I have always thought there was something fishy about Trump’s win last November. When Elon Musk broke up with Trump, he said boldly that Trump would have not won the election without his help, and the Democrats would now control the House. What kind of help did he refer to? I wondered if this was an unintended admission. Of course, he can’t say more because it’s illegal to interfere to change the outcome of an election.
But then I read this analysis on Substack, and it opened up the issue. There’s a lawsuit right now in Rockland County, New York, based on claims by voters that their votes were not counted. How do we know? In some districts, hundreds of votes were counted for Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, but zero votes for Kamala Harris. To call this a statistical anomaly is an understatement.
Snopes reviewed the case and came down on the side of more evidence is needed. Maybe there were districts where no one voted for Harris, because they were orthodox Jewish districts and everyone followed their rabbi’s endorsement. Maybe not, because there were districts that were not Hasidic where she got zero votes.
Please open the link to read additional stories tied to this one. Also, look up the meaning of the term “Dark Enlightenment.” It refers to the reactionary ideology of Curtis Yarvin, whose admirers include billionaire Peter Thiel and his protege JD Vance.
The Dark Enlightenment Coup
The missing votes uncovered in Smart Elections’ legal case in Rockland County, New York, are just the tip of the iceberg—an iceberg that extends across the swing states and into Texas.
On Monday, an investigator’s story finally hit the news cycle: Pro V&V, one of only two federally accredited testing labs, approved sweeping last-minute updates to ES&S voting machines in the months leading up to the 2024 election—without independent testing, public disclosure, or full certification review.
These changes were labeled “de minimis”—a term meant for trivial tweaks. But they touched ballot scanners, altered reporting software, and modified audit files—yet were all rubber-stamped with no oversight.
That revelation is a shock to the public.
But for those who’ve been digging into the bizarre election data since November, this isn’t the headline—it’s the final piece to the puzzle. While Pro V&V was quietly updating equipment in plain sight, a parallel operation was unfolding behind the curtain—between tech giants and Donald Trump.
And it started with a long forgotten sale.
A Power Cord Becomes a Backdoor
In March 2021, Leonard Leo—the judicial kingmaker behind the modern conservative legal machine—sold a quiet Chicago company by the name of Tripp Lite for $1.65 billion. The buyer: Eaton Corporation, a global power infrastructure conglomerate that just happened to have a partnership with Peter Thiel’s Palantir.
To most, Tripp Lite was just a hardware brand—battery backups, surge protectors, power strips. But in America’s elections, Tripp Lite devices were something else entirely.
They are physically connected to ES&S central tabulators and Electionware servers, and Dominion tabulators and central servers across the country. And they aren’t dumb devices. They are smart UPS units—programmable, updatable, and capable of communicating directly with the election system via USB, serial port, or Ethernet.
ES&S systems, including central tabulators and Electionware servers, rely on Tripp Lite UPS devices. ES&S’s Electionware suite runs on Windows OS, which automatically trusts connected UPS hardware.
If Eaton pushed an update to those UPS units, it could have gained root-level access to the host tabulation environment—without ever modifying certified election software.
In Dominion’s Democracy Suite 5.17, the drivers for these UPS units are listed as “optional”—meaning they can be updated remotely without triggering certification requirements or oversight. Optional means unregulated. Unregulated means invisible. And invisible means perfect for infiltration.
A New Purpose for the Partnership
After the Tripp Lite acquisition, Eaton stayed under the radar. But in May 2024, it resurfaced with an announcement that escaped most headlines: Eaton was deepening its partnership with Palantir Technologies.
Let’s be clear, Palantir wasn’t brought in for customer service. It was brought in to do what it does best: manage, shape, and secure vast streams of data—quietly. According to Eaton’s own release, Palantir’s role would include:
- AI-driven oversight of connected infrastructure
- Automated analysis of large datasets
- And—most critically—“secure erasure of digital footprints”
The Digital Janitor: also known as forensic sanitization, it was now being embedded into Eaton-managed hardware connected directly to voting systems. Palantir didn’t change the votes. It helped ensure you’d never prove it if someone else did.
BallotProof: The Front-End for Scrubbing Democracy
Enter the ballot scrubbing platform BallotProof. Co-created by Ethan Shaotran, a longtime employee of Elon Musk and current DOGE employee, BallotProof was pitched as a transparency solution—an app to “verify” scanned ballot images and support election integrity.
With Palantir’s AI controlling the backend, and BallotProof cleaning the front, only one thing was missing: the signal to go live.
September 2024: Eaton and Musk Make It Official
Then came the final public breadcrumb:
In September 2024, Eaton formally partnered with Elon Musk.
The stated purpose? A vague, forward-looking collaboration focused on “grid resilience” and “next-generation communications.”
But buried in the partnership documents was this line:
“Exploring integration with Starlink’s emerging low-orbit DTC infrastructure for secure operational continuity.”
The Activation: Starlink Goes Direct-to-Cell
That signal came on October 30, 2024—just days before the election, Musk activated 265 brand new low Earth orbit (LEO) V2 Mini satellites, each equipped with Direct-to-Cell (DTC) technology capable of processing, routing, and manipulating real-time data, including voting data, through his satellite network.
DTC doesn’t require routers, towers, or a traditional SIM. It connects directly from satellite to any compatible device—including embedded modems in “air-gapped” voting systems, smart UPS units, or unsecured auxiliary hardware.
From that moment on:
- Commands could be sent from orbit
- Patch delivery became invisible to domestic monitors
- Compromised devices could be triggered remotely
- This groundbreaking project that should have taken two-plus years to build, was completed in just under ten months.
Elon Musk boasts endlessly about everything he’s launching, building, buying—or even just thinking about—whether it’s real or not. But he pulls off one of the largest and fastest technological feats in modern day history… and says nothing? One might think that was kind of… “weird.”
Lasers From Space
According to New York Times reporting, on October 5—just before Starlink’s DTC activation—Musk texted a confidant:
“I’m feeling more optimistic after tonight. Tomorrow we unleash the anomaly in the matrix.”
Then, an hour later:
“This isn’t something on the chessboard, so they’ll be quite surprised. ‘Lasers’ from space.”
It read like a riddle. In hindsight, it was a blueprint.
Let’s review what was in place:

This wasn’t a theory. It was a full-scale operation. A systemic digital occupation—clean, credentialed, and remote-controlled.


The Outcome
Data that makes no statistical sense. A clean sweep in all seven swing states.
The fall of the Blue Wall. Eighty-eight counties flipped red—not one flipped blue.
Every victory landed just under the threshold that would trigger an automatic recount. Donald Trump outperformed expectations in down-ballot races with margins never before seen—while Kamala Harris simultaneously underperformed in those exact same areas.
If one were to accept these results at face value—Donald Trump, a 34-count convicted felon, supposedly outperformed Ronald Reagan. According to the co-founder of the Election Truth Alliance:
“These anomalies didn’t happen nationwide. They didn’t even happen across all voting methods—this just doesn’t reflect human voting behavior.”
They were concentrated.
Targeted.
Specific to swing states and Texas—and specific to Election Day voting.
And the supposed explanation? “Her policies were unpopular.”
Let’s think this through logically. We’re supposed to believe that in all the battleground states, Democratic voters were so disillusioned by Vice President Harris’s platform that they voted blue down ballot—but flipped to Trump at the top of the ticket?
Not in early voting.
Not by mail.
With exception to Nevada, only on Election Day.
And only after a certain threshold of ballots had been cast—where VP Harris’s numbers begin to diverge from her own party, and Trump’s suddenly begin to surge. As President Biden would say, “C’mon, man.”
In the world of election data analysis, there’s a term for that: vote-flipping algorithm.
Billionaires and Tech Giants Pulled Off the Crime of the Century
Why? There wasn’t just one reason—there were many.
Elon Musk himself hinted at the stakes: he faced the real possibility of a prison sentence if Trump lost. He launched his bid for Twitter—at $20 billion over market value—just 49 days after Putin invaded Ukraine. That alone should have raised every red flag. But when the ROI is $15 trillion in mineral rights tied to Ukraine losing the war and geopolitical deals Trump could green light, it wasn’t a loss—it was leverage.
It’s no secret Musk was in communication with Putin for over two years. He even granted Starlink access to Russian forces. That’s not just profiteering. That’s treason.
Then there’s Peter Thiel and the so-called “broligarchs”—tech billionaires who worship at the altar of shower-avoidant blogger Curtis Yarvin. They casually joke about “humane genocide for non-producers” and have long viewed democracy as a nuisance—an obstacle to their vision of hypercapitalism and themselves as the permanent ruling elite.
Well, what is the elimination of Medicaid if not “humane genocide”—and does anyone really wonder why his 40-year-old protégé and political rookie, JD Vance, is Vice President? With this technology in place, if the third-term legislation were to pass, it would hand Vance a minimum of twelve years at the helm of Thiel’s regime.
And of course, Donald Trump himself:
He spent a year telling his followers he didn’t need their votes—at one point stating,
“…in four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good, you’re not gonna have to vote.”
Trump was facing eighty-eight felony indictments—he was desperate to avoid conviction and locked in a decades-long alliance with Vladimir Putin. An alliance that’s now impossible to ignore—look no further than his policy trail.
He froze aid to Ukraine and has threatened to place sanctions on them, while planning to lift sanctions off Russia. He openly campaigned for anti-EU candidates, and sided with Russia in multiple key United Nations votes related to the Ukraine conflict.
Let’s be clear:
Donald Trump pledges allegiance to a red, white, and blue flag—
It’s just not the American one.
What Happens Now?
We don’t need permission to enforce the Constitution. We need courage. While state attorneys general begin their investigations, it only takes one U.S. senator to initiate the disqualification proceedings against the unelected and unfit occupant of the Oval Office.
State Attorneys General and Investigators:
- Conduct independent audits of UPS firmware on Dominion and ES&S machines
- Subpoena communications between Eaton, Palantir, Starlink employees, and Pro V&V
- Audit Starlink satellite logs for the week of the election
- Freeze uncertified infrastructure updates
- Recount physical ballots—by hand
Now they’re rolling out the same technological toolkit abroad—forcing countries into Starlink contracts in exchange for tariff relief.
The U.S. election wasn’t their endgame. It was their litmus test.
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“Peter Thiel’s Palantir had the capacity to hide flipped or deleted votes.
“The Digital Janitor which is also known as forensic sanitization was now being embedded into Eaton-managed hardware connected directly to voting systems. Palantir didn’t change the votes.
It helped ensure you’d never prove it if someone else did.”
https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-they-didnt-just-change-the?fbclid=IwY2xjawK-Q-RleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHl8PQYh9WG-6uuPXYQO5BzrEiJv9VweTkJc6a-VHicPxurAtcP4Q059t4Gjo_aem_HoFB_uGcaEjb3ciZ62ggmA
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From all I can read, the jury has yet to be selected on this matter, let alone being out. What is true is that the Trump Administration is trying to put the supposedly stolen 2020 election in the history books, even though no one ever offered proof of irregularities in a court of law (where falsehood is a criminal offense). There is interesting light shed on the Trump insistence on voter fraud that precedes his ascendancy.
The Republican Party has used voter suppression tactics for years. Outrage your base with Willie Horton, suppress your opponent’s vote with stories of disappointment. Gradually, the leaders of the Republican Party came to understand that they could not hope to win a majority if most people voted. The techniques they used to suppress votes became the most important thing. Slowly, they pushed us back into the Jim Crow days, but without poll taxes and elbow jabs from good ole boys.
Recently, we have seen Republican attacks on the reliability of the vote. This serves to suppress votes, long a Republican goal. Assuming that real evidence emerges from these investigations, the GOP MAGA 2.2, will just ignore the truth like they are ignoring the truth everywhere else. Meanwhile you will hear phrases like “we told you there was fraud, and you didn’t believe it in 2020, but now you want us to believe it when your person loses.” This will allow the average MAGA voter to discount any evidence, as they now discount evidence that Trump committed multiple felonies and is committing crimes from the White House as we speak.
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I have said from day one that Musk rigged the election for Trump. He had the means and the access and there are too many anomalies in the swing states when voter trends were examined over the last couple of election cycles. But who is going to investigate and press charges? They are all currently Trump loyalists!
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Diane Ravitch and her groupies now join MAGA people in the fever swamp of election denialism.
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While I remain skeptical, it’s deeply unsettling to consider how easily powerful interests could manipulate election outcomes by compromising voting machine technology.
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Why I’m Skeptical About Election Hacking Claims
Someone on Facebook recently pointed out the similarities between two conspiracy theories: that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, and that the 2024 election was stolen by Trump and Harris through hacking. That comparison gave me pause—and it’s one more reason I remain skeptical.
Both theories claim that voting machines were manipulated to rig the outcome. Both rely on mistrust of institutions, reject official findings, and lack solid, verifiable evidence. The difference is in the response: the 2020 claim was embraced by much of the Republican Party, leading to lawsuits, investigations, and even a violent insurrection. In contrast, the 2024 theory has been largely ignored by Democratic leaders.
As a registered Democrat, I’m thankful my party has shown restraint and not acted on claims without credible evidence. We need facts—not assumptions—before taking action that could destabilize faith in our democratic process.
There’s nothing wrong with raising questions or exploring theories. That’s part of how we uncover the truth. What concerns me is when people demand drastic action without first producing sufficient proof.
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While I am reluctant to consider anything conspiratorial in nature, I have to admit that I felt shockwaves when I heard Trump announce during the campaign, “You only have to vote once,” along with something like, then it will all be over. I had to wonder what he was up to. While I have read some other similar articles about a manipulated presidential election, no other article connected the dots and established cause and effect to the same degree. I have to admit it makes me angry and sick to believe that this is possible.
I am very familiar with Rockland County, NY, having lived there for several years and worked there for more than thirty. It is a diverse area both socioeconomically and ethnically. Many county residents are civil servants that work in NYC, including fire fighters, police officers and teachers. Most of the communities tend to support liberal candidates, and school budgets are generally overwhelmingly passed except for East Ramapo where the ultra-orthodox Jewish community resides and controls the school board. I think there is justification for questioning such skewed, atypical results in the presidential election.
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See Greg Palast and Thom Hartmann — voter suppression threw out thousands of votes. Trump’sfraudulent win. An old Klan/Jim Crow tactic. The voter challengers had no qualifications to do this,but their actions were obeyed.
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This is precisely what so many feared when it was obvious that tRump was over confident in his ability to win, despite dwindling crowd sizes, people leaving his rallies early and all his weird, nonsensical dancing instead of promoting his future planned policies –because he knew something was up in advance. He acted like he did not have to do much work to win, apparently because he was aware that he already had it in the bag due to nefarious actions on his behalf that would not track back to him and his manipulation of the system.
Trying to prove it all when the plan of the program specified wiping out all evidence of proof will take minds that are even more brilliant than those who designed it, so one can only hope and pray that people in the know will step forward for investigations, in order to save our democracy. (Will Bill Gates et al ever come to the rescue of our country?)
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Yes.
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With the lifelong cheater, liar, family mafia-loving crime lord, convicted rapist, fraud, felon, and January 6, 2021, dictator-worshiping Traitor, in the White House, acting like he is Ceaser, there will be no federal investigations into these allegations.
Still, elections are held at the state level and states that Trump’s KKK MAGA cult doesn’t control, may launch investigations.
I am on record, before and soon after, the 2024 election pointing out ways I thought the MAGA-Trump alliance cheated. I made comments here and published posts on one or more of my blogs. I also mentioned that Trump’s body language during the election, weeks or months before the election, broadcast that he wasn’t worried about losing.
He knew the election was in the bag.
He knew he’d get a majority in both Houses of Congress before the election that would do his bidding.
He thought the same thing about the courts but that didn’t’ happen, which explains his attack on Leonard Leo, who selected the federal judges Trump appointed and appoints to federal courts. Many of those appointments have ruled against Trump’s klepto-kakistocracy regime in the federal courts.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-leonard-leo-federalist-society-judges-trade-454c4ae1b946bd2d37a29de9b24b02a1
Based on a recent analysis by a Stanford political science professor, Adam Bonica, the Trump administration has experienced a high rate of losses in federal district courts. Specifically, his data indicates that the administration lost 96% of rulings in federal district courts in the month of May 2025. These losses included rulings from judges across the political spectrum. For instance, Trump lost 72% of rulings issued by Republican-appointed judges and 80% of rulings by Democratic-appointed judges.
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Speaking of techbros and Curtis Yarvin, part of the reason Trump is poised to privatize so many of our public lands is to satisfy the desires of the billionaire techbros to create “Network States”, which are fiefdoms run on crypto by and for the techbros, without government oversight. One site they have their eyes on is Alameda Point, a couple of miles outside San Francisco.
In their own words:
https://youtu.be/YYqk2hfG1jE
The video is featured in this article:
https://www.inc.com/sam-blum/james-ingallinera-wants-to-build-frontier-valley-and-incubate-1000-elons/91202660
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Sounds about right –and very scary to me, since I think there are a lot of indicators that today our country is already being led in many ways according to “the greater fool theory:” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory
Too many people need to wake up and recognize that lack of government oversight/deregulation means eliminating the protections we have in place against swindlers who target the vulnerable, and letting them get away with larceny and laundering their ill-gotten gains without consequences.
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