Monday, March 31, 2025

The Psychology of Woke

What is it with these wokesters?

Why is there no talking to them?

Why do they have issues?

Why is it impossible to make any headway with getting them out of their progressive cult of destruction?


It's not a lack of knowledge or wisdom.

It's full-blown mental illness.

Sunday, March 30, 2025

Tenth Amendment Center: Nullification News (March 29, 2025)

 

NULLIFICATION MOVEMENT NEWS: March 29, 2025

“The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches … we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time, and eternally press forward for what is yet to get.”

-Thomas Jefferson

Idaho Constitutional Money Act Signed as Law


A bill to officially recognize gold and silver as legal tender in the state was signed into law by Gov. Brad Little.


Under the Idaho Constitutional Money Act of 2025, which goes into effect on July 1, 2025, gold and silver coins and “specie” minted domestically will be recognized as legal tender in the state and will be “accepted for the satisfaction of debts under the laws of the state of Idaho or of the United States.”


Specie is defined in the bill as “stamped or imprinted coin having gold or silver content; or refined gold or silver bullion that is coined, stamped, or imprinted with its weight and purity and valued primarily based on its metal content and not its form.”


The law specifically declares, “The state may also elect to use gold and silver coin and specie in conducting its business.”


FULL REPORT HERE


See Also: Florida House Subcommittee Passes Bill to Recognize Gold and Silver Legal Tender

Signed as Law: Utah Affirms State and Federal Jurisdictional Boundaries


House Bill 380 amends an existing declaration of state sovereignty in Utah law to include the presumption that the state has authority over all matters not delegated to the federal government.


“Jurisdiction over all governing subject matters arising within the state is presumed to reside with the state except as otherwise enumerated in the United States Constitution, as amended.”


The new law includes a declaration asserting the extent of state sovereignty.


The state has general governing authority under the state’s inherent police power jurisdiction over all governing matters within the state affecting public welfare, safety, health, and morality, as recognized under the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.”


The subject areas asserted within the state’s police powers jurisdiction include, “without limitation:”


(i) Natural resources;
(ii) Water resources and water rights;
(iii) Agriculture;
(iv) Education; and
(v) Energy resources


FULL REPORT HERE

Missouri House Passes Bill to Reestablish Second Amendment Preservation Act


The Missouri Second Amendment Preservation Act (SAPA) took a major step forward as the state House passed a bill to refine its language, addressing federal court objections while maintaining the state’s prohibition on enforcing federal gun control.


SAPA, signed into law in 2021, prohibits the enforcement of numerous federal gun control measures deemed to “infringe on the right to keep and bear arms.” In early 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice sued to block the enforcement of SAPA, citing primarily, its effectiveness.


Since then, two federal courts have affirmed Missouri’s right to refuse to participate in federal gun control enforcement under the anti-commandeering doctrine. However, both courts rejected some of SAPA’s language asserting the unconstitutionality of federal gun laws, citing that as their basis for holding the entire act unconstitutional.


Rep. Bill Hardwick introduced House Bill 1175 (HB1175) to amend SAPA and address the federal courts’ objections. It has since garnered 23 co-sponsors. Under the proposed law, public officers and employees of the state and its political subdivisions would be prohibited from enforcing or attempting to enforce “any federal acts, laws, executive orders, administrative orders, rules, regulations, statutes, or ordinances regarding firearms, firearm accessories, or ammunition,” unless they were mirrored in state law.


On Mar 27, the full House passed the bill by a vote of 100-51


FULL REPORT HERE


See Also: Arkansas House Passes Bill to Prohibit Credit Card Codes to Track Firearms Purchases

Oklahoma House Passes Bill to Expand Gold and Silver as Legal Tender


The Oklahoma House passed two bills to significantly expand the types of gold and silver recognized as legal tender in the state, and to establish a 100% gold and silver-backed transactional currency supported by a bullion depository.


Rep. Cody Maynard and Sen. David Bullard filed House Bill 1199 to expand Oklahoma’s definition of legal tender to include gold and silver bullion, exempt specie from taxation, and require courts to enforce gold clause contracts.


The duo also filed House Bill 1197 (HB1197) to establish a 100% gold and silver-backed transactional currency through a state-authorized bullion depository and issue a “transaction card” for everyday use.


The House passed HB1199 by a 73-15 vote on March 25 and HB1197 by a 77-15 vote.


FULL REPORT HERE


See Also: Kansas Senate Passes Bill to Recognize Gold and Silver as Legal Tender, End Taxes on Both

Signed as Law: Utah Bans Warrantless Reverse-Keyword Search Surveillance


Gov. Spencer Cox signed a bill into law to bar reverse key-word searches without a warrant in most cases.


This is another advance in Utah’s step-by-step approach to protect privacy and limit the surveillance state. In 2023, Utah enacted a law banning warrantless geofence location tracking, Rep. Ryan Wilcox and Sen. Todd Weiler filed House Bill 273 (HB273) to add any search for “reverse keyword information” to that warrant requirement.


The Senate passed HB273 by a 24-0 vote. It cleared the House by a 69-0 vote. With the Governor’s signature, the new law goes into effect May 7, 2025.


Reverse-keyword information is defined as “information that identifies an unnamed individual, by name or other unique identifier, who electronically searched for a particular word, phrase, character string, or website, or visited a particular website through a link generated by an electronic search for a particular word, phrase, character string, or website.”


For instance, police could seek a list of all the people who searched for the word “bomb” within a given area.


In effect, reverse-keyword searches are a massive fishing expedition, subjecting hundreds, if not thousands, of innocent people to police scrutiny simply for conducting an internet search.


FULL REPORT HERE

Defend the Guard Act Passes Arizona House Committee


The Arizona Defend the Guard Act took another step forward this week when a House committee advanced the measure by a 4-2 vote.


The legislation would prohibit the governor from releasing any unit or member of the Arizona National Guard into “active duty combat” unless Congress passed an “official declaration of war” as required by Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 of the Constitution, or if Congress takes “an official action pursuant to Article I, Section 8, Clause 15″ of the Constitution for the United States.


On March 26, the House Federalism, Military Affairs & Elections Committee advanced the measure with a “do pass” recommendation by a 4-2 vote. Sen. Wendy Rogers, along with a large number of cosponsors, filed the Arizona Defend the Guard Act as Senate Bill 1495 (SB1495).  


The Senate previously passed the bill by a vote of 16-13.


FULL REPORT HERE

PODCAST: 🚨 The BIG LIE About War Powers They Never Teach


They buried this history for a reason.


Once you see what the Founders actually said and DID... The modern war powers myth goes up in smoke.


WATCH, LISTEN, READ MORE HERE

Samuel Adams: “ALL MIGHT BE FREE”


We're seeing more and more good things happening in the 10th Amendment/Nullification movement, but there is a LOT of work yet to do. As Samuel Adams put it, “all might be free if they valued freedom and defended it as they ought.”

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Thursday, March 27, 2025

MassResistance is Launching a Public Education Revolution!

 We need to start a revolution in every school district!

Our schools have hit rock-bottom, and the children are the victims. It must be completely changed.

This situation must be completely reversed.

March 27, 2025
ALT TEXT This is an example of what the special interests and teachers' unions have brought into schools across the country - replacing real civics and academics.

Public school enrollment across the country is going down. Families are leaving their local schools. By the thousands, they’ve had enough. They are paying to send their children to private schools or they are taking on the burdens of homeschooling.

It’s not hard to see why. By virtually every measure, public school education in America is worse than ever before in history. High percentages of children in every grade are reading below their expected grade point level. They can’t do complex (or even easy) math problems. Their knowledge of civics, American government, and history is abysmal. They can’t write coherent paragraphs.

As a result, when students graduate, their reading levels, critical thinking ability, and general knowledge are far below even that of a few decades ago. Most colleges must now require remedial classes in basic subjects for students to simply catch up. Even Stanford, Harvard, and MIT are offering remedial math classes.

But there are some things that the public schools seem to excel at. Most parents are just becoming aware of how thoroughly dominated their schools are by leftist ideology, radical indoctrination, and other toxic non-academic materials and activities. Homosexuality, secret transgender grooming, gender ideology, Planned Parenthood-style sex-ed, pornographic books, anti-Americanism, and far-left political fads (anti-Semitism, “climate change,” etc.) have become standard fare. LGBT “GSA” clubs are in most high schools and many middle schools. There is even a push to start “rainbow clubs” in elementary schools!

Students go through school embracing a range of destructive ideas. And their mental health issues have skyrocketed.

Not surprisingly, good teachers are also leaving the schools. They’ve had enough of the radicalism, the absurd non-learning atmosphere, and the horrible discipline problems caused by “woke” policies imposed by administrators.

It’s not just children who are being irreparably harmed. It’s their families and all of society.

But it doesn’t have to be this way.

Children are capable of great learning. Public school students used to study (and appreciate) Shakespeare, Dickens, Twain, and other great authors. They learned algebra, calculus, and trigonometry. They studied chemistry and physics. They knew geography, history, civics, and astronomy as well as most adults. They could debate and write well (with very good penmanship) and a larger vocabulary. They learned musical instruments, sang in chorus, and learned to appreciate classical music and even opera.

And beyond that: When Winston Churchill was a boy, his classmates could compose poetry in ancient Greek and Latin. He sometimes reminisced about reading Thucydides in the original Greek in high school.

We can restore education in America! Public schools should be uplifting beacons of learning instead of cesspools of ignorance, propaganda, and perversion.

Parents should want to send their children to the local public schools. Teachers should want to teach at them.

President Trump has opened the door to positive change. His Executive Orders are requiring that school systems that receive federal funding (i.e., all of them) abandon illegal and discriminatory DEI policies and teaching, identity propaganda, destructive gender ideology, and boys in girls’ sports  – and implement pro-America courses of study for students.

That is a great start. For the first time in memory, parents have a friend – not an enemy – in their federal government in this regard.

This is an incredible opportunity. It’s a time for parents across the country to jump in and use that starting momentum from the top to force the entire change on the local level. An American revolution in education: All the bad curriculum (and methods) must go. All the radical perversion must go. It must be replaced with true quality.

But in every community, there are big obstacles to making this vision happen. Special interests, big money, and children are a dangerous combination. The national LGBT groups, the teachers’ unions, radical teachers, woke administrators, leftist school committees, and local unhinged leftist activists are all strongly against the reforms that parents want.

In most communities in America, the public schools take up over half of the town’s entire operating budget. Taxpayers – everyone’s taxes – are paying many times the per-pupil cost at similar private schools. We must insist on getting our money’s worth at the public schools.

Like every revolution that’s worth fighting, this will be a very nasty battle. Unfortunately, the conservative movement is not stepping up in any forceful way. But MassResistance has aggressively geared up to help parents make this happen in their communities. The only requirement is that the parents must really want this change. It’s not a fight for cowards. But it will really be worth it.

We’re already at work in a few school systems. But we want this education revolution to be a national movement! If you know of people in your community who are tired of the Left ruining the lives of everyone’s children with your tax money, drop us a line!

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