Patrick Colbeck

DHS February 2022 Terrorism Advisory – Chilling of Election Integrity Speech (US)

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Reasonable Inference [Reasonable Inference – Chilling effect on investigative journalism and litigation] The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued a Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin on February 7, 2022, explicitly classifying “false or misleading narratives regarding unsubstantiated widespread election fraud” as a “terrorism threat driver.” This bulletin was issued in the post-election period while litigation and

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DHS February 2022 Terrorism Advisory (US)

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Established Fact [Established Fact – Bulletin issued and content documented] The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued a Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin on February 7, 2022, explicitly classifying “false or misleading narratives regarding unsubstantiated widespread election fraud” as a “terrorism threat driver.” This bulletin was issued in the post-election period while litigation and investigation into

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Mesa County, CO Election System Discoveries Made Possible by Tina Peters

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Established Fact Tina Peters is the former Mesa County, CO clerk who was sentenced to nine years in prison for making forensic copies of her Dominion Election Management System (EMS) server in the wake of the 2020 election cycle.  In so doing, Tina prevented the destruction of election records for both the 2020 and 2021

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Seditious Conspiracy by Federal Employees (US)

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On October 28, 2020, Nadine Bloch with Feds for Democracy moderated a training session for federal workers called “Democracy Defense”.  The session is a live Zoom meeting with an unspecified number of attendees — all identified as current federal government employees — less than one week before the 2020 election. The session features two primary speakers: Laura

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Election Simulation: Timeline to a Meltdown

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At an unspecified time before the 2020 general election, a structured political war-gaming exercise was conducted in which participants are assigned roles as different “fictitious” activist and political organizations and tasked with developing action plans to “move the needle” in a contested election environment. The session is led by Nadine Bloch (facilitator, affiliated with Shutdown

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Fabrication of Forensic Audit Via Official Press Release – Raffensperger November 17, 2020 (GA)

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Disputed Fact On November 17, 2020, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger issued a press release announcing the successful completion of a voting machine audit using “forensic techniques” that “found no sign of foul play.” This press release was disseminated by major media outlets as confirmation of Georgia’s election security and was used to shape the

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The Count: Seditious Conspiracy Planning

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In the tense weeks before the November 2020 presidential election, three progressive organizers sat down and wrote out, step by step, how they believed a sitting president might try to hold onto power after losing — and what ordinary citizens and elected officials could do to stop it. The result was a roughly 40-page strategy

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Secretary Benson Knowingly False Public Statement Regarding Window Obstruction at TCF (MI)

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Disputed Fact [Disputed Fact – As to whether knowingly false] Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson publicly stated on radio that the window obstruction at the TCF Center was done by police because challengers were “breaking the windows.” This statement was demonstrably false: the pizza boxes and cardboard were placed on the inside of the

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Secretary Benson False Public Statement Regarding Window Obstruction at TCF (MI)

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Established Fact [Established Fact – Statement made; inside placement of cardboard confirmed] Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson publicly stated on radio that the window obstruction at the TCF Center was done by police because challengers were “breaking the windows.” This statement was demonstrably false: the pizza boxes and cardboard were placed on the inside

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CISA Created the Election Integrity Partnership to Circumvent the First Amendment – Explicit Government Acknowledgment of Constitutional Evasion (US)

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Established Fact The most constitutionally significant documented fact in this investigation is CISA’s own internal acknowledgment that no government agency possessed “the explicit mandate to monitor and correct election mis- and disinformation,” and that the EIP was created to fill this acknowledged “critical gap” in government legal authority. This language – documented in internal CISA

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