THE BALLOT BOX | In the Litter Box w/ Jewels & Catturd – Ep. 1127 – 11/2/2026

Hello, hello, hello. Today is Monday, November 2nd, 2026, episode number 1122. Please remember to like, share, follow, and hit the notification button so you know when we go live on this show. You are in the litter box with just Jewels Jones today. You know Catturd is away playing at Turdstock, had a wonderful event from all I can see from all of the reports and all of the pictures. Oh my gosh, I wonder if there’s anybody here that was at Turdstock that is listening now. If you are, say hello. I see a couple people here I want to say hi to. Gracie, how are you? Gracie Rose, good to see you. Catherine needs coffee. Yes, I think a lot of people do after Halloween. Marla Benningfield.

Hello there. Mary Frost. Hey there, Miss Mary. Kimberly Tucson. Good to see you. Casc1776. Don’t hold back on me. I have these questions that I ask and I think Casc was being polite not to answer a tough one that I put out there yesterday in our subscriber group. Great job on that one. And that one was a hard one. Man O ‘Dumb, 52, 98, sleeper, 93, 81, are you all ready? Oh my gosh, Art Hobby High, you’re a new name. I haven’t used your name before. I haven’t set it out here live on this show before. Well, while the cat’s away, we shall play. So come on in, get yourself settled, get your water, find your spot.

I am so glad that you’re here on Monday because Monday is the day most people are still rubbing their eyes and you showed up anyway. I see you all coming in I see the names stacking up over there and I’m going to get to them same way as always if you have something breaking or if something’s going on let me know I’ll definitely give you a shout out if I can see you. As you know I’m the only person that runs the show from behind behind the show, I’m the engineer, I’m the host and everything else. So I miss things sometimes. So you have to make a lot of noise to get my attention for the most part, but I do see you.

So I just have to, yeah, make sure that I divert my attention over there because this is going to be a big huge week. So pull up a chair, turn the volume up a little. Whatever you were about to do in the next hour, it will still be there when we are done here. So I have been sitting at this desk all weekend with a stack of paper and I have been looking forward to this since Saturday. All right, let me tell you what I found. A $5 gift card. That is what a canvassing group was handing people at the door to go and vote.

Five dollars, three days before the election, door to door, the Attorney General of Kansas signed a cease and desist on Saturday and ordered a group called Bluestem Kansas to stop in Kansas. They said, look, you need to stop offering somebody a benefit in exchange for voting because it is election bribery and election bribery there is a severity level seven non -person felony is what that amounts to so that is not a parking ticket that is a felony class with a number on it just to be clear and I want to be straight with you about where this stands because I’m going to be straight with you about where everything stands for the next hour. Nobody has been charged.

It is a cease and desist, which is a letter that says stop. It’s not an indictment. The group has not answered anybody’s request for comment. Both of those things are true, and I am not going to pretend otherwise to make the story bigger than it is. Here is the Attorney General in his own words. This is a quote, I never thought that a group in Kansas would be so brazen as to go door to door three days before an election offering voters monetary incentives.” And then the line that stopped me. This sounds like Chicago in the 1950s, not Kansas in the 2020s.

Now if that were the whole story, I would give it four minutes and move on, because one group in one state with one letter is a Tuesday news item. It is not the whole story. It is the smallest thing that I’m going to show you today. Because the question underneath it is not about Kansas and it is not about five dollars, somebody took a look in the box. That is the whole job. Somebody, somewhere has to actually open it up and check. So I spent this weekend reading what happens when nobody does. So let me give you the one that I could not put down. There is a case out of California, imagine that, a county, the federal government, a court.

The county was asked about a list of people whose citizenship was in question and the county came back and said that nearly 40 % of that sample had been born in the United States. The federal government took that same sample and they ran it themselves and they came back and they said that none of them were born here. Not fewer than the county said, not a different percentage, none, 40 % and then zero off the same list of the same exact people.

So I’m going to show you that one again later with the page on the screen because I want you to see the type and I’m going to give you the honest other half right now the same as I did with Kansas because it is in the same file and leaving it out would make me the thing that I am complaining about. The district judge in that case found the federal government’s own process for building these lists not credible. He said so and the county register system has no function that lets a ballot be set aside once it’s in.

Both of those are real and both of them are on the record and you should know them before you decide what you think but hold the two numbers next to each other for a second anyway 40 and 0. Somebody was wrong by the entire width of the question and the only reason anyone knows is that two different offices happen to run the same names. Nobody ran them before. Nobody was looking in the box. Then there is Nevada, and Nevada has names on it. Five people were charged by the federal government with voting as non -citizens, five of them inside one month, the 23rd of October, two on the 28th, and 29th, the 30th.

So, here they all are, and before I read you one word about any of them, here is the part that I’m going to keep saying all hour, because it is not me being delicate, it is me being accurate and there is a difference. Every one of those five people is presumed innocent, a charge is an accusation on a of paper that is one that a prosecutor signed. It is not a finding. It is not a conviction and not one of them has had a trial. Now I will hold that line the whole way through because I would want somebody to hold that for me. But here is what is not in the question and it is the reason Nevada matters more than the other four. It was not a prosecutor or a pundit who put the words to this.

It was the first assistant United States attorney on the record in her own name. She said there is a catastrophic failure to protect the ballot box. Catastrophic failure. Her words. They’re not mine. And she is the one with the file. There is also Arizona. Yes, Arizona. Where the United States, they had an attorney who opened a case into three nonprofits over registering non -citizens, and they handed it over, right over, to the FBI. Here it is, just so everybody can see it. So that is Kansas, California, Nevada, Arizona, four places with different sets of lawyers, four different kinds of paper, all of it in about 10 days. This is all happening right now.

Inside of 10 days we’re starting to hear about all of these cases where they said, hey what, voter fraud? There is no such thing and it was being dismissed. All of these are coming out and not one person on television has put them on the same page because the people who cover this one state and then basically they go home. Well, I am putting them on the same page because that is what this hour is. And littermates, I want to tell you the thing that I actually felt when I was sitting there with all of it printed out because it was not anger. I was expecting anger but it wasn’t anger. It was something closer to being tired because every single one of these is the same shape.

Somebody filed a vote. Nobody checked it. And when we only found out because a second office accidentally looked, not an investigation, not a watchdog, an accident, that’s where we are. Now you have stood in that line. You have taken the morning off and you have shown your face and you have written your name on something and you did it because you believed it counted the same as everybody else’s. Well that is the part nobody is going to talk to you about tomorrow. Everybody is going to spend tomorrow telling you who is going to win. I do not care about that today. Tomorrow can handle tomorrow. and it will. But what I care about today is the whole checking. Somebody has to look.

They have to look in that box. I mean that’s the whole point. So let me take you into the paper because I have the California filing right here and there is a judge in it who wrote down exactly what the county could not tell him and I want to read you the clause. It’s most important. So this is what the record actually said. And it’s very important that people understand exactly what the record says because here it is. The district court denied our emergency request to sequester ballots from 20 ,000 suspected non -citizens. That is what has been put out there.

A judge on the Ninth Circuit writing in dissent says the county could give no evidence that it independently verifies the citizenship of its voters. Think about that. I mean, it’s doing something very specific. Not that the county verifies badly, not that the county verifies slowly or with an old people, no evidence that it verifies at all. And then the next part, which is the part that bites, the dissent says the county apparently relies only on applicants attestation. I kid you not. That is what they are saying here. I mean and that is the part that should resonate with every single person. I I mean, that is the other side, a testation.

That is a box that you check that is you at a table saying, yes, I am, and the system writing it down and believing you. That is what that is. Now, I wanna be careful and precise here because this is dissent and a dissent is the judge who lost. The motion in that case was denied two to one. He is the one, so when I tell you what that paragraph says, what I am telling you is what one federal put his name on in writing in a filed opinion and not what the court decided. Completely different thing. I’m also going to tell you what the other side of it says because I said I would and because you can handle it.

The district judge in that case, Judge Carter, found the federal government’s own process for building these lists was not credible. He wrote that down too. And the county register system, by the register’s own account, has no function that allows a ballot to be pulled back. one it has gone in. So here is the honest shape of it. One judge says nobody is checking. Another judge says the people complaining that nobody is checking did their own homework badly. And the machine in the middle of them has no reverse gear. All three of those things can be true at once. They are all in the same file and not one of them is the same sentence that anybody is going to read to you tomorrow.

It will be over by then. So the federal government’s number in that same fight is 20 ,000. That is how many non -citizens they say are registered in the state of California. I am giving you that as their claim because you need to know that number. It’s attributed to them because Judge Carter is on the record doubting how they built it. 20 ,000 is their number. It’s not a finding. So now let me get into Nevada because Nevada is not a number. Nevada is five people with names. The charging documents are all from the district of Nevada and they all landed in October. Every One of, every single one of those things, they were charged as one count of voting by an alien. That’s what the charges were.

Maradella Delia Mendoza, Mariella Delia Mendoza. This is from Argentina. The charge concerns the 2024 general election in Clark County charged on the 13th. You’re going to have to forgive me with some of the pronunciations of some of these names because out of my element and without accent. Melblynge Raziki Ramanadi. Ramani. The Democratic Republic of the Congo. The charge concerns the 2022 general election in Washoe County charged on the 29th. Monier Elzobier Ali Yusuf. Sudan, 2024 general.

General, charged on the 28th, Khaleda Safi, Afghanistan, 2024, General, charged on the 28th, Julie Ann Semilinog, more, the Philippines, 2024 election, five people, five countries, one month, and every single one of them is presumed innocent. The Justice Department’s own release says it in plain words, and I’m going to say it the way they do, that all information is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Not one of these five have had a trial, not one of them has been convicted of anything, and if any of them is acquitted, I will say that on the show with the same amount of time that I am giving this, so you know that.

Now hold on to the Ramahani date because that is the one that has been sitting on my shoulder since Friday, 2022. That charge concerns the 2022 general election. It was filed on the 29th of October, 2026, which means if the document is right that you had a vote that went into the ballot box in Nevada in 2022 and that it stayed there. It counted, was uncontested, nobody the wiser through an entire election cycle. Four years. A whole set of people took office in between. Nobody looked in the box for four years. Nobody looked.

Now here is what Mendoza document says, and I’m reading the charging language itself, not somebody’s summary of it on or about November 5th 2024 she illegally voted in an election held in part for the purpose of electing a candidate for the office of president and then five more words she was not a United States citizen that is what is alleged the maximum penalty is one year in prison or a fine of up to $100 ,000 or both. The FBI and the Homeland Security investigations did the work. Now I’m gonna tell you the part that cuts against the easy versions of this story because the easy version is wrong and you deserve the real one.

Not one of these five is somebody who came across the border in the dark. Every one of them is a lawful permanent resident, A green card holder, people with files and addresses and photo identification, and years in the system. Years of it. I am not softening that, I am actually sharpening it. A person with no paperwork at all is a hard problem, and everybody knows it is a hard problem. These are people the government already had in a database, with a status field, that says in the field what they are. The box that had to be checked was already filled in. Nobody read it. Nobody read it. They didn’t even bother. And I want you to notice who told me that because it was not on my side.

One of the biggest networks in this country ran and item Sunday morning headlined that the majority of the non -citizen voters charged by the Justice Department are lawfully in the United States. They publish that as a defense, as the reassuring part. Read it twice and it is the whole indictment. Which brings me to the sentence this hour is named after. And it did not come from me. The first Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Nevada is named Signal Chata. She is the person with the file in her hand and she put this on the record in her own name attached to one of these cases. She said that there is a catastrophic failure to protect the ballot box.

She also said that every single illegal vote directly questions the very security of our elections. And this one, which is the reason that I think that she is right, is that she said that they will ensure that the voice of every lawful American citizen is completely protected from being diluted, neutralized, or stolen by illegal votes. diluted. That is the word. That is the whole thing in one word, and it’s hers. It’s not mine. Because nobody takes your vote away. That is not how any of this works. Nobody comes to your house and tells you that you cannot go. You go. You stand in line. You sign the thing. Your vote gets counted exactly the way you cast it.

It is just worth a little less than it was when you woke up. And nobody has to tell you and nobody does and there is no letter that comes. The special agent in charge at Homeland Security Investigations put it in the shortest. He said federal election laws are clear and efforts to circumvent them will be investigated. Will be. Future tense, which tells you something about the tense everything else has been in. And I was going to stay in this file for another 10 minutes because there is an Arizona referral in here. I have not even opened for you yet, but something came in while I was reading and I have to give it to you now because it is happening while we are sitting here.

So now I’m going to set it down for a minute because two things happened while I was reading it to you and they are both about the same box. The president did his last one yesterday. Now the final rally of the midterms in Kansas, the whole close of it was four words, you can go check the box. and and see exactly what he had to say, because this man has just been incredible. I mean, the fact that he is out there campaigning the way he has been is just been tremendous, and I know it is driving the left crazy. They responded with Obama, but I mean, hey, we’re not even on the same plane. But here he is. I mean he basically said, you know, look, the ask was four words, go check the box.

Not vote, check is what he said. Now that is a different ask and I want you to sit with how strange it is that it has to be made at all. The closing argument of an entire election season was not a promise and it was not a threat. It was a man standing in front of a crowd asking them to go look inside the thing that is supposed to count. Them. That’s the whole hour. Right there. In four words. Everything I have put in front of you today is somebody who went and looked. The prosecutor who looked, the office in Nevada that looked, the clerk who looked, nobody asked a single one of them too.

And then there is the other thing and I need you to hear it in the order it actually happened because it went around the internet in the other one. You are going to remember this one probably it’s all over the place. There was a woman at the University of Michigan. She walked up on a table full of college students and it ended with another student pinning her arms behind her back and university police walking her off the grass. This is two days before an election. There is a table on the grass that that’s all that there is. It’s just a table. People just kind of hanging around. I mean the table there’s a sign there’s some signs. There are kids that are hanging around it.

I mean the kind of thing that sits out on every lawn at every school in this country. Well, she comes up on it. She gets loud. She’s all agitated. And then it stops being loud and it starts being physical. And the young man who was just standing there, he steps in, he takes hold of her arms. He holds her back until it is over. He didn’t hit her. He held her. That’s the entire thing he did. And he did it in about a second. And he is the reason nobody got hurt. And then somebody sent me the second one you will all I mean you will remember this woman It’s just it was the craziest thing.

It’s like all of a sudden you want to talk about TDS well, I mean, we’ve got a couple of pictures of what TDS actually looks like and Here is one. This is the perfect face. This was the one that I Posted this weekend where the FBI flagged it the same day and she posted the selfie on Thursday with the caption, going to the Trump rally in my city tomorrow so I can shoot him with my Glock. Wish me luck guys. Well, they flagged it and you had the Volusia County Sheriff’s office that traced it to this 21 year old in Daytona Beach. The detectives walked up to her door with secret service. Her name is Alison Albro. She told them it was a joke. there was no Glock, there was no gun at all.

Detectives searched her home with her permission, they didn’t find one, but she was booked anyway. Written threats to kill a second -degree felony is what that is in Florida. Up to 15 years, she is being held with no bond. Well, sheriff Mike Chitwood, he said, I would strongly advise anyone else thinking of posting a joke along these lines to think twice. Well, President Trump, he took the stage at the ocean center in Daytona Beach at seven o ‘clock. And it went as planned. The joke does not name the day, the city, and the gun. So this is the picture of her. This is, here she is, TDS. If there was a photo attached, this is what it actually looks like.

And then the other one that just completely freaked out. I know it’s the day of the dead. so you’re going to see a lot of faces in here that are probably scarier than some of the costumes that you saw last night because they’re actually real. But here’s this other chick. I mean, this is the deranged Abdul supporter who tackled a Jewish girl. And this was at the free speech event. I mean, thank goodness somebody was there. She goes on crazy style. She’s like, I should have killed her and then she was loaded up into the police vehicle. I’m going to play this for you.

It’s had 15 .6 million views just so you can check out what’s going on at college campuses and a whole bunch of reasons why a lot of people are choosing to homeschool instead. Check out this video. Don’t fucking talk to me like that, you want to fucking get over here? Get over here bitch! Coming off the clock. Get over here. It’s a fucking car my bitch and I’m Brown don’t resist Just he’s lit there’s gonna be more charges just You’re not I’ll fight him. Just just Can’t attack I’m used to sirens, you’re probably not, so I’m going to kind of turn it down a little bit.

Living in Hollywood, I’m used to the sirens, but you’re probably going, oh my gosh, I’m going to turn that down, so I’m going to turn it down. We can let this video play while we continue on. But yes, this woman, and apparently she is back on campus, just so everyone knows she had a letter from the university, a strongly worded one as we tend to hear about those strongly worded letters. Yes, of course. And Jim Jordan is actually famous for those, but she’s back on campus and I do not know what’s going to happen from this point on, but the whole thing is that this is what’s going on in on the campuses. Apparently they figured out who she was in no time flat.

And somebody else also sent me the second one. There was a second video of the same woman, same woman, different moment, she was doing it again. I mean, one of these is a bad afternoon, two of these is a person. So here is where I’m going to be careful with you. And I want you to know exactly why. Her name is going around this morning.

And I have been sitting in and I have it sitting in front of me right now Looking at it, but I’m not going to read it to you because the only places carrying it are in the posts that are out there On X and other places and I don’t I do not put a human beings name on the air off a post It’s the same rule that I have used all hour on five people in Nevada And I’m not going to use it on her even though you have her picture here, and you’ve seen the video But I don’t need her name for the part that actually matters.

I don’t need her name at all For a year now, these people have stood in front of cameras and told you that we are the violent ones, that you are the danger, that it is your side that cannot be trusted to stand near a table without somebody getting hurt. And then on Saturday on a lawn two days before an election, one of them walked up on a table of college kids and a 20 year old boy had to take hold of her arms to stop it. Now, I have heard that the person that was Holding her could have been a boyfriend, something that she was seeing, or on and off again. There was somebody in the camera that was holding the camera that was saying, hey, you know what? Don’t fight it.

It’s only going to get worse. I can’t confirm who that was, so I’m not going to even try. This is just what people are saying. But nobody is going to put his name on anything either. He just did it, and then he let it go. He let go of her when they showed up. So you can go check the box in Kansas yesterday. and in Michigan, a kid holding somebody back so the table could stay up. So keep Michigan in your head for a second because I have to tell you about somebody else in Michigan and she is going to surprise you. Deluded. That’s the word that I want you to think about whenever we talk about some of these people, deluded.

And I keep coming back to that word because a federal prosecutor chose it on purpose. And it is the only word in this whole story that describes what actually happens to you. And it raises a question I could not get out of my head all weekend. And that is, if this is real, if the box is not being checked, then somebody in the office somewhere has to know it. Not a commentator, but somebody with a voting card and a staff and a seat. So I went looking for one, and I found one, and she is a Democrat. There is a Congresswoman in Michigan named Haley Stevens. Yes, I’m sure you’ve heard her name by now. Haley is getting pretty famous over there in the Republican Party.

She is a sitting member of Congress. she is a Democrat and so here she is on Sunday afternoon with one day left before the midterm she posted this on her own account she said I am endorsing Mike Rogers for the United States Senate today end quote this is what went down. When you talk about big surprises that have occurred for the October month, this one you cannot top. It is just an insane story. Well, eleven words. Rogers is a Republican. I mean, there’s nothing underneath it. There is no paragraph about how hard the decision Now the Detroit Press is not a paper that is on my side of anything, and that is exactly why I want you to hear the next part from them, instead of from me.

Their front page, their words, not mine, was Stevens and forces Rogers of her U .S. Senate and her staff revolts quits.” Revolts. That is their verb that they chose to use. And then the second one, the same paper, same day. Haley Stevens’ staff resigned over her endorsement of Rogers’ first Senate. So the people who worked for her read 11 words on Sunday afternoon and went home. Well, I want to be careful about what I actually know there because it is less than you would think from how it is being talked about. The paper said her staff. It did not say how many. It did not give me a single name. And it did not quote one of them saying anything.

So I’m going to say exactly what the paper said and not one syllable more, her staff. That is the word that they used and it is the word that I will use. And one more thing about it, because the people writing it up are counting on you not to do the arithmetic, all right? Those jobs, they ended on Tuesday. Win or lose, endorsement or no endorsement, that campaign closed its door the day after the election, and every person on that payroll already knew it when they walked in Sunday morning. So, quitting on Sunday costs them one day of work. What it bought them is the story they get to tell the next Democrat who is hiring, and every single one of them is going to need one by Wednesday morning.

The paper called that a revolt. I would call it a job application. And here is where the day gets strange, because the morning did not match the afternoon. Sunday morning, hours after, you know, hours before any of that happened, Jamie Raskin sat down in front of a camera and passed along a message. He said it came from her, and I’m quoting Raskin, not her, and I’m going to keep saying that because every time I say it, because it actually matters, enormously, who is doing the talking.

Well, Raskin said this, he said, my wonderful friend Haley Stevens wants me to represent to you and everyone else I talked to that she is voting straight down the line on Democratic ticket straight down the line that is the morning in Raskin’s mouth 11 words for the Republican is the afternoon in hers so I’m not gonna stand here and tell you which one of those is false because I do not know. She has not said, and I want to give her the other reading out loud because it is the real one and I want it myself. So it is entirely possible that both are true as she sees them. A person can vote her party’s ticket and still think one particular man should have one particular seat.

That is not a contradiction in a voting booth. It is only a contradiction in a press release. And anybody anywhere has produced a word from saying from her saying that she is voting against her own side. The only person who she has characterized her ballot and who has characterized it is Raskin and he was characterizing it for her. So the honest version, hold it, by Sunday evening the President of the United States had written about her himself on his own account by name, a Democrat. Here is the middle of it and I’m going to it flat because it does not need help at all. Quote, Haley said what few people are willing to say. It’s a thing called bravery and few people have it.

The president praising a sitting Democrat Congresswoman by name, the day before the election. Sit in how strange that sentence is for a second. I have been doing this a while and I can’t remember the last time I actually typed one like it. And here is the thing that I did not know on Sunday night that changed how I read all of it. She is not the first one. She is the latest one, but she is not the first one. Back in August, Mike Rogers stood up a group of Democrat supporters. In August before any of this and one of the people who stood up with him was a sitting state representative out of Detroit named Karen Whitsitt.

She was elected as a Democrat and she told everybody back in March that she could not stay in that party anymore and at that August event her reason was not a speech. It was a sentence about her health insurance which Which is about as far from a talking point as a person can get. She said something else this weekend about Stevens on her own account, and I’m quoting Whitsit here, not saying it myself. She said, quote, she chose conscience over party. And then this one, quote, if unity requires obedience, it is not unity, it is control. Then, there is a man named David Kramer, Vice Chair of the Michigan Democratic Jewish Caucus.

And now listen to the second half of that sentence, because the second half is the whole thing. He is the man who chaired Haley Stevens’ Senate campaign. He ran it. Six days ago, he said out loud that he is voting for the Republican because his words, El Saeed, is certainly not moderating at all, and is becoming more extreme and more dangerous. The man who ran her campaign got there five days before she did. A man named Justin Turkish raised money for Senator Slotkin in 2024. Now, he went to the University of Michigan with El Said. He also engaged to Haley Stevens. Well, five days ago, he said he is voting for Rogers. And the reason he gave was eight words.

He said, quote, I couldn’t live with myself if I didn’t speak up. End quote. And then there is the sheriff, Bill Federspiel, Saginaw County, named as the Democrat in Roger’s own campaign release back on the 13th of September, endorsing the Republican over rising violent crime rate in his own county, a state rep, the caucus vice chair who ran her campaign, the man she is engaged to, a sitting Democrats sheriff, and then finally the Congresswoman herself. That is not a defection. That is a line of people walking out of the same building one at a time for four months and the last one out was the one who lost the primary to him by nine -tenths of one point.

And I want you to hear what the party said back because they did not argue with any of it. The chairman of the Michigan Democrat Party, Curtis Hertel, put out that Haley Stevens is not a current member of the Michigan Democratic Party, and then he added five more words. Nor will she be in the future. Okay. Nor will she be in the future. That is an excommunication written down the day before an election and on CNN he said this, you don’t abandon all your values because this is not high school. End quote. A four -term congresswoman tells you the ballot is not safe and the answer she gets from her own party is that she is not one of them anymore and never will be again.

Nobody said she was wrong. They said she was out. And it was not only Michigan. Sean O ‘Brien is the president of the Teamsters, not a spokesman, not a local president, the president of the whole thing. He posted this himself in his in the first person from his own account and the part I want you to catch is in the middle quote just voted in the state of Florida for the first time and very proud to have cast a ballot for Senator Ashley Moody end quote for the first time. Now I want to say something to you about Haley Stevens that is going to sound odd coming from me and I’m going to say it anyway. I do not agree with that woman about very much at all, okay?

I would guess we would disagree about almost every bill she has ever voted on and on Sunday she did something that cost her immediately and visibly in public in front of everybody with no upside available to her at all. There is no version of this where it helped her. Her own office emptied out before dinner. I mean, people do not do that over strategy. Nobody burns their own staff down with 24 hours on the clock because a poll moved three points. Something has to be worth more than the job is worth and whatever that something was, she decided was worth it on Sunday afternoon with no cushion underneath her.

and you know that moment like you’ve had it maybe not on television maybe it was in a meeting or a kitchen table or a group text but you have had that moment where the true thing was going to cost you and you had about four seconds to decide whether to say it anyway most people do not say it that is not a arithmetic of having a mortgage, right? She said it, 11 words, no cushion. And then she stood there while her own building emptied out. So I’m not going to pretend to know what she knows. I don’t. I mean, I do not. She has not told us what moved her. And if she never does, that is hers to keep. But I will tell you what I noticed, and it is the only reason she is in this hour at all.

Everybody else spent this weekend talking about the box. She is the only one who acted like what is in it is already decided. So, what was all of this truly about? I mean, my gosh, she acted like what is in the box is already decided. And the thing is, she is not the only one. The difference is that everybody else who is acting the same way is saying it out loud camera in advance and calling it a warning. Sunday morning, national television, the governor of Illinois, who is himself on the ballot on Tuesday, said this. This is a quote. If Democrats don’t win, if they don’t win in this election, we may not have other elections. And then he kept going.

Or certainly we’re going to have future elections, every single one of which will be rigged. The host did not let that sit there, and I will give her credit for it because she asked him the only question there was to ask, I mean, she said, are you saying that all future elections will only be fair if Democrats win? He is on the ballot on Tuesday. So read what he has said one more time. Every future election will be rigged unless his side wins. The one that he is personally running on on Tuesday. The one that he’s in. This is Pritzker. Now that is not a warning. That is an alibi. It’s written four days early.

And once you see it as an alibi, the whole weekend rearranges itself because you stop asking whether these people are worried and you start noticing what they are actually worried about. And here’s the thing about Illinois that makes his sentence worth more than ordinary noise. Illinois counts mail ballots for 14 days after the poll closed. 14. Two full weeks after Tuesday, a ballot can still arrive and still be counted. And that is not my complaint about it. That is a live federal question. The Supreme Court ruled 7 -2 in January that a sitting congressman from that state has standing to challenge exactly that practice in court, 7 -2. That is not a narrow court on this.

So the governor of a state that keeps counting for two weeks went on television the Sunday before the election to tell you in advance that elections cannot be trusted. Then there is Arizona, which I promised you and then set aside. A United States attorney there. They opened up a case into three nonprofit organizations over registering non -citizens to vote and he has referred it to the FBI. Three organizations, one referral, no charges against anybody and I will say that plainly because an open case is an open case and nothing in it has been proven against any person or group, or any group for that matter. But notice what it is. Somebody is looking in Arizona.

Somebody actually went and looked and the moment somebody looked there, there was enough evidence to hand over to the FBI. And then there is Connecticut. And Connecticut is the one that is almost funny until you think about it for 10 seconds. A state representative there, a Democrat co -chair of the Progressive Caucus in that chamber, was summoned on Saturday for 6 degree larceny. She is charged. Now she is She has not had a day in court and a summons in an accusation. And that is it. That there is nothing else. It’s an accusation. Well, here is what is alleged. And here is how it came apart. Her opponent’s lawn signs kept disappearing. So he put air tags in them.

And one of those signs pinged from a property she owns. and the police came out at 10 o ‘clock that night. The opponent’s own words quote, the last thing I expected was it to ping on her property. And here’s the part that is going to stay with me. It is that the signs they kept vanishing. They were signs that quoted her. Her own words from a hot mic in April of last year about taxing her people and how they would not even notice. The signs printed her sentence and then answered it. Two words. We noticed. Those are the signs that kept disappearing. Her own statement on her own Facebook page admits that she removed them.

The Democratic Speaker of that chamber called the whole thing childish and he is on her side of the aisle. So let me lay out the weekend for you one more time without any adjectives on it at all because I think the list does the work anyway. A group offering five dollars at the door, three days out. A federal judge writing that a county has no evidence it checks citizenship at all. Five people charged in one state in one month of one of them over a vote that sat in the box for four years, mind you.

Three organizations referred to the FBI in another state, a sitting the lawmaker summons over the signs that quoted her and a governor on national television four days before he is on a ballot telling you that every election after this one is rigged. Not one of those is about who wins on Tuesday. Every single one of them is about whether anybody is standing at the box with a clipboard and And in every single case, the answer came back the same way. Somebody found out by accident. A second office happened to run the same names. And an opponent happened to buy a tracker at a store. Let’s not forget a prosecutor who just happened to look.

Now, I’m not going to tell you what to think about the whole thing on Tuesday. You know what you are doing on Tuesday, and you do not need me for it, not even at all. What I want you to carry out of this hour is a great deal smaller than that. And I think it’s the only thing on this desk that nobody in this country is arguing about at all. Every one of these came to light because one person in office decided to check something that nobody had asked them to check. That’s why it happened. Somebody has to look in the box. Nobody has yet. So I want to say one more thing and then I’m going to let you go.

Everything that I put in front of you today came to light the same way, not because a system caught it, because one person somewhere in some office decided to check a thing that nobody had asked them to check. That is a very small hinge for a very big door. And I know how that lands on Monday, because I know where some of you are sitting right now. I mean, you have got a shift tonight, or you’ve got somebody in the house who needs something, and the last thing you have room for is one more thing that is broken and too big to fix. So, I’m not going to hand you that. Here is the only thing that I will say about tomorrow.

Tomorrow, you get to go and stand in line, and you get to put your name on something, and nobody in any of those documents I read you today gets to do that for you. They do not get to decide whether you show up. That part is still entirely yours and it’s yours whether anybody is watching the box or not. I do not know what Tuesday is going to look like, neither does anybody who tells you they do. What I know is what I have got on this desk, and what I have got on this desk says that somebody is going to have to go and look afterward when it is boring and nobody is watching and there are no cameras in the parking lot. That is usually when it matters.

So go do your Monday, go do your Tuesday, and we will be back on Wednesday when we about all of this because I have a feeling the two of us are going to have something to talk about. There’s a lot of us that are going to be watching without missing a beat and I will see you tomorrow on this show to discuss it as we watch all of the lines and all of the chaos and all of the different things that are happening at the different poll sites. You know what it’s going to look like we’ve been here before. So thank you for spending the hour with me. I mean that and I do not say that as a sign off.

There are a lot of places that you could have been for the last hour and you were here and I do not take it lightly. So take care of yourself, go drink some water, go be good to the people in your house and in your life. I love you all litter mates and you are wonderful. You all be safe be kind to one another and we will see you tomorrow at 3 o ‘clock p .m. Eastern time. Bye