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DOJ Issues Requests For Documents to ERIC and Zuckerbuck-Funded CEIR Over Sharing of Private Voter Data

Last month, The Gateway Pundit reported that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin had sent a letter to Attorney General Todd Blanche urging him to renew calls for investigations into barcode/QR code voting systems and the Election Registration Information Center (ERIC) and its handling of sensitive motor-vehicle data.

DHS officials had previously met with the DOJ under then-Attorney General Pam Bondi in September 2025 regarding these concerns.  DHS’s previous concerns did not seem to produce any sort of resolution, legal determination, or any meaningful action.

Now, under recently confirmed Attorney General Todd Blanche, the Department of Justice has sent two letters requesting information related to the DHS concerns— one to ERIC and one to the Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR).

The DHS letter outlines concerns that ERIC may have violated the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act (DPPA) by providing drivers’ private data to the CEIR.  CEIR and ERIC both claim that this is a “permissible use” outlined in the DPPA and that the data was used for research.

The DOJ letter to ERIC states:

ERIC has maintained that its use of DPPA-protected personal information falls under a statutory permissible use.  But courts have construed exceptions to the DPPA’s protections narrowly, and the membership agreement’s vague references to “research projects” and “responding to requests for information from third parties” do not appear to be tethered to the DPPA’s limited permissible uses.  Even apart from the issue of disclosure to third parties, the scope of ERIC’s own use of DPPA-protected personal information remains unclear.  Although using such information for furtherance of government functions may be a permitted use, using protected information for certain partisan purposes is not a government function and is thus not permitted under the DPPA — regardless of whether a state consents.

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COMMIES IN THE COURT: Biden Judge Rules Law That Makes It Illegal for NONCITIZENS to Vote Is UNCONSTITUTIONAL!

Biden commie Judge David Leibowitz from Florida ruled in favor of a Jamaican national because it was federal prosecutors who brought the case under a federal statute against non-citizens voting.

Leibowitz claims only states can decide whether noncitizens can vote. WTH?

The dirty communists are out of control in America today!

They know they need the illegal votes or Democrats CAN’T WIN!

U.S. District Judge David Leibowitz (Southern District of Florida, nominated by President Biden) dismissed a federal criminal case on October 1, 2026, against Chelsea Cox, a Jamaican national, ruling that the federal statute criminalizing noncitizen voting in federal elections is unconstitutional.

Cox entered the United States as a tourist in 1999 and remained after her visa expired the following year. She used a fraudulent U.S. Virgin Islands birth certificate to obtain a Florida driver’s license and registered to vote in 2012. She cast ballots in federal elections from 2012 through 2020.

Only the 2020 vote fell within the statute of limitations when she was charged in October 2025 under 18 U.S.C. § 611 (“voting by an alien”), a 1996 law that makes it a misdemeanor for a noncitizen to vote in elections for president, vice president, or members of Congress.

Biden Judge Leibowitz held that the Constitution assigns the power to set voter qualifications to the states, not Congress.

He wrote that Florida already prohibits and can punish the conduct at issue under state law, and that it is for Florida—not the Department of Justice—to enforce that requirement.

The opinion states: “Can the State of Florida prohibit and punish the exact conduct Defendant Cox allegedly engaged in here? This has already been decided elsewhere and is not addressed here: Florida can and does.” He concluded that “the Constitution does not authorize Congress to legislate voter qualifications for federal elections.”

Cox’s attorney welcomed the dismissal. Of course.

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Brazil Court Goes on Censorship Spree Days Before Presidential Election

Brazil’s top electoral authority, the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE), issued new censorship rulings on Wednesday as the nation prepares to hold presidential elections this weekend.

The South American nation is hours away from holding its 2026 general elections, scheduled for Sunday, October 4, with all polls suggesting that a runoff election will be held on October 25 between current incumbent socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and conservative Senator Flávio Bolsonaro.

In the past week, the 2026 Brazilian presidential campaign has seen two new controversies emerge surrounding Bolsonaro and Lula. The conservative senator denounced being the target of a fake news campaign accusing him of allegedly planning to remove the title of Brazil’s patron saint from Nossa Senhora do Aparecida (Our Lady of Aparecida), a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary that holds 300 years’ worth of faith and veneration for Brazilian Catholics.

Sen. Bolsonaro — who is running for office after his father, former President Jair Bolsonaro, was banned and imprisoned for “crimes against democracy” charges — is an Evangelical Christian. Globonews, which Bolsonaro accused of acting as a “central hub” to spread the fake news campaign against him, issued a public retraction and apology after the claim was confirmed to be false.

On Wednesday, a three-out-of-five majority of the TSE’s justices ordered the complete removal of any and all social media content involving the fake news campaign against Bolsonaro, upholding an initial ruling issued by Supreme Court Justice and TSE member André Mendoça in response to a request issued by the Bolsonaro presidential campaign team.

Wednesday’s ruling was preceded by a back-and-forth series of court orders on the matter. The state-owned news agency Agência Brasil detailed on Wednesday that Mendoça had originally ruled to censor the fake news campaign posts against Bolsonaro — but Supreme Court Flávio Dino overturned the censorship orders on the grounds that they infringed the free speech rights of a local comedian who lodged a complaint on the matter. Supreme Court Justice Luiz Fux later overturned Dino’s ruling. The impasse led to the head of the Supreme Court, Edson Fachin, bringing the matter to a vote.

Metrópoles detailed that Justice Mendoça had initially argued that removing social media posts pertaining to the fake news campaign did not constitute censorship, as the content had already been proven to be misinformation and therefore “does not constitute prior censorship, as it does not establish prior state control over future expressions, does not require judicial authorization for new publications, and does not suspend users’ profiles, accounts, or channels.”

Separate from the controversy surrounding the fake news campaign against Flávio Bolsonaro, President Lula has found himself at the center of a firestorm after he bizarrely claimed this week that Brazilian girls learn to “get touched” from a young age. According to Lula’s ruling Workers’ Party (PT), the Brazilian president was allegedly referring to cervical cancer screenings.

The TSE also issued censorship rulings on Wednesday against conservative lawmaker Nikolas Ferreira over his response to Lula’s controversial statements. Ferreira, a 30-year-old Congressman from Minas Gerais, published a video expressing his outrage about Lula’s remarks while questioning the “explanation” provided by his party. In the video, which remains publicly available at press time, Ferreira affirmed that there is the possibility that a pedophile “might be listening” to Lula’s remarks and stressed, “girls aren’t to be touched from an early age.”

TSE Justice Estela Aranha reportedly gave Ferreira a 24-hour deadline to remove a video, arguing that the lawmaker allegedly “took the president’s statement about medical exams out of context and attributed a sexual connotation to his words.” Arahna ordered Ferreira to abstain himself from both republishing the video and from producing any kind of content that is “substantially identical” to the original piece under penalty of a yet-to-be determined fine.

“The contested publication is not limited to political criticism or disagreement regarding the appropriateness of the language used,” Justice Aranha reportedly argued.

“In developing the line of reasoning set forth in the contested media report, the respondent introduces a connotation entirely different from that present in the original statement, shifting the discussion from the realm of public health to that of various criminal acts,” she continued.

Ferreira referred to the situation in a social media post, which reads, “Lula knows so much about what he lost that he only requested the removal of the video from my network, but not a right of reply, because he knows he would have to explain the inexplicable.” In a separate post, the lawmaker pointed out that it was Lula who appointed Justice Aranha to the TSE in 2025.

The contents of the conservative lawmaker’s video appear to have greatly infuriated Lula, who called Ferreira a “bastard” during a Tuesday night campaign rally. In the same event, Lula’s wife, First Lady Rosângela “Janja” Lula da Silva, referred to the lawmaker as a “little shit.”

Hours later, the Brazilian president once again insulted Ferreira in a Wednesday interview with Terra Brasil, referring to him as a “complete idiot” for allegedly spreading “misinformation” against him.

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Trump DOJ Announces More Indictments, Guilty Pleas For Voter Fraud While Democrats Insist ‘There’s No Fraud’

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced this week the indictments of ten aliens for voter fraud in Minnesota alone, as well as charges and guilty pleas involving 12 individuals – including three illegal aliens – for election crimes throughout the nation.

According to a DOJ announcement released Wednesday, the ten defendants in Minnesota were found by the Department of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) to have voted illegally in the November 2022 and 2024 general elections, and the August 2026 primary election. A federal grand jury indicted them separately on September 24 for voter fraud, and all ten have made their initial appearances in federal court.

Details about the defendants can be found here at the DOJ website.

The announcement about the indictments for voter fraud in Minnesota came Monday after the department revealed charges and guilty pleas in the cases of 12 individuals – including three illegal aliens – related to “illegal voting, fraudulent voter registration, and related election crimes across the country,” including in Florida, Kansas, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, Hawaii, and Utah, the DOJ reported.

U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin, and U.S. Attorney Daniel N. Rosen spoke during a press conference Wednesday about the indictments for voter fraud.

“[E]very voter that votes should know that their vote counts,” Mullin said. “It shouldn’t be canceled by an illegal or someone illegally voting in those elections, and that’s exactly what happens. The only people that should be choosing our leaders are American citizens that are legally able to vote.”

Mullin said the investigations into voter fraud are increasing rapidly.

“When we start talking about cases – yes, we just made 10 – I think we just had 10 convictions,” he said. “We have 100 administrative arrests, 53 criminal arrests, 37 indictments, and 10 convictions – and we’re just getting started. We have over 1,600 voter fraud cases that we are currently investigating, and we have 300,000 more that we’re getting to.”

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Why Our “Populist Moment” Keeps Failing

Ever since Donald Trump shocked the legacy press, “expert” pollsters, and the political establishment more broadly in November of 2016, we’ve seen endless attempts to explain what was, at the time, seen as a perennial sea change in American politics.

A consensus quickly emerged that pointed to a “populist surge” on the right, driven by rural white voters who were angry about the financial crisis and the political class’s failure to “stem the tide” of illegal immigration. The establishment tried to frame this all in a way that was flattering to themselves. Trump’s popularity, we were told, came from a particularly nasty group of uneducated rural whites who were enraged about having to compete with non-white people and stupid enough to fall for Trump’s lies.

But anyone looking closely could see that that characterization was, at best, a gross and overly narrow simplification. While rural white populations provided a lot (not all) of the votes and fuel for the Trump movement, its ideological thought leaders were largely young men living in or around blue cities, connecting and interacting with each other online.

Also, at the same time, there was a significant populist surge on the left. This was a bipartisan, or even non-partisan, political phenomenon. Establishment Democrats have done a far better job than their Republican counterparts at keeping their populist wing in line—largely thanks to its political leader, Bernie Sanders, who was always willing to roll over and support the establishment candidate when the time came. That said, the success of several “post-woke” democratic socialists in this year’s primaries suggests that establishment Democrats are now also losing control.

So it’s not merely some handful of uneducated rural white voters. There has been a widespread sense, across the political spectrum, that America’s institutions are not merely failing, but are actively working against the interests of everyday Americans. And that is true.

The massive federal government built up in DC over the last century or so was never meant to serve the interests of the American people as a whole. It has always been a tool for enriching the political caste and their well-connected friends in the “private sector.” They’ve done that directly with tax-and-spend programs and indirectly by using rules and regulations that warp entire industries to benefit some well-connected firms already on top.

The political establishment has gone to great lengths to hide their expropriative activities behind deceptive propaganda and fake appeals to the common good. But especially after they’ve taken the opportunity to greatly ramp up their schemes in response to crises of their own making—like the 2008 financial crisis—it became a lot harder to stop people from noticing that, somehow, the elites are ripping them off.

The “populist anger” against the elites that resulted has enabled Trump’s dominance of the Republican Party and fueled an escalating civil war within the Democratic Party that appears to be nearing a similar establishment defeat. And this anger has been the defining feature of American politics for at least ten years now.

What, then, has this populist moment accomplished? What has been done to liberate the American people from our corrupt political class, or at least to meaningfully improve the safety and material well-being of everyday Americans?

The truth is, on nearly all fronts, the results have been abysmal.

Broadly, this populist wave was meant to end the “corruption” in DC—or to stop politicians and bureaucrats from using government to enrich themselves and their friends. It was meant to end the endless series of wars fought to benefit foreign groups and governments along with well-connected firms in the “defense” and energy sectors. And it was meant to reorient the American system from one that serves the interests of corporate giants and financial elites to one that serves small businesses and local communities.

On the right, populists also wanted to stop or reverse the demographic changes resulting from the post-1965 immigration system. And populists on the left wanted to reverse the rising levels of economic inequality.

Over the last decade, every single one of these problems has gotten worse. Why?

There are, of course, plenty of specific mistakes, shortcomings, or outright failures we could examine on all these fronts. But, at the end of the day, all come back to the same fundamental problem: the populist right grew bored with economics.

The truth is, the current wave of anti-establishment, anti-elite political sentiment did not really begin ten years ago with the election of Donald Trump. It began earlier, right in the wake of the financial crisis. There was, of course, the Occupy movement on the left, but that mostly boiled down to calls to send bailouts everywhere in the economy rather than just to the big banks, or even for a full-on socialist revolution. Economic literacy was never at home in that movement.

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Romania’s Lawless Globalist State Puts Georgescu Back Behind Bars for 30 Days After First Cancelling the Election He Won

The Bucharest Court of Appeal has ordered Călin Georgescu—who won the first round of Romania’s 2024 presidential election—into 30 days of preventive detention, overturning a lower-court ruling that had allowed the former frontrunner to remain free under judicial supervision.

The decision sends the figure at the center of Romania’s conservative, anti-globalist camp—and the most trusted politician in the country, according to some polls—back behind bars.

The move has further intensified accusations from his conservative Romanians that the country’s post-2024 establishment is using prosecutors and courts to contain a movement it has struggled, and even failed, to contain at the ballot box.

DIICOT prosecutors secured the reversal after challenging the Bucharest Tribunal’s refusal to imprison Georgescu while the €1.1 million fraud investigation proceeds. Businessman Ionel Rusen was also ordered into preventive detention, with the Court of Appeal’s ruling final.

Even the appellate panel was reportedly divided over whether detention was justified. Two judges disagreed, requiring a third to resolve the split in favor of incarceration—a detail Georgescu’s defenders have seized upon as evidence that the prosecution’s demand was hardly self-evident.

Georgescu’s lawyer, Mircea Sinescu, reacted with fury. “It is a hallucinatory solution!” he said, adding that “paper supports anything,” according to the Romanian account of the ruling.

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28% of US Voter Verifications Have NO MATCH at Social Security Administration

Since 2004, the Social Security Administration has provided a simple process to help States with verifying voter applications. It’s called the HAVV System. States send in the name, DOB, and last four digits of the voter’s SSN. The SSA then notifies the State if that person is deceased, alive, matches SSA records, or No Match Found!

A whopping 13% of all HAVV verifications processed in 2025 came back as NO MATCH. That’s 318,217 of the 2.37 million submitted. Since 2011, an astounding 28.8% of all HAVV submissions have come back as NO MATCH. For the past 15 years, the federal government (SSA) has been unable to match 28.1 million voter submissions from States, to the information in its comprehensive computer systems. The Feds have every right to know what garbage is being processed at the State level for our Federal elections.

These alarming percentages most certainly are justification for the DOJ to have access to any State’s voter rolls, including the voter’s full SSN. Yet, activist Judges in MI, OR, and CA tossed out the DOJ cases for voter rolls. The HAVV program was created to process new voters who can’t provide a valid Driver’s License during registration.

This amount of “Non Matches” is why passing the SAVE Act, which requires voter ID, is simply imperative.

When a blue State receives a “NO MATCH” report from their own Federal Government, do you think they reject, or approve that voter application?

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Missouri AG Launches Investigation into ActBlue Over Foreign Money, Gift Cards, and Fired Staff

Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway opened a consumer-fraud investigation Friday into ActBlue, the liberal fundraising machine that processed nearly $1.8 billion in 2025 for about 23,000 Democratic candidates and progressive groups.

Hanaway’s office says it is looking at possible violations of the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act, including fraud, misrepresentation of foreign contributions, and unfair practices.

According to a press release from her office:

Political contributions from foreign entities in any form are strictly prohibited by federal law. After investigating ActBlue, the U.S. House Committee on Administration forwarded information regarding its conduct to the Attorney General’s Office for potential investigation. The Attorney General’s investigation will examine whether ActBlue sent any funds raised through fraudulent contributions to a Missouri political office, campaign, or committee. ActBlue is a fundraising platform widely used by almost 23,000 Democratic candidates and groups. In 2025, they raised nearly $1.8 billion for progressive causes across the nation.

Recent reports indicate that through faulty, potentially deliberately unsound, donation verification processes, ActBlue could have received and used money directly from foreign sources. It is also suspected that ActBlue receives donations by way of prepaid cards or gift cards, a difficult-to-trace method that has been used by foreign donors to conceal contributions. Additionally, there is reason to believe fraudulent contributions are being made to ActBlue under false identities or on behalf of other individuals without their knowledge.

The Attorney General’s Office is also inquiring about multiple resignations, terminations, and whistleblower complaints. Employees who may have flagged weaknesses in fraud-prevention systems, objected to internal decisions, or believed ActBlue was not properly addressing fraud risk were potentially suppressed or punished for speaking out.

“When political fundraising is compromised, public trust and the foundations of our democracy are put at risk. Missourians deserve a political system built on honesty and confidence that campaigns are not being financed through unlawful foreign sources,” said General Hanaway.

“Political fundraising must never become a pathway to deception, influence, or special treatment,” Hanaway added.

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Supreme Court Reinstates Database for Voter Citizenship Verification – Ketanji Brown Jackson Fumes

The US Supreme Court on Friday reinstated President Trump’s database for voter citizenship verification.

In an unsigned order, the high court, in a 6-3 decision, allowed the Trump Administration to use an expanded database that contains citizenship information.

Liberal Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson dissented.

“[The] harm caused by burdening or disenfranchising even a few lawful voters outweighs the nonexistent harm that the government experiences when it is prevented from taking an action that it likely lacks the authority to take,” Jackson wrote.

Excerpt from NBC News:

The Supreme Court on Friday permitted the Trump administration to use an expanded federal database containing citizenship information, as the president encourages states to purge people from voter rolls.

The justices, divided 6-3 on ideological lines with conservatives in the majority, granted an emergency request filed by the government after lower courts ruled that the Trump administration’s changes to the database were likely unlawful.

But the court noted in its unsigned ruling that the National Voter Registration Act bars the broad purging of voter rolls in the weeks leading up to an election, which “limits the potential impact” of the decision this year. States can still make individualized queries about voters.

Last March, President Trump signed an executive order aimed at preserving and protecting the integrity of US elections.

“Free, fair, and honest elections unmarred by fraud, errors, or suspicion are fundamental to maintaining our constitutional Republic. The right of American citizens to have their votes properly counted and tabulated, without illegal dilution, is vital to determining the rightful winner of an election,” Trump’s executive order said.

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Report: U.S. Voters Turning to Chatbots for Election-Related Information

American voters are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots and AI-generated search summaries for election-related information in growing numbers, according to research published in 2026 by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) and the AI firms Orchestra and Anthropic.

According to a report by The Hill, the trend spans both dedicated chatbots and AI overviews embedded in search engines. U.S. adult chatbot usage rose from about one-third of adults in 2024 to about 50% in 2026, per a study commissioned by Orchestra [1]. About 650,000 chatbot prompts reviewed by the firm related to politics, the study found, with ChatGPT and Google AI tools the most frequently used sources, according to the research [1].

The shift is drawing scrutiny from election officials and researchers because AI systems can generate answers that are incomplete, outdated or inaccurate, the reports stated. The findings arrive as the 2026 midterm elections approach, with state and local offices preparing for voters who may arrive at the polls with information assembled by automated tools [2].

Use of AI for Political Questions Grows

An analysis by the Anthropic Economic Index found that politics ranked No. 66 out of 189 topics, a level the researchers described as “modest, but still meaningful,” according to the report. In states holding May primaries, political conversations on the platform rose about 20%, according to Anthropic’s Andy Hall and UCLA’s Dan Thompson, who authored the analysis.

“If primaries can lift political AI use this much, November’s midterm elections will likely bring the biggest wave of political AI use on record,” Hall and Thompson wrote. The projection suggests that general-election traffic will exceed the primary-season increase, according to the report.

Max Read of the ISD said AI outputs “are going to be playing an increasing role” as a primary information source and in subtler ways, according to The Hill [2]. The Associated Press reported in a May investigation that AI “can not only rapidly produce targeted campaign emails, texts or videos; it also could be used to mislead voters, impersonate candidates and undermine elections on a scale and at a speed not yet seen,” according to the report [2]. The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report ranked misinformation and disinformation as the foremost threat to humanity in its 19th edition, ahead of climate change, the report stated.

Accuracy and Completeness Concerns Persist

An ISD report found that 29% of election-related chatbot replies were incomplete, inaccurate or outdated, according to the report. Errors included misidentifying Election Day dates and citing outdated requirements, the report stated. Another 16% of responses answered correctly but omitted useful details such as deadlines or ID requirements, according to the findings.

Accuracy dropped 16 percentage points when prompts were submitted in Spanish, the report stated. The language gap raises questions about whether AI tools serve voters with limited English proficiency as reliably as English-speaking users, according to the researchers.

Ben Worthen of Orchestra said the growth in people turning to these tools for information questions has been “staggering,” and that Google AI overviews now answer much of what users type into Google. Independent researchers have documented similar patterns across other domains, including public health, where chatbots have generated flawed medical advice according to independent research [3]. A study by the Digital Media Research Center found that AI chatbots often fail to debunk conspiracy theories, instead presenting them as plausible alternatives and engaging in “bothsidesing” by offering false narratives alongside facts without clear refutation [3].

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