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@XelanUSA @TheSCIF FIRST thing I thought about seeing this thread was "Sydney Powell was right."

@TheSCIF More proof of what I and Sidney Powell and a few others reported in 2020. Americans laughed then--nobody is laughing now!

Raw data shows server's IP addresses from foreign countries including, China, Iran, Serbia, and others directly sending and receiving data from every single swing state and many other's election precincts during and after the 2020 election. The 2020 election was stolen.

@TheSCIF @WrenAsAunts It wasn’t just 2020, it’s also 2022, and 2024. So without major reform, it’s going to be 2026 too…

@TheSCIF Besides Brennan, Obama, Clinton, and Soros, who else was involved? I can think of about ten more. @DNIGabbard and @realDonaldTrump were both called Russian assets by Hillary and Soros loathes Trump.

@TheSCIF Why has there not been more press around Patel's FBI finding burn bags with emails talking about catching Chinese nationals at the border with fake drivers' licenses from all the swing states to pair with mail-in ballots?

🧵 THREAD: You've heard the phrase "OUR DEMOCRACY" a million times. But what exactly is "OUR DEMOCRACY"? 🤔 When they say "democracy," they don't mean a republic. They don't mean consent of the governed. They don't mean your right to choose your own leaders. They mean a system where "institutions" - NGOs, multilaterals, the permanent bureaucracy - advance a set of values they consider settled: equality, social justice, cosmopolitanism, global governance. These values aren't proposals to be voted on. They're treated as moral prerequisites that must be true *before* your vote counts. Despite what they say, they aren't for checks and balances. Checks and balances limit what government can do to you. This limits what you can do to *them*. The brakes are on accountability, not power. The institutions that set the boundaries of acceptable policy have put themselves beyond the reach of the electorate, and they call that arrangement "democracy." Trump has been an existential threat to this system since the moment he said "drain the swamp" ... because the swamp IS the system. When he threatened those institutions, he didn't threaten the republic. He threatened their immunity from it. And they said so. On camera. At their own events. In their own words. As always, patience as I pull together the thread.👇

Interesting thread

@ggreenwald This is stupid. If oil were going to go to $200 it already would have.

Trump is now completely reliant for every answer on the same exact claim used to sell the Iraq War: They're getting nukes; they'll give them to terrorist groups; they'll take out our cities; be afraid; we have to bear whatever cost to stop their WMD program.

@AlecMacGillis What a BEAUTIFUL post.

"Sheryl Cowan, 57, was making $272,000 a year as a senior VP at a U.S.A.I.D.-funded nonprofit when she was let go at the end of March 2025. Last month she had an online interview for a $19-an-hour job managing a Penzeys Spices store in Falls Church, Va." nytimes.com/2026/04/21/us/…

@ggreenwald He doesn't NEED to. Closing the Strait of Hormuz will get the job done with no further destruction to infrastructure. (No matter how condescending I get- toward your nonsense- I just can't keep up.)

Good summary: x.com/EmmaMAshford/s…

- The Trump/Netanyahu war is well into its eighth week - ninth week starts Sunday -- not 6 weeks as Trump claimes here. - The day he started the war, Trump told the NYT it'd be over in 4-5 weeks max. - Trump always had and has the option to end the war early without the war aims achieved. If he wants the war aims achieved, it will required protracted warfare and/or criminal levels of destruction. That's the dilemma he created for himself and the country.

@ggreenwald You really take the cake Glenn. Trump listened to opposition to his precision bombing campaign... and opted to instead choke off Iran's oil revenues. And all you can say about the revised war strategy is to complain that it makes the war take longer to achieve its purpose. SMH

The Strait of Hormuz Reverse Uno Card When Raji Khabbaz and I were running Silver Arrow Investment Management, whenever we were trying to figure out why something happened, he was unsatisfied the explanation that people are sometimes stupid and institutions are often stupid. He correctly thought that people usually have a good reason (at least to them) for doing something even if it appears to make little sense to an outsider. More importantly, he thought that “sometimes people are stupid” was a lazy answer that was dismissive. As investors, it was our goal to understand what was happening, not to ignore it. Recently, I’ve written that many of President Trump’s critics are making the same error. When Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway that previously transported 20% of the world’s oil supply, the price of oil rose. Gas prices in the US have risen in response. Many screamed that this was an obvious move by the Iranian regime and insisted President Trump should have known it was something they’d do. How could he not know?! In 2002, the US Navy conducted war games they called the Millennium Challenge. One side represented Iran. The other represented the technologically superior US Navy and included an aircraft carrier, warships, and cruisers. The US Navy side had a substantial advantage in firepower. Retired Marine Corps Lieutenant General Paul K. Van Riper used asymmetric warfare tactics to wipe out the US side in one day. Had this been a real fight, the US would have lost 20,000 servicemen. The result was such an embarrassment that the Navy re-floated the sunk ships, changed the rules of engagement to ensure a US victory, and started the challenge again. These games were not a secret. They have been widely covered in the mainstream media and have been the subject of a New York Times documentary. Over the past two decades, I have seen the Millennium Challenge discussed in my daily financial news reading at least a dozen times. The event has its own Wikipedia page. Regardless of your opinion of President Trump, do you really believe that neither he, nor anyone in the White House, nor any of his military advisors, nor Secretary of War, Hegseth knew about this? I realize that many of you reading this have strong negative emotions regarding President Trump. I’m not asking you to like or respect him. I’m just suggesting that “he’s stupid and has no idea what he’s doing” is not good analysis. This is a point I’ve made in this space in the past. Early in the war, Iran closed the Strait which placed economic pressure on the rest of the world. Despite the fact that it was Iran mining the Strait and shooting at the ships that attempted to navigate it, many countries expressed anger at the US and Israel. This was the outcome Iran wanted. Then, the regime decided to allow friendly ships to pass if they paid a fee. The fees were about $1/barrel of oil, or about $2MM per large container vessel. (Many of these fees were paid in Bitcoin, something macro analyst, @peruvian_bull, explained in an excellent post within the past week.) This looked like worst-case scenario for the US. Iran succeeded in closing the Strait and causing economic problems all over the world, then found a way to profit from their own actions. Then, President Trump played his “reverse uno” card. He correctly realized that it wasn’t just the rest of the world that depended on free passage through the Strait of Hormuz, and that it was Iran that had the most exposure. Iran is a big oil producer, and oil exports account for 80% of Iran’s exports, 60% of government revenue, and 25% of its GDP. It turns out that Iran has more economic exposure to this narrow waterway than anyone else. President Trump sent the US Navy to form a blockade. He closed the Strait himself ensuring no more $2MM/vessel charges and an inability for Iran to export oil. Iran is close to filling its own storage. Once its oil tanks are full, the regime has two choices, either capitulate and come to an agreement with the US, or to stop producing from its own wells. The problem with the second choice is that it’s difficult to reverse. Stopping production on an active oil well tends to damage it and it’s hard to re-start later. Iran now has a limited amount of time to find a course of action before 25% of its GDP becomes permanently(ish) impaired. While no one in the US likes paying more for gas, prices were much higher just four years ago in 2022 and around $4/gallon in 2008, 2011, and 2012 when $4 had more purchasing power than it does now. The US is a net energy exporter with an economy that has survived higher prices in the past. Foreign ships are turning away from the Strait of Hormuz and sailing to Texas and other southern US ports to fill up at premium prices. I’m not suggesting that this is great for the US; but rather, that the US is well-suited to manage the situation while Iran is about to be faced with a massive long-term problem. Finally, Iran maintains control of the country using extensive human infrastructure. There are police everywhere monitoring protests, internet usage, the attire of citizens, and the hair of Iranian women. That level of control is expensive and the government just lost 60% of its revenue. I’m wondering how long they’ll keep doing their jobs without paychecks. I don’t know how this conflict will end. What I do know is that President Trump and the US Navy have turned Iran’s biggest strategic strength into a giant weakness. Sometimes people do stupid things. And sometimes, we just aren’t seeing the reasoning behind those actions. Last week, one of DKI’s interns wrote, ”The bottom line is that (financial analysis) can tell you what the market’s pricing in, but it’s your job to figure out why”. Right now, the mullahs are facing a difficult decision. It will be interesting to see what comes next.

@WWRKDS @FSociety_1942 Can this data be included in the GOP response to the VA GA's appeal of the referendum's stay?

Jeff, we noticed the issue in Chesterfield shortly before you noticed the JSON file change. However we noticed it by comparing the most recent Daily Absentee List ("DAL") transactions to the JSON files as election night was unfolding. (We've been working to verify and go through other issues as well.) In the graphic below you can see the difference between the latest DAL file numbers of "ON MACHINE" ballots (which are in-person early votes that have been recorded on a ballot scanner *before* election day) and the JSON election night reports as the JSON file is getting updated and localities are reporting their summary data. [This is the Locality data stream from the JSON, not the per-precinct data, which shows many other issue, btw] The "blip" in Chesterfield appears sometime between 10 and 10:30am EST, when the JSON report shows that a large number (56,760) "On Machine" ballots suddenly appear in the JSON feed that are not corroborated by the DAL records. About an hour later, those records are removed from the JSON feed, which appears to be what you detected. The other thing to note here is there is a consistent discrepancy of 14,371 "On Machine", where the JSON Locality data feed is showing 14,371 more "ON MACHINE" ballots than the DAL records. @EpecTeam

VIRGINIA OK, I am trying to organize my thoughts about yesterday's vote in Virginia. Here is my analysis from my capturing of the election night reporting data. There was an "f-curve" at 8:59pm that was actually preceded by a near f-curve at 8:43. These 2 updates wiped away what had been a decent lead for "no redistricting". Interestingly, at 9:16 there was another big jump for "yes". From my analysis, most of the votes from all 3 of these came from Fairfax County, one of Virginia's most reliable vote manufacturing hubs. My old pet peeve, totals going down rather than up, was way too frequent. 23 counties had at least one case of "negative votes", including Chesterfield's whopping 71,903 deduction at 10:45 this morning (April 22). Augusta had a 11,968 deduction at 10:18. A whopping 13 counties had deductions in the SAME REPORT at 7:41PM on the 21st (for a total of 18,476). This is not acceptable and needs explained. (Other than, "well these numbers aren't official". They are official enough to show on the news.) And, of course, the referendum was ultimately lost because of mail-in votes. About 10% of the total was mail-in, and about 73% were "yes". We have no way of knowing how many of these were real people casting a vote for themselves, but they added net 137,000 votes for "yes" and that is almost 50,000 more than the currently reported winning margin for "yes". (The same applies for the election of Commissar Spanberger) In summary, a completely preventable train wreck. I hope that the Republican leaders in Virginia are now convinced that mail-in ballots and machine counting are not our friends. I also hope they start asking the hard questions of counties like Chesterfield. It's going to be easiest to read this, shrug, and move on. Please don't. Please forward on, especially if you know people in Virginia. But the same thing will happen in every other state, eventually, if its not stopped. You can see the raw data for yesterday's election at votedatabase.com/2026 - select Virginia, unknown party, then statewide or whatever county you want to examine. I'm here if anyone has questions.

Here are the counties whose vote totals went backwards again.

@FSociety_1942 Do you think making it illegal for any county to report publicly before all counties have submitted their totals would help? It seems like "someone" is waiting to see how many mail-in ballots they need to create.

@FSociety_1942 Remember when an inebriated Bob Shrum was on Fox News during one Presidential election where he started laughing about how the Dems in Virginia knew ALL ABOUT how to pad elections for the victory?

@TheFP So what? As the deep state loves to say, “the process is the punishment.” Have at it! Transparency is the best disinfectant.

The Justice Department will have a hard time proving that the SPLC's use of informants amounts to fraud, writes Jed Rubenfeld. thefp.com/p/the-splc-has…

@RodDMartin And meanwhile, are they still operating?

🚨 I TOLD YOU THEY WERE GUILTY. The noose is tightening on ActBlue — and the Democrats have a massive problem. So bad that top ActBlue officials pled the Fifth an incredible 146 times! ActBlue — the Democrat fundraising juggernaut that poured over $16 BILLION into their candidates and causes — is now exposed for vast illegal foreign donations, money laundering, “election interference,” and illegal straw-donor schemes… followed by a massive cover-up to keep Congress and the DOJ in the dark. House Republicans just released a devastating interim staff report from the Administration, Oversight, and Judiciary Committees. What they uncovered is every bit as bad as I’ve been warning you. Two ActBlue officials, including Alyssa Twomey (their former VP of Customer Service who oversaw fraud prevention during the 2024 cycle), plus three former company lawyers, refused to answer EVEN ONE substantive question under oath. They invoked their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination a staggering 146 TIMES. Even worse? The report reveals the entire legal and compliance team “appears to have left the platform after the 2024 election because of its ‘knowing and willful’ acceptance of illegal foreign contributions, and the subsequent cover-up.” House Chairmen Bryan Steil, James Comer, and Jim Jordan also allege that CEO Regina Wallace-Wells made false statements to Congress — and that ActBlue withheld subpoenaed documents (some of which were discovered by the leftwing New York Times: ouch!). This is not a fishing expedition, and it won't end in a "strongly worded letter." This is the walls closing in. 1. The DOJ has opened a full criminal investigation into ActBlue’s role in facilitating foreign interference in U.S. elections. 2. 19 state attorneys general are actively investigating ActBlue for fraudulent fundraising, potential money laundering, and misuse of donor identities. 3. On Monday, Texas AG Ken Paxton filed a landmark civil lawsuit against them. The numbers aren’t small. We’re talking thousands of donations from foreign IP addresses using prepaid cards — the perfect vehicle for money laundering. Some of ActBlue's straw donors even "gave" thousands of separate donations EACH over just a few days. Wait, what?! The question is no longer whether ActBlue is corrupt. The question is: how deep does the rot go, and how far up the Democrat food chain does it reach? Serious people could be facing serious prison time. And Democrat fundraising could collapse if they’re suddenly forced to rely only on legitimate donors — especially while the giant taxpayer-funded Democrat slush funds (USAID, NED, EPA, Planned Parenthood, etc.) are being cut off left and right. They thought they were untouchable. They acted like it. Big mistake. Full Deep Dive (with all the receipts) is in my reply 👇 RT if you want real election integrity in 2026.