Republic Under Strain captures an hour where Peter Vazquez moves from the moral weight of the local bench to the machinery beneath the ballot box.
Allegany County Judge candidate Dawn Wildrick-Cole brings the conversation to preparation, impartiality, independence, and integrity in the courtroom.
Andrew Paquette, PhD then exposes troubling claims about New York voter rolls, clone registrations, disappeared votes, mail-in registrations, and low-turnout primaries.
The show widens into a warning about socialist momentum, citizen apathy, election machinery, and the human courage required to defend liberty, trust, and one another.
Republic Under Strain. In America, the republic rarely fails in one loud crash. More often, it weakens in rooms most people never enter, on ballots most people never study, inside systems most people assume somebody else is guarding.
That was the wound running through this conversation.
It began with the bench, because the bench is where politics is supposed to stop and judgment is supposed to begin.
Allegany County Judge candidate Dawn Wildrick-Cole stepped into that space not as a national figure, not as a cable-news combatant, but as a reminder that local justice is still deeply human.
County court is not abstract. It is custody. It is estates. It is criminal sentencing. It is bail. It is divorce. It is foreclosure. It is a family standing before the law on one of the hardest days of life and hoping the person in the robe has prepared, listened, and understood the weight of the decision.
That is why judicial races matter. Not because they are flashy. Because they are consequential.
Public confidence in the U.S. judicial system has fallen to a record-low 35%, according to Gallup’s 2024 polling. That is not just a statistic; it is a warning flare. When citizens stop believing courts are fair, the whole civic structure begins to shake.
Yet state courts still retain more public trust than many institutions, with the National Center for State Courts’ 2025 survey showing 62% of respondents expressing a great deal or some trust in state courts. That gap tells the story: people may distrust the national theater, but they still look to local courts for order, restraint, and fairness.
That trust must be earned. It cannot be performed.
Wildrick-Cole spoke about preparation, impartiality, independence, and integrity. Those are not soft words. They are load-bearing beams. A judge who fails in preparation risks injustice. A judge who fails in impartiality becomes political. A judge who fails in independence becomes useful to power. A judge who fails in integrity becomes dangerous. The courthouse cannot become another stage for ambition. The bench is not a trophy. It is a trust.
Then the hour turned from the courtroom to the ballot box, and the question became even sharper: what happens when the systems that choose our leaders cannot produce confidence?
Andrew Paquette, PhD, author of The Zark Files Substack, joined briefly to discuss his article, “Did the Socialists Win in NY?” The headline is provocative, but the deeper issue is not merely whether socialist-backed candidates won primaries in New York.
The deeper issue is whether voter rolls are clean enough for the public to verify outcomes with confidence.
Paquette’s claim is not casual. He has spent years studying New York voter rolls and says he has published multiple peer-reviewed articles on voter-roll structure. His analysis of the New York districts where Mamdani-backed candidates won raised concerns about clone registrations, changing voter-history data, mail-in registrations, and what he calls disappeared votes.
A clone registration, as described in the show, is a voter-roll record that shares the same name and date of birth as another record but carries a different voter ID number. In plain English, one apparent identity appears more than once in the system. That should not be treated like a paperwork quirk. If one voter ID is supposed to represent one unique voter, duplicate identities deserve an answer.
A disappeared vote, according to Paquette’s framework, is a mismatch between county and state voter-history records: the county says a voter voted, but the state record tied to that same ID says the voter did not. That is not a small contradiction. It is the kind of record conflict that cuts directly into public trust.
The numbers Paquette raised are not small. Across three districts, he identified 120,151 clone registrations and 57,781 disappeared votes in races where roughly 218,000 people voted. In NY-13, he said the margin was 2,335 votes, while clone registrations totaled 39,418 and disappeared votes totaled 26,118.
Those figures, if accurate, dwarf the margin. They do not automatically prove fraud. Paquette himself made that distinction. But they do raise a civic question too serious for polite dismissal: if the records beneath an election are unstable, how does the public know the result rests on solid ground?
New York election officials say voter identity is checked before Election Day through a DMV number, non-driver ID number, or the last four digits of a Social Security number, and NYC’s Board of Elections says registered voters generally do not need to show ID unless identification was not provided with registration.
That official framework matters. But Paquette’s concern lives in the space between written procedure and practical verification. The paper may say the system checks. The public still deserves proof that the check is real, consistent, and strong enough to prevent abuse.
This is where the Vanbōōlzalness Crisis becomes more than rhetoric. It is the rot that appears when citizens are told to trust outcomes while questions about process are brushed aside. It is the arrogance of institutions that demand confidence without transparency. It is the civic fog that forms when official does not necessarily mean trustworthy.
Speaker Mike Johnson’s audio cut widened the lens. His warning was blunt: the socialist movement is no longer a foreign abstraction or an academic debate. In his view, it is rising through primaries, candidates, slogans, and cultural influence here at home. Whether one accepts every example in his list or not, the broader warning lands because the left is organizing while too many Americans are disengaging.
Then came Hasan Piker’s clip, and it mattered for a different reason. He celebrated the sweep. He spoke of turning out, knocking doors, and convincing voters that “a new politics is coming.” That is the line that should stop every serious citizen cold.
The other side understands momentum. It understands morale. It understands digital influence, door knocking, and the power of low-turnout elections.
Meanwhile, too many good people are still treating politics like weather: something to complain about, not something to shape.
The turnout numbers Paquette discussed are the hinge. He argued that in the districts he examined, roughly nine out of ten registered voters did not cast ballots. That is not merely apathy. In a vulnerable system, low turnout becomes opportunity. If the rolls are polluted and the public stays home, the machine does not need persuasion from the many. It only needs control of the few.
That is why this hour was not about fear. It was about responsibility.
Judges matter because consequences matter. Voter rolls matter because legitimacy matters. Turnout matters because self-government cannot be outsourced.
A constitutional republic does not run on slogans, vibes, influencers, or blind trust. It runs on prepared judges, clean elections, honest records, serious citizens, and enough moral courage to ask hard questions before the damage becomes permanent.
- The bench must not become political.
- The ballot must not become fog.
- The citizen must not become passive.
America’s 250th anniversary is not just a celebration of what was founded. It is a test of what remains. If we want liberty, we have to do more than admire it. We have to guard it, count it, verify it, defend it, and show up before the machinery moves without us.
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Mira la izquierda, mira la derecha, ¿qué ves? In a world that seems to change daily, what will you do next? Welcome to The Next Step Show with Peter Vazquez, a starting point for discussion and a bit of direction.
You know, in America we spend so much time talking, sometimes even arguing, about power in Washington, power in Albany, power locally, and power in every other polished room where people make promises they rarely have to live under or keep.
But this is one thing during elections that I love. There are these things called judicial races. Yes, judicial races. I like them because you get an opportunity to meet an individual and have a discussion that is not really about politics. It is more about trust and judgment.
Do they have the temperament? Do they prepare? Do they have the independence to carry decisions that have consequences for people’s lives?
More importantly, we get to ask questions like this: Judge-to-be, do you understand that the bench is not a platform for politics?
Those are great questions. And I am honored to have this kind of conversation.
Joining us now is Allegany County Judge candidate Dawn Wildrick-Cole.
Dawn, bienvenida to The Next Step Show. Good afternoon.
Thank you for having me.
The pleasure is always ours. And thank you for being a participant with WYSL, listening and advertising and everything else. We appreciate you for that too, ma’am.
And WLEA.
And WLEA. No problem. I am glad to be here.
I want to quote you from a recent interview you did with the Wellsville Sun on June 5. You said, “Quick decisions are best made through preparation.” I love that statement. Tell us, what does that mean? How does a judge prepare, or even a lawyer for that matter?
The judge’s role, and traditionally the law clerks too, is to review the arguments beforehand, or anticipate them if they are going to be made orally in the courtroom, or review them if they are in writing. It is our job to make sure we have read through these carefully, evaluated each of those arguments, and prepared the judge before he or she gets to the bench so that he or she can make a ruling from the bench.
To the litigants, it may seem like a quick decision, but it is not necessarily. It could represent hours of research, review, and careful consideration.
Dawn, Bob Savage here, the owner of WLEA and WYSL, kind of co-host here with Peter at the noon show. Give us some background for folks who do not know anything about you. Where are you from? What is your legal background? And tell us, you just won the primary in Allegany County. Congratulations. What court is that for?
Sure. This is for Allegany County. Allegany County is a small rural county on the Pennsylvania border. We have two county court seats, and our county court judges are what we call multi-hat, which means they handle just about everything.
They are often appointed as acting Supreme Court justices, so they are able to hear Supreme Court matters as well once they have received that designation. In a sense, just about everything that needs adjudication in Allegany County comes to one of these two judges.
We have a small bar. We have a small community. We all tend to know each other. It is important that the judges reflect our local area.
I was born and raised in Cuba, New York, which is a small town here in Allegany County. My parents were educators but owned a small farm, and that is my background. I know that resonates with a lot of folks here who have tried to eke out a living farming or who have the rural background that I come from.
When you were not banging around the cheese capital there in Allegany County, were you in private practice or were you on the prosecutorial track? What was your legal background?
That is a wonderful question. Actually, I am unique in this race and in many races because I started my legal practice directly with the court system.
When I passed the bar, my husband was attending college in Monroe County, and we lived there for a few years. I started my legal career in Surrogate’s Court in Monroe County.
When we started our family, we were looking to move back to where our parents were, which was back in Allegany County. About ten years later, a job opened up here in the court system. So I transferred down here and have been here ever since.
I have been a law clerk for Judge Terrence Parker since he took the bench in 2011. I have a unique perspective in the sense that I have been working for the judiciary and the judicial system for my entire career. It has given me a very broad practice and a very deep practice, having worked with many, many judges over the course of nearly thirty years.
You say that as a county court judge in Allegany County, you are an acting Supreme Court justice. Do you have aspirations to rise to become a justice of the New York Supreme Court?
The local justices here are often appointed temporarily as acting Supreme Court justices. I am happy with my current goals and hoping to take the county court bench and be able to work for the people of Allegany County.
Bob, you asked all the questions I had on my list.
Sorry. I did not mean to.
No, no, no. But listen, confidence in our judicial system in this country is low. We have laws in New York State like Raise the Age and some other ones that make it difficult for judges to deal with situations. Can you elaborate on how you can deal with that as a judge in your courtroom?
Also, trauma-informed is a reality that we deal with in society these days. Sometimes I wonder if judges in Supreme Courts and County Courts understand that. I know at least some in Family Court may. How would those apply in your courtroom?
As far as Family Court is concerned, I know there is a movement toward trauma-informed care and trauma-informed perspectives from the bench. What I love about that is it involves the judiciary in partnership with the other aspects of this process, being the care providers, the local care providers, the public defenders, the county attorneys, and sometimes the prosecutors.
It all happens together. The more that we can understand each other’s role, the better the process will flow, and I believe that is better overall for the community. That is incredibly important to me.
If judges are not aware of these other external factors, it is not as simple, as positive, or as reflective of a just outcome for the people who come before the bench.
To be trauma-informed, there is a lot of thorough preparation a judge has to do, or at least so I am told by somebody I know who happens to work in Family Court and believes in being trauma-informed.
Because again, the decisions judges make can be lifetime decisions for an individual. You are setting a path, and that is not like any other job in this nation.
You have a past working in politics as well, as I understand it. You were on a town board in Almond, you were a town supervisor, and of course a town judge. How does all that political experience serve you best as a judge without becoming a judge who decides to play politics or activism?
It is actually a fascinating question. I have never seen that as necessarily political experience. In these small communities, these jobs often will lie empty if we cannot find people willing to step up and take care of community issues.
When someone is willing to serve on a board in these small communities, it is a wonderful thing. I have done that for about ten years. I was involved in the town board in Almond and then served as Almond Town Supervisor and currently as justice.
Looking back on my time in legislative and executive roles, it was fun and meaningful. I felt like I was accomplishing something good for my community.
I found in the course of this campaign so much joy in being able to meet with other local community officials all around this county and see how much we share about our concerns for our communities, how much we have in common, and some of the common struggles and common joys that we have.
Dawn Wildrick-Cole is on Next Steps with us today. She is now the GOP candidate for the general election in the fall for Allegany County Court Judge on the Republican side.
Dawn, everywhere you look these days, every time you turn your head, you see another example of judicial authority being wielded as a political cudgel to achieve some ancillary purpose. I would like your comment on that. Maybe it is naive for me to expect politics to be completely divorced from the judiciary, but do you think that is a worthwhile objective to pursue?
Political statements by that?
Yes, having the judiciary used as a political weapon is probably the best way to characterize it.
I do not find that appropriate, actually. One of the major emphases in our judicial training is what I call the three I’s of ethics for judges: impartiality, independence, and integrity.
Those three things are so important to take to the bench and keep in mind when we look at the issues that come before us.
I have had that question, or something similar, asked over the course of this campaign because a lot of the electorate does not understand why judges ascend to the bench through the political process.
That is part of what we do. That is our role as Americans, to vote for the people we want to represent us in all three branches of government. I think that is important and should remain. But the impartiality of judges once they have ascended to the bench is critically important to maintain.
It is. I know when I was helping out and running a judicial race here in Monroe County, questions would come up, and you would have to tap dance while giving an answer and not being partial.
Ma’am, I really appreciate your time. One more thing before we let you go. One of the local headlines on the 24th said the judge’s race was the main event for Republicans in Allegany County. You were identified as the winner with the most experience. That must have made you feel great. But what does that say overall for the condition of our rural areas as it comes to participating?
You said earlier that one of the reasons you participated was because if you did not, who will? That is a common question I am seeing more and more throughout this nation.
So you are asking how I was feeling on the 24th?
Yes. In an area like rural America or Allegany County, where a judicial race is one of the most exciting things, the main event, what does that say for the condition of politics overall, regardless of office, in rural America from your perspective?
I think people can get discouraged. In this case, I think the average person can feel that judicial races do not necessarily apply to them in their daily lives, and that is very much not true.
A county court bench handles custody proceedings and estate proceedings. Everyone at some point will lose someone they love, and the judges who handle Surrogate’s Court handle those issues.
Public safety concerns, such as sentencing criminal defendants, bail issues, and things of that nature, affect everyone.
In our county, if the judges are acting Supreme Court justices, they handle divorces, foreclosures, and common things that affect people’s lives. For that reason, judicial races are incredibly important.
The other primaries on the Republican side were for local judicial elections, which indicates to me that maybe this awareness is coming to fruition, that more people are becoming interested in these races. I think that is a good thing.
Allegany County Judge candidate Dawn Wildrick-Cole, ma’am, thank you so much for your time today.
You are welcome. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it.
Congratulations on the primary win. That is great.
Absolutely. Thank you so much.
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You thought you were going to get through the week without another rainstorm, did you? Well, let me disabuse you of that notion. Again, here is Peter.
I sure thought we were going to get through the week without rain, Bob. I kept my fingers crossed. I sure did.
What a wonderful candidate we just talked to. But you know what? Politics. I will tell you something. We have to pay attention, not just in judicial races and local and national races, but we have to look at results pretty closely.
You hear us talk election integrity here all the time, pointing out facts.
Yesterday, we talked a little bit about socialists winning throughout this nation. We have a couple of cuts later, but I ran across a really interesting article on Substack that said, “Did the Socialists Win in New York?” with a question mark.
I thought, wow, that is a phenomenal question. The thing is, it is not just about who won. It is whether the system beneath those who win is clear enough to verify the results with confidence.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have bestselling Substack author Andrew Paquette, PhD. Sir, if I mispronounce your name, I apologize, but I believe it is Paquette. Thank you for joining me for these next few minutes.
You are welcome, and you got the name right. Congratulations.
Look at that. Hablando un poquito español. I do not know if it matters, but it works for me.
Paquette sounds more French to me, but what do I know?
We are all rooted in Latin, are we not?
You wrote an article that was sent to me this morning when I sent you the message asking if you would join us. It is called “Did the Socialists Win in New York?” It is dated June 24. Ladies and gentlemen, check it out.
You did something pretty simple. You looked at numbers from 2025 and found some incredible discrepancies, right?
Yes. I have been studying New York’s voter rolls for almost five years now, as well as many other states, and I have published seven peer-reviewed journal articles on these now as well.
New York has more problems than any other state I have ever seen. Enough to convince me that the voter rolls are not fit for use.
It is kind of like if you need a lawnmower but all it can do is make juice. It is useless as a lawnmower. You might be able to make a smoothie with it, but that is as far as it goes.
Our voter rolls are unfit for the purpose. You cannot tell how many people voted, for one, because the voter history, which is supposed to track that information, is literally different with every version of the database that I have seen.
They continuously update it. If you ask today for a copy of the database versus next week or the week after that, you are going to get different numbers. The thing is, those numbers change for past elections. Those numbers should not be changing at all.
They can say this is because they purge voters, so that is why the numbers are changing. That is nowhere near an explanation because the numbers actually go up. They do not go down.
I will give you a round number for the sake of it. Let us say it says five million people voted in the 2020 election in one version of the database, and then a month later it says five million one hundred thousand people voted. Then five years later it says five million two hundred fifty thousand people voted.
The numbers keep changing. They generally go up. Sometimes they drop back a little bit, but that tells you they do not know how many people voted.
Then you add to it the counting problem of how many people are actually registered because they have all these cloned records. Let us say I had three records with my name and three completely different registration numbers. How do I count that? Is that three people registered as Republicans, or is it one guy?
You cannot tell based on the information contained in the database. The only way you would be able to know is to call me or knock on my door and ask me questions.
There are a bunch of things like that that really make the integrity of the database pretty dubious, I would say.
Then when you add things like votes that disappear. I was talking about votes that were added, but then they disappear too.
In New York City, that is where this particular problem is more heavily concentrated. In 2020, they had over a quarter million votes, 254,713 of them, that were present in the county version of the rolls that are missing from the state version of the rolls.
The thing about it is that the state records are the official record, but under New York State law, only the county has the legal authority to add, alter, or delete anything in the voter rolls. The state is only supposed to take whatever the county gives them and build it into their existing database.
To have them losing votes like that is yet another thing that makes it look like you cannot trust the data.
When I look at the more recent examples, the mail-in registrations are almost equal to the number of disappeared votes in the districts involved in those three socialist victories: the Valdez, Lander, and Chevalier races.
I am very suspicious of mail-in registrations, partly because of a conversation that I and Marly Hornik had with one of the commissioners in Ulster County. She asked him, “How do you vet the mail-in registrations?” He said, “We accept them all.”
He said it straight out like that. He said they have a trust application kind of a system. There is another word for that. This is what happens when you have two hours of sleep, because I have a hard time remembering quotes.
In any event, he said when they get these applications, unless they are literally missing some information that is supposed to be there, like their name and address, they will just accept it.
He said, “We assume it is true, every single item on there, unless somebody complains.”
But who is going to complain? How many people do you know who are going to the state or the county and asking for the voter roll so they can check to see if somebody on the voter rolls does not belong? And how would they know anyway?
You would have to look at them really carefully and then probably get in your car, drive somewhere, knock on a door, and ask if they are a real person and if they are registered.
Marly’s group tried that in New York, and then the attorney general came after them, telling them to cease and desist and accusing them of acting as the Board of Elections.
Doctor, I am really glad you know Marly. I am going to have to reschedule because we are down toward the end of the interview. I have to bring you back on so we can go deeper into this. What is your Substack handle, and how can someone read more about you or get a hold of you?
It is zarkfiles.substack.com. Z-A-R-K-F-I-L-E-S.substack.com.
There you go, ladies and gentlemen. Good to know. I will reach out. We will get you on longer. And do me a favor: get some sleep, because we need you on your toes. These people are trying to hide.
I do not think I have a choice. It is just going to happen in a few minutes.
Okay, talk to you later. Thank you.
Bye-bye.
Dr. Andrew Paquette, ladies and gentlemen. Check him out: Zark Files.
We will be right back here on The Next Step Show with Peter Vazquez and the Voice of Liberty. Bob, with the lines open: 585-346-3000 and 866-552-1009. WYSL, WLEA, The Voice of Liberty.
Peter Vazquez and The Next Step Show on the Voice of Liberty.
Hey, I see you out there all running and hiding your heads. I do not blame you.
Back to Peter and The Next Step Show for Thursday, another rainy Thursday here in the region. The phone number is 585-346-3000. Come on in out of the rain and talk to us: 585-346-3000 or 866-552-1009. Peter.
The sun always shines when you are cool. And if you are listening to and calling into The Next Step Show, or just listening to WYSL and WLEA, guess what? The sun is shining on you.
You cannot let a little gloomy weather let you down, especially when we have people like Andrew, Dr. Paquette, who are out there identifying what should seem pretty simple for those people who are in charge.
Quoting his article that we are talking about, across all three districts combined there were 120,151 clone registrations. This is in New York City, right?
This is in New York City, yes.
This is a combination of districts: New York 13, New York 7, and New York 10. Across all three of those districts, 57,781 disappeared votes, which I find funny when you see the words “disappeared” and “votes” in the same sentence.
In these races, roughly 218,000 people voted. I am trying to do the math as I talk.
What? So 218 people voted in those three districts?
Two hundred eighteen thousand. I am sorry.
Okay, that is why you are getting the furrowed brow from me.
Two hundred eighteen thousand voters in three districts.
District 10 is apparently a heavily Jewish district.
So there are 177,000 registration issues. That is a pretty big number of cloned and missing votes.
What is a cloned registration? I do not understand what that is.
We talk about that here all the time with Gary when he comes on. I am glad you asked. A clone registration is a voter-roll record that shares the same name and date of birth as another record but carries a different voter ID number.
How do they reconcile that? Those registrations are not discarded?
Apparently not.
They just accept them?
We are starting to see the extent of the problem here, folks.
That is what we are trying to paint. We have some cuts, because again, I think Speaker Johnson said it best. Reagan warned us of threats to the United States overseas, and those threats are in our front yards and backyards right now, Bob. They are in our elections.
That whole 9/11 period, I was in the military. I was in uniform. We were getting ready to deploy. I remember the words that they shared from the Middle East: we are going to destroy you from within. That is why these things are concerning, ladies and gentlemen.
Very much so. When we have rampaging socialists winning primaries with 16% of the vote, which is what is happening, and then we have socialists, which is another word for authoritarians or totalitarians, because that is the only way socialism can prevail. It is the only way it can work as an economic system, if there is totalitarian muscle behind it.
That means crushing dissent. That means eradicating any other ideas, regardless of merit, even if those ideas are way better than socialist structures. I do not know if that is the kind of country you want to live in. That is not mine.
There are parallel paths here to getting there. One is widespread apathy based on the accepted belief that elections are meaningless. How many times have you heard, “I do not know why I bothered to vote. Nothing ever changes”?
I hear that too often, Bob.
That is heard all the time. That is the toxic underpinning of where we are headed.
The other thing is the extremely aggressive and confrontational side being presented by the socialist wall, if we can characterize it as that. It is: we are going to bury you. We are here to destroy Western civilization. We are living in the West, and we are here to destroy it.
The New York Post front page from yesterday was “The Hateful Bunch,” in reference to Mamdani and those he supported who won. So why are these people, if they are the hateful bunch, being accepted to the level they are?
I am glad you brought that up because that is the crux of the rest of the show today. This particular article, I do not know if it was his intent, but what caught my attention is the answer to that very question.
I think so many people are focused on two things. One is themselves, and we kind of have to be, but we have to outvote with legitimate votes by being motivated and getting out there and voting.
I know we did in 2022, but that is another story. You can outvote the fraud, but these people are now like rabid animals. They are smelling blood, or at least they think they are. We have to overcome that.
Now, my concealed-carry-permit friends out there: you have got to register and you have got to get out and vote. I do not want to hear any excuses about trying to avoid surveillance, trying to avoid getting called for jury duty, etc. That is an excuse, and quite frankly, that is laziness.
I agree. They have got to get out and vote. Plus, you have to adhere, and this is biblical. You do have to pay Caesar what is Caesar’s. You do have to file your taxes. You do have to do your jury duty. That is a whole other thing.
Not just, “I am going to vote for him because he is on the red team or the blue team.”
Those turnout numbers in those three districts ranged from 8.7% to 10.7% among registered voters, which means roughly 91% of registered voters did not cast a vote in those three districts. That leads toward what we have.
We have Mamdani and the Muslims in Minnesota and Michigan. Let me say it again, especially to those of us who put on the uniform to defend a way of life so the rest of us can defend our way of life at home. The rest of us can defend our way of life in the household by being mom and dad.
I think Speaker Johnson said it best. Do we have time for a clip before break?
Yes, sure. Let me get the right screen up.
Again, as I said earlier, in this particular clip you hear it from the top. Reagan warned us about communism overseas, but now we see it in our backyard. Zohran Mamdani, AOC, Bernie Sanders — they said it. They are doing it. And they have now taken over the Democrat Party. Cut one.
These are the times that Reagan was warning about. He was warning about communism overseas. Now it is on our own shores. It is a very serious time, and every American needs to wake up and understand the threat.
I want to share with you some of the lowlights, some of these candidates who are emerging through these processes. Last night made crystal clear, as Leader Scalise said, that Zohran Mamdani, AOC, and Bernie Sanders have just taken full control of the Democrat Party, or what was left of it.
Across the country, Democrats have candidates winning primaries and rising through the ranks. Here are a few of them.
Vang in California, one of the Democrats, will not say the Pledge of Allegiance. Hammoud in New Jersey, Democrat candidate, socialist candidate, has ties to Al Qaeda and other terrorists. Chevalier won last night in New York over Hakeem’s counter-endorsement. She says she wants to abolish the border. She does not want a border for the country.
Mendoza in Arizona wants to decriminalize trans prostitution. Apparently, that is a thing. James in Iowa wants to apologize for being white. Garriott in Iowa performed a Satanist wedding. Bennett in New Jersey stopped going to church because Trump voters were there.
Glenn Beck was talking about this today and asking how we can seat these people in office because they have to raise their hand and swear to defend and protect the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America.
I have a news flash for Glenn Beck: these people do not care about that. Listen, they are worshiping Satan.
Let me share some other numbers. This is where we get them seated. This is where election integrity becomes so important. It is not just these disappeared votes. It is what we saw locally: people on the ballot under compassion and care, but going behind the curtain claiming race as their justification.
Chevalier defeated Espaillat by 2,300 votes. I will get back to this when we return from break. This is too much to say in just a few seconds.
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Also, Project Civica, New York Citizens Audit, and all these different groups out there working toward ensuring the SAVE Act. Call your legislators to get behind it. Let us have the same thing here in New York.
New York 13: that individual won by 2,300 votes. Our guest, Dr. Paquette, found 39,000 cloned registrations, meaning that is 17 times more than the winning margin. He also identified 26,000 disappeared votes from the 2020 general election.
What is a disappeared vote? Those are votes that did not make it from one election record to another. Let me read exactly what that disappeared vote is because that is important.
When you compare county voter-history records to state voter-history records for the same ID numbers, you find tens of thousands of voters who the county records show as having voted in the 2020 general election, but the state records show as not having voted. Those are disappeared voters.
If there is a choice, I think you have to go with the county numbers because the counties are entrusted with counting the votes.
That is why we appreciate Peter Elder, Commissioner on the Republican side, and Jackie Ortiz, Commissioner for the Board of Elections on the Democrat side, who said they are willing to sit down and ensure that those voter rolls are great. I look forward to that day happening.
We have Gary. Gary?
Hello, Peter. How are you?
Good.
Great interview with Mr. Paquette.
We will have him on longer. Thank you for the introduction. He was sleepy, so he could only do six or seven minutes.
That is why I could not get him to sign up for the 2A show at 10 o’clock. He is up until four or so in the morning doing all this research. He has unspeakable hours.
He is the guy who discovered the algorithms in the voter rolls that can be used to locate all these bogus numbers. I am not going to try to add to what he put out there. Just do some research, people. Look him up. He has interviews on different channels, including New York Citizens Audit.
That is right. Andrew Paquette, folks. P-A-Q-U-E-T-T-E. He writes under Dr. Zark and The Zark Files.
When those people first got involved in this and started finding all this information, most took aliases because they wanted to protect their identities. Then when what we uncovered brought a criminal investigation and a cease-and-desist order, that was intuitively a good response, I guess.
We are all out in the open now. Nobody is hiding behind anything because what we found is the truth.
One of the excuses I always hear from people, whether it is legislators, district attorneys, boards of elections, or the Board of Elections, is they tell you they can only access one number at a time. If a voter says, “I think there are three or four people using my ID number,” they cannot do that from their own system at the county.
But none of them has ever been able to explain why they do not just FOIL the information and do it like we did as citizens.
Unless you can prove that all of this stuff we found, documented, had peer-reviewed, and published is false, and all these people who looked at it are fake, then you have to answer it.
I guess like 51 paid CIA people did. They lied. Biden signed a letter they knew was false. But we are not operating that way. We are working with our own money, and we are looking for the truth in this thing. We uncovered it, and the response is the tell.
Like Trump said in that interview that he walked off of with Kristen Welker: we have the evidence; you people just do not want to look at it.
They will not look at it. Now there is another article I got this morning. I do not know if I forwarded that one to you or not, but somebody has compiled all this into an 850-page book. They took information from all these state groups like New York Citizens Audit and Project Civica.
This is ongoing. Project Civica downloads those files every month to check. Just like Mr. Paquette said, they change. After the results are certified, after they all sign off and say this is valid and all the numbers are good, a year later it changes.
It does not only change the total numbers. It changes whether this guy voted. No, he did not vote. Yes, now he voted again. All in different time periods.
It seems to me that voting should be a lot simpler than what it seems to be. Gary, I appreciate your call.
The way we did it for 250 years: paper ballots hand counted.
Or even the pull machines or switch machines, where you walked in. Bob, do we have time for cut two?
Absolutely. Here it comes, cut two.
This is just a sampling. These kinds of people have been popping up. You have been hearing me say for weeks there are many Mamdanis popping up all around the country. It is a dangerous thing. This is not a joke. We are in a fight right now to save the republic.
Every American needs to take this seriously. You need to wake up. This upcoming midterm election is not the midterm elections of years ago. It is going to decide the direction of the country.
Are we going to maintain our status as a constitutional republic on our 250th anniversary? Or are we going to make a new choice and go down some road toward a communist utopia?
Communist utopia. There is a contradiction in terms for you.
It is. Do we have time for another one?
Before we go to it, ladies and gentlemen, this election-integrity media is exactly what they are using. This is how they get these people under. If you do not believe it, I played this clip yesterday, Bob, but I thought it was worth playing again.
This is Hasan Piker, very influential. This is where the Vanbōōlzalness is happening. This is the culture. This is where my own kids are being impacted.
They are calling it a sweep. They are calling it the sweep that the Knicks could not make. That is what they are saying. That is what I have heard.
We were able to go out. We were able to turn out. We were able to knock on doors, and we were able to get voters to realize that a better future is possible.
The do-nothing Democrats who have spent decades upon decades sitting on their comfortable thrones, collecting paychecks from corporate donations and foreign lobbies, better recognize that a new politics is coming to the rest of the country because every single victory that Americans see gives them confidence that a better future is possible.
By the way, as long as we are on the subject, we want to point you to a brand-new feature at wysl1040.com, which is The Old Soldier Newsletter Substack. There is a hyperlink right on the main page.
Colonel Paul Simonelli writes this, and his latest is “Congressman Joe Morelle, Wake Up or Get Replaced. The DSA Is Coming for Your Seat Next.”
Look at it. It is a wonderful thing, and Paul has been writing some great stuff there. Again, that is wysl1040.com, and you go to the Valor Radio Substack.
It is called The Old Soldier Newsletter?
Yes, when you open up the hyperlink it takes you to The Old Soldier Newsletter. Colonel Paul Simonelli writes it. He is a good writer.
Yes, he is. I have read a little bit of his stuff. His stuff is out there on Substack. I have to admit, that is one social media outlet that I have not really looked at for my stuff. I have dabbled there.
In NY-10, Lander won by 26,615 votes. Dr. Paquette identified 44,000 cloned registrations, 17,000 disappeared votes, and 15,000 of those disappeared votes were mail-in registrations.
Ladies and gentlemen, voter registration issues are bad. Keep an eye out for them. There was a phone number we have given you.
Let me take a few seconds to address one of the national awareness issues for this month, because PTSD is important. This is National PTSD Awareness Month.
It is important because as I travel and prepare for the show, I run into some great people. I run into veterans, and I run into people who did not serve but were impacted. I also run into individuals, and you heard me ask the judge candidate about being trauma-informed.
The thing is, we all deal with something. But how we deal with it is the part that creates the trauma. That is important.
About 5% of U.S. adults have PTSD in any given year. Some of you may say, “Peter, that is just a word. That is just a nomenclature that doctors put on somebody feeling sad or bad.” But it is not that simple, especially for some people.
Once you realize that maybe you are sad, maybe there was a traumatic event, sometimes you do not know what to do.
June 27 is listed as PTSD Screening Day, and the VA offers short self-screening tools for veterans and loved ones.
Dial 988 if you are a veteran and press 1 for the crisis line. Dial 911 if you are not a veteran and you need help today. Do not be afraid.
Mira, siendo hombre means admitting when you need help.
Ladies and gentlemen, soy Peter Vazquez. Be a leader. God bless these United States of America, and do not let a cycle go by where you are not a voice for liberty.
No soy niño perdido, no me juzgues. Que se lo pido, reconoce que el amor llevo esta vez. Soy cara de niño, con alma de hombre. Quiero amarte para siempre, pero tú no me respondes. Soy cara de niño, con alma de hombre.