Leonard Leo's former media relations director has said that Leo “figured out 20 years ago that conservatives had lost the culture war. Abortion, gay rights, contraception—conservatives didn't have a chance if public opinion prevailed. So they needed to stack the courts." 1/
My father died in his sleep a few hours ago. He was 90. The past few years, his health had declined, but he kept his grace & humor. He was lucky bc he truly enjoyed many of the little things. He was a retired doctor who was beloved by his patients. He always made time for me. 💔
2000: Rs block manual recount after memory card is found to have inexplicably deleted 16k votes from Gore’s total on a Diebold machine in Volusia county; no other races were impacted. Bush declared victorious by 537 votes. History forever altered. 1/
OMFG. Last night in Georgia:
“I just had 4...Police Officers remove me from the building & prevent me from...observing post election activities as provided by GA Election Code 21-2-406,” which says election officials “SHALL perform their duties IN PUBLIC!!!” - Jorge Balbona 1/
Dear
@TedCruz
: As a US citizen, I demand to know why your campaign gave US voter data to a guy in Russia named Yaroslav Leontenko.
I encourage all of my followers & everyone who else who sees this post to do the same. I look forward to ur response. cc:
@BetoORourke
@VickerySec
I was born in Texas. I lived in Texas for the first 32 years of my life. While I may not be a current constituent of Senator Cruz, my accrued time as a resident of the state should be worth an answer from Ted on this matter.
Mr. Senator (
@tedcruz
), I am demanding an explanation.
My brother is still seriously ill w/ Covid. Still needing oxygen. Unvaccinated. I feel so heavy w/ sadness. I keep thinking of us as kids. I hope things improve for him soon. He honestly believed that the vaccine was more dangerous than the virus. This was a sophisticated psyop.
As confirmed by Reuters, Rudy Giuliani & the PA GOP’s gubernatorial candidate—Doug Mastriano—switched primary & general election vote by mail data to falsely imply there were voting irregularities in PA 2020. How is this not a scandal?!
@January6thCmte
1/
This is horrifying. Votes from predominantly black precincts in TN & GA have vanished from ES&S voting systems. Election commissioner
@benniejsmith
(below) made the TN discovery by comparing precinct poll tapes to reported totals.
“[Y]ou have positioned yourself as a...leader of the...misinformation campaign by pretending to have...insider’s knowledge’ re: Dominion’s business activities, when in reality you were hired thru a staffing agency for one day to clean glass on machines...”
In Sept. 2017, senator Bob Corker announced his surprise retirement. The next month, Jeff Flake followed suit, & Lindsey Graham warmed to Trump after a round of golf. All 3 were vocal Trump critics & all 3 had used Smartech—hacked by Russia—for emails. 1/
Now that leaders of both the Oath Keepers AND the Proud Boys have been convicted of seditious conspiracy, it’s time to address the elephant in the room: Roger Stone. 1/
@TheJusticeDept
Russian Election Official is in regular contact w/ Elections Director of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, which had that “glitch” in the GA06 special election of 2017. She is now in MONTANA where Trump held a rally on Sat. If u are with the media, pls DM me.
Reporters need to inquire how Kanye West got out of $52 million in debt soon after he began flirting with Trump and partying with and buying property from Russian oligarchs. 1/
NEW: Kanye West indicates, in a Forbes interview via text, that he is in fact running to siphon votes from the presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden.
Told ya. Heritage is the lead organizer of Project 25. They want the next Republican president to give them control over approving and withdrawing approval of drugs. They are coming for birth control via the FDA, regardless of the courts. 1/
It began as a single phone call from a concerned Florida voter whose party affiliation was switched to Republican w/o her consent. Now there are AG investigations in 3 Fl counties, reports from a 4th, & concerns the entire state may be impacted. My interview of
@SenatorTaddeo
: 1/
“A recorded audio conversation appears to show Colorado District 4 Congressman Ken Buck pressuring an El Paso County GOP official to falsify election results in the State Senate District 10 race.”
— 5/18/20
#GOPElectionFraud
1/
James Lindsay, who tried to suppress a photo of himself with Nicki Clyne, a member of a sex cult (whose leader is currently in prison for child sex abuse & human trafficking) has joined Moms for Liberty's board of advisors. (The photo he tried to suppress is below). 1/
“However, in the summer of 2021—after vaccines were widely available—the Republican excess death rate rose to nearly double that of Democrats, and this gap widened further in the winter of 2021.” 11/16/22
#Covid19
1/
Woah. Watergate prosecutor
@JillWineBanks
calls for an investigation into the vote-flipping machines in
@BetoORourke
’s Texas Senate race. I couldn’t agree more.
This is worth a full investigation and possible reversal of fraudulent election. Special prosecutor or DOJ Civil Rights investigation needed. TX cannot do it.
The GOP wants to take over all public school boards. CRT and mask mandates are a pretext, which they use to manipulate low information people to help them. This has been a long term GOP goal. They want to take over public education. So they can kill it. 1/
OMG I KNEW this critical race theory fake moral outrage reeked of Morton Blackwell’s Leadership Institute. Turns out I was right. I knew it, I knew it, I knew it. But I didn’t know it for sure until this. 1/
I will never understand why election security hasn’t been the number one story every single day since 2016. It is the lynchpin for every single other issue that we care about.
Today we learn that FOUR Florida counties may have been hacked!! ⬇️
The US government’s decision to conceal hacking info from the public is undemocratic. The implication is that they will not tell us even if they know hacking changed an election outcome.
Alan Turning, who cracked Nazi Germany’s enigma code during WWII, is estimated to have shortened the war by 2 years & saved 14 M lives. His reward? Chemical castration bc he was gay. MAGAs are making it ok again to demonize homosexuality. I am terrified 4 the LGBTQ+ community. 1/
Voters! A GOP whistleblower says Rove told her vote tallies can be changed w/o undue suspicion “so long as the preferred candidate is w/in 3% points of the targeted candidate in the final polls...’” Pls help photograph precinct totals > polls close 2 compare 2 official totals. 1/
On Jan 26, Trump will visit Dream City megachurch in AZ, which opened a Christian Academy with Charlie Kirk’s TPUSA to fight “wokeness” in public schools. Today, news broke that one of Charlie Kirk’s teachers was arrested for alleged sexual assault involving a minor. 1/
Alarmingly, i am told that the Gillum recount will be conducted by machine. The only way to detect potential vote tally manipulation is to conduct a manual recount or robust manual audit. The Gillum campaign should lawyer up & find a way to make that happen. 1/
🚨 Florida Governor’s race for the FIRST TIME is heading to a recount
DeSantis 49.62%
Gillum: 49.15%
Margin: 0.47%
That’s below the 0.5% trigger for a recount
Byron Donalds R-Florida, submitted a fabricated text message into the congressional record today during the impeachment inquiry. AOC catches it and submits the actual unaltered text exchange into the record. Republicans are TRASH!!!
In other words, Republicans stole the election for George W. Bush, America’s first evangelical president. I want that Supreme Court seat back. And our environment too. Imagine how different the world would be if Gore had been president instead. This theft was catastrophic.
MAGA Twitter is going nuts, claiming Posobiec was suspended bc he promoted a t-shirt calling Disney “groomers.” They omit that the shirt also included a “bring ammo” logo, implying that people shld shoot up Disney. TY to
@Twitter
4 suspending Posobiec. Pls make it permanent. 1/
I feel it is very misleading for anyone to discuss the GOP's current "audits" without mentioning every single time that,
(a) Beginning in 2000, the GOP has blocked all efforts to assess the legitimacy of poll-defying Republican victories; ... 1/
Rs blocked efforts 2 assess the legitimacy of their own “wins” (2000, 2002, 2004, 2016), many of which defied polls or involved glitches. They killed the
#SAFEAct
, which wld have required robust manual audits this year. Rs have unclean hands on the issue of election integrity. 1/
This seems surgical:
On Wed., the USPS “processed 94.5 % of ballots on time [the expected rate is 97%],” but in the “9 postal districts spanning 5 states — AZ, NV, PA, NC & GA — that have yet to decide the presidential race, the on-time rate was 84.6 %.”
Democrats! Stop being so goddamn short sighted! I’m thrilled we won control of the House, but we may have won control of the Senate too! Why is everyone so willing to accept Beto’s purported loss?! Remember the vote flipping touchscreens?!
#NoConcessions
Texas Boogaloo Boy Admits In Court He Traveled to Minneapolis After George Floyd Died, Fired 13 Shots In Police Precinct Building to Sow Chaos - 10/11/21
Kayleigh McEnany cast Florida ballots in 2018 using her parents' Tampa address, even though she lived in D.C. and had a NJ license.
Trump cast a Florida ballot this year using a biz address in Palm Beach, where he had promised the gov't he would not live.
Why does this thread not have millions of RTs and replies?! This should dominate the news cycle until this info is publicly disclosed. Our govt. withheld from the public that Russian hackers were in a position to change VOTE TALLIES in 2016. This is a tipping point. Focus.
Shocked & appalled—I just left a 90 minute classified briefing on foreign malign threats to our elections. From spying to sabotage, Americans need to see & hear these reports.
No more whataboutism:
Zip ties, gallows, murdered police officer, 4 more deaths, false imprisonment, Molotov cocktails, bombs, urination, defecation, destruction & theft of govt property, confederate flags, “Hang Mike Pence!” “I wanna see executions!” “We’re coming 4 u Pelosi!”
This is revolting. Amy Coney Barrett AND Brett Kavanaugh, and John Roberts all helped George W. Bush stop the 2000 recount in his battle against Al Gore, an election decided by 537 votes in Florida. 1/
Roger Stone just posted this about me on Gab. It was his reply to one of my tweets (see post 2). I’m a mother who wants her kids to grow up in a democracy. He is a narcissistic power hungry sociopath who sold out his pro-choice, pro-LGBTQ beliefs for power. 1/
Today we learn that FOUR Florida counties may have been hacked!! ⬇️
The US government’s decision to conceal hacking info from the public is undemocratic. The implication is that they will not tell us even if they know hacking changed an election outcome.
OMFG. I just figured out that “Take Back Our Border” convoy organizer Kim Yeater is affiliated with the Awaken megachurch in San Diego (led by Jurgen Matthesius). This is bad. Really bad. 1/
Jack Posobiec:
* Planted a “Rape Melania” sign at a Trump protest (to make protesters look bad)
* Falsely claimed that pipe bombs had been planted during a protest of George Floyd’s murder
* Promoted the false claim that “Antifa” had derailed an Amtrak train
#PosobiecLies
1/
Oh FFS. Elon Musk posted “use Signal” on 1/7/21, the day after the goddamn insurrection. If there was any doubt as to his intended audience, Enrique Tarrio, the Proud Boys national chairman, cleared it right up.
@January6thCmte
@RepRaskin
1/
The Rand Corporation has written about a Russian propaganda technique called the "firehose of falsehoods," which requires multiple channels to fool people & make lies stick. Trump & his "Stop the Steal" campaign relied on this technique. Thus, the rise of OANN, & Newsmax. 1/
😳Ds ignore the MANY unexplained voting system “glitches” that have benefited Rs. Ds did try to pass the
#SAFEAct
, which wld have required robust manual audits, but Rs blocked it. Rs are now SCREAMING about a glitch that was corrected & explained in MI. 1/
Mike Flynn & Roger Stone have transformed the “MAGA” movement into a hellish coalition of “Groypers” (white nationalists), the “NAR” (“Christian only” dominionists), the Proud Boys gang, the Oathkeepers, 3%ers, QAnon, InfoWars, and the Constitutional Sheriffs. This is bad.
Convicted felon Roger Stone posted this photo of himself & his former business partner (convicted felon Paul Manafort) on March 10. Ten days later, Manafort tries to board a plane in Miami (Stone lives in Florida) to travel to Dubai, but is removed due to a revoked passport. 1/
I do not want to jinx it but my brother seems to have turned a corner. He is still in the ICU but much improved today & requiring only 1 ML of oxygen down from 10 (I hope I have that right). Thank you for so many kind messages. ❤️
#Covid19
“Khashoggi wrote columns criticizing...Trump & ...the Saudis. For doing that, he was murdered,” & “when his newspaper complained, their owner [Bezos] was hacked & blackmailed. This is what ‘enemies of the people’ looks like in blood-red living color...” 1/
Woah. The NRA gave Russian operatives in Moscow access to the Council for National Policy whose members include Mike Pence, R. DeVos, the Cambridge Analytica cabal (KA, Bannon, the Mercers) & an embezzler-turned-Christian whose nonprofits caused two massive voter data leaks. 1/
After returning from Moscow, the NRA gave the Russians free rein over the guest list for its 2016 Annual Meeting. It also provided access to other political organizations in 2015 and 2016 like the National Prayer Breakfast and the secretive right-wing Council for National Policy.
Genocide does not require hands-on killing: “Guns are not necessary. Mass death camps are not necessary...[H]olding back necessary supplies & aid for political purposes constitutes genocide & has led to some of the most tragic moments in human history.” 1/
🎉This made my week!
@KamalaHarris
said IT: She just said "HAND marked paper ballots." Not "paper ballots," which could mean either hand marked or machine-marked barcoded crap, but HAND marked! TY Kamala!
#HandMarkedPaperBallots
#ProtectOurVotes
Make no mistake: foreign adversaries are preparing to meddle in our upcoming elections. That's why I joined
@RonWyden
on a bill this week to require one of the single best things to secure our federal elections: hand-marked paper ballots.
Wow! Senator Ron Wyden asks what steps Trump's WH took to assess whether vote tallies were hacked, stating it "would be the height of irresponsibility & duplicity" to "suggest there exists 'no evidence' of foreign hacking" if it "has not FORENSICALLY ANALYZED VOTING MACHINES."
The federal government has to be straight with the American people about threats to our elections. And Congress needs to do its job to make sure Americans’ votes are secure.
.
@DonSiegelman
, Alabama’s last Democratic Governor, explains how 6k votes disappeared from his vote total in the dead of night in his race for re-election. Karl Rove’s client, Alabama’s AG, seized the paper ballots b4 Siegelman cld recount them & illegally certified the result.1/
“In 2004, Senator Hillary Clinton warned that Republicans might use paperless voting machines to steal elections. In July that year, she and Senator Bob Graham, also a Democrat, introduced a paper-trail bill in the Senate.” But the GOP killed it. 1/
In 2018, Bill Nelson (D), who ran against Rick Scott, warned that Russians had breached Florida election systems & had obtained persistent access. Mueller & the FBI confirmed the breaches only AFTER Scott won.
@jennycohn1
with
@BadBradRSR
“Wilson pointed out that Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, and Alex Jones are not in jail. ‘So, those people at the top feel like they are protected and immune.’” (And so far, they are right...) 6/12/23
Dear
@JustinTrudeau
: Here’s Roger Stone taking the oath of the Proud Boys, which Canada designated as a terrorist organization. Is Stone’s passport valid despite his PBs ties? Cuz news broke today that he will advise the conservative Ontario Party. 1/
"Officials say Russia's ability to change vote tallies nationwide is limited." As in limited to the swing states??? Seriously, what kind of statement is this?! 1/
BREAKING: U.S. administration officials have been watching Russia's FSB penetrate state and local systems in recent weeks and believe they have pieced together Russia's plans for election interference. It is far worse than Iran. w/
@julianbarnes
@SangerNYT
If your county is on this list, beware. Lance Wallnau is a leader in the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), a global movement that promotes dominionism, the belief that Christians have a mandate from God to control all aspects of government & society. 1/
This officer must have thought he was going to be executed. Screw Trump and his entire pos MAGA sh
#t
show cult following. They are the worst humanity has to offer. That includes you,
@laurenboebert
& you
@RepMTG
& you
@tedcruz
and you
@RandPaul
and you
@LindseyGrahamSC
.
The American public deserved to know that Russians were in a position to change vote tallies in 2016. Had voters known, they would have demanded a full investigation & opposed any concession without one.
#NeverAgain
Words and framing matter. We must start saying that Trump tried to STEAL the election (in these exact words). The phrase “tried to overturn the election” does not convey the same punch. It was attempted THEFT. Let’s say it. cc:
@TheBradBlog
Dear
@staceyabrams
: Thank you for fighting to ensure that every vote is counted. I can't help but notice, however, that there is one election-related concern that you have not addressed: Georgia's paperless (unverifiable) voting machines. Thread. 1/
Like a Russian troll farm, “a group of young conservatives,” some of them minors, was “paid to post misinformation” before the 2020 election. Their support came from Turning Point USA,
@charliekirk11
’s non-profit political organization. - 9/25/20
KABOOM. The hammer has dropped (to an extent) on voting machine vendor ES&S. Its precinct scanners and receiving end systems in Wisconsin, Florida, & Michigan, Illinois & elsewhere contain these dangerous wireless modems. THEY ARE NOT FEDERALLY CERTIFIED. cc:
@essvote
⬇️
We
@fsfp
sent evidence to the
@EACgov
demonstrating that
@essvote
was falsely claiming its voting machines with wireless modems were federally certified. The EAC agreed & ordered ES&S to write to its customers admitting the systems aren't certified. 1/
This is vile.
@TuckerCarlson
not only wrote the introduction to Roger Stone’s book, “Stone’s Rules,” but gleefully acknowledged in that introduction that Stone’s work in 2000 involved “subverting democracy.” They f
#cked
w/ the 2000 election in plain sight & still revel in it. 1/
This is insane. Bolsonaro is copying the US insurrection & has close ties to Steve Bannon & yet US media is ignoring all of it. Bolsonaro’s son is literally the leader of Bannon’s “Movement” in Brazil & he was in Washington on January 6 & attended Lindell’s symposium. 1/
This is damning indeed. Giuliani allegedly told his employee in ** Feb 2019 ** that they had already prepared a plan to claim “voter fraud” if Trump lost the 2020 election.
😳”It's outrageous. They're wiping all of the software,’
@MarilynRMarks1
tells [
@TheBradBlog
] & installing ‘new software that's just been written, has not been tested, & has not been certified by the Elections Assistance Commission.’” gapol 1/
'Scandalous': GA Installs New, Uncertified Touchscreen Vote Software Days Before Voting Begins: Today's
#BradCast
Guest: Plaintiff
@MarilynRMarks1
on vote system chaos; Also: Trump loses, voters win in WI, IN, MT, AL, NC court rulings
FULL STORY, LISTEN:
In 2019, an investigation found 700 victims (many of them children) of alleged sex abuse by leaders in the Southern Baptist Convention, America’s largest evangelical denomination. The Christian Right deflected by smearing public (secular) schools as “groomers.” 1/
"The odds of an anomaly that large are less than 1 in 1 million, according to a statistician’s analysis in court documents. The strange results would disappear if votes for Democratic and Republican candidates were flipped on machine No. 3."
This is a remarkable story. Miami Dade may not be the only Florida county in which the GOP planted a fake candidate to siphon off votes from a Democratic candidate for state legislature. It happened in Seminole county too. But the local prosecutor there won’t investigate. 😳 1/
Local investigators said they wouldn't investigate shady campaign activity in Seminole County.
So we are.
The
@orlandosentinel
is knocking on doors & digging up records.
We'll be in court tomorrow, fighting for public records.
The truth deserves to be told
“Newly Surfaced Recording Reveals ALEC and GOP Election Attorneys [and the CNP] Working with State Legislators to Question Validity of Election” — in February, long before the election took place. By
@JamieMCorey
1/
Remember when Paul Manafort’s partners routed Ohio’s results in the 2004 presidential election through a backup server owned by Smartech? And how the server crashed at 11:00PM when Kerry appeared poised to defeat Bush, but then it flipped? And then we got Justice Alito? 1/
This is why Mitch McConnell has long prioritized the courts over all issues except campaign finance. If you care most about winning the game, you need to control the body that shapes the rules of the game.
Chris Wray concealed information about Russia’s attack on our election infrastructure, failed to anticipate the violence on 1/6 and led a sham investigation into the sexual assault allegations against now Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. It’s time to
#FireChrisWray
1/
Wait. Someone who worked for
@charliekirk11
’s TPUSA (which often targets high school students for “right wing” indoctrination) has been arrested in connection w/ an 18 person child pornography ring???? Has TPUSA given a statement???
...This arrest was in connection w an 18 person child porn ring per the pretrial detention memo. Two men, one who worked for the Republican Senate Committee, & one who worked for TPUSA, have already been arrested & entered into plea agreements but not yet sentenced...
Remember how Kavanaugh got SCOTUS to stop the hand recount in 2000, thus handing Bush the presidency and two SCOTUS seats? Wide lens, folks. Wide lens.
#StolenSeats
via
@lovetogive2
George W. Bush has called several moderate Republican senators and Manchin to whip votes for Kavanaugh, per people briefed. Trump, who doesn’t like Bush, has far less sway with the key voters.
Now that the Supreme Court has let the disgraced ex president run out the clock on emoluments cases, I wonder anew what it was that Trump said to Kennedy at Kavanaugh’s installation that stopped the ex justice in his tracks.🤔
#impeachandconvict