“Operating from the shadows,” the CNP spent “4 decades courting, buying, and bullying fellow Rs, gradually achieving what was in effect a leveraged buyout of the GOP. Favorite sons, such as Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz, were groomed, financed, & supported.” 1/ washingtonspectator.org/nelson-cnp/
“Apostates, such as John McCain and Jeff Flake, were punished and exiled.” 2/
By March 2020, “the Republican Senate had confirmed more than 185 of Trump’s conservative nominees for the federal bench. All but eight of the judges had ties to the Federalist Society, headed by longtime CNP members Eugene Meyer and Leonard Leo.” 3/
By “February 2020, the CNP, fearing the erosion of Trump’s support, shifted its strategy from boosting the popular vote to deflecting it. Lisa Nelson, the CEO of the American Legislative Exchange Council, told the group… 4/
“‘We’ve been focused on the national vote, and obviously we all want President Trump to win, and win the national vote, but it’s very clear from all the comments and all the suggestions up front that, really, what it comes down to is the states, and the state legislators.’” 5/
“Her organization [ALEC], she told them, had already drafted a model resolution ‘to make sure there’s no confusion among conservative legislators around national popular vote and the Electoral College.’” 6/
“Nelson noted that her group [ALEC] was exploring additional ways to invalidate a potential Trump loss in consultation with three election experts including CNP board of governors member Cleta Mitchell…” 7/
Per Nelson, Cleta Mitchell & the other 2 experts had suggested that, shld Trump lose, lawmakers “can write a letter to the secretary of state, questioning the validity of an election, & saying, ‘What did happen that night?’” Again, this was in Feb. 2020, long b4 the election. 8/
“So as early as February 2020, the CNP and its advisers were already anticipating various strategies to overturn the results of the election in the event of the loss of either the popular vote or the Electoral College, or both.” 9/
“United in Purpose [which was founded by an embezzler/CNP member & which appears to have leaked voter data per @VickerySec] took the lead. In June 2016, UiP had convened the epic Times Square gathering of 1,000 fundamentalist activists to give Trump their blessing.” 10/
Now, over the spring of 2020, UiP held a series of conference calls to update its strategy…UiP called its 2020 campaign ‘Operation Ziklag’ named after a Biblical town that served as a base for the Philistines until it was won by David).” 11/
About United in Purpose & the convicted embezzler & data leaks discovered by @VickerySec. 12/ forbes.com/sites/thomasbr… 
The CNP also mobilized in opposition to the lockdown. 13/ washingtonspectator.org/nelson-cnp/
14/ The CNP promoted bizarre & dangerous Covid treatments.
Wait what?! “On August 19 [2020], the CNP opened its meeting at the Ritz-Carlton in Pentagon City with a panel featuring attorney Sidney Powell.”
Sooo the Kraken lady was making the rounds months b4 the election?! Do @dominionvoting & @BennieGThompson know This??? 15/
Sooo the Kraken lady was making the rounds months b4 the election?! Do @dominionvoting & @BennieGThompson know This??? 15/
“Charlie Kirk, head of the [far] right-wing student group TPUSA & a relatively new [CNP] member, took the stage to celebrate the closure of campuses, which could deprive the Democrats of a half-million student votes. ‘So, please keep the campuses closed,’ he said.” Dafuq?! 😳 16/
17/ “Executive committee member Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, asked his audience for ideas to foil mail-in voting: ‘We need to stop those ballots from going out, and I want the lawyers here to tell us what to do.’” JFC.
18/ When RBG died in September 2020, the CNP chose (I mean suggested) Amy Coney Barrett to replace her on the Supreme Court.
19/ On or about 11/4/20, CNP member Ali Alexander formally launched the “stop the steal” scam. His announcement listed 15 “partners,” including CNP member Ed Martin of the Phyllis Schlafly Eagles (which opposes the Equal Rights Amendment).
20/ Incidentally, the product manager of America’s largest supplier of electronic poll books, Knowink, was in College Republicans and once campaigned for Ed Martin. KNOWiNK’s poll books are in about 25 states. Thread. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1174550…
21/ Weird how the CNP hasn’t complained about that… (heavy sarcasm)
22/ I wrote about Knowink and its connection to the Schlafly Eagles (led by CNP member Es Martin) here. nybooks.com/daily/2020/10/…
23/ “According to @BrentAllpress, the StoptheSteal.us site provided organizational information for protests on November 6 at counting centers and capitols across six ‘contested’ swing states.” washingtonspectator.org/nelson-cnp/
24/ “CNP member Charlie Kirk [TPUSA] was listed as the primary organizational contact for Nevada protests, along with alt-right activist Mike Cernovich.”
25/ CNP member Cleta Mitchell supposedly “represented” Trump during his infamous call to @GaSecofState.
26/ Mine Flynn & Sidney Powell also have CNP ties.
27/ I urge everyone to read this crucial article in its entirety. My thread merely included some of the highlights. The article was written by @anelsona, author of the book #ShadowNetwork, which I also recommend. Thanks. washingtonspectator.org/nelson-cnp/
28/ I wrote this piece about the CNP in 2017. It’s had 155k views, making it my most popular Medium piece (by far). link.medium.com/glF6qtcPXjb
29/ One of my recent threads about the CNP. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1441100…
30/ As discussed in my thread in post 29 and CNP article (post 28), Steve Bannon & KellyAnne Conway are both in the CNP’s 2014 directory.
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34/ One of my sourced threads about Bannon and the #PASeditionSquad. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1392208…
36/ I first heard about the CNP in 2017 from @amandablount2. She has a great thread on it.
37/ Here is one of Amanda’s CNP threads from 2016. I know there’s at least one more long one. @ReaderAdrift has tried to sound the alarm about the CNP too. Thread.
https://twitter.com/amandablount2/status/815251500553408512
40/ @BrentAllpress has done stellar CNP work & even unearthed the CNP’s 2020 directory a while back.
https://twitter.com/brentallpress/status/1364480765199704069
41/ Recent and/or current CNP members also organized the January 6 event at the Ellipse, as well as buses to the Capitol. @BennieGThompson washingtonspectator.org/nelson-cnp/
44/ This was an incredible find by @JamieMCorey for @ItsDocumented
https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1337886782709407745?s=21
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