‘Corrupting US Elections’ - Americans Charged With Working for the Russians
‘Corrupting US Elections’ - Americans Charged With Working for the Russians
‘Russia Russia Russia’ = not a hoax
Last week, I pulled together my key reporting from the last two years so you would have an arsenal of facts at your disposal. My goal was for you to clearly see how Russia was waging war on the West, with the help of American traitors.
One of the stories that I included was my investigation into an FSB cutout who was paying American political groups - on the left and on the right - to create chaos and destabilization, dividing citizens against each other. They were being paid to interfere with our elections. They were being paid to divide our states. They were being paid to spout pro-Kremlin talking points about the war in Ukraine. They were being paid to be traitors to the United States of America.
And today, they got served.
When I reported on the story last year, I had to piece together which organizations were being used by the Kremlin in my own internal investigation.
Today, the Department of Justice confirmed my investigation when it indicted four US citizens and three Russian nationals for working on behalf of the Russian government and the Russian Federal Security Service - FSB.
The Russian nationals indicted recruited and paid US political groups to “act as unregistered foreign agents of the Russian government.”
“The indicted intelligence officers, in particular, participated in covertly funding and directing candidates for local office within the United States.”
There are no rear areas in active measures, and the Russians have been attacking our elections - and not just their 2016 presidential coup but in our very own communities.
“Russia’s foreign intelligence service allegedly weaponized our First Amendment rights – freedoms Russia denies its own citizens – to divide Americans and interfere in elections in the United States,” said Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen of the Justice Department’s National Security Division. “The department will not hesitate to expose and prosecute those who sow discord and corrupt U.S. elections in service of hostile foreign interests, regardless of whether the culprits are U.S. citizens or foreign individuals abroad.”
The Russian government is using cheap tricks and cheap people to destroy us from within, and the tentacles of interference are everywhere - even in city council races.
As I wrote last year, the op to have California break off from the United States was Russian funded, and who should appear in my reporting, but the ‘bad boys of Brexit’ - Nigel Farage and Arron Banks, who met with Russia’s favorite Congressman Dana Rohrabacher to promote CalExit.
“Today’s announcement paints a harrowing picture of Russian government actions and the lengths to which the FSB will go to interfere with our elections, sow discord in our nation and ultimately recruit U.S citizens to their efforts,” said Acting Assistant Director Kurt Ronnow of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division. “All Americans should be deeply concerned by the tactics employed by the FSB and remain vigilant to any attempt to undermine our democracy.”
I must note that the term ‘sow discord’ needs to replaced with ‘military attacks on our country’.
We are being attacked by the Russian military, which is using our own stupid fucking people to attack us from within.
As Todd Helmus, a senior behavioral scientist at RAND, told us on Ep28 of RadPod:
“Russia, in 2016, 2018, 2020, they’re targeting both the left and the right. The interesting approach about what Russia does is they take people’s views and make them more extreme. They want conservatives to not just be conservatives - they want them to hate immigrants. They don’t want African Americans to just be suspicious in how the Western world engages with them, they want them to be isolationist and militaristic. They wanted to turn Hillary Clinton supporters into Bernie supporters. Whatever position they’re in, they want them further away. The whole goal of that - and they definitely supported Trump over Clinton, was clear - they want to make Americans hate each other.”
Today’s superseding indictment reveals that the Russians “conspired to directly and substantially influence democratic elections in the United States by clandestinely funding and directing the political campaign of a particular candidate for local office in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 2019… and subsequently discussed that the ‘USA Presidential election’ was the FSB’s ‘main topic of the year.’”
Are you guys okay with Russian and American traitors interfering with our elections? I’m not.
Russia is a genocidal mafia state.
Among the Americans who were indicted for working for the Russians in a years-long foreign malign influence campaign targeting the United States are:
Omali Yeshitela, a U.S. citizen residing in St. Petersburg, Florida, and St. Louis, Missouri, who served as the chairman and founder of the African People’s Socialist Party and the Uhuru Movement - APSP;
Penny Joanne Hess, a U.S. citizen residing in St. Petersburg, Florida, and St. Louis, Missouri, who served as the leader of a component of the APSP;
Jesse Nevel, a U.S. citizen residing in St. Petersburg, Florida, and St. Louis, Missouri, who served as a member of a component of the APSP; and
Augustus C. Romain Jr., aka Gazi Kodzo, a U.S. citizen residing in St. Petersburg, Florida, and Atlanta, who served as a leader of the APSP and a founder of Black Hammer in Georgia.
Each of the Americans indicted for being paid by the Russians are charged with using their platforms to promote Russian propaganda, promoting the war in Ukraine.
Recall from our teachings by Ruth Ben-Ghiat, propaganda is never just words - it’s designed by repetition and frequency to alter people’s minds.
According to the court documents, Americans made statements showing solidarity with the Russian government, promoting the lies that to support Ukraine was to support ‘Naziism and white supremacy’.
Court documents also revealed a Russian national, Natalia Burlinova, a resident of Moscow, “conspired with an FSB officer to recruit U.S. citizens from academic and research institutions to travel to Russia to participate in a public diplomacy program called Meeting Russia. The program was operated by PICREADI, a Russian organization led by Burlinova, funded by the Russian government and devoted to promoting Russian national interests.”
As I have written previously, the FBI warned in 2014 about Russian infiltration into Silicon Valley and academia, and how that would impact our national security.
Russia is trying to make America appear ungovernable - both on a federal level and in our own communities.
As I wrote in The Rolling Insurrection: How Putin Is Waging a Covert War Against the West this is all part of a global attempt by Russia to destroy its perceived enemies.
We know Russia infiltrated the NRA, and all those mass shootings that the GOP appears to be so fond of are part of active measures to create fear and destabilization.
“Mass shootings normalize terror and create a traumatized population that views strangers with suspicion and fear,” said Ruth Ben-Ghiat.
A teenage boy was shot by knocking on the wrong door.
As Bette member Michael MacKay noted in the Rolling Insurrection report: “The global rolling insurrection is being carried out by zombies, the walking dead: people who have been separated from a supportive communal life. They are easily directed by Russian information warriors and other malign actors to lash out against a civil society which they don't understand but which they hate. People who no longer aspire to living as human beings in communities with shared values are the most dangerous people of all. To paraphrase the Sex Pistols song, they don't know what they want but they know how to get it.”
The Department of Justice confirmed we are not imagining the depth of Russian infiltration into our communities. We must confront it to defeat it. Those of us who are aware cannot be afraid to tell others just how real it is.
When you see Elon Musk and Trump on the disgraced Fox News network, being interviewed by Tucker Carlson, whose dad has financial ties to Viktor Orbán that contract his son to interview Orbán goons, know that it’s mere reputation washing. These men simp for the Russians and other foreign enemy states.
Today, we got one step closer to exposing traitors on our shores.
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