🚨Weekly👉🏼SoCal 👈🏼Update🚨8
🐇 🕳️ Deep Dive Alert! 🤿
This week, we’re unpacking the perils of election conspiracy theories and the threat they pose to our democracy. Watch out, SoCal! Your very own election denial machine is cranking up, and we’re here to EXPOSE it. /1
Gods, Guns, Government (G3) hit Costa Mesa yesterday with Mike Lindell-style election fraud tales. The lineup reads like a who’s who of grifter conspiracists: Christian nationalists, Proud Boy pastors, and notorious voices of election fraud. /2 
Let’s start with G3 CEO Jon Mathews, who works closely with Mike Lindell’s group Cause of America & was a regional coordinator for “Election Integrity Project CA” in LA Co, a group that took significant funds from the CNP affiliated group “Advocates for Faith and Freedom” /3
Turns out, the Election Integrity Project California is linked to the Council for National Policy via its co-founder, Linda Paine. Seems like the CNP’s reach is just about everywhere! 🕵️♂️ #FollowTheConnections /4 
G3 is committed to election interference, but will it fare any better than Lindell’s own outcome spreading false 2020 election fraud claims which were debunked and cost him $5 mill? Let’s ask Douglas Frank, an FBI investigated summit speaker. /5
Key speaker Douglas Frank, dubbed the ‘Johnny Appleseed’ of election myths, tours the U.S. stroking his metal rod, sowing seeds of doubt with tales of secret algorithms and suspicious voting trends. 🌱🚫🗳️ #FactCheckNeeded #electionintegrity /6
Full article on Douglas Frank is here: it includes the tactics he teaches to disrupt the election system, and the way he avoids providing evidence and data for his election fraud claims. /7
latimes.com/politics/story…
Urson Russell (Dr Frank trained) is president of ‘Patriot Force CA’ , a group that started knocking on doors and collecting dollars in Orange County early 2022 to battle voter fraud, fraud that is as elusive as their evidence!🕵️♂️💸 #WhereIsTheProof. /8
And then there’s Hansel Orzame, the ‘Proud Boy’ Pastor from SoCal and a G3 member, who often hosts Dr Douglas Frank. Orzame, courtesy of G3’s funding, attended Mike Lindell’s election fraud conference last year, where he met w/ Mike Flynn. /9
Orzame runs Ekklesia church: Struggling to find a home due to extremist rhetoric and Proud Boy ties, their ‘sermons on the go’ reveal more than just spiritual guidance… as he preps his congregation for “war” and larping as event security.
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Last year the ‘Proud Boy Pastor’ Orzame attended an Election Integrity Project Ca conference, training citizens to spot voter fraud & rallying ‘citizen observers’ across the state. Orzame is keen on deploying his ‘army’ as ‘poll watchers’ in the ‘24 election. /11 
Militia groups like The Oath Keepers, Patriot Front, and The Proud Boys may turn ‘poll watchers’ into a tool for voter intimidation. This CFR report warns of a chilling 2024 election: Stay vigilant. 🚨 #Election2024
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No election conspiracy summit is complete without the Shasta County Board of Supervisors!
In NorCal, fervent far-right election denial has caused the county to sever ties with Dominion Voting Systems & return to a COSTLY hand counted paper ballot system-think $3 million. /13 
Shasta Co. Supervisor Kevin Crye, facing recall this November, teamed up with Mike Lindell to ditch Dominion Voter machines, even including Lindell in board meetings. Turns out, Shasta isn’t alone in its far-right dabble with voter conspiracy antics…
Enter~Huntington Beach /14 
Three of Huntington Beach’s ‘Fash Four’ City Council members took the stage at the Election Integrity Summit yesterday. Perhaps sharing tips on drawing taxpayer-funded lawsuits to your city? That’s their specialty! /15
 
HB is being sued by Rob Bonta for violating Ca laws RE: Voting ID requirements passed in March (along with an amendment to ban the pride flag) even though the state is already protected by robust voter ID laws.
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The Election Integrity Summit intends to sow doubt in election integrity and train people to interfere w/ the Nov election through tactics like ballot harvesting, baseless reporting, & intimidation against voters, poll workers, and ballot counters. /17
Just as I was wrapping up this thread, these popped into my radar. “Santa Barbara Election Integrity Project” and “Restore the Vote Ventura” are running a Douglas Frank playbook, crashing BoS meetings. /18 
SoCal must take take notice of these tactics and the rest of the groups advocating for them:
#ElectionIntegrityProjectCa #EIPCA
#PatriotForceCa
#CauseofAmerica
#GodGunsGovernment (G3)
#DrDouglasFrank
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Keep an eye out for call for action like these, and as always, thank you to all the researchers who contributed this week.
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