“Lawfare.”
It is the weaponization of the legal system against a political target with the goal of destroying that target, just like the military does to foreign adversaries during warfare.
While lawfare used to be an intellectual concept, President Trump’s recent ‘conviction’ of 34 ‘felonies’ in Manhattan has made it clear that the Left can use this tactic against ANYONE!
Consider just a few facts about this case:
First, there is Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan District Attorney who led this attack.
Bragg’s campaign was funded by George Soros. Soros even bragged about it in a Wall Street Journal op-ed!
Then, there is Michael Cohen, the ‘star’ witness.
Cohen is a proven liar. In fact, Cohen admitted to lying before Congress while under oath and spent three years in prison for lying to other instigators.
And, of course, we can’t forget about the venue.
Manhattan voted against Trump 90%-10%. Despite this, Judge Gonzalez denied Trump’s request for a change of venue.
This case was a political lynching, pure and simple. The outcome was never in doubt. This was the highest form of lawfare ever carried out. The message it sent is clear: if we can get to Trump, we can get to anyone who dares to speak out!
Feeling punch drunk with power after seeing President Trump convicted, the Radical Left is ramping up their attacks, using the power of government to silence organizations like ours.
But it’s not just official agencies doing this.
Individual Commie Karens — from all over the country — are actively trying to get the FBI to investigate Iowa Gun Owners, trying to shut us down before the November elections.
No, this isn’t a joke.
The Left is tagging the FBI on Twitter, urging them to come after IGO, claiming that our members are violent racists who are about to murder politicians!
This is absurd. For over fifteen years, IGO has done the same thing: use grassroots pressure to pass or defeat legislation in Des Moines.
We’re only ‘dangerous’ to politicians who vote against the 2nd Amendment and lose their careers because we expose them at election time!
But as Trump’s ‘conviction’ proved, the truth doesn’t matter anymore. Facts can be invented. Testimony can be fake.
So even though I know that we’ve done NOTHING WRONG, I am concerned that Iowa Gun Owners is going to get a knock on the door by federal agents any day now.
The goal for the Left is simple: force us to spend all our time and money dealing with a bogus investigation…
…ensuring that we can’t expose gun-grabbers during the November elections.
And the truth is that they might be successful.
As things stand right now, IGO does not have the funds to deal with a full scale ‘lawfare’ attack and run a statewide program exposing gun grabbers during the fall elections.
And if we are forced to sit out the General Election cycle, there will be no one to combat the gun control agenda being concealed by so many Leftist candidates!
Just a few of the races/fights where Iowa Gun Owners needs to expose gun grabbers using digital and radio ads, targeted social media, mass emails, radio and internet ads include:
>>> House District 22; Samantha Fett won her GOP primary in decisive fashion. But because Fett supports the 2nd Amendment and the Second Amendment Preservation Act, the Democrats are going to come after her hard. Fett’s opponent, Rory Taylor, is NOT pro-gun!
>>> House District 41; Rep. Molly Buck won this seat two years ago with just 50.4% of the vote. She’s a gun control zealot whereas her opponent, Ryan Weldon, surveyed 100% pro-gun with Iowa Gun Owners. This Ankeny seat represents a major pro-gun pickup opportunity!
>>> House District 42; Rep. Heather Matson won her Ankeny based seat two years ago by a margin of .2% of the vote. It’s the tightest House race in Iowa! Matson supports ‘Red Flag’ laws, magazine capacity limits, and a statewide gun registry! Heather Stephenson is 100% pro-gun and proudly completed her Iowa Gun Owners candidate survey!
>>> Senate District 38; Senator Eric Giddens has tried to block every expansion of gun rights he could during the five years he’s been in the Iowa Senate. Now Giddens is going to face the voters in one of the most competitive Senate races this year. Dave Sires, his opponent, is loudly pro-gun.
Of course, these are just a few of the fights that we need to be engaged in this fall. We can either send a message that Iowa stands for freedom, or see the Left make real gains.
Until dozens of Leftist groups started tagging the FBI and the DOJ urging them to come after us, I was hoping to go ‘all in’ on this election cycle with digital ads, radio ads, text messages and more.
But everything is different now.
As it stands right now, we can’t run our massive election program AND fight against a bogus lawfare attack, too!
The good news is that this isn’t ‘my’ organization.
And that’s why I am coming to you. I need to know what you think we should do, given the situation that I’ve outlined for you above. As I see it, we have three options right now:
OPTION #1: Ignore the lawfare attack that is coming from one or more federal agencies, pray these attacks don’t force us to close our doors, and run a full-scale program this fall exposing gun-grabbing Leftists?
OPTION #2: Give in to the pressure, cancel our election program, play it safe, and focus exclusively on gearing up to defend IGO from these bogus attacks?
OPTION #3: DO IT ALL! FIGHT ON ALL FRONTS! EXPOSE THE DEMOCRATS WHO WANT TO DISARM US AND GET READY TO DEFEND IOWA GUN OWNERS FROM A LAWFARE-STYLE ATTACK!!!
I know what I want to do. But we don’t have millions of dollars sitting around in the bank like our enemies do.
Iowa Gun Owners runs on a conservative budget, and that’s especially true with so many Iowans dealing with Biden’s failed economy and the ballooning recession he denies.
OPTION #3 isn’t an “option” without an IMMEDIATE influx of funds from IGO members and supporters. If you choose this option I hope you’ll include a generous donation of $100!
It’s a lot. I know.
This is our state! I don’t know about you, but I refuse to sit back and be silenced by fear, and I refuse to let the Radical Left try to disarm us through their gun control agenda!
If you agree, please fill out your Iowa Gun Owners’ Member Ballot and make the most generous donation you can afford TODAY!
For Iowa,
Aaron Dorr
Chairman
Iowa Gun Owners
P.S. The Left ‘convicted’ Trump after a bogus ‘trial.’ Now their activists are trying to unleash the FBI on IGO, trying to force us to divert our attention away from our fall election programs!
This is no joke, it’s as real as it gets.