Why We Chose 1620 as the Year of ‘Our True Founding,’ Not 1619

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This year marks the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims’ arrival at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620, an event which President John Quincy Adams described as the “birthday” of our nation. You might expect this seminal moment in world history to be commemorated with great fanfare. But don’t get your hopes up. . .

“There appear to be few commemorations, parades, or festivals to celebrate the Pilgrims this year, perhaps in part because revisionist charlatans of the radical left have lately claimed the previous year as America’s true founding,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said last week in a speech honoring the Pilgrims’ 400 anniversary.

The “revisionist charlatans” he was referring to are the authors of the New York Times’ “1619 Project,” which commemorates the year that the first ship arrived in the Virginia colony carrying African slaves. Recognizing the significance of the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery is certainly worthwhile, but the 1619 Project’s authors went beyond recognition and sought to “reframe” all of American history around the events of 1619. For this, they have been roundly criticized by historians who decry their many inaccuracies and revisionist interpretations (including, for example, their claim that the American Revolution was fought in order to preserve slavery in the colonies).

Most of the criticism has focused on the Project’s controversial claim (which was later scrubbed from the New York Times’ website) that 1619 is the year of “our true founding,” not 1620 when the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth and planted the seed of our democracy that ripened in 1776.

In a Times op-ed rebutting the critics, Nicholas Guyatt argues that “the 1619 Project radically challenges a core narrative of American history” by refuting the notion that “the story of the United States [is] a gradual unfolding of freedom.” Instead, the Project’s authors “describe a nation in which racism is persistent and protean. White supremacy shapeshifts through the nation’s history, finding new forms to continue the work of subjugation and exclusion.”

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Donald Trump Calls in to Gettysburg Hearing: We Have to Overturn Election Because Democrats Cheated; WATCH: Witness Describes 570,000-Vote ‘Spike’ for Biden

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By Breitbart. President Donald Trump called in to a Pennsylvania hearing on voter fraud Wednesday, urging supporters to keep fighting the 2020 election results.

“They have to turn over the results,” Trump said. “It would be easy for me to say, ‘Oh let’s worry about four years from now.’ No. This election was lost by the Democrats, they cheated. It was a fraudulent election.”

The president phoned in to a public hearing on the 2020 election held by Pennsylvania state Republicans at a hotel in Gettysburg. Several witnesses publicly attested to voter irregularities and opportunities for fraud during the voting and counting process, particularly surrounding mail-in ballots. . .

“If you were a Republican poll watcher. you were treated like a dog,” Trump said and added, “What happened here, this is not the United States of America what happened.” . . .

“Very weird things happened, but they’re not weird to professionals, and they’re not weird to Dominion and other people that operate machines,” Trump said. (Read more from “Donald Trump Calls in to Gettysburg Hearing: We Have to Overturn Election Because Democrats Cheated” HERE)

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WATCH: Witness Describes 570,000-Vote ‘Spike’ for Biden

By WND. At a public hearing Wednesday held by Pennsylvania lawmakers and President Trump’s campaign, a witness drew gasps when he described “spikes” in the vote count the evening of the election in which Joe Biden gained 570,000 votes to the president’s 3,200.

The spikes in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh came after Trump held a lead of some 700,000 votes. The official count ended with a Biden lead of some 80,000.

Trump called in to the meeting of the Pennsylvania Senate Majority Policy Committee on “election issues and irregularities,” declaring he “won this election by a lot, we got 74 million votes.”

The witness explained to the president’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani that normally “you would see a smooth curve going up,” recording the ongoing vote count.

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BLM Activists Want to Separate From ‘White’ Antifa

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Oregon Public Broadcasting reports Wednesday that black members of Portland’s Black Lives Matter movement are tired of their anti-racism demonstrations being hijacked by the mostly white “Antifa” anarchists and are working to separate the two movements as protests continue.

“Tensions between Black activists fighting for racial justice and anti-establishment protesters have bubbled beneath the surface for months,” the outlet says, noting that many of the anti-racism protests, now in their sixth month, began as peaceful demonstrations but became violent after nightfall, when anarchist groups, who organized on social media, appeared.

The riots, which made national headlines, tainted the Black Lives Matter protests, activists say, and confused commentators who often assumed the violence developed from the demonstrations. Instead, they say, the unrest was wholly separate — and now they want the groups to disentangle.

“This week marks six months since Floyd’s death, and protests continue in Portland,” OPB reports. “But now, activists in the city are divided as to whether they are still fighting in a racial justice movement centered on Black lives, or if an unfocused, anti-establishment fight against capitalism and state power has usurped the initial cause that brought thousands of Portlanders into the streets.”

BLM activists also contend that the largely white “Antifa” group is “privileged,” noting that many of those arrested during the protests are middle- or upper-class, are quickly free on bail, and often escape prosecution — luxuries not often afforded to people of color who tangle with the same justice system. (Read more from “BLM Activists Want to Separate From ‘White’ Antifa” HERE)

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WATCH: White House Press Caught Laughing at McEnany and Trump

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In journalism in America, the White House press corps is a prestigious assignment.

But a hot mic caught reporters goofing off in the White House breifing room, mocking Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany and President Trump, according to a video posted by Climate Depot.

It began with a reporter saying: “Hey guys. We’re in the White House briefing room here. Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany is going to hold her first briefing since October 1st and a lot has happened since then. The two-minute warning. The president has gotten COVID, she’s gotten COVID, they’ve lost the election, and the president has refused to concede.”

Female Reporter 1: “Let’s see how it goes.” [Laughter]

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Coffee Shop Owner Loses License After Ignoring Coronavirus Restrictions

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A drinkery in Kentucky that sells both coffee and alcohol had its alcohol license suspended by the state’s Alcohol Beverage Control agency (ABC) on Wednesday after failing to comply with COVID-19 restrictions.

Despite an order from the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department to close its doors on Tuesday, Brewed at 124 Malabu in Lexington, Kentucky, opened for business on Wednesday and was inundated with customers who came in a show of support for the store, the Lexington Herald Leader reported. In response, ABC issued an emergency suspension on the establishment’s license to sell alcohol.

Owner Andrew Cooperrider — who is identified as an official in the Libertarian Party of Kentucky, according to his Facebook page — refuses to stop serving customers inside his establishment. (Read more from “Coffee Shop Owner Loses License After Ignoring Coronavirus Restrictions” HERE)

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Biden Announces He Will Immediately Move to Give Citizenship to Millions of Illegal Aliens

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Joe Biden announced during an NBC News interview that aired on Tuesday evening that he will immediately move to give citizenship to millions of illegal aliens once he gets into office in two months.

“I’m going to make a commitment in the first 100 days, I will send an immigration bill to the United States Senate with a pathway to citizenship for over 11 million undocumented people in America,” Biden said. “I will also be moving to do away with some of the I think very damaging executive orders that have significantly impacted on making the climate worse and making us less healthy.”

Biden has already pledged to dramatically increase the number of refugees that he admits into the U.S. from 15,000 under President Donald Trump to 125,000. Biden has also pledged to end the Trump administration’s travel ban on nations that are considered to be hot beds of terrorism.

Whether Biden is able to grant citizenship to millions of people who are unlawfully in the U.S. depends on who controls the Senate, which could be decided in January as Georgia has two runoff elections. If Republicans win just one of the two races they will keep control of the Senate when Biden takes office. Democrats would need to win both races just to have a 50-50 tie with Republicans and would need all 50 of their Senators to vote together so that incoming-Vice President Kamala Harris could be the tie breaker. (Read more from “Biden Announces He Will Immediately Move to Give Citizenship to Millions of Illegal Aliens” HERE)

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Without Evidence, Former President Obama Accuses Hispanic Trump Voters of Bigotry (VIDEO)

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Former President Barack Obama accused Hispanic voters of being bigots, claiming that they ignored the current administration’s “racist” immigration policies to vote for Donald Trump because “he supports their views on gay marriage.”

“People were surprised about a lot of Hispanic folks who voted for Trump,” Obama said on The Breakfast Club podcast Wednesday. “But there’s a lot of evangelical Hispanics who, you know, the fact that Trump says racist things about Mexicans, or puts detainees undocumented workers in cages, they think that’s less important than the fact that he supports their views on gay marriage or abortion.”

In states like Texas and Florida, Latino voters swung for Trump over Biden in the 2020 election. In Florida, nearly half of Latino voters cast ballots for President Trump, and in Texas’s Rio Grand Valley, Trump flipped Zapata County, one of the bluest counties along the river with 52.5 percent of the vote.

Despite Obama’s claims that gay marriage drove “evangelical” Hispanic voters to Trump, causing them to ignore Trump’s “racist” immigration policies, same-sex issues did not appear as one of the top ten important issues for Americans going into Election Day and was not a top ten priority for Hispanic voters specifically. . .

Instead, Hispanic voters showed concern for things like the economy, COVID-19, and violent crime, all of which Trump heavily focused on in his re-election campaign, promising more jobs, faster vaccine development, and calling for law and order.

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Mark Zuckerberg Reportedly Signed off on a Facebook Algorithm Change That Favored Established News Sites

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In the days following the US presidential election, Facebook made some emergency changes to its algorithm.

The New York Times reports the company changed the way it promoted and demoted content on people’s news feeds after employees noticed an alarming amount of misinformation spreading on the platform.

The change meant the algorithm assigned more importance to posts from established news organisations such as CNN, The New York Times, and NPR. This was based on an internal metric the company uses called “news ecosystem quality,” abbreviated to NEQ.

Publishers with a high NEQ benefitted from the change, while partisan but highly engaged pages, such as Breitbart and Occupy Democrats, were demoted.

Three people with knowledge of the matter told the Times that Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally signed off on the change. (Read more from “Mark Zuckerberg Reportedly Signed off on a Facebook Algorithm Change That Favored Established News Sites” HERE)

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WATCH: Lou Dobbs Asks Sidney Powell if the Trump Presidency Will Be ‘Saved’ as Transition Begins

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. . .[T]here are still prominent Trump supporters keeping hope alive and saying there’s still a chance they can turn things around through the legal challenges going on across the country — a large number of which have been already rejected in court.

Sidney Powell joined Lou Dobbs on Fox Business Tuesday — days after her split with the Trump team — to talk up the supposed “Kraken” she’s going to release and continued making claims about voting machines and an election so rigged it changed the outcome.

At one point Dobbs asked, “Do you think that we’re going to see the Trump presidency saved?”

Powell promised him, “Yes, I definitely do.”

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Judge Halts PA From Taking Further Steps in Certifying Its Election Results

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By Townhall. . . .It’s a separate legal challenge filed by state Republicans. It’s unlikely to reverse the course of what has transpired in the Keystone State this election. Joe Biden was certified the winner. You’re never going to convince me that the election results for 2020 were legitimate, given the scores of voter fraud allegations, but the material that could have been used as evidence has been destroyed. And the bar to toss ballots is higher than Everest, so I doubt this will lead to major changes, but never say never around the holidays. As of now, further steps to verify PA’s election results have been halted by a judge.

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Pennsylvania Judge Halts Election Certification Amid Mail-in Vote Fight

By Fox News. A Pennsylvania state court issued an injunction Wednesday blocking any potential further certification of election results in the state, pending a hearing to be held Friday.

The order from Judge Patricia McCullough comes in the case brought by Pennsylvania voters including Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., in which they allege that a state law allowing for no-excuse absentee voting violated the Pennsylvania constitution, which outlines specific cases where absentee voting is allowed.

“[T]o the extent that there remains any further action to perfect the certification of the results of the 2020 General Election … for the office of President and Vice President of the United States of America, Respondents are preliminarily enjoined from doing so, pending an evidentiary hearing[,]’” McCullough wrote. (Read more from “Pennsylvania Judge Halts Election Certification Amid Mail-in Vote Fight” HERE)

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