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30. Not Common Cause

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The Common Coalition - whoever that is. If it is Adam Zarnowski, who puts out This Will Hold, there are some questions about motives and credibility.

This Will Hold is a pseudonymous Substack publication launched by an author known only as “@thiswillhold,” who claims their previous Twitter/X account was banned after a viral election thread. The publication is tied to a broader investigative project called The Common Coalition Report, which frames itself as a watchdog of election manipulation and technocratic overreach. The publication blends journalism, activism, and speculative analysis.

The site is reader-supported, with both free and paid subscriptions on Substack. It does not run ads or receive institutional backing. The author(s) operate anonymously, with no visible bylines or credentials beyond association with The Common Coalition. This lack of transparency in identity limits accountability, although the platform itself discloses no outside funding or political affiliation.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/this-will-hold-bias-and-credibility/

According to the article, a person named Adam Zarnowski, who was identified as an ex-CIA agent, alleged that he was "personally involved in an NSA-authorized forensic audit of the 2024 election." That audit supposedly revealed that Harris won the 2024 presidential election "by a wide margin" while Trump "lost dramatically," Zarnowski was quoted as saying.

According to Zarnowski's Substack bio and LinkedIn profile, he has worked on cases involving human trafficking, sexual assault, domestic violence and crimes against children for organizations that aren't affiliated with the federal government.

Both his bio and the Substack article also listed him as the author of a book titled "Jӧrmungandr: A Study in Global Human Trafficking." The Substack article suggested that Zarnowski's book detailed allegations of election fraud. However, Snopes didn't find any evidence to support that claim.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/08/04/harris-nsa-audit-2024-election/

A recent entry is a manifesto by Adam Zarnowski, an individual styling himself as a former CIA paramilitary officer. His post, “‘Unleash Hell’: Pulling up the dragnet,” and its companion e-book are not a disclosure, but a performance—a Live Action Role Play of whistleblowing that demonstrates key techniques of modern disinformation.

The document is a dizzying Gish Gallop through nearly every major geopolitical event and conspiracy theory of the last decade. In Zarnowski’s telling, the 2024 election was stolen by a "junta," Russia and Israel are in a secret alliance to start World War III, Havana Syndrome is linked to COVID-19, and all of it connects back to Jeffrey Epstein, QAnon, and a Mormon polygamist cult in Utah. This isn’t analysis; it’s a work of weaponized apophenia, the cognitive bias of seeing connections in unrelated data, marshaled here to construct an all-encompassing theory of global intrigue.

By braiding dozens of disparate threads together, Zarnowski makes his central claim functionally unfalsifiable. To debunk it, one would have to disprove not one but a hundred assertions, from the technical details of a supposed “quantum crypto algorithm” (???) used to rig elections to the backroom dealings of Mossad and the FSB. This is a classic disinformation tactic: to create a winding narrative so vast and convoluted that any single point of refutation can be dismissed as missing the “bigger picture.”

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Zarnowski has produced not a work of investigative journalism, but a piece of political mythology. It offers a simple, all-encompassing explanation for a world that feels chaotic and out of control. It assures the reader that everything is connected, that a secret history exists, and that they, the reader, are now among the initiated. While the narrative is powerful, it is ultimately obviously a work of fiction.
An attempt to vet the author himself through open-source intelligence (OSINT) reveals a public persona that is not just thin, but a transparent effort at strategic credentialing and reputation laundering. While "Paramilitary Operations Officer" is a legitimate, if highly specialized, role within the CIA, Zarnowski’s LinkedIn profile is a constructed identity designed to create an aura of authority. It features a scattergun approach to credentials, from an online ministry ordination to recently acquired financial licenses (Series 7, 63) that are entirely disconnected from his stated expertise in human trafficking.

https://substack.com/inbox/post/170417588

On edit - excerpt from questionable source removed. Thanks, questionseverything.