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The EU figured out they had a foreign interference problem a full decade ago. Their 2014 assessment documented systematic campaigns hitting member state elections, with foreign actors gaming European political party funding rules to push influence operations. The October 2014 statute had holes you could drive a truck through. What's striking is how early they spotted the coordinated playbook: target elections, trash confidence in institutions, exploit every political division they could find. foreigninterference.org/post… #foreigninterference #ElectionInterference #PoliticalDonationInfluence #DemocraticInstitutionTargeting
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France's foreign interference watchdog links Israeli firm BlackCore to digital interference operations in Scotland and New York, as well as French municipal elections, using fake websites and inauthentic accounts. #BlackCore #ElectionInterference
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Trump’s FBI showed up, without warrants, at the homes of Black and Brown voter registration canvassers in Ohio. They raided the Ohio Organizing Coalition’s offices. Over 100 agents. No charges. No crime. This is federal voter intimidation, happening right now, ahead of a major election cycle in a purple state. Wake up and fight back people because it’s coming to your state too.
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EO13818 #CrimesAgainstHumanity EO13848 #ElectionInterference Treason. Assets Seized. D E A T H Penalty. No Deals.
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I am alarmed and outraged by reports that Trump and Kash Patel’s FBI has raided the Ohio Organizing Collective in Cleveland. This appears to be a blatant effort to suppress and deny the vote of people in Northeast Ohio. These raids must end immediately.
🚨 ĐÁP ÁN NÓNG: Bản ghi âm bị rò rỉ phơi bày văn phòng DA Alvin Bragg chồng chất cáo buộc chống lại Trump. Mục tiêu duy nhất của họ? Can thiệp vào cuộc bầu cử. Bằng chứng họ đã nói dối bạn về tất cả mọi thứ. Đây là pháp lý chiến tranh thực sự và can thiệp bầu cử. ĐIỀU NÀY KHÔNG THỂ TIN ĐƯỢC. Bạn nghĩ sao? 👇 #AlvinBragg #TrumpTrial #ElectionInterference #Lawfare #DrainTheSwamp
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Kings never understand this. The more they try to silence us the louder we get.
And they said #electioninterference couldn’t be done
Pakistani are VOTING in US elections from INSIDE Pakistan through California. Like WT ACTUAL F?
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I'm not sure if President @realDonaldTrump is fully aware of this or not, but I am generally confident DC insiders understand the potential. Consider the NSA database is essentially a library of information of activity. Within that data, there is a flow of information related to election activity. Behind that thought you now have an expanded perspective of why the ODNI would be involved in election type investigative activity. Essentially, the data library shows XXX and the factual paperwork supporting XXX exists in actual warehouses. The data is within a digital library. The factual paperwork is on the ground. Now, pause. The lockbox to open the digital record is accessed using the recently discussed 702 pathways. As presented for several years, the FISA (702) key is a tool, and the tool is needed to unlock the data. Without FISA (702) there is no collection, because there is no need for metadata collection. Understood? FISA (702) is not about foreign stuff as it relates to the common discussion; instead, it is the baseline of the entire data capture. Understanding this takes you to a mental reset. The capture is never discussed (see Snowden and Clapper), we only see debate on the access. So, if you take your thinking back to the data collection itself, then you ask what is in that massive digital vault we call the NSA library. There's a lot of stuff in there, including all of the electronic data that surrounds elections. All of that data can be filtered permitting a granular look at election outcomes and all the background electronic communication that comes attached to it. FISA (702) essentially represents the authority, the key that unlocks the ability to review the data. Think very carefully. If the database contains the digital records of elections, and if those digital records show manipulation of election data, then accessing that massive library would represent a risk. How many people in DC are in elected office as a result of election manipulation? Now, does the extreme concern from specific people in congress start to take on a new context?
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Between 1946 and 2000, the United States and Soviet Union intervened in roughly one out of every nine competitive national elections worldwide. That's not an estimate or a guess. That's what the data shows when you actually count. The numbers come from systematic analysis of electoral interference operations through 2003, and they paint a picture that's both grimmer and more routine than most people realize. We're not talking about a few high-profile coups or the occasional CIA adventure story. This was business as usual for both superpowers, deployed with the regularity of quarterly earnings reports. The methods were surprisingly consistent across both sides of the Iron Curtain. Covert funding for preferred political parties, media manipulation campaigns, direct support for individual candidates. Both Washington and Moscow had clearly developed playbooks for this stuff, complete with sophisticated analysis of local political dynamics and systematic identification of vulnerabilities in democratic systems. What's striking isn't just the scale but the targeting logic. These weren't random interventions or crimes of opportunity. The superpowers focused on strategic allies and contested regions where electoral outcomes could shift geopolitical alignments. Every intervention was a chess move in the broader game of regional power balances. The Soviet approach and the American approach were remarkably similar in structure, which tells you something important about how state-level electoral interference actually works. It's not an art form or an expression of national character. It's a standardized toolkit that any sufficiently motivated and capable state actor can deploy. These operations established the foundational precedents for everything we see today in foreign election interference. The basic insight was simple and devastating: democratic openness creates exploitable vulnerabilities. Why invade a country when you can just help install a government that already agrees with you? The historical framework reveals something uncomfortable about how democratic institutions have been viewed by great powers since the end of World War II. Democracy wasn't sacred. It was a system to be gamed, and both superpowers got very good at gaming it. The sophistication of these operations also challenges any notion that election interference is a recent invention of the internet age. The tactics have evolved, but the strategic thinking goes back decades. Social media didn't create this problem. It just made the old problems faster and cheaper to execute. Looking at the 54-year span of documented interventions, you see clear evidence that both the US and USSR treated electoral interference as a routine foreign policy tool, not an exceptional measure. The consistency of deployment suggests this wasn't about responding to specific threats or opportunities. This was standard operating procedure. The research also shows how these interventions exploited the fundamental tension in democratic systems: the very openness that makes democracy valuable also makes it vulnerable to manipulation by actors who don't share democratic values. Both superpowers understood this paradox and built their interference operations around it. What emerges from the historical analysis is a pattern of systematic exploitation of democratic processes by authoritarian and semi-authoritarian state actors who viewed elections primarily as mechanisms for advancing geopolitical objectives rather than expressions of popular will. The documented operations through 2003 represent just the visible portion of what was almost certainly a much larger ecosystem of foreign political influence. These are the interventions we can prove happened, not necessarily all the ones that did happen. The framework established during this period created expectations and norms around great power behavior that persist today. When we see electoral interference operations now, we're seeing the latest iteration of tactics and strategies that were developed and refined over decades of Cold War competition. The historical precedents also help explain why electoral interference has proven so persistent despite repeated exposure and condemnation. For the major powers involved, this wasn't a deviation from normal behavior. It was normal behavior. foreigninterference.org/post… #foreigninterference #CovertMediaFunding #ElectionInterference #PoliticalInfiltration
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