Chain of Custody, Chain of Trust

Chain of Custody, Chain of Trust

January 2026

It has been over four years since I last put pen to paper on this site. In that time, much has happened that confirms the concerns I raised back in August of 2021. We have witnessed the continued erosion of free speech, the weaponization of government agencies against American citizens, and now, the unraveling of what we were told to simply accept on faith: that our elections are secure and beyond reproach.

Let me be direct with you. Our Founders did not write the Constitution because they trusted government. They wrote it precisely because they did not. They had just fought a war against tyranny and understood that power, left unchecked, will always seek to expand itself at the expense of the governed. Every safeguard they built into our system exists because they knew that those who hold power will, given the opportunity, abuse it.

The Truth About Censorship

For years, we were called conspiracy theorists for suggesting that the federal government was pressuring social media companies to silence American citizens. We were told it was not happening. We were banned, shadowbanned, and deplatformed for saying it.

Now we have the receipts.

In August 2024, Mark Zuckerberg himself testified before the House Judiciary Committee that Facebook censored content related to COVID-19, including humor and satire, due to pressure from the Biden administration. Google revealed that the administration pressured them to remove or censor content that did not even violate YouTube's own policies. The House Judiciary Committee's investigation documented what they called a "censorship-industrial complex" where government officials, tech platforms, and so-called "disinformation researchers" colluded to suppress speech the government did not approve of.

On January 20, 2025, an executive order was signed titled "Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship." It stated plainly: "Over the last 4 years, the previous administration trampled free speech rights by censoring Americans' speech on online platforms, often by exerting substantial coercive pressure on third parties, such as social media companies, to moderate, deplatform, or otherwise suppress speech that the Federal Government did not approve."

This was not a conspiracy theory. It was government policy. And now it is documented fact.

The First Amendment exists precisely because the Founders understood that government will always seek to silence its critics. "Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech." They did not add "unless the government thinks it is misinformation." They did not add "unless it makes people in power uncomfortable." The right is absolute against government interference because the Founders knew that whoever controls speech controls the narrative, and whoever controls the narrative controls the people.

Chain of Custody Is Not Optional

In December 2025, Fulton County, Georgia admitted before the State Election Board that approximately 315,000 early votes from the 2020 election were certified without the required signatures on the tabulator tapes. Georgia law requires three poll worker signatures on each tape to verify the chain of custody. The county's attorney did not dispute this. She admitted it happened.

Let me explain why this matters using an example every American can understand.

If you get pulled over for DUI and the police draw your blood for testing, that blood sample must maintain a documented chain of custody from the moment it leaves your body until it is analyzed in a lab. Every person who handles it must sign for it. Every transfer must be logged. If there is a break in that chain, if signatures are missing, if the documentation is incomplete, that evidence is inadmissible in court. It does not matter if the blood actually showed you were intoxicated. It does not matter if the lab says "trust us, we did it right." The evidence is thrown out because the integrity of the process cannot be verified.

This is not some technicality. This is foundational to how evidence works in a nation of laws. Chain of custody exists because "trust us" is not good enough. Verification is required precisely because we cannot simply take people at their word, especially when the stakes are high.

So when the Georgia Secretary of State responds to 315,000 votes lacking proper chain of custody documentation by saying it was merely a "clerical error" that "does not erase valid, legal votes," he is asking us to accept a standard that would never hold up in any other legal proceeding in this country. He is asking us to simply trust that despite documented failures in the verification process, everything else was done correctly.

That is not how the law works. That is not how evidence works. And that is not how elections in a constitutional republic should work.

The State Election Board called these failures "catastrophic breaks in chain of custody and verification." They voted to refer the case to the Attorney General and requested fines potentially totaling over $670,000. This is not nothing. This is an admission that the process failed. And in a state decided by fewer than 12,000 votes, process failures affecting 315,000 votes should concern every American regardless of party.

Your Money, Their Priorities

The federal government improperly paid $168 billion last year. Billion. That is your money, paid out incorrectly, with minimal accountability. Some bills were paid two or three times. Some invoices were paid that should never have been paid at all. Some payments went out with no tracking mechanism to even know they happened.

The Government Accountability Office maintains what they call a "High Risk List" of federal programs vulnerable to waste, fraud, and abuse. There are 38 areas on this year's list, each presenting either a financial risk of at least $1 billion in taxpayer losses or risks to public health, safety, or national security. This list has existed since 1990. The problems have been documented for decades. And yet the bleeding continues.

Efforts to address this waste have produced mixed results and much debate. What is not debatable is that career bureaucrats have little incentive to fix systems that justify their existence. As one welfare fraud investigator testified before Congress: "Investigators have found themselves at odds with the career bureaucrats who recite watered down facts about fraud in order to promote their political agendas."

This is not a failure of government. This is government working exactly as it naturally does when unchecked. Power protects power. Bureaucracies protect bureaucracies. And the people whose money funds the entire operation are the last consideration.

The Tools We Were Given

Our Founders were not naive men. They had studied history. They knew that every republic that came before had eventually fallen to tyranny. They designed our system with that knowledge, building in safeguards that they hoped would allow Americans to preserve their liberty without having to resort to the bloody revolution they themselves had just endured.

The First Amendment protects our right to speak truth to power, to criticize our leaders, to organize and petition for redress of grievances. The Second Amendment exists as the final safeguard, the last resort when all other remedies have failed. As James Madison wrote in Federalist No. 46, Americans possess "the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation." This was not about hunting. It was about ensuring that the people would always retain the ultimate check on government power.

The Declaration of Independence makes clear that governments derive "their just powers from the consent of the governed." It further states that "whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government." This is not sedition. This is the founding philosophy of our nation. The government serves us. We do not serve it. And when it forgets that truth, we have not just the right but the duty to remind it.

We should pursue every peaceful remedy available to us. Vote. Organize. Petition. Use the courts. Hold representatives accountable. Run for office. Support those who share our values. These tools exist and we must use them.

But we must also never forget why the Founders gave us the Second Amendment. It was not an afterthought. It was not for sport. It was placed second in the Bill of Rights because they understood that all other rights depend on the people retaining the means to defend them. A government that does not fear its people will eventually enslave them. That is not extremism. That is history.

Where Do We Go From Here?

I do not know what the future holds. I know that dark forces continue to work against the principles this nation was founded upon. I know that many in positions of power view the Constitution as an obstacle rather than a sacred trust. I know that they will continue to push until they are stopped.

I also know that the American spirit is not dead. Millions of us still believe in the principles of limited government, individual liberty, and the rule of law. We still believe that this nation, for all its flaws, represents the greatest experiment in human freedom ever attempted. We still believe it is worth fighting for.

The Founders pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to birth this nation. They did so knowing that failure meant death. We are their heirs. The question before us now is whether we have the courage to be worthy of that inheritance.

Stay vigilant. Stay informed. Stay ready. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance, and that bill comes due every generation.

- The Revolutionist