A mailer was sent out recently to registered Republicans by Democrats trying to trick them into switching their political party. In the deceptively official envelope was a voter registration form with the “Democratic Party” box checked. A group of wealthy Democrats tried this stunt four years ago and we created the website Vote2PartyNYC to counter it. Please alert all your Republican friends, family, and neighbors not to fall for this scam. Instead, fight back by sharing Vote2PartyNYC with Democrats and those of other party affiliations to register and vote Republican, because one-party rule by Democrats has failed New York.
Rarely in life are things so clear cut that you can call them black or white. In reality, most issues fall in the “gray” zone, meaning the parameters aren’t clear and so there is a blur between black and white. However, voter ID is one topic that is definitively black or white. You either require voter ID, or you don’t. There’s no middle ground. Similarly, you’re either for it, or against it. I haven’t yet met anyone who is “in the middle” on this topic.
From a legal viewpoint, our US Constitution says that individual states get to decide how to run their elections. So each state has its own election law(s), and since there is no federal law requiring voter ID, we therefore end up with states having the option of whether or not they want to require voters to show identification in order to vote. As of today, there are 14 states plus Washington DC that do not require a voter prove they are who they say they are. All the others require some form of ID (most require photo ID, and some require non-photo ID). If you want to see which states require/don’t require voter ID, you can take a look at this website by BallotPedia, or peruse their voter ID map below.
I noticed something rather interesting in this past election… Of the states that do not require voter ID, almost every single one of them voted for Kamala Harris over Trump. It’s astonishing. Take a look at this map of the presidential election results from last month, and then compare it to the above map of the states that do/do not require voter ID:
Another thing I noticed is that almost every single state that doesn’t require voter ID is run by Democrats. To qualify this statement, when I say a state is “run by” Democrats, I mean the state’s legislature is majority (or supermajority) Democrat. Why is that important? Remember above when I pointed out that our Constitution empowers states to make their own election laws? Well, the legislatures make those laws.
Peeling back another layer, if you look at this map below, it shows you which states Kamala won and whether or not that state has any voter ID laws. According to this map, the vast majority of states that Kamala won do not require voter ID. She only won a handful of states that require some sort of ID. Coincidence?
In my opinion, the only reason a state would not require voter ID is to make it easier for people to cheat. Seeing as that I live in New York (one of the 15 states that do not require voter ID of any sort), I’ve heard rather absurd arguments against requiring ID. Not surprisingly, these arguments are coming from the politicians who run the State – the Democrats. Are you ready to hear their most prevalent argument they pose against voter ID? Just make sure you’re sitting down first. Okay, so the New York politicians say we can’t have voter ID because it is “racist”! Mind you, this is the same argument these inept lawmakers used to get rid of cash bail a few years ago (which has caused a significant spike in crime here in NYS). In case you’re scratching your head wondering how voter ID could possibly be racist, their “logic” goes like this… it’s racist because it is more difficult for minorities to obtain government ID than non-minorities. My reaction every time I hear one of them say this is… seriously guys? I mean, your argument doesn’t even pass the sniff test, not to mention the fact that your reasoning is in and of itself racist! They are (unbelievably) saying minorities are, generally speaking, too ignorant to obtain photo ID. It’s just so insulting!
Now, if we’re talking about minorities who are illegal aliens, then maybe I can see an argument for it being more difficult for them to obtain government issued photo ID particularly if they do not speak English. However, illegal aliens are not supposed to be voting in our elections, so does that argument even hold water? No, it doesn’t. This is all just smoke and mirrors topped with a scoop of immense hypocrisy.
To prove the point further, let’s take a look at just a few things you cannot do in our society unless you have a government issued photo ID:
board an airplane
operate a motor vehicle
purchase cigarettes
purchase alcohol
purchase a firearm
check in to a hotel
enter a military base
the list goes on and on….
Do I think requiring voter ID nationwide is a good idea? Yes, I do. Do I think requiring voter ID will solve all of our election integrity problems? No, I do not. However, I do think requiring voter ID will go a long way in restoring the public’s trust in our election system. A significant part of my work is public speaking, and I have criss crossed New York State countless times over these past few years for speaking engagements. What I’ve learned is that, no matter what part of the State I’m in, there is a real degradation of voter confidence in our system. Without confidence that their vote “counts”, most voters will simply elect not to vote at all. We cannot win elections if people aren’t voting! By the way, by “we” I mean patriots who value freedom and the rule of law, and think America-first is the way to go. Please don’t think by “we” I mean Republicans, because I am not Republican.
For those who are still of the mindset that their vote doesn’t count, and that the system is “rigged” (as I hear so often in my travels), I share these statistics with you… Just looking at the microcosm of New York State as an example (arguably the most dystopian state in our nation), we have 19 million people in New York. Approximately 12 million are registered to vote. In our last gubernatorial election in 2022, only 5.6 million people voted. Our radical governor (Kathy Hochul) won by only 300,000 votes! Compounding those statistics is the fact that between 2020 and the 2022 election, approximately 600,000 New Yorkers fled the State. I’m sure you realize that most of those that fled likely did so because they were sick of the oppressive rules and laws in New York and were seeking more “freedom” in a less blue (or a flat out red) state. So had just half of them stayed and voted against Hochul and her radicalism, we wouldn’t be having this discussion with New York as a dystopian haven. I can say this with certainty, as the Republican who ran against Hochul (Lee Zeldin) is a colleague and a friend, so I know he is a fellow defender of the Constitution and is America-first.
Come January 20th, we will have a changing of the guards, so to speak. One of the first things I’d like to see the new Congress and Trump administration do is nationwide voter ID requirements. Restore people’s faith in the system, and then you can go forward from there.
This article is printed with permission of Bobbie Anne Cox, the NYS Attorney who independently sued and initially defeated Gov. Hochul’s unconstitutional DOH regulation to place people in quarantine camps. Follow her at AttorneyCox.Substack.com or on X…. @Attorney_Cox
This is a tribute to Rudy Giuliani, who was named “America’s Mayor” at a 9-11 ceremony. Time Magazine named him “2001 Person of the Year” and the “Mayor of the World” for his heroic leadership to transform New York City into the safest large city in America, and lead the city back from the brink of chaos in the wake of the worst terrorist attack in our country’s history on September 11, 2001. He received an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II and the Presidential Freedom Award from President Ronald Reagan. No one believed it was possible to save our crumbling city, but under Mayor Giuliani’s leadership, New York City was restored as the thriving capital of the world.
Dan Schultz and Steve Stern, who helped get President Trump elected, were guests this past year on United Patriots Uprising Podcast with Gary Binford. They were instrumental in winning the war at the ballot box with the Precinct Strategy and you can hear about it and learn how you can get involved by listening to the podcasts below.
On January 2, 2025 the Queens Village Republican Club held it’s New Year’s Kick Off Meeting with the annual installation of club officers and board members performed by Steve Gillan, Project Civica’s co-founder. This is an auspicious year for the club. It’s the year Donald J. Trumpis to be inaugurated on Jan 20th as our 47th President of the USA! Also, this is the club’s milestone 150th Anniversary since the founding in 1875. The gala celebration of the club’s milestone year will take place at the 150th Anniversary Lincoln Dinner on March 2nd 2025.
Thank you to James Doukasfor videotaping the New Year’s meeting!
The Queens Village Republican Club celebrated the spirit of the holidays and President Trumps’ victory with a MAGA-nificent Christmas Chanukah Party on December 17th at Marbella Restaurant, featuring a special celebration of our beloved VP Hemant Shah’s 20 years of distinguished service to our club! Also on hand were special guest speakers, the great Curtis Sliwa, Newsmax host, Cara Castronuova, and Maud Maron, Republican candidate running for Manhattan DA against Alvin Bragg! See videos below. Thank you to James Doukasfor videotaping our event!
Karen Worcester, the executive director of Wreaths Across America speaking at a WAA event honoring veterans.
“It is our mission along with more than 2,000 similar oriented charities, civic and religious groups throughout America to remember our fallen U.S. military heroes, honor veterans and those who currently serve in our armed forces and teach our children about the sacrifice these great heroes have made to defend and protect our great nation’’, stated Karen Worcester, the executive director of Wreaths Across America, as we began, from my New York office to hers in Maine, our telephone interview last week.
“Public education is a house on fire and parents need to get their children out Now!” – Alex Newman (Author and journalist)
Deceptive marketing, and the false claim of an urgent need to protect abortion rights in New York State, proved effective for proponents of Proposal 1. Despite valiant bipartisan efforts to defeat it, almost 62% of New Yorkers voted in favor of the Democrat-driven amendment.
The ramifications of passing Prop 1 will further outrage parents already outraged by mask mandates, school closures, drag queen story hours, gender ideology, and critical race theory curriculum being taught to their children. Well-intentioned New Yorkers, blindsided into voting in favor of the amendment, will be rudely awakened as they begin to experience the real-life consequences of the amended law.
A Trump tsunami swept the electoral college, popular vote, House, and Senate to shore for a Republican landslide! The left-wing resistance needs to take heed that this is a Trump agenda mandate from the American people. One out of every three people of color voted for Trump. Nearly every community moved red to lean into the MAGA agenda.
Out of touch in an echo chamber of their own making, left-wing pundits ignore both Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s past capture of the popular vote to dismiss Trump’s success as nothing, but proof of the racism and misogyny of the American people. They project twisted motives of racially specific prejudice to smear large cohorts of Blacks, Latinos, Whites, men, women, and young people who all cast votes for Trump. It is more apparent than ever that the hate emanates from the media itself. It is the only thing keeping them relevant since the revelation of their lies threatens their existence. Trump has said that a person who does not love the American people cannot lead America. Perhaps it is also true, that a media that does not like the American people cannot report accurately on us. Hate blinds the Mainstream Media (MSM) from seeing things as they are.
The American people are good people who rejected the media narrative in response to their lived experiences. Fake news reports that inflation is down, but people feel the effects of rising prices on their household budgets. Tell them crime is down, but they see store items, like deodorant, under lock and key. Tell them the border is secure, but migrants from tent cities and hotels are making their neighborhoods unsafe. Americans know people whose children died from fentanyl. Americans see children transitioning at school, and boys playing on their daughter’s sports teams. They are angry that mandates kept schools closed and put people out of work. They have self-censored because America has become a place where the free exchange of ideas can cause you to lose your job. They rightly see that the world has become a powder keg for WW3. The American people could not afford to exchange the Trump lifeline for real change for a DEI president simply to check a box.
People saw Kamala as vacuous while Trump was authentic. It didn’t matter that media reporting overwhelmingly favored Harris and derided Trump. Their credibility was lost in the volley between ping-ponging characterizations of Biden as the world’s greatest statesman and dementia patient. Absurdly calling Trump Hitler made them completely irrelevant with all but the gullible souls now seeking psychiatric help because of them.
On behalf of the Board of Directors and Officers of the Queens Village Republican Club, I want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas, the season of joy and hope, and a Happy Chanukah, the miracle of lights! This is the holiday season to enjoy and pray for peace, happiness, good health, and prosperity and to spread good will and good cheer to our neighbors, friends, and families. God bless the members of our club family, the fellow patriots in the MAGA movement, and our great President Trump and the “Golden Age of America” about to come in the New Year!
I wish all of us great success in our political journey together to Make America and New York Great Again!
“Glory to God in the highest, and on Earth peace, good will toward men” – From the Gospel According to Luke 2:14
God Bless America! Phil Orenstein President Queens Village Republican Club America’s Oldest Republican Club – Founded 1875 Please join our club: www.qvgop.org
