@rcn400 - Rob
Would you support abolishing the Electoral College and instituting the Popular Vote?
@rcn400 - Rob
Personally, I am all for the Popular Vote. I believe that every American’s vote should count.
@hollandcourtney - Courtney Holland 🇺🇸
🚨BREAKING🚨 Nevada Democrats just took the first step in DISMANTLING the electoral college in Nevada by voting in favor of the National Popular Vote Compact. This could potentially impact who becomes the President of the United States in the future. Every single Nevadan needs…
@csharpner - CSharpner - #ImpeachBidenNOW
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@reSeeIt - reSee.it
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@gaelicgirl87 - Gaelicgirl87
@reSeeIt @csharpner @hollandcourtney Love that you do this but I do not understand it.
@MrSausageGet - Mr. Sausage
I recall the 2022 midterms, when the majority of the country were disgusted with vaccine mandates, inflation, the Afghanistan withdrawal, open borders, etc. There was record turnout for the Republican primaries and record turnout for the general. Democrats had absolutely no platform to campaign on and even the propaganda leftist outlets like CNN predicted a record breaking red tsunami. Trump was tweeting Q memes and storm memes every day. Even the elusive “Q” came out on Election Eve to tell us “it had to be this way” and “we had everything we needed.” Yet, we saw Republicans win only a small handful of additional seats in the House. We saw Democrats slightly expand their lead in the Senate, where even a literal walking vegetable named John Fetterman who could not speak after a stroke won his race. In Arizona, they blatantly stole races in broad daylight when machines stopped working on Election Day in Republican counties when Republicans had a publicly known plan to swamp the polls on Election Day. Katie Hobbs, one of the most unlikeable and stupid people to ever run for Governor, who cannot speak in public and did not debate nor campaign, supposedly won her race over possibly the most popular gubernatorial candidate in recent history, @KariLake. In Michigan, despite the entire state absolutely loathing the corrupt incumbent Democrat tyrants in charge - unbelievably the state legislature actually flipped from red to blue and all 3 tyrants won their races. In NH and in PA, against all odds, the state legislatures also flipped from red to blue despite two years of socialism and an expected red tsunami. In Nevada, somehow a Republican won the Governor and Lt. Governor races yet radical leftists won the AG and US Senate races. The security cameras turned off overnight in Washoe County, NV and when they came back on, miraculously Adam Laxalt had lost his lead in the Senate race. I find it odd that Republicans can win important races in certain states, yet seem to always come up short in US Senate races. As though a huge chunk of voters show up to the polls and decide to vote Republican EXCEPT for those pesky US Senate races, where they prefer the socialist. Like in GA, where “Republicans” seem to win easily everywhere except when they get caught from behind and end up in those gosh-darn run-offs, where the Georgia voters just irrationally decide they want a radical socialist Democrat in the Senate. I remember how all the candidates, like wet paper towels, folded up and quickly conceded without so much as a whimper. Blake Masters, Tudor Dixon, Tim Michels, Adam Laxalt, Don Bolduc, Hershel Walker, Doug Mastriano, Dr. Oz, etc. Only Kari Lake and @AbrahamHamadeh stood tall and fought. Almost one year later and they are still standing all alone. So despite even the most liberal media predicting essentially the biggest red wave in history, we were now supposed to believe that the obviously-rigged races nationwide were the fault of @realDonaldTrump , even though he wasn’t holding office nor in a race himself. BOTH parties marched out and started taking about how Trump was a losing brand. Not a mention of the blatantly rigged bullshit we had all just witnessed. For those EXTRA critical thinkers out there, coincidentally the only state that really performed as expected was Florida. And it just so happened that Florida reported their final results first on Election Eve, thus providing an indicator of the direction the night should have gone but also feeding a strong narrative that Ron DeSantis was obviously THE chosen one given his state’s performance. I watched that night in horror as I realized that we may not be able to simply outvote the fraud and the communists were not afraid to put it right in our faces and dare us to do anything. What I found even more disturbing was the lack of uproar from the citizens. The apathy will end us. STAND UP! @GenFlynn @KariLakeWarRoom @TuckerCarlson @elonmusk
@DecentFiJC - Jonathan
“Do you stand with Israel?!?!” “I’ll GLADLY ‘Stand With Israel™️’ as soon as ISRAEL comes clean about its role in helping Katie Hobbs steal the 2022 AZ gubernatorial race from Arizonans. And then identifies EVERY player involved in the steal and helps us take them down. But not a moment sooner.”
@DecentFiJC - Jonathan
Certainly. Just added it to the 2nd tweet above. No country that aids in stealing from Arizonans and helps keep people like Kari and Abe out of the Governor’s and AG’s offices (while installing psychopathic Communists in their places) is our greatest ally. Not even a little bit close. Arizona (and America) is a more dangerous place to live today because of their actions.
@DecentFiJC - Jonathan
Always love these “welp, let me just go ahead and look past all that evidence ya got there…” takes.
@DecentFiJC - Jonathan
You should search my feed for: -UNIT 8200 -Genomics -Israel -Hobbs -Maricopa
@DecentFiJC - Jonathan
This thread is being MASSIVELY suppressed, so you probably shouldn’t read it and share it everywhere immediately. Definitely don’t do that.
@DecentFiJC - Jonathan
Whatever Katie Hobbs is “standing with”, you should be running from. Full speed. She’s directly tied to EVERYTHING already mentioned in this thread and more. https://t.co/4tnU2NbQE8
@DecentFiJC - Jonathan
Hobbs, Nessel, Benson, Griswold, States United, etc. This is also why ARIZONA still has Kris Mayes LARP’ing in AG ABE HAMADEH’s OFFICE TODAY. (It’s all coordinated. And Woll was MURDERED by someone associated with these people.) https://t.co/MaNTTGJAS4
@DecentFiJC - Jonathan
Benson (MI SOS) and Hobbs (AZ SOS). Note the lockstep CIA rhetoric. Verbatim. Israel helped them do this to all of us.🤬 https://t.co/PatSUl1ENQ
@DecentFiJC - Jonathan
Remember how “Meidas Lisa” knew about all the coming indictments against President Trump? That was so neat. Prophetic, even. Remind me, who’s behind MeidasTouch and MeidasTouch Network again?🤔🤔🤔 https://t.co/KI67MvKFK1
@DecentFiJC - Jonathan
And DEFINITELY don’t look at this thread, which further DIRECTLY connects: -FTX -ERIC (Voter Registration fraud apparatuses) -ERICSSON -UKRAINE -GBI STRATEGIES (Michigan; Nessel; etc.) -BARBARA FRIED (Mind the Gap) -ALL VOTING HARDWARE/SOFTWARE -etc.
@DecentFiJC - Jonathan
It’s way too on the nose at this point.🤣
@LauraLoomer - Laura Loomer
ATTENTION TENNESSEE 🚨🚨 RINOS IN TENNESSEE ARE TRYING TO DENY PRESIDENT TRUMP ACCESS TO THE BALLOT AND ALL ELECTORAL VOTES FROM TN🚨🚨 Anti-Trump, Republican Tennessee state Senator Frank Nicely @SenFrankNiceley introduced SB 2848, otherwise known as the “Tennessee Ballot Access Act”. The bill would go into effect immediately after being signed, and it would “BAN Presidential electors from the state of Tennessee from casting a vote for any presidential or vice presidential candidate whose eligibility for office is in question or doubt at the time of the vote, and until such time as the candidate has been properly investigated and cleared of any reasonable doubt.” The bill was introduced by a REPUBLICAN as communist secretaries of state across the country are trying to remove President Trump from the ballot. The bill has already passed in the TN Senate on first consideration, and now it’s in House, waiting to be reviewed by the elections subcommittee. From there, the bill will go straight to a vote, which could be any day now. Then it would go to TN Governor @GovBillLee to sign it into law. Governor Lee better not sign this bill. If you live in Tennessee, call your state Reps and your governor and tell them to kill this bill which would deny President Trump electoral votes from Tennessee. https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=SB2838&GA=113
@BarnettforAZ - Josh Barnett-AZ
From yesterday. It was tabled with no vote. When November 2024 comes around remember who was fighting to protect your vote and who said we should not appoint electors to the Republican primary winner and tell Governor Hobbs to sign the election bill we want or the electors will remain appointed. The appointment of electors would be rescinded and we would go back to a popular vote to determine who the electors go to if she signed the bill that we want to guarantee a legally run election to protect the people’s vote. Remember who wanted to continue using the same illegal elections we experienced from 2020/2022 and who wanted the vote protected. When the next election turns south again, and it will, certain people will have to bear that weight on their backs and it’ll be heavy. Unbearably heavy. Nov 2023 will be 2020 2.0 Mark my words and screenshot this post. Listen here to understand why we are demanding electors be appointed. @IvanRaiklin https://x.com/barnettforaz/status/1758167803742552344?s=46&t=jyh_a9CLHL6-pHOfzge8_Q
@Robert_Wessels - Wessels for Governor 🇺🇸
Yesterday the Maine House passed the bill that would have us someday hand over Maine’s electoral votes to the Presidential candidate that receives the most votes nationally…even if Maine overwhelmingly votes for the other candidate. This bill is not imminently impacting, but it shows these legislators true loyalties. I have yet to hear a valid argument that this gives Maine a bigger voice. I have heard (several times) that “this barely minimizes Maine’s voice.” The key is that this likely helps democrats (historically speaking) due to the help of the big city votes. The reality is all YES votes prioritized their political party over the voice of the people of Maine. If this is your rep, they need to be voted out this year. The electoral college was put into place to help states like Maine.
@EmeraldRobinson - Emerald Robinson ✝️
Why did Democrat governors in Arizona, North Carolina & Wisconsin just veto every election integrity bill that passed through their state legislatures? Because they are going to cheat again in 2024.
@OwenGregorian - Owen Gregorian
Voting Shenanigans in Michigan | Eric Dawe In the 2022 mid-term elections in Michigan, voters handed control of the Michigan Legislature to the Democrats, giving them a majority in both the Michigan House of Representatives and the Michigan Senate -- something that hasn’t happened for forty years. Since then, they’ve been working hand in glove with our notorious Democrat governor, Gretchen Whitmer, including passing a slew of bills that significantly transform election procedures in the State of Michigan and make it easier to commit election fraud, while at the same time making it harder to uncover it. ... Back to the story at hand. In November of 2022, Michigan voters also passed Proposal 2, a proposal to amend the voting procedures previously authorized in the State of Michigan’s Constitution. While the proposal passed with (ostensibly) 60% of the vote, the recent batch of bills purportedly written to implement the changes of Proposal 2 goes significantly beyond what was authorized by the voters. The new legislation hands over verification of absentee ballots from an elected bipartisan board of inspectors to city or township clerks. They also significantly expand the powers of election clerks and the Secretary of State. For example, the Secretary of State can now dictate election procedures without going through the formal rule-making process. This greatly increases the potential for fraud and significantly reduces the safeguards against it. Senate Bill 367 allows clerks in municipalities with at least 5,000 people to process and count absentee ballots eight days before Election Day. The eight-day, pre-election day window will make it very difficult for poll watchers to observe the handling and counting of mail-in votes. (What could possibly go wrong there?) Municipalities will work closely with the SoS, to whom the bill assigns the task of unilaterally “supervising the implementation and conduct of early voting for state and federal elections.” (God forbid that the SoS has entrenched political biases.) According to Representative Ruth Johnson (R) Holly, MI, these bills remove every instance of the word ‘fraud’ in the previous law and replace them with the word, ‘error.’ Criminality of intent is thus effectively insulated from prosecution and the ability to address election fraud is stripped away. In fact, under Senate Bills 603 and 604, alleged fraud can no longer be used to request a recount. Perhaps that’s the reason why Michigan Republican legislators were uniformly opposed to these bills. With a Democrat governor, attorney general, and secretary of state, might it not be wise to ask who stands to benefit from these bills that subtly, but significantly, change the state’s previous law and render voting fraud virtually immune from prosecution? Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/05/voting_shenanigins_in_michigan.html
@NevadaGlobe - Nevada Globe
Over 100K inactive voters removed from Clark County voter rolls this month. To note: In 2020, 8K ballots were counted despite undeliverable addresses. In 2022, Catherine Cortez Masto beat Adam Laxalt by less than 8K votes. https://thenevadaglobe.com/articles/over-100000-inactive-voters-removed-from-clark-county-voter-rolls/
@Chattah4Nevada - Sigal Chattah
It took the big guns at the @RNC to Realize the importance of clean voter rolls in Nevada. When Ronna left and 💰 stopped being pissed away on useless consultants- great things starting happening in the Silver State and the @NVGOP has never been stronger. 🇺🇸Here’s to us and a successful 2024🗳️🥂
@elonmusk - Elon Musk
If there is a Democratic Party victory this election, they will ban voter ID requirements nationwide, enabling massive voter fraud. Banning voter ID is their stated goal – they are not hiding it! After that, your vote won’t matter, so this is therefore the last real election. Vote for @realDonaldTrump to save democracy!!
@elonmusk - Elon Musk
Exactly, the whole country will be like California politically, which is a one-party state
@elonmusk - Elon Musk
This is messed up. Vote Republican in Nevada!
@mcspacface - SPAC-ey-McSpacface
This Nevada Supreme Court decision is complete insanity, and needs an immediate SCOTUS challenge. It's literally ENCOURAGING election fraud. https://t.co/EuYegabfNU
@BehizyTweets - George
BREAKING: The RNC just filed an emergency motion to the U.S. Supreme Court asking them to overturn a ruling from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that UNLAWFULLY allows defective mail-in ballots to be counted "This case is of paramount public importance, potentially affecting tens of thousands of votes in a State which many anticipate could be decisive in control of the U.S. Senate or even the 2024 Presidential Election." The PA Supreme Court recently created a rule out of thin air, subverting state law to allow erroneous mail-in ballots to be counted via provisional voting. Their ruling, in my opinion, clearly violated Article 1 Section 4 Clause 1 of the Constitution, which enumerates election oversight to state legislatures. Pennsylvania law specifies that “A provisional ballot shall not be counted if the elector’s [mail] ballot is timely received by a county board of elections.” The law does NOT direct election officials to give provisional ballots for mail-in ballots that arrive with a lack of signature, date, or secrecy envelope. Simply put, if a ballot shows up without following the rules, it CANNOT be counted AT ALL. The RNC wants SCOTUS to issue a pause against the PA court's ruling or to issue an order "ordering that any provisional ballot cast by an individual whose mail ballot was timely received but defective (i) be segregated, and kept separate, from all other ballots and (ii) if counted, be counted separately and not included in the official vote tally." The Supreme Court has been derelict in dealing with major election integrity questions. It's time for them to WAKE UP and act for once. Only Justices Gorsuch, Thomas, & Alito have shown consistent interest.
@BehizyTweets - George
BREAKING: Almost 14,000 mail-in ballots in Nevada currently don't have adequate signatures and will NOT be counted unless they're cured. This is devastating news for Kamala Harris. Democrats are already underwater in Nevada's Early Voting. This will make it much worse. For example, in 2022, 6,000 ballots statewide needing a signature cure were not counted. Nothing is going right for Kamala's camp. They placed all their trust in creating a mail-in voting firewall, but it has dramatically FAILED in every way. VOTE FOR TRUMP TOMORROW!
@Real_RobN - 🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸
The Clark County election shenanigans have begun.... “Two Clark County technical employees came forward completely independent of each other, and explained that they discovered that the number of votes recorded by Dominion voting machines stored on USB drives would change between the time the polls were closed at night, and when they were reopened the next morning.” Meaning your government was literally overthrown in the dead of night,
@charliekirk11 - Charlie Kirk
To all those states that signed onto the interstate agreement to award electoral votes for President of the United States by national popular vote...now's your chance! https://t.co/6DtFEIjfLd
@elonmusk - Elon Musk
The Democrats oppose voter ID so that they can commit voting fraud and not get caught. It’s that simple.
@elonmusk - Elon Musk
It is now illegal to show your ID even in local elections in California. The reason they’re doing this is to make voting fraud unprovable. 🤡🌎
@The1Parzival - THE PARZIVAL
🧠🧠🧠 CRITICAL THINKING: - I'm going to set the record straight for everyone including our politicians. - Everyone hates on California because the electoral votes always go to Democrats. - However, there are ton of American Loving Patriots in California with over 6 Million people voting for Trump. - This represents 7.9% of all the votes cast for Donald Trump in the 2024 Election, which is close to the same numbers seen in Florida and Texas. - California represents 54 Electoral Votes out of 538 total, which is 10% of the Electoral College. - So essentially there over 6 million people that never get to make an impact in State or Federal elections. - They represent 7.9% of all Trump Voters in a State with 10% of the Electoral College and they yet their votes make ZERO IMPACT. - This has long been an issue people in California understand and is why there was a push by many Counties to form the State of Jefferson, which would have succeeded from California and be represented as a brand new State. - Obviously there was a ton of resistance at the State and Federal levels and the idea was basically killed. - This is so the Democrats can maintain their stranglehold on the entire Electoral College of California, keeping those 6 million people ever from really having a voice and tipping the scales always in favor of Democrats. - So before everyone wants to go bashing California because the state is ruined by Democrats consider for a moment how many Trump loving Patriots actually live there. - Hey .@RepMTG are you still good with over 6 million Americans who voted for trump getting dumped so you can play political theater? - Maybe your time would be better used to help fix the broken system in California thats keeps these 6 Million people from being heard, just a thought.
@BasedSamParker - Sam Parker 🇺🇸🧯
1/ THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS A SECEDED ENTITY While @DataRepublican's analysis on the 17th amendment below is correct, I've found a much better & clearer way to say it: ▶️ The Federal Government *SECEDED* from the States with the 17th Amendment (1913). ◀️ The 17th amendment removed the tether keeping it connected to, and under the control of, the States because the state legislatures had appointed Senators up to that point. For all intents and purposes, this was literally a secession. This rogue "Seceded Entity" uses the 16th Amendment (1913, income tax), the Revenue Act (1913, income tax, beefed up/police-state IRS), and the Federal Reserve (1913) to fund itself, bypassing The States and The People (while abusing both). We live under a completely new government and tyranny since 1913. This cannot be understated. 🔻DETAILED EXPLANATION FOR WONKS (Bookmark this essay 🔖) 🔻 ▪️Senate Whereas Senators were once appointed by State legislatures, they're now voted on directly by the people. What this did was shift power from the Sovereign States to the Big Money who funds campaigns. Before, to buy a Senator, you had to buy an entire State legislature--which was then accountable to local voting constituents. Now, the real backers of Senators just buy media coverage and votes. Because the bar was so high to buy a Senator, it rendered members of the House not worth much: if you don't control the Senators' votes from a particular state, the votes of its Representatives were of far smaller value. This took money out of both Senate campaigns (which were conducted inside state legislatures), and House campaigns (which were worthless without controlling the Senators, too. A very high bar.). Previous to the 17th Amendment, congressional campaigns were *SIGNIFICANTLY* less expensive. The 17th Amendment changed all that, EXPLODING the money it takes to run campaigns. This puts Big Money Interests firmly in control. ▪️House of Representatives The Senate was not the only Federal entity re-engineered, so was the House. The Apportionment Act of 1911 set the house size at 433 (2 more would be added for the newly created states AZ & NM in 1912, bringing it to 435), which all took effect for the first time in 1913! (There's that year again). This 435 size was then formally & perpetually set in stone with the Reappointment Act of 1929. It's all unconstitutional, since the Constitution calls for 1 Representative for every 30,000 people. What this means is that the House is now unresponsive to the changes in American population, essentially disconnecting it from the The People and placing it, too, under Big Money elections, as I noted above. ▪️Supreme Court While the 16th & 17th Amendments are technically "Constitutional," the Reappointment Act is not. Why hasn't anything been done about it? Because the Supreme Court has ruled it "non-justiciable," meaning SCOTUS says it's something they can't rule on. 😂 They rule on all kinds of stuff when they shouldn't. Never stopped them before! Basically, the Supreme Court has decided to collude with its 2 Federal Counterparts--The Senate & The House--as part of the runaway, rogue, Seceded Entity known as the "US Federal Government." And we can't stop it, either, because the State legislatures are no longer in charge of approving Supreme Court justices or removing them via the impeachment process! (Thanks, 17th amendment!) ▪️Executive (POTUS/Cabinet Depts) The Executive of this Rogue Seceded Entity now is essentially given ever-expanding powers, kept in check only occasionally by its Colluding Partners in the House, Senate & Supreme Court when they want a bigger piece of their power-loving secessionist pie. The President's campaign is powered by the Big Money, who buys the election, buys the Cabinet (no longer accountable to the State legislatures), buys the Supreme Court (no longer accountable to the State legislatures), and buys the laws in Congress and the policies in its authorized bureaucracies. The Electoral College, which elects the President, is now ever more firmly under the control of Organized Big Money (addressed more at length in another thread linked below). CONCLUSION The Constitution was torn up, US Founding Federalism destroyed, and a coup d'état perpetrated in 1913--and we're all just pretending we still live under the government our Founders created. We do not. A foreign entity now rules us. You can couch it in abstractions like "it changed how Americans relate to their government," but that misses the point: it changed how we relate to the government because it literally replaced our government! We are the "United States Of America" in name only. But that's not really what we are. We're actually the "Vassalized States and Enslaved People Of The Federal Government Of America Owned By Transnational Big Money Interests." They swapped out the government, swapped out the locus of power, and kept the name. That's the tea. 🔻SUMMARY🔻 The 16th & 17th Amendments + the Federal Reserve Act & Revenue Act + The Frozen House--all done in 1913--seceded the Federal Government and shifted the locus of power from The People & The States to The Big Money Interests. ▪️The 16th enslaved The People. ▪️The 17th seceded the Federal Government from the States and made The States vassals. ▪️The Fed & Big Money became the new locus of power, buying elections, the cabinet, laws & policies, & the Supreme Court ▪️The Supreme Court is firmly on the side of the Rogue, Seceded Entity ▪️All 3 branches work together to expand their power and reach because they're no longer checked by The States or The People. It cannot be understated how fundamentally the 17th Amendment helped transform America. (more threads below)
@BasedSamParker - Sam Parker 🇺🇸🧯
2/ Thread that delves more deeply into how the 17th Amendment destroyed the Senate and American government: https://t.co/a6pQQEAgE1
@BasedSamParker - Sam Parker 🇺🇸🧯
3/ How the Electoral College was destroyed and doesn't work how it was intended: https://t.co/xAfPKkLzOH
@BasedSamParker - Sam Parker 🇺🇸🧯
4/ Short thread on the runaway Supreme Court and a strategy for dealing with it: https://t.co/HbbW99yzvj
@BasedSamParker - Sam Parker 🇺🇸🧯
5/ Extensive thread describing the problem with the House of Representatives and strategies for fixing it: https://t.co/3IrcEzTkcz
@BasedSamParker - Sam Parker 🇺🇸🧯
6/ We need to split up many states. I advocate for a new total of about 125. We used to create new territories & states in order to accommodate growth & maintain representative gov. But the US has done NOTHING to accommodate a century of growth. https://t.co/N6wycpkPdO https://t.co/gwJsOvs8il
@RealLindellTV - LindellTV
BREAKING: Arkansas AG Files Charges Against Col. Conrad Reynolds - Conservatives Call It GOP Lawfare Decorated Army veteran Col. Conrad Reynolds is under criminal prosecution after leading Independence County’s successful vote to return to hand-counted paper ballots. He now faces a rarely enforced misdemeanor over so-called "exit polling violations." Reynolds will report for booking tomorrow at 9AM. He calls it political payback: “They’re terrified of losing control of the election system.” National backlash is mounting: @realMikeLindell: “Colonel Reynolds is a hero.” @GenFlynn: “GOP lawfare… Sarah Huckabee, stop this persecution.” @SidneyPowell1: “This is ridiculous and obviously lawfare.” @RogerJStoneJr: “Why is Arkansas targeting a patriot pushing for paper ballots?” @ColonelReynolds, who holds a top secret clearance and will soon be inducted into the Arkansas Military Veterans Hall of Fame, has worked closely with @realDonaldTrump’s team on election security. Why is a red state criminalizing election reform its own voters approved by 63%?
@DecentFiJC - Jonathan
“Do you stand with Israel?!?!” “I’ll GLADLY ‘Stand With Israel™️’ as soon as ISRAEL comes clean about its role in helping Katie Hobbs steal the 2022 AZ gubernatorial race from Arizonans. And then identifies EVERY player involved in the steal and helps us take them down. But not a moment sooner.”