Pennsylvania State Rep. Russ Diamond and a group of other legislators from that state are raising the possibility that no presidential electors will be sent from Pennsylvania to Congress on Wednesday, Jan. 6. This follows from their conclusion that the sweeping extent of the voting irregularities, and the illegal, non-legislated nature of the electoral procedures, the winner of the election is simply unknown.

Appearing on the Maria Bartiromo show this morning, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, who assembled a group of 11 GOP senators to object to the certification of the Nov. 3 election and propose a ten-day audit of the election, supports withholding certification of the electors from half a dozen states, until such an audit is completed. Responding to polls showing a large portion of U.S. voters who believe there was fraud during the election, Cruz expressed his disappointment that the Supreme Court declined to take cases from Pennsylvania and Texas, denying that forum as a way of resolving the issues presented. Therefore, he reasoned, the Congress has a responsibility to determine whether the election was properly conducted.Cruz pointed to the problems in two approaches: One being simply to allow the process to play out on Wednesday, Jan. 6 without objecting to the injustice, and the second being attempts to decide, on Jan.6, that Donald Trump won the election. Declaring both proposals unprincipled, Cruz explained that he looked back to the 1876 Hayes-Tilden election, and the creation at that time of an electoral commission—comprising House members, Senators, and Supreme Court Justices—to look into vote fraud and come to a determination. Responding to calls from other Senators, including Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, to refrain from objecting, Cruz pointed to the responsibility to determine the truth, given that 39% of Americans consider the election to have been rigged. Failing to resolve the accusations would be a grave failure to defend American democracy. As the investigation unfolds, the states may be called upon to appoint electors as they deem fit. Regarding the right of Congress to intervene into the counting of electoral votes, Cruz pointed to the Electoral Count Act of 1887, established in the wake of the 1876 election. (Although this Act, being legislation, could be challenged to the extent that it conflicts with the U.S. Constitution and its Amendments.) Representatives Jim Jordan and Mo Brooks then joined the program. Rep. Jordan explained his understanding of the basic mechanics he expects to operate on Wednesday: Pence will count states one at a time, Members of Congress and Senators have an opportunity to object to each state’s Electors, in which case the two houses of Congress will separately debate for up to two hours and vote on whether to accept them. If, at the end of the process, neither candidate has received the votes of 270 Electors (although it is unclear whether rejected Electors count towards the total number of votes from which a majority is required to avoid the next step), the House will vote state-by-state, which would result in the re-election of President Donald Trump. The main basis of the objection is the non-legislative manner of changing the electoral process in the states in question, thereby violating the constitutional provision that state legislatures choose the means of appointing electors—in this case, through elections whose conduct they determined by legislation. Rep. Brooks identified six states whose electoral slates he intended to object to: Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, George, Arizona, and Nevada. He expressed his commitment to standing up against the violation of the Constitution in the conduct of the election. Asked to detail the electoral irregularities that concerned him, Brooks referred to tens of thousands of improper votes—dead people voting, people voting twice, ballots being pulled out from underneath tables, ballots counted after observers were removed from the room, non-residents voting, non-legislated extensions of access to mail-in ballots, and more. While the mechanics of challenging the electoral slates from individual states is clearly spelled out in the 1887 Act, the means of creating a commission on Wednesday are less clear. And if the House and Senate disagree on whether to accept a state’s Electors, the 1887 Act calls for accepting the Electors sent by the respective states’ governors. Even if the challenges do not succeed, they are definitely the right thing to do, and they will set the stage for continuing the fight.

Saturday’s explosive meeting of the LaRouche movement was an incredible breakthrough, showing how LaRouche’s vision can draw together political leaders, community activists, and thoughtful citizens representing various constituencies, around a higher concept of statecraft and mankind. In the process comes the great joy of discovering, together, a higher concept that subsumes the various causes that have prompted people of conscience and courage to commit themselves to. That dialogue shows how the Wednesday, Jan. 6 historic developments in Washington, D.C. can serve as an inflection point in building a political constituency for LaRouche’s far-reaching ideas and policies.And Wednesday will be historic indeed! The Joint Session of the Congress can be expected to run into the wee hours as the electoral votes from six states—Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, Nevada, and Arizona—are challenged by dozens of Members of Congress and a grouping of at least 11 Senators. Debate about the results from each state can last up to two hours. While this may not result in President Donald Trump being declared the President-elect, it will certainly serve to draw national attention to the mountains of evidence of election irregularities and illegal (non-legislative) changes to the conduct of the election. And it shows that this affront to democratic rule is not simply being swallowed by the entire government. Outside the halls of the Capitol, near the White House, a rally of at least hundreds of thousands of Trump supporters will gather to make it clear that there exists within the U.S. population a large and committed core that does not accept the destruction of elected government. The still-ongoing coup conducted against Trump’s outsider Presidency, the concerted efforts by the British-directed financial-military-intelligence slime mold to draw the United States into completely unnecessary conflict with its natural allies Russia and China, the murderous proposals of the Green “Great Reset,” and the absolute travesty of justice being perpetrated against the uncompromising publisher Julian Assange, are all aspects of a destructive, imperial paradigm. This British assault on humanity and its potential seeks to pit people against each other in the most demeaning manner, on such grounds as what is called “race,” while convincing people that their greatest common enemy is progress itself, against which a Green crusade is to be waged. But the real enemy is that British Empire which seeks more than anything to prevent the truth of its operations from being understood or acted upon. The unconscionable, torturous persecution of truth-teller Julian Assange is the latest in a string of abuses that can be traced back to enormity of the attacks on Lyndon LaRouche, his method, and his movement. This perspective was brought to a New York City rally for Julian Assange, by Diane Sare, U.S. Senate candidate in New York (2022). With a banner reading “President Trump, Pardon Assange and Snowden; Stop the Coup, Exonerate LaRouche,” Sare began the time she had to address the participants by lunging with the need to exonerate Lyndon LaRouche, and situating the persecution of Assange (and Snowden), from that standpoint. While much coverage supportive of Assange (whose extradition to the United States to stand trial for the crime of publishing the truth is to be decided today) approaches his imprisonment in Britain as a result of U.S. pressure, Sare explained that it is the other way around—the British running the United States! Liberating people around the world, through bringing them into a framework for understanding the nature of the historic fight they have the great opportunity to be engaged in, is the greatest of gifts. Share that message today!

Update: British judge denies U.S. extradition request for Julian Assange! Beginning with the verdict to be announced today on whether Julian Assange will be extradited to the U.S. to stand trial on charges of violating the Espionage Act, events this week will go a long way toward determining which way the U.S. is headed in the New Year.

The LaRouche Organization and the Schiller Institute today hosted a powerful virtual Town Hall meeting with representatives of the state legislatures and activists from four of the states in which the presidential election is contested, and others, presenting evidence of the massive vote fraud and irregularities in the election, and discussing the profound impact of this fight for the future of the nation and the world. The forum was part of a mobilization of concerned citizens to create a Citizens Commission for Truth in Elections, which will hold a founding conference on Jan. 17. As expressed by the moderator Dennis Speed of the Schiller Institute in opening the Town Hall meeting, the stealing of the Nov. 3 election is not only a threat to Donald Trump’s reelection, nor even simply to the U.S. Constitution, but a threat to civilization, to determine—in the words of Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War regarding the American System experiment—“testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure.”Speaker after speaker reported on the massive evidence, in plain sight, of the irregularities and outright fraud in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin, insisting that if this fraudulent election is allowed to stand, then the faith in the electoral process in the United States will be destroyed. They addressed the role of the corrupt media, which repeats the mantra of “unsubstantiated claims” of vote fraud ad nauseam, and the corrupt courts, which have dismissed every case, not on the merits, but on procedure, without hearing the evidence. It was emphasized that the clear language of the Constitution grants the state legislators—not the courts nor other officials—the sole responsibility for electoral rules in each state, but that this fact has been repeatedly broken in several states. The focus now is on Jan. 6, when the electoral votes are to be presented to a Joint Session of Congress. Already several members of the House of Representatives and the Senate intend to challenge the electors from the contested states.