Tina Peters Gets Hero’s Welcome at America First Warehouse

Tina Peters, the former Mesa County Clerk who was jailed for standing up for election integrity, received a hero’s welcome at the America First Warehouse, where she was the featured guest on Lara Logan’s 100th Anniversary podcast.

Granted clemency by Colorado Gov. Jared Polis following widespread support and intense public pressure, including from President Donald Trump, Peters would not be silenced about fraud in U.S. elections.

“I did the sentence, but I committed no crime,” Peters said, quoting her introductory song, “We Are the Champions.” She described how her politically driven prosecution stemmed from directing an employee to make a copy of the voting results cast in her county during the 2020 presidential election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

The Gold Star Mother—whose son, Navy SEAL Remington Peters, died in a parachuting accident during a Fleet Week demonstration in New York Harbor in 2017–became a cause célèbre when she was sentenced to nine years, and her mistreatment in a maximum-security prison became international news.

“I wasn’t going to back down,” Peters told her Warehouse fans. “I wasn’t going to give up. I wasn’t going to quit.” After spending a week shaking off her prison rust, Peters hit the road to warn the public of the fraud and corruption in the American voting system. “I see my imprisonment as a 1776 moment. We all have to stand up. We cannot give in.”

Following her release, Peters said she met with President Trump at the White House to discuss the fraud she has uncovered and ways to save the midterm elections from being corrupted. “Election officials have First Amendment rights; they have to be protected,” the former county clerk said. “They wanted to send a message by prosecuting me; they wanted to send a signal: Do not question the elections.”

She urged Trump to keep pushing for paper ballots that must be hand-counted before elections can be certified. “We can’t trust the machines,” she stressed. Her election integrity plan, detailed at www.tinapeters.us, recommends reconciling every ballot cast with voter registration records, eliminating remote access to voting systems, preserving electronic election records, and investigating potential foreign influence over election technology and equipment.

After being locked up for 606 days, Peters stressed that she is not a victim. “When you know something is a righteous cause and God called you to it, you have to do it; you can’t back down.”