Bulletin Two: The Silencing of the Credible
Second in a Series on Election Integrity and American Memory
Bulletin Two: The Silencing of the Credible
Second in a Series on Election Integrity and American Memory
By Robert J. Rei, April 14, 2025
They did not start by silencing the outlandish.
They started by discrediting the careful.
Respected technologists.
Veteran election monitors.
Longtime civic analysts.
Independent journalists.
One by one, those who raised quiet, data-based concerns about the 2024 presidential election were ignored, dismissed, or quietly cast out.
They were not fringe.
They were not partisan.
They were voices who, in any other era, would have been consulted.
But not this time.
The pattern is now unmistakable.
Post-election inquiry was not silenced by debate.
It was silenced by narrative control.
Media institutions that once aired complex, unresolved questions now framed all inquiry as subversion.
Terms like “election denialist” were applied indiscriminately.
Social media platforms throttled content from users asking the same types of questions that were treated as valid in 2000, 2004, and 2016.
What changed?
Only the stakes.
Only the speed.
Only the silence.
A retired judge, quietly alarmed at the statistical improbability of certain district shifts, is told: "Don't cause trouble."
A software engineer who flags a ballot scanning inconsistency in a swing state is reassigned—and later let go.
A military veteran who volunteered to observe ballot transport logistics in his county finds that his report has been archived, but not published.
None of them are conspiracy theorists.
They are Americans.
They followed the process.
They believed in the institutions.
And now they wonder why the institutions no longer believe in them.
It is easy to paint doubters as dangerous.
It is harder to admit that some of those doubters are people you once admired, worked beside, or elected.
It is harder still to ask:
What if they’re right?
The answers do not come from slogans.
They do not come from partisans.
They come from data, oversight, and public inquiry.
But the longer we wait to ask,
The harder it becomes to hear.
More bulletins to follow.
Thank you for reading.
If this bulletin stirred something in you—an unease, a memory, a question—then do not let it settle in silence.
Restack it. Share it. Speak it.
There is power in doubt, when it is principled.
There is strength in inquiry, when it is honest.
If even one credible voice was silenced in 2024,
Then we all have a reason to listen—and to ask again.
Robert J. Rei, April 14, 2025
Robert with all the destruction and concern you recognized the crux issue. The normalization has been all encompassing but your level headedness brings out what is essential and hits the nail on the head. It is urgent and absolutely necessary it happens immediately. Time is our enemy. Who has the power to investigate and will be listened to?
I do believe the election was not fair. It’s wild what is going on.