That's the plan alright. Legal spot fires all over the map so you're playing whack-a-mole to keep up.

This is all part of the Heritage Foundation strategy: preliminary to all the challenges and peremptory lawsuits to clog the legal and electoral system before and during the election. They intend to fill the state and federal electoral and justice system with so many roadblocks that the election will appear to be in doubt before it has begun, before it can be counted, and before it can be certified.

It is a coordinated campaign of terror, an outright fraud on all American voters, and an assault on our system of laws and democratic government. It depends upon the perception that so many such complaints MUST mean that there are indeed real problems.

In short they intend to overwhelm us with a nearly endless series of lies, much like their candidate does.

Since 1973 The Heritage Foundation and other front groups like it have been grooming and financing whole generations

of them to take over local government, state and national legislatures, the GOP and the White House. He is not just one of a few organically stupid jerks in elected office. He is one of thousands of RW true believers you'll find on school boards, city and county commissions, in the many GOP controlled state legislatures and governorships. They are the 3rd generation of what became visible as Newt Gingrich's Party of NO, followed by the Tea Party, and now MAGA. As such they are a numerically significant part of American political life. They are also a cancer on the body politic in that their goal is to disable and consume democratic government at every level to the ultimate benefit of the Ultra Rich and the Christian Nationalists. While not all of them are as outspoken as the tool mentioned above they are all well vetted and enthusiastic members of the cult.

REPORT FINDS BIDEN DEBATE CRISIS IS A BOGUS MEDIA CREATION. Read the evidence

Fascinating to find confirmation of the MSM playing meme games with the election, and the truth.

Michigan state GOP Rep. Friske arrested on undisclosed charge after police get report of man with gun.

Arizona House votes to repeal Civil War-era abortion ban.

Source: Washington Post. By Caroline Kitchener and Yvonne Wingett Sanchez. April 24, 2024 at 3:22 p.m. EDT

The 1864 abortion law, which took effect briefly after Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022 but was soon blocked by the courts, was revived by the state’s highest court on April 9, inciting a national uproar and political panic among Republicans who worry that the ban will hurt their chances of winning elections later this year, including the presidential contest.

GOP anxieties about the politics of a near-total abortion ban have led to an unlikely, albeit temporary, alliance between Democrats, a small number of Republican lawmakers mostly in swing districts and allies of former president Donald Trump — including Senate candidate Kari Lake, who recently reversed her position on the ban and has been making personal appeals to GOP lawmakers, urging them to repeal the law.
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Three Republicans in the House crossed party lines Wednesday to vote with all of the chamber’s Democrats. Even if the bill to repeal the 1864 law is approved by the Senate and signed by the governor, the near-total abortion ban could still take effect for several months. Bills typically take effect 90 days after the legislative session ends.

The legislation now moves to the state Senate, where it needs votes from at least two Republicans in addition to all of the chamber’s Democrats. The Senate is already moving forward with its own identical version of the repeal bill, signaling that it could have the GOP support needed to pass the bill approved by the House on Wednesday. The earliest that the Senate could vote on the House version is May 1, based on the chamber’s current schedule, according to legislative staffers.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/24/arizona-abortion-ban/

'Stakes are really high': misinformation researcher changes tack for 2024 US election

A key researcher in the fight against election misinformation – who herself became the subject of an intensive misinformation campaign – has said her field gets accused of “bias” precisely because it’s now mainly right-wingers who spread the worst lies.

Kate Starbird, co-founder of the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, added that she feared that the entirely false story of rigged elections has now “sunk in” for many Americans on the right. “The idea that they’re already going to the polls with the belief that they’re being cheated means they’ll misinterpret everything they see through that lens,” she said.

Starbird’s group partnered with Stanford Internet Observatory on the Election Integrity Partnership ahead of the 2020 elections – a campaign during which a flood of misinformation swirled around the internet, with daily claims of unproven voter fraud.

Starbird and her team helped document that flood, and in return congressional Republicans and conservative attorneys attacked her research, alleging it amounted to censorship and violated the first amendment.

Celeste Maloy is Ammon Bundy's cousin. Would that impact her views on public lands in Congress?

“I would love to see the state have jurisdiction over (public lands) someday — right now we don’t,” Maloy, the GOP candidate in Utah’s special congressional election, said in an interview.

Declassified report suggests "Havana syndrome" could result from energy weapon

A newly obtained declassified report prepared for the director of national intelligence by a panel of experts appears to show conclusively that "Havana syndrome" — a cluster of unexplained symptoms experienced by diplomats and government personnel abroad — is not a naturally occurring health problem. It does not reach any conclusions about who or what may be responsible, but suggests that an unknown device or weapon using "pulsed electromagnetic energy" remains a plausible explanation.

The document was declassified after the James Madison Project, a nonprofit dedicated to reducing government secrecy, sued to obtain further information on "Anomalous Health Incidents" or AHIs, the official term used to designate the syndrome.

"The U.S. government is covering up evidence as to what AHIs are," said James Madison Project attorney Mark Zaid, who also represents a number of Havana syndrome patients. "This report differs from the summary released earlier this month and previous statements from the intelligence community. It is becoming apparent that these events were perpetrated either by foreign actors, or it is an experiment gone horribly wrong."

Neo-Nazi, white supremacist, racist rally apparently planned for Missoula.

It seems there is a RW plan to do events like this all over the northwest.

I suspect the timing may have to do with the fact that this week Missoula is celebrating the history and contributions of the Buffalo Soldiers who were stationed in the area and are significant to the settling of this region.
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David Erickson for The Missoulian Jun 13, 2022