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Episode 1,647 – The Collateral Damage of Biden’s Inflation: The American People; Kari Lake’s Border Crackdown – Steve Bannon's War Room: Pandemic (w/ Todd Bensman, Steve Cortes, Kari Lake, Phillip Patrick, Erin Duffy, Mike Lindell) We discuss the border, economy, Arizona, and more. Our guests are: Todd Bensman, Steve Cortes, Kari Lake, Phillip Patrick, Erin Duffy, Mike Lindell Stay ahead of the censors – Join us warroom.org/join Aired On: 2/17/2022 Watch: On the Web: http://www.warroom.org On Podcast: http://warroom.ctcin.bio On TV: PlutoTV Channel 240, Dish Channel 219, Roku, Apple TV, FireTV or on https://AmericasVoice.news. #news #politics #realnews

Lawmakers vote to ditch masks as Cooper signals end to mask mandates - Carolina Journal - Carolina Journal Gov. Roy Cooper on Thursday, Feb.17, called for an end to local mask mandates for schools and local governments, though state lawmakers are seemingly forcing his hand. Cooper, a Democrat, cited declining COVID-19 cases, vaccines and boosters, expanded testing, available PPE, and treatments. Kody Kinsley, state health secretary, echoed Cooper’s comments in a news conference Thursday. If trends continue to improve, starting March 7 schools and other low-risks settings can consider moving to voluntary masking at the discretion of local authorities. “We have learned how to protect ourselves and each other from serious illness due to COVID,” Cooper said. “Now we take a positive step on mask requirements to help us move safely toward a more normal day-to-day life. I know we all want that.” Cooper’s and Kinsley’s actions came after the House Committee on Education announced a hearing on Senate Bill 173, Free the Smiles Act. The House ultimately passed the measure, 76-42. The Senate passed it, 28-17, on Thursday afternoon. The act gives parents the right to have their children opt out of wearing masks in school. “I am glad the governor is coming to our position on this,” House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, told lawmakers, referencing letters sent to Cooper. “These decisions should be based on science, but not political science.” Cooper said he had concerns about the legislation, and that it was unwise and irresponsible to give North Carolinians the right to decide. “Are we going to let people pick and choose which public health rules they are going to follow? Cooper asked. He said the never-ending state emergency will, however, stay in place. He said it provides flexibility to medical facilities and health providers. Cooper enacted the ongoing emergency almost two years ago. “We may talk with the legislature about putting some things into law permanently, so we can consider ending that, but that is where we are,” he said. The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services updated its COVID management guidelines for schools, called a toolkit, last week, to rein in contract tracing, but was criticized by Republican leadership for failing to include mask-optional policies in the guidance. DHHS sent a letter to Sen. Deanna Ballard, R-Watauga in January, saying the toolkit was not legally enforceable but rather a strong recommendation for schools on how to stop the spread of COVID-19. Pushback from parents, teachers, and other community members has caused legislators and governors to take a step back and revisit the guidance on mask mandates for children. Critics say wearing masks not only hurts children’s learning abilities but also affects them socially and mentally. “Our youngest students are suffering under these mask mandates,” Ballard said in a statement. “Put yourself in their shoes and imagine how difficult your first few years of school would be if you had to wear a mask.” Ballard serves as the chairwoman of the Senate Education Committee. “Giving parents the ability to choose whether their child wears a mask balances the specific needs of a family,” she said. “It’s past time to give our students a lifeline and let them get back to learning freely.” “The social and emotional damage of this will not be understood for years. Some of these children could be impacted for decades,” said Rep. David Willis, R-Union. Rep. Kristin Baker, R-Cabarrus, speaks during committee debate about a bill to end state school mask mandates. (Image from N.C. General Assembly YouTube channel) Rep. Kristin Baker, R-Cabarrus, is a medical doctor specializing in child and adolescent psychiatry. She said she is disturbed by the effects she sees in children due to the long-term wearing of masks. “What we do have data on is child and adolescent suicide, homicide, ER visits, substance use. That is what we have actual hard, peer-reviewed data on.” Speech therapists, too, have also seen an increase in children’s speech delays. Teachers have also been affected. Amy Marshall heads the Carolina Teachers Alliance and is a college adjunct professor with 13 years of experience as a classroom teacher, including in Wake County schools. She said they have told CTA they were planning to leave the profession if mandates continued. “To promote an ideology that makes teachers afraid of kids and make kids feel that they are something to be avoided and carrying sickness is terrible,” added Marshall. A rally was held earlier this week by CTA, the American Teachers Alliance, Open-NC.US, and Wake County’s Moms for Liberty to end the mask mandate in Wake County Schools. Momentum to end masking mandates has picked up speed in recent weeks. Chatham, Cumberland, Johnston, Moore, Henderson, Davidson, Union, Sampson, and Harnett counties already moved to masks-optional policies, with Edgecombe, Northampton, and Franklin counties scheduled to consider mask optional policies later this month. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, signed a bill Wednesday ending school mask mandates after it cleared the state legislature earlier this week. Connecticut, Delaware, Oregon, New Jersey, Nevada, and Massachusetts are all ending mask mandates for schools. with California and New York revisiting the issue by the beginning of March. categories: Business and Regulations, CJ Exclusives, Health Care & Human Services, North Carolina tags: COVID, Gov. Roy Coper, mask mandates, Rep. Tim Moffitt, Sen. Deana Ballard, Senate Bill 173

Attorney Thomas Renz says prosecutions are coming for the covid plandemic masterminds who committed crimes against humanity (newstarget.com) Will justice ever come for the plandemic tyrants who have committed crimes against humanity, including mass murder? Attorney Thomas Renz says so. In a recent interview on Brighteon Conversations with Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, attorney Thomas Renz explained how he and many other lawyers are gearing up to drop the hammer on those who have defiled our right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness with nearly two years of Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) fascism. Everything from the lockdowns to the mask mandates to now the “vaccine” mandates are criminal activities that require punishment. The perpetrators include names like Tony Fauci, Rochelle Walensky, Joe Biden and many others. “We the People always have the power,” Renz stated during the interview. “We have always had the power. We will always have the power. No government can govern without the consent of those whom it governs.” “As We the People stand, it doesn’t matter how corrupt they are because … if enough of us stand up and say, ‘I’m sorry, we’re not accepting this, we’re changing this,’ it will change.” Watch the video Attorney Thomas Renz says prosecutions are coming for the covid plandemic masterminds who committed crimes against humanity (newstarget.com) This video is from channel Health Ranger Report on Brighteon.com. This is not new information For months, Renz has been sounding the alarm about how the plandemic is a fraud in terms of the fear and manipulation surrounding it. Sure, people are getting sick. But is the government’s response warranted? Hardly. Time and time again, science has shown that the “remedies” the government has put forth to “flatten the curve” center around control, not health. And even if they did promote health, these unconstitutional measures simply cannot be forced on people against their will, especially when they come with deadly side effects such as in the case of the jabs. Right this moment, people everywhere who got injected are suffering from things like VAIDS (vaccine-induced AIDS). Some of them are also developing cancer due to the deadly spike proteins that have flooded their bodies. These are war crimes because in the fight to eradicate “covid,” the government forced people with no other option to get jabbed in order to keep their jobs, for instance. “So, this is a coverup, it’s a fraud, it’s a lie,” Renz says about how the government is now trying to conceal the true number of injuries and deaths that have occurred because of the injections. It is a highly unfortunate situation for those who fell prey to the programming, or who felt as though they had no other choice but to take these jabs. It is for these people that Renz and his supporters are fighting for justice, and to try to prevent this type of travesty from ever happening again. “I think that there are an awful lot of people – and I do think that there’s complicity – I think when you cover up, I think there’s liability,” Renz says about where we go from here. “I think the media, Big Tech, yeah, there’s liability and guess what: we’re coming for you. It may take a while to get there, but we’ve got millions of people who are going to be suffering from lifelong health issues and early deaths, and I’m guessing that them and their families are going to be very eager to see it happen, and we’ve just got to make sure that they’re aware.” Adams agrees. He envisions a time when every corporation that profited from this genocide has its assets seized, as well as every principal, every manager, and every CEO of every corporation that profited from this also having their assets seized. To learn more about how you can help Renz’s efforts, be sure to visit his website. More of the latest news about the plandemic can be found at Pandemic.news. Sources for this article include: Brighteon.com NaturalNews.com Renz-Law.com FacebookTwitterShare

February 18, 2022 The dark side of voter canvassing . . . - Voter Integrity Project by Jay Delancy, President Feb 18, 2022 (Wilmington, NC) We at Voter Integrity Project – NC have learned the hard way about media smear pieces against election integrity work, so we feel the pain of the two women canvassing the voter rolls in Brunswick County, who got smeared in a one-sided “news” story. We reached out to get the side of the two canvassers being attacked, Michelle and Carolyn, but nobody has responded. That said, we hear there’s a lot more to the story than was reported and recordings from the encounter may be a factor. Fun Fact: North Carolina is a one-party-consent state, so recording a conversation is legal as long as one of the people talking knows it’s being recorded. While other factors might help exonerate the two canvassers, one person they interviewed, Eliza Sloan, may have dealt a kill shot when she said the canvassers became “inquisitive about how we voted.” I hope the ladies have competent legal assistance. Canvassing guidelines As a general rule in canvassing, we never ask a resident who they voted for and it’s a waste of time to ask how people voted (i.e., absentee one-stop, absentee by-mail, or Election Day in-person), since it’s already public information. Instead, we consistently advised canvassers only to confirm who lives at an address and never ask questions about past voting behavior. Besides the civil rights implications, communication research suggests that people tell social lies about stuff like voting, dieting, and whether or not “this dress makes me look fat.”. Apparently, both Mr. and Mrs Sloan voted absentee by-mail. Since THAT’s how “the bulk of voter fraud” happens, according to NC Attorney General, Josh Stein, the canvassers could easily have been concerned that Mr. Sloan was deceased and had been the victim of voter identity theft. Curiously, instead of calling the Brunswick County Board of Elections, Mrs. Sloan called her local NAACP chapter. We wonder how the television “journalist” got the story tip. Intimidation: The latest dog whistle. Michelle and Carolyn also have problems because Mrs’ Sloane, told the reporter, “I hope that they will go home and tend to their business, and not intimidate older people. . . .” That I-word is the golden ticket for DOJ prosecutors who are looking to make an example out of anybody they can charge with violating 18 US Code 241. All it takes is for somebody to say the magic words, “she intimidated me.”One of the dirtiest tricks the Left constantly plays on the election integrity movement involves abusing the federal laws that were badly needed in fighting the KKK-Democrat Party oppression of black voters during our nation’s Jim Crow era. Such reforms were critical to North Carolina breaking the stranglehold the KKK-Democrat coalition enjoyed from 1898 to 1965’s Civil Rights Act passage. In fact, just seven years later, the state elected their first Republican Governor since the 1898 Wilmington riots. The savage irony is in how those anti-intimidation Civil Rights tools have now been weaponized to prevent collecting evidence of fraud that might buttress any common sense election law reforms. On another ironic level, the Garland Justice Department has turned the tables by intimidating any states who might want to investigate some of the more suspicious behavior election officials seem to have committed in 2020. But I digress. Now, a couple of innocent election integrity activists may soon be spending a great deal of time. . . and legal expenses. . . trying to convince a federal grand jury that they never meant to intimidate anybody. Not surprisingly, we’re hearing that the Republican Party is urging its members to cease any voter canvassing over fears of getting dragged into the upcoming lawfare. While disappointing, it’s also understandable. I’ll bet a lot of husbands are having similar discussions with their wives involved in this canvassing effort. Bottom Line: We believe canvassing is critical to proving our election laws have been abused and that’s why the Left is fighting it so hard. The legal threats being shot at the canvassers are just another sign that they’re over the target. This seems like a perfect time to open the bomb bay doors and show the world what they’ve already found. ###

When Arizona’s Senate President Karen Fann’s office received numerous reports of potential voting irregularities from Maricopa County voters after the 2020 election, she took a strong leadership role to investigate, identify and fix reported problems. No stranger to powerful leadership, Fann started her career as a female entrepreneur in the highway construction business, served in local office as councilman and mayor, went on to the AZ House, and is currently Arizona’s second woman Senate president. As the leader of the decision to audit Maricopa County’s 2020 election, Fann fought pushback from the majority Republican Board of Supervisors and constant attack by the national and state liberal media. But the results of the audit report she insisted must be conducted revealed thousands of errors, irregularities, illegal votes, maladministration, sloppiness, and votes cast and counted in violation of state law. The audit findings are shocking. In Arizona in 2020, Joe Biden bested Donald Trump by only 10,457 votes. The Senate audit found 23,444 ballots were from “bad” addresses. More than 9,000 ballots were returned to election offices than were received by voters, and 5,295 voters appear to have voted in multiple counties. (See page 5 of the Audit Report for details.). Among other problems, mistakes and failures to adhere to the Arizona election code. All totaled, Fann and her audit team found more than 49,500 cases of potential unlawful ballots or fraud — nearly four hundred percent of the vote differential between the two presidential candidates. Senator Fann discusses with Cleta the current status of the audit as the Arizona Attorney General’s office reviews the audit findings and evidence. Sen. Fann also discusses the legislation currently pending in the Arizona legislature to correct problems identified in the audit. WATCH THE PODCAST Podcast: Arizona State Senate President Karen Fann - YouTube Subscribe and listen on: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify Register for Upcoming Election Integrity Summits! The Conservative Partnership Institute’s Election Integrity Network invites you to join us for one of our upcoming Election Integrity Summits in Florida, Georgia, Arizona and Pennsylvania. You can register by following the link below.UPCOMING EVENTS Please support the Election Integrity Network by making a tax-deductible donation today. Your gift will help us build a coalition of conservative activists, leaders, public officials, and organizations to advance election integrity reforms nationwide. DONATE

Follow the money: How lawsuits are trying to drive your 2022 elections - Carolina Journal - Carolina Journal As the Biden administration and Congress struggle with plummeting approval numbers, a battle is being waged in North Carolina and other states over who will control the drawing of congressional districts. The 2022 elections could turn the balance of power to Republicans in Congress. The latest Cygnal poll shows 51% of likely voters surveyed said they prefer a Republican candidate for Congress as a check against the Biden administration, while 40% would prefer a Democrat to support Biden’s agenda. Combine those numbers with a 2020 census that gave North Carolina an extra congressional seat and new maps, and the stakes get high. Consequently, on Feb. 2 the N.C. Supreme Court, with a 4-3 Democrat majority, was set to hear arguments over the state’s electoral maps approved by a Republican-led legislature. Lawsuits over the maps were filed before they were even passed by the state legislature, and the plaintiffs are familiar — Common Cause N.C. and the N.C. League of Conservation Voters, with financing from some of the highest levels in the Democrats’ political apparatus. The food chain At the top of the food chain sits the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, run by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. Upon leaving office in 2015, Holder committed to turning his focus to states’ congressional district maps in the next phase of his career. That organization spawned several others, including the National Redistricting Action Fund, the National Redistricting Foundation, and All on The Line, a series of state-level groups that use social media to train speakers and potential witnesses on how to oppose congressional maps in courtrooms and public hearings. Key plaintiffs in the election lawsuits w/ annual revenues Source: Internal Revenue Service form 990s Lawsuit bankrollers and direction of funds Sources: Mappingtheleft.org and Jim Stirling, Fellow, Civitas Center for Public Integrity In 2019, the National Redistricting Fund merged with a political project of former president Barack Obama called Organizing for America to launch “Redistricting U” and All On The Line. AOTL’s state director said in a training session that it was designed to put on the record speakers whose testimony would “be impactful during any future litigation.” An analysis of speakers at the legislature’s redistricting hearings held across the state found that of the 464 speakers, 324 were either from AOTL or partisan groups with a vested political interest. Plaintiffs used their testimony to argue that lawmakers had disregarded “public opinion.” In its first news conference, the NDRC openly shared its discussions with Democrat House members on how the group will work through shaping state maps to create more seats for their political party. The Holder-led organization has been a “max-out” donor, $5,400, to more than 50 Democrat candidates for N.C. offices from state Senate and House to the judiciary. That last category includes the Earls for Justice campaign to support Anita Earls, an associate justice on the N.C. Supreme Court. “Fixing this redistricting problem will involve not just focusing on the lines but focusing on the larger effort to win back governance,” Holder said in 2017. “This is the path to ensuring Democrats have their rightful seats at the table in 2021.” The NDRC has contributed significant resources to aid lawsuits by North Carolina’s current plaintiffs, but other groups have chipped in, as well. The Tide Foundation of California and the Proteus Fund of Massachusetts, who are big beneficiaries of George Soros’ the Open Society Institute, have given thousands to the primary plaintiffs. At the state level, the AJ Fletcher Foundation and the Winston-Salem-based Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation have ponied up money for the lawsuits. While this isn’t the first time Common Cause N.C. and other plaintiffs have sued over the state maps, this time well over $15 million has come from political players at the state and national level to affect the new district maps. “This is clearly a long-term game plan for the Democratic Party and their allies,” says Jim Stirling, research fellow at the John Locke Foundation’s Civitas Center for Public Integrity. “If we look back to the 2013 Blueprint N.C. brief, they lay out their plan to retake the legislature very clearly. They called for their members to ‘eviscerate, mitigate, litigate, cogitate, and agitate’ state legislative leadership,” The Blueprint N.C. strategy in 2013 was underwritten by left-leaning funders that include the Common Cause Education Fund and Z. Smith Reynolds, which also awarded a $50,000 grant to the National Redistricting Foundation, labeling it “Fighting for Fairer Maps in North Carolina Project.” “The most shocking part for me has been just how many of these lawsuits against the General Assembly are being handled by the same legal institutions and lawyers,” Stirling added. “The Southern Coalition for Social Justice, Arnold, and Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, and Patterson Harkavy show up throughout a large majority of these suits against the General Assembly.” In following the money trail, much of it seems to pass through Common Cause N.C. from its parent organization, Washington, D.C.-based Common Cause and its Common Cause Education Fund. All state and federal donors listed above contribute to the education fund, which in part passes it on to Common Cause N.C. A nationwide effort North Carolina is not alone. The National Redistricting Action Fund, a 501c4, and the National Redistricting Foundation, a 501c3, are supporting litigation this year against electoral maps in North Carolina, Minnesota, Ohio, Texas, Colorado, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Alabama. Except Colorado, all those states are run by a Republican legislative majority. In most of those cases, the plaintiffs are asking that the courts intervene and either draw new maps themselves or hire a “special master” to redraw the maps. Colorado already has a special redistricting commission drawing its maps because voters approved the commission’s formation through a ballot initiative in 2018. There, the NRAF is opposing the commission-approved maps, saying they undercut minority influence. Largely considered the mastermind of the Democrats’ “Lawsuit Industrial Complex,” attorney Marc Elias and his law firm are engaged in most of these cases. Hillary Clinton’s former campaign lawyer, Elias is best known for his role in acquiring the infamous Steele dossier in 2016 and for suing to get the 2008 Minnesota Senate recount that pushed now disgraced Al Franken into office and gave Democrats the votes they needed to pass the Affordable Care Act. Since then, Elias has focused his lawsuit lens on what he calls “grotesque gerrymandering” in states’ congressional maps … except in Maryland. In January, Elias drew criticism for filing a motion on behalf of defendants in a lawsuit over Maryland’s maps. The group Fair Maps Maryland is suing the Democrat-led legislature over the Democrat-drawn state congressional map. Critics say the map is designed to elect Democrats to all eight congressional districts. Republicans hold one Maryland seat in the U.S. House today. Doug Mayer of Fair Maps Maryland called Elias’ motion “an appalling display of hypocrisy.” He highlighted the lawsuit machine that is shaping politics, and ultimately policy, in the United States. “This is really indicative as the kind of games that are being played,” Mayer said in an interview with Carolina Journal. “Marc Elias likes to portray himself as a defender of democracy. Listen, I’m a Republican operative in my day job, and Marc Elias is a Democrat operative. That’s all this is about.” “We actually looked at the case that Marc Elias was bringing in North Carolina to build some of the legal arguments in our case [against Maryland’s maps],” Mayer added. “The idea that he is now going to be on the other side, defending gerrymandering in Maryland, was too rich of an opportunity to pass up.” Ad campaigns mix with legal action The Princeton Gerrymandering Project graded Maryland’s 8-0 Democrat maps an “F” for a “significant Democrat advantage.” The Princeton Project also gave North Carolina an “F” for “significant Republican advantage.” The Princeton group developed criteria for grading maps, with assistance from a group called “RepresentUs,” which bills itself as a nonpartisan peacemaker carrying the tag line “We’re Saving Democracy. Join us.” RepresentUs received a $25,000 grant from the National Redistricting Action Fund in 2018. It also helped develop the map-grading criteria and grade the state’s maps, which N.C. plaintiffs, the League of Conservation Voters, used to request that the N.C. Supreme Court intervene to strike down N.C. maps. Now, as the court and lawyers were preparing for the Feb. 2 oral arguments, RepresentUs is running a social media campaign on Facebook and local Raleigh news websites urging Supreme Court justices to overturn the maps. Plaintiffs call this an effort to protect voting rights. Some of the same groups have taken legal action intended to expand voting rights for felons, early voting, and same-day voter registration. “If allowed to stand, these extreme gerrymanders would cause profound and lasting harm to the people of our state, especially hurting Black communities, by depriving voters of a voice in choosing their representatives,” said Bob Phillips, executive director of Common Cause N.C.. “We look forward to taking our case to the state Supreme Court. We are confident that the people of North Carolina will ultimately prevail in our fight for fair maps.” These funders have also helped lawsuits in overturning voter ID. In 2018, 57% percent of North Carolinians voted to add a voter ID requirement to the state constitution. That amendment has not been enacted because it has been tied up in court by lawsuits initially filed by the N.C. NAACP and Clean Air Carolina. Using the legal system to overturn the policy of the opposing party is not new. Common Cause N.C. has been fighting state districts since 2011, when Republicans took control of the state legislature for the first time in a century. But the number of lawsuits has exploded in recent years, in some ways contributing to political polarization. “It’s very understandable for many voters to be frustrated right now with the overt partisan leanings of various groups,” said Stirling. “However, I don’t believe there has ever been an organization in modern history that hasn’t had some small partisan leaning to it. The best way to combat this is more information rather than ignoring it entirely. Researching who is funding these organizations, where their C-suite members have worked prior to their current positions will tell you what the beliefs of many of these groups are.” categories: CJ Exclusives, History, North Carolina, Politics & Elections tags: Common Cause N.C., eric holder, N.C. League of Conservation Voters, N.C. Supreme Court, Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation

The Facts About Election Integrity and the Need for States to Fix Their Election Systems | The Heritage Foundation The Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database shows that election fraud does occur in American elections. Errors, omissions, and mistakes by election officials and careless, shoddy election practices and procedures or lack of training can cause and have caused problems for voters and candidates. While there is no accurate information on the extent of these problems, the number of instances in which such issues have occurred and are occurring demonstrates clearly the vulnerabilities in our current patchwork system across the states. The following recommendations of best practices have been developed by Heritage Foundation experts based on long experience in the area of election integrity. These recommendations are intended principally for state legislatures, which under our federal system have the primary responsibility for administering elections. KEY TAKEAWAYS The public must have trust in the outcome of our elections. That goal is elusive in large part because of the vulnerabilities that currently exist. Rules governing the conduct of elections, which are constitutionally entrusted to the various state legislatures, should not be changed shortly before an election. Private interest groups of whatever partisan affiliation should not be allowed to provide funds to local election authorities to defray the cost of elections. Read the rest here The Facts About Election Integrity and the Need for States to Fix Their Election Systems | The Heritage Foundation

VAFairElections.org Restoring Trust In Our Elections: Virginia For Fair Elections. Easy to Vote. Hard to Cheat The Virginia Fair Elections (VFE) Coalition consists of grassroots organizations and groups whose goal is to support free and fair elections in Virginia. As part of our efforts to restore trust in Virginia’s elections, we invite you to join us as a member of our coalition or by attending one of our election integrity workshops. The Virginia Fair Elections Coalition (VFE) consists of grassroots orgaizations, groups, and individuals whose goal is to support free and fair elections in Virginia Find out how Virginia was successful and how NC will follow suit. VaFairElections.org

Heritage Action for America Saturday Summary, January 22, 2022: It was another eventful week on Capitol Hill. On Wednesday, Democrats failed in their attempt to nuke the filibuster and rig election rules, while on Friday, thousands of pro-life activists marched to the Supreme Court to mark the anniversary of Roe. v Wade and call attention to the pro-life cause. Things are happening in state capitals too. We made a promise to you that in 2022 we are going to continue to bring the fight to the states on the most important issues: election integrity, protecting the sanctity of life, and ensuring critical race theory doesn’t discriminate against our children at school. And this week, Georgia introduced an anti-CRT bill to ensure kids are free to think and free to learn—and Heritage Action activists are already rallying in support. Let’s dive in. The Senate Stays Intact On Wednesday, Senator Schumer and Senate Democrats were dealt a major blow to their efforts to abolish the legislative filibuster and cram through their election rigging bills. Moderate Senators Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) bucked party lines and voted with Senate Republicans to preserve the filibuster and protect voting rights. You can see how your Senators voted using the Heritage Action Scorecard. Looking ahead: Having failed to pass “Build Back Better” and their election bills, Pelosi and Schumer will now turn their attention to their next obstacle…government funding. Back in December President Biden signed a bill to fund the government through February 18 with a continuing resolution, meaning Congress must come together in agreement by that date with an appropriations bill to stave off a shutdown and fund the government through the rest of fiscal year 2022 (which ends in September). Complicating the issue for Dems is March 1—the scheduled date of Biden’s first State of the Union Address. With two massive legislative failures under their belts, they will look for a big win on government funding before Biden’s big speech. Rumor on the Hill is that Democrats will look to throw away MORE TAXPAYER DOLLARS on their pet projects, all in the name of “COVID relief.” >> In case you missed it! << The Heritage Foundation has launched the “Congressional Oversight Project” to hold the corrupt Biden Administration accountable for their actions against the American people. The Biden Administration routinely abuses its power, and it’s time the American people know what is happening between bureaucrats behind closed doors. Senior Advisor at The Heritage Foundation Mike Howell will be leading the charge and has extensive experience as he served in the Trump Administration as an attorney at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Click here to read the statement released by Heritage President, Kevin Roberts. Georgia's Bill to Protect Children The “Stop CRT in Education Act” (H.B. 888) was introduced in the Georgia state legislature by Rep. Brad Thomas and will Stop State-Sanctioned Racial Discrimination & Increase Transparency in Classrooms. Here is what this bill does: Defends free speech by ensuring students are not forced to affirm the tenets of CRT Ensures state funding is not used to violate students civil rights Prohibits racial discrimination against students Requires that the titles and authors of materials used in classrooms be published online This is a crucial bill as we are on the heels of the Biden administration using the Department of Justice (DOJ) to come after parents who are simply concerned about the education their students are receiving. School systems exist to serve the best interests of students, and that means EDUCATING and not INDOCTRINATING. >> CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A PDF THAT LAYS OUT THE MYTHS VS. FACTS ABOUT THIS BILL 2022 March for Life On Friday, Heritage Action joined thousands of grassroots activists at the annual March for Life. This year is special as Roe v. Wade could be overturned by the Supreme Court with a ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, a case directly challenging the Supreme Court’s 1973 ruling on Roe v. Wade. It’s important to remember that if Roe v. Wade is overturned, this does not mean that abortion will become illegal. The power will be placed back in the hands of the states to determine their own abortion laws. While we wait to see if the court overturns Roe, Heritage Action will continue their fight to protect the unborn and the sanctity of life. Listen to the newest episode of On Air with Heritage Action >> In our latest episode, host Lindsey Curnutte is joined by Director of Grassroots Janae Stracke to discuss the March for Life here in Washington, D.C. and talk about what a Post-Roe America might look like. The fight isn’t done until America’s laws embrace every life by protecting the unborn. We have our work cut out for us. As always, thank you for your dedication and hard work. Jessica and the Heritage Action Team Join the fight to advance the conservative agenda.

10 COVID-19 'Truths' That Weren't True (dailysignal.com) The media, health officials, and Big Tech have been quick to condemn COVID-19 “misinformation” or conspiracy theories. They’ve censored social media posts and banned users, from high-profile lawmakers to your grandmother. They’ve locked down the country, shuttered businesses and churches, arrested pastors, ordered the masking of children for years, and fired essential workers over resisting mandated vaccinations. All for the sake of “slowing the spread” of the coronavirus pandemic. We now know that we have been lied to by the very people who claimed to be protecting us, and we have been lied to repeatedly. So, let’s take a look at just a few of the COVID-19 conspiracy theories that weren’t: 10 times that media, health officials, or our very own president were proven to have lied about the coronavirus pandemic. 1. 15 Days to Slow Spread Experts and health officials promised in March 2020 that we needed just “15 days to slow the spread.” Almost two years later, we’ve seen almost 700 days of mandates, lockdowns, quarantines, shaming, hysteria, and travel restrictions—with no stated end in sight. 2. Face Masks During the early days of the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that Americans not wear face masks and the U.S. surgeon general urged us to stop buying masks. But in April 2020, the CDC said that all Americans should wear face coverings to avoid transmission of the virus, leading to culture wars over mask mandates across the country, heavy shaming of those who chose not to wear masks, and viral videos of often violent confrontations between Americans (and that’s not even touching the mask situation with children). Then, the CDC said in May that vaccinated Americans don’t need to wear masks in almost any setting, and now most media outlets are reporting that cloth masks just don’t work and that we should try N95s. 3. Vaccine Mandates In December 2020, President-elect Joe Biden promised that he would not force Americans to be vaccinated. But this year, the Biden administration did exactly what Biden said they wouldn’t do and mandated that health care workers and workers at U.S. companies with more than 100 employees get vaccinated. The Supreme Court blocked the Biden administration from enforcing the mandate on businesses and organizations—but health care workers who choose not to get vaccinated will still lose their jobs. And now that Americans are seeing that the vaccinations don’t fully stop COVID-19, more and more questions are being asked about why Biden is mandating vaccines. 4. Lab Leak Theory Remember when we were all told that the coronavirus originated in a Chinese wet market? Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., was lambasted by the media for suggesting the coronavirus actually originated in an infectious disease lab rather than an animal market as the Chinese government claimed. Snopes called Cotton’s claims “speculative,” the BBC called them “unfounded,” and The Washington Post went so far as to say that the lab leak theory was “debunked.” After New York magazine published an expose highlighting the legitimacy of the theory, many of those media outlets published stories confirming the legitimacy of the lab leak theory. Now we know that scientists consulting with the U.S. government early in the pandemic believed that the coronavirus originated in a Wuhan lab—but Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Francis Collins worked to shut that hypothesis down. 5. Kids Should Go Remote, Schools Should Close Activists, commentators, and teachers unions argued throughout 2020 and 2021 that schools should close out of fear of spreading coronavirus cases from child to child and from child to teacher—though multiple studies suggest that COVID-19 does not easily spread among children and being in school settings didn’t create outbreaks. One commentator in an Atlantic piece suggested that school closures could result in “flexible, adaptable, and resilient” kids, sparking heavy backlash from conservatives. Now, after months and even years of children missing school, even The New York Times is publishing stories warning that closing schools would be a “tragic mistake,” recognizing that “hospitalization and death is uncommon in children.” 6. Vaccines Will End COVID-19 We were repeatedly promised by Biden, Fauci, and many others that Americans who got vaccinated would not get COVID-19. Biden said, “You’re not going to get COVID if you get vaccinated.” Fauci said, “When people are vaccinated, they can feel safe that they are not going to get infected.” Now, as we see many vaccinated people continuing to get COVID-19, we know for a fact that this isn’t true. Vaccinated Americans can still get COVID-19, though their symptoms are usually less severe, and they are less likely to die from the virus. As Fauci said in January, “Omicron, with its extraordinary, unprecedented degree of efficiency of transmissibility, will ultimately find just about everybody.” 7. Vaccines Don’t Affect Menstrual Health Many American women expressed concerns early on about how vaccines would affect their fertility, complaining on social media that their menstrual cycle had changed since getting the vaccine. Media and health officials repeatedly assured the public that there was no evidence to suggest COVID-19 vaccines negatively affect fertility—until January 2022, when a new study found that women had an average menstrual cycle length of about one day longer than usual after getting vaccinated. Health officials say the change is small and temporary, noting that plenty of vaccinated women have gotten pregnant. But many women have criticized media dismissals of their concerns, saying they deserve real answers from medical professionals about how the vaccine affects their fertility. 8. No Masks After Vaccines We were promised that vaccinations would end COVID-19 and that Americans would no longer have to mask after they were vaccinated. But the CDC changed its mask guidance when it found in July 2021 that vaccinated people could still get the COVID-19 delta variant. And across the country, left-wing politicians like D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser continue to mandate masks for indoor businesses and events. 9. Fauci Didn’t Fund Gain-of-Function Research Fauci has repeatedly denied that agencies under his direction engaged in gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The media called pushback on this claim from people like Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., “misinformation,” but a high-ranking National Institutes of Health officer admitted in an Oct. 20 letter that the Wuhan Institute of Virology had failed to immediately notify that it had engaged in what sure looks a lot like gain-of-function research, creating a lab-generated chimeric coronavirus between June 2018 and May 2019 that tested more deadly on mice with humanized cells than the natural virus it was made from. And the same day that the NIH officer sent that letter, the NIH edited its definition of gain-of-function. 10. ‘Pandemic of Unvaccinated’ Biden and Fauci have repeatedly blamed the unvaccinated for “propagating” outbreaks of the coronavirus delta and omicron variants. As recently as Jan. 13, Biden said that “this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” ignoring the many, many vaccinated Americans who have contracted COVID-19 as of late. Have an opinion about this article? 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Comment Submitted by John Pizzo, Raleigh Resident Back in 2012, I was able to obtain a list of more than 3,000 people from my county who had to recuse themselves from jury duty based on a self-declared lack of citizenship. Of that number of admitted non-citizens, I was able to locate 528 who were "somehow" on my county's voter rolls, including 247 who had already voted at least once. How many more are doing so now, a decade later. They committed vote fraud and were able to get away with it. Many of them are likely still getting away with it. If you ever wonder why the Democrats are encouraging millions of foreigners to illegally enter the US every year, there is your answer as to "WHY." North Carolina Agrees to Release Records Showing Foreigners Voted (theepochtimes.com) In case you don't realize it, if you're not a citizen but want to vote like one, all you have to do is ......... ....is put an 'x' in the 'yes' check box. Eezy-peezy. You're on the honor system. No proof required.

February 2, 2022 The COVID Narrative is Falling Apart - American Thinker The COVID Narrative is Falling Apart By James Stansbury Joe Biden claims this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated and wants everyone in the world vaxxed with the “safe and effective” vaccines. In addition, he plans to distribute millions of "effective" N-95 masks. Anyone paying attention knows this is a big lie. Masks may be a comforting placebo, but even the N95s don’t work as advertised. And new revelations about dangerous vaccine side effects have surfaced despite media suppression. New Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin made masks and vaccinations optional for state employees and public schools. Immediately some parents, teachers, and school boards threw a hissy fit (at least seven lawsuits have resulted so far). Meanwhile, those who voted for him see this as much-needed relief from a pandemic that has run its course. Why is there so much disagreement? The late Malcolm Muggeridge put it this way; “People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.” Think about it; the Left and their media allies have terrified our children and ordinary citizens so much that they desperately want to believe masks and vax mandates are the only answer. Anyone who disagrees must be silenced, socially destroyed, or even allowed to die by withholding organ transplants or life-saving therapeutics. I was taught the only way to fight a lie is with the truth. However, I also know those who placed all their hope in the big COVID lie will do whatever it takes to silence anyone who disagrees. Just ask Joe Rogan about being silenced. It is nearly impossible to overcome emotion with facts, but I will present some anyway: 1). Alarming vax side effects reported by military whistleblowers. This story made a few waves last week when Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) included a mention in his five-hour Senate hearing. The information came from the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED), a mundane accounting tool used to track all medical diagnoses of military personnel and dependents for insurance billing purposes. DMED did better than the CDC’s ineffective Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). Following is a summary of the most alarming vax side effects: Myocardial infarction (heart attack) -- 269% increase Cancer diagnoses -- 300% increase Miscarriage -- 300% increase Bell’s palsy -- 291% increase Congenital malformations (for children of military personnel) – 156% increase Female infertility -- 471% increase Pulmonary embolisms -- 467% increase Neurological issues -- 1,000% increase 2). Athletes are mysteriously dying of sudden heart attacks: In Dec. 2021, Lorphic News, a non-traditional news source reported on the extraordinary number of physically fit, fully vaccinated athletes experiencing fatal heart attacks. This claim was systematically denied by most news sources. However, a chart compiled by the Federation Internationale de Football [soccer] Association (FIFA) confirms this is real and like the above military data, is based on a large sample size. FIFA has member athletes from 209 countries and has routinely tracked athlete health data for 20 years. Their long-term data confirms a fivefold increase in sudden cardiac deaths in only six months of 2021. 3). Vaccines now have negative efficacy: Data has surfaced claiming that continued use of the original vax is causing negative efficacy. Negative efficacy doesn't mean the protection fades. It means the opposite: it means the vaccines are now weakening the immune system. It became clear that countries with the highest vax rates were the most likely to experience a surge in both cases and deaths. You can monitor five representative countries' daily death rates here. Note that India is included because India was the only one to allow the widespread early use of inexpensive therapeutics. Initially, their protocol included hydroxychloroquine but when the more deadly delta variant hit they switched to a protocol that included ivermectin. India had far better results than the others in taming COVID. In the above sample, Australia had the most severe police state lockdowns, mask mandates, and a high vax rate of around 80%. After some initial success, it has suddenly gone from near zero cases and deaths to having an explosion in both. Since spring of 2021 Sweden, noted for its minimal mandates, had maintained near-zero cases and deaths as a result of achieving herd immunity early. All that changed when for reasons unknown Sweden pushed vaccinations despite the herd immunity achievement. As a result, Sweden’s flat-lined case and death rate also spiked, thus indicating its herd immunity achievement is compromised by vax negative efficacy. 4). Omicron provides long-lasting natural immunity: A peer-reviewed article titled “Cross-reactive memory T cells associate with protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection in COVID-19 contacts” published Jan. 10 in the scientific journal Nature provided a warning and some encouragement: Once widespread infection (such as the Omicron wave) occurs across the world, the virus will eventually circulate endemically, meaning that infections may still happen but with milder symptoms and much less mortality. recommended by