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May 24, 2024
Dear Patriot,
We send you off into a long weekend with a lot of information to read and share.
Please read the third and fourth parts in the informative series outlining the massive lawfare used to remove warrior Sidney Powell from the playing field.
We will be taking Monday off for Memorial Day.
As you celebrate the beginning of summer, pause to remember the thousands who have died protecting and defending the United States Constitution.
1- The third and fourth installment of the series on the lawfare employed against Sidney Powell.
The 3rd part deals with sanctions against Sidney and other attorneys in Michigan.
The Hunting of Sidney Powell, Part 3
QUOTE: In August 2021, a federal judge in Michigan sanctioned Sidney Powell, along with multiple other attorneys on the legal team challenging the 2020 presidential election results in the state. (The original sanctions order may be found here.) Ultimately, the court ordered Powell and the other attorneys to pay $175,000 in attorney fees.
Despite affidavits from more than half a dozen experts and dozens of lay witnesses supporting Powell’s allegations in the Michigan election lawsuit, amounting to more than 500 pages of exhibits, she and her co-counsel were sanctioned without the court hearing from a single live witness. No direct or cross-examination of the witnesses whose testimony formed the basis of the lawsuit took place at the sanctions hearing. The court heard arguments only and, as Powell told The Stream, “simply railed on counsel according to the judge’s predetermined narrative that seemed crafted by counsel for the City of Detroit.”
That city was not a named defendant in the suit; rather, it intervened in the suit. Detroit literally had to file a motion with the court asking if it could become a party to the case. It then moved for sanctions. More than $153,000 of the sanctions awarded by the court were given to the City of Detroit, supposedly to reimburse it for the legal fees it incurred in the litigation.
Further, counsel for the City of Detroit was one of the original attorney advisors with The 65 Project, a group seeking to destroy all the attorneys who challenged the 2020 election. One might reasonably conclude the City of Detroit joined the suit for the sole purpose of seeking sanctions.
While the effort Powell and her co-counsel undertook proved to be unsuccessful, to many people, she and her team tried to restore the faith of the people in our Republic and the judicial process through it.
Powell and her co-counsel marshalled an incredible amount of evidence in a very short time for the purpose, as she later informed me, of “first seeking a preliminary injunction to secure voting machines for forensic inspection to put to rest for the entire country once and for all whether the election was stolen or fair.” As noted previously, Powell and company filed election suits in four states in the weeks following the 2020 election. Their federal complaint in Michigan was filed just 22 days later; it included affidavits and analysis from seven expert witnesses, as well as three dozen poll watchers, elections observers, and other lay witnesses. Each of the four election challenges Powell and company filed contained similar supporting evidence.
“The primary and initial goal of the litigation, usually ignored, was to secure the voting machines for a professional, nonpartisan inspection,” Powell told The Stream. “Yet, no court allowed a witness to testify.”
The effort to sanction Powell in Michigan was one of many attacks on her. The next article in this series will cover the bar or ethics complaints she also has been forced to endure.
2- The 4th part of the series deals with Sidney’s years-long fight to save her law license and her livelihood.
The Hunting of Sidney Powell, Part 4
QUOTE: A total of 19 bar complaints (technically called “grievances” under Texas law) were filed against Sidney Powell in Texas alone as a result of her efforts to challenge the 2020 presidential election results, with additional complaints in Michigan and Arizona.
Importantly, complaints filed against attorneys in Texas, as in most states, are generally held confidential and only become public if the lawyer is found to be in violation of the ethics rules. Powell confirmed for The Stream that none of the complaints against her were filed by current or former clients; they all came from individuals she did not represent and did not know.
She confirmed that she personally had to respond to roughly a dozen of the complaints by filing extensive briefs, exhibits, and even replies and sur-replies.
“It was a colossal waste of time and money caused by a purely political attack against me organized and funded by the Democrats,” Powell said. “The Texas State Bar did not have a shred of evidence I violated any rule.”
Powell was forced to hire lawyers in three states to defend herself from these bar complaints, at considerable expense. These actions also consume tremendous amounts of time (and started even before Powell finished filing the four lawsuits challenging the election). Finally, as virtually any attorney who was ever the subject of a disciplinary complaint will attest, the effort to strip one of his or her law license, or otherwise subject the lawyer to discipline, causes significant stress, time, and trouble.
Worse still, in this case, most of the Texas complaints could not even be filed against Powell today. The resolution of the Texas complaint in her favor is a tremendous burden lifted, no doubt, but the complaints in Michigan and Arizona remain. Time will tell how they will be resolved. Powell expects the remaining ethics complaints to be resolved in her favor, since “it is obvious, except to those blinded by the politics of the Left,” that she had “ample reasonable basis to file the lawsuits.”
The Michigan sanctions order and voluminous bar complaints filed against Powell in three states are only two aspects of the lawfare waged against her. We’ll discuss the multibillion-dollar lawsuits filed against her in the final article in this series.
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3- The Supreme Court in Arizona made an excellent decision in favor of the Arizona Republican Party. You can read the Arizona Supreme Court decision at the DTR website.
Good news from the Supreme Court of Arizona
The Supreme Court of Arizona, reversed attorneys fees wrongly imposed against Plaintiffs in a challenge to Arizona’s hand count.
The Court recognized the importance of the Rule of Law, the right to petition, and the role of courts in protecting the legitimacy of elections by allowing resort to the courts without punishment.
From the decision: During times of social and political contention and strife, we must be mindful that our courts provide a means of resolving such conflicts when issues are legitimately presented. By sanctioning the parties and their lawyers for bringing debatable, long-shot complaints, courts risk chilling legal advocacy and citizens raising “questions” under the guise of defending the rule of law. Even if done inadvertently and with the best of intentions, such sanctions present a real and present danger to the rule of law.
For the foregoing reasons, we vacate the trials court’s and the court of appeal’s attorney fees awards.
4- A rare and important win in a blue state.
Portland voters fire Soros-funded DA Mike Schmidt in landslide defeat
QUOTE: On Tuesday night, voters in Multnomah County, Oregon fired one-term George Soros-backed incumbent District Attorney Mike Schmidt.
The race was called at approximately 9:30 pm local time with Schmidt’s opponent Nathan Vasquez leading 58 percent to 42 percent. In a non-partisan primary, if a candidate garners over 50 percent of the vote, they are declared the winner of the election but don’t take office until January 2025.
Vasquez’s campaign focused on Schmidt’s soft-on-crime policies that have led to the deterioration of downtown Portland which has become overrun with homelessness and drugs. Since he won in 2020, Schmidt has been criticized by the union that represents prosecutors which ended up endorsing Vasquez. Downtown business groups also backed Vasquez.
5- Even when you overlook the fact that this is highly-processed, sugar, junk food, there is no reason to invest your dollars in this company. Boycotting this ultra leftist company not only sends a message, it is good for your health.
Is Oreo About to Be the Next Bud Light?
QUOTE: Oreo could be the latest big brand to get the Bud Light treatment. The cookie company’s Chicago-headquartered parent organization, Mondelēz International, will be confronted at its annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday over how its LGBTQ marketing could tank business and irreparably tarnish the brand.
As a shareholder in Mondelēz, formerly Kraft Foods, the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), a non-profit corporate watchdog, is warning the owner of Oreo (and other American household favorites): “Don’t make yourself the next Bud Light.”
According to a two-page proposal, which NLPC will present to shareholders this week, Mondelēz “irresponsibly” involves itself in politically divisive issues and is deeply embroiled in left-wing activism, consequently creating “reputational and financial risk.” Mondelēz is “playing with fire” by joining forces with far-left gender ideologues, NLPC says.
NLPC’s resolution calls on Mondelēz to scrutinize areas of risk where the multinational snack giant and its labels have engaged in “risky relationships” with outside organizations, such as the “ill-advised” one Oreo has with the LGBTQ pressure group PFLAG.
Since at least 2020, the cookie kingpin has been a “proud” partner of PFLAG, previously the national Parents, Families, & Friends of Lesbians and Gays network. PFLAG, which actively lobbies against state laws that seek to protect minors from medical butchery, pushes so-called “gender-affirming” procedures onto school-aged childrenas young as three years old.
PFLAG also battles to place pornographic books in public schools and libraries where children can easily access them. “This Book is Gay,” which provides a guide to finding strangers on gay hook-up apps; “Gender Queer,”which features an illustration of oral sex performed on a sex toy; “All Boys Aren’t Blue,” which contains underage incest; “Flamer,” which features several obscene sexual situations; and “Lawn Boy,” which describes minors performing oral sex on each other, are among the sexually explicit texts PFLAG is pushing.
PFLAG characterizes its child indoctrination efforts in public education as a stand against “book banning.” In addition to supporting legislation that promotes LGBTQ literature’s inclusion in K-12 classrooms, PLFAG co-sponsors a “banned books” website as part of a coalition.
6- There appears to be a shift in high dollar donations from Democrats and into the Trump campaign.
Billionaires for Trump grows: Pledging lives, fortunes, and sacred honor has become fashionable again
QUOTE: The indictments and the attempt to destroy Trump’s business in civil court make it clear that we don’t get another chance to topple this banana republic.
Some rich men get it. The Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post reported, “Trump gets $1 million from Silicon Valley donor who once gave to Democrats.”
The subheadline said, “The donation from Jacob Helberg, a Palantir adviser who helped push the TikTok ban, shows some tech leaders coalescing against Biden.”
He’s gay. He’s Jewish. He’s not alone.
He said, “The social cost of supporting Trump isn’t as great as it was. Trump was right on a lot of make-or-break issues for America.”
Helberg is part of the Gay Mafia that made Peter Buttigieg the secretary of transportation who did such a lousy job that just about everyone in America knows who the secretary of transportation. Heck, before Buttigieg, most people didn’t know we had a secretary of transportation.
His flip to Trump is a healthy sign because given the bloodsport Biden has made of American politics, these men really are pledging their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor. Chairman Xi destroyed Jack Ma — once the richest man in China — for daring to publicly criticize communism. Does Helberg really believe he won’t be Jack Ma-ed in Biden’s second term?
Three things explain this inexplicable move by Helberg. The first is that he does not really believe they would do this to him because, it is just politics, right? I doubt Helberg understands the feeling of having the power to force millions of Americans to take a shot. But the government did and that rush Biden and the rest have explain why Mengele did the things he did.
The second reason he is publicly rebuking Biden is Elon Musk. Trump standing up for America can be dismissed as ego tripping. But then the richest man on Earth at the time acquired Twitter, a direct and open challenge to the deep state, which sponsored its censorship. Musk encouraged others to stand up.
The third reason — and this is more conjecture than usual on my part — is October 7. The savage attack on civilian Israelis by Palestinian soldiers/Hamas terrorists and the world’s refusal to be horrified should have sent the message to Helberg, Rob Reiner and every other Jew in America that being Jewish makes you a target.
7- Against all odds, President Trump’s overall fundraising in April beat the Biden campaign by $25 million. It is one of many trends that we see going in the right direction.
Report: Donations to Biden Plunge, Trump Rise
QUOTE: In a worrying sign for Democrats, fundraising for President Joe Biden’s reelection bid plunged in April as contributions to former President Donald Trump’s campaign increased.
Biden announced that fundraising efforts across his campaign, associated committees, and the Democratic National Committee brought in $51 million in April — a sizable drop from the $90 million in March that came after a spate of post-State of the Union events.
The Democrat incumbent is facing political headwinds that threaten to derail his bid for a second White House term, including disappointing polling and waning enthusiasm for his candidacy among his base.
8- One of our favorite warriors, Chris Rufo, had a discussion on the leftist weapon of doxing. It appears to Chris that this attack method is backfiring on the left.
Counterrevolution #3: The Left-Wing Smear Machine: Pseudonymity, doxing, and the dissident Right.
QUOTE: Last week, I hosted a lively roundtable discussion on pseudonymity, dissent, and the Left’s reputational smear machine.
The inciting incident was the doxing—meaning, the hostile breaking of pseudonymity—of the writer and publisher Lomez. While in the past such episodes were an effective tactic for the Left, it appears that the dynamic has shifted. Rather than ruin a reputation, the smear backfired. The Right vigorously defended Lomez and his boutique publishing house, Passage Press, saw record sales.
I wanted to understand why, so I hosted a discussion with prominent culture critics, including the writer Peachy Keenan, the American Spectator’s Nate Hochman, political theorist Titus Techera, First Things editor Justin Lee, poet Joseph Massey, and independent journalist Eoin Lenihan.
The following are lightly edited highlights from our discussion:
Christopher Rufo: The Right has become more sophisticated in exacting a reputational and economic cost from large institutions, including large corporations. You had the Bud Light fiasco, the Disney fiasco, the Target fiasco, all of these instances in which the Right exerted its popular and discourse power against a large target, giving the institutions the indication that there is a cost to be paid on the other side.
Joseph Massey: I just want to say how heartening it is to see and to witness this alternative push in culture because it wasn’t there when I was “canceled” in the early days of so-called cancel culture in 2018. Twitter/X is absolutely indispensable in defeating these ghouls who only want to destroy you, based on you thinking the wrong things.
Peachy Keenan: It’s been really encouraging and exhilarating to know that we are blessed with enemies that are buffoons inside and out. They’re not sending their best. We beat them in charisma, talent, good vibes, and positivity. They’re nihilists. These men believe in nothing, and we believe in something. And we’re heading somewhere good.
9- A very positive trend for the future of America.
Colleges are tossing DEI out like trash — good riddance
QUOTE: The protests that have unfolded at college campuses around the U.S. are a result of anti-semitism and hatred of western values. They also seem to be proof that DEI — diversity, equity and inclusivity-based programs and hires — are failing, at least when it comes to Jewish students. The realization comes just in time as several universities have vacated their DEI faculty and programs, sometimes in accordance with state law banning it. Good riddance; it’s too bad that it took so long.
In Texas, DEI is banned at institutions of higher learning; the law went into effect Jan. 1. The University of Texas (UT) system recently announced at a hearingthat nine academic and five health campuses had cut 300 positions and over 600 programs related to DEI training. Critics have complained that Gov. Greg Abbott’s bill went too far and now that it’s being implemented, kids are reconsidering whether to even attend state schools.
Three hundred DEI-based positions represent millions of dollars that the school can now use toward scholarships or other positions.
It’s not just happening in Texas.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of Trustees approved a change to divert $2.3 million of DEI funds to public safety and police
The DEI uprooting continues. The University of Florida in Gainesville is also reallocating funds to faculty recruitment and the University of Wyoming has banned mandatory DEI statements and closed its DEI office. The Wyoming Legislature forbade the school from spending state funds on DEI.
It might never be fully possible to directly connect decades worth of DEI programs with the awful protests showcasing rampant antisemitism and anti-American sentiments at colleges and elite universities across America. But it’s not hard to imagine how the two could be linked.
About one-third of states across the nation have banned or limited DEI practices in some form. The colleges and universities that have implemented such bans can now pivot their funds and resources to students on merit-based policies. While there may not be a change on college campuses overnight, change will come. DEI: Good riddance. If only it’d happened sooner.
10- Fed up with their Elected Ones anti-police policy and the rampant crime that has resulted, neighborhoods in Texas are succeeding from cities. This cuts the tax base significantly to these crazy, leftist-run, failed cities.
Wealthy Texas enclave steps up secession bid as feud with woke city leaders over crime crisis explodes
QUOTE: A wealthy Austin neighborhood has ‘given the finger’ to the state’s capital and voted en masse to leave the city amid a spiraling crime crisis.
Lost Creek, a rich enclave in the west side of Austin, saw an overwhelming majority of 91 percent of residents vote to break away from the city during a May 4 election. Many never wanted to be part of City of Austin to begin with when it was annexed nine years ago in 2015.
But as Democrat-run Texas capital faces a public safety crisis – with a shortfall of nearly 500 police officers – tempers have reached boiling point and many residents believe they’d be better off on their own.
‘What an FU to the Mayor and Council of Austin,’ tweeted local retired judge and attorney Bill Aleshire on election night.
When Lost Creek became a part of Austin in 2015, residents who owned multi-million dollar homes became City of Austin taxpayers.
But the public services those taxes pay for are stretched increasingly thin – especially when it comes to cops.
The city is understaffed by 483 officers after the former mayor and city council went to war with the police in 2020, slashing the department’s budget by a third.
Austin’s anti-cop policies are vastly different from the rest of the state, which takes pride in being pro-law enforcement.
Homeowners have resorted to hiring off-duty cops to patrol their neighborhood since the Austin Police Department is too understaffed to respond.
Meanwhile, other Austin areas could soon follow suit.
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