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Episode 5174: Declaring A National Emergency Over Our Elections To Stop Foreign Interference
27 Feb 2026
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Chapter 1: What are the current threats to the integrity of U.S. elections?
It's the safe and secure presidential elections, national elections we have enjoyed in our country without interruption over the course of this century. And then point Z, that is the nightmare scenario.
A president who has already exhibited a willingness and interest and effort to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power, encouraging violence if it's necessary, with an unfettered control over our election systems.
It is difficult to pinpoint precisely where we are today, right now, this hour, on that sliding scale between A and Z. But this afternoon's developments make it abundantly clear we are straying further and further from point A and lurching ever closer and closer to point Z. The latest reporting from MSNOW, quote,
of an executive order requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration and photo identification at polling locations nationwide, even as his own lawyers have warned the moves would likely run into legal trouble, according to senior White House official who spoke anonymously.
Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vogt and White House Staff Secretary Will Scharf are among those overseeing the effort to determine whether a legally viable path forward on this stuff exists. It is the latest sign that Donald Trump intends to reshape American elections and unilaterally and without congressional buy-in test the limits of his executive authority.
The only part of that that is more chilling, more chilling than the idea of a unilateral executive order that could disenfranchise a large number of American voters with the stroke of a pen,
was that phrase toward the end of the reporting, quote, the latest sign, because it is, as we've been chronicling here, just a piece, albeit a very important one, of that drift ever closer to point Z on the spectrum.
Case in point, brand new reporting in the Washington Post out late this afternoon, quote, pro-Trump activists who say they're in coordination with the White House are circulating a 17-page draft executive order that claims China interfered in the 2020 election. as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.
Donald Trump has repeatedly previewed a plan to mandate voter ID and to ban mail-in ballots in November's midterm elections.
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Chapter 2: How is foreign interference affecting American elections?
The activists expect their draft will figure into Trump's promised executive order on the issue. The White House declined to elaborate on Trump's plans.
Considering those two pieces of reporting from today as a pair, you can ask yourself, in our nation's 250-year history, have there been 250 days more important to the health and well-being and survival of our democracy than the span between this afternoon and Election Day? Because Point Z is calling, and we might be closer to it than you think.
I think that, number one, all of the folks that are at the top echelons of the White House were there in 2021, 2022, 2023, during the indictment, during the January 6th committee hearings. All of them know exactly what took place if they were not even working in the White House themselves. So they know what they've signed on to and they know what their boss is capable of doing here.
They also understand that people like Steve Bannon can pass along documents and articles directly to key aid and get into Donald Trump's ear, and suddenly he's posting it overnight. Here's the one thing that I think is different from our reporting this go-around. I've been talking to local officials, too, here.
You know, if you look at Georgia, right, the folks understand that three of the five Georgia State Election Board members are MAGA Trump allies. And they are preparing, understanding the enormity of the power that those three election board members have. And so folks on the ground are preparing.
Out in Arizona, Maricopa County, there are several Republicans on the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors. They've lived through this before. And they're preparing. There's the recorder who's in charge of Maricopa County elections, Justin Heap. For example, he said just a couple of weeks ago that his office claimed that there were disenfranchised voters.
You know what that Republican led board of supervisors did? They called him in and made him go and testify to his claim. essentially saying, you're not going to get to Election Day claiming that voters are disenfranchised. We're holding you accountable now. He and his office were unable to answer the question.
I think that is going to be the difference is at the local and state level here, because we know exactly what the White House and Donald Trump have up their sleeve.
decision protects him from being criminally prosecuted for doing that, but it doesn't make that which is unconstitutional lawful. What remains in the system as an antibody to protect against his unconstitutional conduct?
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Chapter 3: What executive actions is Trump proposing regarding voter ID?
So I do think that if we are aware, if we're calling out these efforts, and if we all do what we need to do, we can have secure and free and fair and hopefully uneventful elections in November.
The Times reports this. As the political environment darkens for his party, Donald Trump is again warning Republicans that Democrats are going to rig the results. At the same time, he's taking actions that make Democrats fear that Republicans are actually going to subvert the election. Trump has shown himself unbound by precedent in his second term.
And with prominent election deniers and powerful federal posts and top cabinet officials on the hunt for evidence of voter fraud, his moves have heightened anxieties about potential interference. He has called for Republicans to nationalize elections, though the Constitution leaves their administration to the states.
The newly politicized Justice Department is suing states for private voter rolls. The FBI has seized ballots from the 2020 election from the Georgia Election Center. And Trump is so personally invested that he praised some of the agents involved. by phone. Help me understand why.
I mean, I guess it's because the quality of the people around him is underneath the quality of the people that were around in 2020.
And Donald Trump is ultimately going to get what he wants, right? You can talk about Kash Patel and whether his job is on the line or not. But guess what? Kash Patel is going and executing an FBI search of Fulton County. He's director of national intelligence. He doesn't have to agree with her assessment about Iran's nuclear capabilities, but she's down there in Fulton County.
And if you are looking here at the ways in which they can impact this election ahead, from the sources that we have talked to, it is these very folks that Donald Trump continues to turn to, those that are willing to execute on this here. And if you go back... I think we have to go back to 2020.
If you go back to the dissent of Justice Sotomayor, she was very clear in the question there of whether the president had absolute immunity. She said, organizes a military coup to hold onto power, immune. That was her interpretation of the opinion of the Supreme Court, and the president of the United States could potentially use his military, trying to use emergency powers, which the
Brennan Sutter has done a great job in understanding that there are no legal statutes that allow him to move forward with that. But that doesn't mean that Donald Trump is not going to try because we have seen him try before. And especially in the hours before the election, there's a big question here of especially if they try to lay claim to Iran or China trying to use foreign influence.
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Chapter 4: How are local officials preparing for potential election disruptions?
They have cheated. And their policy is so bad that the only way they can get elected is to cheat. And we're going to stop it. We have to stop it, John.
Well, John's not going to stop him, Mr. President. He's not going to bring it up. Yesterday, he's fumbling around about the filibuster, standing filibuster. So we're going to have to do it an alternative way. And I think the way the president and other advisors are talking to him and people inside the White House, And the government, I think, is a smart way to go.
Sam Faddis, continue on Connick. Give me a minute on Connick. But you do agree, and the patriots up in Pennsylvania you guys work with, the mail-in ballot, the double envelopes, they throw them away, no signature verification. We went to bed that night. Trump was up 800,000 votes and lost. Come on, man. It's in your face, and it's too ridiculous to to even think about that they didn't steal it.
They stole the 2020 election in Wisconsin, in Michigan, in Pennsylvania, in Georgia and Maricopa County, and we can prove it and we're gonna prove it. And that's why you need this executive order. You know, Nicole Wallace should understand, we are never, ever again going to allow you people to do what you did in November of 2020. It's not going to happen.
And you can cry and whine and throw your toys out of the pram. We don't care. We're not going to let this country go back and be stolen again by a bunch of crooks, criminals, and traitors that did it in 2020. Sam Faddis.
Yeah, well, amen. I mean, that is a precise description of where we are. All of this nonsense about the most secure election in American history is just that nonsensical. It's a lie. Back to Connick. Look, Chinese company, direct ties to United Front. The guy who runs the company was indicted out in California. And then, of course, the Biden administration steps in. The indictment goes away.
They ultimately gave this guy $5 million because his feelings were hurt in settling a civil suit. And last I heard, he's working out in Malaysia, pulling down big money. The Biden administration Crushed the whole thing, did nothing. CONACT is still in business. And look, CONACT, just to be clear, CONACT Software,
People want to try to minimize the impact or the value of what the Chinese could get from this because they talk about it gives identities of poll workers and so forth, which is bad enough. But also, Connex Software, and I'm looking at my phone because I'm confirming these details with experts this morning. Connex Software stores passwords on all equipment.
all voting equipment that means voting machines connect direct access to voter records ran software to support poll pads tablets all of this these are the crown jewels in the possession of a company directly tied to chinese intelligence we knew this years ago we have done nothing absolutely nothing disgusting that hole is wide open
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Chapter 5: What legal challenges exist for Trump's election-related executive orders?
So no name or no signature, which is required. In order for the ballot to be counted, it says clearly on the envelope it needs to be signed and no official stamp of when the ballot could have been received the day after the election. We don't know. We do know because of the Gateway Pundit reporting that a white van did deliver tens of thousands of ballots to the TCF Center in Detroit.
that the morning after the election. So who knows? This could have been part of that dump. But what I can tell you is that we're finding a lot just with the ballot envelope investigation that we've done so far. The things that we're finding are just crazy.
The lessons here, folks, for your agency is that, you know, Caroline Jeffers and Garland Favorito and Sally Grubbs and Jason Frazier and all these heroes and patriots, Harry McDougal, all of them in Georgia have been working and have not quit in six years. The lesson for Michigan is the gateway pundit and Patty Murray and now 200 volunteers are not going to quit.
This is this kind of American cussedness. They know this thing was stolen, and they're not going to quit. And the mainstream media is against them, all the big money in the Democratic Party. The Republican establishment wants to go. Have you gotten any help from the Republican establishment in Michigan on your journey, Patty?
I will say that we have an incredible election integrity chair in the state legislature, Representative Rochelle Smith, and she's been very receptive to our information. We've been sharing our findings with her, and they have been insisting that the government do more to help us in Michigan with the findings that we've put forward on the Gateway Pundit. I just want to mention, check my vote.
which is an incredible organization that was founded by, at the time, a non-American citizen who has recently become an American citizen, Fani Mantravati, is really the key figures in this investigation. And I did put up a give, send, go on the article that I wrote yesterday because we are looking for help to fund this project because it's an enormously...
large project that requires a lot of people, experts that are taking time away from their day jobs. This is an all volunteer project at this point. So we are looking for some help with this project because it's massive. It's a massive undertaking.
And our goal is to complete this project before the next election, because as you know, Secretary of State Joslyn Benson is running as the Democrat candidate for governor in Michigan, and she will be facilitating her own election.
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Chapter 6: How do state and federal courts influence election integrity?
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Yeah, I also wanted to point out that we have, of the ballots that we've gone through so far, we've gone through 84,000 of them. 36% of those ballot envelopes that we've gone through have been dated by the voter and received by the city clerk on the same day.
I want to remind everybody that these ballots were being mailed out during COVID, and Senator Gary Peters was making a lot of noise at that time because he was furious that the Detroit Post Office
So that's a physical impossibility. So what you're saying is 36% of the ones you found already can't be certified or non-certifiable, correct?
Well, it's an interesting, probably completely non-possible fact that we've discovered. It looks like just a ridiculous statistic. 36% during COVID is ridiculous.
There's so much more that's going to come out. We'll get to all that. Later. I got Garland Fabry who's going to join us here in a moment. Do you believe you have the same level of evidence, let's call it, that Kash Patel, the ballots, the tapes, everything that Georgia had to raise?
Do you believe you were able to get it through these four requests that you have the equivalent of what Georgia's got and now the federal government that they're fighting in court, that the traitors and crooks down in Georgia and Fulton County are fighting in court to get back, ma'am?
Yes, we do. We have almost a million documents. We have hard copies that are in storage. And we also have digital files that our volunteers are working with and that we're working with currently. But yes, we do have what Georgia has.
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Chapter 7: What evidence is being gathered regarding 2020 election fraud?
Every night on TV now at MSNBC, they're demonizing this team. Garland, thank you so much. Appreciate you. Sam Faddis, closing thoughts on Pennsylvania, on the president's executive order that people are working on. You're an intelligence guy. We now have the Chinese on here in a minute, the folks from New Federal State to talk about the CCP.
Is the president justified in working on this executive order now, sir?
Yeah, without question. And there is no alternative, Steve. I can tell you because we're just talking about the GOP. There is no establishment move of any kind to fix any of these problems that have been documented for years. Nothing, not the slightest ripple of movement. So you're either going to have the same debacle in the next election or the president's going to move.
Sam, I hate to have you do double duty, but can you give me a minute or two on your ā I know you've got tons of information on Cuba, and so does Neil McCabe. We'll have to get to that hopefully tomorrow. Your thoughts now as the winds of war are blowing through Geneva, Vienna, Tehran, Jerusalem, and Washington, D.C., sir?
uh caution i i am very look everybody knows i've worked against the ayatollahs for a big chunk of my life they're monsters and it will be a great and glorious day when there's a free iran i am really hesitant about this idea that we are going to bomb iran and then the regime will collapse and something wonderful will replace it i don't see the plan i i don't think this is a long-term strategy
I am really, really hesitant and quite frankly, really concerned that we're about to do something that the Israelis are pushing us to do for their own reasons. And our interests do not necessarily always align.
Sam Faddis, where do people go to get Anne Magazine and your Substack and all your social media?
Go to Anne Magazine Substack, andmagazine.substack.com.
Thank you, sir. I appreciate you. Thank you for taking the time this morning. Brian Glenn, Corpus Christi, you're a Texan. You're down in Corpus Christi. Tell us about it. All right, good. I should say good morning, Steve.
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Chapter 8: What are the implications of the upcoming elections on U.S. democracy?
You've got to come up with a different message because right now it's not working. Republicans are focusing on economy, but We do have another story that seems like it's not getting enough attention, at least from the president. And that is a situation I ran as we were talking offline. That could also be a major story here in a week.
I don't think we have any kinetic strike before Tuesday, before any kind of election primary here, especially here in Texas and across country. But we could be a week out with some type of engagement.
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Okay, before we go back to Corpus Christi, let's go to the White House. We have Neil McCabe. Neil, now I know Sam Fetish and you, and you just work on the Cuba situation. We're going to get to that either later this afternoon when we do the Corpus Christi coverage or tomorrow. Right now, the issue is Iran. I know people at the White House, all over D.C. working, obviously, CENTCOM, et cetera.
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