The Culture War - Tim Pool - October 30, 2026


Democrats PANIC As DOJ Fraud Probe EXPANDS, Trump Says BLOCK Election Results

＂In 6 Days Trump Goes To War, And NO ONE Is Ready＂ The END Is Coming, The Asteroid APOPHIS Signals TROUBLE

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00:00:00.160 On Wednesday, October 28th, the New York Times published a bombshell story.
00:00:06.800 The Democrat candidate in Alaska, Mary Peltola's Senate campaign,
00:00:11.300 had recruited a second Dan Sullivan to put on the ballot against the real Republican Dan Sullivan, the incumbent.
00:00:19.240 The Times had dozens of text messages from inside the campaign,
00:00:23.360 and the campaign had a name for the plan, the Ballot Composition Project.
00:00:29.020 A Midwestern political operative ran it under a fake name.
00:00:32.980 Naltola's campaign lawyers were on the thread.
00:00:36.160 Senior staff, the Democrat Senate Campaign Committee, were on the thread as well.
00:00:40.340 They tried more than one spoiler before they landed on a retired school teacher from Petersburg named Dan J. Sullivan,
00:00:48.960 a man who swore in June he'd had no contact with Democrats.
00:00:53.880 His words? Zero. None. Zilch.
00:00:58.060 24 hours later, the DOJ served dozens of subpoenas, not a letter, not a lawsuit, subpoenas,
00:01:06.620 on Peltola's campaign offices and on Dan J. Sullivan's, five days before the election that
00:01:13.620 may decide the U.S. Senate. Peltola on Thursday said, I knew nothing about any other candidates
00:01:20.520 on the ballot except for me and the incumbent. Her former campaign manager is the one who talked.
00:01:27.120 understand just how far this story has traveled.
00:01:31.120 When Trump first said this race was being rigged,
00:01:35.120 The Daily Show mocked him.
00:01:37.120 Jordan Klepper asked if he was pre-January 6-ing Alaska.
00:01:42.120 I mean, this is wild.
00:01:44.120 You can't sue to block the Senate election before it happens.
00:01:47.120 Are you pre-January 6-ing this race?
00:01:50.120 But then Klepper put the New York Times story on screen.
00:01:55.120 But, of course, everything's a conspiracy with this president.
00:01:57.780 Just because there's a guy running with the same name
00:02:00.460 as a Republican senator doesn't mean the Democrats
00:02:03.020 recruited him to confuse voters.
00:02:05.580 The New York Times is reporting that it was, in fact, Democrats
00:02:08.920 who recruited the other Dan Sullivan into that Senate race. 0.99
00:02:13.120 Holy shit! 0.99
00:02:16.020 Confirming it. 1.00
00:02:17.480 His own show conceding the thing they'd called a conspiracy theory
00:02:21.560 was real and that Trump had it right.
00:02:23.820 When the Daily Show is showing you the New York Times to prove Trump was right, the story is well beyond over the fence.
00:02:33.680 Now here's where it stands.
00:02:35.680 The DOJ is a civil suit asking a federal judge to block certification if Peltola wins.
00:02:42.040 Last night they amended it.
00:02:43.840 The new word is conspiracy.
00:02:46.960 A justice official named the statutes.
00:02:48.940 Section 241 and 242.
00:02:52.000 Conspiracy against rights.
00:02:53.820 The governor of Alaska ordered his state police to investigate, and when he was asked whether
00:02:58.620 the count would go forward, he said, if that means that the certification then is stopped
00:03:03.400 or changed, then that's what happens.
00:03:06.620 The House Oversight Committee opened its own file, and the president has said the Senate 1.00
00:03:11.660 could decline to seat her.
00:03:14.180 So far, nobody has been charged.
00:03:17.600 But look at what's been built in 72 hours.
00:03:20.680 a criminal probe, a civil suit to stop the count, a state investigation, a governor talking about
00:03:27.800 stopping certification, a Senate that judges its own elections. That's not a campaign story anymore.
00:03:35.600 This is the machinery for a contested seat, assembled before a single vote has been counted.
00:03:42.700 So the question is, what comes next? And there are things we must consider. First,
00:03:47.640 what they actually did from the evidence. Second, why it's harder to charge than you think,
00:03:55.160 because an Alaska court already ruled there's no law against running a confusing candidate.
00:04:01.260 Three, who's moving, the DOJ, the governor, the House, and what each one can actually do. 0.82
00:04:07.860 And last, November 4th, ranked choice, four names, and what happens if she wins
00:04:14.020 by less than the other Dan Sullivan's share. 1.00
00:04:17.420 In five days, Alaska may decide the Senate.
00:04:21.140 And the Senate may be decided by a judge.
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00:05:08.720 dream. Let's get into the news. We've got a major bomb drop here in the midterm elections.
00:05:14.400 The DOJ has issued a new wave of subpoenas in the criminal probe in Alaska's Senate race,
00:05:20.500 sources say. The gist of the story, as most of you have already heard in the open,
00:05:24.120 is that the Democrats conspired to find a fake Dan Sullivan. Now, to be fair, he's actually a
00:05:29.780 Dan Sullivan, but they were trying to find as many as they could to intentionally confuse voters to
00:05:35.940 steal the election. Now, of course, liberals are saying nothing is illegal about it, but it's
00:05:40.920 completely illegal. It's called deprivation of rights, which is now the threat being levied
00:05:45.640 against all the Democrats. And where it gets crazy is that Donald Trump is saying no certification.
00:05:51.420 If she wins, no certification. They've done this to themselves. You want to know what gets real
00:05:56.600 crazy? Dan J. Sullivan. This is the guy who was trying to run as a Republican to basically,
00:06:04.520 this is these people are evil, man. Oh, my God. They're so evil. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm having
00:06:10.220 a breakdown on this one. It's ranked choice voting. So the Democrats knew that by finding
00:06:15.900 other people named Dan Sullivan, it would confuse people and skew the results in a ranked choice
00:06:21.800 vote. Dan S. Sullivan is the Republican incumbent. They found a guy named Dan J. Sullivan, evil,
00:06:29.660 evil guy. Apparently, they're saying now he's lied about his contact and he's facing serious
00:06:35.740 criminal charges. He tried to have his name listed on the ballot as Dan S. Sullivan,
00:06:40.720 despite the fact his name is not Dan S. Sullivan. It's J. ABC News says the DOJ has begun issuing a
00:06:48.680 new wave of subpoenas stemming from an ongoing criminal probe of Alaska's U.S. Senate race
00:06:53.200 and alleged efforts by Democrats to recruit a candidate with the same name as the Republican
00:06:57.360 incumbent, Senator Dan Sullivan. Multiple sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.
00:07:02.840 The subpoenas are targeting Democratic officials believed to be tied to the effort
00:07:06.140 to recruit Daniel J. Sullivan to appear on the Alaska ballot, marking a new escalation
00:07:11.380 in the Trump administration's efforts to intervene in the race just days before the
00:07:15.100 midterm elections. No, the Democrats did this to themselves. The Trump admin filed a separate
00:07:21.340 civil lawsuit last week seeking an injunction against the state certifying the results of
00:07:25.840 election in the event Senator Sullivan narrowly loses, which a federal judge is expected to rule
00:07:31.380 on in the coming days. The subpoenas follow a report Wednesday by the New York Times that
00:07:36.060 detailed alleged efforts by Democrats and some in Peltola's campaign to recruit Daniel J. Sullivan,
00:07:42.440 a retired teacher, to be in the ballot with incumbent Dan S. Sullivan. The Times report
00:07:47.860 said it relied on 12 sources, texts, documents that allegedly showed members of Peltola's campaign
00:07:53.500 lawyers for Peltola and senior aides at Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee pushing to find a
00:08:00.220 spoiler candidate who could potentially siphon votes from Senator Sullivan and benefit Peltola.
00:08:05.580 Now, the liberals have all come out and said, it's not illegal. It's not illegal to do this.
00:08:10.100 And I'm going to tell you straight up, just because you're like nowhere to say I can't
00:08:14.380 specifically listen, define disorderly conduct. And now you understand how law works. What is
00:08:18.960 disorderly conduct? Well, it's a crime. So if you're marching around downtown your city and
00:08:23.480 you're screaming something about politics, they usually will let you do it. But then you add in
00:08:27.980 some profanities or you're screaming not about politics, but it's something political to you.
00:08:31.740 And they could say you're being disorderly and arrest you. In fact, you can even be arrested
00:08:36.820 for resisting arrest, which seems paradoxical, but happens. The point is, this is overt fraud.
00:08:46.000 Chairman Comer is seeking testimony from Democrat operatives who plotted to rig the Alaska Senate
00:08:51.620 race. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer launched an
00:08:56.160 investigation into allegations that the Mary Peltola campaign recruited challenger candidates
00:09:00.500 with a name nearly identical to the incumbent. I'm going to say this. Don't seat her. Don't
00:09:06.440 seat her. Trump leaves door open to not seating Peltola if she wins Alaska Senate race. Now, 0.83
00:09:11.540 the Democrats win in the Senate and they control the Senate. She's getting in. That's just going 0.98
00:09:16.180 to happen. They say Trump did not rule out having Senate Republicans refuse to seat former
00:09:21.820 Rep. Mary Peltola if the Democrat defeats Dan Sullivan in the 2026 race for Alaska's Senate
00:09:29.460 seat. And oh, boy, oh, boy, my friends, it is just heating up. Now, many of you saw this story out
00:09:36.300 of Cal, I'm sorry, out of Alaska. And we know that there is games being played, to put it simply.
00:09:44.400 Election law expert on two Dan Sullivan's DOJ bid to force California to set aside ballots.
00:09:50.540 It's going to get nuts.
00:09:52.780 California facing grand jury subpoenas as DOJ expands voting investigation.
00:09:59.380 It is all heating up.
00:10:01.100 Remember when they were like, we shouldn't do these criminal charges or investigations before an election?
00:10:05.600 Well, now, my friends, it's happening and it's happening hot and a lot.
00:10:10.300 So I want to say this about the the Alaska actions. Democrats and Republicans are pulling
00:10:16.880 at all the stops. I had warned previously we were going to see procedural attempts to win
00:10:21.240 from Democrats and Republicans. And now we're seeing the DOJ go to war.
00:10:26.980 The Justice Department has issued grand jury subpoenas to state and local officials in
00:10:31.200 California, escalating a dispute over allegations by the federal government that the state may have
00:10:35.860 had as many as 20,000 non-citizens registered to vote ahead of the midterm elections, according
00:10:40.980 to sources with direct knowledge and copies seen by CBS News. News of the subpoenas, which were
00:10:46.680 sent October 21st and 24th, came not long after U.S. District Judge David Carter in L.A. rejected
00:10:53.020 the Trump administration's bid to require California election officials to separate out
00:10:57.600 mail ballots received from roughly 20,000 people it claims are not U.S. citizens. The judge said
00:11:03.660 allowing such a move would violate longstanding constitutional principles, giving states the
00:11:09.060 authority to administer their own elections. Three of the subpoenas seen by CBS News were
00:11:14.240 directed to officials at the office of the L.A. Registrar Recorder County Clerk. They asked for
00:11:19.460 documents concerning the county's correspondence with Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne
00:11:23.540 Mullen and Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter in connection with discussions about
00:11:28.820 non-citizen voting. I'm just going to stop. I'm just going to say it outright. Mary Peltola is
00:11:33.140 the tip of the iceberg. We see them committing crimes. We've got the story from Ilhan Omar. 1.00
00:11:38.700 Well, the story about Ilhan Omar, the Democrats knew she married her brother and they covered it
00:11:44.520 up and shut it down. And that we now know, OK, they could have gone after for a litany of crimes.
00:11:51.820 And they said, oopsie, I guess we waited too long. Indeed, they waited from 2016 when they knew
00:11:57.080 to 2021 so they could say, well, you know, it's been too long, despite the fact that
00:12:01.680 She was still married him in 2017, and every document she filed was in furtherance of that
00:12:07.240 crime. The story goes on to say they also ask for records and communication about the agency's
00:12:11.720 methods for screening for unlawful voting by aliens, as well as other information related
00:12:16.960 to any evidence that may have been collected about non-citizen voters. In a statement,
00:12:21.620 L.A. Registrar Recorder County Clerk Dean Logan pointed to a section of Carter's ruling in which
00:12:26.900 the judge chided the government for threatening to charge local officials who don't comply.
00:12:30.980 The judge wrote that these threats must stop.
00:13:00.980 of our employees and to remain focused on serving the voters of L.A. County so they can exercise
00:13:06.500 their voting franchise. In a statement, a Justice Department spokesperson said the agency does not
00:13:11.200 comment on leaks about grand jury subpoenas, but the spokesperson acknowledged that taking
00:13:15.980 criminal investigative action was the next logical step based on the ruling by Carter.
00:13:20.520 To be clear, the district court judge explained that voting unlawfully results in criminal exposure.
00:13:26.440 Consistent with this, California also wrote in its filing that the remedy for unlawful voting
00:13:30.940 is through criminal prosecution. Thus, while DOJ maintains that a civil remedy is still available,
00:13:36.440 all agree that non-citizen voting is properly addressed through criminal law. I completely
00:13:42.420 disagree with that. If someone illicitly votes, it's going to screw the whole thing up because
00:13:47.620 we declare the winners within a day or two. Now, if you're going to go and say the remedy for
00:13:52.160 illegal non-citizen voting is to file charges, guess what's going to happen? We're going to
00:13:58.100 we're going to resolve the election. The election day is going to end. They're going to come out and
00:14:02.060 say Democrat won. The DOJ is going to say, nope, because we still have to resolve non-citizen 0.99
00:14:05.800 voting. Then you're going to get a delayed result. Democrats are going to claim they're cheating,
00:14:09.920 fight to block it, to protect those illicit votes. Republicans are going to say, no way.
00:14:14.100 And then no matter what happens, no one trusts the election. They are playing with fire.
00:14:19.540 These are dirty games. And we know already from CBS, US citizens. So this is a bigger story,
00:14:26.120 But we're going to get you from the CBS U.S. citizens included on DOJ list of 400 alleged
00:14:31.500 noncitizens, Washington says. Now, it's important to make sure we have full context. But the last
00:14:37.020 point I'm going to make on the previous section is that we know from the DOJ they are tracking
00:14:40.960 down noncitizen voters. But to my point that Democrats are not going to accept it. Take a
00:14:46.700 look at this. Washington state's chief election official told the DOJ on Wednesday that a list
00:14:51.760 of 400 people the federal government alleges are non-citizens who are registered to vote in the
00:14:56.740 state is not reliable and contained many people who are U.S. citizens. Steve Hobbs, the Washington
00:15:04.020 Secretary of State, was responding to a letter from two federal prosecutors in the state calling
00:15:08.720 for ballots received from the suspected non-citizens to be set aside and not counted until their
00:15:13.680 citizenship status could be verified. Prosecutors Neil Floyd and Pete Serrano sent their letter to
00:15:19.320 Hobbs on Monday, just over one week before the November 3rd elections, which will determine
00:15:24.300 which party controls the House and Senate. Voting has been underway in Washington since
00:15:28.800 mid-October, and more than 1.3 million mail ballots had been returned as of Wednesday.
00:15:34.420 But Hobbs said a preliminary investigation of the government's list found that many of the
00:15:38.400 persons on your list are U.S. citizens. It also contained records for a significant number of
00:15:43.920 people who are not currently registered to vote in Washington or whose registrations are inactive.
00:15:48.380 It is almost certain more people named on the list are also U.S. citizens.
00:15:53.220 Those already identified may just be the tip of the iceberg of individuals that would be
00:15:57.160 wrongfully disenfranchised by the actions you request.
00:16:00.220 Case in point.
00:16:02.520 When they say the remedy is going to be criminal prosecution, as I explained, you are going
00:16:07.860 to get liberals saying, no, you're cheating, and you're going to get conservatives saying,
00:16:12.520 no, you're cheating.
00:16:13.480 And this is exactly it.
00:16:15.760 The DOJ came out and said, we found 400 individuals who illicitly voted at least 1,500 times. 0.97
00:16:21.780 And now the liberals are responding, no, those are citizens and you're a liar.
00:16:25.800 Well, we're going to have to adjudicate this.
00:16:28.260 But the one thing I can tell you is this opens the door in these elections for both sides
00:16:32.240 to claim the other side is playing dirty games.
00:16:37.520 I don't know why I have this one pulled up.
00:16:39.060 We'll throw it in anyway.
00:16:39.820 Hegseth fires top general for leaking classified information, which is big. 0.79
00:16:45.260 So I'm going to make sure I get in the Ilhan Omar stuff, which I did.
00:16:48.700 And so we're going to move through.
00:16:49.480 I have a lot of sources pulled up here.
00:16:52.060 The reason why I'm highlighting this now on my Timcast News channel, we did cover this
00:16:56.400 to a great deal, to a great deal.
00:16:57.980 But you need to understand the extent of this conflict and this context matters.
00:17:03.020 The Obama administration knew that she married her brother, as I mentioned previously.
00:17:06.960 They withheld that information.
00:17:08.400 They did nothing on it and waited five years and then shut it down in 2021, citing statute
00:17:11.660 limitations because the limit starts upon discovery of the crime. Even though they could
00:17:18.060 get her on passport fraud and much other fraud, they did nothing. And so what we're looking at
00:17:24.300 right now, my friends, everybody is playing lawfare games to go after Trump, to go after
00:17:30.860 Democrats. The question will be who is going to survive this? Who is going to win? My fear,
00:17:38.040 This is not going to end well for anybody.
00:17:40.120 The escalation has only just begun.
00:17:42.580 DHS Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen calls Ilhan Omar Probe a strong case, says agents executed
00:17:48.260 multiple search warrants.
00:17:50.620 It's only just begun.
00:17:52.100 More and more evidence piling up.
00:17:54.280 This is the big picture.
00:17:56.300 The left and the right are going to go to war.
00:17:59.760 But here's where it gets interesting.
00:18:02.900 Nearly 40 House Democrats have skipped the effort to end Ilhan Omar immigration probe.
00:18:09.140 Former Speaker Pelosi and ex-majority leader Steny Hoyer were among those who did not sign
00:18:14.360 the letter.
00:18:15.580 Many people are highlighting this for a few reasons.
00:18:18.280 As we're looking at the DOJ going after the Democrat corruption in Alaska and challenging
00:18:23.140 California with Washington saying, no, though, you're wrong, we're going to see this counter
00:18:27.860 in California, of course.
00:18:29.020 But the DOJ also going after Ilhan Omar for what seems to be legit.
00:18:34.480 And many Democrats are jumping ship.
00:18:36.660 So here's the net positive, perhaps.
00:18:39.460 There are many Democrats who don't want to play this game and perhaps feel they're going
00:18:43.660 to lose.
00:18:45.080 175 Democrats came out and said they want the probe against Ilhan to stop.
00:18:50.580 But 40, nearly 40, kept their mouths shut.
00:18:54.620 And what does that indicate?
00:18:56.300 They think Trump's going to win.
00:18:57.780 They think the Republicans are going to retain power.
00:19:00.080 They don't think the Democrats are going to come in and succeed.
00:19:02.720 And so they do not want to be on the side of the losers.
00:19:07.460 I think when you look at the Mary Peltola case, Democrats have just nuked their opportunity here.
00:19:13.440 They've basically given an explicit and overt claim of fraud against the Democrats.
00:19:20.240 And Alaska may be the state that ultimately decides whether or not Republicans control the Senate.
00:19:27.200 and they've got grounds now. A judge could rule. We'll see. We are not going to let her win. And
00:19:33.100 in fact, she should be disqualified outright. She should be. Now, the news isn't so good 0.54
00:19:41.580 for Republicans. Earlier this month, Cook Political Report tilts eight houses towards
00:19:45.000 the Democrats. But in the Senate, the Republicans may hold on because Democrat corruption was caught.
00:19:51.140 The question is this. Are the Republicans really dead set on winning? And if they're not, what will the Republicans, are they dead set on winning? If not, what will the Democrats do if they actually win? Or what if Republicans actually are held bent on winning by any means necessary? And thus, they are going to block Peltola if she wins, giving the Republicans an advantage.
00:20:13.740 What if we end up with a 49 to 50 Senate? What if we end up with 49, 49 somehow?
00:20:22.280 J.D. Vance is the tiebreaker. This means Democrats have to win at least 51 to 49.
00:20:29.580 So it'll be interesting. If Democrats do win 51 seats and the Republicans only have 49,
00:20:39.340 Removing Peltola won't matter. 0.60
00:20:40.920 It'll be 50 to 49.
00:20:43.000 If it goes 50-50, now that's where it gets interesting.
00:20:47.080 Because if Peltola then, well, no, if it's 50-50, J.D. Vance is still the tiebreaker.
00:20:51.620 Republicans still win.
00:20:52.740 So I'm actually not super convinced that Peltola will be the deciding factor, just the way
00:20:57.660 the Senate works.
00:20:58.560 But I do believe it's a massive exposure of the criminality that we are seeing on the
00:21:03.640 side of the Democrats.
00:21:04.660 And you can't deny it.
00:21:06.080 The New York Times backs it up.
00:21:07.800 The New York Times backs up exactly what they did.
00:21:10.640 And the New York Times backs up Ilhan Omar marrying her brother.
00:21:13.900 So what do you do?
00:21:15.120 I wonder.
00:21:16.580 I'm going to wrap it up there, my friends.
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