Guests - Andy Biggs, Ava Chen, Alex Kolodin, Laurie Moore
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Andy Biggs: Run Through the Tape
Congressman Andy Biggs called in on China Watch Wednesday to share the news of a strong new poll and make a final push to Republican primary voters with less than two weeks remaining. He was characteristically measured about it: "I don't take anything for granted. We're still running through the tape." The softball coaching analogy he reached for was apt — young players who get a hit and start celebrating before reaching first base get thrown out. His message to supporters was the same: keep running until the election is over.
The conversation turned quickly to what Biggs described as the defining contrast of the governor's race. Katie Hobbs, he argued, is not merely a moderate Democrat out of step with Arizona — she is an extremist by any objective reading of her record. The proof isn't the volume of her vetoes but what she vetoed: bills protecting educational freedom, election integrity, tax relief for working families. She finally signed the latter after vetoing it three times, once the political heat became unsustainable. "It must be an election year, Andy," Winn noted. He didn't disagree.
On debate, Biggs was direct. He participated in three debates during the primary — one televised, two additional — while Hobbs, as she did against Kari Lake four years ago, has refused to commit to a single debate against him. "I'm ready to debate her. Let's go." He characterized her avoidance as a function of having nothing to sell. Arizona under Hobbs has gone from fourth in the nation in job growth and economic development to 47th. For the first time in decades, Allied Van Lines' annual migration study showed Arizona losing more residents than it gained. Low wage growth, unaffordable housing, a utility cost story that contradicts her own campaign ads — all of it, Biggs argued, traces directly to policy choices, not external forces.
He added two specific dimensions the race has not fully surfaced. First: Hobbs remains under a criminal investigation for alleged pay-for-play schemes, which he suggested explains why she vetoed multiple transparency and anti-fraud bills that landed on her desk. Second: he has a record of working across the aisle that her "extremist" label for him cannot survive contact with. He cited his collaboration with the late Senator John McCain on the Savanna's Act — the Amber Alert in Indian Country legislation — as one of multiple bipartisan accomplishments, alongside two bills dealing with child exploitation protection that passed the House unanimously in the prior three months.
On water, Biggs was blunt: Hobbs has been asleep. The Central Arizona Project negotiations have been ongoing and consequential, and the congressional delegation — all nine members — has done more to protect Arizona's water interests in six months than the governor's office has in four years. She has since claimed credit for outcomes she didn't produce, including the Apache helicopter program's renewal and the jobs it preserved. Winn confirmed that firsthand, having sat with her husband — a retired Boeing vice president who worked directly with Biggs on saving the program — at the anniversary flight ceremony while Hobbs took the stage and accepted the applause.
Biggs's closing message to voters: understand where Arizona was and where it is. "We were one of the most vibrant growth states, the easiest states to live in, the freest states. Basically, we've lost so much of that under Katie Hobbs, and we're going to restore that under my leadership." He directed voters to BiggForArizona.com for polling location and early voting information, and confirmed that teams of door-knockers remain active across Pima County through the final two weeks.
Ava Chen: The Miles Guo Appeal, Hunter Biden's Reveal, and What the CCP Is Planning Next
Ava Chen, China Watch Wednesday co-anchor and spokesperson for the New Federal State of China, used her segment to update listeners on three interlocking threads: Miles Guo's post-sentencing appeal, Hunter Biden's revealing social media post, and new intelligence on CCP-backed escalation involving Russia, Iran, and the threat of biological warfare.
The Appeal and Why Guo Refused a Pardon
Chen opened with a status update on the legal battle. Guo's defense team officially filed an appeal application with the Second Circuit Court on July 2nd. Chen addressed the question circulating in the NFSC community about why Guo hasn't sought a presidential pardon, a path that has been publicly discussed given the number of political prisoners granted relief by the current administration. The answer, she said, is both principled and strategic. Accepting a pardon is legally treated as an admission of guilt — it implicitly acknowledges that a crime was committed and that forgiveness is being granted. Guo did not commit fraud and will not acknowledge that he did. "He does not seek pardon," Chen said. "The reason why is he wants to clear his name. And this is not only about his name, this is about the name of the movement."
The indictment, trial, and sentencing have collectively painted the NFSC's whistleblower movement as illegitimate. That framing, Chen argued, is the actual target — not Guo as an individual. Winning in the appellate courts is the only way to fully reverse it. She noted that by the time sentencing concluded, Guo's legal team had documented that among 1,286 individuals who submitted letters, 1,223 explicitly disclaimed being victimized, while 108 had been interrogated by the CCP in connection with their association with the movement. That evidentiary record, denied a formal hearing at sentencing, becomes the foundation of the Second Circuit appeal.
The Reversed Fraud Pattern
Chen cited the analysis of an independent financial YouTuber known as Wolf in Finance, who examined the GTV case in April 2023 and noticed what he described as a reversed fraud pattern — one that has no analogue in any conventional fraud scheme he had studied. In a standard fraud, a deceptive scheme causes a business to collapse, the collapse causes investor losses, and the losses create angry victims. At GTV, none of those steps occurred in that order. There was no deception — Guo livestreamed the entire fundraising process publicly. There was no collapse — GTV was growing, with increasing users and more demand to invest than available slots when fundraising closed. The investor losses, Chen argued, were caused not by Guo but by the SEC's July 2020 investigation freeze on bank accounts, initiated using a complaint filed by CCP-connected parties, which then made it impossible for the platform to operate or fulfill its stated vision. "They caused the fraud. And it wasn't even fraudulent. They caused the breakdown so he couldn't deliver on his promise because they took all his stuff."
GTV operated for nearly another year and a half after the bank account freeze, she noted — funded by Guo's own family and committed fellow fighters — precisely because the movement's audience continued to demand access to the platform's coverage. The same pattern then played out at GClub, the Rule of Law Society, and the Himalaya Exchange, each shut down using the same legal mechanism. "Your system has been weaponized by the CCP."
Hunter Biden Connects the Dots
Hunter Biden's June 30th post on X functioned, Chen said, as an inadvertent confirmation of everything the NFSC has been claiming. Biden tied Miles Guo to Steve Bannon, to Mar-a-Lago membership, and to the GTV reporting on the Biden laptop — calling the hard drive story fake. In doing so, he revealed the personal motive behind the criminal prosecution: GTV was the platform that first published the Biden family's Beijing corruption in September 2020, two months before the presidential election. "When we started the Hunter Biden revelation in late September, this became personal. That's where really the criminal case comes in." Before that, the CCP had used civil litigation. Once the Biden family became personally implicated, the mechanism shifted to criminal prosecution. "The CCP colluded with the Biden justice — people who, as you said, recognize loyalty not to the nation, not to the American people, but to individuals." Winn made the political valence explicit: "If Hunter Biden is happy that Miles is in prison, that tells me everything I need to know about Miles Guo."
The Intel: Russia, Iran, and the Biochemical Threat
Chen closed with what she described as current intelligence the NFSC has developed on the CCP's next operational moves. Her framework: the CCP is the financial and strategic backer of both the Russia-Ukraine war and the Iran-U.S. conflict in the Middle East, deliberately using both to drain American military resources, attention, and political capital before Xi Jinping is ready to move on Taiwan. The two fronts are escalating simultaneously not by coincidence.
On Russia specifically, Chen cited a July 6th Financial Times opinion piece titled "Putin Is Running Out of Options," which outlined four potential escalation scenarios for a military that has been suffering approximately 35,000 casualties per month: conventional military escalation and further mobilization; nuclear intimidation; direct provocation against NATO's eastern flank, particularly the Baltic states; and hybrid warfare — cyberattacks, sabotage, disinformation, and gray-zone operations against Western countries. The NFSC's intelligence assessment assigns a 50% probability to the use of biochemical weapons in the hybrid warfare scenario. "This is very real," Chen said.
The biochemical threat is not hypothetical, she argued — COVID-19 was itself a CCP military bioweapon, and the design principle behind it was not maximizing lethality but maximizing economic disruption. A highly lethal virus kills its hosts before it can spread; a less lethal but highly transmissible virus travels farther, lasts longer, and does more damage to the economies it moves through. "Look at how many US dollars you printed during those years and how is your economy performing?" The NFSC's intelligence suggests that COVID's variant cycle — from the original strain through Omicron and Delta — was not random mutation but deliberate sequential releases designed to maintain global economic disruption for five years. The strategic goal: trigger a financial crisis worse than 1929, use the resulting social chaos to accelerate the political projects of the radical left already operating inside the country, and create fire-sale conditions for CCP-connected entities to acquire distressed Western assets. Xi Jinping allegedly reviewed the original program and expressed disappointment not that it failed — it succeeded — but that it "didn't kill enough people" of the intended demographic targets.
On Spain: Chen flagged Trump's announcement that the U.S. would no longer trade with Spain as a sign that the CCP's footprint in European governments is advancing, not retreating. "Spain is gone." The pattern — socialism and communism expanding through European political systems with CCP backing — is the same one visible in Zohran Mamdani's New York campaign and in the ideological drift of the American Democratic socialist movement. "There's no more money for Putin's war, no more money for Iran's war, no more money for North Korea's nuclear tests if you can get the CCP. Nothing goes back. The whole world will be peace." The key remaining vulnerabilities inside the American system that she urged the administration to prioritize: the intelligence community, the media, the financial sector, and the judiciary — the same four categories she has cited in prior segments, each of which she argues still contains significant CCP-aligned actors operating under cover of institutional legitimacy.
Alex Kolodin: The Arizona Supreme Court Gives Justin Heap a Total Victory
Alex Kolodin, state senator and Secretary of State candidate, joined the show to break down an Arizona Supreme Court ruling issued the same morning — a complete victory for Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap in his 18-month legal battle with the county's Board of Supervisors over control of early voting operations.
The ruling's core holding, as Kolodin explained it: when Arizona law says that a recorder or other officer in charge of elections "gets to do something," that means the recorder gets to choose whether they do it or whether they delegate it. The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors had, in the final days of outgoing recorder Stephen Richer's tenure, engineered an agreement that stripped Heap of control over early voting equipment, budget, and staff — a deliberate attempt to nullify the results of the 2024 election in which voters specifically chose Heap to run the county's elections. The Arizona Supreme Court rejected that arrangement entirely. "A county board of supervisors may not use its funding authority to assume or reassign statutory responsibilities entrusted to an independently elected county officer," Winn read from the ruling. The board also has a nondiscretionary duty to fund necessary expenses of the recorder's office — meaning the funding cuts are not merely reversed but are now legally prohibited going forward.
Kolodin was careful about expectations: he anticipated continued resistance from the board, noting that these are "folks who are totally unable to accept the results of an election" and who have fought at every level and lost repeatedly without changing course. The question of whether they will face contempt proceedings if they continue to defy the court remains open. He acknowledged that courts are typically reluctant to jail elected officials, but noted that the option is legally available if defiance continues. "They've been risking contempt, but they've been losing. At some point, you'd think they'd learn." He read into the record a statement from Abe Hamadeh, whom he called "one of the brightest people in our politics": "The Arizona Supreme Court has decisively rejected the blatant election power grab attempted by the disgraced former Maricopa County Recorder and the Board of Supervisors. This is a major victory for election integrity, the rule of law, and the voters of Arizona."
Winn noted the local parallel: Pima County's Board of Supervisors — four Democrats and one Republican — has maintained different but analogous pressure on the county recorder's office, and the Supreme Court ruling establishes statewide precedent that clarifies the lanes in all 15 Arizona counties, not just Maricopa.
Kolodin pivoted to November, reminding listeners that the SAVE Arizona Act — also called the FAST Act — will appear on the November ballot as a citizen referendum, referred there by the legislature after he spent two years shepherding it through. The measure constitutionalizes Arizona's existing citizenship requirement for voting, bans foreign funding in elections, speeds up election results, and most importantly requires government-issued ID for every ballot cast regardless of how it is submitted. The Department of Justice, he noted, cited the absence of exactly this requirement when analyzing why Los Angeles's mayoral election became a catastrophic failure. "By passing this, voters can ensure that we never have an L.A.-style problem right here in Arizona."
On the primary race itself, Kolodin cited statewide ballot-return data and called out Pima County specifically: "You guys got to step your game up. You are lagging Republicans elsewhere in the state in terms of ballot returns." He made the structural argument that applies regardless of local cynicism about election administration: in statewide races — secretary of state, governor, attorney general — one vote from Pima County counts exactly as much as one vote from Yavapai County. Pima County Republican turnout at the statewide average, sustained consistently, wins every statewide race. "If Pima County Republicans can turn out at the statewide average, we win everything statewide." For primary day voting information and resources: AlexForAZ.com — A-L-E-X-F-O-R-A-Z.com.
Laurie Moore: The View From Delaware and the Dispatcher Ballot Problem
Laurie Moore, a longtime Pima County Republican and show regular who was calling in from Fenwick Island, Delaware, joined the final minutes of the Kolodin segment to deliver a ground-level report from a county activist watching the primary unfold from a distance.
Moore had been proactive: she called the Pima County recorder's office before leaving Tucson and arranged to have her ballot forwarded to Delaware, received it, filled it out, and mailed it back — before, she noted pointedly, some Sahuarita residents had received their ballots at all. She framed the episode as its own editorial: if someone who left the state before early voting opened managed to receive and return a ballot from Delaware, there is no operational reason why Pima County residents still sitting in Tucson should not have theirs.
On Kolodin's race and the secretary of state contest generally, Moore was unambiguous: "You are either a conservative or a communist. There's no middle ground." She described the systematic dispatch of incorrect ballots — independents who requested Republican ballots being sent Democrat ballots — as a deliberate pattern of voter suppression and dispiriting, not administrative error. "If your vote wasn't important, they wouldn't be trying so hard to stop you from casting it."
She reported that volunteer ground teams across Pima County — including Turning Point USA operations — are active and accelerating, with door-knocking underway in multiple legislative districts and ballot-return numbers beginning to move. She confirmed Winn's separate count: 22 affidavits documenting election irregularities had been filed the day prior, with more being collected daily. "We're keeping track because that's our job."
Moore's final note, delivered with the perspective of someone who has watched Pima County politics from both inside and outside: the county's irreplaceable value in statewide races is not symbolic. If Republicans in Pima County close the turnout gap with the rest of the state, the math changes across every race on the November ballot simultaneously. "We can bring the Golden Age home to Arizona."