Um, yes there is.
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) August 7, 2024
There’s this little thing called the First Amendment.
Which radical, censoring, nanny-state Dems HATE. https://t.co/7b0VRL0V4X
Tim Walz calls Republicans “creepy” and “weird.”
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 6, 2024
This is the guy who signed laws requiring tampons in boys bathrooms, allows kids to get their body parts chopped off, and wants p**n in schools.
Talk about weird and creepy… 🚩🚩🚩 pic.twitter.com/Jaenso9B2D
“The public needs to know how pathetic his leadership was as a National Guardsman,” Behrends said about Gov. Tim Walz.
He’s back again to wage a public war of words against Walz. This is what his grain bin looked like in the 2018 election:
This all starts years ago, when Behrends says Walz’s misleading statements about his military service first led him to come forward in the fall of 2018. The story was largely ignored and Minnesota’s largest newspaper, the Star Tribune, checked it out but decided not to publish, according to Behrends.
“When the reporter called, I thought, ‘What the hell, is this North Korea?'” Behrends recalled. Alpha News reached out to the Star Tribune but didn’t receive a response.
Back in early 2005, a warning order went out to southern Minnesota’s First Battalion-125th Field Artillery to mobilize for a mission to Iraq, Behrends said. Walz served as the unit’s highest non-commissioned officer after he was conditionally promoted to command sergeant major on April 1, 2005, records show. On May 16, Walz retired from the guard, avoided the deployment, and ran for Congress.
Walz has implied in previous statements that he didn’t retire because of the deployment, but National Guard records show his service obligation wasn’t complete until September 2007.
Behrends was next in line for the position and was asked to take his place.
“I was like well, for Pete’s sake, if this guy quits, if I say I’m not going to do it, I mean, what the hell kind of leadership is that?” Behrends recalled. “If a company would say we’re going to deploy to Iraq and the foreman says, ‘I’m not going,’ what does that say to the 500 that work in that factory?”
Command Sergeant Major Behrends went on to serve in Iraq on a nearly two-year deployment, all while Walz began using that very title as a congressman.
Behrends said he contacted Walz with his concerns before raising the issue publicly, sending letters to Washington in 2016. The letters all went unanswered, Behrends said.
Behrends again tried to draw attention to the story in 2018 when Congressman Walz announced his run for governor.
“It kind of just sat there, you know, when he was a congressman. He bragged that he was a retired command sergeant major and the highest-ranking person ever in the House,” Behrends recalled.
“Then, the state of Minnesota came out after 2018 after this was exposed and they said, ‘Well, he can say that he served as a command sergeant major, but he can’t say he’s a retired one because he’s not,'” he added.
“He was saying that and there were campaign letters coming in the mail saying that. They said, right on there, he’s a retired command sergeant major. Just tooting his own horn, hanging on the coattails of people that actually are command sergeant majors that went through all the process and put all the time in,” Behrends said.
A spokesperson for the Minnesota National Guard previously said Walz wasn’t able to retire as a command sergeant major since he failed to complete coursework and other requirements related to the rank.
Documents show the Army corrected Walz’s service record. He was reduced in rank to an E-8 master sergeant after retirement.
“It’s stolen valor is really what it is. I don’t know of anybody else that’s done what he’s done,” Behrends said.
In 2018, Behrends gave the story the full-court press. He sent a letter with the entire story to radio and TV stations across the state. A few outlets picked up on the story, including Alpha News.
But Twin Cities TV stations and the Star Tribune were silent, even after Behrends says the newspaper checked it all out.
The Star Tribune editorial board endorsed Walz in 2018 for governor.
Between lockdowns, riots, unchecked crime, and a charred police precinct, Behrends felt he had no choice but to again come forward ahead of November.
“Allowing that to be burned down was just like having the Alamo be burned down. It was like, you defend that to the last man,” Behrends said of the Minneapolis Police Department’s Third Precinct.
“If he would have went to Iraq, he’d still be hiding under his desk over there because that’s just, you know, just the cowardice that I see portrayed with him,” Behrends added.
Walz’s August 2020 description of National Guard members as “19-year-old cooks” added to Behrends’ anger.
“I would take any 19-year-old cook before I’d go to war with him,” he quickly replied.
“I don’t know how he could even utter such a statement. I mean, it’s just absolutely sad,” he added.
So, this election year, it’s all built up again to Behrends’ new grain bin message.
“He called Jacob Frey an abject failure, so I was like, ‘That’s what he is,'” Behrends said of his first sign.
“The last one I put together and he said it himself too, ‘If you don’t like how I do my job, they can vote me out,’ so we got ‘vote him out’ at the bottom of it. That’s what we need to do, vote him out,” Behrends said of the last banner on his bin.
Alpha News again asked Gov. Walz if he’s using the “command sergeant major” rank on his campaign website for political gain this year.
A spokesperson said this has been in the news before and pointed Alpha News to a past story where Walz said “normally this type of partisan political attack only comes from one who’s never worn a uniform.” [SOURCE]
Paul Herr served in the military for 34 years in a variety of positions — as an engineer on active duty, to a tanker and first sergeant, and eventually as a command sergeant major who was deployed to Iraq in 2011 and retired in 2015. He joined Liz Collin on her podcast this week for an extensive interview.
Herr is the second whistleblower to come forward to shed light on Walz’s military record, joining Tom Behrends, who shared his story last week. According to Behrends, a warning order went out to Walz’s First Battalion-125th Field Artillery to mobilize for a mission to Iraq back in early 2005.
At the time, Herr said he participated in several meetings with Walz, who initially indicated he would be going on the deployment. However, Walz retired before the time came to deploy, and Behrends took Walz’s place.
According to Herr, Walz had been conditionally promoted to the rank of command sergeant major (CSM) before the deployment but never actually finished the requirements to call himself a CSM.
Herr predicts Walz fulfilled, “literally boots-on-the-ground time spent as a CSM,” about 14 days total in meetings and other service duties.
Before the deployment, Herr was privy to conversations that made sense only later.
“[Walz is] talking, he’s making comments to other CSMs in the room that, ‘Yeah, I really appreciate this … I have a really good chance of winning this seat,’” Herr said, referring to Walz’s successful 2006 run for Congress.
“And I didn’t put any of that together until we showed up for a meeting one time later down the road, and Tom Behrends was sitting in the room as CSM,” he said.
Other battalion sergeant majors were also unaware of the switch until that day.
“We found out then that Gov. Walz had disappeared, retired out, and basically left his troops high and dry … leaderless,” Herr said.
Herr called Walz a “habitual liar,” someone who will “say anything to anybody to make it sound like he’s going to do the best thing for you.”
On his campaign website, Walz uses the title of command sergeant major. While this is “technically” true, according to Herr, he thinks it’s meant to mislead people. Walz did serve as a CSM, but he was demoted to an E-8 master sergeant after retirement because he didn’t complete all the requirements of the CSM rank.
Walz sees the military as a “voting bloc” today, Herr thinks, and he does and says things “basically to garner votes.”
He recently promoted bonuses for veterans who served in post-9/11 combat, for instance. Herr commented that the timing of this is “suspect,” considering Walz has been in office for “a long while” and the election is now just under two months away.
It’s frustrating for Herr, who was a command sergeant major for 11 years, to hear Walz use the CSM title to “get credibility with the military and with the public.”
“He uses a mythical rank that he wasn’t allowed to retire with, that he never enrolled into the academy [for],” Herr said.
“It speaks to integrity and honor. You have a man sitting in the office, sitting in that seat as governor of the state of Minnesota. He’s lied to the public, he continues to lie to feather his own bed,” Herr continued.
Herr also discussed Walz’s response to the George Floyd riots in 2020 and his COVID-19 policies.
Walz cited his National Guard experience to justify his decisions during the riots but made statements that were nowhere “near to being true,” Herr said.
“He’ll say, ‘I was in the guard, you can’t just call up the guard,’ or he’ll say, ‘Well, I’ll call the guard, but you’re just gonna get a bunch of 19-year-old cooks.’ Neither one of those statements is anywhere near to being true,” Herr said.
Herr said, for the most part, people are thanking Behrends for coming forward.
“I would like to see [Walz] just take credit for the service that he did, quit trying to ride the shirttails and coattails of the sergeant majors that actually did the work,” he said.
A spokesperson for Walz previously said this topic has been covered before and referred Alpha News to a past story where Walz said “normally this type of partisan political attack only comes from one who’s never worn a uniform.” [SOURCE]
What the hell is going on? https://t.co/JyfMJ7yqTt
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 6, 2024
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares announced Friday that his office is investigating ActBlue for allegations of fraud across the state.
ActBlue is the premier fundraising platform for the Democratic Party and has facilitated billions of dollars in contributions since 2004. Miyares sent a letter to ActBlue warning the organization that it is now under investigation for collecting suspicious contributions in Virginia that point to “illegal” and “fraudulent” activities, demanding that the platform provide detailed records related to its transactions. (RELATED: Billionaires Bankrolling Kamala Harris’ Tough-On-Crime Campaign Wanted To Defund Police, Install Soros Prosecutors)
“My office has become aware of multiple serious allegations that ActBlue (and its affiliates) have engaged in fraudulent, deceptive, and/or otherwise illegal activities in the Commonwealth of Virginia and/or have aided and abetted others in doing so,” Miyares wrote in the letter to ActBlue. “The citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia deserve to know that nonprofit and political entities are financed in a legal manner and that entities operating in Virginia are legitimately and legally raising funds. To undermine those concerns is to undermine the integrity of our elections and charities.”
Miyares pointed to hundreds of thousands of dollars in contributions to the fundraising platform coming from individual donors in Virginia “in volumes that are facially implausible,” according to the letter. Some of these high-level contributions have come from senior citizens who self-identify as retired or unemployed and are listed with “suspicious” addresses.
That appears to indicate that those donations are stemming from “fictional donors or dummy accounts,” or that the transactions are “fraudulent” altogether, Miyares wrote in the letter. Miyares noted that it is also possible that ActBlue is taking contributions from Virginia donors without their consent or awareness.
Miyares argued in the letter that ActBlue’s actions may violate Virginia’s charitable and criminal laws, campaign finance laws and federal laws.
“For the foregoing reasons, it is imperative that you provide my office with a detailed description of ActBlue’s processes and procedures for verifying the legitimacy and accuracy of donor and contribution information as well as the processes and procedures used in verifying information reported to regulatory bodies,” the letter reads. “Given the seriousness of these allegations, I expect to receive your substantive response by August 12, 2024.”
ActBlue publicly responded to Miyare’s letter in a statement online Friday, claiming that the investigation “is nothing more than a partisan political attack and scare tactic to undermine the power of Democratic and progressive small-dollar donors.”
“The promoters of this disinformation campaign have shown up at the homes of donors and harassed our staff in-person. This must stop,” ActBlue said in its statement. “The continued escalation of these lies and their intimidating tactics is dangerous. Republicans simply cannot accept that millions of Democrats are energized and engaged in the political process, and are instead resorting to political attacks and spreading false accusations.”
The platform processed more than $90 million in donations in the first 24 hours after Vice President Kamala Harris announced in July that she’d be running for president, following President Biden’s announcement that he would not be seeking reelection, according to The New York Times.
ActBlue has previously engaged in several left-leaning and controversial events and fundraising opportunities, including processing contributions for an illegal immigrant bail fund and providing fundraising opportunities to organizations tied to a pro-Palestinian conference featuring speakers that praised Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks against Israel.
ActBlue did not immediately respond to a request for comment. [SOURCE]
The Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database presents a sampling of recent proven instances of election fraud from across the country. Each and every one of the cases in this database represents an instance in which a public official, usually a prosecutor, thought it serious enough to act upon it.
And each and every one ended in a finding that the individual had engaged in wrongdoing in connection with an election hoping to affect its outcome — or that the results of an election were sufficiently in question and had to be overturned. This database is not an exhaustive or comprehensive list.
This database is intended to demonstrate the vulnerabilities in the election system and the many ways in which fraud is committed.
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Logan Washburn
August 02, 2024
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is encouraging residents to report so-called “misinformation” from their neighbors ahead of November’s election.
“Misinformation about the election process, voter rights, or even an issue on the ballot is a serious threat to election security,” reads an online document from Benson’s office. “If you see misleading or inaccurate information regarding voting or elections in Michigan, please report it.”
The document requests residents email reports of election “misinformation” – with “an image if possible” – to misinformation@michigan.gov. Benson’s office solicits residents to report misinformation on its “voter education resources” page.
The Federalist asked Benson’s office who this email reaches and how the state responds to alleged “misinformation,” but her office did not comment in time for publication.
Benson’s office published another document discussing this so-called election “misinformation,” calling it “the most potentially damaging threat to our democracy.” It blamed “partisans, grifters, and other opportunists here at home” for “hacking the minds of American citizens,” and called on residents to enforce the official narrative.
“Citizens can and should join this effort,” the document reads, “calling out misinformation when they see it and insisting that we hold people accountable for spreading lies about elections.”
For “trusted” information, Benson’s office refers residents to its own “fact check” page, FactCheck.org, PolitiFact, and Snopes. The latter three have shown their colors as leftist information gatekeepers.
Benson, a Democrat, launched a “Democracy Ambassador” program for residents last week, according to a press release. The state sends supposedly “nonpartisan facts and resources” to residents who join, and it encourages them to share these approved messages “within their communities” where they will “combat any election-related misinformation.”
Participants will “squash misinformation before it spreads,” Benson said in the press release.
The state’s “Democracy Ambassador” webpage says the program consists of three steps: sign up to receive approved information, share that information, and sign up to be a poll worker.
Democrat Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel spoke to journalists last month, emphasizing “collaboration” between officials and the media in her effort to “eliminate misinformation from social media platforms.”
Meanwhile, Benson has come under fire recently for a host of election integrity failures.
Under “voting initiatives and resources,” Benson’s office directs residents to Vote411 – which, as The Federalist previously reported, feeds voter information to a leftist data harvesting scheme. The Federalist asked Benson’s office for comment on Vote411’s alleged data harvesting, but her office did not comment in time for publication.
Benson also hosted David Becker of the Center for Election Innovation and Research at a press conference Monday. Alongside the Center for Tech and Civic Life, which gave at least $328 million in “Zuckbucks” in 2020, CEIR funneled $70 million from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to local election agencies, advancing voting practices that favor the left.
In December last year, Benson issued a manual instructing clerks that absentee ballot signatures were entitled to a “presumption of validity.” A Michigan judge struck down the guidance as unconstitutional in a final order on Tuesday.
And in a demand letter to Benson in May, the Republican National Committee alleged that she failed to clean the voter rolls of 92,000 inactive registrants. [SOURCE]
