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Jason Hardaway, Constitution Coach Talks Constitution Education

Constitution Coaching

Friday, April 4th, Michael and I welcomed Jason Hardaway to the show. Jason is a Constitution Coach trained through the Patriot Academy – an organization spearheaded by attorney and former Texas Representative, Rick Green.

Jason got involved in learning more about his government when he became a Precinct Chair at his Republican county convention in 2020. He had no idea what a Precinct Chairman did, but he also realized he didn’t know much about government – including the Constitution – so he set out to educate himself.

One day, he went to an event with David Barton and was able to see the Constitution Alive series that David has. That excited Jason and he went home and started having friends and family come to his house to watch the videos and discuss the founding of the country. About a year ago, he became a Constitution Coach with Patriot Academy and he’s never looked back!

In the video below, Jason explains why America is NOT a Democracy, America is governed via a Constitutional Republic. If you want to share this video, you can find it on our YouTube channel. Chances are, we ALL know someone who is completely misinformed about this and needs a good bit of explanation on the topic!

We talked about so many different issues during the time Jason was on! I know it’s two hours, but you should really take the time to go back and watch the entire video if you can. You can find it here on our YouTube and Rumble channels. In the next clip, we talked to Jason about the fact that we don’t even use the Constitution in the Judicial Branch the way it was supposed to have been used. Instead of lining up laws with the Constitution itself to determine if they’re ‘constitutional’ or not, now we use CASE LAW to make those determinations and it’s just wrong.

One of the things we talked quite a lot about was the Supreme Court deciding whether or not the state of Oklahoma can provide taxpayer funds to run a Catholic online charter school. Michael and I disagree with this notion entirely and we talked about what the Constitution says about that and what the Founders would say if they were here today (and not rolling over in their graves fast enough to create the gravity for earth). In the clip below, all three of us chimed in on different aspects of the Separation of Church and State argument. Again, I just put together several different segments from the full video to make this clip, it’s best to watch the whole video to get the full idea of our arguments.

Please, look up Patriot Academy online to find out what they can offer you in terms of education on the Constitution and our Republican form of government. Also, if you have any questions for Jason, or would like to attend one of his classes, email him here coachmentorhardaway@gmail.com. And please don’t forget, Jason has a new class that he’ll be starting up on May 5th called “Biblical Literacy” at the Woodland Hills Baptist Church in Newcastle beginning at 6pm in the evenings. If you’d like to attend, reach out to Jason! He’ll be happy to sign you up!

President Reagan said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” If we don’t learn about the Constitution and our Republican form of government and THEN if we don’t make our elected officials follow that path, we will not recover and it will be US telling our grandkids what it was like when we were once a free people.

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Questions And Answers With State Auditor And Inspector, Cindy Byrd

Cindy Byrd Oklahoma State Auditor and Inspector

Wednesday, March 19th at a special time – 10:00am – Michael and I had the privilege of interviewing Oklahoma’s State Auditor and Inspector Cindy Byrd. Cindy is – hands down – one of my favorite interviews because SHE KNOWS HER STUFF! After being an auditor for over 20 years, she’s got the answers to pretty much any questions you can ask. I’ve pulled several short clips from the interview, but you’ll want to watch the full interview on our Rumble or YouTube channels.

We started talking about the Tulsa Public Schools audit that she just recently finished at the request of the Governor. She talks about that – how does Cindy determine what agencies to audit? Is it up to her? Early on she tells us that she doesn’t have the power to independently audit agencies or political subdivisions. At about 14 minutes in, she tells us who has the authority to have her audit – and that includes taxpayers!

As I mentioned, we didn’t just discuss the TPS audit, there were a number of questions that came in from viewers that Cindy was kind enough to take. Additionally, she had a number of points she was interested in making herself – like this one in the clip below.

Isn’t it interesting how the people who make the laws don’t seem to be terribly interested in the topic of how to make state agencies more transparent with taxpayer dollars? How frustrating! But it gets worse! Cindy tells us in the clip below that even if she finds that a person or entity is breaking the law, there are no laws in Oklahoma that actually hold ‘bad actors’ responsible for the gross mismanagement of tax dollars. How can that be? That’s flat crazy and something that an Oklahoma legislator needs to resolve NEXT YEAR for certain!

In this last clip, Cindy tells viewers not to give up hope! If we’ll report what we know, or think, to be wrong and if we’ll stand up and make our elected officials do what’s right – get Cindy’s office to audit – we’ll get the finances of our Oklahoma government back in order! She believes we can do it, but we have to be citizens active in the process, so stayed involved and educated!

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Garfield Residents Have To Sue Enid Government To Protect Them From HUGE Solar Installation

On May 8th of this year, Michael and I welcomed Garfield County freedom fighter, NeeAnn Clinton to the podcast to talk about a 5000 acre solar installation proposed by NextEra Energy – a private corporation with an extensive ESG strategy that has given lots of money to Oklahoma legislators and has numerous pending lawsuits including securities fraud and which is under active investigation by the Federal Election Commission due to a web of dark money influence across numerous campaigns in Florida.

October 25th, we hosted NeeAnn again so she could give us an update on their fight to stop the solar installation.

I urge you to watch the full live podcast on either our YouTube or Rumble channels, but below is a clip of NeeAnn talking about the fact that Garfield County residents have had to sue the City of Enid’s Metropolitan Area Planning Commission to force them to uphold zoning laws inside a 3 mile corridor through which NextEra has already begun construction WITHOUT ANY PERMITS.

Now think, just like we – and V1SUT Vantage – have explained with public schools that trample on parental rights, victims (taxpayers) of the Garfield County NextEra solar scheme, have to take their hard-earned dollars in hand and sue people whose jobs only exist because of TAX DOLLARS. So, citizens have their dollars taken from them by their government by force with the Constitutional expectation that their rights and liberty will be upheld by that same government, only to find out that they’ll have to use MORE of their hard-earned paychecks to force the government to do their jobs. This, is a sure sign of government tyranny.

NeeAnn and I also talked about the fact that what we’re seeing with the NextEra solar project in Garfield County is the same thing I’ve found with carbon capture in Oklahoma – NO ONE IS IN CHARGE OF PERMITTING OR PROTECTING THE SAFETY AND PROPERTY RIGHTS OF CITIZENS. How can this be? Because our Governor wants Oklahoma to be an “Open For Business“, “Top Ten State“, with a “More Of Everything, All-Of-The-Above Approach” to energy development. Okay, but where are the citizens in those political soundbites? What about their rights to their property and safety?

Those thing aren’t a priority of our Governor and that’s made very clear when you hear both NeeAnn and I talk about our findings with respect to the ‘green energy agenda’ in Oklahoma.

So let’s hear that from NeeAnn again…

Please, go to the website Garfield County residents have created to educate residents and other Oklahomans about NextEra’s solar facility, Stop Skeleton Creek Solar. While you’re there, be sure to donate to their cause because, as I well know – lawsuits aren’t cheap!

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WARNINGS From People Outside The State – Oklahoma Is BLUEING FAST – We Better WAKE UP!

Last Friday, Michael and I had former attorney and non-profit wrangler, Ken Malloy on the ROPE Report to talk about the NorthStar Project and how NorthStar is influencing Tulsa Public Education. From recruiting and helping school board candidates to run on a campaign of reforming TPS, to writing White Papers detailing TPS educational legacy, this new Think Tank formed last year is off to a running start.

Ken and his wife Maria Seidler (of Legal Overwatch For Parents Rights), both retired attorneys, migrated from the East Coast to Oklahoma to be with family.

During the interview, Ken talked about how different the culture is in New York – where litigation against governmental entities is more commonplace – compared to here in Oklahoma where few of our governmental officials are ever called on the carpet and therefore, are not at all responsive to the citizens they represent and who pay their salaries. In fact, Ken likens Oklahoma’s citizens to mushrooms because we’re kept in the dark and fed ‘crap’, by our government officials.

Ken’s comments in the video struck such a chord with viewers that the first comment wanted to know “how we can get involved” and the second comment said this:

Jenni’s heard me say this approximately 386 times, but…once again: As a fairly recent transplant from the west coast who took the time to study OK and visit here TWICE before moving–I’m shocked at the complacent attitudes of most Oklahoma conservatives. I’ve heard, “Oh, that won’t happen here–it’s OKLAHOMA, not California!” more times than I can count, seriously.

I tell them I lived through “the fall of California”, was a young adult during the Reagan administration, saw the decline of that red state. I tell them I see Texas purpling. I tell them I see the exact same signs I saw in CA 40 years ago and if Oklahoma isn’t careful, vigilant, aggressive in defending it’s freedoms–it will be faced with attempting to take back ground instead.

We all know how much more difficult that is.

Instead of being well-received, or taken at least a bit seriously, my words are often pooh-poohed, and I’m treated as though I know nothing, as though I’m somehow “mistaken”. Many folks aren’t even old enough to know what California USED to be like.

“That won’t happen HERE, Lisa–THIS IS OKLAHOMA!” may be the last thing some of these folks remember thinking “back before the statists took over” if they’re not careful.

And THEY STILL WON’T LISTEN.

Sadly, the first video of the week on Wednesday found ROPE Report Regular V1SUT – instead of telling us how school officials are molesting students and seemingly getting away with it – telling us that our Attorney General, Gentner Drummond, hasn’t signed on to the Supreme Court case (Missouri V Biden) that COULD put an end to government interference in social media -for example, requesting the censoring of users whose opinions and ideas might be contrary to the state’s.

In addition, our own state legislators are using the recent suicide death of Owasso student Dagney Benedict, to to create language – in a gutted, already-filed bill – that could substantially chill free speech in Oklahoma. Please read SB1100 and then let your Representative know that this bill isn’t right for Oklahoma and that free speech MUST stand.

Listen to V1SUT explain what’s going on. Then write your legislator and our AG and let him know that he needs to sign on to Missouri V Biden ASAP as oral arguments are already being heard.

Office of the Oklahoma Attorney General – 313 NE 21st Street Oklahoma City, OK 73105 –

Oklahoma City: (405) 521-3921 Tulsa: (918) 581-2885 Fax: (405) 521-6246

contact@oag.ok.gov

Either we’re going to make our elected officials accountable to the rule of law and the Republican platform, or we’ll be New York or California.

It’s up to YOU!

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