September 2020: “Trump basically said to go fuck them up. This makes me so happy.” — Joe Biggs, Proud Boy leader (now indicted) 1/
2/ Posted to Biggs Instagram account on January 18, 2020. h/t @LeaLovesUSA
3/ Biggs attended the 2016 RNC in Cleveland as a “reporter” for Alex Jones. Here’s a link to a video where he and Alex Jones led a chant of “Hillary for Prison.” Turns out he’s the one facing prison time.
4/ Look who else worked the 2016 RNC with Alex Jones. That’s right: Roger Stone.
5/ Remember how Stone threatened to send “Trump supporters” to deal with anti-Trump delegates at the 2016 RNC in Cleveland, and how he said he would disclose their hotels & room numbers?
Actually, Democrats wanted hand marked paper ballots (pen & paper), but Rs refused and went with the machine marked kind. Rs chose Dominion, which was a relief, bc Georgia previously had Diebold/ES&S, which had issues with vote flipping & losing votes from black neighborhoods. 1/
I discussed problems & concerns with Georgia’s old Diebold/ES&S voting system & w/ its voter registration system here. 2/ jennycohn1.medium.com/neither-trump-…
The thing is, any touchscreen system, whether its ES&S or Dominion, is asking for trouble imo. They must receive programming from centralized systems that are themselves vulnerable. 3/
32/ For too many, the status quo has long been to soft peddle the truth about election system vulnerabilities. It was getting better. But the Big Lie set it way back on the left.
33/ Examples of my trying to speak truth to power - even to those in power on the left.
Yes. I still strongly advise hand marked paper ballots (pen and paper), rather than either: (a) machine marked “paper ballots” (marked by a touchscreen), or (b) paperless. I took a break from election security as my main focus for several reasons. First…. 1/
… it became a very negative space for me. This is the last published (outside of Medium) article that I wrote. It deserved a lot more attention than it got. The Big Lie effectively ruined advocacy in this area. It was already very uphill. 2/ whowhatwhy.org/politics/elect…
I spent months researching and writing it, which overlapped with my father dying and the book draft I needed to be writing to make a deadline. The book deal on election security then fell through, another crushing blow. 3/
Hopefully, this story is “cover” and, behind the scenes, @January6thCmte and @TheJusticeDept are speaking with Frank Scavo about his ties to Trump, Bannon, the #MAGAMoonies & January 6. But I’m not optimistic. 1/ #papol
“To draw such [large] crowds,” Ali Alexander “made clear Stop the Steal would collaborate with anyone who supported its cause, no matter how extreme their views.
‘We’re willing to work with racists,’ he said on one livestream in December.” - June 2021 propublica.org/article/new-de…
“‘Thirty percent of that crowd was Alex Jones’ crowd,’ Alexander said on another livestream, referring to the Million MAGA March on Nov. 14. ‘And there were thousands and thousands of Groypers — America First young white men. …” 1/
“Even if you thought these [white nationalist Groypers] were bad people, why can’t bad people do good tasks? Why can’t bad people fight for their country?” - said Ali Alexander (a person of color, JFC) 2/
Reminder that Roger Stone has ties to Joel Greenberg (who has confessed to having sex w/ a minor) and Matt Gaetz (who is under investigation for alleged sex trafficking of a minor. 1/