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GOP ‘Freedom Force’ Vows to Fight Socialism, Counter ‘The Squad’ in House
BY ALLEN ZHONG

November 21, 2020
Several Republican Reps.-elect whose families fled socialist countries are forming a “freedom force” in Congress to fight socialism and counter the socialist “Squad.”
“We need to form our own ‘squad.’ We have a group of new Republicans who love America. We value freedom, liberty, and opportunity,” Rep.-elect Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.) told the New York Post.
In the House, a group of progressive women with a socialist agenda became known as the “Squad” including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.). They have supported the “Defund the Police” movement, “Medicare for All,” free college education, “The Green New Deal,” and other socialist policies.
Malliotakis, whose mother’s family fled Cuba, will be the only Republican in the New York City congressional delegation in the coming January.
She is joined by three newly-elected Republican Congress members including Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla.), Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.), and Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.).
Spartz grew up in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and lived there for over 20 years. She said she’s very sad to see what is happening in the United States.
“I saw what happens when it runs out of money and it is not pretty [in Soviet Ukraine],” she said during an interview with “Fox & Friends.” “And now we’re building socialism. I’m kind of going full circles. I can tell you what is going to be next. It’s very sad for me to see that.”
“This system creates a lot of destruction and misery so we have to be smarter than that. You know, we’re not going to change. There are only two systems: you have freedom and free enterprise and you have a system where the government decides and political elites on top [decide] how we’re going to lead, what we’re going to do,” she added.
Salazar, whose parents fled Fidel Castro’s socialist Cuba, vows to fight back against socialism in Congress.
“I was born in Miami—a community built by survivors. My parents fled Castro’s socialist nightmare,” she wrote in a Twitter post. “We can’t just let the socialist left destroy the American Dream for our children!”
Offices of Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Tlaib, and Pressley didn’t immediately respond to requests for comments from The Epoch Times.
The GOP made gains in the House this election, coming out of the Nov. 3 election winning all 26 of the districts considered “toss-ups” by the Cook Political Report. Republicans also picked up 7 of the 36 seats that the major political forecaster rated as leaning in favor of the Democrats.
Election results so far show the Republicans gaining eight extra House seats, seven from the Democratic party and one from others.
Several Democrat Congress members warned after the election that the Democratic party’s lean toward the socialist agenda likely cost the Democrats some House seats.

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‘There Was in Fact Fraud That Took Place’: FEC Chairman Trey Trainor
BY ALLEN ZHONG

November 21, 2020
Federal Election Commission (FEC) Chairman Trey Trainor said that affidavits from the Trump campaign show that fraud has occurred during the November general election.
“The massive amounts of affidavits that we see in these cases show that there was in fact fraud that took place,” he said during an interview with “Just the News AM” on Friday.
He said it’s important to have transparency surrounding the election process and that answering questions raised by the Trump campaign over election integrity is “very important for the legitimacy of the presidency.”
In response to a question from reporter Carrie Sheffield, Trainor specifically mentioned a sworn affidavit by Steven Miller, a professor of mathematics at Williams College.
Miller—who specializes in analytic number theory and sabermetrics—flagged nearly 100,000 ballots in Pennsylvania for potential voter fraud after analyzing election data and phone interviews.
Between 89,397 to 98,801 ballots were either requested by someone other than the registered Republican, or requested and returned but not counted, he said.
Trainor said that Miller is clearly qualified as an expert witness in almost any court in the United States and that the court would have to look at the information he has provided.
Democratic nominee Joe Biden didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment from The Epoch Times.
Trump Team Showcases Evidence Amid Legal Battle
Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, two leading attorneys for the Trump campaign’s legal battle over the process of the November election, outlined their evidence of alleged election fraud and abnormalities during a press conference on Thursday.
During the presser, which Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis described as an “opening statement,” the Trump legal team said there are a great number of affidavits in support of their allegations.
“We have, in the Michigan case, 220 affidavits. They are not all public, but eight of them are,” Giuliani said.
The Epoch Times can’t verify those affidavits independently.
Various governmental officials at state and local levels have confirmed reports of voter fraud, including that of Republican poll watchers being blocked from poll sites, votes being cast in the name of dead persons, and election rules being changed by judges or officials bypassing the state legislature institutions, among others.
According to federal law, a person who knowingly makes a false statement in a sworn affidavit could be charged with perjury, to face up to five years in prison and/or fines.
It’s unclear how many affidavits the Trump team will present to the court, as most of the sworn affidavits have yet to be made public.
According to Powell’s remarks during an interview with Fox Business on Friday, there’re at least two areas that the Trump legal team is working on.
“I’m focusing more on the technology and the fraud, and he [Giuliani] is working [on] the individual witnesses, on that side of things,” she said.

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FDA Authorizes Emergency Use of Regeneron’s COVID-19 Antibody Cocktail Taken by Trump
BY GQ PAN

November 22, 2020
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Nov. 21 issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for Regeneron’s combined antibody treatment that was given to President Donald Trump when he contracted the CCP virus (novel coronavirus) in October.
The treatment, formally known as REGN-COV2, contains two monoclonal antibodies named casirivimab and imdevimab, which have been shown to reduce COVID-19-related hospitalization or emergency room visits in high-risk patients when administered together. It’s meant for mild to moderate COVID-19 patients who are 12 years or older, or those who are at high risk of progressing to severe conditions related to the virus.
REGN-COV2 was one of the three pharmaceutical treatments given to Trump in October. Following his brief stay at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Trump announced that he was seeking an EUA for the antibody cocktail, which he described as the key to his rapid recovery from mild COVID-19 symptoms.
“I spent four days at [Walter Reed],” Trump said at the time. “I went in and I wasn’t feeling so hot. And within a very short period of time, they gave me Regeneron. It’s called Regeneron. And other things, too, but I think this was the key. They gave me Regeneron, and it was like unbelievable. I felt good immediately.”
President Donald Trump stands on the Truman Balcony after returning from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center at the White House on Oct. 5, 2020. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
In a statement announcing the EUA, the FDA noted that lab-made monoclonal antibodies are able to mimic the immune system’s ability to fight off harmful pathogens such as viruses, and that casirivimab and imdevimab are specifically designed to block the CCP virus’s attachment and entry into human cells.
“The emergency authorization of these monoclonal antibodies administered together offers health care providers another tool in combating the pandemic,” said Patrizia Cavazzoni, acting director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. “We will continue to facilitate the development, evaluation and availability of COVID-19 therapies.”
Leonard Schleifer, Regeneron’s CEO, said in a statement (pdf) that it would have 80,000 REGEN-COV2 treatment doses ready by the end of November, an additional 120,000 doses by the first week of January 2021, and another 100,000 doses by the end of January 2021.
“Even with these incredible efforts, demand may exceed supply initially, making it even more critical that federal and state governments ensure REGEN-COV2 is distributed fairly and equitably to the patients most in need,” Schleifer said.
Last week, the FDA issued an EUA for the therapy baricitinib, in combination with remdesivir, for hospitalized COVID-19 patients requiring supplemental oxygen, invasive mechanical ventilation, or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. A clinic trial in October, which compared baricitinib plus remdesivir with remdesivir given as a standalone treatment, showed that the drug combination decreased the mortality rate by 35 percent.

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from my David Jeremiah devotional today...

Will you not revive us again, that Your people may rejoice in You?

...... Evil days are characterized by a reversal of values. Isaiah 5:20 says, "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil."
Our American society is increasingly accepting evil as good, and rejecting good as evil even as the Ten Commandments are pried from the walls of courthouses and public buildings across our nation. .....
We should be alarmed, but earnest prayer is a more urgent priority. It's in times like these that God sends His great revivals.
Vance Havner once wrote, "Throughout the history of the Church, when clouds have hung lowest, when sin has seemed blackest and faith has been weakest, there have always been a few faithful who have not sold out to the devil ... These have besought the Lord to revive His work in the midst of the years, and in the midst of the fears and tears, and in wrath to remember mercy. God has always answered such supplication, filling each heart with His love, rekindling each soul with Fire from above." Pray earnestly for revival!

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If only State Legislators knew what their responsibility is regarding elections. It is THEIR Constitutional responsibility to oversee, investigate, recount, audit, whatever is needed to assure legitimate honest elections. GET OUT THERE AND DO IT!

Rep. Lesko Warns Against Federalizing Elections: ‘You Have to Think About What You Wish For’
BY GQ PAN AND JAN JEKIELEK

November 19, 2020
The Democrats’ latest push to federalize the election process currently administered by the states would also take away many of the safeguards that ensure election integrity, warned Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.).
The effort to pass H.R. 1 has recently been renewed amid criticism of the chaos that has taken place in multiple states which conducted the election differently based on their own rules. Championed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the 600-page bill aims to overhaul the nation’s decentralized election system, giving the federal government more authority over how states run elections.
“I’m a big believer in states’ rights, so I’m not a big proponent of federalizing our elections,” Lesko told The Epoch Times’ American Thought Leaders program. “I think every state has different circumstances, and every state elects their own election directors as we do here in Arizona.”
“I think it would be a mistake to federalize our elections,” said the congresswoman. “You kind of have to think about what you’re wishing for, because if the Democrats get in control, they will put in a terrible nationwide system.”
According to Lesko, what the Democrats want to do with H.R. 1 is create a one-size-fits-all government plan for elections, without taking into consideration what local citizens believe is best for their counties or states.
Lesko took Arizona, her home state, as an example. “In Arizona, the voters, through a ballot measure years ago, said that voters have to prove they’re really the person that they are, voting, and show an ID to vote,” she said. “H.R. 1 would prohibit states from requiring ID to vote, which is terrible.”
“Also in Arizona, we pass legislation that says it’s illegal to harvest ballots, meaning people can’t go to apartment complexes or nursing homes and pick up other people’s ballots,” Lesko continued. “Well, H.R. 1 would undo that too, and say, ‘Oh, no, ballot harvesting is totally legal.'”
The Republicans, according to Lesko, will need to retain Georgia’s two Senate seats in order to be able to block Democrats from achieving radical changes such as H.R.1. The two Republican-held seats were sent into January runoffs after none of this year’s candidates reached the 50 percent of the vote needed to win.
“There’s all kinds of liberal bills that the U.S. House of Representatives has already passed under Pelosi’s control, and they’re very radical,” she said. “Most people don’t even realize how radical they are. And if Republicans lose the Senate, all of this stuff is going to be the law of the land, and the future of our nation is going to change to the worse.”