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16:38:47 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!T3tP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F39aeeab3-9553-44ae-bf1c-1ec703aa8e5f_1536x1024.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!T3tP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F39aeeab3-9553-44ae-bf1c-1ec703aa8e5f_1536x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!T3tP!, /__u/andreawex.substack.com/w_424, /__u/andreawex.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/andreawex.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/andreawex.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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I miss what John Wayne represented culturally. Strength. Grit. Courage. Duty. Confidence. Personal responsibility. The expectation that when something went wrong, a man stood up, protected his family, handled his business, and did not need society&#8217;s permission to be masculine.</p><p>Somewhere along the way, America decided those qualities were dangerous. We spent years telling boys that masculinity was toxic, aggression needed to be suppressed, competition was problematic, traditional gender roles were oppressive, and the differences between men and women were increasingly irrelevant. Then we took away many of the cultural expectations that once told young men what they were supposed to become.</p><p>Now everybody is standing around asking why so many young men seem lost.</p><p>Are you kidding me?</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h2>The WNBA Circus Says More Than People Realize</h2><p>Look at the circus surrounding the WNBA right now. Former NBA players Royce White and Enes Kanter Freedom have deliberately injected themselves into the debate over transgender eligibility in women&#8217;s basketball. Freedom and White announced their eligibility for the 2027 WNBA Draft, obviously designed to force people to confront the logical endpoint, <strong>men DO NOT get to compete with women</strong>!</p><p>How did we get so lost that we can&#8217;t define what it means to be a woman? It honestly makes me disgusted on every level. Women fought for generations to have their own opportunities in sports. Young female athletes should not be expected to surrender those protections because mentally unwell adults have become terrified of saying that biological sex matters.</p><p>And think about the message we are sending young girls. We tell them to work hard, train hard, become strong, compete, and believe in themselves. Then, when they ask adults to defend the boundaries of women&#8217;s competition, people become afraid to speak up for them, to defend them, how far we&#8217;ve fallen.</p><h2>Compassion Does Not Require Abandoning Reality</h2><p>People experiencing REAL gender dysphoria are human beings with a mental disorder. But compassion does not require society to abandon biological reality.</p><p>The American Psychiatric Association replaced the diagnosis &#8220;gender identity disorder&#8221; with &#8220;gender dysphoria.&#8221; The change deliberately focused the diagnosis on clinically significant distress rather than treating a person&#8217;s identity itself as a mental disorder. Like so much of the woke BS, this has been planned and coordinated.</p><p>Americans need to be looking closely at what has happened culturally over the past decade. Gender identity has gone from a specialized medical and psychological disorder in a <strong>very small</strong> segment of our population to something discussed constantly in schools, entertainment, politics, advertising, sports, and social media. When children and teenagers are involved, parents need to be demanding answers to where these ideas came from.</p><h2>Stop Teaching Boys That Being Men Is Wrong</h2><p>This is the part that makes me furious because we have spent years teaching boys everything they supposedly should not be. Don&#8217;t be too aggressive. Don&#8217;t be too dominant. Don&#8217;t be too competitive. Don&#8217;t be too masculine. Don&#8217;t make anyone uncomfortable. Don&#8217;t behave like some caveman.</p><p>Fine. Then who exactly are we expecting to run toward danger when everybody else is running away?</p><p>Who protects the family? Who teaches the next generation of boys that strength carries responsibility? Who tells a young man that there is something honorable about becoming physically capable, emotionally disciplined, financially responsible, dependable, courageous, and willing to sacrifice for his wife and children?</p><p>Masculinity without morality is destructive, and will be the downfall of our society. Strength without character becomes brutality. Aggression without discipline becomes violence. Sexuality without responsibility becomes exploitation. Healthy masculinity is strength under control. It is courage tempered by wisdom. It is the ability to protect without becoming a bully, lead without becoming a tyrant, and sacrifice without expecting applause. Shove your participation awards up your asses, and pull your woke mentally disabled brains out, fully. </p><p>Boys need to be taught that being strong is good. I want them taught that their strength exists so they can protect people who are weaker than they are (MEN will always be physically STRONGER than women, no amount of hormone replacement will change what God created). I want them taught that being a husband and father is not some embarrassing relic of an oppressive past.</p><p>Make America Masculine Again!</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">AndreaWex's Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h2>And What Exactly Are We Teaching Girls?</h2><p>Our culture has failed young women spectacularly. We tell girls that sexualizing themselves for strangers online is &#8220;empowering.&#8221; We normalize pornography for boys and then act shocked when those boys grow into men who struggle to understand intimacy, commitment, and the dignity of women. We reduce sex to recreation and increasingly discuss pregnancy as though it were an unfortunate mechanical malfunction.</p><p>Then we call all of this liberation.</p><p>I call it evil and intentionally destructive propaganda.</p><p>Women deserve something infinitely better than being told that freedom means becoming sexually available, chemically altered, perpetually objectified, and disconnected from motherhood, family, and the biological SUPERPOWER that comes with being female.</p><p>Being a woman is powerful. Being a mother is powerful. Creating a family is powerful. </p><h2>About That Abortion Debate</h2><p>There was another story this week that boiled my blood. Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signed legislation changing the state&#8217;s framework surrounding later abortion and eliminating the previous 24-week statutory limit. Watching this witch and the evil twats standing around her smiling made me furious. </p><p>I am unapologetically pro-life. I am sick of abortion being discussed as the only compassionate response to a frightened pregnant woman. If we really care about women, where is the housing? Where is the financial assistance? Where is the prenatal care? Where is affordable childcare? Where is the father? Where are the churches, communities, nonprofits, and families surrounding that woman and helping her create a life in which having her baby actually feels like it should, A CELEBRATION OF LIFE?</p><p>Research into why American women obtain abortions makes that point powerfully. A major Guttmacher study found that 74 percent of respondents cited concerns about how having a baby would affect their lives, 73 percent said they could not afford a baby at that time, and 48 percent cited relationship problems or not wanting to become a single mother. <strong>The same study found 1 percent reported rape and fewer than 0.5 percent reported incest.</strong></p><p>Using the most horrific and statistically uncommon circumstances to avoid discussing the overwhelming majority of abortions is dishonest and cruel and only hurts women by turning them into murderers.</p><p>If finances, broken relationships, absent fathers, fear, existing children, and instability are major factors driving abortion decisions, then a truly pro-woman culture should attack those problems aggressively. Help the woman. Help her keep her baby. Give her actual healthcare,  (abortion clinics are NOT healthcare). Give her options. Give her a path forward. Teach the men in her life they are RESPONSIBLE for her and their child&#8217;s safety.</p><p>And since when do we think of a serious medical procedure like abortion as &#8220;no big deal?&#8221; Since when do we high five our young people before such a huge procedure? (Don&#8217;t even get me started on how women only have 6 days a month to be safe during sex&#8230; yes only 6 days!) Why aren&#8217;t we teaching our kids about their bodies? Oh wait&#8230; we can&#8217;t even define men and women, so now this all comes full circle.  </p><p>I feel like I&#8217;ve lost my mind on this issue in a soul crushing way. The physical, mental, and spiritual harm that comes from abortions can not be overstated. The fathers suffer as well, they don&#8217;t share the statistics with us on how many men suffer depression after the abortion of their child, and that&#8217;s intentional. I&#8217;ve been to conferences and spoke to the experts on this, and heard the stories, there are no winners in abortion. There&#8217;s a dead baby, and often two devastated parents who must live with the gravity of that for the rest of their lives. Despite what the demented woke folks tell you, shockingly, killing your baby is not easy nor fun.</p><h2>We Are Poisoning Our Children</h2><p>There is also a physical-health component to this conversation that deserves serious research. We are raising children in an environment radically different from the one human beings inhabited for most of history. Their diets are filled with ultra-processed foods and enormous amounts of sugar. They spend less time outdoors, move less, sleep differently, stare at screens constantly, and encounter countless synthetic chemicals in food, packaging, household products, and the environment. American food = Frankenstein Food.</p><p>I want more research into endocrine disruptors. I want more research into male reproductive health. I want to know what environmental chemicals, obesity, sedentary lifestyles, pharmaceuticals, nutrition, poor sleep, and ultra-processed food are doing to our children&#8217;s development. MAHA should be digging into all of it.</p><p>Stop feeding children Frankenstein food loaded with sugar and artificial garbage and then wondering why they are unhealthy. Start asking what they are eating, what they are watching, how much they move, how well they sleep, what chemicals surround them, and what examples the adults in their lives are setting.</p><p><strong>And STOP VACCINATING YOUR BABIES!</strong></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/p/i-miss-john-wayne-we-destroyed-men?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/p/i-miss-john-wayne-we-destroyed-men?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><h2>Where&#8217;s the Compassion?</h2><p>We constantly proclaim that everything we&#8217;re doing is based on compassion, but are we actually producing healthier people?</p><p>Are we helping the terrified pregnant woman by simply telling her abortion is the answer, or would real compassion mean surrounding her with enough support that she doesn&#8217;t believe abortion is her only viable option? Are we helping boys by allowing pornography to become almost universally accessible while simultaneously refusing to give them a healthy model of masculinity? Are we helping people who really are struggling with gender dysphoria? Like with the feminist movement, this woke BS is only hurting those it claims to be fighting for. </p><p>Look at the LGBT community, organizations such as Gays Against Groomers have loudly rejected childhood grooming that only conflates homosexuality with gender ideology. </p><h2>As a Mother of Two Boys, This Is Personal</h2><p>I am raising two young men, so this is not some abstract political debate to me. My son&#8217;s will NOT be ashamed of being MEN, and men they will be I promise you that. </p><p>They are strong, compassionate, capable, disciplined, courageous, and independent. They are capable of protecting the people they love. They respect women. They know that that sex carries responsibility, that fatherhood matters, that marriage should mean something, and that keeping your word is everything.</p><p>And I want the young women growing up alongside my boys to know they deserve men like that.</p><p>Enough with the circus. Raise boys that become good men. Raise girls to become strong women. Protect children. Support mothers. Hold fathers accountable. Rebuild families. Stop apologizing! Stop the nonsense! </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/p/i-miss-john-wayne-we-destroyed-men/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/p/i-miss-john-wayne-we-destroyed-men/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy Mother’s Day to the Mama Bears Fighting Back]]></title><description><![CDATA[This Mother&#8217;s Day, I want to say something directly to the women who have spent the last several years being mocked, censored, gaslit, and called conspiracy theorists for simply asking questions about what is happening to our children, our food, our health, and our environment.]]></description><link>https://andreawex.substack.com/p/happy-mothers-day-to-the-mama-bears</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://andreawex.substack.com/p/happy-mothers-day-to-the-mama-bears</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[AndreaWex]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 19:51:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/197133156/13cc1456eedeb5c7f296dad2aef38111.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This Mother&#8217;s Day, I want to say something directly to the women who have spent the last several years being mocked, censored, gaslit, and called conspiracy theorists for simply asking questions about what is happening to our children, our food, our health, and our environment.</p><p>You were not crazy. You were paying attention.</p><p>There is something incredibly powerful happening right now in America, and it is being led by mothers. Not corporate feminism. Not social media activism. Not fake &#8220;empowerment&#8221; campaigns brought to you by pharmaceutical companies and giant corporations. Real women are waking up. Real mothers are standing up. Real mama bears are refusing to sit quietly while corrupt institutions experiment on the public and demand blind obedience from the people they are supposed to serve.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>That is exactly why the work being done at <a href="https://thegeofight.com?utm_source=chatgpt.com">TheGeoFight.com</a> matters so much.</p><p>I have been following the work of attorneys Tom Renz, Nicole Pearson, and Blake Horwitz very closely, and whether people want to admit it or not, they are stepping into one of the most controversial and important legal battles happening in America right now. While most politicians stay silent and most media outlets refuse to even touch the topic honestly, these attorneys are asking hard questions about geoengineering, weather modification, atmospheric aerosol programs, and the complete lack of transparency surrounding what is happening in our skies.</p><p>And let&#8217;s stop pretending people do not notice it.</p><p>Everyone sees the trails. Everyone sees the checkerboard patterns stretching across the sky. Everyone sees the strange haze that hangs over cities and mountain towns that did not look like this decades ago. I grew up in the Tahoe area, and I can tell you firsthand that conversations about cloud seeding and weather modification are not new. My own mother talked about these issues when I was still in high school, and I am far from a teenager at this point. Research institutions like the Desert Research Institute have openly discussed cloud seeding and weather research programs for years. This is not some internet myth that magically appeared overnight.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/p/happy-mothers-day-to-the-mama-bears?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/p/happy-mothers-day-to-the-mama-bears?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p>What frustrates me is the unbelievable hypocrisy surrounding this issue. We are constantly lectured about climate change, carbon footprints, airplane emissions, gas stoves, plastic straws, and how ordinary people are supposedly destroying the planet. We are told that every aspect of our lives must be controlled in the name of saving the environment. Yet the moment people begin asking questions about weather modification or atmospheric spraying programs, suddenly the environmental activists disappear.</p><p>Where is Greta Thunberg? Where is AOC? Where are all the screaming climate activists now? Because if governments, universities, military contractors, and private corporations are actively researching or engaging in atmospheric modification technologies, then this should be one of the largest environmental discussions in the world. Instead, anyone who questions it gets laughed at, censored, or dismissed without serious investigation.</p><p>That should concern everyone.</p><p>One of the things that really stuck with me was the complete lack of oversight surrounding what is being released into our skies. We openly acknowledge that airplane emissions are harmful to the environment, yet there seems to be almost no public transparency regarding what various programs may or may not be dispersing into the atmosphere. If someone can essentially fly over communities and release substances into the air with little oversight, why are ordinary citizens not demanding answers? Why are the people who claim to care so deeply about environmental health suddenly silent when it comes to this topic?</p><p>But mothers are not known for backing down when their children are at risk.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://thegeofight.com/&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Join TheGeoFight&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://thegeofight.com/"><span>Join TheGeoFight</span></a></p><p>That is why this Mother&#8217;s Day matters so much. The women who questioned lockdowns, questioned masks on children, questioned experimental medical products, and questioned government overreach were attacked relentlessly for years. Now many of those same women are once again sounding the alarm, this time about environmental transparency, public health, and the right to informed consent.</p><p>This is not about partisanship anymore. This is about bodily sovereignty, environmental accountability, and protecting future generations from corruption disguised as science. It is about demanding transparency from governments and institutions that have repeatedly proven they are willing to lie, manipulate data, and hide information from the public whenever it serves political or financial interests.</p><p>When do you trust a liar?</p><p>The team at <a href="https://thegeofight.com?utm_source=chatgpt.com">TheGeoFight.com</a> is taking this battle into the legal arena, and that is not cheap. Lawsuits of this magnitude require scientific experts, researchers, investigators, filings, travel, and enormous legal resources. These are not billion dollar corporations backed by pharmaceutical giants and global lobbying machines. These are attorneys and citizens trying to challenge powerful systems that do not want scrutiny.</p><p>That is why they need public support.</p><p>If you care about transparency, if you care about your children&#8217;s future, if you believe governments and corporations should not be allowed to operate without accountability, then now is the time to get involved. Follow the work. Share the information. <a href="https://thegeofight.com/donate">Support the fight financially</a> if you are able. 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The case, Mabie v. United States&#8230;</div><div class="embedded-post-cta-wrapper"><span class="embedded-post-cta">Read more</span></div><div class="embedded-post-meta">4 months ago &#183; 32 likes &#183; 17 comments &#183; AndreaWex</div></a></div><p>And on X:</p><div class="twitter-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://x.com/TheGeoFight_com/status/2053553358427013328?s=20&quot;,&quot;full_text&quot;:&quot;Mothers protect their children. Warriors protect their future.\n\nAttorney Nicole Pearson (<span class=\&quot;tweet-fake-link\&quot;>@NicolePearsonJD</span>) joined Dr. Clayton Baker (<span class=\&quot;tweet-fake-link\&quot;>@cjbakermd</span>) with a powerful message: stop sitting on the sidelines and get involved. From local communities to the courtroom, Americans across the &quot;,&quot;username&quot;:&quot;TheGeoFight_com&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;The GeoFight&quot;,&quot;profile_image_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/2028623077647826945/BhfEx_At_normal.jpg&quot;,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-10T19:10:48.000Z&quot;,&quot;photos&quot;:[{&quot;img_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/upload/w_1028,c_limit,q_auto:best/l_twitter_play_button_rvaygk,w_88/ufxpia2qkes4vemug3xa&quot;,&quot;link_url&quot;:&quot;https://t.co/iqiDMxUKXH&quot;}],&quot;quoted_tweet&quot;:{},&quot;reply_count&quot;:2,&quot;retweet_count&quot;:8,&quot;like_count&quot;:10,&quot;impression_count&quot;:175,&quot;expanded_url&quot;:null,&quot;video_url&quot;:&quot;https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2053553118114422784/vid/avc1/1280x720/C0LAfvvdIEFE9MEm.mp4&quot;,&quot;video_preview_media_key&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM"></div><p>Most importantly, to every mama bear out there who refused to stay silent these past few years, Happy Mother&#8217;s Day.</p><p>You are the backbone of this country. You are the women who still have instincts strong enough to recognize when something is wrong. You are the women willing to stand between your children and a corrupt system that increasingly treats human beings like test subjects instead human beings.</p><p>And whether the world admits it yet or not, America desperately needs more women exactly like you.</p><p>And of course a very Special Shout Out to the GOAT, my beautiful mother, Linda, thank you for being the OG of Conspiracy and always leading me to the truth, I love you Mom.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hkGD!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ad83fa9-6157-4fa7-bffa-484eb9c82a6d_1280x960.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hkGD!, /__u/andreawex.substack.com/w_424, /__u/andreawex.substack.com/c_limit, 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Not a Chance. ]]></title><description><![CDATA[This Is How We Save the Republican Party]]></description><link>https://andreawex.substack.com/p/shut-up-and-fall-in-line-not-a-chance</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://andreawex.substack.com/p/shut-up-and-fall-in-line-not-a-chance</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[AndreaWex]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:51:14 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rFmG!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa1c478d4-a779-448d-bc96-a22557b31eeb_1536x1024.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rFmG!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa1c478d4-a779-448d-bc96-a22557b31eeb_1536x1024.png" 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If you believe that criticizing the Republican Party or the Trump administration is &#8220;blackpilling,&#8221; then you have fundamentally misunderstood what it means to live in a constitutional republic. What is being pushed right now under the guise of loyalty is not strategy, and it is certainly not patriotism. It is a form of gaslighting that seeks to silence legitimate concerns and suppress accountability within the very movement that claims to value freedom above all else. That is not strength. That is decay.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;f8ca31ef-3f5d-41f4-bf4c-52504a27ba4b&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><div class="pullquote"><p>Watch the full episode here: <a href="https://rumble.com/v78jmc4-crusade-to-restore-trust-wcapt.-seth-keshel.html">https://rumble.com/v78jmc4-crusade-to-restore-trust-wcapt.-seth-keshel.html</a></p><p>Join the grassroots movement at <a href="http://FreedomBrigades.com">FreedomBrigades.com</a></p></div><p>This week, during a conversation with <a href="https://www.captaink.us/">Captain Seth Keshel</a> on <a href="/__u/open.substack.com/pub/freedombrigadenation/p/crusade-to-restore-trust?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&amp;utm_medium=web">Freedom Brigades</a> alongside Oklahoma GOP Chair Charity Linch, we examined the growing fractures within the conservative movement. These fractures are not imagined. They are visible, measurable, and being discussed openly across every major platform. There is increasing tension surrounding decisions related to FISA, the handling of the Epstein files, glyphosate policy, and the lack of accountability for Operation Warp Speed. There is also widespread distrust among many in the MAHA base regarding public health leadership, particularly among those who played a role in shaping and enforcing COVID-era policies. The American people remember the lockdowns, the mandates, the censorship, and the moral coercion that defined that period. What they have not seen is a meaningful acknowledgment of error or a clear path toward correction.</p><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/American-War-Election-Corruption-Crusade/dp/B0GQM7XW15" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c2G6!, /__u/andreawex.substack.com/w_424, /__u/andreawex.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/andreawex.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/andreawex.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/andreawex.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdcd346c8-4d1f-48bb-be63-ea499eebd160_302x466.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c2G6!, /__u/andreawex.substack.com/w_848, /__u/andreawex.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/andreawex.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/andreawex.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.amazon.com/American-War-Election-Corruption-Crusade/dp/B0GQM7XW15&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;American War on Election Corruption&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.amazon.com/American-War-Election-Corruption-Crusade/dp/B0GQM7XW15"><span>American War on Election Corruption</span></a></p><div class="pullquote"><p>Grab a copy of Captain Seth Keshel&#8217;s book, &#8220;American War on Election Corruption&#8221; here:</p><p>&#128073;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/American-War-Election-Corruption-Crusade/dp/B0GQM7XW15">https://www.amazon.com/American-War-Election-Corruption-Crusade/dp/B0GQM7XW15</a></p></div><p>At the same time, internal conflict among prominent conservative voices and Trump has intensified. Public disagreements involving Trump vs. Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, Megyn Kelly, and others have risen to absurd levels. The war in Iran has fractured MAGA. And don&#8217;t get me started on Israel, and the great antisemite accusations flying around, complete idiocy. Somehow now we don&#8217;t like Riley Gaines, what the hell is happening? Trump has done an incredible job at pissing off MAHA, a base he wouldn&#8217;t have won without. Glyphosate immunity, like are you kidding me? Geoengineering anyone? mRNA vaccine double down? No apology for Operation Warp Speed? Let&#8217;s just keep killing people, and let Fauci go on living his life without consequence, great moves Mr. President. And don&#8217;t get me started on the Epstein files, release them ALL and start arresting big names or sincerely GTFOH. </p><p>You expect us to sit back and applaud the FISA bs? I mean, who&#8217;s really MAGA?</p><div class="twitter-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/2045115354939097345?s=20&quot;,&quot;full_text&quot;:&quot;Last night between midnight and 2am, they tried to pass two bad versions of FISA&#8230; \n\nBoth would have allowed Feds to unconstitutionally spy on Americans.\n\nWe stopped both versions, but the fight isn&#8217;t over. Eventually, it was decided to give them two more weeks to fix FISA.&quot;,&quot;username&quot;:&quot;RepThomasMassie&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Thomas Massie&quot;,&quot;profile_image_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1899401226158039040/SmC-Bb8i_normal.jpg&quot;,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-17T12:21:11.000Z&quot;,&quot;photos&quot;:[],&quot;quoted_tweet&quot;:{&quot;full_text&quot;:&quot;&#128680; JUST IN&#8212;IT&#8217;S OFFICIAL: Conservatives have BLOCKED an attempt to RAM THROUGH a 5 year extension of FISA in the dead of night, extending it by only 2 weeks\n\n@timburchett, @laurenboebert, and @RepThomasMassie are out here celebrating a win against the deep state &#127482;&#127480;&#128293;\n\n&#8220;They try&quot;,&quot;username&quot;:&quot;nicksortor&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Nick Sortor&quot;,&quot;profile_image_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/2013475077619359745/SfN8KfMj_normal.jpg&quot;},&quot;reply_count&quot;:591,&quot;retweet_count&quot;:2736,&quot;like_count&quot;:13388,&quot;impression_count&quot;:243874,&quot;expanded_url&quot;:null,&quot;video_url&quot;:null,&quot;video_preview_media_key&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM"></div><p>Oh and Dan Bongino can absolutely kiss my ass. Kash Patel, Susie Wiles and my new favorite AG Todd Blanche all need to be fired, NOW. The movement that once appeared unified is an absolute dumpster fire. However, I see this is not a sign of weakness, rather a natural consequence of a politically engaged and thinking electorate, there&#8217;s a silver lining here folks! We are AWAKE and we are finally paying attention to a corrupt system. Before you roll your eyes and block me for being the &#8220;blackpilling&#8221; optimist, hear me out. </p><p>This is what it breaks down to: <strong>we the people WILL hold you accountable</strong>, whether you&#8217;re a whacked out democrat or Trump himself, if you go against our principles we will notice and we will get loud, that my friends is called being an American. Rebellion is in our blood, and protecting our freedoms will never cease to be a battlefield. </p><p>Oh and before you even ask, yes, of course I voted for Trump, and I&#8217;d do it again over literally any Democrat out there. The democrats and their platform are anti-American and I&#8217;ll never vote for socialism. PERIOD.</p><p>I&#8217;ll always go out and vote in person on election day. Not voting is NEVER the answer. </p><p>I will vote for the new faces, NO INCUMBENTS, grassroots, true patriots every time. My work revolves greatly around finding good candidates and getting them in office. So get off your couch and do the same. Disengaging only keeps you enslaved to corruption. </p><p>Don&#8217;t forget who you are:</p><blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.&#8221; &#8211; Thomas Jefferson</strong></p><p><strong>&#8220;Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.&#8221; &#8211; Ronald Reagan</strong></p><p><strong>&#8220;A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.&#8221; &#8211; Thomas Jefferson</strong></p><p><strong>&#8220;It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.&#8221; &#8211; Benjamin Franklin</strong></p></blockquote><p>What pisses me off the most is the response from certain corners of the movement. Rather than engaging with these concerns in a substantive and honest way, there has been a coordinated effort to dismiss criticism as harmful, disloyal, or even traitorous. The term &#8220;blackpilling&#8221; has become a convenient label used to shut down debate and discourage dissent. This framing is not only inaccurate, it is intellectually dishonest. Criticism is not a signal of collapse. It is a signal that people are paying attention.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/p/shut-up-and-fall-in-line-not-a-chance?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/p/shut-up-and-fall-in-line-not-a-chance?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><blockquote><p><strong>Voting for a candidate does not create a permanent obligation of silence. </strong></p></blockquote><p>It does not grant elected officials immunity from scrutiny, nor does it transform them into infallible figures. In fact, the act of voting creates a responsibility. It establishes a relationship in which the elected official is accountable to the voter. The idea that citizens should vote and then remain quiet regardless of policy decisions is incompatible with the foundational principles of the United States. The republic was not designed for passive participants. It was designed for active, engaged, and informed citizens.</p><p>I will always vote. I understand the stakes of disengagement, and I recognize that abstaining from the electoral process only accelerates the loss of representative governance. I vote because generations of Americans fought and died to secure that right. I vote because I care about the future my children will inherit. I vote because I believe in the preservation of this country. However, voting is not the end of civic responsibility. It is the beginning. After the election is over, the work continues. That work includes monitoring decisions, evaluating outcomes, and speaking out when those in power fail to uphold the principles they campaigned on.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/p/shut-up-and-fall-in-line-not-a-chance/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/p/shut-up-and-fall-in-line-not-a-chance/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p>The argument that internal criticism benefits political opponents is fundamentally flawed. It assumes that the strength of a party is derived from uniformity and silence rather than integrity and accountability. In reality, the opposite is true. A political movement that refuses to correct itself becomes stagnant and vulnerable. It loses credibility with its own base and eventually collapses under the weight of its contradictions. The Republican Party will not be strengthened by ignoring legitimate concerns. It will be strengthened by addressing them directly and honestly.</p><p>There is also a growing sentiment among voters that the party has drifted away from its stated principles. Concerns about surveillance, public health policy, corporate influence, and foreign intervention are not fringe issues. They are central to the identity of the movement. When voters raise these concerns and are met with dismissal or hostility, it creates a deeper divide. That divide is not caused by criticism. It is caused by the refusal to listen.</p><div class="directMessage button" data-attrs="{&quot;userId&quot;:112101914,&quot;userName&quot;:&quot;AndreaWex&quot;,&quot;canDm&quot;:null,&quot;dmUpgradeOptions&quot;:null,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}" data-component-name="DirectMessageToDOM"></div><p>The reality is that many voters feel a disconnect between what they supported and what they are currently seeing. That does not mean they are abandoning their values. It means they are demanding alignment. It means they expect the individuals they elected to act in accordance with the platform they ran on. That expectation is not unreasonable. It is the minimum standard in a functioning republic.</p><p>Saving the Republican Party will require more than slogans and loyalty tests. It will require a recommitment to principles. It will require voters who are willing to hold their representatives accountable, even when it is uncomfortable. It will require a rejection of the idea that party affiliation alone is sufficient justification for support. The presence of an &#8220;R&#8221; next to a name is not a guarantee of integrity or alignment. It is simply a designation. The substance must be evaluated continuously.</p><p>To those who insist that criticism should be silenced in order to protect the party, the message is simple. That approach does not protect the party. It weakens it. It erodes trust, discourages engagement, and ultimately drives voters away. A movement that cannot tolerate internal accountability is not sustainable. It becomes indistinguishable from the very systems it claims to oppose.</p><p>This is not about abandoning the Republican Party. It is about preserving it. It is about ensuring that it remains rooted in the principles that attracted millions of voters in the first place. It is about demanding that elected officials honor the commitments they made. It is about refusing to accept complacency, corruption, or contradiction simply because it is politically convenient.</p><p>Criticism is not betrayal. It is participation. It is vigilance. It is the mechanism by which a free people maintain control over those who govern them. Without it, the system fails. With it, there is still a chance to correct course.</p><p>This is not blackpilling. This is accountability. 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Who’s Next?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Let me make something very clear right out of the gate.]]></description><link>https://andreawex.substack.com/p/bondi-is-gone-whos-next</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://andreawex.substack.com/p/bondi-is-gone-whos-next</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[AndreaWex]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:35:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cCi1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F64e8a382-8e9f-4654-8132-9ec26d4e1e6e_1200x630.avif" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cCi1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F64e8a382-8e9f-4654-8132-9ec26d4e1e6e_1200x630.avif" 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I was told by powerful people in the GOP to shut my mouth. Not quietly suggested. Not politely advised. Told to stop talking about Pam Bondi. Stop talking about corruption. Stop talking about election integrity. Or your career is over. And now? Pam Bondi is gone. So let&#8217;s talk about what really just happened, because this is bigger than one person getting fired. This is about how deep the corruption runs, how hard they fight to silence it, and why you absolutely cannot stop speaking the truth.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;5fc5cc76-0357-4e34-935c-38aee48699e8&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;6161114c-732b-41ea-85da-98e325a7557e&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Pam Bondi did not get to the top of the food chain by being lazy or clueless. She got there by doing exactly what the swamp hired her to do. And if you are still telling yourself she is just &#8220;underperforming,&#8221; you are not paying attention.&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;showDescription&quot;:true,&quot;showImage&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;lg&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Pfizer Pam: The Attorney General Who Made Pfizer&#8217;s Problems Disappear&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:112101914,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;AndreaWex&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;I am a political commentator and activist who cares about truth, accountability, and America&#8217;s future. 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Bondi is out. After months of calling this out, after writing, after publishing, after getting attacked for it, after being told I would lose work, lose credibility, lose everything if I didn&#8217;t fall in line, she is gone. And I want every single person reading this to understand something very important. This did not happen because the system works. This happened because people refused to stay quiet.</p><h2><strong>&#8220;Pfizer Pam&#8221; Was Never a Conspiracy. It Was a Conflict of Interest</strong></h2><p>Let&#8217;s go back to the beginning. Pam Bondi had just worked for Pfizer right before becoming Attorney General. Then she steps into the most powerful law enforcement role in the country. And what happens on day one? Investigations into Pfizer disappear. Gone. Quietly. No headlines. No accountability. Just gone. You tell me what that looks like. Because to any rational person, that is not normal, not acceptable, and not ethical. That is a conflict of interest. And when we started talking about it, when we started pulling the receipts and laying it out, we were told to stop. We were told we were hurting the movement. We were told we were hurting Trump. No. We were exposing corruption.</p><div class="twitter-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://x.com/RenzTom/status/2039765002597667232?s=20&quot;,&quot;full_text&quot;:&quot;&#128680;&#128680;&#128680;Pfizer Pam Bondi is leaving the DOJ for a \&quot;private sector\&quot; job!! Todd Blanche is acting AG in the interim. \n\nPfizer Pam has ensured every lobbyist, elitist, and globalist criminal in the world was able to operate with impunity at the expense of the Trump Administration. I'm &quot;,&quot;username&quot;:&quot;RenzTom&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Tom Renz&quot;,&quot;profile_image_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/profile_images/1759966965483831296/HGudbgVL_normal.jpg&quot;,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02T18:00:48.000Z&quot;,&quot;photos&quot;:[{&quot;img_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/media/HE6yK6aXwAABZtP.jpg&quot;,&quot;link_url&quot;:&quot;https://t.co/WdiH7v62DN&quot;},{&quot;img_url&quot;:&quot;https://pbs.substack.com/media/HE6yTSCaQAEY_Ye.png&quot;,&quot;link_url&quot;:&quot;https://t.co/WdiH7v62DN&quot;}],&quot;quoted_tweet&quot;:{},&quot;reply_count&quot;:16,&quot;retweet_count&quot;:43,&quot;like_count&quot;:102,&quot;impression_count&quot;:2710,&quot;expanded_url&quot;:null,&quot;video_url&quot;:null,&quot;video_preview_media_key&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM"></div><h2><strong>The Machine Tried to Shut Me Down</strong></h2><p>After I published my &#8220;<a href="/__u/open.substack.com/pub/andreawex/p/pfizer-pam-the-attorney-general-who?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&amp;utm_medium=web">Pfizer Pam</a>&#8221; piece and my call for both <a href="/__u/open.substack.com/pub/andreawex/p/mr-president-fire-them-before-you?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&amp;utm_medium=web">Bondi and Susie Wiles</a> to be fired, the response behind the scenes was immediate. People inside the GOP reached out. High level people. And they didn&#8217;t congratulate me. They warned me. Andrea, stop talking about Bondi. Andrea, this is going to hurt you. Andrea, you will not get work if you keep this up. Let that sink in. I was told that my career as a political consultant would depend on whether I told the truth or not. I was told that if I shut up, I would get opportunities. If I didn&#8217;t, I would be blacklisted. And that my friends is how politics works, even for little nobody&#8217;s like me. </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/p/bondi-is-gone-whos-next/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/p/bondi-is-gone-whos-next/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><h2><strong>Election Integrity Is Not Optional</strong></h2><p>And this wasn&#8217;t the first time. Years ago, I was told the same thing about election integrity. Stop talking about it. Stop questioning voter rolls. Stop pushing for transparency. Or you will never work in this industry again. Because the consulting class, the same firms that control campaigns across states, the same firms that often play both sides, they decide who gets backing and who doesn&#8217;t. They told candidates not to work with me. They told them if my name showed up on financial filings, they wouldn&#8217;t support their race. Why? Because I wouldn&#8217;t shut up about the truth. And here is the reality no one wants to say out loud. Election integrity is not partisan. It is foundational. If we cannot verify our elections, we do not have a country. Period.</p><p>I&#8217;m proud to work with people like <a href="https://www.captaink.us/">Seth Keshel</a> and <a href="/__u/checkmyvote.substack.com/">CheckMyVote.org</a>, please go support them and get involved in saving our elections.</p><p>Also grab a copy of Seth&#8217;s best seller that just dropped, every American needs to read this: </p><p><em><strong>The American War On Election Corruption: The Crusade to Restore Trust in Voting</strong></em> </p><p>&#128073;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/American-War-Election-Corruption-Crusade/dp/B0GQM7XW15">https://www.amazon.com/American-War-Election-Corruption-Crusade/dp/B0GQM7XW15</a></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;034cdf5b-9cfd-4442-9dd9-0415236706f2&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><h2><strong>Tina Peters Is the Warning We Should All Be Listening To</strong></h2><p>While we&#8217;re here, let&#8217;s talk about Tina Peters. Because her story should terrify every American. She put everything on the line for election transparency. Everything. Her reputation, her safety, her family. And what happened? She was thrown in jail. Not celebrated. Not protected. Not elevated. Punished. I have met Tina. I have spoken with her. She is one of the strongest, most principled women I have ever encountered. And what was done to her is disgusting. If there is no justice for her, if that judge is not held accountable, then we need to stop pretending this system is functioning. Because it isn&#8217;t.</p><h2><strong>Bondi and Epstein</strong></h2><p>Now let&#8217;s talk about something even darker. Pam Bondi was Attorney General in Florida during the years Jeffrey Epstein was operating in Palm Beach. Right there in her jurisdiction. And we are supposed to believe she knew nothing? We are supposed to believe she never heard the rumors, never saw the reports, never had parents come forward? Because there were parents. There were reports. There were whispers everywhere. Local schools knew. Local authorities knew. People spoke up. And nothing happened. Then she becomes U.S. Attorney General and still does nothing meaningful on Epstein. Files appear. Files disappear. Binders show up. Then nothing. Just confusion and gaslighting. You tell me that is coincidence.</p><div class="directMessage button" data-attrs="{&quot;userId&quot;:112101914,&quot;userName&quot;:&quot;AndreaWex&quot;,&quot;canDm&quot;:null,&quot;dmUpgradeOptions&quot;:null,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}" data-component-name="DirectMessageToDOM"></div><h2><strong>The Washington Swamp</strong></h2><p>Here is what most people still do not understand. When Trump is out on the road, talking to real people and listening to Americans, he is aligned. He understands what people want. Then he gets back into Washington and he is surrounded. Surrounded by consultants, lobbyists, insiders, career operators. THE SWAMP! The same people who told me to shut up. The same people who told candidates not to work with me. The same people who control narratives, messaging, and access. And if you do not speak up, if you do not call it out, he hears them. Not you. That is why silence is not loyalty. Silence is surrender.</p><h2><strong>Stop Worshipping. Start Speaking Up</strong></h2><p>The idea that everything is part of some master plan. That every bad decision is actually genius. That every corrupt figure is somehow part of some bigger strategy. No. This is not 5D chess. If the bad actors inside the administration are not called out, if we don&#8217;t demand justice, we will never have it.</p><blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.&#8221; -Thomas Jefferson</strong></p></blockquote><h2><strong>This Is Bigger Than Bondi</strong></h2><p>Yes, Bondi being gone is a win. It is a real win. But it is not the end. It is proof. Proof that speaking out works. Proof that pressure matters. Proof that the truth cannot be buried forever. And Susie Wiles should be next. The corrupt consulting class should be dismantled. The lobbyist pipeline into government needs to end. Because this is not about one person. This is about a system that rewards silence and punishes truth.</p><p>To everyone who told me to be quiet, to everyone who said I was hurting the party, to everyone who said I would ruin my career, here is my answer. No. I will not shut up. Not for a job. Not for access. Not for approval. Because if telling the truth costs me opportunities, then those opportunities were never worth having.</p><p>If you are reading this, understand something. You do not need permission to speak. You do not need approval to question. You do not need a title to demand accountability. This country does not survive because people fall in line. It survives because people stand up. Demand truth. Demand transparency. Demand accountability. And when they tell you to shut up, speak louder. Because today proved something. We were right. And we are not done. 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disruptors, and toxins banned in other countries, it is not beauty.</p><p>It is slow self-poisoning.</p><p>And women have been convinced to pay hundreds of dollars a month for it.</p><p>I&#8217;m a Tahoe mountain girl. I grew up around pine trees, lake water, sunshine, and people who actually paid attention to what they put in their bodies. I grew up around nature and faith and the understanding that God designed our bodies to function naturally.</p><p>So when I walk into a modern nail salon or cosmetics store today, I do not see beauty.</p><p>I see a chemical factory.</p><p>And the fact that almost no one wants to talk about this while cancer rates continue to climb is insane.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h2>The Gel Manicure Trend That Should Terrify Women</h2><p>Let&#8217;s start with gel nails because this is one of the most bizarre beauty trends of the last decade.</p><p>Anyone who has had gel nails knows the process.</p><p>First they file your natural nail down to almost nothing, grinding away the protective layer.</p><p>Then they coat it in synthetic chemicals.</p><p>Then your hands go under a UV lamp to cure the gel.</p><p>The routine involves:</p><p>&#8226; Mechanical damage to your nail bed<br>&#8226; Open skin cuts around your fingers<br>&#8226; Direct chemical exposure<br>&#8226; Repeated UV radiation</p><p>All for the sake of shiny nails.</p><p>And yes, the UV lamps matter.</p><p>A study published in <em>Nature Communications</em> found that UV nail dryers can damage DNA and cause mutations in human cells, similar to tanning beds. Researchers observed mitochondrial and DNA damage in human skin cells exposed to UV nail lamps.</p><p>Ohio State University researchers have also warned that UVA exposure from nail lamps can contribute to skin aging and potentially increase skin cancer risk with chronic exposure.</p><p>Harvard Health notes that while the risk may be low for occasional use, the lamps still emit UVA radiation, the same spectrum associated with skin damage and carcinogenesis.</p><p>In other words, we created a beauty ritual that literally bombards your hands with radiation.</p><p>And women repeat it every couple of weeks while paying outrageous prices for it.</p><div><hr></div><h2>The Toxic Chemicals Sitting On Your Nails</h2><p>Radiation is only part of the story.</p><p>Many nail products contain what researchers call the <strong>&#8220;toxic trio&#8221;</strong>:</p><p>&#8226; Formaldehyde<br>&#8226; Toluene<br>&#8226; Dibutyl phthalate (DBP)</p><p>Formaldehyde is a known carcinogen linked to cancers of the nose, throat, and blood according to the U.S. National Cancer Institute.</p><p>DBP is an endocrine disruptor that interferes with hormone systems and has been restricted in cosmetics in the European Union.</p><p>Toluene has been associated with reproductive toxicity and neurological harm.</p><p>Even more disturbing, studies have found that products labeled &#8220;3-free&#8221; still contained measurable amounts of these chemicals.</p><p>Now imagine applying those substances to a nail bed that has just been filed thin and cut open around the edges.</p><p>Your skin is not armor.</p><p>Your skin absorbs.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/p/the-beauty-industry-is-poisoning?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/p/the-beauty-industry-is-poisoning?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h2>Europe Is Already Sounding the Alarm</h2><p>If you think concern around gel nails is just internet chatter, think again.</p><p>Europe has already started regulating key chemicals used in gel manicures.</p><p>In 2025, the European Union restricted the ingredient trimethylbenzoyl diphenylphosphine oxide (TPO), widely used in gel nail systems as a photoinitiator that helps the gel harden under UV light.</p><p>Regulators classified the chemical as a CMR substance meaning carcinogenic, mutagenic, or toxic to reproduction.</p><p>That is not a fringe claim. It is an official regulatory classification used when chemicals show evidence of serious health risks.</p><p>Public discussion exploded online once people realized what was happening.</p><p>One viral post from <strong>@MJTruthUltra</strong> warned women directly:</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;Any ladies use Gel Nail Polish? It was just banned in Europe for being highly cancerous, causing great harm to women&#8217;s fertility. The European Union banned the key ingredient trimethylbenzoyl diphenylphosphine oxide. It remains legal in the U.S.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>Another widely shared post from <strong>@BioavailableNd</strong> said:</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;As of Sept 1, 2025 Europe banned TPO, making most gel manicures illegal. It is deemed toxic for humans increasing the risk of infertility.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>Even mainstream outlets began discussing the issue.</p><p>A post from <strong>@NewsHour</strong> explained the regulatory difference clearly:</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;The EU banned one of the key ingredients in gel nail polish after it was classified as carcinogenic, mutagenic, or toxic to reproduction.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>Europe uses a hazard-based approach.</p><p>If a chemical shows signs it could cause cancer, reproductive harm, or genetic damage, regulators restrict it.</p><p>The United States uses a risk-based approach, often waiting until harm is proven at specific exposure levels.</p><p>In other words, Europe frequently removes questionable chemicals earlier, while Americans are told to wait.</p><p>That alone should make every woman stop and think.</p><div><hr></div><h2>Toxic Chemicals Are Everywhere in Nail Products</h2><p>Gel nail chemicals are only part of the problem.</p><p>The Environmental Working Group has identified toxic substances in more than 1,500 nail products sold to consumers.</p><p>One viral post from <strong>@TinaZimmermann4</strong> summarized the concern bluntly:</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;TOXIC NAILS. The EWG found toxins in over 1,500 nail products.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>Step back and look at the process logically.</p><p>You are:</p><p>&#8226; Filing down your natural nail<br>&#8226; Opening small cuts around your fingers<br>&#8226; Applying chemicals onto exposed tissue<br>&#8226; Then curing it with UV radiation</p><p>At a certain point the beauty routine starts to look more like a laboratory experiment.</p><div><hr></div><h2>When the Beauty Trend Starts Looking Like a Health Experiment</h2><p>If these chemicals are safe, why are nail technicians wearing masks?</p><p>Why do salons install ventilation systems?</p><p>Why are workers protecting themselves from the dust and fumes?</p><p>Because the chemicals are strong.</p><p>Yet customers are told it is perfectly normal.</p><p>This is how the beauty industry operates.</p><p>It convinces women that harmful practices are glamorous.</p><p>Until years later when the consequences appear.</p><p>Just like tanning beds.</p><p>Just like lead makeup.</p><p>Once you see it, you cannot unsee it.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/p/the-beauty-industry-is-poisoning/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/p/the-beauty-industry-is-poisoning/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h2>Nail Salon Workers Are Living in the Exposure</h2><p>Look at the workers.</p><p>Nail technicians spend entire days in rooms filled with chemical dust and solvent fumes.</p><p>That is why salons rely on:</p><p>&#8226; Industrial ventilation systems<br>&#8226; Dust collectors<br>&#8226; Protective masks<br>&#8226; Safety goggles</p><p>The Occupational Safety and Health Administration warns that nail salon workers are exposed to formaldehyde, toluene, acetone, and other solvents that damage the lungs and nervous system and may increase long-term cancer risk.</p><p>If workers need protection to survive eight hours of exposure, every woman should pause before coating her own body with those same chemicals.</p><p>The beauty industry has normalized something that, in any other context, would look like a laboratory experiment.</p><div><hr></div><h2>The Beauty Industry Is Really a Chemical Industry</h2><p>Most people think cosmetics are about beauty.</p><p>In reality they are about chemistry.</p><p>Modern personal care products are part of a massive global chemical industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars.</p><p>Many products contain endocrine disrupting chemicals that interfere with hormone signaling in the body.</p><p>The Endocrine Society warns that compounds such as parabens, phthalates, and bisphenols can mimic or block hormones like estrogen and testosterone.</p><p>Women experience far greater exposure simply because of the number of products marketed to them.</p><p>Hair spray.<br>Foundation.<br>Lipstick.<br>Perfume.<br>Shampoo.<br>Lotion.<br>Deodorant.<br>Soap.<br>Nail polish.</p><p>All of it adds up.</p><p>Women are not exposed to one chemical.</p><p>They are exposed to hundreds.</p><p>Every day.</p><p>For decades.</p><div><hr></div><h2>Makeup and Cosmetics Are Toxic</h2><p>The nail industry is only one part of a much larger problem.</p><p>Modern cosmetics often contain:</p><p>&#8226; Parabens<br>&#8226; Phthalates<br>&#8226; Heavy metals such as lead and cadmium</p><p>Parabens mimic estrogen and have been detected in breast tumor tissue in some studies.</p><p>Phthalates disrupt hormone balance and have been linked to reproductive and breast health concerns.</p><p>Heavy metals have been detected in lipstick and foundation. A Canadian health study found cadmium in more than half of tested makeup products.</p><p>These compounds accumulate in the body over time.</p><p>And many women apply dozens of products every single day.</p><div><hr></div><h2>Tanning Beds and Fake Tanning Are Another Beauty Lie</h2><p>For years women were told tanning beds were safe.</p><p>Now we know better.</p><p>The World Health Organization classifies tanning beds as Group 1 carcinogens, the same category as tobacco.</p><p>Indoor tanning significantly increases melanoma risk, especially when exposure begins young.</p><p>According to the American Academy of Dermatology, indoor tanning can increase melanoma risk by up to 75 percent when started early.</p><p>Yet tanning salons were once everywhere.</p><p>Another beauty trend that later revealed serious health risks.</p><h2>The Beauty Industry Has Done This Before</h2><p>None of this is new.</p><p>History is full of beauty standards that harmed women in the name of fashion.</p><p>In ancient China, women bound their feet so tightly that the bones broke and reshaped. The practice lasted for centuries because tiny feet were considered beautiful.</p><p>In Victorian Europe and America, women wore corsets so tight that their ribs compressed and organs shifted. Doctors documented fainting spells, breathing problems, and long term internal damage.</p><p>Queen Elizabeth I famously wore white face makeup made from lead-based cosmetics. The mixture slowly poisoned her skin. Historical accounts describe sores and lesions forming under layers of toxic makeup.</p><p>Don&#8217;t get me started on how wealthy beautiful women weren&#8217;t supposed to be strong and tanned by the sun.. I could write thousands of pages on how all of the above &#8220;beauty&#8221; standards tie into that nonsense. But I digress&#8230;</p><p>At the time, women were told these practices were glamorous.</p><p>They were told it was normal.</p><p>They were told it was beautiful.</p><p>Only later did people recognize the damage.</p><p>Today we like to think we are more enlightened.</p><p>But look around.</p><p>Women are still filing down their nails and covering exposed tissue with chemicals.</p><p>Still sitting under UV lamps.</p><p>Still inhaling cosmetic dust and solvents.</p><p>Still coating their skin in hormone-disrupting chemicals.</p><p>The pattern has not changed.</p><p>The packaging just looks more modern.</p><p>And the poison now comes in a sleek bottle with a luxury label.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h2>Artificial Food and the Slow Poisoning of America</h2><p>Cosmetics are only half the problem.</p><p>What we eat matters just as much.</p><p>The modern American diet is dominated by ultra-processed foods, refined sugar, artificial dyes, and chemical additives that are restricted or labeled differently in many other countries.</p><p>Artificial dyes such as Red 40, Yellow 5, and Yellow 6 have been linked to behavioral changes in children.</p><p>High sugar consumption contributes to chronic inflammation and metabolic disease, both linked to increased cancer risk.</p><p>When you step back and look at the bigger picture, the reality becomes obvious.</p><p>We are surrounded by chemicals.</p><p>In our food.</p><p>In our homes.</p><p>On our skin.</p><p>Then we act surprised when chronic disease rises.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" 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history.</p><p>The GRAS list.</p><p>GRAS stands for &#8220;Generally Recognized As Safe.&#8221;</p><p>It sounds comforting.</p><p>It sounds scientific.</p><p>In reality, the system is riddled with loopholes that have allowed thousands of chemicals into the American food supply with shockingly little oversight.</p><p>Under the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, substances can be classified as GRAS if experts conclude they are safe based on scientific evidence or historical use before 1958.</p><p>But here is the part most Americans never hear.</p><p>Companies are often allowed to self-affirm that their chemical is GRAS.</p><p>That means a corporation can hire its own experts, review its own data, and decide its own product is safe without ever notifying the FDA.</p><p>Let that sink in.</p><p>The same industries that profit from selling chemical additives are allowed to decide those additives are safe.</p><p>This loophole has been criticized for years by public health researchers who say it allows unvetted chemicals to enter the food supply without meaningful government review.</p><p>And it helps explain why the United States has been far slower than Europe to remove toxic substances.</p><p>The European Union follows something called the precautionary principle.</p><p>If a chemical appears likely to cause cancer, reproductive harm, or genetic damage, regulators restrict it until it is proven safe.</p><p>The United States does the opposite.</p><p>We assume chemicals are safe until the damage is undeniable.</p><p>That difference is staggering.</p><p>The EU has banned or restricted more than 1,300 cosmetic ingredients linked to cancer, endocrine disruption, or reproductive harm.</p><p>The United States FDA has banned only 11.</p><p>That gap is not science.</p><p>It is policy.</p><p>And it is policy heavily influenced by corporate lobbying and regulatory inertia.</p><p>The situation is not much better in food.</p><p>The Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 effectively grandfathered in more than 62,000 chemicals without modern safety reviews.</p><p>Many of those substances remain in circulation today.</p><p>So when Americans ask why Europe bans chemicals years before we do, the answer is simple.</p><p>Our regulatory system often waits until people are already sick.</p><p>Now this is where the frustration starts.</p><p>Because the Make America Healthy Again movement was supposed to change this.</p><p>Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spent years warning about toxic exposures, chemical additives, and regulatory capture.</p><p>And to his credit, there have been discussions about reforming the GRAS system.</p><p>The FDA is now exploring a rule that would eliminate the self-affirmed GRAS loophole and require companies to notify the agency before introducing new substances.</p><p>That is a step in the right direction.</p><p>But it is not enough.</p><p>Not when thousands of chemicals are already circulating through our food, cosmetics, and consumer products.</p><p>Not when endocrine disruptors are everywhere.</p><p>Not when chronic illness is exploding in the United States.</p><p>This moment requires bold action.</p><p>It requires a full reassessment of the GRAS list.</p><p>It requires removing substances linked to cancer, reproductive harm, and endocrine disruption.</p><p>It requires adopting a regulatory mindset that protects people before the damage is done, not decades later.</p><p>The MAHA movement cannot claim to fight chronic disease while ignoring the chemical soup Americans are living in.</p><p>Food additives.</p><p>Cosmetic chemicals.</p><p>Endocrine disruptors.</p><p>Industrial agriculture.</p><p>Environmental toxins.</p><p>These issues are connected.</p><p>And if we are serious about Making America Healthy Again, then we cannot tiptoe around the industries responsible.</p><p>The public is waking up.</p><p>People are reading ingredient labels.</p><p>They are questioning the safety of what is in their food and what they put on their bodies.</p><p>What they are waiting for now is leadership.</p><p>Because if MAHA is going to live up to its name, it cannot move slowly.</p><p>It needs to move like the health of the country depends on it.</p><p>Because it does.</p><div><hr></div><h2>Returning to Nature Is Not Radical</h2><p>I grew up in Lake Tahoe.</p><p>Mountains. Pine trees. Clean air.</p><p>People who understood something modern society has forgotten.</p><p>The closer you live to nature, the healthier you are.</p><p>God did not design human beings to live inside a cloud of synthetic chemicals.</p><p>We were designed to eat real food.</p><p>To breathe fresh air.</p><p>To live in sunlight and natural rhythms. (Stop the sunblock and sunglasses! More on that coming&#8230;)</p><p>Artificial lifestyles are not progress.</p><p>The body eventually pays the price.</p><div class="directMessage button" data-attrs="{&quot;userId&quot;:112101914,&quot;userName&quot;:&quot;AndreaWex&quot;,&quot;canDm&quot;:null,&quot;dmUpgradeOptions&quot;:null,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}" data-component-name="DirectMessageToDOM"></div><div><hr></div><h2>The Simple Solution No One Wants To Hear</h2><p>The solution is not complicated.</p><p>Stop poisoning yourself.</p><p>Eat real food. (No nutrition labels!)</p><p>Stop consuming artificial dyes.</p><p>Stop eating sugar.</p><p>Stop coating your skin with toxic chemicals.</p><p>Open the windows.</p><p>Use natural products.</p><p>Get sunlight and fresh air.</p><p>Your body was not designed by a marketing department.</p><p>It was designed by God.</p><p>Nature already gave us what we need.</p><p>Clean food.<br>Clean water.<br>Clean air.</p><p>The further we move away from that, the sicker we become.</p><div><hr></div><h2>A Message to Women</h2><p>You do not need fake nails.</p><p>You do not need chemical sprays.</p><p>You do not need toxic beauty rituals.</p><p>Your body is not a laboratory experiment.</p><p>Walk outside.</p><p>Touch the earth. Take off your shoes and ground.</p><p>Eat food with no nutrition labels.</p><p>Live in a way that honors the body God gave you.</p><p>Because real beauty does not come from a salon.</p><p>It comes from health.</p><p>And health comes from nature.</p><h2>MAHA Needs to Step Up</h2><p>If we are serious about Making America Healthy Again, then we need to start talking about the chemical soup we are living in.</p><p>The Make America Healthy Again movement has correctly identified many of the problems destroying public health in this country.</p><p>Ultra-processed food.</p><p>Artificial dyes.</p><p>Industrial agriculture.</p><p>Toxic additives.</p><p>Corporate capture of regulatory agencies.</p><p>All of those issues matter.</p><p>But we cannot stop at food.</p><p>We also have to confront the beauty and personal care industry, which quietly exposes millions of women to chemicals every single day.</p><p>Nail products.</p><p>Hair dyes.</p><p>Cosmetics.</p><p>Lotions.</p><p>Fragrances.</p><p>Cleaning products.</p><p>These industries operate under regulatory systems that are shockingly weak compared to many other countries.</p><p>In the United States, thousands of chemicals are allowed in cosmetics with minimal safety review. In contrast, the European Union has banned or restricted over a thousand substances from cosmetic use.</p><p>If the MAHA movement is going to be serious about protecting Americans, especially women, then this issue cannot be ignored.</p><p>Where is the push to investigate endocrine disruptors in cosmetics?</p><p>Where is the push to examine long-term chemical exposure from beauty products?</p><p>Where is the push to protect nail salon workers who are breathing these fumes every day?</p><p>This should not be controversial.</p><p>It should be common sense.</p><p>Women deserve transparency.</p><p>Consumers deserve honest safety standards.</p><p>And workers deserve protection from toxic exposure.</p><p>If we are truly going to Make America Healthy Again, then the conversation has to expand beyond food labels.</p><p>It has to include everything we put in our bodies and on our bodies.</p><p>Because health is not just about what you eat.</p><p>It is about the environment you live in every 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url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iVAH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdebb1313-00b9-4405-a715-0d836bc76a62_1536x1024.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iVAH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdebb1313-00b9-4405-a715-0d836bc76a62_1536x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iVAH!, /__u/andreawex.substack.com/w_424, /__u/andreawex.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/andreawex.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/andreawex.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Tonight you will stand in front of the American people and talk about restoring this country.</p><p>Before you do, we beg you, please-</p><p>Fire Susie Wiles.<br>Fire Pam Bondi.</p><p>Not tomorrow.<br>Not after the speech.<br>Before you walk out there.</p><p>Because the credibility crisis inside your administration is not coming from Democrats. </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h2>The Lobbyist Problem You Cannot Ignore</h2><p>Susie Wiles is your Chief of Staff. You have called her the most powerful woman in the world.</p><p>Pam Bondi is the Attorney General of the United States.</p><p>Both have documented professional histories as lobbyists at Ballard Partners, one of the most powerful lobbying firms in Washington. Public lobbying disclosures confirm that Ballard Partners has represented major corporate clients, including Bayer, the parent company of Monsanto, maker of Roundup and glyphosate-based herbicides. Federal filings show Ballard Partners received hundreds of thousands of dollars from Bayer and related trade groups following the 2024 election cycle.</p><p>That is not conspiracy. That is public record.</p><p>Wiles previously worked at Ballard Partners for years before later serving as co-chair at Mercury Public Affairs. Bondi also worked at Ballard Partners prior to her nomination as Attorney General.</p><p>This is the revolving door of the SWAMP. And it is exactly what voters were told would end. 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to non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Bayer has denied wrongdoing and continues to defend the safety of its products. The legal battle is ongoing and politically charged.</p><p>Recently, the administration and Department of Justice filings favoring glyphosate producers, essentially granting glyphosate manufacturers immunity was quite honestly a shock to the MAHA world. Everyone is baffled, we only see MAGA and MAHA being pushed further apart, in such a way that seems like it must be intentional, because no one can be this dumb, or can they?</p><p>When the DOJ weighs in on litigation that benefits a corporation represented by the former firm of the Chief of Staff and the Attorney General, you do not get the benefit of the doubt.</p><p>You get suspicion.</p><p>You get distrust.</p><p>You get the base asking whether corporate viability is being protected over human health.</p><p>Even if no laws were broken. Even if no direct payment occurred. The blatant conflict is catastrophic.</p><div class="embedded-post-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;id&quot;:188564482,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://tomrenz.substack.com/p/executive-immunity-for-glyphosate&quot;,&quot;publication_id&quot;:792813,&quot;embedding_publication_id&quot;:null,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Tom Renz&#8217;s Newsletter&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-eay!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb35166e6-61ca-42ac-bd7d-76c1c23cfd56_764x764.png&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Executive Immunity for Glyphosate Manufacturers Is Not Draining the Swamp&quot;,&quot;truncated_body_text&quot;:&quot;Let us start with the obvious. If you run for office promising accountability, transparency, and a break from corporate capture, you do not get to quietly expand immunity for multinational chemical manufacturers. 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If you run for office promising accountability, transparency, and a break from corporate capture, you do not get to quietly expand immunity for multinational chemical manufacturers. Yet that is precisely what we are staring at&#8230;</div><div class="embedded-post-cta-wrapper"><span class="embedded-post-cta">Read more</span></div><div class="embedded-post-meta">6 months ago &#183; 60 likes &#183; AndreaWex</div></a></div><div><hr></div><h2>We Were Told the Swamp Would Be Drained</h2><p>The frustration is not coming from the left.</p><p>It is coming from the people who voted for you.</p><p>The people who fought lockdowns.<br>The people who fought Big Pharma mandates.<br>The people who demanded accountability.<br>The people who believed the era of lobbyist rule was over.</p><p>Now they see:</p><p>A Chief of Staff with deep lobbying ties.<br>An Attorney General with deep lobbying ties.<br>Policy decisions that appear to benefit corporate giants.</p><p>And they are asking whether the swamp just changed zip codes.</p><p>Also when are we going to arrest anyone at the top? Other countries are moving on the Epstein arrests and making moves on Gates and Fauci. 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data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/p/mr-president-fire-them-before-you?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/p/mr-president-fire-them-before-you?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><h2>This Is Bigger Than Personal Loyalty</h2><p>You do not protect your presidency by playing with the snakes.</p><p>You protect it by removing them. Remember, &#8220;You&#8217;re Fired!&#8221; it&#8217;s that easy. That&#8217;s what we hired you to do. This is damage control time and you need to move fast. Midterms will be ugly, and the fault will be yours.</p><div><hr></div><h2>To the President, Directly</h2><p>Mr. President:</p><p>You cannot walk onto that stage tonight and talk about restoring faith in America while your own base is questioning who is whispering in your ear.</p><p>You cannot claim to fight corporate capture while your Chief of Staff and Attorney General built careers inside the corporate lobbying ecosystem.</p><p>You cannot tell America you are fighting poison in our food supply while mRNA vaccines are still being administered, (70 million children?!) and giving immunity to glyphosate manufacturers. </p><p>This isn&#8217;t just about the blatant conflicts, this is criminal, and if you don&#8217;t right these wrongs you will deserve every lawsuit and every loss that assuredly comes next.</p><p>If there is nothing to hide, then demonstrate it.</p><p>Fire them.</p><p>Not because the media demands it.<br>Not because Democrats demand it.<br>Because We The People demand it.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/p/mr-president-fire-them-before-you/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/p/mr-president-fire-them-before-you/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h2>Brutal Truth</h2><p>If there are snakes in the grass and we are told to stay quiet because criticism might &#8220;hurt the administration,&#8221; then the administration deserves to be hurt.</p><p>Silence is not loyalty.</p><p>Blindness is not patriotism.</p><p>Accountability is not betrayal.</p><p>It is strength.</p><p>Tonight you have a chance to prove that no one is above the mission.</p><p>Not even the most powerful woman in the world.<br>Not even your Attorney General.</p><p>Drain it all.</p><p>Or own it.</p><p>The country is watching.</p><div class="pullquote"><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p><em><strong>If you value this work and want to support continued investigation and reporting, please consider becoming a paid subscriber.</strong></em></p></div><p>I&#8217;ve been screaming about this for quite some time&#8230;</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;f46a9453-1c02-4d71-a023-fdf7769e13c6&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Pam Bondi did not get to the top of the food chain by being lazy or clueless. 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We were told the ice caps would be gone. We were told the ozone layer was collapsing. We were told Miami would be underwater. Al Gore built an empire on it. Greta Thunberg became a global icon. Billions were raised in the name of &#8220;saving the planet.&#8221;</p><p>Where was the science? Why did so many people just blindly follow this nonsense? </p><p>If you care about the environment, I respect that. I grew up in Lake Tahoe. I love clean air, clean water, and wild mountains. I am not anti-environment. I am anti-lying.</p><p>Here is the part no one wants to talk about.</p><p>While the public was fighting over carbon footprints and paper straws, serious scientists were openly discussing solar radiation management, stratospheric aerosol injection, and deliberate atmospheric intervention.</p><p>Not conspiracy theorists. Scientists.</p><p>Ken Caldeira of Carnegie Science has publicly organized meetings to discuss what could go wrong if stratospheric aerosol geoengineering were deployed. He has asked scientists to identify &#8220;unknown unknowns&#8221; related to solar geoengineering risks.</p><p>David Keith, a longtime geoengineering researcher now at the University of Chicago, has warned about commercialization risks and governance failures in climate engineering.</p><p>These are not fringe voices. These are leading figures in climate systems research.</p><p>And they are talking about intentionally altering the atmosphere. 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It requires reporting of certain weather modification activities to the federal government.</p><p>Why pass a law regulating something that does not exist?</p><p>Cloud seeding programs are openly documented in western states. My mother, who was always criticized for her &#8220;crazy&#8221; ideas on this topic was always pointing out to me the anomalies in our weather, citing cloud seeding and chemtrails every time she observed them. Back then I was a teenager who rolled my eyes and would beg her to just enjoy the day without bringing in negative &#8220;conspiracies.&#8221; Like always, Mom was right. Universities and research institutes, including the Desert Research Institute right here in Nevada, have studied and implemented precipitation enhancement projects. That is public record.</p><p>So we need to stop pretending that weather modification is science fiction. It is not.</p><p>The real debate is not whether modification research exists.</p><p>The real debate is scale, intent, transparency, and oversight.</p><p>Are we little rats in their experiment once again? Sure looks like it! Do they care about informed consent? Of course not. Why would the government who ushered in mRNA poison jabs and Operation Warp Speed care at all about telling you what they are doing. They once again, like we saw with fluoride in our water, care very little about science, or the impacts their experimentation games have on you and your families health. The real question is how long are we going to just sit back and let them poison us and do nothing? </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/p/geoengineering-is-the-real-climate?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/p/geoengineering-is-the-real-climate?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h2>Public Private Partnerships and the Accountability Gap</h2><p>Here is where this becomes serious.</p><p>Geoengineering research often sits in the gray space between government agencies, defense funding, intelligence research arms, and private foundations.</p><p>When projects operate through public private partnerships tied to defense or advanced research channels, ordinary oversight becomes nearly impossible.</p><p>That is not how a constitutional republic is supposed to function.</p><p>If atmospheric interventions are being researched, tested, modeled, or considered, the public deserves clarity.</p><p>What is being tested?<br>Who authorized it?<br>What are the environmental and health risk models?<br>What is the exit strategy?<br>What is the liability structure if something goes wrong?</p><p>If the science is solid, transparency should not be a threat.</p><p>If it is harmless, banning it should be easy.</p><p>And yet when legislation is introduced to prohibit geoengineering, it faces resistance.</p><p>That should make everyone pause.</p><p>And for all those who think this isn&#8217;t happening, here&#8217;s my challenge to you. Pass legislation banning it! If it isn&#8217;t happening than your representatives should have no problem with putting in laws that say it&#8217;s not happening and can&#8217;t happen. If this is all conspiratorial fantasy than let&#8217;s ink the deal. </p><div><hr></div><h2>This Is Not Left Versus Right</h2><p>This is not an orange man bad, red vs. blue fight.</p><p>This is sovereignty.</p><p>If you screamed about fossil fuels poisoning rivers but refuse to ask questions about deliberate atmospheric intervention, you are not defending the planet. You are defending a narrative.</p><p>If you marched for climate justice but roll your eyes at geoengineering research, you are picking sides instead of protecting the Earth.</p><p>You cannot claim to care about ecosystems while ignoring intentional atmospheric manipulation discussions.</p><p>You cannot demand environmental purity while dismissing solar radiation management research as a &#8220;conspiracy.&#8221;</p><p>You do not get to choose which environmental risks are socially acceptable to question.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/p/geoengineering-is-the-real-climate/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/p/geoengineering-is-the-real-climate/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h2>Informed Consent and the Nuremberg Principle</h2><p>This is where I get very clear.</p><p>After World War II, the Nuremberg Code established that human experimentation requires voluntary informed consent.</p><p>If atmospheric interventions have global consequences, then every person on Earth becomes a subject.</p><p>Even if the intention is benevolent.<br>Even if the modeling suggests benefit.<br>Even if the risk is framed as minimal.</p><p>Without transparency and consent, it becomes policy imposed from above.</p><p>We just lived through what I consider crimes against humanity with the bioweapon that was COVID being unleashed on all mankind and the mRNA &#8220;vaccine&#8221; roll outs that killed millions. Informed consent was ignored, absolutely eviscerated, and it just happened! You all were there! You should be pissed. You should be awake and angry.</p><p>People are not wrong to ask hard questions now.</p><p>They are late.</p><div><hr></div><h2>The Real Climate Question</h2><p>If you truly believe in a climate crisis, then geoengineering should terrify you.</p><p>Because solar radiation management is not reducing emissions.<br>It is masking solar input.<br>It is intervening in atmospheric chemistry.<br>It carries regional rainfall consequences.<br>It has documented concerns about monsoon shifts and tropical precipitation patterns in modeling studies.</p><p>Even researchers like Caldeira and Keith emphasize unknowns, governance risks, and the danger of premature deployment.</p><p>So here is my blunt question.</p><p>If you were willing to panic over carbon dioxide and cow farts, why are you not demanding total transparency over atmospheric intervention research?</p><p>Why are you not insisting on strict prohibitions and informed consent?</p><p>Why are you not funding litigation to force disclosure?</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.givesendgo.com/renzlaw&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Support the Litigation Efforts&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.givesendgo.com/renzlaw"><span>Support the Litigation Efforts</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h2>The Legal Fight Is Coming</h2><p>Attorney Tom Renz and a coalition of legal teams are preparing to challenge geoengineering structures through the courts.</p><p>This is not about memes.<br>This is not about social media outrage.</p><p>This is about subpoenas.<br>Discovery.<br>Depositions.<br>Documents.</p><p>Litigation at this level is expensive. Filing alone can cost millions. Expert witnesses, atmospheric chemists, environmental toxicologists, discovery battles with federal agencies, all of it requires serious funding.</p><p>The goal is five million dollars.</p><p>Not for yachts.<br>Not for branding.<br>For court.</p><p>Geoengineering is real folks and the public deserves answers. Your children and their children deserve answers. Your family deserves to be INFORMED.</p><p>You can support the legal fight at <a href="https://www.givesendgo.com/renzlaw">GiveSendGo.com/RenzLaw</a> and keep an eye on <a href="https://thegeofight.com/">TheGeoFight.com</a> as it launches.</p><div><hr></div><h2>Pick a Side, But Pick It Intelligently</h2><p>You do not have to agree with me politically. This isn&#8217;t a political fight.</p><p>If you care about environmental integrity, you cannot ignore geoengineering research while screaming about climate change.</p><p>If you believe in bodily sovereignty, you cannot shrug at atmospheric experimentation discussions.</p><p>If you believe in informed consent, you cannot excuse governance gaps.</p><p>This is not about partisan loyalty.</p><p>It is about whether citizens have the right to know what is being done to their air, their soil, and their sky. </p><p>And if you were loud about global warming but silent about geoengineering, it might be time to ask yourself why and possibly seek a therapist.</p><p>The sky deserves better than slogans.</p><p>And so do we.</p><div class="pullquote"><p><em><strong>If you value this work and want to support continued investigation and reporting, please consider becoming a paid subscriber.</strong></em></p><p class="button-wrapper" 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/__u/andreawex.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/andreawex.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/andreawex.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/andreawex.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/andreawex.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F39b82153-3e38-431b-88a2-6bc3361dfc26_780x438.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>I used to roll my eyes at <em>Me Too</em>.</p><p>I&#8217;ll say it straight.</p><p>When it first blew up, it felt loud, dramatic, and tangled up in the kind of modern feminism I do not relate to. The hashtags, the celebrity meltdowns, the social media waves. It felt like noise. Like another cultural moment that would flare up and fade out.</p><p>But here&#8217;s the uncomfortable truth I&#8217;ve had to sit with.</p><p>Movements like <em>Me Too</em> do not appear out of thin air. They are symptoms. And symptoms only show up when something underneath is deeply wrong.</p><p>The real problem was never women speaking up. The real problem was the culture that made so many women have something to speak up about in the first place.</p><p>I thought it had turned into modern feminist noise. I believe in family, in faith, in men leading and protecting. I am not a DEI cheerleader. I am not a man-hater. I am a Christian woman who believes strong men and strong mothers build strong societies.</p><p>But now we have the Epstein files. Human Trafficking is very real and it&#8217;s everywhere and it&#8217;s going on with zero accountability.</p><p>We live in a culture soaked in porn, stripped of moral guardrails, and run by evil institutions that refuse to hold powerful predators accountable.</p><p>And this is where <em>Me Too</em> stops being &#8220;annoying&#8221; and starts being terrifyingly relevant.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h4>A Society Built on Porn</h4><p>We do not talk honestly about this.</p><p>We live in a world where boys are introduced to hardcore pornography before they understand relationships, responsibility, or emotional maturity. Before they know what commitment means. Before they understand what protection, restraint, or honor even look like.</p><p>Porn has become the default sex education.</p><p>And what does porn teach?</p><p>That women are bodies, not souls.<br>That intimacy is performance, not connection.<br>That consent is blurry.<br>That aggression is normal.<br>That pleasure is one-sided.</p><p>Then we act shocked when relationships are broken, when women feel unsafe, when young men grow up confused about how to treat women, when hookup culture replaces commitment, and when abortion becomes the easy fix for irresponsibility.</p><p>You cannot flood a culture with sexual content, normalize objectification, strip away moral guardrails, and then pretend you do not understand why there is rot.</p><p><em>Me Too</em> did not create the problem. <em>Me Too</em> exposed the damage.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/p/the-me-too-moment-we-never-finished?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/p/the-me-too-moment-we-never-finished?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><h4>Freedom Without Morality Is Not Freedom</h4><p>Somewhere along the line, we confused liberation with the removal of all structure.</p><p>The traditional family model was more perfect than society led us to believe, it carried roles, expectations, and morality. Men were expected to provide and protect. Women were valued as mothers and nurturers. Children had stability.</p><p>Now everything is blurred. Nothing is sacred. Everything is negotiable.</p><p>Casual sex is empowerment.<br>Marriage is optional.<br>Fatherhood is delayed or dismissed.<br>Motherhood is treated as a burden.<br>Abortion is framed as independence instead of tragedy.</p><p>And the emotional and social cost is massive.</p><p>When standards disappear, the strongest personalities dominate. That does not create equality. It creates exploitation.</p><p>A culture that tells men and women to act like interchangeable sexual consumers does not produce dignity. It produces confusion, resentment, and pain.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/p/the-me-too-moment-we-never-finished/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/p/the-me-too-moment-we-never-finished/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><h4>Why So Many Women Don&#8217;t Feel Safe</h4><p>This is the part people do not want to say out loud.</p><p>Women are physically smaller on average than men, by alot. That is not oppression. That is biology. For most of history, social structures existed to compensate for that reality. Community, family, moral codes, and expectations of male behavior created a safety net.</p><p>As those dissolve, vulnerability becomes more visible.</p><p>It is not weakness to admit that walking alone at night feels different for a woman than it does for a man. It is awareness. It is survival instinct. And pretending otherwise does not make women safer. It just silences the truth.</p><p>When women say &#8220;me too,&#8221; they are not saying they hate men. They are saying they are tired of navigating a culture that simultaneously sexualizes them and abandons them.</p><h4>This Is Not a War on Men</h4><p>The solution is not endless outrage. It is not hatred. It is not dismantling masculinity.</p><p>It is restoring healthy masculinity.</p><p>Boys need examples of men who are disciplined, protective, responsible, and self-controlled. Men who see women as daughters, sisters, wives, and mothers first, not as content or conquest.</p><p>Strong men do not exploit.<br>Strong men do not hide behind culture.<br>Strong men set the tone.</p><p>And women have a role too. We cannot cheer on the sexualization of everything and then be shocked by the results. We cannot say there are no differences between men and women and then wonder why expectations disappear.</p><h4><em>Me Too</em> Is a Mirror</h4><p>You can criticize parts of the movement. You can question how it has been used. You can point out excesses. That is fair.</p><p>But the core truth it revealed is this.</p><p>A lot of women have stories.</p><p>That does not happen in a healthy culture.</p><p>The answer is not to shut them up. The answer is to ask why.</p><p>If we want fewer hashtags, we need fewer reasons for them.</p><p>And that means rebuilding standards, restoring respect, teaching boys honor, valuing motherhood, valuing fatherhood, and admitting that unlimited sexual freedom without moral structure does not liberate people.</p><p>It leaves them lost.</p><p><em>Me Too</em> was never the disease.</p><p>It was the alarm.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FpcY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F526df348-e454-4903-8495-a80113800405_1500x787.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FpcY!, /__u/andreawex.substack.com/w_424, /__u/andreawex.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/andreawex.substack.com/f_webp, 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His earlier plea deal in 2008 was widely criticized as unusually lenient. Ghislaine Maxwell was later convicted for helping recruit and groom underage girls. Look at that timeline and ask yourself why ANYONE remained bud buds with these disgusting individuals. </p><p>We all clearly see:</p><p>A trafficking pipeline<br>Elite access<br>Institutional enabling</p><p>This is not conspiracy. This is court record!</p><p>Epstein exposes:<br>money + power + access = crimes against children.</p><p>That is why people are angry. Not because of politics. Because when abuse intersects with wealth and influence, accountability disappears!</p><p>Parents feel that.</p><p>Mothers feel that.</p><p>I feel that.</p><p>And yet Trump told us the DOJ should walk away from this one. Nothing to see here right? </p><p>Meanwhile today Massie absolutely schooled the idiot corrupt POS AG Bondi by exposing complete ineptitude in the DOJ. The level of which is astronomical, this isn&#8217;t the case of good people making common mistakes. This is government corruption, and Trump needs to start firing people. </p><p>The redactions made, the redactions not made, the absolute pr blunder of the white house, they are corrupt, tone deaf, incompetent, and absolutely not acting like the MAGA administration we voted for. </p><p>I&#8217;m honestly heartbroken and enraged. I hate to see my kids grow up in this corrupt world. And that&#8217;s why I won&#8217;t back down, <em>ever</em>. Anyone on any side of the political aisle not standing up against child rape and human sex trafficking needs to be in jail, hung, they need to go away forever. This isn&#8217;t about politics anymore. Get on the right side of this or get destroyed by the true MAGA base that voted to drain the swamp not swim in it. </p><h4>The DOJ Problem</h4><p>When officials release statements that boil down to &#8220;we&#8217;ve reviewed it and there is no client list to release,&#8221; the public does not feel reassured. It feels dismissed. In 2025, DOJ and FBI publicly stated they would not release additional materials beyond what they deemed appropriate and that there was no confirmed &#8220;client list.&#8221;</p><p>The message many Americans heard was not &#8220;case closed.&#8221; It was &#8220;trust us.&#8221;</p><p>Dear Trump Admin. that&#8217;s not going to happen on this one, you&#8217;ve gone too far, we will never just blindly trust you or any corrupt administration, not now, not ever. </p><h4><strong>Bondi is a Liar</strong></h4><p>Here is where <em>Me Too</em> connects to something much bigger than Hollywood or hashtags.</p><p>It connects to power. It connects to institutions. It connects to whether the justice system actually protects victims or protects the powerful.</p><p>When Attorney General Pam Bondi testified before Congress today, what people watched was not just a political hearing. What they saw was the same dynamic that fueled <em>Me Too</em> in the first place.</p><p>Survivors feel unheard.<br>Victims feel sidelined.<br>Transparency feels selective.</p><p>And when that happens, trust collapses.</p><p>The Epstein files were supposed to represent accountability. A reckoning. A moment where powerful people would finally face the same scrutiny ordinary people do. Instead, what Americans saw was redaction battles, deflections, partisan shouting, and no clear answers. That is not closure. That is confusion. And confusion is exactly what destroys public faith.</p><blockquote><p><strong>This is the same emotional environment that gave rise to </strong><em><strong>Me Too</strong></em><strong>. A belief that powerful men live under a different set of rules. A belief that victims only matter when it is politically convenient. A belief that the system protects its own.</strong></p></blockquote><p>When a justice system looks like it moves fast for small offenders but slow and cautious around elites, people stop believing justice is blind. They start believing it is selective.</p><p>That perception is gasoline.</p><p>It is why anger grows. It is why movements form. It is why people say the system is rigged. Whether that belief is fully accurate or not, the perception itself becomes a destabilizing force.</p><p><em>Me Too</em> exploded because women felt there was nowhere else to go. No mechanism that worked. No authority that would take them seriously unless millions of voices forced the issue.</p><p>When modern hearings feel like political theater instead of truth-seeking, it feeds the same sense of powerlessness. This is not about party politics. It is not red versus blue. It is about whether the justice system looks like it serves the public or shields the powerful. Because once people decide the system does not protect the vulnerable, they stop cooperating with it. </p><p><em>Me Too</em> was a cultural alarm bell about abuse of power in personal spaces.</p><p>Moments like this are alarm bells about abuse of power in institutional spaces.</p><p>And both are about the same thing.</p><p>Do the rules apply to everyone, or not?</p><p>Until that question has a clear answer people can see with their own eyes, the anger will not go away.</p><p>And neither will the distrust.</p><div class="directMessage button" data-attrs="{&quot;userId&quot;:112101914,&quot;userName&quot;:&quot;AndreaWex&quot;,&quot;canDm&quot;:null,&quot;dmUpgradeOptions&quot;:null,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}" data-component-name="DirectMessageToDOM"></div><h4>Being a Parent</h4><p>If a nation cannot visibly pursue justice when children are victims and powerful people are implicated, then every other moral lecture from that system rings hollow.</p><p>I am not calling for chaos. I am not cheering military control. I do not want federal force normalized in everyday life.</p><p>But I also will not let professional narratives redirect outrage away from child exploitation and into partisan distractions. If accountability fails at the top, pressure builds at the bottom. History shows what happens when institutions lose moral authority.</p><div><hr></div><h4>What I Want Is Not Radical</h4><p>I want prosecutions.<br>I want victims treated like human beings, not public relations problems.<br>I want transparency paired with action.<br>I want equal application of the law.</p><p>And I want parents to stop waiting for someone else to care more than they do.</p><p>Because if we cannot protect children and uphold informed consent, then all the rest of our politics is just theater.</p><p>Parents are the last line. 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13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>I am going to say this as plainly as I know how.</p><p>If our government cannot investigate and prosecute powerful people who abuse children, then we do not have a functioning republic. We have a protection racket with a flag on it.</p><p>And yes, I know. People hate talking about Epstein because it is dark, it is exhausting, and it forces a brutal question:</p><p>Does the system serve the public, or does it serve itself?</p><p>Because this is not just about Epstein. This is about whether &#8220;equal justice under law&#8221; is real or a marketing slogan.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>Jeffrey Epstein was convicted in Florida in 2008 for sex offenses involving a minor. <br>He was arrested again in 2019 on federal sex trafficking charges. <br>He died in federal custody, or so they say, but that&#8217;s another blog for another day.</p><p>What Americans are demanding answers on is who enabled him, who benefited, who got protected, and why do we continue to get a drip-fed &#8220;process&#8221; instead of getting accountability?</p><p>And before anyone screams, &#8220;That&#8217;s a conspiracy,&#8221; save it. There are documented failures, documented relationships, documented irregularities, and documented institutional rot. The only question is whether anyone with real power will ever pay a real price.</p><h3>The DOJ Problem</h3><p>This is where people&#8217;s patience is not just thinning. It is breaking.</p><p>A major reason millions of Americans paid attention during the last election cycle was the promise that the Epstein files would finally be fully exposed and that justice would be pursued for victims. The message was clear: no more protection for elites, no more sealed circles of power, no more sacred cows.</p><p>But what people have watched instead feels like a slow-motion retreat.</p><p>We see announcements about &#8220;reviews.&#8221;<br>We see limited document releases buried under heavy redactions.<br>We hear language suggesting there is nothing more to see, nothing more to pursue, nothing more to charge.<br>Meanwhile, large portions of material remain hidden and unanswered questions pile higher.</p><p>When an administration campaigns on accountability and transparency, then pivots to vague explanations, partial disclosures, and procedural language, trust erodes. People start asking whether the system protects itself no matter who is in charge.</p><p>The Department of Justice has enormous power. We have seen how fast it can move when it chooses to. We have watched investigations launched, warrants executed, and prosecutions built at remarkable speed in other contexts. That reality makes the hesitation here impossible to ignore.</p><p>If the system can move quickly when it wants to, then &#8220;we cannot&#8221; begins to sound like &#8220;we will not.&#8221;</p><p>Americans are not asking for chaos. They are asking for the basic function of a justice system: investigate, present evidence, bring charges where appropriate, and let due process work. Equal application of the law is not extremism. It is the foundation of legitimacy.</p><p>Transparency without action is not justice.<br>Document dumps without prosecutions are not accountability.<br>Press statements without consequences do not protect victims.</p><p>When the public sees information acknowledged but power untouched, it sends one message louder than any speech ever could: there are two systems, one for the connected and one for everyone else.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/p/when-accountability-disappears-tyranny?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/p/when-accountability-disappears-tyranny?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><h3>This is Tyranny</h3><p>The Founders did not write the Declaration of Independence as a motivational poster. They wrote it as an indictment of abusive power.</p><p>They said that when a &#8220;long train of abuses and usurpations&#8221; shows a design toward despotism, the people have the right and the duty to throw it off.</p><p>That is not a call to chaos. It is a warning label.</p><p>So let me connect the dots the way normal people are connecting them:</p><ul><li><p>If children can be harmed and nobody serious gets prosecuted, what is the point of &#8220;government&#8221;?</p></li><li><p>If informed consent can be bulldozed, what is the point of &#8220;rights&#8221;?</p></li><li><p>If speech is throttled and dissent is punished, what is the point of &#8220;freedom&#8221;?</p></li><li><p>If the public sees one set of rules for the connected and another for everybody else, what is the point of &#8220;law&#8221;?</p></li></ul><p>That is why the Epstein files matter. They are the litmus test for whether the machine is accountable to the people.</p><h3>The Elite Pipeline</h3><p>You do not have to allege crimes without evidence to acknowledge something obvious: Epstein moved in elite circles, and multiple high-profile figures had documented contact with him.</p><p>For example, major outlets have reported on Bill Gates meeting with Epstein after Epstein&#8217;s 2008 conviction, and Gates has acknowledged those meetings were a mistake.</p><p>That does not automatically prove criminal wrongdoing by everyone who met him. Adults meet bad people all the time in politics and business.</p><p>But it does prove something else: the elite social and influence pipeline exists. And the public is sick of being told it is &#8220;nothing&#8221; while they watch the same circles recycle power, money, and protection.</p><h3>The Mama Bear Fight Continues</h3><p>This fight ties directly into what so many of us lived through during COVID: the moment parents realized the system will experiment on your kids, lie to your face, censor doctors, crush dissent, and label it as &#8220;for your safety.&#8221;</p><p>That is why attorneys like Leigh Dundas resonate with people. She has a long public history of fighting child exploitation and trafficking, and she authored <em><a href="https://a.co/d/05zPgu84">JUST STAND UP: My Fight for Freedom: From the Brothels of Asia to the Streets of America</a>.</em></p><p>When someone who has seen the worst evil on earth tells you that the same power dynamics show up in new outfits, you should at least stop and listen.</p><h3>How I Know Leigh Dundas, and Why This Fight Continues</h3><p>People ask me how I got here, like I woke up one day and decided to stare into the darkest corner of modern America for fun.</p><p>No. I got here the same way a lot of you did. COVID forced the mask off the machine.</p><p>When the lockdowns hit, I got pulled into the medical freedom fight through my work with Joey Gilbert. Joey was loud early, and he was right early. He was fighting the shutdowns, the mandates, the censorship, the hospital protocol insanity, and the outright bullying of families who just wanted options, truth, and basic bodily autonomy.</p><p>That path connected me to the America&#8217;s Frontline Doctors orbit, and through that work I met Tom Renz and Leigh Dundas. At that time, the legal world was doing what the institutions refused to do: asking hard questions, demanding receipts, and putting pressure on systems that were trying to steamroll people into compliance.</p><p>That is where I worked with Leigh.</p><p>Leigh is not a casual &#8220;politics attorney.&#8221; Her background includes years fighting human trafficking and exploitation, and she has been public about that history for a long time. That matters, because it explains why she moved like a mama bear during COVID. When you have seen what organized evil looks like up close, you recognize the pattern faster when it shows up wearing a new costume.</p><p>While I was part of that ecosystem, Leigh assigned me a project that still sticks with me. She was battling vaccine passport policies in California and wanted a message that cut through the propaganda. She asked me to connect with Vera Sharav, a Holocaust survivor and founder of the <a href="https://ahrp.org/">Alliance for Human Research Protection</a>, to speak out about the moral and historical danger of medical coercion and social sorting.</p><p>I did not have some fancy backchannel. I started where any normal person starts, with her name, her work, and persistence. By the grace of God, I got her on the phone. That moment crystallized something for me that has never gone away:</p><blockquote><p><strong>When a government and its partner institutions feel entitled to control your body, your speech, your movement, and your access to society, you are no longer living in a &#8220;free&#8221; system. You are living in a system that is testing the limits of how far it can push you.</strong></p></blockquote><p>And that brings me to today.</p><p>The Epstein files are not a separate issue from medical freedom. They are the same core question in a different arena: do the powerful get to violate the most sacred boundaries, children, bodies, consent, truth, and walk away untouched?</p><p>Because once a system can look away from child exploitation, or protect it, it can justify anything. The lie is always dressed up as &#8220;for your safety&#8221; or &#8220;for the greater good&#8221; or &#8220;this is complicated.&#8221;</p><p>It is not complicated.</p><p>If you cannot protect children, you cannot claim legitimacy. And if you cannot enforce equal justice, then you are not governing a free people. You are managing them.</p><p>That is why I am not letting this go. That is why Leigh never let it go. That is why Tom never let it go.</p><p>The fight did not end when the masks came off. The mask just slipped, and some of us saw what was underneath.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h3>Informed Consent &amp; Bill Gates</h3><p>At the center of this broader fight is a foundational principle of modern medical ethics: informed consent.</p><p>After the atrocities of the 20th century, including unethical medical experimentation, the world established clear standards. The Nuremberg Code and later the Belmont Report emphasized that no medical intervention is ethical without voluntary, informed agreement from the individual. That principle is not political. It is civilizational.</p><p>This is why so many people raise serious concerns when powerful global health figures discuss mass biomedical interventions in ways that bypass individual choice.</p><p>Bill Gates, through the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation and related global health initiatives, has openly supported large-scale vaccination campaigns, novel delivery technologies, and experimental disease-control methods such as genetically modified mosquitoes that become flying syringes. Vaccines in your food, in the air, in your environment, without your consent!</p><p>Whether we are talking about food systems, environmental interventions, genetic vector control, or mass pharmaceutical campaigns, the ethical question is the same:</p><p><strong>Do human beings retain the right to decide what enters their bodies?</strong></p><p>If that right is ignored, the precedent is enormous.</p><p>Because once the standard becomes &#8220;experts know best,&#8221; and consent becomes secondary to &#8220;global outcomes,&#8221; the individual is no longer the moral center of medicine. The system is.</p><p>That is a philosophical shift from citizens with rights to populations to be managed.</p><p>History shows where that logic leads.</p><p>It is also why so many people see a connection between:</p><p>&#8226; Medical mandates without choice<br>&#8226; Digital health passports<br>&#8226; Speech suppression around treatment debates<br>&#8226; Lack of accountability for powerful actors</p><p>These are not isolated frustrations. They form a pattern where authority consolidates upward while rights erode downward.</p><p>You do not have to believe every worst-case scenario to recognize the danger of the direction. A free society depends on:</p><p>&#8226; bodily autonomy<br>&#8226; transparent science<br>&#8226; accountability for powerful institutions<br>&#8226; equal application of the law</p><p>When billionaires, corporations, or global networks wield enormous influence over health systems, food systems, or policy, but remain insulated from public accountability, people naturally question whether democracy is still functioning as intended.</p><p>That is not extremism. That is civic responsibility.</p><p>Because when medical authority, technological capability, and political influence merge without guardrails, informed consent becomes optional, and that is a line free societies were never meant to cross.</p><h3>Bill Gates &amp; Epstein</h3><p>Bill Gates has acknowledged meeting with Jeffrey Epstein multiple times after Epstein had already been convicted of sex offenses. Gates has publicly said those meetings were a mistake and that he regrets them. Sure Billy, we are all convinced that you regret your weekends with Epstein. </p><p>Melinda French Gates has also spoken publicly about her discomfort with Epstein and has said those associations were a factor in the breakdown of her marriage. Ya think?! That is significant. When the spouse of one of the most powerful men in global philanthropy says the relationship with a convicted sex offender was deeply troubling, the public is justified in asking more questions.</p><p>If a schoolteacher, a coach, or a local official had repeated private meetings with a convicted sex trafficker, their career would be over instantly. Yet when it comes to global elites, the pattern is different. The explanations are accepted, the investigations stall, and life goes on.</p><p>That disparity is what people see. That disparity is what fuels outrage.</p><p>The Epstein case is not just about one man. It exposed a network of influence where money, politics, science, philanthropy, and power intersected behind closed doors. When those circles overlap with institutions that shape global health, technology policy, education systems, and international governance, accountability is no longer a tabloid issue. It becomes a civic one.</p><p>The public is not demanding spectacle. The public is demanding transparency and equal application of the law.</p><p>If there is nothing to hide, full disclosure should not be threatening. If crimes occurred, status should not matter. A society that protects the powerful from scrutiny while punishing the powerless for lesser offenses does not look like justice. It looks like tyrannical hierarchy.</p><div class="directMessage button" data-attrs="{&quot;userId&quot;:112101914,&quot;userName&quot;:&quot;AndreaWex&quot;,&quot;canDm&quot;:null,&quot;dmUpgradeOptions&quot;:null,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}" data-component-name="DirectMessageToDOM"></div><h3>This is NOT Red vs. Blue</h3><p>If you still think this is just party politics, you are still playing the game they use to keep us docile.</p><p>I do not care what letter is next to someone&#8217;s name. I care whether the system prosecutes predators and protects children.</p><p>And yes, that includes the current administration. If the Department of Justice (fire Bondi!) cannot pursue justice in the most high-profile child exploitation network of our lifetime, the message the public receives is simple:</p><p>Power is immune.</p><p>That is what breaks countries.</p><h3>What I am calling for is not violence. It is lawful, relentless pressure.</h3><p>Let me be crystal clear: I am not calling for violence. I am calling for Americans to stop emotionally outsourcing their civic duty.</p><p>Demand transparency. Demand prosecutions. Demand equal justice.</p><p>Here is what that looks like in real life:</p><ul><li><p>Read primary sources, not just hot takes. Start with court documents, filings, and official releases.</p></li><li><p>Demand your representatives support real transparency and oversight, not performative hearings.</p></li><li><p>Support investigative journalism that follows money and networks, not narratives.</p></li><li><p>Show up locally. School boards, county commissions, and state legislatures are where the next generation gets protected or gets handed over.</p></li></ul><p>Because if we cannot protect children, we are not &#8220;losing a culture war.&#8221;</p><p>We are losing our country.</p><h3>Final word</h3><p>The Epstein files are ground zero because they force the ultimate accountability test.</p><p>Either law applies to the powerful, or it does not.</p><p>Either the government serves the people, or it serves itself.</p><p>And if the answer keeps coming back as &#8220;trust the plan,&#8221; while nothing happens, Americans are not going to stay quiet forever.</p><p>Mama bears, it is time to stand up again. 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data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://makewellness.com/631225/Shopping/Share?promo=give10&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Andrea's Peptides&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="https://makewellness.com/631225/Shopping/Share?promo=give10"><span>Andrea's Peptides</span></a></p><h3><strong>Support Your Wellness with MAKE Wellness</strong></h3><p>I personally use and love <strong>MAKE Wellness Bioactive Precision Peptides</strong> to support energy, focus, recovery, metabolism, and overall vitality. Peptides help cells operate more efficiently, enhance muscle repair, and improve mental clarity.</p><p>&#128073; <strong>Get $10 off orders of $99+ </strong><a href="https://makewellness.com/631225/Shopping/Share?promo=give10">https://makewellness.com/631225/Shopping/Share?promo=give10</a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peptides: The Quiet Weapon Big Pharma Does Not Want You Using]]></title><description><![CDATA[I am going to say this once, loud, and for the people in the back.]]></description><link>https://andreawex.substack.com/p/peptides-the-quiet-weapon-big-pharma</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://andreawex.substack.com/p/peptides-the-quiet-weapon-big-pharma</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[AndreaWex]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 03:33:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/186915342/3e0f64839f11da1a506b21a8497341dd.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div 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am going to say this once, loud, and for the people in the back.</p><p>Most of what passes for &#8220;wellness&#8221; online is either:</p><ul><li><p>sketchy internet chemistry,</p></li><li><p>injectable fads with real risks,</p></li><li><p>or overpriced nonsense with zero mechanism.</p></li></ul><p>So when I tell you I actually use something and I put my name next to it publicly, it means I have done my homework, I have felt the difference, and I am not interested in playing games with my body.</p><p>Right now, the only product line I&#8217;m actively recommending is <a href="https://makewellness.com/631225/Shopping/Share?promo=give10">MAKE Wellness Bioactive Precision Peptides</a>.</p><p>And yes, I&#8217;m going to get into the science, because this is exactly where the conversation needs to live.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://makewellness.com/631225/Shopping/Share?promo=give10&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;MAKE 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If you use it, you get $10 off $99+ and it supports my work. Use code <strong>give10</strong> here: <strong><a href="https://makewellness.com/631225/Shopping/Share?promo=give10">https://makewellness.com/631225/Shopping/Share?promo=give10</a></strong></p><div><hr></div><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;7b456a85-aea3-4800-ae5a-3bd251f679eb&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><h2>First, what are peptides, actually?</h2><p>Peptides are short chains of amino acids. Think of them as tiny biological &#8220;messages&#8221; the body uses constantly. Some peptides act like signals that influence processes like repair, metabolism, immune activity, and more, depending on the peptide and where it&#8217;s acting.</p><p>Also important: peptides are not automatically &#8220;drugs.&#8221; The word &#8220;peptide&#8221; just describes a type of molecule. There are drug peptides (prescription), and there are naturally occurring peptides you can get from food proteins and protein hydrolysates.</p><p><a href="https://makewellness.com/631225/Shopping/Share?promo=give10">MAKE&#8217;s</a> entire pitch is built around the second category: <strong>bioactive peptides sourced from nature</strong>, formulated to be taken orally as a wellness product.</p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h2>The part people keep missing: &#8220;Peptides&#8221; is not one thing</h2><p>On the <a href="https://rumble.com/v75akoa-taking-back-americas-health.html">Freedom Brigades</a> conversation, Dr. Angie Ferrella hit the point that too many people ignore:</p><p>There&#8217;s a difference between:</p><ol><li><p><strong>Synthetic peptides made in a lab</strong> (often used medically, sometimes injected, sometimes closely monitored), and</p></li><li><p><strong>Naturally derived bioactive peptides</strong> designed for oral use in a wellness context.</p></li></ol><p>This matters because a lot of Americans hear &#8220;peptides&#8221; and think it&#8217;s automatically the same world as:</p><ul><li><p>GLP-1 medications</p></li><li><p>internet &#8220;research peptides&#8221;</p></li><li><p>or &#8220;buy this vial, inject it, trust me bro&#8221;</p></li></ul><p>Those are three totally different universes.</p><p>Dr. Ferrella&#8217;s warning was simple and responsible: <strong>be careful with the online peptide Wild West</strong>. If you&#8217;re buying random products off the internet with minimal screening and no clinician oversight, you may be signing yourself up for side effects, confusion, and no real support when things go sideways. That is common sense, and it&#8217;s also how adults avoid becoming cautionary tales.</p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/p/peptides-the-quiet-weapon-big-pharma?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/p/peptides-the-quiet-weapon-big-pharma?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><h2>What MAKE says they&#8217;re doing, and why it&#8217;s different</h2><p>MAKE describes their products as <strong>Bioactive Precision Peptides</strong> and positions them as:</p><ul><li><p><strong>naturally sourced</strong></p></li><li><p><strong>orally ingestible</strong></p></li><li><p>formulated with a focus on <strong>purity, consistency, and targeted biological &#8220;messaging&#8221;</strong></p></li></ul><p>They publish a peptide science explainer and an ingredient overview on their official materials site. If you want to audit what they claim, start there.</p><p>Here&#8217;s the reason this matters to me, personally:</p><p>We are not living in a clean environment.<br>We are living in a world of:</p><ul><li><p>processed food</p></li><li><p>endocrine disruptors</p></li><li><p>garbage ingredient decks</p></li><li><p>chronic inflammation</p></li><li><p>stress and sleep destruction</p></li><li><p>and people acting like your body should just &#8220;deal with it&#8221;</p></li></ul><p>No. Your body keeps score.</p><p>Dr. Ferrella framed it through a functional lens: restore the core, restore function first, and you often do not need a dozen band-aids later. That is a real, coherent philosophy that aligns with how a lot of functional medicine practitioners think about upstream causes rather than symptom-chasing.</p><div><hr></div><h2>&#8220;But are there real studies on bioactive peptides?&#8221;</h2><p>Yes. Bioactive peptides from food proteins have been studied for decades across multiple categories, including antioxidant activity, metabolic signaling, and effects on tissues, depending on the peptide source and formulation.</p><p>Also, a simple example most people can understand: <strong>collagen peptides</strong>. Oral collagen peptide supplementation has clinical research behind it in areas like skin elasticity and hydration in certain study populations. That does not mean &#8220;miracles.&#8221; It means peptides can be bioactive when taken orally, depending on what they are and how they&#8217;re used.</p><p>This is the grown-up way to talk about it:</p><ul><li><p>There is legitimate science behind bioactive peptides as a category.</p></li><li><p>Outcomes depend on the specific peptides, dosing, individual biology, and consistency.</p></li><li><p>You should be skeptical of absolute promises.</p></li><li><p>You should also be skeptical of people who call everything outside Big Pharma &#8220;snake oil&#8221; without reading a single paper.</p></li></ul><div><hr></div><div class="directMessage button" data-attrs="{&quot;userId&quot;:112101914,&quot;userName&quot;:&quot;AndreaWex&quot;,&quot;canDm&quot;:null,&quot;dmUpgradeOptions&quot;:null,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}" data-component-name="DirectMessageToDOM"></div><h2>Why I&#8217;m vocal about MAKE, specifically</h2><p>Because it checks the boxes I care about:</p><h3>1) It&#8217;s not an injection culture product</h3><p>A lot of people are chasing shortcuts with serious trade-offs. Even mainstream GLP-1 medications come with known risks and warnings and should be used under medical guidance, not as a casual lifestyle accessory.</p><p>MAKE is positioned differently. It&#8217;s oral. It&#8217;s a wellness routine, not a needle trend.</p><h3>2) It&#8217;s built around function, not fantasy</h3><p>Dr. Ferrella talked about restoring function, rebuilding, supporting the system. That language matters because it is the opposite of &#8220;here&#8217;s a pill, problems gone.&#8221; That is not how biology works and you know it.</p><h3>3) It&#8217;s the only thing I&#8217;m pushing right now</h3><p>I do not &#8220;sell everything.&#8221; If you know me, you know I turn down a lot. I care about what I attach my reputation to.</p><div><hr></div><h2>What people actually want to know: what can peptides support?</h2><p>Here&#8217;s the honest framing:</p><p>Bioactive peptides may support systems related to:</p><ul><li><p>recovery and repair signaling</p></li><li><p>metabolic function</p></li><li><p>sleep and stress response</p></li><li><p>energy and focus</p></li><li><p>healthy aging and maintaining lean mass</p></li></ul><p>Those are broad categories, not medical claims, and nobody should be promising disease treatment from a supplement.</p><p>What I can tell you is this:<br>I use them to support <strong>energy, focus, recovery, metabolism, and overall vitality</strong>, and I like how I feel on them.</p><p>If you want to dig into MAKE&#8217;s own explanation of peptide science and how they describe their ingredients and approach, start here: <a href="https://rumble.com/v75akoa-taking-back-americas-health.html">https://rumble.com/v75akoa-taking-back-americas-health.html</a></p><div><hr></div><h2>The bottom line</h2><p>If you are screaming about &#8220;health freedom&#8221; but you refuse to learn basic biology, you are going to get played by louder voices with worse intentions.</p><p>Peptides are not magic.<br>They are not automatically dangerous.<br>They are not automatically safe.<br>They are a tool category.</p><p>MAKE is one of the few peptide-based wellness companies I&#8217;ve been willing to publicly back because the concept is grounded, the framing is functional, and the approach is not built on shady internet injection culture.</p><h3>If you want to try what I use:</h3><p>Support your wellness with MAKE Wellness Bioactive Precision Peptides.<br>Get $10 off orders of $99+ with code <strong>give10</strong>: <strong><a href="https://makewellness.com/631225/Shopping/Share?promo=give10">https://makewellness.com/631225/Shopping/Share?promo=give10</a></strong></p><p>And if you have medical conditions, take medications, are pregnant, or have complicated health history, do the responsible thing and talk to your clinician before changing your supplement routine.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>If you value this work and want to support continued investigation and reporting, please consider becoming a paid subscriber.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[You Don’t Hate “The Man.” You’re Covering for Him.]]></title><description><![CDATA[And Why Don Lemon is an Idiot]]></description><link>https://andreawex.substack.com/p/you-dont-hate-the-man-youre-covering</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://andreawex.substack.com/p/you-dont-hate-the-man-youre-covering</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[AndreaWex]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 21:00:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!A_Jr!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a7c2e95-4ddb-4558-b490-0a8b950e02ee_1920x1080.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!A_Jr!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a7c2e95-4ddb-4558-b490-0a8b950e02ee_1920x1080.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source 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Signs. Chants. Rage. &#8220;F ICE.&#8221; &#8220;F the man.&#8221; Cool slogan. Wrong target.</p><p>This is not a red vs blue game. Not Trump vs Democrats. If you still think politics is just party teams fighting, congratulations, you are exactly where the global power machine wants you. Distracted. Emotional. Fighting each other while the real thieves loot the country.</p><p>Let&#8217;s get educated.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h3>What ICE Actually Is</h3>
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They’re a Political Pawn.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Today, January 30, 2026, businesses are closing, students are walking out, and the country is being told this is some kind of moral uprising over ICE.]]></description><link>https://andreawex.substack.com/p/your-kid-isnt-a-protestor-theyre</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://andreawex.substack.com/p/your-kid-isnt-a-protestor-theyre</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[AndreaWex]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:25:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ymOa!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F37f62fac-eb99-4e74-aba2-7d93545ad811_1024x1280.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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I am sitting here in Reno, Nevada, watching school after school empty out, and it&#8217;s terrifying.</p><p>This is not organic. This is not spontaneous compassion. 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We are told innocent people are being rounded up. We are told this is some unprecedented crackdown.</p><p>Except the numbers do not support the hysteria.</p><p>Under President Barack Obama, deportations reached record highs, earning him the nickname &#8220;Deporter in Chief&#8221; from immigration advocates. Immigration enforcement has never disappeared. It just becomes a moral emergency when the wrong political name is attached to it.</p><p>ICE enforces federal law. That is not extremism. That is the job.</p><p>What is different now is not enforcement. It is the narrative. The media has framed this as a moral crisis, and suddenly kids in Nevada who cannot explain the difference between a visa overstay and asylum law are marching out of classrooms chanting slogans.</p><p>That is not civic engagement. That is emotional programming.</p><h3>As a Mom, This Is Where I Draw the Line</h3><p>I homeschool my boys. I never thought I would say that.</p><p>COVID pushed us there. Masking little kids all day, chaotic distance learning, nonstop vaccine pressure, and an education system in Nevada that already ranks at the bottom nationally. The academics were weak. The ideology was growing. The chaos was constant.</p><p>So we pulled them.</p><p>And days like today make me want to shout from the rooftops: homeschool, homeschool, homeschool.</p><p>Because here is what I see.</p><p>Schools are not just teaching math and reading. They are shaping worldview. When entire student bodies are comfortable skipping class to protest federal law enforcement, that did not come from nowhere. That is culture built inside those walls.</p><p>We are raising kids to distrust law enforcement as a default, to see authority as oppression, and to respond to every media cycle with emotional activism. That is not critical thinking. That is conditioning.</p><p>And the future they are heading into, with AI, deepfakes, and nonstop information warfare, will demand more discernment than any generation has ever needed.</p><p>If we do not teach our kids how to spot manipulation, someone else will teach them what to believe.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/p/your-kid-isnt-a-protestor-theyre/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/p/your-kid-isnt-a-protestor-theyre/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><h3>Why the Minnesota Protests <em>Feel</em> Engineered (Because They Are)</h3><p>Let&#8217;s be real about what set off these walkouts, because the story that&#8217;s being spoon-fed to kids and broadcast on every channel is not the full picture.</p><p>Here&#8217;s what they are <em>not</em> telling your kids:</p><ol><li><p>The federal operation in Minnesota was tied to a massive fraud investigation, not some random ICE ambush &#8212; including allegations around Somali-run childcare and welfare programs that allegedly siphoned off hundreds of millions of federal dollars. <br><em>That is what initially prompted a big federal presence in Minneapolis, not a sudden rise in &#8220;cruel deportations&#8221; that magically only started this week.</em></p></li><li><p>Local activists in Minnesota have had protest infrastructure on standby since the 2020 George Floyd era, with networks, leaders, and organizers ready to pivot to the next cause. Kids don&#8217;t just spontaneously decide to walk out all over the country because of an Instagram clip. They get pulled into protest narratives that are amplified by national organizers who know exactly how to trigger emotion.</p></li><li><p>The so-called &#8220;national blackout&#8221; of school and work wasn&#8217;t organic. It was organized and coordinated by student groups from the University of Minnesota and allied organizations across cities and campuses, complete with calls for walkouts, consumer boycotts, and synchronized protest actions.</p></li><li><p>The outrage machine got fuel from viral videos, celebrity endorsements, and media framing that turned tragedy into <em>political theatre</em>. </p></li></ol><p>In other words, what started with a federal fraud and enforcement operation (and two tragic deaths that should have never happened if this LYING manipulative machine didn&#8217;t indoctrinate them) turned into a <em>politically engineered nationwide protest moment</em> &#8212; and school walkouts are the icing on the propaganda cake.</p><p>This is not &#8220;kids spontaneously caring about justice.&#8221; It is narrative engineering 101.</p><p>Kids get marketed a simplified emotional meme:<br>&#8220;ICE = evil. Trump = cruelty. Protest = righteousness.&#8221;</p><p>That&#8217;s it. That&#8217;s all they see.</p><p>They don&#8217;t see:</p><ul><li><p>What prompted the federal surge in the first place</p></li><li><p>That Minnesota&#8217;s fraud scandals have been documented for months</p></li><li><p>That the raw numbers of deportations don&#8217;t back up the outrage in other states</p></li><li><p>That national organizers and student coalitions coordinated the very tactics ringing school bells today</p></li></ul><p>And the scariest part?</p><p>We are letting <em>our children</em> be the foot soldiers in a spectacle they barely understand.</p><h3>Why Young People Are Always the Target</h3><p>This is not new. Communist and socialist movements historically invested heavily in youth organizations, education systems, and cultural channels. Groups like the Soviet Komsomol and Mao&#8217;s Red Guards mobilized young people as engines of social transformation, often framing rebellion against existing structures as moral duty. Control the youth, and you shape the future society. That is not conspiracy. That is documented political strategy.</p><p>Young people are ideal targets. They are idealistic. They want meaning. They want to be on the &#8220;right side.&#8221; That energy can be used for good, or it can be steered by whoever controls the story.</p><p>Right now, the story being fed to them is simple: orange man bad, law enforcement equals oppression, borders equal cruelty, and protest equals virtue.</p><p>It is a powerful emotional formula. It is also dangerously incomplete.</p><h3>Discernment Is the Skill That Matters Now</h3><p>Our job as parents is not to make our kids cynical. It is to make them discerning.</p><p>There are laws in this country. There is a Constitution. There is a legal immigration system. There are criminals who harm communities. There are victims of trafficking and violence. This is complicated. It cannot be reduced to signs and chants.</p><p>When kids are encouraged to walk out over a narrative they barely understand, we are not teaching them courage. We are teaching them to react before they think.</p><p>That is a habit that will follow them into adulthood, voting booths, workplaces, and families.</p><p>And in a world where information can be manipulated at scale, emotional reflex without discernment is a liability.</p><h3>Mama Bears, It Is Time Again</h3><p>During COVID, moms stood up. They said no to things that felt wrong for their kids. Like giving them dangerous, untested, vaccines for a virus that wasn&#8217;t dangerous. Or strapping filthy masks on their faces that had ZERO scientific basis. They pulled them out, spoke at school boards, and took heat for it. I personally received death threats just for going to school board meetings and sharing on my social media the evidence and scientific research I had found.</p><p>This is another one of those moments.</p><p>You do not have to scream at a protest. You do not have to put yourself in danger. But you do have to take responsibility for what is shaping your child&#8217;s mind.</p><p>If your kid is walking out today because &#8220;ICE is evil&#8221; and they cannot explain immigration law, deportation statistics, or the difference between legal and illegal entry, that is not activism. That is indoctrination.</p><p>We cannot keep outsourcing our kids&#8217; worldview to institutions that increasingly see parents as obstacles, not partners.</p><p>The government does not love your child more than you do. Political movements do not care about your child&#8217;s long term well being more than you do. Media cycles do not care about their character, discipline, or critical thinking.</p><p>That is your job. </p><p>And if we are not willing to stand up for our kids, homeschool them when necessary, and teach them how to think critically, then we should not be shocked when they grow up believing whatever the loudest voice tells them next.</p><p>They want your kids in the streets, angry and emotional.</p><p>I want mine at the table, learning how to see through the noise.</p><p>Choose your side.</p><div class="pullquote"><p><em><strong>If you value this work and want to support continued investigation and reporting, please consider becoming a paid subscriber.</strong></em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" 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It was taught. It was studied. It was implemented deliberately. And one of the most important architects of that mindset was Saul Alinsky.</p><p>This is not a conspiracy theory. This is history.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h3>Who Saul Alinsky Really Was</h3><p>Alinsky was a Chicago-based community organizer who believed power never concedes willingly and must be taken through pressure, disruption, and psychological warfare. He was not interested in unity. He was interested in results. His worldview treated society as a battlefield between the Haves and the Have-Nots, where ethics were flexible and truth was optional if it stood in the way of victory.</p><p>His 1971 book <em>Rules for Radicals</em> was written as a tactical manual for activists. It was not about building a republic. It was about dismantling existing systems so something else could replace them.</p><p>That distinction matters.</p><h3>Why Rules for Radicals Still Matters</h3><p>Alinsky&#8217;s rules are simple, brutal, and effective. They are designed to destabilize, polarize, and exhaust opponents until resistance collapses.</p><p>A few examples you will immediately recognize in modern politics:</p><p>Ridicule is the most powerful weapon.<br>Make the enemy live up to their own rules.<br>Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.<br>Keep the pressure on. Never let up.</p><p>Sound familiar?</p><p>These tactics explain why debate has been replaced with mockery, why institutions are attacked instead of arguments, and why dissenters are dehumanized rather than engaged. This is not accidental. It is Alinsky&#8217;s playbook playing out in real time.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/p/why-the-streets-are-on-fire-saul?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/p/why-the-streets-are-on-fire-saul?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><h3>Alinsky&#8217;s Rules for Radicals:</h3><p>Here is the playbook, stripped of academic bs and translated into real world terms. Once you read this, you will never unsee it.</p><ul><li><p><strong>Power is not just what you have, it is what your opponent thinks you have</strong><br>Perception matters more than reality. If you can convince people you are strong, numerous, or morally righteous, you gain leverage even if it is exaggerated.</p></li><li><p><strong>Never go outside the experience of your own people</strong><br>Keep your activists operating in spaces where they feel confident. Comfort builds boldness. Uncertainty breeds hesitation.</p></li><li><p><strong>Always push your opponent outside their experience</strong><br>Force them into unfamiliar territory. Confusion leads to mistakes. Mistakes can be weaponized.</p></li><li><p><strong>Make the enemy live by their own rules</strong><br>Use their stated values against them. Demand perfection while granting none. Hypocrisy accusations are devastating when selectively applied.</p></li><li><p><strong>Ridicule is your most powerful weapon</strong><br>Mockery works because it demoralizes, delegitimizes, and shuts down debate. You cannot easily defend yourself against laughter.</p></li><li><p><strong>A tactic must be fun for your people</strong><br>If the activists enjoy it, they will keep showing up. Emotional satisfaction matters more than logic.</p></li><li><p><strong>A tactic that drags on too long becomes ineffective</strong><br>Rotate outrage. Keep the conflict fresh. Exhaustion kills movements.</p></li><li><p><strong>Keep constant pressure on the target</strong><br>Never allow breathing room. Every pause is a chance for recovery or reflection.</p></li><li><p><strong>The threat is often more terrifying than the action itself</strong><br>Fear works better than execution. Anticipation destabilizes opponents before anything even happens.</p></li><li><p><strong>Maintain continuous operations</strong><br>Multiple fronts. Multiple crises. No resolution. Overwhelm until resistance collapses.</p></li><li><p><strong>Push negativity until it flips</strong><br>Accuse relentlessly. Eventually the accusation becomes the truth in the public mind, regardless of evidence.</p></li><li><p><strong>Always claim to offer a constructive alternative</strong><br>Even if it is vague or unworkable, you must pretend to be building something better to justify destruction.</p></li><li><p><strong>Pick a target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it</strong><br>Reduce complex systems to a villain. Make everything about that person or group. Dehumanize them so opposition feels righteous.</p></li></ul><p>This is not activism.<br>This is psychological warfare applied to politics.</p><p>Once you understand these rules, you can see them everywhere. Media cycles. Protest movements. Cancel campaigns. Institutional takedowns. Even the language people use now.</p><p>Alinsky did not just write a book.<br>He handed future radicals a map.</p><p>And much of modern America is following it step by step.</p><h3>Alinsky and Hitler: Same Dark Playbook</h3><p>Alinsky openly studied Hitler&#8217;s tactics and acknowledged their effectiveness.</p><p>That matters.</p><p>Alinsky&#8217;s framework is about power, not morality.</p><p>In the introduction to <em>Rules for Radicals</em>, Alinsky references Lucifer as the first radical and makes clear that his work is about how power is seized, held, and used, not whether the cause itself is righteous. He was brutally honest about this.</p><p>Hitler was one of the most effective mass manipulators in history. Not because his ideas were good, but because his methods worked.</p><p>Alinsky understood that.</p><h3>The Tactical Overlap</h3><p>Here is where Hitler and Alinsky intersect. </p><p>Both relied on:</p><p>&#8226; Polarization of society<br>&#8226; Dehumanization of opponents<br>&#8226; Ridicule and mockery to weaken resistance<br>&#8226; Narrative control through repetition<br>&#8226; Turning institutions against themselves<br>&#8226; Framing dissent as immoral or dangerous<br>&#8226; Mobilizing grievance and resentment<br>&#8226; Forcing people to pick sides</p><h3>Hitler Used the Playbook Before It Had a Name</h3><p>Hitler&#8217;s rise followed a pattern that should look painfully familiar:</p><p>He identified enemies.<br>He personalized blame.<br>He froze targets into symbols.<br>He mocked, shamed, and isolated dissenters.<br>He used constant pressure and chaos.<br>He framed himself as the only moral solution.</p><p>That is not an accident.</p><p>Those steps align directly with Alinsky&#8217;s rules, especially:</p><p>&#8226; Rule 4: Make the enemy live up to their own rules<br>&#8226; Rule 5: Ridicule is man&#8217;s most potent weapon<br>&#8226; Rule 8: Keep the pressure on<br>&#8226; Rule 13: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it</p><p>Alinsky did not invent evil. He codified it.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h3>The Difference That Matters</h3><p>Hitler used these tactics for genocide and totalitarian control.<br>Alinsky argued they could be used by the powerless to fight entrenched systems.</p><p>But tactics do not have morality.</p><p>The heart of the person using them does.</p><p>Once you justify lying, manipulation, humiliation, and dehumanization for a &#8220;greater good,&#8221; you are standing on the same slope every totalitarian regime stood on before it fell into mass cruelty.</p><p>When you see:</p><p>&#8226; Protest movements built on ridicule and mob pressure<br>&#8226; Political opponents treated as subhuman<br>&#8226; Speech framed as violence<br>&#8226; Law used selectively<br>&#8226; Institutions weaponized<br>&#8226; Truth treated as flexible<br>&#8226; Ends always justifying means</p><p>You are not watching democracy.</p><p>You are watching the early mechanics of authoritarianism, whether it comes wrapped in nationalism or socialism.</p><p>Hitler showed us where that road ends.</p><p>Alinsky showed future activists how to walk it faster.</p><h3>The Political Lineage No One Wants to Talk About</h3><p>Hillary Clinton openly wrote her college thesis on Alinsky and praised his methods. Barack Obama worked as a community organizer in Chicago within organizations influenced by Alinsky&#8217;s Industrial Areas Foundation model and taught organizing tactics rooted in the same philosophy. These are documented facts, not speculation.</p><p>You do not have to believe every politician who studied Alinsky is evil to understand this. You only need to recognize that ideas shape behavior, and Alinsky&#8217;s ideas were never compatible with a constitutional republic built on limited government and individual liberty.</p><p>His framework views people as tools, not citizens.</p><h3>Who Studied, Praised, or Applied Alinsky&#8217;s Playbook:</h3><p>This is where things stop being theoretical and start being uncomfortable.</p><p>Saul Alinsky did not write Rules for Radicals in a vacuum. His ideas were taught, studied, praised, and operationalized. Some openly embraces him. Others absorb his tactics through institutions and movements shaped by his framework.</p><p><strong>Hillary Clinton</strong><br>Hillary Clinton wrote her 1969 senior thesis at Wellesley College on Saul Alinsky titled &#8220;There Is Only the Fight: An Analysis of the Alinsky Model.&#8221; She interviewed Alinsky, corresponded with him, and praised his organizing methods. Alinsky even offered her a job, which she declined. While Clinton later distanced herself rhetorically, her early admiration and study of his work are not disputed and are well documented.</p><p><strong>Barack Obama</strong><br>Before politics, Obama worked as a community organizer in Chicago in the 1980s with groups modeled on Alinsky&#8217;s Industrial Areas Foundation approach. He taught Alinsky-style organizing principles in workshops and trainings. Obama has acknowledged this background, framing it as pragmatic community engagement. Critics argue his campaigns and governing style reflected Alinsky&#8217;s tactics of pressure, polarization, and narrative control.</p><p><strong>Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta</strong><br>Leaders of the United Farm Workers, Chavez and Huerta worked directly with Alinsky and applied his organizing methods. This is undisputed and often cited even by progressive historians. Their labor movement became one of the most successful real-world implementations of Alinsky&#8217;s framework.</p><p><strong>Jesse Jackson</strong><br>Jackson&#8217;s organizing and protest strategies during the civil rights era were influenced by Alinsky&#8217;s model of pressure politics and coalition-based confrontation.</p><p><strong>Ralph Nader</strong><br>Nader&#8217;s consumer advocacy campaigns reflected Alinsky-style tactics, especially targeting corporations, personalizing blame, and applying sustained public pressure.</p><p><strong>The Industrial Areas Foundation</strong><br>Founded by Alinsky in 1940, the IAF trained generations of organizers. Many modern activist organizations trace their lineage directly or indirectly to this model.</p><p><strong>Progressive activist networks</strong><br>Movements such as Occupy Wall Street, climate activism groups, and modern protest organizations frequently mirror Alinsky&#8217;s rules whether consciously or not. Ridicule, polarization, constant pressure, and personalized targets are central features.</p><p><strong>The modern Democratic ground game</strong><br>While not every Democrat is an Alinsky devotee, grassroots mobilization strategies used in recent decades align closely with his principles. This includes narrative framing, social pressure campaigns, and institutional disruption.</p><p><strong>Tim Walz</strong><br>Some critics argue Walz&#8217;s rhetoric and political strategies reflect Alinsky-style tactics, but there is no documented personal study or endorsement. </p><p><strong>Ilhan Omar</strong><br>Omar&#8217;s activist language and confrontation-based politics are often compared to Alinsky&#8217;s framework by critics. </p><p><strong>The broader Democratic Party</strong><br>David Alinsky, Saul Alinsky&#8217;s son, stated publicly that Obama&#8217;s campaigns reflected his father&#8217;s methods. That claim is debated, but it reinforces the argument that the tactics outlived the man and became embedded in political culture.</p><p>Not everyone on the left sat down and read Rules for Radicals.</p><p>That is not how ideological infiltration works.</p><p>Ideas spread through institutions, training programs, activist culture, media reinforcement, and political incentives. You do not need to worship Alinsky to use his tactics. You just need to believe the ends justify the means.</p><p>And that is the danger.</p><p>Because once politics becomes about power at any cost, truth becomes optional, morality becomes negotiable, and the republic becomes expendable.</p><h3>From Alinsky to Davos</h3><p>Fast forward to today and look at the World Economic Forum crowd in Davos. The same disdain for ordinary people. The same obsession with control. The same belief that elites should decide how everyone else lives.</p><p>They lecture you about sustainability while flying private jets. They shame you for your carbon footprint while indulging in moral decay behind closed doors. They talk about equity while treating working people as expendable resources.</p><p>This is Alinsky&#8217;s worldview refined and scaled globally.</p><p>Power justifies itself. Ends justify means. People are managed, not respected.</p><h3>Epstein Was Not an Outlier</h3><p>This mindset also explains why scandals like Epstein exist at all. When elites stop seeing people as human beings and start seeing them as commodities, exploitation becomes inevitable. Epstein did not operate in a vacuum. He operated in a culture where powerful people believed rules did not apply to them and accountability was for others.</p><p>And notice what never happens.</p><p>No real justice.<br>No real accountability.<br>Just endless delays, sealed files, and institutional silence.</p><p>That is not failure. That is design.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/p/why-the-streets-are-on-fire-saul/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/p/why-the-streets-are-on-fire-saul/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><h3>Why This Always Ends the Same Way</h3><p>Every socialist or communist movement starts the same way. Divide the population. Undermine trust. Attack institutions. Mock tradition. Rewrite language. Then centralize power in the name of fairness.</p><p>History is brutally consistent on this point.</p><p>And once justice disappears, unrest follows. People sense the imbalance even if they cannot articulate it. That is why streets burn while criminals walk free. That is why January 6 defendants rot in jail while powerful offenders skate. That is why ICE agents are attacked while NGOs post bail for rioters.</p><p>A society without justice cannot survive.</p><h3>A Necessary Line in the Sand</h3><p>This is the part Tom Renz always makes very clear when he talks about Saul Alinsky, and it matters.</p><p>We do not become them.</p><p>We do not lie.<br>We do not cheat.<br>We do not steal.<br>We do not abandon truth to win arguments.</p><p>We do not fight evil by participating in it.</p><p>But here is the hard truth that too many good people avoid saying out loud.</p><p>You cannot defeat an enemy you refuse to understand.</p><p>Alinsky&#8217;s rules are not a suggestion for how we should behave. They are a diagnostic tool. A way to see the battlefield clearly. A way to recognize when you are being manipulated, mocked, cornered, and psychologically disarmed.</p><p>Right now, the radical left is not playing checkers. They are not even playing chess. They are running coordinated psychological operations using media, culture, lawfare, ridicule, and manufactured outrage.</p><p>And too many on our side are still pretending this is a polite debate.</p><p>You do not bring a knife to a gunfight.<br>You do not bring civility to a propaganda war.<br>And you do not defeat a movement built on deception by refusing to call it out.</p><p>Fighting back does not mean becoming immoral. It means becoming awake.</p><p>It means understanding the tactics being used against you so you stop falling for them. It means refusing to be shamed into silence. It means exposing manipulation instead of absorbing it. It means standing firmly in truth while refusing to be psychologically bullied.</p><p>Jesus did not ignore evil. He confronted it directly.</p><p>If you do not understand how your enemy thinks, you will always be reacting instead of leading. And reaction is exactly where Alinsky wants you.</p><p>So the question is not whether you should adopt these tactics.</p><p>The question is this:</p><p>Now that you see what is being done to you, what are you going to fight back with?</p><h3>The Only Way Out</h3><p>This does not end with better messaging or nicer rhetoric. It ends with citizens who recognize the tactics and refuse to play along.</p><p>We do not beat Alinsky by becoming him. We beat him by exposing the game, telling the truth, and grounding ourselves in the Constitution, objective reality, and moral clarity.</p><p>Evil thrives in confusion. It dies in the light.</p><p>If you want to understand how we got here, start with Saul Alinsky. 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Private jets clog the Alps. Billionaires lecture you about carbon footprints. Politicians whisper about saving democracy. And behind the velvet ropes, the rot shows itself.</p><p>The World Economic Forum is not a think tank. It is a power exchange. And the receipts are public.</p><p>Multiple outlets across Europe and the UK have documented what locals and Swiss police already treat as routine. During Davos, prostitution and escort services surge dramatically. Switzerland&#8217;s legal and regulated sex trade makes it easy. Agencies openly advertise Davos specials. Demand spikes by thousands of percent. Prices soar into the tens of thousands for multi day bookings. Non disclosure agreements are standard. Business attire is common so no one looks out of place.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>Executives. Politicians. Staffers. Consultants. The same people telling you to eat bugs and surrender sovereignty are indulging in everything they publicly condemn. This is not rumor. 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Everything Else Is Noise.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Let me make this painfully simple.]]></description><link>https://andreawex.substack.com/p/voter-id-is-the-line-everything-else</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://andreawex.substack.com/p/voter-id-is-the-line-everything-else</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[AndreaWex]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:08:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1603718158292-201989e435bb?crop=entropy&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;fit=max&amp;fm=jpg&amp;ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHw2NHx8dm90ZXxlbnwwfHx8fDE3Njg5Mjg1NjV8MA&amp;ixlib=rb-4.1.0&amp;q=80&amp;w=1080" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@jontyson">Jon Tyson</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com">Unsplash</a></figcaption></figure></div><p>Let me make this painfully simple.</p><p>All the walkouts.<br>All the ICE protests.<br>All the screaming about fascism, abortion, LGBTQ, surveillance, and Trump being the devil.</p><p>Every single bit of it collapses into one issue.</p><p>Voter ID.<br>Specifically, the SAVE Act.</p><p>That is the real line in the sand, and liberals are being played so hard they cannot even see it.</p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h3>The Marriage Is Over</h3><p>Think of America like a marriage that has been in therapy for years. We tried talking. We tried compromise. We tried pretending we were arguing about values when we were actually arguing about reality.</p><p>Now it is clear. One side believes elections must be secure. The other side loses its mind at the idea of showing identification to vote.</p><p>That is not a disagreement. That is a dealbreaker.</p><p>In real marriages, courts separate people when things get toxic so the kids are protected. In this case, the kids are our country and our freedoms.</p><p>So yes. It is time for a separation.</p><div><hr></div><h3>What the SAVE Act Actually Does</h3><p>The SAVE Act stands for the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act. It is not complicated.</p><p>Right now, most people register to vote by checking a box that says, &#8220;I promise I am a U.S. citizen.&#8221; That is it. No proof required in many states.</p><p>The SAVE Act says that is not good enough.</p><p>It requires documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register for federal elections. Not vibes. Not promises. Actual proof like a passport or birth certificate.</p><p>That is the entire bill.</p><p>If that offends you, you are not protesting immigration enforcement. You are not defending women. You are not standing up for LGBTQ people.</p><p>You are opposing election integrity.</p><div><hr></div><h3>The Big Lie Behind the Protests</h3><p>Democrats know exactly what they are doing. They flood the zone with emotional issues so people never focus on the real objective.</p><p>ICE is framed as evil so you stop asking why the border was left open.<br>Abortion is framed as &#8220;freedom&#8221; so you stop asking who benefits politically.<br>Trans issues are amplified endlessly even though they affect a tiny fraction of the population because they are emotionally manipulative and distracting.</p><p>This is not about compassion. It is about controlling elections.</p><p>Every communist takeover in history starts here. Venezuela did not lose its republic overnight. It lost election integrity first. Once elections are compromised, everything else follows.</p><p>No republic survives rigged or unverifiable elections. None.</p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/p/voter-id-is-the-line-everything-else?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/p/voter-id-is-the-line-everything-else?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><h3>Stop the Racist Gaslighting</h3><p>And spare me the nonsense about minorities being unable to get ID.</p><p>That argument is racist. Full stop.</p><p>IDs are required to fly, drive, buy alcohol, rent an apartment, apply for benefits, and enter federal buildings. Studies consistently show 85 to 95 percent of Americans already possess valid ID, including across racial groups.</p><p>Claiming entire communities are too incapable to obtain identification is insulting and false. Even polling shows majority support for voter ID across all racial demographics.</p><p>This is not about access. It is about leverage.</p><div><hr></div><h3>If You Walk Off the Job Today</h3><p>If you are walking off the job today and you are not explicitly protesting the SAVE Act, you have been programmed.</p><p>You are not standing up for good people being deported.<br>You are not defending women.<br>You are not protecting marginalized groups.</p><p>You are acting as a useful pawn for a political machine that needs unverifiable elections to stay in power.</p><p>That is it. That is the truth.</p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/p/voter-id-is-the-line-everything-else/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/p/voter-id-is-the-line-everything-else/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><h3>The Final Line</h3><p>I do not care who you love.<br>I do not care what music you listen to.<br>I do not care how you identify.</p><p>When we stand in line to vote, we all show ID.</p><p>If you cannot agree to that, we are not compatible as a country.</p><p>No ID. No vote.<br>No secure elections. No republic.</p><p>This is the hill.<br>Everything else is propaganda.</p><p>Choose wisely.</p><div class="pullquote"><p><em><strong>If you value this work and want to support continued investigation and reporting, please consider becoming a paid subscriber.</strong></em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://makewellness.com/631225/Shopping/Share?promo=give10" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7OaV!, /__u/andreawex.substack.com/w_424, 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href="https://unsplash.com">Unsplash</a></figcaption></figure></div><p>There are some things you learn about this country that hit you like a punch to the gut. Sexual Abuse and Molestation insurance is one of them.</p><p>Most Americans have no idea this even exists. Churches. Camps. Schools. Nonprofits. Any organization that works with children can buy specialized insurance (and most of them do!) designed to protect the institution when abuse allegations surface. Not the child. Not the family. The institution.</p><p>Let that sink in.</p><p>This coverage goes by different names. SA insurance. SAM insurance. Sexual Misconduct Liability. The branding changes, but the purpose does not. It covers legal defense costs, settlements, judgments, and crisis management when an organization is accused of failing to prevent sexual abuse. It does not insure the criminal act itself. Public policy forbids that. Instead, it insures the negligence. The failure to screen. The failure to supervise. The failure to act when warning signs appear.</p><p>In plain English, it insures the cover up.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>The insurance industry will tell you this coverage exists to keep organizations solvent and incentivize better safeguards. Sources like Amwins, Gallagher, and Nonprofits Insurance Alliance argue that without it, a single lawsuit could bankrupt a church or school and disrupt services for vulnerable populations. They will point to average settlements hovering around fifty nine million dollars and note that insurers require background checks and training as conditions of coverage.</p><p>Critics see something far darker.</p><p>Legal scholars and risk analysts have warned for years that SAM insurance creates a moral hazard. When institutions know insurance will absorb catastrophic losses, accountability softens. Incentives warp. Prevention becomes a box to check instead of a moral obligation. History bears this out. Catholic dioceses. The Boy Scouts. Youth camps. Patterns repeat. Abuse reported. Internal handling. Quiet settlements. Survivors silenced. Institutions preserved.</p><div class="directMessage button" data-attrs="{&quot;userId&quot;:112101914,&quot;userName&quot;:&quot;AndreaWex&quot;,&quot;canDm&quot;:null,&quot;dmUpgradeOptions&quot;:null,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}" data-component-name="DirectMessageToDOM"></div><h3>And then there is the case of <a href="/__u/open.substack.com/pub/v1sut/p/sacrificing-lincoln-okdhs-traffics?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&amp;utm_medium=web">Baby Lincoln</a>.</h3><p>If you want a single story that exposes how rotten this system has become, this is it.</p><p>Lincoln was born healthy in Oklahoma in December 2020. His parents tested negative for all substances. His mother was enrolled in a state funded prenatal program specifically designed to keep families together. Despite this, the Oklahoma Department of Human Services obtained an emergency removal order based on allegations contradicted by medical records. Key facts were withheld from the court. Lincoln was taken at birth.</p><p>He was placed with a same sex couple who had requested only boys.</p><p>One of the adoptive fathers had been arrested years earlier in Kansas on charges including sodomy of a child and indecent liberties with a minor. The case was never prosecuted. Records were scrubbed. The placement went forward anyway.</p><p>Over the next three years, Oklahoma DHS ignored statutory deadlines, concealed a lawful kinship placement with Lincoln&#8217;s aunt and uncle, blocked internal safety warnings from a permanency worker, and pressured the biological parents into relinquishing their rights under false threats.</p><p>Then came March 2024.</p><p>While aboard the Carnival Dream cruise ship, witnesses report that the adoptive father became heavily intoxicated, attempted to drown Lincoln in a hot tub, and molested multiple boys. An adult passenger intervened and saved Lincoln&#8217;s life. Children reported the assaults. Ship security promised arrests that never happened. The FBI was not notified by the cruise line. Families were warned to stay quiet.</p><p>When the ship docked, the parents contacted the FBI themselves.</p><p>The FBI investigated. The man was federally indicted for child sexual abuse. Nine days later, before arrest, he committed suicide.</p><p>Despite all of this, Oklahoma DHS did not remove Lincoln from the home. The surviving adoptive parent fled to Kansas with him. Referrals were screened out. A DHS worker reportedly donated money to help the relocation instead of initiating emergency protection.</p><p>Furthermore, at the time of the Carnival cruise incident, the man who allegedly attempted to drown Lincoln and sexually assaulted other children was not an unknown drifter. He was a licensed sixth-grade teacher employed by Moore Public Schools in Oklahoma, working daily with children! He had been granted an emergency teaching certificate and was actively teaching when the cruise took place. Only after parents reported the abuse to the FBI did the school district place him on leave and then shortly after he took his own life. </p><p>Lincoln remains separated from his biological family today.</p><p>This case has been meticulously documented by investigative journalists at <a href="/__u/v1sut.substack.com/">V1SUT</a>. Without that reporting, the public would know nothing. Privacy laws meant to protect children were weaponized to protect the agency.</p><p>This is not an isolated failure. It is a system.</p><p>CPS and DHS agencies across the country operate under funding structures that reward custody, not family preservation. Federal mechanisms like Title IV E reimburse states when children enter foster and adoptive pipelines. Consulting firms like Deloitte collect hundreds of millions building systems that never quite work but always require more money. Whistleblowers are pushed out. Bureaucracies expand. Accountability disappears.</p><p>Children become revenue units.</p><p>Parents become obstacles.</p><p>Predators slip through.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/p/when-the-state-protects-predators?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/p/when-the-state-protects-predators?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p>What makes Lincoln&#8217;s case even more disturbing is where it came from.</p><p>The man who later attempted to drown Lincoln, molested multiple children, and then took his own life did not come out of nowhere. He came from a deeply embedded church family in a region already tied to multiple child abuse scandals connected to church camps and religious institutions.</p><p>This matters.</p><p>According to reporting uncovered by <a href="/__u/v1sut.substack.com/">V1SUT</a>, his 2010 arrest for sodomizing a child occurred while he was serving as a counselor at a church camp in Kansas. That arrest was never prosecuted. Court records were scrubbed. Local reporting was quietly erased. The family&#8217;s influence within the church community appears to have shielded him from accountability at the exact moment intervention should have happened.</p><p>Even more alarming, this church camp environment existed within the same regional ecosystem that later exploded with the Kanakuk Kamps scandal, one of the largest Christian camp abuse cases in U.S. history. Multiple counselors. Multiple victims. Years of institutional silence. A culture of protection, not exposure.</p><p>These are not coincidences. They are patterns.</p><p>When religious institutions close ranks, prioritize reputation over truth, and rely on internal handling instead of law enforcement, predators learn quickly where they are safest. When abuse is quietly absorbed rather than confronted, it does not disappear. It migrates.</p><p>In this case, it migrated from a church camp to a public school classroom, then into the foster and adoption system, and finally onto a cruise ship filled with children.</p><p>And every step of the way, the systems that should have stopped it failed.</p><p>Church leadership failed to expose it. Prosecutors failed to pursue it. Child welfare agencies failed to prevent it. Schools failed to protect students. And after federal indictment, the state still failed to remove a child from harm.</p><p>This is what institutional protection looks like in real life.</p><p>It is not one bad actor. It is a network of silence. A culture of deference. A system more concerned with liability, optics, and survival than with children.</p><p>When churches purchase Sexual Abuse and Molestation insurance while failing to root out predators, they are not just managing risk. They are signaling that abuse is an expected operational hazard.</p><p>Lincoln&#8217;s story forces an uncomfortable truth into the light.</p><blockquote><h3>Our systems are not protecting children from predators. They are protecting predators through systems.</h3></blockquote><p>And hovering over all of this is the quiet presence of insurance policies designed to make the fallout manageable.</p><p>SAM insurance does not directly protect child predators. That is the technical truth. But it absolutely protects the environments that allow predators to operate. It cushions institutions from financial ruin. It dulls the urgency to act. It normalizes settlements instead of justice.</p><p>When churches, camps, and organizations budget for abuse claims the way they budget for property damage, something in our moral framework has collapsed.</p><p>Americans need to know this exists. They need to ask why it exists. And they need to decide whether a society that insures institutional failure while children suffer is one worth defending.</p><p>Because if a state can take a newborn from fit parents, place him with a known risk, ignore attempted murder, and face no consequences, then the system is not broken.</p><p>It is working exactly as designed.</p><p>And that should terrify all of us.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h3>The Epstein Files and the Pattern We Refuse to Face</h3><p>If any of this feels familiar, it should.</p><p>The same system that protected predators in churches, camps, schools, and foster systems is the same system that buried the truth about Jeffrey Epstein.</p><p>We were told justice was coming.<br>We were told names would be released.<br>We were told accountability was inevitable.</p><p>Instead, Epstein conveniently died in federal custody under circumstances no serious person believes were accidental. The client list vanished. The co conspirators walked free. The institutions that enabled him closed ranks.</p><p>Years later, survivors are still waiting.<br>Names are still redacted.<br>Records are still sealed.<br>No powerful person has paid a price.</p><p>And here is the uncomfortable truth no one wants to say out loud.</p><p>Epstein was not an anomaly. He was a symptom.</p><p>The same mechanisms are at work every time a bureaucracy protects itself instead of a child. Every time liability insurance softens consequences. Every time records are sealed in the name of privacy. Every time whistleblowers are silenced. Every time the public is told to move on.</p><p>Whether it is CPS, DHS, churches, elite schools, foster systems, or intelligence adjacent networks, the pattern is identical. Abuse is discovered. Institutions panic. Lawyers intervene. Narratives are managed. Justice is delayed until it disappears.</p><p>If the Epstein files were fully exposed, people would finally have to confront how deep this rot goes. That is why they are not.</p><p>Until that changes, no child is safe.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/p/when-the-state-protects-predators/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/p/when-the-state-protects-predators/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><div class="pullquote"><p><strong>If you value this work and want to support continued investigation and reporting, please consider becoming a paid subscriber.</strong></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe 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MAGA Voters Are Asking the Question Out Loud]]></title><description><![CDATA[For years, a Trump endorsement was political jet fuel.]]></description><link>https://andreawex.substack.com/p/does-a-trump-endorsement-even-matter</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://andreawex.substack.com/p/does-a-trump-endorsement-even-matter</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[AndreaWex]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 01:18:32 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eVeG!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d060a85-b1a9-4368-b022-40c7b5c31937_1024x683.webp" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Fundraising spiked. Media attention followed. Primary opponents panicked. For a long stretch, Trump&#8217;s endorsement was the most powerful force inside Republican politics.</p><p>But here we are in 2026, and a question that would have been unthinkable a few years ago is now being asked openly by grassroots Republicans, MAGA voters, and America First activists:</p><p>Do Trump endorsements still matter or have they lost credibility with the base?</p><p>This is not a hit piece on Trump. Anyone pretending Trump is perfect is not serious. This is a sober look at what is happening inside the Republican electorate and why endorsements that once carried weight are now often met with eye rolls, skepticism, or outright backlash.</p><p>And yes, the name Susie Wiles keeps coming up for a reason.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p>
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If voters do not clearly define what a Republican is, we will keep electing people who campaign in red and govern in gray.</p><p>This is the first piece in our new RINO Hunting series. Consider it your field guide.</p><h3><strong>What a RINO Really Is</strong></h3><p>A RINO is not just someone you disagree with on one issue.</p><p>A RINO is a Republican In Name Only who campaigns as a conservative and governs as a moderate, a neocon, or a quiet enabler of the uniparty.</p><p>RINOs survive by talking tough in primaries, avoiding real positions, taking corporate and globalist money, and governing carefully enough to protect their careers rather than their constituents.</p><p>They are polished.<br>They are well funded.<br>They are usually very comfortable.</p><p>And they are not fighters.</p><h3><strong>Why New Faces Matter</strong></h3><p>Freedom Brigades is unapologetic about this. We want new faces. However, we understand that there are good representatives (albeit not many!) out there so discretion of course applies here.</p><p>If possible, we do not want incumbents. We do not want career politicians. We do not want people who have already had their chance and failed quietly.</p><p>We want candidates who are still hungry, still accessible, and still willing to say unpopular truths because they are not owned.</p><p>If a candidate is struggling financially but standing firm on principles, that is not a weakness. That is often the clearest sign you are dealing with one of the good guys.</p><p>The rich RINOs do not need your money.<br>The grassroots fighters absolutely do.</p><p>Your donations should go to candidates who need help, not candidates who already have donor lists full of lobbyists, consultants, and uniparty power brokers.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://freedombrigadenation.substack.com/p/rino-hunting-season-is-open?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&amp;token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMTIxMDE5MTQsInBvc3RfaWQiOjE4NDU2MzkyMSwiaWF0IjoxNzY4NDIzNTI4LCJleHAiOjE3NzEwMTU1MjgsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0yOTc2Mzc2Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.iM4l1eKPuOI6WWKGfhI-Sbyn4Ol_YVMpMlRL5YrPx3o&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="/__u/freedombrigadenation.substack.com/p/rino-hunting-season-is-open?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&amp;token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMTIxMDE5MTQsInBvc3RfaWQiOjE4NDU2MzkyMSwiaWF0IjoxNzY4NDIzNTI4LCJleHAiOjE3NzEwMTU1MjgsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0yOTc2Mzc2Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.iM4l1eKPuOI6WWKGfhI-Sbyn4Ol_YVMpMlRL5YrPx3o"><span>Share</span></a></p><h3><strong>The Freedom Brigades RINO Litmus Test</strong></h3><p>You do not need insider access to spot a RINO. You just need to ask real questions and pay attention to how candidates respond.</p><p><strong>Red Flag One: Carpetbagging</strong><br>Where has the candidate actually lived over the last decade?<br>Where did they pay taxes?<br>Did they suddenly discover your state when a seat opened up?</p><p>Real representatives come from the community. Opportunists shop for districts.</p><p><strong>Red Flag Two: Big Money With Strings</strong><br>Money alone does not make someone a RINO, but it demands scrutiny.</p><p>Who donated?<br>Do those donors also fund Democrats?<br>Are they tied to Big Pharma, Big Ag, global NGOs, or defense contractors?</p><p>FEC filings are public. Use them. Then ask the candidate directly whether that money influences their positions.</p><p><strong>Red Flag Three: Medical Freedom Dodging</strong><br>Ask about COVID. Ask about mandates. Ask about mRNA products.</p><p>A RINO will squirm. They will say it is complicated or divisive. They will try to change the subject.</p><p>Medical freedom is divisive because it matters.</p><p><strong>Red Flag Four: January 6 Evasion</strong><br>Ask whether January 6 was an insurrection.<br>Ask whether Americans received due process.<br>Ask whether they support justice instead of narratives.</p><p>RINOs either repeat Democrat talking points or refuse to answer.</p><p><strong>Red Flag Five: Election Integrity Word Games</strong><br>Ask whether the 2020 election had problems.<br>Ask whether election systems deserve serious reform.</p><p>If you hear vague platitudes instead of clear positions, take note.</p><p><strong>Red Flag Six: Career Politician Syndrome</strong><br>How long have they been in office?<br>How did they vote on the Patriot Act?<br>How did they vote on Obamacare?<br>Did they support spying on Americans?</p><p>Records do not lie. RINOs hope voters never look.</p><p><strong>Red Flag Seven: Forever War Thinking</strong><br>Ask about Ukraine. Ask about endless funding abroad.</p><p>We need leaders who stop wars, not leaders who manage them indefinitely.</p><p><strong>Red Flag Eight: Identity Politics in Red Clothing</strong><br>If a candidate runs on vote for me because of my gender or race instead of constitutional equality, they are importing leftist frameworks into the Republican Party.</p><p><strong>Red Flag Nine: COVID Silence or Compliance</strong><br>Check their social media history.</p><p>Did they support lockdowns?<br>Did they push mandates?<br>Did they shame people for refusing the jab?<br>Or did they say nothing at all?</p><p>Silence during tyranny is not leadership.</p><h3><strong>Do Their Donors Also Fund Democrats?</strong></h3><p><strong>How to Spot Uniparty Money</strong></p><p>One of the clearest signs you may be dealing with a RINO is this question: do the people funding this Republican also fund Democrats and Democrat causes? It&#8217;s also important to keep in mind that the goal is to get Democrat donors to come to our side, so this issue can see shifts but we must be aware of those that play both sides.</p><p>If the answer is yes, you are almost certainly looking at uniparty money, not grassroots support.</p><p>How to check it yourself.</p><p>First, identify the donor.<br>Go to the Federal Election Commission database at<br><a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">https://www.fec.gov/data/</a></p><p>Search the candidate and review itemized receipts. Write down large donors, PACs, executives, and bundlers.</p><p>Second, search the donor directly.<br>Use the same FEC tool and search the donor name. You will see every federal contribution they have made.</p><p>Third, look for patterns.<br>Do they donate to Republicans and Democrats in the same cycles?<br>Do they give to leadership PACs on both sides?<br>Do they fund Democrat aligned NGOs or ballot initiatives?</p><p>If so, they are buying access, not supporting values.</p><p>Grassroots candidates usually have small donors and local supporters.<br>RINOs usually have donor portfolios that hedge both sides.</p><p>If the same donor funds your Republican and the Democrat they claim to oppose, ask why.</p><p>Use this list when speaking with candidates in person, by phone, at town halls, at GOP club events, or in campaign offices. A serious candidate should be able to answer <strong>without scripted avoidance</strong>.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://freedombrigadenation.substack.com/p/rino-hunting-season-is-open/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="/__u/freedombrigadenation.substack.com/p/rino-hunting-season-is-open/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><h3><strong>The Freedom Brigades RINO Hunting Questionnaire<br>Short, Direct, No Place to Hide</strong></h3><p>These questions are designed to be asked calmly, clearly, and unscripted. A serious America First candidate should be able to answer all of them plainly. Dodging, deflecting, or mocking concerns is the answer.</p><p>Fundamental America First</p><ol><li><p>Do you support medical freedom, including the right to refuse experimental medical products, and do you support removing unsafe mRNA vaccines from the market?</p></li><li><p>Do you believe the 2020 election had serious integrity issues, and do you support strong, transparent election integrity reforms, such as paper ballots, voter i.d., in person voting on election day only, and hand count?</p></li><li><p>What is your position on January 6 defendants and due process rights?</p></li></ol><p>Constitutional Power and Federal Accountability</p><ol start="4"><li><p>Do you support full congressional oversight of the DOJ and federal intelligence agencies, including increased transparency around issues like the Epstein files?</p></li><li><p>Do you oppose Central Bank Digital Currencies and government digital ID systems, including those created through the use of public-private partnerships?</p></li></ol><p>War, Foreign Policy, and National Security</p><ol start="6"><li><p>Do you oppose open ended foreign wars and would you support requiring congressional authorization before major military action?</p></li><li><p>What is your position on continued U.S. military and financial involvement in conflicts such as Ukraine, Iran, and expanding NATO operations?</p></li></ol><p>Immigration, Border, and Trade</p><ol start="8"><li><p>What is your concrete plan to secure the southern border and enforce immigration law in a way that prioritizes American workers and national security?</p></li><li><p>Do you believe current trade policies protect American manufacturing and jobs, and if not, what should change?</p></li></ol><p>Economy and Affordability</p><ol start="10"><li><p>Would you vote to cut funding to USAID, foreign NGO&#8217;s? Would you vote to make DOGE recommendations permanent and implement DOGE like supervision over all NGO&#8217;s?</p></li><li><p>Do you support tax cuts, spending reductions, or both to ease the cost of living for American families, would you commit to opposing any spending bill that does not balance our budget?</p></li></ol><p>Healthcare and MAHA<br>Make America Healthy Again</p><ol start="12"><li><p>Do you support MAHA principles, including confronting chronic disease, environmental toxins, and regulatory capture at agencies like the FDA, CDC, and NIH?</p></li><li><p>Do you support full transparency and public access to vaccine safety data and protections for doctors and researchers who speak openly about medical risks and alternatives?</p></li><li><p>Do you support banning harmful food additives, chemicals, and endocrine disruptors, as well as mRNA and gene therapy tech in the food supply?</p></li></ol><p>Geoengineering and Environmental Transparency</p><ol start="15"><li><p>Do you support full transparency, congressional oversight, and public disclosure of any geoengineering, weather modification, or atmospheric intervention programs, even if they are run by military, intel community, or through public-private partnerships.</p></li><li><p>Do you believe states and citizens have a right to know what substances may be dispersed over their communities and to oppose such programs without consent?</p></li></ol><p>Social Issues and Education</p><ol start="17"><li><p>Do you support protecting women&#8217;s sports and parental rights, and removing ideological indoctrination from public schools in favor of constitutional literacy?</p></li></ol><p>Crime, Civil Liberties, and Justice</p><ol start="18"><li><p>Do you support reforms that protect free speech and due process while opposing the weaponization of federal law enforcement?</p></li></ol><p>Government Accountability and Ethics</p><ol start="19"><li><p>Do you support term limits for Congress or voluntary self limitation of power?</p></li><li><p>Do you support transparent, auditable elections and the right of voters to verify election processes?</p></li></ol><p>State Sovereignty and Federal Overreach</p><ol start="21"><li><p>How will you protect state and local control over education, energy, land use, and environmental regulation from federal overreach?</p></li></ol><p>Technology, Finance, and the Future</p><ol start="22"><li><p>Do you oppose the politicization of institutions like the Federal Reserve and support American technological leadership without sacrificing national sovereignty or liberty?</p></li><li><p>Would you support legislation that protects human jobs over ai and robotic take over?</p></li></ol><p>How to Use This List</p><p>Ask these questions directly.<br>Ask them publicly when possible.<br>Document the answers.<br>Share what you learn.</p><p>Clear answers signal independence.<br>Scripted answers signal consultants.<br>Refusal signals control by donors or party machinery.</p><p>This questionnaire is intentionally short because real leaders do not need talking points to tell voters what they believe.</p><p>If they are truly not a RINO, they should have no problem answering every one of these.</p><div><hr></div><h2><strong>How to Use the Questionnaire</strong></h2><p>Ask these questions <strong>directly and plainly</strong>. If a candidate:</p><ul><li><p>dodges</p></li><li><p>answers with platitudes</p></li><li><p>attacks you instead of replying</p></li><li><p>insists they need time to consult advisers</p></li></ul><p>&#8230;that is not confidence. That is dependence on party consultants or uniparty funding structures.</p><p>Those candidates should be scrutinized.</p><p>Grassroots candidates should answer clearly, even if brief, and be willing to explain why they take strong positions instead of avoiding hot issues.</p><h3><strong>Do Your Own Recon</strong></h3><p><strong>Where to Verify Everything Yourself</strong></p><p>Federal Election Commission filings<br><a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">https://www.fec.gov/data/</a></p><p>Congressional voting records<br><a href="https://www.congress.gov/members">https://www.congress.gov/members</a></p><p>Heritage Action scorecard<br><a href="https://heritageaction.com/scorecard">https://heritageaction.com/scorecard</a></p><p>FreedomWorks scorecard<br><a href="https://www.freedomworks.org/legislative-scorecard/">https://www.freedomworks.org/legislative-scorecard/</a></p><p>GovTrack voting analysis<br><a href="https://www.freedomworks.org/legislative-scorecard/">https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members</a></p><p>Open Secrets Org</p><p>https://www.opensecrets.org/</p><p>Ballotpedia candidate histories<br></p><p>https://ballotpedia.org</p><p>Scroll back through social media timelines from 2020 and 2021. Look for lockdown support, mandate advocacy, silence, or revisionist cleanup.</p><p>Deleted posts tell stories too.</p><h3><strong>The &#8220;I Am Not a RINO&#8221; Pledge</strong></h3><p><strong>Freedom Brigades Candidate Oath</strong></p><p>Talking is easy. Campaign slogans are cheap. Yard signs do not govern.</p><p>That is why Freedom Brigades is introducing the &#8220;I Am Not a RINO&#8221; Pledge.</p><p>This pledge is a public oath for America First, MAGA, grassroots candidates who want voters to know exactly where they stand and who they stand with. A version of this pledge will live permanently on <a href="https://freedombrigades.com/">FreedomBrigades.com</a>, where it will be publicly accessible, archived, and referenced throughout election cycles.</p><p>We will be encouraging every Republican candidate to sign this pledge. Signing it is voluntary. Refusing to sign it is revealing.</p><p>Below is a version of the pledge, the final version will soon be found at <a href="https://freedombrigades.com/">FreedomBrigades.com.</a></p><div><hr></div><p><em>I Am Not a RINO Pledge<br>Freedom Brigades Candidate Oath</em></p><p><em>I, the undersigned candidate for public office, voluntarily and knowingly make the following pledge to the voters, donors, and grassroots citizens of my state and of the United States.</em></p><p><em>I understand that this pledge is a public declaration of principles and intent. I further understand that it is meant to create ongoing accountability between myself and the voters I seek to represent.</em></p><p><em>This pledge is made freely, without coercion, and with full awareness that it will be publicly recorded, archived, and referenced throughout my candidacy and, if elected, throughout my term in office.</em></p><p><em>Statement of Principles</em></p><p><em>I affirm that I am not a Republican In Name Only.</em></p><p><em>I affirm that I am an America First candidate who places the interests, freedoms, and sovereignty of the American people above political parties, donor classes, foreign interests, corporate lobbying, or globalist institutions.</em></p><p><em>I affirm that I seek office to serve, not to manage decline, protect power, or enrich myself.</em></p><p><em>Binding Commitments</em></p><p><em>By signing this pledge, I commit to the following positions and standards of conduct:</em></p><ol><li><p><em>I commit to medical freedom and bodily autonomy, including opposition to mandates for experimental or unsafe medical products.</em></p></li><li><p><em>I commit to defending constitutional rights, including free speech, due process, the right to bear arms, and protection from unlawful surveillance.</em></p></li><li><p><em>I commit to election integrity reforms that restore voter confidence and transparency.</em></p></li><li><p><em>I commit to opposing Central Bank Digital Currencies and government digital ID systems, including those created through public-private partnerships, that threaten personal liberty.</em></p></li><li><p><em>I commit to opposing endless foreign wars and the use of American taxpayer dollars for undeclared or unaccountable conflicts.</em></p></li><li><p><em>I commit to supporting congressional oversight of the Department of Justice, intelligence agencies, and other federal institutions.</em></p></li><li><p><em>I commit to government transparency, including the release of lawfully obtainable public information such as the Epstein files and similar matters of public concern.</em></p></li><li><p><em>I commit to opposing identity politics, DEI frameworks, and ideological indoctrination that conflict with constitutional equality.</em></p></li><li><p><em>I commit to prioritizing American workers, American families, and American sovereignty in trade, immigration, and economic policy.</em></p></li><li><p><em>I commit to term limits or voluntary self limitation of power and oppose permanent political careers.</em></p></li></ol><p><em>Funding and Influence Disclosure</em></p><p><em>I affirm that I will not knowingly accept campaign donations that compromise my independence or require loyalty to positions that conflict with this pledge.</em></p><p><em>I affirm that I will disclose and answer questions regarding major donors, political action committees, and funding sources in good faith.</em></p><p><em>I acknowledge that accepting money from donors who simultaneously fund opposing political causes creates legitimate concerns and obligates heightened transparency.</em></p><p><em>Certification</em></p><p><em>By signing below, I affirm that I have read this pledge in full, understand its contents, and agree to be bound by its principles for the duration of my candidacy and, if elected, my term in office.</em></p><p><em>I make this pledge knowing that voters deserve clarity, honesty, and courage from those who seek to govern them.</em></p><p><em>Candidate Name: __________________________</em></p><p><em>Office Sought: ___________________________</em></p><p><em>State or District: ________________________</em></p><p><em>Signature: ______________________________</em></p><p><em>Date: _________________________________</em></p><p><em>Witnessed and Recorded By<br>Freedom Brigades<br>freedombrigades.com</em></p><h3><strong>Why This Series Exists</strong></h3><p>We are already researching Senate races across multiple states. Patterns are emerging. Some candidates are running toward voters. Others are running from them.</p><p>This series is not about formal endorsements. It is about exposure, education, and accountability.</p><p>We will analyze races state by state.<br>We will identify likely RINOs.<br>We will highlight America First, MAGA, grassroots alternatives.<br>We will prioritize new faces over familiar failures.</p><p>This will evolve as races develop. Transparency beats false certainty.</p><h3><strong>We Need Your Help</strong></h3><p>If you speak to a candidate, attend a GOP meeting, uncover donor conflicts, or catch someone dodging these questions, send it to us.</p><p>Grassroots movements win when information moves faster than money.</p><p>If you want us to cover a race in your state, reach out.<br>If you want us to interview a candidate, tell us.</p><p>We will do the work.</p><p>We do not need more comfortable politicians.<br>We do not need polished moderates.<br>We do not need rich RINOs who already have everything they need.</p><p>We need new faces.<br>We need fighters.<br>We need candidates who still need help and are willing to earn it.</p><p>Support the good guys.<br>Fund the underdogs.<br>Ask better questions.</p><h3><strong>Join the Freedom Brigades.</strong></h3><p>&#128073;<a href="https://form.jotform.com/233596554768171">https://form.jotform.com/233596554768171</a></p><p class="button-wrapper" 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As a teenager, I was busy playing guitar, chasing rock and roll dreams, and rolling my eyes at the constant family arguments about politics. In my house, you either loved Rush or you really did not like him. Back then, I tuned it all out. I bought into the anti-Rush sentiment without ever actually listening. I had no clue what he was building or why it mattered.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>Now I would give anything to have him back behind the Golden Mic helping us make sense of the absolute chaos we are living through.</p><p>Rush was not just a radio host. He was a translator of reality. He took complicated issues, media lies, and political manipulation and broke them down in a way regular Americans could understand. He gave millions of people the confidence to trust their instincts when the entire media class was screaming at them to sit down and shut up.</p><p>That mattered more than I ever understood.</p><p>Today, people across the country are saying what so many of us feel. We miss him. His wife Kathryn shared a beautiful message reminding us how impactful one life can be. Broadcasters who followed in his footsteps openly admit they would not even be on the air without him, my dear friend Tom Renz is one of them. General Michael Flynn called him the best in the business ever. Fans are not exaggerating when they say the world could use his voice now more than ever.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://andreawex.substack.com/p/the-golden-mic-we-need-now-more-than?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/andreawex.substack.com/p/the-golden-mic-we-need-now-more-than?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p>They are right.</p><p>Rush understood power. He understood propaganda. He understood that culture shapes politics long before ballots are cast. He also understood something else that gets lost today. Loving your country does not make you extreme. Speaking plainly does not make you dangerous. And refusing to submit to lies is not something you should ever apologize for.</p><p>I wish I had listened sooner. I wish I had paid attention when he was still here. But maybe that lesson is part of his legacy too. Do not wait to defend what matters. Do not wait to speak truth. Do not wait until the voice is gone to realize how important it was.</p><p>God bless you, Rush. Thank you for the fight you fought, the courage you gave people like me, and the clarity you brought to a nation that desperately needed it. May you never be forgotten. And may we honor you the only way that really counts by standing firm and continuing the fight to save this great country.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>If you value independent voices, honest analysis, and the kind of unapologetic truth telling Rush Limbaugh embodied every single day, I invite you to upgrade to a paid subscription. 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Not a reformer. Not a bulldog who came in to break the machine. A lobbyist. The exact class of people Trump voters have been begging him to stop feeding.</p><p>Let me be crystal clear about what this job is. The White House Chief of Staff is the filter. The firewall. The bouncer. The person who decides what reaches the President, what gets buried, who gets a meeting, who gets iced out, and which &#8220;priorities&#8221; magically rise to the top. If you want to know why the swamp survives every election, start there.</p><p>This blog is my breakdown of the Public Citizen report on Susie Wiles and her lobbying history, including who she worked for, what she pushed, and why it matters now. </p><p>And according to Public Citizen&#8217;s report (linked below), Susie Wiles was a registered federal lobbyist starting in November 2017 and remained registered until at least April 2024.</p><p>That is not ancient history. 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