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[mylionheart2]

"All too often, the most corrupt and powerful people grow so accustomed to life with impunity that standard accountability feels to them like unjust persecution."  — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

[halfwaybyaccident]

Who better to run against the first ever convicted felon president than a very successful former prosecutor?

[qidynamics]

“It’s an outlined program for Christian supremacy."

“That’s not a 501(c)(3) activity.”

A network of ultrawealthy Christian donors is spending nearly $12 million to mobilize Republican-leaning voters and purge more than a million people from the rolls in key swing states, aiming to tilt the 2024 election in favor of former President Donald Trump.

These previously unreported plans are the work of a group named Ziklag, a little-known charity whose donors have included some of the wealthiest conservative Christian families in the nation, including the billionaire Uihlein family, who made a fortune in office supplies, the Greens, who run Hobby Lobby, and the Wallers, who own the Jockey apparel corporation. Recipients of Ziklag’s largesse include Alliance Defending Freedom, which is the Christian legal group that led the overturning of Roe v. Wade, plus the national pro-Trump group Turning Point USA and a constellation of right-of-center advocacy groups.

EXCERPTS:

“We are in a spiritual battle and locked in a terrible conflict with the powers of darkness,” says a strategy document that lays out Ziklag’s 30-year vision to “redirect the trajectory of American culture toward Christ by bringing back Biblical structure, order and truth to our Nation.”

Ziklag was the brainchild of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur named Ken Eldred. It emerged from a previous organization founded by Eldred called United In Purpose, which aimed to get more Christians active in the civic arena, according to Bill Dallas, the group’s former director. United In Purpose generated attention in June 2016 when it organized a major meeting between then-candidate Trump and hundreds of evangelical leaders.

After Trump was elected in 2016, Eldred had an idea, according to Dallas. “He says, ‘I want all the wealthy Christian people to come together,’” Dallas recalled in an interview. Eldred told Dallas that he wanted to create a donor network like the one created by Charles and David Koch but for Christians.

The group’s stature grew after Trump took office. Vice President Mike Pence appeared at a Ziklag event, as did former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, Sen. Ted Cruz, then-Rep. Mark Meadows and other members of Congress. In its private newsletter, Ziklag claims that a coalition of groups it assembled played “a hugely significant role in the selection, hearings and confirmation process” of Amy Coney Barrett for a Supreme Court seat in late 2020.

The Christian nationalism movement has a variety of aims and tenets, according to the Public Religion Research Institute: that the U.S. government “should declare America a Christian nation”; that American laws “should be based on Christian values”; that the U.S. will cease to exist as a nation if it “moves away from our Christian foundations”; that being Christian is essential to being American; and that God has “called Christians to exercise dominion over all areas of American society.”

The Seven Mountains theology embraces a different, less democratic approach to gaining power. “If the Moral Majority is about galvanizing the voters, the Seven Mountains is a revolutionary model: You need to conquer these mountains and let change flow down from the top,” said Matthew Taylor, a senior scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian and Jewish Studies and an expert on Christian nationalism. “It’s an outlined program for Christian supremacy."

A driving force behind Ziklag’s efforts is Lance Wallnau, a prominent Christian evangelist and influencer based in Texas who is described by Ziklag as a “Seven Mountains visionary & advisor.” He was one of the earliest evangelical leaders to endorse Trump in 2015 and later published a book titled “God’s Chaos Candidate: Donald J. Trump and the American Unraveling.”

One key document says that “the biblical role of government is to promote good and punish evil” and that “the word of God and prayer play a significant role in policy decisions.”

Other internal Ziklag documents voice strong opposition to same-sex marriage and transgender rights. One reads: “transgender acceptance = Final sign before imminent collapse.”

A prominent conservative getting money from Ziklag is Cleta Mitchell, a lawyer and Trump ally who joined the January 2021 phone call when then-President Trump asked Georgia’s secretary of state to “find” enough votes to flip Georgia in Trump’s favor.

Mitchell now leads a network of “election integrity” coalitions in swing states that have spent the last three years advocating for changes to voting rules and how elections are run. According to one internal newsletter, Ziklag was an early funder of Mitchell’s post-2020 “election integrity” activism, which voting-rights experts have criticized for stoking unfounded fears about voter fraud and seeking to unfairly remove people from voting rolls. In 2022, Ziklag donated $600,000 to the Conservative Partnership Institute, which in turn funds Mitchell’s election-integrity work. Internal Ziklag documents show that it provided funding to enable Mitchell to set up election integrity infrastructure in Florida, North Carolina and Wisconsin.

EagleAI, which has claimed to use artificial intelligence to automate and speed up the process of challenging ineligible voters.

Now Mitchell is promoting a tool called EagleAI, which has claimed to use artificial intelligence to automate and speed up the process of challenging ineligible voters. EagleAI is already being used to mount mass challenges to the eligibility of hundreds of thousands of voters in competitive states, and, with Ziklag’s help, the group plans to ramp up those efforts.

According to an internal video, Ziklag plans to invest $800,000 in “EagleAI’s clean the rolls project,” which would be one of the largest known donations to the group.

Operation Checkmate

Ziklag lists two key objectives for Operation Checkmate: “Secure 10,640 additional unique votes in Arizona (mirroring the 2020 margin of 10,447 votes), and remove up to one million ineligible registrations and around 280,000 ineligible voters in Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, and Wisconsin.”

In a recording of an internal Zoom call, Ziklag’s Mark Bourgeois stressed the electoral value of targeting Arizona. “I care about Maricopa County,” Bourgeois said at one point, referring to Arizona’s largest county, which Biden won four years ago. “That’s how we win.”

Targeting Transgender

Operation Watchtower

For Operation Watchtower, Wallnau explained in a members-only video that transgender policy was a “wedge issue” that could be decisive in turning out voters tired of hearing about Trump.

The left had won the battle over the “homosexual issue,” Wallnau said. “But on transgenderism, there’s a problem and they know it.” He continued: “They’re gonna wanna talk about Trump, Trump, Trump. … Meanwhile, if we talk about ‘It’s not about Trump. It’s about parents and their children, and the state is a threat,’” that could be the “target on the forehead of Goliath.”

As preacher and activist John Amanchukwu said at a Ziklag event, “We need a church that’s willing to do anything and everything to get to the point where we reclaim that which was stolen from us.”

“I am troubled about a tax-exempt charitable organization that’s set up and its main operation seems to be to get people to win office,” said Phil Hackney, a professor of law at the University of Pittsburgh and an expert on tax-exempt organizations.

“They’re planning an election effort,” said Marcus Owens, a tax lawyer at Loeb and Loeb and a former director of the IRS’ exempt organizations division. “That’s not a 501(c)(3) activity.”

“It’s an outlined program for Christian supremacy."

“It’s an outlined program for Christian supremacy."

[cazort]

Hey everyone, I want you to please listen to how the opponents of Harris are communicating, because I think it tells you a lot about what this election is about.

I continue to see a lack of any sort of intelligent rebuttal of any of the pro-Harris, pro-Democrat, and pro-voting posts I and others have made. There's just none at all. Just a string of baseless negativity.

Here is the latest negative comment on one of my posts:

Like it's just a string of personal attacks. It doesn't say anything about Harris, anything about her policies, anything about Democrat policies at all. It's simply a bunch of over-the-top, baseless personal attacks.

Exploring the person's blog, before blocking them, I found even dumber commentary:

Seeing this was kinda surreal because it was exactly the sort of insults that kids would make to each other when I was in elementary school. Like around ages 6-11, before we got a little more mature and came up with a little more sophisticated insults.

I find it really telling that the "other side" to the Harris/Walz ticket, and the Democrats in general, does not seem able to have real discussions on any of this stuff. They can't even make a good joke!

Like yeah, we Harris supporters are goofing around sometimes too but I also see a lot of really serious engagement. I even see people trying to have respectful, back-and-forth engagements with detractors and naysayers.

But I don't see any of this on the other side.

This speaks volumes.

Please listen, people. People, including Trump supporters, and opponents of Harris and of the Democrats, are telling you everything you need to know. You know what they stand for, it's a sort of knee-jerk groupthink enforced by bullying, and it's not driven by any sort of intelligence.

[qidynamics]

We have to keep watching. If they don't win this year, they're going to keep trying at the local level, the state level, and the national level. They'll keep trying to control the judiciary at all levels, legislatures at all levels, school boards, voting rolls, voting certification, voting machines, and the news media. They're not going to stop after this election. They're going to keep trying year after year until they win. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance! But we're not going backwards!

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[qidynamics]

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[mylionheart2]

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo who was appointed by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, personally altered and cut data from a state-driven COVID-19 vaccine safety study.

[qidynamics]

[smoothserg]

Help Federal Government ! They Ripping Us Off in Broad Daylight...

Though Frederick Banting co-discovered insulin at the turn of the century — winning the Nobel for it in 1923 — the turn of the millennium brought a new, more horrific discovery:

Big Pharma. With drug prices creeping up steadily since the 1990s in the U.S., insulin became the poster child of a crisis. Its prices have been going up with abandon, and, increasingly, diabetics can barely afford it, if at all.

In 2016, nearly a century after Banting won the Nobel, those with type 1 diabetes spent an average of $5,705 out of pocket per person on insulin annually, per a report from the Health Care Cost Institute. Meanwhile, median household income in the U.S. in 2016 was just $59,309. Insulin alone could gobble up 10% of a person’s income. 

The Republicans Blocked the Bill That would Cap the Price of Insulin at $35.00.

We Must Unite to Vote Them Out...

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[short-wooloo]

Reblogging because hitler wannabe announced his campaign for president today

So you dumb fuckers better vote for Biden and every other Democrat on the ballot

If you don't, then you are responsible for every dead Woman, Trans person, Queer person, Ukrainian, children, Black persons, Jewish Persons, and every other people desantis hates/will see abused (ie everyone who is not a cis straight white male christian)

Republicans OPENLY want to kill queer people, oppress minorities, and turn the country into a christo-fascist dictatorship, but you ABSOLUTE FUCKING DUMBASSES ARE STILL ACTING LIKE THE DEMOCRATS ARE EXACTLY THE SAME, because you don't want to "compromise" your pretentious fake, holier than thou "values"

The only way to preserve democracy and protect people's lives is to vote blue, every position, every election, every year, down the ballot

To the self-righteous pricks who supposedly have liberal views and values but refuse to vote:

Fuck you, rot in hell, everything, every death, every act of tyranny, every drop of blood, is on your hands you selfish pieces of shit

[darkwizardjamesmason]

Ya know if people wanted to have votes be harm reduction so bad they should probably do research on third parties and see which people actually want to do harm reduction instead of just repeating "voteDemocrat!VoteDemocrat!VoteDemocrat!" Like a bunch of cultists