Texas leaders not taking chances with election fraud, but want DOJ monitors to find something else to do



Texas leaders aren't taking any chances with election integrity this year. They have unleashed a task force to guard against irregularities, and they've told federal agents looking to assist in that effort to pound sand.

On Monday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican and a staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump, announced in a press release that he had amassed an Election Day Rapid Response Legal Team whose sole purpose is "to monitor day-of election activity and address litigation arising from the election."

'Texas law is clear: Justice Department monitors are not permitted inside a polling place where ballots are being cast.'

Members of this task force will be dispatched to polling stations across the state, charged with investigating allegations of election fraud and voter suppression.

"The Election Day Rapid Response Legal Team will be equipped to enforce Texas election laws and take immediate action on any contingencies, including issues seen in previous cycles such as ballot shortages, extended polling location closures, and improper extension of voting hours," the press release said.

Paxton's press release also added that this team of legal experts is prepared to take on any "activist groups" seeking to affect the outcome of the election through "litigation."

"There is no issue more important and more fundamental to our nation than election integrity," Paxton said in a statement. "Our Election Day Rapid Response Legal Team will be on the frontline on November 5th. We will defend the ballot box from any bad actors seeking to unduly influence or illegally undermine Texas elections."

Paxton is not the only elected official in Texas who wants to secure the state's elections. Secretary of State Jane Nelson (R) also promised to ensure that all eligible voters have a chance to participate in a "free and fair election" but warned the U.S. Department of Justice not to interfere.

"Texas law is clear: Justice Department monitors are not permitted inside a polling place where ballots are being cast or a central counting station where ballots are being counted," Nelson wrote in a letter dated November 1 and addressed to an administrator of the Civil Rights Division – Voting Section of the DOJ.

The division had previously pledged to send agents to "monitor" polling stations in 27 states — including Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, and Texas — for "compliance with federal voting rights laws."

Florida likewise told DOJ election monitors to steer clear, as Blaze News previously reported.

"As a reminder, Department of Justice monitors are not permitted inside a polling place under Florida law. Section 102.031(3)(a) of the Florida Statues lists the people who 'may enter any polling room or polling place.' Department of Justice personnel are not included on the list," Secretary of State Cord Byrd wrote in a letter last week.

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When Eithan Haim became a doctor, he took the Hippocratic Oath very seriously. That unwavering commitment to ethics, however, landed him in hot water when he exposed Texas Children's Hospital for secretly continuing gender modification procedures on minors following Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton’s decree that such procedures would be considered child abuse.

Not only does Dr. Haim now face four indictments related to violating HIPAA, but the FBI is now targeting him for being a whistleblower.

“I read that the feds leaked your identity as the whistleblower initially to trans activists who began ... defaming you and threatening you online. Is that true?” asks Sara Gonzales.

“We have a very, very high degree of suspicion that that is the case,” Dr. Haim confirms, “and the reason is because [the FBI] showed up to my home on June 23, 2023,” and “about a week later, I started getting reviews on these doctor websites — WebMD, vitals.com, Google — that were accusing me crimes like mutilating patients, sexual abuse, all this crazy stuff.”

The specific language used in the online reviews struck Dr. Haim as odd because as the chief resident at that time, he was mostly focused on performing surgeries rather than talking with patients.

Then he started putting two and two together.

“I was the anonymous source also in a story that was released by Christopher Rufo on June 21 — completely separate from the whistleblowing story a month before — and he just wanted some of my perspectives on the transgender thing,” Haim explains.

Well, the story blew up — so much so that even Elon Musk and J.K. Rowling retweeted it. Dr. Haim should have been safe from the woke mob, however, considering he was an anonymous source.

Haim then noticed something peculiar: The people leaving nasty, accusatory reviews were using “the same exact language from [Rufo’s] article.”

“We hired a bunch of ex-Navy SEALs who were tech guys, and we subpoenaed WebMD, and we got the IP address. It was all the same IP address — every single one,” Haim tells Sara, whose jaw is on the floor.

“Then we got these Navy SEAL guys to localize it to one specific address, which we're currently working on delineating further, but there are certain roadblocks in the way that might indicate it is coming from a certain building that has special security,” he explains.

“This was all an inside job. These reviews came from the inside,” says Sara, asking whether there were “any other aggressive tactics” used against him.

“The most aggressive tactic is charging me with four federal felonies and trying to put me in prison for 10 years for charges that are as disconnected from reality as the interventions they're trying to cover up,” is Haim’s answer.

To hear the rest of the story, check out the clip below.


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Whistleblower who exposed Texas Children's Hospital for performing illegal gender modification procedures on minors SPEAKS OUT



Anyone who dares speak out against radical leftist ideology paints a giant red target on his or her back. Nobody knows this better than Dr. Eithan Haim who’s been indicted on four counts for violating HIPAA when he exposed Texas Children's Hospital for secretly continuing gender modification procedures on minors after Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton passed a law dictating that such procedures would be considered child abuse.

“In May of 2023, Dr. Haim provided journalist Christopher Rufo with documents showing that Texas Children's was lying to the public about the existence of its transgender medicine program, including documents that had redacted ... patients’ names and identifying information, to protect himself not only from violating HIPAA but of course to protect the privacy of minors,” reports Sara Gonzales.

“The very next month, just mere hours before Dr. Haim's graduation from surgical residency, he was informed by federal agents from the Department of Health and Human Services that he was under federal investigation by the DOJ.”

“Earlier this month, Haim was indicted on four felony charges related to obtaining personal information, including patients’ names, treatment codes, and the attending physician from Texas Children's Hospital's electronic system without authorization. The feds allege he obtained this information under false pretenses and with intent to cause malicious harm to the hospital, and if convicted, Dr. Haim faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.”

Today, Dr. Haim joins Sara to share the details of the story.

“We have to do everything we can to beat these charges. We're going to win because if we don't, what happens is the door closes permanently for whistleblowers in health care,” says Dr. Haim.

“It just seems like the entire medical field has just veered off the tracks,” says Sara.

“It really has to do with the censorship that's been going on over the last few years. With COVID you had the complete transformation of the medical community,” where there once was “evidence-based medicine” and “rigorous debate in academic programs across the country,” Dr. Haim explained. “But after COVID, people became programmed to follow the ‘science’ ... which just means abiding by an ideology and submitting to censorship.”

According to Dr. Haim, this radical shift in the medical field is what allowed “transgender ideology ... to proliferate.”

And now we have doctors — people who swore under Hippocratic oath to “do no harm” — giving "confused adolescent children [and] pre-adolescent children cancer drugs, hormones, and radical surgeries to send them on a road where they're chasing a horizon that they're never going to be able to reach and turning them into chronic medical patients for the rest of their lives.”

“Doctors forgot that medicine is driven by human dignity,” Haim says. “It was that morality that had made American medicine the greatest in the world, but we forgot about that when we forgot about what human dignity is.”

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Many Americans have questioned the safety and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines, and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is doing something about it.

Paxton has just launched an investigation into Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson to find out whether or not they engaged in gain-of-function research and misled the public regarding the vaccines.

Paxton believes if these companies misrepresented the efficacy of the vaccines, they could have violated the Deceptive Trade Practices Act in Texas.

BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales of "The News & Why It Matters" had Paxton on the show to discuss his investigation.

“We’re going to ask questions about their trials, about what they knew at the time, when they knew it, and see if they told us the truth,” Paxton explains, “or whether they misled the public about the efficacy of their vaccine.”

Gonzales asks Paxton how he plans to prove it, as she thinks “they’re not going to provide documents that maybe they have.”

“Well, the problem with them not providing the documents they have — that potentially turns into criminal action and certainly results in other risks for their company,” Paxton says.

However, that doesn’t mean the company will comply.

“They could decide ‘Hey, we don’t want to disclose information,’” he explains. “You know, usually the cover-up’s worse than the crime.”

While this could be the case, “there will be some civil penalties and it will cost them some money” if they’re honest about what they knew and did not know. If they’re caught in a lie, they could be facing criminal charges.

Paxton continues, explaining that “if they answer the questions and we find that they’ve misled the public — then we’ve got different issues that we either have to settle with them or we have to sue them to recover the damages that they’ve caused.”

Gonzales notes that if that’s the case, there’s a lot of money behind them to recover damages.

She adds that the Moderna CEO made nearly 400 million last year on his stock options and owns a reported 2.8 billion shares in the company.

Albert Borla of Pfizer made a $33 million salary last year “off the backs of the American public,” Gonzales says.


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