Reaction & Commentary
Elections every american i don’t care who you voted for i think wants that uh but i don’t think anybody in washington really wants that um especially the democrats they are already setting up that uh the election’s going to be stolen you can’t trust it and now the problems with the voting machines
They’re doing the same thing they always do but they’re doing something else remember the key to understanding this administration is the administration he is a administrator that’s it all of the agencies are being pushed to the limit to take away as many as many rights from
You as possible and make the system work in a completely different way than constitutionally molly hemingway has written a great uh article it came out yesterday biden is hiding his plan to rig the 2022 midterm elections molly is joining us now hello molly hello it’s great to be here with you
Yeah it’s great to have you on so um this is they’re doing this in every agency and this one you’ve tried to look into and they’re hiding everything that they’re doing can you take us from the beginning and then show us what they’re doing sure so in march of 2021 just a few
Weeks after president biden took office he issued an executive order saying that all 600 federal agencies had to come up with a plan to expand voting now people were immediately alarmed because the constitution does not give the executive branch authority over our election system that’s reserved for the states
There’s a very tiny role for congress and so the executive branch has not been given that authority and then people are also worried because expanding voting is an inherently political act you know it’s um mobilizing voters is a political act and so the bureaucracy should not be
Involved with it so people wanted to know well what are these plans going to be everyone had 200 days to turn in a plan to susan rice by the way you know one of the most political people out there for approval and people started asking what the plans were and they have
Been steadfastly refusing to return those plans ever since then okay so i want to make sure people understand that is 600 federal federal agencies 600 had 200 days to show how they were going to expand citizens opportunities to register to vote and obtain information about participate in the electoral process
They had until march 7th 2021 you can’t find anything about what any one of those 600 agencies turned in and congressmen have been asking for it you’ve had the ranking member of every committee in the house asking for the information you’ve had them expressing their concerns congressional committees good government groups outside citizens
Are doing foia requests and they just can’t get anything and it seems to be that what they’re doing is trying to slow walk it until well after the election in one case they said they would respond to the foia by may of 2024 and so it is really difficult to get
Information which makes it difficult to even know what’s going on and i just want to be clear these are inherently political acts like choosing who you reach out to um and to mobilize get out the vote operations that’s what political parties do and it’s particularly dangerous because we’re talking about federal
Agencies that hand out benefits and so if people are told hey we could really use you voting mr person who’s getting this federal benefit you can see why that would be viewed as improper and unethical compulsion regarding voting which is something that is very dangerous and which we have
Previously had strict laws against so tell me what’s happening with the centers for medicare medicaid with their voter turnout um the department of labor what are they doing department of education right so each of them are choosing to respond to this executive order in different ways and we are
Getting these indications that they’re complying with this executive order even if they’re refusing to say what exactly they’re doing but you’re seeing these public-facing things where they’ll say that they’re turning their their health centers into vote vote places you know where they’re focusing their efforts that should be focused on job training
You know during a labor crisis on get out the vote operations at department of education centers or the federal work study program which is part of the department of education had previously said of course you can’t use federal work study um monies to engage in electioneering or election activity and now they’re saying
You can use these monies to help run get out the vote operations and i just think it’s important to remember the context here too is that we just had this election in 2020 where we had mark zuckerberg finance the widespread takeover of government election offices with partisan you know left-leaning activists
And they ran get out the vote operations in the blue areas of swing states so the context here is really troubling too because we just saw in 2020 how this type of operation can have severely partisan um repercussions and why people should be on guard if they want to trust their elections and
If they want to have confidence in their election molly what do we do we have no press that will do it the congressman not getting responded to the justice department is absolutely corrupt what do we do so i do think that raising an outcry over the refusal to find out
Information is key and there are lawsuits that are ongoing two groups have sued to get the information these agencies are clearly in violation of federal law and so hopefully we would have enough pressure that those lawsuits can be responded to as soon as possible so that the public can know what’s going
On and people should not despair i mean fighting over election administration is something that has been going on in this country for centuries and despair is not an appropriate response because you know you had even a few decades ago the democrat party had disenfranchised like an entire race of people in the
South and people didn’t despair they just fought to make sure that the voting system was fair and so i think the most important thing people can do is get involved at the local level find out what’s going on in how elections are administered in your state and make sure
That they’re being done properly and that there are no shenanigans going on and you’re not going to be able to know that unless you’re deeply involved in the process so start now we have widespread mail-in balloting and you know an election season so that it’s not just election day which is frankly when
Republicans go vote it’s those two months prior or even many you know years prior where they’re setting up the system by which everyone else is voting or by which the system is so insecure that it can be exploited and you really have to just find out what
The rules are in your area find out what’s going on and get involved do election observation research and everybody should do that if they care about the republic because if we don’t have elections we can trust you know you don’t really have a country but don’t
You know it’s not the end of the world it just requires people to get involved and pay attention so molly it’s it’s really interesting to me because i look at the things that they do and i’m like who has time for this but you have time if you think that you
Should be in charge of everything and everybody um that is their full-time job to uh figure out ways to control everything the conservatives we have just been you know asleep at the switch we’re like no everybody thinks like this no they don’t no they don’t there’s there’s a probably 15 percent of very
Very active americans that are intent on taking the republic and destroying it we just have to we just have to wake up and start realizing it’s really our fault that this is is happening because we’ve just been expecting somebody else to take care of it for us
So i wrote a book on the 2020 election called rigged how the media big tech and democrats seized our election and i go through all sorts of things including this mark zuckerberg operation that was a 450 million operation it was more than anyone had ever conceived of
Spending on something to take over the the government administration of elections but that is what i worry about the federal government you know they spend 450 million dollars in a in a blink of an eye they have so much money to throw at this that it is really
Worrisome you know and the constitution does not authorize it congress has not authorized it and yet they’re still doing it but you’re absolutely right that a lot of people have just been asleep and not thinking about election integrity for decades but in my book i actually tell the story about how there
Was this court order that kept republicans from doing any election day oversight for nearly 40 years i couldn’t believe it when i first learned about it but in the early 70s a judge in new jersey put them under a consent decree where they couldn’t get involved in any litigation election day litigation and
For nearly 40 years they were kept under this it took the judge dying and being replaced by an obama appointed judge who said this is ridiculous like let the republicans out it was so sensitive that uh during the 2020 or 2016 election sean spicer was on the wrong floor of trump
Tower and they almost kept them under the consent decree for another few years like because he was you know he was supposed to be on floor four instead of floor five and that’s how sensitive it was and it kept republicans from really focusing on this for a very long time
But they’re kind of liberated now and so they are doing much more to do election day oversight and there are many more resources in play now um real quick any thoughts on the supreme court and what’s coming here again tomorrow today in just a few minutes
Well i think everyone’s but there are so many important decisions and yesterday’s decision was a huge victory for the constitution and it really does speak to the importance of having solid originalist judges or justices on the court everyone’s of course anxious for the dobbs decision the abortion related
Decision and a lot of people thought it should have been out earlier because of these death threats that the justices are facing so hopefully it will uh you know it’ll come out this week or next week but it’s been i think an overall pretty good term for people who care about the constitution
Yeah i think it’s been very good molly great to have you on thank you so much thank you take care you bet molly hemingway
