>>17981865

They always brag about their crimes, the Cabal of organizations, people, agencies, etc to take down Trump

TIMEThe Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election

by Molly Ball

February 4, 2021 5:40 AM EST

A weird thing happened right after the Nov. 3 election: nothing.

The nation was braced for chaos. Liberal groups had vowed to take to the streets, planning hundreds of protests across the country. Right-wing militias were girding for battle. In a poll before Election Day, 75% of Americans voiced concern about violence.

Instead, an eerie quiet descended. As President Trump refused to concede, the response was not mass action but crickets. When media organizations called the race for Joe Biden on Nov. 7, jubilation broke out instead, as people thronged cities across the U.S. to celebrate the democratic process that resulted in Trump’s ouster.

A second odd thing happened amid Trump’s attempts to reverse the result: corporate America turned on him. Hundreds of major business leaders, many of whom had backed Trump’s candidacy and supported his policies, called on him to concede. To the President, something felt amiss. “It was all very, very strange,” Trump said on Dec. 2. “Within days after the election, we witnessed an orchestrated effort to anoint the winner, even while many key states were still being counted.”

In a way, Trump was right. There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs. Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans. The pact was formalized in a terse, little-noticed joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO published on Election Day. Both sides would come to see it as a sort of implicit bargain–inspired by the summer’s massive, sometimes destructive racial-justice protests–in which the forces of labor came together with the forces of capital to keep the peace and oppose Trump’s assault on democracy.

The handshake between business and labor was just one component of a vast, cross-partisan campaign to protect the election–an extraordinary shadow effort dedicated not to winning the vote but to ensuring it would be free and fair, credible and uncorrupted. For more than a year, a loosely organized coalition of operatives scrambled to shore up America’s institutions as they came under simultaneous attack from a remorseless pandemic and an autocratically inclined President. Though much of this activity took place on the left, it was separate from the Biden campaign and crossed ideological lines, with crucial contributions by nonpartisan and conservative actors. The scenario the shadow campaigners were desperate to stop was not a Trump victory. It was an election so calamitous that no result could be discerned at all, a failure of the central act of democratic self-governance that has been a hallmark of America since its founding.

Their work touched every aspect of the election. They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time.They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears. They executed national public-awareness campaigns that helped Americans understand how the vote count would unfold over days or weeks, preventing Trump’s conspiracy theories and false claims of victory from getting more traction. After Election Day, they monitored every pressure point to ensure that Trump could not overturn the result. “The untold story of the election is the thousands of people of both parties who accomplished the triumph of American democracy at its very foundation,”

https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/

Twitter Files 7 1h

1. Efforts continued to influence Twitter's Yoel Roth. In Sept 2020, Roth participated in an Aspen Institute “tabletop exercise” on a potential "Hack-and-Dump" operation relating to Hunter Biden The goal was to shape how the media covered it — and how social media carried it

@ShellenbergerMD

1. The organizer was Vivian Schiller, the fmr CEO of NPR, fmr head of news at Twitter; fmr Gen. mgr of NY Times; fmr Chief Digital Officer of NBC News

Attendees included Meta/FB's head of security policy and the top nat. sec. reporters for @nytimes @wapo and others

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604897153121366017?s=20&t=6ACjuyVqPCzm4XMHeJq0-g

>>17982253

you miss the point, free speech stolen from millons

>>17982254

It's time for every anon to reread their bragging on stealing the 2020 election, see attached. Keep this PDF it will be very important in the future! It seems like they planned this from Nov 3, 2016, they said to themselves, Never Again! They possibly planned it from the day he announced in 2015, just in case.

14 pages

The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election

This is the inside story of the conspiracyto save the 2020 election, based on access to the group’s inner workings, never-before-seen documents and interviews with dozens of those involved from across the political spectrum. It is the story of an unprecedented, creative and determined campaign whose success also reveals how close the nation came to disaster. “Every attempt to interfere with the proper outcome of the election was defeated,” says Ian Bassin, co-founder of Protect Democracy, a nonpartisan rule-of-law advocacy group. “But it’s massively important for the country to understand that it didn’t happen accidentally. The system didn’t work magically. Democracy is not self-executing.”

That’s why the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream–a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information. They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it. And they believe the public needs to understand the system’s fragility in order to ensure that democracy in America endures.

THE ARCHITECT

Sometime in the fall of 2019, Mike Podhorzer became convinced the election was headed for disaster–and determined to protect it.

This was not his usual purview. For nearly a quarter-century, Podhorzer, senior adviser to the president of the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest union federation, has marshaled the latest tactics and data to help its favored candidates win elections. Unassuming and professorial, he isn’t the sort of hair-gelled “political strategist” who shows up on cable news. Among Democratic insiders, he’s known as the wizard behind some of the biggest advances in political technology in recent decades. A group of liberal strategists he brought together in the early 2000s led to the creation of the Analyst Institute, a secretive firm that applies scientific methods to political campaigns. He was also involved in the founding of Catalist, the flagship progressive data company.

Dark to Light! Brunson's its time for your fourth trumpet to blare out

Updated: December 19, 2022 - 2:37pm

Jan. 6 committee issues criminal referral of Trump to the Justice Department

Trump may face criminal charges related to insurrection, conspiracy to defraud the government and obstructing an official proceeding.

The House Jan. 6 committee on Monday made four criminal referrals against former President Donald Trump to the Justice Department during the panel's final hearing.

In a voice vote, the panel unanimously recommended for the Justice Department to prosecute Trump for obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to make a false statement to the federal government and inciting, assisting or aiding an insurrection.

Former Trump attorney John Eastman was also referred for conspiracy to defraud the country and obstruct an official congressional proceeding. 

The agency may not follow the panel's recommendations as it is conducting a separate investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, which followed a "Stop the Steal" rally against the 2020 election results.

The House panel also recommended for the Hosue Ethics Committee to make a formal inquiry into House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and other Trump allies, Republican Reps. Jim Jordan (Ohio), Scott Perry (Pa.) and Andy Biggs (Ariz.). All men refused to cooperate with the Jan. 6 probe.

The committee had previously requested the four congressmen to appear voluntarily, but after the lawmakers refused the panel issued subpoenas for their testimony. None of the Republicans have complied with the committee. 

Hours before the committee's business hearing, Trump reposted a video on Truth Social of him telling protesters via Twitter on Jan. 6 to "go home."

After airing videos of testimony, the panel issued its final report on Monday, concluding a nearly year-and-a-half-long probe.

Jan. 6 committee member Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) at the hearing said the panel found evidence that attorneys connected to the former president offered jobs to witnesses in a possible attempt to coerce them to conceal information.

Fellow committee member Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.) said the panel found evidence that Trump planned on going to the Capitol building on Jan. 6, although he ultimately did not.

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/jan-6-committee-issues-criminal-referral-trump-justice-department

Updated: December 19, 2022 - 2:09pm

Arizona judge hears arguments in Kari Lake election lawsuit, has yet to make decision on dismissal

If the lawsuit is not dismissed, then there will be a two-day hearing on Wednesday and Thursday.

An Arizona judge heard oral arguments Monday in the case to dismiss 2022 GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake's election lawsuit but declined to make a decision.

Superior Court Judge of Maricopa County Peter Thompson is presiding over the case in which Lake is challenging the results of her gubernatorial bid against Governor-elect and Secretary of State Katie Hobbs. In addition to Hobbs, the other defendants in the case are Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, the county Board of Supervisors, and county Director of Elections Scott Jarrett.

If the lawsuit is not dismissed, then there will be a two-day hearing on Wednesday and Thursday.

Lake alleges numerous issues in the administration of the 2022 general election in Maricopa County and that the results should be overturned.

During oral arguments on Monday, legal counsel for Hobbs pointed to a brief from Lake's counsel that stated she wasn't alleging that fraud occurred in the election, despite mentioning it occurred through third parties.

The lawyers argued that since the lawsuit is related to an election contest one of the requirements is that fraud must be alleged.

The other requirement, they argued, is that Lake and her team failed to show a sufficient number of illegal votes to affect the outcome.

Lake's lawyer, Kurt Olsen, said that the case is about county election officials and Hobbs "ignoring their own detailed procedures," such as testing on-demand printed ballots before the election to ensure they were functioning properly, and "systemic failure" of ballot tabulators on Election Day.

Olsen also said the election was decided by 17,000 votes, and there were 25,000 additional ballots found at Runbeck – the company the county uses for assistance with mail-in ballot counting – after Election Day and that at least 15,000 voters were disenfranchised on Election Day, according to survey data by pollster Richard Baris.

Olsen also recounted some of the information that had been collected about the election, including affidavits from whistleblowers at the county Tabulation and Election Center and Runbeck.

He discussed the signature verification process, alleging that reviewers had only about 25 seconds to review signatures, and additional ballots found at Runbeck.

The legal counsel for the defendants claimed that the affidavits of the signature verification reviewers were lower-level employees who didn't have as much access to information and resources as the higher-level reviewers, who were the ones rejecting ballots.

Tom Liddy, legal counsel for the county officials, also argued that the ballots counted at Runbeck weren't additional ballots, rather they were an exact number that came after the county's initial estimate.

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/arizona-judge-hears-arguments-kari-lake-lawsuit-has-yet-make-decision