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The National Guard has been mobilized across all 50 states in preparation for the upcoming midterm elections, signaling a significant escalation in military involvement in domestic electoral processes. This follows a pattern of past actions by Donald Trump, including his unauthorized deployment of the Guard in California in 2025, which bypassed governors and judicial rulings. Recent reports indicate that Tina Peters, a convicted election interference figure, met with Trump at the White House to discuss plans to seize ballots and potentially trigger a civil war, revealing a serious escalation of election-related threats. Trump and his allies have repeatedly advocated for federal control of elections, including seizing voting machines and conducting hand recounts, which aligns with controversial theories of foreign interference. The Department of Defense has activated cyber and military units, including Task Force Raider, to "protect" elections, raising concerns about both foreign and domestic threats. Guard personnel are now observed at polling sites and ballot drop boxes, often in civilian attire, which undermines public trust and civil liberties. The scale of mobilization—expanding from a few states in recent years to all 50—reflects a deliberate and growing push by Trump’s inner circle to assert control over election outcomes. Despite Pentagon claims of no direct electoral involvement, legal and military experts disagree, noting that state-level mobilization contradicts official statements. This situation, occurring just days before the midterms, raises urgent concerns about democratic integrity, the rule of law, and the potential for violent or coercive intervention.

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Alright folks, I want to keep this video short and sweet because I need to get this information out to you as soon as possible as fast as I can. It is that important and my hope is that this information is shared before the upcoming midterm elections, which at the time of filming this, are just five days away. We are now learning via journalists, Ken Clippenstein, that the National Guard has been mobilized for the upcoming midterm elections and not just in a couple of states, but according to him in all 50 states, the National Guard is getting ready. Now we know that Donald Trump has used the National Guard to pursue his political ambitions before, whether it be his first term with Black Lives Matter protests, or even recently in California where he was deploying the guard, took over the state guard, despite Gavin Newsom saying we don't want this to happen, and ignoring judges who told him don't do that. He's done it before and I am definitely nervous that he might do it again for the upcoming midterm elections. So let's get into this conversation, let's get into this article and everything we want to talk about. But before we get into the details, let me just offer a quick reminder of what Donald Trump has said in the past year or a couple of years about the upcoming midterm elections and how he's thinking about them. So very recently, at the beginning of October, during a speech he gave in Maryland, he gave a shout out to Russ Vote, the creator of Project 2025, and that said, ominously, we have some big surprises coming up in a few weeks, right Russ? He's going to be one of the most important people in the history of our country, which is quite a concerning statement for Donald Trump to make just a month before the midterm elections. Let's go back even further when Donald Trump said that Republicans should nationalize elections, which kind of coincides with his argument before that we should seize voting machines, that the federal government, that Donald Trump should control elections in all 50 states and it should be up to him what goes and what doesn't. And I think we have to talk about this report, which came out even more recently. We know Tina Peters, the woman in Colorado, who tried to interfere in the 2020 election on behalf of Donald Trump by tampering with voting machines, was sentenced to jail. And then for some reason, the Democratic governor of Colorado let her out of jail early. It was the dumbest decision he's ever made. What we learned recently that Tina Peters met with Donald Trump to discuss an election plan. Her attorney says the plan involves seizing ballots nationwide and discusses his strategy for a potential civil war. Check this report out, it is shocking. It appears Tina Peters is celebrating the freedom granted to her by Governor Jared Polis in the most predictable way possible by helping President Trump figure out a way to seize control of America's elections. A former Justice Department official says Tina Peters was at the White House this week talking with Trump. And Peters' attorney says Trump will not relinquish power again. He hinted at the potential for civil war. Well let me break some news. This is a big deal, Eric. And you're the first person that knows I'm going to say something just hours ago, maybe two hours ago, Tina Peters, you know, from Colorado was in the Oval Office meeting with the president on election integrity. And they were talking about the plans. Former Department of Justice official Ed Martin says Tina Peters, the disgraced and convicted election clerk slash conspiracy theorist from Mesa County, met with President Trump at the White House Monday. The plan that Peters is pitching, according to her attorney, Peter Tickton, is to have the Trump administration seize ballots across America and conduct a hand recount. It's a good plan and I do think that something like that is probably going to happen. And so when Tina Peters, you know, famous Colorado clerk was in the Oval Office today, just two hours ago, talking about this question, the president's taking it seriously. If the Congress won't pass the Save America act and they won't, then the president's going to have to do what he's going to do and it is not a local issue when it's national security and it's clearly national security. Tickton spoke last week with MAGA podcaster Joe Altman from Colorado, who is called for the execution of this state's top Democrat. In the event that we have this kind of a disaster and everything goes wrong and the vote is crazy and the central race put enough there to remove the president, the vice president. That nightmare should come true, Donald Trump is not going to go like this control again. Altman has previously said, quote, violence is going to be necessary and he said, quote, there are targets. Tickton, Tina Peters attorney said that if the country dissolves into civil war, it needs to happen with Donald Trump in control of America's weapons. So he's got nothing to lose, the nation has nothing to lose. Better if we're going to have a civil war of any sort that it'd be marching law with our side and all of the armaments. Yeah, so this is no joke. This is something that Donald Trump has been talking about in the Oval Office with people that I tried to help him before overturn an election. This is a thing that is actively being discussed in the White House and that's why this report is so important that the National Guard has been mobilized for the 2026 midterm elections. Check this out from Ken Clippenstein National Guard units across the country are being quietly mobilized for next week's midterm elections, despite reassurances from the Pentagon brass that it has, quote, no plans to involve itself in the elections. The Guard's mission spans all 50 states. Every single one military sources tell me its focus is supporting federal government cyber security efforts, but Guardsmen will also be observing ballot drop boxes and polling places in addition to safeguarding so-called critical infrastructure. This follows Secretary of Defense Pete Hague sets unprecedented decision to order military spy agencies to quote, mobilize every asset to defend our elections so that every lawful voter can cast their ballot free from foreign intimidation, coercion, or fear. Now anytime there is foreign interference on behalf of Donald Trump, he seems to welcome it. Remember all the way back in 2016 he said, "Russia if you have Hillary Clinton's emails release them and then they did." It's not clear whether Hague sets directive that voters be free of foreign influence extends to the theories that Donald Trump has floated about foreign meddling in the 2024 election. They have never answered that question. Those theories hang over his suggestion that he'll accept the midterm results only if the election is fair. Either way, the administration is fixated on the idea of election interference with the Attorney General Todd Blanch recently eluding to a Doomsday plan. Also, without precedent is the direct involvement in the election of Task Force Raider, U.S. Cybercommands efforts to "protect the midterm elections," the existence of which he reported earlier this month, since that report sources tell me that the Task Force is already in full swing. The National Guard, which normally answers to state governors, looks different so far. Only seven states have publicly acknowledged the guard's involvement in any form, those being Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Washington. You might be saying, "Harry, some of those states are Democratic states." I would say, "Yes, absolutely," and I don't anticipate that there are Democratic governors out there who are interested in having the National Guard intimidate voters, which Donald Trump might be interested in. But I will remind everybody of something that I mentioned earlier in the video. Donald Trump deployed the National Guard to California, specifically Los Angeles in the summer of 2025, saying that it's a nightmare, that so much civil unrest, it's violent protests, it needs to be tampered down, we're sending in the National Guard. He took over the National Guard from Governor California, Gavin Newsom, despite him saying, "We don't want this," and he sent the National Guard in there anyway. There were judges telling him, "You can't do this." There were judges telling him to pull out of California. We just had a judge five days ago saying that it was illegal, what Trump did. But the judges are too slow. The judicial branch of the government is slow, and Donald Trump is not waiting for them. He just does it, and then asks questions later. If he did this to California, if he did it in the summer of 2025, and now, we're just getting orders from judges saying that, "Hey, this is highly legal. After a very long court fight, I worry about what's to come with the upcoming midterm elections," and Donald Trump doing exactly what we just mentioned, doing it, and then asking questions later. Iowa, for example, mobilized its own joint task force cyber and is manning the state's emergency operations center to monitor and defend election networks. Our guardsmen have supported multiple election cycles and regularly train in national exercises to stay ahead of emerging digital threats. Then in Washington State, Governor Bob Ferguson last week wrote to county auditors saying, "Election neighborhood watch, that could be the National Guard, and there are members in civilian clothes who would observe ballot drop boxes and other voting areas. I don't know about you. I don't love the idea of National Guardsmen being in civilian clothing and watching ballot drop boxes. I don't know. That might be just a crazy liberal, but given what we've seen with ICE and them operating with civilian clothes and unmarked vehicles and masks covering their faces, I don't know if that's a great idea. The National Guard and their involvement in elections appears to be intensifying after steadily growing in recent years, including, quote, "2020 North Carolina and Washington say they mobilized National Guard personnel, 2022, 14 states used the guard, 2024, 15 states used the guard, and now Donald Trump and people around him seem to be pushing for the guard to be used in all 50 states." Now, a military that wanted to reassure a worried public would be transparent. Instead, it's splitting hairs over lawful and unlawful orders. The military legal experts he has spoken to can't agree on whether it line is, and they say that Trump doesn't acknowledge the significance or even seem to care, referring to Cain's August letter, that being the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and his letter to Congress, he also promised the military has no plans to send federal military personnel or federalized members of the National Guard to polling places, but parse the fine print and you'll realize this doesn't apply at all to National Guards men answering to the state governors mentioned earlier. Shout out to General Caine and to. for protecting us from a 19th century era threat of troops stomping around polling places. The 21st century version is already underway and nobody's asking about it. So this is something that we absolutely have to keep an eye out for with the midterms, genuinely five days away, again, from the time of me filming this. This is concerning. It's pretty scary, given everything we know about what Trump has been talking about in the Oval Office, what his allies have been talking about with him as well. It's something to keep an eye out for. So I will leave the video there. Thank you so much for watching you. Let me know in the comments what you think about what we just discussed in everything in this video. Please make sure to like the video as well. Goes an incredibly long way. Have an amazing rest of your day and we will talk soon.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. The National Guard has been mobilized in all 50 states in preparation for the upcoming midterm elections, according to journalist Ken Clippenstein.
  2. Donald Trump has previously deployed the National Guard, notably in California in 2025, overriding state governors and judicial orders despite legal challenges.
  3. Recent reports indicate that Tina Peters, a convicted election interference figure, met with Trump at the White House to discuss plans to seize ballots and potentially trigger a civil war.
  4. Trump and his allies have openly advocated for federal control of elections, including seizing voting machines and conducting hand recounts, as part of a broader strategy to overturn results.
  5. The Department of Defense has ordered cyber and military assets to defend elections, with Task Force Raider and cyber units actively engaged, raising concerns about foreign and domestic interference.
  6. Guard units are being assigned to observe ballot drop boxes, polling places, and critical infrastructure, with some operating in civilian clothing—raising privacy and civil liberties concerns.
  7. The scale of National Guard involvement has grown from 14 states in 2022 to all 50 states, with Trump and his inner circle pushing for nationwide military presence.
  8. Legal experts and military officials dispute claims that the Guard’s role is limited to cyber defense, noting that state-level mobilization contradicts official denials of electoral involvement.

Summary:

The National Guard has been mobilized across all 50 states in preparation for the upcoming midterm elections, signaling a significant escalation in military involvement in domestic electoral processes. This follows a pattern of past actions by Donald Trump, including his unauthorized deployment of the Guard in California in 2025, which bypassed governors and judicial rulings. Recent reports indicate that Tina Peters, a convicted election interference figure, met with Trump at the White House to discuss plans to seize ballots and potentially trigger a civil war, revealing a serious escalation of election-related threats.

Trump and his allies have repeatedly advocated for federal control of elections, including seizing voting machines and conducting hand recounts, which aligns with controversial theories of foreign interference. The Department of Defense has activated cyber and military units, including Task Force Raider, to "protect" elections, raising concerns about both foreign and domestic threats. Guard personnel are now observed at polling sites and ballot drop boxes, often in civilian attire, which undermines public trust and civil liberties.

The scale of mobilization—expanding from a few states in recent years to all 50—reflects a deliberate and growing push by Trump’s inner circle to assert control over election outcomes. Despite Pentagon claims of no direct electoral involvement, legal and military experts disagree, noting that state-level mobilization contradicts official statements. This situation, occurring just days before the midterms, raises urgent concerns about democratic integrity, the rule of law, and the potential for violent or coercive intervention.

FAQs

Yes, according to journalists, National Guard units have been mobilized in all 50 states, with military sources indicating their involvement includes cyber security efforts and observing polling places and ballot drop boxes.

The involvement is framed as supporting federal cybersecurity and protecting elections from foreign interference, though critics argue it raises concerns about voter intimidation and state-level political influence.

Yes, in 2025, Trump deployed the National Guard to California, taking control of the state's National Guard despite Governor Gavin Newsom's opposition and court orders stating it was illegal.

Tina Peters, a convicted election interference figure from Colorado, met with Donald Trump at the White House to discuss plans to seize ballots nationwide and conduct a hand recount, according to her attorney.

Yes, Trump has repeatedly advocated for federal control of elections, including nationalizing voting systems, seizing ballots, and declaring that he would only accept results if they are fair.

Yes, Tina Peters’ attorney and MAGA podcaster Joe Altman have suggested that a civil war might be necessary if election results go against Trump, and that he would want to control the armed forces during such a scenario.

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