A massive, coordinated effort by the left that pushed mail-in voting and other measures that have become associated with claims by the right of election fraud is the subject of an in-depth report published by Time magazine.
Time's Molly Ball describes it as a "conspiracy" between "left-wing activists and business titans. But she insists the objective of the "extraordinary shadow effort" was only to "protect" the 2020 presidential election from anticipated claims of fraud by Trump.
In "The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election," she writes that the "handshake between business and labor was just one component of a vast, cross-partisan campaign to protect the election - an extraordinary shadow effort dedicated not to winning the vote but to ensuring it would be free and fair, credible and uncorrupted."
Ball writes that the effort "touched every aspect of the election":
"They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding.
"They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time.
"They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears.
"They executed national public-awareness campaigns that helped Americans understand how the vote count would unfold over days or weeks, preventing Trump's conspiracy theories and false claims of victory from getting more traction.
"After Election Day, they monitored every pressure point to ensure that Trump could not overturn the result."
Time says the participants want "the secret history of the 2020 election told," even though "it sounds like a paranoid fever dream - a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information."
The participants insisted they were not "rigging the election; they were fortifying it."
"And they believe the public needs to understand the system's fragility in order to ensure that democracy in America endures," Ball writes.
Leader of the pack
The leader of the "democracy campaigners" was Mike Podhorzer, a senior adviser to the president of the powerful AFL-CIO labor union, which endorsed Joe Biden.
Podhorzer worked his network of progressive contacts in the labor movement along with institutional giants such as Planned Parenthood and Greenpeace, resistance groups such as Indivisible and MoveOn, tech experts, donors, foundations, grassroots organizers and racial-justice activists.
Former Tennessee Congressman Zach Wamp is one of many people Time Magazine cited and quoted in a new article that brags about a bipartisan coalition of people who helped defeat former U.S. President Donald Trump.
As reported last year, Wamp has previously leveled harsh criticisms toward Trump.
The Time article, published this week, describes "a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information."
Time went on to say that this "loosely organized coalition of operatives" made "crucial contributions by nonpartisan and conservative actors." The magazine said these people changed voting laws, fought voter suppression lawsuits, and persuaded millions of people to vote by mail for the first time. Members of this coalition also convinced social media companies "to take a harder line against disinformation," Time reported.
Time described Wamp as someone who supported Trump. The magazine, however, quoted Wamp as saying "we can look back and say this thing went pretty well, but it was not at all clear in September and October that that was going to be the case."
Wamp advises a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit, Issue One, that, according to its website, "unites Republicans, Democrats, and independents in the movement to fix our broken political system." The website lists former U.S. House Majority Leader and Democrat Richard Gephardt and former Republican Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge as two of several people who serve on Issue One's board.
IF CONSERVATIVES DON'T PAY ATTENTION TO HOW GEORGIA WAS TURNED AROUND FOR THE SENATE ELECTION IN JANUARY, THEY WILL BE DEFEATED AGAIN AND AGAIN.
Stop Stacey' Initiative Launched to Fight Stacey Abrams in Georgia
February 2, 2021 Peter D'Abrosca
A group of Republicans launched a committee to fight former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, a Democrat, who is likely to challenge Republican Gov. Brian Kemp again in 2022.
"Leaders of the new independent committee, known as 'Stop Stacey,' say they will build a 'robust state and national fundraising operation' in order to target Abrams with opposition research, digital ads and other paid media," a Fox News report said.
In a release first shared with Fox News the group reportedly describes itself as "a national, grassroots organization of engaged conservatives who are committed to protecting our future from Stacey Abrams, her left-wing backers, and their radical, un-American agenda."
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that the group has ties to former U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), who lost her seat to Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) just weeks ago.
"The group was formed by allies of Kemp and former U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler even before Abrams announced whether she'll run again, a sign of deep concern among Republicans about the threat she poses to the first-term governor next year," the newspaper said.
Christian astronaut - and his communion cups - lifting off on space mission
Victor Glover will rely on his Bible and prayer to help with isolation at the International Space Station
Online worship during the COVID-19 pandemic has helped prepare Victor Glover for a long-awaited work trip.
Where Glover is going - 250 miles above Earth to the International Space Station - there is no physical church building.
"I actually sent up communion cups and a Bible, and we have really good internet connectivity," said the NASA astronaut, one of four crew members for the SpaceX Crew Dragon's first operational flight, set to launch this weekend.
"So honestly, I will probably continue in what we've been doing: virtual service, virtual giving, reading my Bible and praying," added Glover, the pilot for a team that also includes NASA's Michael Hopkins and Shannon Walker and Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi.
Glover, a Church of Christ member in the Houston area, discussed his faith with The ChristianChronicle while making preparations for a six-month mission to the space station.
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