🚨🚨BREAKING: Newly declassified CIA documents reveal that a foreign regime developed a plan to rig an election with tampered voting machines. The company involved went on to win a quarter-billion-dolla... View More🚨🚨BREAKING: Newly declassified CIA documents reveal that a foreign regime developed a plan to rig an election with tampered voting machines. The company involved went on to win a quarter-billion-dollar contract to build election equipment for the largest voting jurisdiction in America!🚨🚨
The White House released the CIA memo late last week. Writer Sofia Karstens broke down the document on Substack, and the details deserve every American’s attention.
Start in 2006. That year, a National Security Council threat assessment rated Smartmatic’s purchase of Sequoia, an American voting systems company, a “moderate overall threat to US national security interests.”
The finding rested on intelligence that Venezuela intended to influence American politics and had already manipulated its own elections. Federal reviewers forced Smartmatic to sell Sequoia by 2007.
Now jump to 2012.
The memo describes intelligence reporting that Hugo Chavez’s spy services worked with Venezuela’s electoral council and Smartmatic on a specific plan to rig his reelection.
Altered machines would go into roughly 300 voting centers in pro-Chavez strongholds to manufacture a margin of about 1.5 million votes.
Chavez won by about 1.6 million.
Sources told the CIA he congratulated his team afterward for “successfully implementing” the plan.
The memo goes further.
Reporting from September 2020 described a technique using parallel “virtual machines” that would copy legitimate vote data, swap in manipulated results, and pass a standard audit without detection.
Then in 2018, Los Angeles County handed Smartmatic a contract worth up to $282 million to build the ballot-marking system for the largest election jurisdiction in America.
That system was up and running for the 2020 election. Today, Smartmatic and several former executives, including a co-founder, sit under federal indictment in Florida on bribery and money laundering charges.
Prosecutors allege the company overbilled Los Angeles County and funneled the extra money into a slush fund.
Smartmatic is only half the story. Karstens also lays out the record on Konnech, a Michigan company that manages poll worker data for election offices across the country, including Los Angeles County. In October 2022, the LA County District Attorney arrested Konnech’s CEO.
County investigators alleged the company stored American poll workers’ personal information on servers in China, in violation of its contract. One month later, the DA’s office dropped the charges, citing potential bias in the investigation.
It never said whose bias, and it never resolved whether the allegations were true. In 2024, the county paid Konnech a $5 million settlement over the prosecution.
Through all of it, Konnech kept its government contracts. Outside reporting, including a Blaze Media review of domain records, has also tied Konnech’s CEO to a Chinese firm that builds election technology for China’s national legislature.
An arrest, dropped charges with no answers, a taxpayer-funded settlement, and unbroken contracts. That sequence should trouble anyone who cares about how our elections are run.
Karstens also points to a third vendor.
Her piece cites internal Dominion Voting Systems emails from spring 2020 that she says show company personnel, including then-director of product strategy and security Eric Coomer, senior systems manager Ronald Morales, and operations executive Nicole Nollette, coordinating remote VPN access into two county election networks.
She reports the emails found two-factor authentication “not possible” on either network at the time, describe a shared virtual machine built for remote access, and reference credentials stored in a shared file.
Her conclusion is that the correspondence shows loose vendor access practices in the run-up to a presidential election. Readers can weigh her analysis for themselves.
One more thing should bother every American, whatever your politics. The same CIA memo that lays out the 2012 rigging plan also declares, twice, that “large-scale electronic fraud did not occur.”
What evidence supports that conclusion? Polling numbers, government spending, and the opposition’s concession.
There is no forensic examination of the machines anywhere in the reasoning.
The CIA’s own internal review from 2013 admitted “limited insight into key elements of the electronic voting system.”
The memo’s scope note concedes it covers only “select” intelligence documents from those sixteen years.
A document that details a rigging plan on one page and rules out fraud a few pages later has some explaining to do. So does an agency still holding back the rest of the file.
Americans deserve the full record. Congress should demand release of the remaining classified reporting.
Every state should keep building the safeguards that make manipulation hard: paper ballots, real audits, and full transparency about who builds and services our election equipment.
Trust in elections is earned with evidence.
The government holding that evidence should show all of it. - Ken Blackwell
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BREAKING: Kennedy Freezes $1 Billion in Medicaid Money to California and Minnesota Over Fraud
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced today that the federal government is paus... View MoreKen Blackwell
BREAKING: Kennedy Freezes $1 Billion in Medicaid Money to California and Minnesota Over Fraud
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced today that the federal government is pausing more than $1 billion in Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota. The money stays frozen until those states prove the payments were legitimate. The pause covers roughly $867 million for California and about $200 million for Minnesota.
Every American should welcome this move, because the fraud behind it is one of the worst scandals in the history of our safety net programs.
Consider what federal investigators found. In California, spending on in-home care services grew far faster than national trends, and reviewers flagged claims the state could not document. In Minnesota, roughly 3,000 providers were recently removed from Medicaid after failed background checks and failed site visits. Federal officials even found millions of dollars billed for services supposedly delivered to people who had already died.
That money was meant for poor families, seniors, the disabled, and children who need real medical care.
When criminals loot Medicaid, the most vulnerable Americans pay the price first. Every dollar in the program comes out of a working family's paycheck, and stewardship of that money is a moral duty.
The clearest example is autism services. In May, the Justice Department charged 15 people in Minnesota with more than $90 million in health care fraud.
The takedown included the largest Medicaid autism fraud case ever charged by the department, a $46.6 million scheme built on kickbacks to parents, phony autism diagnoses, and bills for therapy that never happened.
The numbers show how far out of control this got.
Minnesota's Medicaid autism program paid out about $600,000 in claims in 2018. By 2025, that figure had grown past $400 million.
No honest program grows like that in seven years.
The scandal came to light in part because a young independent journalist named Nick Shirley walked into Minnesota facilities with a camera and found empty buildings billing taxpayers. His videos drew hundreds of millions of views and forced Washington to pay attention.
When citizen journalists do the oversight work that state governments refused to do, the people running those governments owe the public an explanation.
Meanwhile, honest providers are being crushed.
Jennifer Larson has run the Holland Center in Minnesota for more than 20 years, serving children with autism through decades of clean audits. She told Congress in January that the state withheld more than $400,000 from her program during its blanket payment freeze, forcing her to borrow money to make payroll. When trusted centers close, children lose their therapy, and families watch years of progress slip away in weeks.
That is the double tragedy of fraud on this scale.
Criminals steal the money on the front end, and then the government's cleanup punishes the very families the program was built to serve.
The stakes keep rising.
The CDC now reports that 1 in 31 American 8-year-olds has been identified with autism. Those families need every Medicaid dollar to reach real therapists providing real care.
The path forward requires three things.
Prosecute the criminals swiftly and send them to prison. Screen providers before they can ever bill the taxpayer, using the same fraud detection technology credit card companies run every second of every day. Pay honest providers on time so children keep the care their doctors prescribed.
Governor Newsom and Governor Walz now face a simple test. If these payments were legitimate, they can show the documentation and the money flows again. If they cannot, taxpayers in their states and across the country deserve to know exactly where the money went.
Fraud in Medicaid steals from taxpayers, from disabled children, and from the trust that holds communities together. It's time to expose and stop all Medicaid fraud!
A handful of politicians are now openly talking about expanding the Supreme Court.
They call it reform.
They call it transparency.... View MoreA handful of politicians are now openly talking about expanding the Supreme Court.
They call it reform.
They call it transparency.
They call it fixing the Court.
But what they’re really talking about is court-packing — adding seats until the Supreme Court says what they want it to say.
And for gun owners, that is the whole ballgame.
Every major Second Amendment win we’ve celebrated runs through the Supreme Court.
Heller.
Bruen.
Carry protections.
Magazine bans.
Assault weapons bans.
The AR-15 case coming before the Court.
All of it depends on the Court being willing to say the Constitution means what it says.
But if they add four new seats and fill them with justices who treat the Second Amendment like a typo, every one of those wins goes right back on the operating table.
They don’t have to ban every gun nationwide if they own the court that decides whether gun bans survive.
They don’t have to beat the Second Amendment directly.
They just have to pack the referee.
That’s why this matters.
Because the same people telling you they only want “reform” are also telling you the current Court keeps getting in their way.
That’s the point.
The Supreme Court is the wall that blue-state gun bans eventually run into.
Pack the Court, and that wall comes down.
Every ban that used to get struck down suddenly survives.
Every unconstitutional bill gets a green light.
And every gun-rights win you thought was locked in becomes temporary.
So when a politician says “expand the Court,” understand what they’re really saying:
Add seats until your rights lose.
This is not routine housekeeping.
This is the kill switch for every Second Amendment win we’ve fought for. - Colion Noir
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