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The revelations from James O’Keefe’s videos about Brad Woodhouse and his group inspired one of my associates to make a comparison to the Carolina Rising affair of 2014 and 2015. You may remember that Dallas Woodhouse headed up something called Carolina Rising during the campaign of 2014 — prior to his ascension to the top staff position at NCGOP HQ. Carolina Rising was touted as a PAC aimed at promoting Republican fortunes in the state. The PAC earned itself some unwanted attention on Election Eve 2014 thanks to a TV interview involving Dallas. Dallas boasts on camera that he and...

If you put together data from James O’Keefe’s two videos for Project Veritas Action (transcripts here and here), you can see the actual organizational structure used by the Democratic Party for vote-stealing dirty tricks.  This piece pulls out the early story from the first video. There are two players: Scott Foval, National Field Director for Americans United for Change Bob Creamer, Founder and Partner of Democracy Partners

Robert Creamer, founder and partner of Democracy Partners, the group behind the organized violence at Trump rallies, as shown in the video by James O’Keefe and Project Veritas, is no ordinary agitator. Creamer, a convicted felon, is arguably the spiritual godfather of ObamaCare and much of the current progressive left agenda. Creamer, along with his wife, Illinois Rep. Jan Schakowsky is no stranger to agitation, violence, and expanding the progressive agenda. As Investor’s Business Daily pointed out in March 5, 2010 editorial regarding protests against House Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski over the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988,...

James O’Keefe has claimed his first scalp since releasing his latest bombshell undercover video. Scott Foval, the National Field Director of Americans United for Change--who can be seen in the video bragging about paying homeless and mentally ill individuals to cause disruptions at political events--has been fired from the organization. Americans United For Change made the announcement in a statement from the group's president. "Americans United for Change has always operated according to the highest ethical standards," said Brad Woodhouse, President of Americans United For Change. "Scott Foval is no longer associated with Americans United for Change." O'Keefe took note...

Bill Clinton bashed President Bush in a speech delivered from the pulpit of a prominent Manhattan church on the Sunday before the Republican National Convention began. Yet, Americans United for Separation of Church and State does not view Clinton's pulpit-based diatribe a violation of tax laws. Ever since then-Sen. Lyndon Johnson (D.-Tex.) slipped a provision into a bill back in 1954, federal law has prohibited tax-exempt churches from engaging in partisan political speech. Every election season, Americans United files complaints against churches that it alleges have violated this law. The group also opposes the Houses of Worship Free Speech Restoration...

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin set off a frenzied debate about health care reform when she accused President Obama of planning to establish "death panels" via health care reform. Now, proponents of the president's health care agenda are taking to Palin's preferred medium to attack her claims, with a Facebook ad asking Palin to "stop lying." The labor-affiliated group Americans United For Change is running the Facebook ad directly targeted at the more than 800,000 listed "supporters" of Palin on Facebook, according to Greg Sargent of the Washington Post blog the Plum Line. "Health insurance reform is too important for...

“Americans United for the Separation of Church and State” has formally requested the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the Roman Catholic Bishop of Paterson, N.J., the Most Reverend Arthur Serratelli. I believe this is their first volley in a concerted effort to silence Catholic Bishops. They want to prevent them from teaching the unchangeable Moral Truth, revealed in the Natural Law and confirmed by medical science, that the child in the first home of the whole human race is one of us and that every procured abortion constitutes an intrinsically evil act because it is the taking of innocent human...

Rob Boston of “Americans United for the Separation of Church and State” has decided to engage in verbal bullying with the leadership of the US Catholic Church. In a posting on the AU web site entitled “Texas Side Step: Bishops’ Letter Attacking Pro-Choice Candidates Attempts To Sashay Past Federal Tax Law”, the Assistant Director of Communications has signaled their legal strategy. The group has quite a history of anti-Catholicism in their efforts. They were originally called “Protestants United for the Separation of Church and State”, but changed their name for obvious reasons. However, with their recent efforts to bully Catholic...

Wiley Drake issues the call after finding that the IRS is investigating, at Americans United's request, his endorsement of candidate Mike Huckabee. For the second time in six months, Buena Park pastor Wiley S. Drake has called on his followers to pray for the demise of leaders of the organization Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Last week, Drake learned the IRS had launched an investigation into his endorsement of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's presidential bid, a probe that Americans United had urged. The endorsement was written on church letterhead and announced during a church-affiliated Internet radio...

TACOMA, Wash. — A group is suing the federal government over grant money that went to a marriage counseling center, saying the Bush administration's initiative to support faith-based organizations has been used to unconstitutionally promote a fundamentalist Christian agenda. ADVERTISEMENT Click to learn more... The Northwest Marriage Institute received $97,750 last year from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, according to the lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court. On its Web site, the institute quotes several Bible verses, including one that urges wives to win over their husbands with a "quiet spirit." It also says wives should...

According to a Hartford Courant article (http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-ctlaborflap0603.artjun03,0,6858521.story?coll=hc-headlines-local) the State of Connecticut is funding $100,000 for te United Church of Christ convention in Hartford next year. The executive director for Americans United is Barry Lynn - who is also a UCC minister. So far, Americans United has not responded to any questions about the Hartford Convention despite numerous call and emails. PLEASE CONTACT AMERICANS UNITED today and ask them to prove they are not partisan by checking on their own director's church. PLEASE CALL EMAIL OR FAX THEM AS SOON AS YOU CAN. Just last month, Americans United publicly complained about...

ANOTHER KERRY DISCHARGEBefore Memorial Day weekend, Sen. John Kerry sat down with editors of his hometown newspaper, the Boston Globe and announced that he had signed the form SF 180, authorizing the Department of Defense to grant access to all his military records. This, more than a year after he had claimed the press and public had seen all there was to see from his military record. Only one problem: according to several sources who formerly worked on the Kerry campaign, the senator expects that little to nothing new will be in the files that are released. "He's fairly confident...

The battle lines in the coming war over Social Security have finally been drawn with the creation last week of a new umbrella group that will coordinate attacks on President Bush's drive to create personal investment accounts. At the urging of Democratic leaders in Congress, a few political campaign veterans have formed Americans United to Protect Social Security. The nonprofit organization with close ties to organized labor plans to raise $25 million to $50 million to pressure lawmakers to vote against Bush's proposal. "At Americans United to Protect Social Security, we are going to run a national campaign to defeat...

Americans United today asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate events that appeared to be efforts to boost the candidacy of Sen. John F. Kerry at two churches in "swing states" on Oct. 24.

Church-state rats in pews by Terry Mattingly Call it church-state espionage. Unitarians and other activists on the religious left have been slipping into evangelical pews to endure altar calls, praise songs and sermons against gay marriage. The Kansas-based Mainstream Coalition has a simple reason for doing this. If preachers openly endorse President Bush, its agents can report these crimes to the IRS. Reacting to these watchdogs on the left, the Religious Freedom Action Coalition promptly launched Big Brother Church Watch -- www.ratoutachurch.org -- to infiltrate churches that might back Sen. John Kerry. Big Brother agents will, for starters, target Unitarian...

Reverend Barry, Quite Contrary He's a minister who defends abortion, gay marriage and pornography. And he thinks conservative Christians are a menace to society? Reverend Barry, Quite Contrary He's a minister who defends abortion, gay marriage and pornography. And he thinks conservative Christians are a menace to society? by Matt Kaufman You've heard people blast the "Religious Right" before, but Barry Lynn really lets it fly. America, he says, is threatened by "radical religious fundamentalists." These people are "bullies," "dangerous zealots," "extremists who despise pro-choice advocates, working mothers, gay-rights supporters and everybody else who departs from their narrow views." They're...

Groups like the ACLU claim they are filing lawsuits against the appearance of religion in society in order to prevent violations of the Constitution's Establishment Clause. In reality, their lawsuits are taking away the right to the free exercise of religion guaranteed by the First Amendment.The ACLU and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State assert that they filed lawsuits against Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore out of concern that a monument of the Ten Commandments located in the Alabama state courthouse violated the First Amendment’s prohibition against any law respecting the establishment of religion. But the monument...

Groups like the ACLU claim they are filing lawsuits against the appearance of religion in society in order to prevent violations of the Constitution's Establishment Clause. In reality, their lawsuits are taking away the right to the free exercise of religion guaranteed by the First Amendment. The ACLU and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State assert that they filed lawsuits against Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore out of concern that a monument of the Ten Commandments located in the Alabama state courthouse violated the First Amendment’s prohibition against any law respecting the establishment of religion. But...

Here in Louisiana Saturday, the Democrats won another important and hotly contested race, mainly because African-American churches supported the Democratic candidate. The well-funded conservative campaign waged by Republican U.S. Senate candidate Suzie Terrell could not overcome the illegal use of black churches by the incumbent Democrat Senator Mary Landrieu. Landrieu learned how to use these ministers and their church assets just as nearly every Democrat has done when running for office over the last 40 years. Landrieu won 52% to 48%, an impressive showing, given the fact that a very popular Republican President and his party pulled out all...