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Civil wars do not develop overnight.  It takes years, even decades, for revolutionary movements to grow, sapping the morale of the established order and concealing their ultimate goals until they reach enough strength.  Then the pent-up political bubble bursts.  And when that happens, events move very, very fast.  Many people cannot process the unpleasantness and rapidity of what’s happening and go into massive denial.  In our current situation that translates into: “Yes, many people are acting crazy, but they don’t represent the vast majority of Americans.” We are at that final stage today.  The bubble has burst and revolution in the form of civil war has come to America.  You can deny it but that doesn’t stop it from happening.  Or, as the saying goes, you can run but you can’t hide. I see four main stages that have led to our present situation: Stage 1: The revolutionary Left grows methodically and largely unnoticed over a period of decades It concentrates on capturing two segments of the population that will prove invaluable at the end—the schools and the media.  Rather than seeking to turn most of them into hard-core revolutionaries overnight, it appropriates righteous-sounding causes that can be captured with bumper-sticker slogans and phrases—“civil rights,” “end racism,” “democracy now,” and such.  And the targets—teachers, professors, and students, including those in our journalism schools—are indoctrinated in the message that there is “no enemy to the Left.”  The enemies of these righteous aspirations are always to the Right. This process has been going on since the beginning of the twentieth century—a long time.  It has met with no effective opposition from the vast majority of Americans, who are too busy with daily life to notice.  Marriage, children, jobs, and all the diversions of daily life (sports, gadgets, community life, and yes—“politics” itself) keep them occupied.  But over those many decades the education and media institutions are growing more and more leftist, and more and more alienated from traditional American values. It’s not that the “silent majority” is totally oblivious to what is going on.  There are periodic political realignments (Nixon and his Sunbelt Strategy, the “Reagan revolution”) but they are surface skirmishes, concentrating on the next election.  There is no effective long-term strategy to counter the leftist capture of the education and media establishments.  This leads to… Stage 2:  Growing partisanship and realignment Most noticeable is the political partisanship.  The two dominant parties create legal barriers that prevent competition from any new party.  And without effective competition, conservatives migrate to the Republican Party and liberals to the Democratic Party.  This is the realignment that has captured the headlines. With the growing pervasiveness of the media in our lives, media alignment becomes important.  With their capture of the journalism schools and other educational institutions, liberals get virtually all of the mainstream media—the TV networks and cable channels, and what’s left of print newspapers and magazines.  Conservatives get part of Fox News but are mostly relegated to Internet and social media sites.  Those areas are basically a “No Man’s Land” where Left and Right battle it out for influence. Less noticed is the realignment in daily life and where we reside.  At first it was conservatives moving to the suburbs, leaving liberals to dominate the cities.  But then the suburbs became a battleground, and the big geographical division today consists of the East Coast and West Coast (the Left) against the Heartland (the Right).  The Left has the population advantage, the Right is left with a few precarious institutional advantages such as the Electoral College. The scene is set for the next stage… Stage 3:  Donald Trump’s election leads to open, nontraditional political warfare by the Left Nobody expected this to happen.  Certainly not on the Left—their institutions, notably the media and the polls—assured them that Hillary Clinton would become the first female president of the United States.  And not on the Right either—it was thoroughly demoralized since it absorbed the same media onslaught and the same polls, and in addition was perplexed by its strange candidate, who had no traditional political background and who said things that supposedly had made him unelectable. But it did happen, thanks to fed-up voters in the Heartland and to the Electoral College.  With that epochal upset, all political hell broke loose.  The Democrats, now effectively captured by the Left, no longer accepted the traditional notion that elections decide who wins and who loses.  Even before Trump took office, they refused to accept his political legitimacy and declared no-holds-barred warfare under the leadership of Nancy Pelosi.  In collusion with the Deep State, which saw its dominance threatened by some of Trump’s stated positions, the Democrats created the myth of “Russian collusion.”  That didn’t fly with the facts or the public.  Then they tried impeachment, but that stalled in the Senate and also didn’t fly with the American public.  They tried a gutter smear campaign against his appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, and that worked against them. Totally frustrated, they realized that the economy was Trump’s strongest argument for reelection.  And with the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic, they saw their opportunity to crash the American economy.  But they are haunted by memories of how they were totally blindsided in 2016.  They see this 2020 election as their last chance to drive Trump and his supporters out of political contention forever.  So, anything goes, which brings us to… Stage 4:  Open revolution now leads America to a new civil war The revolutionary Left is the Democrats’ Frankenstein monster.  They nurtured it and coddled it all along, for decades, out of ideological sympathy and perceived political advantages—all those harmless crazies brought constituencies and fervent energy to a soulless party now dominated by Wall Street billionaires, Silicon Valley billionaires, the Deep State and the Pentagon, and, at a less lofty altitude, self-enriching bureaucrats. But now the monster has broken loose from his chains, bringing fire and destruction to Democrat-led cities from Portland to New York, from Minneapolis to Atlanta.  And the Democrats are now the servant of the monster, not its master.  They dare not defy it, lest the monster turn its wrath on its creator. It is now clear that no matter who wins in November, the civil war will continue. Thus we have Hillary Clinton instructing this year’s Democratic presidential candidate: “Joe Biden should not concede under any circumstances”—even if he doesn’t win on Election Day.  The fight will “drag out, and eventually I do believe he will win if we don’t give an inch” (by conceding the election). And we have Nancy Pelosi declaring outright that President Trump and the Republicans are “enemies of the state.”  And you know what happens, or should happen, to enemies of the state. We also have the word of Kamala Harris, who as Joe Biden’s running mate has her own visions of being president within years, or perhaps months.  In an interview with Stephen Colbert, she promises that the “protests” are “not going to stop.”  She explains that “this is a movement,” and the riots “are not going to let up and they should not and we should not.” Hillary, Nancy, and Kamala are backed by the likes of Vicky Osterweil, promoting her new book In Defense of Looting.  (You can’t make up stuff like this.  Check out the new book on Amazon.)  Looting, she explains, is just a “method of direct redistribution of wealth, from the store owners and capitalists to the poor.”  Indeed, “It attacks the idea of property” and “the very basis of property in the U.S. is derived through whiteness and through Black oppression.”   NPR (funded by you dumb taxpayers) predictably gave her a very respectful hearing.  So did the leftist Huffington Post. The “educated” revolutionaries and the “educated” media.  No enemy to the Left.  See what I mean? Finally, now, after months of growing rioting and violence, we actually have guillotines in the streets (mock guillotines, at least for the present).  In homage to their bloody ancestors in the French Revolution, Portland rioters roll a mock guillotine with a stuffed bear (a Trumpy Bear?) into the street, as they burn American flags.  And if you still don’t get the message, in Washington—outside the White House—they parade a life-sized Trump doll with its head under a guillotine. Do you still believe the revolution is a fantasy? This article was originally published by Richardcyoung.com and is reposted here by the gracious permission of the author and Richard C. Young. [All hope is not lost.  There’s the possibility their civil war may tear apart the Democratic Party.  That’s the subject of David Franke’s  next article, “The Civil War Inside the Democratic Party.”] David Franke David Franke was one of the founders of the conservative movement in the late 1950s and early 1960s, starting his media career at Human Events and National Review (editorial assistant to William F. Buckley Jr.). His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Esquire, and many other publications. His books have included Safe Places, The Torture Doctor, Richard C. Young’s Financial Armadillo Strategy (as co-author to Dick Young), and America’s Right Turn (with Richard A. Viguerie). He was Senior Editor of Silver & Gold Report in the 1980s, and served as the writer/editor of John Naisbitt’s Trend Letter in the 1990s. A native Texan, David now lives in Virginia’s beautiful Shenandoah Valley. 2020 Election anarchists anti-government antifa Bob Avakian CHAZ CHOP Communists Department of Homeland Security Department of Justice Emgage Action Federal Protection Service Homeland Security Million Muslim Votes summit Muslim Brotherhood Rep. Karen Bass Revolutionary Communist Party Secretary Chad Wolf

Betting odds, “Joe Hiden” and going straight from the practice field to the Super Bowl In “normal” (is there such a thing anymore?) presidential election years, most Americans would pause during the Labor Day holiday to take a rest from politics before the all-out fury of the fall campaign to come. But a respite from the contentious environment engulfing the nation in 2020 doesn’t look to be in the cards this time. With the fate of the nation possibly on the ballot in two months, there’s no opportunity to kick-it at the beach and not be concerned about the future. The candidates themselves are (supposedly) primed and ready to go, and judging by the rancor and insults that both President Donald Trump and challenger Joe Biden are exchanging, it’s bound to be one heck of a nasty battle, one that should disprove the notion that 2016 was a once-in-a-lifetime unpleasant election for the politically timid. Whatever the polls might say, the betting odds are starting to edge towards the incumbent, which is bound to foster unease among the liberal party brain trust.  Seth McLaughlin reported at The Washington Times, “Joseph R. Biden is assuming a bigger presence on the campaign trail, shifting away from his basement-dwelling strategy in a tightening race with President Trump roughly two months from Election Day… “’It appears that the RNC messaging — softer image for Trump and ‘law and order’ — has resonated somewhat,’ said Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute. ‘Biden is now countering that. But obviously, since he just started, we can’t know if it is working yet.’ Bookies took note, according to betting aggregators at US-Bookies.com who said Wednesday that for the first time since early June, Mr. Trump is the favorite to win a second four-year term… “Mr. Trump, meanwhile, has always been eager to return to traditional campaign mode and hold rallies with his fervent supporters. He has ridiculed Mr. Biden’s low-profile approach and goaded him to be more visible, confident the former vice president will crack under brighter lights. Before an event Wednesday in North Carolina, Mr. Trump dubbed the Democratic presidential nominee ‘Joe Hiden.’” Clever, isn’t it? It’s almost like “Joe Hiden” is catchier and more memorable than “Crooked Hillary” was four years ago. For what it’s worth, the betting odds at Real Clear Politics yesterday showed the race at 50-50. But the message is clear: as the horserace hits its home stretch, both candidates are very much in the game and they’re competing not so much to attract new voters who haven’t yet made up their minds as they are working overtime to ensure every single potential partisan voter turns out to cast a ballot. Trump’s strategy has been transparent for a long time. The president hopes to replicate his aggressive and successful 2016 rallies to the greatest extent possible under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP, or Wuhan, if you prefer) virus lockdowns while touting his pre-coronavirus economic policies. He’ll also fiercely defend his administration’s virus response while placing responsibility for the world leading number of cases and deaths at the feet of blue state governors and mayors who inflated the tragedy by sending infected individuals into senior care facilities. Further, these same liberal politicians placed stringent restrictions on businesses and individuals, purportedly to save lives. After six months of experience with COVID-19, it’s plainly evident that it’s not an equal opportunity killer (meaning, the elderly and sick are most at risk), yet the universal regulations remain in many spots. Unless you’re Nancy Pelosi, of course. And then there’s law and order, an issue tailor-made for Republicans -- and Trump especially. It’s no secret to those paying attention that Donald Trump backs the police, and he’s made his enthusiasm for the good guys in blue conspicuously apparent since day one. Tight law enforcement was a major part of his immigration-based message, and controlling America’s streets goes along with it. Then there’s Grampa Joe, a half-century “experienced” swamp dweller who’s been for and against practically every contentious issue for decades. The Delaware pol was once known as a “moderate” (he wasn’t) on policing and criminal justice, but now Biden’s completely thrown-in with the Black Lives Matter crowd. He’s emerging from his basement hideout to combat the image that he’s too old and decrepit to handle the job as president. “Ask yourself, do I look like a radical socialist with a soft spot for rioters?” Biden said the other day. Since none of the few reporters in attendance gave Joe the dignity of answering him, I will. Yes, Joe, you do look like a radical socialist when you hang out with Bernie Sanders and Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez (among others). Sanders himself bragged that a Biden administration would be even more “progressive” than was Obama’s. That’s saying a lot. As far as a “soft spot for rioters”, we all know Biden’s overtly racial pitch fits right in with those marching and shouting and thrusting their fists in the air, who merely supply cover for the anarchists and rioters imbedded among them. The latter group may be much smaller in number, but they’re out there -- and blue state mayors and governors aren’t inclined to do whatever is needed to stop them. Democrats and liberals love the saying “By any means necessary” when it comes to social change, but they shrink from the mantra in ending the violence. What was it that finally spurred Grampa Joe to agree to leave the comfortable confines of his basement bunker? Will he now make regular appearances on the campaign trail, all the while risking his polling lead in his attempt to keep gaffes to a tolerable level? Biden’s Democrat primary campaigning was cut short due to COVID-19. Now he’s going back to the grind with precious little practice in recent months. I doubt a pro football team would go straight from the pre-season practice field to the Super Bowl. But these are unusual times we live in. The moment Joe Biden realized he needed to go on the road to campaign… Deep within the heart of Joe Biden’s residence the morning after Donald Trump’s acceptance speech to the Republican National Convention last week: Bbbuuuuzzzzz. (Loudly blaring recognizable tune with a slight lyrical change) “Hit the Road, Joe! And don’t you come back no more, no more, no more, no more -- Hit the Road, Joe! And don’t you come back no mmmooooorrrreee.” “What the heck is that?” Joe Biden shouted to no one in particular. Up to that moment, the Democrat nominee was snuggling comfortably with his fuzzy oversized stuffed Biden-Harris pillow that son Hunter hired one of his pals in China to make for him, content to sleep away the a.m. hours like he’d done for over five months now. The bedroom was finely decked out in White House living quarters décor, a gift from his old boss and bosom chum Barack Obama as a favor, to get the man used to greeting a new day in his future home. Joe didn’t realize it, but Obama had solicited funds from major Democrat donors for the project, intending to minimize the 78-year-old mentally slipping president’s shock when he’s called to move to a new environment. As everyone knows, Biden’s served in Washington since the early 70’s but his official residence always remained in Delaware, where he commuted to-and-fro using AMTRAK. At Joe’s age, it’s not easy to make a transition, is it? “Good morning, Joe, and ain’t it a loooveely morning?” Biden swore he’d heard the greeting said just like that in the foggiest reaches of his memory, but resisted answering in the same way the old woman did in the wonderfully non-politically correct Blazing Saddles, circa 1971. (click here, if you dare). He already had enough problems with race as it was… why fan the flames? The phony and forced cheerful voice belonged to running mate Kamala Harris. The mask-less VP nominee personally selected the alarm music to get Joe in the proper mindset for the coming weeks. She wasn’t the least bit taken aback by seeing Biden in his PJs, especially after talking with his Secret Service detail about him. The female agents relayed vivid stories about how the president-in-waiting had a fondness for skinny dipping. She was relieved he was wearing anything at all. “You gotta get up, Joe. We need to get you used to campaigning again. That devil Trump is going around the country speaking at airport hangars and telling everyone that you’re too lazy to conduct a traditional campaign. I can handle some of the load for you, but I don’t want to do everything.” Noticing an unused mask lying crumpled on the floor, Harris added, “Don’t forget to put that thing on. You got to get accustomed to wearing it 24/7, Joe. It’s your patriotic duty, right? How else are we gonna be able to keep lecturing people.” “Pfft,” Biden replied, not yet fully awake and wondering whether he could just close his peepers and snooze another hour or two without anyone noticing. Just then Harris prodded him with a yardstick she’d brought with her, wary that the old man might lash out at her like a nursing home patient who didn’t take kindly to his change in schedule. Joe paused a moment to rub his eyes, then arose with his back and knees audibly creaking under the strain. “I’ll give you seven minutes to get dressed and come downstairs. Don’t let me down, Joe,” Harris advised as she left the room, typical annoyance in her voice. Biden heard the loudness of her footsteps as she traipsed with purpose down the hallway, then skipped playfully down the wooden staircase. Kamala sighed and looked at those gathered around the large circular table in the kitchen nook. “He’s coming,” she smiled wryly and apologetically, feeling stupid for having to play nursemaid to another much older man. ‘I thought I was done doing this when I dumped Willie Brown all those years ago,’ she thought. (Brown was over thirty-years older than Harris when they “dated” while he was technically still married in the mid 1990’s.) Harris took a seat. Fittingly, there was no one to her left, the chair reserved for Biden himself. To her right were, in order, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren and, dropping in for a quick cup o’ Joe, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. “Oh, Andy,” Harris giggled like a starstruck teenaged schoolgirl. “I didn’t know you were gonna be here. We invited Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, since she’s the de facto ruler of the Empire State these days. But now that you’re here, what are you planning to tell Joe?” “I wanna tell Joe that Trump better have an army if he thinks he’s gonna walk down the street in New York. New Yorkers don’t want to have anything to do with him. He can’t have enough bodyguards to walk through New York City. People don’t want to have anything to do with him.” Cuomo replied matter-of-factly, drumming his thumbs on the placemat. The meeting attendees silently nodded in unison. Rather than being put-off and startled at the man’s overt threat to the president of the United States, they approved of the promise of future bodily harm. Obama thought to himself, but dared not speak his feelings. ‘Cuomo is Italian, right? Well, he certainly looks and sounds like a mafioso, so maybe he’s got a hit for Trump lined-up already.’ He grinned at the prospect. Didn’t Mario Puzo (in The Godfather) say, “Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.”? At that moment Biden appeared at the bottom of the stairs and gingerly staggered to the table with his top shirt buttons undone and sat down next to Harris. He slumped noticeably in his chair. Joe didn’t like being told what to do. Losing his patience, Obama blurted out, “Joe, you gotta get out on the campaign trail. Trump and his henchmen are totally taking over the law and order issue. (Glancing at Wheeler) Our local people are dropping the ball on this violence thing and if we don’t get out there and scare the feces out of people about the coronavirus again, they’re gonna start wanting to reelect Trump. That can’t happen.” Pelosi interjected. “Yeah, the big O is correct. The country isn’t talking about the China virus anymore. It’s almost like they don’t care. (Looking right at Wheeler) They’d rather fixate on stupid and misleading videos of buildings burning and those young people celebrating our country by lighting fireworks and shining lights in house windows and lasers at the police. “I mean, I could walk right in and get a hair appointment without even wearing a mask and no one would say a thing, would they? All of us don’t practice what we preach and the suckers -- I mean voters -- are getting wise to us. I could tell them to go eat cake again, but they’d probably just enjoy the food and forget all about us. The ruse is over. You have to convince them that they’re all about to drop dead if they go outside of their homes, Joe.” “Stop picking on me!” Ted ‘the worm’ Wheeler whined embarrassingly. “I told those little snots ‘Enough is enough.’ They don’t listen to me. I’m moving out of Portland, but Joe, maybe a visit or two will convince them to stop terrorizing everyone, particularly us Democrats. I fear Antifa is getting out of control. They might shoot somebody. We’re gonna get Trump reelected if we’re not careful.” No longer able to contain herself, “Pocahontas” dribbled, “Joe, I told you I should’ve been your VP choice. I’d treat you better than her (thrusting her finger at Harris, who looked shocked)! I’ll go out on the road with you. Where I come from, we call it a trail. Not a ‘campaign’ trail. Together we’ll light a ceremonial fire and do some dancin’ ‘round it. Maybe have us a beer because we’re regular folks. We’ll stop these riots by fashioning about two million peace pipes and stuffing them with reefer we buy locally in Portland with party money. I know just where to go! Or maybe Ted can point us in the right direction. We’ll give Trump the tomahawk, just like Andy would in New York City!” Biden yawned, then began mumbling. Clearing his throat, he said, “I told everyone that I’ve avoided in-person campaigning because I didn’t want to spread the virus. People are starting to see that’s malarkey. So next week, I’ll go to Pittsburgh. And Kenosha. And after Labor Day, I’ll try to get out more. For now, get out of here. I’ve got a massage scheduled and it’s gonna be pretty dang hot outside today and the pool beckons. Anyone wanna join me for a dip? No bathing suit required. I promise I won’t pull a JFK on ya.” --With the campaign seemingly having started months ago, Labor Day will not mark the beginning of the presidential election season this year. Joe Biden says he’s planning to start campaigning like a normal candidate would, but there are questions on how much he can handle. Meanwhile, Trump has seized the initiative. It will be bumpy from here on out. #BlackLives Matter 2016 election 2020 campaign 2020 Election Bernie Sanders CHAZ CHOP Conservatives defund the police Democrats Donald Trump Drain the swamp Elizabeth Warren Establishment Republicans George Floyd Hillary Clinton Joe Biden Kellyanne Conway Mike Pence monument defacing police brutality police reform Republicans riots Tim Scott Trump administration violence

As we have explained in several columns the Democrats do not plan to win the 2020 election. Instead they plan a coup, for which the Republicans and perhaps the Trump campaign appear to be totally unprepared. The reason for this apparent lack of preparedness is that the GOP and the Trump campaign assume they are facing the conventional Election Day threats of being inundated with mail-in ballots, garden variety vote fraud, such as individuals casting multiple in-person ballots, and the chaos attendant to conducting an election in the midst of media-generated pandemic hysteria. All those things will happen, but they are not what will determine the outcome of the election in the Democrats’ favor. To get rid of President Trump and to seize power permanently Democrats will rely on the principles of unconventional warfare. Here’s how it will work: Prior to the election, Democrat election officials, citing “systemic racism” will announce hundreds of new polling places will be opened in heavily Democrat urban areas in Democrat-controlled swing states, such as North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Election Day morning Democrats across the country will refuse to show-up to open the in-person voting sites in Republican areas, citing the danger of catching COVID-19. Without Democrat poll workers the polls cannot open. Meanwhile, in heavily Democrat areas the polls will open on time. Violent demonstrations will break out in suburban areas, thugs claiming to oppose “systemic racism” will show up outside suburban polling places. As Election Day progresses, citing “systemic racism” Democrats will file multiple lawsuits to keep the polls in heavily Democrat urban areas open past the statutory closing time. Rather than ask for the same extensions in heavily Republican areas the befuddled GOP will do nothing. Once the polls close and the counting begins President Trump will look like he is ahead, but Democrat election officials across the country will announce unspecified problems counting the ballots. Democrat election officials in Trump states, such as in Harris, Bexar and Dallas counties in Texas and Broward, Palm Beach and Leon counties in Florida will claim they cannot certify a winner by their respective states’ statutory deadlines, holding in abeyance certification of the Electoral College votes Trump needs to finally be declared the winner. President Trump, citing available information, will declare victory. Joe Biden will likewise declare victory and accuse President Trump of refusing to concede defeat and using voter suppression to stay in office by cancelling the votes of "black and brown people." Arguing “systemic racism” Democrats will go to court to overturn state statutory deadlines for submitting mail-in ballots, such as Florida’s “must arrive by Election Day” rule. Instead, Far Left Democrat judges will substitute their own arbitrary and capricious “standards” of what constitutes a legally cast ballot. While Democrat election officials are holding the count open, Far Left organizations and activists will sue to count thousands, perhaps millions, of ballots that are on their face defective or have been suddenly “found” outside the normal chain of custody. President Trump will criticize the Democrats' plan to "lawyer their way to the White House" but major news organizations will side with the Democrats and call upon President Trump to concede. While the count is being held open, huge, and often violent “count every vote” riots will be well-coordinated across the country. County court houses, election offices and the federal court houses where election-related lawsuits are being argued will be targeted. Massive and violent demonstrations and riots will be set-off in Washington, DC to intimidate the Supreme Court. Social media platforms will ban President Trump, claiming his posts criticizing the Democrats' plan to "lawyer their way to the White House" are fanning civil unrest. The military leadership quietly tells President Trump they will refuse any order to put down the riots with troops. December 8, 2020, the day all recounts and electoral disputes related to the presidential election are, by law, supposed to be resolved passes with Democrat election officials still withholding certification of the election and Far Left instigated lawsuits remain unresolved. The riots continue and grow in intensity. December 14, 2020, the meeting of the Electors mandated by the Constitution cannot take place because Democrat election officials continue to refuse to certify the results and lawsuits are still ongoing. The riots continue and grow in intensity. January 2, 2021, Speaker Pelosi convenes the House of Representatives and, citing the precedents established in the 1985 election in Indiana’s Eighth Congressional District, refuses to seat enough newly elected Republican Members of Congress to keep the House in Democrat hands, and prevents the House from fulfilling its constitutional role in deciding a disputed presidential election. Mitch McConnell seats newly elected Democrats creating a 50-50 tie in the Senate, with defiant RINO Senators Mitt Romney and Lisa Murkowski threatening to vote with the Democrats on all organizational matters. The Senate Parliamentarian rules Vice President Mike Pence may not vote to break the tie on such matters. January 6, 2021 arrives and the Supreme Court has been unable to resolve the multiple appeals from lawsuits filed over the counting of ballots, leaving the election still undecided on the day the Electoral College ballots are supposed to be publicly counted and the winner of the election officially announced. The riots continue and grow in intensity, surrounding the White House, the Capitol, Supreme Court, and other key federal buildings. DC police are ordered to stand down and multiple rioters enter the White House grounds and are apprehended by the increasingly hard-pressed Secret Service. January 20, 2021, because Chief Justice Roberts is still seeking consensus on the Supreme Court, the election remains undecided on Inauguration Day. According to the Presidential Succession Act of 1947, Speaker Pelosi will act as president until the House resolves the contingent election for president or the Senate picks a vice president to replace Pelosi as acting president ex officio. Acting President Pelosi demands that President Trump vacate the White House and declares that all Trump appointees are fired, and their authority is revoked. The riots continue and grow in intensity, surrounding the White House, the Capitol, Supreme Court, and other key federal buildings. Some minor federal buildings are broken into and torched because the Federal Protective Service is overwhelmed and with the DC police stand down order firefighters are unable to get through. Bureaucrats across the government and the leaders of the military announce they will follow acting president Pelosi’s orders; Trump appointees are put under armed escort and removed from their offices. The Secret Service escorts President Trump from the White House to an “undisclosed location” ostensibly for his own protection. The riots continue and grow in intensity, more buildings in Washington, DC are torched. Seeing the writing on the wall, Chief Justice Roberts announces that a 5-4 majority of the Supreme Court consisting of he and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan have found in favor of the Biden campaign and Democrat election officials, thus setting the stage for the Electoral College to meet and officially elect Joe Biden as 46th President of the United States. Could the above scenario really happen? Democrats seem to think it could because they have been preparing the information warfare battlefield to justify it. The question is, will Republicans and the Trump campaign be prepared to fight back? 2020 Election anarchists anti-government antifa Bob Avakian CHAZ CHOP Communists Department of Homeland Security Department of Justice Emgage Action Federal Protection Service Homeland Security Million Muslim Votes summit Muslim Brotherhood Rep. Karen Bass Revolutionary Communist Party Secretary Chad Wolf

...if you think 2,000 patriots watching President Trump speak outside are super-spreaders of COVID-19 but massive riots and looting while not practicing social distancing is a good thing that won't spread COVID-19. ...if you think rioting for 3 months and shouting anti-Trump slogans while the mayor and governor sit on their hands watching their cities burn, refusing help from President Trump, is okay, but you believe the rioting and looting is President Trump's fault. ...if you think the socialists-communists taking over the Democrat party is mainstream, but you fear and believe President Trump's free market, putting America first agenda is like the Nazis and is racist. ...if you see people burning and looting as peaceful demonstrators, but citizens rallying peacefully to re-open their businesses as frightening and threatening. ...if you think Michigan's governor is correct that only non-motor boats on the lake stops the spread of COVID-19, but citizens who have boats with motors spread COVID-19. ...if you think it's okay for white liberals to scream at African-American police officers calling them the "N" word, advocating the burning of their homes, but President Trump speaking up for African-American police officers is racist. ...if you think the way to stop crime is to cut police budgets, release violent criminals, disarm law abiding citizens and you believe that social workers can protect you from violent crime. ...if you think it’s okay that Hillary Clinton took millions of dollars in donated funds to her nonprofit meant for Haiti to rebuild their nation and redirected it to her friends and family to spend on their own enjoyment; but believe NRA, Steve Bannon, President Trump, Congressman Stockman, and Arkansas Sen. Jon Woods all abused their nonprofits in helping others. ...if you think Michigan's Henry Ford University research hospital printing a peer-reviewed medical journal article stating that hydroxychloroquine really works is a lie and conspiracy, but you believe a CNN "reporter" with no medical degree or training who, because President Trump recommended it, reports that hydroxychloroquine doesn't work. ...if you think teachers NOT going to work and not teaching your children is okay, but you have no problem seeing teachers and leftist politicians sending their children to private schools so they will have quality education. ...if you don't believe the Democrat-led Mueller investigation which spent millions of our tax dollars and three years investigating Russian collision determined there was no Russian collision, but you still believe Rep. Adam Schiff claims he has super-secret documents showing Russian collusion. ...if you think having a small sticker on NFL football helmets honoring the lives of five murdered Dallas police officers is too political and disrespectful of football norms, but that plastering pro-communist organizational slogans all over uniforms and football fields is a good thing. ...if you can name all the African-Americans who died from police actions, but can't name a single murdered police officer or black child who was murdered at the hands of those in Antifa "CHOP's peaceful" zone. ...if you hate slavery from a 150 years ago, but don't mention or remember the murder and enslavement of millions of Jews by the Nazi regimen seventy-five years ago and you approve of leftists attacking and defacing 2/3 of synagogues in LA. ...if you think it's okay that President Obama illegally gave millions of dollars in ransom payment to the Haqqani terrorist network for American traitor Berg Bergdahl, but find President Trump calling a newly-elected Ukrainian President by phone is an impeachable offense. ...if you think it's okay for President Obama to put in cages children who came to America illegally, but criminal if President Trump follows President Obama's policy. ...if you think Joe Biden isn’t racist even though he supported segregation of schools, his best friend in the Senate was KKK leader Robert Byrd, he supported restoring American citizenship for Confederacy President Jefferson Davis, and he picked a VP running mate whose family owned 216 slaves; but you think President Trump is a racist and that his support for traditional black colleges and his creation of the lowest black unemployment rate in history are just ploys to appease white supremacists. ...if you have no problem with Uncle Joe Biden's niece and son getting special Democrat privilege and “get out of jail” deals for defrauding an elderly lady and leaving a crack pipe in a rental car, respectively, but you think President Trump’s company owing a hotel in Washington is a crime. ...if you have no problem with Joe Biden's son Hunter taking $1.5 billion from the Chinese then investing it in helping China buy military-sensitive companies in America for the production of Chinese weapons, but think Donald Trump Jr. is a criminal for operating hotels owned by the family business owned prior to his father’s election. ...if you want President Trump to condemn Carl Rittenhouse, but you think it's okay that Joe Biden shouldn’t condemn the cold-blooded murder of a President Trump supporter. ...if you think it’s too dangerous to have your elementary kids return to school because of COVID-19, but you have no problem sending your children to school during the flu season which kills many more children. ...if you think it's okay that Hillary Clinton used her office as Secretary of State to circumvent American laws by approving a sale of dual-use steel by her sham nonprofit’s largest donor, a Ukrainian oligarch, to the terrorist nation of the Republic of Iran by. Congratulations! If you scored a 100 in agreement, then you can legally attack supporters of President Trump outside the White House and you are a Democrat in good-standing. Therefore, you can get secret funding, have all your bills paid, and stay in 5-star hotels while flying around the country burning down buildings – all paid for by a former Democrat presidential candidate. 2020 Election Bernie Sanders Black Lives Matter Democrats Joe Biden riots Socialism

Dear CHQ Readers and Friends, One thing I want to add to my friend of over 35 years article, is this – the importance of voter registration.  The vast majority of the people reading my words and Dr. Dobson's are registered to vote and the vast majority will vote. However, we all have family, friends, neighbors, fellow church members, coworkers, etc. who share our views and values who are not registered.  Please send everyone you know who shares our values a copy of Dr. Dobson's newsletter and plead with them to make sure they are registered to vote. What’s more, if YOU have moved, you must reregister at your new address. In 2016 a shift of about 85,000 votes in the right precincts would have made Hillary Clinton president, this year more than ever, every vote counts. Please read Dr. Dobson’s insightful analysis of the importance of this election and share it with everyone in your network. And by the way, you can catch Dr. Dobson's radio show by using this link to find a broadcaster in your area. Yours in Liberty under God’s Laws, Richard A. Viguerie Chairman ConservativeHQ.com Part 3 from Dr. James Dobson: Dear Friends, As I write this newsletter, voters across this nation are only a few short months away from the next general election. What an ominous time this is for our 244-year-old republic. Its future hangs in the balance. The choices we make on November 3rd will send this nation down one of two dramatically different paths. The wrong decision will be catastrophic... (Click this link to read Part 1 and click this link to read Part 2). Each presidential campaign has been important, but some have had jaw-dropping and nation-shaping consequences. I believe we are at such a pivotal moment now. You can be certain that America will be forever changed by the political party that gets its supporters to the polls. They will win the day—and the future. Unfortunately, the majority of Christians have a record of not showing up on Election Day. It is unbelievably sad. As many as 75 percent of them sit on their hands, apparently assuming that their votes don't matter. They are wrong. Voting ALWAYS matters. George W. Bush won the presidency in 2000 by 537 votes in a nation of 130 million registered voters. Many down-ballot contests have been won or lost by a single vote. I plead with you to register and vote in this presidential election. I won't try to tell you who to vote for because you can figure it out for yourselves. But I will suggest how you might evaluate the situation we face. I'll close with seven critical issues that have stunning significance for the nation. Please think hard about them, and then go to the polls. 1. The Next Generation There is a fierce battle being waged now in the nation's classrooms for the hearts and souls of our children and grandchildren. Those of us who are passionately committed to the Judeo-Christian system of beliefs are losing our kids right before our eyes. They are being force-fed a radical curriculum that is godless, anti-American, and sexually perverse. Make no mistake, the left and secular culture are manipulating the minds of your sons and daughters every day of the year. I urge you to be extremely careful about those whom you set in power over your children. Protect them with your very lives. 2. The Sanctity of Human Life All life is sacred and is a gift from Almighty God. But as you know, America has the blood of innocents on its hands. Since 1973, more than 60 million babies have been murdered through abortion and countless lives have ended by euthanasia. This is the most tragic holocaust in the history of the world! Some states have even passed laws allowing wounded and suffering infants to lie alone on porcelain trays after somehow surviving unsuccessful abortions. They will die without the comfort of their mothers' breasts. If that doesn't touch your heart, you are without compassion. I hope you will not cast a single vote for any politician who supports such wickedness. 3. Marriage and Family The family is God's original building block for society. Marriage continues to serve as the foundation for every dimension of human life. Everything of value rests on it, including procreation and the care and training of children. If that ground floor is weakened or undermined, the entire superstructure of civil society will come crashing down. But listen carefully: powerful and highly funded forces, including LGBTQ and other leftist entities, are determined to destroy the family as an institution. It is already on its knees, and its future is grim. Before you vote, find out what position the candidates have taken on this issue. Then vote accordingly. 4. Religious Liberty The first item listed in the Bill of Rights addresses the issue of religious liberty. All the other enumerated rights flow from that fundamental freedom. That is why it is alarming to recognize that this right to worship and honor God as we choose is under vicious attack today. The courts have done the greatest damage, but now an entire sub-culture is trying to bring down the Christian faith. Whether it has invaded your private world or not, it is at your front door. It was this primary concern that led to the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War in 1776. We can't compromise one jot or tittle within that fundamental right. Fight for it with every ounce of your strength and determination. Don't let the government close the doors of your church or tell you when you can sing praises to the Lord Almighty. They have a devious agenda, and it is dangerous. Be ready to go to the mat in defense of what you believe. And let this passion influence how you cast your ballot in November. Here I stand. Will you join me? 5. Capitalism v. Socialism It is difficult to believe that for the first time in American history, our nation appears to be thinking about trading our democratic way of life for the tyranny of socialism. I can hardly catch my breath. Could we really consider abandoning the beloved system of government that was designed to be of the people, by the people, and for the people? Is it true that up to 40 percent of millennials and others are prepared to surrender their liberties in exchange for the absolute authority of the state? Democracy and capitalism have made ours the most powerful and successful nation in the history of the world. Are we really considering scuttling the system that has served us for 244 years in exchange for what some people call "free stuff?" I pray not! But that option awaits you in the polling booth. 6. The Judicial System Given recent rulings, we know that judicial overreach has almost ruined this great nation. Justices and judges are constitutionally charged to interpret the law, not make law. But again, and again, they have overstepped their authority and brought us atrocities such as abortion on demand, same-sex marriage, and the so-called "separation of church and state," which doesn't appear in the Constitution. Most recently, the Supreme Court handed down one of its most egregious rulings since Roe v. Wade. It is the case of Bostock v. Clayton County. This decision was not based on constitutional law but on the whims of six justices. It created a new legal definition of sex out of thin air. Lawyers tell us that this ruling will affect every dimension of culture and haunt the nation as long as it endures. Please don't vote for politicians who will expand, rather than limit, the power of the judiciary. 7. The Nation of Israel Scripture tells that those who bless Israel will be blessed (Genesis 12:3). Our prayer is that the next Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. will continue to promote and cultivate a vibrant bond of friendship with the nation of Israel, which is our only ally in the Middle East. Anti-Semitism and all forms of racial discrimination are inherently evil, and we condemn them categorically. We are a nation that is dedicated to "freedom and justice for all" (The U.S. Pledge of Allegiance). I could list dozens of other issues that should be considered as we vote on November 3rd. I will end with this final statement from Abraham Lincoln. He said: "I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have."8 Let us come boldly before the throne of grace and ask God for His mercy on America. 2020 Election antifa Black Lives Matter capitalism Christian Voters Donald Trump Dr. James Dobson Israel Joe Biden leftist violence Newt Gingrich November 3 police defunding Portland religious liberty Socialism violence voter ID voter registration

More than 40 prominent scholars, freedom advocates, and policy experts on Tuesday released “The Philadelphia Statement” a public statement affirming the necessity of free speech and civil discourse, while denouncing cancel culture, "hate speech" labelling, and other forms of ideological blacklisting. CHQ is proud to be part of this public statement and to publicly renew our commitment to standing for freedom of expression. As our friends at the National Religious Broadcasters reported, “Freedom of expression is in crisis. Truly open discourse—the debates, exchange of ideas, and arguments on which the health and flourishing of a democratic republic crucially depend—is increasingly rare. Ideologues demonize opponents to block debates on important issues and to silence people with whom they disagree.” “We must ask ourselves: Is this the country we want? Surely not.” The ten-paragraph “Philadelphia Statement” highlights the desire and need for America to be a nation in which people “of many different faiths, philosophies, and persuasions can speak their minds and honor their deepest convictions without fear of punishment and retaliation.” It also recognizes that America’s free speech tradition is not absolutist as it excludes certain, limited categories of speech, such as defamation, obscenity, intimidation and threats, and incitement to violence. But “hate speech” is not among them as it is difficult to define and “is often used by those wielding political, economic, or cultural power to silence dissenting voices.” Nor is “offensive” content. Nor the “wrong” and “harmful” content from which some corporations say they are “protecting” people through “hate speech” and related policies. “These policies and regulations assume that we as citizens are unable to think for ourselves and to make independent judgments,” reads the statement. “Instead of teaching us to engage, they foster conformism (“groupthink”) and train us to respond to intellectual challenges with one or another form of censorship.” According to the statement’s drafters, the hope for the statement is that it will be a catalyst for an ongoing, ideologically diverse movement working to build a culture where the open exchange of ideas is universally respected, and where civil discourse is widely practiced throughout society. One of the key points the Philadelphia Statement makes that prompted us to lend our name and wholehearted support is this: “That is why we must favor openness, to allow ideas and beliefs the chance to be assessed on their own merits; and we must be willing to trust that bad ideas will be corrected not through censorship but through better arguments.” Our job at CHQ is to make those “better arguments” on behalf of conservative principles and to boldly take to the public square to explain and argue on behalf of our conservative values, principles, and policy judgements. We urge CHQ readers and friends to join us in signing the Philadelphia Statement. As of this writing 6,694 people have signed the Statement, please confirm your commitment to freedom of expression by adding your name to the list today. 2020 Election blacklisting cancel culture Censorship conservative principles Donald Trump First Amendment free speech freedom of expression hate speech Philadelphia Statement principles

If we didn’t know better we’d think guilt is what drives the entirety of the Democrat Party How far should one go to assuage his or her internal guilt? It's a soul-searching exercise some folks are undertaking these days. With the Democrat National Convention (in whatever form it will take) set to commence on Monday and liberal nominee-to-be Joe Biden’s running mate choice -- ultra-leftist California Senator Kamala Harris -- announced a couple days ago, there’s a heck of a lot of reason to focus on the concept of guilt. Every political watcher realizes Biden struggled mightily with his own guilt while vetting his vice president choices. Look who he ended up choosing. And then there’re the recent -- and ongoing -- nationwide protests over alleged “systemic racism” and “social justice” and “raising awareness” and various other feel good (or feel bad?) notions that lean largely on feelings and perceived snippets of reality rather than cold hard facts. If you’re a Democrat, guilt is built-in to your being. If you’re a Republican, pride in America’s history and vaunted position as the world’s bastion of freedom are a source of pride. Perhaps for that reason, President Donald Trump announced earlier this week that he’s planning to deliver his re-nomination acceptance speech (on August 27) from either the White House or a place where bitterly divided armies bled the ground red -- at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Regardless of Trump’s final choice of venue, there will be opposition. Mike Brest reported at The Washington Examiner the other day, “President Trump declared that he'll accept the Republican presidential nomination at one of two locations. The president said his options are Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the location of a bloody Civil War battle and President Abraham Lincoln's famous address that followed, or the White House. “’We have narrowed the Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, to be delivered on the final night of the Convention (Thursday), to two locations — The Great Battlefield of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and the White House, Washington, D.C. We will announce the decision soon!’ the president shared on social media Monday.” Democrats and the media immediately launched a hissy-fit when Trump once again floated the possibility of delivering a political speech from the grounds of the White House, asserting that it would be against the law to use the executive mansion as a campaign prop for his MAGA agenda, round two. They’re all into griping about holding events and rallies where citizens might mix together and spread the dreaded CCP virus plague, but they’re just as agitated about the suggestion of staying home and doing it. Trump does live there, right? Isn’t it like teleworking? Why don’t they just come out and say it? Trump is not allowed to campaign for reelection -- period! Or maybe they’d be okay with him speaking from the earth’s orbit aboard the international space station? White House, yes, but Gettysburg? Upon hearing this I envisioned the president standing atop a carefully constructed platform adjacent to the veterans’ national cemetery on the historically hallowed ground and then deliver a two-minute speech that every American middle school student used to be required to memorize to pass their social studies class. Yes, the Gettysburg Address. Granted I’ve devoted much of my free time over the years to studying the great war between the states and have visited and walked the G-burg battlefield about three dozen times, but this one was surprising. But what a stroke of genius! No matter what your opinions of Trump happen to be, there’s no doubting he knows how to stage a great show. Just the Gettysburg backdrop alone adds gravity to the circumstances and the allegorical comparisons between then and now are earth-shattering. I’m not a speech writer, but Trump could easily quote from Lincoln’s most famous address, and if he were Joe Biden, he’d plagiarize the whole darn thing (and withhold attribution, too)! “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure….” With many commentators and political observers having already suggested the nation Lincoln spoke so pointedly about almost 157 years ago is once again on the verge of civil war, Trump can drive home the gravity of the upcoming choice between worldviews while also laying the groundwork for what will be the monumental task of healing America’s psychological wounds. Who knows, speaking with the multitude of Gettysburg battlefield monuments and memorials all around could be just the right scenario to steer the conversation back to where it needs to be -- on policy -- instead of the personality driven nonsense that the establishment media fixates on. Shocker: history ignorant idiots equate Gettysburg with white supremacy Needless to say, not everyone was wild about the notion of Trump speaking at Gettysburg. As would be expected, guilt-driven liberals tagged the president with their usual labels of white supremacy and racism. Joe Concha reported at The Hill, “CNN anchor Erica Hill argued... ‘To think that now we’re looking at Gettysburg, where the president has in recent weeks really taken it upon himself to do his best to shore up the Confederacy, right, that we keep Confederate flags and monuments to Confederate generals going. That, too, leaves you scratching your head.’” That anyone could say something so ludicrous and not immediately be called out by her peers as an idiot is puzzling to the extreme. Head scratching? These people are so non-sensical it’s like they all have a severe case of dandruff with no Head & Shoulders within reach to alleviate the itching. Or an affliction of psoriasis that is resistant to ointments. Actually, the only real scratching of heads going on these days is pondering how it is that Democrats and liberals are so honked off by the notion of preserving America’s history, warts and all. Facts don’t matter a lick to these poor, guilt-ridden souls, but anyone who’s actually been to the southern Pennsylvania civil war battleground knows the vast majority of the monuments there are to union soldiers and regiments -- you know, the men in blue who won the dang thing. The South was bled dry in all respects during the war, so much so that it couldn’t afford to decorate the field with markers in the same manner as the victorious side. As I recall, each southern state with a regiment that fought there erected one monument. One. There are national park signs delineating C.S.A. unit positions, but those aren’t monuments. Besides, how is it “defending” the Confederacy to speak from a place that literally epitomizes the beginning of the end of the “lost cause” and with it, slavery? It might help these history-challenged dunces to realize there’s a monument on the field called the “High Water Mark of the Rebellion,” which sets the approximate spot where southern General George Pickett’s charging troops were turned back by forces under the command of Union General Winfield Scott Hancock. That was it in a nutshell. Game over with no more quarters to feed the Pacman machine (does this date me?). From that point on the war became a battle of attrition, the Confederacy no longer able to muster the manpower and resources to wage an offensive campaign. Less than a year later, the armies that engaged at Gettysburg were dug in at Petersburg, Virginia, a siege lasting nine months and concluded with Lee’s army abandoning nearby (the Confederate capital) Richmond and surrendering in early April, 1865. General Ulysses S. Grant correctly figured he could wait out the rapidly deteriorating other side -- and he was right. To make the claim that Trump would choose Gettysburg as a backdrop for his acceptance speech as a dog whistle-type subliminal message to hate groups and “deplorables” is pure fantasy. In a day and age where establishment media members will do and say anything to savage Trump, this is perhaps the most preposterous blather of all. Anyone remember the scene from the 2000 movie “Remember the Titans” when black head high school football coach Herman Boone (wonderfully played by Denzel Washington) brought his racially divided team to Gettysburg to train for the upcoming season and took them to the battlefield cemetery to symbolize racial healing and to honor the men who gave their lives to begin the journey? (Note: Boone’s speech wasn’t exactly historically accurate, but the greater point was taken.) A good case could be made that there’s no better venue to talk about unifying the nation than Gettysburg, no matter what the guilt-laden Democrats say about it. If Trump were truly interested in highlighting the triumph of the Confederacy, he wouldn’t have to go as far as Gettysburg to do it. All he’d need to do is set up a stage on Marye’s Heights in Fredericksburg, Virgina, about fifty miles from Washington DC. There, in December, 1862 (about seven months before the Gettysburg campaign), Robert E. Lee’s entrenched forces turned back wave after wave of attacking federal troops in one of the most futile and bloody assaults of the Civil War. It was the equivalent of the union’s Pickett’s Charge. Here’s thinking if the Trump campaign is able to pull it off -- staging his acceptance speech at Gettysburg -- it would be brilliant. Since liberals are largely responsible for fanning the flames of fear over the Chinese Communist Party (or Wuhan, if you prefer) virus -- and forcing the cancellation of the traditional party conventions -- then it opens wide the book of possibilities for a showman like Trump to select the most appropriate piece of ground to conceptualize his campaign. And there’s nowhere more apropos than Gettysburg. Democrats hated the possibility of Trump speaking at the White House, so they’ll peck and groan about anywhere the incumbent president chooses. The GOP nominee could opt to speak from the middle of Fifth Avenue in New York City in front of Trump Tower, but then his haters would complain that he’s treading on the “Black Lives Matter” mural that Mayor Bill de Blasio put there. There’s no pleasing the guilt-ridden Democrat lot. Why try? Kamala Harris, slavery reparations and the real consequences of Democrats’ white guilt No discussion of authentic Democrat guilt would be complete without an examination of slavery reparations, because there’s no greater demonstration of contemporary pandering to one classification of voters in hopes of obtaining high electoral office at any price. During the primary campaign, every Democrat presidential contender more or less paid homage to the idea of cutting federal checks to African-Americans (and others, too, such as Native Americans) as a means of saying “I’m sorry” for the scourge of slavery well over a hundred and fifty years after the peculiar institution was constitutionally done away with. As one of a handful of minority contenders for the nation’s top job, newly coined Democrat vice president candidate Kamala Harris is on record favoring the idea. Since Harris couldn’t make up her mind what she was for and against on the campaign trail, her views on slavery reparations were equally wishy-washy. But it doesn’t end there. Harris’s own history suggests she might have to pay herself on the matter, since she’s got slave-owning ancestors. It’s true! Sound weird? That’s only the beginning. Jonathan Leaf wrote at Spectator USA, “Consider the case of Kamala Harris. Should her Indian mother pay reparations to her Jamaican father for his partial ancestry from slaves? Should she foot half the bill? Or should her father, whose ancestors also owned slaves, be taxed based on his degree of descent from slave-owners? Or should he, born a Jamaican, pay reparations to Native Americans, or take his reparations suit to the Spanish and British governments, as Jamaica was never American territory? “To determine my debt to Kamala Harris, will we first calculate her slave-owning ancestry and then subtract her enslaved ancestry? Should my assessment be based on the year when my ancestors arrived? None of my ancestors lived in America in 1861. Neither did her ancestors. Should I be asked to recompense Kamala Harris, the daughter of recent immigrants?” It should be noted, as I recall, most of the Democrat candidates limited their approval of slavery reparations to the notion of “studying” the issue, affirming the efforts of a few party members in Congress to create a commission to delve into possible payments. At the same time, with identity politics being what it is these days, is there a Democrat in high office who would seriously stand up and object to it? Not a chance. They’re far too consumed with guilt to welcome common sense. It's sad to see how much the concept of guilt -- real or imagined -- drives the agenda of the Democrat Party today. From Joe Biden feeling obligated to choose an African-American female as his running mate to ripping President Trump for the possibility of delivering his acceptance speech at Gettysburg, liberals are consumed with shame. Where will it lead them? UPDATE: President Trump announced yesterday that he would deliver his acceptance speech from the White House lawn and visit Gettysburg at a later date. From The Hill: “Gettysburg is special. I will be doing something at Gettysburg, it may be something different, not for the convention,” [Trump] said. “We’re going to be doing something terrific at Gettysburg, but when it gets a little bit cooler because now it’s, you know, it’s August 27, so that’s pretty hot out there,” Trump added. #BlackLives Matter 2016 election 2020 campaign 2020 Election Bernie Sanders CHAZ CHOP Conservatives defund the police Democrats Donald Trump Drain the swamp Elizabeth Warren Establishment Republicans George Floyd Hillary Clinton Joe Biden Kellyanne Conway Mike Pence monument defacing police brutality police reform Republicans riots Tim Scott Trump administration violence

Dear CHQ Readers and Friends, One thing I want to add to my friend of over 35 years article, is this – the importance of voter registration.  The vast majority of the people reading my words and Dr. Dobson's are registered to vote and the vast majority will vote. However, we all have family, friends, neighbors, fellow church members, coworkers, etc. who share our views and values who are not registered.  Please send everyone you know who shares our values a copy of Dr. Dobson's newsletter and plead with them to make sure they are registered to vote. What’s more, if YOU have moved, you must reregister at your new address. In 2016 a shift of about 85,000 votes in the right precincts would have made Hillary Clinton president, this year more than ever, every vote counts. Please read Dr. Dobson’s insightful analysis of the importance of this election and share it with everyone in your network. And by the way, you can catch Dr. Dobson's radio show by using this link to find a broadcaster in your area. Yours in Liberty under God’s Laws, Richard A. Viguerie Chairman ConservativeHQ.com Part 2 from Dr. James Dobson: Dear Friends, As I write this newsletter, voters across this nation are only a few short months away from the next general election. What an ominous time this is for our 244-year-old republic. Its future hangs in the balance. The choices we make on November 3rd will send this nation down one of two dramatically different paths. The wrong decision will be catastrophic... (Click this link to read Part 1). Why have I recounted our Civil War history and the election of 1864 at this time in our history? It is for two reasons. The first is to consider some striking similarities between then and now. Our nation is divided like no time since the Civil War. Lawlessness and anarchy stalk the cities as angry mobs riot, burn, loot, rob, and kill innocent bystanders. Cultural monuments are being destroyed. Scores of people have been shot. Our courageous police officers are being brutally attacked by the same people they have vowed to protect. A man and his son stopped to ask for directions, and he was gunned down on the spot. A one-year-old baby was shot in the stomach while he sat in his stroller. The child died at the hospital. What began as a justified and lawful protest in response to George Floyd's senseless murder by a rogue police officer has morphed into violence for the sake of violence. Hatred flows in the streets, including vitriol directed at the President of the United States or anyone who dares to support him or his policies. Constitutional rights to freedom of speech and religious liberty are being trampled. There is also widespread belief that violence and anarchy are being organized and funded by powerful forces that are maneuvering America toward a socialist dictatorship. There is always a kingmaker behind such lawlessness. Most disturbing is open talk of another civil war. It is troubling to even utter those words. The last time Americans faced off against each other, 600,000 soldiers died. May God forbid it from happening again. During the revolution of the 1960s, I recall a ubiquitous bumper sticker that read, "What if they gave a war and nobody came?" It was a catchy phrase that made sense to those who opposed the Vietnam War. But my reaction to it then and now is "What if they gave a war and only one side came?" That question keeps me awake at night. There are multiple millions of passive Americans out there today, many of them Christians, who are clueless about what is happening to their homeland. They are losing something precious and irreplaceable. Do they not understand that their children and those who are yet to be born will live in tyranny if we fail them on our watch? Countless young men and women have laid down their lives on battlefields around the world to protect liberty and our way of life. Now, what they purchased for us with their blood is slipping away. Disengaged people won't lift a finger to preserve this great land. They won't take even a few minutes to go to their polling places to vote. There are also thousands of pastors who won't allow voting registration tables in the lobbies of their churches. Don't they know or care that America is on the ropes? Hordes of angry anarchists are salivating over the next election, hoping to push America over a cliff. If they succeed, as Newt Gingrich said, Western civilization will never recover. Is there anyone left who believes some things are worth dying for? Aren't there patriots out there such as Patrick Henry who said in defiance of British tyranny, "Give me liberty or give me death!"? That was the spirit during his day. The Declaration of Independence closed with these words endorsed by the signers, "We pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor." They knew they would be hanged if they lost the war. Why did they do it? Because they loved their country enough to die for it. How I pray for the emergence of silent, intimidated Americans who will come out of their hiding places to let their voices be heard on Election Day 2020. There must be tens of thousands of ministers in our midst who, like the Black Robed Regiment of the Revolutionary War, will strip off their clerical garb and fight valiantly for religious liberty. If these men and women of faith and conviction don't come to the rescue of their country, it is doomed. During the Civil War, untold soldiers gave their lives to preserve the integrity of the United States of America and to end the tragedy of slavery. Here is the question of the hour: Are you and our brothers and sisters willing to carry the bloodstained banner around which our predecessors rallied? We will know the answer on November 3rd. That brings us to the second reason I have addressed the Civil War and the election of 1864. It is to remind us that voting matters. Each presidential campaign has been important, but some have had jaw-dropping and nation-shaping consequences. I believe we are at such a pivotal moment now. You can be certain that America will be forever changed by the political party that gets its supporters to the polls. They will win the day—and the future. Unfortunately, the majority of Christians have a record of not showing up on Election Day. It is unbelievably sad. As many as 75 percent of them sit on their hands, apparently assuming that their votes don't matter. They are wrong. Voting ALWAYS matters. George W. Bush won the presidency in 2000 by 537 votes in a nation of 130 million registered voters. Many down-ballot contests have been won or lost by a single vote. I plead with you to register and vote in this presidential election. I won't try to tell you who to vote for because you can figure it out for yourselves. But I will suggest how you might evaluate the situation we face. Tomorrow, Dr. Dobson closes with seven critical issues that have stunning significance for the nation. 2020 Election antifa Black Lives Matter Christian Voters Donald Trump Dr. James Dobson Joe Biden leftist violence Newt Gingrich November 3 police defunding Portland religious liberty violence voter ID voter registration

The Democrats’ choice of Senator Kamala Harris as Joe Biden’s running mate and presumptive replacement as President is a truly frightening proposition for America, and particularly America’s Catholics and cultural conservatives. As Michael Gerson observed in a January 20, 2019 op-ed, those who want to understand how Democrats manage to scare the hell out of vast sections of the country need look no further than the story of Sen. Kamala Harris and the Knights of Columbus. In considering the confirmation of Brian Buescher to a federal judgeship, Harris (and Hawaii’s Sen. Mazie Hirono) submitted written questions that raised alarms about his membership in “an all-male society comprised primarily of Catholic men.” “Were you aware,” Harris asked, “that the Knights of Columbus opposed a woman’s right to choose when you joined the organization?” And: “Have you ever, in any way, assisted with or contributed to advocacy against women’s reproductive rights?” And: “Were you aware that the Knights of Columbus opposed marriage equality when you joined the organization?” Mr. Gerson concluded by if saying liberal Democrats like Harris want to compare the Catholic Church to a hate group, good luck with that. They will offend the last religious traditionalists they haven’t already offended and alienate a good many others besides. As Attorney General of California, Ms. Harris in large measure made her reputation with the activist Far Left by persecuting pro-life conservatives, such as independent journalist and filmmaker David Daleiden, and cultural and economic conservative non-profit organizations, such as the Americans for Prosperity Foundation. Harris’ contempt for the Constitution, in particular the First and Fourth Amendments’ free speech and privacy protections, earned her lawsuits from several conservative organizations, including Americans for Prosperity and the Institute for Free Speech. In its lawsuit, the AFP Foundation said it had been filing its IRS form 990 with the state every year since 2001. But when Harris became California Attorney General the office rejected the report as incomplete because it didn’t include the donor lists – lists the Supreme Court held could remain confidential in the landmark case of NAACP v. Alabama. “The First Amendment grants individuals who donate to private advocacy organizations the right to remain anonymous lest public disfavor and harassment chill their speech,” according to the lawsuit. Yet the group said Harris gave it an ultimatum: disclose donors and threaten such speech, or refuse and be put out of business in California observed Steven Greenhut in a column for the San Diego Union-Tribune. District court judge Manuel Real later ruled that attorney general Kamala Harris’ office did not demonstrate a sufficient need for that information when it sought to bar the conservative Americans for Prosperity Foundation from raising money in the state unless it turned over that list. Judge Real’s decision was particularly useful in giving conservatives a preview of what a Kamala Harris presidency might look like – the Lois Lerner IRS scandal on steroids. "Although the Attorney General [Kamala Harris] correctly points out that such abuses are not as violent or pervasive as those encountered in NAACP v. Alabama or other cases from that era, this Court is not prepared to wait until an AFP opponent carries out one of the numerous death threats made against its members," the judge wrote, according to Lachlan Markay, reporting for The Washington Free Beacon. Real also dismissed arguments that the AG’s office would prevent public disclosure of information in the foundation’s schedule B and thereby avoid any potential infringement on the group’s or its supporters’ First Amendment rights. "All told, AFP identified 1,778 confidential Schedule Bs that the Attorney General had publicly posted on the Registry’s website, including 38 which were discovered the day before this trial," Real wrote. "The pervasive, recurring pattern of uncontained Schedule B disclosures—a pattern that has persisted even during this trial—is irreconcilable with the Attorney General’s assurances and contentions as to the confidentiality of Schedule Bs collected by the Registry." Translation: Even a liberal Ninth Circuit federal judge thought Kamala Harris was lying and would continue to intentionally leak the confidential donor information for political purposes. Few voters outside college campuses and the liberal Twitterverse are attracted to angry feminists, sneering liberal arrogance, smug elite condescension, Hillary Clinton-style flip-floppers and scary socialist commissars – which pretty well sums-up Kamala Harris. During her abortive run for the Democrat presidential nomination, Senator Harris said her biggest priority was raising salaries for every teacher in the United States. She proposed a $315 billion “investment” that would boost teachers’ pay by $13,500. She also is a co-sponsor of “Medicare for All” and wanted to reform the criminal justice system by legalizing marijuana at the federal level and changing the cash bail system. But her real selling point to the Democrat primary voter is her lack of civility and prosecutorial demeanor, which was rolled-out to great acclaim during the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. Here is one of the more interesting highlights: As a former prosecutor, I have led investigations and I have tried these cases in a courtroom. I have spent countless hours with assault survivors. And when I look at what has occurred over these few days, we have fallen short in fulfilling our constitutional duty to fully evaluate Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination. This process has been a disservice to Dr. Ford. This process was a disservice to survivors everywhere. And this process has been a disservice to the American people. That was Senator Harris claiming uncorroborated accusations against Brett Kavanaugh should disqualify him for a seat on the Supreme Court and exile him from polite society. And when similar – and well-corroborated – accusations of sexual assault were made against Joe Biden, Harris first said “I believe them, and I respect them being able to tell their story and having the courage to do it.” After Biden was accused of sexual assault by former aide Tara Reade, Harris said that Reade “has a right to tell her story.” Tara Reade and other women may have a right to tell their stories, but now, much as Hillary Clinton used her marriage to serial sexual predator Bill Clinton to vault her to high office, Kamala Harris is happy to ignore them and run with Joe Biden. 2020 Election abortion Americans for Prosperity Foundation Brian Buescher Catholics cultural conservatives David Daleiden donor lists First Amendment Fourth Amendment Joe Biden Kamala Harris Knights of Columbus NAACP v. 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Democrats fight like crazy to keep the public subdued over COVID-19, but they’re losing If you’ve ever been camping and worked desperately to start and then sustain a fire with flimsy, unseasoned or slightly dampened wood, you understand how Democrats must feel now that the public’s intense fright over the Chinese Communist Party (or Wuhan, if you prefer) virus appears to have subsided… and dwindled to almost nothing. In this case, it’s simple. The heat is gone. As British rock group Def Leppard once crooned (in their classic song Foolin’), “On and on we rode the storm, The flame has died and the fire has gone…” The passions that governed the land not too long ago have been replaced by bitterness, resentment and anger that America’s authorities were less than clairvoyant in predicting largescale doom for every man, woman and child -- unless certain things were done to resist the Chinese plague. Freedom’s taken a backseat to random declarations from elected officials and their cadre of “experts” who maintained that they based policies on “science” and medical expertise. The problem is the facts never matched their theories. For that reason, people are skeptical and on the verge of open defiance. Whereas several months ago news channels were blanketed with rapidly elevating numbers of confirmed cases and death totals that creeped ever higher, now the establishment media mentions are not only less frequent, they’re noticeably calmer in force. That is, unless the report is intended to damage the political prospects of President Donald Trump and Republican down-ballot candidates. Where the GOP is at issue, Republicans are still shown as culpable for not taking the threat seriously and even more curiously claimed, that they didn’t do enough to minimize the spread of the mysterious virus. Despite the tangible decrease in panic, Democrats keep up their lonely quest to brand Trump as a destructive lout who fiddled while the country burned around him. In a piece titled, “End this calamitous presidency now,” former congressional staffer and Clinton trade ambassador Ira Shapiro wrote at The Hill, “[W]e have a president who denies responsibility for fighting the pandemic that has killed more than 155,000 Americans and brought our nation to its knees and plays no useful role in negotiating a relief package, but appears ready to disrupt the election and contest the outcome, militarize the streets and seize on the national moment of soul searching about systemic racism to foment civil war. All of which raises the question: what conceivable justification is there for giving Trump almost six more months to wreak further havoc on the country he has already so severely damaged?” There’s none, Ira! Similar to former Washington Post investigative reporter Carl Bernstein’s call for congressional Republican leaders to depose Trump last week, Shapiro argues it’s the patriotic duty of governors and public officials of both parties and at all levels to step in now to prevent Trump from wreaking more havoc on the helpless public. The president has once again resumed his semi-frequent coronavirus briefings but it apparently isn’t enough to dispel the haters’ notions that he’s corrupted, incompetent and trivializing. Not to mention we’re now less than three months from the national referendum to determine whether Trump will earn a second term. Democrats don’t want to take the chance that the opinion polls are as flawed as they were in 2016; instead they’d prefer an insurance policy against the possibility that voters actually like Trump. Starting to sound familiar? It's curious how Shapiro mentioned that Trump played no useful role in negotiating a relief package since Treasury Secretary Stevin Mnuchin’s drawn more than his share of recent headlines as the face of “no” to Nancy Pelosi’s and “Chucky” Schumer’s frantic demands to send heavily loaded federal Brink’s trucks to blue states and cities to grease their incontinent financial situations. It’s old news by now, but Trump took care of the situation last weekend by suspending the payroll tax for those making less than a hundred grand a year, granting an extension for repayment of student loans and halting eviction notices for tenants in public housing. In other words, through a few strokes of his executive pen, Trump gave Democrats much of what they asked for without bowing to their absurd non-coronavirus-related legislative ultimatums. Since they no longer get to stamp their names on the “relief” measures, Democrats don’t like it. Trump also added additional unemployment coverage for those most impacted by the lockdowns. If this is doing nothing, I’d hate to see what doing something looks like. Democrats are also trying to keep the (literal) fires burning on the myth that President Trump “militarized” the streets in certain American cities by sending in federal law enforcement to fight back against the organized and well-funded leftist insurgency that’s raged in the past two-plus months. Like the COVID-19 illusion, this claim is becoming more arduous to sustain since local police forces have taken over the bulk of the battle and the violence still continues. Who will back Antifa now? Anyone with an ounce of common sense recognizes that these after midnight gatherings of miscreants aren’t about “justice” or “reform” or “raising awareness,” they’re black cladded leftist revolutionaries bent on destroying civilization. Nice try, Ira, as time goes on people aren’t buying the Democrats’ contentions that Trump is the root of the problem; rather, blue state governors and mayors have much to answer for. Shapiro continued with the inanity, “Some may argue that Trump supporters will only accept his leaving office if he is defeated in the election. But there is no evidence that his base, the 18 percent who oppose a national mask mandate or the 13 percent who believe the country is on ‘the right track,’ will ever accept his leaving office, unless he does the unexpected by leaving with some grace. Waiting for their approval is like waiting for Godot...” For those wondering, ‘Waiting for Godot’ is, “a play by Samuel Beckett in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, engage in a variety of discussions and encounters while awaiting Godot, who never arrives.” Whatever. Shapiro is basically employing cryptic language and allusions to insult people who oppose a national mask mandate or folks who think Trump’s leadership has been good for the country. Those (myself included) who believe requiring everyone in the nation to don a mask is pure foolishness and wholly unnecessary are deemed ignorant and anti-science by the enlightened elites. To keep Americans cowed and pacified, the opposition party and their spokesmen disseminate half-truths and flat-out lies. One of the most egregious falsehoods is that everyone is at risk of getting severely ill or dying if they test positive for COVID-19. This simply isn’t true and even less so now that the word has finally gotten out about treating newly revealed conditions with hydroxychloroquine and other remedies. The confirmed caseload is indeed going up -- and the death toll slowly rising -- but yet there’s very little evidence that it’s dangerous to everyone. Sure, Democrats, college football players are in grave danger due to the coronavirus College football conferences are considering shuttering (or have shuttered in the case of the Big Ten and Pac 12) their fall seasons because of the CCP virus. Meanwhile, major professional sports have concocted “bubbles” and other draconian measures to keep the virus away from their players and personnel. I haven’t watched much sports lately (other than golf), but I’ve noticed baseball managers and coaches in outdoor stadiums are wearing masks. And the news wires blaze whenever someone tests positive. Oh, the horrors! The fascist mentality afflicts and impacts those who break the leagues’ ridiculous restrictions. Earlier this week, for example, the Cleveland Indians publicly shamed pitcher Zach Plesac for the heinous crime of… drumroll please… leaving the team hotel to meet with friends! After Plesac’s act of defiance was exposed to the world, members of his organization lined up to condemn the hurler’s selfish deed and banished him (he had to take a car back to the home base instead of flying on the team plane) at least until he tests negative twice. There also was discussion of releasing him from the team. March on, not-so-secret police! These dictates from major sports teams shutting down or suspending players or quarantining themselves or even cancelling seasons don’t have any connection to health at all. They’re part of the greater effort to scare the bejesus out of otherwise free people into conforming and to avoid a potential public relations disaster by having individuals within their walls test positive and therefore be branded less-than-caring about grandma and anyone else most susceptible to the virus. For his part, President Trump fought back against the relentless fear campaign. Regarding the college football season, the president sided with the players who want to play. In a Tweet, Trump wrote, “The student-athletes have been working too hard for their season to be cancelled. #WeWantToPlay”. It goes without saying that young and healthy athletes face little risk of serious consequences from COVID-19, even if they contract the virus. Efforts to scare them into scuttling their futures are ludicrous. And what about the consequences from not playing? Are these young men supposed to hang up their cleats for a year and then pick up where they left off when the powers-that-be give the go-ahead? Have university administrators ever cancelled seasons because of a flu outbreak? It’s nuts. Still, the anti-Trumpers try to keep the “fire” going. “Public health and economic experts tell us that the months between now and January 20 are likely to be one of the darkest periods in American history. As House Stark grimly warned in Game of Thrones: ‘Winter is coming.’ We must prepare ourselves for the difficult time ahead; the one certainty is that the nation would come through it better, with fewer deaths, reduced economic damage, and less hatred and division, if Trump were no longer president,” Shapiro concluded. That’s the beauty of American free speech. Theoretically speaking, you can say anything you want on political topics (not talking about social media censorship here). Let Shapiro and his ilk prolong their crackpot arguments about removing Trump and the danger everyone faces from the CCP virus. It’ll lead to a bigger margin of victory for President Trump on Election Day. Four years later, it’s just as important to vote for Trump to save the Supreme Court It goes without saying that the Supreme Court vacancy played a major role in convincing conservative fence-sitters to take a chance on first-time political candidate Donald Trump four years ago. It turns out the high court is shaping up to be a unifying and motivating factor once again, primarily because of the recent strange and inexplicable behavior of George W. Bush appointee and sitting Chief Justice John Roberts. W. James Antle III wrote at The Washington Examiner, “Chief Justice John Roberts has become an issue in the 2020 presidential campaign as conservatives question whether they can rely on Republicans to appoint and confirm judges who will not frustrate and rule against them. “In each of the handful of decisions from the last Supreme Court term that disappointed conservatives, Roberts, who was nominated by President George W. Bush, sided with the liberal bloc. Roberts has now been increasingly disavowed by the party that put him on the nation’s highest court... “Roberts was opposed by half the Democrats in the Senate when he was nominated, including Hillary Clinton and future President Barack Obama. But in recent years, he has become more of a Kennedy-like swing vote on certain polarizing cases. It is widely believed that Roberts wants to protect the court’s reputation for independence from partisan politics by being strategic about when it issues controversial decisions that constitute major change. Democrats have talked about increasing the size of the court if they win the presidency and Congress in November, a move Roberts may wish to forestall.” So it appears Roberts is issuing opinions he doesn’t actually believe in because of political considerations, somehow reasoning that becoming more “moderate” will throw cold water on Democrat efforts to increase the size of and pack the court. If only the notion were true (the “moderate” part) it would sound more acceptable. But Roberts has been squishy for a while now. It’s no secret any longer. With several of the justices over 70 years old (Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 87 and in poor health and Clinton appointee Stephen Breyer turns 82 on August 15), the issue of judicial nominations is as important as ever. Trump would be wise to make a big deal out of his judge nomination “list” that he introduced in 2016. It could be the difference again. It's hard enough to focus Americans’ attention on political matters for more than a few days let alone months like Democrats are attempting to do with the COVID-19 pandemic panic. Sooner or later sensible people figure out that the world isn’t coming to an end and getting sick means getting sick -- and getting well in most cases. In 2020, voters demand more; Trump should give it to them. #BlackLives Matter 2016 election 2020 campaign 2020 Election Bernie Sanders CHAZ CHOP Conservatives defund the police Democrats Donald Trump Drain the swamp Elizabeth Warren Establishment Republicans George Floyd Hillary Clinton Joe Biden Kellyanne Conway Mike Pence monument defacing police brutality police reform Republicans riots Tim Scott Trump administration violence

Dear CHQ Readers and Friends, One thing I want to add to my friend of over 35 years article, is this – the importance of voter registration.  The vast majority of the people reading my words and Dr. Dobson's are registered to vote and the vast majority will vote. However, we all have family, friends, neighbors, fellow church members, coworkers, etc. who share our views and values who are not registered.  Please send everyone you know who shares our values a copy of Dr. Dobson's newsletter and plead with them to make sure they are registered to vote. What’s more, if YOU have moved, you must reregister at your new address. In 2016 a shift of about 85,000 votes in the right precincts would have made Hillary Clinton president, this year more than ever, every vote counts. Please read Dr. Dobson’s insightful analysis of the importance of this election and share it with everyone in your network. And by the way, you can catch Dr. Dobson's radio show by using this link to find a broadcaster in your area. Yours in Liberty under God’s Laws, Richard A. Viguerie Chairman ConservativeHQ.com From Dr. James Dobson: Dear Friends, As I write this newsletter, voters across this nation are only a few short months away from the next general election. What an ominous time this is for our 244-year-old republic. Its future hangs in the balance. The choices we make on November 3rd will send this nation down one of two dramatically different paths. The wrong decision will be catastrophic. I agree with former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, who said recently that the next election will be "the most important since 1860." He also warned that if we appease or ignore the violence and anarchy occurring in the streets, it might be the end of civilization as we have known it. Those are sobering words coming from a man who has stood at the pinnacle of national power. Mr. Gingrich referred to the significance of 1860 because that was the year Abraham Lincoln was elected president. I'm sure the Speaker would agree that the following election of 1864 was also critical to the future of the nation. Lincoln and his opponent, Maj. Gen. George McClellan, were in a hotly contested campaign for the White House that could have gone either way. The "war between the states," as it was called, had been raging for three ghastly years, and the entire nation was staggered by reports from the bloody battlefield. Lincoln was running for a second term, and he campaigned on the promise of finishing the war and preserving the Union. These were momentous times for the young nation. During the first week of January 1863, the President signed the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves. Democrats and their presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. McClellan, initially campaigned on a "peace platform," pledging to end the war and send soldiers home. As the election approached, he talked more about negotiating to let the South establish a separate government whose cornerstone would be slavery. If McClellan had been elected, there would have been no foreseeable end to the inherent evil of buying and selling human beings and treating them like cattle. Thus, the Civil War was a struggle for the soul of America. The summer before the election, the war was going badly for the Union. Lincoln, in fact, was convinced he was going to lose the election.3 He wrote the following memorandum on August 23, 1864, asking his Cabinet to accept the grim prospects for his re-election. These are his words: This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly probable that this Administration will not be re-elected. Then it will be my duty to so cooperate with the President-elect as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such grounds that I cannot possibly save it afterwards.4 No wonder Lincoln dealt at times with depression. Clearly, the Union was a hair's breadth away from losing the war. But then, the tide began to turn. One historian wrote, "The political landscape shifted dramatically when Gen. William T. Sherman took Atlanta in early September. This major military shift, coupled with the severe internal strife within the Democratic Party, solidified Lincoln's chance at victory."5 As you know, Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans won the election of 1864 in a landslide. McClellan was defeated by more than 500,000 popular votes and 191 electoral votes. An estimated 78 percent of Union soldiers cast their ballots in favor of Lincoln. McClellan took just three states: Kentucky, Delaware, and his home state of New Jersey.6 Less than two months after Lincoln's inauguration, he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. He is said to have been the "last casualty" of the Civil War.7 Why have I recounted our Civil War history and the election of 1864 at this time in our history? It is for two reasons. The first is to consider some striking similarities between then and now. Our nation is divided like no time since the Civil War. Lawlessness and anarchy stalk the cities as angry mobs riot, burn, loot, rob, and kill innocent bystanders. Cultural monuments are being destroyed. Scores of people have been shot. Our courageous police officers are being brutally attacked by the same people they have vowed to protect. A man and his son stopped to ask for directions, and he was gunned down on the spot. A one-year-old baby was shot in the stomach while he sat in his stroller. The child died at the hospital. What began as a justified and lawful protest in response to George Floyd's senseless murder by a rogue police officer has morphed into violence for the sake of violence. Hatred flows in the streets, including vitriol directed at the President of the United States or anyone who dares to support him or his policies. Constitutional rights to freedom of speech and religious liberty are being trampled. There is also widespread belief that violence and anarchy are being organized and funded by powerful forces that are maneuvering America toward a socialist dictatorship. There is always a kingmaker behind such lawlessness. Most disturbing is open talk of another civil war. It is troubling to even utter those words. The last time Americans faced off against each other, 600,000 soldiers died. May God forbid it from happening again. 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Martin Bürger, reporting for our friends at LifeSiteNews.com, recently posted an article that included an eye opening quote from Cardinal Raymond Burke, the former prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, the highest Vatican court. Before that, Burke was the archbishop of St. Louis, Missouri and the bishop of La Crosse, Wisconsin. Cardinal Burke pointed out that so-called “Catholic” politicians, including Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, must be denied Communion for advocating policies contrary to natural law and basic Church teaching, including on topics such as abortion and homosexuality. “They may not present themselves to receive Holy Communion, because they’re not in communion with Christ,” Burke said during an August 8 Fox News interview with Martha MacCallum. “It’s not a punishment. Actually, it’s a favor to these people to tell them don’t approach, because if they approach, they commit sacrilege.” According to Mr. Bürger’s reporting, the Cardinal said “Catholic” politicians so often back abortion and pro-LGBT legislation that many non-Catholic leaders of government believe that the Church has changed her teaching on these matters. “I’ve had non-Catholic leaders of government in this nation tell me that they were certain that the Catholic Church’s teaching on abortion and the so-called same-sex ‘marriage,’ and so forth, have changed, because so many Catholics on Capitol Hill are regularly supporting this kind of legislation ... [a]nd that’s a scandal.” Then-Archbishop Burke issued a similar warning to so-called Catholic pro-abortion Democrat John Kerry in 2004. As Martin Bürger noted, politician supporting abortion or homosexuality is generally seen by faithful Catholics as “obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin.” Current Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has repeatedly touted his Catholic faith, even though his platform is radically pro-abortion. Cardinal Burke: A pro-abortion presidential candidate ‘may not ... receive Holy Communion’. He dedicated one section to “Reproductive Health,” which is generally a reference to abortion. The former vice president under President Barack Obama said, among other things, he “will work to codify Roe v. Wade, and his Justice Department will do everything in its power to stop the rash of state laws that so blatantly violate Roe v. Wade.” Roe v. Wade is the 1973 Supreme Court ruling essentially imposing abortion across the country under the guise of a woman’s right to privacy. Many states passed legislation trying to limit the widespread killing of unborn babies. One form of legislation is so-called heartbeat bills, which prohibit abortions as soon as the unborn baby’s heartbeat can be detected after roughly six weeks of pregnancy. As Lauretta Brown, writing for the National Catholic Register observed, over the years, Biden has earned ample criticism and correction from U.S. bishops over his support of abortion. Time noted that, in 2006, “then-Wilmington Bishop Michael Saltarelli pressured Biden’s high school alma mater into dropping plans to name a new student center after him, citing a 2004 statement from the USCCB: ‘Catholic institutions should not honor those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles.’” Then-Archbishop Charles Chaput and Bishop James Conley responded to Biden’s comments on abortion in 2008, writing that “abortion is a foundational issue” and “is always grievously wrong.” They added that, “in reality, modern biology knows exactly when human life begins: at the moment of conception. Religion has nothing to do with it.” “If, as Sen. Biden said, ‘I’m prepared as a matter of faith to accept that life begins at the moment of conception,’ then he is not merely wrong about the science of new life; he also fails to defend the innocent life he already knows is there,” the bishops emphasized at the time. And on Election Day 2008, Bishop John Ricard of Pensacola-Tallahassee, Florida, wrote a letter to Biden after it was disclosed that the vice-presidential candidate had received Communion the previous Sunday at a Mass he attended at a church in Bishop Ricard’s diocese. In his letter, Bishop Ricard praised Biden’s positive contributions to public life but added, “I also observe, by your support for laws that fail to protect the unborn, a profound disconnection from your human and personal obligation to protect the weakest and most innocent among us: the child in the womb.” Bishop Ricard’s letter cited relevant passages from the U.S. bishops’ 2004 document “Catholics in Political Life,” regarding reception of Communion by those in public life, indicating that someone with Biden’s position on abortion should not present himself for Communion. 2020 Election abortion Archbishop Charles Chaput Bishop James Conley Bishop Michael Saltarelli Cardinal Raymond Burke Catholic politicians codify Roe v. Wade Communion heartbeat bills homosexuality Joe Biden LGBTQ agenda Planned Parenthood Pro-Life Same-sex marriage Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura