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Dem Party in Michigan Calls for Hanging Trump Supporters ‘By the Neck Until Dead’ Who Are ‘Trying to Make Donald Trump King’

Remember eight years ago, when Democrats decided that a few aggressive statements by Donald Trump constituted inappropriate calls to violence?

Well, that was then, this is now.

Welcome to 2024, when a Democratic Party official not only made comments supporting the lynching of Trump supporters on Facebook, but went on talk radio to vigorously defend them, even though they were taken down.

According to The Midwesterner, a Michigan-based conservative-leaning publication, the comments were made by Lenawee County Democratic Party Chairman Bill Swift from the official party account.

Screenshots of the posts from last week, now deleted, say that “anybody who is trying to make Donald Trump King is a traitor who should be hanged by the neck until dead.”

“We’ve been consistent about this before the election,” Swift wrote in a response. “Presidents are not Kings and anybody trying to make a president a king is a domestic enemy of the Republic and a traitor who deserves the full measure of punishment as outlined in the Constitution of the United States.”

While treason is a crime punishable by death in the Constitution, voting democratically for an eligible candidate for president isn’t punishable by being “hanged by the neck until dead” anywhere in that august document.

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America’s Most Crooked Sec of State Jocelyn Benson Accused of Breaking The Law AGAIN—This Time, While Announcing Her Ridiculous Campaign For MI Governor

Last week, America’s most dishonest Secretary of State, Jocelyn Benson (Soros Democrat), held a press conference at the Richard H. Austin building in Lansing, MI, to announce her candidacy for governor.  The unpopular Democrat SOS is running to replace Michigan’s equally unpopular Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer, who is term-limited.

The problem is, as she has done so many times before, it appears Jocelyn Benson violated the law. Benson’s announcement to run for governor violated Michigan campaign finance law when she announced her candidacy from a public, taxpayer-funded building, something that a woman who likes to flaunt her Harvard law school degree should have known was against the law.

On Jan. 22,  the Soros-funded SOS shared a video on X that depicted her as a caring mom and compassionate public servant as she ran through the streets of Detroit in a campaign video to announce her run for governor in 2026. For the record, Detroit Police clearly stated there were no visibly armed protesters outside her home after the 2020 election, yet Jocelyn Benson continues to perpetuate this lie. Unfortunately, there are no honest journalists in Michigan willing to call her out on this often-repeated lie that paints her as an imaginary victim.

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‘Deceptively Colored Firearm’ Bill Introduced by Equally Deceptive Michigan Democrats

“Democrats push ban on ‘deceptively colored firearms’ amid flurry of lame duck gun bills,” The Midwesterner reported Wednesday. “Designates illegal any firearm other than black, brown, dark grey, dark green, silver, steel, or nickel in color.”

Senate Bill 1134 would amend the Michigan penal code to make “An individual who violates this section or any rule promulgated under this section …  guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than 1 year or a fine of not more than $500.00.”

This insulting and oppressively matriarchal assault on both the First Amendment right to expression and the Second Amendment right to arms is the “brainchild” of Democrat Senator Dayna Polehanski, who can get away with such tyrannical acts of legislative sabotage because she’s a “safe seat” Democrat. Per Ballotpedia, she won Michigan State Senate District 5 in 2022 by 61.1% to 38.9% over her Republican opponent, and she’ll be in office until 2027.

Forget that she’s inventing a “solution” in search of a problem, and a Google search for terms like “homicide with ‘colored firearms’” yields no relevant (but unintentionally racist) results from Google, and even if they did would not justify depriving gun owners of their rights under threat of a “law” enforcement response and punishment. Much like the Clinton “assault weapon” ban, it’s entirely cosmetic. And it’s not even an original idea, which, considering it comes from a Democrat Moms Demand Action endorsee is hardly surprising.

The impulse to ban them goes back years ago to then-New York City Mayor and perennial Everytown billionaire money man Michael Bloomberg holding a press conference where he denounced “red and yellow DuraCoat-painted guns … saying anyone who sold them was ‘sick’ and ‘twisted’.”  That, in turn, per a 2008 Daily News report, prompted Steve Lauer of Lauer Custom Weaponry to push back by “market[ing] a line of bright colors called the ‘Bloomberg Collection,’ …[and] introduce… a bright-red shade called ‘Furious Mike.’”

The bill is not without exemptions, notably for “an individual who owns or possesses it on the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section,” and, of course, for “Only Ones” of:

“The United States… This state or another state… A department, an agency, or a political subdivision of the United States, this state, or another state… A member of an entity or organization… while engaged in the course of that member’s duties with that entity or organization or while going to or returning from those duties.”

How the problem of “deceptively colored firearms” goes away when in the hands of someone with a badge is not explained. Neither is the rational basis for “grandfathering” colored guns for one group of citizens, but not providing equal protection for individuals who got theirs “after the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section,” but instead dictating that “no later than 14 days after receipt” they’ll be required to either surrender it “to the department of state police for disposal” or “Modif[y] the deceptively colored firearm or covert firearm so that it is no longer a deceptively colored firearm or covert firearm and cannot be readily converted into one.”

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College Student Slapped With $84,000 Bill for FOIA Records

How much would you pay for information? A student at Grand Valley State University (GVSU) in Michigan is facing an $84,000 bill for records he requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) related to an ongoing school investigation against him.

Carrie Uthe, the student’s mother, told local news station WZZM 13 earlier this year that the bill was surprising. “They did give us a documentation to show that breakdown, but that still made no sense,” said Uthe. “It’s been very stressful for him. It has really played on him hard. He just wants to go to school. He wants to do well. He wants to get an education.”

It’s not uncommon for FOIA requests to come with a fee, meant to compensate for employee time spent on complying with the request and redacting ineligible information. However, WZZM13 spoke with Mike Walsh, an attorney and adjunct professor at GVSU, who said that he’s never seen a FIOA bill this hefty.

“Government agencies have a right to charge for their time and service to provide records, but the whole spirit of the law is to open things up, to share records with the true owners, which is you and me,” Walsh said. “So obviously that’s daunting for anybody to get a bill for $84,000 and it prevents people from going on to the next step of litigating or whatever they’re going to do to get things worked out. So that’s, that’s why I find it troubling.” 

According to a statement from GVSU administrators, the bill was so large because the student made an overly broad request. “Grand Valley used its normal process in calculating the fee for this request. The request is very broad would [sic] involve more than 59000 emails over a specified period,” their statement reads. “Fulfilling the request would require a qualified employee to sort through each individual email and attachment to search for and redact protected and personal information. Our FOIA officer has offered potential strategies that could narrow the inquiring party’s search to help reduce costs.” 

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Ouija Board Lesson Spells Trouble for Michigan Elementary School Teacher

A substitute teacher at a Michigan elementary school has been fired after she gave a lesson on the Ouija Board to her class of second graders. The eyebrow-raising incident reportedly occurred last week at Freeman Elementary in the city of Flint. For reasons unexplained, the unnamed teacher showed the youngsters a video on the infamous divination device and promised to bring one of the ‘talking boards’ to class the following day. As one might imagine, the misguided discussion of the proverbial dark arts did not sit well with parents when they learned about the lesson.

Billie Deville Mitchell, the mother of one of the students, told a local TV station that the video was particularly traumatizing for her daughter. “She has not been able to sleep at night,” the mom lamented, “it is the same for me knowing that she is still having reactions to whatever she learned in the classroom.” After Mitchell and other parents took their concerns to the school district, administrators issued a swift response wherein they apologized for the unfortunate incident that, they stressed, was not a part of the official curriculum.

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Michigan Bill Would Take First Steps Against A CBDC

A bill filed in the Michigan House would take the first steps toward limiting the impact of any potential future central bank digital currency (CBDC) in the state.

House Bill 6147 (HB6147) would prohibit a state governmental agency or any political subdivision from accepting a payment using central bank digital currency. It would also bar the same from advocating for or supporting any test of a central bank digital currency.

HB6147 is similar to a law passed in Alabama in 2023 and in Indiana, South Dakota, North Carolina and Georgia in 2024.

IN PRACTICE

In the spirit of James Madison’s blueprint in Federalist #46, the enactment of HB6147 would create “impediments” to the implementation of a CBDC in Michigan. Madison said “a refusal to cooperate with officers of the union” along with “the embarrassments created by legislative devices,” would “oppose, in any State, difficulties not to be despised.”

Other states have also taken steps to block the use of CBDCs. Indiana, Florida, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Utah have enacted laws that ban the use of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) as money in the state.

How such legislation will play out in practice against a CBDC, should the federal government attempt to implement one, is unknown.

Opponents of the legislation generally take the position that states can’t do anything to stop a CBDC, since – according to their view – under the supremacy clause “any federal law on this point will automatically override state law.”

We’ve heard this song and dance on other issues before.

In the ramp-up to the 1996 vote on Proposition 215 in California, voters were repeatedly told that legalization of marijuana, even for limited medical purposes, was a fruitless effort, since, under the supremacy clause, any such state law would be automatically overridden by the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 (CSA). At best, opponents told Californians, the state would end up in a costly, and losing court effort.

But despite those warnings, Californians voted yes, setting in motion the massive state-level movement we see today, where a growing majority of states have legalized what the federal government prohibits. Ultimately, the federal government will likely have to back down, even if just to save face, because it has become impossible to fully enforce its federal prohibition over this massive state and individual resistance.

A similar scenario played out in response to the REAL ID Act of 2005. The national ID system still isn’t fully up and running more than 17 years after the “final deadline” for full implementation.

Why not?

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Detroit Activist Blows City’s Election Fraud Machine Wide Open! – Elections Whistleblower Has Evidence People Are Being Illegally Registered to Vote And Votes Are Being Cast Using Their Identities

For years, Detroit citizen Ramon Jackson, who refers to himself as an “advocate,” has been an activist for lower taxes and accountability for spending in the city of Detroit, MI.

Jackson became suspicious after working to help candidates in the city of Detroit who shared his views to get elected, but they kept losing by 40 or 50 votes so he decided to investigate. Mr. Jackson went to the Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey’s office and asked for the Qualified Voter Files (QVF) for District 3 in Detroit. What he found was astounding!

One of the first discoveries Jackson made was of a good friend by the name of John F. Kennedy, who Jackson confirmed never voted in his lifetime was appearing on the voter rolls, without his consent. Kennedy was listed as a permanent absentee voter in Detroit, despite no longer living in Detroit or even the same county. After he made the discovery, Jackson filed a lawsuit against the MI Secretary of State, the Detroit Department of Elections and Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey, in the US District Court Eastern Division, citing a civil rights voting violation.

Mr. Jackson couldn’t find a lawyer to help him file suit against MI Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, so he filed the suit himself. The case was dismissed for lack of standing.

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Shady Election Groups Dumps 90,000 Ballot Registrations in Maricopa County Before Sign-Up Deadline Ends – At Least 40,000 Damaged, Thousands Incomplete

In case you have not been paying attention – leftist groups around the country have been caught corrupting our elections by dumping tens of thousands of bogus ballot registrations into our voter rolls. This is taking place in state after state.

PENNSYLVANIA

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania city officials announced eight days ago that they were investigating a massive fraudulent voter registration operation investigation involving thousands of fraudulent voter registrations. At least 2,500 ballot registrations were in question.

On Saturday, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania announced that they were also investigating hundreds of fake ballot registrations that were turned in recently by a questionable voter registration group. Lancaster, Monroe and York Counties in Pennsylvania have reported similar criminal acts and they are investigating. At least two counties reported that Field+Media Corps was behind the thousands of fraudulent registrations. The ballot registration harvesting group is based in Arizona.

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Michigan will count ballot of Chinese national charged with voting illegally

A Chinese national studying at the University of Michigan faces criminal charges after voting illegally — but the vote will still count.

While the Michigan secretary of state portrayed the 19-year-old’s illegal vote as “an extremely isolated and rare event,” the vote was self-reported, not ferreted out by election officials.

The student is charged with perjury and voting illegally.

“The student’s ballot is expected to count in the upcoming election — although it was illegally cast — because there is no way for election officials to retrieve it once it’s been put through a tabulator, according to two sources familiar with Michigan election laws. The setup is meant to prevent ballots from being tracked back to an individual voter,” the Detroit News reports.

GOP state Sen. Lana Theis has warned of Michigan’s election-security shortcomings for years. Same-day voter registration does not require an identification; election officials take people’s word they’re whom they claim to be.

Despite the vulnerability, Theis agrees there is no way to retrieve a ballot once it is cast and doesn’t think there should be — the ballot would no longer be a secret.

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Here’s What We Discovered About 15 of the 19 Addresses Tied To One Voter ID In Detroit, Michigan – It’s Very Disturbing!

In September 2024, we reported that data experts Tim Vetter and Phani Mantravadi of Check My Vote identified 6,126 duplicate votes on the August primary voter rolls.

Later, 6,017 of the duplicate votes curiously disappeared from the voter rolls after our reporting, while 109 duplicate votes remained in the October vote history. “Our Secretary of State has a record of scrubbing the voter rolls after the media and election integrity groups bring it to their attention.”

From our September 2024 article:

A STUNNING analysis of voter history records by Michigan data expert Tim Vetter reveals explosive findings about Michigan’s corrupt voter rolls, and they’re aimed squarely at the person who’s been entrusted to ensure their accuracy.

If Mr. Vetter, who analyzes data for a living, is correct, he argues that Michigan SOS Jocelyn Benson could have potentially put many innocent Michigan voters in hot water with the law.

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