January 6: The Galveston County Daily News:
Editorial: The 2020 Election is Riddled with Claims of Voter Fraud
We support fair and lawfully conducted elections where voters can rely upon the outcome as being accurate. We hope you do as well. Unfortunately many elected officials and judges across the country, and even in our Supreme Court, don't seem to want to look into the claims. It would be better for folks to determine the truth and bring these claims that seem to divide us to a close.


January 5: Fox News: Senator Johnson’s Promise: If the Republicans
remain in control of the Senate, we will investigate the 2020 election
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) one of several GOP senators who will not vote to certify the 2020 presidential results, said “legitimate concerns” about voter fraud can’t be ignored.  If the two Republicans in Georgia maintain their seats Johnson will be the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.  In that role, Johnson said "I will guarantee that I'm going to dig into this.  I'm going to investigate, and I'm going to find out what the truth is. And again, what we can explain, we'll explain, set that aside, but where there's problems, we really do need to fix them."  As of 9 p.m. CST both of Georgia’s GOP senators held a slim lead over their challengers with 83% of the votes having been counted.

January 5: The Washington Times: What will Vice President Pence do tomorrow?
Club for Growth President David McIntosh, a longtime friend of Vice President Pence, said he expects the vice president to approach the moment in a manner that respects the Constitution while helping Trump as much as possible.  “Mike is basically a constitutionalist — he’s going to look this, look at his role as president of the Senate, and determine what powers he has and what powers he doesn’t have, and then execute, using that to the best of his ability,” McIntosh said in an interview. “In this case, that means helping President Trump.”  McIntosh, who said he hasn’t spoken to Mr. Pence about the matter, expects that the vice president won’t act unilaterally.  “The decision whether to object or not really comes down to the full Senate,” he said. “He’ll acknowledge people who want to move to object, to give them a chance to be fully heard. Let the debate occur, but let the final decision rest with the body.”  The president’s prospects seem insurmountable in both chambers. 

January 5: The Epoch Times: Hawley: Who becomes President depends
on what happens tomorrow
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said Monday that the matter of who becomes America’s next president is not a foregone conclusion but depends on the outcome of the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress, when a number of Republican lawmakers have vowed to raise objections to the certification of some electoral votes cast for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.  Hawley said his constituents have raised “major, major concerns about the integrity, the fairness of this election.”  “They expect me to stand up and to raise those concerns,” he added. “And this is the only forum I have to do it.”  Hawley is part of around a dozen Republican senators who have on called on Congress to appoint an electoral commission to conduct an emergency 10-day audit of the election results.

In calling for the 10-day audit, the Republican senators, led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), said in a statement that the 2020 election “featured unprecedented allegations of voter fraud, violations, and lax enforcement of election law, and other voting irregularities.”  The allegations of fraud and irregularities in the 2020 election “exceed any in our lifetimes,” they said, adding that this “deep distrust” of U.S. democratic processes “will not magically disappear” and “should concern us all,” whether elected officials or journalists believe the allegations. “It poses an ongoing threat to the legitimacy of any subsequent administrations,” the senators said in their statement, adding that they intend to object to the votes unless and until the emergency 10-day audit is completed.

January 4: The Washington Times: Perdue (R-GA) supports objecting to
Electoral College votes from contested states with dueling electors
Senator David Perdue (R-GA) with those planning to object to the presidential electoral certification Wednesday, calling it the last chance for lawmakers to get to the bottom of the “huge irregularities” in the 2020 race.  “There are huge irregularities in Georgia, they need to be investigated, and they need to be corrected, in my opinion,” Perdue said. Perdue, who faces Democrat Jon Ossoff in Tuesday’s Senate runoff, had previously sought a state investigation on the integrity of the 2020 election in Georgia and called on Nov. 9 for the resignation of Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.

January 4: Breitbart News: Nine things about Georgia Democratic
senatorial candidate Ossoff
Ossoff is something of an enigma, having never held public office — though not for lack of trying. He would also be one of the youngest people ever elected to the U.S. Senate, with the least experience, and a litany of potentially compromising problems.  Here are seven key facts about Ossoff:
(1) He inherited a fortune from his grandfather;  (2) He inflated his resumé, claiming more national security credentials than he actually had; (3) His company, Insight TWI, worked with Al Jazeera and a Hong Kong distributor partly owned by a company linked to the Chinese Communist Party; (4) He has refused to release his tax returns; (5) He is running on a promise to grant amnesty to illegal aliens; (6) He lost a 2017 race for Congress, the most expensive in history; (7) He welcomed support from Bernie Sanders in 2020, after running as a moderate in 2017; (8) He would support new shutdowns of the economy; and (9) He wants to ban semi-automatic rifles and require licenses for handguns.

January 4: The Epoch Times: Pence: We will have our day in Congress, January 6th
Vice President Mike Pence addressed the upcoming Jan. 6 electoral challenge, saying that President Trump and Republicans will “have our day in Congress.”  Pence, as vice president, is the president of the Senate. During the Joint Session on Jan. 6, he will read the electoral votes for all 50 states. Although some legal experts have suggested that he has the ability to reject slates of electors in certain states, others have stipulated that Pence only has the ability to count states’ electors.

January 4: The Epoch Times: The Georgia State Senate asks Pence to
delay the January 6th vote
Republican state senators in Georgia started a push on Monday to delay the Jan. 6 counting of electoral votes. At least a dozen have signed a letter directed to Vice President Mike Pence asking him to officially delay the count—and the number is still growing.  Estimates are that about 16-18 will eventually sign the letter, Senator Brandon Beach said. “We were going to get it to him tomorrow morning,” Beach said.  He said he is concerned about the integrity of the election. “People are saying yeah there is something here, there’s something that just doesn’t pass the smell test—that there [were] some irregularities, there [were] some impropriety going on in the voting process,” he said.  Ballots and voting machines need to be forensically audited.  Jenna Ellis, a senior legal adviser to the Trump campaign and one of Trump’s campaign attorney suggested that Pence delay certifying the votes and instead ask legislatures in the six contested states to clarify which candidate’s slate of electors should be approved.  “What Mike Pence could do, and what he should do, in fact, is to direct a question back to the state legislatures when there are two competing slates of delegates from these six states,” Ellis said.

January 4: NewsMax.com: Rubio: Warnock, Ossoff;
“wholly unqualified” to be senators
The two Democrat candidates in the Georgia twin Senate runoff elections on Tuesday, Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, are “wholly unqualified” to be U.S. senators, Sen. Marco Rubio said Monday.  The Florida Republican warned that if Warnock and Ossoff win, then Democrats “will have the power to enact the radical left’s socialist agenda that has become mainstream” in their party.  Rubio reminded voters that in the first two years of President Barack Obama’s first term, “a unified Congress controlled by Democrats rammed through ObamaCare and other liberal pieces of legislation, confirmed radical nominees to critical executive branch positions and promulgated progressive regulations that harmed our economy and our workers.”

January 4: The Epoch Times: Data shows over 430,000 votes subtracted
from Trump’s totals in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania election data shows that over 432,000 votes were removed from President Donald Trump during the Novembr election, data scientists say.  According to an analysis by the Data Integrity votes for Trump—from both Election Day and mail-in ballots—were removed from the totals in at least 15 counties.  Time-series election data shows Trump’s votes decreasing in various counties at numerous time points instead of increasing as would be expected under normal circumstances.   At least 432,116 votes—213,707 election day votes and 218,409 absentee votes—were removed in total. Once votes are counted they should not be taken away from any candidate.

January 4: The Daily Caller:  Did COVID-19 come from a lab? 
Ten key takeaways from a new report
The case that the coronavirus pandemic ravaging the globe may very well have been engineered in a lab is thoroughly fleshed out over the course of 12,000 words by Nicholson Baker. Here are the ten biggest revelations you need to know: 
- Anthony Fauci Was Directly Involved In Programs That Funded SARS Mutation Research
- National Institute Of Health Money Directly Flowed To The Wuhan Bat Lab
- Chinese Scientists Feared The Virus Came From The Wuhan Lab
- The Media Relied On A Scientist With A Blatant Conflict Of Interest To Debunk Wuhan “Conspiracy Theories”
- Daszak Is Also On The WHO Team Investigating The Origin Of The Virus
- The Wuhan Lab Collaborated With A Scientist Who Created Undetectable Clone Of SARS
- The US Government Had Numerous Safety Concerns About The Wuhan Lab Pre-COVID
- Scientists Warned An Eventual Lab-Leak Outbreak Was Realistic
- Scientists Were Allegedly Pressured Not To Raise Alarm About A Lab-Leak
- Nobody was willing to definitely rule out a lab leak

January 4: The Daily Caller: USS Nimitz to remain in Persian Gulf after Iran threatens U.S. officials
The United States reversed Sunday evening a decision to bring home the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, citing Iranian threats.   The roughly 1,100-foot-long warship will remain in the Persian Gulf, where it has been patrolling since late November.  “Due to the recent threats issued by Iranian leaders against President Trump and other U.S. government officials, I have ordered the USS Nimitz to halt its routine redeployment,” Acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller announced on Sunday. “The USS Nimitz will now remain on station in the U.S. Central Command area of operations. No one should doubt the resolve of the United States of America.”

January 3: The Epoch Times: Appeals court dismisses
Gohmert lawsuit without considering the merits
On Saturday a federal appeals court dismissed a lawsuit filed by Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and other Republicans seeking clarity on Vice President Pence’s authority in determining which Electoral College votes to count during the Jan. 6 congressional joint session.  The power of Pence’s role as the president of the Senate to count or reject electoral votes is in dispute.  In an unsigned decision, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed a lower court decision to throw out the case.  “We need say no more, and we affirm the judgment essentially for the reasons stated by the district court,” the panel wrote in their ruling (pdf). “We express no view on the underlying merits or on what putative party, if any, might have standing.”

January 3: The Washington Examiner: Welcome blow to the Russian
Nord Stream II gas pipeline
In a blow to Vladimir Putin and his enabler, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, a Norwegian energy-regulatory company (DVV GL) says it will suspend operations to certify the Nord Stream II gas pipeline.  The action is a response to Congressional legislation passed "under the Protecting Europe’s Energy Security Clarification Act which sanctions companies providing testing, inspection or certification services to the Nord Stream II pipeline system.  DNV GL's decision means that Russia will not be able to complete the Danish stretch of the pipeline unless it can find another company willing to provide verification services. That is far easier said than done. Not many companies are likely to be willing to fill DNV GL's place, fearing the consequences of U.S. sanctions on their global operations. Considering that the Biden administration is likely to oppose Nord Stream II in the same manner as the Trump administration, Putin's problem isn't going away soon. This is good news.

January 2: The Epoch Times: Data shows 30,000 Trump votes removed;
12,173 switched to Biden in GA
Georgia election data indicates that more than 30,000 votes were removed from President  Trump and another 12,173 votes were switched to Democratic presidential candidate Biden, data scientists testified on Wednesday during a Georgia state Senate hearing. Justin Mealey, a computer programmer and former Navy electronics warfare technician and CIA contractor and data analyst for the National Counterterrorism Center said “What we have here is we actually have fraud that we can prove in this election, there was fraud in Georgia’s election, [and] we can prove it with data...  …The voting will of the people of Georgia is not reflected in what was certified by the Secretary of State,” he contended.  Trump’s votes were decreasing in various counties instead of increasing.  The removal of Trump’s votes happened at the county level, making them more difficult to observe at the state level. “I want to make that very, very clear that at no point in an incremental process, should you decrement it,” Mealey said.

The group -- which also consisted of Lynda McLaughlin from the Digital Integrity Group and Dave Lobue who has been a data scientist for over a decade -- said a huge number of Trump’s votes were also observed being switched to Biden in a separate event.  In Bibb county Trump had 29,391 votes to Bidens 17,218 at 9:11p.m.  However, the next time an update was reported Trump had only 17,218 votes while Biden’s votes increased to 29,391.  In this single event, 12,173 votes were switched, according to the data scientists. According to the state-certified election results, Trump lost Georgia by 12,670 votes.  “The analysis we’re going to be reviewing is purely scientific, not based on any political affiliation, red, blue, left, or right. The objective really focuses on numbers, data, and machine network systems,” Lobue stated.

January 2: The Epoch Times: Sidney Powell: It is “definitely possible”
that Trump retains the presidency
Attorney Sidney Powell said December 29th that she believes it is “definitely possible” that President Trump retains the presidency for a second term, even after the joint session of Congress on Jan. 6 or beyond.  She said “viable paths” remain to a second Trump term.  “There are multiple cases pending in the Supreme Court,” Powell said. “We have four states in play in our petitions for emergency mandamus to ask the court to decertify Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Georgia because of all the massive fraud there.”  A mandamus is a type of court order that compels action, in this case decertification of Electoral College votes in the states in question, which were cast on Dec. 14 for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.  Powell was asked whether the Jan. 6 joint session or even, the Jan. 20 inauguration, is “the end of the path” or whether, if more evidence of fraud comes to light, it is still possible that there would be a second Trump term.  “It’s definitely possible because the Supreme Court can do what it wants to do,” Powell said, adding, “but it gets more difficult the longer it takes.”  She did not provide further details regarding the judicial process that the high court could undertake following the Jan. 6 joint session nor what moves the Supreme Court might have the power to make post-inauguration. To date, the Supreme Court has twice refused to consider Trump-endorsed lawsuits that sought to challenge the results of the 2020 election.

January 2: The Epoch TImes: Loose network of over 400 intelligence community,
military, and law enforcement people formed to investigate irregularities
in the 2020 election
Over 400 people from the Intelligence Community (IC), military, law enforcement, and the judiciary have formed a loose network to investigate irregularities in the 2020 election. Robert Caron, one of the organizers of the network who began his intelligence career with the CIA, said that as far as he knows the size of the network is over 400 people and each member sees “obvious election fraud.”    “The fraud was so massive and so blatant, despite what the mainstream media said, that we need to get this information out to the public,” said Caron. “That’s why more and more people from the intelligence community and law enforcement are coming out, which is unheard of.”

January 2: The Washington Examiner: Georgians could lose $3,900 annually
under Biden policies
Georgia has been an economic gazelle with one of the top 10 fastest growth rates in the nation over the past decade. It has gained a net 250,000 population and about $20 billion of income from other states' movers. Georgia's unemployment rate of 5.7% is far below the rates that reach 10% in some blue states.   But Georgians are among the biggest losers from Joe Biden's agenda, especially if Democrats also control both chambers of Congress.   A new study estimates “Bidenomics” could drain a net $156 billion from Georgia — money that will flow to other states. That's roughly the equivalent of a $3,900 per family per year "Georgia tax."  Only two states have more to lose than Georgia; Texas and Florida.  The Biden playbook's goal is to slow the stampede of people and businesses out of blue states.   To "level the playing field," Biden would impose on Georgia and other states environmental, labor, and tax policies that have already crippled the economies of states such as New York, New Jersey, Illinois, and California. For example, Biden climate policies that raise the price of oil, gas, and coal use will hike Georgia's energy prices relative to blue states that have saddled themselves with expensive and less reliable wind and solar power.

January 2: NewsMax.com:  GOP in Georgia worried with over
three million early voters
A record 3 million early votes have been cast in the two Georgia runoff elections that next week will decide which party controls the U.S. Senate, according to a final tally released on Friday.  The 3,001,017 early votes amount to 38.8% of all registered voters in the state, according to the University of Florida’s U.S. Elections Project. That puts turnout at a record high for a Georgia runoff, exceeding the 2.1 million ballots cast in a 2008 Senate contest.  If Republicans win one or both of those seats, they will retain a slim majority in the U.S. Senate, enabling them to block much of incoming Democratic President Joe Biden's agenda.

January 2: The Washington Times: GOP senators to object to Biden electors
unless emergency commission probes voter fraud
A group of Republican senators and senators-elect led by Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas pledged on Saturday to object to the congressional certification of President-elect Joseph R. Biden’s Electoral College votes next week unless Congress approves an emergency 10-day audit of the results by an election commission.  “Voter fraud has posed a persistent challenge in our elections, although its breadth and scope are disputed. By any measure, the allegations of fraud and irregularities in the 2020 election exceed any in our lifetimes,” the lawmakers said in a statement.  Their announcement brings to a dozen the number of GOP senators and senators-elect to defy Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who has urged his colleagues not to contest Mr. Biden’s winning vote total.

January 2: The Washington Examiner: Ted Cruz needles Dem Representative
Swalwell over Chinese spy connection
Sen. Ted Cruz swooped into Georgia three days before the Senate runoffs, making the case for Republican colleagues David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler's election while taking political shots at Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell over his China spy scandal.  From the back of a pick-up truck surrounded by Perdue and Loeffler signs, the Texas senator mocked the California lawmaker for his relationship with Christine Fang, a Chinese national linked to China’s Ministry of State Security.  "For a long time, we've known the Democrats were in bed with China. We just didn't realize quite how literally," Cruz said Saturday in Cumming, Georgia.  Swalwell's association with Fang, which he has failed to describe in any detail, lasted from 2011 to 2015, when federal agents investigating Fang alerted him to the intelligence risk. Swalwell, who was first elected to the House in 2012, has not been accused of any wrongdoing.

January 2: NewsMax.com: Georgia elections in November and January are
invalid and illegal?
President Trump on Friday said that changes made by Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to loosen the state’s absentee ballot signature verification laws were unconstitutional, making November’s election in the state as well as the Senate runoff races ''illegal and invalid.''  The President was referring to the consent decree that Raffensperger agreed to with the Georgia Democratic Party in March to settle a lawsuit regarding mail-in ballots.  The Georgia state legislature, which is has the exclusive authority to change election law, was not involved with the agreed to changes to the election process.    “…the State Legislatures were not in any way responsible for the massive changes made to the voting process, rules and regulations, many made hastily before the election, and therefore the whole State Election is not legal or Constitutional,'' Trump wrote.

January 1: The Daily Caller: Texas judge throws out Gohmert lawsuit, Gohmert to appeal
A federal Texas judge appointed by President Donald Trump threw out Republican Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert’s lawsuit Friday against Vice President Mike Pence.  The Texas judge, Jeremy Kernodle, dismissed the lawsuit against Pence, saying the case was “dismissed without prejudice for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.” Subsequently, The Washington Times reports Gohmert is appealing the lower court decision.  The lawsuit in question includes Arizona GOP electors (who certainly should have standing in the case).  Gohmert told Newsmax that he expects the appeals court to act ahead of Jan. 6, when Congress is scheduled to vote on certifying the Electoral College results that show Mr. Biden won with 306 votes.

January 1: NewsMax.com: Appeals court okays Trump rule barring
entry without health insurance
The federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has allowed a proclamation by President Donald Trump blocking immigrants without health insurance to take effect, throwing out a lower court’s order that stopped it from being implemented.  A three-judge panel ruled Thursday that Trump was within his authority to bar anyone without insurance from entering the country, overruling the decision by Barack Obama-appointed Judge Michael H. Simon that doing so was likely illegal because it would separate family members.  Seven American citizens filed a lawsuit after Trump issued his proclamation in October 2019. The opinion overturning the District Court finding pointed to the SCOTUS ruling in Trump v. Hawaii which the president had the authority to bar people from several nations or refugees without valid travel documents from entering the United States.

January 1: The Washington Examiner: U.S. bans anonymous shell companies;
passing “historic” anti-corruption legislation
The United States banned anonymous shell companies through the NDAA defense bill.  The legislation will require companies to report their real owners or "beneficial ownership" to the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Unit.  Included in the $740 billion defense bill, the Corporate Transparency Act will help prevent companies from hiding funds acquired by criminals or corrupt officials or hiding behind corporate organizations capable of concealing that information. Those who fail to provide complete or updated information, or provide fraudulent information, can face up to three years in prison.

January 1: NewsMax.com: Rise in middle class savings under Trump
led to U.S. economic boom
Although the coronavirus pandemic disrupted the worldwide economy on a massive scale, many markers for economic success, such as asset prices, have reached new heights thanks in part to “the rise in savings among white-collar workers,” according to The New York Times.  The newspaper notes that while “Large swaths of the economy have been shut down” and “millions are out of work,” employee compensation has only fallen by 0.5% in the nine months between March and November of last year. The Times attributes this to most of the job losses being in lower-paying service jobs, while higher-paying professional jobs were largely unaffected, and some jobs, like warehouse and grocery store workers, saw a sharp increase in business.