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Court Rejects Dem Party Role in Suit against Illinois Election Day
Extension

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A federal court rejected
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a motion by the Democratic Party of Illinois to intervene as a
defendant in our lawsuit challenging an Illinois election law
permitting mail-in ballots to be received as long as two weeks after
Election Day.

The ruling and opinion
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comes in the federal lawsuit
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we filed on behalf of Congressman Mike Bost and two other registered
Illinois voters to prevent state election officials from extending
election day for 14 days beyond the date established by federal law
(_Rep.Michael J. Bost, Laura Pollastrini, and Susan Sweeney v. The
Illinois State Board of Elections and Bernadette Matthews_
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_(No. 1:22-cv-02754)).

In the court’s ruling and opinion
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on the Democratic Party of Illinois motion to intervene, U.S. District
Judge John F. Kness held that its participation would “delay this
time-sensitive case:”

> [Democratic Party of Illinois] cannot meet its burden to show that
> its interests will not be adequately represented by the parties to
> the case. As a result, [Democratic Party of Illinois] is not
> entitled to intervene as of right. Separately, because allowing
> [Democratic Party of Illinois] to intervene would threaten to delay
> this time-sensitive case further, the Court, in its discretion,
> denies [Democratic Party of Illinois] motion seeking permission to
> intervene as a party under Rule 24(b). Accordingly, the Court denies
> DPI’s motion in its entirety.
The Democratic Party of Illinois is represented by the Elias Law
Group, whose founding partner is Marc Elias, the controversial lawyer
for Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

Federal law defines election day as “the first Tuesday after the
first Monday in November of every even-numbered year.” The initial
complaint states:

> Despite Congress’ clear statement regarding a single national
> Election Day, Illinois has expanded Election Day by extending by 14
> days the date for receipt and counting of vote-by-mail ballots
We point out that the current Illinois election law allows
vote-by-mail ballots received up to 14 days “after the polls close
on Election Day” to be counted as if they were cast and received on
or before Election Day. Illinois law also provides that “[e]ven
vote-by-mail ballots without postmarks shall be counted if received up
to 14 calendar days after Election Day if the ballots are dated on or
before Election Day.”

Our lawsuit notes:

> The Board … advised that the number of ballots received after
> Election Day through November 17, 2020, could materially affect the
> unofficial election results.

***
[Illinois’ own data indicates that] Illinois received 266,417
vote-by-mail ballots statewide during the period from November 3rd
through November 17th.
***

> [M]ost of the 266,417 vote-by-mail ballots were received after
> Election Day, which would mean that as many as 4.4% of votes cast in
> 2020 were received _after _Election Day. [Emphasis in original]
We argue that holding voting open for 14 days past Election Day
violates the constitutional rights of voters and candidates:

> By counting untimely and illegal ballots received after Election Day
> and diluting Plaintiffs’ timely cast and received ballots,
> Defendants, acting under color of Illinois law, have deprived and
> are depriving Plaintiffs of rights protected under the First
> Amendment and 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in violation
> of 42 U.S.C. § 1983.
The Democratic Party failed to gum up this important lawsuit for
election integrity. We are supposed to have an Election Day, not
election weeks – or months. Illinois’ 14-day extension of Election
Day beyond the date set by Congress is illegal, violates the civil
rights of voters, and encourages fraud.

The Delaware Supreme Court recently struck down
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that state’s
vote-by-mail and same-day voter registration statutes for violating
the Delaware Constitution. In making its ruling, the court effectively
concurs with the _amicus curiae_
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brief we submitted in the case, which argues the Delaware statute
impermissibly expands those practices far beyond the limits set in the
Delaware Constitution.

In a separate Judicial Watch election lawsuit
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against Illinois, a federal court ruled
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in June 2021 that the lawsuit could proceed against Illinois officials
for denying public access to Illinois’ voter registration database.

In February 2022, we settled
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a
voter rolls clean-up lawsuit against North Carolina and two of its
counties after the North Carolina removed over 430,000 ineligible
names from the voter rolls.

In March 2022, a Maryland court ruled in favor
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of our challenge to Maryland’s Democratic legislature “extreme”
congressional redistricting gerrymander.

For more than 25 years, we have been known for our aggressive,
leading-edge use of public records laws and lawsuits, as well as
taxpayer, civil rights and whistleblower protection litigation, to
fight government corruption. We are a national leader in voting
integrity and voting rights. As part of this effort, we assembled a
team of highly experienced voting rights attorneys who stopped
discriminatory elections in Hawaii, and cleaned up voter rolls in
California, Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky, among other achievements
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AIR MARSHALS SENT TO BORDER TO PROTECT FEDERAL PERSONNEL AND
‘NON-CITIZENS’

The specially trained Air Marshals who are paid to protect our air
travel are now being used to help clean up the Biden
administration’s mess at the border. Our _Corruption Chronicles_
blog reports
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> To help deal with “a surge in irregular migration,” the Biden
> administration is deploying Federal Air Marshals (FAM) to the
> Mexican border to “protect the life and safety of federal
> personnel,” according to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
> memorandum sent to the highly skilled law enforcement officers this
> week via electronic mail. Judicial Watch obtained a copy of the
> urgent directive from various recipients at the agency, which
> operates under the beleaguered Transportation Security
> Administration (TSA), created after 9/11 to prevent another
> terrorist attack. FAM is charged with protecting commercial
> passenger flights by deterring and countering the risk of terrorist
> activity, and officers, specially trained aviation security
> specialists, are outraged that they are being sent to the southern
> border.

> “The nation is experiencing a surge in irregular migration along
> the Southwest Border (SWB),” the notice to FAM officers states.
> “The unprecedented volume of Noncitizen Migrants (NCMs) currently
> apprehended mandates immediate further action to protect the life
> and safety of federal personnel and noncitizens in CBP [Customs and
> Border Protection] custody.” This appears to be the first
> acknowledgment, albeit leaked involuntarily, by the Biden
> administration that there is indeed a crisis along the nation’s
> famously porous southern border. “To support its mission, CBP is
> seeking federal employees from DHS Components and other federal
> agencies to be placed on reimbursable TDY assignments to assist in
> critical support functions,” the widely circulated mandate states,
> adding that “LE/FAMS has been directed by DHS to support this
> request.”

> The first wave of FAMs will be dispatched to El Paso, Texas and
> Yuma, Arizona on October 30 for an October 31 start. Thirty officers
> and a supervisor will go to El Paso, 15 officers and a supervisor
> will go to Yuma. “There will be further deployments on TBD
> dates,” the memo to the nation’s FAM staff reads. It also says
> that overtime pay for the assignment is “highly likely.” The
> temporary assignments will consist of 21-day rotations and may be
> extended for up to 120 days. Here is the important work that the
> specially trained law enforcement officers will be doing in the
> southern border rather than their critical duty of protecting
> commercial planes flagged for terrorist threats. “Hospital Watch,
> Transportation, Law Enforcement Searches, Entry Control, Security at
> CBP Facilities and Welfare Checks.”

> This is hardly the first time FAM resources are misused, potentially
> endangering the flying public. Last summer Judicial Watch exposed
>
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> a scandal-plagued “VIP” program that provided members of
> Congress with FAMs often yanked from high-risk flights that went
> unprotected. Judicial Watch learned about the secret program when
> several enraged FAMs provided information, including logs and
> records, surrounding Congresswoman Maxine Waters’ trip to
> Minnesota. Two officers were pulled from a high-risk flight so the
> veteran California lawmaker could have extra security though she was
> already covered by a four-man detail consisting of two Capitol
> Police officers and two Secret Service agents and her flight was not
> flagged for any threats. The high-risk flight completed its trip
> without the two air marshals originally assigned to it, said Sonya
> Hightower-LaBosco, a retired FAM who serves as executive director of
> the Air Marshal National Council. The union represents thousands of
> air marshals nationwide. “Two air marshals were pulled off a
> high-risk flight so Maxine Waters’ aircraft could have six armed
> agents,” Hightower-LaBosco confirmed, adding that two additional
> armed agents met the congresswoman on the ground.

> Less than two weeks after Judicial Watch published its report, the
> congressional VIP program was canceled
>
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> As a result, hundreds of FAMs sat idly at airports around the U.S.
> because the special missions stopped and so many officers had been
> assigned to them on a regular basis. One veteran air marshal said,
> “the Washington Field Office in Washington D.C. was almost
> exclusively dedicated to VIP services for Congress.” Another
> longtime FAM told Judicial Watch he was deployed on several VIP
> missions with low-profile members of Congress. He said so many air
> marshals were on standby for the VIP congressional program that when
> it ended, he and many of his colleagues sat “around the airport
> waiting for a mission.” Now they are being dispersed to the
> Mexican border to babysit illegal immigrants.

JUDICIAL WATCH SUES FOR KERRY’S CLIMATE ENVOY CALENDARS AND TRAVEL
COSTS

John Kerry has been gallivanting around the globe at President
Biden’s direction as the nation’s first special presidential envoy
for climate. Trouble is, nobody is really sure what he’s doing or
how much it’s costing taxpayers.

We filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the State
Department for details of his office, including his calendars, the
identities of its staff members and its cost of his travel (_Judicial
Watch Inc. V. U.S. Department of State_
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_((No. 1:22-cv-02844).

We sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after
the State Department failed to respond adequately to a July 31, 2022,
FOIA request for:

* Copies of all records concerning individual authorizations for and
the costs of John Kerry, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate,
for any official travel from January 21, 2021, to present. This
request includes any reimbursement amounts the government paid to Mr.
Kerry.
* All calendar or calendar entries for John Kerry, U.S. Special
Presidential Envoy for Climate, whether made by him personally or on
his behalf from January 21, 2021, to present. Request calendars, if
possible, be produced in a format that includes invitees, notes, and
attachments. This request includes not only Microsoft Outlook
calendars, but any calendar, electronic or paper, used in the
execution of government business.
* Copies of all organizational charts for the Office of the Special
Presidential Envoy for Climate, including any sub­ organizations,
reflecting names and/or position titles of each individual in those
positions. Judicial Watch does not object to the redaction of contact
information (telephone numbers/emails) for any employee listed in the
organizational chai1(s).

The American people have a right to know what John Kerry is up to,
what we’re paying to fly him around the world, and who we pay to
actually work for him.

JUDICIAL WATCH SUES HHS OVER APPROVAL OF ABORTION DRUG MIFEPREX

The abortion lobby is as strong as ever. Its latest enthusiasm is a
long-controversial abortion pill.

We filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for records regarding
drug stability test results, new drug applications and related
materials of the abortion drug Mifeprex
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(Mifepristone, formerly known as RU-486
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We also requested reviews and assessments of the manufacturing
facilities DANCO and GenBio where the abortion pills are produced
(_Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services_
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(No. 1:22-cv-03152)).

We sued after the Food and Drug Administration (a component of HHS)
failed to respond to three February 2022, FOIA requests.

The first request asks for correspondence with the manufacturers of
Mifeprex regarding the drug’s stability and for all FDA reports from
assessments of DANCO and GenBio manufacturing facilities.

The second request asks for investigational and new drug applications
related to Mifeprex (Mifepristone).

The third request asks for stability test results for the drug
Mifeprex (Mifepristone), including records reflecting long-term
stability, as well as accelerated and forced degradation results.

In September 2000, in response to pressure from pro-abortion
activists, the Clinton Food and Drug Administration accelerated
approval
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of the
pill.

Now the Biden administration is pushing
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to prevent states from restricting access to it.

Our experience is that this chemical abortion pill did not and will
not receive appropriate review from the politicized FDA. It is
outrageous that we had to sue in federal court for basic safety
information about the pill, which is being pushed on women by a
desperate pro-abortion movement.

In May 2006, we released a Special Report
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containing records that shed light on the Clinton administration’s
aggressive drive to push RU-486 to market in the United States. We
obtained the documents from the National Archives at the Clinton
Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas, in February 2006,
shortly after the archives allowed public access to Bill Clinton’s
presidential papers.

In October 2007, through a FOIA lawsuit, we forced the FDA to release
records
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about the drug. Included in the records is a letter written in October
2000 from then-Oklahoma Congressman Tom A. Coburn, M.D., to
then-executive vice president of the American College of Obstetricians
and Gynecologists (ACOG), Ralph W. Hale, M.D:

> It was a sad day when the FDA approved RU-486 – the first drug
> ever approved for the specific purpose of ending a human life. But
> that was made even worse by the fact that the FDA succumbed to the
> political pressure brought by ACOG and other elements of the
> abortion lobby by dropping most of the proposed patient protections,
> and thereby recklessly exposing women to avoidable risk.

JUDICIAL WATCH SUES HHS FOR UNACCOMPANIED ALIEN CHILDREN
TRANSPORTATION RECORDS

The Biden Administration’s free-for-all at the border includes what
amounts to the trafficking of little children.

We filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for records related to
the transportation of unaccompanied alien children (UACs) (_Judicial
Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services_
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(No. 1:22-cv-03044)).

We sued after HHS failed to respond to a May 20, 2021, FOIA request to
the Administration for Children and Families (ACF is a component of
HHS) for:

* All documents related to the preparation and logistics involved in
the transportation of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) to and from
Chattanooga’s Wilson Air Center on May 14, 2021.
* All ACF officials’ internal email communications related to the
transportation of UACs to and from Chattanooga’s Wilson Air Center
on May 14, 2021.

In a May 26, 2021, letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra and
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas,
Tennessee Senators Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty, along with
Tennessee Congressman Chuck Fleischmann wrote
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> We write to seek information on the Department of Health and Human
> Services (HHS) management of unaccompanied alien children (UAC) in
> federal custody and the facilities used to house them. We are
> particularly concerned about recent reports regarding the use of
> Chattanooga, Tennessee, as a central location for resettling UACs in
> the United States.

> There are media reports that, within the last week, at least four
> planes carrying UACs landed at Wilson Air Center in Chattanooga,
> Tennessee, before swiftly boarding the children onto buses and
> transporting them to multiple cities across the southeastern United
> States for apparent resettlement, with zero transparency regarding
> what was happening. For months, reports have detailed how thousands
> of children are being housed in neglectful conditions at mass
> shelters operated by HHS under a veil of secrecy. We are deeply
> troubled by the lack of transparency and accountability regarding
> the conditions that HHS is subjecting these children to.

> Several governors, including Governor Bill Lee of Tennessee, have
> written to President Biden expressing alarm over how the federal
> government has circumvented state authorities by placing UACs in
> their states’ facilities with little transparency, consent, or
> coordination.
The Biden administration is hiding information on how it aids and
abets the trafficking of unaccompanied alien children. We aim to
expose and hold accountable the Biden administration for its
trafficking of countless children.

We have delved extensively into the tragedy of unaccompanied alien
children.

In August 2022, we revealed
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that
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) busted hundreds of adult illegal
aliens posing as minors to dodge deportation. El Paso Border Patrol
Sector reported it had seen an unusual amount of activity involving
adults posing as minors to dodge deportation. In El Paso alone, CBP
confirmed that more than 655 adult migrants posing as minors
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have been arrested in fiscal year 2022.

In September 2021, we received records
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from the HHS
Office of Refugee Resettlement that list 33 separate incidences of
alleged sexual abuse against UACs in a one-month time period.

In July 2018, after a three-year delay, we obtained records
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containing nearly 1,000 summaries of Significant Incident Reports
(SIRs) from HHS revealing that UACs processed during the Obama
Administration included admitted murderers, rapists, drug smugglers,
prostitutes, and human traffickers.

JOHN PODESTA: THE SCANDAL MASTER RETURNS

The Clintons had a coterie of corrupt cronies who are still all over
Washington – and in the White House. One of these is an old hand at
political street fighting who Biden appointed to manage, wants amounts
to be a huge slush fund of tax dollars. Our Chief Investigative
Correspondent Micah Morrison reports
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in our _Investigative
Bulletin_.

> Students of scandal took note last month when President Biden
> announced the appointment of one of the dirtiest figures in
> presidential politics as his clean energy czar. John Podesta, the
> White House said
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> would step in as “Senior Adviser to the President for Clean Energy
> Innovation and Implementation,” overseeing the new Inflation
> Reduction Act’s “expansive” energy and climate provisions.
> Expansive it is. Podesta is now in charge of a $370 billion
>
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> pot of federal cash and incentives approved under the new law.
> History suggests he will not be shy in deploying the federal funds
> to reward Democratic Party allies, punish opponents, and protect Joe
> Biden.

> Protecting his president has always been John Podesta’s real job.
> As far back as the Bill Clinton presidency, Podesta ran the cover-up
> of the “Travel Office affair”—a failed attempt by Hillary
> Clinton to fire the staff of the White House Travel Office and
> replace them with Clinton cronies. This was serious business. The
> Travel Office staff were mid-level federal employees, not
> presidential appointees, and livelihoods were immediately cut off.
> Thanks to Mrs. Clinton, the director the Travel Office was indicted
> on embezzlement charges and left to twist in the wind for more than
> two years, until a jury swiftly acquitted him of all charges. A
> Podesta-led White House review of the affair “proved to be nothing
> more than a whitewash,” a later investigation concluded. Mrs.
> Clinton denied having anything to do with the firings but an
> independent counsel report on the Travel Office affair
>
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concluded she
> had provided “factually false” testimony in the case.

> Podesta had demonstrated loyalty and was rewarded. He was promoted
> to deputy White House chief of staff, where he played important
> roles in the Whitewater scandal. A White House “task list” noted
> the “Podesta damage control effort” in Whitewater. In 1998, he
> was named chief of staff and helped manage the Clinton defense in
> the Monica Lewinsky debacle, impeachment, and a scandal over
> presidential pardons.

> Pre-Clinton, Podesta served as a Capitol Hill aide in a variety of
> positions in the 1980s. In 1988, he and his brother, Tony Podesta,
> founded the lobbying group Podesta Associates, an unremarkable
> presence on the Washington scene until John Podesta joined the
> Clinton White House. By the end of the 1990s, Tony Podesta was a
> major Washington power broker. By 2011, he was reporting earnings of
> more than $24 million.

> By 2017, he was, seemingly, finished. Entangled in a sector of the
> sprawling Robert Mueller probe that was investigating Ukrainian
> money linked to U.S. lobbyists, Tony Podesta dissolved his lucrative
> lobbying empire and retired.

> But Mueller never charged
>
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> Podesta. And last year, Podesta unretired and returned to the
> lobbying business, now representing
>
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> foreign companies linked to Libya, China, and Bulgaria.

> John Podesta prospered too. In 2003, with the Democrats out of the
> White House, he cemented his position as a leading party figure by
> founding the influential Center for American Progress, a Washington
> think tank that quickly became an incubator for progressive politics
> and personnel. He returned to the White House in 2014 as a counselor
> to Barack Obama for energy and environmental issues.

> In 2016, he signed on as chairman of Hillary Clinton’s
> presidential campaign. When Wikileaks released over 20,000 Podesta
> emails obtained from hackers who had penetrated the Democratic
> National Committee mail system, Podesta was revealed as the central
> figure in a seamy web
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> of media allies, political operatives, big money donors, Wall Street
> figures, and Clinton Foundation interests. With the Wikileaks email
> scandal, the Washington Post noted
>
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> “the Clintons’ longtime cleanup guy” was now “the source of
> the mess.”

> Mrs. Clinton of course lost that election. But Podesta was soon
> back, this time playing a key role in “the Transition Integrity
> Project”—an effort to aid Joe Biden and disrupt the 2020
> presidential election. “The figure at the heart of the Transition
> Integrity Project is John Podesta,” Judicial Watch reported in
> October 2020, a month before the election. TIP “is a collection of
> professional Democratic operatives and Republican ‘Never
> Trumpers,’” JW noted. “Organizers and leaders include
> Georgetown law professor Rosa Brooks, Nils Gilman of the
> ‘independent’ Berggruen Institute in California,” and
> anti-Trump Republicans Michael Steele, David Frum, and Bill
> Kristol.”

> TIP issued a dire report, widely covered in the mainstream media,
> warning of Trumpian election violence. In a special report on TIP
>
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> Judicial Watch concluded that publication of the TIP report was
> “an information warfare strategy employed for revolutionary
> political purposes” that included planning for “a street fight,
> not a legal battle.”

> That’s a clue to Podesta’s true role in the Biden White House.
> Watch for the old scandal master to play a central role in street
> fights to come over what is increasingly looking like a 2023
> GOP-dominated House of Representatives and a 2024 Trump-Biden
> rematch.

FOLLOWING HIP-HOP DIPLOMACY, YOUR STATE DEPARTMENT FUNDS DRAG SHOWS
ABROAD

In what can only be another sign of our national decline, the Biden
State Department is using your tax dollars to promote drag shows in
Ecuador. Our _Corruption Chronicles_ blog has the details
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> In yet another questionable venture by the State Department to
> achieve foreign policy goals through art, the agency is giving a
> Latin American country nearly $21,000 to produce drag shows. The
> goal, according to the government’s grant announcement
>
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> is to promote diversity and inclusion by funding three workshops, 12
> drag theater performances and a two-minute documentary. The project
> is part of the State Department’s foreign diplomacy programs,
> which aim to advance national interests and enhance national
> security by informing and influencing foreign publics, according to
> the grant document. The initiative also strives to expand and
> strengthen the relationship between the people and government of the
> U.S. and citizens of the rest of the world.

> How a dozen drag shows may help accomplish this, in Latin America of
> all places, remains unclear. The performances typically feature
> adult men dancing in women’s clothes and heels, exaggerated wigs,
> and heavy makeup often accentuated with glitter. The American
> taxpayer dollars to fund the drag shows in the name of diversity and
> inclusion will go to a nonprofit in Ecuador, a country with a
> population of around 18 million that elected a conservative
> president last year. The group is called Centro Ecuatoriano
> Norteamericano de Cuenca
>
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> it is located in the city of Cuenca in southern Ecuador’s Andes
> mountains. The nonprofit was founded in the late 50s to strengthen
> ties and friendship with the U.S. with intellectual and cultural
> exchanges. This includes conferences, concerts, sporting events and
> English classes for Ecuadoreans. The group’s Spanish-language
> website also says that its vision includes facilitating “social
> responsibility”
>
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sponsored by the
> U.S. government in Cuenca.

> Perhaps the U.S.-funded drag shows meet the Ecuadorean charity’s
> social responsibility need, though the Biden administration is not
> offering specifics on how the performances will further the State
> Department’s diplomatic mission of promoting American foreign
> policy. A spokesperson for the agency told a national news outlet
>
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> that the grant is part of “a wide range of strategic programs in
> Ecuador that incorporate concepts from diversity, inclusion, and
> representation to equity and accessibility.” The spokesperson
> added that the grant to the Ecuadorian nonprofit uses the arts to
> raise awareness about diversity and inclusion. “The program’s
> goal is to promote tolerance, and the arts provide new opportunities
> for LGBTQI+ Ecuadorians to express themselves freely and safely,”
> the State Department spokesperson said in the article.

> This is hardly the first time a controversial artistic endeavor
> abroad receives funding from the State Department. The agency also
> spent $70,000 on Hip-hop diplomacy
>
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> even though the music famously promotes violence, misogyny, drugs,
> and lawlessness. That initiative aimed to promote American culture
> in India by exploring the commonalities and differences between the
> south Asian nation and the U.S. through what the State Department
> calls an “influential music genre.” It was a peculiar choice
> since Hip-hop, a predominantly African American brand, has a very
> dark side and is well known for graphic lyrics involving urban
> violence and the abuse of women. Instead, the State Department
> celebrates Hip-hop musicians for using “their art to highlight
> socio-political problems, particularly pertaining to youth in
> underserved and other minority communities.” The agency claims
> that Hip-hop will serve as a valuable tool to show the vibrancy and
> innovative creativity of U.S. society because it exemplifies free
> expression that promotes values such as pluralism, tolerance, and
> inclusion.

> Keeping with the theme of waste, just a few months ago the State
> Department allocated $800,000 to study if its $2 million youth
> violence prevention initiative
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El
> Salvador is effective. It is safe to say the answer is no
> considering criminal youth gangs are endemic in the impoverished
> central American nation, but the agency is doling out the extra cash
> to confirm it. The new probe will focus on the Police Athletic
> League (PAL) youth outreach program, which Uncle Sam has funded in
> El Salvador to the tune of $2 million. The money flows through the
> Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL),
> a State Department offshoot created in the late 70s to reduce drug
> trafficking into the U.S. from Latin America. The INL claims to keep
> Americans safe by countering crime, illegal drugs, and instability
> abroad. It is handsomely funded by Congress and the State Department
> requested $456.8 million
>
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> for its drug-related programs in fiscal year 2022. The funds help
> strengthen the rule of law, human rights protections, law
> enforcement capacity, anti-corruption activities, and other critical
> efforts around the globe, according to the budget request.

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