MassResistance Update: Bill Whatcott in ICE Detention, Needs Lawyer NOW!

 

Canadian pro-family hero Bill Whatcott is still in U.S. ICE detention. Friends across the country are rallying to help him!

Facing third deportation hearing without a lawyer. But he’s filed asylum papers by himself – from the detention center.

Looming extradition request by Canadian government – over flyers passed out in 2016!

U.S. pro-family law group gave him bad advice, then abandoned him.

November 9, 2026

The federal immigration courthouse in Tacoma is actually a suite in the office area (lower right) of the massive ICE detention facility where Bill is being held.

Many people in the U.S. and elsewhere have asked us to report on the status of pro-family hero Bill Whatcott. The venom the Canadian government is exhibiting as it targets this one man over a “culture war crime” is shocking people around the world.

Bill Whatcott continues to be imprisoned in the massive ICE detention facility in Tacoma, Washington. He has no lawyer (yet) to represent him. But he has a team of friends (including MassResistance) working hard for him on the outside!

How did this happen?

As we described in detail in our previous post, the Canadian government has undertaken a massive, expensive ten-year “lawfare” effort to imprison Bill. His “hate crime” was passing out Christian-based flyers at the Toronto Gay Pride Parade in 2016!

Bill was officially charged with “wilful promotion of hate.” He was tried and acquitted in 2021. But the government appealed (which is legal in Canada) and in September 2026 got a pro-LGBT judge to convict him. While free before sentencing, Bill drove to the U.S. to seek asylum. At the time he crossed the border his passport was valid. He spent about two weeks with friends in Wisconsin and North Dakota.

He is now imprisoned by ICE in Tacoma and is fighting deportation in immigration court, though he has not (to his knowledge) been charged with a specific crime in the U.S.

On top of the ICE deportation threat, the Canadian government has filed an extradition request with the U.S. State Department! Thus, Bill now faces a big prison sentence in Canada. It’s all for a supposed speech “crime” that would be perfectly legal almost everywhere.

Still no legal representation

Starting in 2018, Bill had been working on possible asylum in the U.S. with an immigration lawyer from the California-based Pacific Justice Institute (PJI). But a month ago, when Bill was in North Dakota, the PJI lawyer gave Bill bad advice that changed everything. He told Bill that it would “not be a problem” if he were to go to the border crossing in Montana to retrieve some belongings a friend had brought from the Canadian side. Against the pleas from his friends not to go, Bill went and was immediately handcuffed, jailed, and sent to ICE detention. Soon afterwards, PJI shamefully dropped his case, telling us that they were too busy with other cases to continue.

While in ICE detention, Bill has no access to email or the Internet, nor can he get incoming phone calls. He can only phone out for 35 cents per minute at certain times of the day. So our group has been doing work on the outside for him!

The Tacoma immigration court requires that lawyers appear in person, not remotely. So we first tried to find pro-bono attorneys in the area for Bill. But they are all overwhelmed with hundreds of cases. One of them came and talked with Bill, but only advised him how to defend himself.

We began calling private immigration law firms. Last week we found one willing to represent Bill. They require $12,000 to get started. (Private firms routinely want $10,000-$15,000 to begin these cases.) We’d raised about $6,000 and tried to work out a deal with them. By Friday we’d raised nearly $9,000, but by then they had changed their mind about representing him.

Our group is continuing to call other private immigration law firms in the Seattle-Tacoma area.

Bill’s third “removal hearing” is this Tuesday, November 10

Bill’s first removal hearing before the Tacoma federal immigration judge was October 14. When Bill showed up without a lawyer and asked for a continuance, the judge gave him 2½ weeks – until November 4 – to find one.

At Bill’s November 4 hearing he still didn’t have a lawyer. The judge was quite hostile, and gave him until November 10 to get his initial asylum filing completed, or risk deportation.

The initial asylum filing is known as the I-589 form. It's very long, is usually done by a lawyer, and has a $100 filing fee. The PJI lawyer had emailed the U.S. border officers on October 30 and said he is representing Bill and was working on it. But he never did any work on it as far as we know.

Bill filed the paperwork himself. Over this past week, he went to the detention library and, with the help of the library staff, filled out the I-589 form himself and filed it! (Someone from our group paid the filing fee.)

In addition, our group has made sure that the judge has received letters from many of Bill’s personal friends attesting to his character.

For the November 10 hearing, Bill will still not have a lawyer. But he will have the crucial I-589 initial asylum form officially filed, and it will halt immediate deportation.

Bill’s next challenge is to get released on bail from the ICE detention – otherwise, he could languish there for years. A successful bail hearing will definitely require a lawyer.

What people can do

Bill Whatcott’s situation has hit a “culture war” nerve around the world. What the Canadian government is doing to him could someday happen to any of us, even in the U.S.

Many people from across the U.S. and Canada – and beyond – have contacted MassResistance and other members of the group asking what they can do to help Bill.

One important thing right now is to donate to Bill’s legal defense HERE.

Also coming up soon will be the U.S. State Department’s processing of Canada’s extradition request for Bill. Given the political landscape now, that could be bad. Bill will probably need a lot of help from friends on many levels for that!

Final thoughts

It seems ironic that perhaps Bill Whatcott’s worst experiences in this ten-year Canadian horror show are happening here in the U.S.

In Bill’s phone calls to us, he’s described his surroundings as full of criminals, gang members, and other unsavory types. He’s probably the only detainee from Canada, and certainly one of the few with a legitimate asylum claim. His strong Christian belief is getting him through everything, he tells us.

Bill Whatcott is considered by many to be the most fearless and principled pro-family activist in Canada. We in the U.S. will not let him down!

Please help us continue to do our uncompromising work!

Our successes depend on people like you.

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A Contrarian View on Election 2026: Trump Was Right, GOP Was OK, Voters Are Wrong

 

I don't blame President Trump for the terrible fallout of Election 2026. 

President Trump has done everything that he can to make America great again. 

This is going to offend some people, but I don't blame the vast majority of candidates across the country, either

The fallout falls fully on the voters. They are wrong, and they foolishly voted against their own interests out of short-term outrage.

Across the country, Americans chose to punish the Republicans by punishing themselves even more. No matter how frustrating one may feel about incumbent Republican politicians at the state level or the federal level, the voters are not going to fix the problem by giving power to a political party which openly fraternizes with socialists, communists, nazis, and antisemites. 

This is a major failing. The real outrage is the American voter throwing an electoral temper tantrum and hurting America. 

Before I continue, I should recognize that structural issues may have forced voters’ hands.

There have been two major parties since the Civil War, and third-party efforts never succeed nationally. When a major party struggles with unpopularity, its values also struggle. Wouldn’t it be great if conservatives could form another party, ditching the stigma of the failing Republican brand, but continue advancing the values? In Argentina, the United Kingdom, and other countries, conservatives disaffected with establishment political parties formed outlier challenger movements, which capitalized on voter discontent without abandoning the conservative cause! Since voters can’t vote for a better Trump party, they stay home or vote Democrat—and thus hurt themselves.

What should they have done, then? More on that later.

Pundits condemn President Trump’s decision to bomb the nuclear facilities in Iran as the catalyst for electoral failure. I don’t care: I am glad Trump did it. If doing the right thing cost him Congressional majorities, so be it. Part of making America great again is defending America from threats both foreign and domestic. President Trump has put America first, and that included taking out the megalomaniacal Ayatollahs and the IRGC.

Trump has put America First by cracking down on illegal immigration and mass legal immigration, protecting kids and families, keeping men out of women’s sports, and improving our economy with drastic deregulation and energy production. Instead of measuring his successes, voters complained about pain at the pump. What’s the point of cheap gas if your city gets wiped out in a nuclear holocaust? 

The angry Republicans and Independents who voted for Trump in 2024 will chime: “President Trump said no more wars. And he should have known that “No new wars” means No New Wars to us!” 

What planet do these people live on? Should our chief executive just sit on his hands every time there's aggression against us? Are we supposed to do nothing when drug cartels go after our citizens? Are we supposed to sit by and allow Communists to take over Latin America, causing more humanitarian crises and immigration to our country?  Review President Trump's remarks on Iran over the last four decades, and he repeatedly stated his belief that Iran should never have a nuclear weapon. Trump did not betray MAGA. He did the right thing, and he will go down in history as one of our greatest presidents for doing so. 

What do we make of the Republican drubbing at the state level?

If voters are unhappy with Republican incumbents, they should have taken them out in the primary. Texas is a perfect example. Liberal leaning Republican Congressman Dan Crenshaw lost to state representative Steve Toth, who had established his credentials as a conservative grassroots fighter for years in the Texas state legislature. 

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton upset RINO incumbent US Senator John Cornyn, too. Come the general election, Texas voters turned on him. This is just wrong. Paxton was a national treasure. This man didn't just say nice things about President Trump, but he fought aggressively for Trump's agenda in Texas and around the country. He was the chief litigator who fought the voter shenanigans during the 2020 election. He took successful legal action to protect life, election integrity, and the well-being of children and families. Did he have a stable family home himself? No, but he fought for everyone else. I am really disappointed with Texas voters, so disgusted by his private failings that they allowed a public failure like James “God is Non-Binary and I Love Trans Kids” Talarico to become their next us senator. What the hell were they thinking?! Ten years ago, Christians and conservatives forgave President Trump for his private failings, and they elected him. Why couldn't they have extended the same grace to Paxton? 

Let’s talk about the Vivek Ramaswamy in Ohio. Sure, he was a tech elitist. Yes, he supported H-1B visas and allowing more legal immigration. But those are Federal positions, and he was running for a statewide office. As Ohio governor, he would have no control over H1B or anything else. On the campaign trail, he advocated for conservative values and committed to implementing them. I agreed with him when he stood up to the Young Americans for Freedom conference and challenged them: “Do you want to be a winner or a whiner?” Real leaders stand up to dissident youth and tell them to stop feeling sorry for themselves. 

If that's bad politics, then there's a larger problem in this country. Don't get me wrong: Vivek wasn’t the best candidate, but why allow a leftist to govern Ohio?

It all smacks of cutting off your nose to spite your face. It's foolishness. 

US Senator Darlene Graham was not a conservative darling. Why would South Carolina suffer six years of Democratic representation in the US Senate because they didn't like Lindsey Graham's sister? This is not good strategy, folks. The same goes for the other US Senate seats and the other statewide offices that went blue this year. I respect the frustration about high gas prices and the lingering inflation. But how is voting for Democratic control across the country going to fix any of that? Many of these Democrats have campaigned on raising taxes, implementing more regulation, and cutting off energy!

Voter frustration is not an excuse for me this time. This election was a bad turnout, and American voters need to wake up and recognize that sometimes you have to tolerate some stuff you don't like so that you'll have better outcomes in the future. President Trump showed that kind of foresight. Republican and conservative-leaning Independents should have done the same.

California is a One-Party Dem Dystopia (And the CAGOP Is At Fault, Too)

 

California is a one-party Democratic dystopia, and Election 2026 all but confirmed this dark reality.

It wasn’t always this way. Democrats controlled the state legislature for decades, but Republicans won statewide. Think of Ronald Reagan, George Dukmejian, Peter Wilson, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.  Unfortunately, Republicans haven’t elected anyone statewide since 2006, and they have continued to lose ground, tumbling into superminority status in the state legislature in 2012.

California Democrats win big now by demonizing Trump and tacking him onto every Republican challenger. To ensure the win, they have corrupted the vote with ballot harvesting, automatic voter registration, and illegal aliens registering to vote without anyone being the wiser.

The California Republican Party has contributed greatly to this one-party mess. GOP leaders don’t fight, refuse to show any contrast with the liberal dominance, and they run from Trump if they don’t openly hate him. The down-ballot apparatus is dysfunctional and defeatist, too. Local Republicans who want to make a difference don’t get money, resources, or support. If you want to change the party, good luck!  To become a CAOGP delegate, you have to run for office or get appointed by a candidate or elected official. As a result, the party leaders are not grassroots conservatives.  They care about selfies with famous people, going to the exclusive parties and special dinners. California Republican conventions, central committee meetings, and clubs can be summarized in four words: “Meet, Greet, Eat, Retreat.”

The California Republican Party is desperate for money, but that’s harder to come by with fewer Republicans getting elected at the state or federal level. Local Republicans who win nonpartisan races avoid mentioning their political affiliation, and their lack of support hurts county operations, too. If big donors spend anything, they do it for the photos, the parties, and the social calendar. Any grassroots activist determined to make a difference is viewed as a nuisance, someone who will break up their fun.

I witnessed this witless commitment to failure as a CAGOP delegate and the president of a long-standing Republican club. During my tenure in both offices, I confronted Democratic candidates with glee. I openly supported President Trump, while most California Republican leaders shied away from him. Latinos for Trump highlighted the October 2016 meeting of my club.

How did the state and the county respond? The Los Angeles County Republican Central Committee (LAGOP) revoked our club’s charter. Why? They didn’t like my conservative views and confrontational style, and they resented the club members for re-electing me. They claimed that our club violated club rules by endorsing a non-Republican in a state senate race (which had no Republican), but the county committee had done similar things in the past!

The committee didn’t even follow its own rules to remove us, and the state party leaders did nothing to help. Our club moved on without official county recognition, but the damage was done. I realized then how the California Republican establishment doesn’t want to win. The small number of GOP donors like being little fish in an ever-dwindling pond while the state suffers from a lack of political competition. They won’t help Republicans, but they will spend committee money helping Democrats. This month, we learned that the LAGOP was spending money to help flailing incumbent Democratic Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass, herself a crypto-communist, to stop LA City Councilwoman Nithya Raman’s insurgent campaign against her. Raman still won, likely because local DSA activists like City Controller Kenneth Mejia exposed the public to Bass’ Republican support, all but assuring Bass’ loss.

With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats?!

Worse yet, I learned that some CAGOP operatives in Los Angeles County cared about more than social media and social gatherings. They join the committees so they can get the campaign manager contracts with favored candidates. They were making money as well-connected consultants, whether GOP candidates were winning or not.

LAGOP turned into a patronage operation, too. Influential members seek jobs with any remaining LA County Republican elected officials. They don’t want competition, so they discourage or dismiss good committee members, or they shut down clubs that could disrupt their chances at getting a plum government job.

When they’re grifting or profiteering, CAGOP central committee members endorse Democrats, even though Republicans are running for the same office! Two CAGOP central committee members in my South Bay state assembly district endorsed Democrats in the Torrance City Council race. In Monterey County, one of the central committee members endorsed a Democrat for office, and the committee did nothing because that RINO controlled the purse strings for the committee and provided a monthly meeting room.

There’s no accountability when committees fail their local Republicans, and no one gets fired when Republican party leaders endorse Democrats. This is the California Republican Party today: the epitome of controlled opposition.

If there’s any real Republican political power left in California, it belongs to Trump, and the grassroots have to follow his lead while enduring more losses. In February 2026, the California Republican Assembly, the conscience of the Republican Party, endorsed Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco for Governor. In April, Trump endorsed Fox News host Steve Hilton, and he won the primary. Despite all the work of conservative grassroots like myself, Trump made one post and rendered all our work for nothing.

Can Republicans turn things around and make California great again? It will take new leadership, with real money and drive to reform a failing operation. A well-connected billionaire or more could coalesce their time, resources, and efforts, and take over the county committees and the state apparatus. Using non-profits and a fine-tuned media blitz, they could expose rampant California Democratic corruption, target swing seats during election season, and gradually move Republicans back into power.

This model worked in Colorado, where four billionaires, including the outgoing governor Jared Polis, flipped a reliably red state blue. Read The Blueprint for the whole story. A “Red Print” for California could work, but it requires savvy political skill, lots of funding, and extensive political connections.

California needs a team like the billionaire’s club that turned Colorado blue. Trump can’t lead that fight, since he’s almost out of office. Elon Musk could carry the cause if properly convinced. He took over Twitter and restored freedom of speech. He could work similar wonders in California politics. Peter Thiel could help, too, and the rest of the Silicon Valley tech bros should consider joining the effort. No matter what happens,  California Republicans need outside help, because grassroots efforts are falling short, and entrenched Democratic dominance with no opposition is destroying this state!

 

Election 2026: Reflections on the Deep Blue Victories

Election 2026 is over, and it didn’t go well. Final tallies are still trickling in for California (they always do), but those elections are a foregone conclusion. The AP called the California Governor’s race at the closing of the polls, and I am too jaded by liberal Californians’ repeated votes for failure to scream about voter fraud. No matter how much fraud there may be, I have witnessed enough town halls and political discourse in this state to recognize that Californians are afflicted with Republican Derangement Syndrome and Trump Derangement Syndrome in particular.

Perennial politician and policy non-entity Xavier Becerra is the governor-elect. He crumbled in debates, then hid from voters and reporters during the campaign season. In contrast, Republican Fox News host-turned-populist author Steve Hilton campaigned everywhere, in heavily Democratic areas as well as Republican strongholds. Hilton hustled; he had good ideas; he even posted advertisements on major freeways (unheard of for a Republican candidate), yet he still fell short.

Across the country, Democrats made unprecedented gains in ruby red states. These states have election integrity measures and voter protections. Democrats swamped the vote and won fair and square.

Sure, my predictions were wrong, but hope has to take that risk. I choose to be optimistic about every election, no matter how daunting the odds. No matter how severe the odds or how disappointing the losses, I have learned to persevere, and hopefully the country will, as well. We survived Joe Biden, and voters rejected Kamala Harris in 2024 to give Trump a second mandate.

Then what happened? Trump rode a wave of strong support at the outset of his second term. Americans wanted a return to order, and he reversed the damage of the Biden years. Two years later, voters have given Congressional power to the woke Democrats committed to the cults of climate change, transgenderism, and socialism.

Did high gas prices and inflation so embitter American voters that they would allow woke communists to take power? Sadly, yes. They should have looked past the high gas prices and reflected on President Trump’s accomplishments: record job creation, mass deportations, lower rents, protection of life and family, and restored prestige for the American military and the American experiment.

Regarding the war in Iran, President Trump did the right thing in targeting that rogue regime’s nuclear enrichment program. The United States would have stood helpless against an Islamic nuclear holocaust, along with the rest of the civilized world, if the Ayatollahs and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps had established an impenetrable wall of missiles to protect their nuclear enrichment. Since Jimmy Carter, no president has wanted to take on and take down the fanatical, megalomaniacal Islamic regime. Trump showed the necessary political courage.

If Republicans suffered because Trump put America First by taking out the world’s biggest geopolitical threat, so be it. I reject the dismissive commentary of Matt Walsh, who declared: “I'd rather Iran have a nuke than my country be run by communists.” Can’t we have both? We should seek both outcomes, and we should not disparage Trump for doing the right thing, even if he didn’t get the messaging right or struggled to corral other Republicans to focus on more domestic victories.

What other lessons can we draw from this midterm mess?

1.      Let’s start with a lighter note: Guam’s results are not indicative of the election results to come across the country.  I was so hopeful yesterday afternoon when I read Trump’s announcement about our little territory far away in the Pacific Ocean.

In 2022, a Republican won the Congressional delegate seat, the first time in thirty years, yet Republicans enjoyed only a red trickle across the rest of the country. In 2026, Republicans won Guam’s governor’s race, but the results were even worse for Republicans elsewhere.

• Guam’s election results were not a perfect harbinger by any means. Lesson learned.
• Republicans in red states took their longstanding dominance for granted, and voters are tired of it. Iowa, Texas, and Ohio turned blue this season, after years of Republican rule in the legislature and statewide offices, because they were angry with the lack of results at the state level.  Some candidates were so damaged, like Ken Paxton, or had so upset the Republican base, like Vivek Ramaswamy, that Republican voters did not turn out for them.
• Mississippi’s US Senate seat is trending Democrat, as well: unthinkable to some, but I have followed statewide election trends in the Magnolia state, and the Republican gubernatorial candidates have been winning by diminishing margins. Corruption issues and lack of conservative legislative success have outraged voters there, too.
• Republican voters feel betrayed by Trump, and they took it out on his party. Whether those feelings are justified is another story, but telling people “Everything is fine” while they face rising costs is not a winning electoral strategy. Then again, Trump’s leadership has been nothing but winning, even if Congressional Republicans didn’t step up.

What are the silver linings to the Republican Election Disaster of 2026?

• 1.      My favorite executive, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, is the biggest winner. Throughout his excellent and effective tenure, he committed himself to policy goals and gains, no matter what happened in Washington. He made promises, he kept them, and turned Florida into a Republican stronghold so stable that Republicans carried all statewide offices this year despite the blue tsunami. Governor-elect Byron Donalds owes him a great deal. Voters want results and a mission, not memes and noise, and DeSantis delivered. He is a strong contender for 2028 now, despite MAGA naysayers offended by his 2024 primary challenge.
• 2.      Idaho’s abortion initiative, Proposition One, failed despite the motivated liberal turnout on Election Day. Conservative values can withstand and win against unfavorable political environments. The pro-life movement mobilized early to fight this horrid attempt to enshrine abortion rights in the Gem State, and they succeeded. This is a huge win because abortion measures had been passing around the country up to now.
• 3.      Voter ID and “Citizen Voter Only” initiatives won big across the country, despite Democrats replacing Republicans in GOP strongholds. President Trump’s efforts to secure the vote should not be scuttled or dismissed. Republicans need to focus on these popular issues and accomplish them!
• 4.      Initiatives to protect women’s sports from confused men have won in Arizona and Nebraska, and they are winning even in deep-blue Colorado. Even Washington State’s initiative to keep boys out of girls’ sports is succeeding. This is great!
• 5.      In uber-liberal California, voters rejected the awful Millionaire’s Tax, Prop 40, with the help of massive donations from wealthy job creators who would have fled the state if it passed. Voters also supported Prop 42 to protect savings and other property from taxes. When there’s no partisan messaging but a clear commitment to doing what is best for voters, good initiatives can succeed in California.

Democrats may have won big this year, but not because their ideas are great. Republicans need to make MAGA happen consistently, not just talk about it. Am I worried for the future? No. Democrats in Congress and across the country will overplay their hand, and Republicans will capitalize on their failures to surge back in 2028.

The Anti-Catholic Hypocrisy of Janice Hahn

Supervisor Janice Hahn celebrating with the ANTI-CATHOLIC
hate group The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence

 

LA County District Four Supervisor Janice Hahn celebrated her visit to the Vatican in her latest Janice Journal newsletter (November 7, 2026:

             

I had the honor of joining the Catholic Association for Latino Leadership (I'm neither) on their pilgrimage to Rome last week, led by Archbishop José H. Gomez.

The highlight of the trip was meeting Pope Leo XIV. I brought him greetings from Los Angeles County, along with the plaque of the original LA County seal that my father designed. I told him the story of how my dad insisted on including a cross in the seal to recognize the influence of the Spanish missions on the early development of the area.

It was a beautiful moment for me. There’s so much that we have in common in terms of how we live our lives for Christ, and I'm grateful to my friend Diane Martinez for inviting me to join this trip.

The message I took away from my time in Rome was that we should try to love one another and work harder to find common ground and to make our community and our world a better place.

Read more about our pilgrimage

She gloated about her in-person meeting with Pope Leo XIV, including a photo offering him a plaque of the original Los Angeles County seal with a cross and a mission.

The whole thing reeks of unholy hypocrisy.

I found this sentence in her newsletter particularly galling:

"There’s so much that we have in common in terms of how we live our lives for Christ."

Hahn does not follow Christ at all. 

Hahn supports abortion, the murder of innocent children. Jesus said, "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." (Matthew 19:14)

She has been endorsed by Planned Parenthood and accepted their money. Planned Parenthood is committed to the destruction of innocent children and families.

She promotes the LGBT agenda. She welcomed the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, an anti-Catholic hate group, to attend a flag ceremony in front of the Supervisors' meeting hall to raise the "pride" flag over the county. How can she claim to respect the Catholic community when she welcomes a group of perverted men dressed up as mocking parodies of nuns?!

She endorses taking firearms away from law-abiding citizens through unsound gun buy-backs. Scripture and Catholic doctrine both recognize the importance of individuals to protect themselves and their families. Many Catholic groups and nations relied on firearms to protect themselves from rogue, communist, and atheistic forces.

She wants open borders, even though Biblical truth and Catholic doctrine do not endorse such destructive views. 

She has defamed federal law enforcement for arresting illegal aliens in our country. They broke the law, yet Hahn thinks that the laws of a nation don't matter. She has no regard for Paul's specific teachings on this matter:

"Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

"Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation." (Romans 13:1-2)

Has she even done anything to restore the original LA County seal, which includes the Cross? Nope.

In early 2025, the county attempted to limit weekly church gatherings in Redondo Beach. I requested that Torrance city councilmembers confront the county because they were attempting to limit freedom of religion. Where was Janice Hahn on this issue? Nowhere. So much for fighting for the faith.

This woman does not live a holy life, one that shows honor, respect, or alignment with Christ Jesus and His Holy Gospel.

I have never been so appalled that she would suggest something so dishonest.

If Pope Leo XIV were properly informed, I wonder if he would instruct her in actually walking in the faith!

TAC: The Federal Government Is Too Big - George Mason Warned Us

 

ANTI-FEDERALIST WARNING George Mason on consolidation of power  (article | podcast) **GET THIS BOOK: The Anti-Federalists Were Right?

Many antifederalists warned us about the dangers of centralized power. And George Mason was one of the most prominent. They called this centralization of power in the general government “consolidation.” In a speech during the Virginia ratifying convention, George Mason said a consolidated government “is totally subversive of every principle which has hitherto governed us.  This power is calculated to annihilate totally the State Governments.” [Emphasis added] He later added that consolidation “is one of the worst curses that can possibly befall a nation.” And yet the march toward consolidation continues. A lot of people like the idea of a strong national government because they think it will yield the policy outcomes they desire. But they forget that the power to do “good” can just as easily be turned toward evil purposes. Mason warned about this tendency during the Philadelphia Convention, saying, “From the nature of man we may be sure, that those who have power in their hands will not give it up while they can retain it. On the contrary we know they will always when they can rather increase it.” As good as centralized power might sound as you contemplate achieving some policy goal, the idea of a consolidated federal government is flawed by its very nature. Its size and scope make it unworkable. As Mason explained to the delegates attending the Virginia ratifying convention, the country is simply too big to have all of its matters directed by a handful of politicians in a far-away place. “Is it to be supposed that one National Government will suit so extensive a country, embracing so many climates, and containing inhabitants so very different in manners, habits, and customs? It is ascertained by history, that there never was a Government, over a very extensive country, without destroying the liberties of the people.” The Federal Government is too Big, George Mason Warned Us Article Here: https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2022/08/12/the-federal-government-is-too-big-george-mason-warned-us/ George Mason vs the Constitution: Top Anti-Federalist Arguments VIDEO PODCAST HERE Mason pinpointed a fundamental problem with a centralized government. The representatives cannot possibly understand the dynamics in all of the diverse regions of the country. “Sixty-five members cannot possibly know the situation and circumstances of all the inhabitants of this immense continent: When a certain sum comes to be taxed, and the mode of levying to be fixed, they will lay the tax on that article which t will be most productive, and easiest in the collection, without consulting the real circumstances or convenience of a country, with which, in fact, they cannot be sufficiently acquainted.” He went on to ask a rhetorical question. “Why leave the manner of laying taxes to those, who in the nature of things, cannot be acquainted with the situation of those on whom they are to impose them, when it can be done by those who are well acquainted with it?” Mason formulated these arguments when the country was much smaller than it is today. One of his chief concerns was the inadequacy of representation. At the time, he said, “It would be impossible to have a full and adequate representation in the General Government; it would be too expensive and too unwieldy.” He was proved right. Today, each congressional district averages 700,000 people. Mason argued that “to make representation real and actual, the number of Representatives ought to be adequate; they ought to mix with the people, think as they think, feel as they feel, ought to be perfectly amenable to them, and thoroughly acquainted with their interest and condition.” This is clearly impossible when each member of Congress “represents” so many people. The average person has virtually no access to her or his congressional representative, and they spend the vast majority of their time in D.C., not in their home districts (unless they are campaigning). Mason said that a centralized system is by its very nature “defective.” and therefore, “no powers ought to be given, but such as are absolutely necessary.” The Anti-Federalists Were Right? George Mason, Elbridge Gerry, Cato, The Pennsylvania Dissent and Luther Martin. These Anti-Federalists weren’t just arguing politics; they were issuing dire warnings for generations to come. They predicted the Constitution contained the seeds of tyranny that would lead to a corrupt aristocracy or monarchy. GET IT HERE During the ratification debates, supporters of the Constitution argued that “public virtue” and the “confidence” placed in those with power would mitigate the possibility of abuse. We hear similar arguments from proponents of centralized authority today. They say as long as “good people” wield power, we will enjoy good outcomes. Mason threw cold water on this notion. He understood that nobody can guarantee “good people” will control those power levers. “This, like all other assemblies, will be composed of some bad and some good men; and considering the natural lust of power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people.” [Emphasis added] In his third antifederalist paper, Cato accurately predicted what would happen if the American people ignored Mason and others’ warnings about the danger of consolidation. “From this picture, what can you promise yourselves, on the score of consolidation of the United States into one government? Impracticability in the just exercise of it, your freedom insecure, even this form of government limited in its continuance, the employments of your country disposed of to the opulent, to whose contempt you will continually be an object. 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