MASTER THREAD:

This strings together the significant findings on GOP digital operative Ron Robinson.

Did McConnell & others in GOP use--and was any American voter data stored on--Ron's Russia-hosted email servers?/1

@VickerySec @HouseJudiciary @tburages https://twitter.com/VickerySec/status/1158455886509035520?s=1
This is @VickerySec's shocking discovery on 8/4/19 that started it all.

On Ron's NationBuilder developer page, the console shows Ron's running Metasploit, he has a .yandex directory (the Russian rival to Google), and he has crypto coin price tracking. /2 https://twitter.com/VickerySec/status/1158178823373897728?s=19
Here GOP digital campaign operative Ron Robinson advertises using "offshore email and Yandex" as a security tip.

Which is insane. /3 https://twitter.com/VickerySec/status/1158201923125706752?s=19
Here I discovered another of Ron Robinson's clients was Alex Meluskey for AZ Senate in 2016.

Meluskey used a seeming pro-Russia operative to try to defeat anti-Russia John McCain! /4 https://twitter.com/visionsurreal/status/1158486096235368449?s=19
As @VickerySec notes, "Ron claims to have worked with '100s' of conservative/republican entities. Big problem if *any* of them used those [Russia-hosted] servers." /5 https://twitter.com/VickerySec/status/1158917890575224833?s=19
As of Mar 2013, Ron was only 1 of 9 NationBuilder experts in the world.

McConnell used NB heavily in his 2014 Senate campaign as his team "negotiated.. to pull data out of GOP Data Center and put it into NationBuilder."

Ron lists McConnell as a client./6 https://twitter.com/visionsurreal/status/1159201366621020170?s=19
Here, @VickerySec uncovers "the first undeniable proof of a GOP operative knowingly receiving email, from a Republican candidate's campaign [(John Wong)], on the operative's email server physically hosted in Moscow (Russian Federation)." /7 https://twitter.com/VickerySec/status/1159930753892802560?s=19
Here's some more detail/proof of Ron's work for Newt Gingrich in 2012 (NewtHampshire[.]com), including archived screenshots from Ron's NationBuilder site under the handle "rVictory." /8 https://twitter.com/visionsurreal/status/1159084069969387520?s=19
This thread links Ron to the Precinct Project, which was run by brothers Ned & Drew Ryun (sons of former Kansas rep John Ryun). Ned Ryun, in particular, is quite close to Steve Bannon, as my thread proves. Ron, Ned & Steve all have Tea Party roots. /9 https://twitter.com/visionsurreal/status/1159997746025238528?s=19
Here, @VickerySec discovers that Ron "was paid specifically for MX services by Ben Carson for President Committee.
(MX is the common tech abbreviation for 'Mail Exchange')" /10 https://twitter.com/VickerySec/status/1160616630000316416?s=19
This thread examines another email service of Ron's (in addition to nsamail[.]us) called innoc[.]us), Ron's use of a Moscow-based cryptocurrency advisor named Andrey Rusanov for his Monetran firm where Ron is CIO, and Ron's link to DAVID BOSSIE. /11 https://twitter.com/visionsurreal/status/1160899237577658369?s=19
Ron offered clients up to 100 email boxes AND ability to name their own domain, if they were willing to pay extra for it. That way, their emails wouldn't show up as being from @/nsamail[.]us or @/innoc[.]us, but instead as a domain of their choosing. /12 https://twitter.com/visionsurreal/status/1160977283538137090?s=19
Ron's plan = "equip every GOP county in the US w/ an advanced NationBuilder solution for only $250."

This solution--in Ron's mind at least--was that all GOP counties use Ron's NationBuilder site (where Ron's Yandex directory & Metasploit was found). /13 https://twitter.com/visionsurreal/status/1161070927884541952?s=19
This is my single-most explosive discovery to date.

Ron's basically making an open-source admission that the California Tea Party used Russia's Yandex to protect their "stuff" from being subpoenaed by the US government! /14 https://twitter.com/visionsurreal/status/1161332190665420800?s=19
And remember:

@JamesFourM: "On March 29, 2016, Paul Manafort joins the Trump campaign.

The Yandex meta tag was added to the Breitbart News website between March 30th and March 31st, 2016, at the height of Republican nomination campaigns." /15 https://twitter.com/visionsurreal/status/1160000306710818818?s=19
So not only did Ron Robinson and the California Tea Party use Yandex, Breitbart (where Steve Bannon was the executive chairman) added the Yandex met tag to its website in late Mar 2016. /16
This use of Yandex can be traced back to the California Tea Party, and Steve Bannon of Breitbart is considered a Tea Party hero.

This doesn't at all seem just by coincidence. /17
The Yandex meta tag would theoretically allow Russian govt to monitor (via access to data collected by Yandex meta tag) who is accessing the Breitbart News site, enabling Russia govt to identify American individuals' IP addresses for use in delivering targeted propaganda. /18
Interestingly, Ron chose the same Russian hosting company as WikiLeaks (Mir Telematiki).

Ron is friends w/ both Dana Rohrabacher & his wife Rhonda, and Dana has steadfastly defended Julian Assange and has visited Assange in London. /19 https://twitter.com/visionsurreal/status/1161679743424614400?s=19
This is a defense attorney's response to an FEC complaint filed in Jan 2017 by a citizen that felt Ben Carson's super PAC and Ron Robinson, etc., misrepresented themselves as being authorized representatives of Carson's presidential campaign. /20 https://twitter.com/visionsurreal/status/1158574600445411328?s=19
Very important data point...

Ron's PROCINCT company had data on as many as 16 million Americans as far back as 2010!

How many does he have data on now, and is any of that stored on the Russian servers he advertises and that he himself utilizes? /21 https://twitter.com/visionsurreal/status/1159153751288102912?s=19
Lastly, "Ron is now hiding his last name on the NationBuilder account page." /22x https://twitter.com/VickerySec/status/1161325769546596352?s=19
@threader_app - could you be a doll and retrieve me a glass of compile?
Bonus #1:

Here I've obtained a *strong* lead as to what exactly GOP operative Ron Robinson who used Russian servers did for the McConnell's 2014 senate campaign.

Ron may have obtained GOP voter profiles of the entire state of Kentucky! https://twitter.com/visionsurreal/status/1165437837652766721?s=19
Bonus #2:

@VickerySec discovers Ron Robinson making reference to "both" his Yandex Disk cloud storage accounts in June 2016 while attempting to hook them up to a sync client service called odrive: https://twitter.com/VickerySec/status/1167974066621280257?s=19
Here, @VickerySec discovered that the domain "impact1[.]club" was also registered to Ron Robinson.

Although it doesn't appear this PAC was ever operational, the website is and is quite strange.

Was this a PAC-in-process, or Ron's fishing expedition? https://twitter.com/VickerySec/status/1170485689118384129?s=19
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