Many are asking how we prepare. The first task is to become informed about what’s happening. The second is to help raise the alarm by sharing these warnings widely to your networks. The third is to insist our leaders take the threat seriously. The fourth is to demand that local officials be prepared to resist federal takeovers or seizures. The fifth is to take training courses in peaceful civil disobedience, which MLK Jr. called “self-purification” because our natural instinct when attacked is to strike back ourselves. The sixth is to join others in the streets to demand action and help shut down the country if they try to seize power illegitimately.
Jay, could the States go to the local Circuit Court of Appeals for a block on the Feds seizing ballots and machines pre-emptively? Good piece as usual!
Hard to preemptively get an injunction. Courts are limited to actual cases and controversies, so in advance of action the courts lack jurisdiction to act.
Dem cities in Purple and Red states, send up the SOS flares! Marc Elias has been warning about this type of fed assaults on vote-processing centers since trump 2.0 kicked off, and tactics are now being perfected for 2026 midterms. All that is needed is a friendly magistrate — note the absence of a fed district judge signing off on the warrant — and there go all the ballots, machines, and processing software into the Ka$H Patel black hole. Philly, Atlanta, L.A., Charlotte, Tri-Cities, Phoenix, you name it, THEY will be coming for ya, book it. So, lawyer up, if you want Democratic votes to actually be counted and certified.
Can there be an emergency court order arresting Patel, Gabbard & Bondi for taking these records UNLAWFULLY? And a demand to give them up (although they are probably copied)?
Also, there should be a federal law allowing:
• mail-in/absentee voting and convenient ballot boxes within a reasonable distance from someone’s house.
• Voter’s registrations should not be allowed to be purged. (They are purging 10’s of THOUSANDS of voter registrations from blue districts. See Greg Palast).
Strongly suspect that NOTHING seized from Fulton Cty. voting offices will EVER see the inside of a courtroom...there are no "crimes" to be proven, there is NO evidence supporting wild charges made following the 2020 elections, as state-mandated countless recounts, examinations of raw voting data, everything and anything called into suspicion by trump and his mob of fanatics and shithouse lawyers ALL have been determined as factually false.
No, these confiscated records will serve as raw material for selected "leaks" let out to right-wing "influencers" and friendly media — e.g., FoxNews and the "new, new" CBS/Weiss News — outlets, all the way to November elections and beyond.
I wonder if “MAGISTRATE” Catherine Salinas, who signed the warrant is a Trump supporter? WHY would she sign the warrant? What was the “probable cause?”
“Catherine Salinas has been a United States Magistrate Judge in the Northern District of Georgia since 2015. A graduate of Emory University and the University of Texas School of Law, she began her legal career in 1994 at Texas Rural Legal Aid on the Mexican border. Judge Salinas returned to Atlanta in 1999 and worked as a staff attorney at the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, then as a Fulton County Public Defender, and then as a law clerk to United States District Judge Willis B. Hunt, Jr. Immediately prior to joining the judiciary, Judge Salinas was a shareholder at the national law firm Carlton Fields, where she worked for ten years as a commercial litigator. Judge Salinas is a past president of the Atlanta Legal Aid Society and currently serves a chair of the Access to Justice committee of the State Bar of Georgia.”
“Magistrate judges are judicial officers of the U.S. district courts appointed by the district judges of the court to handle a variety of judicial proceedings.”
“By majority vote of the U.S. district judges of the court, magistrate judges are appointed for a renewable term of eight years.”
She could still be a Trump supporter. She’s a graduate from a school in Texas, where they tend to be Republican. Look at how Cannon bent over backwards for Trump, delaying so long they couldn’t have the trial that would have convicted him. She was repeatedly reprimanded for her unethical motions.
Catherine Salinas signed the warrant. What Judge would have signed this warrant after nearly 60 court cases were thrown out contesting the 2020 election? How can we look at the affidavit that based this judge’s decision to sign the warrant?
THESE are the very sort of things Dem leaders should be making a list of and writing a “Project 2029” so we don’t waste any time making new laws that prevent this from ever happening again! We better take care of business this time or the Dem Party is DONE! No time to drop the ball now!
Sorry, but this is completely inaccurate. District judges rarely signed, search warrants. It is the province of the magistrate judges, pursuant to statute to review and sign search warrants. I served that role for 16 years. The FBI agent statements and support of the war warrant must be taken, is true by the judge. Therefore, if the FBI lied on the affidavit, but the lies established probable cause, the judge would have no choice, but to sign the warrant.
How can we see the “affidavit” the FBI supplied? If so many cases were thrown out of court by judges, it is likely there must have been a lie in that affidavit. I would think it would involve a little investigation before granting that warrant.
I believe this corrupt Trump regime will use those voter records for nefarious purposes.
Her being there and trying to *hide* her presence is what has me concerned. Given the level of attention whoring she normally does, her NOT being front and centre means she knows damn well that this is something that could end in Epstein files levels of bad press for the Grand Old Pedophiles.
Trump said "find [me] 11,780 votes" so he can claim he won the 2020 election. What better way to do this than to STEAL the previously audited ballots (using his personal Department of Injustice and a corrupt Magistrate Judge) and manufacture the votes by eliminating 11,780 votes against him. But that won't be enough. His DOIJ will find "hundreds" or "thousands" or "millions" of votes against him that, in his [future] words, "never should have been counted." The goal is to falsely "prove" he was a victim of election-rigging before the mid-terms to manipulate voters in the mid-terms.
He's manipulating the Past to control the Future. In other words, it's a direct manifestation of George Orwell's warning in 1984: "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
We absolutely have to get a house majority and senate majority, even if every voter has to stand in line at the polls with their voter registration and an acceptable ID, we have to leap all the hurdles and get it done.
But that's the point. It won't matter if Democrats win the actual election if Trump's goons steal the proof (ballots, voting machines, etc) and alter them to say Republicans won.
The only way I can think of to prevent that would be to pass a law (state? federal?) that says voting materials are never (as in, until the end of time) to be allowed out of whatever secure location they are usually kept. Any recounts or examinations of those materials must be done in the presence of observers from all parties.
The problem would be getting such a law passed and tested before the election. But it seems like the only way to prevent cheating is to shine a big bright light on the whole process, and make sure there are plenty of partisan witnesses.
If we turn up in huge numbers and the polling and exit polls confirm wins across the country for Dems, he will have a much harder time claiming fraud cost him the election
By the time we get to the election, it could be too late. Passing a law--any law--to protect election results would sens loud message right now: “ We see you. We know what you're doing and what you're planning. We're watching!”
If we're quiet and take no action to disrupt his plan, his demented little brain might think he's getting away with it.
People ask what can we do. One thing we can do is reach out to every single person who needs assistance registering to vote, and then get into the polls. It’s going to take all hands on deck to accomplish that. And by the way, if the Senate passes the SAVE act, all of us with married names will probably have to prove that we’re married in order to vote because our names are different now from what they were on our birth certificate.
They are sowing fear to prevent many from getting in line. Getting jumped by 6 men pointing their weapons at you as they brutally bring you to the ground. Law and order, who can assist the people?
Jay, I want to stop right at Mo Ivory’s warning, because that sentence is the hinge everything else swings on:
“This raid and seizure of voting materials are just the beginning of the electoral chaos that will unfold in 2026.”
That isn’t rhetoric. It’s a diagnosis. And in my view, it’s the most important line in your entire piece.
Once you sit with it, really sit with it (and I have for hours now), the rest of what you lay out stops feeling like breaking news and starts feeling like early evidence. This isn’t about Fulton County in isolation. It’s about precedent. It’s about normalizing the idea that federal power can physically seize the proof of an election and call it routine. That’s the kind of move you make when you’re not trying to relitigate the past, but to control the future.
What I’ve reached to the hardest is how clearly you draw the line from narrative sabotage to physical control. We’ve endured years of lies about elections, and those were corrosive enough. But this is different. This is expensive. This is overt. This is agents, boxes, ballots, voter data. Once you cross from lying about elections to taking possession of elections, you’re no longer in the realm of disinformation. You’re in the realm of seizure.
What makes this feel even more precarious is the larger context it’s unfolding in. The Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025” manual doesn’t have to explicitly call for ballot seizures to matter here. Its core argument is that elections should be treated as a federal enforcement and national security concern, not a state-administered civic process. With dozens (31+) of its authors now embedded across the Trump administration, that worldview no longer lives on paper. It lives inside agencies, priorities, and decisions that start to feel “normal” even when they would have been unthinkable a few years ago.
As I was reading, I kept wanting to pause you and ask questions out loud, not because I doubt your analysis (I don’t), but because the implications are so enormous they demand daylight.
Starting with the warrant itself. When you say it’s extraordinarily broad and unsupported, what exactly is the alleged crime being claimed here, in plain English? What statute are they leaning on, and does that statute genuinely justify scooping up an entire warehouse of election materials? Or is this one of those situations where “everything might be evidence if we say it slowly enough”?
Then there’s the chain-of-custody problem. Once the federal government physically has ballots and voter rolls in its hands, what actually protects against contamination, selective “discoveries,” or forensic theater? Not even outright fraud — just the ability to later wave a piece of paper and say, “Look what we found,” knowing half the country will believe it because it looks official. Who enforces reality once the evidence leaves local control?
Your point about these materials already being sealed in a DOJ civil case feels enormous. How does a criminal search warrant intersect with a sealing order like that? Is this a procedural end run — a new judge and a new docket used to get around existing constraints — or something more ordinary being weaponized in an extraordinary way?
And I can’t get past the presence of the DNI. That detail is outright chilling. Why is the Director of National Intelligence physically present at an FBI evidence seizure tied to an election that’s been counted, recounted, and certified for years? Who invited her? What was her stated role? Is this about reframing election administration as “national security,” so escalation suddenly sounds prudent instead of authoritarian?
Your instinct to link this to DOJ pressure on Minnesota voter data rings absolutely true. I’m trying to understand the primary objective here. Is it the voter rolls, to manufacture “non-citizen voter” narratives? The ballots, to seed future tampering claims? Or the precedent itself, so federal seizure becomes normalized and states hesitate to resist next time? If you had to name the central aim, which explanation best fits what we’re seeing?
And then there’s 2026. Because Mo Ivory’s warning isn’t really about Georgia. It’s about what comes next. If you sketch this forward just a little, what do you see as the most likely operational uses of this seizure after the midterms? A propaganda runway to make challenges feel “reasonable”? Pre-certification disruption? Pressure campaigns on state officials? Which lever worries you most, and which do you think people are underestimating?
Your closing line about “preparing accordingly” is exactly right, but it’s also where readers can freeze unless we help translate it. If we were actually sitting across from each other, coffee getting cold, and I asked you what preparation looks like for election officials, for courts, and for regular voters, what would you tell me to do that actually matters?
The thing that haunts me is the reminder you don’t even have to spell out: Georgia officials counted, recounted, hand-counted, and certified, and the lie still metastasized. So this isn’t just about protecting ballots. It’s about protecting reality as the referee. Once the physical proof is seized and re-narrated by power, truth becomes optional.
That’s why your piece matters so much. You’re not just sounding an alarm. You’re showing the method. And Mo Ivory’s warning makes clear this isn’t the storm. It’s the first pressure drop.
So now what do we do Jay? I already give money monthly to Mark Elias. I already call my Senators. Do I send money to the Georgia Democratic Party? Everything that's happened over the last several weeks now feels more and more like a plan. They are ratcheting up the fear step by step.
To be honest it's working. The Alex Pretti execution hit me hard. Back during the first No Kings Protest I was doing security for our Indivisible chapter. We had a minor incident where some of our members blocked traffic (which they should not have been doing). One of the drivers, a woman, who couldn't get around them got out of her car to confront the protesters - I put my self between them to keep them from coming to blows. After finally getting her back in her car, I directed traffic and walked along side her car until she cleared the area. Since Pretti was executed I have been having nightmares about it.
Thank you, I appreciate that. But I know I will volunteer to do security the next time Indivisible calls me help. My military background helps me keep everything in perspective, and I'm good at observing everything going on around me.
Trump's drunk his own Kool-aid so thoroughly that I genuinely think he believes the election was stolen, and has completely forgotten that he tried to arrange 'proof' of said theft so badly he got sued. He's so lost in his own delusions that any rationality he's ever had has long since left the crumbling building that is his brain.
We need to be ready to stop the Feds from physically taking control of the ballots and data. By court orders, election officials refusing to allow it, or people power in the streets.
the predator is terrified 1) loosing congress 2) epstein files.... no matter what he does he gets checkmated because they are absolutely inept at their jobs....
The 2020 election results were audited and proven to be correct. Lots of articles on Substack about how the 2024 election was probably rigged and multiple cybersecurity experts recommended audits with hand recounts of the physical ballots, yet nothing was ever done. The 2024 election was highly suspicious with statistically impossible results against a known liar/convicted felon. Will Tяum☭ now seize the physical 2024 ballots as well - to destroy?
There is statistical analysis using international standards to suggest there was manipulation of the vote. No audits were done in the swing states. We do not have an adequate audit system to catch vote manipulation. The fact that Trump won every swing state by a margin just high enough to avoid hand counts even Joe Biden who won 2020 had several states just at the automatic recount level but somehow Trump managed to avoid that suggest an algorithm was used please do some research on this Jay.
I respect your work and integrity highly thank you
Sorry but statistically impossible results plus some of the articles I've read are rather convincing. What we needed is/was an audit to prove that it wasn't manipulated.
Many are asking how we prepare. The first task is to become informed about what’s happening. The second is to help raise the alarm by sharing these warnings widely to your networks. The third is to insist our leaders take the threat seriously. The fourth is to demand that local officials be prepared to resist federal takeovers or seizures. The fifth is to take training courses in peaceful civil disobedience, which MLK Jr. called “self-purification” because our natural instinct when attacked is to strike back ourselves. The sixth is to join others in the streets to demand action and help shut down the country if they try to seize power illegitimately.
Jay, could the States go to the local Circuit Court of Appeals for a block on the Feds seizing ballots and machines pre-emptively? Good piece as usual!
Hard to preemptively get an injunction. Courts are limited to actual cases and controversies, so in advance of action the courts lack jurisdiction to act.
Thanks, Jay! Just one more thing to fix when we regain control.
Thanks for this. I was just going to ask.
Dem cities in Purple and Red states, send up the SOS flares! Marc Elias has been warning about this type of fed assaults on vote-processing centers since trump 2.0 kicked off, and tactics are now being perfected for 2026 midterms. All that is needed is a friendly magistrate — note the absence of a fed district judge signing off on the warrant — and there go all the ballots, machines, and processing software into the Ka$H Patel black hole. Philly, Atlanta, L.A., Charlotte, Tri-Cities, Phoenix, you name it, THEY will be coming for ya, book it. So, lawyer up, if you want Democratic votes to actually be counted and certified.
Those motions for TROs had better be ready to go…
Can there be an emergency court order arresting Patel, Gabbard & Bondi for taking these records UNLAWFULLY? And a demand to give them up (although they are probably copied)?
Also, there should be a federal law allowing:
• mail-in/absentee voting and convenient ballot boxes within a reasonable distance from someone’s house.
• Voter’s registrations should not be allowed to be purged. (They are purging 10’s of THOUSANDS of voter registrations from blue districts. See Greg Palast).
I asked Adam Schiff. Who should we contact??
Strongly suspect that NOTHING seized from Fulton Cty. voting offices will EVER see the inside of a courtroom...there are no "crimes" to be proven, there is NO evidence supporting wild charges made following the 2020 elections, as state-mandated countless recounts, examinations of raw voting data, everything and anything called into suspicion by trump and his mob of fanatics and shithouse lawyers ALL have been determined as factually false.
No, these confiscated records will serve as raw material for selected "leaks" let out to right-wing "influencers" and friendly media — e.g., FoxNews and the "new, new" CBS/Weiss News — outlets, all the way to November elections and beyond.
Subversion of the people's vote — Round 2.
I wonder if “MAGISTRATE” Catherine Salinas, who signed the warrant is a Trump supporter? WHY would she sign the warrant? What was the “probable cause?”
She is not a Trump appointed judge.
From the Georgia State Bar website:
“Catherine Salinas has been a United States Magistrate Judge in the Northern District of Georgia since 2015. A graduate of Emory University and the University of Texas School of Law, she began her legal career in 1994 at Texas Rural Legal Aid on the Mexican border. Judge Salinas returned to Atlanta in 1999 and worked as a staff attorney at the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, then as a Fulton County Public Defender, and then as a law clerk to United States District Judge Willis B. Hunt, Jr. Immediately prior to joining the judiciary, Judge Salinas was a shareholder at the national law firm Carlton Fields, where she worked for ten years as a commercial litigator. Judge Salinas is a past president of the Atlanta Legal Aid Society and currently serves a chair of the Access to Justice committee of the State Bar of Georgia.”
From U.S. courts.gov
“Magistrate judges are judicial officers of the U.S. district courts appointed by the district judges of the court to handle a variety of judicial proceedings.”
“By majority vote of the U.S. district judges of the court, magistrate judges are appointed for a renewable term of eight years.”
She could still be a Trump supporter. She’s a graduate from a school in Texas, where they tend to be Republican. Look at how Cannon bent over backwards for Trump, delaying so long they couldn’t have the trial that would have convicted him. She was repeatedly reprimanded for her unethical motions.
Thanks for the info.
She is a federal magistrate judge.
Catherine Salinas signed the warrant. What Judge would have signed this warrant after nearly 60 court cases were thrown out contesting the 2020 election? How can we look at the affidavit that based this judge’s decision to sign the warrant?
It is sealed which is routine.
We can have a court order, but only the Department of Justice can enforce it. Courts cannot enforce their own rulings.
Even if the DOJ is PART of the CORRUPTION?
Yep, that's how it works.
Sucks, but it is what it is
THESE are the very sort of things Dem leaders should be making a list of and writing a “Project 2029” so we don’t waste any time making new laws that prevent this from ever happening again! We better take care of business this time or the Dem Party is DONE! No time to drop the ball now!
Copied?? Altered, more like.
There have been around 60 court cases. Too late to alter now.
Sorry, but this is completely inaccurate. District judges rarely signed, search warrants. It is the province of the magistrate judges, pursuant to statute to review and sign search warrants. I served that role for 16 years. The FBI agent statements and support of the war warrant must be taken, is true by the judge. Therefore, if the FBI lied on the affidavit, but the lies established probable cause, the judge would have no choice, but to sign the warrant.
How can we see the “affidavit” the FBI supplied? If so many cases were thrown out of court by judges, it is likely there must have been a lie in that affidavit. I would think it would involve a little investigation before granting that warrant.
I believe this corrupt Trump regime will use those voter records for nefarious purposes.
It is usually sealed for 60 days. Govt can move for more.
Also the judge can ask questions but she must assume the statements in the affidavit are true.
With the daily CORRUPTION coming from this “REGIME” why wouldn’t one assume the affidavit contained lies? Particularly when he is desperate?
Tulsi Gabbard being there is also very problematic.
Her being there and trying to *hide* her presence is what has me concerned. Given the level of attention whoring she normally does, her NOT being front and centre means she knows damn well that this is something that could end in Epstein files levels of bad press for the Grand Old Pedophiles.
How do we prepare?
We need election officials ready with papers to file to seek TROs against any federal confiscation of voter ballots or data, for starters.
Thanks Jay. Well hopefully the election officials are now on HIGH ALERT!
My question exactly
“prepare accordingly “. Some of us are hoarse from saying this since 2015. The rest of y’all must mobilize for us to have a chance.
Trump said "find [me] 11,780 votes" so he can claim he won the 2020 election. What better way to do this than to STEAL the previously audited ballots (using his personal Department of Injustice and a corrupt Magistrate Judge) and manufacture the votes by eliminating 11,780 votes against him. But that won't be enough. His DOIJ will find "hundreds" or "thousands" or "millions" of votes against him that, in his [future] words, "never should have been counted." The goal is to falsely "prove" he was a victim of election-rigging before the mid-terms to manipulate voters in the mid-terms.
He's manipulating the Past to control the Future. In other words, it's a direct manifestation of George Orwell's warning in 1984: "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
I came here to say the same. Watch them magically find the 11,780 votes. And he claims the right to another term.
Even if they magically 'find enough votes to get him another term' ...
He's already serving his 2nd term. No president is legally, constitutionally allowed a 3rd term.
No president has been legally and constitutionally allowed to do a lot of things Trump has already done. Yet, here we are.
True 🙄
I'm sorry, but they should have been stopped by any means necessary. We've got to stop fighting with fucking paper. They are NOT going to stop.
We absolutely have to get a house majority and senate majority, even if every voter has to stand in line at the polls with their voter registration and an acceptable ID, we have to leap all the hurdles and get it done.
But that's the point. It won't matter if Democrats win the actual election if Trump's goons steal the proof (ballots, voting machines, etc) and alter them to say Republicans won.
The only way I can think of to prevent that would be to pass a law (state? federal?) that says voting materials are never (as in, until the end of time) to be allowed out of whatever secure location they are usually kept. Any recounts or examinations of those materials must be done in the presence of observers from all parties.
The problem would be getting such a law passed and tested before the election. But it seems like the only way to prevent cheating is to shine a big bright light on the whole process, and make sure there are plenty of partisan witnesses.
If we turn up in huge numbers and the polling and exit polls confirm wins across the country for Dems, he will have a much harder time claiming fraud cost him the election
By the time we get to the election, it could be too late. Passing a law--any law--to protect election results would sens loud message right now: “ We see you. We know what you're doing and what you're planning. We're watching!”
If we're quiet and take no action to disrupt his plan, his demented little brain might think he's getting away with it.
People ask what can we do. One thing we can do is reach out to every single person who needs assistance registering to vote, and then get into the polls. It’s going to take all hands on deck to accomplish that. And by the way, if the Senate passes the SAVE act, all of us with married names will probably have to prove that we’re married in order to vote because our names are different now from what they were on our birth certificate.
It sounds like this behavior makes the actual vote irrelevant.
I would like to hear more details about dictatorship than authoritarianism.
Only if we let it!
They are sowing fear to prevent many from getting in line. Getting jumped by 6 men pointing their weapons at you as they brutally bring you to the ground. Law and order, who can assist the people?
They're hurrying so we fall before the elections. It's going to be a rough year.
Jay, I want to stop right at Mo Ivory’s warning, because that sentence is the hinge everything else swings on:
“This raid and seizure of voting materials are just the beginning of the electoral chaos that will unfold in 2026.”
That isn’t rhetoric. It’s a diagnosis. And in my view, it’s the most important line in your entire piece.
Once you sit with it, really sit with it (and I have for hours now), the rest of what you lay out stops feeling like breaking news and starts feeling like early evidence. This isn’t about Fulton County in isolation. It’s about precedent. It’s about normalizing the idea that federal power can physically seize the proof of an election and call it routine. That’s the kind of move you make when you’re not trying to relitigate the past, but to control the future.
What I’ve reached to the hardest is how clearly you draw the line from narrative sabotage to physical control. We’ve endured years of lies about elections, and those were corrosive enough. But this is different. This is expensive. This is overt. This is agents, boxes, ballots, voter data. Once you cross from lying about elections to taking possession of elections, you’re no longer in the realm of disinformation. You’re in the realm of seizure.
What makes this feel even more precarious is the larger context it’s unfolding in. The Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025” manual doesn’t have to explicitly call for ballot seizures to matter here. Its core argument is that elections should be treated as a federal enforcement and national security concern, not a state-administered civic process. With dozens (31+) of its authors now embedded across the Trump administration, that worldview no longer lives on paper. It lives inside agencies, priorities, and decisions that start to feel “normal” even when they would have been unthinkable a few years ago.
As I was reading, I kept wanting to pause you and ask questions out loud, not because I doubt your analysis (I don’t), but because the implications are so enormous they demand daylight.
Starting with the warrant itself. When you say it’s extraordinarily broad and unsupported, what exactly is the alleged crime being claimed here, in plain English? What statute are they leaning on, and does that statute genuinely justify scooping up an entire warehouse of election materials? Or is this one of those situations where “everything might be evidence if we say it slowly enough”?
Then there’s the chain-of-custody problem. Once the federal government physically has ballots and voter rolls in its hands, what actually protects against contamination, selective “discoveries,” or forensic theater? Not even outright fraud — just the ability to later wave a piece of paper and say, “Look what we found,” knowing half the country will believe it because it looks official. Who enforces reality once the evidence leaves local control?
Your point about these materials already being sealed in a DOJ civil case feels enormous. How does a criminal search warrant intersect with a sealing order like that? Is this a procedural end run — a new judge and a new docket used to get around existing constraints — or something more ordinary being weaponized in an extraordinary way?
And I can’t get past the presence of the DNI. That detail is outright chilling. Why is the Director of National Intelligence physically present at an FBI evidence seizure tied to an election that’s been counted, recounted, and certified for years? Who invited her? What was her stated role? Is this about reframing election administration as “national security,” so escalation suddenly sounds prudent instead of authoritarian?
Your instinct to link this to DOJ pressure on Minnesota voter data rings absolutely true. I’m trying to understand the primary objective here. Is it the voter rolls, to manufacture “non-citizen voter” narratives? The ballots, to seed future tampering claims? Or the precedent itself, so federal seizure becomes normalized and states hesitate to resist next time? If you had to name the central aim, which explanation best fits what we’re seeing?
And then there’s 2026. Because Mo Ivory’s warning isn’t really about Georgia. It’s about what comes next. If you sketch this forward just a little, what do you see as the most likely operational uses of this seizure after the midterms? A propaganda runway to make challenges feel “reasonable”? Pre-certification disruption? Pressure campaigns on state officials? Which lever worries you most, and which do you think people are underestimating?
Your closing line about “preparing accordingly” is exactly right, but it’s also where readers can freeze unless we help translate it. If we were actually sitting across from each other, coffee getting cold, and I asked you what preparation looks like for election officials, for courts, and for regular voters, what would you tell me to do that actually matters?
The thing that haunts me is the reminder you don’t even have to spell out: Georgia officials counted, recounted, hand-counted, and certified, and the lie still metastasized. So this isn’t just about protecting ballots. It’s about protecting reality as the referee. Once the physical proof is seized and re-narrated by power, truth becomes optional.
That’s why your piece matters so much. You’re not just sounding an alarm. You’re showing the method. And Mo Ivory’s warning makes clear this isn’t the storm. It’s the first pressure drop.
So now what do we do Jay? I already give money monthly to Mark Elias. I already call my Senators. Do I send money to the Georgia Democratic Party? Everything that's happened over the last several weeks now feels more and more like a plan. They are ratcheting up the fear step by step.
To be honest it's working. The Alex Pretti execution hit me hard. Back during the first No Kings Protest I was doing security for our Indivisible chapter. We had a minor incident where some of our members blocked traffic (which they should not have been doing). One of the drivers, a woman, who couldn't get around them got out of her car to confront the protesters - I put my self between them to keep them from coming to blows. After finally getting her back in her car, I directed traffic and walked along side her car until she cleared the area. Since Pretti was executed I have been having nightmares about it.
Thank you, I appreciate that. But I know I will volunteer to do security the next time Indivisible calls me help. My military background helps me keep everything in perspective, and I'm good at observing everything going on around me.
One crisis to the next!
Trump's drunk his own Kool-aid so thoroughly that I genuinely think he believes the election was stolen, and has completely forgotten that he tried to arrange 'proof' of said theft so badly he got sued. He's so lost in his own delusions that any rationality he's ever had has long since left the crumbling building that is his brain.
Prepare accordingly. Which is how?
We need to be ready to stop the Feds from physically taking control of the ballots and data. By court orders, election officials refusing to allow it, or people power in the streets.
Would that also include Democratic governors calling out their National Guard units and positioning them around county election offices?
Those election officials “refusing to allow it” are going to need strength, courage, and support.
the predator is terrified 1) loosing congress 2) epstein files.... no matter what he does he gets checkmated because they are absolutely inept at their jobs....
Yeah, but once on the losing end they will whack their opponents (us) over the head with the chess board. That is who they are.
truth to that
The 2020 election results were audited and proven to be correct. Lots of articles on Substack about how the 2024 election was probably rigged and multiple cybersecurity experts recommended audits with hand recounts of the physical ballots, yet nothing was ever done. The 2024 election was highly suspicious with statistically impossible results against a known liar/convicted felon. Will Tяum☭ now seize the physical 2024 ballots as well - to destroy?
There is no credible proof of a rigging of the 2024 election. And the allegation, sadly, plays into their hands.
There is statistical analysis using international standards to suggest there was manipulation of the vote. No audits were done in the swing states. We do not have an adequate audit system to catch vote manipulation. The fact that Trump won every swing state by a margin just high enough to avoid hand counts even Joe Biden who won 2020 had several states just at the automatic recount level but somehow Trump managed to avoid that suggest an algorithm was used please do some research on this Jay.
I respect your work and integrity highly thank you
Exactly!
Sorry but statistically impossible results plus some of the articles I've read are rather convincing. What we needed is/was an audit to prove that it wasn't manipulated.
https://open.substack.com/pub/cat4truth/p/chronicling-the-evidence-an-illegal?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&shareImageVariant=overlay&r=ogbcn