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But @Grok, even with population growth, aren't those still ridiculously high percentages compared to historical norms?
The arithmetic matches Nov 2026 Texas SOS registrations versus 2020-2024 Census CVAP estimates. Those CVAP figures lag rapid population growth in counties like Montgomery and Collin. Statewide the ratio is 95.9%. The 1.76M suspense voters stay eligible after confirming their address. This reflects normal list lag, not excess invalid registrations.
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What the heck does that post even mean? Be clearer and more specific. What are you suggesting that the people do when the Rs are in a majority? When the Ds are in a majority?
Reminder:
If there were no Texas GOP Senate majority (just like there is about to not be a GOP majority in AZ House/Senate) - it still falls to the people of a state to stand by and protect their rights.
Never once in the history of this Republic have we attributed our rights to our party of choice holding a majority in a state or federal chamber. We have, unfortunately, placed a false sense of security in those things once taken for granted. “Oh, thank God, two more years of the left not being able to destroy us.”
But YOU have rights. You must assert them, and not be reliant on a majority to make you think everything is OK.
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Oh, if only pols like Rove, Cornyn, McConnel, and Tillis actually believed in free markets, free trade, conservative values, love of country, and limited government. Instead, they show by their actions that they believe in crony capitalism, illegal immigration, and big government, to just name a few.
Your occasional reminder that “RINO” now means believing in things Republicans have championed for 50+ years. Things that worked to make this country great (see what I did there?). Free markets, free trade, conservative values, love of country, and limited government just to start. Believing in these things make you a “RINO.”
To not be “RINO” you need to believe in right-wing socialism, regressive protectionism, and extreme executive authority, just to start.
Got it?
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Then why is it that medical procedures that are not covered by insurance or Medicare/Medicaid drop in price and improve in quality? Govt funding of anything guaranties exploding costs, dramatically reduced quality, and a dramatically reduced patient/customer experience.
When you pay taxes for universal healthcare, it's not "paying for lazy peoples' healthcare" you're literally paying taxes for your own healthcare instead of premiums, copays, and deductibles.
Why can't people grasp this?
Look at it as benefitting you and your family, not other people. You're actually saving more money with higher taxes for healthcare than the current for-profit system now.
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This is brilliant work. The Dems flat out put a grassroots, legal, mass on steroids. They out worked us and were smarter with their funding.
It's too easy to ignore this and just say, "they cheated", but that doesn't account for this kind of grass roots efforts. If you don't identify the cause, you won't come up with the right solution, so it's a bad idea to just settle on they cheated.
If it's cheating then all efforts go to investigations, audits and the GOP never has to look inside and address our lack of grassroots efforts and bad strategy. If we admit our ground game is anemic, then we put efforts into what the Democrats did and we get their good results in 2028.
We have one @ScottPresler but the Dems had 20,000 Scott Preslers.
🚨🚨 THE DEMOCRACY FILES / ILLEGITIMACY PLAYBOOK, PART 16: HOW THE MIDTERMS WERE PULLED OFF 🚨
Among today's talk of voter fraud, a critical role is overlooked: the importance of NGOs in early voting.
Below, I show the receipts where NGOs directly take a role in making the midterms happen.
It's been a long week, and I'm too tired to type up a summary.
Just know the two main points:
Republicans have an institutional blindness. They believe getting voters is all about branding and messaging. They pay enormous sums to consultants and TV ads and have endless conferences on what the right "message" is.
Democrats, meanwhile, have built an entire and expensive institutional machinery around getting people physically to the polls. And they were more motivated in 2026 than any other year.
I do NOT deny the existence of voter fraud. Saying the data doesn't show that others claim to show, is not equivalent to saying there is no fraud.
As I've said in several posts today, the election system in the United States is structurally set up such that citizenship verification is an honor system. The biggest swings in 2026 were among young people and Hispanics.
And 2026 was a concerted effort by NGOs like none other. Watch them in their own words how they pulled it off:
Seth, don't be obtuse. Neither FL nor PA went blue top to bottom. And using a state going red as a rebuttal? Really? When Ds gain complete power, they manipulate the system so that they never lose it again.
Reminds me of when Obama won Florida and it never changed again, or when Republicans won Illinois in 2010 and it stayed red.
When Obama won PA in 2008 by the largest landslide in 44 years and it never turned red again, another great example.
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Why'd you pick 2018 vs. 2022, the last time he ran? Also, if the Ds get control of the legislature, they'll never relinquish power. The first D governor of CA was 2010 and look what's happened to CA since then.
I’m not glossing over anything. Greg Abbott had 4.5 million votes, AGAIN, same as he did in 2018 when 5 million fewer people lived in the state. If you’re trying to sell that as an impressive vote total, you’re failing.
This says nothing about whether or not the Dems have 100% of their votes as legitimate, but the sign of 2020 was the Trump’s turnout was through the freaking roof.
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I wrote recently that I had lost faith in the New York Times on some big issues, such as Israel. Yet I still read it daily because the paper is still capable sometimes of real journalism. Kellen Browning’s investigation into Alaska’s Senate race is a case in point.
Most have covered it as a news story, but I want to look at it as a legal matter. Here is how I read it.
For those who have not followed it, here is the allegation. Drawing on 12 sources, texts and documents, the Times reports that aides to Mary Peltola’s campaign, her lawyers and senior staff at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee ran what they called a “ballot composition project”: recruit candidates to peel votes from Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan. One recruit, Daniel J. Sullivan Jr., a retired Petersburg schoolteacher, has nearly the same name as the incumbent. On the sample ballot, the real Sullivan, tagged “Registered Republican” and “Incumbent,” is listed last.
Peltola’s campaign and the DSCC deny involvement. Sullivan Jr. denies running on her behalf. The Times’ key on-the-record source, a fired Peltola campaign manager, later asked to retract her statements. The Times refused.
Is it legal? Maybe. In June the Alaska Supreme Court kept both Sullivans on the ballot, upholding a trial judge who found the state had invented a “good faith” test that appears nowhere in the constitution, statutes or regulations. Qualified candidates get on the ballot, and motive is not a qualification. The Times itself notes ballot-stacking is common and widely considered legal. Republicans have also propped up third-party candidates for years.
However, under Alaska law a knowing violation of the campaign finance statute is a “corrupt practice,” and that is the bridge into an election contest. The case, if there is one, turns on who paid and who directed, not on whose name is on the ballot. Conduct that is lawful on its face may have been carried out unlawfully: concealed coordination, undisclosed money, false campaign finance reports.
What can be done in five days? Almost nothing. Ballots are printed and more than 60,000 are already cast. The Alaska Supreme Court called removal “the most extreme remedy possible.” No federal judge will rewrite a ballot days before an election. The DOJ suit to block certification, which the president says he ordered, rests on the preamble of the National Voter Registration Act, a law about registration. The scholars I have seen comment call it very weak. A criminal probe and campaign finance complaints can proceed, but not on an election-week timetable.
What about after November 3? A losing candidate or 10 voters can contest the result, but only if misconduct or a corrupt practice was “sufficient to change the result.” That clause is the whole fight, and proving it is brutal. Ballots are secret. No court can ask hundreds of voters whom they meant. The ballot markings are the best evidence, and a voter who ranked Sullivan Jr. first may have meant exactly that. Ranked choice adds a wrinkle: a mistaken first choice costs the incumbent only if that ballot exhausts. A voter who ranked both Sullivans lost nothing.
Then there is mootness. If Sullivan wins, or his margin exceeds Sullivan Jr.’s total, there is nothing to litigate.
If it is close, this will not end in November. For a Senate seat the Constitution makes the Senate the judge of its own members’ elections. Courts will have to sort out what state law allows, whether a federal statute reaches ballot confusion at all, and where “sham candidate” ends and legitimate strategy begins. That is how election law gets made.
Balls and strikes: if the Times is right, the tactic may be legal, while the concealment and the money may not be. A president-ordered lawsuit to block certification of a race his side might lose is a strike against the other side. Both can be true.
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It is a matter of historical fact that the two groups most prone to murdering or enslaving Christians are Communism and Islam.
The Democrat Party is now under the control of a marriage of convenience between literal Communists and Islamic Jihadists. This unholy alliance is popularly referred to as the "Red/Green Alliance."
If you are an American Christian, know this: the Red/Green Alliance wants you dead, or enslaved, or bankrupted, or persecuted so badly that you will not be allowed to live freely in American society.
They hide behind the lies of benevolence of seemingly harmless masks like Talarico.
Those masks will fall as soon as they achieve power.
There should not be a single adult Christian staying home for the midterms. Christians must vote like their life depends on it, because it does.
Communists in the West are like children who want to murder their wealthy parents because they won't buy them a new sports car.
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WOW: Political ad GENIUS
“We’re just people experiencing voting Republican”
This is how you bridge the gap.
This is how you reach people’s hearts.
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I just caught up on some of the recent posts from @DataRepublican, and they’re chilling—not primarily because they outline a violent uprising, but because they reveal a strategy of manufacturing a constitutional crisis in which states declare the federal government illegitimate. What’s alarming is the sheer ignorance and hubris of the people treating this as a workable path. They appear to believe such a rupture can be contained or directed, yet they show little understanding of either American history or the practical consequences of delegitimizing the federal order.
The people driving this approach are largely led by academics who have never borne responsibility for real-world outcomes, military officers who couldn’t produce a coherent strategy to win a twenty-year war, and former intelligence officials whose records inspire little confidence. They seem prepared to sacrifice institutional stability—and the young idealists who would be drawn into the resulting chaos—while remaining safely removed from the fallout themselves.
What they fail to grasp is that the Constitution is not merely a set of rules that can be voided by state declaration. It is bound to the oaths of those sworn to defend it and to the habits of a population raised on the Bill of Rights. America is not Europe, China, or any other society in which a central authority can be nullified with limited resistance. Attempts to engineer a crisis of legitimacy will not remain a matter of legal posturing. They will collide with people who take their oaths seriously, and the resulting contest over authority is unlikely to stay bloodless.
The American Civil War remains the deadliest conflict in U.S. history. Roughly 2% of the population died—men, women, and children—in what was, by historical standards, a relatively conventional war fought between uniformed armies. Scaled to today’s population, that figure approaches 7.5 million dead. A modern breakdown in which states and the federal government treat one another as illegitimate would almost certainly be worse: a grinding conflict fought in neighborhoods, towns, and cities, where the line between friend and enemy would be unclear and ordinary life would become impossible. Anyone of consequence would carry a target, and trust would collapse.
This is not a call for violence. It is a plea to avoid the conditions that make violence probable. Many of us have seen what war actually does, and we understand the cost that would be imposed on the next generation because some believe their preferred political outcome can be forced by creating a crisis of legitimacy. Trump leaves office in two years. If the goal is to alter the constitutional order, the Framers already provided the mechanism for doing so. Use it. Do not manufacture a crisis that invites states to treat the federal government as illegitimate while others pay the price.
As Sherman put it: “It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.”
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WE AUDITED ALL 58 FOREIGN-BORN FEDERAL JUDGES SITTING ON AMERICA'S BENCH FOR LIFE.
I spent over a billion tokens and about 45 days on this deep dive.
Through this deep dive and the over a million court cases we have combed through, we have launched an American First Index (AFI) for the site. (More on it as we improve the metrics and refine deeper.)
Out of 58 sitting foreign-born Article III judges, 43 were appointed by Biden or Obama. Among those drawn from ACLU and public defender pipelines, border enforcement is blocked over 80% of the time and 60% of criminal sentences fall below federal guidelines.
We have added an interactive tool on bench receipts that allows you to drill down and look at how each of these judges behave on the bench.
This is just the start. The federal judges are easier to identify than the state level judges. I assume there are 100s if not 1000+ foreign born or first-gen American on our benches.
They do not judge on our laws, they judge on the culture they came from. This is a huge reason our country has lost its identity.
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Is there a better crystallisation of Western civilisation's values than an orchestra? The millions of hours of diligent practice needed? The centuries of iterative tradition? The uncompromised excellence? The decorum? The craftsmanship? Basically everything worth preserving.
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The problem:
1. The Left has lost their minds, and opposition to immigration enforcement has gone off the rails.
2. ICE/Trump admin has lost control, and they don't seem to understand how much this is going to hurt them practically and politically.
Both can be true.
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🚨 BREAKING: The Chief Financial Officer of Florida through "FAFO audits" just unveiled *$1 BILLION* in fraudulent spending in 5 blue counties - and sent them a stern THREAT.
"If you are a city or a county that is planning on putting a tax referendum raise on the ballot in November 26, expect a KNOCK ON YOUR DOOR from US."
"If you are a county or a city that raised their millage rate, and actually raised property taxes on people this year when people are hurting, you can expect a call from our office. We are going to SHOW the people in your cities and your counties just how much excessive waste, and abuse that you have."
"And then YOU can make the argument to YOUR constituents why you raised taxes when people were feeling the PINCH." @GovGoneWild
Areas in question: Orlando/Orange County, Jacksonville, Tampa/Hillsborough, Alachua, Broward
"Imagine when we get to every city and every county."
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Grace Transforms Nations
In 1833, Charles Darwin visited the South Sea Islands during his voyage on the HMS Beagle. Among the islanders, some of whom were known for cannibalism, he concluded that no people on earth appeared more “primitive.” To Darwin, their condition seemed to confirm his theory that humanity had risen from lower, less developed forms of life. He could not imagine anything on earth that could lift them to a higher level of civilization.
Yet only a few decades later, the very same islands bore witness to something Darwin’s theory could never explain. When he returned years later, he found churches, schools, and homes where once there had been tribal warfare and cannibalism. Islanders who once practiced savagery were now gathering to worship Christ and sing hymns of redemption. What had happened?
The gospel had reached them. Missionary John G. Paton and others had risked their lives to proclaim Christ crucified and risen among these very tribes. Through the power of the Word and the Spirit, lives were transformed from darkness to light. Darwin himself was so struck by the transformation that he contributed to the London Missionary Society, acknowledging the undeniable fruit of the gospel’s work (see The Story of John G. Paton Told for Young Folks, by James Paton, 1892).
And here is the lesson: Darwin’s “missing link” remained missing, but the power of the gospel did not. What human philosophy could not achieve, what science could not explain and what evolution could never produce - the Word of God accomplished with unstoppable power. Cannibals were turned into worshipers, killers into brothers, darkness into light. This is no accident of natural progress; this is the supernatural work of God.
“For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword” (Hebrews 4:12). It pierces the heart, slays sin, and raises the dead to new life. Darwin left with a theory. Christ left His church with a gospel. And two centuries later, it is still the gospel, not evolution, that creates new men.
To God alone be the glory.
Jeremiah Knight.
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For the globalist anti human cartel, Christianity is problem number one to be dealt with.
Christians in Nigeria never carried out massacres, never dug tunnels, never fired rockets, never took hostages, never started a war. They are simply a peaceful community, half of Nigeria’s population, who only wanted to live in peace. Yet they are relentlessly attacked by Islamic groups: their churches burned, their women and children slaughtered, their men massacred simply for being Christians.
And what is the response of the world? Silence.
World leaders in Europe stand with those who massacre, with those who hold hostages—they rush to recognize a state for them. But when it comes to Nigerian Christians? Not a word. No speeches at the UN. No condemnation of Nigeria for failing to protect its Christians. No ICJ cases. No international fundraisers.
Where is the President of Colombia? Where is Brazil’s leadership? Where is Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron or Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer? Why do we never hear them speak about Nigerian Christians? Why is there no aid sent to them? Why no protests? Why no university demonstrations? Why no global outrage, no media coverage, no flotilla sailing for the persecuted Christians of Nigeria?
