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@Villgecrazylady
Feb 18, 2024 • 13 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Y’all want to see what a ghost donor bot looks like?

Here’s the data from a 65 yo retired man living in a 962 sq ft house in Clawson, Michigan.

From 2019-2023 the FEC has recorded him making over 15,600 separate donations to political campaigns.

The list below shows the receiving campaign, the # of donations made and the total amount donated from 2019-2023Image
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This list is just Presidential, Senate & House campaigns. It does not include the 5,000+ donations “he” made to Joint Fundraising Committees or the 1,000+ donations “he” made to leadership committees.
Now ask yourself this… who makes 517 different donations to Tim Scott’s presidential campaign and then turns around and makes 557 separate donations to Nikki Haley’s campaign?
Who donates 659 times to a congresswoman in another state but never gives a dime to any candidates running in their own district?

Answer? Bots.

Specifically, bots being ran by dark money groups who are using campaign funds to control their puppets in DC.
Think it’s just Republicans? HA! Democrats were the master minds of this scam.
Except I’ll give them credit bc unlike Reps who are always just out for themselves, Dems keep their eye on the prize of total control of Congress, ergo the bulk of their bot donations go through ActBlue where they’re able to better distribute them to the candidates who need it.
Here’s the numbers for an 86 year old man from Oak Park, Illinois. He made 11,285 donations to Democrats between April 11, 2019 and December 31, 2023.

That’s roughly 6.5 donations/day, every day, for 1,725 days straight.

Again, he’s 86 years old.
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I’m going to be posting a lot more on this in the coming week but I just wanted to throw this out there for yall to think about.
All those lobbying numbers you get from OpenSecrets showing that AIPAC gave someone this much or the NRA game someone else that much- they don’t mean shit anymore.
This right here is where the real influence is being bought.
For the Republican it was $60,694 for the charts above and for the Democrat it was $136,215.

But remember the Republican’s numbers don’t include donations to Joint Fundraising Committees or Leadership PACs so it is more than $60k but I do t have the exact amount in front of me.
To find out if you or anyone you know (specifically your older parents (65+) who may have made one or two legitimate donations in the past)
@BallowCC @David97793787 I stand corrected. O’Keefe did look into WinRed in November

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Aug 18
The false, defamatory and libelous accusations against Tony Aguilar 🧵

When I first started to report on the Tony Aguilar case, I struggled with the ethics of posting a married couple’s most trying and difficult times for all the world to see and comment on. After consulting with numerous people, my friend Matthew said “Mel, it’s genocide. There’s nothing that matters more than that.” And I simply couldn’t argue.

Still, I did my best to respect their privacy and only post what I thought was absolutely necessary to refute the false claims of spousal abuse against Tony.

But since we’re dealing with Zionists, of course the bare minimum was never going to be enough. As we all know, Zionists will do ANYTHING to defend their precious genocidal apartheid state: lie, cheat, steal… doesn’t matter. They have no limits.

So of course the 3 pages signed affidavit from Tony’s wife stating unequivocally that he DID NOT ABUSE HER wasn’t enough. And in the weeks since I’ve been tagged in every single stupid kind of thread you could possibly imagine.

But yesterday I was tagged in a new thread, this one including 2 pages from the 139 page Aguilar child custody file.

And to my utter shock and horror, these Zionist scumbags had gone SOOOO much further than I ever expected.

They took 2 completely different court documents, one a separation agreement and the other a completely separate court order from 8 months later and welded them together as if they were one.

They then presented these two completely different documents as *proof* that Tony Aguilar was charged with spousal abuse and he leveraged charges against his wife to clear them.

THIS. IS. A. LIE.

Let me repeat:

THIS. IS. A. BOLD. FACED. FUCKING. LIE.

So here is my very last post on this topic, complete with all court docs and links.

TBC: I am only doing this because To y Aguilar’s testimony matters. Attacks on his character matter. I did everything I could to avoid this and I take no joy in talking about these things. Marriage is hard, people make mistakes. I pray that Tony’s (ex?)wife got the help she needed and I hate that the details of this dark time in their lives have become fodder for the social media masses.
From the beginning:

• Dec 1, 2021 Allison Aguilar falls down while drinking and breaks her nose.

• Dec 2, 2021 Aguilar goes to the Womack Medical Center on Ft. Bragg for her broken nose and the Harnett Co Sheriff is called.

The sheriff’s office opens an incident report.
• Jan 27, 2022 Tony Aguilar files for separation.

• Jan 28, 2022 the Aguilar’s sign a separation agreement which includes a caveat about Ms. Aguilar “asking the Harnett County prosecutor to drop charges against Tony”

Let’s stop right there:

THIS. IS. NOT. A. THING. Image
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Aug 1
Just took a trip down to my county courthouse to check out this supposed “arrest record” for myself.

I knew something wasn’t right for a multitude of reasons:

1. The zip code on that address is a Ft Bragg zip code not a Sanford one.

2. Duke Lane doesn’t exist.

3. Arrest notices use the full docket number. The one in that picture is missing the last 3 numbers.

And just as I suspected, every last one of these pieces of shit is lying through their teeth.

And yes, I can prove it. 🧵Image
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First off I searched for the case number. And I found it. On a felony firearm possession case in Alamance County. Image
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Then I start chatting with the super sweet clerk and show her what I’m looking for and she immediately “Nah, that looks fake. They don’t put DOB out there like that. They only put age.”

So I pull up the Harnett County sheriff’s dept website and sure as sit, no DOB, just age. Image
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Aug 1
I went through and screenshot all the messages GHF is using to smear Anthony Aguilar.

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1. GHF started operating in Gaza on May 28, 2025. All the messages of praise for GHF are from the first couple days.

That red box quote is literally from Day 1. Image
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Pretty sure Aguilar was some kind of team leader and all of these messages seem worded to keep morale boosted. Image
According to GHF Aguilar was fired on June 13th. His messages on the 14th show there were clearly problems on the ground that he took issue with but he thought he could help.

Interesting that GHF chose not to show the whole message on this pic. Before the message cuts off Aguilar says “….the issues we have require leadership to fix. That’s what’s missing. This isn’t an operator job.”Image
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Jun 30
Just found out that the head of in-house litigation for the McDonald v. FEC case, Alan Gura, is literally an Israeli born dual-citizen.

Because OFC he is!!!

For those who don’t know, this case has NOTHING to do with privacy and EVERYTHING to do with stopping us from being able to monitor smurfing donations to political campaigns.

If you don’t know what smurfing is, it’s a money laundering scheme where unknown persons make hundreds, sometimes thousands, of small-dollar donations (less than $200) to political campaigns in the names of real Americans without their knowledge.

The people most often busted for running these scams are foreign nationals who are barred from donating directly to political campaigns or rich Americans who either can’t donate more money because they have reached their legal limit or who want to donate to a certain candidate without other people knowing.

The scam itself isn’t particularly new or innovative. Rich people have been giving money to their secretaries and gardeners to make political contributions for them for decades.

But the way it’s being done now, using AI powered bot programs to run millions of tiny transactions under the radar, through ActBlue and WinRed, that’s only been going on at an industrial scale, since 2017 for ActBlue and 2019 for WinRed.

I’ve written about a dozen threads on it, I’ll link them in the comments.

But it’s fascinating to me to know now that it’s literally an Israeli citizen who heads the team of litigators trying to shutdown the public’s ability to track this stuff. They don’t want WinRed and ActBlue to have to disclose the names of any donors who donate less than $200 to a political campaign. If they can block that, they’ll be able to shutdown all public inquiry into the scam.

And now you know why Republicans have been dragging their feet on their ActBlue “investigations.”Image
This thread tracks the donor numbers and amounts across several cycles
This one explains the scam
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May 7
⚡️Campaign Finance: Mike Waltz 🧵

After Saturday’s story from the WP that claimed Mike Waltz was fired from his role as National Security Advisor for engaging in “intense coordination” with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu behind Trump’s back, I decided to take a glance at Waltz’s campaign finance filings to see if they could shed any light on who pulls his strings.

I don’t know what I was expecting to find but I definitely wasn’t expecting what I found.

Specifically, I was surprised to learn that days before resigning from the House, Mike Waltz used his principal campaign fund to pay exorbitant “consulting” fees to companies owned by two of his congressional staffers, Micah Ketchel and James Hewitt, and one member of the Trump transition team, Brian Hughes, all of whom were then hired to work directly for him at the National Security Council.

And then days after resigning from the House, Waltz continued to use his Mike Waltz for Congress account to pay for over $45,000 worth of travel, office, catering and event expenses in and around DC during the inauguration. Despite the fact that he’s not running any kind of campaign.

(Article version at bottom of thread)
Mike Waltz closed out the 2024 election cycle with a little more than $1.5 million in the bank in his principal campaign fund. Image
Leftover funds are typically just rolled into the next cycle but since Waltz was going to be leaving Congress to become the NSA I was expecting to see his principal campaign converted or dissolved… similar to what I’ve seen from others.
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Mar 3
⚡️Campaign Finance 🧵: Foreign Lobbying

You ever want to make a comment or write a post about something but you already know exactly what all the haters or going to say so you just leave it alone bc you don’t have the time or energy to deal w their sh*t?

That’s how I feel every time I want to talk about the Zionist lobby.

So I decided to write this thread to head off what I know is coming when I start dropping my other threads this week.

It’s not short or sweet but it is informative and it’ll probably help answer some questions you may have if you care about foreign influence over our political systems.

(article version linked at bottom)

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If death and taxes are the only two things certain in life, then at the top of the list of *almost* certain is the guarantee that if Israeli influence on Congress is being discussed at least one boob is going to chime in w “how come you never talk abt all these OtHeR countries?!”
Such arguments are almost always accompanied by a screenshot or copy+paste of the latest Open Secrets Foreign Lobbying numbers.
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