January 3, 2021 -- Trump orders the Georgia Sec. of State to “find” votes to overturn the election
January 4, 2021 – PA Senate Republicans do Trump’s bidding and write a letter to Congress urging them to object to the state’s votes.
January 5, 2021 – PA Senate Republicans refuse to seat a senator who won the election in November . Republicans rally on the Capitol steps demanding to overturn the election.
January 5, 2021 – Seth Grove announces 14 SGC hearings on how elections are conducted. No formal schedule of speakers is provided
January 6, 2021 – Pennsylvania Republicans including Doug Mastriano are there as insurrectionists invade the Capitol to overturn the election . Donald Trump spoke to the crowd: Republican congresspeople still vote against certifying the votes.
January 7, 2021 – One of Trump’s lawyers who argued unsuccessfully about access to watch vote counts in Philadelphia quits Team Trump saying the president’s actions were “repugnant” and his services were used “to perpetrate a crime ”
January 11, 2021 – the U.S. Supreme Court refuses to fast-track remaining Trump/Republican legal challenges to PA election results related to the cases cited earlier in this timeline
January 15, 2021 – the right-wing news website American Thinker issues the following apology and retraction of lies about election fraud related to Dominion voting machines “ These statements are completely false and have no basis in fact.”
January 16, 2021 – NBC News does a national story on the role Pennsylvania Republican election lies played in the deadly riots
January 17, 2021 – The Philadelphia Inquirer covers the role of the PA GOP in the riots
January 19, 2021 – More national news coverage of the PA Republican election lies https://popular.info/p/corporations-expand-donation-freeze ?
January 19, 2021 – Senator Mitch McConnell says “The mob was fed lies. They were provoked by the president and other powerful people.”
January 21, 2021 – PA Spotlight reveals PA Senate Republicans spent $1.04 million in taxpayer dollars trying to overturn the election and throw out votes
January 21, 2021 – Sen. Doug Mastriano – last publicly seen outside the US Capitol on 1/6 – introduces a bill to end Vote-by-Mail
January 21, 2021 – The first of the PA House GOP SGC hearings begin as Sec. of State Boockvar pushes back on GOP grandstanding
January 22, 2021 – Infamous Rudy Giuliani witness and former Dominion Voting Systems screen cleaner Melissa Carone announces she will parlay her 15 minutes of fame into a run for the Michigan legislature
January 23, 2021 – The “PA Lawmaker” who helped Donald Trump try to replace key officials at the Department of Justice with Trump loyalists is revealed to be Congressman Scott Perry
January 25, 2021 -- Dominion Voting Systems sues Rudy Giuliani for $1.3 BILLION in damages over his election fraud lies
January 25, 2021 -- Congressman Scott Perry admits he met with Trump to remove DoJ officials to overturn the election
January 26, 2021 – the Brennan Center begins cataloguing the Republican attacks on voting rights nationwide
January 27, 2021 – Spotlight PA on the financial connection between Republican donors and the attack on the Capitol – and the attack on PA voting rights.
January 27, 2021 – The Capitol Police release the horrific injury report from the January 6th attack on the Capitol fueled by Republican lies about the election
January 28, 2021 – Reporters are holding the GOP accountable for their lies “The insurrection was the culmination of a lie that was allowed to fester and grow. A lie that was pushed by several Republican members of Pennsylvania’s congressional delegation and by many in the state legislature. To be clear, all the false claims about Pennsylvania’s results were attacks on the truth. On democracy. ”
January 29, 2021 – World news coverage of attacks on voting rights, and Republicans have us as the worst in America. “Pennsylvania has 14 pending proposals for new voter restrictions, the most in the country.”
January 29, 2021 – The New York Times on how PA Republicans are still all-in on Trump’s lies that led to the attacks.
January 30, 2021 – The New York Times “Now, in statehouses nationwide, Republicans who echoed former President Donald J. Trump’s baseless claims of rampant fraud are proposing to make it harder to vote next time — ostensibly to convince the very voters who believed them that elections can be trusted again.”
January 31, 2021 – The Associated Press Republican lawmakers in statehouses across the country are moving swiftly to attack some of the voting methods that fueled the highest turnout for a presidential election in 50 years.
January 31, 2021 – How the Trump/Republican attacks on our elections affected America
February 4, 2021 – After Trump Failed to Overturn the 2020 Election, Republicans are Trying to Steal the Next One – focusing on Georgia, but talking about the same attempts to suppress the vote being used in PA.
February 7, 2021 – How Republicans are changing the rules to end democracy
February 8, 2021 – “Republicans have for the past two decades worked to restrict voter access, instituting voter ID laws, shortening early voting periods and purging inactive voters from registration rolls. Often, state lawmakers said these measures were necessary to prevent widespread voter fraud, despite a lack of evidence. Now, many Republican lawmakers cite a new reason for restrictive laws: the lack of voter confidence in the integrity of U.S. elections, which Trump has fomented since he entered politics.”
February 11, 2021 – House Democrats demand answers. Capital-Star reports “Dozens of Republican lawmakers in Harrisburg — including members of GOP leadership — signed letters after the Nov. 3 election objecting to the state’s election results. Some even spread misinformation about voter fraud and legally dubious theories of how to overturn the results.
Only one has publicly admitted to attending the Capitol march — state Sen. Doug Mastriano, R-Franklin.”
February 11, 2021 – ABC27 News covers the GOP’s silence about their extremist members’ role in the riots. “There’s no other way to say it – they were spreading lies”
February 11, 2021 -- Why are Republicans trying to make it harder to vote?
"Because their candidate, former President Donald Trump, lost PA by more than 80,000 votes to President Joe Biden, many of those lawmakers want to restrict voting access."
February 11, 2021 -- “It’s time to fight.” It’s time to rip and claw” “You can fight back” – The New York Times on how right-wing talk radio fueled the riots
February 12, 2021 Two Republicans out of the dozens who lied start to feel a bit of remorse.
February 14, 2021 -- Why not just do away with elections altogether and just have the legislature pick all of our elected officials?" Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs said sarcastically. "Republican legislatures across the country are responding to what's being called the most secure election in U.S. history by pushing new laws that make voting significantly more difficult,"
February 15, 2021 -- The New York Times G.O.P. legislators, dozens of whom supported overturning the state’s election results to aid former President Donald J. Trump, are moving to change the entire way that judges are selected in Pennsylvania , in a gambit that could tip the scales of the judiciary to favor their party, or at least elect judges more inclined to embrace Republican election challenges.
February 17, 2021 – Republicans expand bureaucracy and waste tax dollars with yet another commission to find ways to prevent people from voting.
February 18, 2021 – More than $5 million in taxpayer dollars have been wasted filing and defending Republican lawsuits trying to overturn the election .
February 19, 2021 – Frank Ryan goes on One America News Network – Trump’s preferred new network of choice – to repeat the same debunked lies and suggest it’s a bad thing you can’t re-do an election. Ryan then goes on to praise Josh Hawley who helped to start the Capitol riot. The host accuses Democrats of hiding something and Ryan agrees
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February 27, 2021 – Republicans nationwide are putting up barriers to voting to drive down turnout
February 28, 2021 – Donald Trump calls on states like PA to suppress the vote
March 1, 2021 – Rudy Giuliani is banned from YouTube – again – for repeating election lies
March 2, 2021 – New York Times Opinion “Those who seek to impede others from voting, in some cases to strip them of the right, often say that they are doing so to ensure the sanctity, integrity or purity of the vote.”
March 2, 2021 – Right-wing commentator Josh Bernstein says Trump didn’t go far enough and “I want to make it harder to vote in America”
March 2, 2021 – Republicans say the quiet part out loud again
March 4, 2021 – Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren issues a report on all the social media lies about the election told by Members of Congress leading to the insurrection.
March 11, 2021 – Half of all registered Republicans agree with the lies about the election and with the PA Congressional Delegation voting to overturn the election for Trump on the day of the riot.
March 12, 2021 – Trump’s Secretary of Defense blames Trump for inciting the riot – rioters who gathered there thanks to the Big Lie repeated by PA Republicans
March 16, 2021 – One of out TEN people arrested at the attack on the Capitol are Pennsylvanians – the impact of the GOP’s lies
March 17, 2021 – The most radical anti-American, anti-Democracy Republicans aren’t in Washington, they’re in state houses like Harrisburg’s
March 22, 2021 – Lancaster Newspapers call out the Republican attack on democracy and say it’s time to make it easier, not harder, to vote
March 22, 2021 – Donald Trump’s lawyer admits she was lying about election fraud
March 24, 2021 – The Republican Majority Leader of the Idaho House of Representatives says the quiet part out loud again “Voting shouldn’t be easy”
March 25, 2021 – Georgia fires the first shot in the post-Trump attack on democracy The new law imposes new voter identification requirements for absentee ballots, empowers state officials to take over local elections boards, limits the use of ballot drop boxes and makes it a crime to approach voters in line to give them food and water.
March 26, 2021 – Anti-democracy laws being pushed by Republicans nationwide are being bankrolled by the Heritage Foundation and ALEC
April 6, 2021 – How QAnon is a product of Republican lies about the election
April 7, 2021 – Kris Kobach, former Trump “voter fraud” expert and current fraudster scamming local governments of our taxpayer dollars by pushing unconstitutional voting laws he then charges to defend, is wined and dined by the PA GOP and consults on their voter-suppression laws.
April 13, 2021 – Republicans wasted millions of taxpayer dollars on legal challenges to the election – with zero proof of any actual problems with the election – and forced the state to spend even more taxpayer dollars to defend against the GOP.
April 16, 2021 – Republicans wrap up their tax-dollar-wasting 10-hearing-long kangaroo court by deciding it’s time to bring back unconstitutional Voter ID laws.
April 17, 2021 – GOP State Government Committee Chairman Seth Grove lies ““I personally never doubted Joe Biden or the outcome of the election,” Grove said.
April 21, 2021 – GOP State Government Committee Chairman Seth Grove lies about voter fraud, lies about his lies leading to Jan. 6, lies about Voter ID . (then he tried to walk back the one thing he did tell the truth about – that the only voter fraud was a few Republicans trying to vote twice for Trump.)
April 23, 2021 – The GOP’s lies could lead to another attempt to overthrow the government , says federal law enforcement.
April 28, 2021 – Capitol Insurrection Attendee Doug Mastriano is all-in on appearing at a QAnon conference to spread more election lies
May 1, 2021 – Capitol Insurrection Attendee Doug Mastriano wants you to hang out with Rudy Giuliani
May 2, 2021 – the Washington Post goes national with a story about Harrisburg’s WITF refusing to let the elected Republicans who lied about the election get away with it.
May 2, 2021 – GOP State Government Committee Chairman Seth Grove lays out the Republican plan to make it harder for you to vote in the name of “election integrity”
May 3, 2021 – 38 Pennsylvanians have been arrested so far thanks to the right-wing extremists in the PA House and Senate who lied about the election and inspired an attack on the Capitol
May 3, 2021 – Republicans on the PA State Government Committee launch another attack on constitutional checks and balances by demanding to let the GOP majority write all ballot questions in the future
May 3, 2021 – The people agree it’s time to stop foreign interference in elections, take “dark money” out of campaigns and make it easier to vote – until Republicans lie about it all.
May 4, 2021 – A Pennsylvanian is convicted of in-person voter fraud! It’s a Republican who impersonated his dead mother to vote for Trump and admits “I listened to too much propaganda and made a stupid mistake.” The system works.
May 7, 2021 – The only unforgivable sin in Republican politics? Not standing with Trump’s lies about the election.
May 7, 2021 – Republicans demand Voter ID and making it harder to vote before they’ll consider helping county election boards.
May 10, 2021 – Just what was Senator Doug Mastriano doing at the Capitol invasion?
May 12, 2021 – New footage is released of Trump supporters – inspired by the lies of elected PA Republicans – savagely beating police officers during the attack on the Capitol
May 14, 2021 – A man accused of murdering his wife also used her name to vote for Trump “Because the other guys are cheating.”
May 15, 2021 – Elected Republicans lying about the election are hurting…Republicans
May 21, 2021 – Stories about the Arizona “audit” reveal Sens. Mastriano and Judy Ward demanded an audit of Fulton County PA’s election by the same groups botching the Arizona audit
May 25, 2021 – GOP Rep. Dan Moul wants to end drop boxes and curtail vote-by-mail
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I will soon be introducing a package of bills that will secure and improve the elections process in Pennsylvania. There is no question that the administration of the 2020 General Election has left many Pennsylvanians distrustful due to a lack of transparency, security, and reasonable safeguards against any fraud. It is our duty as the General Assembly to restore confidence in this process.
The bills being introduced would enhance and clarify safeguards already in place under the bipartisan Act 77 reforms; importantly, however, these changes would prevent any administrative or judicial undermining of those safeguards similar to what was experienced this year.
- Bill A (Scannable Ballot Verification) will require the creation and use of a secure ballot verification system, ensuring that each ballot counted is legitimate and has not previously been counted. With a unique, scannable bar codes that cannot be used to identify voters, Pennsylvanians will be reassured that only legitimate ballots are counted.
Description: I will soon be introducing a package of bills that will secure and improve the elections process in Pennsylvania. There is no question that the administration of the 2020 General Election has left many Pennsylvanians distrustful due to a lack of transparency, security, and reasonable safeguards against any fraud. It is our duty as the General Assembly to restore confidence in this process.
The bills being introduced would enhance and clarify safeguards already in place under the bipartisan Act 77 reforms; importantly, however, these changes would prevent any administrative or judicial undermining of those safeguards similar to what was experienced this year.
- Bill B (Ballot Return Methods) will clarify the only legal ways for a voter to utilize the vote by mail system. This bill will remove any alleged ambiguities in the current provision to clearly stipulate that a mail in ballot must be returned by the voter, either through the United States Postal Service, or in person to an official or employee of the county elections board at a permanent elections office.
This bill will ensure that all mail-in ballots are returned as intended under Act 77. A voter returning their ballot in person must sign the Declaration of the Voter in the presence of the county board of elections employee or official in order to ensure compliance with the law. This clarification will provide valuable reassurance to all voters that each mail-in ballot is securely and legally returned prior to being counted.
Description: I will soon be introducing a package of bills that will secure and improve the elections process in Pennsylvania. There is no question that the administration of the 2020 General Election has left many Pennsylvanians distrustful due to a lack of transparency, security, and reasonable safeguards against any fraud. It is our duty as the General Assembly to restore confidence in this process.
The bills being introduced would enhance and clarify safeguards already in place under the bipartisan Act 77 reforms; importantly, however, these changes would prevent any administrative or judicial undermining of those safeguards similar to what was experienced this year.
- Bill C (8 pm Election Day Deadline) will ensure that the clear and explicit deadline already provided by the Pennsylvania Election Code for the receipt of mail-in or absentee ballots can never again be waived off by administrative or judicial fiat. This bill will clarify that, notwithstanding any emergency order, public health crisis, or other unexpected event, all mail-in or absentee ballots must be received by 8 pm on Election Day. This simple bill will improve the confidence all Pennsylvanians may have in the integrity of our elections system.
Description: I will soon be introducing a package of bills that will secure and improve the elections process in Pennsylvania. There is no question that the administration of the 2020 General Election has left many Pennsylvanians distrustful due to a lack of transparency, security, and reasonable safeguards against any fraud. It is our duty as the General Assembly to restore confidence in this process.
The bills being introduced would enhance and clarify safeguards already in place under the bipartisan Act 77 reforms; importantly, however, these changes would prevent any administrative or judicial undermining of those safeguards similar to what was experienced this year.
- Bill D (Signatures on ballots) will clarify the review and verification process for signatures on mail-in and absentee ballots, to ensure that they will serve the intended role as safeguards on the legitimacy of each ballot. This will provide a critical layer of security so that county elections officials may reasonably have confidence that each vote counted was cast by the voter him
May 25, 2021 – More and more evidence comes out that Sen. Doug Mastriano did a lot more than just charter buses to the Capitol attack, and that he was part of groups that actually invaded the building
May 30, 2021 – How Republicans are using Pennsylvania to steal the 2024 Presidential Election
June 1, 2021 – County Commissioners make an impassioned plea to the legislature for help with pre-canvassing and vote counting . Republicans respond with this
June 7, 2021 – Senate Republicans call for an Arizona-style “Fraudit” that loses the chain of custody and makes voting machines unusable .
June 10, 2021 – the Republicans release their election bill , including Voter ID, signature verification and a lot of bad things for voters
June 11, 2021 – House Democrats hit back against the House GOP attack on elections
June 13, 2021 – The Philadelphia Tribune says the GOP bill in its current partisan form must be changed
June 15, 2021 – Election workers are being terrorized by death threats thanks to the Big Lie repeated by elected Republicans
June 16, 2021 – Sen. Mastriano’s repeating of Rep. Ryan & Diamond’s lies about “more votes than voters” – eventually repeated by Trump himself -- ends up as part of the FBI’s investigation of Jan. 6th
June 16, 2021 – Trump wanted every vote thrown out and a new election called in PA
June 16, 2021 – The House Republican “farce” – the Voter Restriction Act – moves out of committee
June 16, 2021 – The House Republican Voter Restriction Act makes national news
June 18, 2021 – Who does the GOP want to run a Fraudit in PA? These guys
June 18, 2021 – “Stop the Steal” fraudsters are now threatening the very GOP Senators they want to call a Fraudit here.
June 18, 2021 – Chairman Seth Grove decides to crash the governor’s presser on elections, pout a lot and then hate-tweet.
June 18, 2021 – “Fringe Conspiracy Theories” behind the GOP’s Voter Restriction Act
June 21, 2021 – The PA Senate GOP wants to bring the Arizona Fraudit to Pennsylvania
June 22, 2021 – The PA House GOP’s Voter Restriction Act passes the House – three Republicans vote against the bill . The Speaker and Majority Leader do not allow any Democrats to remind the people of all the Republicans who signed letters and repeated lies to demand the 2020 election be overturned.
June 24, 2021 – State Republicans seize power over elections
June 28, 2021 – A woman who rode to Washington on one of Doug Mastriano’s buses and who attends virtually every Harrisburg Trump rally is arrested for her role in an assault on January 6th
June 28, 2021 – The GOP Auditor General says he will use the money the House & Senate Republicans put in the budget for an election audit for general operations. Democrats call on Gov. Wolf to take this money out of the budget. The auditor general has no authority over elections and the Republican election law doesn’t fund the audit board it created.
July 1, 2021 – Republicans trying to overturn the election lose , but leave taxpayers with huge legal bills
July 2, 2021 – How pro-Trump websites keep pushing election lies
July 2, 2021 – Americans want to protect and expand voter access , not make it harder to vote because of fairy tales of voter fraud
July 2, 2021 – The Arizona Fraudit is coming here if Doug Mastriano has anything to say about it
July 2, 2021 – The Republican lawmakers who signed a letter demanding Pennsylvanians’ votes be thrown away to install Trump have the audacity to use the phrase “Election Integrity”
July 5, 2021 – The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Republicans abandoning democracy to push the Trump agenda and make it harder to vote.
July 6, 2021 – Why the GOP weaponizing the constitution to attack the vote (among other things) is a mistake
July 6, 2021 – the Philadelphia Inquirer runs down all the ways the GOP’s Voter ID bill is bad for democracy.
July 7, 2021 – Six months after Doug Mastriano helps make the January 6th Capitol attack happen by bringing busloads of people to Washington, including at least one person who is arrested for assault , he uses the show committee he chairs to demand Tioga, York and Philadelphia counties send him all of their election machines and voter records to start an Arizona Fraudit in PA.
Philadelphia Inquirer coverage
Pennsylvania Capital-Star coverage , including Mastriano’s letter to counties
Associated Press coverage
NPR coverage
July 13, 2021 – the Capitol rioter who demanded Nancy Pelosi be brought out to be hanged has a photo with Rep. Frank Ryan at a “Stop the Steal” rally in Harrisburg
July 13, 2021 – Seth Grove and Kerry Benninghoff start www.paredistricting.com and claim to want to make this an open and transparent process . They also say the maps they used last time were just fine despite being gerrymandered so horribly the courts vacated them.
July 13, 2021 – Newspapers statewide come out against Doug Mastriano’s Fraudit
State legislator living in alternate universe – Times News Online (tnonline.com)
Tribune-Democrat
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Philadelphia Inquirer
July 15, 2021 – Doug Mastriano’s demands for counties to turn over their election machines and all voter records doesn’t go over well.
All three GOP commissioners in Tioga County say “No”
York County asks if what he wants is even legal.
July 16, 2021 – The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette blasts Mastriano for turning us into PArizona
July 17, 2021 – Republican voter fraud lies proven to be lies in Arizona
July 18, 2021 – Republicans on the campaign trail begin to embrace the Fraudit, while House and Senate leaders remain silent
July 18, 2021 – Republicans are trying to rewrite history to make the insurrectionists heroes
July 19, 2021 – Republican leaders are silent about the Fraudit, because they’re afraid of the Trumpers and their own right-wing members
July 20, 2021 – The Fraudit isn’t about overturning the 2020 election – it’s about cheating in 2024 so no Democrat can win.
July 20, 2021 – A history of Republican lies about the 2020 election
July 20, 2021 – The USA Today Network comes out against the Fraudit “All counties, in our view, should unite to reject Mastriano’s costly, corrosive stunt, as should his GOP colleagues.”
July 26, 2021 – The Philadelphia Inquirer on the unhinged fantasies of voter fraud that fuel lawmakers like Frank Ryan and Russ Diamond – and how some Republicans go too far even for those two.
July 27, 2021 – Actual experts on audits, elections and data call out the Arizona “clown show” Republicans want to bring here
July 27, 2021 – Twitter suspends all the accounts related to the Arizona Fraudit for spreading election lies
July 29, 2021 – Trump/Mastriano supporters are going door-to-door demanding to know who people voted for.
July 29, 2021 – One Republican Senate finally speaks out on the Fraudit and says NO.
July 30, 2021 – When it comes to the Trump/Mastriano “Fraudit” the people overwhelmingly say NO.
July 30, 2021 – Philadelphia says NO to the Fraudit.
July 30, 2021 – Donald Trump asked for the election to be declared “corrupt” and “just leave the rest to me and GOP congressmen” – featuring lies told by Mastriano and U.S. Rep. Perry .
July 30, 2021 – Republican extremists trying to overturn the election are really just stealing from people.
July 31, 2021 – the Arizona Fraudit Mastriano wants to do here was “botched” and a total disaster, says Republicans.
August 3, 2021 – It’s revealed just how far Trump wanted the Department of Justice to go in overturning the election in Georgia.
August 3, 2021 – Doug Mastriano will issue subpoenas for a Fraudit in PA , forcing counties to turn over private voter data and voting machines.
August 4, 2021 -- Republicans can restore people's faith in our safe, secure elections -- by stopping the lies and conspiracy theories.
August 9, 2021 – GOP House Appropriations Committee Chair Stan Saylor knew about the call to overturn the election and did nothing to stop it.
August 10, 2021 – Tioga County tells Mastriano it’s time to stop the madness.
August 10, 2021 – Fulton County commissioners asked all GOP reps and senators to help overturn the election and install Trump.
August 11, 2021 – Republican senators introduce a bill to put all elections totally under Republican contro l.
August 11, 2021 – Republican leaders still won’t speak out about the extremists calling for a Fraudit.
August 12, 2021 – GOP Congressman Scott Perry did a lot more than repeat the lies about the election.
August 15, 2021 – Local governments lied to by their elected state and federal lawmakers are passing useless so-called “election integrity” ordinances.
August 15, 2021 – Mike Pence’s homeland security advisor and the head of Republicans for Voting Rights says the Fraudit must be stopped
August 17, 2021 – After months of lies from elected Republicans fueling attacks against election workers , many of those workers are thinking about quitting.
August 18, 2021 – Why were so many Jan 6th rioters from Pennsylvania? The lies of elected Republican s mattered.
August 18, 2021 – Who’s bankrolling the GOP effort to undo democracy ? The usual suspects.
August 19, 2021 – Doug Mastriano says the Fraudit is all but dead and is blaming his leadership. Coverage from the Inquirer and AP
August 20, 2021 – The Senate Republican Caucus is eating itself alive over who wants to overturn the election the most – Mastriano’s staff is reassigned, Dush is tapped and a right-wing news network paid for the Arizona Fraudit trip.
August 22, 2021 – Fulton County doesn’t want the voting machines they handed over to unsecured third-party activists to be decertified , despite the risk to future elections.
August 23, 2021 – New Fraudit cheerleader Cris Dush says he’s all-in on undoing the 2020 election.
August 24, 2021 – Seth Grove and the State Government Committee begin a set of hearing on redistricting – but only in rural counties and nowhere near the counties actually gaining population.
August 25, 2021 – Doug Mastriano is very upset with Jake Corman over losing his Fraudit and his staff.
August 25, 2021 – AP on why the Arizona fraudit is such a disaster and not something to be copied in Pennsylvania.
August 26, 2021 – Corman vs. Mastriano leads to more embarrassment.
August 26, 2021 – the very latest on the Fraudit
August 26, 2021 – How GOP Senate President Pro Tem Jake Corman abandoned his principles, abandoned democracy and started bowing to Trump.
August 27 2021 – the Pittsburgh Post Gazette – who endorsed Trump – says it’s time to stop the Fraudit insanity.
August 27, 2021 – Cris Dush, the latest Ringleader of the Fraudit Clown Show, admits it’s going to waste tax dollars and it’s all about currying favor with Trump.
August 28 2021 –The Associated Press on how Republicans are going to let the extremists run the show and deliver a Fraudit.
August 28, 2021 – Republicans looking to overturn the election have handed over voting machines to unqualified third parties – and now those voting machines are security risks.
September 1, 2021 – 14 Republicans file a lawsuit to declare Vote-By-Mail unconstitutional. 11 of the 14 (2 of them weren’t elected yet) voted for the bill when it passed the legislature.
September 8, 2021 –Republicans want Signature Matching on mail-in ballots. No matter if it’s done by a live person or AI, it’s a big problem.
September 9, 2021 –Cris Dush and the Senate Intergovernmental Affairs Committee starts their own version of the Arizona Fraudit and it definitely does not go well.
Coverage from:
Penn Capital-Star
USA Today Network
PA Spotlight
Associated Press
Philadelphia Inquirer, plus the disclaimer the Inquirer will post with every article:
September 13, 2021 –Lawyers who helped spread the big lie and filed frivolous lawsuits trying to undermine and overturn the 2020 election are getting punished. Hard.
September 13, 2021 –The same law firm that tried to overturn the 2020 election is now trying to force kids to take off their masks in school.
September 13, 2021 –The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is blasting the 14 hypocritical Republicans who want to undo mail-in voting just because Trump lost.
September 13, 2021 –Another call for the GOP to abandon the Fraudit and to actually stand up for American Democracy for a change.
September 14, 2021 –More than half of Americans believe democracy itself is under attack and Republicans will try to overturn an election they don’t win.
September 15, 2021 –How Trump’s Big Lie is changing politics for the worse.
September 15, 2021 –Senate Republicans vote to subpoena the personal information of seven million Pennsylvanians with the goal of handing it all over to politically motivated third-parties to “investigate” people’s voting records. Experts agree this is a massive risk of people’s data and all for an election long since completed, audited and certified.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Washington Post
City & State
NPR/WHYY
CNHI/Daily Item
The New York Times
Sunbury Daily Item Op-Ed on the hypocrisy
Spotlight PA
Penn Capital-Star
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
USA TODAY Network
September 15, 2021 –How the GOP Fraudit puts your personal information at risk – the Washington Post consults cybersecurity experts.
September 17, 2021 –The Johnstown Tribune Democrat “Keep private information out of partisan election reviews”
September 18, 2021 –The Reading Eagle says lawmakers shouldn’t be snooping on voters.
September 19, 2021 –The Pittsburgh Tribune Review says the GOP “betrays bedrock values”.
September 20, 2021 –"Would you entrust personal information to a serial liar? No? Then you should be livid with state Republican lawmakers" The York Dispatch pulls zero punches.
September 21, 2021 –Rep. Peter Schweyer blasts the GOP for putting people’s Social Security Numbers at risk.
September 21, 2021 –Those lies Trump told about the election that were – and still are – repeated by GOP lawmakers? Trump knew they were lies.
September 22, 2021 –Senate Republican Leader Kim Ward when asked about the safety of your personal information taken by the GOP “It’s scary, I don’t know what’s going to happen with those things”.
September 22, 2021 –The Philadelphia Inquirer does a comprehensive outline of how crazy the Republican “audit” is.
September 22, 2021 –The endless GOP attacks on elections and election workers – from lawmakers and from crazy people inspired by lawmakers’ lies – is making it harder to run elections.
September 23, 2021 –The Philadelphia Inquirer on how the Republicans will burn down Democracy to make Trump happy.
September 23, 2021 –Who’s backing the GOP lawmakers attacking Democracy? Capital-Star follows the money.
September 23, 2021 –The Republican attack on free, fair and open election is a true Constitutional Crisis.
September 24, 2021 –The Arizona Fraudit is done. There was no voter fraud and Trump lost more bigly than anyone first thought.
Washington Post
New York Times
MSNBC “Enough with the stupid”
ABC News
NPR
September 25, 2021 –The Fraudit is over and the results are the same results from back in November 2020. Now what happens in Pennsylvania?
September 25, 2021 –Lehigh Valley residents come out strong against the GOP’s Fraudit.
September 26, 2021 –A Pennsylvanian has a message for the GOP Senators looking to put everyone’s Social Security Number on the internet: Hey, Senator? You first.
September 27, 2021 –What’s the next step for the PA Fraudit?
September 27, 2021 –Was 2020 just a dress rehearsal for the GOP to overturn every future election they lose?
September 27, 2021 –Republicans – already going door-to-door with “Voter Integrity Squads” -- look to enshrine voter intimidation in the Constitution.
September 28, 2021 –Mastriano vs. Corman in who wants to overturn 2020 the most is a fight we all lose.
September 28, 2021 –“Pennsylvania’s GOP Election ‘Fraudit’: It’s all about voter intimidation”.
September 28, 2021 –Why PA Republicans won’t let Trump’s “stolen election” lies die.
September 29, 2021 –Republican Election Lies are tearing our Commonwealth apart.
September 29, 2021 –Cris Dush says you need to give him your Social Security Number or else, and stop asking him to prove there was fraud.
October 2, 2021 –The Wolf administration ignores the Senate GOP’s demand for Social Security & Driver’s License numbers and a law professor says the GOP’s ask violates the constitution.
October 3, 2021 –The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette comes out against the GOP’s plan to seize personal information, saying if we don’t stop the Republicans voters “should probably kiss their identities goodbye and get ready to start the hassle of disputing unauthorized credit card transactions and bank account withdrawals.”
October 4, 2021 –Senate Republicans are still looking for the third-party vendor they’ll give the people’s Social Security Numbers to with no oversight.
October 4, 2021 –The Republicans who’ve wasted countless tax dollars trying to overturn 2020 and hosting worthless “hearings” are now trying to say they’re not wasting tax dollars.
October 4, 2021 –“Republican-led state legislatures have been clambering over one another to pass new laws making it easier to reject their own voters’ will, and removing or neutralizing those officials who could stand in the way of a naked power grab.”
October 4, 2021 –As of today 425 bills in 49 states have been introduced to make it harder to vote.
October 5, 2021 –Two former state senators say the GOP are destroying democracy in the name of partisanship and cheating at elections
October 6, 2021 –Citizens are asking to stand with Democratic lawmakers and officials to oppose the GOP’s plan to expose personal data.
October 7, 2021 –More evidence Doug Mastriano and Congressman Scott Perry helped the Jan. 6th attack to overthrow the government and install Trump.
More from The New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Associated Press, Penn Capital-Star.
October 8, 2021 –How Republicans are going to use endless audits to bring Democracy to a halt and shatter people’s faith in voting.
October 10, 2021 –January 6th was “just a dress rehearsal” for the GOP looking to undo Democracy, according to a former Trump official.
October 11, 2021 –Jake Corman says Biden won, but the GOP’s plan to seize your personal information and open you up to voter intimidation is still going to happen.
October 15, 2021 –Doug Mastriano, Stephanie Borowicz and Russ Diamond have all signed a letter demanding the 2020 election be decertified and overturned to install Donald Trump as dictator.
October 15, 2021 –How Doug Mastriano helped Trump try to overthrow the government.
October 16, 2021 –As of 10/16/21 425 bills have been introduced in 49 states to make it harder to vote.
October 17, 2021 –Citizens are “outraged, frustrated and scared” at the GOP’s plan to hand over Social Security Numbers to scammers.
October 19, 2021 –A Republican U.S. Congressman and a Republican PA State Senator lied -- and more -- to try and undo the election and overthrow the American government.
October 20, 2021 –The Republican bounty on “Voter Fraud” has been paid – a Republican who committed voter fraud in PA got caught.
October 20, 2021 –PA Senate Republicans refuse to allow the public to know just who might end up with the taxpayer-funded contract to run the GOP Fraudit – your Social Security Number could end up in the hands of Trump 2024 or other scammers.
October 22, 2021 –Citizens are speaking out demanding to stand against the Republican effort to put peoples’ identities at risk.
October 23, 2021 –How Republicans in states like PA cannot win, so they’re trying to end democracy itself.
October 24, 2021 –January 6th riot organizers met with Republican lawmakers over and over and over before the attack.
October 31, 2021 –Did the seeds of the Republican Fraudit start with an illegal PA Senate GOP investigation in Fulton County?
October 31, 2021 –Republicans must stop lying about elections not being secure.
November 1, 2021 –Republicans have created a “toxic environment” for election workers.
November 1, 2021 –Republicans want to make voter intimidation a thing at the polls, at your home, and where the votes are counted.
November 1, 2021 –67 percent of Democrats say voting is a fundamental right – only 32 percent of Republicans agree.
November 1, 2021 –State Government Chairman Seth Grove accuses York County of “ballot trafficking” by using drop boxes, insulting law enforcement in the process.
November 2, 2021 –Election workers are under attack thanks to the Republican lies about voter fraud and “stolen elections”.
November 7, 2021 –A year after Trump lost, Republicans can’t stop lying about elections.
November 8, 2021 –Republicans are back at it to waste tax dollars on “post election audits”.
November 12, 2021 –“How many elections are they going to steal before we kill these people?” The local state representative, a Republican, later called it a “fair question”.
November 15, 2021 –How Trump loyalists could be running Pennsylvania’s elections in 2024.
November 20, 2021 –Millions of dollars already wasted, and the GOP is wasting even more on a Fraudit.
November 20, 2021 –November 20, 2021 – Election workers are under fire thanks to Republicans spreading lies.
November 21, 2021 –What do we know about the Republican firm picked in a secret backroom deal to handle the PA Fraudit?
November 21, 2021 –The out-of-state company picked in a backroom deal to run the Fraudit? They don’t audit elections. They don’t do much of anything except donate to the GOP.
November 22, 2021 –How Republican-run state legislatures are setting themselves up to overturn any election the GOP loses.
November 22, 2021 –Pennsylvania could be on the hook for millions to replace voting machines the GOP Fraudit damages or destroys.
November 23, 2021 –While Republicans insist on trying to undo the right to vote, Democrats are working to create jobs and help us recover from the virus.
November 24, 2021 –The Sunbury Daily Item blasts the GOP’s tax-dollar-wasting fraudit.
November 25, 2021 –Republicans changing the constitution to seize more power is an undemocratic attack on our system.
November 25, 2021 –More than a year after the 2020 election there are still elected Republicans demanding to throw out the results and install Trump as Emperor.
November 30, 2021 –The York Dispatch blasts the Fraudit as “good money after bad idea”.
November 30, 2021 –Trump’s allies are looking to take over elections from the ground up to throw out votes before they’re even cast.
December 5, 2021 –More details about the PA Senate Republican Fraudit contract have been released – but not ALL the details the people deserve to know.
December 7, 2021 –Republican Senators are taking your money and giving your Social Security Number away – but you’re not allowed to see what happens next.
December 9, 2021 –“A waste of taxpayer money” – the York Daily Record blasts the GOP Fraudit.
December 9, 2021 –Republicans are cheating with their election maps. Again.
December 10, 2021 –Trump’s coup was on a PowerPoint.
December 11, 2021 –Elected Pennsylvania Republicans were in the room when Trump’s coup was being planned.
December 12, 2021 –The Republican coup to overturn the election and end democracy is still going on.
December 13, 2021 –The court case about the GOP Fraudit putting you at risk of Identity Theft has begun.
December 14, 2021 –Republicans admit on the PA House floor they don’t want money going to counties where “certain people” will vote.
December 15, 2021 –The Court hearing about the GOP Fraudit and the Republican ask to expose people to identity theft and voter intimidation has begun.
December 16, 2021 –There’s no evidence of voter fraud or rigged votes – Republicans still want to end Democracy.
December 16, 2021 –GOP Congressman Scott Perry was part of a top meeting with Trump officials to overthrow the election.
December 16, 2021 –Republicans are furious they aren’t allowed to cheat and gerrymander the electoral maps anymore – they try to take some of Leader McClinton’s comments at an event out of context and their members share it on social. The full speech tells the actual truth about Democrats working for fair maps.
December 17, 2021 –House Republicans, unable to get laws passed, try to shred the constitution yet again with amendments for Voter ID and endless taxpayer-funded audits.
December 18, 2021 –Fair Districts PA reminds the GOP the new “unfair” maps are still in favor of the GOP.
December 18, 2021 –The GOP Fraudit now wants to hand over voting machines to their handpicked, unqualified private company and risk the election security of every voting machine, everywhere.
December 19, 2021 –The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review blasts the GOP for wanting to cheat on drawing legislative maps and complaining about a map that still benefits Republicans.
December 20, 2021 –Republican leaders are going to the media saying they want “the will of the people through fair and honest elections.” – the same leaders who signed this letter demanding the will of the people be thrown out to install Trump as dictator.
December 20, 2021 –GOP Congressman Scott Perry – accused of being in the room as the coup was plotted – refuses to testify for the Jan. 6 panel.
December 22, 2021 –Esquire Magazine: “Scott Perry was a key player in the Trump-induced crisis following the 2020 contest”.
December 22, 2021 –State Republicans are attacking the nonpartisan head of the redistricting commission because he won’t let the GOP cheat.
December 22, 2021 –The relentless Republican attack on our elections and how they plan on replacing election officials with ones that will make sure Trump wins next time.
December 23, 2021 –“We can lose democracy just like anyone else can” – the Big Lie and the lessons of Jan. 6.
December 27, 2021 –Six members of congress – including Rep. Scott Perry – tried to overthrow the government and install Trump as dictator. They must go.
December 28, 2021 –Kentucky Republican Rand Paul repeats the PA House GOP idea that if Democrats vote it’s somehow cheating and stealing an election.
December 28, 2021 –The Philadelphia Inquirer blasts the Republicans for trying to cheat on drawing electoral maps again.
December 28, 2021 –The Jan. 6th Committee is ready to go public about those who tried to overthrow our government.
December 29, 2021 –a U.S. Navy Veteran calls for accountability for all those involved in the Jan. 6th coup attempt.
December 30, 2021 –It wasn’t all about Jan. 6th – Republicans everywhere are trying to do a “slow coup” and end democracy at every level.
December 30, 2021 –A U.S. Capitol Police Officer attacked by the mob on Jan. 6th cannot believe he still has to work with Republican lawmakers who believe Trump won and our democracy should be ended.
A graphic reminder of the injuries suffered by officers defending democracy from the rioters.