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Mollie Ziegler Hemingway has been named editor in chief of The Federalist, company co-founder and Chief Financial Officer Sean Davis announced on Monday. In this new role, Hemingway who has been a Federalist senior editor since its founding in 2013 will now oversee all of The Federalists editorial operations.

Im thrilled to announce Mollie as The Federalists editor in chief, Davis said. Mollies leadership, temperament, journalistic experience, and especially her courage make her the perfect choice to set the editorial direction of The Federalist.

America is at a crossroads right now, Davis continued. We are locked in a battle that will decide whether our nation will defend and uphold the values and ideals of our Founding, or whether we will allow deranged left-wing activists, corrupt media and Big Tech outlets, and a feckless political establishment to rewrite history and destroy everything that has made America the greatest and most free nation on earth.

Since The Federalist was founded in 2013 by Davis and Ben Domenech, the publication has served as the tip of the spear against the bogus narratives and hoaxes peddled by the corrupt corporate media. From unmasking the Russian collusion hoax, to reporting the truth about the attempted character assassination of Brett Kavanaugh, to combatting the never-ending attempts of the left to thwart and unseat President Donald Trump, to chronicling the reality of what happened during the 2020 election, to fighting Big Techs Orwellian declaration of war against free speech, The Federalist has placed itself on the front lines of the lefts war against Americas founding principles.

In each of those battles, Hemingways fearless work for The Federalist set the tone and led the way for the entire conservative movement.

Mollie is far and away the smartest pundit and journalist working in politics today, Davis added.

One of the most popular and beloved contributors on Fox News, Hemingway also serves as a senior journalism fellow at Hillsdale College, where she teaches a class on journalism. In 2021, her distinguished reporting and commentary earned her the prestigious Bradley Prize, which is awarded for extraordinary contributions to American scholarship and debate. In 2019, recognizing her journalistic integrity and willingness to stand alone beside the truth, the Heritage Foundation conferred on Hemingway its Salvatori Prize for American Citizenship.

She is also the co-author of the No. 1 national best-seller, Justice On Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court, and the author of the best-selling Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections, the definitive historical account of the 2020 presidential election.

My goals for The Federalist are to continue our courageous and ground-breaking journalism, Hemingway said. From our founding, we have fought every false corporate media narrative out there, from the Russian collusion hoax, to the Kavanaugh smears, to the irregularities surrounding the 2020 election. So much more needs to be done to protect America from a corrupt media complex thats hell-bent on destroying the country. Thats why Im so excited for this new role at The Federalist and so honored to be working with our team of amazing, fearless journalists.

As editor in chief, Hemingway will lead The Federalists coverage and work closely with the publications senior editorial staff, including Executive Editor Joy Pullmann and newly named Senior Editor John Davidson, along with Davis and Domenech. Founded in 2013 by Davis and Domenech, The Federalist quickly became one of the most fearless and influential political publications in the country and is a daily must-read for everyone interested in the nexus of politics, culture, and religion in America.

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Chelsea Greene Publishing is suing Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren for allegedly abusing her political authority to push Amazon to censor their book titled, The Truth About COVID-19.The publisher alleges serious First Amendment violations.

On September 7, 2021, Warren sent an official letter to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy urging him to suppress the bestseller written by Joseph Mercola and Ronnie Cummins in Amazons search results for perpetuating dangerous conspiracies about COVID-19 and false and misleading information about vaccines.

Chelsea Greene responded by filing a lawsuit accusing Warren of violating the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by seeking to stop booksellers from selling and/or promoting their book. The lawsuit cites the Supreme Court case Bantam Books v. Sullivan, which held that government officials violated the First Amendment by sending letters to booksellers warning the sale of certain books was potentially unlawful.

The ruling established that even though private companies have the right to censor speech within their platforms, they cant do it on behalf of a government agent. It is unconstitutional for state officials to pressure a private company to suppress objectionable speech.

According to Warrens letter, a search on Amazons website using the keywords COVID-19 and vaccine would list the book as the first result. Warren concluded the letter by calling Amazon to modify its algorithms so that they no longer do so.

Chelsea Greene Publishing released a statement explaining their allegations against Warren.

The term vaccine misinformation, as Warren uses it, refers to any speech challenging the safety and efficacy of the COVID vaccines, even when that speech consists of factually accurate information or reasonable and protected opinion, the statement said. Plaintiffs allege Warrens letter contained blatant falsehoods and unsubstantiated accusations about the book and that Warrens claims, even if correct, would not alter the books constitutional protectedness.

Author Joseph Mercola accused Warren of violating his First Amendment rights, noting that protecting free speech is central to our democracy.

I believe successful treatments for COVID-19 have been suppressed, and there are real conspiracies that have been revealed that are essential to public well-being, said Mercola.

Margot Baldwin, president of the publisher, pointed out that, historically speaking, suppressing books indicates dangerous government trends..

The government trying to ban books is a very dangerous slippery slope to totalitarianism and cannot be allowed, said Baldwin. Weve been here before in history and we know where it leads: tyranny! First burning books, then banning books, then disappearing books from search results. Its all the same thing.

As a result of Warrens letter, Barnes and Noble, the largest bookseller chain in America, announced it would no longer sell the ebook of The Truth About COVID-19 on its digital platforms, a decision which was reversed a few days later.

Many observations about Covid-19 that were previously considered conspiracy theories by Democrat politicians have since turned out to be correct. For a few examples: after two years of lies, the Centers for Disease Control finally admitted that its Covid death and hospitalizations numbers were being inflated, 75 percent of Covid victims had at least four comorbidities, the vaccine doesnt prevent transmission, and cloth masks were always political theater.

This is not the first time Democratic politicians have colluded with powerful private corporations to shut down speech that poses an inconvenience. Recently, President Joe Biden urged social media companies to deal with the misinformation and disinformation on their platforms. Last year, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki revealed the White House was regularly working with Facebook to flag problematic posts that spread disinformation.

Nathan J. Arnold, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said he doesnt believe that there is any misinformation in the book, but even if there was, it would be irrelevant since it is speech protected by the First Amendment.

I know that the political landscape that were all operating in is terribly partisan, but we dont want unpopular opinions being suppressed by whoevers in power, said Arnold. It really transcends party politics.

Sam Neves is a former leftist and a correspondent for Campus Reform. He is a marketing major at Emerson College. After graduation, Sam plans to attend law school and continue his mission to fight for people who do not have a voice.

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Warren Sued For Asking Amazon To Suppress Covid Book In Searches - The Federalist

Wisconsin became the latest state to pass a resolution calling for an Article V convention of states on Tuesday, with the goal of proposing amendments to the U.S. Constitution that would limit the power of the federal government.

Passed by the Wisconsin Assembly last year, the resolution was approved by the Senate in a 17-16 vote, with four Republicans joining all Democrats in opposition. According to the measure, Wisconsins legislature seeks to call a convention of states limited to proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United States that impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, and limit the terms of office for its officials and for members of Congress.

As written in Article V of the U.S. Constitution, state legislatures are provided the power to call a convention to propose amendments to the nations founding document without the approval of Congress. Under the current process, two-thirds of states are required for a convention to be called, with three-fourths of states necessary for any amendment proposed to be ratified.

Times like these are precisely why the Founders created the mechanisms in Article V, said state Rep. Dan Knodl. Federal overreach has thrown our country into chaos, and its time for the states to exercise their authority as granted to them in the constitution to restore order, states rights, and limited, constitutional government. Im incredibly proud that our state has officially thrown its support behind this movement.

State Sen. Kathy Bernier also expressed her excitement at the resolutions passage, noting how thankful she is that the Constitution provides the states and the people a framework to step in and save the Republic when Congress will not.

Today we sent a message that Wisconsin stands ready to rein in federal overreach, she said.

In addition to Wisconsin, 15 other states have also passed similar resolutions calling for a convention to address federal term limits, spending, and governmental overreach.

Shawn Fleetwood is an intern at The Federalist and a student at the University of Mary Washington, where he plans to major in Political Science and minor in Journalism. He also serves as a state content writer for Convention of States Action. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood

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Wisconsin Passes Resolution Calling For Article V Convention Of States - The Federalist

As part of their job in screening visitors to the U.S. Capitol (should the complex ever re-open to the public, that is), U.S. Capitol Police often rummage through backpacks and purses. Lately, they may also be rummaging through more than that: your tax records, real estate holdings, and social media posts. All without your knowledge.

Besty Woodruff Swan and Daniel Lippman broke the details this week of a new Capitol Police initiative that involves deep dives into the speech, background, and lifestyle details of who members of Congress are meeting with, including donors, Hill staff, mayors, state legislators, and other Americans exercising their First Amendment right to petition their government.

In one example Swan and Lippman cite, a donor meeting attended at a private home by Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, meant the homeowner and attendees had their social media scrutinized and evaluated for foreign contacts by Capitol Police. A donor meeting with Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., the House Republican whip, received similar treatment. The Capitol Police were directed to search for any information about event attendees, including donors and staff, that would cast a member in a negative light.'

In both cases, the lawmakers and the attendees were unaware these checks were taking place.

All of this is occurring under the guise of the enhanced security measures deemed necessary after the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. However, it is unclear how such measures would have actually prevented the Jan. 6 events in the first place.

The Capitol Police have provided no detailed justification. Nor have they said what they are doing with the records, how long those records are being stored, or what other purposes they have. The agency is only subject to congressional oversight not to public records requests.

One can imagine how easily these searches could become politicized: Personal details on Capitol Hill staff, state legislators, or donors are dispersed to partisans and suddenly leaked at an opportune political moment by some agency conveniently immune to the Freedom of Information Act and subject to limited oversight. After the aggressive leaking, spinning, and shaming that bureaucrats engaged in during the Donald Trump years, weve seen whats possible.

This practice also comes dangerously close to burdening the free exercise of political speech, which includes the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances without fear of reprisal. As Rep. Kelly Armstrong, R-N.D., a former criminal defense attorney, pointed out to Swan and Lipmann, these measures also walk right up to the line of spying on members of Congress, their staff, their constituents and their supporters.

Anybody involved with implementing this without making it known to the actual members of Congress should resign or be fired immediately, Armstrong went on. And Im not big on calling for resignations.

Subjecting American citizens to a virtual cavity search in exchange for petitioning the government they elect in the buildings they pay for is more than just a one-off, however. It is yet another hurdle thrown up by the Democratic regime in Washington to separate the rulers from the ruled.

The Capitol, as well as the House and Senate office buildings, remain closed to visitors as they have been since early spring 2020, the longest stretch in the countrys history. Its been longer than any closure for the Civil War, or even the 1918 outbreak of Spanish flu.

Football stadiums all over the country are packed, lawmakers fly to and from the Capitol on full flights and attend in-person events and fundraisers, and the Senate still votes in person (the House is still shamelessly proxy voting). But the corridors of self-government remain closed off to the people to whom they belong.

In addition to being transparently unnecessary, this undermines the nature of our self-government. Access to and interaction with those we elect is central to our representation. One of the qualities that makes America exceptional is our citizen legislature. That those we elect do not sit higher than us, but equal to us.

Placing heavier and heavier burdens on entry to the U.S. Capitol the seat of our democracy as well as access to those who represent us strikes at the heart of that relationship, and a central feature of republican government. It changes the detachment of our representatives from their constituencies from merely a rhetorical formulation into a literal one.

But perhaps that is the point. Security and safety theater in and around the Capitol keeps out the engagement that is part of accountability. It ensures the hoi polloi dont accidentally get to interact with the people they elect. It keeps the participation of the masses of unwashed voters and the accountability they might bring at a healthy distance.

Limiting access to the halls of our representative government is, in this way, a physical manifestation of the hierarchy that we now see all around us: between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated, the people who follow The Science and those who have the gall to question it, between the corporate class and the underclass. Using theatrical excuses about Covid or Jan. 6 is a convenient proxy to further remove the political elite from the rabble they would rather rule than represent.

But this is our reality now. Working-class employees around the country are fired for rejecting a vaccine and blocked from going to restaurants and bars (including in the nations capital, which is overseen by Congress), wrong thinkers are cut off from the financial system, and bad social credit gets you cut out of the digital public square. The IRS is now requiring Americans to submit facial recognition data to access their tax records.

The hierarchy is here. Republicans in Congress should aggressively fight the new class system wherever they find it. And they should start within their own house.

Shut down the Capitol Police surveillance and re-open the Capitol, House, and Senate. Welcome Americans back into the seat of their democracy and the buildings that belong to them. In doing so, restore at least a modicum of the equality and access that has always been the hallmark of American self-government, but is now so desperately missing from D.C. and the rest of the country.

Rachel Bovard is The Federalist's senior tech columnist and the senior director of policy at the Conservative Partnership Institute. She has more than a decade of policy experience in Washington and has served in both the House and Senate in various roles, including as a legislative director and policy director for the Senate Steering Committee under the successive chairmanships of Sen. Pat Toomey and Sen. Mike Lee. She also served as director of policy services for The Heritage Foundation.

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Report: Capitol Police Are Spying On Lawmakers And People They Meet - The Federalist

Mick Nardelli knew something had to be done. After weeks of pandemic apathy, wherein incentivized sedentary lifestyles at the onset of Covid introduced the Quarantine 15, Nardelli was nearing 300 pounds and had an uncertain future.

At 59 and 295 pounds in his mid-40s, the D.C. suburban father of a 3-year-old watched with a body mass index of nearly 44, (14 points above the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions threshold for obesity and therefore qualified as medically severe) while the Wuhan virus wreaked havoc on patients who carried excessive weight.

Not being around was staring me in the face, Nardelli told The Federalist. I hadnt had that realization until Covid.

Nardelli said he came across a study published in August 2020 that pushed him to move. Researchers had examined 75 studies to conduct a systemic meta-analysis that probed the risks to obese individuals by the new coronavirus. Obese people, they found, were at least 113 percent more likely to be hospitalized, at least 73 percent more likely to be admitted to intensive care, and nearly 50 percent more likely to die.

That was a scary enough statistic for me to take action, Nardelli said, signing up for a local weight loss program complete with regular in-person coaching.

The first time I started exercising I just walked, said Nardelli. He met with his nutrition trainers at Cpare, the wellness group that facilitated his diet training weekly.

Prepping for an eventual Covid infection, which the so-called vaccines cant prevent, Nardellis work paid off when the vaccinated 46-year-old lobbyist contracted the virus over the recent holidays after having lost 100 pounds.

Mild is not a word I would use, said Nardelli, who got Covid as the less deadly omicron variant became the dominant strain. Mild to what it was previously, but there were times when I felt a consistent breathing attack.

Nardelli, now 183 pounds with a body mass index of 27 and no longer considered obese, credits his weight loss with saving him from severe Covid complications, or worse, death.

I am convinced without any medical background, Nardelli told The Federalist, had I not lost the weight, I would have been in much much, much worse shape. The data backs this up.

After losing the weight, Nardelli was able to toss out the five medications he was taking for high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes. A study from the CDC out earlier this month revealed that more than 75 percent of the vaccinated individuals who succumbed to the viruss worst outcome suffered from four comorbidities. In other words, the more comorbidities, the less the vaccine can do to save you. Nardelli reclaimed a high level of baseline health and defeated the virus instead.

Safe not only from Covid, which merely catalyzed his journey, Nardelli is now at lower risk from heart disease, stroke, and certain types of cancer than he was before, all of which motivated him to keep moving. More immediately, his quality of life has risen dramatically.

I can do so many more things, he said, with excitement and relief audible in his voice. I can jump on the ground and play with my daughter. Now she walks with me. The two also do Taekwondo together.

In light of an endemic virus that disproportionately targets the clinically obese, Nardellis story should be more common, but its not. As a whole, the United States which went into the pandemic with a minority of its population at a metabolically healthy weight continued to pack on the pounds, an average of 29 by one estimate from the American Psychological Association last year.

Vanessa Spiller, a certified nutritionist and coach with Cpare, told The Federalist shes seen Covid bring baseline health to the forefront for people coming to the clinic. She said she remains concerned, however, about cultural currents normalizing the unhealthy lifestyles that Americans seemed to become even more complacent with under lockdown.

Earlier this month, Self Magazine, a womens beauty publication, debuted a glossy cover of a visibly obese model at the center of its series on the Future of Fitness.

This is healthy! the magazine proclaimed.

Healthy can look many different ways, but I dont think were doing ourselves any favors promoting [obesity], Spiller said, emphasizing that it was important for people to listen to qualified experts on nutrition and fitness as opposed to cultural idols. Its not body shaming. Its educating yourself about being healthy.

Spiller said health and wellness ought to take more priority in peoples lives. If its number eight on the priority list, pick it up a couple notches.

Time is finite, but its go-time, she said.

Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.

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He Lost 100 Pounds Before Catching Covid And It Likely Saved Him - The Federalist

For almost as long as Covid-19s been around, parent anger at local school boards over this or that issue has been a reoccurring major news story. Weve all seen the viral social media videos and Facebook posts of parents skewering their local elected school boards over critical race theory, unscientific and abusive mask mandates, maddening repeat quarantines of healthy children, and other educational corruption that wrecks childrens ability to learn.

Weve also seen those viral videos have little effect on what the school board or state board of education subsequently decides. So parents have filed lawsuits and are mounting primary and general election challenges, all of which are great and a healthy part of self-government.

What these strategies dont do is provide immediate relief to children, whom parents claim are being abused, taught racism, and denied their right to an education. They require children to continue to be abused at least until the next election cycle or until three or five or more years when lawsuits finally reach the highest court that will hear them. Thats a third of a childs education years.

These strategies also are predicated on the assumption that the people who have created these outrageously irrational and abusive school climates should continue to be trusted to run schools. The entire leadership teams of most schools, school districts, and state education bureaucracies have disqualified themselves from leading any children at all by the kinds of abuses parents charge, but just filing a lawsuit or kicking a few school board members out of office will still leave almost all corrupt educators controlling millions of kids in perpetuity.

If you cant trust a principal or superintendent to keep teachers from teaching racism and to accurately assess childrens needs and vulnerabilities through Covid even though the data on that is plentiful and clear, how can you trust any other of such persons judgment calls?

More than being restrained by a lucky court order merely from putting toddlers in masks, a person whose judgment is so corrupt shouldnt be making any decisions about children. A person who puts a toddler in a mask, or allows teachers to shame children based on their skin color, cannot be trusted to do just about anything else important and needs to find a new and more productive line of work. Errors this bad are completely disqualifying, and they will not be rectified by merely changing a few surface policies such as the quarantining of healthy kids.

The fact that parents keep their children in schools they charge are teaching racism or delaying crucial development with Covid irrationality gives the schools all they need to keep ignoring the parents. Parents are saying one thing while doing another. They are voting with their feet, and their feet are voting for what they themselves acknowledge is oppression.

So its no surprise that school boards, principals, and other entities disregard what the parents say. What the parents say has no, or no immediate, enforcement. And therefore it really isnt credible. No wonder the school districts dont take them seriously.

If the parents wanted to be truly effective as well as truly honest they would pull their children from schools en masse until problems of such serious magnitude were resolved favorably. Sickouts and mass protests are highly effective forms of warfare on children waged by teachers unions all the time. But parents so far havent responded in kind.

Why is that? Why are parents all bark and no bite with their school complaints? Possibly they dont know how to be effective. And possibly, many arent willing to make the big sacrifices required to enforce their beliefs. They can see that something very serious is wrong, but they arent willing or able to fix it. Theyre still waiting on others to fix things for them.

They, and their children, will wait a very long time for that. They will certainly wait long past Covidtide. And thats why public schools are as bad as they are the people who are supposed to hold them accountable refuse to do exactly that even while claiming to.

In the end, schools and parents are basically fighting over something underneath all these disputes that almost nobody mentions: money. Schools get public education money, not parents. It gives them the power to abuse children while parents complain yet keep putting that mask on their kindergartener every single day, even after he throws up in it at school or it prevents him from being able to read or speak properly.

School boards dont care about complaints. They care about money. As long as they have it, and parents dont take it, schools will continue to do whatever they want to children. And American children will continue to be unhappy, uneducated, and unprepared for life while everyone pretends its someone elses fault.

Its clear that American parents have a codependent relationship with the schools they claim to despise. They are in fact enabling the very abuse they complain about. So while it is entirely legitimate to go yell at school boards and vote bad people out of office, its also time for parents to engage in some critical thinking about their own choices that enable this situation. As long as public schools continue to get money no matter what they do, this situation will continue, no matter how many uncomfortable meetings and lawsuits parents instigate.

If state legislatures do not yank money from Americas abusive public school systems, parents must yank their kids. Trust, me, it will work. It might already be happening.

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If Parents Pulled Their Kids From School For Covid Insanity, It'd Be Over - The Federalist

A Wall Street Journal editorial appeared on Tuesday entitled, The Best Summary of the 2020 Election: Rules were bent, GOP voters defected, and real fraud hasnt turned up. This conveys the position of many establishment conservatives concerning the 2020 election: There were some slight problems with the election that were overshadowed by normal political phenomena such as controversies about Donald Trump and GOP voters switching sides.

The Wall Street Journal begins with the expected anti-Trump admonishment: At his first big political rally of 2022, President Trump was again focused on 2020. We had a rigged election, and the proof is all over the place, [Trump] said. But Mr. Trump was apparently too busy over Christmas to read a 136-page report by a conservative group in Wisconsin, whose review shows no evidence of widespread voter fraud.

This is a lengthy report into allegations of literal voter fraud by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL), for which they find little corroboration. But there is another side of the argument regarding the legitimacy of the 2020 election that The Wall Street Journal has relentlessly ignored.

The hypothesis is that a deeply corrupted corporate media, Big Tech censorship, legally questionable intervention by the courts, and infiltration of key election offices by lavishly funded Democratic activists resulted in heavy-handed election interference of a kind we have never seen before that decisively rigged the 2020 election in favor of Joe Biden.

The WSJ editorial board would know this if they had read this, this, this, this, this, this, or our work on the role of Big Tech money in Wisconsins 2020 election. All of these studies present indisputable evidence of a rigged election in Wisconsin and in other key swing states, where the highly partisan distribution of big Center for Tech and Civic Life money, and obvious election interference by CTCL-funded election offices, was more than sufficient to flip those states toward Biden.

The WSJ then opines the stolen-election theory doesnt hold up [according to the WILL Report]. President Biden won Wisconsin by 20,682 votes, and mass fraud would likely have resulted in some discernible anomaly. But this is a perfect example of the red herring fallacy. The problem is not mass voter fraud, but a very discernible anomaly involving a highly coordinated and privately funded shadow campaign for Biden that took place within the formal structure of the election system.

By injecting more than $419 million of Mark Zuckerbergs money, laundered through the CTCL and the Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR), the professional left presided over a targeted, historically unprecedented takeover of government election offices by demonstrably ideological activists and nonprofit organizations in key areas of these swing states. Nothing like this has happened in at least the last 150 years of American elections.

Treating CTCL spending as if it were just another example of one campaign outspending another, or the insidious role of dark money in the 2020 election, misses the point entirely. Big CTCL and CEIR money had nothing to do with traditional campaign finance, media buys, lobbying, or Citizens United v. FEC-related campaign finance issues.

It had to do with financing the infiltration of election offices at the city and county level by Democrat activists and using those offices as a platform to implement preferred administrative practices, voting methods, ballot harvesting efforts, and data sharing agreements, as well as to launch intensive multi-media outreach campaigns and surgically targeted, door-to-door get-out-the-vote efforts in areas heavy with Democratic voters.

In Wisconsin and other swing states, big CTCL money introduced structural bias in favor of Biden into the entire 2020 election. This involved favoring certain voters and voting practices over others and disfavoring other classes of voters and voting practices, giving CTCLs preferred voting methodsespecially no-ID absentee ballotsand New American Majority voters and voting methods an outsized effect on the final election results. CTCL targeted heavily Democratic jurisdictions for heavy spending, and provided little or no funding to election offices in more Republican-leaning cities and counties.

The WSJ then goes on to cite WILLs deeply flawed estimate of CTCLs effects on Wisconsins election results in an earlier, self-published study. The editors note: A nonprofit tied to Mark Zuckerberg gave $10 million to help Wisconsin elections, mostly in five cities, a skewed distribution that WILL finds troubling. A statistical analysis suggests it [may have] lifted Mr. Bidens turnout by 8,000.

The fundamental problem with WILLs quantitative analysis is that it is entirely based on the assumption that any anomalies in Wisconsin were randomly distributed. They therefore derive their estimates by treating all counties in Wisconsin as if they were all equally affected by CTCL spending, when we know a priori that any such anomalies were limited to a very small set of Wisconsins counties, and were the result of deliberate selection of election offices to be heavily funded by the data analysts who determined where big CTCL money would go.

WILLs estimate of the impact of CTCL activity on Wisconsins vote total is therefore based on an inappropriate methodology. It gives rise to the astonishing claim that In those cities [that received CTCL funding], President Biden received approximately 41 more votes on average.

But this is absurd on the face of it when excess Biden votes (over Hillary Clinton in 2016) in Brown, Dane, and Milwaukee counties alone were more than 83,000, only about 13,000 of which (at most) can be attributed to population growth or general statewide increases in voter turnout. Are we expected to believe that the effect of CTCLs $4.79 million spending on Bidens vote totals in Madison and Milwaukee was 41 votes on average (which would amount to 82 votes in total), when between Dane (Madison) and Milwaukee counties Biden beat Trump by 364,372 votes? Obviously not.

These two counties alone were responsible for more than 15 times Bidens margin of victory in Wisconsin, which means Trump won the vote in non-CTCL funded counties by well more than 300,000 votes.

Without CTCL involvement in Wisconsin in 2020, Wisconsin would be a solidly red state. We estimate that CTCLs investment in seven Wisconsin counties resulted in 65,222 votes for Biden that would not have occurred in CTCLs absence. Thats more than three times as big as the final 20,800-vote margin between Biden and Trump in 2002. That CTCL-funded election interference so obviously flipped Wisconsin for Biden in 2020 is not merely troubling, as WILL alleges. It is outrageous.

The merger of public election offices with partisan private funding that we witnessed in 2020 involved an unprecedented type of election interference that poses an acute threat to the perceived legitimacy of elections. It should be one of the primary focuses of election reform efforts moving forward.

Credible claims supported by growing mountains of evidence of a rigged election have largely been ignored by the corporate media in favor of the occasional report that seeks to exonerate an election system that radically failed in November 2020. The 2020 election was not even remotely fair, and mainstream conservatives should not be afraid to say so.

William Doyle, Ph.D., is principal researcher at Caesar Rodney Election Research Institute in Irving, Texas. He specializes in economic history and the private funding of American elections.Previously, he was associate professor and chair in the Department of Economics at the University of Dallas. He can be contacted at doyle@rodneyinstitute.org.

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Why The Wall Street Journal Is Wrong About The 2020 Election - The Federalist

Documents obtained by Heritage Action revealed that Gwinnett County Public Schools, the largest public school district in the state of Georgia, admitted plans to teach both critical race theorist and Marxist thought to students enrolled in an AP Language and AP Research Combination Class.

In an audit syllabus obtained by Heritage Action, the school district remarked that Students will bridge the skills from AP Language to AP Research, analyzing the value of using different lenses in social criticism (Critical Race Theory, Feminist, Marxist, Psychoanalytic) to aid their analysis across issues, and the class will discuss how these perspectives apply to the different methods used by research fields.

The syllabus, which was originally found by Heritage Action here on Monday, was subsequently removed from the districts website on Thursday but can still be viewed here.

In a statement to The Federalist, Heritage Actions Executive Director Jessica Anderson decried the district, saying This is a clear admission of guilt from Gwinnett County Public Schools, the largest public school district in the state of Georgia. This week, Heritage Action staff uncovered an audit syllabus hosted on the GCPS website clearly stating teachers intended to teach AP Language students to analyze texts through the lens of critical race theory soon after, the document was scrubbed from the site.

Heritage Action is now submitting an open records request for all public documents and emails relating to why the syllabus was removed from the website and all documents containing the phrase Critical Race Theory,' Anderson added.

Gwinnett County Public Schools apparent attempt to hide their left-wing agenda from public view comes after State Rep. Brad Thomas introduced a bill that would ban critical race theory in public schools.

Anderson explained her support for the bill, saying This is exactly why State Rep. Brad Thomas bill is needed: HB 888 would require curriculum transparency, a commonsense tool that gives parents the ability to oversee their childrens education, and prevent state-sanctioned discrimination. The tenets of critical race theory, which divide students and Georgians on the basis of race, have no place in the classrooms of Georgias public schools.

Tarece Johnson, the chairwoman of the Gwinnett County Public Schools Board of Education, has publicly endorsed CRT and openly displayed her hatred of white children. In one Facebook post, Johnson remarked that theres a killer cop sitting in every school where White children learn.

This revelation is by no means the first time schools have attempted to conceal their vitriolic political agenda from parents and the community. The Federalist recently revealed that a private school in Dallas had lied to parents about teaching CRT. Other investigations from The Federalist found that school districts in both Riverside and Los Angeles blatantly lied about the presence of the anti-American theory in K-12 schools.

Gwinnett County Public Schools did not respond to a request for comment.

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EXCLUSIVE: Ga. School District Hid Plans To Teach Critical Race Theory - The Federalist

President Joe Bidens domestic strategy is failing so hes trying to distract Americans with yet another inevitable deadly conflict overseas.

Less than one year after he sacrificed at least 13 American lives and stranded thousands more to score political points by haphazardly withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan, Biden is seriously considering sending more American service members to die on foreign soil.

On Monday, the president signaled that, after deliberations at Camp David over the weekend, he may send between1,000 to 5,000 U.S. reinforcement troops to NATO allies in Eastern Europe and the Baltics to potentially deter Russia from invading Ukraine.

The Biden administration hasnt directly stated that it will force American troops into combat in Ukraine itself, but the U.S. has already ramped up weapons shipments to Ukraine, the same county where the presidents scandal-ridden son, Hunter Biden, built his fortune. The State Departmenthas also already ordered members of the U.S. embassy in Kyiv to leave Ukraine, signaling that the Biden administration sees Russias threats as imminent.

Instead of addressing the unchecked inflation, bare grocery shelves, ongoing pandemic, rising urban crime, and the U.S.s own border troubles which regularly plague American families, the ever-unpopular Biden is using Russias conflict with Ukraine to pretend that his administration is doing something other than creating crises.

A myriad of new polls released this week shows that a majority, 56 percent, of Americans disapprove of the presidents job. So unhappy, in fact, that only 26 percent of Americans believe things in the country are going well.

Bidens efforts to gracefully pass his Build Back Bankrupt plan and nuke the filibuster didnt win the hearts and minds of voters as he wanted, so Biden is shifting his efforts abroad. Its a wag the dog strategy that other world leaders have tried and ultimately failed to execute successfully.

As early as the 1800s, those in power used their authority to start conflicts with foreign powers to manipulate public opinion. French Emperor Louis Napoleon was suspected of pandering to French Catholics and trying to boost his countrys crumbling reputation when he entered the Crimean War in 1854. Napoleon, experts say, wanted to lord Frances power over Russian Orthodox Christians to keep Frenchmens minds off of problems at home.

A more recent example of this distraction came in 1998 when President Bill Clinton suddenly decided, just days after he confessed to having sexual relations with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, to bomb potential terrorists in Afghanistan and Sudan.

Some leftists in the corporate media even tried to accuse Trump of possibly gearing up foreign distractions to take off pressure at home.

While his own border is suffering, taking a toll on his and his VPs popularity, Biden wants to ship Americans into a frozen wasteland thousands of miles away to possibly engage Russia and defend a country that is near and dear to his heart and his familys pocketbooks. The homeland is suffering so Biden wants a distraction to prevent his reputation from falling further than it already has.

Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and co-producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire and Fox News. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @jordangdavidson.

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Failing At Home, Biden Distracts Voters With Another Conflict Overseas - The Federalist