Virginia Lt. Gov. Candidate John Reid: 2020 Riots, COVID-19 Response Show Need for Republicans Who ‘Step Up’ in 2025

John Reid

John Reid, the former Richmond radio host who is now seeking the Republican nomination to serve as Virginia’s next lieutenant governor, said on Monday that Governor Glenn Youngkin paved the road for Republicans to “step up” and prevent Democrats from taking back control in 2025.

Reid made the remarks while appearing as the guest host on the Monday broadcast of “The John Fredericks Show,” when he first explained his decision to enter politics began with the riots, election protests and COVID-19 policies pursued by Democrats in 2020 and 2021.

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New Bills Would Grant Jury Trials for Attorneys Disciplined by the Arizona State Bar and Enable Exonerated Lawyers to Sue

Trial

State Senator Mark Finchem (R-Prescott) sponsored a bill this session, SB 1434, that would allow attorneys disciplined by the State Bar of Arizona (SBA) a jury trial instead of being tried by the disciplinary judge and panel, which usually consists of two well-connected insiders. He also sponsored a bill that would allow attorneys who are exonerated of disciplinary charges to file a lawsuit against the SBA for damage caused to their reputations, SB 1435. The SBA has come under fire in recent years for targeting conservative attorneys, especially election attorneys. 

The Arizona Sun Times reached out to Finchem to ask him why he decided to propose the bills. “The Arizona bar has been overtaken by the radical left, individuals who believe they can persecute attorneys for doing their job, that’s representing the little guys like me,” he said. “Every single conservative attorney in the state of Arizona has been targeted by the likes of Project 65 for politically motivated persecution. Yet the corrupt like Attorney General Kris Mayes, who refused to acknowledge established jurisprudence and black letter law go unchallenged. Gould v. Mayes is an example. The law is very clear, supervisors may choose to use electronic tabulation. But Mayes decided to use color of authority to threaten supervisors with criminal charges. That is a violation of Sec. 1983 federal law. And then there’s the persecution of the alternative slate of electors, clearly allowed under federal law and the 1960 case jurisprudence between Robert Kennedy and Richard Nixon.”

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State House Passes Bill to Refer Measure to Ballot That Would Ban Vote Centers in Arizona, Return Voting to Precincts

Vote Here polling place sign

A bill that would return voting to precincts instead of at large vote centers passed the State House of Representatives along party lines on Tuesday, 32-26. If HCR 2002, sponsored by Representative Rachel Jones (R-Tucson), passes the State Senate, it will be sent to the ballot since it is a House Concurrent Resolution, bypassing any likely veto by Governor Katie Hobbs. The bill would establish precincts with no larger than one thousand registered voters, and states that county supervisors may not revert back to vote centers.

Republicans who support the bill say it’s necessary due to the botched 2022 election, where ballot on demand printers failed to print the proper sized ballots, disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of voters. With precinct level voting, there is no need for those printers, since ballots don’t need to be customized for each person regardless of where they vote within the county, they are printed in advance specific to each precinct. 

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Former Maricopa County Elections Temporary Worker Pleads Guilty to Stealing Key FOB That Would Have Reprogrammed All Voting Machine Tabulators

Walter Ringfield mugshot

Walter Ringfield Jr., a former Maricopa County Elections Department (MCED) employee and progressive activist who was caught on video stealing a key FOB that was capable of reprogramming all 140 voting machine tabulators on Election Day pleaded guilty last week to one count of Attempted Computer Tampering and three theft charges for unrelated crimes. The activist, who had vowed to stop Republican lawyers combating wrongdoing on Election Day, will be sentenced on March 5.

Ringfield was caught last year in June prior to the primary election. Although the charges aren’t very serious, he is being held without bail, according to KJZZ. 

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Judge Says John Eastman, Others in Arizona AG’s Prosecution of Alternate Electors Have Grounds to Dismiss Due to Targeting First Amendment Rights

Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sam Myers said on Monday during a hearing in Attorney General Kris Mayes’ prosecution of the 2020 alternate electoral slate for Trump and their associates that there were enough grounds in the defendants’ motions to dismiss to likely dismiss the prosecutions due to violating the First Amendment. Myers, who previously clerked for a Democratic Senator, and who was appointed to the bench by Democratic Governor Janet Napolitano, made the decision without hearing oral arguments due to the strength of the defendants’ arguments, he said.

Myers was addressing motions to dismiss based on the state’s anti-SLAPP law filed by former State Senator Anthony Kern and Trump’s former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. Several of the other defendants filed similar motions, including Trump’s former attorney and constitutional legal scholar John Eastman and former Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward. State Senate President Warren Petersen (R-Mesa) and then-House Speaker Ben Toma filed an Amicus Curiae brief in support of Ward’s motion.

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Maricopa County Supervisor Who Stripped Recorder Justin Heap of Significant Control Over Elections Refuses to Reinstate it

Maricopa County Chairman Thomas Galvin, Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap

Leading conservatives called out Maricopa County Supervisor Thomas Galvin, chair of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors (MCBOS) who has been accused of stonewalling attempts to look into election wrongdoing, for refusing to give back election powers to Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap. Galvin, the only incumbent Republican supervisor left on the board, voted with the rest of the board in October to strip the recorder of significant powers. 

State Senator Jake Hoffman (R-Queen Creek) posted on X, “Corruption in Maricopa County! Supervisor @ThomasGalvin has STRIPPED Recorder @azJustinHeap of his control over our Elections and is REFUSING to reinstate it.” He linked to an article at KJZZ about the vote transferring power last fall.

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Dark-Money Group ‘The 65 Project’ Files Bar Complaint Against Interim U.S. Attorney Edward Martin Over Representing J6 Defendants

Ed Martin

Despite the fact President Donald Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of all the January 6 defendants on his first day in office last month, The 65 Project, which files bar complaints against conservative election attorneys, filed another complaint on Thursday against one of the J6 attorneys. The organization – circuitously funded by Leftist dark-money groups – submitted the complaint to the D.C. Bar, alleging a small technical violation by Edward Martin, a previous chair of the Missouri Republican Party who was appointed by Trump last month to serve as interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.

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Former Richmond Radio Host John Reid Says He Entered Lt. Governor Race After Water Crisis in Democrat City

John Reid

Former Richmond-based broadcaster John Reid said on Friday that his entrance into the race to become Virginia’s next lieutenant governor was sparked by the recent water crisis in the commonwealth’s capital, which saw most of the city lose access to running water for six days in January.

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State Audit Reveals Why Voter Citizenship Was Not Tracked in Arizona, Discovers U.S. Non-Citizen Residents Illegally Registered to Vote

Lorie Shaull

After concerns arose last year over the numbers of noncitizens on Arizona’s voter rolls, Governor Katie Hobbs ordered an audit to figure out why there were so many. The audit, which was released last week, examined the problems that arose at the Motor Vehicle Division (MVD) within the Arizona Department of Transportation, which offers “motor voter” automatic voter registration to Arizonans conducting driving related transactions. The audit investigated a “glitch” allowing over 200,000 voters who did not show documented proof of citizenship (DPOC) prior to 1996, and found another glitch allowing U.S. nationals to register to vote. 

Merissa Hamilton, co-founder of the conservative grassroots EZAZ which performs election integrity work, spoke to The Arizona Sun Times about the audit. “I have little to no confidence that neither MVD or the Governor’s task force have identified and resolved all of the issues with the voter registration and management process,” she said. “A voter we identified last year that stated they are not a citizen and do not know how they got registered wasn’t identified as being part of this problem investigated by the Secretary’s office. Clearly, there are still unidentified non-citizens on the voter rolls. The voters deserve a comprehensive audit of the rolls with a thorough review by DHS. The clown show that our election administration has come to be known as nationally must end. Our taxpayers deserve best in class elections.”

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Pat Herrity Says Lieutenant Governor Bid ‘About Getting Winsome over the Finish Line’ in Virginia Gubernatorial Race

Pat Herrity

Fairfax County Supervisor Pat Herrity, the only elected Republican in the county, today said that his campaign to become the next Lieutenant Governor of Virginia was motivated by an effort to help the Republican ticket on Election Day, and particularly to help Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears win her election to succeed Governor Glenn Youngkin.

Asked on Wednesday by The Virginia Star publisher John Fredericks how he expected to win in November if Earle-Sears should perform poorly, as a January poll showed former Representative Abigail Spanberger winning against Earle-Sears by 10 percent, Herrity pointed to his years of electoral success in Fairfax County.

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Attorney General Kris Mayes Offers to Hire Prosecutors and FBI Agents Who Were Fired by Trump Over Their Lawfare Against Him

Arizona A.G. Kris Hayes

In response to the Trump administration firing prosecutors and FBI agents in the Biden administration who came after Donald Trump and others concerned about election fraud in 2020, Attorney General Kris Mayes posted on X that she would hire them. Mayes is prosecuting several of Trump’s allies over their work regarding the botched 2020 election, including Trump’s former attorneys Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman, with Donald Trump himself an unindicted co-conspirator. While other prosecutors across the country have backed off on targeting Trump and those around him since he won the 2024 presidential election, Mayes is doubling down on her antagonism.

“My message to all FBI agents and federal prosecutors who are being wrongfully fired by Trump: come see me about a job,” Mayes said. “We are hiring at the AZ Attorney General’s office and we actually support law enforcement.” She linked to a CBS news article about the terminations of the employees involved in the prosecutions of Trump and the J6 protesters. There were hundreds of comments after her post, almost all very critical of her. 

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Automatic Voter Registration Let Non-Citizens in South Dakota, Oregon onto Voter Rolls, Report Says

Election Day

A new election integrity report examining how non-citizens have been registered to vote in South Dakota and Oregon warns that automatic voter registration is the culprit.

A report released by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) last week shows that both South Dakota and Oregon, which have automatic voter registration, found non-citizens on their respective voter rolls last year. The report explains that this occurs easily and warns states about using automatic voter registration.

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State Bar of Texas Drops ‘Baseless and Politically Motivated’ Charges Against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Over His 2020 Election Lawsuit

Texas AG Ken Paxton

The State Bar of Texas (SBT) dropped its charges against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton this past week for filing the lawsuit Texas v. Pennsylvania, which contested election wrongdoing in the 2020 election. The move came in response to the Texas Supreme Court issuing a ruling dismissing the State Bar of Texas’s (SBT) four-year-long attempt to discipline Paxton’s First Assistant Attorney General Brent Webster over his role in the lawsuit, calling it an “egregious invasion of the attorney general’s authority.” 

“I am pleased to announce that the Texas State Bar has finally ended its baseless and politically motivated attempt to stop me for doing my duty to defend election integrity,” Paxton said in a statement. “The State Bar’s meritless case was not about justice or the rule of law but about weaponizing the legal process to attack me for boldly defending the rights of Texas. For four years, this unfounded lawfare wasted valuable time and resources, but these unethical tactics will never stop me from fighting to uphold the rule of law, protect our elections, and defend the values that Texans hold dear.”

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Vivek Ramaswamy Teases Ohio Governor Campaign to Turn America’s ‘Rust Belt’ into ‘Revival Belt’

Vivek Ramaswamy

Former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who recently left the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) founded by President Donald Trump and managed by Elon Musk, dropped more hints about a possible gubernatorial campaign in Ohio during a Wednesday appearance on the “Flagrant” comedy podcast.

Asked by comedian Andrew Schulz why Ramaswamy left DOGE at the start of the Trump administration, the possible candidate for governor cited the technological direction of the committee, but also said that participation in DOGE could preclude him from running for public office.

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Tom Zawistowski: Vivek Ramaswamy Likely to be Favorite Gubernatorial Candidate Among Ohioans

Tom Zawistowski, president of the Ohio-based We the People Convention, said businessman and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is likely to be the favorite Republican candidate among Ohioans in the 2026 gubernatorial race.

While Ramaswamy has not officially launched a bid for Ohio governor, reports have recently confirmed that the businessman and former presidential candidate has hired Vice President JD Vance’s top political advisers to head his expected campaign.

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Gina Swoboda Outlines AZGOP Agenda After Overwhelming Reelection as Party Chair

AZ GOP Chair Gina Swoboda

On the heels of her reelection, Arizona Republican Party (AZGOP) Chairwoman Gina Swoboda told The Arizona Sun Times on Tuesday that the party will focus on winning the Grand Canyon State’s executive branch back from Democrats, with a particular focus on unseating Governor Katie Hobbs.

Swoboda was reelected as the state party’s leader after she was elected to a partial term last year, presiding over the party during the successful election of President Donald Trump to the White House, and will now lead Arizona’s Republicans into the 2026 midterm elections that are likely to be dominated by the gubernatorial race, as neither U.S. Senator representing Arizona are up for reelection.

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Ineffective GOP State Rep. Jody Barrett Defies President Trump’s Support for Tennessee School Choice Bill

State Rep. Jody Barrett

Tennessee State Representative Jody Barrett (R-Dickson) confirmed to The Tennessee Star on Tuesday that he remains opposed to the Education Freedom Act despite the legislation’s recent endorsement by President Donald Trump.

Barrett, who has publicly confirmed his opposition to the universal school choice bill, was asked on Tuesday whether Trump’s support for the legislation put forward by Governor Bill Lee and Republican leadership.

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John Reid Becomes Third Republican in Virginia Race for Lieutenant Governor as Winsome Earle-Sears Seeks Executive Mansion

John Reid

The third Republican to enter the primary contest to become Virginia’s next lieutenant governor is John Reid, a former radio host based in Richmond who entered the race Monday as conservatives seek a new candidate to replace Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears, who appears likely to become the party’s nominee for governor.

Formerly a morning host for WRVA, and the son of longtime Virginia lawmaker John “Jack” Reid Sr., the newly-minted candidate announced his campaign in a press release posted to social media, with Reid pledging to follow the example set by Governor Glenn Youngkin.

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Trump’s Pollster Finds Sen. Marsha Blackburn Has Nearly 60-Point Lead in Tennessee Governor Primary

Sen. Marsha Blackburn

Polling released Thursday morning to The Tennessee Star shows Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is the early favorite to secure the Tennessee Republican Party’s nomination for governor next year, with Blackburn securing more than 60 percent of the vote in a hypothetical primary race. 

The polling was conducted by Fabrizio, Lee and Associates, the polling firm run by Tony Fabrizio and David Lee, which has polled for President Donald Trump and his presidential campaigns since 2016.

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Poll Shows Majority of Virginians Still Positive on Youngkin’s Job as Governor, but Voters May Elect Democrat in 2025

Glenn Youngkin

Polling released on Thursday shows the majority of Virginians continue to hold a positive view of the performance by Glenn Youngkin as Governor of Virginia, though suggested voters may nonetheless vote for a Democrat to succeed him when casting ballots in November.

The survey, released by Christopher Newport University’s Wason Center for Civic Leadership and conducted between January 6-13, found 53 percent of Virginia voters continue to approve of Youngkin’s performance as governor, including 87 percent of Republicans, 54 percent of independents, and 19 percent of the commonwealth’s Democratic voters.

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Arizona Senate Judiciary and Elections Committee Passes Bill to Speed up Election Tabulation Modeled After Florida Law

Maricopa County election processing

The Arizona Senate Judiciary and Elections Committee passed election integrity bill SB 1011 with a 4-3 vote along party lines on Wednesday. Sponsored by Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen (R-Mesa), the bill is modeled after Florida election law, in order to speed up ballot tabulation. Florida announces election results overnight after an election, whereas Arizona has come under criticism for taking up to two weeks due to lengthy signature verification on mail-in ballot affidavits.

The bill provides that voters who return their early ballots to early voting locations after 7 p.m. the Friday before the election would be required to present identification. Only if they drop the ballots off at the actual county recorder’s office that late would they be allowed to skip showing ID. Currently, voters can drop early ballots off at any location without ID up until 7 p.m. on Election Day. Additionally, in-person voting would be expanded past Friday before the election to Saturday and Sunday before the election.

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Winsome Earle-Sears Raises over $3 Million for Governor Campaign, Including $50,000 from Kevin McCarthy

Winsome Earle Sears

Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears on Wednesday reportedly announced raising more than $3 million for her gubernatorial campaign, including one donation of $50,000 from the campaign committee belonging to former Representative Kevin McCarthy.

In the four months since Earle-Sears announced her campaign last September, the lieutenant governor has reportedly raised more than $3 million, with Virginia Scope reporting a spokesman for the candidate said the campaign is “in full-swing” with a “rush of grassroots and financial support” leaving Earle-Sears “in a position of great strength” as Virginia begins its gubernatorial campaign season.

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Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs Says Potential Gubernatorial Campaign by Sen. Marsha Blackburn Would Take Him ‘Out of the Mix’

Glenn Jacobs and Marsha Blackburn

With Governor Bill Lee ineligible to seek a third term in 2026, Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs said this week that Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is the only potential candidate whose candidacy would ensure he would not enter the race before later endorsing the senator should she decide to launch a campaign for governor.

During his Sunday appearance on “Tennessee This Week,” Jacobs said he was flattered to be included among potential gubernatorial candidates before stating that Blackburn is the only hypothetical candidate whose decision would stop him from entering the race.

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Tennessee Voters Could Recall Local Officials Under Proposed Legislation

GA Hardaway

Legislation proposed last week could allow some Tennessee voters to organize recall elections for local elected officials, should two-thirds of voters be willing to sign a petition after a city or county government adopts a policy allowing the recalls.

The summary for HB 92 explains the legislation would allow Tennessee’s local governments to adopt a process for citizens to initiate recall elections, while the text of the bill specifies such efforts would be limited to members of local government legislative bodies, mayors, sheriffs, trustees, registers, clerks, assessors of property, and school board members.

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Virginia Lt. Gov. Candidate John Curran Promises to Use MAGA Pulpit Against State Lawmakers If Elected

John Curran

John Curran, the James City business consultant who launched his campaign to become Virginia’s next lieutenant governor last year, said on Monday that he is the Republican candidate most closely aligned with President-elect Donald Trump, and vowed to use the platform associated with the elected position to challenge Democrats who obstruct bipartisan progress in the General Assembly.

Curran made the remarks during an appearance on “The John Fredericks Show,” telling host John Fredericks, who is publisher of The Virginia Star, that he hopes to use the lieutenant governor’s “soapbox” to challenge career politicians.

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Poll Finds Virginia Governor’s Race Between Spanberger, Earle-Sears Tied as Republicans Seek to Retain Control Post-Youngkin

Spanberger and Sears

Former U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger (D-VA-07) and Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears are statistically tied in the race to become the next Governor of Virginia, according to polling released Thursday.

The Emerson College poll of Virginia voters found Spanberger narrowly leading with the support of 42 percent of the commonwealth, but Earle-Sears statistically tied at 41 percent of support, with the pollsters reporting a margin of error of 3 percent.

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Tennessee Bill Would Create Online Portal for Election Workers to Verify Voters Are Citizens with Right to Vote

Poll Workers

New legislation introduced Tuesday in Tennessee would require the Tennessee Coordinator of Elections, Tennessee Department of Safety (TDOS), and Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) to create new portals that will allow election officials to determine if voter applicants are U.S. citizens who are eligible to vote.

House Bill 69 by Majority Leader William Lamberth (R-Portland) requires the Coordinator of Elections and TDOS to “create a secure, electronic portal through which each county administrator of elections may access information to verify, prior to processing an applicant’s application to register to vote, whether the applicant is a non-United States citizen based on records on file.”

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Sold-Out Crowd Attends Launch of Documentary About Lawfare Against John Eastman with Trump at Mar-a-Lago

Eastman film

Hundreds of attendees who paid $1,000 to $50,000 each filled up a sold-out event at Mar-a-Lago Saturday evening, where they watched a screening of a new documentary about the lawfare against Donald Trump’s former attorney and constitutional legal scholar John Eastman. Madison Media Fund, launched by film producer Gary DePew to support “freedom focused filmmakers,” deliberately timed The Eastman Dilemma: Lawfare or Justice for release on January 6. Incoming-President Donald Trump stopped by to watch the movie, flanked by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL). 

The evening included a panel discussion with Eastman and others in Trump’s circle who were targeted by lawfare; Rudy Giuliani, Alan Dershowitz, General Michael Flynn, Jeffrey Clark, and Peter Navarro. 

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Arizona Court of Appeals Rules Criminal Charges May Proceed Against Cochise County Supervisor Who Voted to Delay Canvassing 2022 Election Results

A panel on the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled last Wednesday that Attorney General Kris Mayes’ prosecution of Cochise County Supervisor Tom Crosby for delaying canvassing of the 2022 election may proceed. Crosby, along with Cochise County Supervisor Peggy Judd, was indicted for felonies by a grand jury in November 2023 for briefly delaying canvassing of the 2022 election in order to investigate concerns with the voting machine tabulators. Judd accepted a plea agreement two months ago for a misdemeanor charge of failing to perform her duty as an election officer and was sentenced to probation.

State Senate President Warren Petersen (R-Mesa) and Speaker of the House Ben Toma (R-Peoria) filed an Amicus Curiae brief opposing the prosecution last March.

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Texas Supreme Court Ends Texas State Bar’s ‘Witch Hunt’ Against AG Ken Paxton’s Top Deputy over His Efforts to Secure Elections

The Texas Supreme Court issued a ruling on Wednesday dismissing the State Bar of Texas’s (SBT) four-year-long attempt to discipline Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s First Assistant Attorney General Brent Webster, calling it an “egregious invasion of the attorney general’s authority.” Webster assisted Paxton with combating election wrongdoing in the 2020 election, which included filing the lawsuit Texas v. Pennsylvania over the election irregularities in four states in 2020, which was joined by 21 other states.

Paxton, who is facing similar charges from the SBT, posted on X, “After four years of lawfare and political retaliation, the Texas Supreme Court has ended this witch hunt against the leadership of my office. The Texas State Bar attempted to punish us for fighting to secure our national elections, but we did not and will not ever back down from doing what is right. We have seen this playbook used against President Trump and other effective fighters for the American people and I am pleased that this attempt to stop our work has been defeated.”

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Anti-Trump Republican Denver Riggleman Considers Campaign for Virginia Governor

Rep. Denver Riggleman

Former U.S. Representative Denver Riggleman, the former Republican congressman who considered voting for President Joe Biden in 2020, and served under the House January 6 committee after he left Congress in 2021.

In remarks published on New Year’s Day by The Washington Post, Riggleman confirmed he has already started to launch an exploratory committee to determine his path to the Republican nomination to serve as Virginia’s next governor, telling the outlet he would run a campaign based on “facts, data, humor and integrity” to spread his message.

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Trump’s Former DOJ Official Jeffrey Clark Has Oral Argument Appealing Recommendation to Suspend His Law License

Jeffery Clark

Oral arguments took place last month in the appeal by Donald Trump’s former Department of Justice Jeffrey Clark over a recommendation suspending his law license for two years due to his efforts advising Trump on 2020 election irregularities. A three-member committee of the District of Columbia Board on Professional Responsibility (BPR) found him culpable on August 1 of violating attorney ethics rules due to drafting a letter that was never sent to Georgia officials advising them of their options in dealing with the irregularities. 

The Washington D.C. Bar’s counsel, Hamilton Fox, who is pressing to disbar Clark as a “threat to democracy,” gave the argument for the bar to eight members of the BPR. Fox referred to the letter Clark drafted as a “false letter,” since the officials above him decided not to send it. One of the attorney members on the BPR responded that attorney ethics rules don’t prohibit attorneys from disagreeing with their superiors.

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Judicial Watch Alleges Collusion Between Fulton County DA Fani Willis and the January 6 Committee to Prosecute Trump, Republicans

Fani Willis and Nathan Wade

The legal integrity organization Judicial Watch (JW) announced on December 10 that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who was prosecuting Donald Trump and several prominent Republicans over their concerns about election fraud in Georgia’s 2020 election until she was removed earlier this month for “impropriety,” colluded with the Biden administration to conduct the prosecutions. The group has been repeatedly stonewalled in its attempts, including litigation, to obtain public records from Willis’ office revealing any coordination.

“Judicial Watch and a state court forced Fani Willis to confirm additional documents exist about her collusion with the partisan Pelosi January 6 Committee to ‘get Trump,’” JW President Tom Fitton said in a statement. “But Willis, citing legal exemptions for a prosecution that’s essentially dead in the water, now wants to hide these records from the American public. Judicial Watch plans to push back in court against this disingenuous secrecy.”

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Kari Lake Posts on X That She Will Not be Running for Office Again, Will Work for Trump in Media Position Leading Voice of America

Kari Lake

Less than a month after being offered a job by incoming President Donald Trump heading up the Voice of America (VOA), Kari Lake announced on X that she will not be running for office again. Instead, she accepted the job heading up the journalism position with the Trump administration. Many believe that progressive activists conducted illegal election activity to defeat her in both the 2022 election race for governor and the 2024 race for U.S. Senate.

“We know the movement that we have in Arizona, and I will never take that for granted,” she posted on Elon Musk’s social media platform on Saturday. “But there is a corrupt machine here that is hellbent on making sure I never hold office. So, I won’t put my family (and myself) through the torture of running again. I will go to Washington, D.C., return @VOANews to its glory days, and help President Trump Make America Great Again.”

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Article III Project’s Mike Davis Suggests Attorney General Kris Mayes Could Go to Prison

Mike Davis, AG Kris Mayes

Attorney General Kris Mayes, who is prosecuting the alternate electors for Donald Trump from 2020 as well as Cochise County Supervisor Tom Crosby for delaying the canvassing of that election due to election irregularities, may find herself on the other side of prosecution. Founder Mike Davis of the Article III Project, which defends constitutionalist judges and the rule of law, posted on X that Mayes could go to prison due to obstructing the incoming president.

He said, “Dear @AZAGMayes: You disenfranchised AZ voters and stole your election from @AbrahamHamadeh. Now you’re plotting to overturn the will of American voters and illegally obstruct President Trump’s immigration mandate? Want to go to prison? 8 U.S.C. § 132.” 

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Virginia Bill Would Require Security Paper, Watermarks on Mail-in Ballots

Virginia Delegate Chad Green

Legislation filed ahead of the upcoming legislative session in Virginia would require the commonwealth to use security paper and watermarks on absentee ballots.

House Bill 1566, submitted last week by Delegate W. Chad Green (R-Seaford), would require all ballots requested by Virginia’s absentee voters to be “printed on security paper that incorporates a visible watermark,” in order to demonstrate the absentee ballot is authentic. The watermarks and security paper must nonetheless maintain “the absolute secrecy of the ballot.”

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The Trump Administration May Prosecute Liz Cheney Based on the House Administration Oversight Subcommittee’s J6 Report

Liz Cheney

Former Congressional Republican Liz Cheney pursued conservatives during her work with Democrats on their J6 committee, but now the tables may be turning. The House Administration Oversight Subcommittee issued a report about the J6 committee last week, calling for the FBI to investigate Cheney and accusing her of two crimes. Cheney communicated with J6 witness Cassidy Hutchinson without going through Hutchinson’s attorney, and the report accused Cheney, who campaigned for Kamala Harris this past year after being soundly defeated for reelection in her primary race, of engaging in “procuring another person to commit perjury” and “witness tampering’.”

Donald Trump hinted at prosecuting Cheney after the report came out. He posted on TruthSocial, “Liz Cheney could be in a lot of trouble based on the evidence obtained by the subcommittee, which states that ‘numerous federal laws were likely broken by Liz Cheney, and these violations should be investigated by the FBI.”

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Arizona AG Kris Mayes Contracted Group Run by Anti-Trump Lawyer to Prosecute Alternate Electors: Document

Kris mayes

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes reportedly entered into a contract with a partisan group run by a man considered a media expert on the legal challenges faced by President-elect Donald Trump to organize its case against the alternative electors who helped Trump contest the 2020 election in Arizona.

The documents were shared to the social media platform X on Sunday by pro-Trump attorney Jeff Clark, who Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis charged for his role in Trump’s 2020 election contest in that state.

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Former Virginia Governor Claims Lack of Democrat ‘Solidarity’ Could Lead to Republican Governor in 2025

Former Virgina Governor Doug Wilder

Former Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder cautioned Democrats in the commonwealth against a tumultuous primary, arguing it was a lack of Democratic solidarity preceded the 2021 election of Governor Glenn Youngkin.

While U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger (R-VA-07) is leaving Congress to run for governor, last week Punchbowl News reported Representative Bobby Scott (D-VA-03) is considering entering the race.

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Trump Endorses Gina Swoboda for Reelection as Arizona Republican Party Chair During TPUSA’s AmericaFest

Gina Swoboda, Donald Trump

Likely ending what could have been a contentious race for chair of the Arizona Republican Party (AZGOP), Donald Trump endorsed current chair Gina Swoboda during his speech at Turning Point USA’s annual AmericaFest in Phoenix. State Rep. Cory McGarr (R-Tucson), who lost his reelection race even though there is a 10+ Republican voter registration advantage in his district, announced on December 12 in an X post that he was challenging Swoboda.

Swoboda, who was asked by Trump personally to run after Jeff DeWit was forced to step down, was elected to the office less than a year ago. Swoboda leads the Voter Reference Foundation (VRF), so Republican leaders felt it was imperative to put someone in the leadership position who understood election fraud and had experience combating it. She issued a statement after the endorsement, going over her record the past 11 months. 

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Arizona Court Strikes Troubling Provisions in Secretary of State’s 2023 Elections Manual

Arizona A.G. Adrian Fontes

A Maricopa County Superior Court on Monday invalidated key provisions of the embattled 2023 Elections Procedures Manual (EPM) by Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, siding with Arizona House Speaker Ben Toma and Senate President Warren Petersen in their legal challenge, declaring that the Secretary overstepped his authority and infringed on the exclusive lawmaking powers of the Arizona Legislature.

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Chris Carr Says ‘I’m Not Going to be Anti-Anybody’ When Asked About Trump Endorsement in 2026 Governor Race

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr

While President-elect Donald Trump endorsed a primary challenge to Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr in 2022, the attorney general said Thursday his 2026 campaign for governor will not “be anti-anybody.” He also downplayed the significance of endorsements to Georgia voters.

Carr made the remarks to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which reported the attorney general said he planned to run a positive campaign for governor after becoming the first candidate to declare his candidacy in November.

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Maricopa County Recorder Attempted to Have Conservative ASU Professor Fired over Social Media Posts, Lawsuit Claims

Aaron Ludwig

We the People AZ Alliance (WPAA), represented by Kari Lake’s former attorney Bryan Blehm, filed a lawsuit last week against outgoing Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer demanding records related to Richer allegedly attempting to get a conservative Arizona State University professor fired and disciplined by the State Bar of Arizona. WPAA requested an email between Richer and States United Democracy Center (SUDC), concerned that the far left activist group was aiding Richer in his attempt to get Aaron Ludwig fired.

The complaint asserted, “On July 31, 2022, Defendant Richer, acting as Maricopa County Recorder, sent an email to the Directors of ASU’s School of Criminology and Criminal Justice seeking to have a faculty associate terminated from ASU for sharing a Tweet. … Defendant’s email also shows that the Recorder, in his capacity as Maricopa County Recorder, intended to seek sanctions against the faculty member through the State Bar of Arizona as the faculty member was also an attorney licensed to practice law in Arizona.” 

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Arizona Senate President ‘Optimistic’ Gov. Katie Hobbs Will Sign Bill for Faster Election Results

Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen

Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen (R-Gilbert) said in a Saturday interview on “The Jeff Oravitz Show” podcast that he is “optimistic” Governor Katie Hobbs will sign legislation the lawmaker said will result in faster election results in the state.

Petersen and other lawmakers last week introduced SB 1011 last week, which would require voters submit their mail-in ballot by Friday at 7 p.m. or else vote on Election Day, and change how ballots are handled when voters cast them in person.

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California County Board Members Fight Election Certification After Raising Election Integrity Issues

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County board members in California and Colorado are still fighting the certification of the presidential election after election integrity issues occurred.

In one California county, supervisors declared the election results “under duress,” while county canvass board members in seven Colorado counties rejected election certification. In both instances, election irregularities had occurred during the November election cycle that resulted in the county board members’ hesitation to certify election results.

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