How the Democrats Weaponize the Elections Process

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Today, I argue the Democrats are weaponizing the elections process to rig elections in their favor.  Before I give you examples, let me first say that the recent exit of several states from ERIC – the thinly disguised get-out-the-vote effort for Democrats posing as a voter list maintenance operation – shows it is possible to undo the weaponization.  The days of Republicans and the political Right playing the patsy are over.

The first example of weaponization is federal DHS funding of a nonprofit called the Center for Internet Security to provide cybersecurity services to county elections offices free of charge.  The Center is not an honest broker.  It was instrumental in flagging supposed election ‘misinformation’ for the government / Big Tech censorship enterprise now well-known because of the release of the Twitter files and the Missouri court case.  So what we have here is censorship masquerading as cybersecurity.  This is the same artifice the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) uses in claiming that preventing ‘misinformation’ is somehow part of their mission to protect critical infrastructure.  Critics say states are perfectly capable of strengthening cybersecurity in the elections process on their own, citing Florida as an example.

Another left-wing nonprofit – U.S. Digital Response – purports to help local elections officials with better digital tools to run elections.  It’s funded by big money from the Left, including the Ford Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.  It’s tied in with other left-wing entities which are all part of what has come to be called ‘Zuckerbucks’, the dubious private financing of elections.  Critics say US Digital Response in actuality works to help left-wing candidates win elections.

These are not the only nonprofits engaged in 501(c)(3) abuse – doing things never contemplated when tax-exempt status was initiated.   These so-called charities, which are supposed to be in the business of educating the public, have been weaponized to turn out likely Democrat voters in elections.  They are legally prohibited from conducting partisan voter registration drives, but get around the law by microtargeting certain demographics – “unmarried women, people of color, Millennials, Gen Z, and other historically under-represented groups in the electorate” – all of which lean Democrat.  Prominent nonprofits engaged in this effort include the Voter Participation Center and the Center for Voter Information.  They promote mail-in voting and ignore uncompetitive red states.  Critics have called for banning nonprofit voter registration drives.

State and local governments are also weaponizing elections.  A bill in the Democrat-controlled Michigan legislature would reduce citizen participation in the elections process under the guise of keeping election workers ‘safe’.  If enacted, all elections officials would have to do is claim they feel ‘intimidated’ or ‘harassed’ and citizen poll watchers could be slapped with felony charges.  Democrats keep saying elections officials are being threatened but haven’t produced much evidence of that, so far.  So this is a bill that addresses a non-problem but in actuality makes it easier for the Democrats to cheat in elections.

East Lansing is compelling landlords to help register new tenants to vote, another likely Democrat constituency.  The landlords have sued, arguing this is unconstitutional compelled speech.  Chicago is pressuring inmates to vote in elections.  They are another likely Democrat constituency.  The inmates themselves are objecting, saying they are not registered to vote or are registered  elsewhere.  Critics say the city is engaged in illegal ballot harvesting and scooping up votes where there are no cameras or poll watchers.   Seattle has been handing out taxpayer-funded “democracy dollars” to another likely Democrat constituency – low-income residents – since 2015.  These are $100 worth of gift cards the voters can direct to their favorite political campaigns.  I don’t know how that’s legal, but it shouldn’t be.  You can bet if this scheme benefitted the Republicans, the Democrats in control of Seattle wouldn’t be doing it.

All of this may seem like small potatoes to you, but here’s where it’s headed if Democrat weaponization of the elections process is left unchecked:  Tens of thousands gathered last month to protest election law changes in Mexico.  Critics say the changes hobble the election agency that helped end one-party rule there.  I guarantee you there are Democrats in the U.S. who are looking at that and wondering to themselves, ‘how can we do that here? How can we rig the elections process, achieve one-party rule, and never get voted out again?’   If this sounds implausible to you after hearing the stories I told you about today, all I can say is you’re naïve.  The stories show you without question the Democrats are up to no good.

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TEXAS: Operation Child Safe Nets 2 Arrests For Child Exploitation [Videos]

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Recently, Veterans For Child Rescue (V4CR) made headlines with our successful operation in Webb County, Texas, which resulted in the arrest of two individuals for child exploitation.

The two individuals arrested were Alfonso David Soliz and Rodolfo Orlando Aranda. Soliz, a former jailer and brother of a Sheriff’s Dept. Sgt., had prior federal probation and was arrested on the charges of online solicitation of a minor. Additionally, he was served with an arrest warrant for assault and family violence. Aranda was also charged with online solicitation of a minor.

V4CR is committed to raising awareness about the prevalence of child trafficking in the United States and working with law enforcement agencies to put child predators behind bars with a 100% conviction rate. Our approach is unique in that it leverages the skills and expertise of veterans and law enforcement officials who are uniquely equipped to handle high-pressure and dangerous situations.

We are incredibly proud of the success of Operation Child Safe in Webb County. It is a testament to the effectiveness of our approach, which leverages the skills and expertise of veterans and law enforcement officials. Through collaboration with local law enforcement agencies, we were able to identify and track down these individuals and ensure they were arrested without bond.

The success of Operation Child Safe is a testament to the dedication and commitment of organizations like Vets4ChildRescue.org, who are working tirelessly to make a difference in the lives of the most vulnerable members of our society. However, it is also a reminder that there is still much work to be done in the fight against child exploitation and trafficking.

We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to all those who supported Operation Child Safe in Webb County, including our team of veterans, volunteers, and law enforcement officials, as well as the broader community. Together, we can hope to put an end to this horrific crime once and for all.

If you would like to support Veterans For Child Rescue in our mission to raise awareness about child sex trafficking and work with law enforcement agencies to arrest and convict child predators, please consider making a donation, supporting us by purchasing our merchandise, or joining our team of dedicated volunteers.

With your help, we can make a real difference in the lives of children who have been victimized by these heinous crimes and put an end to this horrific crime once and for all.

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Filter Legislation to Protect Kids Gains Ground, Despite Big Tech Misinformation

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Last week, a friend asked me for advice on how she could keep pornography off digital devices used by her children. I was happy to help, which meant spending over an hour emailing step-by-step instructions, attaching numerous screenshots with scribbles directing “Click here –>” and “BAD –>”, “GOOD –>”, etc etc . . . all to show her how to locate parental controls and safety settings that might keep her little ones safe online.

At the end of it all, my friend’s husband made a very astute observation: “You know what, I think it’s kind of crazy that these protections aren’t on by default. Shouldn’t it be the other way around? Shouldn’t an adult have to seek out pornography if they want it, rather than letting the status quo be that any kid can accidentally stumble on it?”

“YES!!” was my immediate, unreserved reply. And I proceeded to explain this is exactly what NCOSE is fighting for through current public policy efforts.

NCOSE’s Public Policy Team is working in numerous states across the U.S. to pass device filter bills (a.k.a. “Default to Safety” bills), requiring smartphones and tablets to automatically turn on filters blocking sexually explicit material, when the device is activated, to protect children from harmful content.

Adults are provided with a passcode or a biometric means of simply turning off the filter, if preferred. An adult can also toggle between filter “ON” and filter “OFF” settings.

Close in Idaho, Pending in Montana

Last week, a device filter bill, “Parental Rights Protection of Minors Act,” supported by NCOSE in Idaho failed to pass the state senate by one vote. However, this is progress, considering that last year, a similar bill failed to even reach the floor. We hope this trend of increased support continues as more people realize that Big Tech has zero interest in the online health and safety of children.

NCOSE also supports HB349 in Montana, which passed the House in early March, 63-47, and is currently pending in the Senate. Other states considering similar legislation are Iowa, Florida, Maryland, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas.

Opposition to the Device Filter Bill: Big Tech Spreading Misinformation

In the run up to Idaho senate debate on the device filter bill, an astounding array of misinformation was presented to oppose its passing. Big Tech views device filter legislation as a threat, flying highly paid lobbyists into state capitols to testify against it.

These hired guns argued that the filtering requirements mandated by the filter bill are “not technologically feasible.” This simply isn’t true. Filtering technology already exists on handheld devices and tablets; the only thing the bill proposes to change is that the filter defaults to on instead of off. 

In a self-contradicting move, Big Tech has also argued that the bill is unnecessary, precisely because filters and safety settings already exist. Although this argument recognizes the current state of available technology, its conclusion misses the point.

Research shows that most people leave devices and apps at their default settings. As such, while filters do exist, the reality is that most of the time they are not turned on, and children are left unprotected. Many reasons might explain this—parents might not know that the filters are available, might not have a strong awareness of the dangers facing kids online, might be intimidated or discouraged when trying to sift through various settings to find the filters . . . Importantly, research has also highlighted that “there is an implicit perception that when something is a default, it should be a good choice, causing more people to stick with it.”

The result: the status quo is that the only children who are protected are those who are privileged with highly involved, tech-savvy, danger-aware parents/caregivers willing to spend hours navigating through various device and app settings to find build in protections. This is what the device filter bills seek to change. They seek to protect all children—not a small, privileged subset of them.

Another favourite argument of the Big Tech opposition is that the device filter solution is unconstitutional. Incorrect again! This legislation stands in favourable contrast to previous legislative attempts to protect children from exposure to online obscenity, precisely because it passes constitutional muster.

Some background here is helpful: in 2004, the Child Online Protection Act was struck down by the Supreme Court in Ashcroft v. ACLU on the basis that it violated the First Amendment. As an alternative, the Supreme Court suggested that utilizing filters on devices at the receiving end, instead of placing limits on publishers of explicit material, satisfied the First Amendment. Read more about the device filter bill’s constitutionality here.

Device filter bills are the simplest and best option for protecting children from exposure to pornography and harmful content. The bill is constitutional, relies on existing technology, and ensures ALL kids are protected.

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The Device Filter Bill is the Best Option for Protecting Children from Harmful Content

The device filter bill is truly the simplest and the best option for protecting children from exposure to pornography and harmful content. It relies on existing technology, it passes constitutional muster, and it ensures that all children would receive the same protections, regardless of privilege.

If you are interested in passing a filtering bill, or other online child protection in your state, you can sign up for state-specific announcements and opportunities for action below. Our Public Policy team will keep you updated!

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D.C. Attorney Refused To Prosecute 67% Of Cases

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Federal prosecutors in the Washington, D.C., U.S. attorney’s office declined to prosecute 67% of those arrested by the police in cases that would have been tried in the D.C. Superior Court in 2022, according to The Washington Post.

Matthew Graves, the District’s Biden-appointed U.S. attorney, said the office is prosecuting most violent felonies and that the cases most frequently dropped are gun possession, drug possession and burglaries, according to the Post. The local police chief has said officers aren’t to blame, and that every person they arrest needs to be taken off the city’s streets.

“Of course we are concerned,” Robert J. Contee III, the Washington, D.C. police chief, told the Post. “We believe every person we arrest should be off the streets.”

“I can promise you, it’s not MPD holding the bag on this,” he said. “That’s B.S.”

As recently as 2015, the prosecutor’s office was only rejecting 35% of arrests that would have been tried in the Superior Court, according to the Post. At 67%, the D.C. office declines far more cases than comparable local or prosecutor’s offices; the prosecutor’s office in Wayne County, Michigan, where Detroit is located, declined 33% of cases last year, while prosecutors in Philadelphia declined 4% and prosecutors in Cook County, Illinois, which includes Chicago, declined 14%, according to the Post.

Graves’ office prosecuted 87.9% of arrests made in homicides, armed carjackings, assaults with intent to kill and first-degree sexual assault cases in 2022, he told the Post; in 2018 that figure was 95.6%.

The Washington, D.C. crime lab has been unaccredited since 2021, meaning prosecutors have to pay to have evidence examined at outside laboratories, and violent offenses are prioritized, according to the Post. Graves also told the outlet that police body camera footage has increased the proportion of cases prosecutors drop because they can tell earlier whether there’s sufficient evidence for a conviction.

Graves’ office did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

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House Passes Republicans’ Signature Energy Reform Bill

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The House of Representatives passed Republicans’ signature energy package, the Lower Energy Costs Act, in a mostly party-line vote Thursday.

The legislation, introduced by House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, includes permitting reform and rolls back several executive orders that limit domestic energy production. Democratic Texas Reps. Vicente Gonzalez and Henry Cuellar, Maine Rep. Jared Golden, and Washington Rep. Marie Glusenkamp Perez voted with 221 Republicans in supporting the package. Pennsylvania Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick was the only Republican to oppose it.

“What a great day this is for American families who have been struggling for too long under the weight of high prices, record-high inflation, all of the problems that President Biden has created, and especially for those people that have been frustrated to so long that President Biden has gone after American energy but yet gone all around the world and begged foreign dictators to get our energy from them,” Scalise said at a press conference held after the bill passed. “This has never been a question of whether or not we have oil or natural gas in the U.S. The question is, ‘where do we get it?’”

The Lower Energy Costs Act, which is not expected to pass the Senate, would resume construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, which Biden blocked on his first day in office. It also includes reforms of the National Environmental Policy Act and the Clean Water Act initially proposed by Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin in the 117th Congress that would speed up permitting for various projects.

The legislation would also prohibit foreign companies from mining on U.S. soil if those companies have documented histories of human rights violation. That provision is targeted at Chinese entities, many of which employ Uyghur slave labor.

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MICHAEL GINSBERG

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Personal Statement: I have merged with the Center for the Study of Political Islam International

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This column is different than ones I have published before in that it is a personal statement.

I have been on the frontlines of the defense against Political Islam for almost 20 years. It has been my pleasure during this time to meet, to know and to work with some of the most wonderful people in the world – people who love their countries, their civilization and who are incredibly courageous.

In 2014, I was approached by Milan Podlipny from the Czech Republic. He had been following my work and proposed establishing the Center for the Study of Political Islam International (CSPII), which would be a global educational non-profit organization.

We partnered and Milan’s determination and talent, along with the hard work of many dedicated individuals resulted in a successful volunteer organization. Currently, CSPII has an expanding all-volunteer team of more than 25 nationalities with branches in 12 countries around the world.

Our members have presented lectures and workshops to media, government agencies, academia, and the general public, educating them on the political doctrine of Islam. I am very proud of this organization and what its volunteers have accomplished.

Now, I’m turning my attention to working more closely with the administration of CSPII. My website, www.politicalislam.com has merged with the international site, www.cspii.org in an on-going effort by our members to clarify and update the material and methods which I presented over the years. Please check it out.

CSPII will periodically publish national newsletters and strategic analyses on important international events. Watch for the Political Islam in North America Newsletter in your email box.

Thank you all so much for your support through the years. If you would to like to become more involved in our efforts, go here.

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Tucker Carlson Says ‘There Is No Coming Back’ From Trump Indictment That ‘Suspended’ Rule Of Law

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Fox News host Tucker Carlson said that “there is no coming back” from the indictment of former President Donald Trump by a Manhattan grand jury Thursday, calling it a suspension of the rule of law.

“American politics was thrown into complete chaos perhaps permanently about three hours ago, when a grand jury in Manhattan, one of the most liberal cities in America, a place where 80% voted for Joe Biden, decided to indict Biden’s political opponent in the upcoming election, the Republican front runner, a man who leads by 30 points in polls, Donald Trump,” Carlson, a co-founder of the Daily Caller News Foundation, said. “The jury did this at the urging of a man called Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney who has been famous by making the city much more dangerous by refusing to enforce laws against crimes like robbery and rape.”

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg secured a grand jury indictment against Trump Thursday. The case centered around an alleged $130,000 payout to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, during Trump’s successful run for the White House.

“Now, we don’t know at this hour what the indictment says, we don’t know what the charges are, but previous news reports suggest they will emanate from an alleged payment seven years ago, a payment federal regulators said violated no law, but Alvin Bragg apparently believes is a crime,” Carlson continued. “Either way, the net result is Donald Trump is the first former President Trump of the United States ever to be indicted. So, no matter what happens next, we can be certain there is no coming back from this moment.”

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Republican presidential contenders and potential candidates condemned the indictment as “politically motivated” and “a dark moment in American history.” Republican elected officials, former officials and conservative media figures also ripped the indictment.

Carlson also listed other investigations which he had previously condemned as efforts to keep Trump from running for president.

“This indictment is something brand new, the beginning of something. It is also a culmination of something, the culmination of an effort to make certain, to make sure that Donald Trump is never elected president again. That was the whole purpose of the January 6th committee. So far, it is not working, Trump is leading the Republican field for the nomination by a wide margin,” Carlson said.

“As far as we know the DOJ is still investigating Donald Trump on another pretextual offense, supposedly storing classified documents at his home, something we later discovered that virtually everyone who has served in federal office does, including Mike Pence,” Carlson continued. “But take three steps back, pause for a minute and consider the escalation of tactics on display here. In 2016 The most powerful interest in this country decided that Donald Trump could not be president and in fact for the most part assumed that he would never be, which is too ridiculous to be real, but just to make sure he was never was, the FBI worked with the Clinton campaign to spread false allegations that the president had been colluding with the government of Russia.”

Carlson also noted the arrest of Michael Flynn, Trump’s first national security advisor, as well as both times Trump was impeached.

“The rule of law appears to be suspended tonight, not just for Trump, but for anyone who would consider voting for him,” Carlson said, noting the storming of the Tennessee state house Thursday by protesters demanding gun control.

“What we’re seeing now is lawlessness,” Carlson added.

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HAROLD HUTCHISON

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REPORT: ‘QAnon Shaman’ Released From Prison Just Weeks After Tucker Carlson’s Video Release

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The so-called “QAnon Shaman” has been released from prison and sent to a halfway house just weeks after Daily Caller co-founder and Fox News host Tucker Carlson released footage from the Capitol riot, according to the Daily Mail.

Thirty-five year-old Jacob Chansley was sentenced in 2021 to 41 months in prison followed by another 36 months of supervised release after entering a plea deal for charges of civil disorder, obstruction of an official proceeding, entering and remaining in a restricted building and other non-violent crimes.

Chansley was not accused of assaulting law enforcement or destroying government property, though prosecutors argued he deserved a harsh sentence because he “showed no remorse in the days after the event,” Politico reported.

Chansley’s attorney, Albert S. Watkins, said Thursday that Chansley has been released from prison after serving just 27 months of his 41-month sentence, according to the Daily Mail.

“After serving eleven months in solitary prior to his sentence being imposed, and only 16 months of his sentence thereafter, it is appropriate this gentle and intelligent young man be permitted to move forward with the next stage of what undoubtedly will be a law abiding and enriching life,” Watkins reportedly said.

“I applaud the decision of the US Bureau of Prison in this regard,” Watkins continued, according to DailyMail.

The announcement comes after Carlson aired footage appearing to show officers escorting Chansley through the halls of the Capitol building on Jan. 6. The footage, which Carlson obtained from Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and aired on March 6, shows Chansley walking with two officers, and at one point passing a group of several officers who do not appear to try to stop or arrest Chansley.

Prosecutors rejected Carlson’s argument that video footage undercut claims of criminal conduct by Chansley, saying Carlson left out incriminating parts. 

“The televised footage lacks the context of what occurred before and after the footage,” prosecutors wrote in a court filing related to charges against Proud Boys member Dominic Pezzola.

“The televised footage shows Chansley’s movements only from approximately 2:56 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.,” prosecutors continued. “Prior to that time, Chansley had, amongst other acts, breached a police line at 2:09 p.m. with the mob, entered the Capitol less than one minute behind Pezzola during the initial breach of the building, and faced off with members of the U.S. Capitol Police for more than thirty minutes in front of the Senate Chamber doors while elected officials … were fleeing from the chamber.”

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BRIANNA LYMAN

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Manhattan Grand Jury Votes To Indict Donald Trump

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A Manhattan grand jury voted Thursday to indict Former President Donald Trump.

The indictment comes almost two weeks after Trump announced on Truth Social he expected to be arrested in connection to a years long investigation into whether or not he paid hush money to former porn star Stormy Daniels. Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen allegedly sent $130,000 to Daniels so that she would not disclose an earlier alleged affair with the president. Cohen claims Trump then reimbursed him. The Manhattan District Attorney’s office investigated whether Trump forged business records to hide the alleged payout.

Trump is now the first president in American history to be indicted.

Trump is reportedly being indicted on more than 30 counts related to business fraud, CNN said citing two sources familiar with the case.

Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York opted not to charge Trump for the case in 2019, while the Federal Election Commission dropped its investigation into the case in 2021, Fox News reported.

This is a breaking news story and will be updated as details become available. 

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BRIANNA LYMAN

News and commentary writer. Follow Brianna on Twitter.

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Why a Whack-a-Mole video? Because We’re Certainly Living in ‘Interesting’ Times.

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We certainly live in “interesting” times. There are a multitude of other adjectives that could be used to describe our day – exasperating, frustrating, tiring, etc…etc… I chose to use my favorite “safe” word!

In one day I can hear about a school shooting, queer youth assemblies, FBI corruption, voter fraud, killer plant fungus, TikTok trojan horse, deep state, globalist intentions, friends with heart problems, cancer, COVID vaccine reactions, family troubles, inflation… you want me to go on? The list can go on ad nauseam!

As a Christian and especially as an intercessor, I know everyone of these issues call for – even demand – my attention, concern and prayer. But I cannot give each of these issues the important prayer it deserves. I do not have the emotional resources to care as deeply as I want to, nor the time to dedicate as much as their importance deserves, nor the knowledge to know how to pray for each as I should. A brief cry out to the LORD on their behalf is what I can do.

That is where the whack-a-mole analogy comes in. I pray for one need. Then another need pops up to pray for. Then another one, then another. One right after the other. It never stops. All important. Some catastrophically important! I can take a break in prayer, but that just means there are needs that have popped up that I gave absolutely no attention to. And this is not a game! These are real needs that in far too many cases have life-and-death consequences.

I say, “Oh LORD!! What are we to do?” As I prayed this to the LORD, I heard Him say, the best way to win at the whack-a-mole game is to go behind the game and unplug it! In meditating on this answer and trying to understand what it meant and how to apply that to prayer, I began to see that the issue is power. The whack-a-mole game can’t work if its power source is removed. Satan’s attacks are diverted, dimmed or canceled when his power is cut off. Relating that to prayer, as we declare God’s word and operate consistent with His word, we can shut the door to Satan’s power.

Declaring God’s word is powerful when an individual brings God’s word to bear on a situation. When two or more join together, Jesus says He is right there adding His presence to the power. What could / would / WILL happen when hundreds or thousands of believers together declare His word?

Making declarations is not the same as asking God’s intervention in a specific situation. Nor are making declarations supposed to take the place of intercession for specific needs. God has an amazing and miraculous way of impressing upon us which specific need or situation we should carry as our prayer responsibility.

God’s word is very clear that His word is powerful. This is made plain throughout scripture. Maybe the clearest expression of this is from Isaiah 55: 10,11 – ” For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there without watering the earth and making it bear and sprout and furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so will My word be which goes forth from My mouth. It will not return to Me empty without accomplishing what I desire and without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.”

So too are the verses from Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:18,19 and Revelation 3:7,8. God has given His church/ekklesia, His Bride the authority to open and shut doors so that His model prayer in Matthew 6 can be fulfilled to see “Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”

God is raising up His people in all of Florida’s 67 counties and now spreading to over 20 states with more coming to stand together and declare His words over our counties, states and nation. Every 2nd Saturday at 8 am we make declarations together. We are going behind the enemy, behind the situations we can actually see and using the Word of God, the keys of the kingdom to shut the door to the enemy, to cut off his power and open the door to God’s work in our land.

I am asking every Christian, every intercessor, every prayer group, every pastor and every church to do this. 15 minutes. Once a month. That is all the time it takes to speak out the declarations. If you are in a group, everyone reads the declarations out loud together. If you are by yourself, still read them out loud. We are speaking into the heavenlies. Remember, the weapons of our warfare are “divinely powerful for the destruction of strongholds and destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God”, 2 Corinthians 4,5.

There are two ways to get the declarations. The best way is to go to the PrayerLinkFL website and click on the CONNECT tab and click on CONNECT at the next page. It will take you to the CityMatters page for PrayerLinkFL. If you don’t know, CityMatters is a facebook alternative for Christian ministries that is private and secure. Go through the free sign-up process and you will receive the declarations via e-mail each month. As an alternative, you can e-mail me at randy@PrayerLinkFL.com and tell me you want the declarations and I will e-mail them directly to you a few days prior to the 2nd Saturday of the month.

Click here to see the Declarations we will be doing on April 8.

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The Claim That ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ Saves Lives Is Falling Apart

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Monday’s tragic shooting at The Covenant School, a Presbyterian private school in Nashville, Tennessee, is exposing the sobering reality that what is being marketed to the public as “gender-affirming care” is not doing what we were told it would do­­­­ – alleviate mental health issues and gender confusion.

In the past few years, several mass shootings have been carried out by members of the transgender-identifying community. This is a rather alarming statistic, given that only 0.1% of the population experiences gender dysphoria, according to the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders V-TR. So, what is going on here?

At one time, gender dysphoria was considered a mental disorder, but now, due to the increasing prevalence of a worldview shaped by gender identity ideology, it has morphed into a human rights issue. The ideology borrows from the mental health aspects of gender dysphoria in order to justify medical “intervention.” It claims that the elevated mental health issues in the transgender-identifying community can be pinned on the social discrimination these individuals face. In the simplest terms, the transgender-identifying person’s mental well-being is based on having the right external circumstances, such as being called by the “correct” pronouns, undergoing all the desired plastic surgeries, having access to the opposite sex’s hormones, and having others affirm their internal idea of reality. What could possibly go wrong with that approach to life?

In the aftermath of The Covenant School tragedy, we can be assured that discrimination will be offered up as an excuse for a transgender-identified person carrying out a mass shooting. But if facing discrimination is cause for someone to commit such a heinous act as mass violence, then we ought to adjust how we flag potential perpetrators and offer other mental health interventions to gender-affirming care, such as ones that help people develop stronger internal loci of control rather than be subject to the changing tides of their circumstances.

Advocates of gender-affirming care insist it is both lifesaving and evidence-based health care for those who identify as transgender. But the research used to make such a claim is full of methodological errors and can be easily disputed as a research body that is incomplete. In just one example, it is well known that the trans-identifying community has experienced a high rate of childhood traumas. It is also well-known that trauma victims have high suicide attempt and completion rates. The problem is that the supposed scientific research on the transgender issue doesn’t explain how researchers have differentiated those in the transgender community who are suicidal because of the influence of childhood trauma from those they claim are suicidal because of the lack of affirmation and pharmaceuticals.

Not only are the currently published studies problematic, but there is a lack of ongoing and long-term follow-up reports that address the impact of cross-sex hormones and surgeries. Most of us have seen the commercials in which the lawyer announces a class action suit against a pharmaceutical company for a particular drug’s side effects that were discovered later. Why did the suit come about? It was a result of continual study and monitoring of a particular drug to understand if the harms of taking that medication outweigh the benefits.

In our current climate, there is no sensible monitoring of the psychological effects of minors or adults taking cross-sex hormones or engaged in any aspect of gender-affirming care. We don’t know the long-term psychological effects of social transition (e.g., adopting the opposite sex’s name and pronouns) either. Although we don’t know if the perpetrator of the March 27 shooting was on cross-sex hormones, we do know that she was in counseling and, given the state of the profession, was most likely encouraged to identify as the opposite biological sex.

To address this unscientific and dysfunctional approach to treating gender dysphoria, bills have been proposed across the country to place age requirements on the physiological aspects of gender-affirming care. Although most of these proposals require a person to be 18 years old before they can receive cross-sex hormones or undergo surgical procedures to change their sexual organs, the evidence to support these “interventions” isn’t good for any age.

Unfortunately, the tragedy at The Covenant School proves to be one more big piece of evidence suggesting that gender-affirming care (whether social or physiological) is not doing what it set out to do — treat mental health issues. On the contrary, the evidence shows that those who take these drugs are 19 times more likely to commit suicide. There is also mounting evidence that those who have detransitioned have experienced compounded psychological complications as a result of what they went through under “gender-affirming care.” Now, we face the tragic reality of a transgender-identifying biological female, who, against the normative profile, committed an act of mass murder.

We do not understand the long-term psychological ramifications of the so-called gender-affirming approach to mental health care, but we do have growing evidence that this sort of “affirmation” is not a remedy for mental health problems.

One thing this tragedy has confirmed is that our leaders and legislators should focus on saving lives and invoke a moratorium on these risky, baseless “gender affirming” interventions.

AUTHOR

Dr. Jennifer Bauwens

Dr. Jennifer Bauwens is the Director of the Center for Family Studies at Family Research Council.

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Virginia School District to Remove 14 Sexually Explicit Books from School Libraries

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On Wednesday, Spotsylvania County Public Schools (SCPS) in Fredericksburg, Va. announced that it would be removing 14 books that “contain sexually explicit content and themes that are inappropriate for young persons” from the school district’s libraries. With the move, SCPS joins a growing list of school districts around the country that have opted to remove school library books that contain graphic sexual content amid a growing movement of parents decrying the availability of “pornographic” books to minors.

In a press release, SCPS Superintendent Mark Taylor cited a recent state law put in place in 2022 as the impetus for the removal of the books. “These books contain sexually explicit material which makes it clear there should be parental notification,” he said. “State law sets the definition. The only way we can guarantee they’re not available to students without parental permission is to remove them.”

The measure, championed by Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin (R), requires that parents be notified of books available in school libraries that contain sexually explicit material.

According to an SCPS memorandum from Taylor provided to The Washington Stand, the 14 books marked for removal include: “All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto” by George Johnson; “Like a Love Story” by Abdi Nazemian; “Dime” by E. R. Frank; “Sold” by Patricia McCormick; “Out of Darkness” by Ashley Hope Perez; “Beloved” by Toni Morrison; “America” by E. R. Frank; “Looking for Alaska” by John Green; “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky; “Water for Elephants” by Sarah Gruen; “Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe” by Preston Norton; “More Happy Than Not” by Adam Silvera; “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison; and “Nineteen Minutes” by Jodi Picoult.

The memo goes on to note that the books on the removal list can still be assigned by teachers with parental permission.

In an attachment to the memo, a compilation of extractions of the explicit content from the books is listed. In many of the extractions, sexual encounters between minors as well as between adults are described in graphic detail. The content also includes hundreds of instances of profanity and crude references to sexual organs and other sexual terms, as well as racial and sexual orientation slurs, which are all notably prohibited from being uttered in most schools.

A growing movement of parents protesting sexually explicit books in school libraries has taken place across the country over the last few years, with parents voicing their concerns at school board meetings in New York, Texas, Virginia, Alabama, and Florida, among others. At recent board meetings in Georgia, Texas, and Alaska, parents who read content from sexually explicit books were told to stop reading due to the graphic content, with a speaker in Florida being physically kicked out of a meeting for reading the content.

Lawmakers in a number of states are responding to parents’ concerns, as explicit books have been removed from school libraries in Missouri, Florida, Loudoun County (Va.), Texas, and elsewhere.

Critics, as well as many legacy news outlets, claim that the removal of explicit books from school libraries amounts to a “book ban.” However, the SCPS press release notes that the 14 books on the removal list remain available at local public libraries if students wish to access them. The press release went on to state that copies of the books being removed “will be stored securely until arrangements can be made to donate them.” Superintendent Taylor’s memo recommends “that they be donated to the Central Rappahannock Regional Library or another public library system.”

Meg Kilgannon, senior fellow for Education Studies at Family Research Council, commended SCPS’s decisive action.

“It is great to see a school system take this issue seriously,” she told The Washington Stand. “Too often, school leaders delegate this task, or allow political pressure from activists to overwhelm the reasonable concerns of parents. To his great credit, Superintendent Taylor has removed books with sexually explicit content from school libraries. He will no doubt face hysterical accusations of the worst sort from LGBTQ activists, library associations, and publishing industry lobbyists.”

“Fortunately, most parents can understand that school libraries and public libraries serve different age ranges and that no child has an alleged ‘right to read’ explicit or pornographic content. Thanks to Spotsylvania County Public Schools, their school board members, and Superintendent Taylor for preserving childhood innocence and academic excellence,” Kilgannon concluded.

AUTHOR

Dan Hart

Dan Hart is senior editor at The Washington Stand.

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New Podcast to Tackle Today’s Critical Issues from a Biblical Worldview

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The Washington Stand’s (TWS) new podcast is now available. The podcast, called “Outstanding,” will feature TWS writers and others exploring the news from a biblical worldview. With the aim of having critical conversations on the news of the day and the issues that shape us, the podcast is hosted by Joseph Backholm, Family Research Council’s senior fellow for Biblical Worldview and Strategic Engagement.

Washington Stand editor-in-chief Jared Bridges said, “Christians are instructed in 2 Corinthians 10:5 to ‘take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.’ In today’s media we have an abundance of thoughts speeding at us. At TWS, we wanted a way to help readers take some of these swirling thoughts captive from a biblical worldview. This podcast gives us a format for unpacking some of those big ideas and concepts we’re confronted with in the news every day.”

As Backholm put it, “There are so many stories other news outlets don’t want to cover. This will give us an opportunity to tell those stories in a way we haven’t been able to do before and reach a new audience as well.”

“People are confused about what’s happening in the world,” he went on, “and I look forward to helping people get clarity about what is happening in our ever-changing world so we can confidently do what God has called us to do.”

The podcast is now available on many popular podcast apps, including:

Episodes 1-4 are fully available at launch, and new episodes will be released each week, so interested listeners should subscribe to “Outstanding” on their favorite podcast app.

AUTHOR

TWS Staff Report

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VIDEO: Ex-Jesuit ‘Alberto Rivera’ Discusses The Infiltration Of The Jesuits by Communists

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BACKGROUND:

Alberto Magno Romero Rivera (1935 – 1997). Alberto was an anti-Catholic religious activist who was the source of many of fundamentalist Christian author Jack Chick’s stories about the Vatican. Chick promised to promote Alberto’s claims even after he died. Rivera claimed to have been a Jesuit before becoming a Fundamentalist Protestant, and many of the stories Chick published about Rivera involve Jesuit conspiracies.

According to Rivera: After education at a Catholic Seminary, he was sent to destroy various Protestant organizations and discredit Protestant leaders, but became disillusioned upon finding that the Vatican was behind Freemasonry and that its reverence of the Virgin Mary was contradicted by the Bible. In 1965, at an Ecumenical Conference in a Guatemalan stadium, he denounced the Catholic Church to an audience of 50,000 people. The Jesuits then sent him to a top-secret Sanatorium in Spain to make him recant his faith. Here he was tortured and given drugs until he nearly died, eventually being put into an IRON LONG because his lungs had broken down from the abuse. Nearly at death, he asked Jesus to forgive him and was miraculously healed. A senior Jesuit attempted to persuade Rivera to return to Catholicism, but instead was himself persuaded to give Rivera the passport and papers he needed to escape Spain. Afterwards he flew to London and rescued his sister María, a nun, after she nearly died in a convent.

According to Rivera, Jesuits are responsible for the creation of communism, Islam, and Nazism, and causing the World Wars, recession, the Jonestown Massacre, and the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy; he further claims that the Catholic Church wants to spread Homosexuality and abortion, that the Charismatic Movement is a front for the Catholic Church, that the Popes are antichrists, that the Catholic Church is the Whore of Babylon, and that Muhammad was used by the Catholic Church to create Islam and destroy the Jews and other groups of Christians.

Alberto was killed in his own congregation by people He knew. These people disguised themselves as saints of the Most High and played the role of saints, with the purpose to kill and destroy “Bible believing.”

Throughout Christendom, Protestantism was menaced by formidable foes. The first triumphs of the reformation past, Rome summoned new forces, hoping to accomplish its destruction. At this time the ORDER OF THE JESUITS was created, the most cruel, unscrupulous, and powerful of all the champions of popery. Cut off from earthly ties and human interest, dead to the claims of natural affection, reason and conscience wholly silence, they knew no rule, no tie, but that of their order, and no duty but to extend its power. The gospel of the Savior had enabled its adherents to meet danger and endured suffering, undismayed by cold, hunger, toil, and poverty, to uphold the banner of truth in face of the rack, the dungeon, and the stake. To combat these forces, Jesuitism inspired it followers with a fanaticism that enabled them to endure like dangers, and to oppose to the power of truth all the weapons of deception. There was no crime too great for them to commit, no deception too base for them to practice, no disguise too difficult for them to assume. Vowed to perpetual poverty and humility, it was their studied aim to secure wealth and power, to be devoted to the overthrow of Protestantism, and the re-establishment of the papal supremacy.

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Elon Musk, Apple Co-Founder, Tech Experts Issue Warning on ‘Giant AI Experiments’: ‘Dangerous Race’

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There is so much the general public does not understand about AI or its risks to society and civilization.

Imagine it in the wrong hands.

Elon Musk, Apple co-founder, other tech experts call for pause on ‘giant AI experiments’: ‘Dangerous race

Musk, Wozniak, other tech innovators sign open letter urging temporary pause in the development of AI systems more powerful than OpenAI’s GPT-4, citing risks to society and civilization

By Chris Pandolfo | Fox News

Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, and a host of other tech leaders and artificial intelligence experts are urging AI labs to pause development of powerful new AI systems in an open letter citing potential risks to society.

The letter asks AI developers to “immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.” It was issued by the Future of Life Institute and signed by more than 1,000 people, including Musk, who argued that safety protocols need to be developed by independent overseers to guide the future of AI systems. GPT-4 is the latest deep learning model from OpenAI, which “exhibits human-level performance on various professional and academic benchmarks,” according to the lab.

“Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable,” the letter said.

The letter warns that at this stage, no one “can understand, predict, or reliably control” the powerful new tools developed in AI labs. The undersigned tech experts cite the risks of propaganda and lies spread through AI-generated articles that look real, and even the possibility that Ai programs can outperform workers and make jobs obsolete.

“AI labs and independent experts should use this pause to jointly develop and implement a set of shared safety protocols for advanced AI design and development that are rigorously audited and overseen by independent outside experts,” the letter states.

“In parallel, AI developers must work with policymakers to dramatically accelerate development of robust AI governance systems.”

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ‘GODFATHER’ ON AI POSSIBLY WIPING OUT HUMANITY: ‘IT’S NOT INCONCEIVABLE’

Tesla CEO Elon Musk and more than 1,000 tech leaders and artificial intelligence experts are calling for a temporary pause on the development of AI systems more powerful than OpenAI’s GPT-4, warning of risks to society and civilization.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk and more than 1,000 tech leaders and artificial intelligence experts are calling for a temporary pause on the development of AI systems more powerful than OpenAI’s GPT-4, warning of risks to society and civilization.

The signatories, which include Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque, researchers at Alphabet-owned DeepMind, as well as AI heavyweights Yoshua Bengio and Stuart Russell, emphasize that AI development in general should be not paused, writing that their letter is calling for “merely a stepping back from the dangerous race to ever-larger unpredictable black-box models with emergent capabilities.”

According to the European Union’s transparency register, the Future of Life Institute is primarily funded by the Musk Foundation, as well as London-based effective altruism group Founders Pledge, and Silicon Valley Community Foundation.

Musk, whose electric car company Tesla uses AI for its autopilot system, has previously raised concerns about the rapid development of AI.

Since its release last year, Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT has prompted rivals to accelerate developing similar large language models, and companies to integrate generative AI models into their products.

Notably absent from the letter’s signatories was Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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