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Mike retweeted
Utah was the ONLY state in the 2020 election with a gubernatorial race in which the "Republican" candidate (Spencer Cox - who “oversaw” his own election) vaulted over the GOP presidential candidate in terms of vote count.
HOW INTERESTING.
“We do it very well here”
Utah “Republican” Governor Spencer Cox appeared on Face the Nation to defend his state's universal vote-by-mail system.
This defense comes from a governor with an unusually direct hand in the elections he has run in.
As Utah's Lieutenant Governor from 2013 to 2021, Cox was the state's chief election officer-the official responsible for overseeing voter registration, ballot administration, and the conduct of elections.
That role meant he oversaw the 2020 election in which he himself was “elected”Governor.
After becoming Governor, his running mate and successor as Lieutenant Governor then “oversaw” the 2024 election in which Cox was “reelected.”
In short, the same office that has long administered Utah' unique all-mail svstem also administered the two statewide elections that put and kept Cox in the Governor's office.
Mike retweeted
If you guys don’t know much about this topic… Here is a very interesting read on it. 👀👇
📢Check this out: Morgan Dewitt-Snow and Suzie Wiles worked at Ballard Partners along side Pam Bondi.
Who Is Ballard Partners?
Ballard Partners is a major U.S. lobbying and government-relations firm founded in Florida by Brian Ballard. The firm has built a powerful presence in Washington, D.C., largely through its political connections and relationships with influential figures in Republican politics, particularly within Donald Trump's political orbit.
Following the 2024 presidential election, Ballard Partners rapidly expanded its client roster, attracting corporations, organizations, and foreign interests seeking access to the incoming Trump administration.
Political Connections
The firm has employed or been associated with several prominent figures who later assumed senior positions in the Trump administration, including:
Susie Wiles – Former Ballard Partners executive who became White House Chief of Staff during Trump's second term.
Pam Bondi – Former Ballard Partners lobbyist who later became U.S. Attorney General.
Other political operatives and former officials who transitioned into influential government positions.
Business Scale and Corporate Clients
Ballard Partners has grown into one of the largest lobbying firms in the United States by reported revenue. Its business expanded significantly following the 2024 election, with the firm attracting numerous new clients and reporting record lobbying income.
Recent reporting has placed its annual revenue in the tens of millions of dollars, with estimates exceeding $80–90 million in certain reporting periods, putting it among the highest-earning lobbying firms on K Street.
The firm maintains offices across the United States, including Washington, D.C., Florida, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Sacramento. It has also developed an international presence through offices and global partnerships involving countries such as Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Venezuela.
Ballard Partners has also undertaken work involving foreign governments and entities, including engagements requiring registration under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
Its reported corporate and institutional clients have included major names across multiple industries, such as:
Technology: Amazon, Google, Uber, Palantir, and TikTok/ByteDance-related interests.
Finance: JPMorgan and other financial institutions.
Energy: Chevron and other major energy companies.
Entertainment and Media: Netflix and media-related interests.
Education: Harvard University.
Other sectors: Defense, healthcare, aviation, transportation, and international business.
Its lobbying activities have covered issues including trade policy, tariffs, healthcare, energy, defense, and broader government affairs.
Ballard Partners has benefited considerably from the demand for political access surrounding Trump's presidential administrations, particularly following the 2024 election.
The firm has also experienced reported tensions within Trump's political circle. In 2025, an episode involving a client-related Truth Social post reportedly triggered friction and led to a meeting involving Brian Ballard, Donald Trump, and Susie Wiles.
They are registered as FARA let that sink in!
Mike retweeted
Remember when our federal delegation fought for election integrity in UTAH?
When they called out Spencer Cox for the 2024 signature scandal, bribing the counterfeit Lymans, and told Deidre Henderson to stop obstructing every effort to verify our elections?
Oh wait. Me neither.
Mike retweeted
INBOX: Spotted at a Dairy Queen in Ypsilanti, Michigan
Free Qurans
I wonder if @DairyQueen would let people give out the Bible in their store?
Mike retweeted
Name names! @timburchett call out the traitors by name
🚨 NOW: Rep. Tim Burchett just angrily STORMED OUT of a committee meeting saying a backroom deal was cut to let Democrats control what they do!
"We're going to BLOW IT because we're not acting like we're in the majority! [We] allow the Democrats to tell us what to do. It's just UNBELIEVABLE!"
"At some point we're going to have to give some guts. This town is crooked as a dog's leg and I'm disgusted."
"Had some amendments that were cutting regulation things that we should, as Republicans, do. Because of backroom deals they cut, they won't allow any amendments on the bill because the Democrats didn't agree to it! So here we are in the majority and we're not allowed to do that!"
"And I guarantee you when the Democrats are in the majority, which they very much could be because of this kind of garbage — [they won't do this]."
"I want to FIGHT." 🔥
Mike retweeted
Here is a good illustration of everything that is wrong with the current leadership of the @UtahGOP
🗳️ @SLCountyGOP Chair, @MikeCarey4CC wants to talk about the process of “canvassing over 40K houses” * while ignoring the outcome: @UtahDemocrats and unaffiliated candidates are on track to flip 16 seats previously held by the GOP /majority @utahlegislature . A significant portion of those flips originated from districts covering Salt Lake County. And the @SLCo_Council has now flipped to the @SLCountyDems
🐘 In his unique brand of bizarre utterances, Carey blames me for the chaos and corruption that will be the hallmark of his failed leadership:
🍎 I was the GOP nominee for @UTBoardofEd District 5 and Carey sabotaged my campaign, causing me to remove my name from the ballot, forcing me into a space where I could do “absolutely nothing” this campaign season.
💰 What he characterizes as “bullshit lies” that I “spewed”, is actually, me calling him out for his role in the cover-up to hide the party’s misappreciations of donor money.
🦣 The part about me, “… not, nor was ever a conservative”, is accurate. I am a moderate and everyone knows that. Carey is just trying to maintain the internal wreckage of the party's infighting that got us in this mess.
🚪 Oh yeah, in another post, Carey reported that the SLCO GOP purchased 75K door hangers. Carey left out the part that he had to lend the party $11,000.00 to make the purchase. A not so good investment because if they only hit 40K doors, that leaves 35K door hangers that are still sitting in his garage.
* Political “canvassing” is an active, face-to-face voter engagement strategy designed to spark two-way conversations with voters, while leaving a door hanger (often called a "lit drop") is a passive, one-way distribution of campaign materials.
Mike retweeted
BREAKING: After another very suspect election in many states across the country, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon just resigned. Harmeet was overseeing the election integrity with several hundred DOJ poll watchers.
None of this is normal.
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Reposting because the University wants it taken down
🚨🚨 JUST NOW: Deranged Abdul Supporter tackled a Jewish girl (@basedinmalibu) at free speech event.
She was SWIFTLY arrested, resisted and then said “I SHOULD HAVE KILLED HER!!” As she was loaded into the police vehicle.
Mike retweeted
Utah’s House and Salt Lake County losses were zero percent surprising.
Mike Lee, “Utah’s constitutional Senator,”protected the establishment, pushed the status quo, and told Utahns demanding verifiable elections to move on. No incentive for the base.
His Cox endorsement, despite all the 2024 shenanigans, didn’t help.
Every Utah Republican’s silence made them complicit. The base noticed and stayed home.
Last night’s Utah House results weren’t a fluke or pure national headwinds.
They were the predictable outcome of years of “Republican” leadership treating Utahns like they need managing instead of representing.
Preliminary counts show a long list of GOP incumbents trailing or losing to Democrats and independents (Thompson, Auxier, Kyle, Sawyer, Ballard, MacPherson, Loubet, Dunnigan, Ivory, Eliason, Okerlund, Teuscher, Hunsaker, Thurston, and others).
The House supermajority that has defined Utah politics for decades is in real danger. That is not what happens in a deep-red state when the base is fired up and the party is delivering.
What actually happened
The Utah Republican supermajority, party leadership, and federal delegation spent far more energy telling voters everything was fine, or that any criticism was disloyal, than they spent drawing hard lines against the establishment status quo.
When the base wanted fight on spending, immigration, education, energy, and basic institutional accountability, they got process, messaging, and reassurances. Voters noticed.
The 2024 gubernatorial primary didn’t help. Phil Lyman won the convention and the activist base.
The audits, lawsuits, and claims of irregularities that leadership largely waved away or treated as a nuisance rather than a legitimacy problem for a large chunk of the party, did not help.
Whether you call the outcome fully “stolen” or simply a process the base rejected, the practical effect was the same: a demoralized and skeptical Republican electorate that showed up less enthusiastically for the rest of the ticket. Condensed or excused by those in power, that energy didn’t return on its own in 2026.
The result
When leadership prioritizes narrative control over confrontation with the institutions and interests that frustrate voters, the base stops showing up in the numbers needed to protect even safe seats. National Democrats running a strong midterm wave simply accelerated what was already in motion. McAdams’s easy win in the new 1st District and competitive showings elsewhere are downstream of the same dynamic.
This is fixable, but not by the same people doing the same things and expecting different turnout. Accountability starts with admitting the supermajority treated its own voters as the problem to be managed instead of the constituency to be served. The losses are the receipt.
Mike retweeted
Watching election results in Salt Lake County: Compels me to express my gratitude to @SLCountyGOP chairman @MikeCarey4CC and his predecessor, Chris Null for teaching us that Rhetorical and Ideological Cannibalism is not a good look for the @UtahGOP
🐘 Back in February, the headline screamed: “Salt Lake County GOP Takes Decisive Action Against Baseless Attacks and Internal Sabotage”
Mike retweeted
For Utah, this trumps any other issue.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 3, 2026
UTAH ELECTION CONTROVERSY: CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION REQUEST FILED AS FEDERAL AUTHORITIES INVESTIGATE SIMILAR ALASKA ELECTION ALLEGATIONS
Salt Lake County, Utah — Today, Sophia (Sophie) Anderson personally delivered a signed, nine-page request for criminal investigation and independent conflict-of-interest review to the Utah Attorney General's Criminal Investigations Division.
An intake employee acknowledged receipt.
The complaint concerns allegations surrounding Utah's 2024 gubernatorial election, when Richard Kennedy Lyman and Carol Ann Lyman entered the race as write-in candidates against Phil Lyman and Natalie Clawson.
A witness, James Newson, alleged that Richard Lyman reported an offer of $1,000 and a steak dinner to enter the race and interfere with Phil Lyman's campaign.
The allegations were raised in a civil lawsuit that was dismissed without adjudication of whether the alleged financial inducement occurred.
ALASKA: FEDERAL CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION — MORE THAN 100 SUBPOENAS
The Utah filing comes as the U.S. Department of Justice conducts a criminal investigation into similar allegations: that political operatives recruited another candidate, also named Dan Sullivan, to run against incumbent U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan in Alaska's 2026 election.
According to ABC News on November 3, 2026, federal prosecutors are preparing more than 100 subpoenas and have issued approximately 20 target letters or related notices in connection with the investigation. A federal grand jury is reportedly examining potential conspiracy and donor-fraud offenses.
Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy has also directed a separate state investigation into whether the alleged candidate-recruitment effort violated state law.
The Utah and Alaska controversies both raise questions about the recruitment of similarly named candidates and possible voter confusion.
In Utah, the additional allegation of a $1,000-and-steak-dinner inducement raises a specific question under the state's election-bribery law. Sophie's November 3 filing asks Utah authorities to investigate that allegation and determine whether criminal conduct occurred.
UTAH ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CONFLICTS QUESTIONED
Sophie's complaint also requests an independent conflict-of-interest review involving Attorney General Derek Brown.
In December 2023, Lieutenant Governor Deidre Henderson was announced as co-chair of Brown's campaign finance committee. Governor Spencer Cox publicly endorsed Brown in May 2024, and Brown publicly supported Cox over Phil Lyman.
The complaint asks whether these documented campaign relationships warrant independent investigative or prosecutorial review.
ELECTION ADMINISTRATION AND MEDIA QUESTIONS
Sophie also requests examination of the Lieutenant Governor's handling of candidate withdrawal notices and media coverage that prominently displayed photographs of Phil Lyman in stories concerning the withdrawal of Richard and Carol Lyman.
The complaint identifies Des/News - Utah Policy Holly Richardson's reported relationship with Henderson and Jennifer Napier-Pearce's former position as executive editor of The Salt Lake Tribune and her 2024 role as Governor Cox's communications director.
Investigators are asked to determine whether communications or coordination occurred concerning the competing candidacies, withdrawal notices, or related news coverage.
REQUEST FOR ANSWERS
Sophie asks investigators to obtain witness statements, examine communications, preserve relevant records, determine whether criminal election laws were violated, and conduct an independent conflict review.
"Utah election laws must be administered consistently, regardless of the political affiliations or public positions of the individuals involved,"Sophie states.
The signed, nine-page complaint can be viewed below and in comments.
Media Contact:
Sophie Anderson
Davis County, Utah
[email protected]
Source for Alaska investigation: ABC News
Mike retweeted
🚨BREAKING: Missing Utah teenager Kylie Arellano has been found alive in Oregon after more than 500 days, and a 39-year-old man who was with her has been taken into custody.
Arellano was 15 when she disappeared from her family’s home in Garden City, Utah, on May 29, 2025. Authorities recovered her Sunday in Oregon.
A law enforcement source said the man allegedly met her on Snapchat before she vanished.
FBI Director Kash Patel said local police in Oregon brought the minor to safety based on information from the FBI’s Salt Lake City field office and that investigators will continue working to hold those responsible accountable.
Arellano is now 17. The investigation into what happened during her disappearance remains ongoing.
Mike retweeted
Whoever told you @RepMaloyUtah was good for Utah or us needs to be fired
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Those of you following the 2024 @UtahGOP Primary Election Steal, will quickly recognize the significance of this 04/29/24, letter from Chairman @RobertAxson to @LGHendersonUtah declaring that "Elected Candidate [for] Governor" @phil_lyman is the "Sole Party Nominee, per our rules".
📺 On Episode 80 of the @UriahandIngrid podcast, at time index 28:10, Bill Olsen states, "... One of two things happened at that convention, that Lyman won, according to our constitution was the Republican candidate becasue he got over 60% of the vote ... one of two things happened either Rob Axson submitted a counterfeit ballot to the Lt. Governor to publish or he submitted a correct ballot and the Lt. Governor changed it and created a counterfeit ballot ..."
🔎 Olsen raised a good point. So, I went and looked through my files and located the attached letter, that is the "ballot" that Olson was referencing. Take note that Axson declared Lyman the party nominee!
🖊️ We all know that @GovCox took the signature route to get on the Utah GOP primary ballot.
✏️ In watching this interview, it occured to me, this is why they all colluded with @UtahAG to conceal 1,000+ forged signatures on the Cox/Henderson candidate petitions.
🗳️ In other words, had it been disclosed that Cox/Henderson did not meet the qualifications to be on the primary ballot (even after the primary election). That would have left us with the "Sole Party Nominee" to appear on the general election ballot: Lyman/@NatalieforUtah
This Is How Democrats Could Take Over A Republican State #politics #MidTerms youtu.be/a42DKUaEEYA?is=J3jP…
Mike retweeted
If you haven't realized how bad this situation is... watch this...
🚨 Inside the Largest Government Funded Human Trafficking Ring in History: Your tax dollars trafficked over 300,000 children across the United States while NGOs enriched themselves with millions of dollars.
One NGO received $895 million to traffic children across the US. Others got $100+ million, and NGOs in areas like Tucson, Arizona pocketed millions but now receive nothing since the border shut down.
In this video we break down the contracts, speak with former Border Patrol, and confront the NGOs. It’s a must watch, like it and share it. Make sure no one forgets the hundreds of children lost in the government’s hands.
Mike retweeted
🚨🚨 I have just been informed by @ReawakenUSA CEO @realjamesowen that he was called by @UMich and asked to have my video of yesterday’s attack removed due to negative blowback on lunatic, Temulun Togochog
I’ll repost it every day until she’s expelled and charged.
