Guests - Joel Strabala, Eileen Wilson, Scott Schara
A Lawsuit Won, a Gala Coming, and a Series That Just Got Harder to Ignore
Thursday on Winn Tucson moved from ground-level election machinery to a surprising internal legal victory to the sixth installment of a series that keeps finding new and uncomfortable ground to excavate. Three segments, three different scales — the precinct, the party, and the philosophical. All of it pointed toward the same thing: what are you doing with what you know?
Joel Strabala: 120 Polling Places, 18 Early Sites, One Mobile Unit, and Why You Should Observe
Joel Strabala — LD-17 chairman, Election Integrity Commission member, and the man who keeps the most detailed operational picture of Pima County's election infrastructure — came on with fresh information and a direct ask: stop being a passive voter and start being an active witness.
The Election Landscape
The July 21st primary will have 120 polling places across Pima County on Election Day. Additionally:
18 early voting sites are operating across the county for the early voting period
A mobile voting center will appear at five different locations in the week before the election
Early ballot windows open approximately three days after the June 22nd voter registration deadline
The Election Integrity Commission meets June 19th to review any new or innovative election procedures the recorder is implementing
All of these locations need Republican observers. Not theoretically — actively.
"Alex Kolodin left me with the message: the election observer program is critical to ensuring election integrity. We need Republican volunteers to observe for three to four hours at our election sites to make sure that election processes and procedures are followed."
The right to observe was fought for and won. Using it is not optional — it is the point.
For anyone wanting to sign up as an observer, the pimagop.org website will be fully operational by Monday with sign-up forms for training and deployment at early voting sites, Election Day sites, the mobile voting center, tabulation, signature verification, and ballot processing. You can observe as many days as you choose.
The Ballot Process
Strabala confirmed that the Board of Supervisors is responsible for approving all early voting center locations — and that at the time of the broadcast, the approval had not yet been confirmed from the Tuesday meeting. The Green Valley situation — where Green Valley Rec has withdrawn its facilities as polling locations — remains a specific concern for a community that votes reliably and conservatively.
Anyone who observes something questionable or illegal needs to document it. The observation forms completed by Republican observers are the evidentiary backbone of election integrity lawsuits — including the ongoing Oversight Project case against Fontes and Chris Mays.
LD-17's Numbers
With 183,000 registered voters in Pima County alone — the largest legislative district in the county by registration — LD-17 is the weight that makes Pima County matter statewide. Of those 183,000: 70,000 registered Republicans, 56,000 registered Democrats.
That gap is real and winnable — but only if Republicans show up. Strabala cited the demographic math directly: if voters over 65 come out in the low-turnout primary environment, they can move races.
In LD-17 specifically: the state Senate race between Chris King and Anthony Dunham has gotten contentious. Strabala's counsel was measured and consistent with Winn's ongoing position — do your own fact-checking, don't take attack ads at face value, and verify any claim before acting on it.
Rachel Keschel and John Winchester face no Republican primary opposition and will advance automatically to the general election. But the general election math matters: LD-17 elects two House members, and the Democrats are running the prior incumbent Kevin Volk. Voting for both Republicans — Keschel and Winchester — is not optional for anyone who wants to hold both seats.
Congressman Ciscomani's Race
CD-6 — which encompasses most of LD-17 — is one of the most vulnerable congressional seats in the country. Joanne Mendoza is running against Juan Ciscomani with the full financial commitment of national Democrats. The district has elected Gabby Giffords, Ann Kirkpatrick, and Martha McSally. The idea that it leans safely one direction is not supported by history.
Every vote in Pima County in November is a vote in that race.
Eileen Wilson: The Lawsuit That Just Ended, the Gala on the Fourth, and a Staccato Pistol Worth $3,000
Eileen Wilson — second vice chairman of the Pima County Republican Party, president of the United Republicans for Arizona, and one of the hardest-working organizers in the Green Valley and LD-19 precincts — joined during a segment that opened with breaking news.
The Lawsuit: Over, Won, Done
Winn announced the result publicly for the first time: a lawsuit filed against her, as chairman of the Pima County Republican Party, by LD-19's chair — had just been dismissed.
The case was filed roughly a year ago. The claim: that the LD-19 chair could tell the Pima County Republican Party it was not permitted to organize or operate within Pima County's portion of LD-19. The Pima County GOP filed a motion to dismiss on the grounds that the court lacked jurisdiction over internal party organizational matters.
Judge Kyle Bryson of the Pima County Superior Court granted the motion.
The ruling found that questions about how subcommittees may be formed, and how parties may appoint committees to different LD and county structures, are for each political party to determine — not for a court to adjudicate.
"The dispute was moot," Winn explained, "because the plaintiff kept trying to relate it to another court action which had nothing to do with it whatsoever."
The ruling came down May 26th. Winn received it Thursday morning.
Wilson's response was immediate and personal: she had been running informal meetings — because they were never permitted to call them official — while 5,000 door hanger bags sat staged and ready, PC volunteers assembled, and the threat of the lawsuit hung over everything they tried to do.
"To not have it hanging over our heads saying the chairman of LD-19 of the five-county does not authorize you to do that — my gosh, we have to get these great Republicans elected."
This was not a Republican-versus-Democrat fight. It was Republicans fighting Republicans — an internal attack that Winn declined to escalate on air, holding consistently to the principle that legal matters resolve legally and that Pima County's job is to elect conservatives, not to run an internal firing squad.
"I am going to be straight with people because quite frankly it is the only way that we build respect inside this community. If we continue to act like junior high children, we will not be treated the way that we should."
The Green Valley and LD-19 operation continues. With the case resolved, nothing is hanging over the organizing work that Wilson and her team have been building for months. Turnout Point Action is operational. American Majority is in the field. Five thousand door hangers are going out. United Republicans is registering 10 to 15 party-switchers per week from the storefront at Continental Shopping Plaza.
The Green Valley Polling Crisis — and the Solution
Green Valley Rec's withdrawal as a polling venue has left Green Valley voters without their familiar early in-person voting options. One Saladita location remains available for early drop-off. That is insufficient for a community the size of Green Valley.
Wilson's solution was practical and personal.
"In Green Valley, we are offering rides. We will drive anybody to the polls. Give me a call. Call the United Republicans directly and we will drive you there, because your ballot counts."
United Republicans phone: 520-777-6445 Eileen Wilson direct: 520-940-0709
No excuse is needed. Just call.
The July 4th Sparkle for Freedom Gala
The Pima County Republican Party's 250th anniversary celebration is on the calendar and filling up. Winn described it as the best possible way to spend the Fourth of July in the most consequential election year in recent memory.
Date: July 4th, 2026 Time: 7 to 10 p.m. Location: JW Marriott Starpass, Tucson Tickets: $150 per person | $1,500 for a full reserved table Register: pimagop.org — scroll down for the Sparkle for Freedom Gala tickets
Food stations, display carts, music, singing, games, and the veranda overlooking fireworks across Tucson from the mountain. No crowds. No parking nightmares. Just like-minded people celebrating something that is worth celebrating — and only happens once.
"This is the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence," Winn said. "It's only coming once. July 4th next year will be the 251st. This year is the milestone."
Wilson invited non-PC community members explicitly — this is not a party-members-only event. It is a celebration for anyone who believes in what the party is trying to accomplish.
The Gun Raffle
Separate from the gala but timed to run through it: a Staccato CS 2011 9mm pistol raffle, valued at close to $3,000. The pistol was donated by Al Wilkinson, who serves on the NRA board.
Raffle tickets: $20 each or a bundle of 6 tickets for $100
Tickets can be purchased now at pimagop.org — find the gun raffle in the menu. The winning ticket will be drawn at the gala on July 4th.
The pistol was praised by Wilson for its accuracy, tactical design, and fiber-optic sighting system. Whether or not you attend the gala, the raffle is an option for supporting the party's work heading into the general election.
Scott Schara: Part Six — How They Programmed the Population, the Tennis Match, and the Declaration of Independence as a Trap
This is the sixth installment of a continuing series. Scott Schara is the Wisconsin father, author, and researcher whose 19-year-old daughter Grace — who had Down syndrome — died in a Wisconsin hospital in October 2021. His book, Is the Government Legally Killing Us?, is available at ouramazinggrace.net. Part Seven will air June 11th.
The Control Grid and the Tennis Match
Schara opened not with a new horror story but with a structural observation about how populations are kept inside systems they would otherwise reject.
The mechanism is simple: present evil, then offer a less-evil alternative. The population — grateful to escape the worst — chooses the less-evil option and in doing so enters the control grid. The control grid does not require force. It requires that the population never sees the door on the other side.
His working example was vaccines. The current conversation in American politics — about safe vaccines and eliminating mandates — is the less-evil option in a deception that started in the mid-1800s. The premise of virology: that boogeyman viruses emerge unpredictably, and a vaccine is always needed to solve the fear those viruses create. The cycle repeats with every new pathogen name in the news. Ebola is the current iteration.
"Satan's mode of operation is lies, deception, and fear. They can bank that the population will have fear."
Vera Sharov — a Holocaust survivor who has become a friend to Schara in his research — summarized it for him: "They will never cut off the head of the snake." The head of the snake is virology. All debates about lab leaks, vaccine mandates, gain-of-function research — all of these keep the population engaged within the frame of virology rather than questioning the frame itself.
Jason Kristoff — a mind control researcher with 30 years in the field — framed it in athletic terms: they keep us on the tennis court, watching the ball go back and forth. We never get out of the match. God's way is outside the match entirely.
The quote Winn read aloud from Kristoff:
"Most people think they're too smart to be placed under mind control. And I completely understand that. But tell me this: why do you stand in a line voluntarily to vote every four years and get so emotionally invested in someone who's going to steal your money and poison you — if you're not under mind control?"
The Discernment Problem
The antidote to mind control is discernment. The problem: discernment is being systematically removed from American civic and educational life.
Schara returns to Hosea 4:6 — my people perish for lack of knowledge — not as a devotional but as a diagnostic. Most people make decisions based on beliefs formed by what they were taught, not on knowledge derived from investigation. Beliefs are easy to steer. Knowledge requires primary sources.
"We judge good or bad based on the benefit to us personally. We don't have any roots. And so a couple of things to process — how many things do you actually know? And then once you know, until you know the why, you know nothing."
The government school system is the infrastructure of this problem. Children are taken from their parents for eight hours a day. Parents have roughly 30 minutes in the evening to counter what the school day has programmed. Schara shared his own kindergarten experience — the 1968 Weekly Reader telling five-year-olds that having more than two children was irresponsible because of limited planetary resources. The recycling system. The civic duty framework. All of it designed to produce a population that obeys without investigating.
"Proverbs 22:6 — 'Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old, he will not depart from it.' And Satan knows the scripture better than any of us. So he uses it against us."
The Biggest Hegelian Dialectic: The American Dream
Schara reviewed three Hegelian dialectic operations he sees as sequential stages of the population control grid:
The Great Depression — problem (orchestrated crash), reaction (fear and chaos), solution (the New Deal). On March 9th, 1933, the Trading with the Enemy Act was extended to American citizens. Gold surrendered. Business now required license and insurance. The Constitution suspended. Citizens became the legal enemy of their own government.
"The Constitution is still suspended since March 9th, 1933."
September 11th — problem (the country attacked by its own government, in his framing), reaction (fear), solution (the pre-prepared Patriot Act). The population agreed to 24/7 monitoring in exchange for the promise of safety.
COVID — problem (a boogeyman virus), reaction (fear), solution (the vaccine with its nanotechnology payload). Eighty percent of the global population now has nanotechnology in their bodies — delivered directly through the injection, and supplementarily through food, water, and air.
"We always agree to our own demise — not realizing it, because of the deception involved."
The umbrella of all three: the American Dream. The pursuit of happiness. The idea that comfort, safety, and material prosperity are the goals of a life well lived. This, Schara argues, is the deepest deception — because it is the one the population most wants to believe.
The Declaration of Independence as a Theological Problem
The segment's most provocative material involved Schara's analysis of the Declaration of Independence itself.
He read the passage most Americans know from memory: that governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. He then identified what he calls a violation of the first and second commandments.
If rights are inalienable — meaning God-given — then God is responsible for protecting them. Not the government. But the Declaration's language positions government as the mechanism to "secure these rights," derived from "the consent of the governed." In Schara's reading, this makes "we the people" the god who creates the government, and the government the idol we build to implement our wishes.
"We the people have made ourselves gods. Then we put an idol in place — a government — to implement our wishes, our pursuit of happiness. We have violated the first and second commandments by agreeing with the Declaration of Independence."
He connected this to the Israelites in 1 Samuel 8, who demanded a king "like all the other nations." God told Samuel: they don't reject you — they reject me as their king. The warning delivered was explicit: with a king, you will become slaves. The people accepted the terms anyway.
"We have been programmed to believe a constitutional republic is not a king. But in Schara's reading, it is identical — and we've just been deceived into not knowing it."
Winn pushed back warmly on the Declaration's framing: the next sentence — "one nation under God" — places the country in a theological context. Schara's response acknowledged the truth within the deception, then returned to his position: liberty is not what most Americans experience, justice is not evenly applied, and the nation is not in practice under God. The words are there. The reality is something else.
How to Get Out
When Winn asked directly — how do you fix this? — Schara was honest.
"I'm working on it. I don't have the complete answer yet."
What he has, and offered without reservation:
Get out of the medical system. Homeschool your children. Turn off the television. Stop participating in the parts of the system you can identify and exit.
At the macro level, the path he is working through — in writings he has posted publicly and in a project he calls Escaping Babylon — is the distinction between the earth and the world. God created the earth and gave humanity dominion over it. The world is a different thing — the anti-Christ and false prophet systems that run through every human institution. We are supposed to be in the world but not of it. Most of us have lost track of that distinction entirely.
"Jesus said in this world you're going to have trouble. But by the same token he said we're supposed to rule over the earth. And what I've learned is the earth and the world are opposites."
The first step toward everything else: realize you have been deceived. The second step: repent. The third step: stop participating, as much as you can, in what you now know is designed against you.
"Once the truth is exposed and you hear it and you know it — if you keep participating, then you're stupid. Because why would you keep participating once you know the truth?"
Laziness is his honest diagnosis for most people who hear the truth and do nothing. Not stupidity — laziness. The easy button is a feature of the control grid, not a bug. The people who designed the grid knew that most people would press it.
The series continues June 11th. The title of the next installment: What Can We Do?
"Have your note cards ready. Because I want to give not just philosophical things but very practical things that people can do."
Winn Tucson airs Monday through Friday, 9 to 11 a.m., on KVOI 1030 The Voice.
Election observer sign-up: pimagop.org (fully operational Monday)
Primary registration deadline: June 22nd. Primary: July 21st.
Sparkle for Freedom Gala — July 4th, JW Marriott Starpass: pimagop.org
Staccato pistol raffle tickets — $20 each, 6 for $100: pimagop.org
Green Valley rides to the polls: United Republicans 520-777-6445 | Eileen Wilson direct 520-940-0709
Scott Schara Part 7: June 11th at 10 a.m. on Winn Tucson | ouramazinggrace.net