Tag Archives: True the Vote

Beware the voter registration attacks

Posted on August 18, 2024 by Charles Kuffner

I have three things to say about this. County election departments across Texas are trying to reassure voters amid a flood of formal challenges questioning whether their registrations are valid. The challenges, filed by conservative groups and individual activists, seek … Continue reading →

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True The Vote continues to be trash

Posted on May 30, 2024 by Charles Kuffner

Item one. True the Vote, the right-wing conspiracy theorist group that spread lies of ballot stuffing in the 2020 election is focused on perpetuating a new lie ahead of 2024: the myth of non-citizens voting in elections. The group, which … Continue reading →

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More trouble for True the Vote

Posted on October 19, 2023 by Charles Kuffner

Music to my ears. When identifying the individuals most responsible for convincing supporters of Donald Trump that the 2020 election was stolen, no one surpasses Trump himself. But one could argue that the second person on the list is filmmaker … Continue reading →

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IRS complaint filed against True the Vote

Posted on June 11, 2023 by Charles Kuffner

Let’s go! Conservative activists Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips used the nonprofit True the Vote to enrich themselves, according to a complaint filed to the IRS. On Monday, the nonprofit watchdog group Campaign for Accountability called for an investigation into True … Continue reading →

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Konnech withdraws its lawsuit against True the Vote

Posted on April 29, 2023 by Charles Kuffner

Something strange is going on. An election management software company withdrew a lawsuit last week that accused a Houston-based conservative nonprofit of making slanderous statements about the software company’s work during the 2020 election. The company reserved the right to refile the … Continue reading →

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Judge in True the Vote lawsuit recuses himself

Posted on February 16, 2023 by Charles Kuffner

This is a surprise. A Reagan-appointed federal judge on Monday recused himself from a case involving a Houston-based conservative group that promotes election conspiracy theories after the group’s lawyers accused him of failing to be impartial. Election management software company … Continue reading →

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The “True The Vote Freedom Hospital of Ukraine”

Posted on January 25, 2023 by Charles Kuffner

This story has broken my brain. Gregg Phillips and Catherine Engelbrecht are best known as the election deniers behind True the Vote, a Texas-based nonprofit responsible for amplifying conspiracies that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. But soon after Russia … Continue reading →

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True the Vote keeps on contempting

Posted on December 19, 2022 by Charles Kuffner

Here’s the latest filing from the plaintiffs in the defamation lawsuit against True the Vote and their lying grifter principles, Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips. You may recall that Engelbrecht and Phillips spent a few days in the pokey for … Continue reading →

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Fifth Circuit releases the True the Vote duo

Posted on November 8, 2022 by Charles Kuffner

Thanks for making the streets less safe. After spending nearly a week in jail, Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips — leaders of Texas-based right-wing voting activist group True the Vote — have been released. They’d been held for contempt of court since Halloween, … Continue reading →

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A True the Vote twofer

Posted on November 7, 2022 by Charles Kuffner

An update on a different lawsuit they’re involved in. A disgruntled supporter of the True the Vote campaign to find voter fraud in the 2020 election preserved a claim on appeal, at least temporarily, against the organization’s law firm. While … Continue reading →

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True the Vote leaders officially held in contempt

Posted on November 1, 2022 by Charles Kuffner

How long do you think they’ll be willing to sit in jail? Federal marshals escorted two leaders of True the Vote out of a Houston courtroom on Monday morning and into a holding cell. Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips have … Continue reading →

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Contempt of court in the True the Vote lawsuit

Posted on October 31, 2022 by Charles Kuffner

Wilder and wilder. After a chaotic day of testimony on Thursday, a federal judge in Texas found Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips — known as leaders of the group True the Vote — in contempt of court. They are facing … Continue reading →

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The True the Vote lawsuit continues to be wild

Posted on October 11, 2022 by Charles Kuffner

This is crazy. Inside a nearly empty federal courtroom Thursday, a fiery argument broke out between a judge and the lawyers representing Texas-based nonprofit True the Vote in a defamation and computer fraud case filed by a Michigan-based election software … Continue reading →

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More on the lawsuit against True The Vote

Posted on October 2, 2022 by Charles Kuffner

NPR takes a deep dive. Konnech, a small Michigan company that makes election logistics software, says a “smear campaign” whipped up by the controversial group True the Vote has led to death threats and forced the company’s CEO to leave … Continue reading →

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Lawsuit filed against True the Vote

Posted on September 17, 2022 by Charles Kuffner

Oh, this will be fun to watch. A defamation and computer fraud lawsuit filed this week against Texas-based True the Vote asks a judge to essentially determine whether the election-integrity group’s campaign against a small election vendor constitutes slanderous lies … Continue reading →

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Grifters always stick together

Posted on July 24, 2022 by Charles Kuffner

Two shitty tastes that taste even shittier together. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is pretty familiar with Catherine Engelbrecht. He’s been a guest on her podcast, chatting about their shared passion: rooting out voter fraud. They both have gone to … Continue reading →

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Look for the grifters

Posted on June 19, 2022 by Charles Kuffner

In any rightwing political movement, there will always be grifters. It’s absolutely an ants-to-a-picnic situation. Over the last two presidential election cycles, True the Vote has raised millions in donations with claims that it discovered tide-turning voter fraud. It’s promised … Continue reading →

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More on the poll watcher problem

Posted on April 12, 2021 by Charles Kuffner

It’s all right here. You just have to pay attention to what they’re saying. As Texas Republican lawmakers seek to expand the powers of partisan poll watchers — and Democrats warn doing so will lead to intimidation of minority voters … Continue reading →

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Birds of a feather

Posted on December 4, 2020 by Charles Kuffner

Sweet. A pro-Trump group that promised to challenge the Nov. 3 election results and expose fraud was sued by a North Carolina money manager who donated $2.5 million to the cause but says he didn’t get his money’s worth. Fred … Continue reading →

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