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Consequences of Supporting the Duopoly: Free Speech, ICE, Dark Money, SpaceX SCAM · IndieNewsNow LIVE! Clips

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  SPEAKER_01: Who are these people?
• 0:09
  SPEAKER_00: This is effectively a lightning round where we're going to talk
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  SPEAKER_00: about some other stuff domestically that I had not had a chance to get to.
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  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't necessarily directly involve Israel,
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  SPEAKER_00: but of course, Israel is looming over everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: So...
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's a thumbnail for it.
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  SPEAKER_00: War on the Left being escalated.
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  SPEAKER_00: Again, we're going to whip through these.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not going to read the entire article.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wow, this is going to be a short episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: I didn't realize I didn't have that much.
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  SPEAKER_00: War on the Left being escalated,
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  SPEAKER_00: of course,
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  SPEAKER_00: by Stephen Miller,
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  SPEAKER_00: but he wasn't the one that put all the stuff in place,
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  SPEAKER_00: and we're going to talk about that.
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  SPEAKER_00: This horrible story about ICE imposters assaulting a woman in Oregon.
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  SPEAKER_00: Finally,
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  SPEAKER_00: there are some congresspeople,
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  SPEAKER_00: even if it's just symbolic, who are now starting to back a bill to abolish ICE.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's now starting to make its way.
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  SPEAKER_00: That vernacular,
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  SPEAKER_00: that narrative is now starting to resonate to the point
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  SPEAKER_03: where congresspeople are realizing that they need to,
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  SPEAKER_03: if they want to keep their seats,
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  SPEAKER_03: start to say some of the things that the public are saying.
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  SPEAKER_03: And then,
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  SPEAKER_03: of course,
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  SPEAKER_03: I've got this weird
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  SPEAKER_00: article published by Indie Media Award honoree Robbie Yeager
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  SPEAKER_00: from Politify.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Robbie has some reporting to do about dark money in Michigan.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's get to it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, God, this guy is so nauseating.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there he is shaking the hand of another war criminal, Marco Rubio.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is Chip Gibbons,
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  SPEAKER_00: another outstanding Assange reporter, covered the Assange trial extensively.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me go up to the headline.
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  SPEAKER_00: The state's war on the left didn't begin with Trump, but he's escalating it.
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  SPEAKER_03: All right, so I'll read a paragraph or two.
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  SPEAKER_03: The Trump admin's drive to turn the machinery of counterterrorism
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  SPEAKER_03: against left-wing movements worldwide kicked into
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  SPEAKER_03: a higher gear this month surrounding its convening of an international ministerial
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  SPEAKER_00: of the resurgence of political terrorism.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whatever the hell that is.
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  SPEAKER_00: On July 16th, 2026,
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  SPEAKER_00: Deputy Secretary of
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  SPEAKER_03: State Christopher Landau stood before representatives of
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  SPEAKER_03: over 60 nations assembled for the Global Summit in Washington,
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  SPEAKER_03: D.C. to introduce
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  SPEAKER_00: his boss, Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
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  SPEAKER_00: As he opened for the Arch Conservative,
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  SPEAKER_00: Landau told those assembled, quote,
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  SPEAKER_03: for those who grew up in the 1970s,
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  SPEAKER_03: the topic that we're going to be discussing today is all too familiar.
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  SPEAKER_03: What?
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  SPEAKER_03: What?
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  SPEAKER_03: Landau's invocation in the 1970s felt like an implicit admission that to many,
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  SPEAKER_03: the topic of the day, left-wing political violence, felt like an anachronism.
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  SPEAKER_03: While groups like the Bader Meinhof Group in Germany or the Red Brigades in Italy in
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  SPEAKER_03: the 1970s did carry out acts of violence while proclaiming revolutionary beliefs,
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  SPEAKER_03: such groups are long defunct.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yet, according to Rubio and White House advisor Stephen Miller,
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  SPEAKER_03: left-wing political violence constitutes an immediate threat.
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  SPEAKER_03: They describe the West as being in a war for civilization itself.
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  SPEAKER_00: Such rhetoric is not new for Miller.
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  SPEAKER_00: So again,
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  SPEAKER_00: this is a long article that I encourage everyone to read through talking about how
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  SPEAKER_00: the Biden administration actually set the stage for this.
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  SPEAKER_03: And it talks about NSPM 7 and how it's effectively a blueprint for mobilizing
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  SPEAKER_03: the U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: counterterrorism bureaucracy against domestic left-wing movements.
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  SPEAKER_00: And even just activists in general.
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  SPEAKER_00: People who are organizing for Medicare for All, for example.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fuck these people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Next.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is from Ryan at the Last American Vagabond, Indie Media Award honoree.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, hold on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Long button.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the button I wanted.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're right next to each other.
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay, it's insane to me how little attention this gets.
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  SPEAKER_03: Not at all the first example.
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  SPEAKER_03: He's pointed this out many times since this ICE tyranny began.
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  SPEAKER_03: Ryan calls it like he sees it.
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  SPEAKER_03: The only reason this is possible is because ICE is being allowed
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  SPEAKER_03: to violate your rights, its own policies, and the law.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hashtag two-party illusion.
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  SPEAKER_00: What are we talking about?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, from state police and the FBI.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Men posed as ICE agents and detained and assaulted a woman.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Homeland Security Director Tom Holman is telling everyone that they just have
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  SPEAKER_00: to comply with this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so let's watch this three-minute news report from NewsGuy.
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  SPEAKER_02: First at 11,
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  SPEAKER_02: a warning from state police and the FBI after a group of men posing as ICE agents,
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  SPEAKER_02: they say,
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  SPEAKER_02: pulled over a driver in Clackamas County, detained, and then assaulted them.
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  SPEAKER_02: Catherine Cook spoke with community members.
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  SPEAKER_02: And Catherine, it sounds like this might not be the first time.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, David,
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  SPEAKER_01: and they fear this will keep happening as long
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  SPEAKER_01: as actual ICE agents conceal their identities and refuse to show warrants
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  SPEAKER_01: and other arrest documentation.
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  SPEAKER_01: On this dusty stretch of Highway 211,
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  SPEAKER_01: east of Woodburn,
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  SPEAKER_01: three men allegedly posing as ICE agents pulled someone over and assaulted them.
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  SPEAKER_01: This, according to Oregon State Police and the FBI.
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  SPEAKER_01: They say it happened the afternoon of July 17th.
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  SPEAKER_01: Investigators say the men were driving a blue or gray SUV with no license plates
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  SPEAKER_01: that had flashing red and blue lights.
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  SPEAKER_01: The men wore green shirts,
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  SPEAKER_01: face coverings, and tactical vests labeled police, and one of them had a rifle.
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  SPEAKER_01: After pulling the victim over,
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  SPEAKER_01: police say the men forced them out of their car,
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  SPEAKER_01: searched them,
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  SPEAKER_01: held them in their SUV and assaulted them before finally letting them go.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is the kind of attacks that we were afraid would actually happen.
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  SPEAKER_02: We know that when ICE roams the streets without any kind of identification,
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  SPEAKER_02: any kind of accountability,
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  SPEAKER_02: That's the message you're sending to people that this kind of stuff is okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: Reena Lopez is president of Pekun, Oregon's farm worker union.
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  SPEAKER_01: She says community members have spoken of similar incidents involving ICE impersonators.
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  SPEAKER_01: She's grateful police are investigating this case and alerting the public.
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  SPEAKER_02: And anyone can put on a mask and refuse to identify themselves and claim that they're ICE.
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  SPEAKER_02: And these types of incidents are only going to intensify if they are approached
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  SPEAKER_02: by someone who claims to be an ICE agent.
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  SPEAKER_02: Remember that you have rights.
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  SPEAKER_01: In Woodburn, community members like Luis want their neighbors to remain calm and informed.
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  SPEAKER_01: He said, stay alert and look for exact information and stay respectful of the laws.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have the right to remain silent.
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  SPEAKER_01: Organizations like Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition send volunteers
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  SPEAKER_01: to authenticate ICE activity for those who call their hotline.
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  SPEAKER_01: In a statement to KGW,
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  SPEAKER_01: Perk condemned the incident and said the victim's family reached out
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  SPEAKER_01: to them last week.
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  SPEAKER_01: The reality is there is very little visible difference
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  SPEAKER_01: between ICE kidnapping someone and armed criminals kidnapping someone.
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  SPEAKER_01: ICE is deliberately exploiting a legal gray zone where people aren't sure
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  SPEAKER_01: if they can call 911 to report violent traffic assaults
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  SPEAKER_01: from unmarked people acting like police.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is a human rights issue endangering all Oregonians.
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  SPEAKER_01: Police say if you're unsure whether a traffic stop is legitimate,
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  SPEAKER_01: consider stopping in a well-lit area or a spot
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  SPEAKER_01: where there are several people present.
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  SPEAKER_01: Anyone with information on this case or who may have encountered someone posing
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  SPEAKER_01: as law enforcement is asked to contact Oregon State Police.
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  SPEAKER_01: David.
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  SPEAKER_03: Wait a minute.
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  SPEAKER_03: If you ride to a well-lit area and they show up and they go out and they're dressed
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  SPEAKER_03: as police and ICE, they're just going to do it in a well-lit area.
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  SPEAKER_03: Like, that's not the problem.
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  SPEAKER_00: The problem is the face coverings.
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  SPEAKER_00: The problem is the impersonation.
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  SPEAKER_00: The problem is the assaulting on the public, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: And yes, did not see this coming at all.
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  SPEAKER_00: We should all dress up as
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  SPEAKER_03: ice now.
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  SPEAKER_03: Allegedly, allegedly the auspicious.
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  SPEAKER_03: We can't advocate for that.
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_03: Terra.
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  SPEAKER_03: ICE is a cartel.
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  SPEAKER_03: They create this scenario very deliberately to enable other cartels
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  SPEAKER_03: to snatch people,
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  SPEAKER_00: plus all the Gladio benefits.
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  SPEAKER_00: None of this is accidental.
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  SPEAKER_00: Agreed and agreed.
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  SPEAKER_00: And getting back to before, smearing all people as communists, all right, sound familiar?
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  SPEAKER_00: It certainly does.
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  SPEAKER_00: The House Un-American Activities Committee, which we referenced earlier in the show.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right.
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  SPEAKER_03: Basically, the cops should be called
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  SPEAKER_00: every time an ICE agent is around.
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  SPEAKER_00: And even still, they just run cover for the ICE agents.
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  SPEAKER_00: So does that really help?
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, next one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another Truthout article, this one from Mike Ludwig.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Mike, I will admit, is highly liberal.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he's a squad hopeful.
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  SPEAKER_00: But this one is an important article that I thought people should pay attention to.
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  SPEAKER_00: People keep dying in ICE custody.
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  SPEAKER_00: 13 Democrats back a bill to abolish the agency.
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  SPEAKER_00: Again, I know it's symbolic.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know it's never going to go anywhere.
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  SPEAKER_03: But the fact that at least 53 people have died in ICE custody,
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  SPEAKER_03: somebody's at least willing to politically stand up and have the courage to say,
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  SPEAKER_03: fuck ICE.
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  SPEAKER_00: While a lot of the people in Congress want to fund them,
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  SPEAKER_00: while the Capitol cops certainly support ICE, you have Delia Ramirez.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's one.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so you've got 13 of them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And again,
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not going to read this article because
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm not a big fan
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  SPEAKER_03: of introducing legislation that we know has no chance of going anywhere within
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  SPEAKER_03: the House other than to put it on the record and That this is actually happening.
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  SPEAKER_03: We acknowledge that it's happening.
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  SPEAKER_03: Some people here don't want it to continue happening,
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  SPEAKER_03: but the overwhelming majority of people do.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so it's going to continue happening until everybody decides they don't want it to.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Also, finally, we're going to talk about my friend and Indie Media Award honoree, Rami Yeager.
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  SPEAKER_00: By the way, Truthout also, Truthout, Indie Media Award honoree.
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  SPEAKER_00: Forgot to mention that.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: The plot thickens.
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  SPEAKER_00: So here's the story.
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  SPEAKER_03: Interesting.
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  SPEAKER_03: FCC filings show that the Michigan Sunrise Pack media buyer has
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  SPEAKER_03: a company called American Media Buyers,
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  SPEAKER_03: but the address was given to American Media Partners in Chicago,
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  SPEAKER_03: which has been around since 2017.
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  SPEAKER_03: FCC filings show American Media Partners in Wyoming, LLC, was registered this month.
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  SPEAKER_03: So weird stuff.
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  SPEAKER_03: Who's this Bill Werner guy?
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  SPEAKER_03: Then they changed this to Robert W. Werner.
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  SPEAKER_03: His name is William.
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  SPEAKER_03: So it's still Bill Werner.
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  SPEAKER_03: They just changed the name that it went under.
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  SPEAKER_03: So here's the story.
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  SPEAKER_03: The plot thickens.
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  SPEAKER_03: I reached out to this American Media Partners in Chicago to see
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  SPEAKER_03: if they had any relation to the Wyoming LLC listed on
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  SPEAKER_03: the Michigan Sunrise FEC filing.
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  SPEAKER_03: The rep denied a link to the LLC or to Bill Werner listed on the file.
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  SPEAKER_03: They seem genuinely taken aback.
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  SPEAKER_03: So what's happening here and what it seems is that there is an LLC in Wyoming,
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  SPEAKER_03: which is highly right wing, by the way, and also the home of crypto.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_03: Golden Monarch is probably screaming in the chat.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_03: That's where the crypto people are.
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  SPEAKER_03: Lomas, she's corrupt.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, I know.
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  SPEAKER_03: I know.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yes, she is.
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  SPEAKER_03: Sir Robbie continues here from American Media Partners,
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  SPEAKER_03: quote, We have no ties to Mr. Warner or the American Media Partners in Wyoming.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've never facilitated advertising for Michigan Sunrise.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're not sure why our address is associated with this,
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  SPEAKER_00: but we've contacted the station to correct the information.
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  SPEAKER_03: They want to...
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  SPEAKER_03: Cast the belief that this funding against a Democrat is coming from another Democrat.
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  SPEAKER_03: They don't want it.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's coming from Republicans,
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  SPEAKER_03: but they, for whatever reason, want to hide that it's coming from Republicans.
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  SPEAKER_03: And they're spending millions of dollars.
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  SPEAKER_03: Republicans are spending millions of dollars on Democratic races to put the people
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  SPEAKER_03: that they want to face to make sure that they win
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  SPEAKER_00: their primaries.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's fucking crazy.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: I said, my guess is that they were taken aback, that
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  SPEAKER_03: someone dug deep enough to find it.
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  SPEAKER_03: It appears to me that either they lied to you or they were unaware
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  SPEAKER_03: that they were possibly being used in a money laundering scheme to hide
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  SPEAKER_03: where donor money is coming from.
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  SPEAKER_00: And based on what Robbie's follow up was,
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  SPEAKER_00: it sounded like it was more of the latter than the former.
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  SPEAKER_00: But he wrote a whole article about this.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'll start at the top.
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  SPEAKER_03: Suspected GOP front pack routing spending through new LLCs.
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  SPEAKER_03: So this is one of the new games of hiding dark money.
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  SPEAKER_03: They set up a brand new LLC in a state.
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  SPEAKER_03: After a filing period and before a primary,
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  SPEAKER_03: but before the next filing period so that nobody even finds out what happened until
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  SPEAKER_03: after the whole thing's over.
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  SPEAKER_03: And they'll set up an LLC and they'll set up a super PAC and they'll fund the money
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  SPEAKER_03: from the LLC.
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  SPEAKER_03: They'll donate to the super PAC because businesses can donate an unlimited sum.
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  SPEAKER_03: Right?
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  SPEAKER_03: Thanks to Citizens United.
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  SPEAKER_03: So the LLC donates to the Super PAC.
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  SPEAKER_03: The Super PAC then buys advertising to smear a specific candidate or in support of a candidate.
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  SPEAKER_03: But of course, without the knowledge of said candidate.
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  SPEAKER_03: In some cases, it may actually be a case that they don't really know it.
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  SPEAKER_03: Right?
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  SPEAKER_03: So this filing show that Politify show that Michigan Sunrise PAC,
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  SPEAKER_03: who spent over $590,000 supporting Will Lawrence in Michigan 7,
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  SPEAKER_03: funneled spending through two new LLCs following the playbook
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  SPEAKER_03: of previous subversive PACs used by Republican operatives.
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  SPEAKER_03: This is a Republican playbook.
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  SPEAKER_03: This is not...
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  SPEAKER_03: Democrats trying to hide money.
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  SPEAKER_03: This is not Soros.
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  SPEAKER_03: And that's what the Republicans are trying to do here.
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  SPEAKER_03: They call the PAC Michigan Sunrise because everyone affiliates Sunrise Group with Soros money.
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  SPEAKER_03: But this has nothing to do with Soros.
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  SPEAKER_03: They can then boogeyman this,
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  SPEAKER_03: even though they funded it themselves,
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  SPEAKER_03: with more than $590,000 in independent expenditures in Michigan 7th.
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  SPEAKER_03: Michigan Sunrise was registered with the FEC on July 20th with
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  SPEAKER_03: a treasurer named Bill McAllister,
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  SPEAKER_03: a name subsequently already changed to Robert W. McAllister that same day.
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  SPEAKER_03: Oops,
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  SPEAKER_03: I didn't want to say the bill because that hides that his name's actually William
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  SPEAKER_03: and that people call him Bill.
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  SPEAKER_03: So when you call for Robert McAllister, they go, there's no Robert McAllister here.
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  SPEAKER_03: The address is linked to a commercial shipping store in Battle Creek,
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  SPEAKER_03: Michigan, like a FedEx drop.
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  SPEAKER_03: We've covered a story like that where a guy who was funding the Rand Paul,
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  SPEAKER_03: the Massey thing,
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  SPEAKER_03: set up an LLC in Delaware and funded a PAC out of Ohio
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  SPEAKER_00: to influence some voting there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe in Kentucky.
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  SPEAKER_03: The latest independent expenditure filings show that this super PAC spent over half
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  SPEAKER_03: a million dollars on text messaging and media placement through, again,
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  SPEAKER_03: American Media Partners, LLC,
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  SPEAKER_03: that's the Wyoming Corporation,
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  SPEAKER_03: with almost $100,000 supporting Lawrence and $423,000 supporting Mastem.
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  SPEAKER_03: The expenditure filings came just a day after the committee disclosed
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  SPEAKER_03: a separate $68,000 direct mail expenditure supporting that same Lawrence candidate
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  SPEAKER_03: through Timberline Point LLC.
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  SPEAKER_03: You see what they're doing?
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  SPEAKER_03: They're setting up these shadow LLCs with big donor money.
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  SPEAKER_03: Nobody knows where it's coming from.
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  SPEAKER_03: They can then do media ad buys on behalf of a candidate.
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  SPEAKER_03: Nobody knows where it's coming from.
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  SPEAKER_03: And then they have to file with the SEC or they shut down the LLC before
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  SPEAKER_03: the filing period ends.
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  SPEAKER_03: And there's nobody to prosecute.
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  SPEAKER_03: There's nobody to go after.
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  SPEAKER_00: Spending comes amid growing scrutiny of Michigan Sunrise Pack
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  SPEAKER_00: after Punchbowl News reported
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_03: that the committee shared characteristics
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_03: with other outside groups,
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_03: including lead left, real change, and progressive champions.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_03: Why are they using those names?
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_03: Because they want to give the impression that there's big money on the left coming
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_03: to fund against corporate candidates.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_03: But there is no big money on the left.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_03: Because Soros is not left.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_03: He's a right-winger.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody that funds Democrats are right-wingers, right?
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_03: But all these campaigns have been linked to efforts
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_03: to influence Democratic primaries in competitive House districts.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_03: They're trying to handpick their opponents
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_03: because they feel like progressives are actually easier for Republicans to beat.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_03: So it's similar to a Pied Piper strategy where they're spending hundreds
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_03: of thousands to millions of dollars in each race in order to ensure the outcome,
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_03: the candidate that they want wins.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_03: Corporate records reviewed by Politify show America Media Partners was organized
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_03: in Wyoming on July 16th,
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_03: just four days before Michigan Sunrise registered with the FEC.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_03: And 10 days before receiving more than half a million dollars in reported campaign work.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_03: Again, they figured this out and got it dialed down to a science.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_03: I'm sure all this stuff is laid out and put into place before the money starts changing hands.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_03: The use of recently created Wyoming LLCs mirrors a broader trend
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_03: in political spending in which newly formed entities are used as campaign vendors,
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_03: often making it difficult to determine who is ultimately
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_00: providing consulting,
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_00: advertising, or production services.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_00: Michigan Sunrise's spending also mirrors several characteristics previously
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_03: identified in other mystery super PACs that intervened
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_03: in Democratic primaries
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_00: this cycle.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_00: And he talks about some of those.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_03: Those PACs, like Michigan Sunrise,
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_03: use pop-up LLCs, mostly in Wyoming, to route their spending through.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_03: Democrats don't do anything in Wyoming.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_03: Wyoming is the home of crypto and the home
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_00: of ultra-right-wing Republicans and Jackson Hole.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_00: Unlike those PACs,
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_00: however,
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_00: Michigan Sunrise has used the standard FEC file method of submitting their paperwork
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_00: to Popular Information's Judd Legume was able to catch those earlier PACs
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_00: with findings that they were using Crimson,
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_03: a submission software that almost exclusively was used by Republican committees.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_03: Because Crimson is red, color of Republicans, but also Harvard.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_03: Remember that a lot of these Republican douchebags have a Harvard connection.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_03: The Harvard Crimson is the name of the newspaper for Harvard University.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_03: Then there's the issue of the bank used by Michigan Sunrise.
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_03: Black Hills Community Bank is a little-known,
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_03: seldom-used financial institution,
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_03: but records show it's the bank of choice for Republican Congressman Dusty Johnson
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_03: of South Dakota,
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_03: as well as South Dakota AG Marty Jackley, also a member of the Republican Party.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_00: The committee's website,
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_00: like its suspected predecessors, is bare bones and offers little information.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_00: Because why should they?
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_00: They don't have to.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_00: Nobody holding them accountable.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_00: The spending targets one of the country's most closely watched Democratic House primaries.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_03: Lawrence,
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_03: a Sunrise Movement co-founder backed by Bernie Sanders,
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_03: has emerged as a leading progressive candidate in Michigan's 7th District.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_03: Has spooked Bernie,
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_03: while Mastem,
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_03: a former Navy SEAL and military aide to President Barack Obama,
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_03: has attracted support from more establishment Democrats.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_03: The winner will challenge Republican Representative Tom Barrett in November.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_03: So this is an incumbent seat.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_03: But what they're trying to do is get the Sunrise Movement guy in there
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_03: because they feel like they can smear him and Soros way worse than
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_03: a former Navy SEAL and military aid to Obama.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_00: Because even though he might have worked for Obama,
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_00: he's got the whole military angle working for him.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_00: Outside spending in the race has accelerated,
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_00: thanks Robbie,
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_00: as Democrats debate which candidate is best positioned to flip the swing district.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_00: I can tell you which one they've already handpicked,
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_00: and that's the corporate guy, the guy who worked for Obama.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_00: Whether additional filings reveal who's behind Michigan Sunrise PAC's vendor network
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_03: or whether the Wyoming companies appear in other political committees remains
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_03: an open question.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_03: Michigan Sunrise is likely to file contribution disclosures in late August,
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_03: although that will be too late for Michigan voters
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_03: to know who's funding these messages.
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_00: So like I said, the deadline to file is after the primary.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_00: So you don't find out until afterwards if you ever find out at all.
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_00: And of course,
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_00: conservative Americans PAC didn't respond to requests for comment at the time
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_00: of publishing and never will.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_03: And sadly, this only has two likes and one restack.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_03: Shameful.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_03: Go to jaeger.substack.com.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_03: Give it a like over there.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_03: Give it a share.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_03: Let other people learn
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_03: about how Republicans are actually funding progressive Democratic campaigns
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_03: to challenge establishment Democrats,
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_03: split the vote potentially,
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_03: put in a candidate that they feel
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_00: is more beatable,
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_00: And all of this is happening in plain sight.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_00: All right, I got another thing from Robbie.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_03: Now, suspected GOP front pack Michigan sunrises pro-Will Lawrence,
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_00: anti-Matt Mazdom ad buy, revealed to total over half a million dollars.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_00: All right,
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_00: this is the thing about,
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_00: this is the filing showing
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_00: that 10 days ago they just created this America Media Partners LLC.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_00: There's just a registered agent that's a normal company corporation type of thing.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_00: They're hiding who the actual owner is.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_00: This is an authorized individual that they hired as a corporate attorney.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_00: And because of attorney-client privilege, he does not have to disclose who his customer is.
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, but again, Wyoming people.
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_00: There ain't many wealthy Democrats funding these races out of Wyoming.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_00: This is definitely...
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, GOP front pack.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_00: And why are they calling it sunrise?
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_00: You've got to start to question this stuff.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_00: I got one more.
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_00: I still have a little bit of time.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_00: Then we can do the GoFundMes.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_00: How to protect people's nest eggs from the SpaceX scam.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_00: And this is a longer article out of Natalia Renta, out of inequality.org.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_00: And we talked about SpaceX in depth.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_00: Friend of the network,
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_00: Rich Slutsky over at Counterspin, Lies,
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_00: Damn Lies and Spin,
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_00: published an extensive deep dive into the SpaceX IPO
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_00: and explaining many reasons why it likely will never make the kind
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_00: of money it thinks it will.
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_00: It will likely be used as a front for a lot of things.
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't deserve the valuation that it has.
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_00: And And a lot of rules have been kind of bypassed
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_03: in order
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_03: to add this stock potentially to indexes,
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_03: which would then require the index funds,
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_03: and that's what this is going to say, to then purchase a portion of that stock.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_03: So let me read just the beginning of it.
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_03: Millions of working people keep their hard-earned money in low-cost index funds,
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_03: S&P 500 funds,
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_03: NASDAQ funds,
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_03: Dow Jones funds, to secure a dignified retirement and meet other financial goals.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_03: In choosing index funds,
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_03: these everyday investors assume financial industry intermediaries,
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_03: regulators,
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_03: and lawmakers are working to keep this investment strategy a safe
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_03: and conservative one.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_03: What these index funds are is a basket of stocks.
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_03: So the S&P 500 is a group of 500 of the most reputable, largest companies in the world.
• 26:31
  SPEAKER_03: And these index funds buy shares of all of them as required.
• 26:35
  SPEAKER_03: They can't buy anything else.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_03: They have to spend all the money in the fund on this.
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_03: And then as those stocks grow in value and they distribute dividends,
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_03: they reinvest and they continue to grow that portfolio of which people own shares.
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_03: However,
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_03: the infrastructure that has historically given index fund investors this sense
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_03: of security is eroding.
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_03: Index providers,
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_03: exchanges,
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_03: and asset managers are all changing their policies and practices in ways
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_03: that weaken investor protection to the benefit of executives,
• 27:11
  SPEAKER_03: directors,
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_03: and other corporate insiders,
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_03: just in time for several Silicon Valley companies hitting the market
• 27:18
  SPEAKER_03: and going public, like Stripe,
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_00: like OpenAI, like Anderil.
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_00: Meanwhile,
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_00: the SEC is turning away from its investor protection mission
• 27:29
  SPEAKER_00: to protect corporate insiders.
• 27:32
  SPEAKER_03: And states are weakening investor protection tools to convince corporate management
• 27:36
  SPEAKER_03: to pick them as their state of incorporation.
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_03: Hence, you remember that Delaware used to be the state of choice.
• 27:43
  SPEAKER_00: Now they're moving it toward Wyoming because Wyoming is now trying to appeal
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_00: to businesses to set up shadow LLCs.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_00: SpaceX provides a clear example.
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_03: Elon Musk's company went public in June at a sky-high valuation divorced from
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_03: the company's fundamentals.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_03: Mega AI companies Anthropic and OpenAI are also expected to go public soon.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_03: Traditionally,
• 28:09
  SPEAKER_03: the major indices have required companies stock to trade publicly for a length
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_03: of time to establish their financial stability before adding them to an index.
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_03: But nearly all the major index providers have recently changed their rules
• 28:25
  SPEAKER_03: to fast-track SpaceX and other large recently public companies.
• 28:33
  SPEAKER_00: Notably,
• 28:33
  SPEAKER_00: the S&P held the light after pressure from Congress as well as AFL-CIO
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_00: and this person's org, Americans for Financial Reform.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_00: This is an interesting article.
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_00: I encourage everyone to read the rest of it later.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_00: This is basically like asking Congress to hold the rules of the SEC to account and
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_00: to enforce those rules.
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_00: Require that time period for them to establish themselves.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_03: Because what happens if people start to bail on SpaceX in the next six months and
• 29:12
  SPEAKER_03: the stock craters?
• 29:13
  SPEAKER_03: It could crater the entire index and
• 29:15
  SPEAKER_00: bring down the broader market with it,
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_00: as well as people's retirement portfolios that they depend on.
• 29:22
  SPEAKER_00: It's dangerous.
• 29:25
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 29:26
  SPEAKER_00: So that's our lightning round, which I think was as long as any other segment.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_00: But we covered five different stories from domestically
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_00: that I think you should pay attention to.
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  SPEAKER_03: No!
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_03: We just fucking lost the stream!
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_03: I guess this isn't such an awful place.
• 30:33
  SPEAKER_03: Is that what you want me to
• 30:35
  SPEAKER_02: say?
• 30:37
  SPEAKER_02: You prove it's possible to sleep for days.
• 30:41
  SPEAKER_02: And I still think you're right here awake.
• 30:45
  SPEAKER_02: The cost of living isn't much to make.
• 30:49
  SPEAKER_02: But God, it's so hard to say.
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_02: And when they told you everything I said, were you the same?
• 31:03
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, you're safe.