Thread by @pepesgrandma

🔥🔥🔥BK Presents The Big Tamale! During the Biden admin, we had tons of ex CIA, DHS, and military working with IssueOne for social media censorship and much WORSE!

⚡️ And they are partnered with New Politics that five of the seditious six belong to!

IssueOne is a Soros Democracy Alliance Aligned Partner Organization (APO). The list of other donors is massive, but the Protect Democracy Project stands out.

IssueOne is very capable of censorship. The founder, Nicholas Penniman, claims responsibility for getting Newsguard off the ground. Nicholas is also on the Newsguard Board Of Directors. Yes a program circulated to US schools. Plus British Telecom BT hands this out to the UK public too.

Imran Ahmed, founder of the Center For Counteting Digital Hate org that was targeting Elon Musks X is there too. As is Renee Diresta from the Trump resistance, Election Integrity Partnership, and the Hamilton86 Russian bot hoax etc.

IssueOne started the No Kings effort FOUR MONTHS before we even heard of this. And they admit to organizing it too.

Better yet? They work with Chamberlain Network. Chamberlain worked along with ex Lincoln Projects Steve Schmidt to create the first ever video telling the military to defy Trump. (June 2025)

IssueOne was also mentioned in The Times election fortification article. I can see why, but that will be in a later installment.

Let’s get into this impressive list of names at this org, for shock value. Then we will delve into the evidence and materials in the 🧵. Greater things will be coming later for this org. 😬

Names of folks that worked here:

- Leon Panetta: Former Director of the CIA (2009–2011); former Secretary of Defense (2011–2013); former White House Chief of Staff

- Porter Goss: Former Director of the CIA (2004–2006); former Congressman (R-FL). Oversaw intelligence reforms post-9/11

- Chris Krebs: Former Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA, DHS, 2018–2020). Managed election security and cyber threats, with ties to broader intelligence coordination

- Michael Chertoff
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security (2005-2009)

- Chuck Hagel
Secretary of Defense (2013-2015); President’s Intelligence Advisory Board (2009-2013)

- Wesley Clark U.S. Army General (Ret.); NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (1997-2000)

- Bill Owens: Former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (2001–2005); retired U.S. Navy Admiral. Led joint military operations and strategy

- Michael Rogers: Former Director of the NSA (2014–2018); retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral. Focused on signals intelligence and cybersecurity

- Farah Pandith: Former Member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council; former Special Representative to Muslim Communities (State Department); former Director for Middle East Regional Initiatives (National Security Council). Expertise in counter-extremism and intelligence-community diplomacy

- Nicole Tisdale: Former Director of Domestic Policy (National Security Council, White House). Handled interagency policy on national security issues

- Imran Ahmed Founder and CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH)

- Renée DiResta Associate Research Professor for the McCourt School of ublic Policy's Tech Public Policy prograr and Massive Data Institute

- Frances Haugen Facebook Whistleblower and Tech Expert

- Claire Woodall (zuckerbucks colluder)

- Etc

Interestingly they also seem to hang around the SNF Agora and Arena folks a lot. Such as Peter Pomerantsev. Well this is no accident.

Here’s the partners working together at “Unite America”!

IssueOne
New Politics
Protect Democracy
R Street
Vote at Home (zuckerbucks)
SNF Agora
Etc

Even more interesting is that IssueOne partners with all of these at “Perfect US”.

-CTCL Tiana Epps Johnson
-IssueOne Nick Penniman
-Brennan Ctr Wendy Weiser
-SNF Agora Scott Warren
Etc

CTCL was zuckerbucks and Brennan Center was involved in the Soros Partnership For Safe Voting. And recall my SNF Agora exposé too.

TBC

Let’s begin with IssueOne being a part of the Soros Democracy Alliance.

♦️Evidence A

This ➡️2020⬅️ Soros Democracy Alliance Investment Portfolio was handed out at the Oriental Mandarin Hotel for their 2016 meeting.

This gathering was like a week after Trumps 2016 election win, and included a live meeting with Soros for the Trump Resistance.

influencewatch.org/app/uploads/20…

♦️Evidence B

Now deleted, IssueOne was listed on the Democracy Alliance website.

archive.is/WEvZS

This IssueOne Impact Report has a ton of info including on their donors. Protect Democracy Project was a noteworthy major donor.

You’ll also find the usuals like Rockefeller, Packard, Hewlett, and Omidyar etc.. Plus a bunch of new ones. 🤔

You’ll also find tons of staffer names here too. But I have various other pages with names already selected for the job.

web.archive.org/web/2025010323…

Now let’s head into the names. I’ll do this with two posts so I don’t upset X with too many links at once.

♦️List A

This has Imran Ahmed, Renee Diresta, both CIA members, plus many more from my top post list.

I forgot to mention a few folks

- Vivian Schiller
Executive Director of Aspen Digital, fmr. President and CEO of NPR, ex Global Chair of News at Twitter, and General Manager of NYTimes

- Maria Ressa
Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, Founder and CEO of Rappler

- Denver Riggleman
Fmr. Congressman (R-VA) and Senior Technical Advisor to the U.S House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol

archive.is/pJyRZ

♦️List B

This page was chosen because it has Chris Krebs on it.

archive.is/eLnfT

IssueOne has different programs with advisors. I think this page is for their generic advisors. If I missed any sources for names lemme know.

♦️List A

- Wesley Clark
U.S. Army General (Ret.); NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (1997-2000); CEO, Wesley K. Clark & Associates

- Michael Chertoff
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security (2005-2009);

- Admiral William Owens
Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1994-1996); U.S. Navy (1962-1996)

- Chuck Hagel
Secretary of Defense (2013-2015); President’s Intelligence Advisory Board (2009-2013); U.S. Senator (1997-2009)

- Stephen Kay
Senior Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co.; Chair (2001-2007) and Trustee, Brandeis University

- Mark McKinnon
Co-founder, No Labels; Strategic Advisor to George W. Bush, John McCain

- Plus more

archive.is/HpCFr

♦️List B

Claire Woodall-Vogg of Milwaukee who dealt with the Zuckerbucks Vote at Home folks

“In this episode, Michelle Hawley, director of the Milwaukee County Election Commission, joins Issue One’s Claire Woodall and Angelina Clapp to provide a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the planning and partnerships that officials have spent years developing”

archive.is/qpNiD

You know if I type it up top, that the sources will all be included.

Here’s where IssueOne is partnered with New Politics under Unite America.

Here’s some that work together at Unite America:

- IssueOne
- New Politics
- Protect Democracy
- R Street
- Vote at Home (zuckerbucks)
- SNF Agora
- Plus more

archive.is/9L1ec

Here’s my 🧵 on New Politics where at least five of the seditious six were recruited and trained.

https://twitter.com/pepesgrandma/status/1993809967338733768

Next we have Chamberlain Network which works with IssueOne. The CheckExec website is ran by IssueOne and is also involved in their No Kings stuff.

Chamberlain Network worked along with ex Lincoln Projects Steve Schmidts Save America Movement which in June 2025, produced the first video telling the military to defy Trump.

archive.is/8yCHO

Here we have the Chamberlain Network, that works with IssueOne, also working with Steve Schmidt’s Save America Movement.

This June 2025 video, that you see here, was the first ever video telling the military to defy Trump. Nearly five months before the one made by the seditious six!

Steve Schmidt is ex Lincoln Project. And a lot more than you know just yet. 👀

https://x.com/pepesgrandma/status/1993844756183470126

🔥 The No Kings origins has been found! The site IssueOne created for this is called CheckTheExec, and it went live in February 2025. This was FOUR months before the first No Kings protest.

The first working archive was in early March 6, 2025.

“Our Founders didn’t want kings.”

Linkie👇🏻

archive.is/GfAvK

Here’s a couple of links for IssueOne’s No Kings narrative materials. Both point you to CheckTheExec.

“They Didn’t Want Kings”

♦️Here’s the link for the March 2025 Wall Street Journal ad that they placed.

web.archive.org/web/2025030523…

♦️And here’s the link for the June 2025 No Kings day toolkit.

web.archive.org/web/2025120323…

Here’s where IssueOne admits on their CheckTheExec website to running No Kings.

“Attendees will hear from Issue One’s advocacy team about the escalating constitutional crisis, how our campaign is pushing back against executive overreach, and how to get involved in our upcoming No Kings Day actions.”

archive.is/nKDUw

Here’s also a couple of March 2025 X posts by IssueOne too. IssueOne and its ChecktheExec talks about No Kings MONTHS earlier than anyone.

Elon’s

archive.is/Stx84

Trump’s

archive.is/Sk4lr

In this interview event, the founder of IssueOne, Nick Penniman, admitted to helping get Newsguard off to a start. Gordon Crovitz, Newsguard’s Co-Founder, thanked Nick for the Newsguard idea.

“Nick Penniman (00:04:03):
Today we’ve convened the leading experts to discuss these root causes driving disinformation, and to discuss the bold solutions that our government and corporations can take to combat the growing crisis. So I’m going to quickly
introduce the four, then they’re going to give some opening comments and then we’ll go into questions that I’ll ask
them and then we’ll turn to the audience. So we’re joined today by Chloe Colliver she is the head of digital policy and
strategy at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, Vanessa Cárdenas, the president of CárdenasStrategies who has a
long history of working in both media reform and voter mobilization efforts. Most recently, with the Biden campaign. Ben Scott, who is the executive director of Reset. Also the policy and advocacy advisor for Illuminate, which is an organization founded by Pierre Omidyar. And, Gordon Crovitz the co-founder and Co-CEO of NewsGuard. He was also
the former publisher of The Wall Street Journal. Full disclosure, I helped NewsGuard get off the ground. Early on in its existence. So let’s first turn to Chloe for opening remarks.”

“Gordon Crovitz (00:22:11):
Thank you very much. Thank you for including me and thank you for the reminder about the mute and Nick in your
case, thank you for the idea of NewsGuard.”

web.archive.org/web/2021121514…

🔥 Next we have More Perfect which is partnered with IssueOne and other big players. Their main concern is elections. 😏

Norm Eisens States United is represented here with JOANNA LYDGATE.

🔹 NICK PENNIMAN
Founder and CEO,
IssueOne

🔹TIANA EPPS-JOHNSON
Founder and Chief
Executive Officer, Center for Tech and Civic Life (zuckerbucks)

🔹SCOTT WARREN
Fellow, SNF Agora
Institute, Johns
Hopkins

🔹WENDY WEISER
Vice President, Democracy, Brennan Center for Justice

🔹 JOANNA LYDGATE
President and Chief
Executive Officer, States
United

🔹Plus more

archive.is/7SAZl

Next we have Mark Kelly. He submitted a bill endorsed by IssueOne. But somehow he knew IssueOne endorsed his bill BEFORE even submitting it.

Jan 2022

“This legislation I am introducing with Senator Ossoff will put an end to corrupt insider trading and ensure that leaders in Congress focus on delivering results for their constituents, not their stock portfolios,” Sen. Kelly said.”

“The Ban Congressional Stock Trading Act has been ENDORSED by several leading ethics reform groups, including the Project on Government Oversight (POGO), American Taxpayers Union, Taxpayers Protection Alliance, FreedomWorks, and ➡️Issue One⬅️. “

web.archive.org/web/2022060316…

Feb 2022

IssueOne held a special event for Mark Kelly’s bill with ex C👁️A and New Politics member, Abigail Spanberger.

archive.is/Tu62y

Recall the IssueOne, Check The Exec, site went live in Feb 2025. This is just an additional page that I have, so why not share it.

Consider all of the ex CIA, Military, DHS, and censors that worked there when you read this.

“Our Founders Didn’t Want Kings”

“Unchecked power is dangerous. The Founders understood this. That’s why they created three branches of government and a system of checks and balances.

Now, the executive branch and @ElonMusk are threatening the separation of powers that protects our republic and our freedoms.

If they aren’t put in check, the consequences for all Americans will be real and serious.”

archive.is/0iTKK

One of Imran Ahmed’s directors of the Center For Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) moved to the US to join the Trump resistance.

Remember this, because things are going to get a lot worse.

https://twitter.com/pepesgrandma/status/1978561012334010684

I’m just going thru stuff, seeing what I missed. I didn’t remember seeing IssueOne in the Times Election Fortification article, but it makes total sense that it’s in there. And it will also make sense to you in the near future if it doesn’t already.

Remember, Chris Krebs joined IssueOne at one point. And I’ll never forget his Annenberg meeting also.

“Wamp, the FORMER GOP Congressman, worked through the nonpartisan reform group Issue One to rally Republicans to the effort. “We thought we should bring some bipartisan element of unity around what constitutes a free and fair election,” Wamp says.”

archive.is/kRGJ7

I just realized that Protect Democracy was at the Chris Krebs pre election Annenberg meeting.

Protect Democracy ran the Transition Integrity Project in The Times Election Fortification article that IssueOne was in too.

Also Bill Kristol was at the Annenberg meeting too. Remember this.

https://x.com/pepesgrandma/status/1654933982440484865

Yeah Renee Diresta was at IssueOne too. Along with all the military, agency, and intelligence types.

I nicknamed her Resistance Barbie. She handled election disinfo in the 2020 election thru the official EIP.

https://twitter.com/pepesgrandma/status/1734723162686767298

Correction, there were at least THREE ex CIA at IssueOne. Gotta include Renee Diresta.

So this brings my count up to FOUR attacking Trump. Yeah, I will get to the 4th soon enough.

https://twitter.com/pepesgrandma/status/1996770353507418555

More on EX C👁️A Resistance Barbie, Renee Diresta of IssueOne.

She worked with Indivisible, the folks actively involved in No Kings.

@elonmusk if you’re not reading this you should.

https://twitter.com/pepesgrandma/status/1735362053643354551

🔥Recently sanctioned, Imran Ahmed, was involved in US elections and narrative change too (aka brain washing).

IssueOne was directly partnered with:

🔸Voting Rights Lab
🔸Protect Democracy
🔸Secure Democracy USA
🔸Every Eligible American

Protect democracy ran the transition integrity project which was in the Times fortification article.

But IssueOne was also involved in 2020 election disinfo work too.

“In the run-up to the 2020 elections, American citizens, organizations, and institutions from across the political spectrum came together in an unprecedented effort to push back on election disinformation
and ensure the presidential contest was decided fairly and accurately. Issue One was proud to be part
of that effort.”

But IssueOne was also involved in US narrative change aka brainwashing.

Here IssueOne discusses using narrative change on the moveable middle.

One issue stands out and this is race based social justice and equity for elections. Egads! We all know that equity means leaving white people behind.

web.archive.org/web/2023062611…

@elonmusk To date, I’ve now found SIX former CIA agents linked to Never Trump resistance efforts. I imagine there’s more, I’ll keep looking.

https://twitter.com/pepesgrandma/status/2008234888374190555