Three things you may have missed while grieving last week’s wounds
Author’s Note: Captain K wishes every veteran and veteran family a happy and meaningful Veterans Day. I come from a long line of military veterans and, as I’m sure you are aware, am a veteran myself. The photo below was taken just a few minutes before I was promoted to Captain in 2011, and less than a month after I returned from serving in Afghanistan.
I. From the Power Position
It’s trending on X this morning: Arizona State Representative Cody Reim, who represents Legislative District 3 and served with Rachel in this past legislative session, is calling for an expanded audit of his election results and associated materials.
Many of my readers found this newsletter directly because of my efforts to expose the corruption of elections, and I even wrote a bestselling book about that very topic; yet, because I’ve learned the valuable lessons about how to handle election integrity matters in the court of public opinion, many people have spent the last week trashing me for not abandoning my methodology or applying the lessons learned from observing the many stolen races our country has suffered since the 2020 election.
I even had to write a long piece explaining my views on last week’s results from Texas so people can understand exactly why we have been failing to get the transparency needed to either affirm or disaffirm election returns:
Since You Asked Me About Texas*
Here is where Reim nails it. He is not alleging fraud, misconduct, or any other behaviors associated with election rigging. He not only won, but won bigly:
Arizona elects two representatives per state House district; Reim and George Khalaf both won. No Democrat was within 17,143 votes (or ballots, in the case of Arizona) of Reim’s leading total. Reim’s request does not come from the perceived position of “sore loser,” which is a label applied to every Republican who has a race blatantly stolen. I am confident Secretary Fontes and others in his gaggle of Democrats will read this, and even I am not alleging fraud in Reim’s district – which of course voted for all statewide offices and other ballot measures.
This measure of accountability should be exactly what functioning societies built on public trust do. Reim, in his detailed request, asks for the following:
The request comes after widespread shock over 2026 midterm returns and associated concerns, both inside and outside of Arizona, over the trustworthiness of American elections. Anyone ignoring his request turns immediately suspect for not wanting to look into a case presented with zero sour grapes and only risk for the candidate proposing it.
In not insisting on investigating election returns when our candidates win, we have relegated all election integrity efforts to people who are immediately perceived as sore losers by the 80% of people who don’t religiously follow politics. There was ample opportunity to pursue the corruption of the 2024 election, especially in down ballot Senate and House races, but because Trump won, everyone slammed the hood, said “good enough,” and kicked the can down the road until 2026.
The left understands how to do business from a position of power. Reim shows it for once on the right.
II. Not My Illegals, Your Illegals
Before advancing further, watch this video:
That is roofing tycoon Lee Haight, of Naples, Florida, taking to the Internet to brag about his participation in the “blue wave.” Behind him, his army of illegal aliens is busy putting down a new roof on someone’s house as he blasts the Trump administration for following through on its plans for widespread deportations.
Below, a clip of Charlie Kirk has been circulating. Kirk was speaking at a roofing conference and it becomes clear that many of the roofers who wanted to see Kirk share his wisdom had hoped he would understand why they choose to employ illegal aliens instead of American citizens. True to his nature, Kirk hit them with hard truth:
We can talk until we are blue in the face about election manipulation. It is very real, and it happens in every election. But to pretend there are no real persuasion issues that cause votes to fly in one direction or the other is very dumb. Yes, a meaningful percentage of Trump voters stayed home or changed their votes in response to policies or conditions. This makes it clear that we are suffering from issues related to a poorly educated electorate that:
• Wanted the illegals deported, but not their illegals
• Wanted the border fixed but not if his boy’s friend’s Dad gets kicked out for being here illegally
• Wanted to bring back our industries, but didn’t realize that doing so requires imposition of tariffs, which cause short-term pain he’s not willing to accept
• Heard Trump talk about being willing to defang Iran, but only if it didn’t cause a spike in commodity prices
America’s instant gratification culture is a real problem, and it makes it very difficult to lay a new political foundation without reaping devastating election results if not completed in a two-year window.
By the way, Lee Haight and others who are keeping American workers sidelined should not be able to get away with those practices.
III. Hunting the Gold
The election outcomes were terrible. If they were legitimate, practically nothing was worth the Democrats having a 56-44 majority in the Senate. We even got smoked in down ballot races, and lost several state legislatures entirely. Still, two patriots I have personally supported over the years won election as Secretary of State:
Scott Petersen – Nebraska
I endorsed Petersen earlier this year:
He is one of us, and will ensure Nebraska leads the pack for election integrity and transparency efforts.
Heather Baxter – South Dakota
This win represents a huge scalp for the many South Dakota patriots I’ve worked alongside for over five years. I’ll bet I hear from Jessica Pollema, the founder of South Dakota Canvassing Group and now the chairwoman of the South Dakota Freedom Caucus. We went through a lot here, because in 2022, now-departing Secretary of State Monae Johnson rode the grassroots wave to take that office over. She personally begged me to support her campaign, lied to everyone about what she would do to ensure South Dakota’s elections were secure, and then proceeded to do everything she promised not to do. She went as far as to endorse Baxter’s Democrat opponent, Terrence Davis, as one final middle finger to the people who put her in office to begin with.
Yippee Ki-Yay, Monae. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way out.
While these states may seem electorally insignificant, especially in light of everything else that transpired last week, they represent what is possible if grassroots patriots with political know-how come together with a set of goals in mind. Baxter has been part of that group for years and stepped up to take the heat.
Seth Keshel, MBA is a Senior Fellow at the Gold Institute for International Strategy and a retired Army Captain. He publishes Captain K’s Corner on Substack.