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1/Following great stories by @jennymedina and @mannyNYT, sharing some of what I saw on election night, most of which I spent with Mexican-American Republicans in the Rio Grande Valley (Cameron and Hidalgo counties) w/ @IlanaPL on the 📸.

2/I had seen on social media before I arrived that Trump trains were happening locally and I was curious to see if he had gained meaningful ground (You know by now that Hillary won there in 2016 by 33 and 41 percentage points respectively.) ex:

This is the RGV where my wife Debbie (@debber66) grew up. it\u2019s the bluest part of Texas and mostly Hispanic. She never thought she would see the day! #Maga2020 #RGV https://t.co/ziPTmgjhWB
— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) November 3, 2020

3/I also wanted to see what it was like, in a red state allegedly turning purple, to be in a blue region that may have been moving in the opposite direction.

4/Aside from Twitter, it was hard to find coverage of the Trump trains (which, according to locals, had been going on every weekend for at least a month, with hundreds involved) or of growing local enthusiasm for Trump.

5/Late morning, I spoke to @MorganGrahamGOP, the first Latina head of the Cameron County Republicans, who expected modest but meaningful gains. “I don’t think he’s going to break 40%, but mid-high 30s. That doesn’t seem like a lot to folks,” she said, but in the RGV, it was.

The Epoch Times
@EpochTimes

News Analysis🔎The post-#Election push to pressure President Trump to concede, despite numerous credible allegations of #VoterFraud and ongoing legal challenges, is the culmination of a 4-year-long campaign against him. (Thread👇)

This campaign started in 2016 when the #FBI launched a politically motivated investigation of his campaign. During his subsequent 4 years in office, there have been consistent efforts to remove him from office.

#Infographic: an overview of some of the main efforts made against the sitting @POTUS.

This is an issue that transcends party lines, as it is not only an assault on Trump, but an assault on the office of the presidency, and with it, an assault on the foundation of America.

Politically Motivated Investigation:
The #FBI under President #Obama in 2016 launched a politically motivated investigation of the #TrumpCampaign.

Based on publicly available information, we know the investigation was initiated based on the thinnest of evidence: remarks made…

…by a junior #TrumpCampaign adviser to the Australian ambassador in London.

The investigation primarily relied on the discredited #SteeleDossier, produced by former MI6 agent Christopher Steele on behalf of the #Clinton campaign and the @DNC.

#AllBlackLivesMatter |...
@maliklendell

Do you want to see if your Representative failed to vote in favor of a resolution calling for the global repeal of blasphemy, heresy, and apostasy laws? Look below. ⬇️

I think we deserve an explanation as to why they don't value basic global human

Louisiana Representative Ralph Abraham (R) "Not Voting." @RepAbraham

Alabama Representative Robert Aderholt (R) "Not Voting." @Robert_Aderholt

Georgia Representative Rick Allen (R) "Not Voting." @RepRickAllen

Michigan Representative Justin Amash (L) "Present." @justinamash

Arizona Representative Andy Biggs (R) "Nay." @RepAndyBiggsAZ

Georgia Representative Sanford Bishop Jr (D) "Not Voting." @SanfordBishop

Texas Representative Kevin Brady (R) "Not Voting." @RepKevinBrady

Florida Representative Vern Buchanan (R) "Not Voting." @VernBuchanan

Colorado Representative Ken Buck (R) "Not Voting." @BuckForColorado

Alabama Representative Bradley Byrne (R) "Not Voting." @RepByrne

California Representative Ken Calvert (R) "Not Voting." @KenCalvert

Texas Representative John Carter (R) "Not Voting." @JudgeCarter

Georgia Representative Doug Collins (R) "Not Voting." @RepDougCollins

Florida Representative Neal Dunn (R) "Not Voting." @DunnCampaign

Hawaii Representative Tulsi Gabbard (D) "Not Voting." @TulsiGabbard

Florida Representative Matt Gaetz (R) "Not Voting." @RepMattGaetz

The Epoch Times
@EpochTimes

Infographic ℹ️ What Happened in #Atlanta on #ElectionNight?

In recent days, the fog of incomplete and conflicting information provided by interested parties has begun to clear. (Thread👇)

It now appears that a state election monitor was absent for a part of the counting process.

It is also clear that GOP #PollWatchers were prevented from meaningfully observing much of the process, even though they were allowed in the room.

1. RULE CHANGE
On Aug. 10, the State Election Board approved a new rule allowing election officials to start opening and scanning #AbsenteeBallots 3 weeks before #ElectionDay.

The state is currently being sued over the rule.

2. WATER LEAK
On #ElectionDay, ballot-processing work at the State Farm Arena was delayed. It was later revealed that the source of the leak was an overflowing urinal.

“The emergency delayed officials from processing ballots between 5:30 a.m. and 9:30 a.m.,” the report says.

3. SECURITY CAMERA FOOTAGE
Security footage from the arena shows workers moving around furniture after 8:20am.

Only some parts of the footage were made publicly available. Attempts from various parties to obtain the footage have been unsuccessful.

James O'Keefe
@JamesOKeefeIII

VERITAS INVESTIGATION INTO VOTER FRAUD LEADS TO ARREST.

For those who say "nothing matters" this is for you.

For those in the news media who says there is no such thing as voter fraud and what we do is nothing more than an attempt to "undermine elections," TAKE A SEAT!

$Bob From Brockley \U0001f964$

Bob From Brockley 🥤...
@bobfrombrockley

As Trump time comes to an end, a disturbing section of the left is thinking about reaching out to the hard right to try and make itself relevant with his angry, bigoted followers... [a short thread]

...Some of the Extremely Online Left in the US has deluded itself into thinking that the far right insurgency is a bluecollar movement (a bit like how both Blue Labour centrists and the Trot/Stalinist left in the UK persuaded itself Brexit is a working class victory)...

(of course, we know now the 6 January rioters were CEOs, lawyers, cops and whitecollar GOP activists https://t.co/vNW2JLzrye HT @FFRAFAction )

Robert Maguire
@RobertMaguire_

Since taking office, President Trump's businesses have likely taken in more than $13 million from special interest groups representing private prisons, payday lenders, and many other industries seeking to curry favor with his administration.

2/ While it’s long been routine for wealthy interests seeking to buy access and influence over a president to do so by making large political contributions to his campaign and allied groups, it’s unique to President Trump that these groups personally enrich him in the process.

3/ We've tracked 137 of these events since the day Trump took office. https://t.co/toIW0EJOyK

4/ And some of the big spenders have gotten their money's worth, as the NYT laid out earlier this month in a detailed report partly based on our data

5/ Groups large and small have learned that holding expensive events that the president profits from is a part of doing business in Trump's Washington, and it's paying off.

Take the AHRI, which spent $700k at Doral, and got a favorable decision within weeks

Tom Coates
@tomcoates

If you want to know what the Trump administration has been about, then read this list of ‘midnight regulations’ that they’re trying to implement in their final days in office. I’ll post a few of them below.

The Trump administration is expected to move forward plans to make families of noncitizen immigrants ineligible for subsidized housing.

The Trump administration is expected to move forward plans to increase the speed at which chickens may be slaughtered by putting workers at higher risk of amputations.

The Trump administration is moving forward with plans to allow 18-, 19- and 20-year-olds to operate long haul trucks even though those age groups are generally much more likely to have accidents.

The Trump administration is moving forward with plans allow federally subsidized homeless shelters to exclude transgender people.

Americano
@qmericano

The face and back of #jihad in #Europe and the world. Muslim Brotherhood, violent and civilizational jihad. The case study of #Bosnia, the #SDA political party and its MFA Bisera Turković. Who is she indeed?

Lakshya Jain
@lxeagle17

🚨GEORGIA UPDATE (Voting for 12/26, late night thread)🚨

Statewide: 2,097,269 (+26,075)
Fulton: 272,057 (+14,360)
Gwinnett: 182,924 (+9,753)
Columbia: 32,920 (+175)
Houston: 32,876 (+126)
Cherokee: 53,860 (+320)
Forsyth: 58,066 (+437)
Coweta: 26,575 (+203)

I'll post the rates tomorrow with the racial breakdown. For now, let's go with the raw totals.

What do we have from today? Well, Democrats probably added about 8K votes to their margin, per @joe__gantt's estimates. That's not as much as they'd have been hoping for, to be blunt.

But let's also remember that the second weekend in the general election was a pro-GOP day. So this is certainly not the worst-case scenario everyone worried about. All of that helps the Democrats. They'd have liked more, but...it's Boxing Day.

In the general election, for example, our estimate was that Biden won the first two days of early voting, three of the four weekend days, and Trump won basically every other day of early voting pic.twitter.com/9JID24eq3I
— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) December 15, 2020

Tomorrow, it appears as if DeKalb, Columbia, Fulton, and Gwinnett are open. This will likely result in another pro-Democratic day, but almost certainly with more votes cast. How much? I got no idea, but probably around 30K-40K. So Democrats will look to add about 10K to the lead.

We'll enter the last 4 days of early voting with approximately a (roughly) 190K vote lead for Democrats, in all likelihood. That'll leave the GOP with some ground to make up.

Davey Alba
@daveyalba

NEW: False Claims that Biden ‘Lost’ Pennsylvania Surge, and Tech Companies Struggle to Keep Up

This is one of the starkest and clearest misinformation paths I've seen lately. And I can't stress this enough, this path is VERY well-known among misinformation reporters & researchers.

It started with tweets from folks like Pam Bondi & Rudy Giuliani that Real Clear Politics had "rescinded" its call that PA went to Biden. That was picked up and repeated verbally in a YouTube video. Then the YouTube video was shared in private FB groups

The YouTube video! Is on a verified account! Running ADS! And it gained nearly 900,000 views in just 12 hours, largely because of shares on Facebook. YT says this doesn't violate its rules 🤯 https://t.co/04METfLeOq

MEANWHILE ON FACEBOOK—a CrowdTangle search shows most of this activity is in PRIVATE FB groups, beyond what researchers and journalists can see.

Only 2.5 percent of FB activity—likes, shares, comments—is visible on public FB. I truly am *losing my mind* https://t.co/04METfLeOq

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@LuluLemew

“Every person I've ever known about that's been a white supremacist has left the movement through an act of compassion or love. They didn't leave it bc someone convinced them their belief systems were wrong.”

Daryl sounded the alarm back in 2009. His report was politicized by the GOP. He warned that white supremacy was on the rise.

He knows of what he speaks.

I strongly advise reading Hateland by Daryl Johnson & Breaking Hate by @cpicciolini to understand

https://t.co/KxKMWmYzH9

\u201can economic catastrophe negatively affects resistance to radicalization on a massive scale.\u201d

\u2014 Hateland
— \u029f\u1d1c\u029f\u1d1c \u029f\u1d07 \u1d0d\u1d07\u1d21 \u1555( \u0361 \u0361\xb0\u2038\u21bc\u2036)\u1557 (@LuluLemew) May 30, 2020

https://t.co/gH4G1KwcwV

\U0001f4cd\u201d...a catastrophe that destroys families and careers while frequently leaving people angry, confused, despondent, and aggrieved will certainly increase the overall chances of radicalization across a whole population or country.\u201d
— \u029f\u1d1c\u029f\u1d1c \u029f\u1d07 \u1d0d\u1d07\u1d21 \u1555( \u0361 \u0361\xb0\u2038\u21bc\u2036)\u1557 (@LuluLemew) May 30, 2020

https://t.co/zH1lgd7kTh

External economic factors influenced internal psychological processes of radicalization, eroding personal inhibitors on a massive scale.

Though ..not the only factor.. economic devastation of the farm crisis sowed seeds of rage that blossomed in the early 1990s.
\u2014 Hateland
— \u029f\u1d1c\u029f\u1d1c \u029f\u1d07 \u1d0d\u1d07\u1d21 \u1555( \u0361 \u0361\xb0\u2038\u21bc\u2036)\u1557 (@LuluLemew) May 30, 2020

Matt Negrin, HOST OF H...
@MattNegrin

Meet the Press has booked a shameless conspiracy theorist, Senator Ron Johnson, for Sunday. Johnson says covid is fake and denied Biden won the election. He is MTP's most-booked Republican and has used the platform to spread lies more than any other senator. It is a true feat.

Johnson staged a conspiracy Senate panel of covid vaccine skeptics, anti-maskers, and fake drug promoters just weeks ago. He is avidly pro-covid in addition to spreading Hunter Biden conspiracies and saying Biden stole the election with "voter

Every mainstream news outlet, not just @MeetThePress, books conspiracy theorists because they believe Republicans deserve a platform to spread their misinformation. This is not journalism and @chucktodd does not care one wink about it

Ron Johnson is also an outspoken climate denier. He has spoken about this 40,000 times because it helps him politically. He is a conspiracy theorist.

Yet @chucktodd invites him on MTP despite saying two years ago he wouldn't book climate

Ron Johnson lied about Hunter Biden having child pornography on his computer

Ron Johnson is a guest on Meet the Press on Sunday because @chucktodd does nothing to stop the spread of misinformation

Ron Johnson is on Fox News suggesting there's child pornography on the computer that purportedly belongs to Hunter Biden pic.twitter.com/rwvyL1UH4i
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 18, 2020

$\U0001f3f3\ufe0fLibertyDiedAt2:55AM\U0001f460IStandWithTrump\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f$

🏳️LibertyDiedAt2:55AM👠...
@superyayadize

Twitter is a wasteland. Evidence...

Wear a mask
@aicky

I've a few thoughts about Trump and how we got here, going to be a long thread

I've just finished @Mikel_Jollett excellent book Hollywood Park, can't recommend it highly enough (and his band album etc) In the book he describes growing up with a Narcissistic mother amongst other things.

When he describes how every single thing that happens was through the prism of how it effected her and how it made her feel reminded me of Trump. To start with Trump is deeply disturbed individual, he was brought up as a racist.

He's risen to power by the use of racism however I don't think that's why he's become what he is. He's exploited institutional racism to help himself feel better about himself.
I see institutional racism as a result of an exploitation of power.

The fact that some people have a genetic predisposition to higher level of pigmentation in their skin can never be a logical reason for bias. Due to the historical imbalance of power it is exploited to consolidate power and with it riches.

Venkat Bandari
@VenkatBandari3

Friends here is my thread on Adani and his works..

"When Modi took office, he flew from Gujarat to the capital New Delhi in Mr Adani’s private jet — an open display of friendship that symbolised their concurrent rise to power

Records show details of several wire transfers totaling $14.46 million being received by the #Adani firm from this Seychelles entity.
FinCEN Files — In alert on shell firms, NY bank flags transfers to Adani from

Not only does the Adani group borrow directly from banks, it also uses a part of that money to buy equity in subsidiaries – and then pledges those shares to raise further

In Dec 2018, the Gujarat govt passed an order allowing an Adani thermal power project to charge higher prices for electricity, despite the Supreme Court ruling against this in 2017

No contempt of Court?

Winsome’s Jatin Mehta and Raghuram Rajan’s 2015 list of frauds to

Bethani Cameron
@BethaniCameron

Cc: @CarnegieMellon

Harvard\u2019s Institute of Politics has removed @RepStefanik from its Senior Advisory Committee.

In a letter to other members of the committee, Dean of the Faculty of the Kennedy School Doug Elmendorf writes...
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 12, 2021

1.

This is Third World tactics.

Pay overtime, get better help, work late, demand better.

This is why millions of voters distrust the system. https://t.co/cRzBhp9Mrh
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) January 6, 2021

2.

Brad Raffensperger is imploding after his phone call was leaked.

People are now seeing he isn\u2019t doing his job. https://t.co/Gl1PrhPXNe
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) January 4, 2021

3.

Why hasn\u2019t the media insisted on knowing the details about the ballots under the table?

At the very least, the law was violated by kicking observers out before the suitcases were unloaded. https://t.co/JuLLasMdCR
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) January 3, 2021

4.

Fact: Clark County officials threw out a County Commissioners\u2019 race (158k votes) because they didn\u2019t trust the process.

Then when the Trump campaign filed suit to throw out the whole ballot (not just one race) they flipped their decision and certified the race. @MajorCBS
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) January 3, 2021

The Metropolitan Museu...
@metmuseum

A statement from Met leadership on the Capitol desecration:

"The attack on the United States Capitol was an act of domestic terrorism that violated our nation’s highest values." 1/12

"The actions of these treasonous rioters underscore the threat to democracy in a society where misinformation, racism, and other hateful ideologies are allowed to run rampant." 2/12

"Bringing to justice those responsible for these criminal actions is an essential first step towards healing and reconciliation for a deeply divided nation." 3/12

"Last week’s events at the Capitol were not only an attack on the lawmakers who were there to certify the election but also on the very symbols of our government and this country’s ideals. The Met has a responsibility to speak out on both of these areas." 4/12

"The Capitol building and its treasured art collection were subject to acts of shameful vandalism and desecration, including the spraying of a blood-like substance on statues and the general destruction of art and objects throughout the building." 5/12

Malcolm Tucker
@gorbalsgoebbels

It seems to me people are deliberately ignoring the differences between elections and referendums.

Referendums are single issue votes that have seismic impacts. Massive change is enacted if change wins.

That is why they cannot be every few years.

Uncertainty kills economy.

Jeff Hauser
@jeffhauser

Insane! The @washingtonpost editorial board attacks @revolvingdoorDC research file on Jeffrey Zients for being fair enough to include the positive purpose of Zients in government (seeking efficiency) & ignoring and ignoring... https://t.co/FSktDrjT6p (1/x)

how we found out about Zients' purchase of a surprise medical billing operation. (btw, "long term holdings" wannabe Berkshire Hathaway funds like Cranemere engage in EXTENSIVE due diligence, they knew what they were doing). https://t.co/9bXcWYhg0s (2/x)

How do you write about @revolvingdoorDC criticism of Zients without taking into account Zeints' leading role in NorthStar Anesthesia? (3/x)

Does @DaHalperin maybe have some thoughts about Zients, the predatory for profit Kaplan college empire, and the Washington Post???? https://t.co/u7UIKAZ2bF (4/x)

What did NorthStar -- that Zients buddies at the Post Editorial Board think is unimportant -- do? During Cranemere's due diligence AND post-purchase, they engaged in surprise medical billing. (5/x)

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