From MSNBC’s The Weeknight on MS NOW yesterday (February 18, 2026), right before the clip above, Jason Johnson said:
None of this is about election fraud. We all know this. It’s not about election fraud. No one cares about election fraud. Election fraud doesn’t really happen. It’s always been ridiculous to think that somebody who comes to this country illegally, with all the dangers and risks that go with that, being pulled off the street is like, ‘But I gotta go vote, right?’
Then he said:
“They (Republicans) took voter rolls and they’re gonna use that to hunt down and harass individuals who should be able to vote this fall.”
In many states, no voter ID is required at all. That’s a massive, gaping hole for impersonation, duplicate voting, non-citizens, dead voters, and outright fraud. As of now, 14 states plus D.C.—mostly deep-blue strongholds like California, New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Maine, Maryland, Nevada, and Hawaii—let anyone vote in person without showing any form of ID. They rely on weak signature matches or basic verbal checks that are laughably easy to fake.
Even in states like Michigan that supposedly “require” photo ID, it’s a total sham: If you “forgot” your ID (or claim you don’t have one), you just sign a quick affidavit swearing you’re who you say you are—and you get a full, counted ballot. Come on—who actually “forgets” their ID when it’s literally the one thing needed to prove you’re a legal voter?
There was rampant election fraud in 2020. I got genuinely excited thinking: This is so huge, so obvious nationwide—there is no way the media can bury it this time! A few outlets actually started reporting on the 2020 election fraud. I couldn’t believe my eyes—real coverage at last. Then, like clockwork, everything stopped cold. Shut down overnight.
And just like programmed robots and puppets, every mainstream outlet suddenly parroted the exact same line: 2020 was the “most secure election ever.” Any doubt about Joe Biden’s win became a dangerous “conspiracy theory.” But when the media and Democrats throw out the word “conspiracy,” it’s their favorite weapon to kill real questions, silence whistleblowers, and protect the steal—no matter how much evidence piles up.
The corporate, liberal, and public news media will never honestly report election fraud. They collude with the corrupt system to sell Americans the lie that election fraud doesn’t happen—while flooding the nation with tens of millions of illegals to rig and cheat elections.
But new media, social media, and right-wing voices have forced people like Vaughn Hillyard to shift from “no fraud” to “no widespread fraud.”
Election fraud is real. And it’s massive. Democrats leave borders wide open, flood the country with tens of millions of lawless illegals to rig and cheat elections. If that weren’t the plan, we wouldn’t count illegals in the census, and Democrats wouldn’t fight deportations, secure borders, and enforcing immigration laws. Yet the media insists illegals don’t vote or affect elections.
“Here’s a thing that I learned in your reporting on yours, Carl’s and Laura’s reporting, which is in as much as this is about elections and destabilizing elections, there is what you could describe as the side project of Stephen Miller’s deportation machine…”
Next, she reads from an MS NOW article headlined, Memo shows White House directing DHS to hunt for voter fraud by naturalized citizens.
Menendez continues:
“Part of this is about elections and democracy, but part of this also is about Stephen Miller’s project to expel people from this country.”
Vaughn Hillyard replied:
“And I think that the part about this is, when you’re looking at the idea of the great replacement theory, it has been used to essentially try to galvanize Republican voters around the country, and especially the 2018 midterms, the 2022 midterms. And that’s the idea that democrats want immigrants to come into the country so that they can vote. And there is just a reality that there is no evidence of widespread or even significant or even minuscule voting by undocumented individuals in the country in American history.
And I think that this is sort of, you know, it reminds me of also there is this big investigation by the Republican attorney general out in Arizona back in 2022 in which there were allegations, conspiracy theories of dead people voting and he did everything he could. He was an ally of Donald Trump. And essentially he came up with nothing and had to put that forward when he was ridiculed by Republicans.
I think that this is another example of the ways in which, six years into this, they are struggling to find new conspiracies or new claims and allegations of fraud to justify the way in which Donald Trump lost a 2020 election.
And I think it’s important that there are still individuals within the White House, Stephen Miller, but also at the local level, like one of the state election board members here in the state of Georgia, who just about an hour and a half ago, the words that she said were, quote, we want free and fair elections in Georgia because right now we do not. That is one of the individuals that in real time here in the state of Georgia, just seven months from the midterm, is help shaping election administration policy here in this pivotal, pivotal state.”
Their denials protect the machine. Republicans aren’t “hunting” or “harassing” lawful voters—they’re demanding basic safeguards: clean rolls, voter ID everywhere, proof of citizenship (SAVE Act), and real enforcement.
We need secure borders and deportations to stop illegal immigration from being used to rig the system; strict, universal photo ID everywhere; no affidavit loopholes that let anyone vote by simply swearing they’re eligible; proof of citizenship to register and to vote; and aggressive, ongoing voter-roll cleanups to remove non-citizens, duplicates, and the dead. Anything less isn’t just risky—it actively invites and enables fraud.
Imagine if the people at MS NOW actually investigated and reported on real election fraud instead of denying it exists and protecting the cheaters.
Wake up—are you more informed than these Democrat propagandists on TV?