An introduction to the tip of the spear of the Democrat-Soros alliance.

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An introduction to the tip of the spear of the Democrat-Soros alliance.

This is Catalist and they stockpile your data to manipulate what you think.

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After a beatdown 2004 Presidential election, megadonors like George Soros, long-time Clinton aide Harold Ickes, and Colorado software developer Tim Gill began funding a 21st century overhaul for the Democratic Party to keep pace with the Republicans.

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Tim Gill’s predominantly LGBTQ-facing philanthropy took a political heel-turn when he hosted his Gill Foundation’s 2005 OutGiving Conference, started by a two hour seminar from Democracy Alliance CEO, Rob Stein.

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In 2004, George Soros made a bee-line for Barack Obama as an Illinois state senator, and began bankrolling his political career.

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Copernicus Analytics was founded by former DNC Comm. Dir. Mark Steitz, and w CEO Laura Quinn, founded a news distribution company called QRS Newsmedia previously in 1996.

Copernicus was the analytics arm for Catalist, but was absorbed by around 2012.

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Steitz purportedly spoke in 2012 at a U.S. Programs Board Meeting for the Soros Foundation in NYC as an expert in “political testing,” and was invited to a private informal dinner to discuss current events at the home of George Soros on Fifth Avenue.

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Laura Quinn’s QRS Newsmedia was founded in 1996 by Steitz and Quinn, and specialized in targeting local and regional newscasts from the days of broadcast television in order to disseminate messages to a national audience.

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QRS Newsmedia’s Director of Technology, Brook Colangelo, was with the company all the way up until he served as President Obama’s Chief Information Officer.

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Colangelo would have been quietly at the center of President Obama’s Blackberry security controversy during the early days of his administration.

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David McKeown was Copernicus Analytics’ comptroller, then Catalist Finance Mgr. His orbit included Booz Allen Hamilton, USAID, World Bank, and Pentagon.

McKeown was insider to the firehose of taxpayer-funded universities w which Catalist partnered.

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Erik Brauner was a founding member of Catalist and the Chief Architect of their systems, and worked at Harvard and MIT.

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Catalist supplied research data to a Caltech and MIT research project by Eitan Hersh through the Harvard Department of Government in 2010.

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A 2010 State of Washington, Perkins Coie-led report called, “Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders in Washington was published using Catalist’s voter data, showing how active the group was so early after the universities' onboarding with Microsoft.

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In a November 3, 2012, National Journal feature, Catalist’s Laura Quinn bragged on their brand new analytics capabilities.

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Yair Ghitza, Catalist’s current chief scientist, came immediately out of the University of Michigan in 2003 and went into the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, MA, quickly landing him in turn with Copernicus Analytics within months.

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Since 2006, he has published research articles with another researcher from the University of Michigan among others from Columbia, Princeton, Tufts, and George Mason Universities, all focused on election data analysis.

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As Catalist got up and running in 2007, their client list included all of Copernicus Analytics’ greatest hits and/or were also major beneficiaries of any one or multiple of George Soros’ foundations, including the new Democracy Alliance.

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By 2016, however, the Catalist roster ballooned into the palpably potent force that has helped to shape narratives, influence the nature of intelligence gathering, and to not just analyze elections, but control them through by any means necessary.

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This was all happening just as Catalist began its 2016 election push by highlighting some of their new capabilities including “synthetic data” — data generated by filling in the gaps with artificial intelligence.

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In a 2015 FEC lawsuit, Catalist provided a list of all of its past and current clients, a laundry list of world renowned universities.

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Another of the Democratic Party’s initiatives, ACORN, was under the Democracy Alliance umbrella.

In ACORN’s 2007-2008 Ohio Political Plan, Katy Gall, Mari Engelhardt, and Jeremy Mitchell signed off on a detailed plan to gain access to more voters.

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After the majority of the process is complete, one final revision is made before being sent out with ballots. There is no mention of other voting, only submitting the ballot measures for signatures in order to mobilize voters.

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After a 2009 meeting at the NYC home of George Soros in 2009, Democracy Alliance financier and Rockefeller board member Anne Bartley, and one of her highly esteemed collateral endeavors, the NRDC Action Fund, published their 2011 “facebook.”

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Democracy Alliance scored a major win through Catalist when Michael Frias came onto their staff as Chief Client & Marketing Officer.

He led pgms that connected intel agencies, fueling the gross uneven applications of justice seen commonplace today.

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What is interesting is the extensive history in political activism which fed directly into his role in public service, yet facilitating a link between the government and private sector — the perfect man for Catalist, indeed.

https://t.co/VdDYIAqNP2 https://t.co/1jC3RloOF9

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One more win yet for Soros was landing his own “mouth” on the Board of Directors in 2015.

Vachon may well be the equivalent of putting George or Alexander Soros, themselves into an American political machine. Vachon acts as the Chief of Staff for political contributions, director of communications for all of Mr. Soros’ political dealings.

https://t.co/mBWq8U51Mb

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Read more about Catalist and the data warehousing that was weaponized against not only your ballot, but your vote and how you think about and process the world, and you can do that on my Substack, with a link in my bio! https://t.co/EEgXC7dWs1

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The NRDC "facebook" featured a Manager of Catalist, Patricia Bauman, and the infamous John Podesta.

oh nooooo a double tap!