Election Issues

Steve Bannon has clarified the real target of Trump’s ICE/Gestapo Wave of terror:  the 2026 election.

Nationwide polls and early special elections indicate a likely massive public rejection of the Trump madness.

But this regime won’t tolerate any outcome that would hand Congress to the Democrats.

So it’s launching a Gestapo attack on the electorate.  

From Hitler’s Nazis to advanced totalitarian states to fascist juntas in Third World nations throughout history, the agenda is clear:  crush democracy.

The ICE killings and terror from Minneapolis to Los Angeles to Charlotte to many other cities, campuses and rural reaches throughout the US are anything but random.  They are the early stage of a coordinated dictatorial assault on the mid-term vote scheduled for November.

Trump has fantasized about cancelling that election altogether.  If he could, he would.

 But America’s popular and institutional resistance might run too deep.

For God’s sake, let’s get to the REAL agenda behind Wednesday’s FBI raid on the Fulton County elections office. IT’S NOT ABOUT THE 2020 ELECTION. The warrant says the FBI wants the envelopes from the 2020 election to hunt for crimes. But that’s just the legal excuse for the storm trooping.

This is NOT, as the media seems to think, about Trump’s attempt to prove he won the 2020 race, as if he’s some political Captain Ahab trying to chase the Moby Dick of 2020 revenge.

This is all about 2026 and 2028. Look at a map. Fulton County is the heart of “Blacklanta.” And Atlanta is the electoral heart of Georgia. And Georgia is the swingiest of swing states. If Republicans don’t cut down the Black vote in Atlanta, they lose the crucial seat now held by Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff. And in 2028, the GOP, if they don’t suppress the vote in Fulton, they lose the White House. Fulton was the fulcrum of Trump’s loss in 2020 and could spell doomsday for Republicans in 2028.

Authority is moving away from observable, precinct-level processes and into centralized, data-driven systems that citizens are not permitted to see, audit, or independently verify in most states.

Part 1 explores how voter databases and election administration are being centralized.

Part 2 explains how modern power operates through data, algorithms, and technofeudal systems.

A Statement of Democratic Principles of AUDIT USA

We do not believe democratic societies are defined by perfection, moral purity, or the absence of abuse.

We believe they are defined by their capacity to detect error, correct abuse, and restore trust through evidence.

History shows that when power—whether governmental, institutional, or private—operates without transparency and independent verification, abuse becomes not only possible but predictable. This is not a claim about motives or ideology. It is a structural reality observed across time and systems.

Our work is grounded in three principles:

Skepticism is not cynicism.
Asking for evidence is not an accusation. It is a democratic responsibility.

Transparency is not exposure.
Protecting privacy and civil rights is compatible with public verification of outcomes.

Trust must be earned through systems, not personalities.
Good people operating inside opaque systems are still constrained by what the public can verify.

How Power Learns to Control Without You Noticing — And Why That Should Worry You

Part 1 explained what is happening to our elections and voter databases.

Part 2 explains how power is now exercised — quietly, legally, and largely invisibly.

Most Americans still imagine control as something obvious: soldiers in the streets, ballots being stuffed, or loud authoritarian decrees.

That’s no longer how modern systems work.

Today, power operates through data, algorithms, and narrative shaping — not force.

And the most dangerous part is this:

Most people don’t realize it’s happening.

Why Groupthink Works So Well

Ants and bees communicate through signals. No single ant understands the whole system — it simply follows cues.

Something extraordinary — and deeply concerning — is happening beneath the surface of American election administration.

Federal officials — and unnamed contractors — would then flag voters as allegedly ineligible. States would be expected to remove those voters within 45 days, then resubmit their voter lists to DOJ for approval.

This is not a technical adjustment.

It is a structural shift of power.

Free Press readers are likely aware of the efforts of John Brakey and AUDIT USA. The thrust of their work is that “Elections must be transparent, trackable, and publicly verified”. All the efforts of AUDIT USA revolve around this concept, including the fight for hand-marked paper ballots; opposition to ballot-marking devices (BMDs) for all voters; and the ongoing effort in multiple states to require the retention of ballot images and make those images a public record.

AUDIT USA’s successful litigation in 2016 forced Arizona counties to preserve ballot images and the organization’s current litigation in Arizona will make ballot images a public record. AUDIT USA’s current litigation in Florida will require Florida counties to retain ballot images in accordance with state and federal laws. AUDIT USA has been the primary driving force in the U.S. behind the increasing recognition of ballot images as vitally important, redundant election records that must be retained and must be available to the public.

This article first appeared on Ohio Capital Journal

Buried in a March executive order from President Donald Trump is a provision that could cast doubt on voting machines in Ohio and around the country. The order directs federal officials to amend a set of security benchmarks for voting machines.

It’s all over but the official count. Georgia Republicans can’t win the Senate seat now held by Democrat Jon Ossoff — the demographics will drown them: Georgia is now a “majority minority” state with non-whites predominant.  EXCEPT. EXCEPT if the GOP can come up with a way to stop those un-white voters from voting.

And they have. This week, the violently partisan Republican Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, announced that he is removing tens of thousands of voters who live in addresses that Republicans rarely haunt: office spaces used as housing [and] homes with 10 or more registrants.

It’s all over but the official count. Georgia Republicans can’t win the Senate seat now held by Democrat Jon Ossoff — the demographics will drown them: Georgia is now a “majority minority” state with non-whites predominant.  EXCEPT. EXCEPT if the GOP can come up with a way to stop those un-white voters from voting.

And they have. This week, the violently partisan Republican Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, announced that he is removing tens of thousands of voters who live in addresses that Republicans rarely haunt: office spaces used as housing [and] homes with 10 or more registrants.