Sept 23, 2024
Dear Patriot,
So much is occurring on a daily and sometimes hourly basis that to help understand the significance of these fast moving events, we did a short recap of the the hot topics we thought were worth a pause to think about from last week.
UNIONS: Friday we discussed the support that President Trump has from unions. However, not all union members support Trump.
In fact, the IRS union does NOT. (See below. Item #4)
From an historical perspective, consider this: Jimmy Hoffa had the union back Nixon in 1972, which led to the first 49-state landslide.
Teamsters also backed Reagan in 1980 and 1984, and the first Bush in 1988. All three of those races were landslides, too.
You will never hear about these historical facts on State Run Media, but behind closed doors…Democrats are worried.
PAGERS: Regardless of your stance, the Hezbollah exploding phones, pagers, and walkie talkies was an intrepid and historically significant action. We may never truly know who and how this was accomplished.
DEBATE: The ABC debate was spun as a win for Kamala, but it may be ABC who is the big loser. There seems to be a whistleblower inside ABC who is producing evidence of massive collusion between the news network and Kamala. We are cautiously watching this story progress.
THE OPRAH: Could it be that the era of celebrities telling Americans how to vote has reached the limit? The town hall hosted by Oprah and attended, through Zoom, by ultra-wealthy, protected, emotional actors who lack critical thinking skills, was a train wreck. Kamala could not directly answer one question put to her. But, we did find out that she believes she has a right to own a gun and use it to protect her property. The problem is, she does not believe that YOU have those rights.
To quote her in a recently seen video: “Just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn't mean that we're not going to walk into that home and check to see if you're being responsible and safe in the way you conduct your affairs.”
DANGEROUS BUREAUCRATS: Dr. Jay Varma, who helped lead New York's Covid response, was caught on video admitting he went to sex parties while he pushed lockdowns and vaccine mandates. He also revealed, out loud, that the only reason schools were closed was because the teachers union demanded it and the then-mayor DeBlasio needed their votes. Unions, again. Varma and the Mayor KNEW it would hurt children and was unnecessary, but they did it anyway. The very bad doctor is fine now. He is the executive vice-president and chief medical officer of pharmaceutical company SIGA Technologies, where he is paid a reported $1.5 million a year. Read more here.
We have much to discuss with you today….
good election integrity results in Georgia and Oklahoma.
the right is fighting for minds in Blue States.
one union endorsement you never want.
former Democrat makes the case for Trump.
stranger than usual events in New York.
does the arrest of a hip hop star mean anything?
the best political ad so far.
1- On Friday, there was a great development in Georgia. Ballots must be hand-counted to assure that the number of ballots matches the number of voters. You can gauge the amount of cheat opportunities for the Democrats by their unhinged response to this commonsense rule. Everything done to improve the integrity of the voting process hurts the Democrats.
Simple, Basic, Georgia Election Ballot Rule Sends Left-Wing Activists into Apoplexy
QUOTE: A very simple ballot counting rule was affirmed by the Georgia election board on Friday in a 3-2 vote.
The “hand count” ballot rule is very basic and simple. Essentially it says all the paper ballots must be hand counted and matched to the number of people recorded electronically to the vote. Example, if 1,000 votes are electronically counted, there should be 1,000 physical ballots to match. This is not complicated and will not take much time.
The ballots are not being checked for voting accuracy, or vote recording/candidate specifics. Only the number of ballots, the number of physical ballots, that should match the number of recorded voters. Easy peasy, very simple. Not complex.
However, despite the simplicity of the new rule, the DNC and left-wing activists are furious about the simple process. “This is nothing more than an 11th-hour effort by Donald Trump and his ‘pit bulls’ to slow down the counting of ballots so they can attack and undermine any result they don’t like,” Jamie Harrison, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said on Friday afternoon.
What Georgia election rule 183-1-12 does through the hand count is stop the issue of scanning a ballot more than once to count a single ballot (or batch of ballots) as multiple votes of the batch. One ballot, one vote, one voter, match the counts and easy peasy.
If you count 100 one-dollar bills, you should have $100. However, if you count 100 one-dollar bills and your sales report shows $500 sold there’s a problem. Ballots are the same.
2- Successful efforts such as this add up. Good job Oklahoma!
Oklahoma Purges More than 450,000 Ineligible Names from Voter Rolls, Including 100,000 Dead People, and 15,000 Duplicates
QUOTE: Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt, alongside state election officials, proudly announced a major victory in maintaining the state’s status as a national leader in election integrity.
As part of an ongoing effort to ensure that only eligible voters participate in Oklahoma elections, officials confirmed the removal of over 450,000 ineligible names from voter rolls since January 2021.
The sweeping cleanup includes purging deceased voters, duplicate registrations, and convicted felons.
“Voting is our most sacred duty as Americans— and every Oklahoman wants to know their vote is securely cast and properly counted,” said Governor Stitt in a statement.
Among the 453,000 voter registrations removed, Oklahoma officials confirmed the purge included 97,065 deceased voters, 14,993duplicate registrations, 143,682 individuals who moved out-of-state, 5,607 felons, and nearly 195,000 inactive voters who failed the state’s address verification process.
3- It is wonderful to see that the Right is making efforts to educate voters in Blue States. This is not just important in the upcoming election but for the future.
Writing off half the country is not the way to grow a strong country.
Conservative PACs Plan To Put New Mexico In Play This Fall
QUOTE: No Republican has won statewide in New Mexico for 10 years. A series of ad buys from multiple political action groups aims to change that this November.
Earlier this month, the Piñon Post, a conservative state paper, reported on a new commercial campaign attempting to spoil Democrats’ expectation to maintain the state’s five electoral votes for Kamala Harris and reelect Sen. Martin Heinrich. The ads from a group called Election Freedom, Inc., attack Heinrich and Harris over inflation and the incumbent border crisis.
Derek Dufresne, a consultant for the 501(c)(4) political advocacy group, told The Federalist the New Mexico campaign was “a significant, seven-figure investment,” but did not provide an exact total.
“We are running an aggressive, complete, issue-based campaign focusing on the significant policy failures of Kamala Harris and Martin Heinrich, which will continue through November,” Dufresne said.
The ads highlight high food, energy, and mortgage costs in a border state overwhelmed by migration.
Another ad campaign from the group Frontiers of Freedom Action (FFA) targets Heinrich as one of three western senators hit by a multi-state media blitz highlighting Democrats’ anti-Catholic bigotry. The ads aired in both English and Spanish to target southwestern Hispanics disillusioned by the Democrats’ extremism, which conflicts with religious liberty.
“When Hispanic voters — especially Hispanics who attend Catholic Mass — come to learn about their senator’s record of anti-Catholic bigotry, they are going to be stunned,” George Landrith, the group’s president, said in a press release.
“Republicans too often forget that even though many Hispanic voters are moving towards Trump, they are likely to vote for incumbent members of Congress just because they know their names,” Landrith added. “But they need to be shocked into realizing just how far left-wing they are — and particularly how anti-Catholic they are.”
Even a new political action committee started by former senior staffers for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is focusing on New Mexico as one of several blue states where Kennedy’s independent coalition could make races competitive. Jeff Hutt, the spokesman for the new PAC, “Make America Healthy Again,” told The Federalist this month the organization could “make a big statement in this election cycle and maybe not win [them] but make those states competitive and change the electoral landscape.”
4- The IRS union is endorsing Kamala. The Deep State agency with a massive budget and workforce already being unleashed to investigate and harass middle class Americans…endorses the Democrat.
What more needs to be said?
The IRS Union Endorses Kamala Harris
QUOTE:In what could be a massive game changer in the 2024 presidential election, the union representing workers from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has endorsed Kamala Harris.
In a press release this week, the National Treasury Employees Union which represents workers of the Internal Revenue Service confirmed that the decision had been taken “after extensive research into the candidates’ records regarding the federal workforce, and consultation with NTEU members and chapter leaders across the country.”
“When it comes to treating federal employees with respect, valuing their service, and investing in their work, Kamala Harris is the clear choice,” said NTEU National President Doreen Greenwald.
“She shares our values and our commitment to making sure that the federal government works for all Americans. She has been a strong advocate for the issues that matter most to federal employees: fair pay, paid family leave, adequate agency funding and staffing, and robust collective bargaining rights.”
As mentioned in the press release, the IRS was particularly pleased about the provisions within the Inflation Reduction Act, which included $80 billion in funding for the agency to hire another 87,000 employees.
However, the IRS is already demanding more. Back in May, they requested another $20 billion allocation from Congress to fund the hiring of another 14,000 employees in order to harass taxpayers and investigate “discriminatory practices.”
5- Bill Ackman, the billionaire CEO of Pershing Square has become an outspoken former Democrat. Here is his recent piece on Twitter/X. It would be good to share with other Democrats struggling with what their party has become. Also, add Bill to your Twitter feed.
Let’s not forget that Biden was the Democratic presidential candidate 63 days ago.
QUOTE: We were told by the administration and the media that Biden was in perfect health and that videos of him exhibiting serious deterioration were ‘right wing propaganda.’
Then, threatened with the 25th amendment, on July 21st, he stepped aside to be replaced by Kamala Harris who was complicit in the lie. She knew, and she told the American people otherwise. Her reward for keeping quiet was to become the presidential candidate without a primary or other transparent process for her selection.
The Biden lie is perhaps the greatest lie ever told to the American people by our government. And this lie was also told to us repeatedly with a bold face by the current Democratic nominee for president.
Now all of a sudden, the former most left-leaning Senator (proudly left of Bernie) and now the most left-wing politician in the country, over the last two months has become a gun-toting, shoot-the-intruder, fracking-supporting, border-wall-building candidate who began her career at McDonalds. She almost sounds like a Republican candidate for president.
How can anyone trust anything she says?
Even if you carefully watch her speak or read the transcripts of the four interviews and one debate she has done, it is nearly impossible to understand what she is saying. She has yet to answer a direct question about the economy, the border, or foreign policy.
In response to questions about specific policies, she simply repeats the same scripted stories about being a prosecutor, growing up middle class, and/or other non-sequiturs, and neither the media nor the moderators challenge these insipid, unresponsive answers.
I voted for Joe Biden because after Donald Trump’s first term, I believed the country would benefit by a more centrist candidate. Biden promised to bring the country together. And as Biden was a supposed ‘one-term’ president, we were misled into believing he wouldn’t be beholden to the progressive wing of the party and could implement a moderate political agenda.
I and the American people were misled. I apologize for casting my vote for Biden. It was a big mistake.
VP Harris’s entire candidacy relies on support from an undisclosed cabal of party leaders who selected her in a private process. She didn’t get one vote in a primary. As such, she is perhaps the most beholden-to-the party candidate in history.
Her campaign is a blatant attempt to say what she needs to say in order to get elected. She is keeping her appearances unprecedentedly limited compared to any other candidate in history so that she has less surface area to be understood for who she really is and what she actually believes.
She has done four interviews and Tim Walz four during the last 63 days compared to 70 for Trump and JD Vance
Ask yourself, what previous presidential candidate in history has run a campaign doing everything he or she could to avoid the media? You won’t find one. Then ask yourself, why?
VP Harris’ evasiveness is only possible here because of a complicit media which should be screaming from the rooftops about her refusal to be interviewed, but instead repeatedly excuse and praise her and her campaign.
In the nearly four years of the Biden/Harris administration, the world is up in flames with a hot war in Europe with approaching one million dead, and a growing conflagration in the Middle East. Our large and small cities are overrun with unvetted migrants with the associated impact on crime, budgets, and services, and lower income Americans cannot afford a proper meal. Our universities have become hotbeds of hate. Free speech is being squelched except for X, one of the first likely targets, along with its proprietor Elon Musk, of a future Harris administration. Our government spending and waste are totally out of control and I could go on and on.
I strongly encourage you to vote accordingly.
6- There is something going on in New York. More and more people around the current mayor and governor are being swept by the federal government. It is an odd thing to see in a Blue State that is completely controlled by Democrats and in an election year.
Feds seize materials from home of new NYPD interim commissioner Tom Donlon
QUOTE: Federal agents seized materials from the home of new NYPD interim commissioner Tom Donlon on Friday, less than two weeks after New York City's previous police commissioner resigned.
Donlon confirmed Saturday night that the FBI searched his Upper East Side home a day earlier. Two sources familiar with the investigation told NBC New York that materials had been seized as part of the search.
News 4 was told that the search appeared to be in relation to Donlon's past work in national security, pre-dating his recent appointment atop the NYPD. One source said federal investigators were looking into whether he improperly stored any classified documents or sensitive materials at his home from when he served with the FBI and the state office of Homeland Security.
The search was not related to the other federal investigations into City Hall, past fundraising by Mayor Eric Adams, and the NYPD, sources said. No charges have been filed in connection to the search, and Donlon has not been accused of any wrongdoing.
Donlon took over as police commissioner after the city's previous top cop, Edward Caban, resigned on Sept. 12 after federal agents seized his cellphone in the midst of an ongoing federal investigation. Caban has not been accused of any wrongdoing.
7- Normally we would not mention a story about a celebrity being arrested, but, this story may well have large political implications as it unfolds. That is if Sean Combs manages to stay alive in prison. He is already on “suicide watch”. The whole situation is extremely distasteful but bears attention.
The Anatomy of a Scandal: What Happens Next with Sean 'Puff Daddy' Combs and His Ties to the Democrats?
QUOTE: There will be a (large) percentage of readers whose eyes will roll at this headline: You don’t listen to Sean Combs… or P. Diddy… or Diddy… or Puff Daddy… or whatever he’s calling himself today. Not your jam, not your bag: “So, okay, Combs was busted this week for sex trafficking and racketeering and is currently sitting inside a jail cell on suicide watch. But why should I care?”
Sean Combs was considered a “celebrity in good standing” because he was closely aligned with the Democratic Party. Kamala Harris has warmly tweeted to him, thanking Combs for hosting her town hall event. (No word on whether Kamala later attended his “freak off” after-party celebrations.) FOX News has also detailed Combs’ intimate ties to Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, New York City Mayor Eric Adams, and other prominent Democrats. For decades, Combs has supported liberal causes, including the MTV-affiliated “Rock the Vote” and launched 2004’s “Vote or Die” campaign. He’s had particularly close ties to black Democrats, especially the Obamas. Combs endorsed Joe Biden in 2020 and said “white men like Trump need to be banished” during a radio interview.
So, this won’t just be a sex scandal. Before it’s over, it’ll be a political scandal, too.
Despite all the media sensationalism, the fact remains that there were real-life victims in Combs’ criminal charges — young, naïve people who dreamed of being famous. Instead, they were (allegedly) assaulted, violated, abused, and destroyed. It’s not right.
Combs thought he was untouchable because he had so many big-name Democrats in his pocket. He thought he was bigger than the law.
8- Every election has a few memorable political ads. So far, we like this ad by Hung Cao, running for U.S. Senate in Virginia, the best.
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