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“‘Posh George’, Two Passports, and a Fraudulent Identity: Convicted Fraudster and Nigel Farage Funder’s Connections to Reform UK’s Murky Financial Structures”

by Nafeez Ahmed in The Byline Times on Substack

@uk_politics

“Why did Reform UK change from a privately-owned company into a non-profit company limited by guarantee in 2025? Ahmed investigates its funding and a fraudulent identity used by George Cottrell”

https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinetimes/p/posh-george-two-passports-and-a-fraudulent

#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #UK #Britain #Farage #Tice #Azami #ReformUKLtd #Cottrell #Donations #PoshGeorge #Fraud #DarkMoney #Finance #Criminal #MetPolice #NCA #Montenegro #Harborne #Abramovich #Drewitt

PressProgress’ Luke LeBrun brings us the deep dive into the Centurion Project’s app, modelled closely after an American app known as 10xVotes. As it turns out, 10xVotes is the creation of an American company, known as Voteatron, with ties to the US Republican Party. While the funding of Voteatron and the 10xVotes app is uncertain, these products and entities appear to be tied to the Dark Money and Dark Pattern systems that the Americans have built up over the years.

Names such as Ambassador Pete Hoekstra, Drew Born, and Drew Wierda, have affiliations that lead back to the American Heritage Foundation, and the notorious Project 2025, a planning document for modern American fascism. The article itself deserves a read, and I’ll include notable highlights below.

Remarkably, Parker makes claims to have essentially served as a foreign agent in the US elections as he noted in a Podcast that he was personally responsible for Trump’s election win in Michigan.

https://kopitalk.net/c/canada/p/477915/alberta-separatist-groups-controversial-voter-id-app-has-links-to-us-ambassador-maga-inf

#privacy #ElectionsAlberta #AlbertaUnderSiege #RCMP #DarkMoney #DavidParker #Centurion #ElectionsAlbertaDataLeak #PeteHoekstra #Voteatron #Project2025 #DarkPattern

#AbLeg #AbPoli #CdnPoli 8

Alberta Separatist Group’s Controversial Voter ID App Has Links to US Ambassador, MAGA Influencers and Wealthy Michigan Republicans

PressProgress’ Luke LeBrun brings us the deep dive into the Centurion Project’s app, modelled closely after an American app known as 10xVotes. As it turns out, 10xVotes is the creation of an American company, known as Voteatron, with ties to the US Republican Party. While the funding of Voteatron and the 10xVotes app is uncertain, these products and entities appear to be tied to the Dark Money and Dark Pattern systems that the Americans have built up over the years.

Names such as Ambassador Pete Hoekstra, Drew Born, and Drew Wierda, have affiliations that lead back to the American Heritage Foundation, and the notorious Project 2025, a planning document for modern American fascism. The article itself deserves a read, and I’ll include notable highlights below.

Remarkably, Parker makes claims to have essentially served as a foreign agent in the US elections as he noted in a Podcast that he was personally responsible for Trump’s election win in Michigan.

Neither Parker nor his lawyer, Chad Williamson, answered questions from PressProgress about the nature of the Centurion Project’s collaboration with 10xVotes. Parker, however, discussed the subject at length on a recent podcast.

“In my travels in the United States, I’ve met a lot of political organizers and I’ve talked to a lot of people, and I stumbled across this group out of Michigan called 10xVotes,” Parker told a podcast last month.

“I was massively impressed with what they’d done, and I wanted to bring that idea and that methodology to Alberta,” Parker explained. “For almost two years — it’ll be two years this fall — I’ve been working with them, talking with them, trying to build this out.”

“And the result is the Centurion Project.”

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Drew Born, a Grand Rapids commercial real estate broker and the director of Voteatron, is a well-connected Republican activist who runs a group called Michigan Family Action and previously ran for chair of the Michigan GOP.

On social media, Born has promoted the Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025” plan, posted photos of himself at Turning Point USA galas at Mar-a-Lago and advocated the annexation of the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.

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Huizenga and Hoekstra have a personal history, as well: Huizenga is an old donor to Hoekstra’s past congressional campaigns, and the two served as campaign chairs for Mitt Romney’s 2012 West Michigan leadership team. They also served as board members for the Netherland-America Foundation (Hoekstra was later appointed US ambassador to the Netherlands, where he was accused of foreign interference after hosting an event for a Dutch far-right political party).

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10xVotes’ business model is somewhat murky. The app describes itself as a service provided for free in support of Michigan Republicans and does not charge its users subscription fees, yet it does not publicly solicit donations through its website or indicate who funds it.

“We raise our own money,” Lance Griffin, 10xVotes’ head of public affairs, explained in a presentation to one state GOP group last year. “We don’t ask for any donations, we’ve made this free and available to all of you, all the local county parties and the Michigan Republican party [to] access our website and our data.”

However it funds itself, the group appears to have significant funds at its disposal.

10xVotes was a corporate sponsor at the 2025 Michigan GOP convention (Hoekstra’s final event as party chair) and Parker claims the group spent another $50,000 sponsoring a VIP suite at a 2024 Tucker Carlson Live event in Grand Rapids.

According to Parker’s story, he was also personally responsible for persuading Tucker Carlson to endorse the 10xVotes app that night — and, in turn, perhaps also responsible for Trump’s election victory in Michigan.

“I used all of my political capital with Tucker to get them to endorse it on stage that night,” Parker told a podcast. “We tracked the results of that endorsement, that endorsement resulted in 86,000 people who were historically non-voters voting in that election … that’s almost the victory margin for Trump.”

@Barbramon1 @dangillmor @TheAtlantic
I would argue programmed. It's not like any of this just appeared out of the woodwork. Killing a democracy takes time, takes effort, takes a bit of genius and a bit of research. This has been going on for some time...none of this is an accident.
#EdwardBernays #illusionarytrutheffect #propaganda #darkmoney #doomed #deadjournalists
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It seems expensive gifts to Supreme Court are becoming popular again.

Waitin for it!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2023/10/31/senate-democrats-plan-to-supoena-gop-megadonors-over-reported-undisclosed-gifts-to-supreme-court-justices/
#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #CleanSCOTUS #Corruption #Bribery #DarkMoney #MoneyLaundering #TaxEvasion #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateFederalistSociety #InvestigateOpusDei #TermLimits #CodeOfConduct #SCOTUS_OIG #SCOTUSInspectorGeneral #SeparationOfPowers #SeparationOfChurchAndState

@marcelias American Bar Association: Founded in 1878.

Federalist Society: Founded in 1982.

Federalist Society's ex-(vice) president Leonard Leo put 5 of 6 biased con-servative/illiberal majority justices on the bench.
Time to regulate & contain the partisan influence of Leonard Leo & the Federalist Society, for the sake of Americans' democracy, human & civil rights.

#RuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #CleanSCOTUS #TermLimits #CodeOfConduct #SCOTUS_OIG #ExpandSCOTUS #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateFederalistSociety #InvestigateOpusDei #DarkMoney #Corruption #Bribery #JudicialInsurrection #SeparationOfPowers #SeparationOfChurchAndState

SCOTUS justices without corporate interests could easily feel relieved from conflicts of interest.

Time to institute a code of conduct for the Supreme Court.

"Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito together own shares in 19 companies that could see combined tax relief of more than $30 billion if the court issues a broad ruling in the Moore v. United States tax case and strikes down a one-time corporate tax imposed in 2017."

https://www.levernews.com/justices-have-financial-interest-in-major-tax-case/
#RuleOfLaw #CleanSCOTUS #Corruption #Bribery #DarkMoney #ConflictsOfInterest #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateFederalistSociety #InvestigateTheSix #CodeOfConduct #SCOTUSInspectorGeneral #TermLimits #ExpandSCOTUS

@Itchy Damn right: Leonard Leo, Knight of Malta isn't talked about & investigated enough for his subversive activities undermining & obstructing prior SCOTUS decisions relating to Americans' civil & human rights & in the long run plotting to establish a different kind of government, being closer to an autocratic/theocratic regime.

https://jezebel.com/judge-matthew-kacsmaryk-federalist-society-leonard-leo-1850170444
#RuleOfLaw #InvestigateLeonardLeo #DarkMoney #Bribery #Corruption #MoneyLaundering #InvestigateOpusDei #InvestigateFederalistSociety #CleanSCOTUS #TermLimits #CodeOfConduct #ExpandSCOTUS #InvestigateTheSix #SeparationOfChurchAndState #OpusDei #SeparationOfPowers

Bribery? Shouldn't we talk about Clarence Thomas in the first place before we raise the axe over Bob Menendez, who has neither been convicted nor sentenced yet? We sure should!

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-other-billionaires-sokol-huizenga-novelly-supreme-court
#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #CleanSCOTUS #Corruption #Bribery #DarkMoney #InvestigateClarenceThomas #InvestigateLeonardLeo #HarlanCrow #InvestigateTheSix #InvestigateFederalistSociety #CompromisedCourt

@marcelias Organizations, which can't win in free & fair elections take to criminal acts like voter suppression & election subversion.
If they're serially committing such fraudulent acts, they should be banned from the ballots on ground of conspiracy against rights.
State legislatures codifying injustice are providing hostile public disservice to the people, justice, the United States & their Constitution.

#RuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #ReconstructionAmendments #VotingRights #HumanRights #CleanSCOTUS #InvestigateLeonardLeo #DarkMoney #MoneyLaundering #Insurrection #Overthrow #InvestigateFederalistSociety #InvestigateTheSix #JudicialInsurrection #ElectionSubversion #Corruption #Bribery

So, how many bucks did Donald "quid-pro-quo" Trump rake in for agreeing to nominate 3 more Federalist Society jurists to the United States Supreme Court?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/30/supreme-court-leonard-leo-dark-money
#RuleOfLaw #CleanSCOTUS #Corruption #Bribery #Trump #QuidProQuo #InvestigateLeonardLeo #DarkMoney #InvestigateFederalistSociety #InvestigateOpusDei #SeparationOfPowers #SeparationOfChurchAndState