# IRON TROLL > NEWS WITH A TWIST, TUNES WITH A PUNCH ## Posts - [Neal Rauhauser Talks About The Kookpocalypse; January 7th, 2013](https://irontroll.com/neal-rauhauser-talks-about-the-kookpocalypse-january-7th-2013/): Update: Commander X eventually claimed being The Protectors. I don’t know how he got mixed up with Kimberlin and Rauhauser, but there was no attempt to steal the election in 2012.   Neal mentions “The Protectors” here. Supposedly The Protectors were Anonymous hactivists that saved the election of 2012. The Protectors sent a letter to Brett Kimberlin’s Velvet Revolution to announce they saved the election. They told only Brett Kimberlin and Neal Rauhauser. Nobody had ever heard of The Protectors before then and nobody has heard from them since.  Probably because Neal and Brett have been busy with other things.   7th January […] ## Optional - [Agent (MCP protocol)](websites-agents.hostinger.com/irontroll.com/mcp) [comment]: # (Generated by Hostinger Tools Plugin)