Ruinous policies have transformed California from a symbol of progress to a cautionary tale for the nation.

 “Californians pay the most income tax, gas tax, and sales tax, yet suffer from electricity blackouts and abysmal services.”

• • For roughly 100 years, California was America’s synecdoche: the part of the country that best represented its whole.
  • Perhaps unsurprisingly, given these trends, California’s population stopped expanding in 2014 and has slightly declined since, resulting in the loss of a congressional seat after the 2020 Census.
  • For post–Cold War progressives to put their stamp on the world, they could not simply modify the glittering California civilization that their predecessors had created.
  • Yet nobody is talking about the need to centralize shelter, as well as psychiatric and addiction care, at the state level, in order to get the state’s unsheltered homeless indoors and, one hopes, rehabilitated.
  • Nihilism could, taken as a spur to action, serve as a kind of death meditation: an awareness that our time on earth is finite and that we should make the most of it.
  • California presages the country’s demographic future, and its leaders should forge a pan-racial alliance that accounts for past injustices without creating new ones.

https://www.city-journal.org/california-americas-shadow-self

The Tragedy of Chicago

 

• Chicago’s upcoming mayoral election devolves into a carnival of radicalism run amok.

• When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis recently traveled to Illinois at the invitation of the Fraternal Order of Police, Vallas tried to outflank even Lightfoot on the Left, declaring: “there is simply no place in Chicago for a right-wing extremist like Ron DeSantis, and I am disappointed in FOP leadership for inviting him to speak to officers.”

• Adding to the contrast, the Florida of Ron DeSantis has emerged as a prime destination for the masses of disgruntled citizens fleeing the madness of Chicago.

• Looking at the system as a whole, only 21% of Chicago Public Schools high school juniors are proficient in math -- and the same paltry percentage in reading.

• The public schools system there boasts of a high, and climbing, 83% graduation rate.

• Moreover, Chicago is the literal and figurative heart of America.

https://stevecortes.substack.com/p/the-tragedy-of-chicago?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=692984&post_id=105246781&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

Emergency Motion Reveals Worldwide Conspiracy in Konnech Case

 On Friday, February 25th, True the Vote, Gregg Phillips, and I filed an Emergency Motion to inspect Konnech's electronic devices (specifically, items seized by Los Angeles County law enforcement during their October 2022 raid on Konnech properties in Michigan).

If this is the first you’ve heard of this case, here’s more background.

The complete filing is 46 pages long. Please read it. I promise it will be worth your time.

Key excerpts from our filing…..

Motion for Leave

“Defendants have advised the public that Konnech was not only storing personal identifying information of American election workers and American customer data on insecure servers in China, but that it was permitting unvetted nationals based in China access to the China-based servers and to the software itself.”

Exhibit C: Grant Bradley v. Konnech

“In approximately September 2022, following accusations made by True the Vote, Plaintiff began investigating the extent of the information provided by Defendant Konnech to the programmers based out of Wuhan, China. Plaintiff confirmed that Defendants Yu and Konnech had been providing to these Chinese programmers private data of poll workers, to include social security numbers and other personally identifying information.”

Exhibit D: Affidavit of Harry Haury

“During our investigation, Cain & Associates :

• a. confirmed multiple instances of Konnech hosting, on servers based in China, U.S. citizens’ personally identifiable information (PII);

• b. confirmed thousands of instances of Konnech data, including U.S. citizens’ PII, and software being transferred to and from China;

• c. found evidence in Konnech’s private company messages that elections software code was being developed, tested, and maintained in China. “

Exhibit E: Affidavit of Brian Glicklich

“Mr. McAllister indicated that he had seen my appearance on War Room the day before and had information relevant to the imprisonment of Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips…”

“Mr. McAllister told me that on Monday October 10th, someone had started deleting Konnech company emails from a website in Vietnam. “

“… interpretation was that someone at Konnech intended to get rid of any emails with log files that may have gone to China.”

“Mr. McAllister indicated that Eugene’s brother runs a company that provides similar election software to the Chinese Communist Party.”

Every day, China penetrates deeper into American life. Every day, our government minimizes and excuses Chinese interference in our society. Every time, someone says, "It's just a..." and makes an excuse. When does America stand up and recognize the truth, that China is secretly invading America? Join us in demanding better answers, fairer elections, and complete transparency.

And in other news….What’s Up With the Washingtons? A curiously empty office in Washington, D.C. … And another canary out of the coalmine that is Washington state … We’ll talk about this, along with the recent developments in the Konnech case, all on Monday night’s Locals ( 2/20, 7p et). Please join us if you can - truethevote.locals.com

Heartless EPA Orders A PAUSE To Cleanup In East Palestine Despite Residents’ Horrific Suffering

 

• The Biden regime not only does not care about the horrific suffering of residents in East Palestine, Ohio they seem to revel in it.

• The EPA claims the stop will be “temporary.”

• One person reported his voice sounds like Mickey Mouse.

• Region 5 administrator Debra Shore of the Environmental Protection Agency said Saturday the agency ordered Norfolk Southern to ‘pause’ shipments from the site of the February 3 derailment in East Palestine but vowed that removal of the material would resume ‘very soon.’ ‘

• They don’t want the worry, and they don’t want the smell, and we owe it to the people of East Palestine to move it out of the community as quickly as possible,’ Shore said.

• Their actions are a major reason the residents will end up having long-term health problems.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/just-in-heartless-epa-orders-a-stop-to-cleanup-in-east-palestine-despite-residents-horrific-suffering/

Hunter Biden Business Partner Flips, Now 'Cooperating' With GOP Investigators

 Eric Schwerin, a close business associate of Hunter Biden who also dealt with Joe Biden's business and tax affairs, is now working with House GOP investigators looking into Biden family dealings - particularly in Ukraine and China, where the family collected millions of dollars, Just the News reports.

"He is cooperating with us," House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) told the outlet.

• "His attorneys and my counsel are communicating on a regular basis.

• Of note, Schwerin, the former president of Hunter Biden’s now-dissolved investment firm Rosemont Seneca Partners, visited the White House at least 19 times from 2009 to 2015, according to White House visitor log records reviewed by The Epoch Times and first reported by the New York Post.

• "He could come in front of the House Oversight Committee right now and defend his good name," Comer said. "

• Will Comer ask Schwerin about Ukraine biolabs?

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/hunter-biden-business-partner-flips-now-cooperating-gop-investigators

Zuckerbucks redux: Social media mogul funds recruitment of progressives to administer elections

 

• The injection of private money into public election administration — or "Zuckerbucks" — is continuing in a new form, as left-leaning candidates are being recruited to run for local elections offices by an organization that receives funds from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

• CTCL poured nearly $350 million into local elections offices managing the 2020 election, with most of the funds donated to the nonprofit by Zuckerberg.

• However, DeKalb County Board of Voter Registration & Elections accepted $2 million in private money from the alliance in "violation" of 2021 state election reform law, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) told Just the News on Thursday, while the county claims that it adhered to the letter of the law.

• If we don't do it, we are absolutely going to regret it."

• Let's call this what it really is — a blatant attack on the security and integrity of the fairness and transparency of our elections," she said.

• "Dark money liberal advocacy groups will stop at nothing to inject partisan funds into election administration efforts," she added. "

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/zuckerbucks-influence-continues-new-funds-candidates-recruited-election

Expert Witness Reveals Installed AZ Governor Katie Hobbs Laundered Cartel Money Through Fake Deeds and Mortgages to Rig Elections… Including Her Own

 

• Even as the vast majority of conservatives in the nation have given up on exposing the massive, widespread voter fraud that stole the 2020 presidential elections as well as multiple lower elections in the 2022 cycle, some are still fighting the good fight to bring corruption to light.
• With that, a new investigation began with the focus being on money laundered and related racketeering activities in Maricopa County, as well as in several other Arizona counties… Over 120,000 documents have been reviewed to date.
• fines and outrageous cash bonds are used to collect monies which are then skimmed and redirected into the racketeering enterprises.
• Since 2004, elections within Pima County and Maricopa County have been manipulated through the infiltration of the county databases, resulting from bribes paid to executives at election service providers, including but not limited to principals at Runbeck Election Services.

The details revealed by Breger are absolutely damning. Even if one does not connect her actions to either the cartel or voter fraud (both of which seem almost certainly connected), the simple impropriety of Hobbs’ actions are undeniable. According to her testimony [emphasis added]:

Breger: In 2006, the US Attorney’s Office in Illinois, Idaho, and Indiana investigated the laundering of drug cartel monies through a complex series of single-family home purchases in those particular states. By 2009, numerous real estate agents, escrow companies, and title insurers had been indicted, charged, and convicted of racketeering. And in 2014, our office was asked to review the case file. The reason for this was we were asked to determine whether the monies from the sale of the properties had filtered to properties purchased in Arizona, specifically in Maricopa and Pima County. We concluded that several real estate agents convicted in Iowa had set up laundering systems in Arizona, and thereafter, had transferred the proceeds of sales to Panamanian corporations.

• The only other option is in some situations they are graphics or traces of other signatures where we can verify that an imposter has attempted to copy an original signature.
• This is not the appropriate place to be alleging, um… Rep. Alex Kolodin: We do have a rule in this chamber that we cannot impugn the motives of other members, as explosive as that testimony was, but that is our rule.

https://noqreport.com/2023/02/25/bombshell-expert-witness-reveals-installed-az-governor-katie-hobbs-laundered-cartel-money-through-fake-deeds-and-mortgages-to-rig-elections-including-her-own/