Supreme Court is losing legitimacy as public sees it as partisan

https://thehill.com/opinion/3781656-press-time-to-shake-up-the-supreme-court/

Ethics code is needed.

Charlie Cooper

Focus may shift to executive action to promote democracy

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/3774044-voters-turned-out-to-support-democracy-president-biden-must-lead-from-here/

Co-heads of Declaration for American Democracy call on Biden to institute executive actions (like a disclosure requirement for federal contractors) now that House of Representatives is in Republican hands.

Charlie Cooper

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Petition to support Supreme Court code of ethics

https://standupamerica.com/action/letter-scotus-ethics-dec22/?akid=9272.1266661.9TlptP&rd=1&t=1&utm_content=&utm_medium=email

The timing of this would seem to be late. Why are they doing this now?

Charlie Cooper

Democrats plan state-level voting rights initiatives

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/26/us/politics/democrats-voting-rights.html#commentsContainer

Dems have won power in PA, MI, and MN and plan to pass laws for automatic voter registration, pre-registration of high-school students, and protection of election workers.

Charlie Cooper

Specific suggestions for strengthening election administration

https://www.marylandmatters.org/2022/12/22/opinion-election-deniers-lost-in-2022-but-havent-gone-away-heres-what-to-do-next-to-protect-democracy/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=6daa7bce-ece5-4233-b2df-8c47fdac38f3

The writer is a Maryland Democratic Party operative in charge of election protection. He calls for specific steps to protect election workers and the process of counting ballots.

Charlie Cooper

Good overview of Supreme Court ethics breaches

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/new-allegations-of-a-leak-by-justice-alito-underscore-the-need-for-supreme-court-reform/

Thanks to Steve Pressman of Indivisible Montgomery

Leonard Leo helped Trump aide financially while Supreme Court nomination was pending

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/20/trump-conway-leonard-leo-00074690

Right-wing judicial activist Leonard facilitated a deal whereby Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway sold her company to Creative Response Concepts while she was involved in picking a nominee for the Supreme Court.

"It appears Leo, via one of his dark money groups, helped finance the transaction between the firm, Creative Response Concepts Inc., and Conway — worth between $1 million and $5 million, according to experts citing the timing of the transactions filed through the same attorney and bank. At the time, CRC was also bringing in millions of dollars from dark money groups to promote Leo's picks. "

Charlie Cooper

Schumer will put electoral count reform into omnibus budget bill

https://www.timeswv.com/news/national_news/bill-to-protect-electoral-vote-counts-could-pass-next-week/article_7e949082-7d7c-11ed-9d96-67428afd396b.html

Charlie

Amid record spending for midterms, dark money & billionaire money soar

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/4-takeaways-about-money-midterms

State and local elections cost $16.7 billion, but dark money would make that figure higher if it could all be counted. Portland, ME, and Oakland, CA passed public financing ballot measures, and Arizona passed a disclosure measure. All 3 measure passed by at least 65%.

Charlie Cooper

Allegations of voter suppression in Florida

https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/opinion/community-voices/opinion-failure-to-provide-context-explanation-evident-in-coverage-of-desantis-victory-M7W7VIU77BCR3HSD2M7QRXNSSQ/

The author alleges that voters were purged illegally and had their party designation changed from Democrat to Republican without their permission.

Charlie Cooper

Republicans ISL theory could backfire

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/01/gop-argument-redistricting-backfire/

The author explains that Republicans have already exploited partisan gerrymandering to a greater extent than states with Democratic-dominated legislatures. California's commission could be thrown out,  yielding several new Democratic seats. Maryland's court decision could yield an even more Democratic-leaning map. His survey indicates a gain of up to 15 seats for Democrats.

Charlie Cooper

What Moore v. Harper could mean

https://fairvote.org/what-the-moore-v-harper-decision-could-mean/

The author thinks that Kavanaugh, Barrett, and Roberts are struggling to find a compromise path to rule in favor of a limited ISL Theory. Some 200 state commissions and high court rulings stand to  be overturned if a full-throated ISL is adopted.

Charlie Cooper

Maryland fair districts advocate opposes ISL

https://www.marylandmatters.org/2022/12/07/opinion-could-supreme-court-case-give-md-democrats-greater-license-to-gerrymander/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=b73388a4-4dfd-4551-9d2e-a52c2d314c28 

Charlie Cooper 

Facebook's automated software accepted are threatening to kill election workers

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/01/technology/facebook-ads-threats.html 

Researched submitted ads. They pulled the ones that were approved before publication. Other social media companies performed better.

Charlie Cooper

Dark money means we don't know

https://popular.info/p/sbfs-political-scam?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email 

Crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried now says he lied about being partial to Democrats in distributing teens of millions in the remember election. We must ban dark money.

Charlie Cooper 

60 organizations ask for investigation of Supreme Court ethical breaches

https://demandjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Coalition-Letter-on-Alito-and-Ethics-Reform.pdf

Eight of the organizations have signed on due to the efforts of For the People -- Maryland.

Charlie Cooper

Supreme Court counsel says Justice Alito didn’t violate ethics standards

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/28/politics/supreme-court-samuel-alito-ethics-letter/index.html

Charlie Cooper

Allegations of Supreme Court breachs prompt inquirie

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/20/us/supreme-court-breach-alito.html?searchResultPosition=3

Charlie Cooper

Former anti-abortion leader alleges leaks by Supreme Court justice

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/19/us/supreme-court-leak-abortion-roe-wade.html?searchResultPosition=4

Charlie Cooper

GOP losers file suit over Maricopa election-day problems

https://www.yahoo.com/news/kari-lake-files-lawsuit-against-145726770.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMNcaFb8zhznEFU-lclaHEnC-vpjfimV2r58mwl0X0wqpRt96bnCxFnoC9Rq9XfrRgdR1dIHFvBTMHPVsI3nRxi9-nEmV6OyBQe4700diL0f5_KYigoylKJMAEmclDGS3e99rfOah29Z0R7g1N35O3JWMUQFRqLg2pKLxWxHM6P7 

Charlie Cooper

AP finds that individual voter fraud is very rare

https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-voting-rights-florida-georgia-4db14ddccf37e4597cb9b7f20ec499b4?user_email=96eb705c0db50c27ac3d234439d4e34535193f1d552af2727344ed6896c6e3aa&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Nov26_MorningWire&utm_term=Morning%20Wire%20Subscribers 

New investigative agencies and processes set up in several States by Republicans alleging election integrity problems have yielded little to no results.

Charlie Cooper

Arizona election deniers demand a new 2022 election

https://www.newsweek.com/election-deniers-demand-revote-outside-arizona-capitol-building-1761932

Kari Lake who lost the race for Governor to Katie Hobbs and Abe Hamadeh who lost for Attorney General to Kris Mayes are suing to demand that their elections be declared invalid and that the elections be conducted anew. The AG race differential is only 510 votes, and an automatic recount will be conducted, but Hamadeh is not satisfied. [There were some problems in Maricopa County at polling places, but no evidence has yet been presented that it could have changed the outcome.]

Charlie Cooper

Right-wing view of voter fraud and voter suppression

https://capitalresearch.org/article/book-review-the-myth-of-voter-suppression/

Heritage Society generally denies that race-, age-, or ethnicity-based voter suppression exists in Republican-dominated states and decries Democratic Party attempts to allow what he considers to be voter fraud. He says there have been 1,300 proven cases of voter fraud in the past 40 years. That's quite a low number given the scale of fraud alleged by election denialists.

Charlie Cooper

Brennan Center analysis of campaign money in 2022 midterms

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/billionaires-provided-15-percent-funding-midterms

Billionaires spent wildly, and SuperPAC funding was $1.3 billion. Trends since Citizens United v. FEC in 2010 are just what we predicted.

Charlie Cooper

There are still problems with Maricopa county election procedures

https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2022/11/21/brnovich-demands-answers-from-maricopa-county-about-what-he-suspects-are-election-law-violations/ 

Despite a continuing investigation, it does not seem that the outcome of the election will be changed.

Charlie Cooper

This revelation may set the stage for supreme Court reform legislation in Congress

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3744554-another-leak-of-an-alito-opinion-senate-investigation-can-help/

Charlie Cooper

Arizona voters defeated about measure that would have required photo ID

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/17/arizona-voter-id-ballot-measure/ 

UAE interfering in U.S. foreign policy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/11/12/uae-meddled-us-politics-intel-report/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F38531ef%2F63711e377e2620469f0deaeb%2F596bf11fae7e8a44e7e24152%2F8%2F72%2F63711e377e2620469f0deaeb&wp_cu=a978da95a6d8c1553195474a09748f62%7Cfaf1cfba-0f88-11e0-a478-1231380f446b

Charlie Cooper

U.S. is the only democracy in the world that elects election officials

https://theconversation.com/voters-largely-reject-election-deniers-as-secretaries-of-state-but-the-partisan-battle-for-election-administration-will-continue-194137

Consideration should be given to deisgnating secretary of state elections as non-partisan.

Charlie Cooper

Public campaign financing wins in Oakland

https://rjkgyg-zgph.campaign-view.com/ua/viewinbrowser?od=3zf7d05980da5788d05185671a9b299385e4c4e799f9980a00fafc3097235f3c25&rd=1c515e0a530b3fb7&sd=1c515e0a530b3a4f&n=11699e4c315ee9c&mrd=1c515e0a530b3a3d&m=1

Renaud Brown

GOP Congressman Dan Crenshaw says election deniers know they are lying

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/11/04/dan-crenshaw-election-deniers/

Anti-immigrant, pro-oil Rep. Dan Crenshaw outs the election deniers via his podcast, saying "It was a lie. It was always a lie." He then goes a little further into how some in Congress and some of the media personalities rationalize lying to to the public.

Bonus video: Cenk Uygur of the The Young Turks and colleagues discuss Crenshaw's statement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=yOMjDzya7eE

Charlie Cooper

Group will challenge Trump using 14th Amendment

https://www.alternet.org/2022/11/watchdog-group-14th-amendment-challenge/

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has written to Trump advising him that they will challenge his run for the presidency in 2024 using section 3 of the 14th Amendment. That section provides that a person who has taken an oath to protect and defend the U.S. Constitution and who then supports insurrection is disqualified from holding any office. A New Mexico judge disqualified an officeholder recently -- the first use of the provision since 1869.

Charlie Cooper

Finchem received $10K from extremist Oath Keepers members

https://www.azmirror.com/blog/mark-finchem-has-raised-nearly-10000-from-oath-keepers/

"The Oath Keepers are an anti-government extremist group whose members were deeply tied to the violent riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6. The leader of the organization, Stewart Rhodes, has been charged with seditious conspiracy and he spoke of "Civil War" prior to the day's events. Another 10 Oath Keepers, including one from Arizona, are also facing charges for seditious conspiracy and other crimes.

"Finchem declared his membership in the Oath Keepers in a 2014 candidate questionnaire, writing that he was an 'Oath Keeper committed to the exercise of limited, constitutional governance.'"

Charlie Cooper

Watch "Remember The Runoffs (with Robert Creamer)" on YouTube

https://youtu.be/pp5TZEce72Q 

Why Dems have a chance despite Flint pool numbers.

From Shayne Dizard

The company under investigation for storing poll worker data in China has sued Big Lie proponents

https://www.courthousenews.com/gop-election-deniers-arrested-in-federal-court-for-contempt/

Konnechs has sued conspiracy theorists True the Vote, a right-wing purveyor of the Big Lie. Leaders of that group are now facing contempt charges.

Charlie Cooper

Staunch GOP Attorney General of Arizona belittles election deniers

https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2022/10/30/arizona-attorney-general-tells-60-minutes-election-deniers-are-clowns-engaged-in-a-giant-grift/?sh=55f2c57465ac

In this text article a 42-second video, AZ AG Brnovich (yes, the one who made it harder for people to vote) says that election deniers have no evidence.

"Brnovich, a lifelong Republican, supported Donald Trump in 2020 and investigated claims of election fraud in Arizona after [the 2020] election. He ultimately found just 12 cases—12 fraudulent ballots—cast in a state where Joe Biden won by 10,000 votes."

Charlie Cooper

Republican leader of Maricopa Co. election board speaks out on election deniers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFpU8pjduWw

CBS 60 minutes video interview of 3 minutes.

Charlie Cooper

Pelosi quoted on electoral count reform

https://www.newsitem.com/opinion/editorials/congress-must-act-to-safeguard-elections/article_08570adc-ea85-5f5f-9bab-f87da1ad78d7.html

The speaker said that electoral reform could be folded into a larger bill and that it "might" get done in the lame duck.

Charlie Cooper

Center for American Progress proposes a compromise voting rights bill

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/a-legislative-proposal-to-help-safeguard-elections/

The bill does away with almost all of the Freedom to Vote Act and comprises vague language about not discriminating in opportunity to vote. It creates a private cause of action for anyone whose opportunity to vote has been restricted.

Charlie Cooper

GMOM founder Joe Garonzik op-ed

https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-1031-voting-inflation-20221028-c24yjfizpbckncpmrr4rtdti34-story.html

Garonzik goes beyond the headline inflation numbers to show how policy choices impact middle- and working-class pocketbooks.

Charlie Cooper

Why people believe that voter fraud stole the election for Biden

https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2022/70-percent-republicans-falsely-believe-stolen-election-trump/

Charlie Cooper

Federal judge refuses to block Arizona vigilantes from "monitoring" drop boxes

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/judge-allows-arizona-vigilantes-to-continue-monitoring-drop-boxes/?emci=3823850c-1c57-ed11-819c-002248258d2f&emdi=819d19a9-2157-ed11-819c-002248258d2f&ceid=6010516

The judge ruled that "Clean Elections USA's" First Amendment rights outweigh voters' rights under the Voting Rights Act and the Ku Klux Klan act of 1871.

Charlie Cooper

Biggest wave ever of money in midterms

https://us12.campaign-archive.com/?u=7fdad23a80f54c4dc24833bd8&id=0d3d28587d

Top 50 billionaires have given $1.1 billion, and that doesn't include dark money.

Charlie Cooper

Rural Nevada still obsessing about 2020 election lies

https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/how-rural-nevada-became-the-next-battleground-for-the-big-lie

Rural Nevada accounts for less than 3% of the states' votes. Trump won by double digits in most places, with margins sometimes exceeding 50%. But rural Nevada election boards continue to obsess about purported voter fraud in and around Reno and Las Vegas. They want to eliminate all voting machines and use hand counting of ballots, and they somehow believe that if they switch to these methods, that the urban jurisdictions will be forced to follow suit.

Election administrators have been subjected to harassment and death threats and some have resigned, creating a prospect of chaos in administering the upcoming elections in these small counties.

Charlie Cooper

2-minutes video explains Independent State Legislature Theory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdPZCMpP3u4

Animation from the Brennan Center.

from Shayne Dizard

Michael Flynn group surveying election officials about voting machines

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-election-surveys/

The article alleges that the group misrepresents its purpose when asking for interviews with election officials. "Chris Quackenbush, a Republican who interviewed officials in Florida [for Flynn's group], told Reuters the surveyors only 'pretended' to be nonpartisan. The real objective was to gather technical information on voting machines to help wage a campaign against them, said Quackenbush, a former software executive who wore a 'NO VOTING MACHINES' badge during an interview"

Charlie Cooper

Election deniers are wreaking havoc with Nevada's election administration apparatus

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/21/nevada-republicans-election-denier-sabotage-midterms/

Many local election officials have resigned due to harassment and threats and visible errors have appeared on ballots prepared by their replacements. Secretary of State candidate Jim Marchant is leading the charge of election deniers.

Charlie Cooper

Manchin and Hickenlooper team up for fossil fuels

https://prospect.org/power/how-manchin-capitalized-on-being-at-center-of-ira-debate/

As he was negotiating with Chuck Schumer for the energy permitting piece of the "Inflation Reduction Act" in the summer, Manchin created a new fundraising vehicle. Colorado Senator Hickenlooper supported the fossil-friendly part of the bill, and then contributions from Colorado energy companies flowed to Manchin. The fossil-friendly provision did not pass, but the two will keep trying.

Charlie Cooper

What a secretary of state can do to skew elections

https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-biden-doug-ducey-arizona-donald-trump-710d8d35d6414784255fa133e08f190e

A secretary of state (especially in tandem with governor and attorney general) could rewrite election manuals, make it harder to register, limit drop boxes, scuttle valid voter initiative petitions, change machines, select/fire contractors, purge the voter rolls and much more.

Charlie Cooper

Summary of briefs filed in Moore v. Harper (re: ISLT)

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/moore-v-harper-parties-submit-briefs-to-the-u-s-supreme-court/?emci=09b4d95d-ae50-ed11-819c-002248258e08&emdi=e6b680e6-3751-ed11-819c-002248258e08&ceid=6010516

Summary of briefs written by an attorney for the Democratic Party. It points out that the NC legislature had explicitly enacted provisions for court review of election laws vis a vis compliance with the state's constitution.

Charlie Cooper

Poll reveals current attitudes toward the fairness of elections

https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-presidential-election-2020-democracy-33823de7f22a601a192fc82eeb88e630?user_email=96eb705c0db50c27ac3d234439d4e34535193f1d552af2727344ed6896c6e3aa&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Oct19_MorningWire&utm_term=Morning%20Wire%20Subscribers

Republicans and Democrats have flipped their attitudes on whether democracy is working well. No mention is made of money in politics. It seems Trump sets the agenda -- even for these pollsters who clearly reject Trump's Big Lie.

Charlie Cooper

American-Israel PAC funds Trump Republicans

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/18/pro-israel-lobby-group-aipac-midterms-election-deniers-and-extremist-republicans

The pro-Israel group spends money to defeat Democratic progressives who speak up for rights of Palestinians and also sometimes funds "racists, homophobes and election deniers running for Congress next month because they have pledged to defend Israel against stiffening criticism of its oppression of the Palestinians."

Charlie Cooper

Another rundown of corporations financing elections for Big Lie proponents

https://popular.info/p/corporations-donated-more-than-356?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

" This single newsletter involved analyzing hundreds of thousands of campaign finance records filed with 16 states and the federal government."

Charlie Cooper

DeSantis removes an elected prosecutor on flimsy grounds

https://truthout.org/articles/ron-desantiss-ousting-of-elected-official-sets-a-dangerous-precedent/

Florida governor has removed a local elected prosecutor, using a state statute that allows the Governor to remove officials for malfeasance, misfeasance, drunkenness, etc. The official is fighting back in federal courts.

Charlie Cooper

What's so bad about Independent State Legislature Theory (ISLT)

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/supreme-court-may-adopt-extreme-maga-election-theory-that-threatens-democracy/

This article contains an enlightening list of particular ways that ultra-partisan state legislatures can deny the popular will in federal elections if the Supreme Court greenlights ISLT. In addition, chaos would ensue because state elections would continue to be subject to the usual checks and balances by governors, state courts, and administrative officials.

Charlie Cooper

Supreme Court reform is constitutional and has been attempted before

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/14/opinion/supreme-court-reform.html?searchResultPosition=1

In a review of Reconstruction Era history, Jamelle Bouie explains how Republicans almost imposed supermajority requirements on certain types of decisions by the Supreme Court.

Charlie Cooper

Tech billionaire Ellison funds election deniers

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2022/10/12/tech-billionaire-larry-ellisons-record-political-giving-funds-election-deniers-in-midterms/?sh=61cb94582934 

Larry Ellison has 86 billion dollars and he's funding a super PAC.

Charlie Cooper

Pence supports Kari Lake for governor of Arizona despite her election denial

https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meetthepressblog/midterm-elections-roundup-standing-election-deniers-rcna51831 

Prominent Republicans who accept Biden's victory nevertheless support election denies because they agree with them on other issues and for party solidarity.

Charlie Cooper

Certain prominent corporate leaders have contributed to election deniers

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/12/2022-midterms-corporate-leaders-fund-election-deniers-in-secretary-of-state-races.html 

Charlie Cooper

CATO Institute explains benefits of the Electoral Count Reform Act

https://www.cato.org/blog/electoral-count-act-rule-law-political-violence

The libertarian think tank does a good job of laying out how the changes in the Electoral Count Reform Act respond affirmatively to actual behaviors of MAGA election deniers.

Charlie Cooper

New CNN poll shows election deniers ahead in AZ, NV secretary of state races

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/07/politics/secretary-of-state-election-denier-poll-arizona-nevada

Charlie Cooper

Texas election administrators face harassment, death threats

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-election-poll-workers-battle-activists/ 

One Republican legislator said that his colleagues know that the vote suppression law they passed are based on "bullshit" claims of voter fraud.

Charlie Cooper

Software firm CEO charge with storing election related data in China

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/ceo-election-software-firm-held-id-info-theft-91016852 

The firm had a contract with Los Angeles county which required it to keep the data in the US according to the charging documents.

Charlie Cooper

Guardian series on threats to Democracy

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/04/us-democracy-attack-midterms-election-constitutional-crisis-2024

This series starts with Nevada secretary of state candidate Jim Marchant's claims that only hand-counting of ballots is reliable. The county replaced its election administrator with an MAGA election denier.

Charlie Cooper

Details of campaign funding for Arizona governorship

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/arizona-election-update-blake-masters-kari-lake/

Charlie Cooper

ISLT could override electoral count reform

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/30/supreme-court-could-effectively-nullify-electoral-count-act/ 

Should we share this with Helen Rogers and Bill Van Horne prior to our meeting?

Charlie Cooper

Poll results show Finchem and Marchant leading

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/10/01/world/politics-diplomacy-world/election-conspiracy-theorists-leading-polls/

This article shows actual poll results with election deniers Finchem in AZ and Marchant in NV leading in secretary of state races.

Charlie Cooper

Conference of chief state judges file SCOTUS brief opposing ISLT

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/26/us/politics/supreme-court-state-legislatures-elections.html

In a rare action, the conference filed a brief opposing independent state legislature theory in the upcoming Moore v. Harper case. If the Supreme Court goes all the way with ISLT, then state constitutions and state court systems could not constrain partisan legislatures in rigging federal elections in their respective states.

Charlie Cooper

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Subject: Raphael Warnock is TIED
To: Renaud DeAundre Brown NA <rdbtenor@gmail.com>

The latest Data for Progress poll of the Georgia Senate race is tied between civil rights activist Raphael Warnock and Trump-endorsed extremist Hershel Walker. Fascist Republicans will control the Senate if they take even one seat, so this is an all-hands-on-deck moment. Our organizing campaign in 2020 raised turnout in Georgia by 11% among our targeted voters and directly led to Senator Warnock's upset victory. Can we count on you to rush a donation now to help turn out enough voters to break this tie before our last end-of-quarter budget deadline before the election on Friday at midnight? Despite echoing Trump's lies designed to destroy fair elections, calling for a deeply unpopular abortion ban with "no exceptions," and being unqualified in every way to serve in the Senate, Walker has used his access to unlimited billionaire support to buy enough attack ads to keep this race deadlocked. That's why we're investing significant resources in Georgia to defeat Hershel Walker and stop a fascist takeover of the Senate: Can we count on you to rush a donation before our last end-of-quarter deadline before Election Day to help us implement the same voter turnout program we ran in 2020 that raised turnout in Georgia by 11%? Your money will be put to work immediately, so any amount is a huge help in this tied race! If you've stored your payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation to Our Revolution will process immediately. CHIP IN $10 NOW » CHIP IN $18 NOW » CHIP IN $27 NOW » CHIP IN $100 NOW » CHIP IN $250 NOW » CHIP IN ANOTHER AMOUNT » We proved our collective power yesterday by stopping Joe Manchin's dirty deal. Let's prove it again by beating back Trump's fascist Senate candidates before it's too late for our democracy. In solidarity, Our Revolution

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How Election deniers can subvert thousands of Democratic leaning precincts to rig future elections

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/21/opinion/republicans-democracy-elections-bannon.html 

This half hour video shows how Republican election deniers are being recruited as pole watchers, local election officials, county election officials, state election officials, including secretaries of State and how they could use those official posts to arbitrarily challenge votes and Democrat leaning precincts in order to create a mass of "evidence" a voter fraud.

Charlie Cooper.

Jim Marchant seems hypocritical about mail-in voting

https://www.kake.com/story/47351723/nevadas-gop-nominee-for-top-election-post-wants-to-eliminate-mail-voting-but-voted-by-mail-multiple-times 

Nitty-gritty of how a denier might function as secretary of state

https://www.politifact.com/article/2022/sep/21/how-would-us-voting-be-affected-if-election-denier/

Charlie Cooper

Statement of U.S. Chamber of Commerce in opposition to DISCLOSE Act

https://www.uschamber.com/improving-government/u-s-chamber-key-vote-letter-on-the-disclose-act

Charlie Cooper

Fossil companies want to limit free speech for climate protesters

https://theintercept.com/2022/09/16/fossil-fuel-industry-climate-free-speech/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter

And, of course, they want complete immunity from criminal or civil penalties for the lies they continue to tell about climate.

Charlie Cooper

Vestiges of the literacy test as voter suppression continues

https://www.propublica.org/article/voting-rights-video-georgia-literacy

A reporter followed a woman who's been arrested twice for helping people to read their ballots. Still, she persisted.

Charlie Cooper

First hints of electoral count reform from Jan 6 members

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/election-reform-bill-liz-cheney-democrats-may-get-house-vote-next-week

Liz Cheney (R) and Zoe Lofgren (D) will introduce a bill, and Steny Hoyer says it may be voted on Friday. The implication is that this bill will supercede the effort by Josh Gottheimer (D) and Fred Upton (R).

Charlie Cooper

Crytpo regulation should not be left to rich crypto exploiters

https://rooseveltinstitute.org/2022/09/14/what-current-crypto-proposals-miss-and-why-we-need-to-get-it-right/

Congress is considering regulating cryptocurrencies and committees are competing to hold jurisdiction so they can raise funds from billionaires and crypto companies.

"The rise of money in politics, in addition to the devastation it wreaks on our democratic system, creates incentives for certain elected officials to vie for certain committee seats, which they can then translate into campaign contributions from industry and corporate executives. In the fight over derivatives regulation [in 1999-2000], members who belonged to the House and Senate Agriculture committees discovered that they could raise millions of campaign dollars, not only from the stakeholders interested in traditional Ag committee work (like food and drug conglomerates and bioscience companies), but also from the businesses and billionaires with a vested interest in derivatives deregulation. As such, banks and other financial institutions were able to leverage and maintain murky regulatory authority to disseminate highly risky derivative products like credit default swaps–the same instruments that helped trigger the Great Recession."

Charlie Cooper

Get Money Out - Maryland

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Election deniers' information requests are jamming election offices

https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-voting-georgia-presidential-florida-dfbe7f00418a35c70c9d53fa3a260111?user_email=96eb705c0db50c27ac3d234439d4e34535193f1d552af2727344ed6896c6e3aa&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Sept17_MorningWire&utm_term=Morning%20Wire%20Subscribers

Workloads are mounting as election conspiracy theorists flood offices in urban areas with thousands of requests.

"Election officials say the vast majority of the challenges will be irrelevant because they contest the presence on voting rolls of people who already are in the process of being removed after they moved out of the region. Still, they create potentially hundreds of hours of extra work as the offices scramble to prepare for November's election."

Charlie Cooper

House members drop electoral count reform bill

https://www.govexec.com/management/2022/09/lawmakers-take-another-step-toward-avoiding-chaos-last-presidential-transition/377215/

Fred Upton (R) and Josh Gottheimer (D) have introduced a bill. Although contents aren't fully described in this article, the bill is said to have drawn praise of Senate sponsor Susan Collins (R). However, members of House January 6 Committee are drafting a broader bill.

Charlie Cooper

Lawsuite re: Arizona's proof of citizenship requirement

.... This brings us to March 2022, when Arizona Republicans passed House Bill 2492, requiring all voters to submit documentary proof of citizenship to vote in all elections. H.B. 2492 now requires election officials to verify the citizenship of voters who, since the 2013 ruling, have registered using federal forms without needing to provide documentary proof of citizenship or registered before 2004. Up to 200,000 Arizonans could have their voting rights stripped away, especially since it can be quite difficult to prove citizenship and millions of Americans lack the kind of proof the law requires. Six lawsuits, including one by the U.S. Department of Justice, have been filed against the new law.

From Marc Elias, Democracy Docket

Denyer tries to deny denying

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/this-candidate-thinks-the-2020-election-was-illegitimate-but-hed-rather-you-didnt-know-that/ 

Charlie Cooper

did NC legislators submit fake document to SCOTUS?

https://www.politico.com/amp/news/magazine/2022/09/14/fraudulent-document-cited-in-supreme-court-bid-to-torch-election-law-00056810 

The authors claim that in 1818 document that purported to show evidence for the independence state legislature theory is a fraud perpetrated by Charles Pinckney of South Carolina.

Election deniers band together

https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-biden-donald-trump-presidential-michigan-cdfa5bd771c484335f2f03182af5b08d

Candidates for Secretary of State want to return to paper ballots, single-day elections with few or no mail-in ballots, and hand counting of tallies.

Charlie Cooper

NM Court finds man ineligible for public office after participating in insurrection

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/cowboys-trump-fanatic-lawsuit-wins-sets-big-precedent-rcna46946

Cuoy Griffin held public office in NM and took an oath to the U.S. Constitution. A NM judge found that he participated in insurrection against the United States and barred him holding any office of trust in NM or the U.S. under section 3 of the 14th Amendment.

Charlie Cooper

What damage could election-deniers do if elected this Fall?

https://abcnews.go.com/fivethirtyeight/video/election-deniers-office-2024-fivethirtyeight-89613076

This 3-1/2 minute video explains the authority that secretaries of state and governors have in the presidential election process.

Charlie Cooper

Good overview of election deniers running for Governor

https://www.marylandmatters.org/2022/08/26/how-election-denying-gop-governors-could-tilt-the-2024-presidential-election/

Charlie Cooper

American for Tax Fairness outside spending report

https://americansfortaxfairness.org/issue/report-billionaires-buying-elections/

It should be remembered that this report doesn't cover dark money and that both parties have billionaire donors and employ dark money.

Charlie Cooper

Open secrets overview of dark money trends in 2022

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2022/05/dark-money-gets-darker-with-less-disclosure-in-the-2022-election/

Spending increasing while reporting to FEC decreasing. Foreign money is a concern.

Charlie Cooper

60% of voters will have an election denier on their ballot

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/republicans-trump-election-fraud/

This article attempts to catalog every election denier running in the November general election.

Charlie Cooper with thanks to Indivisible