Congressional Democrats appear ready to save Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) from a motion to vacate if one is triggered, according to a report.
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A man in Chicago is accused of an attempted carjacking that happened less than a month after he was placed on pretrial release.
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President Joe Biden faces another uncommitted ballot test Tuesday in Pennsylvania as more than 500,000 voters, including in other key swing states have already cast protest votes against him in Democrat nominating contests across the country.
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Former Sen. Gaylord Nelson championed reducing overall immigration to the United States to protect America's quality of life.
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Actor Michael Douglas said Sunday on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS that people say President Joe Biden is as "sharp as a tack" while discussing the president's age.
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A Home Depot in New Rochelle, New York, is taking drastic measures to ensure shoppers are safe from "aggressive" migrants and thieves.
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Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA) said Sunday on ABC's "This Week" that he wouldΒ vote to table any motion to vacateΒ House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) because he advancedΒ a foreign aid package with separate bills to support Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
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High school soccer players did not get to play a game on Sunday because a group of migrants allegedly took over the field in the East Harlem area of New York City.
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FBI authorities served subpoenas at Illinois' Dolton Village Hall onΒ Friday afternoon as Mayor Tiffany Henyard (D) fields corruption accusations, per Fox 32.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) celebrated Democrats seizing the House by unprecedentedly relying on the opposition party to force President Joe Biden's priority of Ukraine border defense funds toward a full House vote on Saturday.
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On Fridayβs broadcast of HBOβs βReal Time,β host Bill Maher predicted that this yearβs Democratic National Convention in Chicago will be a repeat of the chaotic 1968 Democratic National Convention, which was also held in Chicago, because there will be
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Fast food prices in California jumped during the six-month period before the Democrat-run state mandated a $20 minimum wage for the industry.
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Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) announced he would join Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) motion to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).
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In a stunning historical development, Democrats seized upon a Republican surrender to take control of the agenda of the House floor.
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CBS has announced that Stephen Colbert will host his 'Late Night' show from Chicago during the Democrat National Convention.
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The Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday overturned a lower court ruling and upheld the state's ban on so-called "ghost guns."
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Maine Senate Democrats wrapped up their legislative session by passing gun control in response to the October 25, 2023, Lewiston shooting.Β
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House Democrats released an agenda Thursday that includes a vow to codify a right to so-called gender-affirming careβtransgender surgeries, hormones, and puberty blockers.
The promise came within the Congressional Progressive Caucusβ agenda, which House Democrats first shared with NBC News. That agenda includes a slew of left-wing interests, including promises of a higher minimum wage and stronger antitrust laws.
βIf the progressive base is not excited and enthusiasticβand if they donβt feel like we are trying to earn their votes and that they are importantβthen I think the horrific idea of a second Donald Trump presidency could become reality,β Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., who chairs the progressive caucus, told NBC News in an interview. βWe cannot afford to let that happen. And we wonβt.β
Although NBC claims that the agenda goes βlighter on cultural issues,β under the category βadvancing justice,β it promises to βcodify the rights of transgender, nonbinary and intersex people, including gender-affirming care and health care.β
Jayapal did not respond to requests for comment for this article explaining what, exactly, codifying a right to βgender-affirming careβ would entail.
In March 2023, she joined with other Democrats in introducing a βTrans Bill of Rights,β citing the rise in parental rights laws, laws protecting kids from gender transitions, and laws prohibiting boys from participating in girls and womenβs sports.
βDay after day, we see a constant onslaught of anti-trans rhetoric and legislation coming from elected officials. Today, we say enough is enough,β Jayapal said at the time. Β βOur Trans Bill of Rights says clearly to the trans community across the country that we see you, and we will stand with you, to ensure you are protected and given the dignity and respect that every person should have.β
That legislation would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include gender identity as βprotected characteristics.β It would also amend federal education laws to say that they protect kids from being discriminated against based on gender identity.
The Trans Bill of Rights also called for ensuring that βevery child has the right to grow up in a supportive environment by having their authentic identity respected in the classroom, ensuring they can participate in school sports with their peers, and ensuring access to an inclusive curriculum.β
It further called for βexpanding accessβ to trans surgeries, hormones, and puberty blockers and codifying rights to abortion and contraception.
Jayapal told NBC News that progressive Democrats assume βthis is an agenda for a Democratic president with a Democratic Senate and a Democratic House.β
She added: βWe have to excite our base. We have to show them what the path forward isβnot just say, βThis is the most important election of your life, and we expect you to vote.β I donβt think thatβs going to turn people out. And so, I think this agenda, really, speaks to the needs of poor people, working people, progressives across the country who want us to make that case to them.β
βWe are not seeing the momentum that we would like to see,β she told NBC. Weβre going to have a tough election. β¦ We know weβre going to have to put together that progressive coalition. And I think this is the thing that allows us to say, ββLook, hereβs what weβre fighting for.ββ
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House Democrats who led an investigation into former President Donald Trump's role in the January 6 Capitol riot say they are worried about their safety and being arrested if the former president wins reelection.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) saidΒ Wednesday on CNN's "The Lead" that he had to work with Democrats because he has the smallest margin in U.S. history in the House of Representatives.
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NPR senior Editor Uri Berliner is reportedly facing consequences after publicly criticizing the outlet's progressive leanings.Β
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Colorado House Democrats passed "assault weapons" ban legislation Sunday to prohibit the sale of AR-15s and certain 9mm pistols.
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Democrats are slowly losing their voter registration edge in key swing states, recent voter registration data reveals.
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Californians are arming up for self-defense as the U.S. Border Patrol carries out street drop-offs of illegal immigrants in San Diego.Β
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At least 43 people were shot, seven of them fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Brandon Johnson's (D) Chicago.
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A Syracuse police officer and an Onondaga County sheriffβs deputy were shot in Salina, New York, Sunday shortly before 9 p.m.
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Eleven people were shot, one of them fatally, during a family get together Saturday night at around 9:30 p.m. in Chicago's Back of the Yards neighborhood.Β
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On Fridayβs broadcast of Newsmax TVβs βThe Record,β Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said that an βanti-Americanβ Marxist strain in the Democratic Party is tied to a rise in antisemitism and βweβve allowed this anti-Zionism, this kind of intolerance to
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AOC became a member of Congress in 2019 but failed to pay dues until 2024, representing the completion of a gradual shift towards becoming a member of the Democrat establishment.
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Progressives are using legal loopholes and the power of the federal government to maximize Democrat votes in the 2024 election at taxpayersβ expense, RealClearInvestigations has found.
The methods include voter registration and mobilization campaigns by ostensibly nonpartisan charities that target Democrats using demographic data as proxies, and the Biden administrationβs unprecedentedΒ demandΒ that every federal agency βconsider ways to expand citizensβ opportunities to register to vote and to obtain information about, and participate in, the electoral process.β
A dizzying array of overwhelmingly βdemocracy-focusedβ entities with ties to the Democratic Party operating as charities and funded with hundreds of millions of dollars from major liberal βdark moneyβ vehicles are engaged in a sprawling campaign to register the voters, deliver them the ballots, and figuratively and sometimes literally harvest the votes necessary to defeat Donald Trump.
These efforts, now buttressed by the federal government, amplify and extend what Time magazineΒ describedΒ as a βwell-funded cabal of powerful people ranging across industries and ideologies,β who had worked behind the scenes in 2020 βto influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of informationβ to defeat Trump and other Republicans. The βshadow campaigners,β Time declared, βwere not rigging the election; they were fortifying it.β
Heading into 2024, βthere is not a βshadowβ campaign,β said Mike Howell, executive director of The Heritage Foundationβs Oversight Project. βThere is an overt assault on President Trump and those who wish to vote for him occurring at every level of government and with the support of all major institutions.β (The Daily Signal is the news organization of The Heritage Foundation.)
By contrast, Republican Party stalwarts lament that no comparable effort exists on their side. The GOPβs turnout and messaging efforts seek to thread a difficult needle by encouraging early and absentee voting and ballot-harvestingβpandemic-era measures that Trump and supporters blame for his 2020 electoral defeatβwhile the party simultaneously fights the mainly blue-state laws that made the practices possible. The partyβs position is further complicated by its standard-bearerβs warnings of a rigged election bigger than in 2020, which someΒ speculateΒ could turn off moderate swing voters.
TheΒ IRSΒ permitsΒ tax-exempt nonprofit groups to engage in voter registration and get-out-the-vote drives so long as they do not βrefer to any candidate or political partyβ nor conduct their activities βin a biased manner that favors (or opposes) one or more candidates prohibited.β
These entities have become magnets for funds not only from wealthy donors, who can contribute without traditional campaign finance limitsβand get a tax break to bootβbut also abundantly endowed private foundations that are prohibited from engaging in partisan activities.
In recent years, dozens of progressive-oriented 501(c)(3)s, now pulling in upward of $500 million annually, have engaged in purportedly neutral efforts to impact elections, according toΒ Hayden Ludwig, director of policy research at the election integrity-focused advocacy group Restoration of America.
In practice, critics like Ludwig argue, left-leaning charities flout the law by registering and mobilizing demographics that tend to vote disproportionately Democratic behind a veil of nonpartisan democracy promotion.
During the 2020 election, for example, the Voter Participation Center solicited millions of ballot applications in swing statesβmany of them prefilled for respondents. This nonprofit, like its peers, is clear that it isnβt targeting just any voters, but whatΒ itΒ and progressiveΒ activistsΒ have dubbed a βNew American Majorityβ of βyoung people, people of color and unmarried women.β
Tom Lopach, a longtime Democratic Party operative and the centerβs president and CEO, told RealClearInvestigations in a statement: βWe do the work that state election officials typically do not doβseeking out underrepresented voting-eligible Americans β¦ This is difficult but necessary work that brings democracy to eligible Americansβ doorsteps.β
In 2020, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan showed how supposedly neutral efforts can have a partisan impact when they funneled some $400 million through twoΒ progressiveβledΒ but purportedly nonpartisan nonprofits intoΒ election officesΒ across the country.
That moneyΒ disproportionately wentΒ to jurisdictions that Joe Biden won in the pivotal battleground states that delivered his victory, often flowing to left-leaning nonprofits to whom election offices outsourced the administration ofΒ sometimes critical functions.
In April 2022, a primary conduit of these so-called Zuckerbucks, the Center for Tech and Civic Life, announced the launch of a successor to the 2020 effortβthe U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence, a five-year $80 million program βto envision, support, and celebrate excellence in U.S. election administration.β
βThe left has assembled an impressive βelection-industrialβ complex of nonprofit organizations that is constantly working towards goals like βpromoting participationβ targeting βunderrepresented minorities,ββ said Jason Snead, executive director of the conservative Honest Elections Project. Such terms, Snead says, βare code for identifying and mobilizing liberal voters.β
Election experts view such activities as potentially decisive.Β
ββNonpartisanβ and βcharitableβ voter registration and get-out-the-vote groupsβ are the Democratic Partyβs βelectioneering super-weapon[s],β said Parker Thayer, an analyst with theΒ conservative-orientedΒ Capital Research Center in Washington, D.C.
Of these, Thayer sees the Everybody Votes Campaign as ofΒ paramount importance.
Born of a plan βcommissioned by [Hillary] Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, funded by the Democratic Partyβs biggest donors, and coordinated with cut-throat Democratic consultants,β Thayer writes in an extensiveΒ analysisΒ of the groupβs efforts, βthe Everybody Votes campaign [has] used the guise of civic-minded charity to selectively register millions of βnon-whiteβ swing-state voters in the hopes of getting out the Democratic vote.β
It does so by funding and training over 50 community groups to register voters toΒ closeΒ βthe voter registration gap in communities of color,β which it attributes to βmodern forms of Jim Crow laws,β such as voter ID requirements, the groupβs executive director, Nellie Sires, said in a January 2024Β interview.
From 2016-2021, the Everybody Votes Campaign, doing business as three entities, collected overΒ $190 millionΒ from major Democratic Party donors, unions, and environmental activists. Some of theΒ largest donorsΒ include the League of Conservation Voters Education Fund; the New Venture and Hopewell funds, managed by for-profit consulting firm Arabella Advisors; and the George Soros-funded Foundation to Promote Open Societyβall 501(c)(3) public charities or private foundationsΒ forbiddenΒ from supporting βvoter education or registration activities with evidence of bias.β
The Everybody Votes Campaign distributed the funds to a slew ofΒ left-leaning state-based voter registration organizationsΒ largely in eight pivotal states from 2016 to 2019βArizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Ohio, North Carolina, Virginia, and Nevadaβand then to Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin in 2021.
According to ThayerβsΒ analysis, the Everybody Votes Campaignβs voter registration push βwould have provided Democrats more votes than the total margins of victory in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and Pennsylvania,β securing Bidenβs victory in the 2020 election.
One notable backer of the Everybody Votes Campaign is Mind the Gap, a βMoneyball-styleβ Silicon Valley Democratic super PAC founded by Stanford law professor Barbara Fried, andΒ connectedΒ to the political activities of her convicted crypto-fraudster son, Sam Bankman-Fried.
The analytics-focusedΒ outfitΒ prepared a confidential strategy memoΒ leakedΒ in advance of the 2020 election, noting that β501(c)(3) voter registration focused on underrepresented groups in the electorateβ would be the βsingle most effective tactic for ensuring Democratic victoriesβββ4 to 10 times more cost-effectiveβ on after-tax basis at βgarnering additional Democratic votesβ relative to alternatives like βbroadcast media and digital buys.β
Mind the Gap recommended that donors contribute to three organizations: the Voter Participation Center and its sister organization, the Center for Voter Information for mail-based registration efforts, and Everybody Votes for site-based registration efforts.
The largest grant recipient, receiving $24 million during the 2016-2021 period, wasΒ State Voices, which describes itself as a βnonpartisan network of 25 state-based coalitions β¦ that collectively partner with over 1,200 organizationsβ consisting of βadvocates, organizers, and activists β¦ work[ing] together to fight for a healthy democracy and political power for Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI), and all people of color (BIPOC).β
Another top recipient, raking in over $10 million, was the Voter Participation Center.
According to the Capital Research Center, the Everybody Votes Campaign wouldΒ collectΒ and spend over $50 million in connection with the 2022 midterm electionsβthe most recent period for which financials are available. All told, since its founding in 2015,Β the campaign says,Β its network has registered 5.1 million voters, of whom 76% are people of color; 56% are women; and 47% are under the age of 35.
Last November, the news outlet PuckΒ reportedΒ on a secret memo circulated by Mind the Gap regarding its plans for 2024. βOur strategy early in the 2024 presidential race will be to massively scale high-performing voter registration and mobilization programs,β the memo read. The PAC again specifically directed donors to the Everybody Votes Campaign, which did not respond to requests for comment.
Lopach, who has worked in Democratic Party politics his entire career, bristled at RealClearInvestigationsβ questions regarding criticsβ claims of a partisan bent to its work. βThe presumptions baked into the questions β¦ emailed to us are inaccurate and reveal the reporterβs own biases,β he responded, while emphasizing the organizationβs targeting of βunderrepresented voting-eligible Americans.β
Thayer has dubbed Everybody Votes the βlargest and most corrupt βcharitableβ voter registration drive in American history.β
Of such organizationsβ claims of nonpartisanship, Howell told RealClearInvestigations: βIf they were truly interested in an informed participatory constitutional Republic, they would have an even-handed approach to registering voters.β
βCall me when they show up to a NASCAR race, Daughters of the American Revolution event, or a gun show,β Howell added. βThen we can pretend for a minute that these are beyond just facial efforts to appear somewhat neutral.β
But NASCAR races have not been hubs for GOP-led voter registration efforts either. Restoration of Americaβs Ludwig estimates that the Right may spend as little as 1% of what the Left spends on voter registration efforts.
A recentΒ memoΒ from the Sentinel Action Fund, a super PAC that aims to elect conservatives, noted that in the 2022 election cycle, while $8.9 billion was spent on federal elections, there were zero large independent expenditure organizations on the Right focused on get-out-the-vote efforts or βballot chasing.β
Republican PartyΒ vehiclesΒ and conservative outfits like grassroots-orientedΒ Turning Point Action, a 501(c)(4), are engaged in such efforts in the 2024 cycle, but the scale and sophistication of their political counterpartsβ efforts would appear unrivaled at this point.
Election experts attribute this gap to several factors beyond the GOPβs focus on other tactics to win elections, or ineffectiveness. They note that Democratic voters tend to be more concentrated in urban areas and college campuses, making it easier to run efficient registration drives. As regards early and absentee voting and ballot harvesting, it is not clear if these efforts will substantially grow the pool of Republican voters versus merely enabling the party to βbankβ votes earlier.
With respect to the use of 501(c)(3)s to conduct such activities, Ludwig said some conservatives may still be fearful of running afoul of the IRSβthrough exploiting tax laws to pursue efforts perceived to be partisan effectively on the taxpayersβ dimeβin the wake of itsΒ targetingΒ of tea party groups for extreme scrutiny during the Obama years.
Since the 2020 election, Democrats have opened a second apparent electioneering front that Republicans could not match even if they wanted to: The rise of so-called Bidenbucks, which uses the βunlimited funding, resources, and reachβ of the federal government and agency offices located nationwide to turn out favored voters, according to Stewart Whitson, legal director of the conservative Foundation for Government Accountability.
In March 2021, President Joe Biden introducedΒ Executive Order 14019. The directive on βpromoting access to votingβ orders every federal agency, more than 600 in all, to register and mobilize votersβparticularly βpeople of colorβ and others the White House says face βchallenges to exercise their fundamental right to vote.β It further directs the agencies to collaborate with ostensibly nonpartisan nonprofits in pursuit of its goals.
As RealClearInvestigations hasΒ previously reported, Executive Order 14019 appears to have been designed by left-leaning think tank Demos and implemented in consultation and sometimes coordination with a slew of progressive, labor, and identity-focused groups with the goal of generating up to 3.5 million new or updated voter registrations annually.
The ACLU and Demos haveΒ reportedlyΒ helped execute the order. RealClearInvestigations additionally found that at least two recipients of grants under the Everybody Votes Campaign, the NAACP and UnidosUSβformerly the National Council of Razaβwere also listed on anΒ emailΒ as participants in a July 2021 listening session on the executive order convened by the White House and agency officials.
Whitson, whose organization unearthed that email in its fight to expose details about the order, emphasized that β[U]nlike 2020 wherein the shadow campaign was conducted by private citizens seeking to influence government election operations from the outside, the threat we face in 2024 is being launched fromΒ withinΒ the government itself.β
Facing both congressional scrutiny and litigation, the administration has closely guarded the strategic plans agencies were to develop to carry out the order, how they are implementing them, to what end, and with whom.
Perfunctory press releases, reports from groups supportive of the order, and documents slowly ferreted out via Freedom of Information Act requests and litigation, however, demonstrate that relevant agencies have sought to drive voter registration via public housing authorities, child nutrition programs, and voluntary tax preparation clinics.
In August 2023, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services issuedΒ updated guidanceΒ calling for the agency to register voters at naturalization ceremonies.
More recently, the Department of Education did theΒ same, blessing the use of federal work-study funds to pay students for βsupporting broad-based get-out-the-vote activities, voter registration,β and other activities. Scott Walter, president of the Capital Research Center, recently told The Epoch Times that the department had previouslyΒ threatenedΒ schools βthat you better be registering students or you could lose your federal funds.β
When asked by RealClearInvestigations to respond to Walterβs claim, the Department of Education would not. Over two dozen Pennsylvania state legislatorsΒ challengedΒ the order via a lawsuit in January. Citing alleged unlawful attempts by several agencies to register Keystone State voters, the lawmakers asserted:
By engaging in a targeted voter registration effort of this magnitude, focused specifically on these agencies and the groups of potential voters they interact with, leveraging the resources and reach of the federal government, this effort appears to be a taxpayer-funded get-out-the-vote effort designed to benefit the current Presidentβs political party.
Echoing this view, Whitsonβs Foundation for Government Accountability submitted anΒ amicus briefΒ noting that βall of the federal agencies FGA has identified as taking active steps to carry out EO 14019 have one thing in common: They provide government welfare benefits and other services to groups of voters the vast majority of which have historically voted Democrat.β
The plaintiffs alleged the executive order violated both Pennsylvania law limiting voter registration efforts to non-federal actors and constitutional provisions reserving election laws to the states.
On March 26, a district court dismissed the case, claiming the plaintiffs lacked standing. Whitson told RealClearInvestigations that others would likely lodge similar lawsuits, building on the Pennsylvania legislatorsβ case in the wake of the dismissal. Days later, The FederalistΒ reportedΒ that the plaintiffs intended to appeal their case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
A White House spokesperson did not reply to RealClearInvestigationsβ inquiries regarding the executive order.
Republicans have had more success opposing the use of Zuckerbucks and other private monies used to finance public elections. More thanΒ two dozen statesΒ would move toΒ ban or restrictΒ such grants in response to the activities observed during the 2020 election.
Most recently, Wisconsin, where some of the mostΒ controversialΒ Zuckerbucks-relatedΒ effortsΒ took place, was added to that list when, on April 2, voters approved a constitutional amendment barring the private funding of elections.
Despite this crackdown and the feds seemingly stepping into the breach, efforts to privately finance election administration persist. The U.S. Alliance for Election ExcellenceΒ bills itselfΒ as an initiative to bolster βwoefully unsupportedβ election offices to βrevitalize American democracy.β
The organizationΒ saysΒ it services jurisdictionsβ11 listed on its website, ranging across states from Arizona to California and Wisconsinβwith βtraining, mentorship, and resources.β Alliance officials did not respond to RealClearInvestigationsβ inquiry about whether it would be terminating the relationship with the city of Madison, Wisconsin, in light of the passage of the recent ballot measure that would seem to have barred it. Nor did it respond to RealClearInvestigationβ other inquiries in connection with this article.
Most of these partnerships were initiated with jurisdictions in states that have not banned Zuckerbucks, though it has sought toΒ circumventΒ such prohibitions in Georgia and Utah. The stated goal of the Alliance for Election Excellence is to support voters via measures like assisting participating centers in βredesigningβ forms to make them more intuitive and purchasing infrastructure βto improve election security and accessibility.β
Alliance launch partners include entities such as:
Critics argue this seemingly more modest effort is, in reality, an ambitious Zuckerbucks rebrand.
Sneadβs Honest Elections Project published aΒ reportΒ in April 2023, based in part on documents received from FOIA requests, indicating βthat the Alliance is a reinvention of CTCLβs scheme to use private funding to strongarm election policy nationwide.β
Among other takeaways, it found that:
The report shows that many of the allianceβs launch partners, starting with the Center for Tech and Civic Life and the Center for Civic Design, are funded by major Democrat-tied, so-called dark money groups such as the Democracy Fund and Arabella Advisorsβ New Venture Fund and Hopewell Fund.
The Democracy Fund is led by Democrat tech billionaire Pierre Omidyar, which has granted some $275 million to like-minded organizations from publications like Mother Jones and ProPublica to the Voter Registration Project since its founding.
The District of Columbia recentlyΒ closed a criminal investigationΒ intoΒ Arabella, whose fund networkΒ reportedlyΒ spent nearly $1.2 billion in 2020 alone, after probing it over allegations itsΒ fundsΒ were pursuing political ends in violation of their tax-exempt statuses. The Center for Secure and Modern Elections, the Honest Elections Project says, pushes βleft-wing priorities like automatic voter registrationβ and is run by the New Venture Fund. The Elections Groupβs CEO and co-founder, Jennifer Morrell, previously served as a consultant at the Democracy Fund.
The Capital Research Centerβs Walter uses a football analogy to explain why he sees these efforts as untoward. He told RealClearInvestigations:
Election offices are the refs in elections; the parties are teams trying to score. Youβd be puzzled if you heard Super Bowl refs say theyβre trying to boost points scored. Youβd be outraged if you learned those refs had received money and training from people who previously worked for one teamβs offensive coaching staff. Thatβs what left-wing political operatives, using left-wing money, are doing, and itβs clearly unfair.
Democrat-aligned groups continue to engage in litigation, like that brought by chief election lawyer Marc Elias, aimed at loosening election laws to their benefit. Snead told RealClearInvestigations, βThere are more than 70 active lawsuits right now targeting voter ID laws, anti-ballot harvesting laws, signature verification, drop box regulations, and more.β
After securing victory in a lawsuit requiring signature verification for mail voting in Pennsylvania, the Republican National Committee touted its engagement as well in 81 election integrity cases this cycle. Swing-state Wisconsin is another major battleground for such efforts.
There, Eliasβ legal team has challenged witness signature requirements and bans on election clerks filling address information on mail-in ballots. It and others are alsoΒ workingΒ to overturn a state Supreme Court decision finding drop boxes illegal. The Badger Stateβs now liberal-majority Supreme Court announced in March it would take up the case.
Cutting against these efforts are not only the stateβs citizen-approved Zuckerbucks ban, but another Badger-passed April 2Β ballot measureΒ amending the stateβs constitution to prohibit those other than βan election official designated by lawβ from carrying out election-related tasks.
Watchdogs like Howell are concerned that left-leaning electioneers and lawfare forces collectively are pursuing an βelection βdis-integrityβ strategy β¦ to greatly expand the universe of ballots while limiting any ability to ensure that they are fairly cast and counted.β
βItβs a basic recipe for fraud.β
EliasΒ saysΒ those seeking to combat such efforts are engaged in βvoter suppression and election subversion.β
Democrats also have the federal government working on their side on the litigation frontβand in ways extending beyond the veritable lawfare barrage the Biden Justice Department has leveled at Trump.
Speaking in Selma, Alabama, on the 59thΒ anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the 1965 police assault on civil rights marchers, Attorney General Merrick GarlandΒ declaredΒ that βthe right to vote is still under attack.β
Garland vowed the Department of Justice was punching back, including βchallenging efforts by states and jurisdictions to implement discriminatory, burdensome, and unnecessary restrictions on access to the ballot, including those related to mail-in voting, the use of drop boxes, and voter ID requirements.β
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The payments come in spite of the DNC's repeated attacks against former President Donald Trump for using campaign funds to cover legal fees.
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A fast-food franchisee in California is rushing to install kiosks at his restaurants to save money as the $20 minimum wage goes into effect.
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An attorney for conservative leader and private citizen Leonard Leo revealed that Leo would not be complying with a subpoena issued by the Democrat Senate Judiciary Committee.
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A proposed rule from the ATF will force private gun sellers to use the National Instant Criminal Background Check System to sell their guns.
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The South Carolina Democrat Party is refusing to allow a black candidate running for sheriff in Charleston County to appear on the ballot.
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Democrats are the "radicals" on abortion, former President Donald Trump said after revealing his official position on the issue.
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A crew of suspects believed to be part of a gang has been wreaking havoc in California over a two-month period and does not appear to care about possibly getting caught.
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The growing "uncommitted" vote movement, which has caught fire in Democratic presidential nominating contests and led to reportedly 500,000 votes being cast nationally against President Joe Biden, is becoming a significant liability threatening his reelection prospects.
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On Monday,Β Cowlitz County Superior Court Judge Gary Bashor found Washington state's "high capacity" magazine ban violated both the U.S. Constitution and Washington state's constitution.Β
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David Hogg is living high on the hog thanks to the many donors cutting checks to his PAC, FEC records show.
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A Nebraska state legislator is transitioning from blue to red after his own party censured him for having a pro-life stance. Nebraska state Sen. Mike McDonnell officially left the Democratic Party last week after 40 years and became a Republican.
InΒ a written statement explaining his decision, McDonnell wrote: βI have asked the Democratic Party to respect my religious based pro-life position. Instead over the last year they have decided to punish me for being pro-life.β
Last month, the Nebraska Democratic PartyΒ voted to censure McDonnell, a Catholic, over his pro-life record, contending that his stance βadversely affected the reproductive rights of Nebraskans and the rights of transgender individuals in the state.β
Douglas County Democrats alsoΒ votedΒ in January to deny party funding to McDonnell due to his votes against abortion measures and against gender-transition procedures for minors.
βThe state Democratic Party voted to censure me because I am pro-life,β McDonnell wrote. βBeing a Christian, a member of the Roman Catholic Church and pro-life is more important to me than being a registered Democrat. Today I am changing my party affiliation to Republican.β
InΒ a speechΒ addressing his decision, McDonnell explained that he registered as a Democrat in 1984 and ran for the state Legislature in 2016.
βI wanted to see how we could grow our state and reduce property taxes at the same time,β he said. βI asked the Democratic Party of Douglas County to respect that Iβm pro-life, that Iβm a member of the Roman Catholic Church, and my beliefs are based on that. But Douglas County Democrats, instead of respecting that, they decided to punish it. β¦ I continued to vote pro-life.β
βThis is not an easy decision,β the state senator added. βAfter 40 years of being a registered Democrat, having your grandfather tell you when youβre 10 years old, βWhat are we? Weβre Irish, weβre Catholic, and weβre Democrats.β That kind of stuck with me.β
Pointing to his new Republican Party colleagues, McDonnell said: βOver the last year, regardless of my decision [on] switching parties, they have been so supportive. β¦ We had great discussions about what the Republican Party is doing, where theyβre trying to go, how I potentially could fit in there. But the greatest thing about [it] is now I can participate again.β
U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., a former governor of the state,Β respondedΒ to McDonnellβs decision by writing on X: βI am pleased to welcome Sen. Mike McDowell to the Republican team.β He added: βThe extreme new Democrats are pushing commonsense officials and voters to our party.β
McDonnell is far from the only Catholic abandoning the Democratic Party due to what many consider mandatory abortion extremism.
Recent studiesΒ showΒ that white American Catholics have been drifting away from the party for decades, but in increasing numbers over the past two decades, coalescing instead around the GOP.
A survey of Michigan votersΒ foundΒ last month that former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee credited with appointing three justices to the U.S. Supreme Court who enabled the dismantling of Roe v. Wade, holds a significant lead among Catholic voters over President Joe Biden, a Democrat and self-described Catholic.
A week ago, the Catholic archbishop of Washington, D.C., Cardinal Wilton Gregory,Β called Biden a βcafeteria Catholicβ due to his rejection of the Catholic Churchβs teaching on abortion.
In response to McDonnellβs new party affiliation, Nebraska Democratic Party Chairwoman Jane KleebΒ issued a written statementΒ saying: βThe Nebraska Democratic Party will continue to stand up for reproductive freedom and the human rights of the LGBTQ community.β
Kleeb added: βOur decision to censure Sen. McDonnell was never about him being a pro-life Catholic. Our decision was based on our party reaffirming our core values to protect womenβs ability to make health decisions and to keep politicians out of our personal health decisions.β
Originally published by The Washington Stand
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John Eastman is a lawyer, a legal scholar, and a friend.
I got to know Johnβa former clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, candidate for California attorney general, and dean of Chapman University School of Lawβduring my weeklong 2018 legal fellowship with the Claremont Institute, which he oversaw. We have stayed in touch and done at least one event together for Claremont since that time.
Unfortunately, since the 2020 presidential election, John has been put through the wringer more than just about anyone in American public life.
He was forced to retire from the law school where he was a longtime constitutional law professor and even dean. He was let go by the University of Coloradoβs Benson Center for Western Civilization, where he was a visiting scholar. Armed Stasiβsorry, FBIβagents accosted him in a parking lot and seized his phone without a warrant. He has been suspended from academic conferences and lost board seats. He and his wife have endured death threats, spikes in their driveway, and threatening graffiti in their neighborhood. He has been debanked by Bank of America and the USAA. He is being criminally prosecuted by scandal-ridden Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis. And last week, State Bar Court of California Judge Yvette Roland devoted 128 pages to explaining why he should lose his law license.
All this because John had the chutzpah to do what every law school student is taught to do in legal ethics class: defend and zealously advocate for oneβs client, no matter how unpopular or even disreputable that client may be. In this case, Johnβs unpopular client was a high-profile one: former President Donald Trump.
There has been an astronomical amount of misinformation about Johnβs activities in the weeks leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol jamboree, as well as the legal advice that he offered his high-profile client during that time. The corporate media and the Democrat-lawfare complex typically speak of Johnβs legal advice as encouraging the βoverturning of an electionβ or βfomenting an insurrection,β but such hyperbolic talk is irresponsible and wildly off base.
John acquitted himself well in a compelling essay he penned for Claremontβs American Mind online journal on Jan. 18, 2021, titled βSetting the Record Straight on the POTUS βAsk.'β
His 12th Amendment argument about the vice presidentβs more active role in certifying the statesβ slates of electors and his accompanying argument regarding the constitutional dubiousness of the Electoral Count of 1887 might not be correct (although it could be), but it is well within the bound of plausible, nonfrivolous legal argumentation an attorney can (indeed, should) press upon an embattled client.
That is doubly so here, because the U.S. Supreme Court has never authoritatively interpreted the relevant 12th Amendment provision. Countless legal arguments more frivolous than this are advanced every day in courtrooms across America.
Nor is John Eastman the only man being prosecuted, and possibly disbarred, for his legal activity after the 2020 election. Former U.S. Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark is also being prosecuted in Georgia, and he was just found by the District of Columbia Bar to have violated an ethics rule, which might lead to his own disbarment thereβall stemming from an internal Department of Justice memo that Clark never even sent.
Once upon a time, the American Left understood the moral imperative of ensuring that all Americans have adequate access to legal representation, no matter oneβs popularity in the eyes of the government or societal elites.
Indeed, the definitive American example of such unpopular legal representation actually dates back to before the United States was even independent: In 1770, a young lawyer named John Adams, the man who would become the young republicβs second president, took it upon himself to defend the British soldiers accused of killing five colonists at the Boston Massacre. Years later, in his dotage, Adams reflected that this was βone of the most gallant, generous, manly, and disinterested actions of my whole life, and one of the best pieces of service I ever rendered my country.β
Presumably, Willis and Roland would have preferred to see Adams tarred and feathered for his treachery. One also cannot help but wonder how they might have viewed the NAACPβs legal representation in the Deep South during the days of Jim Crow.
The ultimate aim of those Jacobins prosecuting and disbarring lawyers for having the temerity to practice the legal profession is clear: the subordination of the rule of law to the Jacobinsβ own friend/enemy-level politics, and the cowing into submission of those lawyers who would so much as consider representing a high-profile Republican client or work in a Republican Department of Justice. Ironically, and without any hint of self-awareness, they do all this in the name of βour democracy.β
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The Nebraska Democrat party censured State Sen. Mike McDonnell on March 2 for his pro-life views and his refusal to comply with the transgender activist agenda, before he ultimately switched to the Republican Party on Wednesday.
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Democrats in Colorado's Senate passed legislation barring licensed concealed carry permit holders from being armed for self-defense in five new places on Wednesday.
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Oregon's Democrat governor signed a bill on Monday that restores criminal penalties for possessing small amounts of drugs as the problems of addiction and overdose plague residents across the state. Β
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Senate candidate Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) supports legislation that, if passed into law, would prohibit Arizonans from buying AR-15 rifles.Β
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Colorado Democrats are pushing an 11 percent excise tax on gun and ammunition sales, as well as numerous other California-style gun controls.
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Prosecutors allege a woman stabbed an 80-year-old Uber driver on Monday in Chicago, Illinois, after he made a simple mistake.
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Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) is pushing legislation to make it easier for gun owners in the state to have their firearms confiscated.
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Lara Trump is bashing the DNC for releasing an artificial intelligence-generated "diss track" in response to her new single.
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On Fridayβs broadcast of HBOβs βReal Time,β host Bill Maher stated that President Joe Biden wonβt distance himself from the progressive wing of his party because Biden βjust doesnβt want to fight withβ the progressive left wing of the Democratic
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Never Trumper Bill Kristol lamented the bad optics for Democrats after President Joe Biden opted to go to a multi-million dollar fundraiser thrown by rich Hollywood celebrities while former President Donald Trump attended a wake for a young New York City police officer killed on duty.
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There are so many unreported hate crimes in Democrat-run Washington State that lawmakers have set up a snitch line.
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Protests and disruptions from pro-Palestinian demonstrators at President Joe Biden's glitzy, elitist fundraiser on Thursday are the latest examples of extreme division on the left regarding his handling of the Israel-Hamas war, which is jeopardizing his reelection prospects.
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