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When I first posted the 15% Band, I compared Republicans vs. Democrats, so it covered 30 Senate races.
Now that results are nearly final, I updated it to include every vote: Republicans, Democrats, independents, third parties, everyone, in all 35 Senate races. Then I ran a new regression analysis. Once again, the number came back .85.
34 of 35 Senate Republicans fell below President Trump's 2024 share. Red states and blue states lost the same proportion.
In some states the lost votes went to Democrats. In others, like Idaho, Nebraska and Montana, they went to independents. Different opponents, different places for the votes to go, and the Republican share still landed at about 85%.
This isn't just an average. An average can hide states scattered all over the place. A regression tests whether one rule fits every state.
Here, it does: Trump's 2024 share × .85 lands close to the Republican result state after state after state, and explains 87% of the differences between them (R² = .87).
Five nights ago, I was pretty sure. Tonight, I know.
This is real. It deserves an answer.
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The writ of habeas corpus has been formally suspended four times in United States history under the Suspension Clause (Article I, Section 9, Clause 2).
1. The American Civil War (1861–1865)
• Who & When: Initially ordered by President Abraham Lincoln on his own authority beginning in 1861, and later authorized nationwide by Congress through the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act of March 3, 1863.
• Context: Used to detain suspected Confederate spies, Southern sympathizers (Copperheads), draft resisters, and military deserters.
• Legal Clash: Chief Justice Roger B. Taney ruled in Ex parte Merryman (1861) that only Congress—not the President—held the power to suspend habeas corpus, a conflict Lincoln initially bypassed before Congress retroactively backed the suspension.
2. Reconstruction and the Ku Klux Klan Act (1871)
• Who & When: President Ulysses S. Grant in 1871.
• Context: Suspended across nine counties in South Carolina (frequently cited as eleven counties in some historical summaries).
• Authority: Authorized by Congress via the Ku Klux Klan Act of April 20, 1871, to arrest armed conspirators and white supremacist paramilitary members terrorizing Black citizens and local officials.
3. The Philippines Insurrection (1905)
• Who & When: Colonial Governor Luke Wright in 1905.
• Context: Suspended in two provinces (Cavite and Batangas) of the Philippines (then an unorganized U.S. territory).
• Authority: Implemented pursuant to an Act of Congress on July 1, 1902, to suppress ongoing anti-colonial insurrection and armed banditry.
4. World War II in Hawaii (1941–1944)
• Who & When: Hawaii Territorial Governor Joseph B. Poindexter (with the approval of President Franklin D. Roosevelt) immediately following the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, lasting until 1944.
• Context: Imposed martial law and suspended habeas corpus across the entire Hawaiian Territory.
• Legal Resolution: Later overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in Duncan v. Kahanamoku (1946), which ruled that military tribunals could not lawfully replace civilian courts where the regular courts were able to function.
Ben Around retweeted
🚨 THE CRITICAL PATH DID WE ALREADY TAKE DOWN THE NETWORK...
Everybody remembers what happened on September 11, 2001.
But what happened to the NETWORK behind it?
FOLLOW THE MONEY. FOLLOW THE ARRESTS. FOLLOW THE TIMELINE.
🇩🇪 2001 GERMANY
Investigators uncover the Hamburg cell. Three of the four 9/11 pilots had lived in Hamburg.
Bank accounts. Money transfers. International connections.
🇺🇸🇩🇪 SEPTEMBER 30, 2002 THE RECEIPT
The U.S. Treasury publicly freezes the assets of FOUR Hamburg-cell operatives identified by German authorities.
✅ Germany had already frozen their assets.
✅ The U.S. followed with its own freeze.
✅ Germany sent the names to the UN, cutting them off from the global banking system.
✅ Treasury called it "the product of international collaboration."
And where were the four?
➡️ One under arrest in Germany.
➡️ One captured in Pakistan, in U.S. custody.
➡️ Two on the run.
This wasn't speculation.
IT WAS AN OFFICIAL, PUBLIC, CROSS-BORDER ACTION.
🌎 NOW ZOOM OUT.
That same Treasury release said something bigger:
by September 2002, just one year after the attacks, more than 160 countries had orders in force to freeze terrorist money.
Think about that.
Different countries. Different governments. Different banking systems.
ONE SHARED SET OF RULES, adopted in about twelve months.
That was the starting point. What got built on top of it over the next two decades:
➡️ Expanded financial surveillance.
➡️ Stronger anti-money-laundering laws.
➡️ International sanctions coordination.
➡️ Cross-border intelligence sharing.
➡️ More sophisticated systems for tracing illicit money.
Fast-forward 25 years.
Now we're watching governments use many of these same tools against cartels, money launderers, sanctioned entities and crypto-linked criminal networks.
HERE'S THE QUESTION NOBODY SHOULD IGNORE:
Did the world build an international financial enforcement system after 9/11 that became the foundation for much broader operations?
👉YES. THAT DEVELOPMENT IS DOCUMENTED.
Did the original Hamburg cell get taken apart?
LARGELY, YES. The pilots died in the attacks. Its coordinator was captured. One supporter was convicted in Germany. Some others were never brought to trial or convicted.
Does that mean the wider network is gone?
NO. AND THAT'S AN IMPORTANT DISTINCTION.
But the architecture is real.
The freezes are real.
The sanctions are real.
The financial investigations are real.
And the institutional history stretches across decades.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO CONTROL EVERY BORDER WHEN YOU CAN TRACE THE MONEY CROSSING IT.
Twenty-five years later, the question isn't whether international financial enforcement exists.
IT'S HOW FAR THAT SYSTEM HAS EVOLVED —AND WHICH NETWORKS IT HAS ACTUALLY DISMANTLED.
IT'S NOT THE FLAG.
IT'S NOT THE PARTY.
IT'S THE NETWORK.
I am the Guy on The Couch, and you have been Debriefed.
📚 Source: U.S. Treasury, September 30, 2002
home.treasury.gov/news/press…
@Homeranger17 @CouchGuy17 @gizadeathstar @BeerCan45 @ScottZPatriot @AstuteActual
🤔🚨 THE CRITICAL PATH DIFFERENT BEGINNINGS. ONE YEAR OF ENDINGS.
FIRST THE LAW. THEN THE ARCHITECTURE. NOW THE ENFORCEMENT.
2001–2026 | FOLLOW THE TIMELINE.
After 9/11, the United States didn't simply build a counterterrorism response.
It constructed an interconnected legal, financial, intelligence, and enforcement architecture.
2001: The PATRIOT Act. Section 311. New powers to identify money-laundering concerns and restrict access to the American banking system.
2002–2003: Homeland Security. ICE. CBP. The Coast Guard and Secret Service transferred into a reorganized security structure.
2004: Treasury's Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. The integration of financial intelligence, sanctions, and terrorist-financing policy.
2005–2006: FBI National Security Branch. DOJ National Security Division. Intelligence and criminal investigations brought into closer alignment.
2007–2008: National continuity reforms. Foreign-investment security. Expanded foreign-intelligence authorities.
THE ARCHITECTURE WAS BUILT.
But here's where my Enforcement Workbook becomes interesting.
I'm not talking about investigations that all started in 2026.
I'M TALKING ABOUT INVESTIGATIONS THAT STARTED YEARS SOMETIMES DECADES APART, NOW REACHING MAJOR RESOLUTIONS IN 2026.
Look at the timeline:
🔹 STANDARD CHARTERED: Federal Reserve orders dating to 2012 and 2019. Both terminated February 2026.
🔹 HELIX CRYPTO MIXER: Activities stretching back to 2014–2017. Criminal proceedings spanning years. Final forfeiture order in January 2026 involving more than $400 million.
🔹 INCOGNITO MARKET: Criminal activity dating to approximately 2020. Arrest and guilty plea in 2024. Thirty-year sentence in February 2026.
🔹 SINALOA CARTEL / EL MAYO: A criminal organization with decades of history. Arrest in 2024. Guilty plea in 2025. Life sentence and a $15 billion forfeiture order in July 2026.
🔹 ICBC: Federal Reserve enforcement orders originating in 2021 and 2024. Both terminated in February 2026.
DIFFERENT COUNTRIES. DIFFERENT INDUSTRIES. DIFFERENT INVESTIGATIONS. DIFFERENT STARTING POINTS.
BUT SIGNIFICANT ENDPOINTS IN THE SAME YEAR.
Now think about that.
If all these cases had started in 2026, that would tell one story.
But they didn't.
Some started more than a decade ago. Others involved criminal enterprises stretching back much further.
Yet their major legal and regulatory milestones are appearing together.
Is the concentration historically unusual? That's what the data must establish. Does it demonstrate one coordinated operation? Not by timing alone.
But it raises a serious question worth investigating.
DID THE POST-9/11 ENFORCEMENT ARCHITECTURE EVENTUALLY ENABLE A BROADER CAMPAIGN AGAINST TRANSNATIONAL ILLICIT FINANCIAL NETWORKS?
That's what we're tracing.
Not just the headlines.
The original laws. The agencies. The investigative history. The financial instruments. The final orders. The forfeitures. The sentences.
THE BEGINNINGS ARE SCATTERED ACROSS DECADES. THE ENDINGS ARE WHAT I'M WATCHING.
And we're putting them all on one timeline.
THE TIMELINE NEVER LIES.
THE DEBRIEFING 17 | THE CRITICAL PATH
Ben Around retweeted
Ossoff, Talarico, and Cooper would have won even if none of their voters showed up on election day.
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Nope. Machines flip votes. 🗳️
The movie Democracy (2006) explicitly shows electronic voting machines being hacked so votes can be altered or “flipped.” The film culminates in a real-world demonstration (the Hursti Hack) in which a Finnish security expert changes election results on actual machines by modifying a memory card—producing incorrect totals, including techniques that can add negative votes.
Ben Around retweeted
Well, there are some things that can be proven and some things that are just opinion.
Maybe you can prove to me what you say by showing me the sexual misconduct claim that came before Donald Trump ran for president?
(Please pay attention to the word "claim" so we don't waste each other's time).
Also, please come up with an example where the woman did not date him afterwards...
Good luck hero!
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JUST IN: Dearborn, Michigan Poll Worker, Speaking in Arabic, Tells Undercover Reporter He Can Vote for U.S. Senate Despite Saying He’s Not a U.S. Citizen — Just Not President
“Only for U.S. President you can’t vote, but the others you can” is: “بس لرئيس أميركا ما فيك تصوّت، بس للباقيين فيك تصوّت.”
Under 18 U.S.C. § 611, noncitizens are prohibited from voting in federal elections, including U.S. Senate races, subject to narrow exceptions.
Ben Around retweeted
HOLY CR*P 🚨 How is this even possible??
All of California’s major candidate election results are the EXACT SAME percentages for Democrats and Republicans
Governor 64% (D) vs 35% (R)
Lieutenant Governor 64% (D) vs 35% (R)
Secretary of State 64% (D) vs 35% (R)
Controller 64% (D) vs 35% (R)
Treasurer 64% (D) vs 35% (R)
Attorney General 64% (D) vs 35% (R)
Supreme Court Justice: Joshua Groban 72% (D) vs 28% (R)
Supreme Court Justice: Kelli M. Evans 72% (D) vs 28% (R)
These don’t look like real election results, they look like a computer algorithm
Our elections are fake
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“Patriots in Control.”
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Nobody believes this.
Democrats are even asking questions it's so obvious.
2,848 out of 3,109 counties is beyond unrealistic, especially when you learn that states across the country registered millions of "new voters" without ANY verification of U.S. citizenship, with some counties even having more ballots counted than registered voters.
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THE 15% BAND
Look at this chart.
59 races. Senate and governor.
States ordered from reddest to bluest in 2024.
The solid lines are 2024.
The dashed lines are 2026.
The shaded bands are what moved.
One formula fits all of it:
Republican 2026 = 0.85 × Trump 2024
Democrat 2026 = Harris 2024 + 0.15 × Trump 2024
For every 1,000 Trump points, 850 stayed Republican. 150 landed on the Democratic side.
The numbers:
Senate: Republicans kept ~85% of Trump’s share
Governor: ~86%
Variation explained: 88%
What makes it strange:
It didn’t matter how red the state was. Wyoming, Ohio, Illinois, Massachusetts: same 15% (p = 0.69). The Democratic gain was sized by Trump’s vote, not Harris’s. The Harris part is zero.
The 0.85 beat both standard election-swing models in every set of races.
Drop any single state and the multiplier stays between 0.846 and 0.853.
Why seats flipped:
At 0.85, any state where Trump got under about 58.5% falls below 50%. Texas, Kansas, Iowa, Ohio, South Carolina, North Carolina: all under that line. All flipped.
What this means:
Midterms are messy. This one isn’t. Two sets of races, different candidates, different campaigns, and the same 15% decrease almost everywhere.
A pattern this even demands answers at the ballot level: paper ballot hand counts, poll-book check-ins against votes counted, and voter files showing who actually turned out.
The numbers raise the question.
The ballots can answer it.
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They had to go in early before the final count was in so they used a prefigured percentage vote switch by machine. That’s why you see the Ag commissioner getting more republican votes that the Republican governor candidate.
They couldn’t use the now obvious 3am ballot drop once you have the count and know the shortfall.