By Harold Pease, Ph. D.
Democrats already know the GOP will win the midterms. Way last March 31 Pelosi announced Democrat plans to invalidate the coming November 3, 2026 BIG GOP win. Congresswoman Pelosi announced their plan was to concede nothing and oppose everything, especially in all battle ground states. They will begin by accusing Trump of manipulating the 2026 midterms. They will double down on this narrative to sow doubt in the Trump win because of its size.
Pelosi told us that their optics of a false count will follow: “late night flipping, huge delays in reporting, precincts going to hand count. They intend to weaponize, sow doubt and delay results.” They will say, “The technology was compromised just like we worried. This is a false count! We demand forensic imaging of every tabulator.” They will “file suits under state emergency elections statute 2 USC Section 8 claiming the inoperability prevented a fair count.” They will “push for court ordered freezes on certification until safe manual audits are complete.” Blue states [will] “declare election integrity emergencies, extend canvassing windows and push results past the safe harbor deadline, December 11.” They are already five months into this narrative. “This drags official outcomes into January 2027 and beyond.” (X22 Report, hereafter not cited, Ep. 3873b, March 31, 2026, 55:00).
Of course, the GOP will win big because they spent the last 5 1/2 years exposing, then blocking, the fraud that accompanied every election for decades. As we have previously reported there exists no forensic study, research or investigation that does not show considerable cheating by the Democrats. Even today all Democrat states “are fighting the DOJ's Civil Rights Division in court trying to avoid having to turn over their corrupted voter rolls. If they hand over the voter rolls, and Harmeet Dhillon, Assistant Attorney General for Human Rights and the DOJ work in conjunction with the Census Bureau to compare the voter records with the citizenship records, they KNOW WHAT IS GOING TO SURFACE. The 2020 citizen vote mostly went to Trump. Dhillon ordered all states to provide their voter rolls over a year ago. The blue states refused. She is suing them as fast as the law permits, even five at a time, and winning (“Latest Finding, the Census Bureau also Helped Rig the 2020 Election,” LibertyUnderFire, August 26, 2026).
The Trump administration declassified documents demonstrating election vulnerabilities the most notable being: 1) “Evidence that China has obtained 220 million American voter registration files, some of which include non-public data, through buying, stealing or hacking. The administration’s intelligence chiefs later said that this represents “election interference.” 2) “Assessments from spy agencies beginning in 2020 that at least five foreign powers -- China, Russia, Iran, North Korea and Venezuela -- possess the ability to hack voting machines.” And, 3) “Evidence gathered by the Homeland Security Department that hundreds-of-thousands of likely illegal foreign voters were on the voter rolls [of] states–and estimated the total across the whole country to be higher” (“Homeland Security warns of Chinese parts in election machines, will require paper ballot audits,” Just The News, By Steven Richards August 27, 2026).
Consequently, Markwayne Mullin, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, referring to these recently declassified documents, including a 2024 ODNI Annual Threat Assessment, which concluded that China remains the “most active and persistent cyber threat to U.S. Government, private-sector, and critical infrastructure networks.” And their assessment “that some U.S. adversaries—at a minimum China, Iran, and Russia…have the technical capability to access some U.S. election-related networks and systems.” This remaining so, necessitated the issuance of the following directive for the 2026 midterm elections from Secretary Mullin.
“The declassification of these and other documents supports the need for strong mitigation strategies, particularly considering the known weaknesses in the election infrastructure supply chain. Voting machines with components manufactured by foreign adversaries introduce significant security risks. These vulnerabilities mean that malicious actors could potentially compromise election infrastructure at any stage of the supply chain even before the machines are assembled or deployed. If a component is tampered with during manufacturing, it could serve as a point-of-entry for hackers, allowing for the possibility of synchronized attacks across multiple machines and jurisdictions.”
“Unfortunately, the voting-system industry … is impacted by the fact that some necessary components cannot be sourced from domestic manufacturers, so vendors are dependent on foreign suppliers. Nine voting system vendors are used in U.S. elections. Three of those vendors, ES&S, Hart InterCivic, and Dominion, make up more than 80% of the market share. Representatives from each of those vendors have acknowledged that their voting machines have parts made in China…In some cases, there are simply no alternative suppliers….” (Secretary Markwayne Mullin, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, August 24, 2026).
Election security is national security! The Homeland Security Grant Program requires states to verify the results produced by at least 5% of voting machines ballots, this to receive full grant awards. States must demonstrate that they have conducted random post-election manual counts of paper ballots to ensure that any errors or manipulation is detected. This is in addition to other actions like reconciling voter participation with ballots cast, and verifying voter and poll worker citizenship using the SAVE system. Non-compliance may result in withholding of 20% of the grant amount until proof of adherence is provided; this to secure election infrastructure. Since this impacts national security, defying states, for over a year, should lose the grant entirely and America should void the use of electronic voting machines until they are 100% secure.
This should end foreign influence in our elections, China, which is an act of war, or illegals and the treasonist collusion of the Democrat Party in that activity. Actually, Trump is making it improbable for Republicans to cheat as well. Why wouldn’t Democrats want that too?
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. Read his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org. Column #888.
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