Two sides of the country. Two local battles. One fight.

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Hi Friend,

A man walked into the Shasta County elections office in California, looked around at the old building, and remarked how easy it would be to burn it down.

He wasn't shouting, nor did he threaten anyone by name. He said it almost casually — with the same quiet normalcy that has allowed The Machine to lull so many into apathy.

This seems to be where we are as a nation: it would be easy to burn it down. It's an aggressive thought, but ignoring the fragility doesn't make us safer. It makes us more vulnerable. The answer is people willing to stand guard, ask questions, and refuse to look away. That's where you come in.

Stand Guard

Yesterday on TTVN Live, two grassroots heroes joined us from 2,500 miles apart: Shasta County Registrar of Voters Clint Curtis and lifelong Detroit advocate Ramon Jackson—the man at the heart of TRAPPED: Detroit, launching soon.

When he took the job, there was a wall running down the middle of the ballot-processing room to keep observers back. A wall with spikes on it.

That's The Machine in one image. Not a conspiracy — an institution that decided at some point that the people it serves were the problem.

Curtis tore it out and added observation areas, stools close enough that a citizen can sit at a worker's shoulder, and livestreams every ballot shown on screen, before it ever touches a machine.

Transparency did what transparency does: it caught something.

During the June primary, the people flipping ballots on camera noticed some didn't match. Curtis says the suspect ballots were thicker and rougher, and some smelled of ink. The squares were filled in too perfectly: no overrun, gaps, or pen strokes visible against the light — as though they'd been printed.

Clint stated that not one of them arrived on Election Day and that every one of them came through a drop box or the mail.

He and roughly a dozen others acted immediately, submitting sworn affidavits documenting what they observed. Clint then reported the concerns to the FBI, DHS, and DOJ.

The ballots are still in the building.

Curtis says he secured the room, sealed the evidence inside, and wanted no one — himself included — holding a key. As he put it, "it's the guy with the key that's got the problem." Now, he says, the evidence is preserved. The question is whether authorities will examine it while it still can be examined.

So here is the first ask. Contact the:

FBI: https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us

DOJ: https://www.justice.gov/doj/webform/your-message-department-justice

White House: https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

Feel free to use this template in your own words:

Subject: Request for Review — Shasta County Ballot Concerns

I am writing to ask that your office take all appropriate steps within its authority to ensure the ballots identified by Shasta County, California Registrar of Voters Clint Curtis are preserved and independently examined—particularly in light of his report that an individual remarked on how easily the building housing those ballots could be burned down. Curtis and multiple observers put their observations under oath and submitted them to federal authorities. Whether you live in California or across the country, every voter deserves an answer.

Ask Questions

Advocate Ramon Jackson is 2,500 miles away in Detroit, working the opposite end of the process. He isn't an official, but a citizen who started asking questions.

Pulling voter records for a local recall, he found a childhood friend listed as having voted. He called him and read him the record, and his friend confirmed he hadn't cast that ballot.

So Ramon checked his own. He says he found a registration tied to an address he has never lived at, and an absentee ballot cast in his name in an election held while he was living in another state.

He drove to Lansing in the dead of winter with affidavits in hand, only for the state investigator to listen for forty-five minutes and tell him it was out of her league. He never heard from her again.

Out of my league. That's an obscured part of The Machine too. Not a villain twirling a mustache — a chain of reasonable people, each deciding this particular question belongs to somebody else.

So Ramon did what he could: he filed suit himself, pro se—and he hasn't stopped since. You'll hear his story in TRAPPED: Detroit, alongside Pastor Lorenzo Sewell. Together, they've helped lead their community into a fight that began on the streets of Detroit but may ultimately reach far beyond them.

Refuse to Look Away

This is where you come in, and this second ask takes about ninety seconds.

Go to scancheckprotect.org. Check your registration, your voter history, and even your own address — just recently, Catherine discovered a name registered to her address that shouldn't be there.

Most of you will find everything in order. That's a good day, and that's what we want!

If something is off — an address you never used, a vote you never cast, a name at your house you don't recognize — don't speculate. Document it. Verify it. Report it through the lawful process in your state. And tell us.

After 2000 Mules, drop box usage in those areas fell off a cliff. People behave differently when they know someone is watching.

The Machine doesn't need you to agree with it. It only needs you not to look.

TRAPPED Is Coming

Ramon is at the heart of our documentary TRAPPED: Detroit, and yesterday you heard a fraction of it. We went to Detroit. We followed the records, went to the addresses, and talked to the people whose names Ramon discovered were being used.

​https://trapped.vote​

The TRAPPED trailer is here. The Detroit community premiere is coming. Shortly after, we'll release it online — free — for everyone to watch and share.

One Last Thing

While Clint was on air describing that sealed room, Ramon sent us a message from Detroit:

"Tell Clint he gives me hope."

One works from the street up. The other from inside the process out. Neither was appointed to care, and neither signed up for the hatred they continue to endure, but they do it — out of love. They love our country, the people, and our vote — our voice — too much to stop.

We need you.

And tonight in Redding, a room of ballots sits sealed behind a door nobody holds the key to — inside a building an unfamiliar man said would burn easily.

He may not be wrong about the building, but he's wrong about us.

Every generation has its call. This one is ours.

Ever Onward!

P.S. — Make sure to follow Ramon Jackson and Pastor Lorenzo Sewell to stay updated. They never stop moving, and we hope they'll inspire you to do the same.

Ramon: X | @theadvocate42; Instagram | @ramon_action_jackson; Facebook | ramon.jackson.562114​

Pastor Sewell: Truth Social | @lorenzosewell; X | @pastorzosewell; Instagram | @lorenzosewell; Facebook | Lorenzo.sewell.1​

"For who hath despised the day of small things?" - Zechariah 4:10