POL November 3: The 2020 U.S. ELECTION DAY MAIN THREAD

Dobbin

Faithful Steed
Source Jovan Hutton Pulitzer
So envelopes were provided with "bar-codes" so that envelopes could be tracked to their sender/party affiliation, and "headed off" before opening and counting?

So much for the "sanctity of the vote."


And which party is putting it there Nancy?

Dobbin
 

marsh

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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGNfNyhJryY
32:22 min

Democrats Plan DIRTY TRICKS To Disqualify Trump And Marjorie Taylor Greene Because They CANT WIN

Jan 7, 2022


Tim Pool


Democrats Plan DIRTY TRICKS To Disqualify Trump And Marjorie Taylor Greene Because They CANT WIN. Prominent Democrat lawyer Marc Elias suggested republicans could be disqualified and many are saying its over the January 6th riots. Democrats have already tried to get Trump barred form holding office by impeachment but this move to go after Marjorie Taylor Greene and others wont stop republicans but it could stop populists and ensure establishment shills take control
 

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Ex-Oath Keepers spokesperson warns right-wing 'propaganda' is 'more dangerous than bullets'

Jason Van Tatenhove is in the ABC News doc "Homegrown: Standoff to Rebellion."

ByMike Levine
January 6, 2022, 1:02 AM

Video 8:49 min

Capitol insurrection: 'It felt like a warzone'

ABC News reporters reflect on the Jan. 6 Capitol riots and the lasting impact on our country.

Showing off his latest paintings celebrating Pride Month -- what he calls "a whole body of work using only trans models" -- Colorado artist Jason Van Tatenhove looks and talks nothing like he did five years ago, when he was a national spokesperson and, as he put it, "propagandist" for the Oath Keepers militia.

Homegrown: Standoff to Rebellion

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Homegrown: Standoff to Rebellion

A look at the days, events and conversations leading up to Jan. 6, 2021, from the eyes of anti-government groups, extremism experts and several ABC News correspondents who were at the Capitol that day.

At the time, wearing a camouflage jacket in Oath Keepers videos posted online, Van Tatenhove regularly warned "good Americans" that the federal government was trying to "take more of your liberties away," and urged "fellow patriots" to "take a stand."

It's "a battle between good and evil," he declared in a December 2015 video.

But now he rejects such rhetoric as "absolutely dangerous" propaganda, pushed by militia leaders and their right-wing media allies for personal and financial gain.

"I was wrong," said the 47-year-old, whose sand-colored mohawk sits atop tattoos that reach across his forehead. "I've grown, I've evolved, and I feel like now I have a wider view of what this is."

Van Tatenhove is featured in the new ABC News documentary "Homegrown: Standoff to Rebellion," now on Hulu.

PHOTO: Former Oath Keepers spokesperson Jason van Tatenhove appears in the ABC News documentary Homegrown: Standoff to Rebellion, Jan. 5, 2022.

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In an interview with ABC News, he said he's speaking out now -- a year after the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 -- to "try to atone" for his time with the Oath Keepers, and to warn Americans of what could come next if the political discourse in this country doesn't change.

"I fear the next election cycle," he said. "We've got to start talking to one another. Not with guns, and not with body armor [or] standoffs, but just talking."

According to an ABC News count, more than 20 people charged in the federal investigation of the Jan. 6 riots have alleged ties to the Oath Keepers. Scores more have alleged ties to other militia groups.

'Range war starts tomorrow'
By Van Tatenhove's description, he's always been a "consummate rebel with a very healthy distrust of the government."

Growing up in Ft. Collins, Colorado, he spent a lot of time watching documentaries. The stories of Ruby Ridge, where federal agents launched a deadly assault on an Idaho family's home in 1992, and Waco, where a federal raid on a cult compound in Texas the next year led to a fire that killed 25 children and more than 50 others, "really affected" him, Van Tatenhove told ABC News.

Then in 2014 -- at a time when he "was pretty lost" and struggling as an "independent journalist" -- he heard about Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and his family's property in Bunkerville, Nevada.

The Bundy family issued a public call for help from battle-ready Americans after federal agents seized their cattle over unpaid grazing fees.

"I don't recognize the federal government as even existing," Cliven Bundy said at the time. "Range war starts tomorrow," he warned in an online message.

MORE: How a standoff in Nevada years ago set the militia movement on a crash course with the US Capitol

"I knew that at that point I had to get there," Van Tatenhove told Cliven Bundy's son, Ammon, in an Oath Keepers video in 2015, a year after the standoff ended. "I was not going to allow another Waco or another massacre to happen if I could do anything to stop it. And I wasn't alone, there were hundreds of other people that went."

Van Tatenhove went to the Bundy ranch as an independent journalist to "cover it," he told ABC News. But many who came were armed militia men, including members of the Oath Keepers. Even Stewart Rhodes, the group's founder, was there.

That's how Van Tatenhove met Rhodes for the first time.

The standoff came to a head on April 12, 2014, when several of the Bundy family's supporters took sniper-like positions on an overpass overlooking the area, aiming their rifles toward federal agents. Fearing a bloodbath, the federal government backed down and released the cattle.

PHOTO: In this April 12, 2014, file photo, Eric Parker aims his weapon from a bridge as protesters gather by the Bureau of Land Management's base camp, where cattle that were seized from rancher Cliven Bundy are being held, near Bunkerville, Nev.

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It was a victory and a rallying cry for the nation's militia movement, Van Tatenhove said.

Rhodes liked van Tatenhove's coverage of the standoff and subsequent events so much -- Van Tatenhove said he found it "fair" -- that within a few months he asked Van Tatenhove to start working for him, Van Tatenhove recalled.

'Not without a fight'
Rhodes, a former lawyer and artist himself, founded the Oath Keepers in 2009, shortly after Barack Obama became president. It was a time of revival for the militia movement, which had lost momentum after the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995.

Looking to recruit ex-military personnel and former law enforcement officers -- who as he saw it were willing to uphold their oath "to defend the Constitution" -- Rhodes announced early on that the Oath Keepers mission was "to prevent the destruction of American liberty."

"The American people will not go down without a fight, and our would-be slave masters are greatly underestimating the resolve and military capability of the people," Rhodes posted on the Oath Keepers website at its founding.

The Oath Keepers were largely unknown before the Bundy standoff in 2014, but they got a big boost from the clash and touted it in subsequent videos posted online.

PHOTO: Jessica Marie Watkins, left, and Donovan Ray Crowl, center, both from Ohio, march down the East front steps of the Capitol with the Oath Keepers militia group in Washington, Jan. 6 2021.

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"It was the first time in our country's recent history that good Americans stood up and said, 'You know what, we're not going to let this happen on our watch,'" Van Tatenhove said in a video he made for the Oath Keepers in October 2015.

"We won that battle. But it's really not over. ... We're seeing our rights infringed upon more and more."

Speaking to ABC News recently, he said, "I have to just own that I kind of got swept up in it."

Over the next couple of years, Van Tatenhove published stories and posted videos online that promoted claims of federal government overreach and highlighted Oath Keepers' efforts to intervene in politically-charged matters around the country.

In August 2015, when several media outlets questioned why armed members of the Oath Keepers were in Ferguson, Missouri, for the one-year anniversary of the police killing of unarmed Black man Michael Brown, Van Tatenhove posted a video online defending the operation and accusing others of "really trying to demonize" the Oath Keepers.

MORE: Photos: The January 6th US Capitol attack

In January 2016, when Ammon Bundy and armed supporters took over a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon to protest arson-related prison sentences for two Oregon ranchers, Van Tatenhove posted a video from the refuge calling the takeover "an important part of the liberty movement."

In his recent interview with ABC News, Van Tatenhove said Rhodes and other anti-government figures like him "look for these hot-button topics and try to find their spin."

"And that's part of the gig," he said. "I became a propagandist for what they were doing. I feel awful about that now."

'I had to walk away'
Looking back on his time with the Oath Keepers, Van Tatenhove said there were some "red flags" even early on -- but that he just ignored them.

According to Van Tatenhove, in late 2015 -- hardly more than a year after he joined the Oath Keepers -- he "had problems" with how Rhodes and other members of the group publicly embraced Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, who had been jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, in defiance of a judge's order and a recent Supreme Court ruling.

"There are a lot of queer folk in my family," Van Tatenhove said.

At the time, Rhodes issued a statement saying the "imperial judiciary" was trying to "swallow up our Bill of Rights." And when Davis was released from jail, the Oath Keepers announced that they were heading to Kentucky to help ensure she "will not be illegally detained again," news reports said.

Van Tatenhove found that when he'd submit stories about the matter to Oath Keepers leadership, they were either "very heavily edited" or "not published at all," he said.

MORE: Oath Keeper pleads guilty in major Capitol riot conspiracy case

He now wishes he would have walked away then, but he had a sick wife and three children to support, and he was barely making a writer's salary -- "so unfortunately ... I had to think about that before just cutting ties," he said.

But Van Tatenhove said he couldn't take it anymore when the Oath Keepers "took a very hard right turn" and began associating with people like white nationalist Richard Spencer, who helped bring white supremacists and militia members together at the deadly "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.

Around the same time, Van Tatenhove recalled, he walked in on a "casual conversation" among several Oath Keepers that included "a denial of the Holocaust."

"And that to me was absolutely the last straw," he said. "I had to just turn and walk away."

By 2018, he had resigned from the Oath Keepers.

Rhodes did not respond to multiple requests from ABC News seeking comment for this story.

Trying to make amends
In Van Tatenhove's assessment, Rhodes doesn't even believe much of what he spreads -- he just wants to boost paying memberships to his organization.

"He knows that he can tap into this and make money off of it, and continue to [build] his own personal army" by "weaving these narratives and telling these stories and planting these seeds," he said.

"[They're] selling the revolution," Van Tatenhove said. And in the end, it's vulnerable people who fall prey to their propaganda.

"These are human beings," Van Tatenhove emphasized, and the patriot movement is filled with "good people." But living in rural communities, many of them feel like they've been victimized by politicians in Washington and that they "don't matter to the powers that be," he said.

So capitalizing on that frustration, "words and emotions and notions are much more powerful weapons in the long run," he said.

PHOTO: Trump supporters clash with police and security forces as people try to storm the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

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"[They're] more dangerous than bullets and assault rifles and tactical armor" because they can create the confrontations that then turn violent, Van Tatenhove said. "And I think we saw the culmination of that come Jan. 6, when the Capitol riots happened."

Rhodes, however, has insisted over the years that his organization is nonpartisan and that it only seeks to help people ensure their rights are protected.

Driving through the remote mountains of Colorado, where he now lives with his family, Van Tatenhove recently described the landscape around him as his "Zen."

"I try to capture as much Zen as I can these days," he said. "Writing every day and making art. Trying to raise my kids as best I can in a world that's turned upside down."

He said he's also trying "make amends" for his past.

"And maybe it won't do a lick of good," he said. "But you know, I'm going to try."
 

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Ex-Trumpers plot to take down The Donald…
Posted by Kane on January 7, 2022 2:17 pm

A group of former Trump administration officials are banding together in an effort to block their former boss from entering office again. The meeting of the group, announced by former White House press secretary and chief of staff to the first lady Stephanie Grisham, is scheduled for next week where they will discuss how to “try and stop” President Donald Trump and the “kind of violence and rhetoric that has been talked about and continues to divide our country.” In an interview with CNN on the morning of Jan. 6, Grisham said about 15 former Trump administration officials — some she said, who ranked higher than her — have held informal discussions and plan to meet in person.

“I think that there were a few of us who, again, have been sitting back watching him continue to manipulate and spread this big lie and continue to harm our country,” Grisham told CNN. “And [we] started some informal chats and then started throwing around ideas of what we could do, how we could formalize it.”

While Grisham did not name members of the group, people familiar with the matter said former DHS chief of staff Miles Taylor, who was revealed to be the author of Anonymous; former national security official Olivia Troye; and Anthony Scaramucci are involved. None offered additional details on the group, but an invitation was sent out to other former officials to participate as well. Grisham said next week’s meeting will be both in person and via Zoom.

“I just think that it will be important for people in this country who are still supporting him to hear from people who actually worked with him day in, day out, worked with a lot of people in his inner circle. We’re not going to just talk about the former president. We’re going to talk about the people who are surrounding him still now and who they really are,” Grisham said on CNN. “You can still be proud of his policies, you can still be behind a lot of the America First policies that he implemented, which I am, but it doesn’t have to be him. It just doesn’t have to be this man who has caused such chaos and destruction in the country.”

SOURCE

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8:47 min
 

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Why Don't We Cut Out The Middleman And Just Elect Pfizer & Merck?

FRIDAY, JAN 07, 2022 - 04:40 PM
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,

If we no longer have the capacity to distinguish between moral legitimacy and self-serving corruption, then we might as well eliminate the Middleman and vote directly for Pfizer or Merck.

There's a fancy word for cutting out the Middleman: disintermediation.

Removing intermediaries who take a cut but neither produce nor add value makes perfect sense, reducing costs and increasing efficiency.

Maybe it's time to eliminate the politicians who soak up hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign contributions from corporations and the super-wealthy and just elect Pfizer, Merck, Amazon, General Dynamics, etc. directly. Since corporate lobbyists write most of the legislation anyway, why not cut out the intermediaries in the process?

The super-wealthy buy political power via Political Action Committees (PACs and Super-PACs), think tanks and philanthro-capitalist foundations (Gates Foundation, et al.). Now that it takes tens of millions of dollars to buy the conventional "winning campaign," the political class spends much of its time fund-raising, i.e. lavishing kisses on the derrieres of corporations and the super-wealthy, implicitly promising to do their bidding better than the alternative candidates that the corporations and super-wealthy could buy.

Recall Smith's Neofeudalism Principle #1: If the citizenry cannot replace a kleptocratic authoritarian government and/or limit the power of the financial Aristocracy at the ballot box, the nation is a democracy in name only.

The reality that our elected government doesn't respond to voters has been well-established: Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens.

Politics has been reduced to claiming to serve the public while serving as handmaidens to a neofeudal autocracy. The public would be well-served by stripping away the obfuscating artifice and fakery and revealing just who's in charge.

Our "democracy" is nothing but an invitation-only auction of political power cloaked with fine-sounding excuses. Politics has always been about money, so this is nothing new; I would love to serve the public interest but gosh-darn it, I need to raise $30 million pronto or I'll lose my seat at the banquet; we're the party of noble idealism and public service, blah blah blah....

America is nothing but a vast moral cesspool that the public is told is a pristine pond of wonderfulness. The secular religion is self-interest cloaked as caring, profiteering sold as "value," fraud packaged as "finance" and rapacious monopolies marketed as "enterprise."

Many wonder why the nation is fracturing, but few bother to look at the collapse of moral legitimacy as a primary factor. Does anyone ask why trust in institutions and government has collapsed? The reason is these institutions have become little more than rackets enriching insiders and middleman-grifters; they have lost moral legitimacy which is the fundamental foundation of democracy and a market-based economy.

As I explain in my new book Global Crisis, National Renewal: A (Revolutionary) Grand Strategy for the United States, civic virtue is the foundation of social cohesion. Once moral legitimacy and civic virtue--the obligation of elites to serve the common good--have been lost, social cohesion unravels and the nation falls.

Those waiting around for campaign finance reform to actually have any positive consequences are delusional. The system serves the Corporatocracy and the super-wealthy, period, and those in power have zero incentive to do more than present threadbare simulations of "reform" to generate a short-lived illusion that we're not living in a neofeudal autocracy.

All we will have is a neofeudal autocracy until we stop voting for candidates who accept contributions from corporations and the shills and front organizations of the super-wealthy. Nothing will change for the better in America until only candidates who accept zero dollars from corporations and the super-wealthy win elections and every candidate who accepted corrupt money and tried to hide it loses by a landslide.

We don't need more toothless campaign reform; we need a populace who starts voting exclusively for candidates who only accept small contributions from the public and accept absolutely zero dollars from corporations and the super-wealthy. All the tiresome political theater serves to obscure what really matters: the difference between hard-earned moral legitimacy and the self-serving corruption of the neofeudal autocracy.

If we no longer have the capacity to distinguish between moral legitimacy and self-serving corruption, then we might as well eliminate the Middleman and vote directly for Pfizer or Merck. At least the corruption, neofeudalism and autocracy would finally be transparent.

Come on, Merck: fund a new stadium for our gladiators and you'll get my vote.

 

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Buchanan: Why The Left Cannot Let Go Of Jan. 6

FRIDAY, JAN 07, 2022 - 02:20 PM
Authored by Pat Buchanan,

“Every Day Is Jan. 6 Now.”
That was the headline over the editorial of 1,000 words in The New York Times of Sunday last.

On first read, I thought the Times was conceding its obsession and describing its mission. For the editorial began by bewailing yet anew the “horrifying” event, “the very real bloodshed of that awful day,” the “once-unthinkable trauma.”

Still, a year later, said the Times, “the Republic faces an existential threat,” as the “Capitol riot … continues in statehouses across the country, in a bloodless, legalized form that no police officer can arrest and that no prosecutor can try in court.”

“We should stop underestimating the threat facing the country. … (our) democracy … is in grave danger.”

What the Times is saying is that the electoral reforms being enacted democratically in red states — requiring voter IDs, for example, and subject to judicial review — are a Republican continuation of the Capitol riot.

Why cannot our liberal media let it go? Why does the distortion and hysteria about Jan. 6 seem to grow with each retelling?

Now, undeniably, as I wrote in a column the next morning, Jan. 6 was “The Worst of Days for Trump & Trumpists.”

“The worst of the day’s events for Trump came when a segment of a friendly crowd of 50,000 he just addressed concluded its march down the Mall to the U.S. Capitol by smashing its way into the building and invading and occupying the Senate and House chambers.

“Members of Congress were forced to flee and hide. A protester, an Air Force veteran, was shot to death by a Capitol cop. Vice President Mike Pence, who was chairing the joint session, was taken into protective custody by his Secret Service detail. Doors were broken open. Windows were smashed, and the building was trashed …

“What Americans watched was a mob occupation and desecration of the temple of the American Republic.” I added, “And the event will be forever exploited to discredit not only Trump but the movement he led and the achievements of his presidency.”

That last line understated what an obsession Jan. 6 has become for the nation’s establishment and media elite.



The left cannot let go of Jan. 6.
Indeed, it has fixated upon, exploited and exaggerated the riot to discredit and destroy the Trump presidency in the history books and to prevent Donald Trump from ever running or being elected president again.

Though Trump was exonerated by the Senate of the impeachment charge brought by Nancy Pelosi’s House, the House select committee wants to try Trump again and again in the court of public opinion and wants President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice to find some crime with which to charge and convict him.

There are other reasons the left cannot let go of Jan. 6.

Democrats have no other issue on which to run this November.

The Biden presidency has produced an uninterrupted string of disasters: the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle, the Texas border crisis, inflation, an explosion of gun violence and murders setting records in Democrat-run cities, failure to produce an adequate federal response to the delta and omicron waves of COVID-19.

Again, Jan. 6 was a riot, involving assaults on Washington and Capitol cops and the disruption of a formal congressional procedure to validate the electoral vote victory of Joe Biden.

But was Jan. 6 really the planned coup, the terrorism, the sedition, the armed insurrection, the attempt to overthrow the U.S. government?

Was Jan. 6 really comparable to Pearl Harbor and 9/11, during each of which 3,000 Americans went to their deaths in an hour’s time and major wars followed — as Vice President Kamala Harris said yesterday?

If so, why, a year after Jan. 6, 2021, has no one been charged with inciting a rebellion, sedition, treason, armed insurrection, plotting a coup, or a takeover of the government of the United States?

Thus far, all the charges prosecuted and punished are consistent with a riot, which is what Jan. 6 was. Comparisons of this three-hour mob action to Pearl Harbor and 9/11 are almost sacrilegious.

Was that QAnon shaman occupying the chair in the Senate chamber really the moral equivalent of Mohamed Atta ramming an airliner into the World Trade Center or Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto plotting the Dec. 7 surprise attack on Pearl Harbor?

Another reason for the left to paint up the horror of that day is that the perpetrators of Jan. 6 were not the radical left who battled cops and burned and looted Seattle, Portland, Milwaukee and scores of other cities in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing.

They were the “deplorables” of Trump, the populists of the American right, against whom any slander is justified.

Question: If the left is so terrified of Trump it feels it must prevent him from even running again, by imposing a criminal conviction, what does that say about the left’s belief in American democracy?

What does that tell us about the left’s trust in the people?
 

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MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell Sues Jan. 6 House Select Committee Over Subpoenaed Cellphone Records

FRIDAY, JAN 07, 2022 - 12:21 PM
Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has sued the House select committee investigating the origins of the Jan. 6 breach of the Capitol in an effort to stop telecommunications company Verizon from sharing his information with the panel.


Mike Lindell, CEO of MyPillow, speaks during a rally on the National Mall in Washington on Dec. 12, 2020. (Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times)


The lawsuit (pdf) was filed in the U.S. District Court of Minnesota on Wednesday and names Verizon, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and other members of the panel.

Lindell filed the suit after the House select committee issued Verizon a subpoena for all of his records of communication on a cellphone he regularly uses for the period between Nov. 1, 2020, and Jan. 31, 2021.

“The Subpoena demands that Verizon produce certain records associated with a cell phone number regularly used by Mr. Lindell. The cell number was assigned for Mr. Lindell’s use by Verizon’s subscriber My Pillow, Inc,” the lawsuit states.

Mr. Lindell brings this action seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to invalidate the Subpoena on several grounds and to prohibit its enforcement,” the lawsuit reads.

Lindell argues that the subpoena violates his First Amendment and Fourth Amendment rights.

Enforcement of the Subpoena would violate the rights of Mr. Lindell and of his sources to freedom of religion, speech, press, political expression, and to associate with others to advance their shared beliefs,” the lawsuit states.

“These rights are guaranteed by the First Amendment … Enforcement of the Subpoena would violate the right of Mr. Lindell to freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures, which is guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment.”

The lawsuit also claims individual members of the select committee “acted without authority because they were not validly organized as a House committee” under the rules of the United States House of Representatives.

Additionally, Lindell says that “even if the Select Committee could issue subpoenas, the Subpoena exceeds the authority of the Select Committee because it requires production of records that are far beyond the scope of the Select Committee’s investigation.”


Protesters supporting U.S. President Donald Trump gather near the east front door of the U.S. Capitol after groups breached the building’s security in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)



Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), chairman of the House of Representatives panel investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol breach, sitting beside panel vice chair Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), speaks in Washington on Oct. 19, 2021. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)


It is a veiled effort to conduct an unauthorized criminal investigation, and it is not in furtherance of a valid legislative purpose,” his lawyers wrote.

Lindell is seeking “declaratory and injunctive relief to invalidate the Subpoena on several grounds and to prohibit its enforcement” and is also asking to review the information sought by the subpoena before Verizon “so that he may assert any applicable claim of attorney-client or other privilege before the information is produced to the Select Committee.”

The Epoch Times has contacted the House select committee and Verizon for comment.

A supporter of former President Donald Trump, Lindell was advocating for election integrity amid allegations of widespread voting irregularities and election fraud following the November 2020 general election.

Lindell has questioned the results of the election on social media. In January 2021, he was temporarily banned from Twitter for repeatedly violating the company’s civic integrity policy. A month later, Twitter permanently suspended his account for violating its policy against “ban evasion.”

Early last year, the MyPillow CEO made headlines when he was photographed leaving the Oval Office with mysterious notes in his hand. Lindell told The Epoch Times that the notes, which appeared to refer to “martial law,” were not official and claimed he was helping deliver them from a lawyer who said it was a suggestion for Trump.

The nine-member bipartisan committee investigating the origins of the Jan. 6 breach of the Capitol has subpoenaed a number of people as part of its investigation, including former Trump national security adviser Mike Flynn, his former adviser Stephen Bannon and his former White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows.

Congress went on to certify Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 election after the certification session was interrupted when Trump supporters breached the Capitol in January.

Lindell told Insider on Wednesday that the subpoena was “election deflection” and that the Jan. 6 committee was “garbage.”

“This is all a big, big charade, and I’m not wasting my time on any garbage,” Lindell said. “This is an illegal, corrupt subpoena to get my phone records. I got nothing to hide, but I’m not giving them my records. Whatever happened to our right of free speech?”'

“People who think this is a normal Democrat Party are sadly mistaken. This is deep state, CCP, China—China attacked our country. This is the biggest crime ever,” Lindell said.
 

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"Preserve The Narrative": The Public Rejects The "Insurrection" Claim In New Polling

FRIDAY, JAN 07, 2022 - 10:10 AM
Authored by Jonathan Turley,

In the day long events commemorating the January 6th, Speaker Nancy Pelosi made a telling statement to her fellow members and the public at large. Pelosi declared “It is essential that we preserve the narrative of January 6th.” Part of that narrative is that this was not a riot but an “insurrection,” an actual “rebellion” against our country.

Pelosi’s concern over the viability of that narrative is well-based as shown by a recent CBS News poll.

The majority of the public does not believe that this was an “insurrection” despite the mantra-like repetition of members of Congress and the media. The public saw that terrible day unfold a year ago and saw it for what it was: a protest that became a riot. (For full disclosure, I previously worked as a legal analyst for CBS News).



Not surprisingly, the poll received little comparative coverage on a day when reporters and commentators spoke of “the insurrection” as an undeniable fact.

Yet, when CBS asked Americans, they received an answer that likely did not please many.

Indeed, CBS did not highlight the answer to the question of whether the day was really a “protest that went too far.”

The answer was overwhelming and nonpartisan. Some 76% believe that this was a protest that went too far.

That, however, was not one of the four options to the matinee question featured by CBS.

It did not allow the public to call this a riot when it asked them to describe “What happened at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021?” Why? There was the ever present “insurrection” and “trying to overthrow government.” However, the other two options were “patriotism” or “defending freedom.” That is perfectly bizarre. The most obvious alternatives to an actual rebellion in a violent clash would be a protest or a riot. However, the public was simply not given those options.

The result was predictable. Some 85% of Democrats dutifully checked “an insurrection” or “trying to overthrow government” while only 21% and 18% of Republicans agreed respectively. For those who did not see the riot as an act of patriotism or defending freedom, they were simply left without a choice.

The poll perfectly captured the state of our media. There is no choice.

Using the term insurrection is now a litmus test.

In the age of rage, one’s legitimacy is based on how your volume and fury. After the attack, I wrote that this was not an insurrection, but it was a desecration of our constitutional process. When I have used “riot” in columns, I have received a torrent of emails objecting to the characterization as proof of being an apologist or “Trumper.”

Yet, “insurrection” and “sedition” are legal terms. They have a meaning. The FBI investigated thousands after January 6th and charged hundreds. Not one is charged with insurrection or sedition or conspiracy to overthrow the country. The vast majority are charged with relatively minor offenses of trespass or unlawful entry or property damage. The type of charges that are common in protests and riots.

None of that takes away from the disgraceful conduct of these people or the legitimacy of their prosecution. It is simply not an insurrection. This was a protest fueled by reckless rhetoric that was allowed to become a full riot by a shocking lack of security preparations by the Capitol police and the District of Columbia. A large national guard deployment was rejected and critical intelligence not shared by officials planning for the long-planned protests. Again, the fault still remains with the rioters themselves but this would have remains a protest if Congress had taken obvious steps of fencing and guard deployments. Indeed, those measures were used previously in Lafayette Park when the White House security was almost breached by rioters.

Yet, there remains a determined effort to keep the “insurrection” narrative “preserved.” the New York Times recently declared “Every Day is Now Jan. 6.” This is not simply important for political purposes. Democratic members and groups are again calling for members (and Trump himself) to be disqualified from running for future offices under the 14th Amendment. The “disqualification clause” was created for actual rebels who attempted to overthrow the government in the Civil War. Self-described “pro-democracy” advocates like Marc Elias believe that nothing says democracy like barring people from voting for the candidates of their choice.

If January 6th was an insurrection, then members challenging the electoral votes were little more than Confederate rebels. As with villages in Vietnam, it seems that democracy will be saved by destroying it.

The problem is that the public is not buying it. Even when the public is not given the choice by CBS of calling this a riot rather than an insurrection, the truth emerges like water finding a way out. The poll also shows the limits of not just Speaker Pelosi but the mainstream media in preserving such narratives. Despite the endless drumbeat of coverage referring to the day as an “insurrection,” the media cannot get the public to ignore what they witnessed — any more than getting viewers to accept reporting on largely “peaceful” protests with images of burning buildings in the background. When the media was instructed to call the violent riots of prior summers “protests,” the effort to “preserve the narrative” failed with almost comical results. This is why the “Let’s Go Brandon” movement is much as a criticism of the media as a the President.

The failure to “preserve the narrative” is due to the fact that media is now locked into echo chambers of their own making. We have seen the rise of advocacy journalism where the narrative, not the news, controls in reporting. As Stanford journalism professor Ted Glasser explained “journalists need to be overt and candid advocates for social justice, and it’s hard to do that under the constraints of objectivity.”

The media, however, has become less and less relevant to public opinion.

Despite the censorship of social media companies and the support of a legion of willing academics and experts, the coverage is largely self-contained. Most networks and newspapers have largely written off half of the country. They are singing to the choir. That is reflected in the CBS poll. The public was given the same options that viewers are given every night on network and cable programs: either call this an insurrection or join the Proud Boys and call it an act of patriotism.

The disconnect is dangerous. The effort to disqualify Trump or Republican incumbents is unlikely to succeed. That will not diminish the damage.

Indeed, it will only further fuel the anger and, yes, the potential for violence on both sides. Despite the CBS poll, there is a choice for the public. It can still reach its own conclusions . . . increasingly without the help of the media.
 
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President Trump issues statement…
Posted by Kane on January 8, 2022 12:49 am

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From the Desk of President Trump

What we witnessed yesterday was the last gasps of a corrupt and discredited left-wing political and media establishment that has, for decades, driven our country into the ground—shipping away our jobs, surrendering our strength, sacrificing our sovereignty, attacking our history and values, and trying to turn America into a country that our people can barely recognize.

These radical leftists in Washington care NOTHING for American Democracy. All they care about is control over you, and wealth and riches for themselves. But they are failing. No one believes them anymore. And the day is quickly coming when they will be overwhelmingly voted out of power.

Joe Biden’s voice is now the voice of desperation and despair.

His handlers gave him that speech to read yesterday because they know the unprecedented failures of his presidency and the left-wing extremism of the Pelosi-Schumer Congress have destroyed the Democrat Party.

Part of their panic is motivated by the realization that, just like the Russia Collusion Hoax, they cannot sustain the preposterous fabrications about January 6 much longer. The truth is coming out.

But for them, the worst part of it all is the knowledge that the American People are seeing right through their phony media event—which despicably compared a Pelosi-led security failure at the Capitol to the darkest days in American history and the deaths of 3,000 Americans.

The people see right through that sham. They see a cynical politician who ran for office promising unity who is now doing the most divisive thing possible—slandering his political opponents as domestic terrorists, just like insecure dictators do in communist countries.

The American People also see that January 6 has become the Democrats’ excuse and pretext for the most chilling assault on the civil liberties of American citizens in generations. It is being used to justify outrageous attacks on free speech, widespread censorship, de-platforming, calls for increased domestic surveillance, appalling abuse of political prisoners, labeling opponents of COVID lockdowns and mandates as national security threats, and even ordering the FBI to target parents who object to the radical indoctrination of their children in school. And this week, January 6 is also the Democrats’ excuse for trying to pass a radical Federal takeover of state election law. They are trying to BAN voter ID and other basic measures that can ensure the sacred integrity of the vote.

The reason the Democrats are doing all of this is not because they believe they will win a fair and honest election. It’s because they know they will overwhelmingly LOSE one. Remember, I am not the one trying to undermine American Democracy—I am the one trying to SAVE American Democracy.

Today, I am more confident than ever in the strength and common sense of the American People. They are counting the days until we will no longer have to be constantly lectured, lied to, and dictated to by corrupt politicians and their media partners. When we will no longer have to put up with this broken establishment’s hoaxes and its manufactured media narratives—And as Biden and his radical handlers know, that day is coming fast. Because in the months and years ahead, the American People are going to speak up, take action, and VOTE in massive numbers, and we are going to TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY.

From the very beginning, all that Americans have wanted is great jobs, safe neighborhoods, strong borders, good schools, a proud nation, and a government that LISTENS to the American People. That is what our movement has always been about—and that is what we are focused on to this day. Biden and the Radical Democrats have failed on every front. But do not lose hope.

America WILL be Great Again.
 

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As Georgia ballot harvesting probe starts, some election evidence has vanished already

Some big Georgia counties say they didn't retain surveillance video from absentee drop boxes in the 2020 election.

Updated: January 7, 2022 - 10:56pm

Since 1960, federal civil rights law has required state and local election officials to "retain and preserve" records relating to elections involving federal officeholders for 22 months after ballots are cast.

That would seem to be a good thing as Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger embarks on an investigation into whether third-party liberal activists in 2020 illegally gathered and delivered absentee ballots for voters — a practice known as harvesting that is outlawed in the Peach State.

But some of Georgia's largest counties tell Just the News that they no longer possess evidence that could be helpful to probing the harvesting allegations: video camera surveillance footage that monitored the drop boxes installed around Georgia to help voters cast ballots during the pandemic.

Election officials in several counties say the reason they discarded the footage is that the emergency rules issued by the State Elections Board said they only needed to keep the footage for 30 days after the election.

"We took direction from the Secretary of State and State Election Board, assuming they were not implementing a Rule contrary to law," said the Cobb County elections office, which acknowledged it deleted its video footage from 2020. "Drop boxes were established under an emergency order from the Governor."

Fulton County, home to Atlanta and the state's largest voting metropolis, said it too has long since deleted the files.

"I was informed that the videos were only required to be kept for 30 days post-election," spokeswoman Regina Waller said. "Please see bullet point number 5 of the attached SEB Rule regarding Elections in Georgia."

Dekalb County, a Democratic stronghold just north and west of Atlanta, told the Just the News it believes it may still have retained video footage and it would be available via open records request.

Earlier this week, Just the News reported that Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has opened an investigation into an allegation of systematic ballot harvesting during the state's 2020 general election and subsequent U.S. Senate runoffs and may soon issue subpoenas to secure evidence.

The allegation is contained in a detailed complaint filed Nov. 30 by conservative voting integrity watchdog group True the Vote in which the organization claimed to have amassed evidence that scores of activists worked with nonprofit groups to collect and deliver thousands of absentee ballots, often during wee-hour operations, to temporary voting drop boxes distributed around the state during the pandemic.

The group alleged its evidence included video footage from surveillance cameras placed by counties outside the drop boxes as well as geolocation data for the cell phones of more than 200 activists seen on the tapes purportedly showing the dates and times of ballot drop-offs, according to documents reviewed by Just the News.

The group also said it interviewed a Georgia man who admitted he was paid thousands of dollars to harvest ballots in the Atlanta metropolitan area during the November election and Jan. 5 runoffs. State officials say obtaining the identity of that witness and securing his possible cooperation is a high priority for the investigation.

Raffensperger confirmed to Just the News he considers the allegations credible and has opened a probe and said the surveillance footage would be one piece of evidence his team could review.

"We did deploy drop boxes that were under 24/7 surveillance, and because they were then that really, you know, can indicate who dropped that information off, and we're really just going through that," he said.

The revelation that some of Georgia's largest counties destroyed the surveillance video means Raffensperger's team most likely will be limited to reviewing the footage that True the Vote or other groups obtained a year ago at the start of their investigations into harvesting. Officials estimate that footage covers about 15% of all of the drop boxes in the major urban areas around Atlanta.

True the Vote alerted Raffensperger's office back in November that at least three counties claimed not to have retained the video footage and asked his office to investigate whether that violated the federal preservation requirements from the Civil Rights Act of 1960 or the state requirement, which required the footage be preserved for at least 30 days or until all challenges to elections were resolved, which ever was later.

The group said in its complaint to Raffensperger's office that many counties were already missing the video footage in early 2021 even though some of the elections were still being contested in court, suggesting it violated both the state retention requirement and the federal requirement.

Attorney General Merrick Garland last year issued a memo reminding all election jurisdictions nationwide of their obligations to preserve federal election records for 22 months after the 2020 election.

The Garland memo stated: "The Civil Rights Act of 1960, now codified at 52 U.S.C. §§ 20701-20706, governs certain '[f]ederal election records.' Section 301 of the Act requires state and local election officials to 'retain and preserve' all records relating to any 'act requisite to voting' for twenty-two months after the conduct of 'any general, special, or primary election' at which citizens vote for 'President, Vice President, presidential elector, Member of the Senate, [or] Member of the House of Representatives,' 52 U.S.C. § 20701. The materials covered by Section 301 extend beyond 'papers' to include other 'records.'

Jurisdictions must therefore also retain and preserve records created in digital or electronic form."

Waller, the Fulton County spokeswoman, said Georgia's largest county doesn't believe the federal law covers the drop box video surveillance. "Video of people dropping ballots into drop boxes are not election records and are governed by the SEB rule," she said.

But Phill Kline, the former Kansas attorney general and current head of the election integrity group The Amistad Project, said the federal law clearly would cover video showing the depositing of ballots at drop boxes.

"The preservation of all election materials is a crucial part of the civil rights act and the law's assurance of transparent elections to prevent fraud," he told Just the News. "Moreover, election officials promised the American people when they in an unprecedented fashion recklessly utilized hundreds of ballot drop boxes that appropriate security measures would be taken and fraud would be detected through video surveillance.

"To learn this promise has been breached, evidence has been destroyed and the law broken is astonishing. It is this lack of accountability and transparency by public officials, and not citizens questioning the manner in which the election was conducted, which is undermining faith in American elections."

Vernon Jones, a former Democrat state senator from Georgia who changed parties and is now running for governor as a Republican, said the revelation that some surveillance video has been destroyed shows state officials should have done a forensic audit like he requested and reviewed the tapes long ago.

"My calls for a forensic audit of all 159 counties have been ignored by Georgia's Governor & Secretary of State," he said. "More than ever before a forensic audit is needed before additional vital election records are destroyed."

State officials say, however, there is plenty of video footage and other evidence to work with and the most important mission at the start of the probe is to ascertain the identities of people who participated in the alleged harvesting.
 

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Green Bay mayor wants penalties, Republican lawmaker wants answers in election probe

City’s mayor, Eric Genrich, is asking a judge to punish former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Mike Gableman for what he says are “false statements” in election integrity probe.

By Benjamin Yount
Updated: January 7, 2022 - 11:06pm

The latest turn in Wisconsin’s 2020 election investigation is focusing on Green Bay.

The city’s mayor, Eric Genrich, asked a Waukesha County judge to punish former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Mike Gableman for what he says are Gableman’s “false statements.”

"To ask this Court to initiate a process that could result in the confinement of the mayor of a Wisconsin city by the sheriff in a distant county without providing this Court with any of the material facts it would need to analyze such a request is an extraordinary attempt to mislead the Court and invites sanction," Genrich’s request states.

He wants the judge to order Gableman to take-out a full-page ad in the state’s three largest newspapers – the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the Green Bay Press-Gazette and the Wisconsin State Journal – and admit he was wrong.

Gableman has said Genrich has repeatedly refused to cooperate with his investigation into Green Bay’s role with the so-called Zuckerbucks, and how outside activists ended up with so much access to Green Bay’s voting operation.

Gableman is not the only one who wants those answers.

State Rep. Janel Brandtjen, R-Menomonee Falls, who is running her own election investigation in the State Assembly, on Thursday said Genrich has a responsibility to tell voters the truth.

“Mayor Genrich has been given multiple opportunities to come before the committee and explain why an outside operative from New York City was allowed to interfere with an election process that is reserved for duly appointed officials,” Brandtjen said. “The people of Wisconsin deserve answers, not stonewalling and gaslighting from their elected leaders.”

This could be the final month for Gableman’s investigation.

A handful of court decisions about just how much power Gableman has are due in the next week or so.

Meanwhile, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, has asked Gableman to wrap up his probe by the end of the month.

Vos said he wants recommendations for legislation to shore up voting processes by February, and wants to see votes on those plans by the end of the spring session.
 

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'What is she hiding?’ Top Republican accuses Pelosi of coverup by withholding Jan. 6 documents
Rep. Rodney Davis says he believes security posture of Capitol Police has not been fixed year after tragic violence.

Updated: January 6, 2022 - 10:52pm

The top Republican on the House committee that oversees U.S. Capitol security is blasting Speaker Nancy Pelosi for refusing to release key evidence showing the security planning prior to the Jan. 6 riots and is warning that the police force that protects lawmakers has not reformed itself enough to avoid another tragedy.

"We know there were intelligence analysis failures at the Capitol Police," Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) told the John Solomon Reports podcast during an interview Thursday on the one-year anniversary of the Capitol riots. And frankly, John, I don't think those have been corrected yet.

"Our job is to protect the Capitol, and they're making the same bad decisions," he said.

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Capitol Police have said they have implemented numerous reforms since last year's riots and have fundamentally changed the way they evaluate security threats, but not all lawmakers are convinced enough change has been made.

Davis has twice been at the center of harrowing security incidents involving Congress, the riot last year and the summer 2017 shooting when he scrambled to safety after a Bernie Sanders-inspired activist opened fire on lawmakers practicing for the annual congressional baseball game. The latter incident, deemed an act of terrorism, left Rep. Steve Scalise seriously wounded and was ended when Capitol Police officer killed the suspect after a long gun battle.

Davis, the ranking Republican on the House Administration Committee, which oversees Capitol security, said lawmakers are frustrated that Pelosi has blocked the release of information — including contemporaneous communications — showing what the Capitol Police and the House Sergeant at Arms discussed as security needs before a planned Jan. 6, 2021 protest by pro-Trump supporters that eventually spiraled out of control into the riots.

The former Capitol Police chief, Steven Sund, has said he requested National Guard be sent ahead of time to assist his force but was told the request was rejected for reasons of "optics." The Trump administration had offered to activate the Guard days before the riots.

Another official disputed the ex-chief's account, but the documents showing what actually transpired between them have been blocked from release by Pelosi, even as the Democrat-led Jan. 6 Select Committee demands documents and testimonies from former Trump officials about the Jan. 6 tragedy.

"They will not comply and give that info to us," Davis told Just the News. "At a time when the Speaker through this sham Select Committee is asking and getting voluntarily thousands of communications from people who are no longer employed by government, she is denying that committee of jurisdiction access to government communications. What is she hiding?

"All we ever asked for is we want communications leading up to and on Jan. 6, we want to be preserved, we want to be turned over to us, because my job, my job is to make sure that the Capitol is secure. And it's laughable to think that that's not germane to making sure that we don't make those same mistakes again."

Davis said he is determined to get the withheld documents, and his best chance may be if Republicans win control of Congress in the November elections.

"I fully expect to be chairman when we take the majority. And I guarantee you, we will get these communications," he said. "But by then, it's two years past the time when the American people should have seen what did, or in many cases, did not happen to prepare our cops and our security apparatus prior to January 6."

Davis also said lawmakers have not been able to get an explanation for why a security request was made Jan. 5, 2021 to remove bike racks from the Capitol grounds, another tantalizing sign that officials may have feared violence was coming.

Davis sent a letter renewing his request for the withheld memos that lay out the biggest unanswered questions about security lapses before and during the Jan. 6 attack. They include:
  • Why was then-Chief Sund's Jan. 4 request for National Guard support denied?
  • Did then-Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving get permission or instruction from Pelosi's office on Jan. 4, 2021 prior to denying Chief Sund's request for the National Guard?
  • What conversations did the Speaker's office have with and what guidance did it provide to the Sergeant at Arms leading up to Jan. 6 specific to the security posture of the Capitol?
  • What conversations did Pelosi's office have during the attack on the Capitol, and what response did you give security officials on January 6 when Chief Sund requested National Guard support that required your approval?
  • Why are House Officers refusing to comply with preservation and production request to turn over requested materials relevant to the events of Jan. 6?
 

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Arizona Senate President Karen Fann Responds To Maricopa County’s Audit Review: “Looking Forward To Hearing From The Attorney General On The Results Of His Investigation.”

By Jordan Conradson
Published January 7, 2022 at 7:00am

Arizona Senate President Karen Fann released a response to Maricopa County’s audit review, where they finally admit that illegal votes were cast in the stolen 2020 Presidential Election.

The Gateway Pundit reported yesterday that, Maricopa County released a 93-page analysis of the Arizona Senate’s audit and held a four-hour-long special meeting to discredit the audit’s findings.


The County admitted in their report that illegal ballots were cast in the 2020 Election, but they still claim that all reports from the Senate audit are false.

Senate President Fann highlighted the fact that the county is finally joining the Senate and submitting evidence of voter fraud to the Arizona Attorney General.

This appeared to be a last-ditch effort by the County to cover their tracks and claim the election was secure.

President Fann is looking forward to reforming elections next legislative session which starts on Monday, and the results of the Arizona Attorney General’s investigation.

We are also awaiting the final report from the router and Splunk log analysis.

This will tell us more about internet connectivity and the transfer of data.
President Fann Responds to Maricopa County’s Audit Review
Thursday, January 6, 2022
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President Karen Fann Responds to Maricopa County’s Recognition of Needed Improvements To Its Elections Processes
“From day one, the Arizona Senate’s efforts have been in pursuit of a singular goal – identifying and implementing improvements to our election’s processes. Although it took 14 months and a costly audit, Maricopa County yesterday joined us in pursuit of this worthwhile objective. Finally, the County identified and submitted instances where ballots may have been cast illegally to the Attorney General. Finally, the County admitted that ballots had in fact been scanned and counted twice. Finally, the County is adding processes to better identify double-counted ballots, a new system to check for deceased voters, and changing how it tracks and stores duplicate ballots,” said President Karen Fann (R-1).

“As our efforts have clearly shown, elections processes here in Arizona are not designed to be easily audited, unlike every other government process accountable to citizens. Now that the County is joining us, we look forward to implementing improvements to add ease, authentication, transparency, and accountability to our elections processes in the coming legislative session. Maricopa County took an important first step with us yesterday, and we look forward to their cooperation to improve voter confidence in our elections going forward,” said President Fann. “Meanwhile, we’re still reviewing this report, while patiently waiting for data from the Special Master on the routers and splunk log. We’re also looking forward to hearing from the Attorney General on the results of his investigation.”
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich received all evidence of fraud in Maricopa County over three months ago, and he has spent a long time investigating this crime.

A recent election integrity hearing in Pima County, Arizona provided even more evidence of fraud statewide in Arizona.


Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers looks to decertify this coming session, and she demands an update from Attorney General Brnovich on his criminal investigation.


Contact Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich to demand justice for the true insurrection on November 3rd.
 

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JAN 28-30: Women Fighting For America Announce The TAKE ACTION TOUR With AZ State Rep. Mark Finchem And General Flynn

By Jordan Conradson
Published January 7, 2022 at 7:30am
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Women Fighting for America has announced a “historical unification event” scheduled for January 28-30, 2022.

The “TAKE ACTION TOUR” will launch in McAllen, Texas.


The focus of this tour is Domestic Security, a state government responsibility, and taking back States’ Rights through citizen-led action.

Some of the responsibilities of state governments include election integrity, border security, and other civil rights.

Women Fighting for America released the following media advisory with the help of Arizona State Representative Mark Finchem.
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MEDIA ADVISORY
MCALLEN, TX…JANUARY 4, 2022 Women Fighting for America announces a historical unification event scheduled for January 28-30, 2022, the launch of the TAKE ACTION TOUR in McAllen, TX. The event will highlight key components of Domestic Security. While National Security is a federal government matter, Domestic Security is a state government responsibility.

The event will feature experts in the fields of election integrity, border security, civil rights, education and biblical citizenship, providing context, content and action steps that citizens can take to encourage their local and state government leaders. The mission is to restore election integrity, and operational control over the interior of our counties and states. Specific areas of action will cover state laws and county ordinances, learning how to block cartel’s control (impacting community safety), ballot fraud protection, restoration of abridged civil rights, and a strategy to take back our public school districts from the Critical Race Theory (CRT) educational bureaucracy.

“Election integrity is an important foundation stone of our constitutional republic, it is the personal franchise, the consent to be governed, which makes our nation unique amongst all nations. We are not a democracy as has been taught in our schools for decades, and our right to a republican form of government is enshrined in the Constitution of the United States under Article IV, Sec. 4, ‘The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion…’ But when our people don’t know this, how will they defend their rights?”, says Arizona Representative Mark Finchem, national spokesman for election integrity.

Tour organizer Christie Hutcherson, Founder of WFFA explains, “Women Fighting for America is a philanthropic organization dedicated to educating and empowering women to establish a unified vision for America. We support and defend our liberty and freedom and an America where everyone can pursue their American dream. Today, Americans’ closely held beliefs and freedoms are under constant attack.

We will not stand idly by and let America become another failed socialist experiment. This TOUR is designed to equip, energize and empower men and women to counter the existential threat that we now face.”

Media POC… Liza Rickard westandamerica@protonmail.com
Tour Organizer… Christie Hutcherson Christie-WFFA@ProtonMail.com
McAllen Event Ticket Platform… www.WeStandAmerica.com
Tour Information…www.TakeActionTour.us
Sponsorship Opportunities… Reni Moon floridawffa@protonmail.com
www.WFFA.win
womenfightingforamerica@protonmail.com Headquartered in Jacksonville, FL USA
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Register for this event at westandamerica.com

Arizona State Rep. Mark Finchem told Twitter, “This is going to be epic”.

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It’s time to defend our God-given rights.
 
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Newsmax Documentary ‘Day of Outrage’ Exposes Abuse of Jan. 6 Political Prisoners And Media Lies Surrounding ‘Insurrection,’ Airs Sunday At 8pm — with TGP’s Cara Castronuova as Contributor

By Alicia Powe
Published January 7, 2022 at 1:45pm

Newsmax will air “Day of Outrage,” a documentary detailing the tragic events of January 6, 2021 on Sunday.

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The new documentary exposes the mistreatment of the January 6th detainees and debunks lies surrounding the January 6 riot with careful examination of the events that led up to that fateful day, award-winning director and producer of “Day of Outrage” Jack Thomas Smith told The Gateway Pundit:
I sat on my couch watching it on TV, just like a lot of people, most people. Initially, I thought, ‘They shouldn’t be doing this.’ But then, the media kept that narrative going to calling them, insurrectionists. We have the footage of the police officers, allowing people in the Capitol building, footage of protesters walking peacefully through the rotunda who were just looking around and taking selfies. They were a praying in the Capitol building — they certainly were not insurrectionists.

If these were insurrectionists, don’t you think someone would have brought a firearm into the building? When you see the mainstream media claim these people were trying to overthrow our government – I mean, that’s absolutely ridiculous. They weren’t not trying to overthrow our government. They were upset with the results of an election.

More on this issue needs to be covered and addressed and that’s kind of what we did with this documentary. We showed what happened before, during, and after January 6 and all three stages are important.

It was a peaceful protest, uh, that became unruly and at times violent because of a small group of people.

We touch upon whether there were FBI informants in the crowd or any type of instigators, but we are planning to do another documentary that takes deeper dive on that. My bigger goal was with this documentary is to humanize the January protesters. We tell Ashley Babbitt’s story from childhood, her time and service in the air force, you know, and, and right up until that tragic day, when she was hurt by a Capitol police officer.

People were concerned about the integrity action and that’s why they attended the rally to peacefully protest and have their voices heard.

Keep in mind that was after the summer of 2020 with the George Floyd riots and all that violence and COVID lockdowns, people losing their jobs and losing their businesses.

View: https://youtu.be/0wGXfOf2Syw
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Federal detainment and abuse of protesters who are languishing in DC jails for months with no trial is a trademark of communist rule, warns Smith, who also produced the documentary “Socialism in America,”
If we compare what’s happening here to how socialism and communism started and ultimately destroy other countries –Venezuela, Cuba, China, and the Soviet Union — the similarities are striking. If you look at the cultural revolution in China during the 1960s and 70s, you see what’s happening today in the United States. Then, if you look at how socialism infiltrated Venezuela, the similarities are really uncanny.
The documentary features exclusive interviews with Greg Kelly, host of Greg Kelly Reports, Sebastian Gorka, former strategist to President Trump, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), retired U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Jessie Jane Duff, Senior Analyst for Strategy at the Center for Security Policy J. Michael Waller, Ashli Babbitt’s mom Micki Witthoeft, Ashli Babbitt’s husband Aaron Babbitt, January 6th detainee Kenneth Harrelson’s wife Angel Harrelson, former January 6th detainee Chris Worrell’s fiancée Trish Priller, and business owner Roberto Minuta.

“Day of Outrage” will air on Newsmax on Sunday, Jan. 9th at 8pm Eastern.

*It is noteworthy that Gateway Pundit contributor Cara Castronuova has been credited as a “consultant” on this documentary.
 

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EXCLUSIVE: Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan Responds to Misleading Mainstream Media Reports on His Company’s Shutdown …Update: With GiveSendGo Campaign to Cover Audit Costs

By Jim Hoft
Published January 7, 2022 at 7:00pm
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Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan

Cyber Ninjas is closing shop. The Florida company was hired to run the Arizona Senate audit of the 2020 election in Maricopa County, Arizona’s largest county.

Maricopa voted Democrat for the first time since Harry Truman after World War II. It must have been Joe Biden’s charisma? Or maybe it was fraud?

The media attacked the Florida firm mercilessly for running the investigation on the questionable results in Maricopa County.

The audit found evidence of alleged illegal activity and over 700,000 suspect ballots issues.

This morning we spoke with Doug Logan, CEO of Cyber Ninjas.

Doug told us the media reports were misleading. The company’s decision to shut down had nothing to do with the court ruling this week in Arizona. An Arizona judge fined Cyber Ninjas $50,000 a day for noncompliance with an August order to turn over audit-related records to the far left Arizona Republic.

Doug said the company paid off many of its creditors but was still in debt. In fact, Cyber Ninjas laid off workers in January and made the decision to shut down last year.

Logan mentioned that he believes the Arizona Senate should have paid more per their contract. He did say his employees were all paid before they were let go.

We will update this post as we hear more.

The fake news mainstream media put its predictable spin on the story.
Cyber Ninjas, the Florida firm hired by Arizona Senate Republicans to conduct a partisan review of Maricopa County’s 2020 ballots, said Thursday evening that it is not longer in business. “Cyber Ninjas is shutting down,” company representative Rod Thompson told NBC News. “All employees have been let go,” including CEO Doug Logan.

But an Arizona judge who had just fined it $50,000 a day for noncompliance with an August order to turn over audit-related records to The Arizona Republic, wasn’t having it.

“The court is not going to accept the assertion that Cyber Ninjas is an empty shell and that no one is responsible for seeing that it complies,” Maricopa Superior Court Judge Hannah told Cyber Ninjas lawyer Jack Wilenchik. He questioned the company’s insolvency, citing millions in donations, and suggested it needn’t cost much to comply with the records request. Hannah said the fines would start to accrue Friday, and may be applied to individuals in the company.

“Wilenchik has asked to quit as the Cyber Ninjas lawyer because he hasn’t been paid, but Hannah refused to approve until new local attorneys are in place to represent the firm,” The Associated Press reports.

The Republic had requested $1,000 a day in sanctions, but Hannah called that “grossly insufficient” to compel Cyber Ninja’s compliance.

“It is lucidly clear on this record that Cyber Ninjas has disregarded that order,” he said in his ruling.

State Senate President Karen Fann (R) hired Cyber Ninjas to conduct what she called a “forensic audit” of Maricopa’s ballots, part of a broader effort by allies of former President Donald Trump to find evidence for his claim the election was stolen. Cyber Ninja, which had no election review experience, eventually found that Trump lost the county, and Arizona, to President Biden by more votes than originally counted.
 

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“Non-Partisan” Judge Who Ordered PRIVATE COMPANY “Cyber Ninjas” To Give Up Personal Communications To Leftist Newspaper Or Face $50K/Day Fine Donated To Campaigns of Anti-Trump US Lawmakers

By Patty McMurray
Published January 7, 2022 at 8:35pm

On November 9, an Arizona Appeals Court declined to grant the request of private corporation Cyber Ninjas Inc. to prevent the Arizona Republic, a Gannett owned publication, from forcing them to turn over their private communications

100 Percent Fed Up reports – Cyber Ninjas Inc., a private corporation retained to serve as the primary vendor to audit voting equipment and ballots cast in the Maricopa County election in November 2020, sought relief from Superior Court Judge John Hannah’s order that it turn over copies of public records that it possessed.

Jack Wilenchik of Wilenchik & Bartness appealed the decision.
“These courts have refused to recognize that a public record must actually be public—meaning it must be owned by the government, much less in its possession. Ordering a private company to produce its own records to the government violates the 4th and 4thAmendments inter alia,” he said in an email. “The Court’s decision also opens up every single employee of the government to being sued on a public records request, because they are all ‘custodians’ of public records in the court’s view.”
Following the AZ Appeals Court decision, Law.com reported on the case.
The Arizona Senate initiated the audit and retained Cyber Ninjas, who then hired multiple private companies to assist in the audit, according to court records.
In June, the Arizona Republic newspaper submitted a public records request to Cyber Ninjas to review documents relating to the audit, but the company did not produce any records to the newspaper’s request.

Phoenix Newspapers Inc. filed a statutory special action under Arizona’s PRL (Public Records Law), claiming that Cyber Ninjas is in sole possession of audit-related public records because of its contract with the Senate. Senate President Karen Fann and other Senate officials were identified in the special action.

Cyber Ninjas moved to dismiss the complaint, but Hannah denied the request and ordered it produce copies of the public records relating to the audit.

The vendor claimed it could not be subject to suit under the public records law because it is not a public entity.

“Cyber Ninjas argues that the logic of the superior court’s order would open the files of all government contractors to public inspection. We need not decide the extent to which the PRL applies to businesses that contract with the government to provide ordinary goods or services that government regularly purchases for the public,” Cruz wrote on behalf of the court. “Contrary to Cyber Ninjas’ contention, our ruling does not mean that construction companies and office-supply vendors will have to rush to establish new ‘public records’ departments.”
Yesterday, after hearing the case, the “non-partisan” Maricopa Superior Court Judge John Hannah ordered the Cyber Ninjas firm to pay a $50K per day fine until it turns over records from their review of the Maricopa County forensic audit to The Arizona Republic, a leftist publication owned by Gannett.

Shortly after the judge’s decision was made, it was announced that Doug Logan’s Cyber Ninja operation was shutting down. Doug Logan refuted the reports about Cyber Ninjas shutting down, calling them “misleading.”
Fox 26 News Henry spoke with Doug Logan. Here is their report who told them the reports about his company shutting down over the judge’s ruling are “misleading” and that the company’s decision to shut down had nothing to do with the court ruling this week in Arizona.

The Florida company was hired to run the Arizona Senate audit of the 2020 election in Maricopa County, Arizona’s largest county. Maricopa voted Democrat for the first time since Harry Truman after World War II. It must have been Joe Biden’s charisma? Or maybe it was fraud?

The media attacked the Florida firm mercilessly for running the investigation on the questionable results in Maricopa County.

The audit found evidence of alleged illegal activity and over 700,000 suspect ballots issues. An Arizona judge fined Cyber Ninjas $50,000 a day for noncompliance with an August order to turn over audit-related records to the far left Arizona Republic.

Doug said the company paid off many of its creditors but was still in debt. In fact, Cyber Ninjas laid-off workers in January and made the decision to shut down last year. Logan said his employees were all paid before they were let go.
According to The Hill, in June 2021, the Arizona Republic sued Cyber Ninjas and the state Senate for records and asked for $1,000 a day in sanctions against the company.
Publications and individuals frequently utilize FOIAs to obtain information from a government or federal agency, but we are unfamiliar with the practice of newspapers forcing individuals to release personal communications to them or judges allowing them to do so.
The Hill also reported that on Aug. 24, 2021, Judge Hannah ordered the Cyber Ninjas to turn over public records, including emails and text messages, among others, to the Arizona Republic.

In his Thursday ruling, Hannah found Cyber Ninjas in contempt of that order.

Maricopa Superior Court Judge John Hannah is listed as “non-partisan” on the Ballotpedia website.

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So, how “non-partisan” is Judge Hanna?

The “non-partisan” judge has a long record of donating to ActBlue, a donor site for Democrat candidates and radical leftist groups, organizations, and causes.

Here’s a look at the “non-partisan” judge’s donor record on the FEC.gov website, including US Senator Kristen Sinema and US Rep. Greg Stanton.

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Judge Hannah made the maximum individual donation allowed by law to anti-Trump Democrat US Senator Krysten Sinema in 2017.

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But there’s more…

David Bodney of Ballard Spahr, a law firm that represents the Arizona Republic, aka AZ Central, is the same law firm that represents the Biden regime in multiple radical cases. They also represented Biden’s former boss, Barack Obama.

Given Judge John Hannah’s record of supporting anti-Trump Democrats, is he really the best person to be sitting on the bench in this case that involves the Cyber Ninjas, the #1 enemy of the Democrat Party in Arizona? And why is Biden’s law firm representing the Gannett-owned publication suing for Doug Logan’s communications? It certainly appears, at least on the surface, as though Doug Logan certainly has an unfair advantage in the fight to protect his personal communications.
 

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It's Nancy’s Fault! U.S. Rep. Stefanik Torches Pelosi: Speaker ‘Bears Responsibility’ For Jan. 6th Capitol Riot
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With President Biden failing miserably in his first year in office, the Democrats are using today’s anniversary of the January 6th Capitol protests to blame former President Donald Trump and his supporters for their “insurrection.”

What is not getting coverage in the mainstream media is the fact that President Trump (at the time) had requested for the national guard to be called up days before, but Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Capitol police refused to take the help, allowing for embedded ANTIFA radicals to enter the Capitol building on the 6th.

There are some conservatives who are speaking out reminding America of who is responsible for January 6th. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) asserted that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) shared blame for the riot that occurred on January 6 at the U.S. Capitol.

Stefanik, who serves as House GOP Conference chair, released a statement on the eve of the Capitol breach’s anniversary, thanking law enforcement for their work to control the riotous behavior but condemning Pelosi for ultimately being the one “responsible” for leaving the Capitol prone to attack.
Read my statement here Stefanik Statement on January 6
— Rep. Elise Stefanik (@RepStefanik) January 5, 2022
Stefanik called it “unacceptable” that despite Pelosi’s partisan nine-person investigatory committee persisting with its probe into the riot, “one year later the American people still do not have answers as to why the Capitol was left so vulnerable.”

Stefanik said in reference to the committee targeting former President Donald Trump and dozens of his closest allies with subpoenas – “Rather than focusing on improving the security of the Capitol and adopting all the recommendations from the U.S. Capitol Police, Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats are instead using their illegitimate partisan sham of a committee to shred Constitutional precedent and punish their political opponents,”

On Monday Stefanik along with Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Jim Banks (R-IN), and Rodney Davis (R-IL) led a call with reporters who emphasized their stance that Pelosi’s January 6 committee is in fact a “cover-up” for Pelosi’s own transgressions.

They pointed to a letter Davis, the House Administration Committee ranking member, sent to Pelosi on Monday in which he accused the speaker of obstructing records related to security preparedness of the Capitol from the Sergeant-at-Arms, the Chief Administrative Officer, and the House General Counsel, all of whom, Davis said, report to Pelosi.

Stefanik on Wednesday also reiterated that the January 6 committee has essentially deemed Pelosi exempt from blame for the riot, despite Pelosi’s history of overseeing security-related actions of the Capitol like installing magnetometers, holding a briefing on security preparedness ahead of a September 18 rally, and limiting Capitol visitation because of coronavirus.
 

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Hawley: FBI, Biden Admin Using 1/6 as an ‘Excuse’ to Go After Law-Abiding Citizens, Shut Down Speech

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During an appearance on FNC’s “Fox News Primetime,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) defended his decision to go through with a challenge of the Electoral College on January 6 despite the U.S. Capitol riot that took place earlier in the day.

Hawley’s opponents have insisted that challenge was part of the so-called “insurrection” effort, to which the Missouri Republican lawmaker dismissed.

However, Hawley also said the federal government was using the circumstances of January 6, 2021 to go after law-abiding citizens and to shut down free speech.

“[L]et me just say this, it is a constitutional right to engage in peaceful political demonstrations and the thousands, tens of thousands of people who came to Washington last January 6, and have now been harassed by the FBI, have had people knock on their doors and threaten them,” he said. “That is crazy. And it is wrong. It is wrong to go after law-abiding citizens who are engaging in their constitutional rights. And I will continue to fight that at every turn.”

“And listen, you know, on January 6, a year ago, I objected to the state of Pennsylvania because they didn’t follow their own election laws,” Hawley continued. “Their Supreme Court changed the rules of the voting during the election. That was wrong then. It is wrong today. I hope we never see that again in American history, but to attempt to use that as an excuse and to use last January 6 as an excuse to go after law-abiding citizens and shut down speech you don’t like, that’s just plain un-American. And that’s what this administration is trying to do.”

“And Lawrence, I can tell you, they’re not going to get by with it,” he added. “The American people aren’t going to stand for it.”
 

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Here’s A List Of Times Left-Wing Rioters Broke Into Government Buildings And Assaulted Democracy

By Pamela Geller - on January 7, 2022
DEMOCRAT HYPOCRISY


Oh, the hypocrisy.

8 Times Left-Wing Protesters Broke Into Government Buildings And Assaulted Democracy

By: Kylee Zempe,The Federalist, January 07, 2022

Self-absorbed congressional Democrats held a group therapy session on Capitol Hill on Thursday as they work tirelessly to immortalize Jan. 6 as an annual day of doom, but the rest of us are old enough to remember a few more times when riots and protests overwhelmed government buildings with no such theatrical response.

More than a few times, actually. The 2020 summer of rage was more or less “incited” by these same top Democrats, who race-baited as if their lives depended on it, and even our vice president, who helped bail violent rioters out of jail. It featured a number of these attacks on the government (which strangely weren’t called attacks on democracy at the time).
Not all of these demonstrations were allegedly a response to the Minnesota death of George Floyd, however. Left-wing demonstrators have long made a habit of attacking, infiltrating, and occupying government buildings. It started long before Jan. 6, 2021, and continued long after.

1. Interior Department Overtaken
Can you spot the difference between these two insurrection photos?
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Didn’t think so. One of them was compared to Pearl Harbor and 9/11 by our vice president. The other one barely made the news and was referred to as a mere “sit-in.” Both were attacks by political activists on government buildings.

On Oct. 14, 2021, climate activists breached the Interior Department, with demonstrators who were left outside struggling with law enforcement officers as they reportedly tried to force their way in, shouting “Go inside! Go inside!” Some activists vandalized a building, while others pinned police against a wall. The ordeal resulted in a number of injuries, according to multiple sources, with a police officer being transported to the hospital.

2. President Moved to Bunker After White House Fence Breach
In June 2020, then-President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, and their son Barron were reportedly rushed to a secure bunker when a group of protesters breached temporary barricades that had been set up around the White House complex.
Secret Service reportedly arrested and charged at least four protesters with unlawful entry at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

3. Wisconsin Capitol Overwhelmed
In 2011, thousands of people opposed to Republican Gov. Scott Walker filled the Wisconsin state Capitol, screaming in opposition to the governor’s budget repair bill.

4. Portland Federal Courthouse Overtaken by Violence
The federal courthouse in Portland has been a repeated target of violent Antifa rioters. In July 2020, a mob began setting fires inside the fence protecting the courthouse, shaking the fence, launching projectiles over it, and even trying to take it down. Several people even breached it, with rioters launching projectiles and flashing lasers at the federal police officers who responded.[/QUOTE]

The next month, the courthouse was shut down completely over domestic terrorism threats that someone might drive a vehicle filled with explosives into the building.

Just hours after a security fence was removed from the courthouse in March 2021, rioters broke glass and lit fires once again.

Antifa had previously attempted to menace people inside the federal courthouse on the afternoon of March 11, yelling “come outside,” “you don’t scare me b-tch,” “death to America,” and “f-ck the United States” while hurling water and other liquids inside the glass doors, banging on them, and attempting to get inside.

5. Democracy Halted at the Texas Capitol
In July 2013, an unruly mob of pro-abortion demonstrators interfered with the democratic process when thousands of them occupied the Texas Capitol and screamed at the top of their lungs, “grinding the Senate to a halt” with the noise.

6. SCOTUS Police Lines Breached, Senate Overwhelmed by Anti-Kavanaugh Activists
During the dustup over now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination and confirmation to the Supreme Court, which was radically amplified thanks to the Christine Blasey Ford circus, demonstrators forced their way past law enforcement, breaching police lines at both the Senate and the Supreme Court, where they stormed the steps and beat on the doors.

After announcing that he planned to vote for Kavanaugh’s confirmation, then-Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., was accosted on an elevator by several women, who shouted in his face and wouldn’t let him move.

At the beginning of October, shortly before the Senate voted to confirm Kavanaugh, a mob of protesters took over a part of the Hart Senate Office Building, which is part of the Capitol complex.

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RINO Liz Cheney's January 6 Fox News Interview Did Not Go How She Wanted
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|Posted: Jan 07, 2022 2:00 PM

RINO Liz Cheney's January 6 Fox News Interview Did Not Go How She Wanted

Source: Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool via AP

On Thursday's episode of "Special Report with Bret Baier," Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) appeared on the program to discuss the anniversary of January 6, during which she threw many of her fellow Republicans under the bus. There also appeared to be confusion about Cheney's title and membership on the committee.

As he closed the segment, Baier stated he wished to speak about the "kind of process," as he asked about Cheney's title and role on the committee. "You're the co-chair of the January 6 committee, Speaker Pelosi put you in that position.

Who's the ranking member of the committee?"

Rep. Cheney correctly stated, "I'm not the co-chair. Chairman [Bennie] Thompson is the chairman." When Baier offered that Cheney was the vice chair, she then correctly stated that she was.

She should have stopped there.

Cheney then went on to try to claim that she was the ranking member. "And I am the ranking Republican member by nature of when I was appointed."

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The congresswoman then went on to criticize Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), as part of "some on the Republican side who are attempting to obstruct the work of the committee," as she mentioned he "has been sending letters to federal agencies claiming that he is the ranking member of the committee, which he's not."

Rep. Cheney threw House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) under the bus as well. '

"This committee is a bipartisan committee. It was constituted completely in accordance with the rules of the House and with the rules of resolution that created it. And Minority Leader McCarthy refused to name people. He pulled back all of the people that he had appointed to the committee. We are working in a nonpartisan fashion and we are going to get our work done despite attempts to try to block and obstruct," she claimed.

After Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) blocked Banks and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) from being appointed to the committee, McCarthy removed his other picks.

Pelosi went on to name the only other Republican, fellow RINO Rep. Adam Kinzinger (IL), meaning all members have been Democratically-appointed.

The congresswoman was referring to a letter Rep. Banks sent, which his staff has spoken about. The October letter from Banks highlighted how Pelosi blocked him from fulfilling that role.

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Rep. Banks also provided a statement to Townhall following the segment.

"Liz Cheney told another Big Lie because she didn't want to admit an obvious truth: she works for Pelosi. Liz Cheney is the Vice Chair and the Committee's charter explicitly requires a ranking member, but they don't have one. The Committee is illegitimate and violating House Rules," said Banks.

Rep. Banks has at length spoken out against the January 6 select committee and has from the start. In July, he suggested to Martha MacCallum on "Fox News Sunday" that Pelosi objected to such picks because she doesn't want "tough questions" and "she has already predetermined a narrative about Donald Trump, about Republicans." Banks also said "something like this has never happened before" and that "it's a break in precedent" that the minority party was not able to appoint members.

During his own Thursday Fox News appearance, on "Hannity," Banks referred to the Democratic theater and reaction from the day as "January 6: The Musical."

The Republican Study Committee (RSC), which Banks is the chairman of, also used the phrase to highlight the Democratic reaction, also claiming that "Democrats have been yammering about January 6th to distract from their failures" and that "Democrats 1/6 talking points are repetitive, trivial and BORING."

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Just earlier this week, Ranking Member Rep. Rodney Davis (R-IL), of the Committee on House Administration, issued a memo, "One Year Later, Little Has Changed." His memo, with original emphasis, asks, "Why was the Capitol so unprepared?"
 

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Mom Sentenced To 3 Months In Federal Prison For Bringing 14-Year-Old Son To J6

SATURDAY, JAN 08, 2022 - 04:00 PM
Left-leaning liberal media outlets like the Daily Beast have loudly complained about the sentences that have been handed down to some of the more than 700 people who have been arrested and charged for their role in the Capitol "insurrection".



But on Friday, a judge sentenced a woman to three months in federal prison after she was plead guilty to the non-violent misdemeanor of illegally parading in the building. The sentence is one of the longer prison terms that has been handed out since the prosecution began.



Presumably the reason for the lengthy sentence is that the woman brought her 14-year-old son to the Capitol that day; the woman, Virginia Spencer, was "rebuked" by the judge who sentenced her over the decision to bring her child.

The woman was also accompanied by her husband, Christopher Spencer, who has pleaded not guilty.

After her prison term ends, Spencer will be facing three years of federal probation.

Here's more from CNN:
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly rebuked Virginia Spencer for bringing her child and questioned whether she had accepted responsibility for her role in the insurrection.
"This isn't like a school or a tourist trip," Kollar-Kotelly said.
The sentence includes a term of three years' probation, which other federal judges have shied away from combining with jail time for misdemeanor defendants.
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Before handing down her sentence, Kollar-Kotelly said she found "it very hard to comprehend...why you would bring a 14-year-old minor son to the Capitol," adding that it showed a "lack of judgment."

"Law enforcement had weapons, some of the [rioters] had weapons," the judge said. "This isn't like a school or a tourist trip. ... I don't understand but I sincerely hope he is alright," Kollar-Kotelly continued, suggesting that it could have been "traumatic" for the boy.
So far, roughly 70 of the more than 700 people who were arrested for attending the impromptu rally have been sentenced; only 30 of them have received jail time. The harshest sentence appears to be the five-year prison term that one participant received for attacking the Capitol Police with a poll and throwing a fire extinguisher at one.

Five years in federal prison? Does that sound lenient to you?
 

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Trump Fundraiser Caroline Wren: Donors Want a Forensic Audit of GOP Campaign Spending

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 30: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on his way to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on September 30, 2020 in Washington, DC. President Trump is traveling to Minnesota for a fundraising event and a campaign rally. (Photo by Drew …
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Longtime Republican fundraiser Caroline Wren, who served as the finance director for the Trump Victory Fund, told Breitbart News Saturday that donors want a forensic audit of money raised and spent by Republicans in the wake of the disastrous 2020 election, emphasizing that Republicans need to focus on infrastructure problems within the party in order to defeat the Democrats.

Wren, who focuses on high dollar giving, has recently begun to speak out against political consultants who took money that donors gave to the Trump campaign and effectively squandered it. That issue is just a piece of the greater issue, she explained, noting that the money given leading up to the 2020 election was not spent well.

“We have zero branches of government. To me this is almost like our Pearl Harbor in the Republican Party. We’ve lost everything and I do not believe we’re losing elections, and frankly the entire foundation of our country, because we have inferior candidates or inferior policy positions or ideas,” she said. “We are losing because we are playing a game that we do not understand. Democrats are at war with conservatives. It is a war. And we treat it like it is just, you know, ‘oh this is just politics and elections, we’ll just win this next one.’ And it has to stop.”

Wren explained that she has spent the last year trying to understand the Democrat funding structure, noting that they outspend Republicans 10-1 and do so “smartly” while Republicans spend money “horrifically.”

“We’re caught in this web of party committees and Super PACs, and it’s just not at all how the Democrats are fundraising and we have got to have some self-reflection and look back and say what just happened here,” she said, offering a bit of background.

During the months leading up to the election, donors could give a max amount of $817,600 to Trump Victory, and donors, if they gave the full amount, were told that about $200,000 would go to the legal fund which would be “stacked with cash” and equipped with lawyers, because as Wren said, the “Democrats cheat every time.”

However, this turned out to be a lie, because the fund existed, but “where was the money spent?” That became more evident after the election, when she realized that lawyers were not ready to go — not in Nevada, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, or Michigan. Five days after, Wren said, she noted that Trump received 13 million more votes than he did in 2016, which is “so unheard of.” But Biden received 15 million more than Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, even though “there was no energy on the ground to show that or to expect that.”

“Something else happen here,” she said, concluding it all comes down to money and briefly explaining how the Democrats rigged the 2020 election in their favor.

Wren said it really began in March 2020, as Democrats began to broaden voting rules under the guise of the coronavirus. She also referenced the strategy outlined in David Plouffe’s book A Citizen’s Guide to Beating Donald Trump. There, Plouffe, Obama’s campaign manager, called for a block by block street fight in counties Clinton won by ten points or more in the eight swing states needed to win. Then, left-wing lawyer Marc Elias changed his strategy, beginning to sue and win in those areas. Then, Mark Zuckerberg got involved, and the rest is history.

Breitbart News’s Washington Bureau Chief Matt Boyle suggested that Republicans should have a forensic audit of all spending in the Republican Party by every campaign and consultant.

“Some of these people are walking away with millions of dollars when you add up all the different ways they’ve carved out to pay themselves out,” he said, noting the Karl Roves of the world are raking in millions and essentially “stealing the money that the donors and grassroots people are giving to these candidates because they believe in these causes and these candidates.”

“They do want it,” Wren said of donors and a forensic audit. “That would be a great idea actually to have them stand up and say that.”

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However, Wren said that Republicans also need to craft a broad strategy moving forward and reflect on what happened to prevent it from occurring again in the future. She noted that the RNC announced an audit in 2012 after losing, but asked, “Have you heard anything about that happening this time?”

“Everyone just moved on” to the next thing, she lamented.

“We’re losing our entire country. We’re losing the cultural battle. We just had an election stolen from us. Who is reflecting on that? We all just moved on to the midterms. It’s insanity,” Wren said, asking, “Who is actually setting it up so that we don’t have it [the election] stolen from us when one of these people emerges from the primary?”

“I tell people the election wasn’t stolen. It was bought and paid for by Silicon Valley and George Soros and Zuckerberg and these others. And we lost the election between March and August,” she said, emphasizing the importance of focusing on infrastructure problems within the GOP prior to the next election and securing an offensive conservative law firm ahead of the next elections.
 

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Capitol attack panel investigates Trump over potential criminal conspiracy

Messages between Mark Meadows and others suggest the Trump White House coordinated efforts to stop Joe Biden’s certification
Insurrectionists loyal to Donald Trump rioted at the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.

Insurrectionists loyal to Donald Trump rioted at the US Capitol on 6 January 2021. Photograph: José Luis Magaña/AP

Hugo Lowell in Washington
Sat 8 Jan 2022 02.00 EST

The House select committee investigating the Capitol attack is examining whether Donald Trump oversaw a criminal conspiracy on 6 January that connected the White House’s scheme to stop Joe Biden’s certification with the insurrection, say two senior sources familiar with the matter.
Though Biden never mentioned Trump by name, he was explicit in blaming the former president for fomenting the violence of a year ago.

The committee’s new focus on the potential for a conspiracy marks an aggressive escalation in its inquiry as it confronts evidence that suggests the former president potentially engaged in criminal conduct egregious enough to warrant a referral to the justice department.

House investigators are interested in whether Trump oversaw a criminal conspiracy after communications turned over by Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows and others suggested the White House coordinated efforts to stop Biden’s certification, the sources said.

The select committee has several thousand messages, among which include some that suggest the Trump White House briefed a number of House Republicans on its plan for then-vice president Mike Pence to abuse his ceremonial role and not certify Biden’s win, the sources said.

The fact that the select committee has messages suggesting the Trump White House directed Republican members of Congress to execute a scheme to stop Biden’s certification is significant as it could give rise to the panel considering referrals for potential crimes, the sources said.

Members and counsel on the select committee are examining in the first instance whether in seeking to stop the certification, Trump and his aides violated the federal law that prohibits obstruction of a congressional proceeding – the joint session on 6 January – the sources said.

The select committee believes, the sources said, that Trump may be culpable for an obstruction charge given he failed for hours to intervene to stop the violence at the Capitol perpetrated by his supporters in his name.

But the select committee is also looking at whether Trump oversaw an unlawful conspiracy that involved coordination between the “political elements” of the White House plan communicated to Republican lawmakers and extremist groups that stormed the Capitol, the sources said.

Trump supporters clash with security forces as they storm the US Capitol in Washington DC on 6 January 2021.

Trump supporters clash with security forces as they storm the US Capitol in Washington DC on 6 January 2021. Photograph: Joseph Prezioso/AFP/Getty Images

That would probably be the most serious charge for which the select committee might consider a referral, as it considers a range of other criminal conduct that has emerged in recent weeks from obstruction to potential wire fraud by the GOP.

The vice-chair of the select committee, the Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney, referenced the obstruction charge when she read from the criminal code before members voted unanimously last November to recommend Meadows in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify.

The Guardian previously reported that Trump personally directed lawyers and political operatives working from the Willard hotel in Washington DC to find ways to stop Biden’s certification from happening at all on 6 January just hours before the Capitol attack.

But House investigators are yet to find evidence tying Trump personally to the Capitol attack, the sources said, and may ultimately only recommend referrals for the straight obstruction charge, which has already been brought against around 275 rioters, rather than for conspiracy.

The justice department could yet charge Trump and aides separate to the select committee investigation, but one of sources said the panel – as of mid-December – had no idea whether the agency is actively examining potential criminality by the former president.

A spokesperson for the select committee declined to comment on details about the investigation. A spokesperson for the justice department declined to comment whether the agency had opened a criminal inquiry for Trump or his closest allies over 6 January.

Still, the select committee appears to be moving towards making at least some referrals – or alternatively recommendations in its final report – that an aggressive prosecutor at the justice department could use to pursue a criminal inquiry, the sources said.
Vice-President Mike Pence presides over the joint session of Congress to certify Joe Biden as the next US president in the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.
The select committee is examining the evidence principally to identify legislative reforms to prevent a repeat of Trump’s plan to subvert the election, but members say if they find Trump violated federal law, they have an obligation to refer that to the justice department.

Sending a criminal referral to the justice department – essentially a recommendation for prosecution – carries no formal legal weight since Congress lacks the authority to force it to open a case, and House investigators have no authority to charge witnesses with a crime.

But a credible criminal referral from the select committee could have a substantial political effect given the importance of the 6 January inquiry, and place pressure on the attorney general, Merrick Garland, to initiate an investigation, or explain why he might not do so.

Internal discussions about criminal referrals intensified after communications turned over by Meadows revealed alarming lines of communication between the Trump White House and Republican lawmakers over 6 January, the sources said.

In one exchange released by the select committee, one Republican lawmaker texted Meadows an apology for not pulling off what might have amounted to a coup, saying 6 January was a “terrible day” not because of the attack, but because they were unable to stop Biden’s certification.

The select committee believes messages such as that text – as well as remarks from a Republican on the House floor as the Capitol came under attack – might represent one part of a conspiracy by the White House to obstruct the joint session, the sources said.

In referencing objections to six states, the text also appears to comport with a memo authored by the Trump lawyer John Eastman that suggested lodging objections to six states – raising the specter the White House distributed the plan more widely than previously known.

Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the select committee, added on ABC last week that the investigation had found evidence to suggest the events of 6 January “appeared to be a coordinated effort on the part of a number of people to undermine the election”.

Counsel for the select committee indicated in their contempt of Congress report for Meadows that they intended to ask Trump’s former chief of staff about those communications he turned over voluntarily, before he broke off a cooperation deal and refused to testify.

Thompson has also suggested to reporters that he believes Meadows stopped cooperating with the inquiry in part because of pressure from Trump, but the select committee has not opened a separate witness intimidation investigation into the former president, one of the sources said.
 
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Messages between Mark Meadows and others suggest the Trump White House coordinated efforts to stop Joe Biden’s certification
Um. That is how a LEGAL challenge is effected. Everything I heard (Bannon mostly) was that the Trump assemblage knew in advance the legal ramifications - and were making sure they stayed within the envelope.

Unfortunately Pence "turned" - probably panicked when confronted with "Sir, you should leave the Capital NOW."

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Catherine Engelbrecht from True the Vote Discusses Her Ballot Trafficking Investigation with Alex Marlow on Breitbart Radio

By Jim Hoft
Published January 8, 2022 at 7:15am
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Catherine Engelbrecht the founder of True the Vote joined Alex Marlow on Breitbart podcast on Friday.

Catherine and True the Vote have made headlines for months now on The Gateway Pundit for the investigative work she is conducting with her team in several swing states.


On Friday Catherine was interviewed by Alex Marlow She told Alex an infrastructure is in place to collect ballots en mass in various communities across the US. It’s two parts – ‘Getting Ballots’ and ‘Depositing Ballots’. Ballots are either taken, or collected through intimidation and remuneration. Authority figures and people they look up to in their communities reinforce this illegal process is acceptable. People surrender ballots in order to secure housing, food, access to employment, and so on. This isn’t new, it is just much more exposed because of the massive influx of cash into the election last year.

Her interview starts at 44:35, below transcript start at 50:10.

Engelbrecht – Partial Transcript:
It’s ballot trafficking and voter abuse. It prays upon the most vulnerable in our communities in the most insidious of ways. Each State we worked in has a slightly different twist on the manipulation. It finds itself centered in communities that are dependent upon resources that they look to authority figures, who hang as a Sword of Damoclese over their head, the requirement that among other things, their ballot must be surrendered when the time is right. That is consistent across all the States. The way that we have seen this unfold is an organized effort to target into certain neighborhoods, into certain people groups, into to certain voter groups, and either take the ballots directly, or convince people that it is appropriate to surrender their ballot for some exchange of remuneration on some level. And this is the front half of the grift. It’s the getting of the ballot. The depositing of the ballot to these drop boxes is another matter entirely and remuneration there is another matter.

The way these ballots are collected ranges from just swarming into neighborhoods with escalation scripts that get more and more outrageous about why people should surrender their ballot, and more and more aggressive to the other end where you have people lets just say along borders in certain States that are quite literally trapped. And their ballots, among other things, are surrendered in order to secure everything from housing, to food for their children, to access to employment. And in those communities if you don’t play the game, you’re shut out. You’re excommunicated. And because you in often time the economic position you are in you just play along, you keep quiet.

This is nothing new. What we say in 2020 though was catalyzed. It was the magnum opus of ballot trafficking because we had this massive influx of money. We had ballot pushes for this mass mail out the paper ballots. And of course our voter rolls are corrupted 6 ways from Sunday.

There’s some very real problems here but they are very granular. It’s very process oriented. And it takes a tremendous amount of exactitude to get to the heart of what is happening. And so it’s far from over. But we are now at a place where can surrender what we have and only hope that the people that we share this with, the authorities in various States, will have the fortitude to push it forward. I am here to tell ya there is a very real problem that we must address. ….Culturally, what we are learning is that the participants in this, on both ends of the formula, don’t necessarily see that this is anything wrong. I mean, they kind of sense that it’s not good to be bundling ballots and receiving payment for that

But the people that they look to in their communities are assuring them otherwise.

It’s part of a broader effort in the way that it’s happening. In their own echo chambers, it’s fine. And that has to do with a lack of effort on voter education, and the lack of determination to follow the law – again something we saw rampantly in 2020 just lawlessness. Just do what you want. Whaddya gonna do about it.

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As we have reported earlier if mass collection exists, this would explain almost everything we know:

** Explains why the massive voter registration drives always focus on these type of communities.
** Explains why Dems spend no efforts to ensure these types of people vote. It’s because their ballots will be harvested.
** Explains why liberal ballot tracking groups want USPS integration. They’ll know exactly when and where ballots hit the ground.
** Explains why the DOJ and others will prevent canvassing at all costs.
** Explains why Dems fight so hard to prevent voter roll cleanup.
** Explains why Dem want to move away from precinct voting and towards “vote centers”, and drop boxes.
And so on…..
 

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Maricopa County Continues To Ignore Potential Hundreds Of Thousands Of Illegal Ballots Found In Citizen Canvass

By Jordan Conradson
Published January 8, 2022 at 7:50am

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The full forensic audit of the 2020 election in Maricopa County discovered evidence of illegal activity and 700,000 potential ballot discrepancies.

All evidence was presented to the public and delivered to Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich on September 24, 2021.

He has since opened a criminal investigation into the 2020 Election. Arizona is expecting the results of this months-long investigation any day now.

On Wednesday, Maricopa County released a 93-page report and held a four-hour-long special meeting, where they attempted to discredit the claims of Arizona Senate auditors.

Maricopa County finally admits that illegal ballots were cast through double voting and double-counting of ballots in their report.

Arizona Senate President Karen Fann responded to the County yesterday, saying that she looks forward to hearing from the Arizona Attorney General on the results of his criminal investigation.


Additionally, Maricopa County has still not given a credible rebuttal to the hundreds of thousands of “ghost votes” and “lost votes” that were discovered in the citizen-led canvass of Maricopa County homes.


Liz Harris led the charge in Maricopa County and discovered that potentially 173,104 votes were lost or not recorded. Another 96,389 mail-in votes were counted under the names of registered voters who were either unknown to the residents of the registration address or who moved before October 2020.


The Gateway Pundit reported that Liz Harris debunked Maricopa County’s false claims outlined in their response to the canvass.

Tom Vanek, a volunteer canvasser shared a Facebook post with more details on the County’s failure to answer the real questions.
Yesterday Steven Richer spent hours telling the world about how the 2020 election was executed perfectly and about how all the anomalies that were seen by the audit team and the canvassers were merely figments of our collective imagination. What he didn’t tell the world was this… On September 30, 2021 Eddie Cook received eight addresses that appeared suspicious to the canvass team, and he gave those addresses to Richer so he could explain how and why those suspicious looking votes were valid. As of January 6, 2022 (over three months later) NONE of those suspicious looking votes have been explained.
This was only eight of the anomalies, and there were thousands more. For a more comprehensive list of what was found, visit the following links:



Liz Harris also verified these details.

The results of the canvass have been delivered to Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, along with all evidence of fraud statewide in Arizona.

View the full audit reports here: AUDIT | azsenategopcaucus

A recent election integrity hearing in Pima County, Arizona, provided even more election-changing evidence of fraud.

Contact Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich to demand a real 2020 election report.
 

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BREAKING: Critical Evidence Has Already Gone Missing as Georgia Officials Open Ballot Trafficking Investigation

By Jim Hoft
Published January 8, 2022 at 9:49am

Earlier this week Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced that he will investigate himself after credible allegations came forward recently related to 2020 elections fraud in the state.

John Solomon at Just the News reported this evening:
Georgia authorities have launched an investigation into an allegation of systematic ballot harvesting during the state’s 2020 general election and subsequent U.S. Senate runoff and may soon issue subpoenas to secure evidence, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger confirmed to Just the News.

Georgia law strictly prohibits third-party activists from picking up and delivering ballots on behalf of voters, a tactic called “harvesting” that liberal organizers have tried to get legalized in many battleground states without success. The U.S. Supreme Court this summer rejected Democrat efforts to overturn an Arizona law that outlawed harvesting in the battleground state.
Unfortunately, Raffensperger is the Secretary of State in Georgia and these issues were under his purview. So his running an investigation into any related election issues is suspect, to say the least.

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Now this…

This morning we found out that critical information for the Georgia ballot trafficking investigation is already missing.

Just the News reported:
Since 1960, federal civil rights law has required state and local election officials to “retain and preserve” records relating to elections involving federal officeholders for 22 months after ballots are cast.

That would seem to be a good thing as Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger embarks on an investigation into whether third-party liberal activists in 2020 illegally gathered and delivered absentee ballots for voters — a practice known as harvesting that is outlawed in the Peach State.

But some of Georgia’s largest counties tell Just the News that they no longer possess evidence that could be helpful to probing the harvesting allegations: video camera surveillance footage that monitored the drop boxes installed around Georgia to help voters cast ballots during the pandemic.

Election officials in several counties say the reason they discarded the footage is that the emergency rules issued by the State Elections Board said they only needed to keep the footage for 30 days after the election.

“We took direction from the Secretary of State and State Election Board, assuming they were not implementing a Rule contrary to law,” said the Cobb County elections office, which acknowledged it deleted its video footage from 2020. “Drop boxes were established under an emergency order from the Governor.”

Fulton County, home to Atlanta and the state’s largest voting metropolis, said it too has long since deleted the files.
Read the rest here.

We called this earlier this week.
It was obvious that Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger was not up to this task.

We’ve reported on numerous suspected fraudulent and questionable activities in Georgia since the media first reported on a broken water main on Election night 2020. Although Solomon reports that Raffensperger, “defeated an effort by prominent Democrat lawyer Marc Elias to overturn the harvesting ban”, we reported on two agreements Raffensperger signed behind closed doors with Elias before the election that were not widely shared before the election.


Also, it is true that:
Raffensperger also reviewed and rejected claims by former President Donald Trump of widespread fraud during the 2020 election in a series of contacts under investigation by a local district attorney in Atlanta and the Jan. 6 select committee in Congress.
But it is also true that Raffensperger taped a call with President Trump, sent select sections of the call to the far-left Washington Post in an attempt to make it look like the President was asking Raffensperger to do something illegal, then lied about it, attempted to destroy the evidence and got caught.


We also know Raffensperger and his attorney knew about election fraud on Election night but kept this from the people of Georgia and President Trump.


When you look at the myriad of issues and corruption surrounding Georgia’s corrupt Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, it is clear that he should not be performing any audit or investigation of his actions related to the 2020 Election.


Sadly, this effort with good cause may be another corrupt action by Raffensperger to add to his mantle of corrupt actions.
 

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SHOCKING EXCLUSIVE: Georgia’s Republican Governor Kemp Should Be Disqualified from Ever Running for Office Again

By Joe Hoft
Published January 8, 2022 at 2:00pm
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Earlier this week we reported a bombshell report where True the Vote released evidence that identified 279 people who were illegally stuffing drop boxes in Georgia before the 2020 Election. What was left unreported is Governor Kemp’s responses to this information.

We first reported on this story months ago, and then on January 4th, four days ago, we reported that True the Vote has data, witnesses, and video evidence of election fraudsters in Georgia participating in what appears to be a ‘Ballot Trafficking’ operation before the 2020 Election.


True the Vote shared their information with Georgia’s Governor Kemp and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) back in April 2021. Months later in September 2021, True the vote received a response from Governor Kemp’s appointee at the GBI, minimizing the evidence provided and providing their decision not to perform any investigation into the ballot trafficking operation.

Response to True the Vote from Governor Kemp and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation

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The GBI also at that time provided the same response to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. In doing so, Kemp’s GBI released private and sensitive information on the operation to the press.


In response, the Bopp Law Firm and True the Vote, responded to Georgia Governor Kemp’s response in October 2021. Kemp’s GBI shared information provided by True the Vote to the press that was not forthright. As the letter below notes, the GBI provided confidential information to the press. They omitted evidence True the Vote provided as well as more information provided since April.

True the Vote notes that they withheld names of individuals from Kemp and the GBI because they were afraid they would be leaked. Sure enough, the GBI leaked a slanted story to the garbage media proving True the Vote’s concerns were legit.
See True the Vote’s response to Kemp, Raffensperger and the GBI below.

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Governor Kemp and Secretary of State Raffensperger have never been interested in uncovering the massive election fraud in their state in the 2020 Election.

Their actions prove they should never hold office in Georgia or anywhere ever again. A real investigation of them would likely uncover why they are so terrified of uncovering the crimes and fraud in Georgia’s 2020 Election.
 

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SHOCKER: President Trump’s Former CIA Director Gina Haspel Joins Attorneys Rod Rosenstein and Sally Yates at International Law Firm

By Joe Hoft
Published January 8, 2022 at 5:00pm
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Birds of a feather flock together.


Former CIA Director Gina Haspel joined law firm King and Spalding. Her bio says:
Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Gina Haspel is a senior national security advisor for King & Spalding’s National Security and Corporate Espionage practice. She advises clients on globally significant projects, drawing on her unique experience as Director of the CIA to counsel clients on national security, information technology, cybersecurity and other issues. In particular, she helps the firm’s corporate, private equity, family office and other global clients to assess and manage institutional risks.
Haspel was in the UK during the beginnings of the Russiagate scandal against the candidate and then President Trump. President Trump did all he could to undo the corruption within the CIA:


Haspel joins Rod Rosenstein who famously took over the DOJ under Jeff Sessions and ran the corrupt and criminal Russia collusion sham. Rosenstein signed a second scope memo to keep the investigation going even though there was no evidence to do so. This was all an illegal effort to remove President Trump from office.


Sally Yates is also at King and Spalding where she works alongside Rosenstein in the Special Matters and Government Administrations group. She is infamous for setting up General Michael Flynn in the first week of President Trump’s Administration.


It’s unreal how these three ended up together.
 

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Katie Hobbs’ Arizona 2021 Elections Procedures Manual Rejected By AZ Attorney General – AZ Will Operate Under 2019 Elections Manual Instead

By Jordan Conradson
Published January 8, 2022 at 5:30pm

Arizona will operate under the 2019 Elections Procedures Manual in the upcoming elections after Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich refused to certify AZ Secretary of State Katie Hobbs’ 2021 draft manual.


Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs is running for Governor of Arizona, and she tried to make it even easier to cheat again.

In September, the Gateway Pundit reported that EZAZ, a citizen-led action group, found over 170 issues and statute violations, including provisions to allow internet connection, in Hobbs’ 2021 Elections Procedures Manual Draft.

Citizen-volunteers submitted the issues they discovered to the Arizona Attorney General for a closer examination.

On December 9, the Attorney General’s legal team sent a letter to Secretary of State Katie Hobbs in disapproval of the new manual that her office submitted on October 1.


The draft was submitted to Attorney General Brnovich a week after the Arizona audit results were presented and delivered to Brnovich on September 24th. It has been almost four months, and we have not seen or heard anything from his office.

The deadline for these changes to be made passed on December 31, and Hobbs did not correct the issues. Arizona will now run its 2022 elections under the 2019 Elections Procedures Manual.

EZAZ founder Merissa Hamilton tweeted her congratulations to Arizona and all volunteers who stood up to fight for election integrity. Hamilton also thanked The Gateway Pundit for our extensive coverage of the stolen 2020 election.

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Attorney General Brnovich prevented the certification of Hobbs’ 2022 election fraud scheme, but he has not said a word about his criminal investigation into the 2020 election in Arizona.

Contact Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich to demand updates on the fraudulent 2020 Election investigation.

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Contact AG Mark Brnovich
 

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by Natalie Winters
January 9, 2022
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An associate at the Center for Tech and Civic Life – a controversial election influence group that used grants from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to push unconstitutional voting changes in 2020 – previously declared elections as having “zero legitimacy” due to mail-in ballot errors in tweets unearthed by The National Pulse.

Jordan Anderson, who currently serves as a Quality Assurance Associate at the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), also worked for nearly five years in the Ramsey County Elections Office in Minnesota, before joining the Zuckerberg group.

As one of the primary recipients of grants from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, CTCL has been accused of using funds to ensure a victory for President Joe Biden and relying on mail-in ballots to do so. The group used the hundreds of millions of dollars to overrule local election officials and increase turnout in – almost exclusively – Democratic districts.

Proving the partisan conflict of interest, leaders from the CTCL overpowered and overruled local election authorities and, through coercion, accessed mail-in ballots ahead of the election.

Further demonstrating the close relationship between the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the Biden camp, a former Vice President of the Facebook founder’s group now serves as a Special Assistant to the President and Director of Technology in the Biden White House.

Despite the CTCL’s advocacy for mail-in ballot voting in the 2020 election, Twitter posts unearthed by The National Pulse reveal associates pointing out repeated errors with the fraud-riddled method of voting.

“There’s been something wrong with my Mpls absentee ballot packet for 3 out of the last 4 elections… Ramsey County would never,” wrote Anderson in 2018 ahead of the midterm elections.

Anderson has also declared previous elections as having “zero legitimacy” due to alleged irregularities with mail-in ballot registration.

“Georgia’s election has zero legitimacy at this point,” he wrote in response to the following tweet referring to the 2018 midterm elections:

Georgia Democrats say election officials lost track of 4,700 vote-by-mail applications from DeKalb County, which is 55% black, reports @nytimes. Voter registration is overseen by Brian Kemp, the GOP candidate for governor.

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ANDERSON’S TWEET.

The unearthed posts follow the CTCL claiming the 2020 election was the “most secure election in U.S. history.”

CTCL has also claimed it is a “nonpartisan” organization despite Anderson sharing anti-Donald Trump tweets.

“I have beer and mountains and I’ve only seen one trump sticker in this town so life is good,” he wrote in 2019.

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ANDERSON’S TWEET.
 

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Pelosi on GOP Blocking ‘Voting Rights’ Bill: “What the Republicans Are Doing Across the Country, Is Really a Legislative Continuation of January 6th” (VIDEO)

By Cristina Laila
Published January 9, 2022 at 1:30pm
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday lashed out at Republicans for blocking the Democrats’ ‘voting rights’ bill that would make it easier for Democrats to steal elections.

The voting rights legislation will mandate ballot harvesting, ban voter ID and give taxpayer money to campaigns.

The new bill is a federal takeover of elections and will make it easier for Democrats to cheat and steal seats.

According to Pelosi, making it harder to commit vote fraud is reliving January 6 all over again.

Everyday is January 6 and anything that gets in the way of the Democrats’ radical agenda is an insurrection.

“What the Republicans are doing across the country is really a legislative continuation of what they did on Jan. 6, which is to undermine our democracy, to undermine the integrity of our elections, to undermine the voting power, which is the essence of a democracy,” Pelosi said on CBS News’ “Face the Nation.”

“There is no more important bill that enables us to support and defend the Constitution of the United States,” she added. “They are not only suppressing the vote, they are nullifying elections, saying, ‘Well it doesn’t matter who gets more votes, it matters who the three people we appoint to analyze that, what they decide.’ We cannot let that happen. … This legislation is the most important, and we have to keep working in order to get the job done.”

VIDEO:

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Michelle Obama is panicking about this year’s midterm elections and fired off an urgent message to voters.
Michelle Obama said the “When We All Vote” coalition will deploy an army of THOUSANDS of lawyers to ‘protect American voters’ and help push through the ‘voting rights’ legislation currently stalled in Congress.
 
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