By Douglas V. Gibbs
Tina Peters was released from jail June 1, 2026. The New York Times ran a headline warning that Colorado was “bracing” for the release of Tina Peters, whom they described as an “unrepentant election denier.” The language was deliberate, designed to make this 70-year-old grandmother sound like a menace to society, a hardened criminal who should remain behind bars. But the truth is far different from what the establishment media would have you believe.
I met Tina Peters a year before she was sent to jail at the Constitution Week event in Lake Havasu, Arizona. Earlier that year I also had the opportunity to spend some time with her at an event in the Los Angeles area. My wife and I spent considerable time with her, and what we found was not a criminal, but a virtuous, moral woman who loves God and abhors what is happening to our country. She’s an American hero, as my friend Brady “War Hamster” calls her – someone willing to risk everything to do the right thing.
Here’s what the media won’t tell you: As Mesa County Recorder, Tina Peters and all county recorders were ordered by the Colorado Secretary of State to delete all election data from voting machines. Tina questioned this order, recognizing that destroying evidence is never the right answer. Instead of complying, she preserved the information – information she believed could later become crucial evidence regarding the 2020 Presidential Election which appeared to be filled with anomalies, irregularities, and potential fraud.
For this act of preservation, she was convicted and sentenced to what amounted to the rest of her life. Her crime? Sharing the information she preserved, including with Mike Lindell, who was branded by Democrats as someone “attempting to overthrow the election results.”
This is how the system works now. Anyone who dared to ask questions about the numerous anomalies and irregularities in the 2020 election was branded an “election denier,” a term deliberately designed to evoke Holocaust deniers and make reasonable people sound like conspiracy theorists. The goal was to create a narrative so toxic that legitimate questions couldn’t be asked without immediate social and professional consequences.
If the election was as secure and fair as advertised, why such a coordinated attack against those asking questions? Why the resistance to verification? If everything was above board, there would be nothing to hide, right? But instead of transparency, we got defensive posturing and a narrative that anyone questioning the results was trying to “overthrow” the election – making them “insurrectionists” in the public imagination.
This comparison to the 14th Amendment’s insurrection clause was deliberate. An attempt to paint Trump and his supporters as both “deniers” (like Holocaust deniers) and “insurrectionists” (like Confederates during the War Between the States). Optics and perception are powerful tools, and the Progressive Left wields them expertly.
Then came January 6, 2021, the day their trap was sprung. When Trump questioned the election and people gathered at the Capitol, they were framed as violent insurrectionists. The reality? We had a number of senators and congressmen willing to say, “We’re not ready to certify this election. We have questions. We want to send it back to the states.” That was about to happen at around 1:00 p.m. Eastern, right when the so-called “breach” occurred.
What actually happened was that Capitol Police started firing anti-riot measures like smoke bombs into crowds of people peacefully assembling – people who were merely exercising their First Amendment enumerated natural rights. Nobody was violent until the police escalated the situation. Thousands of hours of footage have never been released. The J6 committee deleted their own material. Why would you do that if you had nothing to hide?
This is all part of a pattern of cover-ups. Russia Gate was a Hillary Clinton campaign smear against Trump, and it was completely made up. The Steele dossier, the Mueller investigation, all designed to cover up the Russia Gate lies. Trump was on the verge of declassifying information that would have put many powerful people behind bars forever. Therefore, he could not be reelected. They had to stop him, and they were willing to do anything to achieve that goal.
President Trump believes they stole the 2020 election, and it appears to be that is exactly what they did – using COVID as an excuse to justify mail-in ballots that enabled fraud as a part of that scheme. Then, January 6 was a perfect opportunity for them to manufacture the idea that their opponents are raging insurrectionists, while also coving up what was obvious about the stolen election. It’s one crime to cover up another crime to cover up another crime. This is what happens when deception becomes institutional – lies pile upon lies until truth becomes nearly indistinguishable from fiction.
My friend, Brady “War Hamster,” calls it the greatest crime against humanity in history – a series of cover-ups that might even trace back to Uranium One and the Clinton Foundation’s dealings. The media, of course, has been the accomplice throughout, helping with the cover-up rather than exposing it.
Tina Peters had evidence of what happened – evidence that wasn’t supposed to be revealed. For preserving data that was ordered to be illegally destroyed, she received a sentence that would have taken most of her remaining life. She’s not a villain for trying to reveal corruption and fraud – or at least preserving a record of it. She’s a patriot who did what our system is supposed to encourage: she spoke the truth and sought to preserve the truth.
The establishment made an example of her because she dared to oppose the mighty leviathan. They wanted to send a message: question us, and we will destroy you. But in doing so, they only exposed their own insecurity and corruption.
Tina Peters’ release should be celebrated, not feared. She’s not dangerous. She’s a truth-teller in an age of lies. And that’s precisely why the establishment fears her.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
