Just a note to say that I supported Jon Ossoff's campaign with a donation in recognition of the excellent job he did yesterday during senate hearings. He is an outstanding public servant.
"The White House hosted about two dozen Trump-aligned activists this week ahead of President Donald Trump’s primetime address on the 2020 election, a session convened by conservative lawyer Cleta Mitchell and attended by figures who have spent years promoting the conspiracy theories Trump has invoked in falsely claiming the race was “stolen” from him."
"At least some of the activists engaged in conversations around Thursday’s planned announcement were told to sign nondisclosure agreements, according to a person familiar with the White House’s arrangements and granted anonymity to speak candidly, and attendees of the Monday meeting were told the proceedings were confidential.
“I’m allowed to say that I was at a briefing,” Charles Faltenovich, the director of PA Fair Elections, later told members of his own group in a recording obtained by MS NOW. “It’s basically sworn to secrecy what was said.” [ What the H? Under Oath or an NDA?
[Faltenovich] then described it. Faltenovich said the information provided “was basically all the media reporting that John Solomon and others have done already.” Solomon, a conservative media figure who joined the White House in June as a special government employee, is driving the declassification push alongside Bill Pulte, the acting director of national intelligence, MS NOW has reported. [Pulte is a Maga Hack]
"Faltenovich suggested to his group, however, that “apparently” there is “a whole tranche of stuff, like tens of thousands of pages, maybe hundreds of thousands, that have been declassified, but have not been published.” The briefing did not provide insight into any new information that could be inside that raw material." [BS]
"A source familiar with the meeting and its attendees said that Catherine Engelbrecht, the co-founder of True the Vote, joined the same briefing. In a recording of a live podcast with supporters of her own organization, Engelbrecht then said the president’s speech and document release would support their claims about the 2020 election." [False claims.]
“You’ve no doubt read [that] the president is going [to] make remarks to America about what his administration [inaudible] regarding the 2020 election. There are lots and lots and lots of people, lots of agencies, lots of interaction on this front,” Engelbrecht said. “I can only tell you what we have known to be true, and I’ll start by saying this: The 2020 election was stolen.” False!
"Engelbrecht’s group was behind one of the most durable falsehoods to emerge from that election: that paid operatives stuffed drop boxes with fraudulent ballots. Subpoenaed by Georgia’s State Election Board for records substantiating the alleged ballot-gathering scheme, True the Vote’s attorneys, at the time, responded that it had “no such documents in its possession, custody, or control.” "Trump plans primetime speech [7/16] on voting machines and foreign influence in elections".
[MS Now Authors: Vaughn Hillyard, David Rohde, Jake Traylor, Laura Barrón-López
******************
Mitchell, who advised Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 result, runs the Election Integrity Network, [a MAGA] umbrella group for state-level election [disruption] activists.
PA Fair Elections is its Pennsylvania chapter; the chapter’s previous leader, Heather Honey, is now the Homeland Security Department’s deputy assistant secretary for election integrity. [Nothing to do with integrity.]
“The Election Integrity Network has served as the connective tissue linking the failed 2020 election deniers directly to the White House — and it is now being used to turn their debunked claims into government action,[said] LAUREN GROH-WARGO, CEO of Fair Fight Action, a Georgia-based nonprofit that advocates for voting rights, told MS NOW in a statement. “These are the same people who tried to overturn Trump’s 2020 loss, and tonight the same lies are the pretext for a rumored document dump and a potential national emergency executive order forcing new election rules on states.”
States control National elections & 22 AG's already have an civil lawsuit pending in Massachusetts
**************.
"Tina Peters, the former Colorado county clerk convicted in a scheme to tamper with voting equipment after the 2020 election, is expected in Washington around Thursday’s announcement, according to a person familiar with the rollout of the speech and document release. Trump welcomed her to the White House in June, weeks after Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, commuted her nine-year prison sentence."
“I don’t know what’s going to come out on Thursday, but I expect it to actually be some results in some things that we’ve all been hoping for,” Faltenovich said. “What the plan is to do about the midterms — I don’t know. I’m really curious to find that out. But we shall see.”[BS]
"Engelbrecht and Faltenovich did not immediately respond to a request for comment"
Nor did they [E&F] reveal any details of their WH meeting on Monday, 7/13 to plan the propaganda narrative. [Regardless, I am not buying BS.]
I know I’ve been told before, but I still,can’t figure out how to get a transcript of the videos, as I never watch videos, given time constraints, and prefer to read at leisure. Could the instructions be given again. Thank you n
I agree completely and I too don’t watch but very much want to read transcripts when I can later. I’ve also asked before and there is no “button” at the bottom right or anywhere to get the transcript. Please someone explain how to do this or please, someone who facilitates these talks, create a way for us to do it. Thank you.
Once you get an email notice of a recording, click on the link. Below this information on the page:
(e.g. Mimi Rocah, Preet Bharara, and Me
JOYCE VANCE, PREET BHARARA, AND MIMI ROCAH
JUL 15, 20260
you'll see a line with statistics ("Likes" etc.) to the right you should see the "Transcript" option. It only shows up on the recording, not the live stream.
I may be able to join. I hope you'll discuss how to respond if (as I think likely) tonight will be a trial balloon for "nationalizing" federal elections. I'm concerned about countering the propaganda, but more worried about the evasiveness of Blanche's testimony about troops at polling places.
If... if Americans ever have to face troops at polling places, they should study the nonviolent EDSA revolution in the Philippines, in which frontline face-to-face contact between the public and troops in armored vehicles was in the hands of nuns, middle-aged and senior women.
Look up People Power Revolution on Wikipedia for starters...
True, America has a violent macho culture while Philippine society, though not lacking in heavily armed political violence, respects matriarchy. Nevertheless, if the MAGAMafia tries using the military against the people, chances are sweet-talking, flowers, apple pie and candy will work better than macho confrontation... though obviously NOT when facing ICE stormtroopers...
The most important lesson left by Polish national hero Witold Pilecki, who let himself get sent to Auschwitz in order to find out what was going on there: resistance must bring together men and women of all ages and social classes, all political and religious persuasions, maximum diversity united by determination to overcome.
Not unsurprisingly, the Communists executed Pilecki on coming to power in Poland.
It seems an ICE agent has been assigned to rural counties to expand the potential to meet the deportation goals. As a matter of public record are the names, office locations, equipment etc. possible to acquire so these activities can be monitored? Anyone who has paid attention knows from first hand questions that many hard working and highly skilled immigrants are here to escape terrible living conditions and potential mortality for them and their families and community members.
I understand, though I condemn, Trump's attempt to tie "election rigging" to his new, mostly manufactured attacks on "fraud."
What I don't understand is how he gets away with attacking voting rights and voting registration efforts around the country. O/A June 15, 2026, the FBI raided an Ohio based non-partisan voting rights non-profit, the Cleveland office of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a community-based voter registration non-profit. Prentiss Haney, a member of the Collaborative's board of trustees, told the Guardian Newspaper the raid was a full-on coordinated assault weaponing the Justice Department and DHS against people who are fighting for working-class voters and Black voters to make sure they have access to the ballot.
There's no question of "fraud." There is only the fact that the Trump administration is exercising heavy handed voter intimidation ahead of the 2026 midterm.
Thank you, professor. Yes I do. Now I am having trouble with Substack at this time in the morning. It played Lincoln Square show twice. They sent me that it’s glitchy yesterday.
Thank you for watching so that some of us can opt out of the inevitable word salad of lies and confabulation that is the best the inept corrupt souless subhuman is capable of.
The historian and biographer Ian Kershaw described Hitler as "the embodiment of modern political evil." Trump is the modern embodiment of political evil. Michal H. Stone defines “Evil” as a term we apply to situations or specific acts that are horrifying or shocking to those who witness or hear about them. This is an accurate description of Trump.
We should not forget Hitler's henchmen: Martin Borman, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, Wilhelm Keitel, and Albert Speer. We should also acknowledge Trump's henchmen: JD Vance, Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Todd Blanche, Kash Patel, and Pete Hegseth.
Trump is constantly engaging in discussions with reporters, whose billionaire owners order them not to confront him or say he is lying, and if you confront him, you are fired. Trump always seemed to win these exchanges with reporters because he is free to lie, lie, and lie, fabricate events, create false realities, and make up his own reality, while these reporters have to stand there and only ask questions.
All his henchmen use his tactics. Yesterday, I watched Todd Blanche appear before a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting to determine whether he should become the attorney general. He lied over and over again with a straight face, not flinching or seeming uncomfortable with his lying. Heinrich Himmler would be proud of him. Lying, distressing the process, and insulting the very essence of our government.
The worst part is that 50 senators will vote to confirm his appointment as our new attorney general. Fifty senators from 25 states will listen to his insulting remarks about the very nature of this hearing and then vote to appoint him. This is the insurmountable problem with our country: these 25 states, now and in the future, along with their senators and the Senate itself, can control the very core principles I love and respect.
In truth, I think the formation of the Senate was a poor compromise offered by the northern states to get the southern states to sign on to the Constitution. The southern states knew that if the decision in Congress was to be decided by population, the North had a distinct advantage because, with immigration and industry, it outnumbered the southern states in population, which had fewer voting citizens and millions of slaves. So the northern states agreed to have a separate Senate distinct from the House of Representatives. In fact, the Senate controls what happens in the government; these 100 senators have more control than the 435 members of the House of Representatives.
In my ideal new government, there would be no Senate. It exists only because the northern states wanted the southern states, with their smaller populations, to sign the new government agreement. It was a stupid decision and a thorn in the side of democracy. We should have a country where each person's vote is counted, not one where senators from a small state with fewer voters can decide against the popular opinion of the voting public. The fact that it is referred to as the upper house indicates its power, and we would have a much better country without the Senate.
Just a note to say that I supported Jon Ossoff's campaign with a donation in recognition of the excellent job he did yesterday during senate hearings. He is an outstanding public servant.
https://electjon.com/
Jul. 16, 2026, 2:56 PM EDT
By MS NOW's Vaughn Hillyard:
"The White House hosted about two dozen Trump-aligned activists this week ahead of President Donald Trump’s primetime address on the 2020 election, a session convened by conservative lawyer Cleta Mitchell and attended by figures who have spent years promoting the conspiracy theories Trump has invoked in falsely claiming the race was “stolen” from him."
"At least some of the activists engaged in conversations around Thursday’s planned announcement were told to sign nondisclosure agreements, according to a person familiar with the White House’s arrangements and granted anonymity to speak candidly, and attendees of the Monday meeting were told the proceedings were confidential.
“I’m allowed to say that I was at a briefing,” Charles Faltenovich, the director of PA Fair Elections, later told members of his own group in a recording obtained by MS NOW. “It’s basically sworn to secrecy what was said.” [ What the H? Under Oath or an NDA?
[Faltenovich] then described it. Faltenovich said the information provided “was basically all the media reporting that John Solomon and others have done already.” Solomon, a conservative media figure who joined the White House in June as a special government employee, is driving the declassification push alongside Bill Pulte, the acting director of national intelligence, MS NOW has reported. [Pulte is a Maga Hack]
"Faltenovich suggested to his group, however, that “apparently” there is “a whole tranche of stuff, like tens of thousands of pages, maybe hundreds of thousands, that have been declassified, but have not been published.” The briefing did not provide insight into any new information that could be inside that raw material." [BS]
"A source familiar with the meeting and its attendees said that Catherine Engelbrecht, the co-founder of True the Vote, joined the same briefing. In a recording of a live podcast with supporters of her own organization, Engelbrecht then said the president’s speech and document release would support their claims about the 2020 election." [False claims.]
“You’ve no doubt read [that] the president is going [to] make remarks to America about what his administration [inaudible] regarding the 2020 election. There are lots and lots and lots of people, lots of agencies, lots of interaction on this front,” Engelbrecht said. “I can only tell you what we have known to be true, and I’ll start by saying this: The 2020 election was stolen.” False!
"Engelbrecht’s group was behind one of the most durable falsehoods to emerge from that election: that paid operatives stuffed drop boxes with fraudulent ballots. Subpoenaed by Georgia’s State Election Board for records substantiating the alleged ballot-gathering scheme, True the Vote’s attorneys, at the time, responded that it had “no such documents in its possession, custody, or control.” "Trump plans primetime speech [7/16] on voting machines and foreign influence in elections".
[MS Now Authors: Vaughn Hillyard, David Rohde, Jake Traylor, Laura Barrón-López
******************
Mitchell, who advised Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 result, runs the Election Integrity Network, [a MAGA] umbrella group for state-level election [disruption] activists.
PA Fair Elections is its Pennsylvania chapter; the chapter’s previous leader, Heather Honey, is now the Homeland Security Department’s deputy assistant secretary for election integrity. [Nothing to do with integrity.]
“The Election Integrity Network has served as the connective tissue linking the failed 2020 election deniers directly to the White House — and it is now being used to turn their debunked claims into government action,[said] LAUREN GROH-WARGO, CEO of Fair Fight Action, a Georgia-based nonprofit that advocates for voting rights, told MS NOW in a statement. “These are the same people who tried to overturn Trump’s 2020 loss, and tonight the same lies are the pretext for a rumored document dump and a potential national emergency executive order forcing new election rules on states.”
****************************************************************
States control National elections & 22 AG's already have an civil lawsuit pending in Massachusetts
**************.
"Tina Peters, the former Colorado county clerk convicted in a scheme to tamper with voting equipment after the 2020 election, is expected in Washington around Thursday’s announcement, according to a person familiar with the rollout of the speech and document release. Trump welcomed her to the White House in June, weeks after Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, commuted her nine-year prison sentence."
“I don’t know what’s going to come out on Thursday, but I expect it to actually be some results in some things that we’ve all been hoping for,” Faltenovich said. “What the plan is to do about the midterms — I don’t know. I’m really curious to find that out. But we shall see.”[BS]
"Engelbrecht and Faltenovich did not immediately respond to a request for comment"
Nor did they [E&F] reveal any details of their WH meeting on Monday, 7/13 to plan the propaganda narrative. [Regardless, I am not buying BS.]
*******************************************************
*See, Vaughn Hillyard's reports today 7/16/26
Of course, Vaughn Hillyard is a senior White House investigative reporter for MS NOW.
I wouldn’t waste my time watching the traitor on television
Gonna polish up my antifa flag and fly it proudly…
I know I’ve been told before, but I still,can’t figure out how to get a transcript of the videos, as I never watch videos, given time constraints, and prefer to read at leisure. Could the instructions be given again. Thank you n
I agree completely and I too don’t watch but very much want to read transcripts when I can later. I’ve also asked before and there is no “button” at the bottom right or anywhere to get the transcript. Please someone explain how to do this or please, someone who facilitates these talks, create a way for us to do it. Thank you.
Once you get an email notice of a recording, click on the link. Below this information on the page:
(e.g. Mimi Rocah, Preet Bharara, and Me
JOYCE VANCE, PREET BHARARA, AND MIMI ROCAH
JUL 15, 20260
you'll see a line with statistics ("Likes" etc.) to the right you should see the "Transcript" option. It only shows up on the recording, not the live stream.
I may be able to join. I hope you'll discuss how to respond if (as I think likely) tonight will be a trial balloon for "nationalizing" federal elections. I'm concerned about countering the propaganda, but more worried about the evasiveness of Blanche's testimony about troops at polling places.
If... if Americans ever have to face troops at polling places, they should study the nonviolent EDSA revolution in the Philippines, in which frontline face-to-face contact between the public and troops in armored vehicles was in the hands of nuns, middle-aged and senior women.
Look up People Power Revolution on Wikipedia for starters...
True, America has a violent macho culture while Philippine society, though not lacking in heavily armed political violence, respects matriarchy. Nevertheless, if the MAGAMafia tries using the military against the people, chances are sweet-talking, flowers, apple pie and candy will work better than macho confrontation... though obviously NOT when facing ICE stormtroopers...
The most important lesson left by Polish national hero Witold Pilecki, who let himself get sent to Auschwitz in order to find out what was going on there: resistance must bring together men and women of all ages and social classes, all political and religious persuasions, maximum diversity united by determination to overcome.
Not unsurprisingly, the Communists executed Pilecki on coming to power in Poland.
perfect drink for the speech - BRIGHT green , and I intend to use blueberries not cherries as the garnish
https://www.acouplecooks.com/midori-sour/
Joyce no matter what I did I could not get in to this live today.
It seems an ICE agent has been assigned to rural counties to expand the potential to meet the deportation goals. As a matter of public record are the names, office locations, equipment etc. possible to acquire so these activities can be monitored? Anyone who has paid attention knows from first hand questions that many hard working and highly skilled immigrants are here to escape terrible living conditions and potential mortality for them and their families and community members.
I’m trying to get into this live chat with Lauren Groh-Wargo and nothing seems to be happening. What’s up?
Have the notifications gone out? Not seeing it
Me too
I will be streaming a favored PBS show, I can not watch the orange menace live.. thanks to those who can and will report out
I understand, though I condemn, Trump's attempt to tie "election rigging" to his new, mostly manufactured attacks on "fraud."
What I don't understand is how he gets away with attacking voting rights and voting registration efforts around the country. O/A June 15, 2026, the FBI raided an Ohio based non-partisan voting rights non-profit, the Cleveland office of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a community-based voter registration non-profit. Prentiss Haney, a member of the Collaborative's board of trustees, told the Guardian Newspaper the raid was a full-on coordinated assault weaponing the Justice Department and DHS against people who are fighting for working-class voters and Black voters to make sure they have access to the ballot.
There's no question of "fraud." There is only the fact that the Trump administration is exercising heavy handed voter intimidation ahead of the 2026 midterm.
I will be watching with you!
Thank you, professor. Yes I do. Now I am having trouble with Substack at this time in the morning. It played Lincoln Square show twice. They sent me that it’s glitchy yesterday.
Thank you for watching so that some of us can opt out of the inevitable word salad of lies and confabulation that is the best the inept corrupt souless subhuman is capable of.
Trump & Co debunked voter fraud claims are a fraudulent excuse for voter suppression. #VoteBlue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y3hPQgWAxc
And where is the “bell icon”?
HITLER HAD HIS 6 COLLABORATORS, AND SO DOES TRUMP
The historian and biographer Ian Kershaw described Hitler as "the embodiment of modern political evil." Trump is the modern embodiment of political evil. Michal H. Stone defines “Evil” as a term we apply to situations or specific acts that are horrifying or shocking to those who witness or hear about them. This is an accurate description of Trump.
We should not forget Hitler's henchmen: Martin Borman, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, Wilhelm Keitel, and Albert Speer. We should also acknowledge Trump's henchmen: JD Vance, Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Todd Blanche, Kash Patel, and Pete Hegseth.
Trump is constantly engaging in discussions with reporters, whose billionaire owners order them not to confront him or say he is lying, and if you confront him, you are fired. Trump always seemed to win these exchanges with reporters because he is free to lie, lie, and lie, fabricate events, create false realities, and make up his own reality, while these reporters have to stand there and only ask questions.
All his henchmen use his tactics. Yesterday, I watched Todd Blanche appear before a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting to determine whether he should become the attorney general. He lied over and over again with a straight face, not flinching or seeming uncomfortable with his lying. Heinrich Himmler would be proud of him. Lying, distressing the process, and insulting the very essence of our government.
The worst part is that 50 senators will vote to confirm his appointment as our new attorney general. Fifty senators from 25 states will listen to his insulting remarks about the very nature of this hearing and then vote to appoint him. This is the insurmountable problem with our country: these 25 states, now and in the future, along with their senators and the Senate itself, can control the very core principles I love and respect.
In truth, I think the formation of the Senate was a poor compromise offered by the northern states to get the southern states to sign on to the Constitution. The southern states knew that if the decision in Congress was to be decided by population, the North had a distinct advantage because, with immigration and industry, it outnumbered the southern states in population, which had fewer voting citizens and millions of slaves. So the northern states agreed to have a separate Senate distinct from the House of Representatives. In fact, the Senate controls what happens in the government; these 100 senators have more control than the 435 members of the House of Representatives.
In my ideal new government, there would be no Senate. It exists only because the northern states wanted the southern states, with their smaller populations, to sign the new government agreement. It was a stupid decision and a thorn in the side of democracy. We should have a country where each person's vote is counted, not one where senators from a small state with fewer voters can decide against the popular opinion of the voting public. The fact that it is referred to as the upper house indicates its power, and we would have a much better country without the Senate.