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Five Missing USB Drives in Milwaukee: Jim Pfaff on Washington Report | Aug 12, 2026

Published: August 12, 2026
Network: Worldview Tube
Analysis: Conservative Caucus President Jim Pfaff

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Five USB sticks in Milwaukee County were missing results on primary night, and nobody could verify anything — the kind of irregularity that Jim Pfaff says should end the use of computer voting systems altogether. On the August 12 edition of Worldview Tube’s Washington Report, the Conservative Caucus President worked through the Minnesota and Wisconsin primaries, Mike Lindell voting in Minnesota without being asked for ID, Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan’s courtship of the Somali community, and newly released documents showing Dr. Fauci covering up an 82 percent miscarriage rate in first-trimester vaccinated women. The episode then rolls into the Worldview Report, where Brannon Howse covers David Crowley’s upset of Democratic Socialist Francesca Hong and the new Mecca Joint Defense Agreement binding Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan — what the world press is calling a Muslim NATO.

Topics Covered

• Five Missing USB Drives in Milwaukee
• Get the Computers Out of Our Elections
• Mike Lindell Votes With No ID
• Peggy Flanagan and the Somali Vote
• The Fauci Cover-Up: An 82% Miscarriage Rate
• On the Worldview Report: Crowley’s Upset and a “Muslim NATO”
• Key Takeaways

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Five Missing USB Drives in Milwaukee

The show opened with primary night in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Democratic Socialist Francesca Hong — a candidate the show has tracked for weeks — narrowly lost her race. But the strange part came out of Milwaukee County, the state’s most populous county, where USB sticks were missing results from the election and officials couldn’t verify anything. “Most secure elections in history, right?” Pfaff noted the “weirdo aspect” of it, and asked whether the Democrat establishment was pumping the brakes on the DSA candidate — observing that Bernie Sanders and AOC both declined to endorse Hong.

“Things like this are what make Americans really wonder what’s going on in our election system. And they’re right to question it because, you know, these kinds of irregularities should not be happening.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

Pfaff pointed out the double standard: many Republicans dismiss Trump supporters who question the 2020 outcome without “the presence of mind to think through the fact, wow, there just might be something going on here.” When flash drives go missing in the most populous county in a state, Americans are right to ask what is going on.

Get the Computers Out of Our Elections

From the Milwaukee episode, Pfaff moved to what he called one base fact:

“Computer election machines should not be part of our electoral system. Period.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

At most, maybe scanning machines — but the foundation must be the paper ballot or the old mechanical lever machine. Low-tech, it turns out, is the best security an election can have, because whether a computer system fails through malfeasance and corruption or through honest computer error, either outcome should nullify its use. The one exception Pfaff would even study is blockchain: Charles Hoskinson, founder of the Cardano blockchain network, has advocated building voting on a blockchain, which Pfaff considers publicly verifiable — even more so than paper — while acknowledging most Americans would not trust it. He also cited India’s approach of burning the vote-counting software directly into the chips, unalterable hardware that works like a lever machine in electronic form.

The deeper principle is where the counting happens and who does it. All tallying has to happen in the precinct and nowhere else, counted physically by committees of Republicans, Democrats, and poll watchers who all see what is going on. Massive vote centers should go. And the officials so often credited with “running” elections do no such thing:

“They don’t run elections. Americans run the elections.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

Secretaries of state and county election officials exist to validate and compile tabulations delivered by the citizens who run the polling places — and no more. That is popular sovereignty: we the people formed this more perfect union in 1787, and we the people must run this aspect of it.

Mike Lindell Votes With No ID

The show played a clip of Mike Lindell — who ran for governor in Minnesota and lost — casting his own vote. Lindell started to pull out his ID, and the poll worker waved it off: no ID needed to vote in Minnesota. Just the first three letters of a last name. In California it goes further: it is against the law for a poll worker to look at a voter’s ID, and any objection to what’s happening in an election place is likewise barred — objections are left to county officials and the state, who make the final determination. Pfaff’s verdict:

“That’s not an election. I don’t care what you say, that is not an election. Elections are a citizen thing. They are not a government thing.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

There is no other methodology, Pfaff argued, that can maintain a free republic. The concerns are not hypothetical — they are the same category of failure we documented in New Jersey’s noncitizen voter registration case.

Peggy Flanagan and the Somali Vote

In other Minnesota news: pro-Somali Democrat Peggy Flanagan, the state’s lieutenant governor, won her Democrat primary. The show played her appearance with what she called her Somali friends — opening with “Salaam alaikum,” declaring the Somali community “part of the fabric of the state of Minnesota,” and urging supporters to shop Somali businesses. Pfaff’s response drew the distinction the clip left out:

“But their virtue of being Somalis and being part of America is if they have become Americans. If they have not, then no, they provide no value at all.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

Pfaff was sure many Somalis in Minnesota genuinely love America and what it is about. But he asked why Minnesota Democrats talk this way about this community in particular — and answered that the Somali community in that state has received billions of dollars in laundered money through fraudulent efforts passed back into the hands of Democrat politics. Keith Ellison and Tim Walz, he noted, were receiving money laundered through the fraud into their political activities. What Democrats are really honoring, in his telling, is a community that votes Democrat: “you are part of America if you follow Democrat ways. If you’re not, sorry, we’re not out there for you.”

“the Democrat Party’s not an American party. Their theory of governance is not an American theory of governance. It comes from elsewhere.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

An elected official represents everybody, Pfaff said, and the cure is structural: follow the federal and state constitutions to the letter, pare government back — as the Trump administration has begun doing — and take government out of doing things that benefit any political party.

The Fauci Cover-Up: An 82% Miscarriage Rate

The second half of the interview turned to documents released by Rand Paul and Senator Ron Johnson showing Dr. Fauci was covering up data on pregnant women who received the mRNA COVID vaccines in their first trimester. The raw data revealed an 82 percent miscarriage rate among women vaccinated in the first trimester — consistent with the 81 percent rate noted in the Pfizer 5.3.6 post-market data. The show then played a pandemic-era clip of Fauci insisting there was “no indication whatsoever” of increased adverse outcomes, citing “tens and tens and tens of thousands” of vaccinated pregnant women followed by the CDC.

Pfaff read the clip like an investigator: he knew he was lying, and you can detect it in the statement. By that point hundreds of thousands of women would have taken the vaccine — yet Fauci said tens of thousands, and conspicuously avoided using a percentage. Pregnancy is already tenuous — for most of human history women died in childbirth at large numbers — so claiming an injection could never complicate it is, in Pfaff’s word, crazy.

“The guy is not a scientist in any way. He was a bureaucrat who was working numbers.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

Pfaff walked through the actual doctrine of vaccination: natural immunity is always far greater than vaccine injections, and a vaccine is the last resort under emergency circumstances — the polio model, the flu-shot-for-seniors model. With COVID, people with natural immunity did just fine: “I never took the vaccine. I refused. And I had COVID twice, and the second time was much easier than the first time.” He also relayed — carefully flagged as unverified — Jeffrey Tucker of the Brownstone Institute’s account that people inside the CDC discussed blocking interventions outside the mRNA vaccine so people would not gain natural immunity first. If true, Pfaff said, that is an even bigger scandal than he can imagine. Tucker’s Epoch Times article, “the 27 revelations in the Fauci Diaries,” continues the paper trail — the same trail that began when Fauci pleaded the Fifth rather than answer for it.

“When that kind of money exchanges hands, there is inherent corruption in that. This is why we want government to be limited, because the more money that goes out of government, the more corruption gets involved with it.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

Governments worldwide handed hundreds of billions of dollars to the vaccine manufacturers — almost no one who got the shot paid for it. Pfaff’s limited-government case for the day ended with a number: cut 80 percent of the federal budget and get Washington out of the business of doing things.

On the Worldview Report: Crowley’s Upset and a “Muslim NATO”

The broadcast continued with the Worldview Report, where host Brannon Howse opened with what The Federalist called the biggest upset of the 2026 primary season: Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley defeating Democratic Socialist Francesca Hong in Wisconsin’s Democratic gubernatorial primary — after dropping out of the race a month ago and re-entering with Governor Tony Evers’s endorsement. Crowley now faces Trump-endorsed Congressman Tom Tiffany in November, and Larry Sabato immediately moved the race from toss-up to leans Democratic. Hong had run on defunding and abolishing the police, abolishing all prisons, public-owned grocery stores, the highest state income tax in the nation, and doing away with Thanksgiving, with backing from New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

The bigger story was signed on August 7 at Al Safa Palace in Mecca: the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement among Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan, pledging that an armed attack against one member will be treated as an attack against all three — language Turkey’s foreign minister acknowledged is technically comparable to NATO’s Article 5. Pakistan brings the Islamic world’s only nuclear arsenal and already has roughly 8,000 troops deployed to Saudi Arabia. One day after the signing, Pakistan’s defense minister called for a united Islamic military front against Israel — and no Saudi or Turkish official contradicted him. Turkey is already floating Egypt as a fourth member, which would put the bloc astride the Suez Canal.

“The nightmare is not that it immediately becomes an Islamic NATO. The nightmare is that it gradually becomes one.”
— Brannon Howse, Worldview Report

The report’s remaining stories filled out the picture: Houthi forces fired three ballistic missiles at a commercial vessel in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, killing six people including four civilian crew members — the first confirmed fatalities of the Houthis’ maritime campaign against the Red Sea bypass route while Iran holds the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s central bank governor announced Tehran is joining the BRICS New Development Bank to operate outside American sanctions, even as the war has cost Iran more than 1 million jobs directly. And Arizona State University is offering eight courses on witchcraft, magic, and the occult this fall — against one course covering Christianity. Howse closed his commentary with Zechariah 12: the strangeness that a security bloc formed 2,000 miles from Jerusalem named Israel, not Iran, as its issue within a single day.

Key Takeaways

1. Five USB sticks, zero verification – Milwaukee County, Wisconsin’s most populous county, had five USB drives missing election results on primary night. Pfaff: these irregularities are exactly why Americans are right to question the election system.
2. Computer election machines have to go – Paper ballots or mechanical lever machines, with all tallying done physically in the precinct by citizen committees of both parties. Low-tech is the best election security there is.
3. Citizens run elections, not officials – Secretaries of state and county officials exist only to validate and compile what citizen-run polling places deliver. California’s ban on even looking at ID means, in Pfaff’s words, “That’s not an election.”
4. The Somali vote is about laundered money – Billions in fraud-laundered dollars in Minnesota flowed back into Democrat politics, which is why Democrats like Peggy Flanagan court the community — as Democrats, not as Americans.
5. Fauci knew the number – Documents from Rand Paul and Ron Johnson show an 82% miscarriage rate in first-trimester vaccinated women; Fauci’s “tens of thousands” phrasing, with no percentage, was the tell that he was obfuscating.
6. A Muslim NATO is being architected – The Mecca Joint Defense Agreement binds Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and nuclear-armed Pakistan under an Article 5-style clause, with Egypt floated as member four — and its first named target was Israel.

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The Conservative Caucus is a grassroots public policy action organization, formed in 1974. Headed by President Jim Pfaff, the Caucus is committed to advancing free enterprise, limited government, and traditional values.

Originally broadcast Aug 12, 2026 on Worldview Tube’s Washington Report.