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Show Summary: The American oligarchy of Big Government, Big Business, and Big Media is formidable. Here’s some ammunition to use. This week we take a look at the legal tools available.

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Original Air Dates: Jan. 23 & 24, 2021 | Justin Danhof & Kimberly Hermann

It’s no secret that the American oligarchy of Big Business, Big Government, and Big Media hate Americans. At least the “wrong kind.”

What is the “wrong kind”? Republicans. Conservatives. And especially Trump supporters. Suddenly, politics is the new racism. And if you’re not in the correct party with the correct beliefs, you’re on the outside looking in. It’s not just an American oligarchy either. We all thought Biden was bought by China and foreign interests. And his first days in office confirmed just that as he weakened American energy independence and opened the door to more China and international influence in America.

Oligarchy is a form of power structure in which power rests with a small number of people. These people may be distinguished by nobility, wealth, education, corporate, religious, political, or military control.

American Oligarchy

Right now, the American oligarchy—the triumvirate of Big Government, Big Business (which includes Big Tech), and Big Media—seems indestructible. But like any three-legged stool, take out one leg and the oligarchy topples. And every oligarchy inevitably falls when all the little Davids use the weapons they have.

But what weapons do we have?

Legal Tools to Fight the Oligarchy

If you’re a conservative, you’re not only a “racist” but the victim of political racism. First they accuse of being a racist. Now they attack you with racist-style tactics. If you’re a republican or conservative or especially if you’re Trump supporter, they want you excluded from any level of politics. So much for diversity. They don’t want you in the building. They make broad decisions about you, claiming they know who you are and how you think, and want to exclude you just because you’re a republican or conservative or Trump supporter.

The “conservatives-only” drinking fountains are next.

But there are means to fight back against the oligarchy. Especially legal tools. Many people know about anti-discrimination HR laws like the ADA and Civil Rights Act, which prohibits hiring and firing based on race, sex, and religion. But most people don’t know that when it comes to politics, you can absolutely discriminate. Yes, the laws — passed by politicians — protect political discrimination.

Justin Danhof: The Free Enterprise Project

First up, we bring back Justin Danhof, General Counsel for the National Center for Public Policy Research. We wanted to have him back to focus the legal side of fighting back against Big Tech and Big Business.

The Free Enterprise Project is a program of the National Center for Public Policy Research. Their mandate is “to provide the liberty movement the missing ingredients for success.” Your donation will help keep them fighting for you.

We talk with Justin about what individuals can do to push back against the Big-Tech/Big-Business leg of the American oligarchy stool. Tune in to hear about individual actions you can take. And are there also class actions coming?

Kimberly Hermann: Southeastern Legal Foundation

In the land of the American Oligarchy, there are no end of legal battles to be had. And Southeastern Legal Foundation (SLF) is constantly out there fight for American rights and freedoms.

Support the Southeastern Legal Foundation. They are “dedicated to advocating limited government, protecting American freedom, and defending individual liberties”. They have taken on and won landmark constitutional U.S. Supreme Court cases. Help keep them on the front lines, fighting for you.

We talk with Kimberly about the endless executive orders, political discrimination, and the sickening and overtly racist “critical race theory” that they are fighting. SLF just joined a coalition of partners to drive critical race theory out of public offices and schools. And we get her take on the coming impeachment fight.

Does the Constitution even matter anymore?

Tune in. Learn. Fight back.

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Links & Further Information

• Big Tech Oligarchy Threatens Free Speech (Free Enterprise Project, Jan 19, 2021)
  • “Exactly where – were these moral companies over the summer when Kamala Harris and others were encouraging the [Black Lives Matter] protests that attacked over 150 other federal buildings [and] caused damage to private businesses all throughout America?”
• The US Is Now A Classic Oligarchy…The Clarity Brought By Recognizing This Fact Is Its Only Virtue (CD Media, Jan 20, 2021)
• Christopher Rufo Vs. The CRT Goliath (The American Conservative, Sep 9, 2021)
• Nancy Pelosi’s: impeaching a president who is already out of office will bring unity. 
• Biden’s 17 Executive Orders and Other Directives in Detail (NY Times, Jan 21, 2021)
• Report: Joe Biden Calls for DOJ to Resume Obama-Era ‘Slush Fund’ Payouts to Left-Wing Groups (Breitbart, Jan 21, 2021)
• Online Communications and Content: How Section 230 Reform Has Catapulted into Relevancy (JDsupra, Oct 27, 2020)
• Refuse to Be Silenced (Townhall.com, Jan 14, 2021)
• The Republican Party Has Failed America, And Here’s How It Needs To Change Now (Gov Kristi Noem (SD), writing in The Federalist, Jan 8, 2021)
• America Needs a Divorce, Here is How To Divide It All Up (The Unapologetic Republican, Jan 16, 2021)
• NYT: Biden’s proposed admin already plagued by corruption, abuse, self-dealing (Convention of States, Nov 30, 2020)
• White House Publishes Extensive List Of Trump Admin Accomplishments (MAGA Conservatives, Jan 17, 2021)
• The ‘Common Carrier’ Solution to Social-Media Censorship: Railroads can’t refuse to carry passengers for their political views. The same rule should apply to online monopolies, legal scholar Richard Epstein argues. (Wall Street Journal, Jan 15, 2021)
  • Both left and right share the view that: “As these companies become more imperious, there’s a greater insistence that they be treated as monopolies.” The argument becomes stronger, Mr. Epstein says, “when those who are policing the entry into the networks” make their political preferences clear: “You cannot be both a platform operator and a partisan.
• Here’s the List of Powerful Companies Cutting Off Trump and His Supporters After Capitol Siege (Victoria Taft in PJ Media, Jan 12, 2021)
• EXTRAORDINARY: Chat Logs Reveal Alleged Plan To Turn Trump Rally Into Violent Riot (The National Pulse, Jan 15, 2021)
• Can Employers Discriminate Based on Political Beliefs or Affiliation? (via NOLO.com)
• ‘THIS IS THE ANSWER’: Megyn Kelly Cheers Formation Of Legal Group Fighting Critical Race Theory (Daily Wire, Jan 20, 2021)
• Tweet from Christopher Rufo re Stop Critical Race Theory coalition (twitter, Jan 20, 2021)
• Obama’s water war (Politico, May 27, 2015)
  • “decree to unilaterally expand federal authority is a raw and tyrannical power grab that will crush jobs”
  • “In essence, the rule would establish whether antipollution laws are triggered if a farmer blocks a stream to make a pond for livestock, a developer fills in part of a wetland to put up a house or an oil pipeline has to cross a creek.”
• Clean Water Act, WOTUS (Farmers Bureau, no date, circa 2019)
• PDF “The Significant Nexus Test: Why the Waters of the United States are so Murky” (Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal, Apr 2016)
• Trump administration drops Obama-era water protection rule (AP, September 12, 2019)