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About David Argall is a state senator from Pennsylvania representing the 29th district. Argall has been affiliated with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a corporate bill mill that creates right-wing model legislation for implementation at the state level. Following the 2020 election, Argall assisted in the attempt to overturn the presidential election and contributed … Read more
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About Robert Asher is a businessman and state politician based in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. In the private sector, he is the chairman of the board of Asher’s Chocolates in Souderton, Pennsylvania. However, he is best known for his political activities, serving as chairman of the Republican State Committee from 1983–86 and co-chair for the campaign … Read more
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About Bill Bachenberg is state politician and businessman based in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He is the former CEO of DBSi, a data services company, and now serves as the firm’s senior advisor. Bachenberg and his family own a shooting range called Lehigh Valley Sporting Clays and he has been a member of the board of the … Read more
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About Lou Barletta is a businessman and former congressman who represented Pennsylvania’s 11th district from 2011–19. He attempted a run for governor of Pennsylvania in 2022 but lost to Doug Mastriano in the GOP primary. He also served as the mayor of his hometown of Hazleton, Pennsylvania. As mayor, Barletta was known for his unusually … Read more
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Jim Cox was a Republican state representative in Pennsylvania who served the state’s 129th district from 2006–22. He was a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a corporate pay-to-play bill mill, and chaired the House Labor and Industry Committee in the state legislature.
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On Dec. 9, 2020, a group of 27 Republican congressmen sent a letter to President Trump asking him to order Attorney General William Barr to appoint a special counsel to investigate “irregularities in the 2020 election.”
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About Sheryl Delozier (R) serves the 88th legislative district in Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives, a position she has held since 2008. Prior to being elected to public office, she worked for two Pennsylvania gubernatorial administrations. Delozier is running for her eighth term in 2022 in a district that—after redistricting—only gives Republicans a slight advantage. She … Read more
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Once Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, Dominion became the target of baseless allegations of fraud—charges that it has repeatedly repudiated and challenged in court ever since. In 2023, Fox News paid $787 million to Dominion to settle the defamation lawsuit brought against it, and cases are still pending against other right-wing news outlets such as Newsmax and One American News Network.
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President Biden won the state of Pennsylvania in the 2020 election by a margin of 80,555 votes, winning 3,458,229 votes to Trump’s 3,377,674. However, Trump’s allies quickly began to challenge the results in Pennsylvania, as they had in other swing states carried by Biden.
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About On several occasions after the 2020 presidential election, Trump allies breached equipment used at polling locations around the country in search of evidence to support voting fraud conspiracy theories. The breaches have included unauthorized people stealing voting system passwords and posting them online, taking and distributing confidential voting software, and inspecting ballot-counting machines. These … Read more