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Shocking voter-fraud risk: Dallas County ballots allegedly accessible online
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Shocking voter-fraud risk: Dallas County ballots allegedly accessible online

Barry Wernick, a Republican running for Texas House District 108, reported Tuesday that he filed a complaint with the Texas secretary of state against the Dallas County Elections Department after he claimed he found his actual ballot posted online.

Wernick, endorsed by former President Donald Trump, shared the news on X, explaining how he made the shocking discovery.

‘Irreparable damage may have already been done.’

According to Wernick, he went to the DCED’s website to view his sample ballot and was redirected to the Clarity Elections portal.

Clarity Elections is an election night reporting portal that is operated by SOE Software.

“After clicking on the link & being transferred to the Clarity Elections portal, instead of seeing a sample ballot, I viewed a downloadable & printable .pdf file of my actual die-cut mail-in ballot with a colored stamp of the initials (HG) of Election Administrator Heider Garcia,” Wernick stated.

Wernick shared a screenshot of Garcia’s initials at the bottom of the ballot. He noted that the online ballot’s markings were consistent with an actual ballot and not a sample.

The images of the online ballot were “not locked, encrypted, or watermarked in any way,” Wernick added.

He called for the DCED to immediately take the ballots offline.

“Because there is no law against publishing an actual mail-in ballot, anyone with access to a registered voter’s legal first name and last name and the same voter’s birth date could easily and legally print out or digitally manipulate that voter’s ballot,” he continued. “Then that person could illegally and potentially surreptitiously inject it into the system thereby disenfranchising and diluting my vote, in this instance, and any other registered voter’s vote without getting caught.”

Wernick added, “Irreparable damage may have already been done. But enjoining Dallas County Elections Department from publishing this information could mitigate any future potential damage to our election system.”

Blaze News replicated the process Wernick used to access his ballot by using another Texas voter’s information. The results were identical: The ballot displayed online lacked a “sample” watermark, included timing marks, and featured Garcia’s initials at the bottom, just like Wernick’s.

Rick Weible, who appeared in Dinesh D’Souza’s documentary “Vindicating Trump” and has repeatedly attempted to expose the vulnerabilities of the Election Systems & Software accumulator, said, “This ballot can be printed and used for swaps and injections … no timing marks or initials should be on any sample ballot.”

In a statement to Blaze News, the Texas secretary of state said, “I cannot speak to any formal election complaints because that information is considered private.”

“I can point out that printing a sample ballot does not provide a means for it to be inserted into the election process as there are checks for ballots both for in-person voting and voting by mail. There is not a way for voters to use a sample ballot in place of a regular ballot,” the secretary of state added.

The Dallas County Elections Department and SOE Software did not respond to a request for comment.

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How left-wing billionaires INFECTED Christianity to suppress the religious vote
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How left-wing billionaires INFECTED Christianity to suppress the religious vote

In a shocking survey by the Barna Group, it’s been revealed that 32 million church-attending Christians are planning to sit this election out and not show up at the ballot box.

“There’s a really important data point in that Barna research, and it’s that it’s not just Christians that are sitting out, it is regular churchgoers, so it’s not just the people who culturally identify as Christians,” bestselling author and Daily Wire reporter Megan Basham tells Liz Wheeler of “The Liz Wheeler Show.”

But why is it happening?

“One, obviously, we have to acknowledge the abortion issue. I think the Republican Party’s conflicting messaging on this cycle has depressed enthusiasm a little bit,” Basham explains.

“But, there’s also something else that I think is more significant going on and that is the fact that a lot of this voter suppression, lack of enthusiasm, has been deliberately orchestrated by left secular foundations and billionaires,” she continues.

Basham believes “they have been working for the last few years to try to convince Christians, ‘Hey, you don’t need to vote. It’s not important that you play a part in the political process. In fact, it could be political idolatry.’”

One example is a Bible study curriculum called “The Afterparty,” which was created by David French, the editor in chief of Christianity Today, and a Democrat Party Duke Divinity professor.

“All three never-Trumpers, two of whom are supporting Kamala Harris openly,” Basham says. “They created this supposed political Bible study curriculum to go into conservative churches, conservative college campuses. There was an effort to get it on 185 conservative college campuses, and it teaches Christians that politics are really complex.”

“‘It’s not always clear who you should vote for, and what we really need to do is turn down the rhetoric, and, in fact, we don’t know how we should vote except on the issue of alleged racial injustice,’” she says, giving an example.

“It makes it pretty clear when you read the curriculum who they want you to vote for, and that curriculum is exclusively funded by hard left secular foundations, Rockefeller philanthropy advisers, and the Hewlett Foundation, which also backed Planned Parenthood and transgender initiatives for youth and things of that nature,” Basham explains, adding, “These are not Christians, and they are funding these kind of operations in order to, I would say, really suppress that Christian vote.”

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Blaze News original: Biden-Harris deep state censorship scandal EXPOSED: Here’s who’s fighting back
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Blaze News original: Biden-Harris deep state censorship scandal EXPOSED: Here’s who’s fighting back

Under the leadership of Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the U.S. State Department has become fixated on controlling speech under the pretense of guarding against so-called “disinformation.”

Fortunately, some of the apparent targets of the agency — reporters Gabe Kaminsky of the Washington Examiner and Matt Taibbi of the “Twitter Files,” as well as some Republican lawmakers — have chosen to fight back, calling out the State Department for trying to censor Americans and right-leaning media outlets exercising their First Amendment rights in ways the government doesn’t like.

Blaze News caught up with Kaminsky and others wrangled into this ongoing fight for free speech to learn what they have endured in the past and what they hope to accomplish going forward.

Background: The ‘disinformation’ boogeyman

These days, it seems that all high-profile Democrats and their allies in the media are obsessed with this trend.

In connection with FEMA funding and the hurricanes that recently battered the Southeastern United States, Vice President Kamala Harris claimed in early October that “there’s a lot of mis- and disinformation being pushed out there” by former President Donald Trump.

‘Our First Amendment stands as a major block.’

CNN anchor Dana Bash dutifully followed Harris’ lead and bragged in an X post that she had asked Harris “about dangerous misinformation coming in part from Donald Trump.”

Back in 2022, Harris’ running mate, vice presidential nominee Tim Walz (D), bizarrely asserted that “there’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, especially around our democracy.”

Speaking at a World Economic Forum event in September, former Secretary of State John Kerry lamented that “if people go to only one source and the source they go to is sick and has an agenda and they’re putting out disinformation, our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to just hammer it out of existence.”

Even with deadly forces of nature flooding a major swath of the U.S., tens of thousands of rapists and murderers from foreign countries stealing into the country, painfully high prices at the pump and in grocery stores, and the ever-present threat of nuclear war, the Democrats have apparently settled on “disinformation” as the most pressing problem facing America today.

The State Department never responded to the series of questions Blaze News submitted about the topic, so it remains unclear how the department defines “disinformation” or how it determines which information is branded “disinformation” and which is considered plain old information.

Despite this lack of clarity, back in 2016, under the Obama administration, the State Department created a subdivision entitled the General Engagement Center, which has as its mission “to recognize, understand, expose, and counter foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts aimed at undermining or influencing the policies, security, or stability of the United States, its allies, and partner nations.”

In short, the GEC was mainly established to root out “disinformation” propagandized by other countries in order to guard Americans against pernicious foreign influence.

Within just a few years, however, the GEC appears to have devolved into little more than a federal panopticon seeking out Americans and American media outlets that hold disfavored views and then censoring them by allegedly funding disinformation-related organizations, both foreign and domestic.

The Twitter and Kaminsky files

In January 2023, independent journalist Matt Taibbi famously initiated what became known as the “Twitter Files,” a series of exposés revealing alleged ties between the social media platform now called X and various federal agencies.

The first installment of the Twitter Files focused mainly on 2020 — while Trump was still in office — and the increasing number of requests from federal agents and lawmakers to silence accounts over alleged disinformation about COVID-19. According to Taibbi’s report, the State Department’s General Engagement Center was among the first to flag supposedly “Russia-linked accounts” that promulgated COVID-related messages in various languages to spread disinformation to “a global audience.”

By 2021, Joe Biden had been sworn into office, and the GEC then allegedly expanded its efforts to root out disinformation.

To that end, the GEC apparently partnered with the Global Disinformation Index, a London-based organization that ranks various media outlets based on the risk they pose of purveying disinformation. Because GDI is located overseas, the GEC could theoretically send money its way without running afoul of the GEC mission to address only “foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts.”

And since the GDI included many American outlets on its Dynamic Exclusion List, the GEC appears to have indirectly funded attacks on American media. Blaze Media was among the top 10 media outlets the GDI described as the “riskiest” for disseminating disinformation, as were the Daily Wire, the Federalist, RealClearPolitics, One America News, and the New York Post.

According to reports from Gabe Kaminsky of the Washington Examiner, between October 2021 and March 2022, the GEC gave the GDI a grant of $100,000.

The National Endowment for Democracy, a nonprofit heavily funded by the State Department, apparently gave the GDI an additional grant of more than $750,000, bringing the total given to the GDI by organizations within the State Department’s purview to over $850,000.

Neither of those grants has been renewed, the New York Post reported.

‘The State Department had numerous opportunities to respond to my reporting on it funding the Global Disinformation Index, but they declined to answer basic questions.’

Rather than engage in introspection after that information became public and assess whether the State Department had gone too far in seeking to silence free speech and the free press, in March 2023, the department apparently compiled a press guide so that agents could defend it against the reports from Taibbi, Kaminsky, and others.

The New York Post eventually got hold of the press guide and published screenshots of it in a damning report last month. All of the screenshots of the State Department’s press guide shared by the Post except one is marked “U.S. Department of State” and “not for public release.”

According to one screenshot, which appears to be a script for agents to follow in the event they are asked about the relationship between the GEC and the GDI, agents are encouraged to say that the GEC did not invest in the GDI “to blacklist conservative media outlets” but rather to analyze “disinformation efforts in East Asia and Europe.”

“The GEC presented GDI with a scope of work to apply its disinformation risk measurement across a set of foreign countries and languages in East Asia and Europe,” the script suggests that agents say, according to the screenshot. “GDI was able to expand its disinformation risk measurement across six new languages — Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Russian and Ukrainian — enabling a more precise focus on [People’s Republic of China] and Russian disinformation activities.”

“The GEC’s work with GDI was limited to counter-disinformation efforts in East Asia and Europe,” another screenshot reiterates.

Should a State Department agent be asked whether the GDI ever created “a blacklist of American sites,” the script suggests referring the inquirer “to GDI for questions on their activities.”

Other screenshots of the press guide indicate that the State Department wanted to go on the offense, seemingly attacking the reporters who covered the relationship between the GEC and the GDI rather than defend the actions of the agency.

In a section entitled “Background for Briefer’s Eyes Only,” the press guide accuses Taibbi of misrepresenting the facts regarding federal influence over Twitter and Elon Musk of amplifying Taibbi’s misrepresentations by retweeting his first Twitter Files thread.

“Elon Musk’s retweet of Taibbi’s thread insinuates that the [United States government], and the GEC in particular, pressured Twitter to close U.S. accounts of which the USG disapproved,” one screenshot says. “The evidence offered for this claim is often missing, inferred, or presented out of context.”

The text in the screenshot never explains in what way Taibbi failed to support his claims or offered evidence “out of context.”

The State Department press guide also takes aim at Kaminsky, implying that he failed in his journalistic responsibilities by not asking for an interview with State Department officials, even as it admits that Kaminsky “sent questions repeatedly” to the State Department press office, the screenshot shows. The guide even acknowledges that the press office “responded to his requests.”

Kaminsky, who reportedly sent the State Department press office nearly a dozen requests for comment between January and February 2023, gave the Post a different version of events. “The State Department had numerous opportunities to respond to my reporting on it funding the Global Disinformation Index, but they declined to answer basic questions,” he said.

In a summary page of the press guide, the State Department reiterates the mission of the GEC, that it is geared toward combatting “foreign attempts to spread disinformation and propaganda globally” and that it “does not fund programs in the United States.”

Another page of the guide insists that “the GEC does not and has never attempted to moderate content on social media,” a screenshot reveals.

In a statement to Blaze News, Kaminsky called that assertion “false.”

“That claim is untrue alone based on the GEC’s involvement in the lead-up to the 2020 election with the Election Integrity Partnership, a collaboration between colleges, think tanks, social media platforms, and the U.S. government to thwart alleged falsehoods online,” he said.

“It makes sense that the State Department — or any other agency — would craft public or non-public press guidance to determine how to respond to reporting that scrutinizes its activities and unearths wrongdoing,” he continued.

“Investigative reporting by Taibbi, myself, and other journalists demonstrated that the GEC has been closely linked to efforts by activists to suppress domestic content on social media and also funded entities such as the Global Disinformation Index that aim to thwart U.S.-based voices that the British group disagrees with.”

Matthew Peterson, editor in chief of Blaze News, one of the outlets disparaged by the GDI, is likewise incensed that the federal government has seemingly taken aim at its own law-abiding citizens:

The federal government now routinely uses our tax dollars to shape and censor political speech in America. In this case, we see the State Department engaged in an active war against journalists like Matt Taibbi and Gabe Kaminsky and elected officials like Jim Banks who dared to expose their unconstitutional activity. If America is to retain a republican form of government, federal officials cannot be allowed to attack and smear anyone who attempts to discover the truth about what they are up to.

The State Department, the Global Disinformation Index, the National Endowment for Democracy, and Taibbi did not respond to a request for comment.

‘A sloppy and hypocritical lie’: Lawmakers become involved

In addition to Taibbi and Kaminsky, the State Department press guidance obtained by the Post also refers to members of Congress, including Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.).

Murphy, who has described himself as “one of the bipartisan creators” of the Global Engagement Center, appears to have been included in the press guidance because he issued his own tweet thread in February 2023, claiming that the accusations against the GEC in Taibbi’s Twitter Files thread were “MADE UP OUT OF THIN AIR.”

According to Murphy, the GEC never “improperly labeled” Twitter accounts as agents of “Russian propaganda.”

“All the GEC did was was to note that bots and social media accounts that had previously been proven to be linked to foreign governments were now in the business of spreading anti-U.S. COVID misinformation. That’s it,” he wrote.

‘The Putin regime and the Biden-Harris administration both hate free speech, and that’s why they targeted me.’

The reasons for including Rep. Banks in the State Department press guidance are less clear, especially since the key reference to him in the document appears to be a misquotation of a statement Banks gave to Kaminsky.

For an article published February 9, 2023, Banks told the Washington Examiner: “House Republicans will be hauling these bad actors before Congress, and I absolutely support legislation to ban federal funding of anti-free-speech groups.”

However, the quotation attributed to Banks that appears in the State Department press guidance, according to a screenshot shared by the Post, looks markedly different: “The Republicans of the House of Representatives will bring these bad actors to justice to Congress, and I absolutely support the legislation banning federal funding for the fight against freedom of speech.”

In a letter dated September 16, 2024, and addressed to Secretary of State Blinken, Banks indicated that the cause for the discrepancy is that the State Department cited “RIA FAN (Russia)” as the source for Banks’ statement, not Kaminsky or the Washington Examiner.

The ultimate effect of the GEC’s “intentional misquotation,” Banks argued in the letter, was to give “the impression that [he] had been speaking with a Russian propaganda outlet.”

“The State Department, in defense of its domestic so-called ‘disinformation’ operation, purposefully spread disinformation about a U.S. lawmaker,” the letter continued. “This is a sloppy and hypocritical lie and it is typical of the Biden-Harris State Department’s repeated attacks on the First Amendment and Americans’ free speech rights.”

Kaminsky is likewise troubled by the apparent misquotation of Banks, telling Blaze News that it raises “concerns about speech suppression.”

“The State Department’s decision to cite the Russian misquotation, which did not circulate among U.S.-based readers, was an apparent effort to unfairly link Banks to a foreign adversary. Some would call that disinformation. Ironic, no?”

In a statement to Blaze News, Rep. Banks called out Russia and the Biden-Harris administration as enemies of free speech.

“Russia sanctioned me for being an enemy of Vladimir Putin, and now the Biden State Department is falsely smearing me as a Russian propaganda booster,” he said. “The Putin regime and the Biden-Harris administration both hate free speech, and that’s why they targeted me.”

About a week after Banks issued the letter to Blinken, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) wrote a letter of his own, claiming the GEC was beyond hope and demanding its outright dissolution.

“By smearing anyone who disagrees with it as a Russian stooge, this network conflates U.S. citizens with a U.S. adversary, as State Department talking points did to my colleague Representative Jim Banks and the award-winning journalists Gabe Kaminsky and Matt Taibbi in a scheming sleight of hand that ruled out of bounds political opinions and fact-based reporting it opposed but cannot refute,” Issa said.

“Mr. Secretary: It is time for this failed entity to be held accountable. It is time to bring an end to the Global Engagement Center,” his letter closed.

In a statement to Blaze News, Issa said:

The First Amendment rights of the American people are threatened not only by malign actors in the EU, U.K., or Brazil — but by our own State Department and specifically the Global Engagement Center. There truly is a Censorship Industrial Complex at home and abroad, and our opposition to it must be no less comprehensive. Congress can’t look away from this continuing scandal that grows worse with every revelation. We need to be committed and creative if we’re going to win the fight for free speech and a future without the GEC is a step in that right direction.

Issa may soon get his wish. A State Department appropriations bill that has already passed the House and that will soon be under consideration in the Senate seeks to strike funding for the GEC based on its alleged ties to American censorship.

Refusing to be silenced

Ever since Taibbi, Kaminsky, and others exposed the apparent attempts at the Global Engagement Center to censor Americans in defiance of the First Amendment, elected Republicans and some watchdog groups have taken action against it.

‘One of the most egregious government operations to censor the American press in the history of the nation.’

Back in December, Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton joined the Daily Wire and the Federalist in filing a lawsuit against the State Department for allegedly “actively intervening in the news-media market to render disfavored press outlets unprofitable” by sending taxpayer dollars to help fund the Global Disinformation Index and a similar group called NewsGuard.

The lawsuit further alleged that the GEC implemented “one of the most egregious government operations to censor the American press in the history of the nation.”

In response to a request for comment, a spokesperson from NewsGuard told the Post that the lawsuit “inaccurately portrays” NewsGuard’s relationship with the State Department.

“NewsGuard does not offer any technology that censors or blocks any content, or that blocks ads on content,” the spokesperson continued. “Instead, we provide information — our assessments of sites — so that our clients can decide for themselves where to place their ads or which content to amplify, and each client decides for themselves how to use that data.”

Following the bombshell report from the New York Post that made public the State Department’s press guidance, a group identified as the Functional Government Initiative filed Freedom of Information Act requests in the hopes of uncovering further details about the agency’s alleged attempts to malign Kaminsky, Taibbi, Banks, and others in defense of the GEC.

In its requests, the Functional Government Initiative also asked for certain communications involving Blinken and other top State Department officials dating all the way back to January 2023. The aim, FGI spokesperson Pete McGinnis told the Examiner, was to see “who was involved in the blacklisting efforts” and “just how high up the chain this memo was guiding their media strategy.”

“The reporting on the Biden-Harris administration’s censorship clearly struck a nerve at the State Department.”

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Judge engages in election interference by allowing Jack Smith docs release, Trump campaign says: ‘Case is a sham’
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Judge engages in election interference by allowing Jack Smith docs release, Trump campaign says: ‘Case is a sham’

On Thursday, United States District Judge Tanya Chutkan rejected a request from former President Donald Trump’s legal team to delay special counsel Jack Smith’s public release of additional documents pertaining to a federal case against the Republican presidential nominee, claiming he attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

In the defense’s request to delay, Trump’s lawyers stated that releasing the prosecution’s alleged evidence just weeks before the presidential election and amid “early voting creates a concerning appearance of election interference.”

‘Radical Democrats are hell-bent on interfering in the presidential election on behalf of Lyin’ Kamala Harris.’

However, according to Chutkan, withholding the release of documents to the public would have amounted to “election interference.”

“There is undoubtedly a public interest in courts not inserting themselves into elections, or appearing to do so,” Chutkan stated. “But litigation’s incidental effects on politics are not the same as a court’s intentional interference with them. As a result, it is in fact Defendant’s requested relief that risks undermining that public interest: If the court withheld information that the public otherwise had a right to access solely because of the potential political consequences of releasing it, that withholding could itself constitute — or appear to be — election interference.”

Hundreds of pages of documents from Smith’s investigation were released on Friday.

A second federal case lodged against Trump was tossed in July by Judge Aileen Cannon of the U.S. District Court for the District of Southern Florida after she concluded with the defense that Smith’s appointment as special counsel was “unlawful” because it circumvented Congress.

Cannon’s decision came just weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court found that Trump does have some presidential immunity for actions taken in his official capacity.

Since then, Smith has been desperately grasping at straws to keep the federal election case alive and revive the classified documents case dismissed by Cannon.

Trump’s team has repeatedly called all the cases filed against him — including Smith’s federal prosecutions, the New York criminal case, and the Georgia case — a sham and a witch hunt.

Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung told Fox News Digital on Friday, “Radical Democrats are hell-bent on interfering in the presidential election on behalf of Lyin’ Kamala Harris.”

“With just over two weeks until Election Day, President Trump is dominating this race, and crazed liberals throughout the Deep State are freaking out,” Cheung continued. “As mandated by the Supreme Court’s historic decision on presidential Immunity and other vital jurisprudence, this entire case is a sham and a partisan, unconstitutional witch hunt that should be dismissed entirely — as should all of the remaining Democrat hoaxes.”

Much of the material unsealed to the public on Friday was previously released in other forms or already publicly available information, Fox News Digital reported. Most of the alleged evidence compiled by the special counsel remains sealed.

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EXPLAINED: Could Democrats DISQUALIFY Trump if he wins the election?
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EXPLAINED: Could Democrats DISQUALIFY Trump if he wins the election?

Democrats have threatened to use the powers of Congress to keep Donald Trump out of the White House if he wins the 2024 election — but is it even possible?

“MoneyGPT” author James Rickards believes it is.

“Let’s just say Trump wins. Now, that’s not a sure thing. It’s going to be a close election, but my models show Trump winning. So he gets more than 270 electoral votes, so we come up to December 17, when they actually count those votes in state capitals. And there are going to be disputes and litigation,” Rickards tells Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program.”

“But let’s say we make it. I’m just kind of looking ahead as far as we can, to January 6, 2025. Everyone’s spun up about January 6, 2021. We know what happened, but this is January 6, 2025. Those electoral votes go to the House and the Senate,” he explains.

This is the reason that Trump’s campaigning in states like New York and California, despite knowing he won’t win the states in the election.

“They’re fighting over House seats, because if the Democrats take a majority of the House of Representatives, which is possible,” he continues, “they’re going to pass a resolution saying that Trump is an insurrectionist under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.”

“So now you pass this resolution, what happens? Trump’s votes would be disqualified. Let’s say he has 300 electoral votes, and, you know, pick a number over 270. Those are disqualified on the grounds that he’s an insurrectionist,” Rickards says.

If this were to happen, the election would go to the House of Representatives.

“The House votes to choose the president, but there are a couple of caveats. One is they can only vote for someone who got in the top three electoral votes,” he explains. “If you disqualify Trump, no one else is going to win a state, and Kamala Harris is the only one you could vote for, because top three, but she would be the top one.”

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How the CIA’s dirty tricks shape US elections — and you
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How the CIA’s dirty tricks shape US elections — and you

In my new book, “Twilight of the Shadow Government: How Transparency Will Kill the Deep State,” I describe in detail how the Central Intelligence Agency manipulates the U.S. government and its military-industrial complex contract corporations. The CIA attempts to influence not only foreign government elections but U.S. elections as well — a deeply disturbing aspect of what I call the shadow government, aka the deep state.

This pattern dates to the administration of John F. Kennedy. During Kennedy’s presidency, the CIA conducted covert operations without his knowledge. Furious, JFK fired rogue CIA Director Allen Dulles, who held a deep grudge against him. It surprised no one in Congress when, after Kennedy’s assassination, Dulles was put in charge of the Warren Commission, which investigated the president’s murder. Dulles handpicked and coached all CIA witnesses who testified before the committee.

The CIA is manipulating a presidential election, right in front of the American people — again.

The CIA also played a direct role in the rise of former President Bill Clinton. As governor of Arkansas, Clinton entered into a secret agreement with then-Vice President George H.W. Bush — another notorious CIA figure — to use the Mena, Arkansas, airport to run guns and drugs to and from the Nicaraguan Contras.

I was a CIA officer during that time. The CIA was under investigation for committing felonies behind Congress’ back (and, of course, behind the backs of the American people). I have no doubt that the CIA gave then-Gov. Clinton a CIA clearance, bringing him into direct contact with “the Company.”

Despite supposedly being political enemies, Bush and Clinton maintained a close relationship until Bush’s death in 2018. From my perspective, Clinton’s direct connection to the CIA helped him rise from relative obscurity to the presidency, making him yet another useful president for the CIA.

Decades of deception

George H.W. Bush had a decades-long affiliation with the CIA, which he tried to downplay by claiming he only worked with the agency during his brief tenure as director in the mid-1970s. In reality, Bush was a CIA officer as far back as 1953, when he partnered with CIA officer Thomas Devine to form Zapata Petroleum, working under commercial cover. Their oil wells were located just 40 miles from Cuba.

One of Bush’s tasks as director was to manage the fallout from the CIA’s Operation Mockingbird. During a news conference, Bush stated that the CIA would no longer recruit American journalists to be on the agency’s payroll. What many missed, however, was his follow-up comment: From now on, reporters and the news media could work with the CIA on a voluntary basis. The CIA has a unique way of turning “voluntary” into a requirement, establishing a quid pro quo with major media companies. This arrangement prevented outlets from publishing exposés on CIA activities while providing them with intelligence-derived information to manipulate public opinion.

When Bush became vice president in 1981, it essentially placed the CIA in the second-highest seat of the U.S. government. I am convinced that Bush was the agency’s mastermind behind the criminal Iran-Contra operation, once again manipulating a president to engage in illegal covert activities.

Under President Barack Obama, the CIA implemented a drone assassination program that targeted at least eight wedding parties, killing innocent civilians. The CIA convinced Obama to maintain a kill list of foreigners it considered dangerous, often based on unproven suspicions. In effect, Obama allowed the CIA to act as judge, jury, and executioner.

Obama arrested and jailed more intelligence whistleblowers than any previous president, using the outdated Espionage Act. The most notable of these was former CIA case officer John Kiriakou, a top performer in the CIA Counterterrorism Center, who was imprisoned on frivolous charges.

During the Obama administration, notorious CIA Director John Brennan made several covert trips to Ukraine to underwrite the 2014 coup, which resulted in the Russia-Ukraine war and the ensuing proxy war between the United States and Russia, bringing America to the brink of World War III.

Russian collusion and other hoaxes

While Donald Trump was president, the CIA launched a full-scale operation to remove him from office for daring to question the agency. Brennan initiated the Russia collusion hoax by leaking the “Steele dossier,” a complete fabrication based on false information from Russian intelligence officials. Brennan misled the press, claiming the dossier was CIA intelligence. I have provided an in-depth analysis of this CIA operation on YouTube (@kevinshipp1). This was the CIA’s attempt to stage a domestic coup and take down a sitting president. Although the plot failed, no CIA or FBI official faced accountability for their crimes.

After Joe Biden’s victory, evidence surfaced of Biden’s involvement in Ukraine following the 2014 CIA-orchestrated coup. This led to the discovery of Hunter Biden’s laptop, which contained salacious videos, along with evidence of sex, drugs, and guns. To protect Biden, 51 former intelligence officials, including 42 senior CIA officers, quickly signed a public statement claiming the laptop story was “Russian disinformation.” That was a lie. We must remember that the CIA’s core functions include lying, deception, and propaganda, especially when protecting its own existence.

We now know the CIA convinced Facebook and Twitter executives to promote Biden for president and censor posts supporting Trump. The cover for the operation? Posts and articles supporting Donald Trump were “Russian disinformation.” Russia is always the CIA’s boogeyman.

This brings us to the upcoming 2024 presidential election. I am an independent, and I am not endorsing either party. My goal is to remain objective and unbiased. The CIA is up to its dirty tricks again, attempting to sway public opinion in the direction of the agency’s chosen candidate, Kamala Harris. All 42 of the aforementioned senior CIA officers (the most notorious being Mike Morrell, who attempted to sway the 2016 presidential election in Hillary Clinton’s favor) have issued a statement supporting Kamala Harris for president and attacking Trump. That’s along with 741 “national security leaders” who have endorsed Harris.

The CIA is manipulating a presidential election, right in front of the American people — again.

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Virginia punches back after Biden-Harris DOJ sues to halt purge of noncitizens from voter rolls
Elections

Virginia punches back after Biden-Harris DOJ sues to halt purge of noncitizens from voter rolls

The Biden-Harris Department of Justice is working frantically to challenge state efforts to remove noncitizens from voter rolls in two states ahead of the election.

Just weeks after the
DOJ sued Alabama and its top election official over the state’s efforts to ensure that only American citizens would get to determine the fate of the state and country, the DOJ filed a lawsuit on Oct. 11 against the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Virginia State Board of Elections, and Virginia Commissioner of Elections, claiming the noncitizen voter purge was too close to Election Day.

Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin characterized the lawsuit as “politically motivated” election interference, and his lawyer, former Virginia Attorney General Richard Cullen, maintains that Virginia’s efforts are entirely lawful.

Of apparent concern to the Biden-Harris DOJ is Section 8(c)(2) of the National Voter Registration Act — the Quiet Period Provision — which
requires states to complete programs intended to systematically remove the names of ineligible voters from registration lists by no later than 90 days prior to a primary election or general election for federal office. It does not, however, preclude correction of a registrant’s information.

The DOJ’s
contention is that the removal of likely noncitizens from voter rolls before the election not only violates this provision but is problematic because the removals “may be error-ridden, cause voter confusion and remove eligible voters days or weeks before Election Day who may be unable to correct the State’s errors in time to vote or may be dissuaded from voting at all.”

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R)
issued an executive order on Aug. 7, exactly 90 days before the general election, requiring both that the commissioner of the Virginia Department of Elections regularly update voter lists to remove individuals identified as noncitizens and that the state Department of Motor Vehicles expedite the interagency data sharing with the DOE with regards to noncitizen transactions.

Youngkin further indicated that 6,303 noncitizens who had “accidentally or maliciously attempted to register” to vote had been scrubbed from the voter rolls between January 2022 and July 2024.

“Call me crazy, but I think American elections should be decided by American citizens and Virginia elections should be decided by Virginians,” Youngkin
said in an interview. “That’s why this executive order is so important because it does make sure that we have clean voter rolls.”

Trump lauded the initiative,
noting in a Truth Social post that the Virginia governor is “TAKING A STRONG LEAD IN SECURING THE ELECTION IN NOVEMBER — PROTECTING EVERY LEGAL VOTE AND KEEPING ILLEGAL ALIENS THAT HAVE BEEN LET INTO OUR COUNTRY FROM VOTING.”

“EVERY STATE SHOULD FOLLOW VIRGINIA’S LEAD,” added Trump.

Youngkin’s EO tasked elections officials with checking the list of individuals flagged as noncitizens by the DMV with the list of existing registered voters. Voters identified as noncitizens are those who chose “No” in response to questions about their American citizenship on forms submitted to the DMV.

Local registrars were, in turn, tasked with notifying those whose names overlapped the two lists that they had two weeks to affirm their citizenship or face cancellation.

The DOJ alleges that this process was carried out into the quiet period, in violation of the NVRA — citing Commissioner Susan Beals’ Sept. 19 confirmation that removals were ongoing — and has also resulted in American citizens having their voter registrations canceled.

‘Virginians — and Americans — will see this for exactly what it is: a desperate attempt to attack the legitimacy of the elections in the Commonwealth.’

The DOJ is demanding not only the restoration of the “ability of impacted eligible voters to vote unimpeded on Election Day” but that Virginia halt its program removing noncitizens from voter rolls.

Virginia is not taking the DOJ’s intervention lying down.

“With less than 30 days until the election, the Biden-Harris Department of Justice is filing an unprecedented lawsuit against me and the Commonwealth of Virginia, for appropriately enforcing a 2006 law signed by Democrat Tim Kaine that requires Virginia to remove noncitizens from the voter rolls — a process that starts with someone declaring themselves a non-citizen and then registering to vote,” Youngkin
said in an Oct. 11 statement.

“Virginians — and Americans — will see this for exactly what it is: a desperate attempt to attack the legitimacy of the elections in the Commonwealth, the very crucible of American Democracy,” continued Youngkin. “With the support of our Attorney General, we will defend these commonsense steps, that we are legally required to take, with every resource available to us. Virginia’s election will be secure and fair, and I will not stand idly by as this politically motivated action tries to interfere in our elections, period.”

Youngkin’s lawyer, Richard Cullen, outlined the state’s likely defense in a memo
obtained by WRIC-TV, stressing that Virginia’s program does not violate federal law because it is not a systematic program but rather an individualized process that begins with “individuals themselves indicating that they are a noncitizen during a DMV transaction.”

University of Richmond Law Professor Henry Chambers told WRIC, “You can have narrowly tailored specified reasons for knocking folks off the list, that essentially the argument that is being made in the memo.”

Cullen’s memo noted further that the state affords impacted voters ample notice and time to demonstrate their eligibility and citizenship prior to cancellation.

The Virginia Mercury
reported that state Sen. Bill Stanley (R) has indicated the Biden-Harris DOJ is trying to make something out of nothing.

“There are failsafe measures to this,” said Stanley. “Even if they are subsequently removed from the rolls, let’s say, in error, those persons can still register to vote on Election Day under our ‘same day’ registration law. So I fail to see why the federal government is doing this but for no other reason but to try to upset our otherwise sound voter registration process here in Virginia for political purposes.”

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Cloud seeding isn’t a conspiracy theory — but they want you to think it is
Chemtrails

Cloud seeding isn’t a conspiracy theory — but they want you to think it is

After Hurricanes Helene and Milton ravaged the Southeast, talk of government weather modification programs has increased — but those discussing it are being met with “conspiracy theorist” critiques.

“Are we tinfoil-hat-wearing conspiracy theorists for saying that the government could create some sort of geoengineered weather to make it look bad in order to usher in a climate change agenda” Alex Stein of “Prime Time with Alex Stein” asks comedian Jimmy Dore.

“What I think is funny,” Dore responds, “is how they try to make you think like you’re some kind of crazy conspiracy theorist when they’ve all talked about it on their news shows already,” referring to a segment on CBS News discussing weather modification with a scientist who was explaining the technology.

The segment in question went so far as to explain that our technology can even produce bolts of lightning, but that’s not all Dore has seen.

“I’ve seen testimonies back as far as the late ’50s that they were already working on this and had plans for that,” he continues. “I don’t know the veracity of this, but I saw a colonel talk about how they did this in Vietnam and how they washed out some of the roads.”

“This isn’t anything new; they’ve been working on this for a long, long, time. And to the point where they have a guy, a scientist, talking about it on corporate news,” he adds.

Dore likens it to the COVID-19 vaccines, where “they had to make you think that it was a real vaccine” and you were “crazy” if you didn’t believe it.

“And then they have to tell you that no, of course you catch this, the disease that you’ve been vaccinated for.”

“Testing positive means it’s working,” Stein adds, joking.

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​Arizona registered 218,000 voters without citizenship proof — and now it’s withholding the list, lawsuit claims
Elections

​Arizona registered 218,000 voters without citizenship proof — and now it’s withholding the list, lawsuit claims

Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes and his office are facing a lawsuit over a major voter registration scandal.

On behalf of the Strong Communities Foundation of Arizona, America First Legal filed the complaint, claiming that Fontes and his office are “illegally withholding a list from the public of over 218,000 individuals who registered to vote without providing proof of citizenship as required by law.”

AFL filed a public records request asking the secretary of state to turn over the list of individuals. According to AFL, that request was rejected.

“Rather than treating constituents with respect and decorum, their response was a bombastic tirade that invoked a bizarre conspiracy theory accusing EZAZ.org [Strong Communities Foundation of Arizona] of secretly planning to harass the voters on the list,” AFL wrote in a press release announcing the lawsuit. “There is, of course, no evidence to support Secretary Fontes’s conspiracy theory, and EZAZ.org has no intention of harassing anyone. Secretary Fontes also feebly claimed that compiling the list would be too hard for his staff. None of these excuses hold water. Fontes’s staff has already compiled the list–that’s how they know the number of affected voters. And there is no risk that these voters will be harassed–EZAZ.org’s mission is all about protecting voters.”

Additionally, AFL accused the secretary of State of refusing to share the list with county recorders, thereby “making it impossible for them to check whether these individuals are citizens.”

“Secretary Fontes’s refusal is puzzling because Arizona law requires county recorders to do monthly investigations on every registered voter who has failed to provide citizenship until the individual’s citizenship has been confirmed or disconfirmed,” AFL added.

Elon Musk responded to the AFL’s announcement, warning Arizona residents that they will face disenfranchisement.

“Citizens of Arizona, this election is your last chance before you’re disenfranchised,” he wrote in a post on X.

What’s the background?

In mid-September, Maricopa County recorder Stephen Richer announced that Arizona officials had recently discovered a decade-old “flaw” impacting every county in the state that allowed 97,000 Arizonans to register to vote without providing proof of citizenship, Blaze News previously reported.

Richer explained that since 1996, Arizona has required driver’s license applicants to provide proof of citizenship, and since 2004, the state has required proof of citizenship to vote a full ballot — both federal and local.

He noted that the “vast majority” of voter applicants have provided proof of citizenship since 2004.

“Unfortunately, the way the system was designed allowed for one group of voters through the cracks,” Richer remarked.

That group included Arizona residents who obtained a driver’s license before 1996 and, therefore, did not submit proof of citizenship and later requested a renewal or replacement license.

“If a driver received a license prior to 1996, he did not have a documented proof of citizenship on file. But then, if he got a duplicate license (e.g. in the case of losing a license), the issuance date would be updated in the statewide voter registration’s interface with MVD,” Richer stated.

“Then, if that person went to register, when the counties went to confirm if the person has documented proof of citizenship, the interface between the statewide voter registration system and MVD would yield a date after 1996 and therefore say that the voter had documented proof of citizenship on file with the MVD,” he added. “This flaw has existed since 2004. In every county. Across the state.”

Richer filed a lawsuit against the Secretary of State’s Office to determine whether the impacted individuals should be allowed to vote in the upcoming local elections.

“It is my position that these registrants have not satisfied Arizona’s documented proof of citizenship law,” he wrote on X, “and therefore can only vote a ‘FED ONLY’ ballot.”

“The Secretary argues that it is too close to the election to implement such a change and that it would be unduly burdensome on voters and deprive them of their voting rights,” he continued. “That is why we are going to the courts. To get a clear answer.”

On September 20, the Arizona Supreme Court unanimously decided to allow the impacted residents to vote a full ballot, Blaze News previously reported.

However, as the days passed, the Secretary of State’s Office discovered additional registered voters without proof of citizenship who had slipped through the cracks.

On September 30, the Secretary of State’s Office issued a press release stating that the previously reported 97,000 impacted voters was closer to approximately 218,000. It noted that the court’s decision still stands.

“This data set includes approximately 79,000 Republicans, 61,000 Democrats, and 76,000 Other Party (OTH), bringing the total of impacted individuals to approximately 218,000,” the office said.

The Secretary of State’s Office told Blaze News that it does not comment on pending litigation.

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No ID? No problem! Californians won’t have to show ID to vote, thanks to Gavin Newsom and other state Dems
Elections

No ID? No problem! Californians won’t have to show ID to vote, thanks to Gavin Newsom and other state Dems

Californians looking to cast a ballot in the next several weeks likely won’t have to present proof of identification thanks to a new bill signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D).

On Thursday, Newsom signed SB 1174, which bars all local governments in California from “requiring a person to present identification for the purpose of voting or submitting a ballot.”

‘Unnecessary obstacles to voter participation disproportionately burdens low-income voters, voters of color, young or elderly voters, and people with disabilities.’

State Sen. Dave Min (D-Irvine) introduced the bill earlier this year after residents in Huntington Beach voted to approve a local ordinance requiring voters to show ID to cast a ballot in municipal elections.

Folks in Huntington Beach previously ran afoul of state Democrats for fighting back against lockdown measures in 2020 and voting to outlaw the Pride flag on municipal buildings.

In April, California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Secretary of State Shirley Weber sued the city, claiming the local ordinance requiring ID to vote violated state law.

“State election law already contains robust voter ID requirements with strong protections to prevent voter fraud while ensuring that every eligible voter can cast their ballot without hardship. Imposing unnecessary obstacles to voter participation disproportionately burdens low-income voters, voters of color, young or elderly voters, and people with disabilities,” Bonta previously said in a statement.

“We cannot have 100 different charter cities making up 100 different sets of voting rules based on fringe conspiracy theories,” added Min.

Huntington Beach officials have yet to respond to the lawsuit.

Meanwhile, SB 1174 will go into effect, though exactly when is unclear. Democracy Docket reported that the “new law is now in effect,” though Newsweek reported that it won’t go into effect until January 1.

Sam, a likely AI-generated online assistant at the website for the California secretary of state, recommended that voters bring ID to their polling locations this year. Sam went on to explain to Blaze News that “in most cases, California voters are not required to show identification at their polling place.” However, poll workers may request to see an ID in certain cases of incomplete voter registration, Sam said.

Blaze News then called the secretary of state’s voter hotline for further clarification about whether the law will be in effect in the November election. Unfortunately, the call was disconnected before we received an answer. Blaze News called back, only to be told to contact county-level officials.

Elon Musk, a former California resident who moved some of his businesses to Texas in large part because of California’s destructive policies, lambasted the new law.

“Wow, it is now illegal to require voter ID in California!” Musk posted to X. “They just made PREVENTING voter fraud against the law. The Joker is in charge.”

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