SAUL SAUL L O WEEK 46, 2019 E B - POOL/G - B E TTY IMA ges OUR NATION House minority counsel Steve Castor (L) and Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio and confer during the first public impeachment hearing on Nov. 13, 2019. Cross Examination Exposes Gaps in Impeachment Narrative Questions from lawmakers reveal hearsay, opinion, and presumptions underlie crucial claims by star witness 7 2 | OUR NATION Week 46, 2019 Week 46, 2019 OUR NATION | 3 WIN MCNAMEE/GETTY IMAges areas to get a picture of where there was affordable housing in Northern Virginia,” according to the Mason Virginia Goes Blue: Gazette. This information probably Liberation Road’s goal proved very useful when Liss estab- is to destroy President lished NVM two years later. Trump and the Republican According to an Aug. 25, 2011, post Pro-China Communists Claim Credit on McClure’s blog: Party to pave the way for a “I have been recently working socialist America. with New Virginia Majority to make Did a China-based American communist help flip Virginia? a series of maps to inform planning for precinct walks in Virginia State house WIN MCNAMEE/GETTY IMAges districts. ... The core data are lists of TREVOR LOUDON individual households by pan-ethnic census categories. ... The results are News Analysis subjective but do suggest ... the ways It’s official. The once that actual communities conform or deep-red Common- diverge from the discrete territorial wealth of Virginia is units which define an electoral terrain now a blue state. As in a democracy.” a result of the Nov. All this wasn’t theoretical. It was 5 election, Democrats designed to help NVM flip districts now hold all three of the statewide across the state by micro-targeting constitutional offices, both U.S. Sen- potential Democratic voters in low- ate seats, the majority of its Congress income and minority communities. members, and both chambers of the In another post, he wrote: State House. “In the general elections of 2008, Laura Ingraham of Fox News says Virginia voted Democratic for the first argue that to destroy the Republican A sample ballot at tling for the South.” it’s because of “changing demograph- time since 1964 with Obama carrying Party in the South, black communi- a polling station in Liberation Road has a large presence ics.” That’s only partially true. Virginia the state. Demographic shifts and in- ties must be targeted and mobilized Arlington, Va., on in Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina Nov. 5, 2019. went blue because a handful of well- creased voter participation rather than to vote: (Durham for All), and Florida (the New organized pro-Chinese communists a shift in political allegiances account “(1) A critical mass of Southern states Florida Majority). Now that Virginia is made it happen. for this outcome. ... can and must be won if we are to block safely in the Democrat column, look The group in question, New Virginia “Focusing on Prince William Coun- or defeat the right in presidential elec- to see an upsurge of Maoist electoral Majority (NVM), has exploited Virgin- ty, Virginia, I applied spatial interpola- tions. Three of the five or so critical activity in North Carolina and Florida ia’s changing population and “liberal tion techniques in a GIS to translate battleground states are in the South: to turn those states blue in 2020; Ten- bleed out” from the Washington area the 2008 election returns from the Florida, Virginia and North Carolina. nessee and Georgia will be next. Then, to flip not just Northern Virginia but geography of precincts to year 2000 Southern blue and battleground states Texas. also districts across the state. Based zoning classification areas for further plus Washington D.C. hold 38 percent in Alexandria and Richmond, NVM quantitative analysis. The goal was to of the electoral votes needed to win. Chinese ‘Collusion’? has sent hundreds of paid workers produce actionable intelligence for “(2) Winning an anti-rightwing con- Trump has been tougher on Beijing and volunteers out across the com- working class organizations building gressional majority depends on win- than has any other president in liv- monwealth to register and send to the popular power at the base. ... ning in the South, as the South has a ing memory. It’s no secret that China polls hundreds of thousands of new “The results are presented as maps bigger congressional delegation than doesn’t like Trump and would love to voters—all under the nose of the Vir- and diagrams which might illumi- any other region and Southern con- see him defeated in 2020. ginia Republican Party. nate challenges and opportunities for gresspersons also hold key leadership Rather than risk war, or suffer The Democrats have flipped two organizations engaging with electoral posts within the Republican Party’s huge economic setbacks, wouldn’t state Senate seats, and now hold a 10- efforts.” congressional hierarchies. it be much cheaper and easier to use vote advantage in the Assembly. NVM McClure is still actively engaged in “(3) There are tremendous oppor- China’s American assets, such as Lib- endorsed and supported 23 Virginia giving advice to his U.S. comrades on tunities to build progressive political eration Road, to ensure Trump’s defeat candidates this cycle and won with winning elections for the Democrats. power and governance at the local by “democratic” means? 15 of them, including two state Sen- An article co-written by McClure level in the South as 105 counties have It’s inconceivable that the Chinese ate races and nine Assembly victories. and Bob Wing, “The Importance of a Black majority. ... government didn’t know what Mc- The 15 who were endorsed by NVM the Fight for the South—and Why It “While some might dismiss the Clure was up to. After all, they pre- and won are: Can and Must Be Won,” appeared on South, focusing strategically on the sumably pay his salary or living costs the Liberation Road-linked website Northeast and Pacific Coast as cen- while he is in China. • Ghazala Hashmi, Virginia Senate Organizing Upgrade on Sept. 4, 2017. tral to a progressive program and the It’s clear that Liberation Road is tied District 10 It states: Midwest as the main political battle- to China. It’s also clear that their front- • John Bell, Virginia Senate District 13 “The far right, racism, militarism, ground, the South’s dynamic growth, group NVM is heavily involved in U.S. • Wendy Gooditis, House District 10 inequality, and poverty are all cen- historical legacy of Black struggle and electoral politics and played a decisive • Kelly Convirs-Fowler, House Dis- mass voter registration drives, you can includes and reflects the diversity of Virginia voters the voting rights of more than 173,000 Maoist Groups tered in the South. The majority of powerful political weight make it a role in turning Virginia blue. It’s also trict 21 flip almost any state. our state. We don’t talk to voters only head to the polls in Virginians during his term, more than NVM is led by longtime FRSO/Libera- African Americans, the main pro- critical battlefield. obvious that Liberation Road’s goal is • Elizabeth Guzman, House District 31 when campaign season rolls around. Arlington, Va., on any other governor in Virginia’s his- tion Road cadre Jon Liss of Alexandria. tagonist of progressive politics in “The nuance is that the South can- to destroy President Trump and the Nov. 5, 2019. • Dan Helmer, House District 40 We try to reach voters of all colors, tory. In 2016, of the nearly 20,000 men Several FRSO cadres have served in this country, live in the South. And not be won as a bloc, but only state by Republican Party to pave the way for • Kathy Tran, House District 42 women, low-income workers and and women who registered to vote for NVM over the years, as have many ac- the South has more electoral votes, state and county by county. In fact, a socialist America. • Hala Ayala, House District 51 By going after the young people where they are, which the first time as a result of the resto- tivists from two NVM satellite groups, battleground state votes, popula- winning the South in large part means Is there Chinese “collusion” here? Do • Schuyler VanValkenburg, House minority vote with has made it possible for us to develop a ration of their rights, a whopping 79 LeftRoots and the Virginia Student tion, and congresspersons than any understanding that it is not a mono- we need investigations and executive District 72 robust base of support along Virginia’s percent voted. They were a key vot- Power Network. other region. lithic entity and winning it piece by action against these subversive groups • Rodney Willett, House District 73 mass voter registration so-called Urban Crescent, from North- ing bloc in Virginia, the only Southern FRSO/Liberation Road comes out of “The South is changing rapidly, piece: i.e. politically deconstructing before they’re able to fully realize their • Shelly Simonds, House District 94 drives, you can flip ern Virginia to Hampton Roads. Long state that Hillary Clinton won.” the militantly pro-China American giving rise to more progressive de- the South.” goals? With less than a year until the • Steve Descano, Fairfax County almost any state. before Election Day, we registered NVM worked closely with McAuliffe Maoist student movement of the 1970s. mographic groups—especially Black President Donald Trump’s victory 2020 election, there’s not much time Commonwealth’s Attorney more than 300,000 voters, knocked on to win ex-felon voting rights. The or- While it’s more discreet about its Chi- and Latino migrations, LGBTQs and in 2016 shocked the left and, accord- left to do so.