Argonaut News: Where is Congressman Ted Lieu?

When Congressman Lieu first ran for office, he released a federal survey along with three main legislative priorities: protecting Social Security and Medicare, fighting “climate change”, and caring for our veterans. The survey focused on gun control, national security, and the refugee crisis, as well as entitlements.

About the entitlements, no well-thinking politician can believe that the United States federal government can continue to honor overgenerous promises for government-subsidized healthcare. The entitlement budget is eating up the vast and growing majority of our country’s funding. We need entitlement reform, not the pandering status quo. Whatever Americans paid in, they need to receive back. All remaining government subsidies should be removed from the federal government and returned to the states.

As for climate change, why does Lieu deny science? The country has endured unprecedented cold fronts and heat waves in wavering cycles for decades, even centuries. A recent, unprecedented expansion of ice in the Arctic Circle proves that climate change is a natural phenomenon, and our government’s overheated attention is unwarranted.

Regarding care for military personnel, when will Congressman Lieu appear in photo-ops with homeless veterans? How about meeting with the friends and families of those who have lost their lives to criminal illegal aliens in our country? As a newly promoted colonel in the Air Force Reserves, Congressman Lieu should focus on national security and fiscal discipline. Lieu should press for enforcement of our existing laws, which prosecute gun violence and secure our borders against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

Trump Is Righting Latin America

 

I am proud to be an American, not just because our nation has lasted 250 years with great success under the same charter, but because of our positive influence around the world.

In World War I, we turned the tide in favor of the Allied forces.

In World War II, Nazi totalitarianism would have won, but the United States bolstered Allied forces overseas and in the European theater. Japanese aggression throughout Southeast Asia, from 1931 to 1945, ended because of America. We dropped two atomic bombs on their homeland, and we forced their surrender.

The Cold War was the longest battle. Yes, there were fewer battles, but many sanctions, lots of threats, and too many incursions and expansions of communist influence around the world. The United States stood firm against the Soviet Union and its satellites. President Nixon’s rapprochement with China and Reagan’s tough diplomacy hastened the Soviet Union’s decline.

The world received an unexpected Christmas gift on December 25, 1991, when Mikhail Gorbachev declared the official dissolution of the Soviet Union.

North Korea still embraces its Stalinist cause, but faces increasing isolation, forcing them to allow increased economic liberalism.  China incorporated market reforms while retaining its authoritarian regime, but a population implosion, weakening trade, and increased indebtedness are dooming the country.

President Trump has increased the pressure on these rogue regimes, demanding economic freedom and political reforms. He has unchained American dependence on China; he has networked rapprochement between North Korea and South Korea; he has resisted Putin’s designs on Eastern Europe and the Caucasus Mountains. Indonesia and Vietnam have also become more friendly towards the United States. Freedom has a chance when nations begin to comply and cooperate with our country.

While Communism collapsed in Russia, it sadly relocated and re-emerged in Latin America. The cancer had already captured Cuba in 1958, then spread through Central and South America. Cartels and gangs filled the power vacuum, and Bush 41’s arrest of Manuel Noriega barely stemmed the tide. Further south, Peronist socialism ruined Argentina for decades, and juntas furthered the political disorder and collapse of freedom on the continent.

Latin America drowned in a red tsunami of communism during the early 2000s, as well. Bolivia floundered under the collectivist tyranny of the Evo Morales, and other Latin American states struggled to stay afloat in the midst of socialist machinations.

Latin America looked done for. America could finish off the Soviet Union, but what could the United States do about our neighbors to the South? If Stalinist Cuba could withstand embargoes, and hostile states like Iran, Russia, and China could form working relationships to undermine the law of nations and public order across the globe, what hope was there that we could turn things around?

President Trump has made all the difference through a savvy foreign policy regime while putting America First. Unlike previous presidents, Republican and Democrat, President Trump made immigration enforcement a cornerstone of his domestic and foreign policy. The free ride of cheap labor was over. He halted the teeming masses of upset refugees throughout the Americas from invading our country.

The message became clear to southern partners, neighbors, and adversaries: “The answer to your problems in your country will not be solved by running to our country.” Without the safe haven of the United States, the citizens of Central and South America had to look inward and turn their own countries around. They had to make do with their situation and find a way to restore order in their countries.

Thus arose Nayib Bukele in 2019. The mayor of San Salvador, he campaigned for president with a new party with a bold, basic platform of restoring civility, shutting down the terrorist gangs and cartels. He defeated the establishment of both major parties and became a human savior for the nation of El Salvador, locking up the prisoners, restoring law and order, then inviting economic investment. Murder rates in the former crime capital of the world have declined immensely—and he just won re-election by massive margins.

Then Argentina voted for freedom in 2023. Having Laboring under unrelenting government intervention, Argentina’s crippling inflation and moral collapse drove voters to take a chance on wily libertarian economics professor, Javier Milei. Adopting Trump’s mission and messaging, Milei took a chainsaw to the state and “the caste” of political insiders. Today, Inflation is crashing, jobs are growing, and law and order is being restored. The new rallying cry across the Land of Silver: Viva La Libertad, Carajo!

Milei credits Trump for his inspiration, and Trump 2.0 assisted Milei’s Congressional elections in 2025 with a credit swamp, which netted the United States massive gains and helped Milei gain power in Argentina’s Congress. He has passed effective economic reforms while cracking down on crime, stumping for life, family, and secured sovereignty.

Amazing!

And the MAGA-oriented right-wing shift has continued:

• In Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, a center-right businessman with a pro-security platform, took office, winning in late 2023 against leftist Luisa González. His successes netted him a re-election victory in 2025.
• In In Panama, right-wing candidate José Raúl Mulino won in May 2024, focusing on security and the economy.
• In 2025, en.wikipedia.orgPresident Trump arrested Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in a swift, early-morning operation, accomplishing what previous administrations had promised. Maduro was arrested for rampant drug trafficking and terrorism. His successor has acquiesced to American diplomatic and business overtures while releasing political prisoners.

• In Bolivia, Christian right-wing contender Rodrigo Paz Pereira ended twenty years of communist rule under Evo “Evil” Morales. Whoever said that you cannot vote your way out of communism?

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• In Chile, conservative Catholic José Antonio Kast won in late 2025 following a run-of, defeating a long-standing activist left-wing government which had sought to scrap Chile’s previous conservative reforms, including free market policies and school choice.

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• Honduras: Nasry Asfura (right-wing National Party) won in late 2025, defeating a leftist incumbent's ally.

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• Costa Rica: Laura Fernández Delgado (conservative/right-wing populist) won in February 2026. She campaigned aggressively on a pro-family platform, as well, denouncing the evils of abortion (just as Milei had done!)

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• Peru: Keiko Fujimori, daughter of populist former President Alberto, just won in June 2026.

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• In Colombia, another conservative Catholic, Abelardo de la Espriella, has replaced another left-wing narco-state-allied regime.

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Look across Latin America today. The right is on the march, cleaning out the wreckage of socialism and communism. Free market reforms are ascending. Rejection of authoritarian regimes, recognition of the state of Israel, friendly concourse with the West, and en masse crackdowns on crime and corruption are redefining the region.

 US Senator Ted Cruz offered a profound vision regarding the incredible political rightward shift washing across Latin America:

“[I]f that happens, this would be the most consequential geopolitical shift since the fall of the Berlin Wall, since America won the Cold War without firing a shot.”

 

Indeed, and Trump deserves credit for this transformation. He provided a successful campaign template focused on illegal immigration, national pride and sovereignty, focusing on economic growth and freedom while promoting traditional values. Trump endorsed many of the candidates listed above, as well, and has offered his support since their election victories.

 

Trump started the trend, set the standard, and Latin America is going right along with him.

 

CA MassResistance Catholics Protest LGBT Mass in San Deigo

 

California MassResistance Catholics confront “gay pride" Mass and radical priests in San Diego

For “Pride” - church interior is desecrated and Mass service altered

Our Catholics have had enough: “Go, and sin no more!”

July 16, 2026

 Contrasting messages from San Diego Catholics: Traditional Catholics outside (left) vs radical message inside (right) during the St. John the Evangelist Church's "pride" Mass.

For many years, faithful Catholics have endured a disturbing pro-LGBT turn in many of their churches. But lately, in some places, that has gone completely overboard. And many Catholics have had enough of it.

The Hillcrest neighborhood of San Diego is the most “LGBTQ+” area in town. One would hope that the most prominent Catholic Church there, St. John the Evangelist, would be a beacon of light and truth on that issue. But sadly, it has gone in the other direction.

 St. John the Evangelist Church in San Diego.

Throughout San Diego County, July 11-19 has been designated as “San Diego Pride Week” by the various LGBT organizations – with the Hillcrest neighborhood being the center of activities. As part of that, the St. John the Evangelist Church advertised that it would have an LGBT-themed “All Are Welcome Mass” on Sunday, July 12.

When our MassResistance Catholic leaders in San Diego saw that promotion, they contacted us. They wanted to do something to confront this outrage and let everyone know that there are Catholics standing up to it!

We got right to work with them. At the very least, a strong protest was in order. They also wanted to document what happened inside during that blasphemous Mass. Over the next several days they contacted other local Catholic activists.

Catholics confront the blasphemy

On July 12, our protesters gathered across the street from the church entrance. So the theological tension surrounding the event was evident even before entering the church! The protesters held a Rosary prayer vigil. They held a large banner depicting the Sacred Heart of Jesus and signs reading “God’s Marriage = 1 Man + 1 Woman” and “Go, and sin no more” (the latter echoing Jesus’s scriptural words to the woman caught in adultery).

 Across the street from the church entrance Catholic demonstrators prayed the Rosary and sent a strong message.

The vigil drew sharp, hostile reactions from the surrounding Hillcrest traffic. The demonstrators  received numerous obscene gestures, horn blasts, and profane shouts from car windows – much worse than at vigils outside abortion clinics, one of the demonstrators told us.

Inside the church – worse than imagined

Upon entering the church, one immediately noticed the extensive array of LGBT symbols, decorations, and banners everywhere – on the walls, doors, and pews. They were a vivid contrast to the traditional sacred church architecture.

Toward the front, several rows of pews were specifically reserved for representatives of regional parish "LGBTQ ministries," each with rainbow ribbons affixed. In the sanctuary, the visual theme extended to large rainbow flower bouquets and ribbon adornments surrounding the altar space. Even the candles flanking the tabernacle were fitted with decorative collars matching the colors of the pride flag, and a single rainbow ribbon was tied to the parish collection box.

As the Mass was about to begin, representatives from several Catholic churches across the region marched down the center aisle carrying their respective parish LGBTQ ministry banners.

Catholic priests and deacons from across the region participated. Some clerics wore rainbow-patterned stoles over their liturgical vestments. A special pro-LGBT welcome from the Bishop of San Diego was read aloud to the congregation.

While the structural layout of the readings reflected the universal Catholic calendar, the liturgy incorporated a specific scriptural substitution. The universally slated responsorial Psalm for the day (Psalm 65) was replaced with Psalm 139, with the congregation singing the refrain, "I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made."

The petitions explicitly prayed for the LGBT community, transgender individuals, parents of LGBTQ children – as well as refugees, the homeless, the marginalized, and those struggling with mental illness or addiction.

For more detail about this disturbing service, see the Liturgical Observation Report on this "All Are Welcome" Mass, written by one of our Catholic activists who was inside. [Photos by MassResistance]

 Also note the "progress pride" flag hanging from the balcony.

Final thoughts

It’s clear that the local Hillcrest neighborhood residents – and those who attended the Mass that day – got our protesters’ message. Our activists prayed the Rosary, but their signs were bold and hard-hitting (and spoke the truth). It shows how important it is in these situations not to just stand there and be polite.

As we’ve been saying, even if you feel outnumbered, it’s necessary to do at least something!

   

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The History of the World in Thirteen Poems

A History of the World in 13 Short Poems:

1. Sappho, sometimes called the Tenth Muse, was an Ancient Greek poet who lived in the 6th century BC. All we have left of her work are incomplete, tantalising fragments.

Fragment 147

I tell you
someone will remember us
in the future.… pic.twitter.com/6mwQnxLJSt

— The Cultural Tutor (@culturaltutor) August 10, 2023

Thank You, President Trump, for a Wonderful 250th Anniversary

 

Independence Day has come and gone, but President Trump still deserves special recognition for presiding over our glorious 250^th anniversary.

He deserves every honor, considering all the hate, dishonor, and outright legal horror that he endured. From the rigged elections of 2020, to the lawfare and invasions of privacy, to the extensive defamation he has suffered from corporate media, influencer lackeys, and government toadies trying to shut him down.

He worked hard for the presidency, and he broke precedents, being the first chief executive to return to office for non-consecutive terms since Grover Cleveland. He fought the good fight, overcoming every political machination possible against him. Who knew there were so many enemies, foreign and domestic, determined to destroy our beloved United States?

President Trump was the final backstop to the radical destruction and the horrid decline of our country. If Kamala had carried the day in 2024, the United States would have ceased to exist. We would have become a larger, slightly wealthier form of Canada, with our constitutional rights eroded or stripped away, followed by continued military humiliation and cultural and political decline.

Thank God for Trump, and thank God he led the festivities for our 250^th Anniversary.

Sadly, media pundits still mock his America First bravado. They don’t like the brilliant (some would call brazen) décor of the White House. They poo-poo the extensive array of presidential portraits in the Ovall Office. They don’t want to see MAGA hats, especially the ones bearing “Trump 2028” on the front.

He says what he wants, he insults citizens and world leaders, and he doesn’t care anymore. Does this still bother “The Beautiful People of the Beltway”? Of course, because Trump dares to say what the rest of them knew but were too timid to declare.

They had accepted American decline. They had bought into the historical truisms that Republics don’t last 250 years. Trump didn’t accept such lazy cynicism. Oh, how that bothered the pundits, the pollsters, and prognosticators in Washington DC, New York City, and Los Angeles! They enjoyed their ungodly counsel, they liked standing in their sin, and they loved sitting in their wealthy retirement homes, scorning everything else around them.

Trump did not. He has unleashed renewed vigor in America, a restoration underway. Not only are Americans proud to be American, but they want to help restore and expand this Exceptional Experiment.

The truth is, we have a chief executive, the first time since Ronald Reagan, who has determined not just to manage what remained, but to restore the greatness we had lost or witnessed taken away from us. China took advantage of easy trade conditions. Russia beguiled the foreign policy intelligentsia with empty proffering to join the international order, only to usurp South Ossetia, Crimea, and then invade Ukraine. Iran was still devising global nuclear destruction, burning our flags and despising our existence as the Last Best Hope on Earth.

Trump has stood up to those foreign affronts, unhampered by political pandering or collegial cowardice. Not only has he lived to tell the tale against our foreign foes, but he is rewriting our history at home, showing that American Greatness is here to stay. Jobs are up, industry is up, American morale is up. Immigration—legal and illegal—is down. Housing prices are coming down, along with crime and corruption across the continent.

Decline is a choice, and Trump has chosen not to go along with it. “Make America Great Again” is not an empty mantra for our 45^th and 47^th President. He is making our country great again, and he’s making all of us feel good about being Americans, too.

He has revitalized our American consciousness. He retells the great stories of our heritage. He gave front-seat honor to surviving World War II veterans, who fought evil overseas so that we could have the good, strong, and sure in our homeland. He has restored reverence for our flag, waving banners from then and now. During his July 3^rd, 2026, speech at Mount Rushmore, Trump told the story of the Belgian family who stitched together a makeshift American flag to signal their need for help. American forces came to the rescue, including the descendant of Francis Scott Key, the composer of our renowned national anthem. What an amazing coincidence, an incredible story! I had never known about this account until I listened to Trump’s moving speech. To top all that, Trump invited the descendant of that soldier to take the stage and salute that same flag before all of us.  Just amazing!

President Trump is reminding us how great we are—and how we should not forget it. I wish I could say I voted for this, too, but his efforts far exceed anything I could have imagined! Now that’s the kind of President we need all the time.

Trump has made American patriotism cool again, and he’s making all the right people mad about it. The petty phalanx of political Pharisees has condemned President Trump for his unrestricted love of country. They certainly found fault with him for the UFC championship fights on the White House lawn. Along with millions around the country—and the world—I supported the move. Not only is America back, but we are promoting healthy, rugged, in-your-face masculinity again. So what if one of the winners claimed that Michelle Obama is a man? The fact is, compared to her husband Barack, Michelle looks like the one wearing the pants in that family. And American men are hearing the invitation from Trump: be men, be proud men, and be proud to be Americans.

We all should be proud, brave, and full of bravado to be Americans.

The world is witnessing our greatness and repaying us the favor for our goodwill, too.

I wept with joy and gratitude listening to Scotsmen, Irish, and Englishmen singing “Country Road, Take Me Home” at FIFA soccer match after another, then continuing the warm, melancholy refrains in the local bars. To witness Germans, Japanese, French, Norwegians, and Africans of all backgrounds celebrating our wonderful country was so overwhelming. Even Canadians took to social media, begging to become Americans. Who would have thought, after all the anti-American propaganda from Canadian politicians and media, that Canadians would want to go from friends to fellow citizens? One German visitor has gained well-deserved fame following his tearful admiration of our country, including a heartfelt apology because he had believed all the bad press about our country—and was gladly corrected.

All the visitors to the FIFA World Cup love our spirit, they love our kindness, they love our abundance, and they love us.

And I love President Trump for making all this happen.

Trump isn’t just making America Great Again. He is making Americans great again, and more people around the world are recognizing this greatness, not begrudgingly nor blindly, but with a bountiful friendship that will outlast future political wranglings and culture clashes.

The fundamentals of our country have never been stronger. No matter the threats posed by the specter of communism or the demons of sectarian violence, I know that our country can overcome and thrive.

Thank you again, President Trump, for a Wonderful 250^th Anniversary Celebration!

MA MassResistance Exposes Obscene Materials at West Boylston Library

 

Another library director defends the indefensible: Argues that obscene LGBT books should be available to children.

A mother had confronted the library with the horrible medical facts on those behaviors.

Children should have the “freedom to read” about explicit LGBT sexual acts, answers library director

Regurgitates radical pro-LGBT American Library Association talking points supporting obscenity

NOTE: Graphic descriptions below.

July 13, 2026

 The historic Beaman Memorial Library building in West Boylston, MA has become a place for children to avoid. But one mother is fighting back.

Sometimes you feel all alone in a local battle. But it’s still important to do at least something. And we can help you do it!

As we all know, even in small towns, libraries have become so radicalized and are pushing increasingly destructive material to children. So, many parents don’t want to take their children there any more. Here is yet another example.

West Boylston is a town of about 7,900 people in central Massachusetts located just north of Worcester. It’s not as left-leaning as most of the state, voting about 56% Democrat vs 44% Republican. Last year, the town selectmen voted 4-1 to fire the Town Administrator because he ordered the police to take down a Trump flag hanging in the police exercise room.

West Boylston’s Beaman Memorial Public Library was built in 1912 and is in the National Register of Historic Places for its Colonial Revival architecture. But if the people who built it could visit it now, they’d certainly be sickened.

Shocking, graphic LGBT “pride” books for kids

A few weeks ago during “pride month,” a mother (and MassResistance activist) in West Boylston strolled into the library and was “greeted” by a display of graphic homosexual-themed books for children and teenagers. She couldn’t believe it.

Books in the Beaman Library for children and teenagers include:

Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe: Explicit drawings of teens having homosexual sex with each other, including a “transgender boy” (a girl pretending to be a boy) sucking on a boy’s penis. One drawing is of a man lying back on a bed with his legs spread while the other man is lying between his legs. Typical dialogue: "I can't wait to have your cock in my mouth.”

Flamer by Mike Curato:  Crude descriptions of “gay” boys talking a Christian boy into engaging in homosexual oral sex and anal sex with them. He then “embraces” his newly accepted homosexuality. There’s a sick description of boys masturbating into a bottle and forcing another boy to masturbate in front of them, or else drink it.

Confronting the library director with graphic medical information

But what could this woman do all by herself? All her friends are afraid to speak out. She contacted us and we worked with her. She wrote a no-holds-barred letter to the library director. He’s probably never received anything like it before!

Her letter said this:

It has come to my attention that the library is displaying a large selection of LGBT(+) books in the teen section. The contents of these books are detrimental to the mental and physical growth of our youngest and most vulnerable by presenting homosexuality / transgenderism as normal.

These books should be permanently taken out of circulation. They encourage poor decision-making, incur a high risk of serious health problems and are rife with pornography. As a hard-working taxpayer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, I object that my money is being used to fund these books.

I have some questions and thoughts for you:

1. Homosexuality is not innate, and no one is born in the wrong body.
2. Homosexual conduct is inherently harmful to the body. Please see the attached excerpt from the Christian Medical & Dental Associations.
3. Would you allow a display promoting drug use or suicide, too?
4. The library should include a copy of a book, The Health Hazards of Homosexuality in its collection. May I provide you a copy?

As the descriptions above show, the library books are very graphic. So in addition to the letter, she provided some graphic medical information to counter them!

She included a few pages of unfiltered information from the Christian Medical & Dental Associations describing some of the repulsive sexual practices and ensuing diseases and other health problems that directly result from LGBT behaviors.

The Health Hazards of Homosexuality brings together information from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and prominent medical groups on this crucial subject.

The library director responds

About a week later, she received a letter in response from the library director. It was condescending and bureaucratic.

• He did not address any of the medical information that she included (which is also documented in many other places).
• Instead, he defended having the books there. He quoted the library’s collection policy  (obviously put in by leftist library officials) which echoes the ALA’s talking points. It basically says that the library can bring in any material for children it wishes because parents must have the “right” to let their children see it. It’s up to parents to police what children see in the library, the policy says.
• Moreover, the library has no duty to protect children from pornography on its shelves. “The library will not deselect materials in an effort to protect others,” he said.
• If citizens don’t want any of the books to be there, they can go through the library’s bureaucratic book challenge progress.
• Regarding accepting a donation of our book, The Health Hazards of Homosexuality, he was particularly patronizing and pompous. Even though the book’s material is sourced from recognized medical groups, it was compiled by an “advocacy group” and has not been reviewed by the library’s “professional selection sources.” We can imagine the “professional selection sources” he used to acquire Gender Queer and the other filth the library stocks for children. We’d love to go through the non-fiction there and see the results of the “strict” processes they used.

Final thoughts

Even if you’re just one person, telling the truth is still powerful. It’s the beginning of change.

And it’s also the beginning of leaving your fear behind, which is critical because leftists depend on your fear for their agendas to continue. So even though MassResistance is starting big “fires” of change in many communities, we’re also encouraging small fires everywhere!

   

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The Signatory Legacy of Founding Father Roger Sherman

 

Roger Sherman's Signature Legacy

Sherman’s unparalleled political resume spans multiple major milestones in early American history: [1, 2]

The Continental Association (1774): Signed while serving in the First Continental Congress, enforcing economic boycotts on British trade. [1, 2]
The Declaration of Independence (1776): Served on the Committee of Five tasked with drafting this historic document. [1, 2]
The Articles of Confederation (1777/1778): Helped draft America's first constitution and championed the inclusion of equal representation for smaller states. [1, 2]
The U.S. Constitution (1787): Played a vital role in the Constitutional Convention by proposing the "Great Compromise" (establishing a bicameral legislature). [1, 2]

The Treaty of Paris and Sherman's Role

While John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and John Jay served as the official diplomats who directly negotiated the terms with Great Britain, Sherman was a sitting member of the Congress that formally ratified the treaty to end the Revolutionary War in 1783. [1, 2, 3, 4]

Sherman's prolific legislative career did not stop there. He went on to represent Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives and later the U.S. Senate before his death in 1793. [1, 2, 3, 4]

LA County for Trump: Eight Years Later, What Happened?

From early 2017 until mid-2018, I was active with a large coalition of Angelenos fighting the good fight for President Trump.

We went to protests, we led rallies, and we participated in marches in and around Los Angeles to support the President and advocate for his policies.

Some of the biggest movers and shakers in the movement got together for multiple Independence Day bashes throughout Southern California, including Genevieve Peter's home in the Sherman Oaks area.

Here's the group photo:

From back to front, left to right: Jesse Suave, Charles Beltran, David Hernandez, Joseph Cheng, Rachelle Mand, Megan Dowling, Patricia James, Raphael Hwong, Mama Leonor Ferris, Dawna Schoenberger, Elsa Aldeguer, Arthur Schaper, Harim Uzziel Vargas, Genevieve Peters Scott

A lot of people have followed up with me to ask what happened to the team. Where is everyone now?

Here's a basic rundown, as best as I can remember or relate.

I see Rachelle Mand (the lady with curly hair and glasses) at the Torrance-Lomita-Palos Verdes Republican Assembly meetings all the time. She's still in the fight.

Harim Uzziel Vargas (the guy at the front wearing a black shirt and a black MAGA hat) turned on all of us. He insisted that we could not be friends with people whom he did not like, which betrays a deep lack of maturity. He cut me off as he cut off many others.

Mama Leonor (the lady with long white hair and the stars and stripes on her shirt) is still kicking butt, but I have not seen her in years. I did connect with her briefly at an event earlier this year, but we didn't talk that much.

Genevieve Peters (on the right, in front of me) lives in Michigan now. She was born there, but moved to California to help with the George W. Bush campaign. She lived in the Golden State for years, and she was such a great help to all of us. After moving back to Michigan, he got married in 2023! Her husband, John Scott, is very supportive of the MAGA cause, too!

Elsa Aldeguer and I connect from time to time. We both supported Bianco for governor. I saw her late March, when I gave a speech to the Hollywood Republican Assembly. She has always been so supportive of me.

Joseph Cheng (the Asian guy with the shaved head) still connects with me from time to time, too. He supports me on social media. Unlike some in the MAGA-verse, he didn't get angry with me when I supported Governor Ron DeSantis for President in 2024. Yes, I voted for Trump in the general election. I am glad that I did, and I am glad that he is keeping promises this time, which he had made last time,

Megan Dowling was a hard-core Trump supporter. She attended lots of Tea Party rallies, was active in the local Republican clubs, and she attended lots of city council meetings to protest the sanctuary state law SB 54 in 2018.

Then she went to the dark side, celebrating all things Palestinian. All of this came out after the October 7th, 2023, terrorist attacks on Israel. From that time on, she started blathering about how she opposed Zionism, hated Israel, and supported the "Palestinian" cause. She now spends every Sunday in Redondo Beach protesting Israel along with the local group of left-wing activists.

Patricia (can't remember her last name. UGH!) is still active, but I don't really talk to her. She was really helpful when I didn't have a car (or a lot of money!), so she would drive me to events.

I haven't seen Charles Beltran in a while. We had a falling out. It's a long story that I don't want to get into.

Lots of people don't know the story behind Raphael, but I feel safe sharing some of the details now. Raphael was a good friend, very close to me. He helped me when I had suffered a stroke in 2019, and then when I had another health scare two years later. Unfortunately, he became dark and cynical about everything. He would just complain about all the problems, and it was so draining. The last time I sat down with him, the day before Independence Day 2023, all he would do was perseverate about the end of the conservative movement and how everything was falling apart. I couldn't deal with his constant complaining and negativity anymore. I had to let him go, and I have not spoken to him since. It is very sad what happened to him.

I still see David Hernandez all the time. He is doing great work for the Trump and Republican cause in Los Angeles. He is fighting the good fight and really thinking big for the state of California. In fact, he is a Vice Chair for the California Republican Party, and he recently got re-elected to the position.

Jesse Suave is still active, doing great stuff. He registers voters and shows up to protests from time to time. I had dinner with him and a few others earlier this year.  I have talked with him a few times, and I see him at a lot of Christian events.

Dawna Schoenberger was well-known as an awesome biker chick. I attended her birthday a few years ago in South Orange County. It was great to see her again, along with her kids. She is living somewhere in the Inland Empire now. We haven't talked lately, but she supports my work with MassResistance, which means a lot to me.

So, what happened to LA County for Trump?

Life happened, hard times happened, and new challenges came up.

I was working as a freelance journalist and activist for a year and a half. Time and money were growing tight, and I needed to find stable work. MassResistance, the international pro-family group that makes a difference, hired me in July 2018. I am celebrating my eighth year with the organization! That work has taken me to all sorts of places, and it has also required so much of my time that I no longer had time for Trump events.

During COVID-19, I was focused on the health freedom fight as well as exposing all the corruption in the public school system, which became so evident after kids were forced to stay home and get their education virtually. Parents finally witnessed all the grooming and corruption taking place in the government schools, and they demanded change!

From there, after Trump left office (Stolen Election!), I started doing other health freedom-related activism as well as my full-time work for MassResistance.

I soured on Trump in late 2022, when all of his US Senate picks failed and he chanted about protecting "gay rights." A lot of MAGA backed away from me in those days because I supported Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. I stepped away from a lot of other activism in those days, too, because I was tired of just doing the rallies. I wanted results, and I witnessed how just attending local government meetings and yelling at politicians wasn't getting the job done.

President Trump 2.0 has been a vast improvement over his first term, and he is setting the stage for great reforms and restoration in this country. I am hoping that more citizens get involved in the political process as well as the culture war. My main focus is MassResistance, but I am also writing more, getting published by American Thinker, American Greatness, Townhall.com, Canada Free Press, 2 Urban Girls, and other sites.

There's the basic rundown for now. Hope everyone is doing well, and let's not stop fighting for MAGA every day we can!

Response to RLn on "Charter Reform Massacre"

It’s charter reform season in Los Angeles, and once again, LA City chose virtue-signaling over virtue.

The city council rejected the proposal to expand city council seats to twenty-five. Of course they did! City councilmembers don’t want to limit or share their power with more colleagues, but it’s a reform much-needed, all the same. Perhaps Mr. Allen and RLn could launch a citizen initiative to add seats to the LA City Council. Supervisor Hahn and the LA County Board majority initiated, and voters approved the county reforms to expand the number of seats to nine members. Ask Aunt Janice to help you!

Rank-choice voting? Bad move, LA. Don’t do it! It will eliminate your vote, and it’s so complicated and convoluted that even Governor Gavin Newsom, the Washington DC Democratic Party, and activists in Alameda County have rejected it or called for its repeal.

One interesting (i.e., disturbing) reform passed: allowing non-citizens to vote.

Progressive President FDR declared: "The right to vote must be open to our citizens irrespective of race, color, or creed—without tax or artificial restriction of any kind." Progressive President LBJ, when he signed the 1965 Voting Rights Act, stated: “Americans of every race and color and origin in this country have the same right as all others to share in the process of democracy.” Americans, not non-citizens!

To his credit, City Councilman Tim McOsker voted against this charter reform, along with four of his colleagues. Let’s hope Los Angeles voters (i.e., citizens!) reject it, too.

The Last Public Execution in France (1939)

Eugen Weidmann, the last condemned person executed 
publicly in France

What do you think?

Should European countries bring back the death penalty? 

Should the death penalty be administered in public?

Why do you think the death penalty was secluded from public view in the 20th century? Many found the final death blows unsettling, so the offense or extreme nature of the proceedings alone cannot explain why capital punishment was removed from public view.

Why have we seen more countries abolish the death penalty in the first place?

Here's a dramatization of the final public execution in France:

In 1939, France carried out its last public guillotine execution.

This is a video reproduction made in the 1960s. pic.twitter.com/G1SntsPPzZ

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) July 7, 2026

Many will be shocked to learn that European countries still administered the death penalty via guillotine in the late 20th century, and not just France:

(Result from Google AI search)

The guillotine was primarily used in France until capital punishment was abolished there in 1981. However, several other nations and territories also adopted the device for executions before completely abolishing the death penalty (or before abandoning the guillotine for other execution methods): [1, 2, 3]

• Germany: Used extensively (particularly during the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich). West Germany abolished the death penalty in 1949, and East Germany used the guillotine until 1967. [1]
Switzerland: Used for executions until the abolition of the death penalty for civil crimes in 1942. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Belgium: Utilized as a standard execution method until 1916. [1]
Sweden: Replaced manual beheading with the guillotine in 1906, executing only one person with it in 1910 before abolishing capital punishment in 1921. [1]
Greece: Used the device from 1834 to 1913. [1]
Luxembourg: Used the guillotine between 1798 and 1821. [1, 2]
Monaco: Utilized the device until 1847. [1]
Vietnam: Employed the machine during the French colonial era and by the Republic of Vietnam until 1961. [1]
The Papal States: Used a guillotine (introduced in 1810) until the capture of Rome in 1870. [1]

For a long time, I had believed that the death penalty was abolished in France in 1977, but that form of punishment was outlawed in 1981. France's final execution by guillotine took place in 1977. In fact, it was the last execution by guillotine ever to take place!