Good afternoon from Capitol Hill, where for the first time in 100 years, a Speaker of the House was not elected on the first vote. Or the second vote. This is because 19 conservatives voted for someone other than Rep. Kevin McCarthy (CA). And then on a third vote, the opposition increased to 20 conservatives who all voted for Rep. Jim Jordan (OH). Who were these courageous conservatives? Reps. Andy Biggs (AZ) Dan Bishop (NC) Josh Brecheen (OK) Michael Cloud (TX) Andrew Clyde (GA) Eli Crane (AZ) Byron Donalds (FL) Matt Gaetz (FL) Bob Good (VA) Paul Gosar (AZ) Andy Harris (MD), Anna Paulina Luna (FL) Mary Miller (IL) Ralph Norman (SC) Andy Ogles (TN) Scott Perry (PA) Matt Rosendale (MT) Chip Roy (TX) Keith Self (TX) The House will resume voting to name a new speaker at noon today. So what are these conservatives asking for? Last July, the House Freedom Caucus (HFC) released a public list of reforms they consider essential to fixing the broken Congress. They include restoring an open legislative process, empowering committees, giving conservatives representation on key committees, enforcing spending responsibility. By all accounts, the HFC members approached McCarthy to negotiate an agreement on these reforms, yet no agreement was reached. Yesterday, HFC Chairman Scott Perry released this statement before votes: “We asked for firm commitments on concrete policies for the benefit of the American People. When asked to promise votes on (1) a balanced budget, (2) the Fair Tax Act, (3) the Texas Border Plan, and (4) term limits for Members of Congress, he refused. “We requested transparent, accountable votes on individual earmarks that would require two-thirds support to pass, and to ensure that all amendments to cut spending would be allowed floor consideration. He dismissed it. “We demanded that he cease his efforts to defeat competitive conservative candidates in open Republican primaries. He denied it. “Kevin McCarthy had an opportunity to be Speaker of the House. He rejected it.” Rep. Matt Gaetz also detailed the failed negotiations, saying McCarthy refused to offer commitments on policy and process reforms. Adding to the conservative concerns, it was reported that last year, McCarthy used party political organizations in an attempt to defeat conservatives in primaries. McCarthy has also leveled a threat that he will block members from serving on committees if they continue to oppose him. After the votes, there were accusations made that some conservatives were asking for appointments to key committees as some personal benefit. However, Rep. Chip Roy explained last night that the names put forth for committee seats were at McCarthy’s request to advance negotiations. So what is the path forward? There will be at least a 4th vote for Speaker today, possibly more. As Politico reported this morning: “Indeed, at this point, it’s difficult to see a path to the gavel for McCarthy.” There seem to be two possibilities to end the standoff: 1) McCarthy agrees to more serious conservative reforms and wins the gavel. In fact, there are multiple reports that McCarthy allies worked with rank and file members last night to seek agreement on these concessions and there may be more movement today. 2) Members tire of the votes and demand McCarthy step aside. If he can’t show momentum going his way, it’s likely more members grow weary of the failed votes and ask for a more unifying candidate to step forward. That candidate would also have to win over the 20 conservatives, likely agreeing to more reforms they have outlined for months. Reports of possible replacements have included Reps. Jordan, Steve Scalise (LA), Elise Stefanik (NY) and new Republican Study Committee Chairman Kevin Hern (OK). It should also be noted, the intensity of this floor fight shows why change in a broken Washington is so hard to achieve. Conservatives, led by the House Freedom Caucus, havehas offered a series of reasonable requests that will democratize the House and bring accountability back to the Congress. That their efforts are being opposed so strenuously by the political establishment and their proxies in the corporate media should demonstrate how difficult conservative reforms are to achieve in Washington. The HFC should be applauded for, as Russel Kirk famously exhorted, seeking out “the old virtues” and “bring[ing] them back into the light.” How this moves forward depends on the members the people elected to represent them handle the next few hours and days. As Dan Bongino stated: “This isn’t chaos, this is a Republic.” The Latest From Around The Conservative Movement Rep. 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(WHEN YOU FILL OUT THE REGISTRATION FORMS, DELETE JANE'S INFORMATION AND FILL IN YOUR OWN - NAME, EMAIL ETC. Thanks) Announcing the Creation of National Working Groups for Election Integrity National Working Group Calendar: : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1P1eS6ldu4CjIr45YbGENL2GzR3ITo2fm7vRqExaNIEU/edit#gid=360387559 (Click on the link above to open the calendar. To register. click on the group you want to register.) NCEIT Leadership is inviting you to join the national working groups for election integrity, sponsored by CPI's Election Integrity Network. Register at the Links below if interested in sharing your time and talents with your counterparts from other states, or if you simply want to learn what challenges and solutions other states are experiencing. Ranked Choice Voting- Hosted by Marshall Yates, CPI, 1st & 3rd Thursdays- 4 :00 PM Voter Rolls Working Group- Hosted by Cleta Mitchell, CPI, Wednesdays- 4:00 PM Vulnerable Voters Working Group- Hosted by Kerri Toloczko, CPI, Jan 10th, then 1st & 3rd Tuesdays- 4:00 PM Vote by Mail / USPS Working Group- Hosted by Ned Jones, CPI, 2nd & 4th Tuesdays- 4:00 PM Election Technology Working Group- Hosted by Jim Womack, NCEIT, 2nd & 4th Thursdays- 4:00 PM National Legislative Working Group- Hosted by Zoe Miller, The FGA, Wednesdays- 2:00 PM Citizens Research Group- Hosted by Ned Jones, CPI, Tuesday Evenings- 6:00PM NCEIT | PO Box 146, Sanford, NC 27331, Sanford, NC 27330

Big Shout Out To The 20 Congressman Who Didn't Vote for McCarthy - the Real Resist Movement Don't see your Congressman? After you thank these Patriots, make sure you call your congressman who didn't and let him/her know how disappointed you are!

Daily Caller: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kari-lake-wins-partial-ballot-inspection-victory-in-maricopa-county/ar-AA15nGXM?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=be39e4e16f9d4092bd2c96ef5d168683 Kari Lake Wins Partial Ballot Inspection Victoy In Maricopa County Acourt Thursday granted parts of Republican Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s request to have some Maricopa County ballots inspected as she contests the results of her election defeat against Democratic Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs. Lake filed a lawsuit Dec. 9 seeking to be declared the election’s winner or have Maricopa County ordered to re-run its gubernatorial election, according to USA Today. The Maricopa County Superior Court of Arizona granted her petition for inspecting 50 randomly-selected Election-Day-cast and Election Day spoil-marked “ballot-on-demand” printed ballots respectively from six separate Maricopa County voting centers and 50 early cast ballots from six separate county batches. The court rejected Lake’s request to have 50 randomly selected early ballots’ envelopes inspected. It forbids the approved inspections from disturbing any ballots’ integrity, storage or maintenance in the county’s custody or interfering with any ongoing 2022 election result recount. The court ordered the inspection to start Tuesday morning. Lake has claimed that “nearly half of all polling locations had problems with tabulating machines and printers” on Election Day, forcing voters “to wait in line for hours.” At least 20% of tabulation machines in Maricopa County malfunctioned that day, county officials said. Lake’s representative did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment. All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. All republished articles must include our logo, our reporter’s byline and their DCNF affiliation. For any questions about our guidelines or partnering with us, please contact licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org. Related video: Kari Lake Sues Arizona’s Largest County, Seeking To Overturn Her Defeat | US News | English News (News18)

Here's 9 Revelations From Kari Lake's Arizona Lawsuit https://open.substack.com/pub/emeralddb3/p/heres-9-revelations-from-kari-lakes?utm_source=direct&r=b0m7o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

When this episode of “Who’s Counting with Cleta Mitchell” podcast originally aired in May of 2022, guest Maureen Riordan – a veteran attorney, retired from the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division – warned of the hyper-partisan and leftist ideology that dominates the DOJ swamp. During the 2022 election cycle, the Department of Justice proved Maureen’s warnings to be accurate as the DOJ became an active partisan bent on perpetuating the radical left’s attacks against citizen engagement in the election process, claiming that this citizen involvement constituted not a patriotic exercise of statutory and constitutional rights, but a ‘threat to democracy’. In the weeks and months leading up to the November election, the media carried a constant (false, threatening) narrative warning against “aggressive election observers becoming violent” and “voter suppression by right-wing activists.” All these outlandish claims were bolstered by similar warnings from the DOJ and its leftwing partisan leadership. None of those threats materialized and, in fact, the only chaos was caused in places such as Maricopa County, AZ by incompetent and malevolent election officials. But since the voter suppression resulting from the election failures on November 8 in Maricopa County impacted largely GOP voters, the Dept of Justice was nowhere to be found. Just as Maureen described in her interview with Cleta. The DOJ through ongoing public statements and actions that were essentially not-so-veiled threats, were intended to discourage citizens from participating in election observation and engagement. None of the false narratives actually occurred and thanks to the encouragement of leaders like Maureen, citizens across the country braved the threats and engaged in record numbers as poll workers and observers nationwide. And thanks to the thousands of citizen observers and election workers deployed in Maricopa County, the issues and problems of the November 8 election were witnessed and documented. Maureen currently serves as Litigation Counsel for the non-profit election integrity law firm, The Public Interest Legal Foundation and was lead counsel in successfully suing Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson for her failure to clean the Michigan voter rolls. Maureen is a leading expert on federal voting laws and survived a career battling the Department of Justice’s leftwing agenda. Election integrity advocates must understand her message about the level of malicious interference that emanates from this federal “mothership.” Revisiting this informative podcast is a great reminder of the barriers faced and obstacles that must be addressed and overcome by citizens when battling the federal leftwing leviathan to protect the integrity of America’s elections for all voters. Watch the Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQkZN30GwDY Subscribe and listen on: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify 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

Liz Cheney vacating congressional seat on Tuesday after six years in Congress Patriot News Alerts Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY), who became notorious for siding with Democrats against former President Donald Trump, is vacating her congressional seat today. Cheney was crushed by 40 points in the August Republican primary and was set to leave her post on January 3rd. Cheney will return home in shame and reviled by her constituents after choosing to side with anti-American Democrats to engage in a witch hunt against Trump. Despite her trashed reputation, Cheney returns home incredibly wealthy with her net worth soaring from $7 million when she first took office in 2017 to possibly more than $44 million in 2020. Enriching herself using Americans Liz Cheney enriched herself immensely during her six years in Congress and was a fantastic example of what is wrong with American politics. Breitbart News investigated Cheney’s finances and found that her Personal Financial Disclosure form listed her declared net worth as anywhere from $10,422,023 to $44,140,000. It was also found that Cheney is in a trustee position at the University of Wyoming, has membership in a holding company, as well as a position in her family’s trust. The Cheney family was incredibly wealthy long before Liz Cheney was elected to Congress. Her father, Dick Cheney, has an estimated net worth of $150 million and served as Vice President to former President George W. Bush. Cheney is also married to Philip Perry, a partner at Latham & Watkins law firm in Washington, DC, which has advised Chinese companies. Those connections alone make Cheney’s position in Congress questionable. Cheney didn’t even live in Wyoming despite representing the state for six years. She barely bothered to campaign in Wyoming during the primary and that may have been a large factor in her 40-point rout. Cheney became addicted to the stardom she gained by selling her soul to the Democrat Party. She wasn’t fit to represent Wyoming nor was she fit to decide policy. Cleaning the Republican Party up Wyoming dumping Liz Cheney in favor of Trump-endorsed Republican Harriet Hageman represents a crucial step towards cleaning out the RINO’s in the Republican Party. As for Cheney, her choice to side with Democrats and participate in the January 6th Committee yielded nothing. It cost her a political career and the final report failed to produce anything legally actionable against Trump. Cheney went from the 3rd-most powerful Republican in the House to a complete pariah. There won’t be anywhere in the Democrat Party for her either, as she would never be accepted after demonstrating her lack of loyalty. Cheney’s fall from grace will serve as a warning to any other Republicans thinking of selling their souls for media coverage and liberal adoration.

This story was originally published by the WND News Center. https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/taxpayers-forced-to-spend-millions-on-gay-trans-projects-via-omnibus-bill/ Thanks to Republican support for a newly passed $1.7 trillion omnibus federal spending bill, American taxpayers are funding left-leaning LGBT organizations across the country, including those that promote deviant sex to youth, teach biased “gay history” to kids, and lobby for letting biological boys use girls’ restrooms and locker rooms in schools. he Washington Stand reported that the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill — backed by 18 GOP senators and signed into law December 30 by President Biden — contains $11 million in LGBT funding, included the following homosexual- and transgender-related earmarks (specific spending requests) by Democrat lawmakers: $1.2 million for “LGBTQIA+ Pride Centers” at San Diego Community College District $1 million for Zora’s House in Ohio, a “coworking and community space” for “women and gender-expansive people of color” $3 million for the American LGBT Museum in New York City [see below] $1 million designated for “LGBT special services program as a part of the VAWA grant funding” $250,000 for “Our Lives Matter,” a gay rights law archive in Wisconsin $750,000 for the “TransLatin@ Coalition” to provide “workforce development programs and supportive services for Transgender and Gender nonconforming and Intersex (TGI) immigrant women in Los Angeles” [see below] $105,000 for a mentoring program for LGBT youth in the greater Pittsburgh area $856,000 for an “LGBT Center” in New York [see below] $523,345 for Compass LGBT Youth and Social Services programming $113,520 for an LGBT Center in Greater Reading, Pennsylvania $500,000 to establish a staff position for Special Advisor to Advance the Human Rights of LGBTQIA+ persons $1.5 million for an LGBT+ community center new home project in New York $750,000 for “LGBT and Gender Non-Conforming housing” in Albany, New York As WND reported, the following 18 Republican U.S. Senators voted for the omnibus spending bill loaded with pork-barrel projects, of the LGBT variety and other “woke” agendas:

North Carolina Supreme Court Blocks Voter ID Law Over ‘Discriminatory Intent’ - is their last gasp!https://www.theepochtimes.com/north-carolina-supreme-court-blocks-voter-id-law-over-discriminatory-intent_4930525.html?utm_source=ai&utm_medium=search We knew this was going to happen before the new North Carolina Supreme Court justices were sworn-in. Back in June, the United States Supreme Court ruled that NC Republicans may intervene to defend voter ID. https://www.ashevilleteaparty.org/post/supreme-court-north-carolina-republicans-may-intervene-to-defend-voter-id-ballot-law So, this move by the progressive NC Supreme Court was no surprise. (We actually expected this in October. I guess they thought it would be so much more meaningful just before Christmas!) So, what next, you say? We will have a majority conservative Supreme Court after January. At a public candidate forum in Asheville in October, I raised that very question knowing the currrent group of justices would try one more time to deny NC voter ID. Chuck Edwards and Trey Alken - our new Supreme Court justice - responded that the only way we get to hear Voter ID is to bring a new voter ID case to the Court. That happens when the North Carolina General Assembly brings that case. We will get this. So, take a breath. This too will be added to the list of issues we bring to the NC General Assembly, thanks to all of your affidavits of election integrity violations. It's been quite a year and this year will bring changes to prepare us for 2024. Please join the army at NCEIT.org/Join Us. Sign up for the Asheville Tea Party newsletter too. Starting in January, we have trainings planned to address the issues with the post office, vulnerable voters, absentee ballots, provisional ballots, list maintenance, and machines and technology. Your NCEIT team is already lobbying our state legislators like they did to shut down ERIC. It is the work we do in between elections when we are not poll observing. Thank you for being a patriot and for caring. The road ahead will be rough but we will win the day. We have to. Our great Republic is worth saving and only WE THE PEOPLE - YOU can do that! Have a wonderful Christmas. Please stay in touch and I will do the same. Jane Bilello

Posted December 13, 2022 The video with the Jackson County Board of Elections members trying to explain what happened with the double counting of mail in ballots! https://rumble.com/v1u4y0g-jackson-county-board-of-election-meeting-nov-11..html Attached is Keith Blain's request. Lisa Lovedahl is the JC Director of Elections and Kirk Stephens is the chair of the JCBOE. I have not received back a response from my email 3 weeks ago. Request for Election Information from Keith Blaine, Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 5:39 PM To: Lisa Lovedahl - ELECTIONS , kirkstephens-boe@jacksonnc.org Cc: "Rep. Mike Clampitt" Hi Lisa and Kirk, Thanks for providing an update on the duplicate counting of the mail in votes and responding to questions from our community. Just wanted to check to see what the next steps are to determine how the duplicate counting occurred. I sincerely appreciate being informed on what occurred, but I believe we need to know how it occurred. I would also like to request a copy of the precinct poll tapes for Election Day, the zero tapes at the beginning of election day, and the closing tapes. Again, thanks for your transparency on what occurred on Election Day. Thanks, Keith Blane 828.331.762

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https://www.ashevilleteaparty.org/so/b6OJtCgvo?languageTag=en&cid=de5f0a75-82ac-41f9-8d18-d2861b0d7ed7 Buncombe Board of Elections Meeting Tuesday, December 13th, 2022 Come to address Buncombe County's Illegal Electioneering To Cost Tax Payers $70.000.000! The Buncombe County Board of Elections is having a meeting on Tuesday, December13th at 4:30. This is a post mortem on the 2022 election and the time to find out the who, the why and the how of illegal electioneering for the two bond issues that will cost taxpayers $70,000,000. Buncombe residents should be there to hold the Board accountable for the illegal electioneering inside the polling places in favor of passing two bond referenda - Housing and Open Spaces - that will cost taxpayers $70,000,000! NCEIT has affidavits from poll observers during early voting and on election day that workers were handing out 'positive' information to voters as they were about to cast their votes. The Buncombe Board of Elections agreed there was improper electioneering and said they would investigate. WE need to hold them accountable and find out what has been done since the canvass on November 8th 2022. Who did this? Who said it was okay? Why did they do this? How did this happen? Who paid for the materials? What's been done? Why aren’t those judges/site supervisors fired? Why is the Board not even handed in dealing with judges/site supervisors? They fired a Republican judge for one Facebook post about a ,candidate but it's okay for Democrat judges to endorse Democrat candidates on their campaign websites. In addition, whoever the judges were at the precincts where electioneering was taking place, why are they not fired? YOU NEED TO RAISE THESE QUESTIONS WITH YOUR BOARD! Hope to see you there! Buncombe Elections Board Meeting 59 Woodfin Place, Asheville 28801 Tue, Dec 13, 4:30 – 6:30pm https://www.buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/election/board-meetings.aspx Read the rest here