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A Walk in the Weeds
Things Are Being Researched...

I am following some very interesting information about the "Epstein Class" alleged infrastructure - you know, the people, companies and governments that enable folks to commit crimes like sex-trafficking, stock market manipulation and banking fraud. Since the powers that be do not want to reveal their international machinations, these brave, intelligent researchers are finding some very interesting connections that seem more logical than what we are being told, in my opinion. I do not pretend to know if all of this is exact so read with your critical thinking skills yourself. But, I thought you might like to read. 

This is information from reliable sources about possible election interference. It has an infographic that shows the connections the investigators found. This will inform you about secret structures being utilized and by whom. Remember when Trump said on July 26, 2024, ​“Get out and vote just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years it will be fixed. It’ll be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians. You’ve got to get out and vote. In four years, you don’t have to vote again, we’ll have it fixed so good you’re not going to have to vote.” This is probably what he was talking about - and Musk is neck-deep in the deceit.​

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A handwritten name on a corporate filing in Illinois. That is where this starts now. Not with a satellite or a machine or a text message sent at midnight. A name crossed out in typewriter ink and written in by hand in February 2021 on Tripp Lite’s annual report to the State of Illinois.

The name crossed out was Barre Seid, the reclusive Chicago billionaire who built Tripp Lite over decades and who, in 2020, transferred full ownership of the company to Leonard Leo’s Marble Freedom Trust in a transaction structured to keep hundreds of millions in capital gains taxes inside Leo’s political network rather than pay them to the government.

The name written in was Leonard Leo. Later that same month, Leo sold Tripp Lite to Eaton Corporation for $1.65 billion. You already know what Tripp Lite makes. Battery backup units. The ones physically connected to vote counting servers across the country. The ones with programmable modems. The ones whose software updates are classified as optional components in election system documentation, which means they do not go through EAC certification, which means nobody is required to test them before an election, monitor them during one, or approve changes to them at any point.

What you did not know until This Will Hold published on June 21 is the chain of hands those devices passed through before Eaton bought them.

Barre Seid. A man who funded the distribution of millions of anti-Muslim DVDs to battleground state households during the 2008 presidential election. A man who donated to climate denial organizations for decades. A man who spent the last forty years of his life moving money into far right political infrastructure and whose name you have almost certainly never heard.

Leonard Leo. The co-chairman of the Federalist Society. The architect of the network that recruited, cultivated, and placed the conservative justices now sitting on the Supreme Court. The man whose infrastructure cleared the legal path for the current administration. The man who took Seid’s company, held it for weeks, and sold it to Eaton for $1.65 billion, keeping the tax-sheltered proceeds inside the movement he built.

Eaton Corporation. Which announced a partnership with Peter Thiel’s Palantir in May 2024, describing in its own press release AI-driven oversight of connected infrastructure and, in the release’s precise language, secure erasure of digital footprints. Which announced a partnership with Elon Musk’s SpaceX in September 2024 describing integration with Starlink’s emerging low orbit Direct to Cell infrastructure for secure operational continuity. Six weeks before the election.

Barre Seid. Leonard Leo. Eaton. Palantir. SpaceX. One device, connected to the machine counting your vote, passing through that chain in the four years before November 5, 2024.

There is a term in election equipment documentation called de minimis. It means trivial. Inconsequential. Not worth a full review.

This Will Hold documented that last minute engineering change orders on ES&S equipment were approved by Pro V&V, one of only two federally accredited election testing labs, under that classification. Without independent testing. Without public disclosure. Without full certification review. The changes touched ballot scanners. They altered reporting software. They modified files.

This has been standard practice for decades.

Liberty Vote, formerly Dominion, submitted its Frontier 1.0 system to the EAC for certification in November 2025. The process takes eight to nine months. The midterms are in November 2026. No state has published a list of which machines have been modified since the acquisition. No independent body has confirmed the recertification requirement is being enforced.

The machines that count your vote in November may not be the machines that were certified. Nobody is required to tell you that.

The government ran its own investigation. In February 2025, the White House signed an executive order directing the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to investigate vulnerabilities in American voting machines. The stated purpose was to find evidence supporting claims that the 2020 election was rigged. Tulsi Gabbard, then serving as Director of National Intelligence, launched the investigation. The investigation found no evidence the 2020 election was rigged.

What it found instead was this: voting machines across multiple states are running outdated software. Some can connect to the internet in ways that could be exploited. The vulnerabilities are real, documented, and actionable. The ODNI report recommended states update their systems immediately.

The White House has sat on the report for six months. It has not been released. It has not been acted on. 

 

A second report commissioned from a government contractor called Mojave Research examined voting machines seized from Puerto Rico. It also found no evidence of manipulation. It also identified serious software vulnerabilities. It also recommended an emergency remediation plan forcing immediate updates. The administration terminated Mojave’s contract in October. The remediation plan has not been implemented.

The internal debate over why the report has not been released is documented in Reuters. Some officials worry releasing it would damage Republican voter confidence. Others believe it does not go far enough to support the administration’s fraud claims and therefore serves no political purpose. Neither camp is arguing the vulnerabilities are not real. They are arguing about whether disclosing real vulnerabilities helps or hurts the party.

Tulsi Gabbard stepped down as DNI on June 19. William Pulte, a federal housing regulator with no intelligence experience, took over as acting director. The White House has stated publicly it wants Pulte to investigate rigged elections. Pulte has been briefed on the unreleased report. What he does with it is now the question.

Here is what that sequence means for the midterms. The government’s own intelligence agency confirmed the attack surfaces that independent investigators have been documenting from the outside for two years. Outdated software. Internet connectivity. Exploitable hardware. The ODNI found it. The Mojave contractor found it. CISA found it at hacking conferences years before either of them. The mechanism for telling states their machines are vulnerable runs through ODNI findings as the upstream input. When the report sits unreleased, that pipeline is blocked.

The midterms are nineteen weeks away. The software has not been updated. The report has not been released. The contractor who recommended fixing it has been terminated. And the man now running national intelligence has been told by the White House to find evidence of rigging in elections the government’s own report says were not rigged.

The vulnerabilities are real. The remediation was suppressed. The machines counting your vote in November are running the same outdated software they were running when the government wrote a classified report saying they needed to be fixed.

 

On October 30, 2024, six days before Election Day, Elon Musk activated 265 new low Earth orbit V2 Mini satellites equipped with Direct to Cell technology. DTC does not need a router, a cell tower, a WiFi network, or an internet service provider. It connects from satellite directly to any compatible device on the ground. It leaves no log at any terrestrial carrier.

On the same day, Chain Bridge, a Republican linked bank that had just completed its IPO, saw its shares surge to more than three times their average trading volume. Chain Bridge’s own IPO documents had noted considerable financial risk if Republican electoral fortunes were to change.

On the same day, Peter Thiel’s Polymarket predicted the exact outcome of the presidential election.

In November 2025, This Will Hold documented the mechanism behind that certainty. In Florida, votes recorded in a nonexistent county called Burke County precisely matched the combined number of Republican and Democratic early voters. In Michigan, a nonexistent county’s vote total precisely matched the number of permanent mail-in voters. In Georgia, a nonexistent county’s total precisely matched the number of voters who had requested mail-in ballots. Three states. Three different voter categories. One fixed variable in each, known in advance, inserted into the reporting data, used to swap presidential votes while leaving every down ballot race untouched.

That is why the ballots show blue down ballot and red at the top. The down ballot races were not touched. Only the presidential count was.

Every victory in every swing state landed just above the threshold to trigger an automatic recount. All seven. Eighty-eight counties flipped red. Not one flipped blue. This Will Hold calculated the probability of that pattern occurring naturally at approximately one in fifty octillion.

The Starlink connection logs from October and November 2024 exist. SpaceX holds them. They have not been subpoenaed. Congress has not asked for them.

Audrey Henson at The Drey Dossier called the State Department and asked about passports.gov. They told her they do not know the site exists.

The site has three photo subdomains behind a login page carrying no agency name, no seal, and no privacy filing with any federal body. A passport photo is biometric quality. It connects to your federal identity through login.gov. It is being collected through White House controlled infrastructure with no congressional authorization and no public disclosure of what it will be used for. Login.gov’s code now contains what developers call a proofing agent. It allows a verified federal identity to be created in your name without you being present.

The man running login.gov is Greg Hogan. Hogan was a top Office of Personnel Management data during the exact window a federal court found that data was being handed to DOGE affiliated individuals without authorization. A judge issued an injunction. Hogan received a specific exception to it. He now oversees the biometric identity system for 150 million Americans.

Everything goes live July 4. DOGE legally dissolves the same morning. The infrastructure it built does not dissolve with it.

Thomas Massie’s name appeared on the bipartisan push to release the unredacted Epstein files. It was one of the few times a Republican member put his name on that demand publicly and kept it there.

On June 3, Massie lost his primary to a White House endorsed challenger by ten points in a race that drew double the turnout of the last primary.

Election Truth Alliance ran the forensic numbers. The district level data passes every standard audit test. Clean across the board. The county level data flags in all 21 counties simultaneously, for both candidates at the same time, in a pattern that cancels itself out before it reaches the district total. The cancellation is what makes it invisible at the level auditors examine.

Their conclusion: if the result was manipulated, it was built to pass the tests that auditors run.

ETA formally submitted those findings to state officials and requested a hand count. That request is on the record. It has received no response. The congressman who pushed hardest for the Epstein files is out of office.

Three Things That Happened After Publication of the Info Above.

A Maricopa County surveillance camera recorded the county recorder’s chief information officer removing a ballot scanner from a locked tabulation center during an active election. He loaded it into an unmarked personal vehicle and drove away for nearly an hour. The county replaced the scanner at $70,000 because they could not verify it had not been tampered with. A special prosecutor is investigating. The county has not explained where he took it.

ICE pulled individual voter files directly from county election officials in North Carolina with no court order. No federal judge signed off. North Carolina is the same state where two years of forensic analysis documented a 5.5 percent presidential anomaly that did not appear in any down ballot race on the same ballot.

An Arizona Democratic candidate filed a formal election interference complaint with Attorney General Kris Mayes alleging a foreign government used artificial intelligence to interfere in an Arizona Democratic primary. The platform named is the same UAE based system from the original investigation.

Kait Justice followed the money: Jared Kushner left the White House and raised $2 billion from Gulf sovereign wealth. That capital is now moving into Sazan Island, a former Albanian military installation at the mouth of the Adriatic Sea. Nat Rothschild, who connects Kushner to that geography, runs through the Epstein network via Peter Mandelson, Jes Staley, and Ehud Barak. The template is Porto Montenegro, a former Yugoslav naval base converted into a billionaire marina and sold to Dubai’s sovereign wealth fund. Same geography. Same capital. Same hands at different points on the same map.

Tom Barrack is the United States Ambassador to Turkey. Barrack is the man Epstein named as his Saudi connection on election night 2016. Turkey operates the NATO naval installation directly across the water from Sazan. The man Epstein identified as the Gulf financial connection now sits in the embassy with military oversight of the waterway Kushner’s capital is moving into.

The first family keeps 75 percent of USD1 revenue. The bonds backing USD1 are held at Cantor Fitzgerald. The head of Cantor Fitzgerald is the United States Secretary of Commerce. Brock Pierce, who connects to Epstein’s network and to Tether, is part of the USD1 architecture. Four weeks before the Commerce Secretary was scheduled to testify before the House Oversight Committee about his Epstein connections, he wrote a $5 million check to the House Republican leadership PAC. The GENIUS Act, which created the legal framework the first family profits from directly, was signed into law the same week.

The money did not disappear when Epstein died. It found a legal wrapper, a legislative stamp, and a cabinet secretary to hold the bonds.

Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez documented what New Mexico looked like before any of this was possible. New Mexico had no human trafficking statute for the first twelve years Epstein operated at Zorro Ranch. He arrived in 1993. The law did not exist until 2004. The state’s sex offender registration law was written with a residency requirement that allowed nonresident property owners to skip registration entirely. The loophole was not an accident. It was the statute.

The Truth Commission now investigating all of this hired a law firm whose founding partners all made the maximum allowable donation to Bill Richardson’s gubernatorial campaign. Richardson is named as an abuser by at least one survivor. The commission investigating the conduct is being run through a firm whose founders funded the man the commission is supposed to be investigating.

Then Alisa reported on ELSAG SignalTrace. A system being sold to American law enforcement right now that attaches to existing traffic cameras and reads the Bluetooth signal of every phone, laptop, smartwatch, and pet microchip in every passing vehicle. No warrant. No federal law against it. New Mexico agencies can purchase it today.

The infrastructure that made Epstein’s operation possible was legal silence. The infrastructure now going up around the people asking questions about Epstein reads your device fingerprint without a warrant every time you drive past a camera.

A reader named Betty left two sentences in the comments of the original article. “SWARM is connected to Starlink. Research SWARM.”

SWARM Technologies was acquired by SpaceX in July 2021 for $524 million. It is a portfolio company of In Q Tel, the venture capital arm of the CIA. Its co-founder became co-lead for Direct to Cell at SpaceX after the acquisition. SWARM’s product is the Tile, a small modem embeddable in third party devices, connected to a satellite network SpaceX owns entirely.

What the acquisition obscured is SWARM’s history before SpaceX bought it. In January 2018, SWARM launched four satellites without FCC authorization. The FCC had specifically denied their application, citing concerns that the satellites were too small to be tracked by space surveillance systems and could become invisible debris capable of destroying other satellites. SWARM launched anyway. The FCC investigation subsequently found that SWARM had not only launched the four unauthorized satellites but also unlawfully transmitted signals between them and earth stations in Georgia. SWARM paid a $900,000 fine and agreed to a five year federal compliance plan.

The company that launched satellites without permission, ignored a federal denial, unlawfully transmitted signals to ground stations in Georgia, and paid a fine rather than faced disqualification is now the IoT backbone of the same Direct to Cell network activated six days before Election Day.

 

Larry Fink’s BlackRock sought at least $5 billion of SpaceX stock at its IPO this month. BlackRock already held at least $300 million in SpaceX privately before the offering. Fink publicly called Musk a personal friend, hosted him at Davos, and praised his investment returns on stage. Two weeks ago BlackRock launched a space technologies ETF tracking satellites and drones. The world’s largest asset manager is now a core investor in the company that owns the satellite network, the IoT modem, and the Direct to Cell infrastructure at the center of this investigation.

In November 2024, one week before Election Day, the SWARM website redirected to SpaceX’s Direct to Cell feature. The two networks merged publicly at the same moment the V2 Mini satellites activated.

The Tile modem is 30 millimeters. FCC certified. Embeddable in third party hardware. If it fits inside a glacier sensor deployed under Norwegian ice, it fits anywhere.

Nobody has examined whether SWARM Tile modems are present in election adjacent equipment. Nobody in Congress has asked.

The Consumption Loop

The readers of the original article did everything the system asks. They forwarded it to Congress. They contacted governors and attorneys general. They printed reports and mailed them to senators. Teresa did all of that and wrote in the comments: it feels like we are all being ignored.

Audrey Henson named what Teresa is feeling two weeks ago. She called it the consumption loop. We read. We share. We feel the weight. The gap between knowing and consequence stays exactly where it was. Her argument is that the gap is now a design feature, not a failure.

The difference in this comment thread is one reader named Joonbug. Joonbug wrote a formal letter to the House Committee on Administration and the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration. Three specific documented concerns. Nonpartisan framing. Addressed to the committees with jurisdiction. It is in the comments of the original article. It has been copied and sent by readers across the country with their names on it.

That letter is the most important thing in this comment section. Not because it will trigger an investigation tomorrow. Because it is the documented public record that constituents asked, that specific questions were posed to specific committees with jurisdiction, and that the people with the authority to act were formally put on notice. When accountability comes, that record is part of it. {I added it in its entirety below.}

The specific asks have not changed. The evidence behind them has grown. Subpoena the Starlink and SWARM connection logs from October and November 2024. Examine the Tripp Lite firmware update history for the 90 days before November 5. Audit Pro V&V’s de minimis ECO approvals for the 2024 election cycle. Compel ES&S to disclose every DS200 modem transmission log from the election window. Release the ODNI voting machine vulnerability report immediately and implement the emergency remediation plan Mojave Research recommended before it was terminated. Require the National Design Studio to produce every missing federal privacy filing and prohibit it from touching election infrastructure until a full accounting is public. Investigate the DOGE voter data agreement. It is in the federal court record. Nobody has moved.

At the state level: Kris Mayes in Arizona has a formal complaint in hand. ETA’s hand count request is on the record in Kentucky. Those are the two doors most likely to open first. The paper ballots still exist. A hand count would settle the question in days. No state has done one.

Call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121. Ask your senators and your representative why none of these questions have been answered. They work for you. Make them say so.

Two weeks ago I asked who bought the room. The chain is complete now. Barre Seid to Leonard Leo to Eaton to Palantir to SpaceX to a CIA portfolio satellite network that merged with Direct to Cell one week before Election Day. That chain runs through the devices connected to your vote counting machines.

The passport system is being rebuilt inside the White House. The voter registration portal is being rebuilt inside the White House. The man running federal identity for 150 million Americans was granted a specific exception to a court injunction blocking DOGE from federal records. Everything goes live July 4.

The congressman who pushed hardest for the Epstein files is out of office. The hand count request has no response. The Starlink logs have not been subpoenaed. The ODNI report confirming the vulnerabilities has been buried for six months. The midterms are nineteen weeks away.

The room is the same room. The door is locked now. The cameras outside aren’t yours.

Democracy is not self-executing. Power without accountability is not democracy. You don’t need permission to defend it. You just need to act.

 

This piece draws on original reporting and research by Kait Justice at Downwind of Truth, Audrey Henson at The Drey Dossier, Nathan Taylor at Election Truth Alliance, This Will Hold, and Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez at The Pugilist. Each investigation stands on its own. Search their names on Substack. The original article is here

Joonbug's Letter (Feel free to use) You can cut and paste to a word doc and print 2 copies to send to each Congressional entity. You can also send to Risch, Crapo, Fulcher and Simpson. Flood their offices with this!

Senate Committee on Rules and Administration

399 Russell Senate Office
Washington, D.C. 20510
(202) 224-6352

 

House Committee on Administration

1309 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202-225-8281

 

 

To the Ranking Members and Members of the House Committee on Administration and the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration:

I am writing as a private citizen to request formal congressional investigation into three specific, documented concerns about American election infrastructure and federal data collection. These are not partisan concerns. They are structural ones that affect every American voter regardless of party.

First: A single private individual, Scott Leiendecker, now controls both the voter check-in systems used by poll workers and the vote-counting machines in 27 states. His company KNOWiNK operates the Poll Pad check-in systems that process voters in real time on Election Day. He also now owns Liberty Vote, formerly Dominion Voting Systems, which counts the ballots in those same states. No single private owner should control both how voters check in and how their votes are counted across tens of millions of people. This is a structural conflict of interest that demands scrutiny regardless of the integrity of the individuals involved.

Second: The National Design Studio, created by executive order and operating inside the White House, has reportedly built or is building federal websites including a replacement for vote.gov, the federally created voter registration portal, and passports.gov, a site collecting biometric-quality passport photos. Reports indicate that required federal privacy filings are absent across these programs, and that these sites are registered to the Executive Office of the President rather than to the agencies they appear to represent. If accurate, this represents violations of federal privacy law passed after Watergate specifically to prevent secret government data collection on American citizens. It also raises serious separation of powers concerns. The Election Assistance Commission exists precisely to ensure that no sitting administration has visibility into who is accessing voter registration systems. A White House-controlled replacement for vote.gov would undermine that wall entirely.

Third: A voter data agreement was reportedly signed by a DOGE employee with a political advocacy organization, with the stated purpose of finding evidence of voter fraud and overturning election results in certain states. This agreement is reportedly in federal court records. If that is accurate, it describes a federal employee using access to government data for partisan electoral purposes. That demands investigation.

 

I am asking for the following specific actions:

  1. A congressional hearing examining the ownership structure of Liberty Vote and KNOWiNK, and whether current election law adequately prevents single-owner control of both voter check-in and vote-counting infrastructure.

  2. A requirement that the National Design Studio produce every required federal privacy filing it has failed to file, and a prohibition on that office touching any federal election infrastructure until a full public accounting of its data practices has been completed.

  3. A formal investigation into the DOGE voter data agreement reported in federal court filings.​

 

None of these requests asks Congress to reach a conclusion about the 2024 election. They ask only that Congress do its job: provide oversight of federal election infrastructure and enforce the laws already on the books.

The midterm elections are months away. There is time to act.

 

(Name)

(Address)

Something Fishy about the Reflecting Pool...

It's easy to laugh about the incompetence and ridiculous arrests regarding the Reflecting Pool...but what if there is a logical, albeit devious, plan that explains why they want a "ballroom" and to hide the pool behind tarps and fences...Again, use your critical thinking skills and see if this makes sense or nonsense to you.

Here's a link to the Drey Dossier's Reporting

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