Rogue Spy Agencies Behind Global War On Democracy

Hours after the release of the "January 8 Files,” which show illegal activity by Brazil's most powerful Supreme Court Justice, Alexandre de Moraes, he has ordered the house arrest of former President Jair Bolsonaro. Ostensibly, it's because Bolsonaro violated a Supreme Court censorship order by participating in a protest against the government yesterday. But another motivation of Moraes is to distract attention from his nakedly illegal behavior we exposed today in the January 8 Files. "Of course it's not a coincidence," says Congressman Marcel Van Hattam.

This is not the first time that judicial activists around the world have sought to incarcerate and otherwise prevent a nationalist populist presidential candidate from participating in a democratic election. From 2021 to 2024, activist Attorney Generals, District Attorneys, and judges sought to incarcerate Trump on multiple trumped-up charges. In Romania last year, a European Union court prevented a right-wing populist presidential candidate from competing in the election. In France this year, a criminal court convicted the conservative populist presidential candidate. And in Germany, governing parties have openly called for banning the main conservative populist political party.

Officially, the reasons for the efforts to prevent political candidates from competing in free and open elections are different in each country. In the US, the prosecution of Trump was allegedly due to his mishandling of classified documents, his miscategorization of campaign expenses, and his supposed effort to overturn the 2020 election results. In Brazil, former President Jair Bolsonaro allegedly tried to overthrow the government. In Romania, the effort to prevent Călin Georgescu from competing in the presidential run-off was about the alleged manipulation of TikTok algorithms. In France, the effort to block Marine Le Pen from running for president is supposedly around misusing staff time for political purposes. And in Germany, the effort to ban the Alternative for Germany (AfD) is supposedly because it holds views that are “extremist.”