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ActBlue PAC Registration & Conduit Structure (US)

Campaign Finance, Established Fact, Financial Influence, United States /

Established Fact ActBlue is registered with the FEC as a qualified non-connected committee (C00401224) and operates as a conduit fundraising platform, collecting and transmitting contributions to Democratic candidates while retaining a 3.95% processing fee per transaction. Citations FEC Committee Profile, ActBlue (C00401224), FEC.gov, https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00401224/ Presidential Memorandum, Investigation into Unlawful “Straw Donor” and Foreign Contributions in

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The Silent Architecture of Digital Vote Manipulation (US)

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Established Fact In this testimony before Congress, Dr. Robert Epstein warns that Big Tech companies like Google pose a monumental threat to democratic integrity through hidden psychological influence. His research highlights the search engine manipulation effect, a phenomenon where biased algorithms can silently shift the preferences of undecided voters without leaving a visual trail. Epstein

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FBI “Operation Arctic Frost” Targeting (US)

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Established Fact [Established Fact – Existence and scope of Arctic Frost] The FBI opened “Operation Arctic Frost,” a multi-agency investigation into pro-Trump organizations and individuals, ultimately subpoenaing or interviewing scores of Republican entities and figures. A 2025 Senate oversight letter and a 2024 institutional-governance analysis both document that the set of groups targeted by Arctic

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DHS/CISA-GEC-EIP Convergence and the Hunter Biden Laptop Narrative (US)

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Established Fact [Established Fact – Timing and coordination] On October 14, 2020, the day the New York Post published the Hunter Biden laptop story, DHS/CISA recommended that the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC) – an entity statutorily aimed at foreign propaganda – contact EIP and integrate its efforts into the 2020 “election misinformation” workflow.

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Transition Integrity Project (TIP) “Election Crisis” Simulations (US)

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Established Fact [Established Fact – As to the content of TIP planning documents] The Transition Integrity Project, a pre-election “war game” convening former officials and operatives, ran scenarios that explicitly contemplated using coordinated media narratives, orchestrated street protests, and elite pressure on state officials to secure a desired outcome if President Trump contested the results.

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CISA-EIP Domestic Censorship Architecture (US)

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Established Fact CISA requested the creation of the Election Integrity Partnership in July 2020, then fed state/NGO complaints into EIP’s Jira system, monitored outcomes, and celebrated successful takedowns. EIP partners (Stanford Internet Observatory, UW Center for an Informed Public, Graphika, Atlantic Council DFRLab) systematically targeted “delegitimization of election results” narratives, a category that disproportionately encompassed

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Re-framing Verified Reporting on Discarded Ballots as “Mail Dumping Myths” (WI)

Established Fact, Influence Operation, Information Control, United States, Wisconsin /

Established Fact In Greenville, Wisconsin, local media accurately reported an incident of discarded absentee ballots. EIP analysts, citing that reporting, categorized the story as part of a “mail dumping” disinformation narrative and pushed platforms to deprioritize or label related content. Rather than correcting any specific factual error, the operation treated accurate but politically inconvenient reporting

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Coordinated Suppression of Legal Allegations Concerning Philadelphia Election Procedures (PA)

Established Fact, Influence Operation, Information Control, Pennsylvania, United States /

Established Fact EIP and CISA collaborated to label and suppress high-profile statements by attorney Harmeet Dhillon and former Speaker Newt Gingrich concerning alleged denial of lawful observation in Philadelphia and related election-law issues. Their public legal arguments, grounded in sworn declarations from Pennsylvania poll watchers, were categorized as “delegitimization” and “disinformation,” and flagged for platform

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Narrative Control of the Antrim County Tabulation Failure (MI)

Established Fact, Influence Operation, Information Control, Michigan, United States /

Established Fact After Antrim County reported a confirmed mis-tabulation that temporarily flipped a historically Republican county to Biden, state officials, working within the CISA/EIP information-control architecture, pressed platforms to treat discussion of the Antrim incident as “conspiracy theory” or “misinformation.” EIP records show that posts by the sitting President, as well as Michigan-based election-integrity content

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Hunter Biden Laptop Suppression by Intelligence Community and Platform Coordination (US)

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Established Fact [Established Fact – Coordination] Fifty-one former senior intelligence officials signed a public letter on October 19, 2020, characterizing the Hunter Biden laptop story – published by the New York Post – as bearing “the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” The New York Post’s Twitter account was locked. Facebook reduced distribution of

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