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Insurrection for Real
https://www.kunstler.com/ ^ | Septmember 4, 2026 | James Howard Kunstler

Posted on 09/04/2026 6:36:56 PM PDT by little jeremiah

“The Democrat agenda is to legalize crime and criminalize the middle class.” —Stephen Miller

Not to put too fine a point on it: but whenever a lawfare ninja of the Democratic Party utters the phrase “our democracy,” you must know that they are completely full of shit. For sure, they do not mean anything remotely related to an American commonweal, as understood by people of sound mind and good faith. What they mean by “our democracy” is the state as a racketeering operation run for the sole benefit of their party members, along with the ruthless power to annihilate their opponents and critics.

The war-cry “our democracy” only signifies how degenerate they have become. Though they yearn to win control of Congress in these midterm elections by any means necessary, the party’s actual prospects are not so great, having nominated a pack of obvious morons and reprobates such as Abdul el-Sayed (MI), James Talarico (TX), Angie Nixon (FL), Troy Jackson (ME), and Peggy Flanagan (MN) for the US Senate.

Now, it appears that President Donald Trump is determined to clean up our fraud-ridden election process this year, one way or another. Hopes are nearly dead for Congress passing a comprehensive election reform law, the SAVE Act, so he has looked to other measures. One is a procedure for the US Postal Service to match and track mail-in ballots to real persons with actual addresses listed on state voter rolls. The matter is still working through courts. The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division has pledged to send about 1000 election monitors to polling places around the country as “observers,” which could obviate arrant shenanigans like the broken toilet ploy in Fulton County, GA, 2020.

Mr. Trump could go further, as discussed here recently, and declare a National Security Executive Order with more exacting rules such as requiring proof of citizenship and photo ID at the polls, and reporting election results no later than the day following the election. The Democratic Party is fighting desperately to prevent any changes to current procedure with so much room for fraud. The effort is led by chief lawfare ninja Norm Eisen, who is associated with several activist NGOs: the States United Democracy Center (founder); State Democracy Defenders PAC; Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW); the Brookings Institution; plus his own pro bono litigation practice, Norma Eisen PLLC.

Eisen enjoys many millions of dollars in backing that have enabled him to file hundreds of court cases against Trump administration actions, including the recent suits against the US Postal Service mail-in ballot plan. His own NGOs are backed by hundreds of other NGOs both here and globally, many of which have been involved in color revolutions in foreign countries. Eisen himself has played a part in many episodes of the long-running color revolution here in the USA, including RussiaGate, the 2020 fake impeachment, and the Jan-6 House Committee. All that could be described in totality as a seditious coup attempt — and it’s all currently under investigation by several federal grand juries.

Likewise, lawfare ninja Marc Elias, who operates his election activities through Democracy Docket (founder); the Free election Fund; the Democracy Forward Foundation (board chair); We the Action; plus his own firm, the Elias Law Group. He was formerly a lawyer with the DC law firm Perkins Coie, through which he served as general counsel to the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016. He shepherded the Steele Dossier into the Intel apparatus and around the news media.

All that is a prelude to a disturbing roll-out of events that anyone paying attention can see coming this fall. The Democratic Party has massive resources not just to stall and obstruct pre-election reform, but to mount a vicious resistance after the fact if it doesn’t produce their desired result. They could go as far as to repudiate the election, refuse to accept its results. If the president does issue that NatSec EO prior to the election, blue state officials could refuse to hold elections under new rules. Thirty states have already refused to comply with DOJ demands to submit their official voter rolls for evaluation. Some of the aforementioned activist NGOs have promised post-election street actions (demonstrations that could easily turn into riots).

In the face of that, you can foresee the necessity of the president having to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1878 (10 U.S.C. §§ 251–255). The act provides an exception to the Posse Commitatus Act, also 1878, which forbids the use of the US military to act as police inside the USA. Under the Insurrection Act, the president can federalize states’ national guard units to enforce federal law or protect constitutional rights when ordinary civilian means are not enough.

The Act has been used before in our history about thirty times by fifteen presidents, including the Great Railway Strike of 1877 (Pres. Hayes); the Pullman Strike of 1894 (Pres. Cleveland); the Little Rock School Desegregation resistance of 1957 (Pres. Eisenhower sent in the 82nd Airborne). Pres. Lyndon Johnson invoked it three times: the Selma to Montgomery March of 1965; the Detroit riots of 1967; and the riots that followed the Assassination of Martin Luther King, 1968. Pres. George H. W. Bush used it in 1994 to quell the Rodney King Riots in Los Angeles.

If Mr. Trump invokes the Insurrection Act around any violence or organized election rebellion this year, he will invite the Democrats to label him an autocrat, a tyrant, a wannabe king, as they have been taunting him and goading him with for years. Let’s suppose that will be enough to inflame the party’s activists. I think you can see how this lays the groundwork for something that looks like a new civil war. The repudiation of election results by blue states would be enough.

Know this: it won’t work. It will result in charges of sedition and many Democratic officials will be arrested and charged, probably some governors. It will be a really ugly episode in our history, but we’ll get through it. Of course, it will be the end of the Democratic Party.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; elections; kunstler

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Very realistic, I expect something like this to happen. Lots of arrests.
1 posted on 09/04/2026 6:36:56 PM PDT by little jeremiah
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To: little jeremiah

Norm Eisen, Democratic Party Lawfare Ninja Supreme

2 posted on 09/04/2026 6:40:15 PM PDT by little jeremiah (The only way is the military)
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To: little jeremiah
...something that looks like a new civil war.

Only because it is one.

3 posted on 09/04/2026 6:40:41 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: little jeremiah

Photo....

Nicolas Cage did it better, as always.

Vampire Kiss.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=+teeth+in+nicolas+cage+movie+Vampire%27s+Kiss&FORM=HDRSC3


4 posted on 09/04/2026 6:44:17 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: little jeremiah

🚨🚨BREAKING — THIS IS BIG FOR ELECTION INTEGRITY🚨🚨
A newly released September 2, 2026 letter from DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin to Attorney General Todd Blanche reveals that the Department of Homeland Security has referred major election-security concerns to the Department of… pic.twitter.com/TEZQzAoFY0— Holly Kesler (@HollyKesler) September 4, 2026


5 posted on 09/04/2026 6:45:53 PM PDT by combat_boots
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To: frank ballenger

Should have him biting John Roberts’ neck, familiar that he is.


6 posted on 09/04/2026 6:48:23 PM PDT by combat_boots
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To: MtnClimber; Carriage Hill; GOPJ; Mama Shawna; notdownwidems; The FIGHTIN Illini; JZelle; ...

If anyone wants on or off the Kunstler ping list, freepmail me.

(Does he really have fangs?)


7 posted on 09/04/2026 6:53:43 PM PDT by little jeremiah (The only way is the military)
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To: combat_boots

To the DOJ? I got locked out of X a week ago, still trying to figure how to get back on.


8 posted on 09/04/2026 6:55:07 PM PDT by little jeremiah (The only way is the military)
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To: little jeremiah

It’s a bridge too far politically to designate the Democrat Party as a terrorist organization but realistically that is exactly what it is.


9 posted on 09/04/2026 6:56:32 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Marxist Media works hand in glove with the Democrat terrorists.)
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To: little jeremiah

Reading this guys bio...

Nasty old man.

When you think greasy lawyer politician, that’s him.

I like the added vampire teeth. LOL


10 posted on 09/04/2026 7:01:08 PM PDT by Red6
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To: combat_boots; little jeremiah

combat boots post ...

Holly Kesler
@HollyKesler

🚨🚨BREAKING — THIS IS BIG FOR ELECTION INTEGRITY🚨🚨
A newly released September 2, 2026 letter from DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin to Attorney General Todd Blanche reveals that the Department of Homeland Security has referred major election-security concerns to the Department of Justice for legal review.

Among the issues raised:

🔥 BARCODES & QR CODES ON BALLOTS — DHS asked DOJ to determine whether voting systems that count votes encoded in barcodes and QR codes comply with the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) requirement for a voter-verifiable paper record capable of being manually audited. The letter warns that some systems can be configured so the human-readable text and barcode represent different programming.

🔥 DHS CITES A CISA WARNING stating researchers found that hackers could potentially alter votes encoded in a barcode without physically accessing the machines.

🔥 ERIC IS UNDER SCRUTINY — DHS also asked DOJ to examine whether states’ sharing of motor-vehicle and voter-registration information with private nonprofit organizations could violate the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act (DPPA). The letter specifically discusses ERIC and CEIR and raises questions about the handling of sensitive motor-vehicle data.

🔥GEORGIA IS NAMED.
The letter says Georgia has shared DPPA-protected information with ERIC since 2019 and states that a 2026 SAVE-system analysis identified more than 42,000 deceased registrants on Georgia’s voter rolls. That is the DHS Secretary’s assertion in the letter and deserves close examination of the underlying data.

This isn’t a social-media rumor or somebody’s theory.

This is an official DHS letter to the Attorney General of the United States asking DOJ to review previously made referrals involving election systems and voter data.

For years, Americans have asked serious questions about QR/barcode voting systems, voter-verifiable paper records, ERIC, private organizations accessing government data, and voter-roll maintenance.

Now those questions are sitting in front of the U.S. Department of Justice.

👀 Georgia — PAY ATTENTION.

Read the four-page letter yourself:
https://whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/AG-Letter-S1-Signed.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com


11 posted on 09/04/2026 7:06:40 PM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: Jane Long

Frankly, having an emergency declaration makes more sense and would square things up.


12 posted on 09/04/2026 7:09:30 PM PDT by combat_boots
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To: combat_boots

Cannot argue with that.


13 posted on 09/04/2026 7:15:56 PM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: TigersEye

I think Trump will do just that.


14 posted on 09/04/2026 7:23:53 PM PDT by little jeremiah (The only way is the military)
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To: combat_boots

GRANDPA’s FREE ADVICE
@GOP_is_Gutless

Fox fired Lou Dobbs in 2021 after he reported Smartmatic voting-machine irregularities tied to Hugo Chávez.

Those machines had Chinese-made parts.

Now Maria Bartiromo is gone. Same network. Same 2020 story they still don’t want told.

Fox doesn’t fire people for being wrong. They fire people who won’t stay quiet.

#FoxNews #MariaBartiromo #LouDobbs #2020Election #ElectionIntegrity

https://x.com/GOP_is_Gutless/status/2095995934836658511?s=20


15 posted on 09/04/2026 7:31:45 PM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: little jeremiah

As the situation evolves it may not be a bridge too far in the future.


16 posted on 09/04/2026 7:33:22 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Marxist Media works hand in glove with the Democrat terrorists.)
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To: little jeremiah

Famous democracies. Stalin’s USSR. Pol Pot’s Cambodia. Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. Kim Jon Il’s North Korea. Cuba. Venezuela. Bolivian.

On and on and on. Democracies are the most murderous violent nations ever.


17 posted on 09/04/2026 7:35:11 PM PDT by Organic Panic ( )
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To: TigersEye

I keep this handy to cheer up, certain sections may well apply in the near future.

https://policy.defense.gov/portals/11/documents/hdasa/references/insurrection_act.pdf

Insurrection Act
10 U.S.C. §§ 331-335

Sec. 331. Federal aid for State governments
Whenever there is an insurrections in any State against its government, the President
may, upon the request of its legislature or of its governor if the legislature cannot be
convened, call into Federal service such of the militia of the other States, in the number
requested by that State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to
suppress the insurrection.

Sec. 332. Use of militia and armed forces to enforce Federal authority
Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or
assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable
to enforce the laws of the United States in any State by the ordinary course of judicial
proceedings, he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use
such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress
the rebellion.

Sec. 333. Interference with State and Federal law
The President, by using the militia or the armed forces, or both, or by any other means,
shall take such measures as he considers necessary to suppress, in a State, any
insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy, if it—

(1) so hinders the execution of the laws of that State, and of the United States
within the State, that any part or class of its people is deprived of a right, privilege,
immunity, or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law, and the
constituted authorities of that State are unable, fail, or refuse to protect that right,
privilege, or immunity, or to give that protection; or

(2) opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes
the course of justice under those laws.
In any situation covered by clause (1), the State shall be considered to have denied the
equal protection of the laws secured by the Constitution.

Sec. 334. Proclamation to disperse
Whenever the President considers it necessary to use the militia or the armed forces under
this chapter, he shall, by proclamation, immediately order the insurgents or those
obstructing the enforcement of the laws to disperse and retire peaceably to their abodes
within a limited time.


18 posted on 09/04/2026 7:43:03 PM PDT by little jeremiah (The only way is the military)
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To: little jeremiah

The only way that y:all can call ‘my country’s “our democracy”, is if y’all are a decorated vet of the sand.Nothing less.


19 posted on 09/04/2026 7:57:55 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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“The Democrat agenda is to legalize crime and criminalize the middle class.” —Stephen Miller

Democrats are evil. The more I deal with them, the more convinced I am of it. They’re liars, biased, untrustworthy, and deluded. Plus they are quick to anger and will be hostile towards regular people. Look at reports of criminals and thieves, drug addicts, homeless punks, and assaults in public areas. Most are Democrats and if not, their liberal buddies. They must be avoided, or eradicated just like rats.

20 posted on 09/04/2026 8:47:50 PM PDT by roadcat ( )
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