Wednesday, September 11, 2024

How the Left Exploits 'Christian Nationalism'


Samuel Perry, a sociologist at the University of Oklahoma, in a New Yorker cover article by Eliza Griswold, said, "The greatest ethnic dog whistle the right has ever come up with is 'Christian' because it means 'people like us,' it means white." The quote appeared in a paragraph that began with: "The election of Donald Trump intensified certain strains of Christian nationalism."

However, the Reverend Franklin Graham, son of the late Reverend Billy Graham, maintains; "'Christian nationalism' -- that's a coin that the media has come up with. It is to divide our country; it's to polarize people. Christian nationalism doesn't exist, it's just another name to throw at Christians. The left is very good at calling people names."

The Moral Majority led the Christian Right into the political arena. The organization was credited with an important part in Ronald Reagan's election. Reagan's combination of Evangelicalism and vision of American exceptionalism helped further cement the union between Evangelicals and the Republican Party. The Left and MSM recognized that Christians entering politics posed a threat, they required a 'scare' phrase so they coined one: ' Christian nationalism'

Christian nationalism (as a cultural condition defined by the Left) reached new heights when Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election. He became an overt champion of Christian nationalism. Trumpism is, the MSM maintains, the latest version of Christian Nationalism. Trump says he will 'take back the country' from the outsiders and invaders who have taken control (whom the MSM says are immigrants, secularists, Muslims, and Mexicans). The Left views Christian Nationalism as a cultural threat because "Christian nationalistsbelieve, in general, that America is Christian, that the government should keep it that way, and that Trump was -- and is -- their best hope to accomplish that."

Trump's election forced the MSM into action. For example, NPR published this: "Christian nationalism has effectively spread so much disinformation that three in five white evangelicals say Biden was not legitimately elected." CNN presented this: "It's been called an 'imposter Christianity,' a heretical faith that 'sanctifies lies,' and 'the most serious threat' to democracy in America... White Christian nationalism is spreading a racist myth: that Whiteness is the default setting for evangelical Christianity." Newsweek magazine attacked the Republican party with this: "A new study released Wednesday offers unprecedented insight into the breadth of Christian nationalism in today's politics, helping bring clarity to a burgeoning -- but growing -- movement that has shaped the contemporary Republican Party and raised new questions about religion's role in today's politics."

"The term 'white Christian nationalism' has exploded in the social sciences and the MSM as a way of describing a view that has burst onto the public stage with Trumpism and the 'Make America Great Again' movement." The term is now used by the Left as a way to denigrate social conservatives who believe in inserting religion into everyday American life, and to paint a caricature of a dogmatic Republican voter focused on stripping rights from Americans. Liberal commentators equate Christian nationalism with white supremacy, argue that Christian nationalism means 'shooting migrants at the border, full immunity for police to kill at-will... terminating the Constitution, bombing Mexico,' and 'stripping women of all of their personal rights.'"

Here's a little of what the Left and the MSM have done with the term:

"The rising influence of Christian nationalism in some segments of American politics poses a major threat to the health of our democracy." That quote comes from a post by the Public Religion Research Institute (PPRI) based upon a PPRI/Brookings Institute survey of more than 6,000 Americans. Yep, that's the left-leaning Brookings Institute (Snopes calls it 'nonpartisan') that the New York Times calls 'a pillar of Washington's liberal establishment.'

The MSM, in this specific case the Washington Post, says in an article, "Christian nationalists also make up the base of the Republican Party." and that "They also are much more likely to hold authoritarian and racist views." The article also summarizes the PPRI survey.

A view of Christian Nationalism was offered by Politico' national investigative correspondent Heidi Przybyla who said, "The thing that unites them as Christian nationalists -- not Christians, by the way, because Christian nationalist is very different -- is that they believe that our rights as Americans, as all human beings, don't come from any earthly authority. They don't come from Congress, they don't come from the Supreme Court. They come from God." I guess Przybyla completely dismisses our U.S. Declaration of Independence. Przybyla, after sticking her foot firmly in her mouth, apologized for her remarks.

My favorite has to be this Time magazine article "3 Threats Christian Nationalism Poses to the United States." It begins with, "It [Christian nationalism] believes the founders of the U.S. were conservative, white Christian men intent on founding a country where they and others like them could lead and flourish." It rushes downhill from there. Included are three talking points:

1. Christian nationalism is anti-democratic

Christian nationalism is about power. Power in the 'right' hands to ensure the U.S. fulfills its covenant with God. However, democracy demands we share power. Christian nationalism want to ensure the country does not turn its back on God.

2. Christian nationalism perpetuates racism

White Christian nationalism serves as the ideological mortar that allows the walls of racial division and inequality to be built, brick by brick.

3. Christian nationalism approves of political violence

Embracing Christian nationalism is a leading predictor of which Americans believe the riots at the Capitol on January 6th were justified and that violence is acceptable in advancing political goals.

This preposterous article is what passes for journalism today.

There are literally hundreds of articles similar to those cited. Most conclude that Christian Nationalist members want to do away with the part of 1st Amendment which prohibits Congress making any law establishing any religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. It's the second part of the phrase that's pertinent to Christian Nationals: '…the free exercise thereof...' That's exactly what Christian Nationals are doing. The Left and MSM don't like what Christian Nationalists are doing, want to stop it.

The 1st Amendment doesn't prohibit freedom from religion. The Left and MSM doesn't (or won't) get it, thinks we on the right (and center) can be scared over to their way of thinking with the phrase they coined.

This is about as close to overriding part of the 1st Amendment as we'll ever get. As John Adams, one of this country's Founders and our second president, said, "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." Adams was saying that any constitution, no matter how well-crafted, cannot secure national stability without active participation by virtuous citizens. His emphasis upon religion implies that spiritual beliefs cause a sense of accountability, integrity, and respect for the law.



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Melania Trump Asks, Who Tried to Kill My Husband?


There have been some subtle shifts in the carefully managed self-brand and personal presentations of First Lady Melania Trump as the 2024 presidential campaign enters the critical ferocity and consequence phase.

Following the death of her mother Amalija Knavs, Melania became the stabilizing force for her father, Viktor, in grief. It was a painful time while President Trump was absent and tied up on courtrooms in New York. However, that was the spiteful leftist plan all along – target President Trump’s life and create chaos.

In essence, Melania Trump was/is living amid a world of collateral damage, the chaos created by hatred targeting everyone around her. That scenario with President Trump confined in New York, set the stage to understand a key moment later when Barron Trump stood up at a Doral MAGA Rally.  President Trump hinted the moment when he asked Barron to stand, was the introduction of his son to the world of politics; perhaps even including Barron joining the campaign trail.

That moment in Doral was followed by an announcement that Barron would be joining his brother, Donald Trump Jr, as a delegate from Florida to the RNC convention in Milwaukee. However, two days after the FL GOP selected and announced Barron, 18, to be an at-large delegate, Melania Trump’s office said he “regretfully declines to participate due to prior commitments.”

¹Melania put her well-heeled foot down and said, “no” to Barron being pulled into the world of politics.  This was the first sense of a shift, followed by the absence of Barron during the entire RNC convention; meanwhile, Melania appeared for the final night only.

Now, with a very strong likelihood that President Trump will be reelected as President #47, First Lady Melania Trump begins establishing what might be considered a new brand image; perhaps even a stronger Melania with sharper elbows toward anyone who might try to define her.

Melania Trump is highlighting a new memoir SEE HERE – and simultaneously controlling her own message in the public square, what is sure to be a new combat arena, a great American coliseum, that awaits the arrival and reemergence of President Trump with Melania beside him.

The last several days have led to a series of short videos by Melania Trump (See Below) as she sets the stage for her arrival.

Indeed, those who follow the deep weeds of politics clearly understand that both Melania and Donald will each have to bring their sharpest swords and strongest shields into the epicenter of treachery, Washington DC.

When contrast against the attempted assassination of her husband, the last video is exceptionally powerful!



This Powerful Message



¹Barron Trump will be attending New York University (NYU) and literally staring at the faces of those college professors who have put their signatures on presentations directly targeting his father.  Melania is forging very strong steel.


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X22, And we Know, and more- Sept 11

 




23 years ago, 1 horrific act, thousands dead, a whole country in mourning and afraid of the unknown.

That's what I would be born into 2 days later. A world torn, and seemingly always unstable as bloodthirsty politicians unleash their plans of world dominance right under our unsuspecting noses.

Yet, despite all that. This would still be a country that would unite in an incredible way to rebound from what happened 23 years ago. It would still be a country that would survive whatever would come it's way until 2016 would shake everything up and force us all to see the true evils that have been existing for many years.

Despite the chaos of the last 4 years, I'm still very proud to call this country my home. And I 100% believe that it will rise up this November and forever expel the evil politicians from our government!

We've made it this far, we can make it to the very end if we all unite and vote the Left out!

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Beating the Cheat


It can’t actually be said that either the Butler assassination attempt or Joe’s bugout upended the 2024 campaign. That had already largely occurred by the second week of July.

Every last effort against Donald Trump by the progressive establishment and their Deep State and bureaucratic allies had collapsed by that point. The lawfare campaign miscarried completely, generating sympathy for Trump and anger against his tormentors. The Supreme Court’s decision in Trump V. United States put an end to that chapter and cleared the way for Donald Trump’s next move. Judge Aileen Cannon’s dismissal of Jack Smith’s demented records case is simply icing on the cake. (Even though Jack, fulfilling Santayana’s second great quote, refused to accept it.)

Biden’s debate performance – if that’s the word I’m groping for -- brought the situation into focus in a manner not often seen in politics. What most of us have known for some time – that SloJoe can’t be relied on to safely use a crosswalk, much less run a country – landed before the public with reverberations echoing across the country.

The fate of the Basement President was already clear. The historical wrong of 2020 was going to be righted by the most definitive means – the voters. Then came the Butler shooting.

What the shooting did was put the seal on the most stunning political comeback in the historical record. With that attack, and in particular his undaunted response, Trump stepped from history into legend. The image of Trump with his fist held high while the flag flaps above him is a vision for the ages. This event will be recounted as long as there is a United States, and nothing can diminish it. Trump is no longer an outcast. He is a mythic figure. He is the Little Tailor beating all comers, no matter how overwhelming or terrible. He is Aeneas, Yojimbo, the Man with No Name, returned from exile scarred and battered but even more implacable on reaching his goal.

This performance by Trump is absolutely astonishing. No other visible political figure could have pulled off anything to match it. Targeted by virtually the entire American establishment, Trump has outlasted them all. Others subjected to much less severe ordeals have collapsed and been swept off the public stage. (Who has heard from Scott Walker lately?) But Trump stands, if anything, more popular and acclaimed than ever before. It is an achievement out of ancient myth. Trump will have earned his place in the historical record for this effort alone.

The ascension of Kamala as combination messiah and girlygirl BFF has pushed the needle of this dynamic not one iota.

A single obstacle stands between Trump and victory. That’s electoral cheating.

By now, there is little question that massive cheating occurred in 2020. To deny it is an admission that you’re either a Democrat or a writer for NRO. Even Brad Raffensperger, the World’s Most Flexible Republican, admitted at last that there was something funny going on, by gosh and by golly – long after it was too late to do anything about it.

Nobody debates this fact. Trump’s worst enemies simply change the subject or insist that “investigations” have “disproven” it. (They haven’t -- there were never any official investigations. These claims are based on recounts of already tainted ballots.) Unofficial inquiries such as those carried out by True the Vote and recounted in 2000 Mules tell a much different story.

We hear claims that a stolen election is inevitable -- that the fix is in, that nothing can stop it, that nothing has changed, the GOP made no effort to prevent it. This is merely an expression of standard conservative defeatism. It would have been nice if this hadn’t transferred itself to populist conservatism, but that may have been too much to hope for.

In truth, plenty has been done. Nearly 500* laws reforming electoral procedures have been passed nationwide. The threat these pose to the Dems can be gauged by the fact that the deeply corrupt, Democrat-dominated Supreme Courts of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania have set aside two such laws passed by state legislatures, dealing respectively with drop boxes and absentee ballots. As for the GOP, since Lara Trump has taken over the RNC, she has concentrated much of her efforts on programs intended to stop and expose electoral cheating at all levels. To this, we can add America PAC, Elon Musk’s tech-centered superPAC, which has pledged to earmark large amounts to combat electoral fraud. Over the past two weeks, Texas AG Ken Paxton has begun several initiatives into assuring an honest vote (no wonder they tried to railroad him). The Supreme Court restored an Arizona law requiring proof of citizenship for voters. In Pennsylvania, the courts have banned the practice of “curing” ballots – fixing up ineligible ballots after the have arrived. (It’s true that California has banned all forms of voter ID, but hey, that’s Cali. We’re lucky they didn’t appoint Charley Manson election commissioner.)

One thing we know about 2020 is that mail-in ballots played the major role. It’s often forgotten that Donald Trump had won the election by the time the polls closed. It wasn’t until late in the evening when GOP poll workers were sent home, the windows were blocked, and the cops called in to finger their pistols and glare at poll watchers that the absentee ballots started appearing from the 8th dimension, where SloJoe Biden is the most popular man in the historical record, and threw the election to the Dems.

Before the election, with COVID acting as an excuse, a mammoth effort occurred in a number of swing states to liberalize the rules governing absentee and mail-in ballots –- actually, “abolish” is probably the more accurate term. The window for mail-ins was expanded, checks of signatures, addresses, and so on were set aside, disqualifying errors were to be ignored, and in some cases mail-ins postmarked after the election were counted.  In Pennsylvania, Gov. Tom Wolf spearheaded this effort, expanding mail-in ballots while illegally ignoring the fact that election laws were the legislature’s responsibility. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan and Phil Murphy of New Jersey did much the same. In all, 28 states changed their laws to assure a larger role for mail-in ballots.

So what about 2024? One thing we can be sure of is that the Dems and their various allies and financiers will not hesitate to use the same methods. They may well have done so in 2022. Will the new laws and GOP efforts be enough to forestall his? We can’t be certain. (One thing for sure -- nobody is going to swing in with a magic algorithm to save the day at the last minute. It just doesn’t exist.)

Movement conservatism always counseled us to wait until the wise and experienced political operatives appear to fix things. Too much of this attitude has leaked into populist conservatism. This has to cease. The grassroots need to take things into their own hands. What, after all, does “populism” mean?

We might want to steal some methods from police auditors. For those who haven’t kept up, auditors are activists who use the power of the internet to keep tabs on corrupt police officers, showing up at scenes of police activity to record events and confront cops who are abusing individuals or ignoring constitutional rights. They have been extremely successful at exposing corruption and changing policy in a number of departments.

So what’s to stop us from using their methods to confront election fraud?

Consider drop boxes. 2000 mules clearly exposed how these were abused in 2020. So here’s what we do: we station people in view of the drop boxes. Then, when at three or four in the morning (the witching hour, when nothing good happens), a little college girl with purple hair appears with a bushel basket full of ballots, you approach her. Don’t accost her, don’t threaten her. Just shine a bright light on her, and standing ten or more feet away, filming every second, ask who she is. What she is doing. Where did she get all those ballots? What outfit does she work for? Names? Are they in the office now? Has anybody gone over election law with her? Does she know the penalties?

You can read the pertinent law to her, just to make certain that she understands. You might want to hand her a copy (maybe have a girl close to her age do it, so she won’t be afraid).  Now, does she want to deposit those votes? Is she sure about that? Maybe she should discuss it with her bosses back at the People’s Gaian AntiFascist Committee for Social Justice. After all, she’s the one who will be arrested for voter fraud – not them.

After that, the script writes itself. You send those videos straight to the local election board, your department of state, the FEC, local media – not to neglect the Trump campaign, both state and national. You put it on Rumble, on Vimeo, and on YouTube. You inform local authorities. And above all, you inform the responsible NGO itself.

As they say, when the bright light flicks on, the cockroaches scatter.

Then you take the next step – confront the organizations themselves. Walk in there with a posse – demand to talk to the heads of staff. Have the video available and show it to them. Ask them to explain it. Ask where and how they’re getting those votes. You video this also, needless to say. Take plenty of footage of everybody present. If possible, coordinate with local media, unlikely though it may be that they’d show up.

Rinse and repeat as many times as necessary.

But they’ll call the cops, you say? Of course they will. What of it? They can’t arrest you. The worst that can happen is that you’ll be trespassed. If the cops show up, fine. Explain the situation to them and see what they do about suspicious electoral activity. As for yourself, tell them they need to treat you as a political activist protected by the First Amendment.

As an aside, I should mention that few, if any, of these outfits are honest. I once spoke with a staffer at a local Green outfit to get a picture of what they did and how they did it. As he wrapped his explanation up, he added, “Of course, this is an election year, so later on we’ll drop everything else to support Obama.” (For those of you who don’t know, 501(c)(3) nonprofits are forbidden from engaging in any direct political activity, such as electioneering.)

If a reasonably energetic conservative activist contingent is available – though that may be too much to ask – it might be worthwhile to actually picket their offices. Have a good-sized group show up featuring signs, chants, etc. Address passersby and ask their opinions. Once again, video everything. If the cops show up, the more, the merrier. The same treatment can be given to election offices, county clerk offices, Democrat headquarters, candidate campaign offices, rallies, etc.

Similar efforts can be aimed at local electoral and Democrat officials. Track them down, confront them, and demand to know what they’re doing about voter fraud in their jurisdictions. You’re likely to get some interesting answers to put online.

Such efforts have gained importance now that VP Roundheels is running. There has been no end of hysteria since the Basement President quit, all of it from the usual suspects on our side (defeatism has been the Achilles Heel of conservatism since the early days). But a clear-headed examination of the status quo tells us otherwise.

We have a giddy, not-too-bright female with zero charisma and personality, a shady personal history, and an inability to string common English words into sentences alongside a valor-stealing, drunk-driving, pedo-enabling refugee from Fargo. Against this we have Trump, with a new gravitas and a much higher stature. No longer the loud and brazen Queens developer but something else, something more, something we haven’t seen in a long time.

Under these circumstances, the Dems will have to cheat. They have no alternative. They are, yet again, trying to put another moron into office, something that can’t be achieved by standard, accepted practice. That means a return to the proven methods of 2020.

But it’s no longer 2020. Things have changed, and it’s no longer going to be easy. It’s our duty to make it as difficult as we can. So pull on your comfortable boots, slip a new Sandisk chip into the recorder, and go out amongst them. We have nothing to lose but overpriced spices. We have a world to win.



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We Don’t Have to Tolerate Weird Foreigners Eating Our Pets


I’m going to take a controversial stand: I don’t think we should import hordes of Third World peasants who want to eat our cats and dogs. That’s just me. I know some people feel differently. Many of them dwell around me here near Los Angeles. Most, in fact, live with their own delicious cats, with whom they share Chardonnay and reruns of “Grey’s Anatomy.” They are unsatisfied liberal wine women who love nothing more than the tingle of moral superiority when they impose hardship on fellow Americans who they consider lesser beings – and American citizens like you and I are those lesser beings. These are terrible people whose bizarre neopagan ideology has done nothing but cause grievous damage to America. They should be ignored when they are not being actively mocked. One thing they should never be is handed the ability to have any influence on our government whatsoever.

They are Kamala Harris’s br, and we need to stop them.

Now, who’s shocked that when you fly – we actually flew them here; they didn’t have to swim or anything – 20,000 inhabitants of that notorious Third World hellhole Haiti into a nice, normal Midwestern American town of 60,000, it turns into a nightmare? Of course, it turned into a nightmare. Anybody could see it was going to turn into a nightmare. Even the people who did it knew it would turn into a nightmare. In fact, the nightmare part was a feature, not a bug. The elites didn’t care what happened to their fellow Americans. They had their own reasons for orchestrating this ravenous tsunami of pet-chomping immigrants. Was it to eventually add what they expected to be 20,000 new Democrat voters? That was certainly part of it. But there was something else, something more malicious. Springfield, Ohio, where this Haitian hellscape is happening, is deep red. This was a punishment inflicted upon fellow Americans for the crime of not being sufficiently submissive to the Democrat elite.

You don’t see these aliens being deposited in deep Democrat blue Martha’s Vineyard. Remember when Ron DeSantis sent them a busload of a few dozen illegals? The elite residents almost soiled themselves like Joe Biden after eating chili. They couldn’t get rid of the illegals fast enough. What do you think the chances are that the folks in Martha’s Vineyard – the very folks who think this kind of cultural imposition is a brilliant idea – would be overjoyed to add 33% to their beachfront population in the form of Port Au Prince’s finest? There is no way that would ever happen, and we don’t even have to explain why. We all know. When you dump a bunch of aliens into a homogenous culture, it’s going to cause all sorts of problems.

And it has caused all sorts of problems in Springfield, Ohio, not that our elite cares. We know they head down to the local parks and eat the ducks and the geese. But they’ve also committed crimes and have actually killed people. They have overwhelmed the social safety net because, for some reason, these people who shouldn’t be in this country in the first place get welfare the minute they set foot on American soil. And Springfield is just one example of this phenomenon. This is happening all over the country. Huge numbers of aliens are being plopped into the middle of normal American communities without even asking these communities' American residents what they want. Do you think somebody went to the people of Springfield, Ohio, and asked, “Hey, do you want to add another third to your population, with the proviso they come from literally the worst place on earth?” Of course not. No one asked the Americans. But remember, in Our Democracy – which means the democracy belonging to the elite – we normal American citizens don’t get a vote. We don’t get a say. We just obey and bear the burden of our elites’ cynical political machinations and moral grandstanding.

You might think it’s crazy to import people who can’t support themselves and who will be a bunch of lay-abouts who do nothing but be social parasites, but you’re looking at it wrong. This was never about doing the right thing for America. The people doing it don’t want to make America better. They want to make America much, much worse, particularly red America, the America where patriots live. This is not just a covert scheme to make the country more receptive to their communist ideology. It’s a scheme to hurt the Americans our elite hates. People like us.

By the time this column runs, we will know if Donald Trump brought up Springfield at the debate, and I sure hope he did. Now, of course, the reaction from the regime media and the elite will be very, very predictable. For some reason, it will suddenly be outrageous and unacceptable to notice the damage caused by injecting an alien culture in such massive amounts into a homogenous American community. Oh, and it’ll be racist, too, because everything is racist when they don’t want us to talk about it. The fact is that these imported Haitians are not Americans. Haitians don’t want to be Americans. They want to be Haitians. But you can’t have Haitians being Haitians here in America because this is America. It is our country. We should decide who gets to come here and on what terms and conditions. It should not be imposed upon us. And I don’t want Bitey or Barkey on some foreigner’s dinner table. Call me selfish, but I like my pets, and I like them more than I like uninvited guests making a mess in my country. Americans are sick and tired of being told they have some moral obligation to accept this kind of crap. We don’t. And we won’t.

Donald Trump’s supporters are going to make huge hay of this, and it’s going to be compelling. That’s why they will freak out, to shut us up. We’re going to be told that we can’t speak of it and that we’re bad people if we do, but you know what? We don’t care. We don’t care what the elites think of us because we already know what the elites think of us. It’s about time the elites understood what we think of them.



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Federal Data: Thousands Of Illegals Are Registered To Vote, But In 21 Years DOJ Has Only Prosecuted 35

The Department of Justice failed to prosecute cases after receiving reports of aliens voting.



According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the federal government decided to only go after 35 criminal cases of aliens voting in American elections from 2001 to 2021 — the latest year for which data is available.

The suspiciously low number of prosecutions contrasts with thousands thousands of aliens having been registered to vote in recent years, and at least hundreds being flagged to the Justice Department as having actually cast a ballot. This calls into question the political motivations of those responsible for upholding federal election laws.

“I spent four years at the Justice Department as a career lawyer, and I can tell you that the career ranks of the Justice Department are filled with left-wing ideologues, and they just had no interest — they have no interest in going after aliens to prosecute them,” Hans von Spakovsky, manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative at The Heritage Foundation, told The Federalist in an interview.

“They think it is unfair that aliens can’t register and vote. Plus, many of them thought, ‘Well, if they’re registering and voting, it will help our side,” von Spakovsky continued. “I think that’s clearly the motivation here. That’s why they weren’t interested in pursuing these cases.”

Screenshot of Bureau of Justice Statistics database showing 35 prosecutions under 18 U.S.C. 611: Voting by Aliens from 2001 to 2021.

Von Spakovsky spoke about his experience as an election official in Fairfax County, Virginia, where his oversight in 2011 discovered nearly 300 aliens on the voter rolls in just that county alone. His research further revealed that 117 of them had actually voted.

The Fairfax County election board reported its findings to the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section, which is responsible for prosecuting such crimes. At the time, that section was headed by Jack Smith, the same lawfare attorney appointed by Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland to go after former President Donald Trump for posing questions about the integrity of the 2020 election.

“We took them off the rolls and then sent them over to DOJ, and DOJ did absolutely nothing about it,” von Spakovsky said. “They just ignored them.”

Despite reporting these people to the Justice Department at the time, BJS data shows that from 2010 to 2012 zero cases were brought under 18 U.S.C. 611: Voting by Aliens, a statute passed in the mid-1990s making it a crime for an alien to vote in federal elections.

According to the database, 58 cases were closed from 2001 to 2022, the last year from which data is available. It is unclear how many cases were filed prior to 2001. The Justice Department did not respond to an inquiry from The Federalist.

Corporate media outlets and other left-wing organizations are insisting with increasing frequency that foreign citizens are not voting in U.S. elections in significant numbers and that such instances are “vanishingly rare.” But the millions of illegal aliens pouring into the country across its southern border and the tens of thousands who have been able to register to vote make the DOJ’s prosecution numbers hard for many to believe, even with the apathy von Spakovsky noted.

“[T]he United States has experienced a record number of border encounters since President Biden took office — nearly 10 million — many of whom have been released into, or evaded apprehension while entering, the U.S.,” a bicameral group of U.S. lawmakers wrote to Garland in July, asking about enforcement of 18 U.S.C. 611 since Biden took office. “Plainly, there are opportunities for and instances of non-citizen voter registration, and so the critical question is whether the laws against doing so are being enforced by your Department.”

A congressional staffer told The Federalist that the DOJ did not respond to the lawmakers’ letter, an indication the DOJ continues to keep the members of Congress in the dark about enforcement numbers. The DOJ did not respond to multiple requests for comment and confirmation of the numbers.

Last month, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Virginia had removed 6,303 noncitizens from its voter rolls, who had either “accidentally or maliciously” registered. Youngkin did not go into detail about whether those voters had ever voted, but his state was not the only one with thousands of noncitizens registered to vote.

In 2019, the state of Pennsylvania admitted it had registered nearly 12,000 noncitizens to vote. The same year, Texas Secretary of State David Whitley had similarly found 95,000 noncitizens registered to vote, and further that 58,000 of them had voted at some point since 1996.

Earlier this year, research group Just Facts published a study showing that between 10 percent and 27 percent of noncitizens, or about two to five million, are illegally registered to vote. For more election news and updates, visit electionbriefing.com.



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Is It Time for 'Mainstream' Corporate Media to Sign Off for Good?


Becky Noble reporting for RedState 

Some of us are old enough to remember Walter Cronkite saying, "And that's the way it is," and give the date at the end of each news broadcast. Cronkite was the consummate professional. No one knew that Cronkite considered himself a liberal until long after he retired to his yacht. That was the way it used to be. But not anymore. Americans have grown numb to the bias in the mainstream media. However, one veteran of corporate media thinks that perhaps Americans are getting weary of hearing the opinions of the media and not just the facts and that their days might be numbered. Could she be right?

Former Fox News Channel anchor and now Sirius XM host Megyn Kelly appeared on a podcast hosted by retired Navy SEAL and CIA contractor Shawn Ryan. Kelly posited an interesting scenario. She stated that she believes that "Americans are 'living in the end times' of corporate media" and that they may ultimately be headed for extinction.

Kelly pointed out the general automatic negative coverage by the media of anything remotely related to Republicans and conservatives but then drilled down specifically to coverage of President Joe Biden's mental health. She said:

“Hello, we have a whole White House Press corp that didn’t figure out he was being visited regularly by a Parkinson’s doctor. You think they’d missed that with Trump?... They had no interest in finding out anything bad about Joe Biden. So I do think they’ll just drive more people away but they’re already dying." 

So, is Megyn Kelly on to something? Is mainstream corporate media dying a slow, hideous death? What Kelly is pointing out could be the media smack in the middle of that slow death. The media's eventual demise has been in the making for some time as "citizen journalists," those who had no ties to any corporate media entity and were usually conservatives telling the side of the story the media wouldn't, began to emerge. People like Matt Drudge, who many credit with breaking the Monica Lewinsky story, and the late Andrew Breitbart, who wasn't afraid to call out the media for playing fast and loose with the truth, whether it was by commission or omission. It was people like Drudge and Breitbart who paved the way for an entire industry to be born. That industry has expanded in a way Drudge or Breitbart would have never imagined, and now, thanks to the internet, it also includes podcasts. 

Americans have gone on to get their news and information from a variety of independent news sources. Many of those news sources lean decidedly left or right, but unlike the mainstream media, which continues to try to convince Americans that they are neutral, they are upfront about who they are. Americans are well aware of what they will find at "The Daily Caller" or "The Daily Beast." But the best part of independent news sources is that they will rise or fall based on whether they want to conduct their business with journalistic integrity. 

Kelly also pointed out the views that corporate media supports that average Americans do not, like men competing in women's sports, open borders, and amnesty for illegal immigrants. She stated, "That’s not mainstream. Seventy percent, more really, but 70% of the Americans polled say they don’t want it."

Shawn Ryan asked Megyn Kelly the all-important question: what does she think will be the final "nail in the coffin" for mainstream corporate media? Her answer was a second term for Donald Trump, ironically, the one subject they have gotten so many viewers, listeners, and readership from. Kelly stated:

“They’ll do the same thing they did the first time. Everything will be negative, he will be the devil incarnate. They will find their oppositional media roots again, which they totally forgot during the Biden years.

Is the "jump-the-shark" ruin of the mainstream corporate media inevitable? That depends on the American people. If the media keeps assuming they are unintelligent dimwits who they can keep spoonfeeding erroneous information to when there are plenty of places to go for the correct information, the end times could certainly be near.  


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