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Heeding Steve Bannon’s Call, Election Deniers Organize to Seize Control of the GOP — and Reshape America’s Elections
Probublica ^ | September 2,2021 | by Isaac Arnsdorf, Doug Bock Clark, Alexandra Berzon and Anjeanette Damon

Posted on 09/04/2021 7:52:04 AM PDT by Hojczyk

The stolen election myth inspired thousands of Trump supporters to take over the Republican Party at the local level, exerting more partisan influence on how elections are run.

One of the loudest voices urging Donald Trump’s supporters to push for overturning the presidential election results was Steve Bannon. “We’re on the point of attack,” Bannon, a former Trump adviser and far-right nationalist, pledged on his popular podcast on Jan. 5. “All hell will break loose tomorrow.” The next morning, as thousands massed on the National Mall for a rally that turned into an attack on the Capitol, Bannon fired up his listeners: “It’s them against us. Who can impose their will on the other side?”

The solution, Bannon announced, was to seize control of the GOP from the bottom up. Listeners should flood into the lowest rung of the party structure: the precincts. “It’s going to be a fight, but this is a fight that must be won, we don’t have an option,” Bannon said on his show in May. “We’re going to take this back village by village … precinct by precinct.”

Precinct officers are the worker bees of political parties, typically responsible for routine tasks like making phone calls or knocking on doors. But collectively, they can influence how elections are run. In some states, they have a say in choosing poll workers, and in others they help pick members of boards that oversee elections.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
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To: Hojczyk
One of the loudest voices urging Donald Trump’s supporters to push for overturning the presidential election results was Steve Bannon.

No one is talking about overturning the presidential election of 2020.

Many people are talking about fraud in the 2020 election. Evidence of fraud is overwhelming to the extent that errors were made in the certification of votes by the states. Direct foreign interference has been alleged. The seriousness of the charge warrants a stand down until resolved.

Some states may have to uncertify and correct the results by getting rid of the fraudulent votes.

We do not have a country if we do not have voter integrity.

Returning to paper ballots and one day voting, plus voter ID will restore voter integrity.

21 posted on 09/04/2021 8:17:52 AM PDT by olezip
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To: Starboard

Take over the GOP and then change its name and go after working class people with emphasis on Black and Latinos...

Legal migrants hate illegals...and deport millions of illegals like Ike did in the 1950s


22 posted on 09/04/2021 8:19:43 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

Heaven forbid that the opposition gets involved in the democratic process. It is absolutely undemocratic.


23 posted on 09/04/2021 8:22:11 AM PDT by Petrosius
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To: Hojczyk

This “Propublica” Group likes to claim it’s “down the middle” even though some radical, far left foundations provide all it’s money.

Some of it’s money sources are the Sandler Foundation (Herbert and Marion Sandler), The Knight Foundation, The MacArthur Foundation, Pew Charitable Trust, Ford Foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies and the Carnegie Corporation.


24 posted on 09/04/2021 8:25:08 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: phormer phrog phlyer

Borg?


25 posted on 09/04/2021 8:25:17 AM PDT by White Lives Matter
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To: GSWarrior

Get the local precincts, then take the county, then the state and guess who can be voted out? Ronna Romney McDaniel and the rest at the national level. Replace them with MAGA people and then start kicking RINOs like Ronna’s uncle Mitt out of the party.

Why build something from scratch when you can take over an existing structure?

Quit complaining about the GOP and become the GOP instead.


26 posted on 09/04/2021 8:25:25 AM PDT by Pollard (#*&% Communism)
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To: Hojczyk

27 posted on 09/04/2021 8:25:26 AM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (Save the future, get your kids out of public schools)
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To: Hojczyk

“At least 8,500 new Republican precinct officers (or equivalent lowest-level officials) joined those county parties.”

Good start - now flush the RINO officeholders and nominees.


28 posted on 09/04/2021 8:25:36 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: Pollard

“Quit complaining about the GOP and become the GOP instead.”

Ditto!


29 posted on 09/04/2021 8:26:27 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: Hojczyk

“...thousands massed on the National Mall for a rally that turned into an attack on the Capitol...”

The rally did NOT turn into an attack...In fact, there was NO “attack” on the Capitol...


30 posted on 09/04/2021 8:29:32 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Hojczyk
The stolen election myth fact
31 posted on 09/04/2021 8:29:35 AM PDT by EastTexasTraveler
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To: DIRTYSECRET

“We have to take advantage to our opponents overreaching.”

Playing Defense ia last centuries GOP-E policy.

MAGA demands we SET THE AGENDA.

Pick 5 things as a platform and run on it.

OUR fabulous PDJT did, and won, twice.

Roll MAGA, roll!


32 posted on 09/04/2021 8:45:43 AM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuitss)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Partisan Media Shills alert.

related:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3991898/posts?page=50#50


33 posted on 09/04/2021 8:46:15 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Pearfect
Great, maybe we can have honest open elections without democrats CHEATING !!!

It was RINO-controlled state legislatures who gave the Steal to Potato Joe by refusing to enforce voter ID. They put their petty hatred of Trump above their country and have an equal portion of our military blood on their hands.

We must purge every RINO facing a primary in 2022 and replace them with conservative patriots ESPECIALLY in the state legislatures.

If everyone with an (R) after their name was a fighter like Trump, the Republican party would be unstoppable.

34 posted on 09/04/2021 9:02:56 AM PDT by HandBasketHell
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To: Starboard
Why bother with the hassle of fighting the incorrigible GOP? Why waste precious time and energy? Just start a new party that actually stands for something. Build it and they will come.

Why should WE leave the party??

Why should the traitorous scum RINOs who gave the Steal to Potato Joe get away with what they did??

Make the RINOs start their own party. Make them go through the arduent signature process of getting on the ballot in every state. Make them raise their own money.

These traitors don't represent the rank and file voter. Purge them all in the 2022 primaries.

If everyone with an (R) after their name was a conservative patriot and would fight like Trump, the Republican party would be unstoppable.

35 posted on 09/04/2021 9:16:42 AM PDT by HandBasketHell
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To: Hojczyk

ProPublica media bias rating is Lean Left.
An April 2020 AllSides independent review found that ProPublica’s bias is Lean Left. ProPublica’s “Zero Tolerance” section on President Trump’s immigration policy included mostly pieces about children being separated from their families at the border, with no right-wing perspectives on the policy to be found.

ProPublica’s Politics section includes mostly pieces critical of or investigating right-wing leaders, and few pieces on left-wing politicians. Examples of top pieces include:
No, President Trump, the Coronavirus Is Nothing Like H1N1 Swine Flu Either
The RNC Gave Big Contracts to Companies Linked to Its Chairwoman’s Husband and Political Backers
Trump’s New Spy Chief Used to Work for a Foreign Politician the U.S. Accused of Corruption
Republican National Committee Obscured How Much It Pays Its Chief of Staff
The Benefits of Being Joe Biden’s Brother
Donald and Ivanka Trump Were Involved in Inauguration’s Inflated Payments to Family Business, New Suit Says

The independent reviewer also n


36 posted on 09/04/2021 9:19:10 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: Hojczyk

There was no election fraud!

Also, we’re working on making it less obvious next time.

—Your Friendly Democrat Party


37 posted on 09/04/2021 9:21:16 AM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: Hojczyk
There is going to be a flood of ex military people running

DeSantis was a Navy Seal. I believe something like 7 or 8 SEALS are running for different offices this year on the Republican ticket. That's a great start.

Bannon's 'right on' with his start at the precinct level stuff..it's bottom up and at the bottom you get to learn all the secrets..

38 posted on 09/04/2021 9:36:30 AM PDT by GOPJ (Why were 8 billion dollars worth of weapons in Afghanistan for 2,500 American troops??)
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To: Rinnwald
There was no election fraud! Also, we’re working on making it less obvious next time. —Your Friendly Democrat Party

Ding, ding, ding - we have a thread winnah!

39 posted on 09/04/2021 9:52:46 AM PDT by GOPJ (Why were 8 billion dollars worth of weapons in Afghanistan for 2,500 American troops??)
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To: boycott; eclectic

Not too long ago one biden supporting liberal said to me that while he didnt believe Biden won through fraud (i didnt believe him that he didnt believe it), even IF biden did win thanks to fraud and cheating, he was ok with it just as long as it got Trump out of the White House. He was serious.


40 posted on 09/04/2021 9:55:33 AM PDT by lowbridge
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