While voting rights legislation is pretty much doomed due to Republican opposition and moderate Democrats’ decision to keep the filibuster intact, there’s still hope for a much narrower election reform: changes to the Electoral Count Act (ECA). A bipartisan group of roughly 12 lawmakers, including Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME), Mitt Romney (R-UT), and Joe Manchin […] More
Texts show Trump insiders worked to get President Trump past the stolen 2020 Election. The corrupt Jan 6 committee, which is likely unconstitutional and working outside of its mandate, is another entity created by the corrupt and criminal left to again project their crimes onto others. Like the Russia collusion sham projected Biden’s crimes onto […] More
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Friday charged a Texas man with publicly calling for the assassination of Georgia’s election officials on the day before the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. The case is the first brought by the department’s Election Threats Task Force, an agency created last summer to address threats against elections […] More
A Texas man has been arrested for threatening to kill election officials the day before Trump’s coup attempt on 1/6. CNBC reported: The case against 54-year-old Chad Stark of Leander, Texas, is the first criminal prosecution filed by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Election Threats Task Force, which was formed last June on the heels […] More
The Justice Department charged a man from Texas on Friday with threatening three government officials, the first criminal case brought forward by the department’s task force on combating violent threats against election workers. According to the Justice Department’s announcement, 54-year-old Chad Christopher Stark of Leander, Texas was arrested by the FBI on Friday and charged […] More
It’s 2022, and a new election season is upon us. There are the national midterm elections, with some analysts predicting that Republicans will take back both the House and Senate, as well as the usual slate of local contests. So far, in Minnesota, things are off to a jarring start. In the case of rural […] More
Rep. Marc Pocan (D-WI) has sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland requesting a D.O.J. investigation into 10 Republicans who signed forged election documents. Rep. Pocan wrote to Garland: I write to request that the Department of Justice investigate ten individuals who fraudulently claimed to be “the duly elected and qualified Electors for President […] More
The Fox News host Sean Hannity had some blunt advice for President Donald J. Trump on Jan. 7, 2021: “No more stolen election talk.” His guidance did not take. But documents disclosed on Thursday showed in vivid detail just how closely Mr. Hannity had worked with White House aides in a fervent, if brief, effort […] More
Fani Willis, the Fulton County DA investigating Trump’s Georgia election meddlingAlyssa Pointer/TNS/Zuma Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. In early January 2021, then-President Donald Trump called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and demanded that he “find 11,780 votes” to sway the […] More
A district attorney in Atlanta on Thursday asked a judge to convene a special grand jury to help investigate former President Donald J. Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia. The request from the district attorney in Fulton County, Fani T. Willis, had been expected because crucial witnesses have refused to participate […] More
The DA in Fulton County, Georgia, has requested a special grand jury that will have subpoena power to investigate Trump election interference. NPR reported: In a letter, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said her office has reason to believe “that the State of Georgia’s administration of elections in 2020, including the State’s election of […] More
Georgia’s Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis requested a special grand jury in her election interference investigation into ex-President Donald Trump on Thursday. Willis sent the request to the chief judge of Fulton County’s Superior Court, Christopher Brasher, in a letter obtained by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The prosecutor told Brasher that she needed help with […] More
