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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">new cat 6/16</font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">this refers mostly to following candidate hoping to catch gaff/truth, but also video ambush (not all here yet 12/16)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">neglected?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">see okeefe</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">went after Gore McKibben?
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=</font></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">an 7 23</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Home | 'Give it a (expletive) rest': AZ governor hits back after far-right outlet hounds her at gym</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gideon Rubin</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and Raw Story</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">July 08, 2023</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Katie Hobbs hit back after a reporter from a far-right outlet hounded the Arizona governor at her gym, video posted on social media shows.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Gateway Pundit reporter is heard shouting questions based on baseless conspiracies about her 2022 election victory over Kari Lake at the governor as she is seen walking swiftly down a hallway.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The reporter, who identifies himself as Jordan Conradson, hounds Hobbs as she walks through hallways at the gym accompanied by security.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“I have some questions about the election in Arizona,” he’s heard in the video asking Hobbs.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Conradson asks Hobbs to respond to unsubstantiated allegations that Maricopa County improperly conducted “secret” tests on voting equipment.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He later asks her to respond to the suggestion that mail-in votes were cast improperly.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">An annoyed Hobbs at the end of the video tells him:</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>“Give it a (expletive) rest, Jordan. I’m at the gym.”</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>
</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Gateway Pundit describes the meeting between Hobbs and Conradson as a chance encounter and calls the governor a “potty mouth.</b>”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Watch the video below or click the link.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</font></div><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, D.C., police and federal prosecutors have been collaborating with notorious right-wing groups known for fascist statements and using doctored videos to ambush their targets in an attempt to convict and jail protesters from President Trump’s inauguration.</b>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The question is not whether the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and the U.S. Attorney's office in Washington, D.C., are working with <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/oath-keepers" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Oath Keepers</a>, a group of cops and veterans with rabid anti-government views, and <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/30/james-okeefe-accidentally-stings-himself" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Project Veritas</a>, a far-right group known for <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/a-woman-approached-the-post-with-dramatic--and-false--tale-about-roy-moore-sje-appears-to-be-part-of-undercover-sting-operation/2017/11/27/0c2e335a-cfb6-11e7-9d3a-bcbe2af58c3a_story.html?utm_term=.e167f802febb" style="text-decoration-line: none;">fabricating accounts</a> to ambush the media and the political left.</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The question is, how deep is the relationship between the police, federal prosecutors and these extremists? And in MPD’s case, are Washington police breaking the law, as its city council has passed laws barring them from spying on protesters or protest groups?</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“It’s extraordinarily dangerous for prosecutors and police to be accepting information and evidence from politically motivated organizations that are intending to work against their political opponents,” said Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, executive director and constitutional rights attorney with the </span><a href="https://www.justiceonline.org/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">Partnership for Civil Justice Fund</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. “That’s not how they’re supposed to operate.”</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“So when the U.S. Attorney’s Office takes video from the widely discredited Project Veritas, in fact, edited video, and submits it into evidence in an effort to prosecute protesters and put them away for decades in prison, it is critically important that the public has an opportunity to see what’s going on behind those scenes, and to know what the relationships are that the Metropolitan Police Department, the D.C. police department, or any police department, has with right-wing organizations,” she said. “They simply can’t be working in collaboration.”</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The capital’s cops and right-wingers are apparently working together, according to a </span><a href="https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4378212/PCJFvDCFOIAComplaintMPDWatermarked021318.pdf" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">lawsuit</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> filed Tuesday by PCJF against D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and <b>Karl A. Racine in the U.S. Attorney’s office. </b>They want to force the police and prosecutors to turn over all documentation of the relationship between their agencies and right-wing groups that was “used to prosecute persons whose political views are in apparent opposition to the political goals of the providing entities,” as the </span><a href="https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4378212/PCJFvDCFOIAComplaintMPDWatermarked021318.pdf" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">lawsuit</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> said.</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“What we are trying to get at is the nature and extent of the relationship, of the D.C. police department working with Project Veritas, Oath Keepers and other entities,” Verheyden-Hilliard said. “We know for a fact that the police department worked with Project Veritas, obtaining edited video that group created when it infiltrated organizations that were planning protests for [President] Trump’s inauguration. And in fact, the U.S. Attorney’s office in Washington, D.C., introduced that video in their failed prosecution of six people caught in that dragnet arrest on January 20. There are still dozens of cases pending. But in the initial round, they tried to prosecute six people for having been in proximity to a demonstration, where other people are alleged to have engaged in acts of property damage at other locations and times separate from the location and time of the arrest.”</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Astoundingly, federal prosecutors introduced the doctored video evidence made by Project Veritas the same week the Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/a-woman-approached-the-post-with-dramatic--and-false--tale-about-roy-moore-sje-appears-to-be-part-of-undercover-sting-operation/2017/11/27/0c2e335a-cfb6-11e7-9d3a-bcbe2af58c3a_story.html?utm_term=.31b20cc193fe" style="text-decoration-line: none;">reported</a> that the group had tried to bait the paper with a fabricated account by a fellow right-winger who accused Alabama Republican Roy Moore—then a U.S. Senate candidate—of sexual harassment. (Moore has been accused by a series of women, first reported by the Post.) </span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“So they did introduce this video into evidence” to try to convict six protesters from Trump’s inauguration, Verheyden-Hilliard said. “It was created by Project Veritas. The police also were given video that they used, and the U.S. Attorney’s office used, from the right-wing militia Oath Keepers. When they introduced that video in court, it was the exact same week that Project Veritas was exposed for trying to plant a </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/a-woman-approached-the-post-with-dramatic--and-false--tale-about-roy-moore-sje-appears-to-be-part-of-undercover-sting-operation/2017/11/27/0c2e335a-cfb6-11e7-9d3a-bcbe2af58c3a_story.html?utm_term=.e167f802febb" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">fake story</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> in the Washington Post. So we immediately filed a FOIA [Freedom of Information Act] demand, seeking records showing the nature of the police department and its officers and Project Veritas, Oath Keepers and any other private entity that is providing intelligence information to the MPD. And they refused to respond to that request. We have even had followup inquiry and they are absolutely silent. They will not respond, so we sued them for the documents.”</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">There is a long history of police working with right-wing groups to subvert the organizing and speech rights of social justice groups. On Friday, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/09/california-police-white-supremacists-counter-protest" style="text-decoration-line: none;">the Guardian reported</a> police in California were working with white supremacists before June 2016 anti-fascist protests in Sacramento, the state capital, to target protesters for arrest. That wasn't the only example cited, either. “At an Oregon ‘alt-right’ event, police allowed a member of a right-wing militia-style group to help officers arrest an anti-fascist activist,” it <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/09/california-police-white-supremacists-counter-protest" style="text-decoration-line: none;">reported</a>. “Police in Charlottesville were widely accused of standing by as Nazis attacked protesters, and a black man who was badly beaten by white supremacists was later charged with a felony."</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A generation ago, the San Francisco Police Department was caught working with the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, a Jewish civil rights group, to “spy, harass and intimidate” pro-Palestine activists, as the New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/24/us/anti-defamation-league-accused-of-spying.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">reported</a> in 1993.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> But one big difference between the California state police and the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington is that the District of Columbia’s city council has explicitly passed laws barring the city’s police from spying on and framing protesters.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That law came after the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund sued the city after anti-globalization protests more than a dozen years ago.
“We have information showing during the anti-globalization movement that police agencies in both Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia were readily obtaining and using politically created false information by right-wing organizations. It’s very dangerous,” Verheyden-Hilliard said. “But in Washington, D.C., we put these restrictions in place under the law. So there’s a key component here, which is, the police are actually barred by law—there are restrictions on their surveillance of political protest groups. And we are very concerned that they are actually trying to outsource that by working with these right-wing organizations to do what the police are barred by law from doing. But, in our view, that would still be illegal. We don’t think that they can actually work as a proxy.”
It’s chilling to recall what the capital’s police did a dozen years ago, and to ponder who they’re partnering with today to apparently evade restrictions on that behavior.
“We found that the D.C. police were sending agent provocateurs into peaceful organizing meetings, encouraging people to undertake acts of violence, which were rejected,” Verheyden-Hilliard said. “We found that they were sending cops on long-term assignment pretending to be social justice activists. They were going into people’s homes. They were participating in their meetings in an active capacity. And when we were finally able to bring this to light, after some years of litigation, there were laws put into place to make it clear that the police could not conduct themselves in those ways.”
But some police departments are conducting themselves in that manner—and not just in Washington.
“It is shocking and really angering to see the level of collusion and the amount to which the police covered up for the [neo-]Nazis,” Yvette Felarca, “a Berkeley teacher and anti-fascist organizer charged with assault and rioting after participating in the June 2016 Sacramento rally, where she said she was stabbed and bludgeoned in the head,” <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/09/california-police-white-supremacists-counter-protest" style="text-decoration-line: none;">told the Guardian</a>. “The people who were victimized by the [neo-]Nazis were then victimized by the police and the district attorneys.”
While this police tactic is not new, Verheyden-Hilliard said Trump has given extremists in police ranks his blessing to go after the political left.
“With Trump taking over the presidency, and his comments before and after, he made it clear that he’s giving a green light to the police to act against social justice demonstrators,” she said. “He has heralded police brutality as an acceptable form of policing. And I think he has certainly sent a message to police forces and to anyone inside those police forces who has an affinity for any of these right-wing organizations that it's completely acceptable to act on their views in the context of policing. We can see with Charlottesville real questionable police conduct; their failure to act against white supremacists and neo-Nazi demonstrators, while simultaneously acting against social justice demonstrators</font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p class="selectionShareable"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>America Rising PAC was set up in Spring
2013</b> to serve as an organization on the right for the sole purpose of
exposing the truth about Democrats through video tracking, research, and
communications. By cataloguing every Democrat utterance we have the
data to ensure they are held accountable for their words and actions. </font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Our work influenced the 2014 elections. Bloomberg <a style="color: #1155cc;" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2014-11-05/democrats-are-even-losing-the-rewrite-of-the-2014-election?hootPostID=4a603ee35d08ee1fc3d267c743b4f1b9" target="blank">said</a> we “rattled Democrats who were not used to losing the media’s story lines” in 2014. Politico <a style="color: #1155cc;" href="http://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/democrats-lose-2014-midterms-112581_Page4.html" target="blank">referenced</a> our
video of Iowa Democrat Bruce Braley calling Senator Chuck Grassley “a
farmer from Iowa who never went to law school” as “a definitive moment
in the race, virtually everyone agrees.” The Washington Post’s “The
Fix” <a style="color: #1155cc;" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/11/04/winners-and-losers-of-the-2014-election-early-edition/" target="_blank">named</a> us a winner of 2014, saying America Rising “proved its value this cycle.”</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">We’re also looking forward to influencing the 2016 elections.</span> The </span><a style="color: #5b93fc;" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2013/03/24/gop-rising-the-oppo-battle-is-joined/" target="blank">Washington Post </a><span style="color: #444444;">and </span><a style="color: #5b93fc;" href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/06/20/first-on-cnn-stop-hillary-effort-launches/" target="blank">CNN</a><span style="color: #444444;"> have
called America Rising the leading group on the right preparing for a
Hillary Clinton candidacy and the earliest sustained effort to begin
defining future Democratic presidential contenders. Follow our Hillary
Clinton coverage </span><a style="color: #5b93fc;" href="https://www.americarisingpac.org/candidate/hillary-clinton/" target="_blank">here</a><span style="color: #444444;">.</span></font>
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<h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">America Rising In The News</font></h2>
<address><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A few articles about our organization</font></address>
<p class="selectionShareable"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Washington Post: <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2014/11/11/inside-the-republican-oppo-research-operation/" target="_blank">Inside the Republican ‘oppo’ research operation</a></font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bloomberg: <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2014-10-17/hatewatching-hillary" target="_blank">Inside the Republican machine scrutinizing Clinton’s every word.</a></font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">National Journal: <a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/the-conservative-playbook-against-hillary-clinton-20140610" target="_blank">The Conservative Playbook Against Hillary Clinton</a></font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CNN: America Rising PAC’s Tim Miller Joins Crossfire To Talk About “Failed Choices” (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdzkCdrK96Q" target="blank">Part 1</a>) (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEd8QudWrD8" target="blank">Part 2</a>)</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Free Beacon: <a href="http://freebeacon.com/national-security/america-rising-report-criticizes-hillary-clintons-state-dept-over-benghazi/" target="_blank">America Rising: Report Criticizes Hillary Clinton’s State Dept. Over Benghazi</a></font>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Slate: <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/01/america_rising_the_republican_pac_that_s_filming_every_vulnerable_democratic.html" target="_blank">Every
Step You Take, Every Move You Make – The Republican PAC that’s filming
every single thing that key Democratic candidates do or say.</a></font></span>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Weekly Standard: <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/hillary-speeches-cost-san-francisco-police-21000_819731.html" target="_blank">Hillary Speeches Cost San Francisco Police $21,000</a></font></p>
<blockquote><address><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“A number of public records requests by the GOP
opposition research firm America Rising reveal the San Francisco police
department incurred extra expenses directly related to speeches given by
Clinton in 2014.”</font></address>
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<p class="selectionShareable"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MSNBC: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-ID-Y5m9ko" target="_blank">America Rising PAC Releases eBook As Clinton Memoir Hits Stores</a></font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">National Review: <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/390232/clinton-charges-university-225000-speech-high-cost-tuition-jim-geraghty" target="_blank">Clinton Charges University $225,000 for Speech on High Cost of Tuition</a></font>
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<h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Also, take a look at some of what we accomplished in the 2014 cycle:</font></h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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