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Ellipsis's JournalInside Ziklag, the Secret Organization of Wealthy Christians (purging voter rolls)
A network of ultrawealthy Christian donors is spending nearly $12 million to mobilize Republican-leaning voters and purge more than a million people from the rolls in key swing states, aiming to tilt the 2024 election in favor of former President Donald Trump.
These previously unreported plans are the work of a group named Ziklag, a little-known charity whose donors have included some of the wealthiest conservative Christian families in the nation, including the billionaire Uihlein family, who made a fortune in office supplies, the Greens, who run Hobby Lobby, and the Wallers, who own the Jockey apparel corporation. Recipients of Ziklag’s largesse include Alliance Defending Freedom, which is the Christian legal group that led the overturning of Roe v. Wade, plus the national pro-Trump group Turning Point USA and a constellation of right-of-center advocacy groups.
ProPublica and Documented obtained thousands of Ziklag’s members-only email newsletters, internal videos, strategy documents and fundraising pitches, none of which has been previously made public. They reveal the group’s 2024 plans and its long-term goal to underpin every major sphere of influence in American society with Christianity. In the Bible, the city of Ziklag was where David and his soldiers found refuge during their war with King Saul.
“We are in a spiritual battle and locked in a terrible conflict with the powers of darkness,” says a strategy document that lays out Ziklag’s 30-year vision to “redirect the trajectory of American culture toward Christ by bringing back Biblical structure, order and truth to our Nation.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ziklag-secret-christian-charity-2024-election
ISIS claims responsibility for attack in busy Moscow-area concert venue that left at least 40 dead
Source: CNN
CNN
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ISIS has claimed responsibility for an attack at a popular concert venue complex near Moscow Friday that left at least 40 dead and more than 100 wounded after assailants stormed the venue with guns and incendiary devices.
The terror group took responsibility for the attack in a short statement published by ISIS-affiliated news agency Amaq on Telegram on Friday. The group did not provide evidence to support the claim.
Video footage from the site of the attack, the Crocus City Hall concert venue, shows the vast complex, which is home to both the music hall and a shopping center, on fire with smoke billowing into the air. State-run RIA Novosti reported the armed individuals “opened fire with automatic weapons” and “threw a grenade or an incendiary bomb, which started a fire.” They then “allegedly fled in a white Renault car,” the news agency said.
State media Russia 24 reported the roof on the venue has partially collapsed.
The attack unfolded before the music group Picnic was set to preform, according to Russia 24. The band’s manager told state media that the performers were unharmed.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/22/europe/crocus-moscow-shooting/index.html
An interesting email to my hard core democratic mother from Gavin Newson
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/newsom-biden-24?rd=1&refcode=link-v201 Mar: Four Unfazed Ukrainian Soldiers DISMANTLE A HUGE RUSSIAN ASSAULT UNIT War in Ukraine
I gotta ask... Is thisTed Nugent post for real?
https://www.reddit.com/r/guitarcirclejerk/comments/15nyt75/the_nuge_is_a_dildo/18 Feb: Shocking Footage REVEALS THE REAL COST RUSSIANS PAID FOR AVDIIVKA War in Ukraine Explained
Dane Co. judge rules Wolfe legally in position at Wisconsin Elections Commission
A Dane County judge ruled on Friday that Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe is legally in her position as a holdover despite the expiration of her term last summer and that state law does not compel the body’s six commissioners to appoint a new chief election official.
Since the 2020 election, Republicans in the state have become increasingly hostile to Wolfe, blaming her for numerous perceived flaws in the administration of that election. Many of those complaints involve decisions made by the six appointed commissioners, yet she has become a regular target of the state’s election conspiracy theorists.
Wolfe was unanimously confirmed by the state Senate to a four-year term in 2019. Prior to her term’s expiration, Republican legislators began threatening to vote down her renomination. In a legal maneuver to avoid Senate confirmation, the three Democratic appointees to the Commission abstained from a vote in June to renominate her.
The scheme was taking advantage of a legal precedent created by Republicans when they worked to keep a Republican appointee to the state Natural Resources Board in his position for nearly two years after his term expired in an attempt to retain GOP control of the environmental policy making body.
https://wisconsinexaminer.com/brief/dane-co-judge-rules-wolfe-legally-in-position-at-wisconsin-elections-commission/?
Gov. Evers Submits Fair Maps to Wisconsin Supreme Court in Redistricting Litigation
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/WIGOV/bulletins/384ba20?MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers today submitted fair maps to the Wisconsin Supreme Court for the Court to consider in ongoing redistricting litigation. The governor’s proposed maps for the districts of the Wisconsin State Legislature submitted today are responsive to the will of the people, avoid partisan bias, and increase the number of competitive legislative seats. Additional details on the governor’s submitted maps are available below.
“Wisconsinites don’t want Republican or Democrat maps because Wisconsin isn’t a red or blue state—we’re a purple state, and our maps should reflect that basic fact. I’ve always promised I’d fight for fair maps—not maps that favor one political party or another—and that’s a promise I’m proud to keep with the maps I’m submitting today,” said Gov. Evers.
Gov. Evers, represented by Attorney General Josh Kaul, previously filed a motion to intervene in the lawsuit before the Wisconsin Supreme Court challenging the state’s current legislative maps. Gov. Evers and Attorney General Kaul later filed a brief in the same lawsuit asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to declare Wisconsin’s legislative maps unconstitutional and institute new maps that avoid the partisan bias that has “infected” Wisconsin’s legislative maps “to the detriment of Wisconsin’s democracy.”
GOVERNOR TONY EVERS’ BRIEF IN SUPPORT OF PROPOSED REMEDIAL MAPS (maps in brief)
https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/WIGOV/2024/01/12/file_attachments/2747011/Gov%20Map%20Brief%20FINAL-1854902%20%281%29.pdf
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