Donald Trump the Foreign Agent

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(The Real Agenda News) Donald J. Trump is not a career politician, but he has been around politicians and the world of politics for a long time. He said it himself during the campaign.

He used to lobby politicians to get favours. He is an outsider in the sense he never occupied a public position, yet he is an insider in that he knows exactly how the system works.

In that sense, Trump is a foreign agent.

In addition to knowing how the system works and how to get around laws and regulations to maximize profit for this enterprise, over the years, Trump also learned how to use the media for his own advantage. We saw his level of skill for attracting media attention during the 2016 election.

As president of the United States, Mr. Trump still manages to ‘manipulate’ the media so that he gets more news coverage than any other president in the history of the country.

Journalists, pundits and commentators analyse, criticise, condemn and a few of them praise Trump on a daily basis on cable and network news. College campuses have become enemy territories for Trump supporters.

Dissenters of Liberal or so-called progressive movements, who are also Trump followers, are labeled racists, xenophobic, anti-women, etc.

What no one seems to have figured out yet is how Mr. Trump uses the media to advance his agenda. The fact that all that Trump wants is to advance his agenda should not be news to anyone. There is something more important behind what he says and how he says it.

When Trump says something outrageous or inaccurate on Twitter, during a rally or at the Oval Office he is not only saying it out loud to get condemnation or praise from people who read and listen to what he says. He has an ulterior motive. This motive is what no one seems to understand yet.

Trump knows that an outrageous statement will render huge amounts of media attention. Furthermore, he knows that thousands or millions of people who despise him will be tuned in to mainstream media and that each time that he gains all of that attention he also gets an opportunity to expose the Establishment.

One clear example was Trump’s claim that millions of illegals voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, which according to Trump, was the reason why she won the popular vote. Whether his claim is true or not, he managed to expose the fact that voting fraud took place in 2016.

We saw it in confessions obtained by Project Veritas during the election. It certainly took place in 2012, as it has been reported by mainstream media. There are also plenty of back doors to carry out voting fraud, as shown by Bev Harris.

As it has been observed, Trump is well-known for using hyperbole as a tool to attract media attention in order to expose something that is of his concern and that of his over 60 million followers.

It does not matter what you think about voting; whether it is important or not, voting fraud should not be taken lightly. It is one of the ways in which a semi-democratic system can be subverted and it should be given all of the attention it needs.

Another example of how Trump uses the media to expose issues that he considers relevant is his latest Tweet about Obama wiretapping Trump Tower in New York City. Although Trump offered no proof of such a claim, he raised the very important issue of illegal mass spying by US government agencies on Americans and the rest of the world.

Trump’s claim need to be scrutinised and identified as real or fake, but what is important for Trump is not necessarily whether he is proven right or wrong, but to expose illegal mass spying by the CIA, FBI, NSA and other Deep State agencies.

Coincidentally, Wikileaks has now pointed out, once again, how those very same agencies use devices such as mobile phones and smart television sets to spy on everyone, all the time.

In sum, Donald J. Trump is a foreign agent, foreign to the Establishment and its propaganda arm, the mainstream media. He was a kamikaze presidential candidate and he seems to be a kamikaze President; perhaps the first one of his kind. He uses hyperbole to cause outrage among his opponents and the media which in turn provides him a powerful platform to expose the plans of the Establishment/Deep State/Elite.

From the very beginning of his campaign Trump has ‘sacrificed’ his reputation to expose what no other presidential candidate, or president, for that matter, has been able or willing to expose. He has done the same with other important topics such as climate change, vaccines and abortion and he will continue to do so unless someone puts a bullet in his head.

The other explanation to all of it, of course, could be that he is an arrogant, self-absorbed SOB who just wants free publicity.

What do you think? Which of the two explanations sounds more plausible?

Is it possible that no one in the mainstream media or the Establishment understands what Trump is doing? But if they do understand, why aren’t they doing anything to stop it? Why doesn’t the media simply give him less attention?

Is Trump’s Modus Operandi the best way to expose the Establishment? Is it moral? Is it right?

Is he doing it intentionally?

You be the judge.

You Will NEVER Believe How Many Non-Citizen Hispanics Voted Recently (VIDEO)

By: The Voice of Reason |

After all the information that has come to light in recent months that originated from locations once thought to be highly secret, it’s amazing that any Democrat or member of the mainstream media would dare continue towing the Party line about there is no evidence of voter fraud, but yet there are still people who somehow believe that to be true, simply because the mainstream media says it.

It’s not that there is no evidence of illegal voter fraud, it’s that there is no evidence of illegal voter fraud that is ever seriously covered by the mainstream media. It simply doesn’t fit the mainstream media’s agenda.

Nonpartisan watchdog groups like VoterFraud.org and Watchdog.org have estimated as many as 7 million illegal votes may have been cast, the overwhelming majority going to Hillary Clinton. In a recent study by political scientist Jesse Richman of Old Dominion University, he suggested that it looked like Democrats might have good reason to be nervous about an investigation. He estimated at least 800,000 illegal votes were cast.

Arguably the two most egregious known examples right now took place when Barack Obama’s Department of Homeland Security tried to hack into the state of Georgia’s election system a total of ten times, AFTER the votes had already been cast, but before they were certified. Making matters worse is that Georgia’s Secretary of State specifically told DHS they could not have access, and DHS tried ten times anyway.

Reports have also come to light that at least two other states (Kentucky and West Virginia) were also hacked from the same DHS IPS address. That just scratches the surface, and yet Democrats want the rest of the country to believe that there is nothing to investigate… PLEASE!

The Washington Times reports:

A large number of non-citizen Hispanics, as many as 2 million, were illegally registered to vote in the U.S., according to a nationwide poll.

The National Hispanic Survey provides additional evidence for use by anti-voter fraud conservatives and bolsters an analysis by professors at Old Dominion University who say non-citizens registered and voted in potentially large numbers.

President Trump has announced he will appoint a task force on voter fraud headed by Vice President Mike Pence. He says he wants the investigation to focus on inaccurate voter registration rolls, which are maintained by the states and the District of Columbia.

“It is a fact and you will not deny it, that there are massive numbers of non-citizens in this country who are registered to vote,” White House adviser Stephen Miller told ABC News. “That is a scandal. We should stop the presses.”

The little-noticed Hispanic survey was conducted in June 2013 by McLaughlin and Associates to gauge the opinions of U.S. resident Latinos on a wide range of issues.

Inside the poll is a page devoted to voter profiles. Of the randomly selected sample of 800 Hispanics, 56 percent, or 448, said they were non-citizens, and of those, 13 percent said they were registered to vote. The 448 would presumedly be a mix of illegal immigrants and noncitizens who are in the U.S. legally, such as visa holders or permanent residents.

A 1996 federal law, and other statues, makes it a felony for non-citizens to register. The poll did not ask if they voted.

But James Agresti, who directs the research nonprofit “Just Facts,” applied the 13 percent figure to 2013 U.S. Census numbers for non-citizen Hispanic adults. In 2013, the Census reported that 11.8 million non-citizen Hispanic adults lived here, which would amount to 1.5 million illegally registered Latinos.

Accounting for the margin of error based on the sample size of non-citizens, Mr. Agresti calculated that the number of illegally registered Hispanics could range from 1.0 million to 2.1 million.

“Contrary to the claims of many media outlets and so-called fact-checkers, this nationally representative scientific poll confirms that a sizable number of non-citizens in the U.S. are registered to vote,” Mr. Agresti said.

Another 8.3 million non-Hispanic non-citizen adults were living in the U.S. in 2013, according to the Census.

As the nation’s immigrant population, both legal and illegal, grows, the question of non-citizens voting illegally has caught the attention of more grass-roots conservative groups. Aliens tend to vote Democratic and have the ability to sway a close election.

The focus intensified in 2014 when two professors at Old Dominion University and one at George Mason University collaborated to produce perhaps the first data-driven analysis of non-citizen voting, relying on the biennial Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES), headquartered at Harvard University, with polling by YouGov.

Relying on the CCES responses to citizenship questions, ODU team estimated that 6.4 percent of non-citizens voted in the 2008 election. They presented a range as low as 38,000 and as high at 2.8 million.

The CCES authors at Harvard, Amherst and YouGov reacted with outrage. They said the small number of respondents among a sample of 38,000 people made the answers meaningless. They picked at their numbers, declared them unreliable and concluded that zero noncitizens voted.

Their rebuttal prompted the liberal media to proclaim the ODU study “debunked” even though those professors stick by their work and have filed counter-rebuttals.

The 2013 Hispanic Survey tends to confirm the ODU work and chief defender, professor Jesse Richman. The Hispanic Survey’s 13 percent registration rate is right in line with what the CCES data indicates in multiple elections.

Mr. Agresti said the ODU paper found that in 2008, 2010 and 2012 between 14.5 percent and 15.6 percent of self-declared non-citizen adults were registered to vote.

In other words, the CCES and National Hispanic Survey, done with different sample sizes, align.

Still, the liberal media declares the ODU work “debunked.”

McLaughlin and Associates conducted the Hispanic poll for John Jordan, a winery owner and Republican activist. California vineyards rely on Latino farm workers.

The media’s dismissal of voter fraud has not chased the White House from the issue. Mr. Miller, the senior While House adviser, made the case Sunday on “ABC’s This Week,” angering host George Stephanopoulos.

“An issue of voter fraud is something we’re going to be looking at very seriously and very hard,” Mr. Miller said. “But the reality is, is that we know for a fact, you have massive numbers of non-citizens registered to vote in this country. Nobody disputes that.”

He added, “The White House has provided enormous evidence with respect to voter fraud, with respect to people being registered in more than one state, dead people voting, non-citizens being registered to vote And as a country, we should be aghast about the fact that you have people who have no right to vote in this country, registered to vote, canceling out the franchise of lawful citizens of this country.”

Instead of focusing on the registration issue, an agitated Mr. Stephanopoulos lashed out at Mr. Trump for claiming there were 3 million to 5 million illegals voting Nov. 8 and that voters were bused in from Massachusetts to vote in New Hampshire.

“You have provided zero evidence that the president’s claim that he would have won the general — the popular vote if 3 million to 5 million illegal immigrants hadn’t voted, zero evidence for either one of those claims,” the host said.

In his Super Bowl interview with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly, Mr. Trump veered away from the 5 million prediction and instead said he wants his task force to focus on cleaning up registration.

“It has to do with the registration,” he said “And when you look at the registration and you see dead people that have voted, when you see people that are registered in two states, that have voted in two states, when you see other things, when you see illegals, people that are not citizens and they are on the registration rolls.”

“Look, Bill we can be babies, but you take a look at the registration, you have illegals, you have dead people, you have this, it’s really a bad situation, it’s really bad.”

When Mr. O’Reilly reminded the president he has not presented data to show that 3 million illegals voted, Mr. Trump said, “Forget that. Forget all that. Just take a look at the registration and we’re going to do it.”

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THE VOICE OF REASON is the pen name of Michael DePinto, a graduate of Capital University Law School, and an attorney in Florida. Having worked in the World Trade Center, along with other family and friends, Michael was baptized by fire into the world of politics on September 11, 2001. Michael’s political journey began with tuning in religiously to whatever the talking heads on television had to say, then Michael became a “Tea-Bagging” activist as his liberal friends on the Left would say, volunteering within the Jacksonville local Tea Party, and most recently Michael was sworn in as an attorney. Today, Michael is a major contributor to www.BeforeItsNews.com, he owns and operates www.thelastgreatstand.com, where Michael provides what is often very ‘colorful’ political commentary, ripe with sarcasm, no doubt the result of Michael’s frustration as he feels we are witnessing the end of the American Empire. The topics Michael most often weighs in on are: Martial Law, FEMA Camps, Jade Helm, Economic Issues, Government Corruption, and Government Conspiracy.

Democrats: Where There is Smoke… There is Usually Fire (VIDEO)

By: The Voice of Reason |

“It is so funny to read this nonsense about voter “suppression.” You need ID to get on a plane, apply for college or welfare, but to be asked to show an ID card to exercise a franchise that so many have died for is voter suppression. That is just nonsense.” – John Miles

Stop me if you know how this story ends. According to Democrats, there was no need for an investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, because she did nothing wrong. She followed the precedents set by prior Secretaries of State, and she acted completely within framework of federal law. There was no “there, there,” remember? Anyone who suggested otherwise, was accused by Democrats of going on a partisan witch hunt.

The American people were told that Hillary Clinton did not send or receive any e-mails that were classified “at the time.” That was a lie, but remember, according to Democrats, “the investigation was a partisan witch hunt.” She didn’t send or receive any e-mails “marked classified” at the time. That was a lie, but remember, according to Democrats, “the investigation was a partisan witch hunt.” Hillary Clinton turned over all of her work-related e-mails. That was a lie, but remember, according to Democrats, “the investigation was a partisan witch hunt.”

Let’s keep going. Hillary Clinton wanted to use a personal e-mail account for convenience and simplicity, streamlining to one device. That was a lie, but remember, according to Democrats, “the investigation was a partisan witch hunt.” Hillary said her use of a private server and e-mail domain was permitted by law and regulation. That was a lie, but remember, according to Democrats, “the investigation was a partisan witch hunt.” She said there were “numerous safeguards” against security breaches and “no evidence” of hacking. That was a lie, but remember, according to Democrats, “the investigation was a partisan witch hunt.”

Notice a pattern there? Now, Democrats are saying that there is no need for an investigation into voter fraud claims made by Donald Trump, because according to Senate Minority leader, Chuck Schumer, “The president ought to realize he’s president. Instead of talking about the election or how many people showed up at the inauguration, he ought to talk about how many new jobs he’s creating. It’s time to be president.” Really Chuck? Furthermore, House Speaker Paul Ryan, says he has seen “no evidence” of Trump‘s claim. Really? Have you even looked?

In the following video, I review the findings of the nonpartisan group VoteFraud.org, which released it’s findings back in November stating:

“We have verified more than three million votes cast by non-citizens.”

I also review the findings of a second nonpartisan group, watchdog.org, which claims that as many as almost 7 million American votes might have been fraudulent. In addition to non-citizens voting, there estimate there could have been up to four million dead people who voted too!

Now, consider that the CIA confirmed George Soros was Hillary Clinton’s top donor.  Next, recall that thanks to leaked documents from George Soros’ Open Society Foundation (OSF), we know that Soros’ newest activist group known as Demos has as one of its top priorities, “Achieving true democracy by reducing the role of money in politics and guaranteeing the freedom to vote.”

In this instance, “freedom to vote,” being double-speak for the freedom of non-citizens to take part in US elections, and enabling operatives to vote early and often, in the same election.

Combine all of that with the fact that we also know George Soros provided the financing to over 50 anti-Trump protests around the country during the inauguration, and the American people are supposed to simply trust the Democrats when they say there’s nothing worth looking into? Seriously? Are these people high?

CNS News Reports:

Following sharp criticism from Democrats and their media allies on Tuesday, President Donald Trump on Wednesday morning tweeted: “I will be asking for a major investigation into VOTER FRAUD, including those registered to vote in two states, those who are illegal and….even, those registered to vote who are dead (and many for a long time). Depending on results, we will strengthen up voting procedures!”

(Trump also tweeted that he will name his Supreme Court nominee next week.)

Trump‘s voter fraud claims date back to November 27, when he tweeted, “In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.”

He reportedly said something similar Monday evening, at a private reception at the White House for congressional leaders. And his offhand comment became major news on Tuesday for Trump‘s critics.

As CNSNews.com reported, at Tuesday’s White House briefing, six different reporters pressed Trump spokesman Sean Spicer on Trump‘s Monday night claim, paving the way for mainstream media outlets and congressional Democrats to focus on Trump‘s “fiction” (as CNN’s Jake Tapper called it). Trump‘s voter fraud claims — not his whirlwind of executive activity — were the lead on some mainstream media newscasts Tuesday evening.

Democrats also weighed in:

“I heard the White House was saying that 3 to 5 million illegals did vote,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) told a news conference on Tuesday. “The president ought to realize he’s president. Instead of talking about the election or how many people showed up at the inauguration, he ought to talk about how many new jobs he’s creating. It’s time to be president.

Schumer said Republicans have an “obligation” to reject such “falsehoods.”

“The bottom line is simple. You cannot run a government, you cannot help people, you cannot keep America safe, if you don’t actually admit to the facts. Plain and simple. And unless that starts happening, this country’s going to have real trouble and it’s not going to be Democratic trouble, Republican trouble, liberal trouble, conservative trouble, just trouble because of avoidance of the facts.”

Appearing at the same news conference, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said, “Regarding Mr. Trump‘s delusional statement that 3 to 5 million people voted illegally in the last election –that is a total nonsensical statement. But what I fear about that statement and what is something we should all worry about is when Trump talks about 3 to 5 million people voting illegally, he is sending a message to every Republican governor in this country to go forward with voter suppression.

“The great political and democratic crisis we face now in this country is not voter fraud, it is voter suppression. And my belief is we have got to make — do everything we can to make sure that everybody in this country who is legally able to is able to vote.”

At the White House on Tuesday, in response to the six reporters who questioned Trump‘s voter fraud claim, Sean Spicer said, The president does believe” that millions of people voted  illegally in November. “He has stated that before,” Spicer noted.

“I think he was having a discussion with some folks and mentioned something in passing, which has been a long-standing belief that he’s maintained. This isn’t the first time that you’ve heard this concern of his.”

Pressed on whether Trump would investigate voter fraud, Spicer said, “Well, maybe we will.” Asked a similar question later in the briefing, Spicer refused to “prejudge what we may or may not do in the future.”

Less than 24 hours later, President Trump was calling for an investigation into voter fraud.

So many of this country’s problems stem from how pathetically uninformed the voters are. For example, consider that a simple search on YouTube for anything discussing the voter fraud investigation yields any of the actual “news” videos getting only a few thousand views at most. Conversely, a comedian Seth Meyers, get’s over 200,000 views the the following absurdity…

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THE VOICE OF REASON is the pen name of Michael DePinto, a graduate of Capital University Law School, and an attorney in Florida. Having worked in the World Trade Center, along with other family and friends, Michael was baptized by fire into the world of politics on September 11, 2001. Michael’s political journey began with tuning in religiously to whatever the talking heads on television had to say, then Michael became a “Tea-Bagging” activist as his liberal friends on the Left would say, volunteering within the Jacksonville local Tea Party, and most recently Michael was sworn in as an attorney. Today, Michael is a major contributor to www.BeforeItsNews.com, he owns and operates www.thelastgreatstand.com, where Michael provides what is often very ‘colorful’ political commentary, ripe with sarcasm, no doubt the result of Michael’s frustration as he feels we are witnessing the end of the American Empire. The topics Michael most often weighs in on are: Martial Law, FEMA Camps, Jade Helm, Economic Issues, Government Corruption, and Government Conspiracy.

Donald Trump Calls for Investigation on Voting Fraud

(The Real Agenda News) Mainstream corporate media asked for it as a challenge to the recently elected president, and now, Donald Trump has accepted the challenge.

US President, Donald J. Trump announced via his Twitter account that he will call for an in-depth investigation into what he calls voting fraud and that depending on the results of such investigation, he may change electoral laws to strengthen voting safety.

Trump called on Wednesday for a “big investigation” on electoral fraud that according to him took place during the last elections, a claim not supported by any evidence so far but that his press secretary, Sean Spicer says originates on studies and research seen by the president.

In his tweet, the president has said that the investigation will include “those registered to vote in two states, those who are illegal and even those registered to vote who are now dead and many for a long time,” he said.

In addition, he has advanced that “depending on the results”, he could modify electoral law. “We will strengthen voting procedures!” he said.

In recent days, Trump has argued that there were between three and five million illegal votes in the November elections that allowed Democrat Hillary Clinton to win the popular vote despite failing to win the electoral college, which is the one that determines who will be the new president.

Trump beat Clinton by 306 to 232, but the Democrat won about three million more popular votes than her rival, something that detractors of the real estate mogul constantly remember.

Before his victory, Trump had repeatedly denounced that the elections were rigged in Clinton’s favor by the massive vote of millions of undocumented immigrants, in addition to the suffrage of millions of dead people and others exercising their right to vote in two or more states.

Members of the Republican Party, such as Speaker of the House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, have been at odds with Trump’s theory.

While mainstream corporate media have denied that voter fraud existed during the last election, the truth is that it isn’t a myth.

Hundreds of cases of voting fraud have been registered across the country and although they may not amount to millions of people – that is what Trump intends to prove – it does confirm that there is fraud indeed.

During the primary season, people associated to the Democratic Party were caught planning and executing fraud at voting places.

Members of the party confessed on tape that people were bused from one place to the other to have them vote twice or more times in favor of a particular candidate.

In states such as New York and California, mayors were found to be giving IDs to illegal immigrants so they could go and register to vote.

In many US states it is not necessary to show proof of identification or residence before entering a voting booth. These conditions facilitate the commission of irregularities in the voting process.

Whether cases of fraud in the voting process amount to 3 million illegal voting or not is something that will have to be determined by investigating the process.

What we now know is that voting fraud exists and that laws and procedures need to be changed to avoid fraud in the next mid-term and national elections.

America, Hillary (Establishment) Means to Sink Your Ship!

“Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.” –Thomas Jefferson

I knew that it was coming.  History teaches us what will happen when judgment is left off.

Just this week, Americans witnessed the treasonous, repeat offender Hillary Clinton jumping on board with the Communists to stir up domestic insurrection by fabricating a victim mentality in the face of the voter fraud that was perpetrated on their behalf, which completely backfired. What is it that Americans witnessed?  They witnessed a criminal who was given the opportunity to violate the law once again and sink your ship.

CNN (Communist Network News) reported:      

Hillary Clinton’s campaign said Saturday it will take part in efforts to push for recounts in several key states, joining with Green Party candidate Jill Stein (Four years ago Stein was arrested for disorderly conduct and handcuffed to a chair at the Hofstra University debate), who has raised millions of dollars to have votes counted again in Wisconsin.

But, in a post on Medium, Marc Elias, the campaign’s counsel, said the campaign’s own investigation has not uncovered any evidence of hacking of voting systems.

In the campaign’s most detailed comments to date on the recount, Elias wrote that while the campaign was not going to contest the results itself, it has decided now to take part in the effort to “ensure that it is fair to all sides.”

On Monday, Michigan’s secretary of state office announced that President-elect Donald Trump won Michigan’s 16 electoral votes.

That brought the final electoral tally for Trump 306, while former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has 232 electoral votes.

Clinton continues to lead Trump for the country’s popular vote by about 2 million votes, and the lead is likely to grow as votes continue to be counted.

But Trump on Saturday dismissed the recount and said, “The election is over.”

It’s a scam.  Trump called the recount “ridiculous.”

Then again, how couldn’t she be encouraged to take another shot at the American people?  The people allowed President-elect Donald Trump, who on the campaign trail promised a “special prosecutor” to go after the Clintons for their crimes, but after he was pronounced the winner, the very first thing he stated was, “Hillary has worked very hard and very long over a long period of time, and we owe her a major debt of gratitude for her service to our country.”

What happened to “I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation because there has never been so many lies, so much deception”?  Now, he doesn’t want “to hurt the Clintons, they are good people.”

What good is a special prosecutor, America, when you have the likes of American appeasers Trey Gowdy, Daryl Issa and Jason Chaffetz doing absolutely nothing when it comes to justice, but talk?

Wasn’t this the guy that was going to “bring back the rule of law? (Exodus 20; Romans 3:20)

Why, yes it is.  I’m speaking about Constitutional law, not opinion, deconstructionism, nor emotion, but law! How right on was Benjamin Franklin when he said, “Make yourself sheep, and the wolves will devour.”

There was a story of a merciful captain of a ship.  While a passing ship shot at the captain’s ship, the captain showed mercy on him and warned him not to shoot again.  The ship shot at him again, but the kind captain did not retaliate.  His “mercy” ended up bringing the destruction not only upon himself but all those on his ship.  By allowing his enemy to attack him twice, the passing ship shot a third time and killed them all.

Thomas Jefferson was right when he said, “When the people fear the government you have tyranny.  When the government fears the people you have liberty.”  Yet, this will not come to fruition until the American people again fear God (Proverbs 16:6; Psalm 94:15; Isaiah 26:9; Psalm 97; Jeremiah 9:24).

Giving the power and authority back to the American people (under God) in spite of corrupt politicians and broken promises, remember:

“…a nation ceases to be republican only when the will of the majority ceases to be the law.” -Thomas Jefferson