If you view these events in isolation, they are terrifying. If you view them together, they are a very obvious conspiracy to meddle in the midterm elections.

FIRST: Last week, the FBI raids the elections office in Fulton County, Georgia. They seize servers and ballots. And standing there, overseeing the seizure of domestic voting records, is the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard.

THEN: On Monday, Donald Trump goes on a podcast and says the quiet part out loud. He declares that Republicans should "take over the voting in at least 15 places" and that they ought to "nationalize the voting."

They are gathering whatever data they can in Georgia to manufacture a crisis over election security. They will use the evidence they cook up from those servers to claim that the local systems are corrupt.

And then, just as he threatened, he will move to nationalize the elections in specific areas where Republicans are vulnerable. He will target the places that stand between him and total control of the House and Senate.

We are building the capacity to fight this federal takeover in the court of public opinion and at the ballot box in November. But we cannot fight on a shoestring budget. Can I count on you to chip in today to help us stop the authoritarian takeover?

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The raid was step one. The nationalization is step two. We have to stop them before step three.

Steve Schmidt
Save America Movement

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