Left wing groups have a fortune to spend on election and voting procedures in 2024, which means what began in 2020 is only going to get worse.

This is not money that will be spent on campaign ads. It will be spent on vote harvesting, election workers, getting out the vote, and mail-in voting.

This is what worked for Democrats in 2020 and 2022. They are not going to drop these methods, they are doubling down on them.

Real Clear Investigations reports:

Leftist Groups Tapping $1 Billion to Vastly Expand the Private Financing of Public Elections

Democrats and their progressive allies are vastly expanding their unprecedented efforts, begun in 2020, to use private money to influence and run public elections.

Supported by groups with more than $1 billion at their disposal, according to public records, these partisan groups are working with state and local boards to influence functions that have long been the domain of government or political parties.

Registering and turning out voters – once handled primarily by political parties – and design of election office websites and mail-in ballots are being handed over to those same nonprofits, which are staffed by progressive activists that include former Democratic Party advocates, organized labor adherents and community organizers.

Republicans have opposed such efforts, passing legislation in 24 states since 2020 curbing the private financing of elections. But the GOP does not have a comparable, boots-on-the-ground effort to influence election boards and workers, and the private-funding bans haven’t proved absolute in some states.

“There is a cottage industry of 501c3s in public policy and in the political arena, trying to shape the future of immigration or education or any other topic,” said Kimberly Fiorello, a former Republican state representative in Connecticut. “Increasingly they are about elections, election administration, election technology, ballot design, and all with big funding. These groups seem innocuous, but they aren’t innocuous because they are funded by one political side.”

Many of the progressive groups seeking to influence elections are connected to Arabella Advisors, a Washington-based, for-profit consulting company founded by Eric Kessler, a White House appointee during the Clinton administration.

Arabella’s projects, which include the New Venture Fund, the Hopewell Fund, the Sixteen Thirty Fund and Secure Democracy USA, had combined revenues of $1.3 billion between 2020 and 2021, tax filings show. Nonprofits supported by Arabella in 2020 gave out $529 million to “defend democracy.”

Republican officials and Republican voters alike have got to find a way to counter this.

Democrats are so sure of their efforts that they’re not even bothering to campaign anymore. See Katie Hobbs in Arizona and Basement Biden for examples.

Democrats will keep doing this until it doesn’t work anymore.

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As the Chinese Communist Party is demanding Sen. Josh Hawley takes down his COVID Origins Bill as reported by The Gateway Pundit and the Department of Energy and FBI are acknowledging that COVID likely came from a Wuhan Lab, new evidence reported by The Atlantic has just emerged suggesting it came from…checks notes…”raccoon dogs”.

Cute little guys!

According to The Atlantic‘s most recent article conveniently titled “The Strongest Evidence Yet That an Animal Started the Pandemic”:

“…many scientists have stood by the notion that this outbreak—like most others—had purely natural roots. But that hypothesis has been missing a key piece of proof: genetic evidence from the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China, showing that the virus had infected creatures for sale there.”

Now, an international team of virologists, genomicists, and evolutionary biologists may have finally found crucial data to help fill that knowledge gap. A new analysis of genetic sequences collected from the market shows that raccoon dogs being illegally sold at the venue could have been carrying and possibly shedding the virus at the end of 2019. It’s some of the strongest support yet, experts told me, that the pandemic began when SARS-CoV-2 hopped from animals into humans, rather than in an accident among scientists experimenting with viruses.”

How convenient.

This data apparently comes from Chinese scientists who have submitted a paper awaiting publication.  It has not been peer reviewed, however, The Atlantic and other mockingbird outlets couldn’t wait to suggest the Department of Energy and the FBI that they are wrong.

The Washington Post couldn’t wait to run the unpublished, not yet peer reviewed “study”.  The WaPo article states:

The new evidence comes via swabs taken in animal stalls at the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan. Investigators collected them in early 2020 after the market had been closed and all the animals removed. Oneswab contained a mixture of genetic material that included a large amount from a raccoon dog along with tracesfrom the coronavirus, said Stephen Goldstein, a virologist at the University of Utah who was part of the team that analyzed the data.

I guess the source of the global pandemic that killed millions wasn’t important enough an issue to adequately complete the analysis of the swabs they took over 3 years ago in “early 2020”.

A raccoon dog, despite the name, is an actual dog that is close to the fox in terms of genetics that lives in East Asia.  This is the first mention of a “raccoon dog”, or any dog for that, being the originator of the COVID-19 virus with this “new evidence” found over three and a half years after the COVID-19 virus was first discovered.

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