Will America continue to be a democratic republic, or will it deteriorate into a banana republic? That depends on whether liberal activist judges are able to impose their will:

An Illinois state judge has kicked former President Donald Trump off the Illinois’ Republican presidential primary ballot due to his alleged role in the January 6 Capitol riots.

His role was to encourage supporters to protest “peacefully and patriotically” against election tampering.

Cook County Circuit Judge Tracie Porter ruled in favor of Illinois voters who argued Trump should be disqualified from the state’s mid-March primary ballot, as well as the November 5 general election ballot.

As Chicago succumbs to the Democrat Death Spiral, the maelstrom has pulled down Cook County and Illinois and affects the whole country.

Few reasonable people believe there was an actual insurrection, much less that Trump took part in it. But you don’t have to be reasonable to have been placed in a position to wield power from the bench.

According to militant Democrats, allowing people to vote for their chief opponent would constitute a threat to democracy — or rather, to “Our Democracy.”

Allow Joe Biden’s handlers to appoint enough Supreme Court justices and rulings like Porter’s will stand — hence their interest in stacking the court.

These Jacobins are without principle or shame. The American political system will not survive unless they are reined in.

On tips from Bluto and Varla.

As recently as 2008, the pernicious not to mention blasphemous concept of homosexual marriage was rejected by the public even in California. So it was imposed by gay California judge Vaughn Walker and then by left-wing social engineers on the Supreme Court. With the help of the media, this top-down revolutionary change is now at least superficially supported. Now on to the next agenda item — using public schools to submerse children in LGBT indoctrination and explicit homosexual pornography:

A federal judge in Iowa on Friday blocked a law intended to keep sexually explicit books out of schools and prevent elementary school students from being taught gender ideology in the classroom.

To be “taught gender ideology” entails grooming the most vulnerable children for recruitment into the dysfunctional LGBT community.

Judge Stephen Locher, appointed by President Joe Biden, ruled that an Iowa law, approved by Republican Governor Kim Reynolds earlier this year, was “unreasonable” and “puritanical.”

Being puritanical is encouraged in the context of adhering to political correctness. But when it comes to moral decency, puritanism is to be eradicated.

As Reynolds observes,

“Instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation has no place in kindergarten through sixth grade classrooms. And there should be no question that books containing sexually explicit content — as clearly defined in Iowa law — do not belong in a school library for children,” she said. “The fact that we’re even arguing these issues is ridiculous. The real debate should be about why society is so intent on over-sexualizing our young children.”

We know why: because the depraved sexual corruption of children is a core aspect of the liberal agenda. The question is how to stop them.

On a tip from MrRightWingDave.

Buckle up well in advance; the 2024 elections are going to be a rocky ride. What Democrats get away with, they will double down on. When it comes to election fraud, they have been getting away with a lot — especially in locales where they have achieved single-party rule. Even before the highly dubious 2020 election, Democrat cheating was getting out of control:

Detroit is the quintessential example of the Democrat Death Spiral. The erstwhile Paris of the Midwest was once the wealthiest city in the USA per capita. Now, it is a dysfunctional hellhole subsisting on federal welfare that is no more likely to hold fair elections that some tinpot Third World dictatorship. This was accomplished through liberal policy and demographic displacement. Look to Detroit if you want to know what Democrats have planned for the rest of the country.

On a tip from Wiggins.

If you are going to take part in an “insurrection” under our two-tiered system of justice, it is very important that you do it in the name of a cause approved by our masters. There was only one arrest when pro-Hamas demonstrators attacked the White House. No one is likely to be hunted down for participating in the previous pro-Hamas insurrection at the Capitol — or Rashida Tlaib wouldn’t be scuttling around loose. But complain about election fraud and they will hunt you down:

Gregory Yetman, the man wanted for his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection [sic] – and who sparked a two-day search across the woods of New Jersey – surrendered to authorities Friday morning and is now in custody, the FBI said. …

Yetman had been subject of a manhunt since about 9 a.m. Wednesday. He fled into the woods near his home when local officers and agents attempted to serve him with an arrest warrant, the FBI said.

Knowing what happened to Theodore Deschler and Craig Robertson, you might run off into the woods too.

On Thursday, the FBI issued a “Wanted” poster for him, citing several federal charges including assault on officers, obstructing law enforcement and physical violence on the grounds of the Capitol. The FBI also set a $10,000 reward for information leading to Yetman’s arrest.

Here’s what they mean by “assault on officers”:

In videos from Jan. 6, a man identified as suspect #278 AFO can be seen picking up a large canister of pepper spray from the ground and spraying it toward Capitol police and protesters. AFO stands for “Assault on a Federal Officer.”

Certainly assaulting law officers should not be left unpunished. But try to imagine manhunts and $10,000 rewards for the numberless Black Lives Matter hooligans who assaulted police, resulting in over 2,000 actual injuries.

Yetman told USA TODAY earlier this year the FBI interviewed him in January 2021. At the time, he said he has never heard from the bureau since. “Everything’s been resolved, everything’s good,” he said.

However, the definition of “insurrectionist” has expanded under the Biden Regime. Before long it will cover every American not registered as a Democrat.

More than 1,000 people have been arrested for allegedly participating in the protest against election fraud that got out of hand on 1/6/01.

This is called being proactive. The Powers That Be do not want us questioning the results next November if they have to put their thumb on the scale.

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.

Democrats shoot frightening hate rays out their eyes while growling ominously about the “election deniers” who are “threats to democracy” because they smelled a rat during the rigged 2020 election. Meanwhile, they have replaced Nancy Pelosi with a new top House Democrat, Hakeem Jeffries, who ran for the position unopposed. Jeffries is an election denier:

Jeffries has denied the results of the 2016 presidential election at least nine times on social media.

For example:

Then again, election denial might make Jeffries the ideal candidate to lead the Democratic Party, which is well known for denying the legitimacy of elections it loses:

This does not make Democrats threats to democracy, because by “democracy,” they mean “Democrat rule.” That is why it is okay for them to aggressively promote election fraud, as seen in stories like these:

• AOC Sums Up Importance of HR1

• Biden Wants to Count the Votes

• Democrats Plan to Make Elections Even Worse

• Dems Pull Out All Stops to Fight Election Integrity

• Elizabeth Warren’s Youth Voting Rights Act

• HR1/S1 Will Reduce American Elections to Farce

• Michigan Secretary of State Fights to Facilitate Fraud

• Now Election Integrity Oppresses Transsexuals

• Reaction to Georgia Confirms Democrats Rely on Fraud

• Ted Cruz on the Ultimate Democrat Power Grab

On a tip from TCS III.

It used to be we learned election results on election night. Now we have to wait for the authorities to jigger the results. What we do know already is that the #1 reason Democrats presented for us to vote for them despite the mess they have been making of the country only resonated with Kool-Aid-guzzling true believers who will vote Democrat no matter what. No one outside the MSNBC/CNN core audience believes that the guy in the buffalo costume on January 6 represents an ongoing threat to democracy:

After reading exit polling suggesting that skyrocketing inflation is voters’ top concern, CNN lamented that voters are more worried about the rising cost of groceries and gas than leftists’ “threat to democracy” lies. “You know what’s missing from this one, two, three, four, five, top five issues? Democracy. It’s not even here. That’s not to say it’s not an issue for people but it doesn’t even come close,” CNN’s Dana Bash whined during her network’s election night coverage.

As Kylee Griswold remarks,

It’s not shocking that “democracy” doesn’t crack the top list of issues on the minds of voters, who care far more about how much it cost them in gas money just to get to their polling place and what gender-bending nonsense their kids could be learning in math class at the very moment they were casting their ballots. What is shocking is that the media elites nestled inside the Acela Corridor and D.C. Beltway ever thought Americans were buying the “democracy under threat” propaganda they were selling.

This leaves support for abortion and chicanery as the only reasons Democrats could prevail in light of the inflation and recession they have caused and the ongoing invasion across the southern border.

Regarding the latter, the Democrat candidate for Governor of Arizona Katie Hobbs is a screechy moonbat who would not even debate her opponent Kari Lake, but who is the current Secretary of State, responsible for overseeing the conduct of elections. This has turned out as you might expect:

Democrats tend to vote in advance, Republicans on election day. This may explain why over 25% of polling locations in Maricopa County had problems with vote tabulation machines. In response, Republicans filed an emergency lawsuit to extend voting hours, but a judge shot it down.

It is a cliché because it is true: whatever Democrats accuse their opponents of, they are guilty of themselves. Their opposition to voter integrity indicates that this applies to being a threat to democracy.

On tips from Blackjack, TCS III, Wiggins, Varla, and Anonymous.

Democrats make obvious their reliance on election fraud by steadfastly opposing even the most basic election integrity measures, such as the no brainer requirement to provide identification. For years, we have been told that this is racist, as if blacks lacked the intelligence to acquire ID, which is required to do pretty much anything. Rather than admitting that their argument is absurd, leftists have expanded it to include the Cultural Marxist oppressed victim group du jour, transsexuals:

Voter ID laws can also create problems for trans people in particular, who might change their names and gender presentations as part of their transitions, and updating their IDs would require them to also legally change their names and potentially their gender markers.

Pretending to be a member of the opposite sex has its drawbacks, a reasonable person might observe.

A less reasonable person might respond that the many must always sacrifice else the tiny minority endure a lived experience of oppression. If election integrity poses the slightest inconvenience to men who insist on pretending to be women, then it would be transphobic to insist on fair elections.

You might feel that voting is important enough that people should provide ID like they do to buy beer. If so, you are not only a threat to democracy, but a hater of oppressed transsexuals. Expect no mercy; you will be canceled.

On a tip from Franco.

Biden doubled down on his appalling Nuremberg rally on Satan’s lawn speech with a vicious Labor Day speech, during which he continued to denounce his political opposition as a threat to democracy that presumably must be dealt with decisively. The administration is on a war footing against more than half of the American population.

The argument is that those who oppose Biden threaten our system of government by raising questions about the 2020 election, during which Democrats engaged in documented widespread tampering. Anyone who casts doubt on election results is an “insurrectionist,” as much a menace to society as the Buffalo Guy from January 6.

But only when Democrats win. When Democrats lose, claiming the election was illegitimate is standard operating procedure.

Take congresscritter Jamie Raskin (D-MD), for example:

Raskin suggested the Republican Party, especially the faction that supports Donald Trump, has evolved into a “fascist political party.”

The talking point that Republicans are “fascist” or “semifascist” comes straight from the top of the party.

“Two of the hallmarks of a fascist political party are: One, they don’t accept the results of elections that don’t go their way; and, two, they embrace political violence,” Raskin said.

The Democratic Party openly encouraged the hundreds of violent Black Lives Matter riots that scarred America in 2020. The current vice president even raised funds to bail rioters out jail so that they could resume their criminal behavior.

In contrast, there has been only one right-wing riot in recent memory. It was less destructive than the average BLM riot, and the media has been hard put to find Republicans who supported it.

As for elections,

Raskin has described George W. Bush as a “court-appointed president” who was not rightfully elected. …

Raskin was one of several House Democratic lawmakers who objected to the certification of Trump’s Electoral College victory in January 2017.

He is hardly alone among Democrats. Sit back, relax, and enjoy 10 minutes straight of sore loser Dems rejecting the legitimacy of elections they lost:

Karine Jean-Pierre has publicly proclaimed that Trump stole the election he won in 2016 and that Georgia Governor Brian Kemp did so in 2018. Now she is spokesmoonbat for a regime that claims questioning election results is so beyond the pale as to justify demonization.

Peter Doocy asked her to explain the discrepancy and received nothing but moronic duckspeak in response:

Let’s note once again, lest liars like Jean-Pierre succeed in their gaslighting, that the only person who died by violence at the Capitol on 1/6/21 was Ashli Babbitt, who was executed in cold blood by Michael Byrd of the Capitol Police. Despite having committed murder in public, Byrd was never prosecuted. The liberal establishment media has provided him with a soapbox from which to praise himself for “saving lives” by shooting an unarmed woman who was no threat to anyone.

On tips from Varla, Blackjack, Chuck A, and TCS III.

If you liked the 2020 election for its integrity, you will love 2022 and 2024, now that Democrats have settled on election fraud as a key component of their election strategy, and can silence anyone who complains by shrieking about “insurrection.”

Hans von Spakovsky reports that in the key swing state Michigan, the Public Interest Legal Foundation sent Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson a list of all deceased registrants who were still on the voter rolls less than 2 months before the 2020 election.

Of those nearly 26,000 Michigan residents, 23,663 had been dead for at least five years, 17,479 had been dead for at least a decade and, astonishingly, 3,956 had been dead for at least two decades, yet they were still listed as registered voters in the state.

Benson refused to remove the dead voters, despite being legally obligated to do so under Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act. Her spokeswoman denounced efforts to get her to clean up the rolls as an attempt to “undermine American democracy.”

Good news:

[A] federal court has turned down Benson’s motion to throw out a lawsuit filed against her for refusing to remove almost 26,000 dead voters from Michigan voters rolls.

Progress toward free and fair elections does not come easily with Democrats in charge. The situation is similar in another key swing state:

In 2021, a similar lawsuit was filed by the Public Interest Legal Foundation in Pennsylvania and ultimately the commonwealth agreed to settle the case and remove the deceased registrants from its voter rolls. But as in Michigan, organizations like the legal foundation should not have to file a lawsuit to get a state to do what it should have been doing all along.

You cannot expect Democrat officials to act in good faith. “By any means necessary” is their creed. The price of liberty is not only eternal vigilance but also eternal lawsuits to get their thumb off the scale.

On a tip from Lyle.

A gaffe has been defined as a politician accidentally telling the truth. Joe Biden commits more of them than other swamp creatures, due to a low IQ exacerbated by senile dementia. In the video below, he admits that someone has been stealing elections:

If Democrats are able to ram through their election reforms, they will never need to steal another election, since the winners will be preordained.

On a tip from Occam’s Stubble.

We are all born Democrats: whiny, dependent, and entitled. As Ronald Reagan put it, we have “a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.” Unfortunately for the Democratic Party, most of us grow out of this. That’s why Elizabeth Warren has proposed the “Youth Voting Rights Act,” so called so that opponents can be characterized as opposing youth and voting rights.

The legislation would require states to establish pre-registration voting processes for 16 and 17 year olds, and let states expand their pre-registration processes to youth younger than 16.

The next step will be progressively lowering the voting age, which could never be low enough to suit Democrats — unless you count unborn babies, which they never do.

Like most election legislation proposed by Democrats, a major purpose is to facilitate fraud:

The bill would also mandate that colleges and universities have on-campus polling places and order that states accept student IDs to meet voter-identification requirements in federal elections.

The looser the ID requirements, the more fraud. That’s why the Biden Regime bitterly opposes an Arizona requirement for voters to prove they are citizens.

Also in the bill, in addition to the usual wasteful spending on foolish make-work programs, is a provision to extend “the Voting Rights Act’s protections against durational residency requirements and absentee voting limitations to all federal elections.” This will likely make it easier for students to vote twice, from both at home and at school.

Students will be among the last groups to give up on the Democratic Party. Until they leave school, they have absorbed a gallon of indoctrination for every drop of real world experience. It is no surprise Democrats want to count more of their votes.

On a tip from Jack D.

Democrats are dropping the pretense of being anything other than thugs intent on destroying our country in order to achieve absolute power:

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is suing the state of Arizona, seeking to block a law that would force residents to provide proof of citizenship in order to vote in federal elections.

Instead of expelling illegal aliens in accordance with the law, instead of making any sincere effort to keep them out of the country, instead of refraining from treasonously encouraging them to invade, the federal government is using them to cancel the votes of American citizens.

The point of allowing illegal aliens to vote in our elections is that they will vote against the interests of Americans by electing Democrats, who will confiscate our money and give it to them in the form of welfare and social services, while leaving the border open, drawing in ever more of them to displace us.

Meanwhile,

Biden issued an executive order on March 7, 2021, directing all 600 federal agencies to submit a plan to the White House to increase voter registration and turnout. Many agencies subsequently developed a plan to turn federal facilities, particularly those that deliver federal benefits, into voter registration agencies.

For example, Housing and Urban Development is trying to turn assisted housing centers into get-out-the-vote hubs. Health and Human Services is doing the same with its public health centers. Even as labor problems are out of control, the Department of Labor is turning its American Job Centers into voter registration agencies.

The agencies are allowed to work with voting groups approved by left-wing partisans in the White House…

It isn’t enough to import illegal aliens and enable them to vote. Democrats need to spend taxpayer dollars driving them to the polls.

The Biden Regime is not just political opposition. It is America’s enemy.

On tips from Ed McAninch and Blackjack.

Mollie Hemingway wrote the book on Democrat election fraud in the 2020 election. She sounds the alarm that worse is on the way:

Biden really does not want the public to know about his federal takeover of election administration. Dozens of members of Congress have repeatedly asked for details, to no avail. Good government groups, members of the media, and private citizens have filed requests under the Freedom of Information Act. Not a single one has been responded to. All signs indicate a concerted effort to keep the public in the dark until at least after the November midterm elections. The lack of transparency and responsiveness is so bad that the Department of Justice and some of its agencies have been repeatedly sued for the information.

Democrats tried to seize control of elections at the federal level in violation of the Constitution through legislation, but couldn’t get the votes because a total of two Democrat Senators (Kyrsten Sinema, Joe Manchin) were squeamish about reducing the USA to a banana republic. So the mission will be accomplished more furtively.

Although Democrat plans to lay a heavy thumb on the scale for the November elections are mostly top secret, a few details are known, including:

• In the midst of a labor crisis, the Department of Labor boasted that it was turning 2,300 American Job Centers previously focused on helping displaced workers find jobs into hubs of political activism. These new federally funded voter registration agencies were given guidance about how to bring in organizations to conduct “voter outreach.”

• The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services likewise announced plans to turn community health centers into voter registration agencies, using thousands of health care facilities to focus on voter registration and turnout.

• The Housing and Urban Development Department sent notice to public housing authorities that they should begin voter registration drives and participation activities. Previously, officials had been barred from electoral activities because they receive federal funding.

• “It is presumed residents of public housing might disproportionately vote Democrat. … The executive order targets people receiving government benefits who might think their benefits depend on one party in power,” Stewart Whitson, legal director for the Foundation for Government Accountability, told the Daily Signal.

• The Department of Education sent “dear colleague” letters to universities, telling them that Federal Work Study funds could now be used to support voter registration activities, contrary to previous guidance. The change was made without having gone through any rulemaking process to allow the change.

• The U.S. Department of Agriculture said it’s using its child nutrition programs to push voter registration and enlisting state, local, and federally funded employees to implement voter registration drives in local schools.

For the federal government to spend our money on Democrat get out the vote drives is blatantly corrupt. The aspects of the plan that have been kept secret are doubtless far worse. But by the time courts can do anything about it, the election will be over. Anyone who complains will be accused of “conspiracy theories” and “insurrection.”

Given how dramatically they have lowered our standard of living just since Biden took office, if Democrats are to stay in power, they will have to cheat at levels that will make the 2020 election look fair by comparison.

On a tip from Blackjack.