’s legacy and received endorsements from leading liberals, including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) and the Congressional Progressive Caucus. She cited affordable housing, defending workers’ rights, expanding welfare programs and fighting Trump’s economic agenda as top issues on her campaign website.

“This is a victory not for me, but for our community and the progressive movement my dad started in Southern Arizona more than 50 years ago,” Adelita Grijalva said after winning the Democratic primary in July.

By Alec Dent

Alec Dent is an assistant editor on the politics and government desk