Ballotpedia’s Top 15 – The Most Interesting and Consequential Political Stories to Follow in 2023

MIDDLETON, Wis./PRNewswire/ — Ballotpedia’s election team has assembled its list of the 15 most interesting and consequential political stories to watch in 2023. According to Ballotpedia editor-in-chief Geoff Pallay, “Even years typically get top-billing with political attention. But there’s plenty of interesting activity going on during this odd-year.”

Ballotpedia’s top 15 political stories to watch are:

  • Wisconsin Supreme Court election – The April election will determine ideological control of the court. Wisconsin voters will also decide three ballot measures – ones that could impact turnout.
  • Merrill v. Milligan (United States Supreme Court case) – Will decide whether Alabama’s 2021 congressional redistricting plan violated the Voting Rights Act.
  • Moore v. Harper (United States Supreme Court case) – Will decide whether state courts may exercise oversight of state legislatures’ regulation of federal elections.
  • Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard (United States Supreme Court case) – Will decide whether universities may use race as a factor in admission decisions.
  • Start of presidential debates – The GOP candidates’ first debate will be in August in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, site of the 2024 Republican National Convention. “The presidential campaign is off to a slow start,” Pallay said. “Candidate declarations and activity are occurring at a slower pace than 2020.”
  • 2024 ballot measure certifications – Ohio voters are already set to decide measures on abortion and marijuana. More issues in more states will make their way to the ballot in the months ahead.
  • Virginia General Assembly elections – A possible bellwether for 2024, Republicans are defending the 52-48 House majority they won in 2021 while Democrats are seeking to maintain a 22-18 Senate majority. In the background: how the outcome of those races affects the national prospects of Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R).
  • Kentucky gubernatorial election – Gov. Andy Beshear and Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman are the only Democrats holding statewide office. There will be a competitive Republican primary for the GOP gubernatorial nomination.
  • Louisiana gubernatorial election – An open race with no incumbent as Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) is term-limited.
  • San Antonio May abortion and marijuana 2023 ballot measure – A charter amendment that tackles marijuana law, abortion laws, no-knock warrants, chokeholds, and more. Putting all these separate issues into one measure is a first-of-its-kind approach.
  • Assessing the 2024 congressional election landscape – Keeping a close eye on retirements, recruitment, and retention in the House and Senate.
  • School board recalls – School board recall elections have taken on a bigger role in the national political discussion. “Will we see a return to pre-COVID recall election levels, or will there be a continuation of the relatively higher number of recalls we’ve witnessed in the past few years,” said Pallay.
  • Memphis, Tennessee mayoral election – Against the backdrop of the Tyre Nichols’ killing, 12 candidates have declared their candidacy.
  • Election administration legislation activity – More than 2,500 bills were introduced in the 2022 state legislative sessions. Election administration remains a busy topic in state legislatures, with legislators from both parties introducing bills to shape how America governs its elections.
  • School board elections – Ballotpedia is covering elections for 8,750 school board seats in 3,211 school districts across 28 states – 36% of all school board elections this year. We are also covering all school board elections in ten states: ColoradoKansasMinnesotaOhioOklahomaPennsylvaniaSouth DakotaVirginiaWashingtonWisconsin.

“Conventional wisdom is that a year without a big national election – an off-cycle year like 2023 – doesn’t merit the same attention as a congressional midterm or presidential election year,” Pallay said. “That’s not the case this year. Ballotpedia’s top 15, especially in the context of the run-up to the 2024 presidential election may be as consequential as the main event.”

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The Transgender Tide is Turning

Transgenderism has made many inroads into U.S. society, politics, and culture, but the tide is finally turning.  Tennessee just passed a law banning transgender drugs and surgery for minors and prohibiting drag shows where they could be seen by children.  That makes Tennessee the eighth state to restrict sex change procedures for minors.  Legislation is pending in at least 25 other states.  No more free ride.

Another indication the tide is turning is the spate of lawsuits being filed against transgender service providers.  Everyone who is part of the Transgender Industrial Complex is in legal jeopardy, whether they realize it yet or not.  The grounds for legal liability are many.

An 18-year-old detransitioner is suing the Kaiser companies for ignoring her mental health condition and putting her on sex change drugs when she was 13.  Doctors performed a double mastectomy on her when she was 15.  “I was 15 when you cut into my body, ripped out my breasts, and stitched me back up like I was your rag doll,” she said.  “You are on the wrong side of history and will always be remembered as child butchers.”  She is the victim of “ideological and profit-driven medical abuse,” her lawyers said in announcing the suit.

Doctors aren’t the only ones facing legal liability.  A New York school district is being sued because a teacher tried to manipulate a 9-year-old girl into becoming transgender by calling her ‘Leo’ and using male pronouns to address her.  The girl became confused and contemplated suicide.  The teacher pushed transgender and gay agendas on the entire class, providing her students graphic books on these subjects, going into detail about transitioning, surgery, and hormones.  The school district didn’t tell the parents anything about the child’s condition until after she had developed suicidal ideation.

Republicans in the U.S. House and Senate reintroduced a bill to allow people who received transgender drugs and surgery as minors to sue their doctors with a 30-year statute of limitations.  “Unfortunately, radical doctors in the United States perform dangerous, experimental, and even sterilizing gender-transition procedures on young kids, who cannot even provide informed consent,” Senator Tom Cotton said.  Consent also figures in the civil and possibly criminal investigation by state authorities of a transgender clinic in Missouri.  Whether the Republicans’ bill passes or not, it is foreseeable a flood of litigation is coming.  Live by social contagion, die by social contagion.

Expect to see more lawsuits arising from injuries from the administration of transgender drugs.  A new study shows those taking transgender hormone treatments are significantly more prone to stroke, heart attack, and blood clots.  Stroke – seven times more likely.  Heart problems – six times more likely.  Pulmonary embolism – five times more likely.  Lawsuits for drugging and mutilating kids who can’t possibly understand the long-term ramifications of transgender treatment – getting more likely all the time.

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) is warning about the “unknown and unknowable long-term risks” inherent in so-called “gender-affirming care” in minors.  Surgery is irreversible and highly likely to cause sterilization.  The best that transitioners can hope for is a “lifelong need for medical, surgical, and psychological care.”  Sign me up!

A new one-sided story from the Associated Press minimizes the number of transitioners who express regret or seek to detransition.  The story cites studies saying the number is small – one percent – and declining as treatment ‘improves’.  But the latest studies cited are from 2021.  I wonder what the numbers are now, after the Transgender Industrial Complex has gone hog wild pushing gender transitioning on confused kids without telling their parents.  I would bet you will start seeing the numbers of those expressing regret and seeking to detransition grow exponentially.  Moreover, the AP story cites research suggesting psychological counseling before starting treatment can reduce the chances for regret and detransitioning.  But that’s the whole point of the Missouri investigation and the first lawsuit I described earlier – there was no counseling.  Drugs and surgery were the default position, with no counseling and no thought given to the mental health status of the child.   There will be suicides.  You can bet on it.  I can’t wait for the wrongful death suits to start.

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Ohio Residents Ordered to Stay Inside as Another Train Derails

Biden plunged America trillions in debt for infrastructure and this is what we get.

For starters, fire Pete Buttigieg.

Ohio residents ordered to stay inside as another train derails

By Katherine Donlevy, NY Post, March 4, 2023:

Ohio residents were ordered to shelter in place Saturday after another Norfolk Southern train ran off the tracks.

The 212-car train derailed at Ohio 41 near the Prime Ohio Business Park in Springfield around 5 p.m., the Clark County Emergency Management said.

About 20 of the train’s box cars toppled off the tracks while it was traveling through the city.

A spokesperson confirmed with The Post that Norfolk Southern — the same railway company involved in the tragic East Palestine derailment that contaminated 1.1 million gallons of water and 15,000 pounds of soil — was operating the derailed train.

“No hazardous materials are involved and there have been no reported injuries,” the company said.

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PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP’S SPEECH AT CPAC 2023: ‘This Is The Final Battle’

The peoples candidate. #Trump2024!

Trump Promises ‘Quantum Leap’ for a New America

Former President Donald Trump has revealed his dream for a new America ahead of the 2024 presidential race, promising to bring back the country’s boldness “in a very big way” and heralding a “quantum leap” in living standards.

“Past generations of Americans pursued big dreams and daring projects that once seemed absolutely impossible. They pushed across an unsettled continent and built new cities in the wild frontier. They transformed American life with the interstate highway system, magnificent it was, and they launched a vast network of satellites into orbit all around the earth. But today, our country has lost its boldness. Under my leadership, we will get it back in a very big way,” Trump said in a video address released Friday.

“If you look at just three years ago, what we were doing was unthinkable. How good it was, how great it was for our country. Our objective will be a quantum leap in the American standard of living. That’s what will happen.”

Pointing out that a third of the American landmass is owned by the federal government, Trump noted that just a “very small portion of that land” amounting to “one-half of one percent” can be used to hold a contest to “charter up to 10 new cities and award them to the best proposals for development.”

“In other words, we’ll actually build new cities in our country again. These Freedom Cities will reopen the frontier, reignite American imagination, and give hundreds of thousands of young people and other people, all hard-working families, a new shot at home ownership and in fact the American dream.”

Transportation, Manufacturing

A “big opportunity” that Trump cites in the video is in the transportation sector. In the United States and China, numerous companies are “racing” to develop vertical takeoff and landing vehicles.

In the last century, it was the United States that led the automotive revolution. “I want to ensure that America, not China, leads the revolution in air mobility. These breakthroughs can transform commerce, bring a giant infusion of wealth into rural America, and connect families in our country in new ways,” Trump said.

An American company engaged in vertical takeoff vehicle development is California-based Wisk. Last January, Wisk announced that it had secured $450 million in funding from Boeing.

In August, San Jose-based Archer Aviation received a $10 million deposit from United Airlines for an order of 100 electric takeoff and landing air taxis.

Trump also proposed a “strategic national manufacturing initiative” that will turn “forgotten communities into hives of industry.” This will ensure that these communities produce goods that the United States will no longer have to import from China. The initiative is going to be “very, very successful.”

The American manufacturing sector is currently struggling through various challenges like inflation, talent scarcity, supply chain problems, and economic uncertainty.

“Manufacturers continue to grapple with talent challenges that may limit the industry’s growth momentum. Moreover, supply-chain issues, including sourcing bottlenecks, global logistics backlogs, cost pressures, and cyberattacks, will likely remain critical challenges in 2023,” Deloitte said in its 2023 manufacturing outlook report.

Lowering Costs, Other Initiatives

Trump also promised to introduce a “major initiative” to lower the cost of living, especially focusing on reducing the cost of a new car and the cost of building single-family homes.

Annual inflation has remained above 6 percent every single month since October 2021. New vehicle inflation has remained above 5 percent every month since June 2021.

The median sales price of homes in the country hit $467,000 in the fourth quarter, up 10. 4 percent from the same period a year back. The United States is estimated to be facing a shortage of 3.8 million to 5 million homes.

Trump also intends to ask Congress to support “baby bonuses” for young parents, a move he hopes will trigger a “baby boom.”

He promised to carry out a “great modernization and beautification campaign” in 50 states that will get rid of ugly buildings, refurbish public spaces and parks, ensure a pristine environment, make cities and towns more livable, and build “towering monuments to our true American heroes.”

“Very importantly, I will also make sure all of these new places are safe. We love and cherish our police. They will do the job the way they have to,” Trump said.

“It is time to start talking about greatness for our country again. I will dramatically increase living standards and build a future that brings our country together through excitement, opportunity, and success.”

TRUMP PREVIEWS ANTICIPATED CPAC SPEECH ON SATURDAY: ‘SEE YOU THERE!’

By RSBN, March 2, 2023

President Donald Trump promised to deliver a recipe that would “fix” the myriad of problems plaguing the United States at the hands of the inept Biden administration, previewing his anticipated remarks on Saturday at the 2023 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in a statement posted to Truth Social.

“I will be at CPAC on Saturday, talking about the fact that, obviously, our Country is going to ‘HELL,’ and how to fix it,” he wrote on Thursday. “Also, the Democrats use of Radical Left Prosecutors and the WEAPONIZATION OF LAW ENFORCEMENT. It is illegal, has never been used and abused like this, and has the potential to bring down our once fair and wonderful Country. These Marxist Thugs have been after me for years, only to help them win elections. In just Two Years, we have become a Third World Failing Nation. MAGA!!!”

Highlights: “We are going to finish what we started,” he said. “We’re going to complete the mission. We’re going to see this battle through to ultimate victory.”

“This is the final battle,” he said.

News On 6: He also argued the experience of his first term is a plus: “Now I am experienced and I know the people of Washington.”

“We’ll appropriately deal with the RINOs,” he said, referencing the moniker for “Republicans In Name Only.” “We will never go back to the party of Paul Ryan, Karl Rove and Jeb Bush.”

Rove held a donor conference in Austin, Texas, last week featuring several potential 2024 candidates, while Ryan, the 2012 GOP vice presidential nominee, has said he’ll support “anybody but Trump” in the 2024 race.

Trump took note of how some Republicans, without naming them — such as his former Vice President Mike Pence, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and Nikki Haley, former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. — have supported reforms to social security and medicare.

“We are never going back to the people that want to destroy our great social security system … even some in our own party, I wonder who that might be,” he said.

On foreign policy, another issue that has divided Trump from other potential opponents, he repeatedly talked about preventing further U.S. intervention in wars, and claimed he “will prevent, very easily, World War III. And you’re going to have World War III if something doesn’t happen fast.”

Trump frequently brought up the multiple subpoenas he’s received regarding both his handling of classified documents found at his resort in Mar-a-Lago, to his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol that was investigated by a House select committee.

Trump is also facing a civil lawsuit from New York Attorney General Letitia James, who alleges the former president and his business committed fraud by manipulating his property values to his benefit. He is also facing an investigation in Georgia over his attempts to overturn his loss in the state in the 2020 general election.

Trump called James and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, both of whom are Black women, as “racist.”

“Every time the polls get higher and higher, the prosecutors get crazier and crazier,” Trump said, joking that he didn’t know the word “subpoena” until after he became president.

“They’re not coming after me, they’re coming after you, and that’s why I’m standing here today. I’m standing before you because we’re going to finish what we started. We’re going to complete the mission,” Trump, who launched his third bid for the presidency in November 2022, told the supportive CPAC crowd that frequently chanted “four more years!”

Trump also alleged he “won the second election,” a continuation of his baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen. The rhetoric has been cited by Republicans publicly as a reason for the party’s lackluster performance in the 2022 midterm elections.

Prior to his speech, Trump cleared the conference’s straw poll — which CPAC says 2,000 attendees completed — with 62% of the vote. DeSantis, thought of as Trump’s most formidable rival in part due to his history of fundraising and rankings in early polls on the primary, was second with 20% of the vote.

The event, which usually attracts a number of presidential hopefuls beginning to launch their campaigns, featured only the other two candidates who have declared their candidacy, Haley, and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. Among the major GOP figures mulling a bid, only former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addressed the conference. Several of them skipped out on CPAC and instead appeared at a donor retreat in Palm Beach, Florida, hosted by the conservative group Club for Growth.

The absence of the other possible contenders did not escape Trump’s notice. He posted on Truth Social Thursday, “The only reason certain ‘candidates’ won’t be going to CPAC is because the crowds have no interest in anything they have to say. They’ve heard it all before, and don’t want to hear it again.”

The conference was filled with Trump allies and his former administration officials, both on the speaking lineup on the main stage, and in the numerous conservative media booths that line the hallways.

Before his keynote speech, Trump gave remarks to a private gathering at the conference with VIP donors and Republican figures, such as unsuccessful Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and conservative commentator and lawyer Mark Levin.

From outside the room, he was heard saying he gets a subpoena “every time I fly over a blue state.”

Greene, who has already announced she’s backing Trump, took questions from reporters Friday during which she criticized or dismissed Trump’s official and potential presidential primary opponents, such as Haley or Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who did not attend the conference.

“It’s nice that they’re running, but they’re not going to win,” Greene predicted when she was asked about the Republican politicians who opted not to attend the conference.

Though he hasn’t announced an official 2024 campaign yet, DeSantis is considered Trump’s biggest threat in a primary. Trump and his campaign have already gone on the attack against the Florida governor he endorsed in 2018, regularly referring to him as “Ron DeSanctimonious” and running Facebook ads showing a photo of DeSantis and Trump with the caption: “Pictured: An Apprentice Learning from the Master.”

DeSantis has glossed over Trump’s criticism, and in a recent Fox News interview pointed to Trump’s 2018 support for him.

“Then I win a big victory and all of a sudden, you know, he had different opinions, and so you can take that for what it’s worth,” DeSantis told Fox News on Tuesday..

“I mean, he’s obviously a big, big fish, but I get attacked all the time from every different angle and you either put points on the board or you don’t. And so I just focus on delivering the wins. And I think we’ve done a pretty good job of following through on our promises,” DeSantis added.

Haley, who spoke at CPAC on Friday and was greeted with chants of “Trump! Trump! Trump!” by his supporters as she was leaving the conference, took some shots at the former president during her remarks to the Club for Growth donor retreat on Saturday.

“The last two Republican presidents added more than $10 trillion to the national debt. Think about that. A third of our debt happened under just two Republicans,” said Haley, who has argued she represents the generational change needed for the party. “If we nominate another big spender in 2024, we’re going to lose.”

Laura Thilman, a Republican voter from Arizona, said while “it’s way too early” to pick a presidential primary candidate, she’d vote for Trump “if I had to vote today.”

“We need a president that’s going to come in and hit the ground running,” she said. “But here’s the deal, the best man wins. I’m not clairvoyant, I don’t know who that could be yet.”

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Netanyahu: ‘I will do everything in my power to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons’

It’s a rule of thumb: appeasing bullies makes them stronger. Yet the world has insisted upon such appeasement from Israel for decades in the face of the Palestinian jihad against the Jewish state. Now that Israel has a government that is standing up and saying enough, the blame will increasingly fall on Netanyahu rather than where it should be falling.

Iran has now enriched uranium to nearly 90%, and has been for a considerable period been funding the Palestinian jihad against Israel.

Israel’s Window to Strike Iran Narrows as Putin Enters Equation

by Ethan Bronner, Bloomberg, March 2, 2023:

Iran is seeking sophisticated new air-defense systems from Russia that Israeli officials believe will narrow the window for a potential strike on Tehran’s nuclear program, according to people familiar with the matter.

The prospect of Iran getting the systems, the S-400s, would accelerate a decision on a possible attack, people in Israel and the US with knowledge of the discussions said.

Russia hasn’t said publicly if it will supply the weapons, but Moscow and Tehran have drawn closer since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

It would take less than two years for the S-400s to be operational.

“The longer you wait, the harder that becomes,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said of a strike on Iran at a security conference in Tel Aviv last week. “We’ve waited very long. I can tell you that I will do everything in my power to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.”

Such open threats — daily occurrences now in Israel — are a complex mix of intent and messaging aimed at Tehran and Washington although Israel bombed nuclear sites in Iraq in 1981 and Syria in 2007. An open military conflict with Iran could trigger an unparalleled regional conflagration affecting global oil supplies…..

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Citizens for Sanity Ad Exposes How Democrat’s RACIST ‘Equity Mandates’ Are Destroying America

“The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by dint of constant pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other – until one day when they are suddenly declared to be the country’s official ideology.” — Ayn Rand


There’s a new group that is contesting the uncontested absurdities of today. This group is called Citizens for Sanity and they are attacking the insanities we are witnessing daily from the political leadership from the school house to the White House.

Citizens for Sanity’s mission is to return common sense to America, to highlight the importance of logic and reason, and to defeat “wokeism” and anti-critical thinking ideologies that have permeated every sector of our country and threaten the very freedoms that are foundational to the American Dream.

WATCH: Equity = Bigotry.

In a Blaze Media article titled Protect pregnant men from climate discrimination’: Conservative group runs ads with preposterous messages that highlight the absurdity of left-wing ideology reported,

A conservative organization called Citizens for Sanity is running ads that highlight the absurdity of woke left-wing ideology.

The group’s posts on Twitter indicate that its billboard ads include statements such as:

  • “Protect Pregnant Men from Climate Discrimination”
  • “Open the jails. Open the borders. Close the schools. Vote progressive this November.”
  • “Violent criminals deserve our compassion and respect. This fall, stand strong for progressive values.”
  • “Vote to keep our borders, jails and bathrooms open. Vote progressive.”
  • “Too much freedom is a bad thing. Get your IRS audit today.”
  • “If you don’t like being audited then you’re the problem.”
  • “Don’t let the radical right put our neighborhood street gangs behind bars. Support Joe Biden & Progressive Candidates.”

The group, which is a tax-exempt nonprofit, according to Politico, is also running ads in other forms of media. According to Politico, the group said it would push a television ad that focuses on the topic of transgender individuals competing in girls’ sports.

The ad shows a biological boy defeating girls in a race. “Woke left-wing politicians are destroying girls’ sports,” the ad declares.

https://twitter.com/citizens_sanity/status/1559578112828084224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1559578112828084224%7Ctwgr%5Ef1272aa4e3989ecd4ff19de35bc42d9ba5720ad5%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theblaze.com%2Fnews%2Fcitizens-for-sanity-ads-billboards

It’s about time that we stop these uncontested insanities.

Don’t you agree?

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Lawless Democrat Portland Loses Its Last Walmart

Elections have consequences. Big box retailers forced out of Democrat-controlled Portland.

Walmart announced it is permanently closing all of its locations in Portland, Oregon.

You reap what you vote.

The announcements come just a few months after the Walmart CEO warned stores could close and prices could increase in light of sky-high retail crimes affecting stores across the country.

“Theft is an issue. It’s higher than what it has historically been,” Walmart CEO Doug McMillon said in December on CNBC. He added that “prices will be higher and/or stores will close” if authorities don’t crack down on prosecuting shoplifting crimes.

Big Box Retailers Forced Out Of Democrat-Controlled Portland And More

By: Erica Carlin, Liberty One News, march 3, 2023:

Cities under Democrat rule are rapidly becoming lawless. Nowhere is this more evident than in Portland, Oregon, where Mayor Ted Wheeler has refused Nike’s request for help with theft in its Northeast store and Walmart has been forced to close its remaining stores in the city.

The situation at Nike’s store is emblematic of the issues facing businesses in liberal-run cities. The store has been closed for months due to rampant retail theft and Nike asked Mayor Wheeler if the city could either pay to hire additional cops to patrol the area or pay off-duty cops to do so.

But Wheeler refused, citing the city’s “significant personnel constraint” as a result of the city’s “brush with defunding the police”—a ludicrous idea that Portland embraced in 2020, sending experienced officers running for the exits.

Instead, he asked Nike to re-open its store “on a limited basis” and suggested that the company may be part of the problem by refusing to allow its security guards to detain shoplifters. Of course, Nike won’t do that for fear of liability, and it’s no wonder Amazon hasn’t wiped out 100% of local businesses trying to deal with this nonsense.

It’s a similar story for Walmart. The retail giant recently confirmed that it is closing all remaining stores in Portland due to the rise of theft. Walmart CEO Doug McMillon warned in December that the company might have to close stores or raise prices if things didn’t improve.

Keep reading.

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Here’s Your Russian Collusion: Russian Billionaires Did Big Business with Hunter Biden, Dined with Joe, Dodge Sanctions

Before Donald Trump was even elected president and throughout the entire period of his administration, the Leftist establishment that is entrenched in Washington officialdom and among the propaganda outlets that are known as the major news organizations inundated us with nonsense about how he had improperly colluded with Russia in order to gain the White House, and was still in Vladimir Putin’s pocket. There was, as is now well-known, nothing whatsoever to it; it was all a hoax designed to discredit Trump and destroy his presidency, although like the Japanese soldiers found hiding in the woods in the 1970s, not knowing that the war was over, there are still some holdouts on the far Left who insist it was all true. And actually it was, but not of Donald Trump. If you want actual Russian collusion, take a look at Old Joe Biden.

The New York Post reported Thursday that “two Russian billionaires who have managed to dodge US sanctions over Moscow’s year-old invasion of Ukraine went property shopping with Hunter Biden, dined with then-Vice President Joe Biden, and discussed ‘favors’ they might swap.” That’s collusion for you, but of course the Washington establishment that went after Trump with such vicious ferocity over nothing whatsoever is entirely indifferent to this fresh evidence that the demented corruptocrat they installed in the White House is as crooked as the day is long. Russian collusion is only of interest to this establishment when it can be used as a political tool; when people on their side do it, it’s entirely beneath notice.

Well, almost entirely. The Biden regime’s Treasury Department did take notice long enough on Friday to spare two Russian pals of Joe and Hunter, Yelena Baturina and Vladimir Yevtushenkov, from “a fresh batch of sanctions.” The UK and Australia have sanctioned Yevtushenkov, but not the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. And with a level of understatement that was positively Hemingwayesque, an anonymous source whom the Post says has “firsthand knowledge of the business relationship between Hunter Biden and Yevtushenkov,” says: “I think it’s very fishy.”

So does Michael McFaul, who is such a right-wing Trumpian ideologue that he served as Barack Obama’s ambassador to Russia. “I think he should be sanctioned,” McFaul said of Yevtushenkov. “I don’t understand why he has not been.”

I do, Mike. It’s really quite simple. Yevtushenkov hasn’t been sanctioned because he had the good judgment to do business with Hunter and Joe Biden. This gives the Russian an all-purpose Get-Out-of-Jail-Free card, as the Washington establishment will do anything it can possibly do to shield the Bidens from the consequences of their corrupt dealings, and to keep the American people from discovering just how crooked the man who pretends to be president really is.

And he is. Yevtushenkov “admitted last year he met with Hunter Biden for breakfast at the Ritz-Carlton in Manhattan on March 14, 2012 — but denied any further contact.” He was, the terminally naïve will be surprised to learn, lying: “emails and calendar entries from Hunter’s former laptop show that they were set to meet again on Jan. 27, 2013, for dinner at DC’s Cafe Milano before looking at a commercial real estate development the next day near Dulles International Airport in northern Virginia.” The Post’s source recounted: that he asked Yevtushenkov why he was meeting with Hunter, and the Russian billionaire replied: “I think it would be good to have a good relationship with this guy … maybe he can do a favor for us and we can do a favor for him.” The source added: “It was a complete quid pro quo that he was going in for.” Collusion and quid pro quo! It looks as if yet again the Left has engaged in the old tactic of accusing the other side of that which they are guilty of doing. The source added: “I told him that’s not the way it works in America, [but] he basically laughed at me and told me I was so naïve.”

Indeed. And wait, there’s more: “A different source, meanwhile, told The Post he vividly recalled Baturina and her husband, ex-Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, looking ‘like an odd couple’ at a now-infamous, intimate dinner with Hunter and his father, the then-vice president.” Also at the dinner was “Vadym Pozharskyi, an executive at Ukrainian energy company Burisma, which paid Hunter up to $1 million per year beginning in 2014 while his VP dad controlled the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy. Pozharskyi emailed Hunter the next day to thank him for ‘giving an opportunity to meet your father.’”

But Old Joe Biden knows how the game is played. He “called the report a false ‘Russian plant’ at the time and social media platforms Twitter and Facebook initially censored it.” Even now, he will face no political consequences for all this Russian collusion. That’s only for presidents who dare to put America first.

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Pedo Protégé: Mentored by Pete Buttigieg, Democrat Mayor Arrested for Child P*rn

Patrick Wojahn, the Maryland mayor busted on charges of possessing child pornography Thursday has had a longtime mentor-mentee relationship with President Biden’s embattled Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

Wojahn was arrested on 56 counts of possession and distribution of child pornography.

Former College Park Mayor Wojahn, 47, has credited Buttigieg’s “mentorship” with helping him advance his career in interviews.

“I actually met Mayor Pete Buttigieg shortly after I was elected mayor in 2015,” Wojahn, who is gay, told the Washington Blade, an LGBT-focused news outlet, back in 2019.

Wojahn explained how the former South Bend, Ind., mayor, who is also gay, was tasked with being his “buddy” at a gathering of mayors in Washington long before Buttigieg’s 2020 White House run.

Democrat Mayor Who Was Arrested for Child P*rn Mentored by Pete Buttigieg

By: Trending Politics, March 3, 2023

On Thursday, authorities announced that Patrick Wojahn, the mayor of College Park, Maryland, had been arrested on numerous charges of suspected child p*rnography and had subsequently resigned from his position.

The Prince George’s County Police Department reported that Wojahn, 47, was accused of 56 counts of alleged child p*rnography, including 40 counts of possessing child exploitative material and 16 counts of distributing child exploitative material.

According to the Washington Blade, Wojhan was mentored by Pete Buttigieg. The article was written in 2019 and goes into depth about the relationship the two political figures had.

During his Council elections and his first run as a mayoral candidate, Wojahn knew he had no choice but to run as an openly gay man because of his media prominence with the marriage equality lawsuit.

But being elected as an out gay mayor landed him a fortuitous mentor…

The two continued to talk over the phone and Buttigieg explained the conference to him and what would take place at the meeting. Later, they would both attend a White House reception during the Obama administration where Dave and Chasten (Buttigieg) would meet as well.

Wojahn said, “I actually met Mayor Pete Buttigieg shortly after I was elected mayor in 2015, I went to the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ Winter Meeting in D.C. in January and he was assigned to be my buddy.”

Buttigieg continued to mentor Wojahn.

Wojhan and Buttigieg faced similar LGBTQ issues. “We talked about balancing competing interests.”

“Some people raised concerns like does this mean we have to open City Hall to anyone who wants to fly a flag?” Wojhan claimed. “Like if the Ku Klux Klan wants to fly a flag.”

“Once we say we are an LGBT-friendly community, we don’t have to also then say we are not an LGBT-friendly community. That’s not what free speech is about.” Wojhan finished.

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Cracks in the Leftist-Islamic Alliance: Hamas-linked CAIR Lobbies Hard Against LGBTQ Rights Bill

The Leftist-Islamic alliance, which has been rolling along without a hitch for many years now, has hit a pothole in the form of the Left’s mad quest to sexualize children and push trans fantasies upon them. Catholics and other Christians have been grateful for the help and excited about strengthening their new alliances with Muslim groups. They should be aware, however, that an alliance against a common foe will not override Islam’s teachings regarding Christianity.

Muslim group warns LGBTQ rights bill could encroach on religious liberty: ‘Cramming this legislation through’

by Joshua Q. Nelson, Fox News, March 2, 2023:

A Muslim advocacy group told Fox News Digital that an LGBTQ rights bill in Michigan is likely “unconstitutional” due to its encroachment on religious freedom.

The Counsel [sic] of American Islamic Relations [CAIR] launched a petition urging lawmakers to add religious protections to proposed amendments to the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act (ELCRA), which seeks to include sexual orientation and gender identity.

The ELCRA has provided protections for Michiganders based on religion, race, sex and other demographics since 1976. LGBTQ advocates have been pushing to be included in the bill for years to ensure they don’t face discrimination.

However, while expanding the rights for LGBTQ members, the bill could remove protections for faith-based organizations that believe marriage is between one man and one woman, or biological differences between men and women.

“CAIR Michigan believes along with some other religious groups that have done the policy and the legal research that there are provisions of this bill that could be struck down as unconstitutional including that provision that requires that covenant,” CAIR-MI Staff Attorney Amy Doukoure told Fox News Digital.

The proposed amendment to ELCRA was introduced last month and received support from Democrats and Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Doukoure said that officials are “cramming this legislation through” and “have not yet agreed to meet with their religious constituents that have religious concerns over this bill.”

Catholic and Protestant groups and Republicans also challenged the bill alongside Muslims. These groups are concerned that the bill could lead to discrimination against religious and conservative people, as well as expose them to potential lawsuits if they believe in the traditional marriage of one man and a woman and their views on biological differences between men and women.

Doukoure said that CAIR partnered with the Michigan Catholic Conference, which is the main lobbying and advocacy wing of the Catholic Church in Michigan, in calling for religious protections in the bill.

“They have a lot of lobbying power. They testified in front of the Senate about the Senate version of this bill,” she said.

“We work with them on a regular basis in matters where our interests align in the preservation of religious freedoms,” Doukoure said.

CAIR’s petition received more than triple the signatures than their goal of 500. The petition is intended to urge lawmakers to add reasonable language to any expansion of the ELCRA to provide religious protections in order to prevent “expensive and lengthy” litigation over First Amendment rights….

Fox News Digital has reached out to the sponsor of the bill, Jeremy Moses, for comment on Doukoure’s claims. Moses said that CAIR never reached out to his office. However, he said that he did have a meeting with the Michigan Catholic Conference and they “could not come to an agreement on amendment language.”…

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Evidence of the CDC’s Covid Conspiracy

The CDC recently announced the scheduling of a confidential meeting to develop a public health tool to predict the virality of vaccine misinformation narratives.  Of course, we know that they perceive truth to be misinformation. So, their intent is to stop it.

What they intend to do is come out with a new policy which will stop, or at least impede, the reporting of the truth of the deaths and serious life-time injuries caused by the so-called Covid-19 “vaccine.”

As you can imagine, the reporting of the truth is causing many more people to see through the Big Lie. So, it just naturally follows that it’s making the liars, especially at the top, very uncomfortable. But, if they only knew that the amount of discomfort they have now (if they have any) is nothing compared to what they will experience at the GREAT WHITE THRONE judgement.

It’s hard for the AGENDA (Conspiracy for global depopulation of 85 to 90 percent) to keep the BIG LIE going with reporting of the truth by writers like Kelleigh Nelson, in articles like Mass murder by a medical system that has lost its direction and soul.”

In this article she asks several questions, then follows up with the answers – such as:

“Have the AMA, CDC, FDA, NIH protocols saved patients? Hell no! They have purposely murdered thousands, perhaps millions, who could have been saved. The dissident doctors, scientists and healthcare workers know there are repurposed drugs (inexpensive and available) that could have saved up to 86 percent of those who perished. Have those stakeholders lied about hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin? Yes, even Lancet and New England Journal of Medicine lied.”

Was the CIA involved in planning this pandemic? Yes! Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s book, The Real Anthony Fauci, states that there were over 20 “pandemic” simulations beginning in 2000, and Bill Gates, Anthony Fauci and the CIA were involved in every one of them. “The CIA wrote the script, high-level CIA officials participated in every one of those pandemic simulations.”

Kennedy states, “So they practiced again and again and again: How to use the pandemic as a pretext for imposing totalitarian controls and for obliterating liberal democracy across the planet.”

“This was all part of a decades-old globalist-devised blueprint for the future.”

“New World System”

Continuing, she says, “The previous two nightmare years were engineered decades ago and exposed in the 1960s. Dr. Vernon Coleman’s short 17-minute video explains what the globalists architects were up to back then and where we are today…frighteningly close to completion. He mentioned a dystopian lecture by Dr. Richard Day.”

Now, this is very important. Please click on the links in her article – the one about Dr. Coleman’s 17-minute video, and the link to, or log on to “NWO plans exposed by Insider Dr. Richard Day in 1969 as transcribed by Dr. Lawrence Dunegan.”

There is a lot of information in this article concerning things you need to know and prepare for.

We need to be prepared mentally. Emotionally, and above all spiritually, in order to survive until we are caught-up to be with the Lord, i.e., “The Rapture.”

And now this from Judge Anna Von Reitz:

“Remember Lord Pirbright, he was the man who brought the world its first concentration camp during the Boer War in Africa. He was rewarded instead of being hung, so that just encouraged more of it.

Yes, concentration camps were a British invention, not German.

Besides being the first Concentration Camps, the camps established during the Boer War boasted another “first.” Pirbright experimented on his Dutch and African prisoners, injecting them with various substances in the name of medical science.

Pirbright was a loathsome elitist and proponent of racial purity. He also championed “eugenics”—the purported science of breeding better human stock, similar to breeding American Kennel Club dogs, and generally treating people like animals, i.e., guinea pigs.

It should come as no surprise to anyone that the Pirbright Institute’s fingerprints are all over the origins of the present disastrous genocide.

Despite their efforts being already outlawed when they began them, these criminals contrived to evade every form of law you can think of, every standard of decency that is customary, and imposed upon their Elite peers, (that is, Canaanite members of the Saturnine Brotherhood) who are not very bright but are very evil and lacking in conscience. To support the mRNA “vaccine” pseudo-scientific medical profiteering scheme, for the sake of money. Profits…

What they liked, what they have always liked, is the death and dismemberment of “inferiors” for profit. By war, by disease, by injection—It hardly matters how, so long as people die, and they profit from it.

I think it is now irrefutably proven who the inferiors. among us really are. And despite their money, they are mentally inferior, morally inferior, and emotionally inferior in every way.

Here’s one of them, Dr. Mylo Canderian of Pirbright UK.  He is under contract with the World Economic Forum and Pfizer, should be shoveling coal in hell. Take a good look at the monster under the bed.  He would give you nightmares if you found him lurking in your closet?”

“Dr. Canderian openly claims that even if the mRNA experiment should fail to have the desired effect of reducing the world population by 90%, the poisons (prions, graphene, polyethylene glycol, CF clotting factors, heartworms and other goodies injected along with it), will kill everyone who took the jab by 2030. He gleefully guarantees it.”

This is all I can cover of this article; I only did this much to help some understand the kind of beings we are confronted with, although those which are aligned against us are even worse, I think, than those described in the article.

Check out the entire article, Britain, again, Guilty as Charged by Anna Von Reitz.

According to Mike Adams of Natural News, to truly understand why the Wuhan Coronavirus (Covid-19) is still being reported as a problem almost two years since it was first announced, look no further than the “vaccines,” which Dr. Richard Fleming says are the true bioweapon.

Appearing in a recent Brighteon interview with Mike Adams, the Health Ranger – watch here – Fleming talked about his new book, Is Covid-19 a Bioweapon?: A scientific and forensic investigation, as well as the history of the coronavirus bioweapons and how we got to this point.

“The mass vaccination protocol being promoted by the likes of Tony Fauci is having a disastrous impact on public health,” Fleming explained. This thing would have been long gone had the virus simply been allowed to run its course without Donald “father of the vaccine” Trump’s “Operation Warp Speed” injections, which are fueling the mutation and spread of new Chinese “variants.”

Dr. Fleming’s interview is extremely interesting, and a very informative account of what has, and continues to be going on behind the scenes, not only nationally, but globally.

The interview is very long but everyone needs to listen to all of it.

“If you take a drug vaccine that is directed towards just a type of one part of variant of a species of coronavirus, and you make an immune response to that, you’ll make an immune response, but when you dump billions of that into the body, you’ll make a massive immune response and have very adverse effects, which is what we’re seeing,” Fleming explained to Adams about the surge in new variant “cases.”

“We were able to put pressure on the virus to promote one of the variants, in this case delta…that if you actually attack one part of the virus, you’ll promote the spread of the other types that are immune because the antibodies are completely different for that type of spike protein.”

The pressure of which Fleming speaks is selective pressure induced by the injections. Much like how antibiotic drug use fuels the mutation and spread of often times deadlier “super bugs.” Fauci Flu shots are doing the same thing to the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19).

I am somewhat puzzled concerning all the above relative to the variants; for it is my understanding that at the outset the “Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19)” could not be seen. That being the case, then, how do we produce variants from something which can’t be isolated?

According to Dr. Fleming, “All this was done with American taxpayer dollars, by the way, funneled by Fauci into several different channels both here and abroad. Fort Detrick in Maryland is said to have been involved, as was the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. And everyone involved, including Fauci, has violated the Biological Weapons Convention Treaty in the process.”

“Now these people are criminally culpable,” says Fleming. “They have violated the Biological Weapons Convention Treaty. They have violated the Informed Consent with the Declaration of Helsinki. They have violated the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Treaty. They have violated the Nuremberg Code. Physicians in the United States who are vaccinating people who have not read the package inserts to obtain the information about drugs are violating their Hippocratic oath – but wait a minute, there’s nothing on those package inserts because they are intentionally blank.”

Now, I have a lot of confidence and faith in Dr. Fleming and what he is involved in – trying to bring these War Criminals, whoever they might be, to justice. However, we know that those involved in this conspiracy began many years ago to incrementally change the laws which they would be confronted with in their endeavor to bring their plans to fruition. So, any action to bring the evidence of Crimes Against Humanity before an international tribunal, could be completely blocked. However, we must keep doing whatever we can to help insure the survival of resistance.

Now, as to those people which Dr. Fleming says are criminally culpable, which there are many. I have seen a partial list of names as long as my arm, however, at this point in time it appears that any action we might take to bring them to justice – is blocked. But, even though we may not have access to an entity which can make them pay for their crimes against humanity – their justice awaits them at the Great White Throne.

For more on this go to Bailiwick News, “Expanded Kill Box Slide Deck and new videos.”

Then there’s this:

What we are witnessing currently is a political and cultural system which could very well be moving into an approach phase to what is written in Thessalonians 4:16, “For the Lord himself will descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.

Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus, we shall always be with the Lord.”

For those who don’t recognize the above, it is what many people call “The Rapture.” Now, I’m aware that that many refuse to believe there will be a “catching away,” because the word, rapture, is not in the bible.  However, the words relating to the catching-up of the “dead in Christ” first, then of those who alive and remain to be with the Lord forever – are written in God’s Word.

Here’s the point, if we are in the approach phase, which we very well could be, — to the catching-up of all those who belong to Christ – then everything to that end is a given – which is to say, that the approach will continue; there will be nothing to stop it or turn it around – it will be completely inadvertent.

Nevertheless, we should not stop our resistance to the evil plans of the conspiracy. On the contrary, I believe we should increase our resistance. For this may not be the approach phase, although I think it is, but then – I could be wrong.

This is something which we cannot correctly discern – only the Lord knows the time and place.

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STOP THE STEAL: The ‘Dirty Dozen Election Fraud Threats’ Facing The 2024 Presidential Election

Without legitimate elections, we are done. Finished as a Constitutional Republic. The ideal of one voter one vote is becoming ancient history as we enter the 2024 Presidential election cycle.


As Americans we expect and trust that our election process is designed to stop any and all election fraud. Sadly, this is not the case. In fact current voter laws allow election fraud and some are more than willing to take advantage of these loopholes.

We have learned, since the 2020 Presidential election, of several ways voter fraud is perpetrated.

Here’s our “Dirty Dozen” list of proven ways to steal an election from the school house to the White House:

    1. Dirty Voter Rolls. There are many states where the voter rolls have not been cleansed of dead people, those who have moved out of state and those who vote in more than one state. Christopher Wright in a column titled Stupid Voter Role Tricks wrote, “Election integrity activists are placing renewed emphasis on cleaning up the voter rolls, and here’s why:  no matter what scheme the Democrats come up with to steal elections, at the end of the day they still have to find enough records of voters who haven’t voted to put in enough fake votes to change the results of the election…About 8 percent of the population moves any given year.  That’s a lot of voter records just waiting to be picked.  The more voters on the rolls who are guaranteed not to vote, the easier it is for the Democrats to commit election fraud, plain and simple… Judicial Watch sued Democrat-run New York City and got a settlement requiring the city to remove over 440,000 ineligible names from the voter rolls and to maintain the rolls in the future.  The city had only removed 22 names in the previous six years which is preposterous for a city of five and a half million people…Judicial Watch and another group filed another lawsuit to clean up the rolls in Los Angeles.  The suit concluded successfully with Democrat-controlled L.A. County removing 1.2 million ineligible voters from the rolls.  The County sent notices to 1.6 million inactive voters who had not voted in two successive federal elections.  The County revealed that 643,000 voters stayed on the rolls despite not voting for at least ten years, more inactive voters than anywhere else in the country.  Yet, there they were, just waiting for the Democrats to make it look like they voted.”
    2. Mail-in-Ballots. Mail-in-Ballots came into vogue during the Covid pandemic. Many states, with the help of some like Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, sent out millions of ballots to addresses regardless of that person’s eligibility to vote. The Last Refuge wrote, “Since the advent of ballot centric focus through mail-in and collection drop-off processes, votes have become increasingly less valuable amid the organizers who wish to control election outcomes. As a direct and specific result, ballot distribution, assembly, collection and return has become the key to Democrat party success. The effort to attain votes for candidates is less important than the strategy of collecting ballots.”
    3. Mules. True The Vote found that mail-in-ballot drop boxes were used to change the 2020 election. Mules, people who delivered ballots of a questionable nature were filmed dropping these mail-in-ballots in the dead of night. True The Vote in its video exposé 2000 Mules showed how easy it was to commit election fraud in just five counties in five states that flipped the 2020 election from Trump to Biden.
    4. Ballot Harvesting. William Hamilton in a 2022 article titled Ballot Harvesting: How Democracies Perish wrote, “Judging from so many disputed elections and the resulting court cases, there is ample evidence to doubt the outcomes of the 2020 and 2022 elections. The easiest way to understand the overall strategy of the 2020 election is to read Molly Ball’s general explanation in the February 4, 2021 issue of Time Magazine. An accurate title would be: ‘How the Progs Harvested, Manipulated, and Cast Enough Votes to Win.’ Instead, Molly Ball wrote, ‘The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election.’ You decide. The Prog victory in 2020, such as it was, rested on the usual ineptitude of many Secretaries of State, the usual failures of the U.S. Post Office, improvements in ‘flaps and seals’ technology, the pandemic-induced flood of mail-in ballots, thousands of unmonitored ballot boxes, the advent of computer software and sophisticated printers capable of producing virtually undetectable counterfeit ballots, the hacking of some voting systems, and most importantly the money to train and hire an army of foot soldiers to pillage unprotected ballot boxes, to go door-to-door, to go to senior centers and nursing homes with offers to ‘help’ homeowners and senior citizens understand complex ballot issues and — here’s the key — to allow the harvesters to gain physical possession of millions of ballots.”
    5. Ranked Choice Voting. In ranked-choice voting, voters get to rank their candidates in order of preference. In other words, you can say who your first-choice candidate would be, followed by the next best candidate, and so on down the list. If a candidate receives more than half of the first-choice votes in the election, that candidate wins—exactly as they would in any other election. If there’s no majority winner (for instance, if the first-choice winner would only represent 43% of the total votes) then the race is decided by an “instant runoff.” Whichever candidate has the fewest votes is eliminated; voters who had chosen that candidate as their first choice have their second choice counted instead. This process goes on until a winner representing more than half of the vote emerges. The Bongino Report reported, “What happens when you combine an all-in or “jungle” primary with ranked-choice voting in the general election? Putting the two modern “innovations” on elections together in Alaska produced this absurd result, in which Republicans lost a House seat despite getting 60% of the vote.”
    6. [S]election Code. [S]ELECTION CODE has released video exposé on the 2020 election. According to their website stating, “You’ve heard it said ‘Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.’ What about those who code the vote?” Here is your free download of [S]election code CLICK HERE or copy this link: https://fs-cdn.frankspeech.com/files/vid/SelectionCode.mp4.
    7. Electronic Voting Machines. Those counties with electronic voting machines experienced serious errors in both the 2020 Presidential and the 2022 midterm elections. Dominion and electronic voting machines were, after forensic reviews, found to have either failed to count ballots for a candidate and or flipped the vote from one candidate to another candidate. On November 12, 2022 President Donald J. Trump wrote, “So in Maricopa County (AZ) they’re at it again. Voting Machines in large numbers didn’t work, but only in Republican districts. People were forced to wait for hours, then got exhausted or had other things to do and left the voting lines by the thousands. Even Kari Lake was taken to a Liberal Democrat district in order to vote. Others weren’t so luckily. This is a scam and voter fraud, no different than stuffing the ballot boxes. They stole the Electron (sic) from Blake Masters. Do Election over again!” Christopher Wright wrote, “[T]hey keep telling us these machines don’t have modems and can’t connect to the Internet, but a watchdog group in Wisconsin found this is a complete lie.  Machines used in the 2020 elections were connected to a nongovernmental IP address called WiscNet in three separate elections, including November 3, 2020. “
    8. Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC). In the article ERIC: The Worm That Got Inside Our Elections Christopher Wright wrote, “Grassroots activists continue to raise questions about ERIC, the Electronic Registration Information Center, and authorities are beginning to respond. On the face of things, ERIC is a private organization that helps its 32 member states clean up and maintain their voter rolls.  It compares state voter registration data against motor vehicle licensing information and the Social Security master death file.  Then it tells states which voters are dead, have moved out of state, or are registered to vote in more than one state.  Critics say ERIC is, at root, nothing more than a partisan get-out-the-vote drive for Democrats. Louisiana withdrew from ERIC last month, citing ‘concerns raised by citizens, government watchdog organizations and media reports about potential questionable funding sources and that possibly partisan actors may have access to ERIC network data for political purposes.’ More recently, Alabama left ERIC.  The new Secretary of State said he did not want a private group having access to voter data, including driver’s license numbers, contact information, and partial social security numbers including those of minors. In addition to partisan connections and privacy concerns, critics also say ERIC does a bad job, producing bloated voter rolls in member states.  Florida, for example, is a member of ERIC but has more than 100 percent of all possible citizens of voting age on its rolls.”
    9. Campaign Finance Mules. The Gateway Pundit in an article titled “Campaign Finance Mules” Identified in Georgia Senate Race – Democrat Raphael Warnock Received Over $24 Million from Hundreds of UNEMPLOYED Donors Giving Over 358,000 Donations reported, “They say ‘Follow The Money’. So we did, and found a massive number of “Campaign Finance Mules” making hundreds, even thousands of donations per year. NBC recently reported on the donations received in the Georgia runoff for Senator. Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock raised $52.2 million for his re-election between Oct. 20 through Nov. 16, more than doubling the fundraising total of his opponent, Republican Herschel Walker. Warnock, the top fundraising federal candidate of the 2022 election cycle by a long-shot, spent $39.2 million over the same period, which almost doubled Walker’s spend too. The incumbent closed the period with $29.7 million banked away. Walker still raised a significant amount over that fundraising period — $20.9 million. His campaign spent $16.5 million and closed with $9.8 million on hand.”
    10. Growing Influence of Non-Profits in U.S. Elections. in an article titled The Left’s New Scheme That Threatens Free Elections reported, “Like a bad movie sequel, leftwing nonprofits like the Center for Tech and Civil Life (CTCL) are once again pumping millions of dollars in left-wing “dark money” into election offices across the country. Just like they did in 2020, these groups are looking for ways to skew elections and boost liberal turnout in battleground states. But this time, there’s a twist. CTCL and its allies aren’t just doling out eye-popping grants. They are aiming for nothing less than a shadow takeover of election offices. Through their new $80 million program, called the “U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence,” the left is targeting local election offices. The goal: push liberal voting policies and systematically reshape how our elections are run. Voters need only to look to the contentious 2020 election cycle to appreciate the significance of this program. That year, Mark Zuckerberg pledged more than $400 million to support election offices during the pandemic. But he didn’t give the money to election offices directly. Instead, he gave the funds to left-wing nonprofits like CTCL. CTCL then directed these “Zuck Bucks” disproportionately to cities and counties that voted Democratic.”
    11. The Growing Influence of Foreign Actors in U.S. Elections. in an article titled Chinese Operatives Ran A Massive TikTok Campaign To Help Dems In The Midterm Elections reported, “TikTok accounts operating as voices of Chinese state media promoted messages that appeared to denigrate Republican candidates and favor Democratic ones ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, according to a Forbes investigation. While the Chinese-owned social media app has verbally affirmed the need to crack down on election disinformation and foreign interference, several news-oriented accounts failed to disclose their affiliation with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) state-owned media on the platform, Forbes found. The accounts racked up tens of millions views on posts that covered divisive topics, such as abortion and race, as well as critical clips that mostly targeted Republican candidates ahead of the 2022 midterms. ‘This opens a new dimension for conversation about TikTok,’ Conor Healy, director of government research at surveillance research group IPVM, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The accounts are managed by MediaLinks TV, which registered as a foreign agent for China with the Treasury Department in 2019 and distributes the U.S. branch of China Central Television (CCTV), CGTN, according to the company’s LinkedIn page. MediaLinks also operates the CCTV and CGTN apps, according to Apple.”
    12. The Legacy Media, Social Media, FBI, CIA, DoD, Et al. Election Propaganda Machine. In a column titled TWITTER FILES: FBI, CIA, DoD, Et al. Actively Worked With EVERY Social Media Platform to Control and Censor Speech reported, “The files show the FBI acting as doorman to a vast program of social media surveillance and censorship, encompassing agencies across the federal government – from the State Department to the Pentagon to the CIA. The government was in constant contact not just with Twitter but with virtually every major tech firm. We live in a surveillance state.”

There are efforts to have voter rolls cleaned up. The website VoteRef.com allows individuals to search voter rolls in many states to determine if someone is no longer living in the state or is voting illegally. According to the VoteRef.com website, “VoteRef.com is dedicated to ensuring transparent, accurate and fair elections in the United States of America. The purpose of this website is to provide public access to official government data pertaining to elections, including voter registration rolls, with a goal of encouraging greater voter participation in all fifty states. Our system of government is based upon citizen participation. We believe the people, in effect, own this data and have a legal right to see it in an understandable and transparent form. Let freedom ring.”

There are some states, like Florida, that have taken action to insure elections are free and fair.

The Florida Model for 2024

After the 2022 midterm elections it has become clear that there is a “winning model” for elections at the state level. This model is based upon “understanding what people really want and then giving it to them.”  What people want the most is “freedom.” Freedom to make their personal decisions when it comes to healthcare, education, the economy, careers, investments and who represents them.

The who represents them is key in that it demands that elections from the school house to the White House be both free and fair.

QUESTION: How do we get there?

ANSWER: The Florida Model!

We call this back to the future model the “Florida Model” because it fully implements the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

The Tenth Amendment states:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

The Founding Fathers wanted limited government at the Federal level and vast powers invested in the states and the people.

The Florida Model, like the U.S. Constitution, is based upon three imperatives:

  1. Faith
  2. Family
  3. Freedom

Take away any one of these imperatives and you are violating the intent of the Tenth Amendment and thereby destroying our Constitutional Republican form of government.

Here’s how governors, using the Tenth Amendment get to the Florida Model outlined in just one tweet:

Does the Florida Model Work?

After the midterm election results were in it was clear that the Florida Model is a winner. Listen to Governor DeSantis’ victory speech to understand why and how his model works and works well for the people of Florida.

It’s about freeing the people. Giving the people the power to make their own decisions, good or bad, and paying the consequences of either success or failure.

Government only exists to serve the people. Whenever government looks at the people as servants to itself then you have discord, division and conflict.

The well being of Americans has always been in the hands of the individual voter. It is critical to insure that the voters are heard.

The Bottom Line

Here’s a video titled “The ‘F’ word” given by American author, energy theorist, industrial policy pundit and founder and President of the Center for Industrial Progress  Alex Epstein. It lays out why the Florida Model inextricably leads to human prospering, which leads to winning culturally, socially and politically.

Governors must dedicate themselves to their people and empower them to make decisions that are right for themselves, their families and the community. The key word is responsibility. Taking responsibility for one’s actions is key and this ends up in how elections are conducted and their consequences.

“Live free or die” is not just a slogan it’s the truth! Today telling the truth has become a revolutionary act.

Please share this column with your family, friends your elected leaders from school boards, to the City and County Commissions, to your State Legislators to your Governor, to your member of Congress in Washington, D.C. and on your social media sites.

©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

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TRUMP: ‘We’re Not Going To Let Them’ Steal The Election in 2024

In 2024, a smarter, more experienced, and more organized President Trump will use the same election tactics employed by the Democrats. He will will not be caught flat-footed like he did in 2020. He will be ready #Trump2024!

TRUMP: ‘WE’RE NOT GOING TO LET THEM’ STEAL THE ELECTION IN 2024

By RSPN, March 3, 2023

President Donald Trump made a vow to Americans on Truth Social on Sunday, noting that there was an ongoing effort to “steal” the next presidential election, and promising to prevent overwhelming corruption in 2024.

“Crooked Democrat Prosecutors, many of them Racists in Reverse, are trying to steal a second Presidential Election,” Trump wrote. “They did it in 2020, and we’re not going to let them do it again in 2024. MAGA!!!”

Last November, President Trump announced his candidacy for the 2024 presidency. However, he has routinely addressed the underlying issue of election fraud since 2020.

Per RSBN, Trump recently touched on the subject during a question and answer session at Club 47 in West Palm Beach, Florida.

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Which Lawmaker Accepted More BlackRock Money Than Any Other Member Of Congress?

Direct evidence of the corrupt, conniving, backstabbing dealings of this powerful destroyer.

Our system is broken.

Here’s The Lawmaker Who Accepts More BlackRock Money Than Any Other Member Of Congress

By: Ben Zeisloft • Mar 3, 2023 DailyWire.com:

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) accepted more donations in the last election cycle from BlackRock and individuals affiliated with the firm than any other member of Congress.

The connection between the lawmaker and the asset management company was noted by the American Accountability Foundation, a non-profit government oversight and research organization, after Schumer rebuked efforts to scrap a Labor Department rule that would allow retirement fiduciaries to allocate funds in accordance with the environmental, social, and corporate governance movement, also known as ESG. Both the House and Senate passed a resolution opposed to the rule, which President Joe Biden is expected to veto.

BlackRock is a leading proponent of the ESG movement, which critics say mingles political and social causes such as decreasing carbon emissions and achieving racial diversity in a manner that compromises or distracts from profitability. Schumer nevertheless accepted $103,950 from individuals associated with BlackRock and $10,000 from a political action committee controlled by the company, according to data compiled by OpenSecrets.

“ESG opponents are trying to turn it into a dirty acronym, deploying attacks they’ve used for elements of a so-called woke agenda,” Schumer said on social media this week as the resolution moved through Congress. “They call ESG wokeness. They call it a cult. They call it an incursion into free markets. I say ESG is just common sense.”

Candidates from both parties benefit from BlackRock money, with Republicans getting $639,000 and Democrats getting $453,000 in the most recent midterm election cycle. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) were the second and third-largest individual recipients of funds from BlackRock and individuals associated with BlackRock.

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PODCAST: Dumbing Down Young Americans to a 6th-Grade Level

Are you confused about why our government can not come up with clear policies? Why no one takes responsibility for their actions? Why is there a lack of COMMON SENSE? Lack of clarity? Policies that fail to make sense but are expensive? Why are Americans ignored? Why is America ignored? Why are Americans made to feel guilty about hard-work ethics? Why reading and math skills are lacking? Why is American Patriotism demonized?

Everyone is asking why this is happening, yet no one has an answer?

The answer to that question is simple…Education. We are living the result of the intentional dumbing down of the American Population.

Someone asked why does Kamala Harris sound like she is talking to a room of 6th graders regardless of the audience? The answer is, that she is at a 6th-grade level. The average reading level for most Americans is 6th grade. Gone is the quality and excellence that workers placed on themselves as they had pride in the product they had just created. Gone is that drive, that desire to be the best able to live the American dream.

Common Core Standards (CCS) accomplished the goal for a Global workforce. The purpose of education is: To confuse, so the child will only be capable of pressing an APP for answers. Ignorant people require less of their government. The government becomes the “NANNY STATE,” taking care of…and CONTROLLING… the ignorant populace!

Okay, so we know the problems and what the globalists intend to do (steal everything). We must fight back. Join us and learn how you can fight back.

H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D., is a Heartland senior fellow on environmental policy and the managing editor of Environment & Climate News. Director of the Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy.

Website: https://www.heartland.org/

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