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Gina Swoboda |
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Gina Swoboda is a
far-Right, Ultra-MAGA
extremist Republican formerly
a staffer with two
different Republican
Arizona Secretaries
of State, was hired
in 2021 as
executive director
of the right-wing,
Christian advocacy
group "Restoration
Action", Election
Day operations
director for the
Trump campaign in
Arizona, serves as
the "election
integrity"
coordinator for GOP
gubernatorial
candidate Kari Lake, and was vice chair
of the Arizona
Republican Party
until Jan. 27, 2024
when she was
selected to be the
replacement for Jeff
DeWit as the Chair
of the Arizona
Republican Party. |
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'I'm Wearing The Armor Of God': New Arizona
GOP Chair Vows More Anti-Voting Lawsuits
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The newly-elected
Arizona Republican Party chair, Gina
Swoboda, proudly told longtime
Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon on his
"war room" show that the former president
personally urged her to run for the
position, reported KPNX's Brahm Resnik — and
vowed to continue pushing lawsuits on his
behalf to restrict access to voting in
Arizona. "How can the Arizona GOP be
dead broke in an election year with nine
months to go?" asked Bannon. "They are,"
acknowledged Swoboda, saying that financial
statements haven't been filed in the party
for a year. "On the election side, we have
to litigate, we have to litigate now, we
have a lot of lawsuits going on, we have to
get rid of the unmanned drop boxes, that
judgment is imminent." |
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Jan. 29, 2024 |
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Arizona GOP Names MAGA Voter-Challenge
Activist Gina Swoboda New Chair |
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"The Arizona
Republican Party elected Gina Swoboda
its new chair on Saturday. Swoboda, the
director of election day operations for
former President
Donald Trump in 2020, replaces
Jeff DeWit, who resigned last week after
being targeted by MAGA Senate candidate
Kari Lake. Swoboda’s bid for state party
chair was promoted by Lake and endorsed by
Trump, Nick Fuentes ally state Sen.
Wendy Rogers, and Arizona-based
far-right activist
Charlie Kirk, head of Turning Point USA.
Lake, who has never accepted her loss in the
2022 governor’s race, called Swoboda’s
selection a “massive victory” for her
campaign and for Trump’s, the Associated
Press reported.
Swoboda runs VoteRef.com, which is part of a
network of MAGA movement projects to enable
challenges to voters’ eligibility,
which American Oversight reported in
December “could be used not just to
compromise individual privacy, but also to
intimidate voters, cause mass cancellations
of voting registrations, and inundate local
elected officials with burdensome,
time-consuming, and inaccurate challenges.”
Swoboda’s efforts have been funded by
far-right megadonor Richard Uihlein." |
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Jan. 29, 2024 |
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Donald Trump And Kari Lake Endorse Election
Integrity Leader Gina Swoboda For AZGOP
Chair, Election Tomorrow |
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"Donald
Trump and
Kari Lake announced their endorsement
Friday of the Voter Reference Foundation’s
Gina Swoboda for Arizona Republican
Party (AZGOP) chair." [ . . . ] "Team Trump,
an official account on X for Trump, posted,
“President Trump just spoke to Gina Swoboda
and offered his full support and endorsement
of her for next Arizona GOP Chair." [ . . .
] "The endorsements were soon followed by
others: Representative
Andy Biggs (R-AZ-05), Representative
Eli Crane (R-AZ-02), State Senate
President
Warren Petersen (R-Mesa), State Senator
Wendy Rogers (R-Flagstaff), State
Senator
Jake Hoffman (R-Queen Creek), State
Senator
Justine Wadsack (R-Tucson), State
Representative
Joseph Chaplik (R-Scottsdale), State
Representative
Austin Smith (R-Surprise), former AZGOP
chair
Kelli Ward, former Maricopa County GOP
Chair and
Turning Point COO
Tyler Bowyer, Republican attorney
Harmeet Dhillon, and the
Arizona Freedom Caucus." |
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Jan. 27, 2024 |
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Restoration Of America |
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"Restoration of
America (formerly registered as Restoration
Action) is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit
organization founded in 2015 with the stated
mission to "promote the common good and
general welfare of the people of the United
States by advocating in favor of policy
changes with a goal of restoring individual
peace, national security, and individual
freedom in America".[1] It was founded by
Doug Truax, an unelected candidate in the
2014 Illinois U.S. Senate primary.
Restoration Action's website boasts that
Traux "nearly pulled off a massive upset" in
that election, and that he "learned
important lessons along the way. He formed
Restoration Action/PAC with those lessons in
mind."[2] Restoration Action parents
Restoration PAC. According to the website,
Traux's "organizations exist solely to get
things done in the fight to preserve our way
of life."
The
organization is a right-wing, Christian
advocacy group. It believes that "in our
current era, our nation's most significant
threats are twofold: internally-- the elite,
Marxist neo-liberals and, externally--
Communist China". They aim to "defend
our nation by electing like-minded leaders
and by creating organizations and campaigns
that promote fully transparent elections,
economic freedom, limited government,
military superiority, secure borders, rule
of law, and the sanctity of life"." [ . . .
] "Republican Gina Swoboda was hired
in 2021 as Restoration Action's executive
director, earning a $108,750 salary. Swoboda
was an official for the
Trump campaign, is vice chair of the
Arizona Republican Party, and serves as the
"election integrity" coordinator for GOP
gubernatorial candidate
Kari Lake. Swoboda is also spearheading
the effort to combat the Arizona
gubernatorial race, which Lake lost, on the
grounds of a "broken election system"." |
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Nov. 29, 2023 |
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Inside The Billionaire-Backed ‘Hub For
Election Denial’ |
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"Right-wing megadonor
Dick Uihlein has been funneling tens of
millions of dollars to election deniers, but
a previously unreported IRS filing shows he
has also teamed up with one. According to
its 2021 annual IRS filing, the Uihlein-backed
dark money nonprofit Restoration Action Inc.
hired Arizona Republican Gina Swoboda
as an executive director last year, paying
her $108,750 in salary. Swoboda, a former
Trump campaign official and the vice chair
of the Arizona Republican Party, is now
leading a misguided charge against the
ballot count in that state on behalf of GOP
gubernatorial candidate
Kari Lake." |
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Nov. 28, 2022 |
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Billionaire-Backed Group Enlists
Trump-Supporting Citizens To Hunt For Voter
Fraud Using Discredited Techniques
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"Swoboda then
served as Election Day operations director
for the Trump campaign in Arizona, according
to a sworn court affidavit she gave in
Arizona in November 2020 as part of Trump’s
legal challenge to election results there.
She described how she took complaints from
people who thought poll workers allowed
defective ballots to be submitted, in what
later became known as “SharpieGate.” (Votes
made with a Sharpie do count, the state
said.)" |
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Mar. 7, 2022 |
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"Save Arizona
Elections Workshop with Gina
Swoboda and
Merissa Hamilton, presented
by FreedomWorks Freedom Teams &
Voter Reference Foundation" |
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Sep.
22, 2022 |
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GOP Feud Fuels Official’s Resignation Amid
Vote Fraud Claims |
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"Chornenky got a call
from Gina Swoboda, a former staffer
with two different Arizona secretaries of
state who had just taken a job as the state
Election Day director for the
Trump campaign. Chornenky said while
they had been friendly in the past and their
initial interactions were neutral, Swoboda
eventually asked that the county party hand
over the responsibility of recruiting,
training and deploying poll observers to the
Trump campaign. “The problem with that is
the authorization to be a poll observer is
the exclusive purview of the county party,”
DiCarlo said. State laws give the authority
to designate representatives or challengers
at polling places to parties’ county chairs.
Chornenky, not sure if she could abdicate
her responsibilities, refused. Then the
pressure began" |
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Nov. 27, 2020 |
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