Remember when Ali Alexander, Roger Stone. & Jacob Engels OPPOSED recounts in 2018? These bad faith actors always accuse their opponents of fraud, regardless of facts, bc it is propaganda. It dates back to 2000. h/t @LeaLovesUSA #narrativewarfare 1/ miaminewtimes.com/news/trump-fan…
2/ Seriously. I know many of us already know they have screamed “stop the steal” since 2000 but it is nonetheless infuriating to see it spelled out so clearly in 2018.
3/ Jack Posobiec was involved too.
4/ So was Laura Loomer.
5/ The “Stop the Steal” playback dates back to the 2000 astroturf Brooks Brothers Riot, which helped stop the recount in an election that Bush supposedly won by just 537 votes. It is propaganda, as Brad Blakeman readily acknowledges. Excerpt from something I’m writing:
6/ Karl Rove used the same “stop the steal” playbook back in 1994 in Alabama. He, Stone, & Manafort are all alumni of the same Republican shark tank: College Republicans. link.medium.com/uoMsnAtf0jb
7/ From my Medium article in post 6. They just recycle “stop the steal” over and over. Again, this is re: 1994.
8/ 2016 too. I strongly suspect that Trump’s false claims of a rigged election are, in part, what caused Ds to underplay security concerns re: the 2016 election & concede without even a recount. We are still living w/ the repercussions of that bad (imo) decision.
10/ Trump’s baseless claims about a rigged election in 2020 and propaganda #fraudits are almost certainly the reason why Democrats decided to NOT reintroduce legislation that would require rigorous manual audits for all federal races starting in 2022.
11/ I wrote this about Ron DeSantis’s and Rick Scott’s poll defying & otherwise questionable Florida wins in 2018. It is Democrats who shld have worried about potential fraud, not the GOP. link.medium.com/Tc6nNFph0jb
Hung Cao—who is running in the GOP primary in Virginia’s US Senate race has attended a City Elders event. City Elders’ founder has explicitly said that their goal is “theonomy” (whereby the Old Testament dictates government & culture.) h/t @KiraResistance @vademocrats 1/ #CROW
3/ @KiraResistance wrote about Hung Cao and “City Elders” in the latest edition of our newsletter, the Christian Right Observer Weekly. See Briefs 3 & 4. #CROW crownewsletter.substack.com/p/christian-ri…
Jesse Leon Rodgers—founder of the “City Elders” organization—says that their end game is “theonomy” (a form of government in which society is ruled by the Old Testament). City Elders is tied to the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR). h/t @KiraResistance 1/
😳The express goals of the explicitly dominionist “City Elders” group include establishing a governmental office in Oklahoma by 2026 & a “City Elders Council” in all 3141 counties in America by 2026 b4 going international. They have ties to the New Apostolic Reformation. #CROW 1/
2/ @KiraResistance wrote about the Oklahoma-based “City Elders” group and its explicitly global dominionist ambitions in the latest edition of our newsletter, the Christian Right Observer Weekly. See Brief #3. #CROW crownewsletter.substack.com/p/christian-ri…
@KiraResistance 3/ Here’s a clip of “City Elders” founder Jesse Leon Rodgers in which he expressly states that what they want is more extreme than “theocracy.” Rather, what they want is “theonomy.”
In 2022, Harrison Butker appeared in a misleading anti-choice political ad funded by CatholicVote Civic Action, which is bankrolled by Leonard Leo’s network, per journalists Andrew Perez & Nicki McCann. Butker’s recent speech whiffs of astroturf. 1/ Link: rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
Whoa. Harrison Butker co-founded a company called MDKeller with Catholic influencer Austin Wright who had a fellowship at the Leonine Forum where Leonard Leo sits on the Board of Directors. h/t @srabwilli (on TikTok). 1/ leonineforum.org/testimonies-up…
2/ Here's an archived link to the "Team" members page of MDKeller's website, which was scrubbed after @srabwilli posted about it. web.archive.org/web/2024011001…
Seems that Harrison Butker & Catholic influencer Austin Wright co-founded a company called MDKeller whose “team” includes people w/ ties to the Heritage Foundation (Project 2025), the Federalist Society (tied to Leonard Leo), Catholic University (tied to Leonard Leo), & the Blackstone Legal Fellowship (tied to the Alliance Defending Freedom). Portions of MDKeller’s website were scrubbed today or yesterday after a social media user posted about it. 1/