ACLJ Takes Action After Reports of Arizona Election Board's Secret "War Room" Keeping "Whiteboard" List of Conservatives

A cornerstone of our constitutional republic is we’re allowed to disagree with our leaders without fear of reprisals. That’s liberty. And yet the radical Left seems obsessed with silencing conservative voices at any cost, and it’s even making lists to keep tabs on YOU.

Recently, we learned of reports by former Maricopa County prosecutor Abe Hamadeh that the election commission for Maricopa County in Arizona has set up a secret “war room” where it keeps a whiteboard regarding “dangerous/misinformation” containing the names of dissenting voters in the county.

Keeping track of U.S. citizens simply because they disagree with you is blatantly un-American. It’s a scary precedent for any government to set. And it begs the question, why? What is the purpose of keeping tabs on dissenting voters except to somehow threaten them into quiet compliance? If these reports are true, everyone involved with the creation of this clandestine war room in Arizona must be held accountable.

Even ACLJ Senior Advisor for National Security and Foreign Policy, and former Acting Director of National Intelligence under President Trump, Ric Grenell joined the fray, tweeting:

Yikes. They are making lists of dissenting voters?! This info must be subpoenaed and every government employee participating in this type of targeting should be fired.

There’s been no official response from Maricopa County to date as to the validity of this war room claim, but it’s imperative that the ACLJ discover if these reports are accurate. If city or county governments start tracking and targeting conservatives, what’s next?

And that’s why we just filed a critical new Arizona Records Law (APRL) request against Maricopa County (the state’s equivalent of a FOIA) demanding all records that “in any way concern the making or maintenance of a list or whiteboard about ‘dangerous/misinformation’ since November 8, 2022.”

Keeping a list of political enemies is the mark of a dictatorship, not a democracy. And yet, don’t forget it wasn’t that long ago that our own President Joe Biden was attempting to create a “Disinformation Governance Board” to monitor and most likely silence conservative voices. As we told you at the time:

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is now being weaponized against free speech. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced the creation of a “Disinformation Governance Board,” raising serious free speech concerns. This is unprecedented and dangerous to our constitutional republic. It’s a dystopian and draconian attack on free speech. I never thought we’d see anything like it.

The ACLJ took swift action to combat the creation of Biden’s star chamber committee to target conservatives, filing a FOIA request demanding all records pertaining to the creation of this Disinformation Governance Board to discover who was truly behind it and why. Fortunately, as we reported, the Biden Administration had to bend to pressure from all sides calling this board unconstitutional and for DHS to shut it down, officially “suspending” the Disinformation Governance Board before it supposedly started.

Yet, concerningly, the Biden DOJ is trying to have our FOIA lawsuit about the Disinformation Governance Board thrown out of court. What is it trying to hide now? We have a critical hearing in that case this week.

We will keep seeking the truth regarding this Maricopa County report, and we are prepared to take further legal action if the county does not respond. We will keep you updated as the matter unfolds.