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Good News Friday: 09/01/23

Dear Patriots,

We appreciate the kind words and encouragement from our faithful readers.

Folks,

I have grown to feel that Defending the Republic is a modern day version of Radio Free America. I depend on your messages to maintain my sanity, so, keep it coming.

God bless you all, and especially God bless and save Sidney Powell.

Much appreciation to all,

D.D.

Sidney has filed her first substantive motion–proclaiming her innocence. Read it here.

https://defendingtherepublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MOTION-TO-SEVER-DEFENDANT-SIDNEY-KATHERINE-POWELL-08_30_23.pdf

Now, on to some GOOD NEWS!

1- Warriors can come in all sizes. Twelve year old Jaiden is smarter than his charter school teachers on the history of the Gadsden Flag. And he won this battle.

Although, there should never have been a battle to fight, as free speech is a freedom guaranteed to all. The teacher in this story is ill-educated.

Congratulations, Jaiden. Thank you for holding fast. Fight on!

Don't Tread on Me!

Red State

The Gadsden Flag Kid Just Secured Total Victory

2- We were blown away by the advice 17-year-old Ruby LaRocca gives in her prize winning essay. It was directed to fellow teenagers but it is advice we all should be considering.

Thank you Ruby for being so wise. The world needs you desperately.

Read the entire wonderful essay at the link and share it with the young people in your lives and their parents. If you are in a position to do so, help a young person work towards any of these goals. Meanwhile, we are going to try to live by her fifth item!

Ruby LaRocca at The Free Press

A Constitution for Teenage Happiness

3- Reading this you see the massive pressures put on corporations to support crazy proposals unrelated to the core business. But, it appears that these huge conglomerates are backing off the insanity. The far left is not happy. That is always a good sign.

The Epoch Times

Vanguard Joins BlackRock to Cut Back Support for Shareholders' ESG Proposals

4- Common sense at last prevails. Tennis star Novak Djokovic stood firm on refusing the worthless injection. He stood firm that his own immunity was substantial. He stood firm against the FAKE science. For that he lost the opportunity to play in United States tournaments. What he gained was his health!

Dr. Joel Zinberg at The NY POST

Djokovic can compete in the US Open again — after Biden finally ended his unscientific travel ban

5- It is always good to have a plan.

Newsmax

Conservatives Draw Up 1,000-Page Plan to Gut Deep State in Favor of Trump Vision

6- It is rare to see judges uphold The Constitution these days, which is why we add this ruling to the pile of Good News.

Revolver News

Trump and Obama-appointed judges uphold First Amendment, sending brutal message to woke left…

7- Sharing information is the best way to help people find truthful information. If you do nothing else, do that. It matters a lot.

Intellectual Takeout

COVID-19 Lies and What to Do About Them

https://truthsocial.com/@realSidneyPowell/posts/110990144546951390

https://defendingtherepublic.substack.com/p/good-news-friday-090123

EXCLUSIVE: Fani Willis Possesses Evidence Exonerating Georgia’s Alternate Electors

SEPTEMBER 01, 2023

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis possesses evidence that exonerates several Republicans she’s targeting in her legal crusade against former President Donald Trump and other Republicans for their lawful contesting of Georgia’s flawed 2020 election.

In her Aug. 14 indictment, Willis alleged the existence of Republican electors for Trump constituted an unlawful “conspiracy” to overturn the Peach State’s 2020 election results. Among those charged for partaking in this so-called “conspiracy” are David Shafer, one of Georgia’s 2020 Republican electors, and Ray Smith, who served as one of Trump’s lawyers at the time of the contest.

Specifically, Willis claimed Shafer and the other alternate electors “unlawfully falsely held themselves out” as Georgia’s “duly elected and qualified” presidential electors. She further insisted these electors — with Smith’s assistance — intentionally attempted to “mislead” figures such as then-Vice President Mike Pence and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger “into believing that they actually were such officers.”

However, among the documents Willis obtained during her years-long investigation of Republicans was a meeting transcript refuting her allegations.

A transcript of the Georgia Republican electors’ Dec. 14, 2020, meeting, obtained by The Federalist, explicitly shows the intent behind casting alternate electors was not to impersonate public officers, as Willis alleged, but to lawfully preserve Trump’s legal challenge to the state’s election results. At the meeting’s outset, Shafer specifically noted how he and his fellow Republicans were acting as “Republican nominees for Presidential Elector,” not as “duly elected and qualified” presidential electors.

“[President Trump] has filed a contest to the certified returns. That contest — is pending [and has] not been decided or even heard by any judge with the authority to hear it,” Shafer said. “And so in order to preserve his rights, it’s important that the Republican nominees for Presidential Elector meet here today and cast their votes.”

For context, Shafer and Trump filed a lawsuit against Secretary of State Raffensberger in Fulton County state court on Dec. 4, 2020, alleging tens of thousands of illegal votes had been cast in the state’s presidential election. The suit came after a recount, requested by Trump, deemed Biden the winner of Georgia’s 16 electoral votes by a margin of 11,779. The recount prompted Raffensberger to recertify the election on Dec. 7 while Trump’s legal challenge remained ongoing.

By the time Dec. 14, 2020, arrived — the day on which nominees for presidential electors are required by federal law to meet — Trump and Shafer’s lawsuit was still pending. As such, Georgia’s Republican nominees, including Shafer, cast their electoral votes for Trump while the state’s Democrat nominees cast theirs for Biden.

During the Dec. 14, 2020, meeting, Shafer further clarified the legal rationale for filing alternate electors in a conversation with Smith, asking Trump’s then-lawyer: “And so the only way for us to have any judge consider the merits of our complaint, the thousands of people we allege voted unlawfully, is for us to have this meeting and permit the contest to continue?”

“That’s correct,” Smith replied.

The naming of contingent Republican electors during the 2020 election closely mirrors efforts taken during the 1960 presidential contest between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. As The Federalist’s Margot Cleveland previously reported, a dispute over who won Hawaii’s electoral votes prompted both Kennedy and Nixon electors to cast their votes for their respective candidates. While Hawaii’s acting Republican governor initially certified the election for Nixon, a legal challenge and subsequent court decision resulted in the state’s electoral votes being awarded to Kennedy.

Unlike Kennedy, Trump never had his day in court over his legal challenges to those votes and others, but had the court ruled in Trump’s favor, the alternative electors would have been in place to ensure the will of the Georgia people was exercised.

While speaking to Shafer and the other Republican electors at the Dec. 14, 2020, meeting, Smith asserted the naming of Republican electors for Trump would be conducted “in accordance with the Constitution” and the precedent established in the 1960 Hawaii case, saying, “We’re conducting this because the contest of the election in Georgia is ongoing.”

“And if we did not hold this meeting, then our election contest would effectively be abandoned?” Shafer asked, to which Smith replied, “That’s correct.”

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The revelations unearthed in the transcript raise a significant question: If Willis was in possession of the transcript prior to Aug. 14, why did she charge Shafer and Smith for allegedly partaking in a “conspiracy” to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results when the aforementioned document shows otherwise?

Willis did not respond to The Federalist’s repeated requests for comment on when her office possessed the Dec. 14, 2020, transcript prior to announcing Shafer and Smith’s indictments to the public.

Unlike the 1960 Hawaii case, which was promptly resolved in court prior to Congress’s certification of the election, the Fulton County state court reportedly violated Georgia’s election code by failing to swiftly assign a judge to hear Trump’s election challenge. Furthermore, the Georgia court delayed the first scheduled hearing of Trump’s lawsuit until Jan. 8, 2021 — “two days after Congress certified Biden the winner of the 2020 election” — which effectively guaranteed that any court decision invalidating potentially illegal ballots would be moot.

It’s worth mentioning that evidence unearthed following the 2020 election shows Trump’s legal challenge in Georgia had strong merit, with records indicating there were more illegal votes than Biden’s margin of victory in Georgia. Under state law, Georgians must vote in the county where they reside, unless they changed their residence within 30 days of Election Day.

As The Federalist reported, however, Mark Davis, the president of Data Productions Inc. and “an expert in voter data analytics and residency issues,” used data from the National Change of Address database to identify “nearly 35,000 Georgia voters who indicated they had moved from one Georgia county to another, but then voted in the 2020 general election in the county from which they had moved.” In a phone interview this week, Davis told The Federalist that more recent figures show more than 12,000 of those 35,000 Georgians later updated their voter registration addresses, “providing the secretary of state the exact address they had previously provided to the [U.S. Postal Service].” In other words, more than 12,000 in-state movers tacitly confirmed they illegally cast their vote in the wrong county in 2020.

The ‘Fake Electors’ Charges Are Fake News

Contrary to Willis’ indictments, constitutional law specialists such as Todd Zywicki, a professor at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, have argued the casting of alternate electors in Georgia was perfectly legitimate and adheres to existing legal precedent. In a July 18 letter requesting a meeting with Willis, Shafer’s legal team enclosed an expert declaration issued by Zywicki, in which he contended the actions undertaken by Trump’s legal team and the Republican electors in Georgia “followed the Hawaii precedent precisely” and used “materially identical forms and the same procedures as the contingent 1960 Hawaii Democratic Presidential Electors.”

“At the same time, the contingent Georgia Republican Presidential Electors publicly announced that the votes they cast and related actions they took were expressly contingent on the outcome of the pending election contest and were cast only to protect and preserve the remedies for that contest and the ability of the State of Georgia to have a valid electoral ballot for Congress to count on January 6, 2021 regardless of the ultimate outcome [of] that contest,” Zywicki wrote.

The law professor furthermore noted that in casting their votes for Biden, Georgia’s Democrat electors were also “acting contingently … as their status as Presidential Electors was directly contingent on the outcome” of Trump’s contesting of the state’s election results in court. Similar to their Republican counterparts, the Democrat electors “made no similar announcement that their votes and actions on December 14, 2020 were contingent on the outcome of the election contest.”

Unlike Republicans, however, the state’s Democrat electors “have come under no criticism or scrutiny for having not done so,” Zywicki noted.

Shafer’s Ongoing Legal Fight

In light of the charges levied against their client, Shafer’s legal team filed a motion last week to have his case moved from Fulton County Superior Court to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.

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>>19479923

In the filing, Shafer’s lawyers argued that neither Georgia nor Willis possesses the legal authority to charge Shafer for actions he took in his capacity as a lawful presidential elector and further requested the federal court “assert its habeas or equitable jurisdiction to bar the State’s prosecution.” Shafer’s team further contended the state’s prosecution “seeks to criminalize a political dispute that only Congress possesses the authority to resolve.”

“Like Members of Congress, presidential electors are created by the Constitution, elected by the States, but serve a federal role under federal authority,” the motion reads. “Just as Members of Congress are federal officers” under federal law, “so too then, by the same analogy, are presidential electors. Mr. Shafer was an officer of the United States for the broad purposes of removal under” the same statute.

According to Shafer, on Tuesday, Obama-appointed District Judge Steve Jones ordered a hearing on Shafer’s motion.

https://thefederalist.com/2023/09/01/exclusive-fani-willis-possesses-evidence-exonerating-georgias-alternate-electors/

>>19479659

>Raining Man

kek

This could turn into Andromeda Strain

EXPOSED: Whistleblower Steps Forward – Reveals Private Facebook Group Where MI Clerks Discuss STUNNING Evidence of Organized Fraud in 2020 Election

Sep. 1, 2023 8:25 am

Three weeks ago, the MI GOP Director of Election Integrity, Phil O’Halloran, gave Patty McMurray and Jim Hoft of the Gateway Pundit a stunning MI State Police report that was FOIA’d by a Muskegon resident who questioned the outcome of his race in the 2020 election. The report is based on an investigation that was initiated on October 8, 2020, that was eventually taken over by the FBI in 2022.

After publishing the report that exposed a massive cover-up by Michigan’s Democrat Attorney General Dana Nessel and Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson of an explosive, statewide investigation by the MI State Police, Muskegon, MI Police Department, we began to receive tips from individuals who read our story and wanted to help us close the gaps in the highly redacted MI State Police report.

The whistleblower who contacted us explained that they do not want to be identified over fears of retribution by elected officials in Michigan. They confirmed for us that the details of the police report were accurate but explained there was much more to this story than ONE city clerk receiving boxes of suspicious voter registrations; in fact, clerks across the state of Michigan received boxes and priority mail envelopes stuffed with registrations, many of them with the same signatures, the same last four numbers of their social security number, fake names and fake addresses.

For three years, Michigan residents were told by their Attorney General Dana Nessel and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson that they had nothing to worry about, that Michigan’s 2020 election was “the most secure election” in history.

AG Nessel and SOS Benson admonished anyone who suggested any sort of widespread voter fraud took place in the state of Michigan or in other swing states where every vote mattered to a party hell-bent on pushing a confused old man campaigning from his basement over the finish line. They told the people who believed they were telling the truth that there was no widespread fraud in Michigan— to ignore any evidence they saw or any stories they read about left-wing judges throwing election fraud cases out of court because they were all part of a “big lie” concocted by Donald Trump and his followers to make Joe Biden look like an illegitimate president.

All along, we were being lied to, and now, we have proof they were lying…

Today, the Gateway Pundit is releasing the latest evidence we have obtained from our 2020 election fraud investigation…

Our whistleblower contacted the Gateway Pundit after reading our first report and revealed that, in private conversations on social media, many Michigan clerks were privately concerned about potential fraud in the 2020 election in the months PRIOR to the November election.

Many of the Clerks have denied that any voter fraud occurred in the 2020 election. They have parroted the line from the left-wing power establishment that the 2020 General Election was the ‘most secure in history’ despite privately expressing severe doubts as to whether the election was secure at all.

President Trump and his allies, including the entire slate of 2020 alternative electors in Michigan, are facing multiple felonies and the threat of imprisonment for expressing the very same doubts publicly that these clerks were expressing privately.

In the 2020 election, one Michigan clerk, who is now retired, posted an image of what her fellow clerks called a “care package” from a left-wing campaign and organizing group that occasionally went by the name GBI Strategies and other times went by the name “Empower Michigan.”

Clerks reported receiving what they called “care packages” from GBI Strategies, with whom several were on a first-name basis. They also referenced “EM” interchangeably with GBI. “EM” is short for “Empower Michigan,” which was a Democrat group working alongside GBI, which appears to share the same address as the Michigan Democrat Party.

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Here is Clerk #1’s original post to her fellow clerks on October 5, 2020:

Another current Michigan clerk chimed in to say that she had received similar likely fraudulent voter registration applications from the same address as GBI was using. Her fellow clerk, Muskegon City Clerk Ann Meisch, knew the answer in the post’s comments because Meisch was on a first-name basis with GBI Strategies/Empower Michigan. Meisch was the clerk who notified police after receiving over 10,000 suspicious and fraudulent voter registrations sent to her Muskegon office from GBI Strategies.

According to Dana Nessel’s spokesperson, Danny Wimmer, there was no fraud in the 2020 election. And the only fraud that there was was in Muskegon. And that fraud was caught, so the system worked.

The same box, with the same PPE materials within, was being sent to clerks all over Michigan. Is it possible Muskegon’s Ann Meisch reported it because it was so outlandishly out of proportion to the City of Muskegon voter file? The MI State Police report and Muskegon Police report provide no evidence that any of these other clerks reported the GBI Strategies fraud to law enforcement.

Here is the post by City of Muskegon Clerk Ann Meisch on October 5, 2020, including a photo of the package she received along with photos showing the signatures on registrations that appear to all be in the same handwriting inside of the box. Meisch shared that the ‘care package’ she received was from an address of the Staybridge Motel in Auburn Hills, MI, and the name on the return address was “EM.”

CLERKS AROUND MICHIGAN KNEW THEY WERE GETTING SUSPICIOUS, POSSIBLY FRAUDULENT, VOTER REGISTRATION APPLICATIONS YET DID NOTHING

Another former clerk responded in the comments among clerks three years ago, this is what she had to say in private among her fellow clerks:

We have contacted this clerk for comment, and she has not responded.

Another clerk asks her fellow clerks, “Why are we getting all of these voter registrations from Auburn Hills?” She adds, “We received two stacks today.”

Earlier this week, the Gateway Pundit reported on the suspicious spikes in registrations that happened across Michigan on October 9th. This ‘care package’ from August 3rd was apparently in addition to the massive dump of 10,000-12,000 fraudulent voter registration applications sent to Muskegon in October.

Previously, Meisch had told law enforcement that the GBI applications came in October 2020 in several batches. Meisch said that she was ‘in shock’ at this big batch of registrations.

Westland City Clerk Richard LeBlanc shared a comment under Ann Meisch’s post about receiving the box of what appeared to be fraudulent AV registration forms labeled “PPE.”

“Yes. We received five (5) large bundles.” he wrote. We have chosen not to cover Richard LeBlanc’s name on this post because he is a former MI State Representative and should know better than to report to fellow clerks what appears to be a widespread voter registration fraud scheme instead of to law enforcement. While it is possible that Clerk LeBlanc reported his findings to law enforcement, he makes no mention of contacting the police to his fellow clerks, and we can find no evidence of these boxes of registrations being investigated in other cities.

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>>19480303

Richard LeBlanc was a Democrat member of the House of Representatives in Michigan. He was elected in 2006 to represent Michigan’s 18th State House District, located in Wayne County.

We called Clerk LeBlanc to get a statement from him and to ask if he ever reported the “5 large bundles” of voter registrations to law enforcement, but we were told he is out of the office and won’t be returning until next week. We will follow up with Clerk LeBlanc next week.

In the comments on this post, Clerk #10 notes that she received a package from GBI Strategies the same day as does Clerk #11; even her fellow Clerk #12 was trying to warn Meisch that these looked fraudulent:

The comments revealed other Clerks who were also receiving illegal applications to vote, and other Clerks advising caution about these suspicious applications.

WHY WEREN’T THESE GBI STRATEGIES’ BULK REGISTRATION DUMPS DISCLOSED TO THE CITY AND STATE POLICE?

MI Clerk #16 received a voter registration application missing the required information in order to legally register. She asked her fellow clerks for advice on what to do.

Clerk #18 asks what she should do in this situation.

Clerk #19 relates that they were advised to send it to the Secretary of State’s office instead of rejecting it.

You can note that Clerk #19 knows that this isn’t proper procedure because he refers to the Secretary of State as the “Secretary of Silliness” and notes both that there was a “wink wink” nature to sending imperfect ballots to far-left Secretary Benson and that they sent a copy to his State Representative out of caution.

These Clerks weren’t following the law or proper procedure for these registration applications; they were following what they felt was the unofficial demands of the Lansing power structure: send us flawed voter registrations so that they can be extra-legally fixed and cured of their defects.

CLERKS ADMIT THAT ILLEGAL REGISTRATIONS WERE SENT TO LANSING DEMOCRAT OFFICIALS TO BE ‘HANDLED’

Dana Nessel has been previously begrudgingly shamed into prosecuting election fraud when committed by Democrats. She prosecuted Southfield City Clerk Sherikia Hawkins, who was caught changing 193 ballots in the 2018 election.

Hawkins was charged with six felonies; a judge removed 5 of the 6 charges shortly before she ran for re-election. The charges were added back after the Democrat city clerk won re-election. Finally, years after being caught committing multiple counts of voter fraud, Sherikia Hawkins stood trial. Sharikia Hawkins was sentenced to ONE DAY In jail and issued a fine.

When the story first broke about the voter fraud committed by the Demcorat city clerk, SOS Jocelyn Benson, and AG Dana Nessel promised they would seek justice in the case. Justice appears to be a flexible term for the Democrat Attorney General Dana Nessel.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/exposed-whistleblower-steps-forward-reveals-private-facebook-group/