PROOF began in January with me accusing 3 state GOPs of being insurrectionist entities: AL, AZ, FL. Now the AZ GOP has hired a FL conspiracy theorist to count ballots as an AL man who told insurrectionists to "kick ass" on 1/6 is at Mar-a-Lago fundraising for his Senate campaign.
PS/ Americans need to understand that it is *not coincidence* that the FL GOP is pushing for the corrupt Ron DeSantis to run for POTUS and that Mo Brooks the insurrectionist is now favored to become Mo Brooks to the AL senator. Certain state GOPs are now insurrectionist entities.
PS2/ My point is that news stories that right now media *isn't* networking must be networked.

It's not, "Oh! An odd thing happened in AZ!" and then "Oh! An unrelated odd thing happened in FL!" and then "Oh—in Alabama now!"

These 3 state parties are insurrectionist institutions.
PS3/ When Stop the Steal insurrectionist leader Ali Alexander says he "owns" the GOP in AZ (a purple state), understand that he went to AZ to "organize" after 2 years spent in FL spent "acquiring" (my word) the GOP in FL (a purple state). AL? That blood-red state came on its own.
PS4/ What no one is doing is determining which *other* state GOP parties have gone full insurrectionist. (It's harder to tell when it's not a purple state Biden won or was a threat to win.) The most obvious insurrectionist state GOP not in the Axis of Three (AL, AZ, FL) is Idaho.
PS5/ 2 Idaho GOP bigwigs—Doyle Beck and Layne Bangerter—were at Trump's pre-insurrection war council.

Another state to watch is Nebraska—where war council attendee Charles W. Herbster is trying to become the governor with help from Kellyanne Conway, Corey Lewandowski, and Trump.
PS6/ I understand some short-sighted politicos think none of this will matter. Biden won't need NE's 1 blue EV to win in 2024, they say—which is good, as Herbster won't ever let them get it. And they say Biden won't need AZ—where insurrectionist Rep. Finchem wants to run for SoS.
PS7/ But at some point so many state GOPs go full insurrectionist we reach a tipping point. Today it's Idaho, Arizona, Alabama, Florida. Tomorrow, Nebraska and Michigan and Pennsylvania. Then where? Wisconsin, Missouri, Texas.

America can't survive with an insurrectionist party.

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2 May
(🆚) BREAKING NEWS: This is big. A new exposé at PROOF reveals that the ongoing Arizona ballot audit is an extension of the January 6 insurrection, involving the same plotters and goal—toppling Biden's government. I hope you'll subscribe, read and RETWEET. sethabramson.substack.com/p/breaking-new…
1/ We *know* the insurrectionists who were part of January 6's "plotter" class of prospective federal defendants. We know their movements; we know their agendas; we know where they put money and resources. The same characters have now appeared in Arizona, seeking a "domino" play.
2/ These insurrectionists believe that if *any* irregularity can be manufactured in the current Arizona audit—of any size, scope or plausibility—they have the ear of the former president, and he'll immediately declare that "proof" of a rigged presidential election has been found.
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1 May
(PROOF) Coming to PROOF in the next 24 hours: an exposé on the *insurrection* in Arizona. And yes, that's exactly what it is: a continuation of January 6, with the same players and aims. If you want to see the article when it drops, you can subscribe here: sethabramson.substack.com Image
PS/ I can't even tell you how angry this coming PROOF article is going to make people. If you don't have a sense of what's happening in Arizona—and candidly, even if you do—this deep dive reveals things that make this more than a mere "fraudit," but an actual act of insurrection.
UPDATE/ I've finished and am editing the article. It's...crazy.

I'm not just saying so.

The article now involves the man behind the Arizona audit calling Biden the antichrist and declaring a holy war that will usher in the Biblical end-times. And he suggests violence is coming.
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1 May
I don't know enough about cryptocurrency to know if the video below is worth seriously considering or not. I cite it because it indicates that even a comedian like Maher is dabbling in "light" curatorial journalism. It may in part explain why he was interested in interviewing me.
(PS) Part of my own reading of "curatorial journalism" is that the network of data has to be vast enough that if one node fails, the network survives. That's why the Proof books are 600 pages. That's why this feed uses long threads. That's why my Substack articles are so lengthy.
(PS2) That's also why I say that the natural venue for curatorial journalism isn't an hour-long TV show but linked digital articles, as you might find on Substack. Those who read PROOF understand it's not actually a series of articles...it's a *network* of interlaced data points.
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1 May
The two most talented and successful "curatorial journalists" on TV are Rachel Maddow and John Oliver. What I try to do on Substack via digital articles, source curation and thousands of links is what Oliver does in (NSFW) eviscerating Tucker Carlson here.
With Oliver does here is show how scores of disparate but reliable major-media data points—discernible across decades—are in conversation with one another.

What results is a network of information whose individual nodes are transparently offered and can be *traced and assessed*.
But even as Oliver is issuing a coherent report on Carlson, you'll notice that it's all "metajournalism"—he is exclusively using information produced, published, and originally disseminated by others. He is not claiming to have any sources and he is not conducting any interviews.
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I understand some folks want me to stop pointing out that I published a bestselling 600-page book on all of this eight months ago but I'm afraid that's not going to happen because I worked my ass off on the book and it has 5,000 fact-checked sources

Link: amazon.com/gp/aw/d/125027…
I want everyone to imagine what would have happened if Donald Trump had won the election with major media having ignored a 600-page September 2020 book on Giuliani's crimes—even as DOJ, under Barr, was also covering up those crimes—and then we just found out about all of it today
I don't have a PR team or allies in media, so when I have a 600-page book on the crimes of Trump/Giuliani two months before a presidential election there's nothing for me to do except talk about it so obsessively on Twitter I get briefly shadowbanned by Twitter (yep, it happened)
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(🆚) BREAKING: Donald Trump is the most infamous and unrepentant serial federal witness tamperer in American history—Comey, Cohen, Manafort, Yovanovich, countless others. And it looks like he just struck *again*. I hope you'll subscribe, read, and RETWEET. sethabramson.substack.com/p/breaking-ins…
(PS) It is impossible to overstate how important a federal criminal witness Charles Herbster is in the biggest investigation in the history of the FBI. He was the first to reveal the January 5 "war council"—and did so in a way that he can't take it back now. Other Trumpists lied.
(PS2) Flynn and Bossie said they weren't at the January 5 conclave, which is the most lied-about meeting of Trump's presidency—and is one he may well have attended via video conference from the White House (there is ample evidence to this effect). Tuberville lied, then retracted.
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