He followed through on pledges to take a case-by-case look at Jan. 6 protesters, who had gathered in Washington to protest the 2020 election certification. https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-pardons-about-1500-jan-6-protesters-commutes-14-others-sentences-5794304?ea_src=frontpage&ea_cnt=a&ea_med=top-news-1-top-stories-0-title-0

https://thefederalist.com/2025/01/20/seven-reasons-biden-was-one-of-our-worst-presidents/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=seven-reasons-biden-was-one-of-our-worst-presidents&utm_term=2025-01-20

https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/Final_%20Risk_Management_for_Electronic-Ballot_05082020_508c.pdf

Actress Sara Foster captured the rage of many Angelenos who have watched their city burn from the Palisades to Altadena in one social media post: “We pay the highest taxes in California. Our fire hydrants were empty. Our vegetation was overgrown, brush not cleared. Our reservoirs were emptied by our governor because tribal leaders wanted to save fish. Our fire department budget was cut by our mayor. But thank god drug addicts are getting their drug kits. @MayorOfLA @GavinNewsom RESIGN. Your far-left policies have ruined our state. And also our party.” This former Californian and Angeleno pretty much agrees. California politicians spend too much time virtue signaling to the rest of America and too little time on the unglamorous work of protecting livable neighborhoods. “Government from the local government to the state level, everything is failing,” Sean Walsh, a consultant who served as deputy chief of staff to former California Gov. Pete Wilson, told me. And it’s failing on “the fundamental things they ought to do.” Read more https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/01/13/a-well-deserved-takedown-of-the-california-political-class/

Commentary Hans Von Spakorski, Heritage Foundation Hans von Spakovsky @HvonSpakovsky Hans von Spakovsky is the manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative and a senior legal fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. The inclusion of aliens, legal or illegal, in the population used for apportionment of the U.S. House of Representatives and for redistricting (i.e., drawing new boundary lines for congressional, state legislative, and local city council and county commission offices) unfairly dilutes the votes of U.S. citizens and distorts their representation and political power within legislative bodies.   States should start conducting their own censuses and use citizen-only population in all redistricting. Only Congress can fix the apportionment problem, and both President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress already attempted to do that. https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/01/13/states-should-conduct-their-own-censuses-use-citizens-only-redistricting-heres-how/

U.S. Citizens Bill of Rights: https://irp.cdn-website.com/5fccbda6/files/uploaded/US_Citizens_Elections_Bill_of_Rights_-_Updated_%281%29.pdf

S & W 9mm CSX We are very pleased to announce the winner of the S & W 9mm CSX is Perry from Marion! Congratulations! We pulled the winner and the Land of Sky Gun and Knife Show on Sunday, January 5, 2025 at 3:30PM. As always, we are grateful and appreciative for your continued support to keep us going. We are the last Tea Party standing. We've been here since 2009 and we are not going away.   What We Stand For AMERICA FIRST! Election Integrity ( Join us on NCEIT.org ) Individual Rights Limited Government Fiscal Responsibility Free Markets See you at the next  Land of Sky Gun and Knife Show March 1 & 2, 2025.  Many, many thanks to Mike Kent, gun show owner, for the past 15 years of support and confidence. And many thanks to Phil Flack of Blueridge Firearms Unlimited for his guidance and assistance for our gun purchases.

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How to investigate using Open Source:   https://osintframework.com/ https://www.recordedfuture.com/blog/open-source-intelligence-definition https://www.recordedfuture.com/threat-intelligence-101/tools-and-technologies/osint-tools

‘Who in this country knows their counties better than the sheriff?’ says former sheriff and founder of a Constitutional sheriffs organization." Find out what your sheriff is going to do? Do you have a 287G program? Hold them accountable. We need security. Our tax money should go to our citizens. Not illegals. https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/sheriffs-say-they-can-help-ice-in-trumps-mass-deportation-plan-5779191?ea_src=frontpage&ea_cnt=a&ea_med=lead-story-0-title-0

Their reasoning is absurd. The NCSBE is without a moral compass or ethics. They are shameful. Every illegal vote steals your legitimate one but its okay! They are on their way out the door. The NC House and Senate overrode Cooper's veto that takes our elections out of the hands of corrupt Cooper and transfers our elections to the Auditor. Next heavy lift is getting the Auditor, Dave Boliek, the tools he needs to do a true forensic audit of our elections. SB770 is hgh on our list to get cast vote records available to the Auditor and citizens. Transparency! What a concept. https://thefederalist.com/2024/12/23/north-carolina-elections-board-allows-potentially-illegal-votes-because-they-probably-didnt-affect-outcomes/ NCSBE is now the State Board. Most significantly, the composition of county BOEs changes. There will still be five Board of Elections members. But, the State chair of the two political parties having the highest number of registered affiliates (Republicans # 1. Dems #2) as shall have the right to recommend to the State Board three registered voters in each county for appointment to the county board for that county. SB 382 also pushes up the deadline to process provisional and absentee ballots. New Day!   See Transfer of State Board of Elections to Auditor pg 30 to pg 40, Section 3A.4 (h) SB382 link here . We now have to give the Auditor the tools he needs to conduct a true forensic audit complete with cast vote records as in SB770.  Stay tuned. We've much work to do to secure transparent elections where citizen identification for each ballot cast is mandatory.