Policy Analyst and Researcher

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Joined March 2019
This is my personal "X" account. Thoughts, comments, space commentary, and replies are entirely my own.
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🚨 I spend an enormous amount of time trying to understand the chaos we're living through. Not the headlines. The machine behind them. 🚨 If you want to understand what Elon Musk is really fighting, and who is really fighting him, this is the clearest map I can give you. Expensive houses. Expensive schools. Expensive healthcare. Taxes that rise every year while everything gets worse. Borders nobody voted to open. Speech rules nobody voted for. Most people look at this and blame capitalism. The market failed, they say, so the state has to step in and fix it. They have it exactly backwards. What they want to fix it with is what broke it. This isn't chaos, and it isn't capitalism. It has a direction, a method, and a hundred-year history. Let me reverse-engineer it. In 1926, Mussolini's regime threw Antonio Gramsci, co-founder of the Italian Communist Party, into prison. From his cell he asked the question that would shape the next century: why did the revolution win in Russia but fail in the West, where Marx said it was inevitable? His answer: in Russia, the state was everything, so seizing it was enough. In the West, the state was only the outer wall. Behind it stood the real fortress: the church, the family, the school, the press, the culture. Western workers never revolted because the culture held them. So the conclusion was simple. Don't storm the palace. Capture the culture. Win the institutions and you never have to win the argument, because you decide which arguments are allowed. In 1967, the German student leader Rudi Dutschke gave it a slogan: the long march through the institutions. Paris supplied the intellectual software, and I've already apologized for my country's part in that. Then came the most patient operation in modern history. The students of the 60s became the professors of the 80s. Their students became the journalists, judges, civil servants and HR directors of the 2000s. Their students now run the foundations, the NGOs and the agencies. No single step looked like a revolution. That's exactly why it worked. The method was communist. The ambition became global. And it grew like a cancer. A cancer never attacks the body head-on. It hijacks the body's own cells and feeds on the body's own resources. This system never had to defeat the West. It just had to make the West pay for it. In America, the machine found a political home: the Democratic Party. Not the millions of decent people who vote for it. The apparatus. The donor networks, the activist groups, the consultants, the captured agencies that keep moving in the same direction whoever wins. In Europe, it found something even better. The EU's founders, Schuman, Adenauer, De Gasperi, were Catholic anti-communists who wanted to make war impossible. But they built exactly what the long march dreams of: power that never has to face a voter. A Commission nobody directly elects holds the right to propose laws for 450 million people. Chat Control. The digital euro. Speech rules written in Brussels. Nobody stormed anything. They just drafted it. Add the World Economic Forum, the UN agencies and the global foundation circuit, and you have the full map. You don't need a secret meeting when everyone went to the same schools, reads the same papers, funds the same NGOs and flies to the same conference in Davos every January. It's not a conspiracy. It's a class with shared incentives. That's harder to fight, because there's no headquarters to raid. And the billionaires? Most people who became the richest in the world got absorbed. They built something real, then traded it for an aura. Bill Gates is the perfect example: he built the software that ran the world, then became the bankroller of global health bureaucracies and the funder of newsrooms covering his own causes. Laurene Powell Jobs bought The Atlantic. Benioff bought Time. You're not buying a business. You're buying the right to be called good by the people who decide who is good. That's the corruption. Not suitcases of cash. Money for aura, grants for loyalty, NGOs for policy. All legal. All invisible. Here's the proof it's one system and not a hundred separate problems. Look at what happened to prices over the last 25 years. Everything exposed to markets and technology got cheaper: TVs, software, phones, clothing. Everything controlled by institutions exploded: college, healthcare, childcare. And housing, where you need a committee's permission to build anything. Same country, same economy, same decades. The difference isn't the product. It's who controls it. Taxes go up and services get worse, because the money doesn't reach the services. It feeds the layers. Immigration happens at a scale no electorate clearly chose, because for a system that lives on managing problems, more problems means more budget. And a two-income family today can't buy the house their parents bought on one salary. That's real poverty, manufactured by a machine that is rewarded for looking good, never for being good. MAGA isn't the cause of the chaos. It's the immune response. Brexit, the farmers' revolts, the votes shaking every European capital: same thing. The body finally noticed the tumor. So what we're living through is not a normal political cycle. It's a fight to the death between two models. One runs on the perception of goodness. The other runs on reality. And it had to be the richest man in the world. Anyone smaller would have been bought, sued or cancelled. Every billionaire before him took the deal. Elon walked out of the club and turned the lights on. He bought Twitter for $44 billion, opened the Twitter Files and gave the world back a public square where any narrative can be checked in real time. He went inside the government and helped shut down USAID. Now Politico announces that the Democrats' gavels are coming for him. His answer: he'll find out who is really pulling the strings and go after them, not just their puppets. He has one line he keeps coming back to: he cares about the reality of goodness, not the perception of it. That sentence is the whole war. Now the part that makes me certain of how it ends. A lie is expensive to maintain. It needs gatekeepers, censors, fact-checkers, friendly journalists, a budget, and constant repairs every time reality contradicts it. The truth costs nothing to maintain. It just keeps being true. AI is driving the cost of checking anything toward zero. Any budget, any study, any statistic, any promise, audited in seconds by anyone with a phone. Yes, AI can generate lies at scale too. But producing a lie is cheap. Defending it against a billion instant audits is impossible. That's what acceleration really means. It doesn't pick sides. It speeds up feedback loops. Systems aligned with reality compound. Systems built on lies hit the wall faster. And you cannot build rockets, design chips or cure diseases with a false model of the world. Physics doesn't read op-eds. The more intelligence we pour into the world, the more expensive every lie becomes. You cannot scale a lie. You can only scale what's true. We are close to the collapse of the old order and the birth of a new one. Not the one from the WEF's own 2016 video, "you'll own nothing and you'll be happy." The opposite. An order built on truth-seeking, efficiency, science, private property and free markets. You will own things. You will build things. And you'll be happy, because it will be real. Gramsci's long march took a century. Its collapse will take years. History will remember this moment. A man walked into the most powerful machine ever built, refused the deal everyone else took, and chose reality over perception. I have never been more optimistic.
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As I did the research for the below article, the thing that struck me was how often the NGOs behind the plot stress “non-violence” as a key tenet of the what they do and the massive protests they organize. At the same time, none of their plans will work without violence. To create their desired “crisis of legitimacy” that would cause America to decide Trump was no longer a lawful President and that Democrat governors were the new form of national governance, massive violence would be absolutely necessary. Such violence would come either in the form of another wave of our cities burning or a Kent State-like event x100 where police or the military created martyrs en masse. They say “non-violence,” yet none of their plans work without violence. I have decided this is a massive, fraudulent, plausible deniability kind of thing. It’s the wink-wink, nudge-nudge of Monty Python. They say non-violence, but they know they are creating violence anyway and they are OK with that. It’s massively disingenuous. They know they are fomenting violence. However, they also know that most of what they do (organizing, teaching, etc.) is not illegal unless and until they conspire to engage in violence, so they pretend they are not. Wink-wink, nudge-nudge.
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Today, as I arrived at the studio to record with @KonstantinKisin and @francisjfoster for @TRIGGERnometry, I met @ComicDaveSmith as he was leaving the building. He was on the phone, but I stopped him anyway. He didn’t recognize me, so I introduced myself and asked him to have a conversation with me. He refused and walked away. I’m not sure whether he eventually recognized me or not, but for the past two years I’ve responded to nearly every lie Dave has spewed on this platform, and some of those posts have received millions of views, so at the very least he should have recognized my name. Anyway, I asked Konstantin to get Dave Smith to debate me. Let’s see if he accepts.
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Important to share... That said, I think we need to be giving more recent concrete examples of socialist policies like EV mandates, the failure of steering the energy market, and the very real pain people have felt each month after socializing the costs of private industry failures—rewarding ideological alignment with our tax dollars! Socialism isn't something that's happened in some other nation, once upon a time. It happened under Biden and we're STILL paying for it!
JUST NOW at Dartmouth College, @TulsiGabbard explains why socialist Democrats are selling a fairytale. 🔥
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This is not even real… a group of retired admirals, ex-USAID bureaucrats and professional protest organizers got caught on their own recordings working out the conditions under which they get to declare the government of the United States illegitimate, and somehow we are supposed to believe they are the ones protecting democracy. Here is what @DataRepublican put out in Part 2 of the Democracy Files. The videos come from a group called Renew to Thrive, with Danielle Reiff and Paul Zeitz in key roles, and it sits inside a much bigger umbrella called the United Democracy Alliance, which she describes as the hush-hush control room for groups like 50501 and Indivisible, deciding when protests get deployed, the timelines and how to respond. National Security Leaders for America, 1,600 former military, intelligence and diplomatic officials led by retired Rear Admiral Michael E. Smith, is credited with operationalizing the whole thing. On tape they lay out a list of "redlines," and invoking the Insurrection Act against "peaceful" protesters is one of the most discussed… and as she lays it out, they shopped the idea around to governors who don't even have to sign anything, all a governor has to do is refuse federal troops and let the network do the rest. Make no mistake about who Mike Smith is. His own organization's bio says he founded and led National Security Leaders for Biden, more than 1,100 members with an endorsement letter signed by 780 of them, and now he runs a "non partisan" group that just cares so deeply about the oath. But hey… I am sure it is totally nonpartisan this time. And the very same morning the Washington Post runs a story about a small group of current and former Defense Department officials quietly advising governors, election officials and lawmakers in 10 states on how to prepare for the Trump administration "interfering" in the midterms, rehearsing what to do if a federal agent asks for access to ballots or machines. Different names, same message… the elected federal government is the threat, and the people who run the elections are the ones who need protecting from it. Let me put it to you like this. They are building the excuse before the event even happens. They coordinate the protests, they decide in advance which government response crosses their line, and then they hold that response up as proof the whole government is illegitimate and the governors should take over. How exactly is that defending the Constitution? If a room full of retired conservative officers got caught on tape role playing how to declare a Democrat president illegitimate, the FBI would be knocking on doors before the coffee got cold and every network in the country would run it wall to wall. I am angry about this, and I think most of you are not angry enough. These people swore an oath to the Constitution, not to a party, and they are treating the legitimacy of an elected government like a privilege they get to revoke the minute the voters pick somebody they don't like. As DataRepublican puts it, almost any effective pushback against their NGOs counts as illegitimate in their book. Where is the outrage from the people who spent five years lecturing you about threats to democracy? Admiral Smith, Ms. Reiff, Dr. Zeitz… release every recording in full and explain to the American people, under oath, exactly what you were planning for the day after.
🚨🚨THE DEMOCRACY FILES, PART 2: WHEN AND HOW TO DECLARE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ILLEGITIMATE 🚨 Some questioned whether a group of 200 ex-USAID officials could actually pull off their ambitions to rewrite the Constitution. Here, they describe exactly how it works. They aren't working alone. The videos all come from Renew to Thrive (R2T) group and associates. Danielle Reiff and Paul Zeitz play key roles within R2T. R2T sits inside a much, much larger umbrella called United Democracy Alliance (UDA), which is an extremely hush-hush control plane of leaders from major "blocking" NGOs such as 50501 and Indivisible fulfilling various functions. UDA decides when protests get deployed, timelines, how to respond, all that. R2T's role within UDA is concerned with "the day after tomorrow" - in other words, their function is to conceive what a rewritten American government will look like after the rest of UDA fulfills its purpose. As will be shown, Erica Chenoworth is credited with conceiving UDA in the first place under the Horizons "Big Tent" initiative. Note here that National Security Leaders for America (NSL4A) is credited for operationalizing UDA. NSL4A is a group of 1,600 ex-military, intelligence, and diplomatic officials. They are led by Rear Admiral Michael E. Smith (Ret). NSL4A also played a key role in the "illegal orders" messaging which targeted Pete Hegseth. Zeitz is also a member of NSL4A. It must be emphasized that the choice of a military-oriented organization to coordinate NGOs across domestic protests is an interesting one all in itself - especially in an umbrella conceived by a regime change expert like Chenoworth. You will have a hard time finding any mentions of UDA in the public. They are extremely hush-hush and selective who they talk to. Mike Smith himself makes a personal appearance in other calls, coordinating Insurrection Act exercises and roleplaying with R2G as one of the participants. As the audio transcript shows, they have outlined a sequence of "redlines" in which case the federal government should be declared illegitimate. Invoking the Insurrection Act against "peaceful" protesters is one of the most discussed redlines. I will post the illegitimate criteria below, but basically, almost any effective pushback against NGOs is a measure of illegitimacy according to them. Important to understand: The audio shows they shopped this idea around governors, but the reality is that governors do not have to explicitly sign on to the pact to play their role in the coup. All they have to do is refuse troops in their state and let UDA / R2G do the work of dissolving the federal government.
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Absolute must-read for every patriot who cares about the American Republic.
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"Your real action is your enemy's reaction." -Saul Alinsky
Now does it make sense why President Trump didn't invoke the act during the ice riots in OR or Chicago? He would have been doing what the left wanted. (Ask yourself why certain people on the far right complained that he wasn't doing it) It's the same reason why he has followed every insane court ruling by the leftists. They want him to be seen as a dictator when all evidence shows he isn't. They need the resistance. The resistance is dead. They wanted to bring it back to life.
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"Truth" by consensus... lol Sanders attempts to set the stage for planned chaos events, long in the works, to overturn our constitutional Republic this midterm.
A new poll says 70% of Americans doubt that Trump will accept the election results if Republicans lose in November. Too many Americans fought and died for democracy. Trump’s authoritarianism will not prevail. Go vote. We WILL win this election whether Trump likes it or not.
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🧵🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: A $15+ MILLION DOE contractor and NoKings protest organizer with active nuclear security contracts is on camera recommending a color revolution "how-to" 🚨🚨 His name is Steven A. Cash. Former CIA officer (Balkans, Clinton era). Under Biden: Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary at DHS Intelligence & Analysis. The day after Trump's 2016 election, Cash co-founded "The Steady State" — a network of more than 340 former intelligence community officials who decided Trump was an "existential threat". When Biden won, the threat was gone. Cash went into Biden's DHS. His own words: "we disappeared." Then Trump won again. "Suddenly the existential threat was back." The Steady State reactivated and is now a planning partner with NoKings. In the clip below, their meeting recommends "Bringing Down a Dictator" — the Otpor documentary about toppling Milošević — as "a how-to." Meanwhile, Cash's company Deck Prism LLC holds $15+ million in Department of Energy contracts. Almost every one: sole-source or non-competed. One is for the National Nuclear Security Administration — our nuclear weapons program — justified because "disclosure would compromise national security." His FEC records: 20+ donations over 20 years. 100% Democratic. Zero Republican. Including $1,001 to Kamala Harris on August 4, 2024, while his NNSA nuclear contract was active. I have the USAspending receipts, the FEC filings, and him on camera twice. As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇
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"Deliberative Democracy" is part of the woke push toward a "true" whole of process people's democracy in which government alone determines who "the people" actually are, and who they are not! The woke right is using America First and heritage arguments to meet the woke left's ranking matrix of "belonging." Vote like you have a Republic to keep!
Replying to @DataRepublican
@datarepublican is an American legend. Grateful and humbled by her invaluable skills! For the doubters questioning the audio's authenticity, there's the real thing. Internet do your thing, quickly 👇 fathom.video/share/zudxPzqEN…
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Demsplaining...
It is a basic principle of American democracy that the government can’t selectively target individuals simply because of their political beliefs or what they say. But that’s exactly what the Trump Administration is doing to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. To understand why this is so appalling, it’s important to know the facts. Congresswoman Omar came to this country with her father when she was 12 years old. Five years later, her father became a naturalized citizen. If Ilhan had been 18 at the time, she would have had to apply for citizenship separately. But because she was 17, she became a naturalized citizen automatically. Congresswoman Omar went on to graduate from college, work as a community organizer, become the first Somali-American legislator elected to public office in the U.S., and win a seat in Congress. There, she has been one of the Trump Administration’s fiercest critics, which has led the president to repeatedly single her out as someone who he believes does not belong in this country. Now the Administration is actively trying to deport Congresswoman Omar, seemingly based solely on the unsubstantiated theory that she was actually 18 when her father was naturalized, and therefore is not a citizen. Federal agents have raided her home, confiscated personal records, and seized her phone — all to try and uncover a nonexistent smoking gun from 20 years ago that will somehow make their case. Think about that. The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president. And it’s not the first time this has happened. Under President Trump, the Justice Department has repeatedly gone after those he considers his political enemies — from the Attorney General of New York, to the former head of the FBI, to members of the Federal Reserve. In those cases, the prosecutions either stalled or were dismissed for having no basis in law, and the same is likely to happen in this case. But not before Congresswoman Omar’s life has been turned upside down, her legal bills have piled up, and she’s been forced to spend time fighting unsubstantiated charges instead of serving the people of Minnesota. The fact that any president, or any administration, is willing to engage in such transparent efforts to intimidate someone should outrage all Americans, regardless of how they feel about Congresswoman Omar’s political views. Because if this becomes the new normal, there’s no reason to believe it will stop with her — or that future presidents, in either party, won’t do the same.
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Not only did Trump avoid getting dragged into occupying Iran as many predicted. He used the destruction of their military and terror funding networks to pull out of Iraq without having to worry about Iranian proxies filling the vacuum.
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The past few days, I got my hands on thousands of new transcripts and hundreds of recordings, thanks to leads from @SKDoubleDub33 and @iamlisalogan . You've heard that the DSA is proposing structural reforms to America, including abolishing the Senate and imposing term limits. What you not have heard is - there is an operational plan to put it all into action. If the Democratic Party sweeps 2026, then DSA will become "foot soldiers" in constant clashes with the administration to cross a "red line" or invoke a "doomsday scenario" - meaning, President Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, probably sometime in 2027. Then, a lot of coordinated responses kick off, including delegitimizing the federal government itself and handing that legitimacy to Democratic governors. 2028 then becomes a vote on whether to keep America governance as-is or to burn it all down to appease a "young and brown" demographic. The mysterious group who's been coordinating 50501, Indivisible, and coordinating the NoKings protests is called "United Democracy Alliance" and their intellectual leader is Erica Chenoweth who came up with the 3.5% rule of nonviolent regime change. Patience. I know I've hyped this more than anything else. It's genuinely the biggest discovery I've had. This is an enormous archive. This is only the beginning.
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Breeauna Sagdal retweeted
Can someone please tell the media they can stop pretending Antifa are peaceful & heroic,- here they are admitting in their own words that they are “militant” and that they commit crimes & then advising their members how to get away with those crimes. But hey - call me a conspiracy theorist…. “When everyone in a group looks the same, it is difficult to single out individuals. Many militant activities are better carried off in a way that attracts less attention, but there are situations in which it is necessary to step outside the limits in public. The Bloc tactic is best for conditions in which the action called for occupies the grey area between overt and covert, and as such it must be applied carefully: ….if you intend to engage in serious organized illegal activity, you might be better off doing so outside the traditional Bloc format, in a totally closed group, with the element of surprise and so on.” So much for Chris Cuomo, formerly of CNN, elevating these violent fascists by falsely casting them as the anti-fascist heroes who stormed the beaches of Normandy… crimethinc.com/2003/11/20/bl…
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That moment when you still won't take accountability for being stupid, but next time you'll vote for the left harder because muh racism and try open borders "the right way"
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Meanwhile in South Dakota...
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Zach Sage Fox and Omri Dorani of @StreetSmart_x are doing the important work of showing how propaganda, scapegoating, and othering shapes young minds and wreaks havoc across generations—stealing the innocence of childhood and robbing humanity writ large of purpose beyond death and destruction. Unlike some filmmakers, who have recently used this moment to reinforce the concerningly dishonest notion that collectivist dealth-cult ideology is somehow isolated to Israel's right to exist and Jews are "somehow" to blame for their own bad PR, Sage Fox and Dorani are showing that good fruits are produced from the Western vine of individualism, Judeo-Christian principles of forgiveness and loving thy enemy, and economic prosperity!
You see some light bulbs go off. I think these people know NOW what “from the river to the sea” means. It’s scary and sad the level of brainwashing these children are being exposed to. I don’t know how this conflict will ever resolve between Israel and Palestine. Watched this on fb and wanted to share it with yall. This was posted last year on fb. Credit to: Street Smarts.
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I couldn't agree more. The woke have found its Trojan Horse in which to eviscerate freedom of conscience. Moreover, the moment calls for very clear-headed policymakers who are capable of clearly defining and enforcing individual rights at a time when mob rule is rising.
I believe religious liberty is one of America’s most important principles. I say that as a Christian who believes there is a jurisdictional boundary around the human conscience that no government has the right to cross. I oppose religious coercion whether it comes from Islam, integralism, or Christian nationalism. My concern about Sharia is its enforcement as a system of government. When religious doctrine becomes compulsory civil law—when it determines who enjoys full citizenship, restricts women’s rights, punishes people for leaving their religion, or subordinates nonbelievers—it’s coercive. And incompatible with a constitutional republic committed to religious liberty and equal citizenship. Islamic authority demands subjugation and you cannot dismiss religious domination as an imaginary concern. Calling those demands religious does not place them beyond criticism. Sharia is a political system. As such it’s a threat to religious liberty. And this is the most complicated and challenging piece of how we’re going to go forward as a society in a constitutional republic.
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One of the Woke Right's bogus arguments is that the friend-enemy distinction really is the nature of politics and the Left isn't evil for using it but perceptive and smart. They're also really good at it, and it begets itself, so we have to do it back to beat them. But, actually, most of us won't, and it begets more of itself, and the Left is far better at it and far more cohesive with it because they are Leftists (what do you think allyship and solidarity are about?). That is, whatever it is for Leftists, it's a losing strategy for everyone else, and taking it up makes the Left do it even more and more completely, while we simply will not because we're not Leftists. No matter how much power it gives the Left, it is a tool of the Left. It is by the Left and for the Left. If we try to use it, it only further advantages the Left. Our approach must be different and better. The different, better approach is Christian and Western. It's Judeo-Christian and American. We all know this, unless we're of the Left, and only forget it in our fear and anger, which we must overcome to survive.
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