Turnout is mixed and not where we want it to be. We need more people to vote. We can't let turnout flatline.

Text everyone you know.

Make more noise.

We need more.

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) November 5, 2024

“Our officers just arrested a man who was stopped during our screening process at the Capitol Visitor Center (CVC). The man smelled like fuel, had a torch and a flare gun. The CVC is closed for tours for the day, while we investigate. We will provide more information when we can,” said the US Capitol Police in a statement and this day just keeps getting better and better if you love chaos.

House Republicans tell CBS’s Robert Costa they’re “privately preparing to possibly contest the election in Congress, to block the certification,” should their Holy Orange Messiah, convicted felon former President Trump lose which is about as “no shit” of a story we can get right now.

Speaking to reporters after he and his former illegal immigrant wife voted in Palm Beach, Florida on Tuesday, convicted felon former President Trump refused an easy opportunity to tell his fans not to injure or kill anyone should he lose the election, among other stupid shit like complaining about Oprah Winfrey and snapping at another reporter for asking him about Florida’s abortion referendum.

Several polling stations in Fulton County, Georgia were forced to close Tuesday in response to MAGA terrorist threats, WABE’s Sam Gringlas reports. Officials are seeking a court order to be permitted to keep them open later past closing time.

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday tossed Missouri and Arkansas’s moronic lawsuit against the Biden Administration over the 2021 executive order simply stipulating “the head of each agency shall evaluate ways in which the agency can, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, promote voter registration and voter participation,” with the two economically depressed Red States claiming it was some sort of election rigging scam or whatever their fucking grievance was.

It’s not like there was ever a stay in place at the district level but the appellate defeat is still fun too see on election day. The horse is not just out of the barn but far over the horizon now.

Nobody should go to the Republican National Committee’s ProtectTheVote.com site and submit false reports of suspicious activity at polling precincts to confuse and annoy the shit out of their election integrity team. Don’t write a report of people in RFK Jr 2024 t-shirts handing out free donuts to people waiting in line at a voting site in Kenosha, Wisconsin because that would be a waste of their precious resources. They only have so many lawyers on the squad in the state.

Even worse would be if you told the RNC you witnessed people in QAnon t-shirts informing voters outside of a suburban Maricopa County, Arizona polling station that President Trump was friends with Jeffrey Epstein – and showing them photographic evidence of that friendship – which means he’s a traitor the cause of protecting underage children from sex trafficking. It would be a really shitty thing to do if you falsely reported that a UAW member was telling voters in Macomb County, Michigan that Elon Musk is anti-labor and won’t allow Tesla autoworkers to form a union.

Please just leave the RNC’s election integrity team alone. They’ve got enough on their plate today.

“The FBI was made aware of two instances of its name and insignia being misused in promoting false narratives surrounding the election. The first is a fabricated news clip purporting to be a terrorist warning issued by the FBI. The fabricated news clip reports falsely that the FBI purportedly stated that Americans should ‘vote remotely’ due to a high terror threat at polling stations. This video is not authentic and does not accurately represent the current threat posture or polling location safety. Additionally, a fabricated video containing a fabricated FBI press release alleges that the management of five prisons in Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Arizona rigged inmate voting and colluded with a political party. This video is also not authentic, and its contents are false.”

“Election integrity is among our highest priorities, and the FBI is working closely with state and local law enforcement partners to respond to election threats and protect our communities as Americans exercise their right to vote. Attempts to deceive the public with false content about FBI threat assessments and activities aim to undermine our democratic process and erode trust in the electoral system,” says the real FBI in a statement on more Russian-MAGA fuckery afoot on Election Day.

If you’re on the Twitters like us on this Election Day, you’re going to see quite a lot of just utterly insane, subatomic-level nonsense that some idiot such as Fox News media assclown Joe Concha thinks is a tea leaf. Like forget that this is a flip of a territorial legislature in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean by however many seats… and holy shit why are we even wasting time on this?

The real point was that the dumbassery of the MAGA hopium this dickhead is huffing from essentially the most insane and inconsequential source imaginable while still within the two-party system of US elections – in a place where neither Kamala Harris or Donald Trump are on the ballot – is compounded by the fact that he’s citing an exit poll. That’s what we want to say: Exit polls are going to be completely meaningless today. You can and absolutely should ignore them. For us, unless there’s some interesting or surprising finding – for example an opinion with no direct bearing on the result whatsoever, like “Is Trump mentally unfit for office?” – we’re going to be ignoring them too. The real purpose of exit polling is for data compiled months after the election, like Pew and AP VoteCast reports that’ll probably drop in January and probably won’t be aggregating data from fucking Guam (no disrespect to the fine folks living and voting there intended).

“An indictment was unsealed charging Nathaniel James Holmes, 51, of Jacksonville, Florida, with four counts of transmitting interstate threats to injury other persons. If convicted on all counts, Holmes faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. According to the indictment, on four dates in October, Holmes transmitted threats to injure others, including threats to kill three particular victims, the children of one victim, and Jewish and African American individuals generally. A federal grand jury charged Holmes in a sealed indictment on Oct 24. He was arrested on Nov 1, made his initial appearance in court, and ordered detained pending a competency evaluation,” says a Justice Department press release on the charges against registered Republican Nathaniel Holmes.

Outspoken Trump supporting billionaire oligarch Bernard Marcus, founder of overrated big box hardware chain Home Depot, has died at the age of 95, the Post Millennial reports on a tragic end for a faithful follower of the Orange Jesus, whose mortal coil failed before he could witness Donald’s prophesied political resurrection. May Bernie forever wash dishes and silverware in the kitchens of Valhalla while the virtuous and victorious dead get drunk and feast in an eternal celebration.

Video obtained by ProPublica of a Republican National Committee “election integrity specialist” running a poll watcher training session via Zoom last week and published Monday completely undermines a key element of the party’s political messaging. This moron really fucked up.

The major snafu happened when a Pennsylvania poll watcher trainee asked the RNC official, Joe Neild, this question: “How do you know if they are illegal aliens or not, like, when they’re voting, as far as what you were explaining with the ID? And if they’re from another country it was OK as long as they had an ID. How do you know if they’re illegal aliens? How can you stop that?”

Neild’s response: “Well, if they’re illegal aliens, they’re not going to be inside the poll book. Because if they’re illegal aliens, they’re not going to be able to register to vote, because they’ll need a driver’s license number or a Social Security number. And since the recent litigation in the years past, you do have — to be able to get a driver’s license here in Pennsylvania, you have to show proof of citizenship. So that is one way that they will not be able to get a driver’s license. And then you have to be – since they’re illegal, they’re not going to be able to get a Social Security number either.”

White nationalist alcoholic Steve Bannon, newly released from four months of being forced to shower by federal corrections officers, will return to DC’s Willard Hotel on Tuesday night to run a “war room” in the very same venue he ran one on January 6th, 2021, CBS’s Robert Costa reports.

“Unlike in 2020, we will secure Trump’s victory this time,” Bannon told Costa. What the actually means is anyone’s guess, but maybe the easiest to imagine is that Bannon will be directing columns of MAGA terrorists to assemble at vote counting sites to disrupt the tabulations.

Germany’s Federal Public Prosecutor on Tuesday announced that at least eight members out of a suspected 15 to 20-large Neo-Nazi group, the “Saxon Separatists,” have been cuffed in raids in the eastern state the crew is named for and in Poland, state broadcaster DPA International reports.

“This is a militant group consisting of 15 to 20 people, whose ideology is characterized by racist, anti-Semitic and, in part apocalyptic ideas,” the prosecutor’s office said in a statement. Properties in Austria were also being searched by German cops for the rest of the group’s members.

Election Day is here. Today, we vote because we love our country and we believe in the promise of America.

Make your voice heard: https://t.co/VbrfuqVy9P

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) November 5, 2024

There are several East Coast US House races to watch on Tuesday night to get a read on what the majority – and by extension the presidential race will look like, via Punchbowl News: First off is Virginia’s 7th where Dem former Army Colonel Eugene Vindman – famous for he and his twin brother’s firing from the Trump White House over the first impeachment – and Republican Derrick Anderson – famous for posing with a fake family in a photo on his campaign website.

Then there’s VA-2, where Republican freshman Jen Kiggans faces a tough challenge from Dem Missy Cotter Smasal. The district was also seen as a bellwether in the 2022 midterms.

In other states there’s Ohio’s 9th where Dem Marcy Kaptur will have to hang-on against Republican Derek Merrin and North Carolina’s 1st where Dem Don Davis’s race is also expected to come down to the wire against Republican Laurie Buckhout. Other ones to watch include Maine’s 2nd, Pennsylvania’s 7th and 10th (that piece of shit Scott Perry), and Michigan’s 7th, 8th, and 10th.

Anonymous pro-Trump Twitter influencer @AlphaFox78 admitted to CNN in an interview that Russian propagandist Simeon Boikov paid him $100 to post a now-debunked video purportedly showing a Haitian immigrant claiming he would vote at least twice in Georgia for Vice President Kamala Harris. “I don’t have any idea where it came from or anything – I’m just the guy who shared it,” said @AlphaFox78, a Massachusetts resident who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

On August 9, 2022, immediately after the FBI had raided Mar-a-Lago, I wrote the following to game out the potential political implications of what had just happened the previous night:

Not bragging or anything…

“Skyler Philippi, 24, of Columbia, Tennessee, was arrested by federal agents and charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to destroy an energy facility. Beginning in June 2024, Philippi told a confidential human source (CHS) about his desire to commit a mass shooting at a YMCA facility located in or around Columbia, Tennessee. In July 2024, Philippi told another CHS about the impact of attacking large interstate substations and said that attacking several substations would ‘shock the system,’ causing other substations to malfunction.”

“Philippi researched previous attacks on electric substations and concluded that attacking with firearms would not be sufficient. Philippi, therefore, planned to use a drone with explosives attached to it and to fly the drone into the substation. In September 2024, Philippi drove with undercover employees (UCEs) of the FBI to an electric substation previously researched and targeted by Philippi, and Philippi conducted reconnaissance of the substation. While driving, Philippi ordered a plastic explosive composition known as C-4 and other explosives from the UCEs. Philippi later purchased black powder to be used in pipe bombs, which Philippi intended to use during the attack on the substation. Philippi texted the CHS: ‘if you want to do the most damage as an accelerationist, attack high economic, high tax, political zones in every major metropolis.’ Referring to the substation, Philippi stated, ‘Holy shit. This will go up like a fuckin fourth of July firework.’ Philippi talked about operational security, including the need for disguises, the use of leather gloves (because latex and nitrile gloves can transfer fingerprints), wearing shoes that are too big, the need to burn their clothes after the attack, and not bringing smartphones on the night of the attack.”