2 DAYS LEFT, DON’T SIT THIS ONE OUT!

In Brazil, a court added two hours to the vote. In Poland, the government sent riot police to the constitutional court. In France, the streets are on fire. Here in America, we still settle it at the ballot box. So on Tuesday, let’s make sure every legal vote counts.

Good morning. This is Patriot Ron, also known as Grey Wolf, and this is your Sunday Briefing.

Let me be blunt

If you stay home Tuesday, you don’t get a pass. You get whatever the people who showed up decided for you. And trust me, it’s not good. In too many races, the one they pick will have ties to the DSA.

Look at Texas. Texas! A record 7.4 million early votes, and Ted Cruz is warning that Republicans could lose every statewide race. If Texas is in play, nothing is safe. Florida Republicans built a lead of more than 135,000 in in-person early voting. Good, but a lead isn’t a win until the polls close.

Early votes don’t decide this. The people who haven’t voted yet decide this. That’s you.

Red, all the way down

Don’t just vote at the top of the ballot and walk away. Every line matters. Here’s why.

U.S. Senate. The SAVE America Act, which requires proof of citizenship to register and photo ID to vote, passed the House. It’s stuck in the Senate behind the 60-vote filibuster. Every Senate seat decides whether bills like that live or die. And with Leader John Thune saying he doesn’t have the votes for cloture, and isn’t willing to take a vote to change the Senate filibuster rules to force a talking filibuster, there is no way to get it to the floor.

U.S. House. The House is where the SAVE America Act passed. Lose the House, and that bill never comes back.

Governor. Governors sign or veto the election laws in your state, and they appoint officials who run your elections.

Secretary of State. In most states, this is the person who oversees elections, voter rolls and certification.

Attorney General. Your state’s top lawyer decides which cases get investigated and which lawsuits get fought.

State legislature. They write your voting laws and, in many states, draw your district lines. The Constitution, Article One, Section Four, gives state legislatures the power over how your elections are run. So know who your state reps are, or who wants to be. Don’t guess.

County and local. Sheriffs, prosecutors, county clerks and school boards. The clerk runs your polling place. The school board decides what your kids are taught. These are the races that touch your life the most, and they’re the ones people skip.

So vote all the way to the bottom.

Election integrity

Here’s what’s on the record this week. In Alaska, the New York Times reported that operatives tied to the Peltola campaign allegedly recruited a different man named Dan J. Sullivan to confuse voters in the race against Senator Dan S. Sullivan. The Justice Department has filed suit and opened a criminal probe. Reports on X say the FBI is moving agents into Alaska.

And a leaked fourteen-page guide from Protect Democracy, shared with progressive state lawmakers, lays out plans for certification fights, quote, pre-bunking, and mass peaceful mobilizations after the election. You know, those mostly peaceful protests they report live, with cars on fire behind them. They say it’s about defending fair elections. Read it yourself and decide.

Now the money

On my Follow the Money desk, I only post what’s documented. Not claimed. Documented.

DataRepublican’s Democracy Files Part 12 points to a group called ESRN. Here’s what the tax filing shows. The 2024–25 990 for State Democracy Defenders Action lists Sayer Lagalle as, quote, “ESRN Director,” paid $147,653. The same filing lists Norm Eisen as executive chair and Bill Kristol as a director. Their biggest legal vendor was Elias Law Group, at $592,000.

Here’s what the filing doesn’t show. It doesn’t name ESRN’s budget, and it doesn’t name the donors. I’m telling you where the record stops, because that’s how you keep it honest. But when a “grassroots” network has a director on a nonprofit’s payroll, that’s not grassroots. That’s infrastructure.

Warnings from abroad

Look abroad, because this isn’t theory.

Brazil. On October 25th, Lula won a fourth term with 51.79%. A Supreme Court justice extended voting hours by two hours, and Flávio Bolsonaro has refused to concede and plans a legal challenge. This is the same court that convicted Jair Bolsonaro and barred him from office, and the same court that banned X in Brazil in 2024. When the courts write the rules, the referees and the players start to look the same.

Poland. On October 30th, a judge backed by Prime Minister Tusk’s coalition suspended the president of the Constitutional Tribunal for a month. Riot police showed up outside the court. President Nawrocki cut short a foreign trip, flew home and called it a forcible takeover. Tusk calls it restoring the rule of law. You decide. But when riot police are guarding a court, and I watched video of President Nawrocki confronting the justice, telling her she was never sworn in by him as Poland’s Constitution requires, ask who’s being protected.

France. It started in September with students protesting crowded, run-down schools and teacher shortages. Fair enough. Then it escalated. Far-left groups took over in Marseille. One masked rioter told an independent journalist on camera he was Antifa. Masked rioters threw Molotovs in Paris. I watched a police officer hit with a Molotov and set ablaze, and I didn’t see anyone arrested for it. In Lyon, protesters burned American and Israeli flags.

Three countries, three warnings. A republic doesn’t usually fall in one day. It falls when ordinary people decide it’s somebody else’s job.

So here’s your job.

Make a plan today. Check your polling place and hours with your county elections office, or at your state’s official election website, because hours and rules can vary. If you’ve got a mail ballot, don’t trust the mail this late. Walk it into a drop box or your polling place by Tuesday, or vote in person. Bring the ID your state requires. Take a neighbor, a friend, your voting-age kids, your parents.

Vote Tuesday. STAY IN LINE, Vote red, all the way down the ballot. And keep it peaceful, legal and loud.

Follow the money, and I’ll see you at the polls.