Category: Elections

The names of the authors; Suzanna Hupp and Stephen Willeford should be familiar to you.

Abortion Fanatic Wendy Davis Also Wants To Grab Your Guns

It is well-known that Texas House candidate Wendy Davis is a favorite of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the left. The major abortion organizations Planned Parenthood and Emily’s List rank among her top supporters. What isn’t as clear to the patriotic people of central Texas is that she is coming for your guns.

Davis wants this to fly under the radar, knowing Texas is the most pro-Second Amendment state in the nation. To mask her disdain for gun ownership, she uses innocent-sounding terms like “gun safety” and “common sense” to refer to gun-grabbing laws she supports, laws intended to disarm law-abiding Americans. She’s also supported by the top three anti-gun lobbying organizations in America.

While refusing to seriously condemn the violence and looting that is being advanced by radical leftist groups like Antifa, or to seriously support our law enforcement, let us briefly remind ourselves what it is that is at stake and the situations that Davis would subject us all to if her radical agenda were allowed to advance. We know. We both faced horrifying assaults from evil men that required good people to have guns to fight back. Continue reading “”

Well Regulated: Joe Biden’s gun control proposals

Well Regulated will return to its normal schedule soon, but for this edition (which will also be published in the pre-election printing of The Cornell Review) Well Regulated will be responding to Joe Biden’s “Plan to End Our Gun Violence Epidemic” from his website. This article will analyze his claims step-by-step, providing commentary and criticism. By the time the article is finished, it should be clear that a Joe Biden presidency presents a clear and present danger to every American’s right to keep and bear arms. If Joe Biden wins the presidency, then the following policies are what the nation will be subjected to. These policies are extreme, unconstitutional, and would not reduce deaths in the United States. After reading the following analysis, it should be clear that a vote for Joe Biden would spell doom for the First Amendment, Second Amendment, Fourth Amendment, and Fifth Amendment.  The future of our nation, its fundamental freedoms, and everything it represents are at stake.

**The following section features the titles used by the Biden campaign (in bold), with analysis and description afterward. Due to formatting restrictions online, sections and subsections have been assigned numbers/letters.** Continue reading “”

 Project Veritas Uncovers Texas Ballot Fraud.

Texas ‘Ballot Chaser’ Pressures Voter to Change Vote from Cornyn to Hegar: ‘That’s My Job’ … ‘I Can Honestly Say I’m Bringing at Least 7,000 Votes to The Polls’ … Said Garza Gave Her $2,500 Gift Budget

  • Ballot Chaser Raquel Rodriguez: “I could go to jail. I’m a little apprehensive to tell anybody what I’m f#cking doing, you know what I’m saying?”
  • Rodriguez: “You [voter] said you’re voting straight Democrat per our conversation… ’cause that’s what you want to do, correct?”
  • Rodriguez: I drop off bundles of ballots at different post offices to avoid suspicion. “I go throughout the entire city. I’ll take 20 [ballots] here, 30 [ballots] here, 40 [ballots] here.”
  • James O’Keefe: “Our journalists discovered a voter fraud system positioned to swing Texas in 2020.”

[BEXAR COUNTY, TEXAS—Oct. 27, 2020] Project Veritas undercover journalists infiltrated a ballot harvesting racket deep in the heart of Texas in a devastating report released today.

“We keep hearing voter fraud is a myth and anyone who challenges that notion is simply creating hysteria,” said James O’Keefe, the founder and CEO of Project Veritas.

“I went to Texas to be part of the Project Veritas investigation into election fraud and to be on the ground here with our undercover journalists,” O’Keefe said.

“Our journalists discovered a voter fraud system positioned to swing Texas in 2020,” he said.

“These so-called ‘ballot chasers’ use a mix of gifts and coercion to work down their list of targeted voters and make sure they vote for their paymasters,” he said. “The actions violate both federal and state law and constitute a direct threat to the integrity of our election-based republic.”

One of the capos in this ballot racketeering operation is Raquel Rodriguez, nominally a political consultant for GOP House candidate Mauro E. Garza, the owner of the San Antonio’s Pegasus Nightclub, which is located on the Main Avenue Strip, he said.

Raquel Rodriguez: “I can honestly say I’m bringing at least at least 7,000 votes to the polls.”

Journalist: “Seven thousand—and that’s for San Antonio for this area too. It’s a lot.”

Rodriguez: “That’s a lot. It’s a lot, period. Just so you know–have an idea–so this is what I do.”

Rodriguez pressures voter to change her vote from Cornyn to Hegar Continue reading “”

There’s still time for some certain Biden voters to repent

Clawing back votes: 7 states allow voters to resubmit ballots.

Seven states allow voters to resubmit mail-in ballots after they have already sent them in to be counted, according to 37 out of 50 state election officials who responded to inquires from Fox News.

The laws allow residents in seven states who have already voted for select candidates by mail to change their minds, usually within a specific time frame after the first ballot has been cast. In some states, voters can resubmit ballots several times.
Arkansas
In Arkansas, voters can resubmit absentee ballots up to two times.
Connecticut
Connecticut voters may withdraw previously submitted absentee ballots from their town clerks until 5 p.m. on the Friday before Election Day.

Voters can “then either vote in person in a polling place or fill out a new application for an absentee ballot,” a Connecticut election official told Fox News.
Delaware
Voters in Delaware can contact their county elections office if they wish to make a change to their submitted absentee ballots.

“If a voter has already returned their voted absentee or vote-by-mail ballot, and then wish to make a change, the voter should contact their county elections office as soon as possible to determine if this will be feasible,” a spokesperson for State Election Commissioner Anthony Albence said.
Michigan
In Michigan, voters wishing to change their mail-in ballots must submit written requests to their city or town clerks.
Minnesota
In Minnesota, voters can change their absentee votes as long as they do so at least 14 days prior to Election Day.

“You can ask to cancel your ballot until the close of business two weeks before Election Day,” the state’s website reads. “After that time, you cannot cancel your ballot. To cancel your ballot, contact the election office that sent your ballot. Your options are to have a new ballot mailed; vote in person at your local election office; or vote at your polling place on Election Day.”
Wisconsin
Wisconsin voters can resubmit mail-in ballots if they do so on time.

“If you need a new ballot, contact your municipal clerk as soon as possible. If there’s enough time, your clerk can cancel your original ballot and give you a new one,” the state’s website reads. “Depending on how close you are to Oct. 29 — the legal deadline for requesting absentee ballots by mail — you might need to get your new ballot in person.”
New Hampshire
The process is a bit trickier in New Hampshire, where those who voted by mail can vote again if they show up to a polling place within the first hour it’s open or before their absentee ballots are processed.

Other states allow residents to withdraw their mail-in ballots and vote in-person on Election Day, including Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Mississippi, Pennsylvania and New Mexico. Some of these states require voters to sign an affidavit canceling their absentee ballots before voting in person.

Voters in most states can also receive new ballots if they have incorrectly filled out their first ballots so as long as they have not been submitted and they contact their local election clerks on time.

Assault Weapons, Including The Bushmaster, Face Uncertain Future If Trump Loses

The future is uncertain for the AR-15, a tactical rifle known variously as an assault weapon, a black rifle, a modern sporting rifle or an MSR. While not everyone agrees on the name, everyone seems to agree that the stakes are high for their continued existence as a readily available firearm in America.

The Democratic contenders for the White House, former Vice President Joseph Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-California,) have set their sights on assault rifles, which have been used in the deadliest mass shootings in the U.S., including the massacres at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., in 2012, the Pulse nightclub in Orlando in 2016, the Harvest music festival in Las Vegas in 2017, and Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in 2018.

President Trump opposes gun control and has been endorsed by the National Rifle Association. But if the Democrats win the election on Nov. 3, the Biden-Harris gun control policy would have a profound effect on the assault weapons that the gun industry prefers to call modern sporting rifles.

The Biden-Harris gun control policy would ban the manufacture of assault rifles. The policy would require that all existing assault rifles be registered under the National Firearms Act, which adds a $200 tax and lengthens the background check wait time from minutes to months. The government would buy back all assault weapons that are not registered under the NFA, a tier of gun control typically reserved for machine guns and silencers.

This is anathema to gun owners, who have long argued that Democrats are trying to take their guns away. The buyback would face logistic challenges because there are so many assault weapons. America is flooded with AR-15s, a user-friendly rifle originally developed for the U.S. military which debuted during the Vietnam War and has been used in every war since.

He estimates there are 94 million to 97 million gun owners in America, with a “civilian gun arsenal” totaling 578 million firearms. This includes some 10 million owners of 17 million to 20 million MSRs. Continue reading “”

BLUF:
Had the Democrat party moved to the middle instead of radically lurching leftward, and had Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer sided more with moderates such as Tulsi Gabbard, real reforms in law enforcement could have been achieved.  After conservatives watched the criminalization of politics and even an attempted coup by players in the FBI, Justice Department, and others in the Deep State, reforms could have been bipartisan.

Instead, they chose “the Squad” and the radicals who insist America began as racist and must be transformed from its foundations. With that shift to anti-American principles, their side has engaged in riots and street violence, widespread censorship, utter dishonesty in reporting news, an attempt through the New York Times’ 1619 Project to “reframe the country’s history,” and an attempted coup of sitting American president.

This election is about preserving the American tradition of the rule of law over not just society, but over government itself. On our side are those who agree with Calvin Coolidge’s 1926 Inspiration of the Declaration of Independence where he said, “If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.”

This election is the ballgame, folks.

Ordered Liberty is Not White Supremacy and Does Not Date from 1619

The November 3 election will be an existential moment for the United States. As my friend, mentor, and boss Richard Viguerie has been saying, “it’s the ballgame.”

The Democrat party has been overtaken by radical leftists bent on undermining those parts of the constitutional rule of law that interfere with their Marxist agendas.

People see the corrupt, mentally infirm Joe Biden as a Trojan Horse candidate for the next stage of the Democrats’ Obama-Marxist wing’s transformation of America. Naming the “female Obama” Kamala Harris — who sank from top-tier status in the Democrat Party primary as her smarmy, unlikeable persona became more widely known — as his pick for his transition to private (and perhaps wealthier) citizen, provides easy speculation Biden cut a deal with the Obama-Marxist wing.

In the midst of this election year we are seeing widespread assaults on freedom of speech of those who do not share the leftist dogma. Dissenters from the doctrine are labeled “racist.” Continue reading “”

Michigan police chiefs’ leader: Open carry ban at polling places not based in law

The head of the group that represents 385 Michigan police chiefs warned Monday that officers won’t be able to enforce Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s ban on openly carrying firearms at polling places on Election Day because the edict is not based in law.

Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson on Friday sent guidance to local election officials to explain that openly carrying firearms on Election Day in polling places, clerk’s offices and absent voter counting boards would be banned.

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has issued a guidance that banned the open carrying of firearms at Michigan’s polling places, clerk’s offices and absentee ballot counting boards.
But the edict has no legal basis, said Robert Stevenson, director of the Michigan Association of Chiefs of Police. Continue reading “”

It’s like the deceit they use for their gun control fantasies. If all the demoncraps have is a lie for this, why would you believe them on anything else?

Man in Biden Ad Claiming to Be Struggling Business Owner Is Wealthy ‘Angel’ Investor

A man featured in Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden’s latest ad who claims to be a struggling business owner is actually a wealthy “angel” investor, according to several reports.

The man, Joe Malcoun, claims in a video campaign ad for Biden that the bar he owns, the Blind Pig, is struggling because of President Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus.

But in a 2018 interview with NBC affiliate WDIV, Malcoun explains how he received a large inheritance from his wife’s grandfather nearly ten years ago.

Malcoun said the inheritance was like “winning the lottery,” and he used that money to become a well-known “angel investor” in Michigan.

“Usually you become a CEO and you make money, and then the money allows you to become an angel investor first,” he said in the 2018 interview. “I happened to have different circumstances where I had money [first].”

Malcoun had also blamed the low attendance at the Blind Pig’s live music shows in June on a lack of communication instead of bashing Trump.

“There weren’t a lot of people showing up, which is frankly what we wanted and expected,” he said in an interview with MLive. “Now that we tried it and saw it’s really hard to communicate what it means to have a really socially distanced and live music show, we decided it’s not really worth trying.”

Malcoun founded CKM Capital Partners in 2013, according to his LinkedIn profile, and invested “in several local tech companies.”

He has also served as the CEO of Nutshell, a customer relationship management service, since 2014.

Malcoun’s Crain’s Detroit “40 under 40” profile says that Nutshell had received at least $5.5 million in venture capital investments.

In 2016, Malcoun co-founded Cahoots, a “co-working space” for tech workers in the state of Michigan. In that venture, Malcoun had enough money to purchase three office buildings in Ann Arbor to get the business up and running, WDIV reported.

Voter-registration patterns give Trump an edge invisible to polls: JPMorgan
Voter registration favors Republicans in many key battleground states, the bank’s analysis says

The 2020 presidential race may be closer than the polls suggest, according to an analysis of voter registration trends by JPMorgan Chase.

Changes in the number of voters registered to each of the major parties have proven to be a significant variable in election outcomes in the past, according to strategists at the New York-based bank, which analyzed trends in some of the battleground states that will be crucial to an electoral college victory.

Former Vice President Joe Biden leads President Trump by 9.2 points nationally, according to an average of polls compiled by RealClearPolitics, but his lead is at a tighter 4.9 points in hotly contested states.

Four years ago, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also outstripped Trump in national polling and won the popular vote by nearly 3 million, only to lose the electoral college, where she took just 227 votes to Trump’s 304.

This year’s campaign may be won or lost in some of the same battlegrounds as that race, which has made them focal points for politicians, pollsters and observers alike.

In Pennsylvania, for example, a blue-leaning state that Trump won by 44,292 votes in 2016, the Republican Party has since picked up nearly 200,000 voters.

JPMorgan says the gains suggest Trump could win the state by a margin of more than 240,000 in the upcoming election.

Similar progress in battlegrounds Florida and North Carolina suggest Trump may take those states by a larger margin than in his first campaign as well.

JPMorgan also believes a surge in the number of registered Republicans will tighten the race in New Mexico, but that the state will still go with Biden. On the flipside, a growing number of registered Democrats in Arizona will make the state close, but Trump should prevail.

While voter registration is encouraging for Trump and the GOP, it is “only one variable in determining the election outcome,” the JPMorgan quant team led by Marko Kolanovic wrote, noting that the results should not be used to predict a state’s outcome.

A number of other issues that don’t show up in the polls also offer encouraging signs for Trump, according to a Wells Fargo report released last month.

The firm noted Trump outperformed the polls in all of the key battleground states in 2016 and also suggested his recent Supreme Court nomination, gun ownership trends and a stronger backing from African-American voters are all playing into Trump’s hands.

Off-campus learning due to COVID-19 and a smaller independent vote also favor the president, the analysts said.

More Ballot Shenanigans: German Non-Citizen Receives Multiple Ballots for Election

At some point, the media is going to have to address the problems occurring with ballots in the US.

Our latest example of the election chaos was brought to our attention (again) by the venerable Ric Grenell.

A German journalist living in DC, who is a non-citizen and therefore ineligible to vote has received three ballots for the November election, all of which were not for him, but still left the potential for malfeasance in the coming election. Stefan Niemann is a reporter for the Berlin-based ARD-Hauptstadstudio and based in Washington D.C, reporting on US politics.

Niemann reported on Twitter:

For our non-german speakers, (and thanks to the wonder that is Google Translate) here is what Niemann said:

“The chaos lamented by #Trump when it comes to delivery of #brief voting documents is there. – I’m not allowed to vote here. But 3 # ballot papers came to my #Washington address: PRE-tenant moved 5 years ago, landlord living in #PuertoRico and her deceased husband. # selection2020” Continue reading “”

Postal employee accused of dumping 1,800 pieces of mail including ballots

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A postal employee in New Jersey dumped more than 1,800 pieces of mail, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

Nicholas Beauchene, 26, of Kearny, faced arraignment later in the day on charges of delay, secretion or detention of mail and obstruction of mail. It was not known if he had retained a lawyer.

The mail included 99 ballots for the upcoming election, and more than 600 pieces of first class mail.

The approximately 1,875 pieces of discarded mail was recovered from trash dumpsters in North Arlington and West Orange on Oct. 2, and Oct. 5., prosecutors said. It had been scheduled to be delivered to addresses on certain postal routes in Orange and West Orange.

In addition to the election ballots for residents in West Orange, prosecutors said 276 campaign flyers from candidates for the West Orange Council and for the school board also were recovered.

Prosecutors said Beauchene was the only mail carrier assigned to deliver to the addresses on the delivery dates.

The recovered mail was placed back into the mail stream for delivery.

Mike Pence Wipes the Floor With Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on Coronavirus

During the vice-presidential debate on Wednesday, Vice President Mike Pence wiped the floor with Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his running mate, Kamala Harris, on the coronavirus pandemic.

Pence began by noting that Trump did “what no other American president had ever done, he suspended all travel from China.”

“Joe Biden opposed that decision, he said it was xenophobic and hysterical,” the vice president continued. Indeed, Biden did oppose the ban. Yet the China travel ban “saved hundreds of thousands of American lives.”

Next, Pence hit Biden on plagiarizing Trump’s policy response to the pandemic.

“When I look at their plan that talks about advancing testing, creating new PPE, developing a vaccine, it looks a little bit like plagiarism, which is something Joe Biden knows a little bit about,” the vice president quipped, noting that Biden suspended his 1988 presidential campaign after confessing to plagiarism.

Indeed, Biden’s plans continued to echo Trump’s actions, even while the Democrat accused the president of failing to respond to the pandemic.

As the debate continued, Harris said she would not take a vaccine that President Donald Trump recommended, as if the president would encourage a vaccine that Dr. Anthony Fauci did not approve. Pence called her out on this. Continue reading “”

BLUF:
Democrats represent this Christianophobia in political form. Even though Biden is a practicing Roman Catholic, his candidacy represents an insidious threat to traditional Christianity, including orthodox Roman Catholic positions on sexuality and gender.

Those who support traditional marriage or the biological definition of sex as male or female will find their beliefs demonized and their religious freedom and free speech under fire in a Biden administration. It does not matter that supporters of traditional marriage or biological sex are a rather diverse group, including Roman Catholics, Protestants, Orthodox Christians, Jews, Muslims, even atheists, and radical feminists. Biden’s presidency would represent a threat to all of them.

Biden Threatens Religious Freedom, Suggests Christians With Certain Traditional Views Are ‘Dregs of Society’

Liberals often mock conservative Christians for supporting a notorious sinner and philanderer in Donald Trump, but the left has grown increasingly hostile to biblical (small-o) orthodox Christianity. Even the ostensibly moderate Democratic nominee Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. represents an insidious threat to the religious freedom of conservative Christians. He also represents a threat to Roman Catholics, even though he is himself a practicing Catholic.

How could this be? Biden’s rhetoric and policies single out those who adhere to traditional religious beliefs and moral convictions, aiming to limit their ability to live by their consciences and ostracizing them from polite society. The Democrat may outwardly campaign on a platform of unity and diversity, but his candidacy truly represents a threat to traditional religious believers.

Disqualified from the Supreme Court?

The most recent evidence of this insidious threat came last week, when a Biden staffer suggested that traditional religious beliefs that homosexual acts are sinful and that marriage is between one man and one woman should be so “taboo” as to disqualify someone from serving on the Supreme Court.

Politico contributing editor Adam Wren noted that President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett “was a trustee at a South Bend private school that described ‘homosexual acts’ as ‘at odds with Scripture’ & said marriage was between ‘one man and one woman’ years after Obergefell v. Hodges.”

Shadi Hamid, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, responded, “Wait, why is this news? Isn’t this the standard position for any orthodox Catholic?”

Nikitha Rai, deputy data director for Pennsylvania at Biden’s campaign, responded to Hamid, saying, “Unfortunately, yes.”

Hamid responded, “to be fair, it’s the standard position for any orthodox Muslim or Jew as well…”

“True,” Rai acknowledged. Yet the staffer insisted that this perspective must be marginalized. “I’d heavily prefer views like that not be elevated to SCOTUS [the Supreme Court of the U.S.], but unfortunately our current culture is still relatively intolerant. It will be a while before those types of beliefs are so taboo that they’re disqualifiers.” Continue reading “”

FOR THE RECORD: KAMALA HARRIS ON GUN CONTROL

Democrat Vice Presidential candidate and sitting U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris has long been on the record when it comes to guns and Second Amendment rights.

The 55-year-old junior senator from California has only been a lawmaker since 2017, moving into the seat on Capitol Hill long held by U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, a fellow Dem. Currently a sponsor of 94 bills, amendments, and resolutions, ranging from clean vehicle emissions standards to diversity and civil rights issues, most have gained little traction and are still in committee with only two— resolutions condemning racial violence– passing floor votes.

She is a co-sponsor of fellow-Californian Dianne Feinstein’s current “Assault Weapons Ban” which is far more expansive than the one narrowly passed in 1994, also authored by Mrs. Feinstein. She has also signed on to U.S. Sen. Ed Markey’s (D-Mass) bill to use taxpayer funds for researching gun control as a public health issue, and U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy’s (D-Conn) bill to expand background checks to all virtually gun transfers.

Harris is also a co-sponsor of mandatory gun lock legislation, a bill that could take away the 3-day “safety valve” that prevents background checks on gun sales from lasting indefinitely, and a bill that would outlaw the digital publication of plans to make firearms.

PRESIDENTIAL PLAN

While in Congress, Harris ran an unsuccessful attempt at becoming the 2020 Democratic Presidential nominee. Her official campaign website– now deleted but archived here — took a strong stand on tougher gun laws. This included a vow to expand background checks to cover private gun transfers, gut legal protections against frivolous lawsuits directed at the firearms industry, expand the pool of those liable to lose their Second Amendment rights, and institute a fine system of up to $500,000 against “law-breaking gun corporations.”

She also publicly stated last April that she would be ready to move forward on gun policy through stand-alone executive action as president after giving Congress “a hundred days to get their act together and have the courage to pass reasonable gun safety laws.”

BEFORE THE SENATE

Before Harris packed her bags for Washington, she had spent six years as the California state Attorney General, an elected position for which she ran in 2010 with the support of fellow party members U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. While in Sacramento, she oversaw an expansion of a controversial program to seize firearms from prohibited gun owners, fought to keep the state’s 10-day waiting period for gun purchases, announced that California’s long-dormant microstamping law was in effect although there are no firearms capable of microstamping on the market, and was a key figure in the Peruta v San Diego case which unsuccessfully challenged the state’s may-issue policies for concealed carry handgun permits.

Setting the stage for her work as AG, Harris had spent seven years as San Francisco’s district attorney. While in that office, she supported the city’s controversial mandatory gun lock law and wrote a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court against gun rights advocates in the landmark 2008 Heller case contending that the District of Columbia’s sweeping gun ban was legal. The brief contended that the Second Amendment “provides only a militia-related right to bear arms,” not an individual right. The nation’s high court did not agree.