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Trump’s “Save America Act” Is Not Election Reform. It’s the Blueprint to Steal an Election.

Georgia is the test case. “Federalization” is the cover story. The real fight is who counts the votes.

Lev Parnas Feb 6

I want to be very clear with you, because there’s a lot of noise right now—and that noise is intentional.

What Donald Trump is calling the “Save America Act” is not about protecting democracy. It’s not about election integrity. And it’s not about the Constitution, no matter how loudly his allies scream that word to distract you.

This is Project 2025 in action. This is election control. And in Trump’s world, “federalization” doesn’t mean fairness—it means who controls the system, who counts the votes, and whether an election happens at all.

I’ve been telling you for months: who counts the votes matters more than who casts them. That principle is at the very center of this plan.

Georgia is not random. Georgia is the test case.

What you’re seeing now—threats of indictments, intimidation campaigns, talk of eliminating mail-in voting, and manufactured claims that elections “can’t be trusted”—is all part of a coordinated effort to create fear and justify federal intervention. Trump isn’t trying to protect elections; he’s trying to invalidate them.

And once Georgia is “proven” to be broken, the model gets rolled out across 15 states.

That’s what he means by federalization.

This Plan Has Been in Motion for Over Seven Months — And Trump Is Personally Running It

Here’s the part the media still refuses to confront.

What my sources have made very clear—and what I’ve been telling you consistently—is that this plan didn’t start yesterday, and it didn’t start in response to Georgia alone. It has been in motion for over seven months, and it has been personally overseen by Donald Trump himself.

Yes, Tulsi Gabbard plays a central coordinating role. Yes, John Ratcliffe, Kash Patel, and Pam Bondi are key players. But let me be absolutely clear about something that often gets deliberately blurred:

They do not operate independently. They report directly to Trump.

Donald Trump micromanages. That’s who he is. I know this firsthand.

Just like when he sent me to Ukraine, I reported everything back to him. Rudy Giuliani reported everything back to him. Every move, every meeting, every development went straight up the chain—to Trump. And when it later became politically convenient, Trump stood in front of cameras and claimed he knew nothing.

That’s his pattern.

Tulsi Gabbard herself put FBI agents on the phone directly with Trump. That’s not symbolic. That’s operational. That’s oversight. So when Trump pretends he “doesn’t know” what’s happening now, understand this plainly:

It’s a lie.

Trump is aware of every movement, every pressure point, every escalation. And right now, this matters to him more than foreign policy, more than international crises, more than anything else—because for Trump, staying in power is the priority. Control is the objective.

This isn’t chaos. It’s coordination.

This isn’t confusion. It’s cover.

And Georgia is just the opening move.

Georgia Is the Beginning, Not the End

When Trump talks about federalization, he’s deliberately confusing the conversation. He wants people arguing about constitutional technicalities while the real maneuver happens underneath.

This isn’t about whether states can run elections.

It’s about creating a crisis narrative so the federal government—under Trump loyalists—steps in and takes control of the process itself.

Count the votes.

Control the certifications.

Disqualify the results.

Or, if all else fails, delay or cancel.

That’s not democracy. That’s a power grab.

And Georgia is just the first domino.

That’s why I’m going to Washington on February 11th and 12th.

I’m not showing up empty-handed.

I’ll be meeting with Jamie Raskin, Jasmine Crockett, and other members of Congress—and I will be directly confronting Pam Bondi with the petitions and evidence we’ve been building together.

👉 Petition: https://www.change.org/p/demand-congress-subpoena-key-figures-on-epstein-case

This is why the Epstein files matter in this moment. Accountability isn’t selective. The same people who think they can evade justice in one arena believe they can rewrite the rules in another.

Sunlight threatens all of it.

This Is Where the Movement Matters

None of this happens without you.

Our volunteer network—our grassroots backbone—is more important than ever. This is how we organize, document, show up, and apply pressure where it counts. If you’ve been waiting for the moment to step in, this is it.

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That matters just as much.

We are at a moment where silence is surrender.

Bring your friends. Spread the word. Make noise. This only works if it reaches far beyond this page.

Because at the end of the day, democracy doesn’t save itself. People do.

-Lev Parnas

P.S. If you haven’t yet, go to LevRemembers.com and grab your copy of Shadow Diplomacy—the book Trump doesn’t want you to read because it connects the dots of what you’re watching unfold in real time.

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Because enough is enough—and it’s time to take our country back.

   

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We are not Nazis.

Also: No Kings, No Dictators.

Joyce Vance Feb 6

I wrote this piece, titled “Are We The Nazis Now?” back in October last year. There were so many awful things happening, mostly to immigrants, but by then, some Americans had started to protest their treatment. I was reminded of Anne Frank’s words:

“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. They’re allowed to take only a knapsack and a little cash with them, and even then, they’re robbed of these possessions on the way. Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return from shopping to find their houses sealed, their families gone.”

For anyone who had ever wondered how the Germans turned a blind eye to the Holocaust, we are living through the answer. We watched it start in real time. “Trump promised he’d deport violent criminals,” I wrote last October. “Instead, ICE is going after legal residents and terrorizing children. The message: if you’re an American citizen, don’t exercise your First Amendment rights unless you want to become a target too.” Unfortunately, those words proved correct.

I hope you’ll go back and reread the entire piece from October, because it traces what the administration and ICE were doing back then, and although it seems impossible we could ever forget any of it, so much has happened that some of the details get lost. That recent history is essential, because it gives us such a clear picture of the trajectory that has brought us to this moment. In October, ICE had just raided a Chicago apartment building, taking people including kids, outside, some zip tied, in the middle of the night. Immigrants were treated in dehumanizing ways. The administration’s gamble was that not enough Americans would care. It was just “illegals.”

But Americans were already under fire too. There was the ambulance driver who ICE agents threatened to arrest and to kill, claiming he tried to weaponize his vehicle against them, when he was just there to do his job. The administration was already warming up the engines. There was a long runway before ICE shot and killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

In my piece, I asked, “We aren’t even better off in the ways Trump promised. Deporting school kids doesn’t make us safer. Americans don’t want the jobs that aren’t being done in immigrants’ absence. The Labor Department warned in ‘an obscure document filed with the Federal Register last week that the near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens’ is threatening ‘the stability of domestic food production and prices for U.S. consumers.’ But beyond the absence of benefits from this administration’s mass deportations, it’s the absence of humanity we see around us that threatens us the most. People who aren’t criminals are thrown to the ground. People are treated with a lack of respect for their basic human dignity. Many of them are hard-working folks who want to be able to love this country and give back because of the opportunity it gives them and their families. Instead, a president who is the son of immigrants and has been married twice to immigrants has become the face of nationalism, using hate and horror to expand his control over people, both American citizens and immigrants, on American soil. Are we the Nazis now?”

There’s an answer to that question. We are not the Nazis. Definitely not. We’re proud of that. We want people to know.

From the massive rallies in freezing temperatures in Minneapolis to smaller ones across the country, like the below one in Maine, Americans are giving their answer to that question. We will not turn a blind eye, we will not acquiesce. We will not be Nazis.

Last Saturday, ABC reported, “Intensive care nurses immediately doubted the word of federal immigration officers when they arrived at a Minneapolis hospital with a Mexican immigrant who had broken bones in his face and skull.” Agents told hospital personnel the man, Alberto Castañeda Mondragón, had tried to flee and had run into a brick wall on purpose. But hospital personnel said his injuries were inconsistent with what ICE claimed.

Prior to his arrest, the man was fine. Four hours later, he was taken to a hospital emergency room. He had “swelling and bruising around his right eye and bleeding. A CT scan revealed at least eight skull fractures and life-threatening hemorrhages in at least five areas of his brain.” The reporter asked a board-certified forensic pathologist who worked as a medical examiner in Minnesota for more than 30 years whether she agreed with hospital employees’ conclusions the injuries weren’t the result of an intentional run at a wall. She responded, “one doesn't have to be a physician to conclude that a person can't get skull fractures on both the right and left sides of their head and from front to back by running themselves into a wall."

One agent subsequently admitted to hospital employees that Castañeda Mondragón, who was arrested the day after Renee Good was killed, "got his (expletive) rocked" after they arrested him.

When he was first admitted to the hospital, Castañeda Mondragón was reportedly “alert and speaking, telling staff he was ‘dragged and mistreated by federal agents.’” But his condition deteriorated rapidly. By the following week, his condition was described as “minimally responsive and communicative, disoriented and heavily sedated.” Nonetheless, ICE agents insisted on shackling Castañeda Mondragón’s ankles to his bed with handcuffs to keep him from escaping. That despite the fact that he “was so disoriented he did not know what year it was and could not recall how he was injured.”

Castañeda Mondragón entered the country legally in 2022. He has no criminal history and started a company in Minnesota. Agents only became aware after they arrested him that he had overstayed his visa. A judge ordered his release and he is no longer in ICE custody, but his friends told the reporter he could no longer work and was at, perhaps, 20% of what he had been before. Hospital employees were surprised he was no longer receiving care.

Federal prosecutors declined to comment on his injuries.

That’s one more human being, damaged by this administration’s insistence of pursuing quotas and treating people like cattle. What started as a slow trickle is now a gusher, too many people impacted to tell all of their stories. But we should still share the ones we know and counter what the administration is trying to do: Normalize treating people as less than human just because they don’t have legal immigration status in the U.S.

We are not the Nazis. That means we have an obligation to stay watchful and keep protesting. We have to loudly reject the people who are trying to take us there.

In October I wrote, “What’s certain is this: No matter where Donald Trump wants to take this country, you and I are not going along for the ride. On Friday, House Speaker Mike Johnson said that the No Kings rally on Saturday was a “hate-America” rally. He said the people attending would be “the pro-Hamas wing” and “the antifa people.” He’s wrong. We are, in the best tradition of America’s Greatest Generation, truly anti-fascist. And in 2025, anti-fascism begins at home, because we love this country and we believe in democracy. We’re ready.”

On March 28, the third No Kings rally will happen. You can sign up for updates here. Until then, we will continue to let Donald Trump know that we have no intention of letting him turn us into Nazis, that we will block his efforts to take the country there. That’s our job.

Thank you for being here with me at Civil Discourse. Your paid subscriptions make it possible for me to devote the time and resources it takes to write the newsletter. Independent journalism is a cornerstone for keeping the Republic. I appreciate your support in this pivotal year. We have a lot of work to do.

We’re in this together,

Joyce

ACT NOW: Contact your Senator and tell them to vote no on the SAVE Act.

  

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Senate Republicans are caving to Trump and preparing to pass a bill that could block tens of millions of eligible Americans from voting. And before we get into the details of just how harmful this bill could be, we need to ask if you can help us take action. Contact your Senator today and tell them to vote NO on the SAVE Act. The SAVE Act is a modern-day poll tax and a massive voter suppression bill that would require showing expensive government documents in person to register to vote — documents that 21 million American citizens don’t have easy access to. The bill also opens the door to harmful voter purges and could inevitably remove American citizens who have the right to vote from voter rolls. SAY NO to the SAVE ACT The bill is so unprecedented that Republican Senators are discussing changing the filibuster — a decades-old Senate rule that requires 60 votes for a bill to pass — just to move it forward. For decades during the Jim Crow era, segregationist politicians used the filibuster to block civil and voting rights protections. Now, Republicans may change the rules to create a loophole so they can force a vote on the SAVE Act. If your vote didn’t matter, they wouldn’t be this desperate to block it. Click here to demand your members of Congress oppose the SAVE Act and protect our freedom to vote today. In solidarity, The Fair Fight Action Team   DONATE

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Robert Reich and The Lincoln Project are CALLING ON US

 

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Robert Reich is CALLING ON US: Stand with Robert Reich and millions of Americans against Trump, add your name to the petition to remove violent authoritarian Donald Trump from office now >> REMOVE TRUMP FROM OFFICE >> ** RESPONSE RATE FROM 02346 = 97% ** FIRST: Donald Trump commanded an extremist mob to STORM the Capitol, ATTACK law enforcement officers, and THREATEN members of Congress. THEN: He used masked federal agents to INVADE our cities, ROUND UP immigrants and protestors, and KILL Americans. SO NOW: The Lincoln Project, Robert Reich, and Democrats across the country are all shouting from the rooftops that Trump must be REMOVED from office before he can put any more lives at risk!!! Will you be the next 02346 Democrat to step up? Add your name now to REMOVE Trump from office and END his pattern of violence >> REMOVE TRUMP FROM OFFICE >> Don’t stay quiet on this. No Vote Left Behind

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Families lined up to get the POLIO SHOTS! 

Recently, the last remaining victims who spent their lives in IRON LUNGS are dying: 

Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to still rely on an iron lung to breathe

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/25/1047691984/decades-after-polio-martha-is-among-the-last-to-still-rely-on-an-iron-lung-to-br

Because the transmission was not understood, people avoided public settings.

Let's remember that at the height of COVID, TRUMP promoted the ALIEN SPERM DONOR LUNATIC: 

Trump promotes a doctor who has claimed alien DNA was used in medical treatments

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/29/politics/stella-immanuel-trump-doctor/

As if that stupidity wasn't bad enough, DESANTIS appointed DR. JOE LADAPO as FLORIDA SURGEON GENERAL, a follower of the ALIEN SPERM DONOR LUNATIC. 

On September 3, 2025, Ladapo compared all vaccine mandates to slavery: "Every last one is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery."

When UNSCIENTIFIC LUNACY creeps in and the American public is SCIENTIFICALLY ILLITERATE, it turns into tragedy! RED STATES and Republican controlled areas had higher COVID DEATH RATES than BLUE STATES. 

What pResident is stupid enough to promote such an irrational quack? 

COMMENTS:

I already knew vaccines didn’t cause autism. It’s a ridiculous, boneheaded, flat out lie (not “myth” - myths have truths/lessons in them).

An NIH guy admitting vaccines don’t cause autism is like admitting he has a nose on his face. Unfortunately, maga probably wouldn’t believe that, either.

Stubborn stupidity in the face of overwhelming evidence is a huge (“hyoooge”) problem in this country.

I did have one person today say if "Dr. Jay said it, it must be true" and they called Bob Kennedy full of it---i think they were an anti-vaxxer

Small victories! Yay!

⬆️"Stubborn stupidity in the face of overwhelming evidence is a huge (“hyoooge”) problem in this country."

I think many parents believe that vaccines causes autism because

(1) they don't want to acknowledge that there may be a genetic predisposition for autism which in their mind might suggest that THEY are to blame. (NOTE: I don't believe that would be true even IF researchers did find a strong genetic link).

(2) the average person has an extremely poor understanding of cause and effect. The fact that a child is diagnosed with autism X weeks or months after getting their vaccines is TOTALLLY meaningless as "evidence" that vaccines cause autism. But people are prone to see patterns and then confuse correlation with causation.

I think I have previously shared this website o9n Substack, but it is the best one I know of for debunking the idea that a strong correlation MUST be indicative of causation. Enjoy!

www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

Conspiracy theories make ignorant people feel smart!

Excellent points and thanks for the link! I appreciate your explanations for why people can be so sensitive to the subject. It makes them more human, if still not very smart. (Correlation vs causation is something we should learn early, or at least figure out eventually), but I better understand now. (I don’t have kids, so I didn’t know the timing aspect.)

One other thing I forgot to mention is that most people assume that an increase in the number of kids being diagnosed as autistim MUST mean that autism itself is on the rise. That could tie in with RFK's ridiculous theory about 5G being the cause.

Of course, the most likely, but often overlooked, explanation is that in earlier generations lots of kids with milder autism were never diagnosed with anything and more severe cases were misdiagnosed.

I'm in NC where we currently have a rapidly growing measles outbreak that is spilling over from SC. I had not heard about the Polio outbreak - UGH!