Category: Political Operative — Election Denial Infrastructure
Role: Co-founder and managing director of OPSEC Group LLC; board member and principal investigator for True the Vote; primary data analyst behind the 2000 Mules cellphone geolocation claims
Profile Type: Accountability Profile — Private Citizen inclusion via Anchor B (documented co-founder/operational director of an organization with documented harmful conduct — specifically, court-documented contempt and retracted election fraud claims)

Background

Gregg Phillips is a Texas-based political consultant and data analyst. He previously worked in the Mississippi Department of Human Services and has been involved in Republican campaign operations. He founded OPSEC Group LLC, which provided the technical analysis that True the Vote promoted.

Phillips claimed in November 2016 (before Trump’s inauguration) that “3 million votes were cast by non-citizens” — a claim Trump cited as evidence of voter fraud. Phillips never produced evidence supporting the claim, and his associated app “VoteStand” was shut down without releasing data.

Documented Actions

1. Federal Court Contempt — Jailed for Defying Court Order (October–November 2022)

U.S. District Judge Kenneth Hoyt (S.D. Texas) held Phillips and Catherine Engelbrecht in civil contempt of court on October 31, 2022, in the Konnech Inc. v. True the Vote case. Phillips refused to identify the person he claimed had provided data proving Konnech stored election worker information on Chinese servers.

• Phillips was jailed from October 31 to November 7, 2022
• Released after purging contempt by naming his claimed source
• Judge Hoyt stated they “had made representations to the Court that proved to be untrue”

Court record: Konnech Inc. v. True the Vote, Inc. et al., U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, Case No. 4:22-cv-03096, contempt order October 31, 2022.

2. 2000 Mules Data Analysis — Debunked and Retracted (2022–2024)

Phillips was the primary data analyst behind the cellphone geolocation claims in Dinesh D’Souza’s 2000 Mules film. His methodology:

• Purchased commercially available cellphone geolocation data
• Identified devices that passed near both ballot drop boxes and nonprofit organizations
• Claimed this proximity proved “ballot trafficking”

The methodology was debunked:

• The Associated Press found that the geofences used were large enough to capture routine foot traffic (apartment residents, delivery drivers, passersby)
• The Georgia Bureau of Investigation reviewed the data and found no evidence of ballot trafficking
• Phillips and True the Vote were unable to produce evidence of a single confirmed case of illegal ballot trafficking from their data
• Salem Media Group retracted the film and issued a public apology in 2024

Source: Associated Press, fact-check of 2000 Mules, May 2022; Georgia Bureau of Investigation review; Salem Media Group retraction, 2024.

3. Konnech Allegations — Retracted (2023)

Phillips publicly alleged that Konnech Inc., an election software company, was storing U.S. election worker data on servers in China — implying a national security threat. The allegations received significant media coverage in conservative media.

• True the Vote settled the defamation suit and issued a public retraction
• True the Vote admitted it had “no evidence” for the central claims
• The claims were promoted widely before being retracted, causing significant harm to Konnech’s business and reputation

Source: Konnech Inc. v. True the Vote settlement, 2023; True the Vote retraction statement.

4. Unsubstantiated “3 Million Illegal Votes” Claim (2016)

On November 11, 2016, Phillips tweeted that he had “completed analysis of database of 180 million voter registrations” and found “3 million non-citizens voted” in the 2016 election. Then-President-elect Trump cited this claim. Phillips never produced the underlying data or methodology, and the claim has been rated false by every major fact-checking organization.

Source: Phillips Twitter/social media posts, November 2016; Trump tweets citing Phillips’s claim; PolitiFact, “False: Phillips’ 3 million illegal votes claim,” November 2016.

Investigative Trails

Education only — verify independently. Absence of hits is not proof.

• Federal court records (S.D. Texas): Konnech Inc. v. True the Vote, Case No. 4:22-cv-03096
• OPSEC Group LLC: Texas Secretary of State business filings
• Mississippi Department of Human Services: Prior employment records (public)
• VoteStand app: Archived records of the defunct voter-fraud reporting app
• Salem Media Group: Film distribution records and retraction

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Sources

1. Konnech Inc. v. True the Vote, Inc. et al., U.S. District Court, S.D. Texas, Case No. 4:22-cv-03096, contempt order October 31, 2022.
2. Associated Press, “AP FACT CHECK: 2000 Mules relies on flawed data analysis,” May 2022.
3. Salem Media Group, public retraction and apology, 2024.
4. PolitiFact, “False: Gregg Phillips’ claim of 3 million illegal votes,” November 2016.
5. Georgia Bureau of Investigation, review of ballot trafficking claims, 2022.